The cynomolgus monkey experiment is still in the process of being arranged in an orderly manner, but the last time I met my cousin Ding Wenjing in the flower supermarket, it added another thing to Qi Min's current life, which is not very leisurely.

On weekends and weekends in kindergarten, Qi Min and Anton took Mimi out to play. There is a free outdoor sports field not far from the community, which has a table tennis table, so they brought rackets and balls, and took a small bench to teach Mimi to play table tennis.

Mimi is still too short to stand on the bench to reach the height of swinging a racket on the table. However, even so, Anton is still obsessed with teaching her to catch the ball by hand.

The little girl had already learned how to serve the ball on a shorter coffee table, but now it was not so difficult to learn how to catch the ball with her forehand. On the other side, Qi Min fed the high balls one by one, landed on a fixed point, and asked Mimi to hit the ball back according to the fixed action taught by her father.

After practicing like this for more than half an hour, Mimi began to feel annoyed. And it's a bit boring to teach children big balls, Anton said to the little girl: "Mimi, you can take a break first and see how I play with my mother, okay?" ”

When Qi Min heard him say this, he smiled provocatively: "Your courage to find abuse is really touching." ”

"It's not certain who abuses whom." Anton also defiantly went back, "How long have you not played?" ”

It could be more than a year. When he was a Ph.D., Qi Min did sometimes play table tennis with Anton – the fact that Chinese can play table tennis is also a stereotyped impression to some extent. But since Qi Min started writing her article that was rejected N times, she basically didn't spend time on sports activities anymore. After returning to China, I couldn't even think of it.

However, it turns out that even if Qi Min hasn't touched table tennis for a year, and there are a lot of mistakes when he picks up a racket, it is still relatively easy to win Anton.

After the end of the first game, Anton was a little skeptical: "Have you practiced since you came back?" ”

"Nope." Qi Min calmly asked, "You should have practiced in private, right?" ”

Table tennis is a skill sport, and there is still a big difference between playing casually and practicing it specifically. When playing with Anton, Qi Min could feel that he must have practiced his skills specially, unlike before when he only relied on reflexes to catch the ball.

"Of course I did—I still have to teach Mimi." Anton admitted.

Qi Min didn't really understand why he had to teach Mimi to play table tennis at first, but after thinking about it carefully, he suddenly understood. Mimi's legs will not be able to recover like a healthy child, and her athletic ability will definitely be affected in the future. In this case, Mimi is unlikely to play "big balls" like football and volleyball in the future, and badminton also has high requirements for leg mobility in "small balls", that is, table tennis is more suitable.

In order not to be at a disadvantage in relation to other healthy children, Mimi may have to do a certain aspect of sports better than most of her peers in order to gain the respect of her peers.

Thinking of this, Qi Min couldn't help but feel a little sad and guilty. Although Mimi seems to be happy now, there are some things that can't be made up for after all.

But that's not what Anton cares about now: "Haven't you really practiced since you came back?" ”

"Not really." Qi Min explained a little helplessly, "Do you think I'm more tricky when I catch the ball?" That's normal. Because you have finally learned to catch the ball according to the 'routine', I can finally use the more advanced 'routine'. ”

Really, like Anton's style of play before, even if Qi Min learned to twist the backhand in table tennis class during college, there is nowhere to go.

"You're too 'routine' too." Anton couldn't help but say. He also learned to use the word "routine".

"That's the routine." Qi Min said quite conceitedly, "Don't say anything else, when the time comes, I'll teach Mimi a few ways to play with a whirlwind, so as to ensure that my daughter can abuse you like a dish." ”

"Even if I could, it was because my daughter was smart." Anton turned to Mimi, who was watching from the side, and said, "Mimi, do you understand?" ”

The little girl held her children's racket and innocently asked, "Is this 'abusing vegetables'?" ”

This can be regarded as an inadvertent mockery of Anton, although Qi Min's constant mistakes in this game are actually not very strong.

"Mimi, normal games are not 'abuse'." However, Qi Min still had to say something normal to her daughter, "As long as you abide by the rules and go all out, winning is winning glory, and losing is losing with dignity." ”

The little girl didn't understand much, but nodded anyway.

After that, Anton continued to teach her to catch the ball with her forehand, and Qi Min fed the ball on the opposite side as a sparring partner.

Just as Mimi finally learned something and was able to catch the ball by swinging the racket by herself, Qi Min's mobile phone in the pocket of her coat suddenly began to vibrate. As soon as she was distracted, she didn't catch the ball that Mimi hit back, and the little girl immediately raised her hand to "yes".

Qi Min put down her racket and took out her mobile phone, and saw that the caller ID was her own mother's number.

Taking a deep breath, Qi Min praised Mimi, then turned around and picked up the phone: "Hey, Mom, what's wrong?" ”

"Lele, it's been so long since you've been back, how are you doing now?" Qi Min's mother, Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong, asked with concern.

"Also...... Okay. Qi Min had already told her parents on WeChat about her job search for a teaching position and other things, which also showed that her salary could support herself, and she didn't have to worry about her parents for the time being.

"Are you busy at work? It's almost the end of the year, when will you go home? Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong said.

Qi Min couldn't find any other reason, so he had to excuse himself: "I'm still quite busy......"

"No matter how busy you are, you have to go home, right?" Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong said, "Wenwen told me that she met you outside, and it seems that she is not busy until two o'clock." ”

Qi Min knew that Ding Wenjing would definitely have to make a "small report" to her parents. But there is no way to do it, after all, Ding Wenjing doesn't know that Qi Min hasn't returned to his home for so long.

Qi Min turned around and glanced at Anton and Mimi on the other side of the table tennis table.

Although her boyfriend is good-looking and her girl is very cute, no matter how you look at it, at least in terms of appearance, they are certainly not pure Chinese. Qi Min's parents are probably unlikely to immediately accept that she has found an "American boyfriend" and "gave birth" to an "American girl", and it is still too inappropriate to arrange a meeting rashly.

So Qi Min said to Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong on the other side of the phone: "Mom, I'm quite busy at the end of the semester now...... Why don't I take the time to go home? But I don't think it will last long......"

"Okay, are you free tomorrow?" Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong immediately said, "Let's go home for a meal, and we can see how you are really doing." ”