Qi Min went to her parents' house without bringing anything.

In fact, before Qi Min was an undergraduate, her family lived in the city, and at that time it was mainly to facilitate her to go to school - after all, the class time in primary and secondary schools was too early. And since she went to college, Qi Min's parents have moved to a larger house in the suburbs, which can be regarded as a little more comfortable.

This also caused Qi Min to go back to his house for lunch, and he had to leave to take the subway just after breakfast, which took nearly two hours to arrive.

When she finally arrived at the station, Qi Min walked another two or three kilometers to the community where her family lived. The community is very clean, and the imitation European-style buildings look high-grade. When the housing prices in the suburbs had not fully risen, Qi Min's parents bought this house and wanted to use it for investment. But who knew that the property market in the suburbs was getting colder, and the house was smashed in their own hands, but fortunately, this community was repaired well, and it was not a loss to keep it for yourself.

Similar to Qi Min's parents, many residents in this community came out of the city to buy houses. Qi Min saw many middle-aged and elderly people along the way, and there were also many young couples with children. Obviously, however, the place was not like the old houses in the city before, and she didn't know anyone here.

Qi Min followed the route in her memory to find the building where her house was located, took out the access card she hadn't used for a long time, swiped the door and went in and pressed the elevator.

After Qi Min got on the elevator, he heard the sound of the door opening, so he pressed the door button and waited for a while, and an old lady who looked like she was over seventy years old came in. The old lady looked at Qi Min and felt angry, and then saw that she pressed the seventh floor, and asked, "Girl, are you the daughter of our upstairs family on the seventh floor?" ”

Qi Min didn't know the old lady, but it sounded like a neighbor, so he replied, "Yes......"

"You're back from studying abroad? Or are you coming back for the New Year? The old lady asked.

"I ...... I've come back from studying abroad and I've graduated. Qi Min replied.

"That's good, it's promising." The old lady smiled and said, "My grandson also wants to study abroad, how about it, is it safe to go abroad?" ”

Qi Min knew that the "foreign" she said was basically equal to Europe and the United States, so he replied: "Europe is still relatively safe, and the United States is a sub-region." ”

"Ah, what?" The old lady raised her voice and asked, probably because she didn't hear clearly.

Qi Min was about to explain carefully, the elevator had reached the sixth floor. The door opened, the old lady went out, and she had no choice but to say goodbye to the neighbor.

The elevator went up to the seventh floor, and after the door opened, there was a smell of cooking rice, and Qi Min suddenly really felt - probably for the first time in nearly two years - down-to-earth and reassured.

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Qi Min hasn't been home since he started his Ph.D. Before the Sino-US trade war, she would go home every time the laboratory was on vacation, but she did not come back the year after the trade war began because she was afraid of delaying the visa refusal. So she wasn't homesick either.

However, before he came back as a student abroad, and now as a university PI who already has a decent job, Qi Min's mentality has changed slightly.

Although she can't be called "returning home", it is not easy for her to find a teaching position and become a PI. Therefore, Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong and Mr. Qi Zhiguang are still quite proud of her, as if a big project that has lasted for nearly 30 years has finally succeeded.

In order to cater to the mentality of her parents to show off their daughters, Qi Min also deliberately talked about the details of her current work as a PI in the bioinformatics laboratory of China University of Technology, and by the way, boasted about how important her current topic is to the development of neuroscience.

In the end, she also deliberately said in a special pretend: "It's a pity that you can't make any money doing basic scientific research." It can't be helped, can it? ”

"Alas, making money is not the most important thing." Mr. Qi Zhiguang "comforted" her, saying, "People's contribution to society is not something that can be measured by money. ”

Qi Min likes to listen to this kind of talk. Her family wasn't wealthy, but they weren't very short either, so her parents didn't care much about how much money their daughter would earn — otherwise they wouldn't have been so supportive of her going into biology.

"Anyway, we really didn't expect you to get a teaching position." Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong told the truth.

Qi Min was not a hard-working child when he was a child. She hasn't studied much since junior high school, that is, she suddenly broke her luck and did well in the college entrance examination, but she still paddled in college. Even if she reads a doctorate, she can graduate without sending out articles and rubbing other people's articles. The fact that such a person can find a teaching position is also a bit of luck to some extent.

But even if she knew that her own experience was not good, Qi Min still had to brag to her parents: "Then you underestimate me too much." It's easy to get this teaching position, and I'm going to be able to publish it right away- next year. ”

"Okay, you post an article right away." Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong stopped her suffocation, "Hurry up and eat, the stir-fry is almost cold." ”

Qi Min took a chopstick of chopsticks and made onion fried mutton made by Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong, and barely chewed it for a while before swallowing it - it was obvious that this plate of scallion fried mutton was old, and the mutton chewed like a strip of pulped rags.

Qi Min knew that her mother didn't cook often, but she couldn't help but say, "Mom, this mutton is too old." ”

"If you can eat it, you can get it." Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong said.

"Cut, boiled belt can still be eaten." Qi Min muttered in a low voice.

Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong never cooked when she was young, but when she got older, she began to "pretend" to study a little cooking. However, what she made was really not delicious, Mr. Qi Zhiguang and Qi Min were worried when they saw her cooking, and Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong also complained that they couldn't obediently treat her as a "guinea pig".

Sure enough, in response to Qi Min's DISS, Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong immediately jokingly counterattacked: "Hey, you girl, you are not diligent in your own grains, it would be good for someone to cook for you." In the future, when you get married, you don't want this treatment yet. ”

Qi Minxin said that she was basically equivalent to starting a family, and wanting to eat a well-fried lamb with green onions is a matter of one sentence. If Anton blows up the mutton and doesn't need her to taste it, he will have to make a new one himself - this is the professional and dedicated attitude of people. Of course, sometimes Qi Min also wants to condemn this kind of food waste, and when she lived with Anton, the Engel coefficient never fell below 0.5.

However, I can take this opportunity to test Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong. Qi Min pretended to be casual and said, "This treatment is not necessarily nothing." It's been a few years, and it's not difficult to find someone who can cook, right? ”

"What, you're looking for someone again?" Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong asked.

"Hey, it's not ......," Qi Min hurriedly said, "I'm just stating this objective fact." ”

"The objective fact is that ordinary people can find a partner, so you should hurry up and find a partner." Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong said, "The five grains are not divided into four bodies and are not diligent, so you should be cured if you are lazy." ”

Qi Min nodded perfunctorily, and couldn't help but defend herself in her heart: how can you say that if you don't cook or do housework, it's called "lazy", she can't do the project and has to go to the laboratory, which is already very tiring.