Chapter 17: Neighbors
Qi Min is paralyzed at home, but if he is paralyzed too much, he will eventually overturn.
It's just that it's okay to go home during the winter vacation of the first year, but after coming back, because the lab boss suddenly took over a collaborative project, he sent her and Yelena to the local hospital to collect samples. During this time, Qi Min was so busy that her feet didn't touch the ground, although she was in the United States, Anton and Mimi fell asleep every time she went home, so it was basically no different from not being there.
After Qi Min finally got the samples and clinical matters done, she returned to the life of taking Mimi with Anton before the holiday. Anton didn't bother to ask her what she was doing during the winter vacation.
But the next year, Qi Min overturned when he went home again.
Because I went home directly last year and found that my parents couldn't take annual leave, and my classmates were either in graduate school or in the rising period of work, and they couldn't take a vacation, this year Qi Min discussed the winter vacation arrangements with her family before "escaping" from Mimi, who was getting more and more noisy, and flew back to China as soon as she was on vacation, and then transferred to Southeast Asia with her parents.
Southeast Asian tourism is the traditional three countries of Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, and the content is also decent, suitable for Buddhist youth and the majority of middle-aged Rao leisure tourism.
Qi Min took a lot of photos along the way, and every time he would choose a few and send them to his circle of friends, he also deliberately blocked Anton.
Because she doesn't have many mutual friends with Anton on WeChat, she won't know about blocking him. This seems to be a way without any hidden dangers, but the bad thing is that Qi Min always has a probability of making mistakes with trembling hands, and the total number of times he sends it is more, even if the probability of making a mistake is very low, the mathematical expectation can reach 1.
Fortunately, Qi Min made a mistake at the end of the trip, and he only sent a picture back to the capital airport.
She was also a little tired after this trip, and fell asleep when she got home. Halfway through sleep, she was called up by Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong for dinner, Qi Min got up from the bed, went out in her pajamas and walked to the dining table.
Her mother and father are too lazy to cook, so they ordered takeout and kebabs today. Qi Min took a bunch of mutton, woke up the mobile phone screen and glanced at WeChat, and many people in the circle of friends liked her......
Wait a minute? How did you return the shadow to the spiritual poverty alleviation object" replied to her?
Qi Min was horrified to find that her last circle of friends forgot to block Anton, and quickly flipped it out to take a look, and the "spiritual poverty alleviation object" commented under her airport photo: "Where have you been?" ”
Qi Min took a deep breath and wanted to pretend not to see it, but when he thought that if Anton decided that she returned to China to avoid working at home, I was afraid that she would not be able to spend a long time on her birthday. So I still have to explain as much as I can.
Anyway, no one else in the circle of friends can see it, Qi Min replied below: "Accompany my mother to Singapore to see my aunt." ”
The reason seems to be strong. Qi Min's mother's sister used to work in foreign companies and often traveled overseas, and her aunt moved to New Zealand after retiring.
About two hours later, Qi Min received another message from Anton, also in Chinese: "Your aunt lives in Singapore? ”
"yes." Qi Min replied, adding, "When she was young, she worked in a foreign company. ”
Anton immediately replied, but returned to English: "You're so busy, Min." ”
"I can't help it." Qi Min replied, "How are you guys? ”
"Everything works fine. Mimi went to play with a neighbor's friend, but Mrs. Anderson's family was moving out. Anton replied.
The Andersons are moving out? Qi Min was a little surprised, Mrs. Anderson was a neighbor who lived in the apartment rented by Anton, and she was not the owner of the apartment, but also a tenant. Because her husband was working in the field, Mrs. Anderson had three children of her own, the oldest of whom was a year older than Mimi.
Before Mimi, Qi Min and Anton rarely interacted with this neighbor, and Mrs. Anderson probably regarded them as a common young man who had no family and no business. But after Mimi appeared, this low-income lady who lived almost entirely on government subsidies helped them a lot, and even the people hired by Qi Min and Anton as temporary nannies were introduced to them by Mrs. Anderson, and even when they were really busy, Mrs. Anderson would help them take care of Mimi for free.
"Where is Mrs. Anderson moving to?" Qi Min asked.
"I don't know, I just heard that Mr. Anderson settled in another state." Anton replied.
If Mrs. Anderson were to move to another state, it would mean that it would be difficult to see each other again in the future, and there would be no way to find her. This may be a very serious problem for Qi Min and Anton, they finally learned how to take care of the baby, but Mimi has now grown from a baby to a toddler, and the way to raise a child is different from simply taking care of a baby, and Mimi has to be sent to kindergarten or something, right?
There are so many things that you can't ask Mrs. Anderson, so you have to rely entirely on yourself.
But there was another question, and Qi Min asked again: "After they move out, will there be new tenants moving in?" ”
The apartment opposite is owned by the same landlord as the apartment where Qi Min and Anton live, so if the opposite side wants to change people, Anton can also ask his landlord for exact news.
Sure enough, Anton replied: "There are new tenants, according to three young people. When they came to see the house, I saw it, it was three punks. ”
Punk is terrible. Qi Min himself is not averse to punk, because that is actually a way for young people to express their disagreement and resistance to reality, and everyone should have the right to express opposition in the ideas of the leftist [harmony] faction. But objectively, there are three punks living opposite, which will indeed have a little bit of an impact on their children that is not so in line with the "good" in mainstream values. What's more, Mrs. Anderson, who could have helped a lot, was replaced by three punk young people, which is too big a gap.
"Does Mrs. Anderson have to go?" Qi Min asked in WeChat, and added, "Is the Xinrao contract filled?" Confirmed to be a tenant change? ”
"I think it's confirmed. But if the new tenant is too much, we can also move to another place. Anton replied.
"That's too much trouble." Qi Min had to reply.
When she first arrived in the United States, she didn't know the market for renting a house here, so she was cheated, but now that all these years have passed, Qi Min also understands what the price of renting a house in that broken place is in line with the laws of the market. The apartment that had to be rented by Anton was already very cost-effective, probably because the price of the previous Chinese restaurant owner had not increased for so many years.
And after Mrs. Anderson moved out with the children, the rent of the apartment opposite was about to rise. After all, the landlord wants to make money, and renting the apartment to three punks in order to make more money will have an impact on other tenants, but it is in line with the laws of capitalism.