One of the great benefits of the development of the Internet is that any question can be quickly answered, Tao Ting just posted three minutes ago and asked, "I plan to take the marketing major across the exam, do you have any reference books to recommend?" There were several more comments at the bottom.

Some people persuaded her to quit and asked her to think about it more, and some people said to her Come on, A girl who just took the exam not long ago directly shared her reference list and online course link.

Tao Ting copied all the titles of the books mentioned in the comment area onto a piece of paper, and went to the bookstore the next day.

In winter, her clothes were heavy, she carried a large bag of books in one hand, climbed a few steps and hummed and panted, and she didn't bother to pick up the mobile phone in her pocket when it rang.

When she arrived at the door, Tao Ting put the bag on the ground, rang the doorbell, and held her waist to calm her breathing.

She took out her phone from her pocket, and the caller ID was a local, unfamiliar number.

"Hey."

A gentle female voice came from the phone: "Hello, is it classmate Tao Ting?" I'm from Xinyuan Education, how did you think about it? We have trial classes, so you can come and have a look if it's convenient for you. ”

"I thought about it, but I still don't sign up for classes, thank you." The door opened, Tao Ting hung up the phone, there happened to be an educational institution near her home, she stopped by today and asked, the two-month postgraduate examination class in the summer vacation cost 30,000, compared to the so-called one-on-one guidance from famous teachers, she believed in herself more.

"Why did you buy so many books?" Yang Fangting asked.

Tao Ting bent down and picked up the bag on the ground: "You help me take down the other one." ”

Both arms were almost unconscious, and Tao Ting's hands were shaking as she took the cup and drank water.

"What is this?" Yang Fangting opened the plastic bag and took out a book from it, "Principles of Marketing"? ”

Tao Ting poured half a glass of water in one go, and replied, "It's for the graduate school entrance examination." ”

Yang Fangting's eyes widened, suspecting that she had misheard: "You want to take this test?" ”

"Yes." Tao Ting put down the cup and took all the books into her bedroom, "I want to study management." ”

There was still fish soup stewed in the kitchen, but Yang Fangting didn't care about it at all, she followed Tao Ting into the room and asked, "Have you figured it out?" Did you go to this school? ”

"No, I want to go to the National People's Congress." Tao Ting brought the books in the bag to the table and sorted them out.

Yang Fangting didn't know what to say for a while: "No, you, why are you?" ”

Tao Ting turned her back to her and asked, "Don't you also want me to go to graduate school?" ”

"Then I want you to go the way you should go, go to graduate school, it's best to stay in school and become a teacher, didn't you think the same way before?" Yang Fangting knew that her daughter's mood had not been high recently, so she softened her tone a little and said, "Mom knows that you are a little devastated and wants to prove yourself. It doesn't matter, there are many opportunities in the future, don't be angry. ”

"I'm not so ignorant, Mom." Tao Ting put down the book in her hand, turned her head and looked at her calmly, "I didn't want to go against you, so I deliberately took a difficult path." ”

"Do you know what my first reaction was when I didn't go to graduate school?" Tao Ting asked.

Yang Fangting did not speak.

"It's not sad, it's 'Ah, I'm going to disappoint my parents'. And I realized that what I've been trying to do over the years is not because I like what I want, it's because I've made it nice to you. Tao Ting paused and said, "I met a lot of people when I was in Norbert, they were different from me, smarter than me and better than me, they all knew what they wanted, unlike me who could only read books and take exams. ”

Yang Fangting interrupted her anxiously: "Don't talk about yourself like that, you are also very smart and excellent in your mother's heart." ”

Tao Ting shook her head and begged in a low voice: "I know it's difficult to change directions, but I want to try it now, and if I fail, I'll die, okay?"

In my impression, this is the first time that Yang Fangting has heard her take the initiative to say so much, her daughter is always quiet, she talks little, and asks her what to answer.

"I didn't think about putting any pressure on you." Yang Fangting was a little at a loss, "Mom and Dad always want you to be good." ”

"I know, so can I decide for myself this time?"

"Just figure it out for yourself." Yang Fangting turned and left the bedroom.

There is still nearly a year to go before the graduate school entrance examination, but this kind of preparation time is not easy for Tao Ting.

Her undergraduate major is Chinese Language and Literature, and her transition to economics and management not only means that she needs to systematically accept new knowledge, but also change her original thinking mode.

Tao Ting pasted two pieces of paper in front of her desk, one for the weekly schedule and task arrangement, and the other for the crumpled grading sheet that she crumpled.

She hardly went out this winter vacation, studying and doing problems was what Tao Ting was good at, and marketing was something she was interested in now, so this time the efficiency and concentration were exceptionally high.

The only small episode was that after returning to their hometown in Jiangbei to pay New Year's greetings, their parents also took their cousin Tao Yingnan over.

The last time Tao Ting saw this sister was two years ago, but she didn't look like she had changed much, she didn't seem to grow much, and she was still thin and small.

"Nan Nan came to sleep with me?" Tao Ting asked Yang Fangting.

"It doesn't affect your revision, I'll clean up the study and ask your dad to move your old single bed out of the garage."

"It's fine." Tao Ting glanced at Tao Yingnan, who was watching TV in the living room, "It's okay to sleep with me." ”

Yang Fangting whispered: "She is very well-behaved, you were like this when you were a child." ”

Tao Ting's relationship with her cousin is not far away, and she is not good at chatting.

When their parents were not at home, one of the sisters watched online classes in the room and the other did homework in the living room, without disturbing each other.

Tao Ting was in charge of three meals a day for two people, and Tao Yingnan was very trouble-free, and when asked if she wanted to eat, she said yes.

But sometimes she is too trouble-free, the child goes to bed early, at nine o'clock in the evening Tao Yingnan washes up and prepares to sleep, Tao Ting will turn on the lamp and then read the study materials.

She found herself several times when her sister was still awake when she went to bed, and when Tao Ting took the initiative to ask her, she said that she would not be able to sleep if there was a bright light.

Considering that the development of teenagers is more important, Tao Ting began to follow Tao Yingnan to go to bed early and get up early every day.

Learning is a long, repetitive and boring exercise, two weeks later, Tao Ting found that her memory is far less than high school, obviously only yesterday to read the knowledge points, today to recall can only remember a rough, this is very painful for her.

No matter how many books you read, if you can't memorize them, it's useless.

Tao Ting grabbed her hair and lay on the table in frustration.

Hearing the knock on the door, she looked up and saw Tao Yingnan standing at the door of the bedroom, and said to her timidly, "Sister, let's go to the movies." ”

"Do you want to watch a movie?" After sitting at the desk all morning, Tao Ting felt a sore back as soon as she stood up, she stretched her waist and asked Tao Yingnan, "What do you want to watch?" ”

Tao Yingnan walked in and handed her the movie ticket in his hand.

"Where are you from...... Tao Ting understood, "Uncle gave it to you?" ”

Tao Yingnan nodded.

"Okay." Tao Ting took the movie ticket, "It's time to go out and have more fun when you finally take a vacation." ”

Wearing home clothes for half a month, her hair is always messy on the top of her head, Tao Ting looked at herself in the mirror before going out, her face was so pale that she seemed to have been sucked dry by a goblin.

"Wait a minute." She went back to her bedroom and rummaged through her makeup bag to find a lipstick.

There was blood on the lips, and it was instantly more pleasing to the eyes.

Finding that Tao Yingnan had been staring at herself, Tao Ting handed over the lipstick: "Do you want to apply it?" ”

Tao Yingnan shook his head: "Don't." ”

Tao Ting put on the lipstick lid and stretched out her hand to straighten her bangs: "You will like it when you are old." ”

The movie tickets Tao Zejun bought for the two of them is a comedy for the Chinese New Year, which is fun for the whole family and suitable for all ages.

The movie is very good, but the little boy in the back row always kicks her chair.

Tao Ting is very grateful to her father for not buying a big movie, otherwise the whole theater would be noisy bear children, and she would rather go home and endorse it.

Thinking of this, Tao Ting turned her head and said to Tao Yingnan: "It's still hello." ”

Tao Yingnan looked at her with wide eyes, and she didn't know if she heard what she said clearly.

Tao Yingnan lived at home until the start of school, and when she needed to empty her mind, Tao Ting would take her sister out for a walk.

Not long after the year, An Jin was about to leave Shencheng, and before she left, the two of them bumped into each other, and they were still in that coffee shop.

Tao Ting also brought Tao Yingnan out and ordered a small cake for her.

"Your sister is so good." An Jin said to Tao Ting, "I look quite like you." ”

Tao Ting smiled: "My mother also said the same, saying that when I was a child, she was like this." ”

Tao Ting and An Jin talked a lot that day, but they didn't mention anyone.

When they parted, An Jin hesitated and said to her, "Leon has been very busy lately, and I haven't seen him a few times. ”

Tao Ting let out an "oh".

"I think you're curious." An Jin said.

Tao Ting nodded, she was curious.

Every night before going to bed, she habitually opens Weibo, and the user named Leon_Xu hasn't posted a new blog post in two months.

One day, Tao Ting clicked in and found that he had deleted all the content, the number of followers was 0, and the number of fans had been emptied by nearly half, and she escaped with the original ID of "user 0918273125".

"Who is Leo?"

Tao Yingnan suddenly spoke, and Tao Ting was startled: "You haven't slept yet?" ”

"You can't sleep with light."

Tao Ting turned off the screen and lay down in the quilt: "I won't watch it, go to sleep." ”

"You haven't answered me yet, who is Leo?"

"It's not Leo, it's Leon." Tao Ting opened her eyes in the dark, "Nobody, the boss of the previous internship." ”

Tao Yingnan asked again: "Is he a foreigner?" ”

"No, Chinese."

"Then why do you have an English name?"

"Foreign companies are like that."

"Why?"

"It's a lot easier to use a new name when you're working, and sometimes you're embarrassed to do a lot of things with your own name."

Tao Yingnan was silent, Tao Ting yawned and said, "Why do you have so many questions today?" ”

"That sister is beautiful this afternoon."

"You say Anjin? Do you want to grow up and become an adult like her? ”

"I don't want to." Tao Yingnan said, "I want to be like you." ”

Tao Tingle was happy: "What good do I have?" ”

"Hello."

"It's okay for you to sleep." When sleepiness hit, Tao Ting closed her eyes, pulled up the quilt and said, "Good night." ”