Genius Girlfriend

Lin Zhixia's cousin is named Ke Zhuangzhi.

Ke Zhuangzhi is one year older than Lin Zhixia, and he is a junior in a key university in the provincial capital. He is just over 1.8 meters tall, has a well-proportioned figure, and has well-rounded features. He is a mentally young man.

Although Ke Zhuangzhi and Lin Zhixia are relatives, they haven't seen each other for many years.

One day in October last year, Ke Zhuang aspired to refresh his circle of friends and saw his college classmates share a piece of news-"The power ceiling of a genius beauty, only nineteen years old to solve the world's problems."

Ke Zhuangzhi clicked in and saw Lin Zhixia's brilliant resume.

A classmate in Ke Zhuangzhi's class commented: "This Lin Zhixia, beautiful is really beautiful, and amazing is really amazing."

That night, Ke Zhuangzhi told his parents about the incident.

After a total of three of their family, they agreed to fix their kinship with Lin Zhixia and Lin Zeqiu.

In another year, Ke Zhuangzhi will study abroad. He intends to apply to several prestigious schools in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada-these schools require him to provide AcademicRefereter (academic recommendation letter) and PersonalStatement (self-statement).

Ke Zhuangzhi's undergraduate grades are not outstanding, and his internship and scientific research experience are average. If Lin Zhixia is willing to help him match up and contact professors at Peking University, Tsinghua University, Cambridge, and MIT, his master's application result will definitely be much better.

He hoped that the professors Lin Zhixia knew could help him write several "academic recommendation letters."

Lin Zhixia has emerged in the international academic circle, and the outside world is generally optimistic about her future development. When she enters a university in the future, she must start as an associate professor. The resources and contacts are not the same. There are only advantages to making friends with her, but no harm.

With this in mind, Ke Zhuangzhi called to Lin Zhixia: "Xia Xia?"

Lin Zhixia did not respond.

Today is the 28th of the twelfth lunar month.

As usual, Lin Zhixia's parents will suspend business from the 28th of the twelfth lunar month until they reopen on the third day of the lunar new year.

Uncle rushed to visit today, Lin Zhixia's perception is very subtle.

Aunt reminded her tactfully: "Xia Xia, your cousin is talking to you."

Uncle locked his Lexus and kept glancing at Jiang Yubai. Out of years of professional habits, he keenly sensed that Jiang Yubai was the owner of that luxury car, and glanced at Jiang Yubai's left hand was wearing an expensive watch. He hurriedly asked: "Xia Xia, who is that boy?"

Jiang Yubai revealed his status: "Hello, I am Lin Zhixia's boyfriend. Today is the day I officially meet my parents..."

Before Jiang Yubai finished speaking, his uncle interrupted: "I am a practicing lawyer at Yunshen Law Firm. I think you are quite familiar. Is your father our client? His surname is Zhou?"

Jiang Yubai understood that this is a relatively simple language.

When a stranger meets for the first time, he wants to extract information from the other party, and asks him directly, but he may not answer. At this time, you can deliberately put forward the wrong assumption and wait for the other party to correct it.

Jiang Yubai answered calmly: "I don't know what's going on at home. I will go home and ask another day."

Lin Zhixia took Jiang Yubai's hand, and her uncle followed behind them and walked into the house with them. The uncle asked again: "Is your hometown in the provincial capital? Or is it from Beijing?"

Jiang Yubai played Tai Chi with him like an old river and lake: "You listen to my accent, where do you look like?"

"You don't have an accent," the uncle said truthfully, "Mandarin is standard."

In the dimly lit corridor, the cement wall is painted with a layer of white paint, and various small advertisements are entrenched on the wall like psoriasis, full of eye-catching words such as "professional dredging of pipes" and "professional unlocking".

My uncle seemed to remind me very kindly: "In recent years, housing prices across the country have been rising. Xia Xia, if your family can buy a house, you should buy it early. If you choose a good location, your investment is cost-effective."

After speaking, Uncle took Ke Zhuangzhi's shoulders.

Ke Zhuangzhi is more concerned about another issue. He turned to look at Jiang Yubai: "Where did you go to university?"

This time, Jiang Yubai did not conceal: "I am Lin Zhixia's classmate."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Zhixia opened the security door of his house and brought in four guests including Jiang Yubai and his uncle's family.

The smell of oily smoke from the stir-fried beef floated from the kitchen, and the living room of more than ten square meters suddenly became crowded and chaotic.

Two brand-new electric heaters were moved to the side of the sofa, and one seat was covered with a soft wool blanket-this was the position Lin Zhixia specially prepared for Jiang Yubai.

The "Princess Pea" in "Andersen's Fairy Tales" can feel a pea under the twenty-layer velvet quilt. In Lin Zhixia's eyes, Jiang Yubai is almost the "Prince on the Pea."

Lin Zhixia’s sofa has been used for many years, and her parents have not been willing to buy a new one. The surface of the old sofa opened to reveal a pale yellow sponge, surrounded by a circle of rough and worn leather.

This morning, Lin Zhixia took out her little wool blanket, which she cherishes most, to cover the broken crack.

Unexpectedly, Ke Zhuangzhi just sat on the wool blanket.

Lin Zhixia was startled.

This woolen blanket was bought by Lin Zhixia in a Swiss resort hotel. She usually doesn't want to use it out, but occasionally puts the blanket on the pillow to make her little penguin a quilt.

Lin Zeqiu knew that Lin Zhixia liked this little blanket very much.

His face was visibly gloomy with the naked eye.

He and Ke Zhuangzhi never deal with each other.

When they were children in their hometown in the countryside, their cousins ​​fought all day long, and they would burst into flames whenever they met. Medicinal taste.

Before Lin Zeqiu said anything, Lin Zhixia said directly: "Cousin, can you stand up? Give me the wool blanket."

Aunt opened her red lips and said with a smile: "Xia Xia is straightforward, what do you care about with your family with a blanket, don't you? There is a blanket to sit on and sit comfortably..."

My uncle is also making rounds. He used the topic to play: "Xiaxia, Qiuqiu, how can the family have an overnight feud? Blood is thicker than water. Uncle and aunt made a special trip to see you today, don't worry too much."

Lin Zhixia's lips twitched slightly, and she smiled: "If I really want to care about you, I should start talking about it more than 20 years ago."

More than twenty years ago, Lin Zhixia's mother did very well. However, my grandfather's family could only afford one college student, so my mother gave up the opportunity to study at university to my uncle. She works in the factory and often sends tuition and living expenses to her uncle.

Later, Lin Zeqiu was born. Unfortunately, he suffered from congenital heart disease and urgently needed surgical treatment. His uncle didn't pay a cent. On this basis, his uncle shouldn't call himself Lin Zeqiu's "relative."

As for cousin Ke Zhuangzhi...

Lin Zhixia had a bad impression of him.

When he was a child in his rural hometown, Ke Zhuangzhi often used "heart disease" to laugh at Lin Zeqiu and "freak" to call Lin Zhixia. The war between cousins ​​has never stopped.

Ke Zhuangzhi can even make Lin Zhixia and Lin Zeqiu give up their internal struggles, and the two brothers and sisters will become unprecedentedly united.

Recalling all the past events when he was young, Lin Zhixia's tone was stronger: "Please get up and don't sit on my things."

Lin Zhixia's father went to the supermarket storeroom to get a drink, while her mother was working on the range hood in the kitchen.

Mom and Dad are not in the living room, no one can control Lin Zhixia.

Lin Zhixia grabbed a corner of the woolen blanket with her hands-this made Ke Zhuangzhi especially embarrassed. As a guest, how could he be treated so rudely by the host? Can't even make a better cushion?

Ke Zhuang is young and vigorous. Holding a breath in his heart, he pressed **** the other side of the blanket.

However, in the next second, Jiang Yubai and Lin Zeqiu both helped Lin Zhixia. The three of them worked together and suddenly took the wool blanket away, and Ke Zhuangzhi almost fell off the sofa. Ke Zhuangzhi held on to the sofa, his complexion flushed red, and he was surprised and angrily said: "As for you, this blanket!"

Lin Zeqiu sneered: "Just this blanket, if you don't return it to my sister, do you have to grab it from her?"

Lin Zeqiu didn't want to be too embarrassed. He spent almost a year as an intern in an Internet company, learned some interpersonal skills, and usually try to avoid direct conflict with others. What's more, the New Year is approaching, and the noise at home will annoy mom and dad.

Lin Zeqiu tilted her head slightly, but seeing an impatient look on her aunt's face, she gave Lin Zhixia a sharp look like a knife.

Lin Zeqiu's heart "snatched", and he didn't care about the "face", and he dared to say anything that was bad.

He looked at Ke Zhuangzhi: "You don't have a brain for age. If you ask you to pay back the blanket, you won't pay it back. If you tell you not to come to my house, you will come, let's talk, what's the matter today? Get out early and finish talking.

Ke Zhuang is eager to attack his heart.

It was freezing cold outside, and Ke Zhuangzhi and his parents prepared gifts and ran to his aunt's house for New Year greetings. He couldn't even sit in a seat and was humiliated by Lin Zeqiu.

For so many years, Lin Zeqiu’s house was so poor that he couldn’t lift his head in front of Ke Zhuangzhi. Now, as Feng Shui turns, Ke Zhuang’s ambition is so angry that he opens his mouth and scolds, “I’ll give you a face. Put on your blanket?"

Lin Zeqiu scolded even more fiercely: "If you don't see it, don't you hurry up?"

Jiang Yubai and Lin Zeqiu united the front, but Jiang Yubai's words were more polite: "I will send you out."

Ke Zhuangzhi thought that Jiang Yubai had a softer temper, so he vented his anger: "Who are you?"

Jiang Yubai suddenly laughed: "I'm an ordinary person. When I go to someone else's home after three years of age, I will no longer talk in chaos."

Lin Zeqiu added another fire: "Ke Zhuangzhi, how old are you this year?"

Jiang Yubai answered: "I can't guess it."

Lin Zeqiu smiled heartily.

This provocative method without dirty words opened the door to a new world for Lin Zeqiu. He and Jiang Yubai sang together without a teacher, making Lin Zhixia so surprised that there was nothing to say.

Jiang Yubai and Lin Zeqiu were originally in a severe and incompatible relationship, but now they cooperate tacitly, as if they have been practicing for many years. Ke Zhuangzhi's mouth was no match for the two of them. He was beaten repeatedly and his stomach was full with anger.

Uncle saw too many customer disputes, so he didn’t rush in and said: "Okay, you kids, don’t quarrel, sit and sit, how can a family say two things..." He went personally A trip to the kitchen: "Old girl, old girl?"

With this shout, Lin Zhixia's mother was called out.

Mother was wearing an apron, holding a spatula, looking at several people in the living room, her brows frowned unconsciously. She said: "Big brother, you come to my house, so you may make a call first."

The uncle smiled unabatedly: "Old sister, our brothers and sisters are relatives. Your relatives don't use it for imagining, you should go to my house if you have nothing to do. I have not been busy with work these two years..."

Mother said, "I'm busy."

Lin Zhixia righteously agreed: "Yes!"

Uncle raised his hand to touch her head, but she avoided it.

Uncle's left hand hung in the air, with a look of embarrassment on his face.

My aunt also walked over and calmly said: "Xia Xia, uncle and aunt always miss you. You are studying abroad. We also want to ask someone to see you and bring you some food. Everyone, relatives Field, do each other a favor, as it should be... Why are you excited?"

Aunt had a leather bag slung across her shoulder.

She opened the metal zipper of the leather bag and took out a Givenchy bag, which contained a tube of lipstick and a plate of eye shadow. She said: "Come on, girls just have to put more makeup and dress up. Aunt doesn't have a daughter and wants a daughter..."

Lin Zhixia did not accept the kindness of her aunt.

In front of the whole family, Lin Zhixia asked a question that had been buried in my heart for many years: "My brother was sick back then, why didn't you help me at all? If my parents didn't insist, I would have no brother now."

Aunt's face changed slightly.

Lin Zhixia chased after him, "Are you trying to say,'Helping others is a sentiment, not helping is a duty'? But have you ever thought about why my mother gave the opportunity to go to university to uncle? Every time you go back to your hometown, you have to tell me that your family is rich and can travel around the world..."

My aunt denied: "You have a wrong memory, I can't say that kind of thing."

Ke Zhuangzhi helped his mother to plead: "Lin Zhixia, you dreamed, the black pot is all on my mother's head."

Lin Zhixia stared at him: "You only dreamed. I remember everything, including every word you said."

Ke Zhuangzhi was actually forced to take two steps back by the look in her eyes: "No, Lin Zhixia, you are so horny, you haven't scolded anyone when you were a kid? Haven't spoken swear words? Just your brother scolding me is worse than a **** scolding the street."

Lin Zhixia asked back: "So what?"

As an outsider, Jiang Yubai is actually inconvenient to intervene in Lin Zhixia's housework. The people in this room, except him, are all closely related. After quietly listening to the cause and effect, he shifted his focus to another direction: "Is the money owed that year settled?"

Hearing his reminder, Lin Zhixia immediately said: "Yes! You still owe my family money! When will you pay it back?"

Lin Zeqiu sneered and said: "Lin Zhixia's first question just now, why didn't you say anything? I don't want to say it. Let me tell you, it doesn't matter if you owe money or not. I hope I die early and overtake my life.

"Qiuqiu!" Mom stopped him severely, "For those who are celebrating the New Year, don't say these things."

Uncle’s voice rolled out of his throat: “I regret it, Qiuqiu, uncle really regret it. That winter, you were just born, I just graduated, and your grandpa and grandma had high blood pressure and wanted to buy medicine. I don’t know anyone in the provincial capital, and I can’t take root... Your mother gave me a few dozen yuan, not much, so I should be anxious."

Jiang Yubai and Lin Zhixia looked at each other and understood.

Jiang Yubai interrupted his uncle: "I studied economics. The tens of yuan in that era is equivalent to a few thousand yuan today."

The uncle sighed: "Uncle made a mistake back then, don't you want to change it? Although we are from two families, your mother still has my last name..."

At this moment, the front door was opened.

Lin Zhixia's father is back.

Lin Zhixia shouted: "Dad!"

Dad held a few bottles of orange juice, Coke and milk, hissed in his mouth: "So many people are here?"

Jiang Yubai greeted him and took the heavy drink bottle from him. He seemed to be a gentle, polite, and sensible young man.

The front door of the house was wide open. Lin Zeqiu put his foot against the crack of the door, turned his head and said to his uncle: "You go back, don't stay at my house, I don't see it or worry about it."

The son's words and deeds were so rough and violent, which made father's body movements stiff. Dad glanced at his mother. Mom didn't stop Lin Zeqiu, he knew it.

Dad said, "Excuse me, brother, there are other guests in my house today."

Jiang Yubai picked up the red wine and tea from the ground—this was a gift from his uncle's family. He handed those things to Ke Zhuangzhi. Ke Zhuangzhi pulled the plastic bag. Jiang Yubai said to him, "You came to Lin Zhixia today to study abroad?"

Ke Zhuangzhi was secretly surprised, but he didn't expect Jiang Yubai to guess his intention.

It's not hard to guess.

From the conversation just now, Jiang Yubai inferred that his uncle and aunt attach great importance to Ke Zhuangzhi's academic qualifications—only academic qualifications, not education.

Jiang Yubai seemed to be kindly admonishing in a low voice: "Don't take shortcuts, try to rely on yourself. You can talk to professors at Peking University and Cambridge, what can you talk to?"

Ke Zhuangzhi raised his head, facing Jiang Yubai's eyes.

Ke Zhuangzhi thought: This kid, pretending to be good in front of Lin Zhixia's parents, is actually a very good character. This bag of green tea in his hand should really be given to this kid.

Ke Zhuangzhi took a deep breath. He carried the two bags of gifts and followed his parents out of Lin Zhixia's house.

It's snowing again outside.

Fragmented snowflakes were rising, and the world was misty. Lin Zhixia leaned against the door and said again: "Uncle, if you really regret it, don't contact us anymore. It's not a question of money. The relationship has long been broken. , The remedy is useless."

Uncle's back paused for a moment.

But he did not look back.

Holding his son in his left hand and his wife in his right hand, he walked into the pale snow scene.

Lin Zeqiu's mood improved after sending away the uninvited guest. He closed the door slowly and let out a stale breath. Jiang Yubai asked him again: "Can I add your WeChat today?"

Lin Zeqiu glanced at him, remembering his protection of Lin Zhixia, and inexplicably agreed: "Okay, you can add it."