Three or Two Things about Rebirth

Everyone in the Qiu family has a high IQ, including my eldest sister-in-law.

That's why Qiu Luming seems particularly stupid.

Qiu Jiashu said that she was a little bully at home, and even her nephew had to give her some ground. In other words, everyone's IQ was absolutely higher than hers, so everyone took special care of her and were infinitely tolerant of her.

Qiu Luming enjoyed this kind of family care very much, but she used to be very repulsive and ashamed of it.

——Sometimes there is only one reason why a person gets angry and embarrassed, and that is that someone has hit the nail on the head with his words.

Now Qiu Luming doesn’t think he is stupid from the bottom of his heart, so he doesn’t care about other people’s opinions.

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Although New Year's Eve is not a legal holiday, it is customary for all units to automatically take a holiday after noon.

Qiu Luming's reading room had been empty since morning. To be more precise, apart from the staff, no one had ever stepped into the library.

At ten o'clock, the people in the office and the finance department upstairs quietly left one after another. Sister Wan came to the reading room and knocked on the door. "Qiu, let's go. There's no one in the building."

"Where's the curator?"

"Left early." Sister Wan said in a low voice.

In fact, Qiu Luming had already prepared everything. Upon hearing this, he immediately changed into his down jacket, locked the door and followed Sister Wan. In the corridor, he ran into Xiao Ma with a gloomy face. When he saw Qiu Luming, he immediately turned his head away, as if he had seen something dirty.

My mother said that during the Chinese New Year, we must not get angry, lose our temper, or swear, so she chuckled, walked to the guard room window, nodded to Uncle Li, and said happily, "Happy New Year!"

"Okay!" Uncle Li couldn't leave early. He had to stay until the afternoon. Only after the Public Security Bureau's Internal Security Section came to inspect and comfort him could he go home for the reunion dinner.

Qiu Luming did not go home, but rode his bike directly to the bus station. Today was the day when his third brother returned from Xi'an.

There were obviously fewer pedestrians on the street. Units and shops on the roadside had posted couplets and the word "Fu". At the intersection in front of the Water Conservancy Bureau, a group of children were setting off firecrackers, and the sound of crackling continued. A boy about ten years old, holding a cigarette in his left hand and an inch-long firecracker in his right hand, approached the cigarette, lit it and threw it to the ground. With a "pop", a small black spot was left on the snow. When there were pedestrians passing by, he threw the firecracker in that direction. Although it was not too loud and did not hit them, it was enough to scare people. The timid ones even screamed, which made the boy laugh with satisfaction.

The boy took out another whip from his cotton-padded jacket pocket, and cast a malicious glance at Qiu Luming, who was riding a red Kun bike about ten meters away. He whispered to the shorter boy in the blue cotton-padded jacket who was sniffling next to him, "Look, I'm sure to scare this girl to tears."

Qiu Luming ignored his muttering and saw his intention from his posture. She did not dodge. When the boy imitated an adult and took a deep puff of cigarette, she accelerated the pedal and rushed towards him.

It’s winter and she has to wear thick clothes. She would rather fall down and die together with him than not teach this brat a lesson!

The boy was feeling very proud and was about to blow out the cigarette, but when he raised his eyes, the red Kun car was right in front of him, and the wheel hit his thigh. He cried out "ouch" and fell on his back, swallowing the entire cigarette into his stomach. He immediately rolled on the ground, tears streaming down his face and coughing non-stop.

The man in the blue cotton-padded jacket ran away, and the other children looked at Qiu Luming nervously from a distance.

Qiu Luming got up from the ground, brushed off the snow on his down jacket, took a step forward and pulled up the boy, "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the road was too slippery, I couldn't hold the handlebars, and I hit you. Are you hurt? Where's your parents? I'll take you to the hospital for an injection?"

The boy glared at Qiu Luming and twisted his body to break free, "No! You did this on purpose!"

"I really didn't mean it!" Qiu Luming defended loudly, then leaned close to the boy's ear and whispered, "...I am Jing Yi'er's."

"you!"

“Lululu~” Qiu Luming imitated his tone, “Look at me, I guarantee that this woman will be scared to tears~ Tsk tsk, I’m not crying, but you are crying! Cry!”

The boy was stunned. He stared at Qiu Luming, made a face, got on her bike and rode away. For a long time, he was still staring at her back.

Several children gathered around again, "Xiao Guang, why aren't you moving? Are you bewitched by the yellow fox?"

A tall man in a military coat walked out of a street shop and approached the boy with a smile, "Are you stupid? Did someone scold you? I told you not to mess with women, but you didn't listen!"

The kid came back to his senses, "Tsk, I'm afraid of her? I was just stunned. Damn, she came running towards me before I even fired. She seemed to have heard me even from eight feet away!"

"You're talking nonsense! The northwest wind is blowing and I'm wearing a cotton hat. If you want to make up a lie, make it meaningful!"

“I didn’t make it up!”

"You didn't make it up, so I did, okay?" The tall man pulled the boy's arm, "Go home!"

"Brother, I want to play for a while longer!"

"Don't make me beat you!"

Qiu Luming parked his bicycle, walked into the waiting room of the bus station, sat down on the bench next to the heater, looked at the large wall clock opposite, and took out a book from his backpack.

The title of the book is "Quiet Flows the Don", and she is about to finish reading the second volume. She really wants to finish reading this very difficult masterpiece on the last day of the lunar calendar. Although she has learned Russian, she only remembers 33 letters in her mind and several difficult pronunciations that she cannot pronounce.

She secretly decided to relearn Russian after the holidays! She didn't believe that she still couldn't figure out that long list of names and nicknames!

"Ah!" Qiu Luming shouted and looked up.

The guy who set off the firecracker was standing at the door of the waiting room, pointing at her stupidly with his mouth wide open. It was obvious that the sound came from him, and definitely not from the tall and handsome man behind him.

Could it be that the child was really injured and the parents came to look for him?

Not really, it's just a butt.

The kid was very nimble and ran over in just a few steps. He didn't look injured, so Qiu Luming felt relieved.

"You! Are you guessing that my second brother and I are going to the bus station again?" The boy ran to Qiu Luming and asked in a tone that seemed like a question but was actually a bit awe-inspiring.

"No." Qiu Luming retracted his gaze and continued reading. There were only the last twenty pages.

"Then why did you come to the bus station?" The boy was very persistent. He sniffed the snot that was about to cross the river and asked again.

"See a doctor." Qiu Luming didn't even raise his eyelids.

"See a doctor? This is not a hospital. You come here to see a doctor? Are you sick?"

Qiu Luming ignored him, but he couldn't forget his mother's advice just because of a little boy: no swearing and no quarreling during the New Year!

After turning a page of the book, there was another person beside him, who grabbed the boy by the collar and took him to the side, "Are you stupid? Why did you come to the bus station? That's why!"

"She also came with her brother to pick someone up?"

"Get lost! You're just trying to kill me!" The kid got kicked on the butt and hid next to the heater, "Didn't you say that?"

Qiu Luming turned another page and couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth.

Just when she thought she could finish reading the last few pages in one breath, the door of the waiting room opened again, Qiu Jiashu walked in, and took a few steps towards her, "Who asked you to come? Why don't you go home directly after get off work!"

"Eh? Didn't you say you wouldn't come to pick up Third Brother? You have a meeting this morning, and there's one in the hospital over there who can't come home, so you need to take care of him."

"Hey? Who told you that? I discussed it with my eldest brother. How did you know?"

Qiu Luming stuck out his tongue and said, "I eavesdropped."

"She is the White Bone Demon! She can know what other people are thinking! Wait for me to ask Guanyin Bodhisattva for a tight hoop to put on her! To prevent her from eating people!" The boy followed his brother and came over again, talking nonsense seriously. His brother covered his mouth with his hand and said to Qiu Jiashu with a smile: "Second brother! Come and pick up Moshi too!"

"Dazhi? Who are you here to pick up?"

"I'm here to pick up Mo Shi, too."

"This kid is really arrogant. So many people came to pick him up!"

The man called Dazhi looked at Qiu Luming and said, "Is this my little sister? Yoyo? Girls change a lot when they grow up. I didn't recognize her!"

Qiu Luming closed the book, sighed, and put it in his backpack. "Hello, I'm Qiu Luming."

"Hello, I'm your third brother's classmate and best friend, my name is Xie Zhi,"

"Xiezhi? Mythical beast?" Qiu Luming blurted out the question because he had just read an article about Xiezhi in a magazine yesterday. He then realized that he was being rude and apologized quickly, "I'm sorry."

"Haha, it's okay! You're praising me!" Xie Zhi laughed, "But you're the first one to notice this homonym!"

Qiu Jiashu also laughed, "Why didn't I think of that? Xiezhi is a mythical beast, similar to Qilin, with a horn on its forehead. It is very intelligent and can distinguish right from wrong, good from evil, loyalty from treachery, and is a symbol of uprightness and honor. So, did your parents name you for this reason?"

"Hey, second brother, don't you know my family? My parents can't even find the dictionary to understand, so why did they give me this name? After my brother was born, my grandfather said that boys must be brave, so let's call him Yong, so my brother was named Yong. When I was born, the neighbors said that it would be good to be both smart and brave, so my grandfather said let's call him Zhi! So I am called Xie Zhi."

"What about me?" the boy came over and asked.

"You? You are an extra child. Mom thought you were a girl and was willing to be punished to give birth to you. Who knew it turned out to be a boy? She also fined all the family money. So mom didn't let me give you a name and just called you Xie Guang!"

"Ah? So our mom likes little girls. I was wondering why she beat me to death!"

At this time, someone shouted, "The car is coming!"

Everyone rushed to the entrance door of the waiting room.

When Qiu Luming arrived at the bus station, half of the passengers had already gotten off the bus. Several people were standing on the roof of the bus unloading their luggage, while a group of people were standing below to receive the luggage.

I didn't see the third brother, but I saw the second brother greeting someone. Upon closer inspection, it was his colleague again, and the woman in the woolen coat was with him. However, this time, she was not wearing a tweed coat, but a long black mink coat. The man was also wearing a black mid-length cotton-leather jacket. The two of them were very eye-catching among the passengers.

"......Just before the New Year, I went to Harbin with your sister-in-law to buy clothes!"

"Brother Dou, this jacket is so handsome!" Qiu Jiashu praised, "Brother Dou, I'm looking at my brother, let's talk later!"

"Okay, go ahead and do your thing!"

The woman gently stroked the mink coat. "Oh my god, the hem was almost burnt by the heater in the car!"

"Just buy another one!"

"Really? Brother Jianmin, you're so nice!" The woman held the man's arm and whispered tenderly.

Qiu Luming got goosebumps when he heard this. He shuddered and ran to Qiu Moshi, "Third brother! I'm here to pick you up!"

After shouting, I realized that the atmosphere was not right, and then I found that there was a tightly wrapped woman standing next to the third brother.