intellectual norms

Before dinner at night, Baizhu asked Xia Xiaoli's sister how the blind date was in a low voice. Xia Xiaoli scratched her head, "It's okay, it seems that the two of them can chat."

Baizhu patted him: "What's the use of just chatting? Is there a call from their eyes? Is there anything different?"

Xia Xiaoli drank soda, hiccupped, and recalled carefully, is there a call...how do you count it as a call?He said: "I've never been in a relationship, so I don't know if they will call or not. Mom, you can just ask Xia Xiaoberry."

Baizhu sighed, what kind of temperament is Xia Xiaoberry, if it's so easy to get out of words, it's not her Xia Xiaoberry.

Xia Xiaoberry was cleaning the swimming pool with Uncle Zhong in the garden. In the evening, the wind blew up and the temperature dropped a little. It wasn't so hot anymore. Xia Xiaoberry wanted to have dinner with her family in the yard at night.

Xia Xiaoli was lazily lying on the sofa in the living room and flipping through her mobile phone. Jian Rong sent a bunch of messages as usual. Xia Xiaoli read them one by one, and answered a few words. For some reason, Jian Rong couldn't say anything without Huang Tongtong again. I don't feel anything anymore.

It was Jian Rong who was complaining, and finally noticed Xia Xiaoli's indifference some time ago, saying what's the matter with you, ignoring people every day, even asking you to come out to play, but you won't come out, I'll come to your house to find you tomorrow.

Xia Xiaoli was noncommittal, and said back that she would wake up.

Then he found that there were suddenly more people in the wechat address book.

Newly added friends are always automatically at the top of the conversation list, Xia Xiaoli stares, who is this?When was it added?How could he have no impression at all?

When he clicked on the big picture, his heart beat unconsciously. He already knew who this person was.

Qiao Yu.

It seems that he added him on WeChat, but why... Xia Xiaoli was confused again.

He carefully opened Qiao Yu's information, obviously the other party would never find out, but he felt guilty and anxious for no reason.

The WeChat name is just a simple Joe, the region has not been changed, it is still New York, and the profile picture is a backlit profile, Xia Xiaoli thought, this person really likes to take pictures in the backlight, but this profile picture is not bad, the evening light passes over him The river beside him shone on the man's face, which was inlaid with a circle of gold, and the long eyelashes hanging down were fluffy, which added a lot of gentleness to this cool and handsome face.

There is very little information in the circle of friends, and WeChat does not seem to be used much. During the holidays, I will send some pictures or texts suitable for the occasion. Most of them are the scenery of the Columbia campus. Occasionally, some are about projects that are in operation. Some Xia Xiaoli can’t understand at all professional terms.

I also shared some links, which are reports on his projects by professional platforms, as well as the headlines of his winning the Arthur Haydn Award, all in English.

The timeline of the circle of friends is still before he returns to China, and it is blank after returning to China.

In short, it is an adult, concise, cool and rational circle of friends.

Apart from parents, teachers, and some relatives, this is the first stranger adult friend in Xia Xiaoli's contacts.

Leaving the real person, Xia Xiaoli felt that the warmth and affinity she felt when she saw him just this afternoon receded a bit, and she felt a sense of distance.

The smell of dinner wafted over, and you could tell by smelling it that Aunt Zhong had made his favorite grilled chicken with lychee and lemongrass. Bai Zhu called Xia Xiaoli in the kitchen: "Call your second sister and ask when she will be back? Immediately." Let's eat."

"Oh, good." Xia Xiaoli quit WeChat and found Xia Xiaocheng's number.

Xia Xiaocheng didn't see anyone during this holiday. She was either broadcasting live or in a relationship. The big place at home was not convenient enough. After the live broadcast improved in the second half of her sophomore year, she rented out with a few other girls who were also engaged in live broadcasting. I set up a studio and started to run it as a business, and by the time of the summer vacation, it was pretty decent.

She looks good, but she is not an internet celebrity with no memory. The filters are only turned on to the minimum level, her voice is better, she sings and chats with netizens, her style is hot and bold, and her fans love her.

When I was "starting a business" earlier, I often asked Xia Xiaoli to come into the live broadcast room and pretend to be a moat to reward her. How much money Xia Xiaoli paid, and then she would double it back. Xia Xiaoli has a lot of pocket money, and I am so happy Giving the rocket to my sister, and bringing it back doubled, I am very happy, but as my sister's level is getting higher and higher, there are fewer and fewer times when he needs to pretend to be a moat, and now this kind of good thing is gone.

"Xia Xiaocheng, mom is calling you to come back for dinner." Xia Xiaoli shouted loudly, hearing the wind on the other end of the phone.

Xia Xiaocheng drove a Mercedes-Benz trot, which was a birthday present from her father on her 20th birthday. The road home was smooth. She drove all the way in the convertible, and the echo said: "It's almost there, don't wait for me, you guys go ahead eat."

The tables and chairs in the yard had already been set up, Aunt Zhong and Bai Zhu brought the food over, Xia Xiaoberry washed her hands after cleaning the swimming pool, and took a bottle of chilled white wine to the yard.

Xia Yunhan's new project is about to start recently, and he has been outside all the time. When he is away, there are only women left at home. Xia Xiaoli has long been used to it. When a room full of women is chattering, he has learned to distract himself to keep himself clean.

"Xia Xiaoli, come and eat!" Xia Xiaoberry shouted at him from the doorway from the kitchen to the backyard.

Xia Xiaoli got up from the sofa, put her phone back in her shorts pocket, and walked barefoot to the yard.

At home in summer, he barely wore shoes. He stepped on the wooden floor of the house, the marble tiles in the kitchen and the stone pavement in the yard. Today’s dinner was served under the wisteria trellis, surrounded by scented lamps to repel mosquitoes, and an air-conditioning fan Blow back and forth at people.

Xia Xiaoberry was pouring wine for everyone, Xia Xiaoli saw that his seat was empty, he silently went to get a wine glass, went to Xia Xiaoberry, looked at his sister with a flattering smile, Xia Xiaoberry poked him on the forehead , Poured a little into the wine glass: "Drink less."

On the table are Aunt Zhong’s roast chicken and some home-cooked dishes. She is from Yangzhou and cooks with some Huaiyang flavors. Xia Xiaoberry tore off a chicken leg and put it in his younger brother’s bowl. Xia Xiaocheng's sports car entered the gate of the front yard.

Xia Xiaoberry poured wine into Xia Xiaocheng's empty wine glass again. Now that Xia Xiaocheng kicked off her high heels and threw off her sunglasses as soon as she entered the door, she went barefoot into the courtyard and sat next to Xia Xiaoli.

The two older sisters have completely different styles. Xia Xiaoberry wished she could hide all her femininity, while Xia Xiaocheng had waist-length curly hair, her eyelashes curled up to the sky, her lips were as red as roses, and her gestures were all coquettish.

The two have different temperaments and preferences, all of which are different.

The family was eating while drinking, Xia Xiaoli thought silently, it would be great if her father was here, Xia Yunhan has been out for a while, Xia Xiaoli misses him a little bit.

Finally, Baizhu couldn't bear it anymore and asked Xia Xiaoberry: "Xiaoberry, how about meeting Teacher Renqiao today?"

Xia Xiaoli looked at the eldest sister who was sitting opposite, and he also wanted to know what Xia Xiaoberry was thinking. Xia Xiaoberry smiled calmly as usual, and said to Baizhu, "It's pretty good."

There was a smile on Baizhu's face, and she was a little uncertain: "It's pretty good, does it mean it can develop?"

Xia Xiaoberry lowered her head and thought for a while: "I think I can try it."

This answer made Baizhu so happy, she couldn't believe it for a moment, she refused to go on a blind date, Xia Xiaoberry, who was always indifferent to boys, actually said for the first time that she could try it.

"Let me just say, Mr. Qiao has such good conditions, it's impossible not to look down on him, so how about Mr. Qiao, did you show anything to you?" Bai Zhu asked again and again.

Xia Xiaoli ate up a chicken leg and drank half of a small glass of wine, but her eyes were always on Xia Xiaoberry.

Xia Xiaocheng next to her asked blankly: "Mom, what are you talking about? Teacher Qiao?"

Bai Zhu waved her hand: "Don't interrupt, it's your sister's blind date who just met today, and the conditions are very good."

"How good is it?" Xia Xiaocheng suddenly became a little interested, tsk, the motorcycle lady is willing to go on a blind date.

Xia Xiaoberry came over and glared at Xia Xiaocheng.

Baizhu said quickly, "Dr. Returnee, he will soon be a professor at Hongda University, 33 years old, 1 meters tall, as handsome as your father."

"Really, you're a little older?" Hearing the handsome word, Xia Xiaocheng's heart of gossip instantly ignited, and she didn't even care about the age of 33: "It's terrible, Ms. Bai, what you said is that you have nothing to do with it." Our dad is on par, do you have any photos?"

Bai Zhu was going to get that photo with a blurry face again, Xia Xiaoli raised her hand: "I have it."

Taking out his mobile phone from his pocket, he dug out Qiao Yu's WeChat, clicked on the big picture of his avatar: "It's him."

Xia Xiaocheng took the phone and was startled: "Wow! Immortal!"

Her eyes are straight, this person is really handsome!

She was going to check Qiao Yu's circle of friends, Xia Xiaoli was so nervous that she hurriedly grabbed her phone back: "Don't look around, you."

"You haven't talked to anyone, and the chat history is empty, why are you nervous?" Xia Xiaocheng was still immersed in the shock of that glance just now, and couldn't get enough of it.

She asked Xia Xiaoli again: "Why do you have the WeChat account of the big sister's blind date?"

"Xiao Li went with me in the afternoon. Teacher Qiao said he had something for Xiao Li, so I asked them to add him on WeChat." Xia Xiaoberry said.

"What? When did it happen? Why do I have no memory at all?" Xia Xiaoli was confused.

Xia Xiaoberry said: "Of course you are asleep. Who made you eat so many ice cream chips? I chatted with Mr. Qiao and said that you seem to be a fan of Jeremy Lin recently. He said that he has a jersey signed by Jeremy Lin." , I will bring it to you next time, and I will use your mobile phone to add WeChat to him."

Xia Xiaoli was stunned for a moment, then grasped the key point: "Hey Xia Xiaoberry, how can you check my phone, do you know that this is an invasion of privacy..."

As she talked, she lost her confidence. Xia Xiaoli felt that she was actually very happy to add Qiao Yu's WeChat account, and the privacy violation could be ignored.

But the jersey... Jeremy Lin's fan is actually not him, but Jian Rong. Before that, Xia Xiaoli wanted to ask someone to get something related to Jeremy Lin as a birthday present for Jian Rong. Jian Rong's birthday will be in September after the third year of high school. Xia Xiaoli has been asking people since June.

Xia Xiaoberry gave him a blank look: "Just your little privacy, what kind of privacy do you have that I don't know? When you were a child, you wet the bed or I helped you hide it."

"Oh!" Xia Xiaoli was about to explode, and hated what her sisters said about him when he was a child.

The topic got more and more off topic, Bai Zhu became anxious, and patted the table: "Don't quarrel with you two! Xiao Berry, what is Teacher Ren Qiao's impression of you?"

"It's okay, at least I don't hate it." Xia Xiaoberry replied seriously while eating the corn in the pork rib soup. The agreement she had discussed with Qiao Yu hadn't come out yet.

Baizhu was slightly relieved: "Then hurry up and get in touch again, strike while the iron is hot, and settle down as soon as possible."

"Yeah." Xia Xiaoberry nodded, she was amazing and very cooperative.

Just as Bai Zhu was relieved, she was still planning how to get through Bai Xing and make trouble with the man, but she didn't hear Xia Xiaocheng call "Mom" several times.

"Hey, I heard that, what's the matter?" Bai Zhu responded repeatedly.

Xia Xiaocheng glanced at Xia Xiaoberry and then at Baizhu, her voice was soft and coquettish: "Mom is too biased, such a good boy only asks my sister to go on a blind date, and I want to go too."

Xia Xiaoli finished a glass of wine and ate a lot of food, he thought to himself, come here, Xia Xiaocheng is a crazy girl, I knew she would make such a mess.

This little sister has always wanted to grab everything from her big sister since she was a child, sometimes for fun and sometimes for real, sometimes Xia Xiaoberry is too lazy to talk to her and sometimes when she gets impatient, she will teach her a lesson.

Xia Xiaocheng just talked fiercely, but she was never Xia Xiaoberry's opponent in action.

Baizhu frowned: "Don't mess around, this is someone your aunt arranged for the eldest sister after a lot of effort. You still have few boyfriends. How many have you paid since high school?"

Xia Xiaocheng twitched the corners of her lips: "I can't even take it seriously, children play house."

Xia Xiaoberry didn't have much reaction on the other side, she looked at her sister leisurely while drinking, but in Xia Xiaoli's eyes, this sister had written all over her face: "Come here if you have the ability."

"No! Did you hear that?" Bai Zhu ordered concisely, "Besides, Mr. Qiao is so much older than you, why are you messing around?"

"Xia Xiaocheng, don't bother, you're useless." Xia Xiaoberry spoke the truth, but she couldn't give the real reason.

But to Xia Xiaocheng's ears, it became a pure provocation, hey, why is there no play?If I don't play, you can play?Xia Xiaocheng is too confident when it comes to attracting people's liking, as evidenced by her millions of fans.

Since my mother can't do it, then... Xia Xiaocheng's eyes moved to Xia Xiaoli, Xia Xiaoli was shocked, and turned to look at the second sister: "What are you doing?"