Chapter 35: Contests

Qiao Lan hadn't been home for nearly ten days, and Qiao's family hadn't taken it to heart when the oldest had run away for a month or two, so now they were just cursing and swearing.

Qiao's father was not satisfied with Qiao Lan's running away at that time, and said several times that he would give Qiao Lan a good beating when she came back to see if she dared to run away again.

Before Qiao Lan returns, Qiao's mother realizes by chance that Qiao Lan may not be the one who stole the money.

It's Qiao Yuan.

Qiao's mother, who had become pale after Qiao Yuan's classmates had left, told Qiao's father that she had to go home first, and went straight to Qiao Yuan's room as soon as she got home.

Qiao Yuan was shocked to see Qiao's mother going through his school bag and looked impatient, "Mom, what are you doing?"

Said he was about to grab his book bag.

Because he has something in his bag that Qiao's mother can't see.

Qiao's mother, who usually couldn't say a word to him, slapped him on the hand and scolded him to sit down.

Qiao Yuan was shocked, and a bad mood suddenly came over her.

Then he saw Qiao's mother shaking out three books of fantasy novels he had just bought from his school bag, and an unwrapped hairpin, which he had bought for Yao Simeng's birthday two days ago.

Fatty is very vain and has been showing off his money in front of his classmates lately, so he bought a gift and intentionally didn't even tear off the price tag on his hair card.

218.

At their age, the most they can give as a gift is a dozen dollars, sometimes even two disposable celebrity posters, Qiao Yuan purposely left the tags on to make Yao Simeng feel richer and more caring, and to make the other boys envious and jealous.

How could I have expected to be suddenly discovered by his mom.

Now full of only one thought, I should have known to tear the label, invisible label, he made up a dozen dollars is not impossible.

Qiao Yuan scrunched his neck, "... Mom, what are you doing? You just came in and went through my bag..."

"Where did it come from", Qiao's mother stared at the 218 on the card and was furious, and even more furious when she looked at a few fantasy books, she spends thousands of dollars every month to give Qiao Yuan tuition, but the result is that Qiao Yuan secretly reads novels one day.

"Where did you get the money for that!"

"On... Qiao Yuan is also a bit scared, he didn't realize that Qiao's mother already knows that he stole the money, but he is mainly afraid that his mom will say that he doesn't study well and still reads novels. Everyone in the family favors him, and his mother also favors him, but unlike his grandmother and father, if he doesn't study well or eats secretly at night, his mother sometimes scolds him when she finds out, so Qiao Yuan is still a little afraid of Qiao's mother.

"I didn't spend the money you guys gave me, I've been saving it..."

"Did you save this?" Qiao's mother dropped her hair card on the floor, and a few of the rhinestones on it chipped off. Qiao Yuan looked incredibly pained, "Mom, don't drop it", and said she was going to pick it up, but she was nailed to the ground by Qiao's mother's words.

"Just saving up for it, so where did the money for treating your classmates to kebabs come from, also saved?"

Qiao Yuan A white and fat face changed this time.

At the beginning, Qiao Yuan was actually quite afraid of taking money secretly, but with such a thick pile of money, Qiao Yuan thought that he would not be found out if he took one of them, and at that time, Yao Simeng liked to drink jasmine tea, so he bought two bottles of tea for her a day. Qiao Yuan is a fierce spendthrift himself, but after buying things for Yao Simeng, he is a bit short of money.

After three or four days, no one found out, Qiao Yuan slowly got bolder, at first one, then two, and finally four or five, and by the time half a month had passed, he had already taken fifteen thousand.

He invited his close buddies and a few girls to eat a kebab, although still hanging heart, but remembered the envy of classmates don't mention how much face. One day, Qiao's father and Qiao's mother finally found out, but they didn't think of him at all, they thought it was Qiao Lan who had stolen it, so Qiao Yuan finally put his heart in his stomach.

After ten days of peace and quiet, Qiao Yuan thought it was over, but somehow Qiao's mother found out.

Qiao Yuan was still talking tough and tried to put the blame on Qiao Lan, "What kebabs, did Qiao Lan say something to you again?" Qiao Yuan thought that Qiao Lan had said something.

Qiao's mother didn't think that Qiao Yuan would still argue at this time, she was so angry that she slapped her hand on Qiao Yuan's arm, "You still don't admit it, your classmates have said that you invited them to eat, and that they ate six or seven hundred dollars a meal, so do you want me to go to the school to find your classmates and ask for clarification before you admit it?"

Qiao Yuan now really scared silly, to let his classmates know that he is stealing money from his family, then how can he still mix in front of them, this is the fear of spreading his voice to cry.

In the kitchen busy work Qiao old lady heard her grandson crying, meals are not done on the run to and fro, as soon as he came in, he saw his daughter-in-law to beat his grandson, a hand will Qiao Yuan protection in the back of the daughter-in-law on the roar, "What is wrong with you suddenly so hit the child, you see crying into what."

"He has the face to cry," Qiao's mother shivered, "You asked him how much money he stole from the family!"

Stealing money, stealing what money, Mrs. Qiao froze, "That is not Qiao Lan stole it, you rely on my grandson for what."

As soon as she mentioned this, Qiao's mother remembered that Qiao Lan had taken the blame for Qiao Yuan for so many days, but now Qiao's mother couldn't think about how Qiao Lan was doing, all she could think about was Qiao Yuan. Qiao's mother was uneducated and unqualified, so she always wanted to make sure that her son would do well in his studies and become a better cadre than both her and Qiao's father. Qiao's mother wanted her son to study as hard as possible, so that he would have a better future than her and Qiao's father, and become a cadre in Mrs. Qiao's words.

As a result, what Qiao Yuan does all day, secretly reading novels, stealing money from the family and cheating, Qiao's mother is not only angry but also feels sad.

Qiao old lady finally know the whole story, but know to know, see Qiao's mother to beat Qiao Yuan again and dissatisfied, "still beat still beat, or even I also beat, you see the child are crying into what", muzzle a turn on Qiao's mother began to open fire.

"Twenty thousand dollars you do not know to hide, put on the coffee table, do not let the family to take sooner or later let the thief stole, they do not know to put good now began to blame the child. I thought that took the money how not to learn, not just invited students to eat a meal to buy a birthday gift, you usually give a little more pocket money is not so much to force him to take his own. A day too busy to see people, do not know how to control the child, an accident only know to fight fight fight, who is a mother like you!"

Mrs. Qiao's mouth was so full of talk that it was originally Qiao Yuan's fault, but within a few sentences, she put all the blame on Qiao's mother.

"Look what you've cried, you don't feel sorry for me..."

Qiao Yuan this time is a smart brain, let go to let go of the voice and a burst of fierce crying, crying Qiao old lady heart and liver pain, and when Qiao's father came back, he saw his own mother-in-law and cold face did not say anything, the son with a angry bag like hiding behind his grandmother.

After asking what was going on, Qiao's father acted as the usual peacemaker between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, telling his daughter-in-law that Qiao's mother also cared about her grandson, and telling Qiao's mother that she hated her grandson, and finally took his son and sat him down on his lap and reasoned with him for more than an hour.

It was as if Qiao Yuan was three years old instead of thirteen. She was kind and patient, not at all as fierce as when she beat Qiao Lan with a broom.

Finally feeling that he had reasoned with his son, he secretly gave Qiao Yuan three hundred dollars, "If you want money, talk to Dad, how could Dad shortchange my son? Go over and apologize to your mom later, she's doing this for your own good."

Qiao Yuan took the money and nodded his head while in his head he was thinking that he had money to pretend in front of his classmates again.

In the evening, Qiao Yuan ran to Qiao's mother and apologized in a low voice, saying that he knew he was wrong. Qiao's mother saw that her son's eyes were red and softened her heart, and dragged Qiao Yuan to give him a lecture.

Qiao Yuan survived the "money theft" fiasco without a hitch, and even got a few hundred dollars more in her hand.

When he sleeps in his bed at night, Qiao Yuan suddenly realizes that he stole the money, and he's made a fortune.

Qiao Yuan couldn't help but think that if he took the family's money next time, even if his mom was angry and his grandma protected him, his dad would also protect him and he still wouldn't get beaten up, and then he would cry to his mom and pamper her when the matter was over, and then the matter would be over, and maybe his mom and dad would give him even more pocket money.

It's not like it's the family's or anyone else's money that was stolen anyway.

Qiao Lan doesn't know and doesn't care what kind of impact Qiao Yuan's father's unorthodox and permissive parenting style will have on Qiao Yuan and Qiao's family.

In the first semester of senior high school, everyone is busy studying, and Qiao Lan is reading the Silk Road book Tan Mo gave him, so he doesn't care about what's happening to Qiao's family.

However, one day the homeroom teacher suddenly approached her, saying that Qiao's mother had called him and asked Qiao Lan to call her back when she had time.

Qiao Lan didn't tell Qiao's mother her phone number, so Qiao's mother called the homeroom teacher. Qiao Lan promised on the mouth, but then put it behind her, she didn't want to have anything to do with Qiao's family any more, and after the college entrance exam, she would definitely go to a foreign university far away from here.

Qiao's mother tried to talk to Qiao Lan at first, but after two attempts, Qiao Lan simply ignored her, and Qiao's mother lost her temper.

It's like she's in charge of Qiao Lan.

Don't come back for the rest of her life and don't ask her for money if you can.

Qiao Lan's life has been very comfortable without Qiao's mother's harassment. Recently, she doesn't have to work part-time, and she can read other books in her spare time while studying, and go to the playground for a run in the evening.

She now looks much better than before, Qiao Lan originally very good features, finally revealed little by little, eat well mood, and then strengthen strengthen exercise.

Gradually, after one exam after another, Tan Mo and Qiao Lan steadily sat in second place in their grades, and Chen Yaoyang became the unchanging oldest, everyone finally became numb to this reality, and after sighing after each exam, they looked towards Qiao Lan's and Tan Mo's positions for a moment or two, and that was it.

But looking at it also gradually made a new discovery, boys always have a sensitive sense of smell to the girl's looks.

"Why do I realize that Qiao Lan looks much better than before?"

"It's gotten whiter, hasn't it, and your complexion is much better, you used to look thin and yellow."

"What did I say before, Qiao Lan is just too dark skinned, she'd be absolutely beautiful if she had Song Yao's skin."

Tan Mo's ears were sharp enough to hear these words, and suddenly from the bottom of his heart, a feeling of superiority arose that you all had finally found out.

He'd realized that Qiao Lan was good-looking from a long time ago.

After almost half a year of trying to feed them, Tan Mo feels he has more work to do.

The boys, who were talking in the distance, didn't know what Tan Mo was thinking, and continued to talk vigorously.

"Better than Song Yao? Don't be ridiculous, how can it be, you're exaggerating, just a little bit better looking than before, can it be better than Song Yao?"

"I don't really get Song Yao, I like the imperial lady type, Song Yao looks like a doll, and she's a bit too small."

Speaking of which, no one is arguing back.

In addition to the boy's comment that he didn't like Song Yao's type, Song Yao's biggest flaw is her height. Before the class physical examination, Song Yao's height was 155, but this height matches Song Yao's face very well.

There are also a particularly large number of boys who like this type.

But today many boys are leg control, small even if the proportion is good is not better than the big tall, the boys talk about the girls to instantly become excited, said the class who who is tall but the proportion is not good, 50/50, and said who has a good proportion of the legs is particularly long.

And that brings us to Qiao Lan.

The school recently popular change school pants, and wide and loose school pants to change a change, can be changed into quite trendy pencil pants, thick legs to change the wider, thin legs to change the slightly narrower, but do not dare to too narrow, too narrow test legs, and was the head of the grade to see the must be scolded.

Altered pants, that some of the girls with long legs have good looking legs, instantly stand out.

Qiao Lan is one of them.

At over 5'7" and wearing altered school pants, her long legs were a bit of an eye catcher, and since Qiao Lan had never been categorized as a pretty girl before, or in the group of boys who were interested in her, a lot of the boys were surprised when they found out that Qiao Lan was in good shape.

"How come I didn't realize Qiao Lan had such long legs before?"

"Hasn't she always been quite tall, like almost 172, she does have long legs."

"Long legs are not the same as good looking legs," and some are disgruntled, "Qiao Lan is too skinny, her legs are definitely not in good shape."

Qiao Lan, who didn't have Tan Mo's ear as good as she did and couldn't hear or listen, opened the box of fruits that Tan Mo had brought with her and gave Tan Mo a piece of cantaloupe with a toothpick.

Qiao Lan found out that Tan Mo likes very sweet fruits, lychee, cantaloupe, etc.

Sure enough, Tan Mo took it and ate it.

Qiao Lan laughed softly.

Recently, Qiao Lan has been spending a lot of time thinking about Tan Mo.

She remembers the name of the book, but now that the book is completely unavailable in this world, Qiao Lan can only rely on her memory to recall the original contents of the book.

Tan Mo is a supporting character, and not even the second supporting character, so he doesn't get a lot of credit, but every time he appears, Qiao Lan is impressed.

Tan Mo's first appearance in the book is also in his freshman year of high school, but then he drops out of school because he's always getting bullied by his classmates, and when he reappears it's after the hero and heroine have gone to college.

That was the time when Tan Mo was most appealing to the fans of the book. Tan Mo, remembering the occasional concern of the heroine Song Yao, relied on his strong financial power and excellent financial acumen to help the hero and heroine who were in a financial crisis, and just when everyone thought that he would be able to live a good life, in fact, his depression was getting more and more serious.

Finally, two years later, Tan Mo died of suicide.

When Qiao Lan saw this, she didn't continue to watch it. Her favorite character was gone, and Qiao Lan really wasn't interested in the male and female leads.

Song Yao is exactly the same as in the book, a kind and simple white rabbit heroine, so there's no logical error in writing that Song Yao will help Tan Mo when everyone is bullying her. However, I don't know if it's because Qiao Lan crossed over and cared for Tan Mo first, but Song Yao's eyes were only on Chen Yaoyang, and she didn't care about Tan Mo at all.

But none of that matters. What matters is Tan Mo's condition.

Tan Mo had Asperger's and a disability in his legs, but neither of these caused Tan Mo's death, which was due to his severe depression and suicide.

Qiao Lan's concern for Tan Mo at first came from her love for the character and her compassion for Tan Mo, but now that she thinks about it again, Qiao Lan has spontaneously taken care of Tan Mo as her own responsibility at some point in time.

Because when she was helping this teenager, he gave so much back to her.

People always have feelings.

Tan Mo is reluctant to talk about his leg, and sometimes when he talks about hospitals and treatments, he clumsily and deliberately digresses, so Qiao Lan can't bear to force him to talk about it.

However, for Asperger's and two-legged Qiao Lan there is nothing to be done for the time being, and for depression, Tan Mo can't see any traces of depression in his body for the time being, but he has very serious delusions of grandeur, and delusions of grandeur are also very likely to be accompanied by depression.

There's not much you can do on your own, but it always helps, companionship, friendliness, kindness, etc etc.

After the second monthly exam, this time the physics paper was very difficult, but Tan Mo once again got full marks in physics, and several physics teachers took Tan Mo's paper and praised it so much that they finally found Tan Mo's homeroom teacher.

The homeroom teacher entered the classroom joyfully to find Tan Mo. The class looked at the homeroom teacher happy and asked him curiously what happened.

"Anyway, it's a good thing", the class teacher is quite mysterious, once happy, I forget to take care of the situation, anxious to help Tan Mo push the wheelchair, Tan Mo busy wheelchair back half a meter away face is full of wariness.

The homeroom teacher remembered seeing Qiao Lan helping Tan Mo push his wheelchair a few days ago and thought that Tan Mo was making progress, but when she went up to help him today, Tan Mo was still very resistant.

The homeroom teacher withdrew her hand a bit sardonically, a little indescribable feeling welled up in her heart, but she still hurriedly said business, "Tan Mo, come with me to the office, teacher has something to tell you."

As soon as Tan Mo left Qiao Lan, she reverted to her usual reticent self, silently maneuvering her wheelchair out of the classroom, everyone looked left and right and couldn't see anything, so they resumed their own conversations.

Qiao Lan stared at Tan Mo's back before retracting her gaze. The two girls sitting behind Qiao Lan casually asked Qiao Lan, "Qiao Lan, are you going to study literature or science?"

The first year of high school will end in a month, and the division of arts and sciences has become the most concerned topic.

Study arts or science?

Qiao Lan subconsciously wanted to say study literature, after all, he used to study literature, so it would be relatively easy for him to learn it again, but he retracted his words and said, "I haven't thought about it yet."

"You should study literature," the girl sitting at the back said for Qiao Lan first, "You're so good in politics, history and geography."

"People are not only good in politics, history and geography ah, chemistry and physics are also quite good, this time the physics is lower than Tan Mo, and math, another perfect score..."

"I'll say relative, relative! Qiao Lan science is also good, but her liberal arts is just better ah, her that math and so on later to study literature, simply do not take advantage of too much okay."

Qiao Lan didn't say anything yet, but the two girls debated because of her. Qiao Lan didn't chat with them anymore, and stared down at her own grades, pondering over them.

On the other side of the room, Tan Mo, who was brought into the office by the jubilant homeroom teacher, saw his physics teacher sitting in his office drinking tea as soon as he entered, and his eyes narrowed into slits as soon as he looked up and saw Tan Mo.

"Come on", the physics teacher, who is only responsible for teaching the class and doesn't know Tan Mo's specific situation, looks too close to Tan Mo, making Tan Mo subconsciously retreat again.

Physics teacher froze for a moment, the class teacher busy in front of his ears said something, physics teacher this only hurriedly "Oh" a few sounds, and then sat back, and Tan Mo fingertip separation of nearly a meter distance this only to say.

"Today the teacher came to see you, mainly because he thinks you are especially talented in physics, our school will select very outstanding students every year to participate in the National High School Physics Competition, classmate Tan Mo, do you want to participate?"