Chapter 76: Albums

At home, Tan Mo continues to read his books every day and occasionally looks at something related to his course, after all, he is the only special needs student at school who doesn't have to listen to lectures in class or do homework at the end of the school day.

So there is no winter or summer vacation homework.

Qiao Lan doesn't get that kind of treatment. She still has to do her homework.

Even though the high school only gave the seniors a 10-day winter vacation, there was no ambiguity about the homework, with one set of papers after another, and in addition to the papers, there was a lot of stupid homework that didn't require the use of the brain, but only the use of the pen.

Qiao Lan writes annoyingly and breathlessly.

Tan Mo came into the room to find Qiao Lan after studying today's stock market trend, Qiao Lan was sitting in front of the desk and working hard on her homework.

Qiao Lan is writing about math.

She prefers more flexible assignments in math, physics, and chemistry, although her grades in English and language arts are higher.

Tan Mo reached over and took the pile of papers Qiao Lan had placed on the table, flipping through them to see that almost all of the language and English and biology papers were empty, and that Qiao Lan was probably planning to put them at the end of the day.

This is in line with Qiao Lan's personality, just like Qiao Lan always likes to finish her favorite dishes first and leave the less favorite ones for the last.

Qiao Lan put down her pen when she saw Tan Mo coming, she turned her aching wrist and smiled and asked Tan Mo, "Finished?"

Tan Mo's interest in the stock market has grown, and he spends more and more time on it every day. At first, Qiao Lan said she wanted to learn from Tan Mo, but she simply didn't have the time.

"Yes," Tan Mo nodded, casually explaining to Qiao Lan about today's stock market trend, his eyes fell on Qiao Lan's subconsciously turned wrist.

After a pause, "I'll write it for you."

"Hmm?"

Qiao Lan looks up.

"You don't need to write these things in English and Language, you should memorize more words and read books if you have extra time", Tan Mo took the English and Language papers Qiao Lan put at the far end of the room and brought them over to him, a thick stack of papers with not even a name on them.

"You write the ones you have on hand first, and I'll help you with those."

Qiao Lan paused in her wrist rubbing, looked at Tan Mo and then at the paper in Tan Mo's hand, and could not wait to give Tan Mo another big hug, sincerely exclaiming that

"Momo you really are an angel."

Tan Mo laughed, "I'm not, I want to be paid for it."

"What reward," Qiao Lan assured with a grin, "is whatever you want, the stars of your birthright plucked for you."

"What do I need stars for", Tan Mo Heart said the stars in the sky could not compare to a you, put his hand out, the white overly white wrist is still tied with a bracelet that has been worn for a long time hand braided bracelet wearing a black bead.

"I want a new one," Tan Mo said.

Qiao Lan looked at the bracelet on Tan Mo's hand. It was a peace knot she had given Tan Mo two years ago, and Tan Mo had asked Auntie Chen to change the knot and weave in an obsidian bead, and finally strung it together to form the current bracelet, which Tan Mo had been wearing for a long time, and which was indeed not very new when she looked at it again now.

It does need a new one.

But ......

Qiao Lan is in a difficult position.

"I will not ah", the girl's beautiful eyebrows knitted together, when learning the peace knot are on the Internet to find the tutorials, learn a few days before braiding a not too ugly, now braided completely forgotten, the peace knot are not braided not to mention the bracelet.

Tan Mo takes the bracelet off her hand, "I don't care about this," and shoves it into Qiao Lan's hand, "I want it."

Qiao Lan: "......"

I'm amused and find Tan Mo's willful pettiness adorable.

Anyway, Tan Mo had already helped her with her homework, freeing up her time, so it was a good time to find another video to learn from. Qiao Lan put the bracelet away, and after thinking about it, she took the opportunity to make another request, "Then you'll go out with me this afternoon to buy colored ropes, okay."

Of course there's no problem, Tan Mo said, two hundred percent willing.

Two people go out together in the afternoon, color rope such things casually find a gift store have, recently and New Year's Day, this side of the mall is full of people, like this small gift store is crowded with girls.

Tan Mo has recently grown taller and will soon reach the 185 ceiling. Her already impressive height, combined with her fair complexion and delicate features, caused many people to look at Tan Mo as soon as she entered the store.

In this day and age where little brothers are more popular than little girls, boys like Tan Mo are too much.

But it is such a boy, but unusually well-behaved followed a girl, the two went to the inside of the braided color rope place, can not hear what is said, but look at the action is roughly in the choice of colors.

Qiao Lan grabbed Tan Mo's hand and compared the colored ropes on Tan Mo's hand, trying to see what color looked the best, only to find that because Tan Mo's skin was so white, each color looked especially good against his skin.

Qiao Lan looked up at Tan Mo and then at the colored ropes, "They're all very pretty, Momo, which one do you like?"

"I like them all," Tan Mo replied quickly, her hazel eyes simmering with amusement, "Buy them all."

He said and added, "You can practice more if you buy more, and there are still a lot of beads left from the last purchase."

Qiao Lan cheered, "Make up a lot of them and then give a bracelet every year for New Year's?"

Tan Mo smiles back, "I think it's okay."

One bracelet per year is too shabby, Qiao Lan thought, although he is a poor person but not so poor ah, but in the end still buy a lot of each color.

Since I'm already here, I'd better browse more. Qiao Lan likes this kind of small store, and it's good to look around.

Tan Mo followed behind Qiao Lan, ignoring the crowd of men and women looking this way, and turned her head to see a variety of hair bows hanging next to the mirror.

Tan Mo suddenly remembered when he was still a senior, Christmas day he came to school to give Qiao Lan a small apple pendant, Qiao Lan ran out of the auditorium with a deer antler hair band in his hair, a bright and bright, playful and cute.

There are so many hair bows hanging on the wall now, rhinestone ones, bow ones, shiny ones like the last one Qiao Lan wore, and even cat ears and rabbit ears.

Tan Mo had been staring at a fluffy pink and white rabbit-ear hairband for a long time, and Qiao Lan was ready to pay when she turned around and saw Tan Mo standing next to the mirror staring at something on the wall.

When I walked over, Qiao Lan was stunned to see all the girly hair bows.

And Tan Mo is staring at the absolute most girlish one.

"Momo?"

Qiao Lan tried to call out to Tan Mo, who turned around and stared at Qiao Lan for a long time, then suddenly reached out and took down the rabbit ear hair band hanging on the wall.

Qiao Lan didn't wear a ponytail because she was on vacation. Her long, beautiful hair was draped over her shoulders like ink, and pink and white rabbit ears were worn by Tan Mo in Qiao Lan's hair.

Tan Mo is not enough, reached out and took down the mask Qiao Lan covered her face, the girl's delicate features were instantly exposed, she raised her head, her black eyes were wet looking at Tan Mo, together with the fluffy hair band, Qiao Lan's originally exceptionally bright and delicate appearance was set off in a very lovely way.

Tan Mo is satisfied.

"Go, go pay."

Qiao Lan who was forced to wear rabbit ears : "......"

Tan Mo like the tone?

Tan Mo like this cute one?

Yeah, in the original book, Tan Mo likes Song Yao, and Song Yao is a real cutie pie.

But she doesn't look cute at all.

Qiao Lan was a little sweet but a little sour, and followed Tan Mo to the cashier's side. Many of the girls who were looking at Tan Mo finally saw Qiao Lan, and they were stunned once again.

After Qiao Lan and Tan Mo left, the girls at the cashier could not help but exclaim that the couple's face value was a bit too high.

On the way home, Qiao Lan clearly noticed that Tan Mo was in a particularly good mood.

Qiao Lan touched the hair band on his head and thought about downloading a few beauty pictures of popular young flowers from his cell phone, imperial sister ones and cute and pure ones.

After saving the picture, I turned to Tan Mo and asked him which one he thought looked better.

Tan Mo scanned it and shook her head, "None of it looks good."

Qiao Lan: "Must I choose one?"

Tan Mo could only take Qiao Lan's cell phone and relook through it, finally pointing one out to Qiao Lan, "This one."

Because her eyes look like Qiao Lan's.

Qiao Lan stares at the actress on her cell phone, her eyes upturned and extremely provocative, her inked hair and snowy skin gorgeous.

Doesn't go well with cute and innocent at all.

Qiao Lan:?

That's not right.

Qiao Lan closed the picture, a good half a day did not figure out what of course, and finally simply open the video to find the teaching of braided bracelets to go.

When we got home, Tan Mo went to help Qiao Lan with her language and English homework, and Qiao Lan took a bunch of colored ropes and a small box of obsidian beads and started to learn how to weave a bracelet.

Suddenly, I remembered that Auntie Chen had helped me change Tan Mo's bracelet, so I jumped out of bed and ran to her room to look for her.

Pushing the door in, Aunt Chen was sitting on the edge of the bed, wearing old-fashioned glasses and not knowing what to read.

Auntie Chen saw Qiao Lan come in and beckoned her to come over. Qiao Lan put down the colorful rope and the box in her hand and came closer to see that Auntie Chen was looking at a photo album.

Qiao Lan can tell at a glance that this is what Tan Mo looked like as a child.

The album chronicles Tan Mo's journey from childhood to adulthood, from just being born and finally stopping at Tan Mo's fifteenth year, the year Tan Mo's mom died.

"These pictures were all put in by our lady's own hand", Auntie Chen carefully stroked through the album.

Turning the album to the first page, two other people can be seen in that page through the fifth page, excluding Tan Mo.

Qiao Lan had seen Tan Tan several times and recognized that this was Tan Tan's youthful appearance, next to a beautiful woman with delicate features and a gentle temperament.

"This is Momo's mom," Qiao Lan said, "Momo looks so much like her aunt."

Tan Mo's facial features are exquisite, and looking at the photo now, you can totally tell who he looks like. Except for his nose, which looks more like Tan Mo's father, the eyebrow and eye part is just like a mold with Tan Mo's mom.

Aunt Chen looked at Tan Mo's mom in the photo and couldn't hide the kindness in her eyes, "Yeah, this was when Yan Ning had just graduated from college for a year."

Just graduated from the University of Tan Tan mother is only 22 years old, beautiful looks, high education and good family, undoubtedly many excellent men like the object, and her door to door is also quite a lot, but Tan Tan mother is looking at a penniless Tan father.

I heard that Tan Tan's father is Tan Tan's mother's senior at the same school, handsome, poor family but very good. Aunt Chen said Tan Tan mother from the university is very like him, she is a bold girl, like to go after, but Tan Tan father has not agreed, but finally for some reason, the two quickly married.

The marriage was quick, and so was the birth of Tan Mo. Everyone thought they were very much in love, even Auntie Chan.

Because of Tan Mo's grandfather, Tan's father successfully entered the prosecutor's office, young and promising spring, just when everyone thought that everything was going in the right direction, Tan's father and the side of the small secretary came together.

If you want to ask Tan father really like that little secretary, Tan father himself do not know, now and then think of the already departed Tan mother, Tan father feel that he misses her far more than his now married wife.

Sometimes he wonders why he cheated on his wife in the first place; he actually loves his wife, but he still cheated.

And the most unexpected, probably is the Tan mother of such a gentle woman, but, did not give him a little chance to repent, cheating is equal to the death penalty, she quickly divorced with only three-year-old Tan Mo went to the distant United States.

So after the age of three, Tan Mo's photos no longer show his father.

After that, Tan Mo's photographs include a few pictures with Tan Mo's mother, and then they come to an abrupt end when Tan Mo is fifteen years old and there are no photographs, only a blank photo album.

But Auntie Chen took the album and flipped back a couple of pages, and Qiao Lan looked down and her heart snapped.

Two blank pages later, another photo appeared in the album with only one person in it.

The album belongs only to Tan Mo's family, and now it's not Tan's mom or Tan Mo, but another girl.

That was taken at some point, Qiao Lan.