Brainoid

Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong mentioned introducing a partner to Qi Min, which was just a casual remark, and she didn't mention it again after that. After lunch, Mr. Qi Zhiguang and Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong took Qi Min to the supermarket to buy things together - this was once one of the most common family activities in her family.

Perhaps because they felt that the child was old after all - already an adult for ten years - there was no need to ask more questions. Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong and Mr. Qi Zhiguang just talked about what happened at home today, and Qi Min also talked about it a little selectively. Her current living situation.

"Lele, when is your final vacation?" Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong also asked, "Your grandma went to Hainan to meet her friends. We can also go to Hainan during the Chinese New Year."

To be honest, although Qi Min took transoceanic flights every year before, he had never even been to Hainan. She really wanted to go, but there was still the matter of Anton and Mimi.

"Our... laboratory..." Qi Min made up his mind in a hurry, "Our laboratory is short of instruments, and we plan to borrow other people's instruments during the winter vacation to do experiments."

"Why are you so busy?" Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong said helplessly, "You are already the boss, why do you still have to work overtime on holidays?"

Qi Min smiled bitterly: "Calling me 'boss' is just a joke. The laboratory is the public property of the country, not mine. Anyway, I just want to work for the school in another way."

Hearing what she said, Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong could only comfort her with a few words. Nowadays, who doesn’t work for others? Even if they are civil servants, they still have to listen to their superiors when they work for the country.

Qi Min complained about how low the salary offered by the University of Science and Technology of China was, but suddenly he received a phone call. She picked it up and saw that it was Anton. She quickly picked up the phone before her parents came over to take a look out of curiosity: "Hello, what's going on?"

"Are you coming back for dinner?" Anton asked.

"Uh... no way..." Qi Min glanced at Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong next to her. Her mother looked like she still had to feed her those dark dishes.

"It takes so long." Anton sighed casually.

Qi Min just wanted to say that these were her parents after all, but then she thought that Anton was an orphan and had no memory of the time he spent with his parents, so it was probably difficult for him to understand Qi Min's mentality when he returned home to see his parents.

She pretended that there was a lot of noise in the supermarket, raised her voice and said, "Hello? What are you talking about? The supermarket is too noisy."

Qi Min wanted to protect Anton's "glass heart" in her imagination, but Anton didn't seem to feel anything: "Are you in the supermarket? Then buy a mop. The mop at home is broken."

Qi Min felt confused, but the mop was broken and he really needed to replace it with a new one, so he agreed.

After hanging up the phone, Qi Min looked around and couldn't find a place selling mops for a while: "Mom, where are mops sold?"

"This supermarket was renovated last year, and the mops and brooms were moved to the second floor." Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong answered for her, and then asked, "Why do I need to buy mops?"

"Oh, the mop in my house - the house I rented is broken." Qi Min added, "I just remembered."

"Hey, you live on your own on the land, that's not bad." Mr. Qi Zhiguang teased his daughter with a smile.

Qi Min is really lazy at home. She basically never cleans her bedroom by herself. She just asks her parents to clean the public area. Therefore, Mr. Qi Zhiguang always said that it was a "doghouse-like" place. In fact, if Qi Min still slept in a bedroom by himself, he would probably barely clean it up. But Anton can't stand the mess in the room where he sleeps - the thing is, whoever can't stand it first gets to clean it up.

"You still have to hit the ground." Qi Min said confidently, but she didn't have to hit it herself.

Qi Min went to the second floor of the supermarket to get a mop, and when he left, he saw the biscuit and candy section. She saw a variety of mixed flavors of lollipops on the shelf. She remembered that she loved eating these when she was a child, and now she could use them to trick Mimi, so she grabbed a pack.

Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong looked at her in surprise: "Lele, how old are you, and you still eat lollipops?"

"Huh?" Qi Min realized that it seemed a little strange for her as a "single adult woman" to buy a big bag of lollipops, so she had to say forcefully, "I'm addicted to this."

"You should eat less sweets." Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong said with disgust, "You are alone there, are you just eating snacks?"

"No." Qi Min immediately denied.

"Then you just eat takeout every day, right?" Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong said with a knowing expression.

"No, there's nothing delicious about takeout." Qi Min said, "I eat quite healthily, so you don't need to worry about it."

"How about we stay at your place and clean up the house and cook for you." Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong continued, "Although this is a bit tiring, it also guarantees that my daughter will not live in a 'doghouse' .”

Qi Min quickly refused: "Don't ask, don't ask. It's fine for me to live there by myself. I'm not a giant baby. I've graduated with a doctorate. I can do those things myself."

Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong glanced at her suspiciously, but since Qi Min was also a financially independent "real adult", she didn't say anything more to her.

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Faced with her parents' concerns about her personal life, Qi Min managed to coax Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong and Mr. Qi Zhiguang into peace. However, what her mother mentioned about Qin Zhenjun before made Qi Min a little bit unhappy.

Although Qi Min also knew that her attitude towards paddling when she was an undergraduate was problematic, Qin Zhenjun slapped her in the face at that time, which was almost equivalent to pointing her nose and scolding LOSER. Qi Min really got angry just thinking about it.

She actually inquired with Yan Zhaolan later and asked her if she knew how Qin Zhenjun was doing now.

Yan Zhaolan's voice on the WeChat phone sounded quite joking: "Hey, why do you think of Qin Zhenjun again?"

As a friend who was studying at the same undergraduate level, Yan Zhaolan naturally knew about Qi Min and Qin Zhenjun. It's just that she's still not sure why the two broke up, and she can't understand Qi Min's behavior of deleting all Qin Zhenjun's contact information after the breakup. From what Yan Zhaolan saw, she felt that it was normal for Qi Min to overreact.

"I suddenly remembered." Qi Min asked, "How is he? Has he changed his major, or is he already a PI?"

"I'm not sure either. I'll ask among my classmates for you." Yan Zhaolan added, "Don't worry, I will never expose you."

Qi Min silently hoped that Dr. Qin Zhenjun would be worse off than her if he failed to graduate, but intellectually he knew that this was probably unlikely. Judging from what she later found out about Qin Zhenjun's GPA, Qi Min had to admit that he was much better than her, a loser who was just paddling. So Qi Min still felt that most of the news Yan Zhaolan heard about was that Qin Zhenjun had become the so-called winner in life. In order to avoid being ridiculed, she would have to stay away from him in the future.

However, when Qi Min was sitting in front of the computer in the laboratory, facing Jupyter and pulling out WeChat out of boredom, he saw a friend application with the note: "Qin Zhenjun, come out to have a meal?"

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