Chapter 20 Section 20

CAROL's alumnus Qian Bo invited her to a meal as a gesture of kindness.She brought him some tea leaves and silk scarves from China, and I heard that these things are more popular here. When she arrived at Qian Bo's house, she understood why Qian Bo didn't pick him up even though he was an alumnus.Qian Bo already has a girlfriend named Ding Aiqi, who studies economics, and they are already living together.He certainly wasn't leaving his girlfriend's warm flesh at three in the morning to pick her up at the airport 100 miles away.This reasoning seems to prove from the negative side that Jason does not have a girlfriend, which makes her a little happy.

She took out the gift she brought to Qian Bo, Ai Qi took it, looked at it, and said with a bit of a nose: "I don't know where I got the information in China, I always thought we would like these things in the United States." ,” said, and put the gift back into her hand, “You take it, we don’t need it.” CAROL feels embarrassed, and it's not good to take the gift back, and it's not good not to take it back.It was another guest who smoothed things over and said to Ai Qi: "Take it, other people want it. You don't need it yourself. It's good to give it to Americans. Many Americans like these things." Love After hearing this, Qi reluctantly accepted it.

CAROL was very grateful to the rescuer, so he started talking with her.It turned out that her name was Sun Huilun, and she was Aiqi's classmate. She should be in her thirties, and she had a five-year-old son who was running around the house, so she had to tell him from time to time: "Duo Duo, don't run around, look. When I run and sweat, I catch a cold and I will be panting again.” The word "panting" seems to be able to calm the child down, so Duoduo stopped running around.But the child didn't remember long, he was honest for a while, and started running again.Sun Huilun had no choice but to catch his son while talking to CAROL and let him be quiet for a while.

Carol saw that she was much older than himself, so he didn't know how to call her.Sun Huilun said: "Blindly came up with an English name, called SALLY, let's make do with it." Seeing that CAROL is a freshman, SALLY immediately recommended to her a house that she was planning to rent out, saying that she lived in the school's MARRIED HOUSING, a two-bedroom apartment, and only people with children could live there.She lives in the big room with her son, and there is a small room, and she wants to rent it out to others, because she is divorced and her ex-husband is in China, so she pays very little child support. She doesn't have much scholarship alone, so the rent is used Half, I want to find someone to share.Besides, her son is still young and can only live with her, so the small room is completely empty.

CAROL looked at Duoduo and thought to himself, how can the child study while living with her?So he said, "I've found a place to live, and I signed a half-year contract, so I can't move out now." "Then help me inquire among your freshmen to see if anyone is interested." SALLY said, "Although the school's house is not too new, the rent is relatively cheap. Telephone, TV, and broadband Internet access are all included in the rent. It’s better for you to live outside.” Carol agreed to help her ask other freshmen, and then asked with concern: "You have to take care of a child by yourself, and you still have to study for a Ph. D., it must be very tiring, right?"

"It's okay to be tired, because Duoduo is at school during the day. I'm afraid that he will get sick. He has an asthma problem, and his asthma is very serious. He often has to be sent to the hospital in the middle of the night. I don't know how to drive. Fortunately, Jason next door is me. The fellow, willing to help, often wakes him up in the middle of the night and runs to the hospital." CAROL was taken aback, and asked, "JASON lives next door to you? Which JASON? Is the Chinese name Jiang Cheng?" "Yes, you know him?" "He picked me up from the airport." CAROL hurriedly said to SALLY, "Don't rent the house to others as you mentioned. I'll go back and talk to my second landlord to see if I can rent out my house. If I can, I will move to your side."

SALLY said happily: "Okay, I'll keep it for you. Many people are afraid of children quarreling, but we don't quarrel at all. I also pay attention to not letting him quarrel. If you move to my place, I can do it Teach you to cook, help you cook." While talking, Qian Bo came over to talk to CAROL, and before he could say a word, Ai Qi called him to cut the watermelon. Carol felt that Ai Qi was guarding against her, and when she saw Qian Bo coming to talk to her, she intervened and called Qian Bo to do this or that.Maybe it's a girl's nature. If I like a boy, I feel that all the girls in the world will like this boy and covet her baby. CAROL thought to himself, what is Qian Bo?Although he is tall, but his appearance is average, his hair is thin, and he has a tendency to gain weight, is it worth being wary of me like this?

She suddenly thought, if Jason was my boyfriend, would I guard against other girls like this?Will he pick up other girls like he picked up me?She thinks he will, because he seems to be that kind of person, like Lei Feng.She said playfully in her heart, but Lei Feng is short, has small eyes, and is not handsome, no matter how he helps others, he will be a role model or something, and will not help a crush.You Jason doesn't have that QUALIFICATION, so why do you want to live Lei Feng?You are handsome and courteous to help a girl, can she not be emotional?Where are you helping people?You are literally creating chaos.

She thought, if he were my boyfriend, I would make an agreement with him, and he was not allowed to pick up girls at the airport, only men, but now it is not safe for men to date men, and they might become gay.Then simply don't allow him to pick up people at the airport, and I have to sit next to him if he wants to pick him up.Then she thought happily, this seems to further prove that he doesn't have a girlfriend, otherwise he would not be the only one who picked him up that day. The next day, she took out his jacket to wash it.She was sick when she used the jacket, and it would not be good to return it without washing it.It was just one piece of clothing, it wasn't worth using the washing machine, so she washed it by hand, and hung it on the shower head in the bathroom. After a while, the water dripped dry, and hung it on the balcony outside.

In the afternoon, the landlord Mr. Turner came back from get off work and saw the clothes hanging on the balcony, so he knocked on her door and asked if she had hung the clothes there. She nodded, wondering how it would bother the landlord to come to the humble house to wash a piece of clothes. Mr. Turner told her very politely that the clothes should be dried in a dryer instead of hanging on the balcony, because that would affect the appearance of COMMUNITY. CAROL half understood, but generally knew that hanging clothes on the balcony should not be done.She was very embarrassed, blushing and said that she had remembered it and would not hang up again in the future. She felt a little bit strange to Feng Chao, why didn't she tell me?

Before leaving, Mr. Turner saw her flushed and ashamed, and wanted to ease the atmosphere, so he said, I also have a dress like this, which is a reward from my son’s school to the parents of top students. At first glance, I thought it was a dress. What about mine.He pointed to the word CMS and told her that it was the initials of COLLINSMIDDLESCHOLL. His son used to study in this middle school, but now he is in high school. Carol felt cold hands and feet, she pointed to the line on the clothes, and asked in a low voice: What does this mean? Mr. Turner explained, and she finally understood the meaning of that line. There was no humor in it. The most straightforward sentence: "My child has been evaluated as a top student in the school", and the literal translation is "My child has been evaluated by the principal. Hall of Fame." She pressed: "Only parents wears—wear—this kind of jacket—jackets? "Not all parents," said Mr. Turner proudly, "only those whose kids made to the principal's honor roll." She stood there in a daze, unable to remember what else Mr. Turner said, and when he left. She only saw the line of words, which seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, which was shocking: My baby made to the principal's honor roll. CMS So Jason has children, and they are already in middle school.No wonder he understands girls' psychology so well, come here.She didn't want to believe the fact that he didn't look like a kid in high school.Yes, some men look very young, but a child in middle school must be in his teens, right?How old is he?Forty?Looking back on his appearance, she found it hard to say, maybe he really is forty, if you just look at his eyes, you can say he is forty. She remembered that he was SALLY's neighbor and lived in MARRIED HOUSING, which is only for students with children.I didn't pay attention to this when I heard this, because living in MARRIEDHOURSING does not mean being MARRIED.If she moved into SALLY's APT, wouldn't she also live in MARRIEDHOUSING? But with this jacket, things became clear. He was married and had children, so he went upstairs to get things by himself that day, without asking her to go up too. She was very angry, how could he do this?Isn't it a lie to hide such an important truth and not wear a wedding ring?There should be a law mandating that all married men wear an M on their clothes, or have a sign on their chest saying "Married", preferably with a big M on their face. "Married man", let all the silly girls see at a glance that they are not AVAILABLE. After thinking about it for a while, he felt that he was not wrong, he didn't hide anything, this dress was put in the car, and he used it to cover her body, which showed that he didn't want to hide anything.It is impossible for her to ask him if he is married as soon as she sees him, and it is impossible for him to yell "I am married" as soon as he comes up.It was she herself who took unmarried as DEFAULT and plunged into it without asking any questions. She felt that she had to ask him himself, otherwise she would die to believe that he was married and had a child in high school.But she didn't know how to ask him. After thinking for a long time, she came up with an idea.She called him and told him: I still have your jacket, when will you come and get it?Is it yours, or someone else's?If it's yours, it's okay to put it away. If it's someone else's, don't you want to return it to others as soon as possible? Jason said "Oh" on the phone, and said: "It's okay, it's my jacket, put it in your place first, there's no need to make a special trip, and come get it when I come over for something." CAROL hangs up the phone disgruntled, hopeless, the jacket is his, he has already admitted it himself.