Mr Gingerbread

Chapter 5

Seeing the stack of test papers on his desk, Lu Ming said in surprise, "I'm doing my homework. Today should be a holiday, right?"

"Where is it?" Fang Jingyao was about to cry, and said dejectedly: "You don't know, brother-in-law. I originally thought that only the third year of high school had no human rights. I didn't expect that our second year of high school would have no human rights. They wrote test papers in school without holidays. Our second year of high school had no human rights. It’s just over a week of winter vacation, and there’s a lot of homework assigned, so it’s better to stay in school and go to class!”

Lu Ming also graduated from No. [-] Middle School in the city. Knowing that the second semester of the second year of high school is basically over, and he is about to start doing a lot of test questions and enter the preparation state, he encouraged Fang Jingyao a few words over there. Fang Jingyao looked like a puppy through the screen, His eyes were wet and pitiful, and Lu Ming wanted to laugh several times when he looked over.

"Just get through it. Thousands of troops are on the single-plank bridge. If you don't fight, you can't do it."

Fang Jingyao was on the verge of tears while doing his homework, and said, "Uncle, I don't want to learn these things. I almost fail the exams all day long. I'm so bored... Besides, didn't the book say that it's better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books?" , I want to travel thousands of miles, I wander the world!"

Lu Ming said lazily, "Let me take a look at you?"

Fang Jingyao: "..."

Lu Ming knew him better than himself, so he sneered and said, "You only have a dozen or so dollars, which is enough for breakfast tomorrow. Where are you going?"

The little nephew was completely discouraged, lying on the desk with no interest in life, and there was a thick stack of wrong questions. It seemed that he had really done enough, so he changed the topic just now: "Uncle, when are you coming back?" , I think you can't do what you want."

Lu Ming also felt a little distressed, and coaxed him: "Hurry up, hurry up, it will take more than a month."

Before I said a few words here, Lu Beibei ran over. She liked Xiaojiu more, so she ran over and hugged Lu Ming's arm to video with him.She knew Fang Jingyao, a big cousin, but compared to the mischievous big cousin, the gentle and considerate little uncle was her favorite. The little girl was just as particular about her own father, and she clearly recognized the Chinese generation, The eldest cousin is of the same generation as her, but the younger uncle is different, this is the elder!

She has never seen anyone so beautiful as her elder brother and uncle!

Lu Beibei's heart was full of pride, and she wished she could take her brother-in-law to show off to the world - her current world is relatively small, which is her grandma's house and school.

Lu Ming pinched the tip of the little girl's nose, put the phone on the table next to him, and together with Beibei, made a video call with his little nephew.

Lu Beibei just started to sit properly. Seeing Lu Ming talking to Fang Jingyao all the time, she began to try to attract his attention. While climbing on Lu Ming's lap, she gave him her Barbie doll, and waited until Lu Ming sat down. After Ming got on his lap, he simply fell into his arms, raised his head and called "Uncle" vigorously, wishing to write the words "Look at your baby" on his face.

Fang Jingyao purposely bared his teeth and made a grimace: "Uncle, look at me too!"

Lu Ming couldn't help being teased by these two creatures, while dealing with Lu Beibei, he said perfunctorily: "Look at you, you have fallen out of favor now, Beibei is much prettier than you."

Fang Jingyao said in disbelief, "That's because jealousy made me completely unrecognizable. Besides, I was much prettier than her when I was young."

Lu Ming: "It's just that you are poor, and you are still arguing with children!"

Fang Jingyao bit his pen and looked up at him, half envious and half excited, and said, "Uncle, my mother said that you are guaranteed graduate school, and you can pass without taking the exam, so now you can play everywhere, and I want to go too. My mother said that as long as I start school Let me go out to play for two days if I get in the top ten in the exam, I'll forget about it, you will be back after I finish the exam, you can stay for two days of vacation and wait for me, I will definitely be in the top ten..."

Lu Ming glanced at him with a smile, and said: "Okay, Xiaobao, you should work harder, it's been more than a year, try hard, our Lu family has never had such a low score in the exam, do you hear me? "

Lu Beibei fell into Lu Ming's arms and imitated him: "Xiao Bao, work harder!"

Fang Jingyao stretched out his hand and flicked it towards the screen, and there was a crisp sound: "Hey, Lu Beibei, what are you talking about, it's not big or small, does anyone talk to your brother like that... No, let go of my uncle first !"

Lu Beibei giggled, hugged Lu Ming and made a face on the video: "It's my uncle now! I'm alone!"

Fang Jingyao quarreled with an elementary school student in the air. Lu Beibei was not familiar with Chinese and quickly switched to English. Balabala talked non-stop for several minutes, and she could tell how provocative she was just by the tone of her voice.Fang Jingyao refused to accept it, and started arguing with her in English. During the period, he was taught grammar twice by Lu Beibei. He squinted his eyes and said, "Lu Beibei, wait for me to recite it." After finishing this English-Chinese dictionary, you are finished, I tell you!"

Lu Beibei made faces at him triumphantly, and uttered a sentence in French. Fang Jingyao hadn't reacted yet, but Lu Ming, who was next to him, heard a gentle knock on the little girl's head, and replied to her. The little girl bowed her head and played with her fingers. went.

Fang Jingyao didn't understand and knew it was not a good word, so he could not threaten the little girl there, so he lured her: "You are obedient, when you come back, cousin will take you to the amusement park?"

Lu Beibei took out two coins from his pocket, and was very happy: "Okay, let's go together, Beibei has a lot of pocket money, I will pay for it!"

While the two little ones were arguing there, Fang Jingyao's time to relax was over. Fang Jingyao gave the phone to his mother with a heartbroken face, and complained there: "I practiced Chinese with Beibei there, and I didn't follow her." Uncle said a few words..."

Fang's mother spat at him: "Who is to blame! You found it yourself, go and write your homework, I can tell you, if you fail the exam this time, your grandma will not be able to save you!" She confiscated the phone, and took it again Then I went to the living room and said a few words to Lu Ming, "How about it, you are doing well there, aren't you?"

Lu Ming put the little girl down, got up and went to talk to the eldest sister in the corridor outside, and said with a smile, "It's pretty good."

Mother Fang pondered for a while, and said: "Professor Sun called to ask you, it seems to be about the last competition, he asked if you want to participate in the domestic exhibition with the returned works, he said it would be a pity to leave it like that , would like to recommend to try again…”

Lu Ming said casually: "No need, sister, you can push it for me. I was originally going for that competition. If I fail to participate, I can leave it at home to see for myself. I don't want to take it out again."

Mother Fang sighed, and said, "You don't know who you look like, why are you so stubborn."

Lu Ming laughed and said, "Who else can you be like, my dad!"

Mother Fang also laughed, and said again: "Professor Sun is still very optimistic about you. He called you several times, and I felt a little guilty after hearing the meaning. You are really a good teacher, oh yes, and your classmates also called I called you and asked twice, many people are looking for you for a winter vacation party."

Lu Ming thought about it for a while before he remembered it, "Oh, there is such a thing, I asked my classmates to go skiing in the mountains before, and I was patronizing my second sister, so I forgot to tell them I'll tell them later." He laughed again, "Those people are not very good people, sister, just ignore them, at most they would send me a few photos of eating hot pot to show off to me. look."

Mother Fang: "That's not enough. Your classmates have come to you several times, and they have mailed things. They are all in English. Our mother has kept them, and I don't know what they are."

Lu Ming said: "It should be mailed by the brother who went out to participate in the competition. I asked him to buy paint for me. When Professor Sun led the team to the competition in the Netherlands, I always heard them bragging about how good the paint is. I felt itchy. I asked them to bring two boxes. I used one box and left the other one for Jing Yao. He is about to go out to learn painting in his third year of high school, so it’s impossible if he doesn’t have something handy..."

Fang's mother breathed a sigh of relief on the phone, and said with a smile: "I'm still worried that you can't figure out why you lost the election."

Lu Ming lowered his eyes halfway, covering up his emotions a bit: "After thinking about it for a month, it's almost there."

Fang's mother is the eldest sister of the family, 20 years older than Lu Ming, and she loves him like her own child. Lu Ming has been outstanding since he was a child, and has won awards of all sizes. What kind of setback happened? Lu Ming was silent for a long time because of the failure of the painting. Although he was joking in front of them, it could be seen that he cared a lot and was really hit. She, the eldest sister, was also worried. no.

"Lu Ming, my sister has watched you grow up, and I know it's not just about painting, there are other things you don't want to talk about, so don't talk about it." Fang's mother half-coaxed and half-persuaded him as he was when he was a child, "But you Now that you are willing to talk about the game yourself, you don’t care about it anymore, and I am relieved, you are still young, and you will have more opportunities in the future.”

"Got it, ma'am."

When she was about to hang up, Fang's mother told Lu Ming to be careful outside and pay attention to her body. Their old lady loved him dearly.

Lu Ming responded with a smile.

After hanging up the phone and standing in the corridor for a while, he lowered his head and turned on the communication software on his phone. It hadn't been used for a long time, and when he opened it, a bunch of messages popped up, basically asking him where he was hiding.He rubbed his chin and thought for a while, as if he hadn't contacted everyone since that day in Canada, so it's been a month since he disappeared.

I picked up the replies from a few acquaintances, and saw Professor Sun's message. I watched the profile picture beating for a long time, but I still didn't click to read it.

Lu Ming put his mobile phone in his pocket, took his briefcase and went back to his room, half lying on the bed, picked up the documents on hand, and looked carefully.This time it was much easier to see into it than before, and it didn't take long for me to devote myself to it without any distractions.

Boss Han gave him a lot of money, so he probably was still struggling to work overtime on the front line at the moment. Lu Ming glanced at his watch and shook his head with a smile.

For such a dedicated boss, he must do his best.