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To him, this infatuated love was nothing but a fruitless tragedy.
For me, this sudden first love was a love lesson I missed in college.
When I first came to their house as a tutor, I did not return home from a business trip with Cannon.
His wife, Goffen, was a pretty northeast woman with big eyes and a high nose, but a bulky body and a bulging belly. It was obvious that she was pregnant and was about to give birth.
"Welcome!" She held her waist, leaning against the door frame, speaking fluently in Chinese. An urgent need for help was evident in her eyes. I hurried her to the red cloth sofa and poured her a glass of water.
She nodded with satisfaction and looked at me as if her first impression had passed.
My eyesight and hands and feet are nimble, thanks to my mother.
People say, daughter should be rich, she said, daughter can not spoil, since I was a child asked me to learn to do all the household chores:
When the children of other families learn to eat their own meals at the age of three or five, I have already swept the floor, washed clothes and folded quilts;
When the children of other families turn 8 or 9, they would wash their clothes and fold their blankets. I can already cook, cook, and even wrap dumplings or steamed buns …
When someone else's child was fourteen or fifteen years old and learned the basics of household chores, Mom had already made me housekeeper and master the family finances!
Every month, my mother gives me 2,000 yuan, which I control. I buy vegetables, soy sauce vinegar, daily necessities, and all the food in the house. Train my housekeeping skills.
Even though I do chores and cook everyday, I am still the 'bookworm' of the school. I am the top student in the entire year's exam, a top student among the top three …
When I went away to college, my mother didn't have any anxiety or worry about other mothers at all. She happily escorted me to the train and said, "With your current abilities, I'm not worried about you anywhere in the world."
It was only when we left home that we learned that it was indeed my fortune to have such an eccentric mother!
When I was in college, I was the head of my dorm room. Without me, the bedroom is always a mess. The girls at home were all pampered. Some of them didn't even know how to wash clothes or fold blankets. Although I was the youngest, I became the "big sister" of the dorm room. I have an endless body of strength, evaporation of talent, I became a female classmate's "savior":
Zou Li, teach me how to cover myself with a blanket!
Zou Li, teach me to sew the buttons!
Zou Li, I came that way. My stomach hurts, what medicine should I eat?
"… …"
To solve these pediatric life problems, I was able to do it effortlessly.
Over time, I became the head of the girls in my class, the savior of the difficult diseases.
My potential as a bookworm has always been ahead in my studies and no one can match me … Gradually, my male classmates also looked at me in a new light. They asked me for advice on my homework, borrowed my class notes, and even asked me to download original movies in English and search online for e-fiction. To me, all of these are just a piece of cake …
In fact, I will get all these simple things, already 18 years old college students should be able to do it! However, their parents spoiled them too much. Even if they had to suffer and suffer, they still had to let their children enjoy the best living conditions. As long as they studied well and entered a key university! Some parents' doting of their children continues even when their children are in college: they come to school themselves every week to clean their children's dorms, wash their quilts and dirty clothes, stink their socks …
Being able and exceptional in my studies made it easy for me to be hired in the first grade, becoming the class monitor and vice secretary of the regiment's main branch, and becoming the head of the academy's student union in the second year …
Due to the fact that my mom trained and nurtured me since I was young and that most of my classmates' parents spoiled them, when facing my classmates, I felt as though I was facing a bunch of junior sisters who were two to three years younger than me …
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"John is in the fifth grade, and his mathematics and language are quite weak. I hope you can help him keep up with his progress as soon as possible." said the hostess, looking at me.
"In addition, you will be needed to clean the house. You'd better come and stay at my house. My husband is too busy at work to care about home. "
"Alright." I said to her respectfully. She's probably around ten years older than me and looks like she's in her early thirties.
The next day, I moved into Professor Von Kernon's house with all my belongings.
Professor Von Kernon's home is located on the outskirts of Brisbane.
The independent villa had two floors. The courtyard was not very large, but a small swimming pool with a width of five meters and a length of five meters had been built. Beside the pool was a small basketball court with a width of 3 meters and a length of 6 meters. There was only a shooting frame. "Cover the sides and tops with wire mesh to prevent the basketball from tumbling out of the yard.
That day, the sunlight was dazzling bright. I took John to the basketball court to throw the ball and went outside to mow the branches by the fence. The dense bushes on both sides of the road had not been tidied up for a long time, and from time to time, there were birds stopping and playing. I took a pair of scissors and carefully trimmed the branches.
"Hello!" A man's deep voice came from behind me.
"Are you the little teacher who came to our house to help John with his studies?"
I turned and squinted into the sun and saw Vernon.
Compared to Ning Nan, Voodoo Cannon's looks were ordinary amongst all the people.
1.7m tall, sturdy yet thick. His forehead was round and full. He had a high nose bridge, a big nose head, narrow eyes, and a square face. His lips were the most distinctive feature of his face. They were like the lips of a Korean movie star, Jin Xiuxian. The corners of his mouth were like the upturned moon, which naturally formed the shape of a crescent moon. People always seem to smile.
"Hello! "I am Zou Li." "No," I said.
"Professor Fu, you came back from a business trip?"
He nodded.
I helped him open the gate to the courtyard …
Triple
Professor Cannon and his family were all vegetarians.
And I was a predator since I was a kid. When you don't eat meat for a day, you feel that you don't have enough strength.
I was born in November 1990 and belong to a horse. My mother called me a horse-tail.
"The horse should be a herbivore. Why do you like meat so much?" She was often unreasonable about my meat-eating characteristics.
It was a difficult start to become a vegetarian from a carnivore.
The Fukonons did not eat meat or fish or shrimp. But they drank milk and ate eggs every day. When I first arrived at Professor Von Kernon's house, I slept almost every night thinking of tantalizing dishes, and sometimes even in the middle of the night drooling. When I woke up, my heart was in a struggle against:
I want to eat red-braised pork, I miss the braised pork with dried plum, I want to eat curry beef...
Fortunately, the empty space in his stomach had the replenishment of his spiritual energy.
Prof. Wong's field of professional research is artificial intelligence. And my master's degree is majoring in international economic and trade.
However, we all have a common hobby — literature.
Influenced by my father, I grew up loving literature and read a great deal of ancient and modern literature. Originally, my first choice to apply for college was to be a major in Chinese. Unfortunately, my parents agreed to oppose me:
Chinese is the oil of ten thousand gold, it can be used anywhere. However, this was just an act, it was better to learn some skills.
As a result, I had to choose a major in international economic and trade.
Foucault is a scholar with deep literary cultivation. Both his parents were students who were admitted to Fudan University before the Cultural Revolution. His father, who had graduated from the computer department, was a lecturer at Shanghai Jiaotong University, and his mother, who had graduated from the Chinese department, was a reporter at a major newspaper in Shanghai. In the late 1970s, they were the first group of young people to go abroad at their own expense, and they took root in Australia after graduation. Fukuoka was born in Shanghai, but he grew up in Australia. Influenced by his literary mother, he had been able to recite three hundred Tang poems in elementary school, and had even tried to write poems and essays. In the end, however, he inherited his father's field of research: computer science and artificial intelligence.
"Boys, all they have to do is build their career, science is their only choice." As he reminisced, the passionate youth seemed to come back to him.
Over the weekend, to keep Goffen distracted and exercise, I drove with the family — Vernon, Goffen, and John Jr. — to the Mount Kutta Botanic Gardens (MtCoo-tha Botanical Gardens). The Kuta Mountain Botanic Garden is located 5 km west of the centre of Brisbane, covering 52 hectares. There are about 5,000 different types of tropical and subtropical plants in the garden, many of which I have never seen before.
The Botanical Garden was divided into several areas by plant species: bonsai, ferns, cactus, rain forest, Australian rainforest, herb plants, temperate plants, lagoons, and bamboo forests. Other than these dazzling and admirable plants, there were also many small animals such as cranes, wild ducks, lizards, etc. They lived comfortably with the natural plants in the garden. The beautiful flowers, plants, and trees all merged into one, making it extremely adorable …
And every one of them is like an art photograph:
The instant the bird flew...
John and I laughed on the grass for a moment...
As Griffin stared at the beautiful flower, lost in thought …
That day, we had a lot of fun, and on the way back, we even started singing.
I still have these memorable photographs.
