With the troublemakers leaving, the excited crowd at the stairway should disperse.
But in fact, everyone didn't go that fast.
That is, when Zhang Shuping took away his students and everyone was still looking at Lin Zhaoxi and Pei Zhi, there was a bang in the distance.
There were sporadic lights in the sky, and all the students looked sideways.
Lin Zhaoxi was returning the list to Teacher Ma, so she was still standing at the window, it was a very faint daytime fireworks, blooming on her face under the blue sky.
She was taken aback, her pupils dilated, her temple hair was blown by the wind, and she looked very beautiful.
There was another commotion at the school's small pond, but Bao Xiaomeng didn't care anymore, she took a half step back, trying to get away while everyone was watching the fireworks.
But she only took a step back, but her wrist was grabbed.
Lin Zhaoxi recovered from the fright in an instant, looked at her sincerely, and did not speak, while many people around her were looking at them. Bao Xiaomeng wanted her to leave him alone, but his throat was blocked, so he could only let her hold his hand and walk non-stop.
They walked through stairs, aisles, halls, under trees, flower beds, and promenades. The autumn wind blew past them, and the scenery changed and passed by.
She led Bao Xiaomeng around the entire campus, the tears on her face were dried by the wind, making her sticky and uncomfortable.
She couldn't bear it anymore, and stopped Lin Zhaoxi: "You have already dragged me halfway to school..."
They stood still outside the small pond in the school, and the ground in the distance was a mess.
Zhang Shuping stood with folded arms, staring coldly at his students, asking them to clean up the evolution that had been placed on the ground.
As if sensing something, the teacher looked indifferently, and Bao Xiaomeng shrank behind the tree, not wanting to stay here.
"Because I didn't think about what to say, so I could only drag you away." Lin Zhaoxi said confidently.
Bao Xiaomeng looked up puzzled.
"I used to be afraid of him too." She looked at "Vice Principal Zhang" in the distance, but the moment she spoke, she remembered the story she told Bao Xiaomeng about the summer camp.
She told Bao Xiaomeng about all the ups and downs in that story, the moments of her inner struggle, and all the chicken soup she tried to persuade Lu Zhihao.
At that time, they each had a cup of oden, walking home from the school gate, from the setting sun to the dark of the sky. Bao Xiaomeng has been listening carefully, showing envy, but the next day, she still came to copy other people's homework in the morning, which was no different from the previous day.
"What do you want to say?" Bao Xiaomeng asked, "Will you comfort me? It's okay to be known by the whole grade. I only got 3 points in the test, so don't comfort me."
"No, Xiaomeng, in fact, if you work hard..."
"If you work hard, you can get 10 points in the test?" Bao Xiaomeng asked back, "Does hard work still make sense to me?"
"I know you want to learn it too, but if you don't get into the technical secondary school, maybe you really can't."
"Then what should I do? If I don't pass the technical secondary school, I'll go to the restaurant to serve dishes." Bao Xiaomeng's eyes were strange, a little sad, but he was confident, "You really don't have backache when you stand up and talk. You are so smart, you must not know We people with bad brains will be so tired of learning things, I just can’t learn it after spending so much time, what can I do?”
"Then I can teach you, my father is very powerful..." Lin Zhaoxi said, feeling very at a loss,
"Forget it!" Bao Xiaomeng shook off her hand, "Why do you ask everyone to be like you, it's very strange." Bao Xiaomeng's voice was loud, as if a loud voice could help her believe what she said every word.
Bao Xiaomeng: "You have a father, but you know, my father is dead. My mother plays mahjong every day. I grew up in the mahjong room. Since elementary school, the teacher called me stupid. No one at home cares about me. The school teacher You can't control me, I can go to this school because my family's dilapidated house is in the school district, and my biggest dream is to save money to open a small jewelry store in the future, so why do you have so many demands on me?"
"Just because your family is like this, you need to study even more..."
"There you are, Lin Zhaoxi. Bao Xiaomeng pointed to the clouds in the sky, "You just float down occasionally to play with me for a while, and you're going back soon. And I've always been here. She pointed to the muddy ground under her feet, "Please tell me, how can I catch up with you in the sky when I find it difficult to walk on the ground?" "
Of course Lin Zhaoxi almost blurted out, you don't have to be like me.
But how could she say that
She finally understood that what Bao Xiaomeng wanted was to be like her, to be like her deep down, to imagine Lao Lin and Pei Zhi.
The autumn wind blew off some yellow leaves at the edges, and Lin Zhaoxi was yelled at by her, and strangely, she remembered some things from the past.
It seems that she used to chase him out like this when she was in elementary school. She blocked Lu Zhihao in the men's bathroom. Let Lu Zhihao not lower his pursuit because of self-deception, so the young Lu Zhihao gritted his teeth and persisted.
But at this moment, Bao Xiaomeng's face was no longer red. Although there were still tears in her eyes, she was no longer sad. Lin Zhaoxi knew very well that Bao Xiaomeng was not Lu Zhihao.
Their families, life experiences, and pursuits are very different.
In the face of the real and difficult life, every day is like a quagmire, what else can I do besides deceiving myself and others
And all she can do, it seems, is not to say that sentence, not to tell Bao Xiaomeng: You don't need to want so much, you are actually a little better, that's all.
But she can't say that, because admonishing Bao Xiaomeng to give up what she is really pursuing is equivalent to telling herself: Actually, you don't need to do this.
"Mind your own business."
After leaving the last sentence, Bao Xiaomeng shook off her hand and left.
Lin Zhaoxi stood where she was, feeling like a fool, Zhang Shuping looked at her. Although it was far away, the surroundings were so quiet that Vice Principal Zhang probably heard everything.
The middle-aged man didn't say anything, he just took off his glasses and wiped them with the corner of his clothes. He glanced at him, and Lin Zhaoxi instantly understood what he wanted to say.
- "You are still the same as elementary school".
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That afternoon, Ma Pingping announced the list of students who passed the math league selection exam.
Among the 13 classes in the whole grade, the top 6 were selected in the exam, 4 were in class 1, and 2 were in their class.
Of course Pei Zhixiang was number one in the whole grade, and the next five were Zhang Liang, Chen Chengcheng, Lu Zhihao, her and another girl.
At that time, the six of them were called to the office together, and Lin Zhaoxi did not check the results in advance. So when he knew that he was ranked fifth and his grades were not as good as Zhang Liang and Lu Zhihao's, it would be a lie to say that he didn't feel lost for a moment.
In fact, the fifth place is not bad for her who made a surprise review.
But her first reaction at that time was that she couldn't be ranked first or second in Anning Experimental Junior High School, so she was far from being ranked in the whole province or even the whole country.
And the Mathematics Department of Sanwei University is not only facing Anning City enrollment.
It's really difficult.
She returned to the class with the completed examination papers, and compared her own papers with Pei Zhi's answer papers. After Xiao Huayuan's conversation ended without a problem, Bao Xiaomeng stopped talking to her completely.
But in the math class in the afternoon, Lin Zhaoxi looked at the red cross on her test paper, but she still thought about Bao Xiaomeng's question.
If life has a natural starting point, then she is very clear that Bao Xiaomeng's starting point is completely different from hers.
Just like her and Pei Zhi's starting point is completely different.
So back to the question she couldn't answer that day at the market, how can ordinary people achieve the winning probability of a genius
The gap in reality is so deep and difficult to bridge, the courage and determination to change in an instant will certainly not be able to reverse everything.
So, if she didn't even find the answer herself, how should she tell Bao Xiaomeng
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In the next few days, Lin Zhaoxi has been working hard to prepare for the Zhongming class. She tried her best not to think about classmate Bao Xiaomeng. Lao Lin probably also noticed that she was in a strange mood, but he didn't say anything.
In fact, Lin Zhaoxi couldn't tell why she was in such a bad mood.
She came back to study to make up for the lack of time, and worked hard to be admitted to the graduate school of the Mathematics Department of Sanwei University.
Why waste your mind on a junior high school friendship
During those few days, she went to Class 3, Grade 3, to see her best friend from junior high school.
She still remembered that the other party was called Wang Bei, because Wang Bei's family lived very close, and she walked together to and from school every day. They were supposed to be close friends, but they lost contact because they didn't go to a high school.
After coming back for so long, she was in a state of confusion and at a loss, so she thought of going to see Wang Bei.
She saw Wang Bei cautiously keeping a distance from the boys at the same table in the classroom, and heard the girl she and Wang Bei both hated secretly gossip in the corridor that Wang Bei likes so-and-so.
She even remembered that it was that girl who spread the news about her liking for Pei Zhi to the whole class, and even the head teacher talked to her.
But she could only stand in front of the desk, shaking her head and denying that it wasn't, it wasn't like that.
In junior high school and high school, boys and girls walked a little closer, and it was easy to be misunderstood as puppy love, so everyone was very careful to keep a distance, but they secretly liked each other.
Somehow, maybe it was Bao Xiaomeng's tears that made those blurry little scenes clear.
Many scenes are very sour, like youth.
Time passes unknowingly in the hands, and people and things are a bit like salty lemon slices soaked in pure water.
Everyone has only one youth, we carefully approach the whole world, and constantly establish our basic views on life and the world, but often, we are always disappointed, we think the world is like this, but it turns out it is not at all.
Then time passed quickly in the constant confirmation and contact.
Except her.
Lin Zhaoxi thought.
For the second time, she should and must find the answer.