Chen Zhu's father is a very good traffic policeman.
Using "very good" to describe a person always has some unfinished aftertaste.
At that time, Lao Lin had a car accident, and Chen Zhu's father came to the hospital after receiving the police.
The so-called car accident was just the doctor's guess. For her, the greatest significance of finding the perpetrator was that the other party could afford Lao Lin's high medical expenses.
But she also felt that the traffic police uncle dealt with so many accidents every day, maybe no one would take her father's "suspected" car accident seriously, so she actually didn't have much hope for the investigation.
But Chen Zhu's father makes people feel a little different.
He first spent a lot of time comforting her, then seriously asked the doctor about Lao Lin's condition, and finally said that he would definitely investigate seriously.
That's exactly what he did.
At that time, she kept working to pay for Lao Lin's treatment. When Chen Zhu's father was free, he would visit her in the hospital and tell her about the progress of the investigation.
For example, how many traffic camera records have been seen, how many passers-by have been asked...
But in fact... basically equal to no progress.
In the end, the investigation ended without a problem, perhaps because the promise was not fulfilled, or perhaps because she was too pitiful to see her, Chen Zhu's father even slipped 5,000 yuan to her in private. Lin Zhaoxi was unwilling to accept the charity, but she and the unconscious Lao Lin really needed money, so she accepted the money anyway and wrote an IOU without being pretentious.
The last day they met was a cold, rainy winter night.
She was working in a small restaurant next to the hospital. Chen Zhu's father took her to the next door and bought her two hot custard buns at a convenience store.
She was not in a good condition at that time, and she knew that the investigation was over, so she ate the buns with tears in her eyes.
Chen Zhu's father felt sorry for her, so he babbled to comfort her a little bit in a hurry.
Talk about life, tell inspirational stories, and talk about a little empty truth.
This uncle is indeed not good at words, but he always works hard and seriously, even comforting her.
Because she cried for a long time, Chen Zhu's father also talked for a long time. After talking about it, he really had nothing to talk about. He even talked about his son, with an indescribable sense of apology in his tone.
He said he is divorced and has a 16-year-old son.
Because of his busy work, he does not have custody of his son, and he only has visitation rights.
The ex-wife remarried and later gave birth to a daughter. Now she doesn't care about her son. She thinks it is enough to give him enough money every day, and he can do whatever he wants.
As for him, he lives too far away from his ex-wife, and often works overtime day and night, so he can't do anything to his son's education, and can only let the child develop freely.
Chen Zhu's father also said that his son is actually very smart, and used the sentences that parents used to evaluate children: if he works hard, his son can actually go to a key high school. Although my son is now in a vocational high school, he still has the hope of getting into a junior college and then upgrading to a higher education. If he can really go to a bachelor's degree, that would be great...
Chen Zhu's father also asked her what she thought of her child's addiction to games.
She was only a high school student at the time, and it was hard to come up with useful insights.
If it is changed to the current one, she has experienced the prosperity of the game industry in the future, and can say with confidence that if she likes it, then encourage her children to do these similar things...
But she just sobbed and said at that time: I don't know, but if you are addicted to games, it seems that it is not good...
This is the end of her encounter with Chen Zhu's father.
Lin Zhaoxi thought that perhaps it was because they both had an unspeakable regret towards each other that finally led to this reunion.
Thinking of this, Lin Zhaoxi suddenly felt a slight noise above her head.
She raised her head, and at the corner of the stairs on the upper floor, she saw two long legs stuck there. The trouser legs were clearly wrinkled, although Lin Zhaoxi couldn't see the face clearly, but Lin Zhaoxi probably recognized who it was.
She walked up a little bit, and was somewhat surprised but not surprised to see Brother Sleepy, who was as thin as a bamboo pole, and his sleepy face.
The story always goes like this, talking to someone is eavesdropped, and the eavesdropper will be discovered again.
The timing of Chen Zhu's father's coming and going was not coincidental. When he came, his son found him, and when he left, his son heard him secretly asking other girls questions behind his back.
Chen Zhu yawned, dragged his schoolbag pretending not to care, walked down the stairs slowly, passed her, and continued down.
"Where are you going?"
Chen Zhubai looked at him boredly, his eyes were cool, and the meaning seemed to be obvious: He was only going to skip class for half a day, but now that his father is here, he is going to skip class for a whole day.
"Your father is worried about you, why don't you talk to him?" Lin Zhaoxi asked tentatively, but Chen Zhu didn't respond, just looked at her coldly.
Lin Zhaoxi surrendered: "Okay, I was wrong, please don't say 'what's wrong with you', 'you don't understand anything', I will be embarrassed..." Although you seem to be this mean.
Chen Zhu turned his head down and said nothing.
In the same corridor, she watched the father and son off one after another, and couldn't help but sigh slightly.
She didn't know at that time why Chen Zhu's father always drooped his brows and eyes, looking very tired and anxious.
Thinking about it now, it must have something to do with Chen Zhu.
But the conversation that night was not deep enough, and the information she got was very limited. It was difficult for her to intervene in the relationship between their father and son, let alone help one of them.
Similarly, she also calmed down. After seeing Chen Zhu's father's excitement dissipate, she suddenly realized that the other party did not find out the truth about Lao Lin's car accident back then, and now that the car accident did not happen, even if he found the future traffic police , what can be changed
It seems that for the time being, she still can't do anything.
Lin Zhaoxi was a little depressed, but she also forcibly found hope for herself.
If her coming here is some kind of destiny arrangement, all the people and things she meets, as well as the choices she makes in the face of these people and things have meaning.
Then maybe, under these arrangements and meanings, she can really change the car accident that Lao Lin suffered.
Now that she is here, she can always change something, and she still firmly believes in this.
—
In the days after that, Lin Zhaoxi had a hard time.
Compared with simply coming back to learn to upgrade, it is obviously more difficult to learn to upgrade in a noisy environment.
From time to time, she would be played by Zheng Mate at the window, and Zhong would often be disturbed by the noisy environment in the classroom and couldn't read the book.
But often at times like this, she would look back at Pei Zhi who was reading books beside Zheng Mate, and then she would know what she should do.
And her tablemate Sleeping God brother has evolved from sleeping in class to not coming to class since being found by her father last time.
Lin Zhaoxi would occasionally stare at the empty seat beside her in a daze, and always felt that she would rather have someone fill it up than the empty seat, even if it was just sleeping.
For some unknown reason, Bao Xiaomeng was transferred from her back seat by Teacher Li.
Lin Zhaoxi felt that Bao Xiaomeng might have asked for this on purpose.
During this period, she also found Bao Xiaomeng twice more.
Once in reading class, it seemed like a good opportunity to talk, and another time outside Bao Xiaomeng's favorite jewelry store.
It was Sunday, when she went to buy exercise books, she saw Bao Xiaomeng sorting the goods in the store.
The girl has changed into the pink apron of the clerk, and is working happily, as if preparing to work here after graduation.
Lin Zhaoxi couldn't help but want to say something to her.
Talk about the hardships of life, talk about the possibility of the future, talk about when she was 22 years old, she regretted the strong man's tears but desperately comforted herself that there was no way, who made you too late...
But in the end, she still couldn't say anything. Because Bao Xiaomeng stood up directly and passed her by, as if he didn't know her at all.
Lin Zhaoxi looked at her pretendingly firm and optimistic face, and it was very clear that there would be no result for her to go to Bao Xiaomeng now.
Therefore, she could only pay the bill silently.
Lin Zhaoxi left the store holding the exercise book.
Also trying to comfort myself, maybe 15-year-old Bao Xiaomeng really likes a life path that doesn't require too much effort and can be lived casually.
But at the age of 18, she also really thought that choosing a major that sounded great and becoming a teacher after graduation was what she wanted.
But actually, not at all.
—
As the days passed, Lin Zhaoxi always felt that she was too helpful to help others, so she was backlashed.
Although they want to change something, both Bao Xiaomeng and Chen Zhu are like ships off the shore, drifting with the current, as if they can only go in the direction they must go in the end.
Lin Zhaoxi still wanted to do something for them, but she didn't know what to do, or she didn't know what she should do.
There are many things she can't control, which indirectly leads her to focus more energy on things she can control, such as more focused study.
During the day, most of her energy is on school work. After reviewing and supplementing the content of the three years of junior high school, she went to buy high school mathematics tutorials to continue her studies. If the learning progress is smooth, she can start to formally study the content of college mathematics after New Year's Day.
In the evening, the junior high school mathematics league took up all her time.
She, Hanjuan, Lu Zhihao, and Pei Zhi went to Lao Lin's Olympiad cram school together, and dragged Lao Lin to continue teaching them after class. Lao Lin always said that there would be an extra charge, but when Lu Zhihao was so stupid that he handed over the money to Lao Lin, he was pressed on the table by Lao Lin and beat him up.
The daily study tasks are heavy, but whenever she is free, she is trying to sort out all the events before and after Lao Lin's car accident.
She wrote down every detail, conversation, and odds and ends that she could recall.
And kept thinking, which way did Lao Lin go that day, what did he do, or what happened to affect his choice that day.
But in fact, the investigation of Lao Lin's car accident ended without a problem, and when she returned to a year ago, she did not have any more information.
It was difficult for her to find a way to prevent the car accident through those details.
And after so many days of tidying up, she would always involuntarily think of the lecture translated by Pei Zhi.
If the p/np problem is solved and a super algorithm appears, it might not be so difficult for her to estimate Lao Lin's future trajectory.
Most of the things are powerless, but for Lin Zhaoxi, the only interesting person who can make her relax a little during this period is the four-person group of Yongchuan Middle School, except for Comrade Lao Lin who lives a chic and unrestrained life as always.
Their relationship with Yongchuan Middle School is far from over. After the frightening experience of the whole grade last time, Hanamaki really didn't dare to play against the foursome of Yongchuan Middle School.
Fearing that these four people would come and go crazy again, they responded to Yongchuan Middle School's requests.
They made an appointment to do papers together (through QQ), play backgammon, and were even forced to promise that if they had the chance, they would definitely go to Yongchuan Middle School to play with them.
"Find a ghost, I want to live a few more years."
Hanamaki made complaints like this.
—
In 20xx, on December 1st of her first year of high school, Lao Lin fell into a coma due to a car accident.
And a year ago, when she was still in the third year of junior high school, on December 1st, they had a mid-term exam.
Chinese, mathematics and English on Monday, political physics and chemistry on Tuesday, and on the following Wednesday afternoon, the school arranged a parent meeting and publicly executed the sentence.
I don't know if it's because of the parent meeting.
A few days before the mid-term exam, the whole class fell into an unprecedented crazy study attitude.
There must be a difference between the "fanaticism" of their class and the normal learning status of Class 1, but Lin Zhaoxi can also be asked more than a dozen questions a day, and Pei Zhi, a student who knows how to answer questions, has once again become the hottest person in the class .
Zheng Mate didn't play basketball in PE class, so he became Pei Zhi's follower.
No matter eating, attending class, or going to the men's bathroom, he knelt around Pei Zhi all day long and begged for a quick math formula. Whenever Pei Zhi answered "no", he cried and said something like "If my grandma knew that I failed the exam, she would beat me to death with a clothes hanger".
What was even more frightening was that Lin Zhaoxi also met a boy who threatened him. She and the other party have never spoken to each other. But after the boy learned that she would be in the same exam room as her for the midterm exam, he asked her to secretly give him the answer to cheat, otherwise he would beat her after school.
At that time, the team leader happened to pass by, tripped over the boy's leg, and pushed him to the ground.
The team leader stepped on the boy's calf, and said coolly: "Then, shall I fight now?"
The boy jumped up to resist, but was directly pressed against the wall by the girl.
Lin Zhaoxi stood by, dumbfounded, and could only silently applaud.
It was in this chaotic atmosphere that they finally ushered in the first midterm exam of the third grade.
Lin Zhaoxi sat in the newly disrupted examination room.
It was already getting cold, she wrapped herself in a thick cotton coat and rubbed her hands.
The windows were covered with water vapor, and there was a buzzing sound of endorsement around the examination room. The whole classroom was like a small pot of porridge boiling, gurgling.
She had a close relationship with Chen Zhu and was assigned to the same examination room.
Brother Sleeping God, who didn't come to school very often, finally came to take the exam. He almost walked into the exam room with the sound of the exam bell, turning a deaf ear to the invigilator's education. Lin Zhaoxi looked at the boy's thin back and drooping head, frowned.
She knew that something must have happened to Chen Zhu. Because now he is like the kind of sampan that drifts with the current in the wind and waves, completely exiles himself, he can do anything, even the hull capsized is completely fine.
But Chen Zhu didn't show up, let alone open his mouth. She didn't have any chance to talk to him at all.
It may be before the Chinese exam, so she used some inexplicable metaphors.
But when the exam bell rang and the papers were handed out, she never thought about anything else.
The exam process was very ordinary, and the only math exam that surprised Lin Zhaoxi seemed to be too difficult.
After handing in the test papers, the entire examination room was silent for a few seconds.
Then, the students began to complain wildly.
"Why is it so difficult?"
"You can't do it either?"
"I don't know the last two big questions."
"It depends on you to make one, I can't do all three."
After Lin Zhaoxi packed up her stationery and went out, she found Lu Zhihao blocking her directly at the entrance of the examination room.
"Did you make it?" Lu Zhihao asked.
"Um… "
"What!!!"
"If I testify blindly, I may be wrong." Lin Zhaoxi comforted him.
"I believe you have a ghost!" Lu Zhihao was very depressed, "Even you did it..."
"Is there any problem with my making? I, Lin Zhaoxi, have always been okay." Lin Zhaoxi patted Lu Zhihao's shoulder and said modestly.
"roll!!!"