After the parent-teacher meeting was over, Lao Lin rode a bicycle and walked quickly by himself.
Lin Zhaoxi felt that he might be a little shy because he was too sincere.
Few people's life will be changed by someone else's words.
But if that happens, it's not so much the audience's luck as it is the speaker's luck that his passion and hope were not wasted.
But in most cases, there are no immediate results in this world, unless you have been pushed to the edge of the cliff.
I feel that "I can't go on like this", and I think that "if I take another step back, I will be smashed to pieces"...
However, it must be turned again. Most of the time, life is a pot of warm water slowly boiling, and few lucky or unlucky people can clearly experience the moment when they have no way to retreat.
The parents did not surround the teacher three floors in and out, and many of them took their children and left in silence.
Neither Bao Xiaomeng's mother nor Zheng Mate's father said anything.
Maybe I feel that there are some problems, but I am so weak that it is difficult to find the exact way to solve the problem
When Hanamaki and Lu Zhihao came to look for them, they felt strange looking at the empty classroom.
Lu Zhihao: "Did your class end so quickly?"
Lin Zhaoxi: "Um, a little thing happened..."
"What's up?"
Lin Zhaoxi's expression was tangled, she didn't know what to say.
Pei Zhi: "Master is here to hold a parent-teacher meeting today."
"Oh~ that's no wonder~" Hanamaki and Lu Zhihao suddenly realized and accepted it instantly.
Wednesday is the day they go to the Internet cafe to surf the Internet, and nothing can be done, even the parent-teacher meeting.
They walked out of school with their schoolbags on their backs. The weather was getting colder day by day. After five o'clock in the evening, the city began to be shrouded in darkness.
Lin Zhaoxi took a deep breath into the palm of her hand, and faced someone parked a police motorcycle at the school gate.
The other party took off his helmet, didn't even lock the car, and was about to rush into the school gate.
That was Chen Zhu's father.
When he saw her, Chen Zhu's father was stunned, and his tired face was obviously upset: "Is the parent meeting over?"
"Ah...it's over..." Lin Zhaoxi replied subconsciously, and then added, "But the teacher probably hasn't left yet."
"Thank you." Chen Zhu's father started to leave, but turned back to stop her, "Student..."
"ah?"
"Chen Zhu...how is Chen Zhu doing recently?"
Lin Zhaoxi was embarrassed, she hadn't been able to see Brother Sleeping God recently, how could she answer this
"It's... okay..." She kept the last three words very low.
"Is Chen Zhu still coming to class recently?" Chen Zhu's father asked with great concern.
Lin Zhaoxi was stunned.
With a clear expression on his face, Father Chen rushed towards the teaching building even more anxiously.
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The milk cat Internet cafe had a thick curtain, and when it was opened, the smell of hot cigarettes and instant noodles came over the face, and Lin Zhaoxi coughed twice due to choking.
The Internet cafe is very stuffy, and the cramped space is filled with shouts and the sound of concentrating on clicking the mouse and keyboard.
Lin Zhaoxi walked to the place where they used to surf the Internet, and Brother Sleeping God had been sitting there early.
The moment she saw Chen Zhu, Lin Zhaoxi recalled the incident of accidentally betraying him just now, and couldn't help laughing.
Chen Zhu didn't raise his head, he was obsessed with operating.
Lin Zhaoxi thought about the father-son relationship between him and Lao Chen, even if he didn't lie perfectly for him, it was not a big problem, so he sat down and turned on the phone.
Pei Zhi rested his chin on a math website that was all in English, and Lin Zhaoxi didn't know what he was researching. As usual, she clicked on a high school mathematics information site and started to write questions.
If there is any difference between junior high school mathematics and high school mathematics, it is difficult for her to explain clearly.
During that time, Lao Lin was in a coma, and she worked part-time to earn money every day. It was also the most difficult period for her to study high school mathematics.
She just can't understand many function questions, and it's hard to turn her head around. She deeply knows that there is a new way of thinking about problems here. If Lao Lin can wake up and give her some advice, it may make a big difference.
But then, and even now, she couldn't help but suspect intelligence or some more innate distinction.
She was thinking deeply, when the voice of Brother Sleeping God came from beside her: "Your exam paper."
"Huh?" Lin Zhaoxi turned to look at him.
"Show me your exam paper, it's for the midterm exam."
"Oh oh oh." Lin Zhaoxi didn't think much about it, she opened her schoolbag to look through it, and after turning out a few test papers and handing them to Brother Sleeping God, she felt something was wrong.
Brother Sleeping God wants to read her paper
But she didn't need to be confused, Chen Zhu had already started to look through her test papers under the foggy light of the Internet cafe. One page after another, I can't say how seriously I read it, but it is still very careful.
He flipped through it from beginning to end, and even Lu Zhihao and Hanajuan, who had been surfing the Internet beside him, put down what they were doing and peeked over.
"How does it feel to have such good grades?" Chen Zhu asked, ignoring them.
Lin Zhaoxi thought about it seriously, and really wanted to be humble, but the answer she uttered became: "It seems... pretty cool?"
Lu Zhihao, who didn't make it to the top five in his grade, gave her a glare.
Lin Zhaoxi patted Lu Zhihao on the shoulder, and when he was about to speak, someone lifted the curtain of the Internet cafe.
Against the dark background, a man in a traffic police uniform stepped into the Internet cafe.
His face was angry and uneasy. The dim streetlights outside the house penetrated into the narrow Internet cafe through the opening he opened, and the cold wind poured in. They who were sitting by the door shivered at the same time.
The owner of the Internet cafe saw the official and hurriedly stood up.
But Chen Zhu's expression changed, and he handed back the test paper to her. He bent down slightly, pressed to turn off the machine, and wanted to leave, but it was too late.
Chen's father strode forward, he stopped in front of Chen Zhu aggressively, and raised his hand to slap him.
There was a crisp sound of "snap".
Chen Zhu was beaten, his face was thrown aside, black hair covered his left cheek, and there was a short period of silence in the Internet cafe.
Chen Zhu's father's chest was rising and falling, and his eyes were wide open. His hand was still raised, Lin Zhaoxi's heart was beating violently, and she was too scared to say anything.
Sure enough, Father Chen raised his hand again, and the moment he was about to swing it down, someone firmly grasped his wrist.
"It's too much to fight again." Pei Zhining's voice sounded.
It means that the first time is not too much.
Father Chen struggled, but Pei Zhi remained motionless.
Looking at his seemingly slender but extremely explosive wrists, Lin Zhaoxi finally let go of his throat. The fact that Pei Zhi said he would fight was really not trying to fool Zheng Mate.
"Look at what you look like now, don't you want to study hard? What can you do if you continue like this?" Father Chen let go of his hand, turned and shouted at Chen Zhu.
Chen Zhu's cheekbones were bright red, and his expression was the most standard "you can't help me", like a rebellious boy in all anime.
Father Chen couldn't control his son at all, and turned his head to see Lin Zhaoxi, his face turned green: "I thought you were a good boy! What do you look like, sneaking online with him!"
"Are you crazy?" Chen Zhu asked coldly.
"I didn't sneak around. My dad gave me money to go online." Lin Zhaoxi said.
"You promised uncle that you will supervise him in the future and tell him not to play games online anymore. Their teacher said that he didn't do a single paper in the mid-term exam, and he scored 0 points completely!"
Under the lamp, the middle-aged man's hair was disheveled, anxious and at a loss.
Lin Zhaoxi knew that the courage he mustered up to teach his son a lesson had disappeared, and he had turned back into a good father who didn't know what to do with his son. He couldn't even educate his son positively, but only looked for some slim hope in front of strange girls.
Chen Zhu didn't bother to pay attention to him, dragged his schoolbag, and walked directly to the Internet cafe.
His father chased after him, unable to hold Chen Zhu.
Lin Zhaoxi and Pei Zhi looked at each other, but they didn't chase each other out.
After that, Chen Zhu never went back to the Internet cafe.
They only spend 2 hours online every week, and when the time is up, they shut down and leave.
Because of Chen Zhu's incident, they didn't talk much afterwards, and the atmosphere was a bit depressed.
Walking in the dark and dark alley, the street park at the end of the alley not far away is shining with light.
Hanamaki stretched her waist: "What's for dinner tonight?"
Lu Zhihao: "Wonton?"
Lin Zhaoxi: "Sheep soup?"
Pei Zhi walked straight forward without speaking.
Lin Zhaoxi followed him a few steps forward, and suddenly stopped by the side of the road.
On the small stone bench in the alley park, someone was drinking.
Under the street lamp, in the cold night, a very shallow breath drifted away, and beside his stool were a dozen beers and a wrapped baked sweet potato.
Seeing them, he held the beer can and took a sip.
That is Chen Zhu.
"He's drinking, he's definitely a bad boy!"
Lu Zhihao held her back and muttered in a low voice, so it was Pei Zhi who walked to Chen Zhu's side and sat down first.
Lin Zhaoxi smiled at Lu Zhihao, walked over and sat down. Hanamaki was as good as others, and only Lu Zhihao stood awkwardly.
It is very quiet at night in winter, and you can even hear the subtle sound of the continuous bursting of bubbles. Lin Zhaoxi looked up at the night sky, just when Lin Zhaoxi thought that Chen Zhu was going to tell her what was in her heart, but she suddenly heard Chen Zhu ask: "Have you ever been abroad?"
This is obviously asking Pei Zhi.
Lin Zhaoxi: ...
"Yes." Pei Zhi replied.
"What is it like abroad?"
"It's hard to describe, and if you want to listen, I could go on for a long time."
"Then have you ever been to America?"
"Been there."
"Have you been to the headquarters of Blizzard Entertainment, the game I played...?"
"No."
Chen Zhu felt a little lost, even slightly drunk.
Lin Zhaoxi didn't know what Lao Chen had said to him, but the most likely thing was that they were just arguing and didn't say anything.
It was also because of this that he was even more sad and unwilling.
"I heard that there are flags all over the street and huge sculptures at the door..."
When Chen Zhu said this, he was probably shy in a certain sense, so he stopped. He didn't say all the adjectives in the middle, but said in a barely audible voice, "I really want to see it."
"Then go and have a look." Pei Zhi said.
Chen Zhu sneered.
It was like saying those words about the family gap, but the boy's self-esteem made him choose to grit his teeth.
"It's so tiring." He looked at the sky, drunk, and even spoke incoherently, "I used to feel tired from studying, so I started playing; being scolded by my dad made me feel annoying, but I'm not tired at all. Actually, I know, the most tiring thing is No hope, compared to no hope, everything is easier to say."
winter night.
Chen Zhu's rare long sentence, together with the smell of alcohol and sweet potatoes, drifted away in the night sky.
The five children sat under the street lamp and fell into a long silence because of this sentence.
Lu Zhihao's expression was tangled, and Hanamaki smiled helplessly.
Lin Zhaoxi breathed hot air into her hands, then rubbed them lightly.
There was a sting.
Pei Zhi opened a can of beer by himself and took a sip, but his expression was sober and calm that was not affected by alcohol at all.
"Let's go and have a look." He repeated, "Open the website and see if there is a flag on that street, see if there is a sculpture at that door, see how other people get there, and see, what do you want? How can I get there…”