[one]
The three-day holiday on New Year's Day begins after school ends on Friday.
When school was over, Li Shu'er asked them not to play too crazy on New Year's Day, and the final exam was coming after New Year's Eve.
Everyone said "Got it", and as soon as Li Shu left, they started whispering and discussing where to go during the holiday.
Lin Zhaoxi was sorting out the New Year's Day homework that had just been handed out. There were several layers of test papers on the table, with an average of three papers for each subject, which was fair.
She turned the test paper to the end and found that there was still a piece of paper titled - "My Personal Goals for 20xx".
The first column under it is the serial number, the second column is the goal, and the third column is the completion time.
When Li Shu sent this item, she said that it was the school's policy to let them fill in their personal goals for next year, and they don't have to hand them in, but it's better to write them down.
Lin Zhaoxi remembered that before New Year's Day, it was a tradition in their school to ask everyone to write down their goals for the next year.
She also wrote it in Strawberry World. She can't remember what she wrote, but she should keep it carefully. If she returns to Strawberry World, she can look for it.
Thinking of this, she suddenly took out her schoolbag.
Zhong·Lin Zhaoxi seems to have filled in the goals for this year last year, and put them in the middle of the schoolbag, carefully treasured.
According to the location in memory, she opened the middle layer of the schoolbag, and she found a crumpled piece of paper.
Spreading it out for a glance, she quickly folded the paper, but Chen Zhu's voice had already sounded: "Watch a meteor shower with Tianming?"
Pei Zhi happened to come over with his schoolbag on his back.
Lin Zhaoxi patted Chen Zhu on the shoulder, and quickly covered it up: "Finish this set of Chinese exercises tomorrow? It's too late, just finish it in three days."
Chen Zhu: "..."
After finishing speaking, she stuffed everything on the table into her schoolbag, and took Pei Zhi to leave.
—
During the New Year's Day holiday, Lao Lin's cram school continued, and they still had to cross the street at night to attend classes at the Red Star Welfare Institute.
Hanajuan and Lu Zhihao were going to the New Year's Eve party, Lin Zhaoxi was rare, and walked alone with Pei Zhi on the New Year's Eve street.
On the side of the road is the traffic rushing home, forming a long line of bright lights at night, but the sidewalk is peaceful.
Lin Zhaoxi looked at the reflection of her and Pei Zhi, they didn't get very close, they kept a proper distance between friends.
Probably because the surroundings were too quiet, she suddenly remembered that when she was in junior high school, the girls in her class often got together to gossip: telling which girl Pei Zhi went to the teacher's office with, or which girl he was discussing with...
So if she is in Strawberry World now, she must have become the heroine in the gossip.
But to the world of cheese
It seems like she hasn't cared about these issues for a long time...
Doesn't that happen when people get older
Lin Zhaoxi was horrified for a moment, and raised her head to look at Pei Zhi.
In the middle of winter night, he was wearing a smoky gray cashmere scarf, a very simple down jacket and sweatpants. In the shadow outside the street lamp, his profile was clean and soft, with a very comfortable and handsome look in his eyebrows and eyes.
Lin Zhaoxi rubbed her chest: The heart of a girl is still there, fortunately...
Following her gaze, Pei Zhi also looked over with a questioning expression.
Lin Zhaoxi blushed, and casually began to cover up, "What are your goals for next year, student Pei Zhi?"
Pei Zhi thought about it seriously, and replied: "Entered in high school."
"..." Mizhi was silent for a while, and then Lin Zhaoxi spoke with difficulty, "Can you talk about a less practical goal?"
"What counts as 'unrealistic'?"
"For example, which star's concert do you want to see?"
"f4?"
"You actually like f4!" Lin Zhaoxi was shocked, and then her face suddenly turned red.
f4…
Accompany you to watch the meteor shower...
meteor shower...
After a long time, when she almost walked into the area of the orphanage, she heard herself asking in a pretendingly deep voice, "Did you hear that just now?"
"I heard."
"That's all... I used to be young."
"Yes, me too."
Me too... nothing more...
Lin Zhaoxi walked into the gate of the Red Star Welfare Institute without tears.
Classmate Pei Zhi, you don't seem to be like this in Strawberry World
Probably seeing her look of despair, Pei Zhi finally showed mercy and changed the subject.
"What about you?" he asked.
What are your goals for next year
They walked through the courtyard, not far away, the classroom lights were bright, and the make-up class was noisy.
Lao Lin himself stood in front of the podium with a smile on his face, not knowing what to tease the students.
Lin Zhaoxi suddenly realized that she seemed unable to tell her goals for next year.
After all, next year in this time and space is completely different from this year in that time and space.
In the next year here, she hopes that Lao Lin will not suffer from a car accident.
And next year there...
She slightly looked up at Pei Zhi when she was a teenager, I hope to catch up with you and get admitted to the major of the school you once attended.
But at that time, you must have left long ago, and you will not know this.
[two]
Lin Zhaoxi was a little depressed by the future she imagined.
After class, Lao Lin asked everyone to stay for a while.
"Happy New Year's Day, I'll send you some small gifts." Lao Lin said.
"Teacher, our school has a lot of homework, please don't assign any other perverted homework!" The students exclaimed.
Lao Lin frowned: "Who do you think the teacher is?"
"We all collapsed on your New Year's Eve questions this year!"
Before they finished speaking, the chef from the welfare home outside the door brought a large iron basin, and Lao Lin took it and put it on the first row of tables.
The class fell into a minute-long silence...
After a while, the resilient student barely spoke.
"Teacher, why don't you assign some homework?"
"This is too cold."
Lin Zhaoxi looked at the things in the iron basin with complicated emotions.
Because that is not a pot of test papers, but a pot of freshly boiled eggs, the eggshells are yellowish yellow, shining under the light.
"I wish everyone a happy 'Yuandan', what's the problem?" Lao Lin asked.
The whole class was silent again, and it was difficult for the children to explain to the middle-aged and elderly people "how dirty your meme is".
"No... no problem." Hanamaki took the lead.
Lao Lin showed admiration: "Then come here and take one each."
It's too cold outside, and it's time to get a little hungry.
After taking the eggs, everyone didn't want to take them away, so they all started knocking eggs on the table. The doors and windows in the class were closed tightly, and the classroom instantly filled with a strong smell of eggs.
Lin Zhaoxi didn't go there, Lu Zhihao brought one back for her.
She looked up to say thank you, just in time to see the clock above Lao Lin's head.
The time was less than eight o'clock in the evening, and the second hand on the dial was moving one by one. Lao Lin was smiling under the clock, very satisfied with the scene of the children obediently eating eggs.
On New Year's Eve last time, Lao Lin didn't hold a cram school. They went out for a walk naturally after dinner. She didn't remember the exact time when the milk cat Internet cafe incident happened.
And this time...
It's hard to explain how I felt at that time, but Lin Zhaoxi's heartbeat suddenly accelerated by two beats.
The whistling sound of cars could be faintly heard outside the window. Some people were watching TV, and some people walked through the empty and dark streets. Now it was the commercial time before the opening of the TV show. In the ad, the family sits around the dinner table, toasting and praising the wine tonight is delicious.
Lin Zhaoxi felt that she should not be able to hear these voices, but those voices that kept ringing out were like countless tiny moments overlapping continuously. They really happened in this world, in every world...
At that moment, she suddenly discovered that the development of the parallel world had undergone tens of millions of differences, and even the growth of people had undergone corresponding changes, but she never doubted whether Lao Lin's future car accident would really happen, just like she never thought carefully about it. However, whether the fire at the milk cat Internet cafe will happen as scheduled.
Will the milk cat Internet cafe really encounter a fire? If so, can her words change the established facts
Lin Zhaoxi suddenly became nervous and felt that she had to take a look.
She put the eggs in her pocket, packed her schoolbag, and walked up to Lao Lin: "Ms. Lin."
Lao Lin reacted quickly: "Why, are you still eating supper at such a late hour?"
"But I'm hungry."
"But you are fat."
Lin Zhaoxi: "..."
"I don't care if I have to eat Chen Ji's fried pork!" She didn't talk nonsense with Lao Lin, and pulled him away.
—
Walking out of the Red Star Welfare Institute, the surroundings suddenly fell silent.
Lin Zhaoxi wrapped the scarf tighter, took out her hand and breathed a sigh of relief.
In the alley, the windows of the houses on both sides shimmered, and occasionally the voices of the residents and the sound of the TV could be heard.
She was inexplicably anxious just now, but walking beside Lao Lin, she calmed down again.
It’s not far from the Milky Cat Internet Cafe. Across this street is a small park. After passing the park is the alley where the Milky Cat Internet Cafe is located. Chen Ji Xiaochaorou is at the other end of the alley. This is where she clamored to go for supper. s reason.
It's less than 10 minutes' walk, and the surrounding area is really quiet, without the sound of fire trucks roaring by.
Maybe the boss is really careful, and there is no fire in the Internet cafe. She can eat happily after she is sure.
Lin Zhaoxi hooked Lao Lin and kept walking forward.
Many times later, she recalled her state of mind at that time.
In fact, if a person has a mentality that that event will never happen, then in fact, she already knows the result in the dark.
[three]
The milk cat Internet cafe was still burned down.
It was completely different from the memory when she and Lao Lin took a walk after dinner, heard noisy noises, and wandered over again.
In front of him was a dark street, completely silent.
There were no lively fire trucks at the intersection, and there were no crowds of onlookers in the alley. Everything was as quiet as a bottomless black hole of time.
Lin Zhaoxi dragged Lao Lin in and kept walking. The surroundings were so cold that she even felt that her mind was frozen. Only the burnt body of the Internet cafe loomed in the dark night, like a giant beast that could devour everything.
If it weren't for the water stains left on the ground, she even suspected that her memory had been messed up.
why
Is she late
At this moment, in the dark and cold night, the host of the New Year's Day party shouted excitedly from somewhere: "Next, let's invite the Asian Tiantuan—f4."
Somehow, it seemed like someone was answering her question.
The picture in the memory suddenly flashed, with a gray background and a dull voice, but it was so clear that it seemed to be within reach.
That was the last time she stepped into a fire scene.
Firefighters, police, onlookers, and the owner of the milk cat Internet cafe are crying...
In a small shop on the street, an old man is watching the New Year's Eve party. The host said, "Next, let's invite the Asian sky troupe—f4, to sing "Meteor Shower" for us..."
Lin Zhaoxi woke up. When she walked into this street last time, she heard exactly the same words.
She was not late, and this moment was exactly the same as the last time she came here to witness the fire.
Just something, has been changed.
Think here.
A glaring bright light suddenly appeared in front of her eyes. She covered her eyes with her hands. After a while, she managed to open them a little before realizing that someone was shining a flashlight in their direction.
The owner of the milk cat internet cafe was standing not far in front of her. The middle-aged man looked at her blankly, looking a lot older.
Lin Zhaoxi stepped on a large puddle of water and walked towards him: "Boss..."
The boss had deep wrinkles on his face: "They were caught, just a few elementary school students, I blamed me for not listening to you. Thinking about it is also my problem, greedy for petty money... Let them know that I can surf the Internet here."
The more he talked, the sadder Lin Zhaoxi became.
The air was filled with the pungent smell of burnt buildings and electrical appliances. Her nose and eyes were sour, and she couldn't even bear to see the current tragedy of the Internet cafe.
She also wanted to ask the Internet cafe why it was still like this, but she couldn't say anything.
Lao Lin also reacted and asked her: "What's going on?"
Lin Zhaoxi lowered her head, she was thinking, if she reminded the boss carefully and even worked harder, would things be different
At this moment, the boss patted her on the shoulder, reassuring: "It's okay, the person is still there, things always..."
Lin Zhaoxi was stunned.
The moment those rough hands touched her, she instantly sensed something called "rules".
There are still scorched Internet cafes, water stains all over the floor, and someone is conducting a final inspection at the fire scene...
She moved her eyes to the left, and there was a waste collection station on the right side of the milk cat Internet cafe. Due to the spread of the fire, the waste collection station was completely burned down, leaving only the metal structure of the recycled products standing upright in the dark night, letting the night wind whistling past, it was breathtaking. Terrified.
The previous time, the fire only burned the Internet cafe, and the waste collection station was not affected at all. The fire was not as severe as it is now.
Earlier fires, worse events...
Without any warning or warning, Lin Zhaoxi was dripped with a drop of extremely cold water on her forehead. She suddenly understood that all the slight changes were just a warning.
—As an outsider, she is forbidden to reveal information about the future to anyone in this world.
She can't tell the boss that someone is going to burn your Internet cafe on New Year's Eve, or tell anyone the lottery number, and she can even buy the lottery ticket herself without revealing it.
In other words, the plan she thought was the safest to prevent Lao Lin's car accident would be useless. It was impossible for her to remind Lao Lin before the car accident.
Because things will only get worse.