[one]
January 12th, the final exam, the third day of junior high school (13).
After the last test, the students who had been nervous for a week returned to the class from their respective test rooms, and the bluffing discussions continued one after another.
There was no answer to the political exam, so everyone finally started to discuss where to go during the winter vacation.
At the end of the classroom, Zheng Mate's voice was the loudest, "Brother Pei, let's go swimming together during the winter vacation!".
Lin Zhaoxi was packing her schoolbag, when she heard this, she turned her head in shock.
"Brother Tian, you can't learn from our brother Pei, so you want to kill yourself for money?"
"That's not true, my mother said, I passed the exam recently, thanks to Brother Pei, I want to invite Brother Pei to swim at our house!" Zheng Tianming said.
"Brother Tian is showing off his wealth!"
"Brother Tian is awesome!"
The boys booed again and again.
"It's just a swimming pool, a swimming pool." Zheng Tianming pressed his hands, signaling for everyone to be quiet.
"I'm not in peace during the winter vacation." Pei Zhi said.
"Are you going on vacation, the Alps?"
Pei Zhi: "Yongchuan."
"It doesn't seem cool enough, Brother Pei." Mate Zheng muttered, and then threw the ball over, "Where's Baby Chaoxi?"
"She's here too."
"You don't want me anymore!"
"That's right." Lin Zhaoxi said confidently.
"Aren't you here for the winter vacation, and go to Yongchuan together?" Beside her, Chen Zhu, who had been silently sorting out the test papers, asked.
"Well... there is a training camp."
"oh."
Chen Zhu didn't continue talking, but Lin Zhaoxi understood that he was hesitant to speak.
There was a fire at the milk cat Internet cafe, and they were not in Yongchuan. This winter vacation, he couldn't find anyone else to study with. So when school was over, she left a little later, and only followed Chen Zhu when he left with his schoolbag on his back.
Sure enough, when she was approaching the school gate, she saw a police motorcycle parked there.
Chen Zhu's father took off his helmet and waited for his son in the cold wind and twilight.
Chen Zhu didn't look sideways, just pretending that he didn't see Lao Chen, and followed the flow of people after school.
Lin Zhaoxi stayed behind Chen Zhu, and when the father and son were about to pass by, she rushed forward, held Chen Zhu, and shouted with a smile, "Long time no see, Uncle Chen."
After Chen's father was astonished, he said to her gratefully: "Hello, hello."
"We met at the Internet cafe. My name is Lin Zhaoxi." Lin Zhaoxi said.
Thinking of the gaffe in the Internet cafe that day, Father Chen felt embarrassed.
Chen Zhu stopped in a dignified way.
Lin Zhaoxi took out something she had prepared earlier from her pocket, and handed it to Father Chen: "My father runs a cram school. This is a better winter vacation sprint class in the city that I inquired about with him. It's a bit expensive, but the teacher is very special. Responsible."
Father Chen looked astonished.
Lin Zhaoxi was embarrassed to look at Chen Zhu, afraid of seeing the "nosy" look on the young man's face. But Chen Zhu just lowered his eyes and looked at her in silence.
In the twilight, the surroundings were surrounded by the chattering laughter of students after school, but Lin Zhaoxi felt that the surroundings suddenly became quiet.
She was very worried about whether she was meddling in her own business, until Chen Zhu patted her on the shoulder and motioned for her to take a step to speak.
Obviously she was still an adult at heart, but she was a little frightened when she was called aside by a child.
For the first half minute, Chen Zhu didn't say a word.
"This cram... cram school is pretty good..." Lin Zhaoxi reluctantly said.
"I know."
"Huh?" Thinking that he was going to be scolded for being nosy, Chen Zhu raised his head, and Chen Zhu's expression was very serious.
"Why not give it to me directly, why give it to him?"
It was "he" instead of "father", Lin Zhaoxi was taken aback, and said, "Because this class is quite expensive..."
She remembered that Old Chen said that Chen Zhu's mother didn't care about Chen Zhu at all, and there was a second child at home, and she wanted to enroll in a full-time sprint class that cost tens of thousands of yuan, Chen Zhu's mother would definitely not take the money.
Only Lao Chen will pay.
But the relationship between Chen Zhu and Lao Chen was so bad, she would definitely not take the initiative to ask Lao Chen for money, so she thought for a long time, and the only way was to simply give the address of the cram school to Lao Chen.
But for Chen Zhu, accepting his father's money and kindness meant reconciliation, and the stubborn boy would definitely not be happy with the person he hated the most for being so "cheap".
"You should just spend a lot of money on him and get revenge on him." Lin Zhaoxi said, "Actually, there are not so many things in the world to fight to the end. We have to learn to accept..."
Chen Zhu still didn't speak, Lin Zhaoxi couldn't write any more, Pei Zhi stood waiting for her not far away, and she quickly cast a look of help to classmate Pei.
When Pei Zhi walked over, Lin Zhaoxi felt much relieved.
"This is a cram school for general subjects, and it has a good reputation in the city." Pei Zhi said the first sentence.
"You also know why she took the address of the cram school and went directly to your dad." This is the second sentence.
"This is your problem, you have to solve it yourself." This is the third sentence.
After finishing speaking, Pei Zhi patted her on the shoulder and said, "Let's go."
Pei Zhi's way of solving the problem was too clean and neat, Lin Zhaoxi followed numbly and walked forward for a while.
When he turned his head again, Chen Zhu took heavy steps and walked to Lao Chen's side.
Lao Chen's expression was bewildered, but not very stiff, as if their father and son had a smooth conversation.
Lin Zhaoxi breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately Chen Zhu solved her "problem".
"Am I a little meddling?" Subconsciously, she asked what was in her heart again.
"What?"
"It's nothing!" Lin Zhaoxi was very hungry, and started to inspect the stalls, trying to squeeze in to the fried meat skewers stall, but inadvertently saw Bao Xiaomeng and other girls fighting and eating.
She was a little happy at first, but now she became depressed again.
This world really doesn't depend on personal will. For some things, no matter how hard you try, there may not be results. Bao Xiaomeng is like this, and she is also afraid that Lao Lin will be like this.
"It's so difficult..." Lin Zhaoxi said, "Sometimes I really don't know what to do."
"Just work hard." Pei Zhi said.
Lin Zhaoxi looked at Pei Zhi, and Pei Zhi withdrew his gaze from Bao Xiaomeng, looked down at her, and said, "It's good to have a clear conscience."
"Brother Pei..."
"Um?"
“Chicken soup is also very good.”
"You're welcome."
[two]
On January 13, Yongchuan City.
Stepping off the chartered car, there are many high-rise buildings in front of you, heavy traffic, and a busy scene in the early morning light.
Lin Zhaoxi was still in the time of a sage who had just finished the final exam, and the idioms she had memorized were pouring out one by one.
Unlike the last time they came to take the exam, this time there was no Lao Lin or Lao Zhang in the car, and the leader was a teacher they didn't know. Because their junior high school exams were late, they only chartered a car to Yongchuan on the day of the math league exam.
The examination room was set at Yongchuan Middle School, and the students filed down. The school gate was already crowded with many students who came to rush for the examination.
Lu Zhihao was motion sick and walked slowly when he got off the car, Lin Zhaoxi and the others were waiting for him beside the car.
Lin Zhaoxi helped the old Comrade Lu, and heard him say angrily, "It would be good if the flower roll is here..."
Lin Zhaoxi: "?"
Lu Zhihao raised his eyelids and looked at Chen Chu who was walking in the front of their city team, everything was kept silent.
Chen Chu did not pass the selection of their school, but he also appeared in the chartered car rushing for the exam.
It is said that he got another quota through the off-campus tutoring center and became a different kind of car. On the contrary, many of those students with better grades than him are not eligible to come.
"Anyway, it's a two-day tour." Lin Zhaoxi imitated Hanamaki's tone and said, "If you don't get the first prize, it's useless if you come."
"I can't get the first prize either." Lu Zhihao said silently.
"you can!"
"Don't have him in the training camp." Lu Zhihao put her and Pei Zhi on his side and said leisurely.
Lin Zhaoxi: "..."
However, before they took a few steps, Lin Zhaoxi wanted to take back what he had said to persuade Comrade Lu.
Really, it would be nice if Hanamaki was here.
A group of four from Yongchuan Middle School stood at the gate of the school in unison. Vice-principal Zhang led the team in a suit and leather shoes, with a shiny school badge on his lapel, for fear that others would not know his identity.
The teacher leading the team in their city stopped when they saw Vice Principal Zhang, and exchanged polite greetings.
At this time, Chen Chu also stepped forward and said to Vice Principal Zhang, "Hello, Uncle Zhang, Principal Wang of Xuesi Education, introduce me..."
In the end, the three words "come to find you" have not yet been uttered, and the Yongchuan foursome have already started to talk to each other.
"Didn't you get selected through the school?"
"That's opening the back door!"
"I remember that you were not on the list of Anning Experimental Middle School."
"Our Teacher Zhang dislikes opening the back door the most!"
Chen Chu's face froze.
Lin Zhaoxi and the others walked a little behind, and when they heard the yelling of these four people, their first reaction was that the wicked will be tortured by the wicked, and the second reaction was to cover their faces, but the four from Yongchuan Middle School yelled at them again.
"Why didn't the Hanamaki come?"
"The grades are too bad?"
"Are you being abused again?"
"What do you want to bet this time?"
Almost everyone at the school gate shot their eyes at them, looking at Lin Zhaoxi, she really wanted to say: Can we just bet, we will meet each other in the future...