After hearing the second full score, Liu Zhiyuan couldn't concentrate all the time.
He knew that the boy was named Pei Zhi, and he had been with Lin Zhaoxi all the time, but other than that, he seemed to have kept a low profile. And Pei stepped down from the stage, bowed and thanked, calm as usual.
Influenced by Pei Zhi, the students were also very quiet. Except for a little whispering between the girls, Teacher Wan procedurally praised, and even Teacher Xie was so indifferent that he didn't even lift his eyelids.
One or two, people don't find it strange, but Liu Zhiyuan feels unspeakably uncomfortable.
In the following class time, the teacher has been explaining the test papers.
When talking about the question where he lost two points, Mr. Xie said that most people got the 11th question wrong. Hearing this, he couldn't help turning his head to look at Lin Zhaoxi and Pei Zhi.
The two people sitting in the corner of the classroom were reading the test papers, and neither of them looked up when they heard this sentence.
The girl wrote a line of words on the test paper very seriously, and then she poked the boy with the tip of the pen as if she had encountered some small problem. The head continues to record.
Liu Zhiyuan couldn't express his inner feelings clearly, but whether it was Pei Zhi's calmness or Lin Zhaoxi's serious concentration, he felt that he had been taught a lesson by these two junior high school students.
—
After class, everyone is packing up.
For some unknown reason, Liu Zhiyuan packed slowly on purpose, and only after Lin Zhaoxi and the others got up did he pick up his bag and follow behind.
The corridor was crowded with people, Lin Zhaoxi and Pei Zhi were very close.
She always felt that Pei Zhi had changed a little recently: "Brother Pei, you seem to be a little low-key recently?"
"fine."
"Don't answer the questions, we haven't seriously discussed the matter of deliberately making me the class monitor. You don't even answer the teacher's questions in class now."
"Yes, Pei Zhi, are you okay?" Lu Zhihao also asked with concern.
"actually… "
"What! Tell me something!" Lu Zhihao was very loyal.
"I never raised my hand before."
Lu Zhihao: "..."
"Xiao Lin still cares about Pei Zhi so much." Xie Ran's slow voice sounded from behind them.
Lin Zhaoxi shuddered and called out, "Teacher Xie."
Xie Ran nodded.
Seeing Xie Ran, Lin Zhaoxi asked straightforwardly: "Then can I care about Teacher Xie?"
"I haven't found a girlfriend yet." Xie Ran said.
"..." You guys are so good at chatting recently.
"You can ask any questions." Xie Ran said.
"I heard that the national training team is next door to Yongchuan University?" Lin Zhaoxi approached him quietly, and raised her head slightly.
"How did you know?"
"Lu Zhihao said it!" Lin Zhaoxi hurriedly blamed it, and then asked what she thought was a crucial question, "Sammi University's mathematics department is even better, why is the national training team going to Yongchuan University?"
Xie Ran was silent for a moment, then said, "You know too much."
Lin Zhaoxi: "Will it be silenced?"
"I'm not joking." Xie Ran said seriously, "Be careful, there will be relevant student exchanges in the future, don't say that when you go out."
"Eh... will cause trouble?"
"The academic circle is more complicated than you think. It's good to know some things yourself. There is no need to brag about it."
Xie Ran is seldom so serious, especially when he specifically refers to the academic circle, Lin Zhaoxi wonders if this is a bit exaggerated? But she didn't ask any more. The information Xie Ran revealed was enough for her to find an opportunity to search for the key words "Olympiad Sanwei University Yongchuan University".
Thinking of this, she looked at Xie Ran again, and when she was about to open her mouth, Xie Ran interrupted her: "I won't answer either, why this training camp spans middle and high schools."
Lu Zhihao interjected: "Is it because we have good grades and you want to use us to stimulate high school students?"
"Why do you think so?" Xie Ran asked.
"It's not me, it's Lin Zhaoxi who said it!"
Xie Ran's eyes floated over, Lin Zhaoxi said: "It's just a guess, and I..." It didn't mean that.
But before she could say the second half of the sentence, she heard someone behind her say, "And because you got full marks in the test this time, do you think your grades are particularly good?"
Lin Zhaoxi turned her head and found that Liu Zhiyuan was looking at her coldly.
She was already apprehensive about this future "blind date partner", but now she is reprimanded, and she is even more confused.
And not only Liu Zhiyuan, but the other high school students following him also heard the conversation, so everyone looked at her with righteous indignation and disbelief.
"Why do you speak in a weird way!" Lu Zhihao was very direct.
"Ah."
Lu Zhihao: "If you are not convinced, you can still get full marks in the exam!"
The high school student next to Liu Zhiyuan stood up, and he pushed Lu Zhihao: "Why did you talk to the senior? Zhiyuan won the first prize in the national mathematics competition. Pay attention, the high school mathematics competition."
"The first prize is amazing, so why can't the national training team get in?"
After Lu Zhihao finished shouting, Liu Zhiyuan and the high school students around him became even more angry. But what Lu Zhihao said was true again, and each of them was speechless.
Finally, the high school student said: "Now that the mathematics education is reformed, the exams are different. It seems that you can pass the exam if you take the exam?"
"Just take the first prize in your junior high school mathematics league first."
"Is the result coming soon?"
"What if I can't get the first prize?"
The high school students talked to each other, Lin Zhaoxi wanted to explain, but no matter how she explained, it seemed very hypocritical, she thought about it, and said seriously: "I won't miss it."
Liu Zhiyuan's face was ashen, and after a long time, he reluctantly said: "The rest of the training camp is less than half a year away, I hope you can continue to be so good."
"We will." A light male voice sounded from beside her, and Pei Zhi had to speak.
The audience was silent, and Lin Zhaoxi realized that it must be her illusion that Pei Zhi was deliberately keeping a low profile.
Killing with one blow, Liu Zhiyuan gritted his teeth, and in the end he could only clenched his fists, went straight around them, and left. Not only that, but many high school students quickened their pace and followed Liu Zhiyuan.
Xie Ran looked lovingly at the backs of the high school students going away.
Lin Zhaoxi suddenly came to her senses, Xie Ran suddenly didn't open which pot and which pot was lifted, she must have discovered that Liu Zhiyuan was behind them...
She protested: "You cheated me again."
"How can it be said that I cheated you?" Xie Ran smiled, "I was obviously cheating them."
Lin Zhaoxi: "..."
—
After dinner, Lin Zhaoxi did not return to the dormitory.
Lu Zhihao dragged Pei Zhi to the playground to run laps. She refused the old Comrade Lu's warm invitation to lose weight together, took her phone card, and walked to the bright yellow phone booth beside the playground.
The winter has come, and except for some evergreen trees, most of the trees have cold branches, which has a sense of bleakness.
She took off the phone and wanted to call Lao Lin, but for some reason, maybe it was too quiet around, or maybe it was the cold wind blowing around, so she couldn't help but think about what happened in the past few days.
From Lao Lin's disapproval of her going to Yongchuan to study in high school, to the old book full of annotations in the library, from the unprecedented high school joint training camp, to Xie Ran's warning to her just now, the academic circle is more complicated than she imagined.
Lin Zhaoxi still felt that there was a problem here.
In the night, the sound of students chasing and fighting could be faintly heard on the playground.
The biggest difference between her and a child is probably that she is an adult at heart, so she doesn't trust the adult world very much.
She put down the phone, turned and walked towards the library.
On the top floor of the library, there is only one classroom in the computer room.
Master students or doctoral students staying at the school occupy a few seats here and there, or are checking papers, or writing emails.
Lin Zhaoxi turned on one of the machines, watched the screen light up slowly, surrounded by the slight electric sound from the machine, and her heartbeat involuntarily became faster and faster.
Lu Zhihao's education was right just now. She often surfs the Internet, but never pays attention to mathematics news. Because she spends most of her online time researching college mathematics-related content, and the rest of the time, she is either doing questions on the computer or researching how to save Lao Lin from the inevitable car accident.
She didn't know why she subconsciously avoided the leftover information related to mathematics, just like she avoided looking up the string of phone numbers and Lao Lin's past.
Everyone has secrets, and she wanted to respect her father's secrets, but if she only searched for some irrelevant information, it shouldn't count as prying into Lao Lin's privacy.
Lin Zhaoxi comforted herself in this way, and in the search box, she entered the keywords she had just thought of: "Olympiad Sanwei University Yongchuan University"