In Room 303 of the Red Star Welfare Institute, the night is deep, and the pink Dacron curtains are swaying with the wind in the night.
The entire orphanage has turned off the lights, and the aunt who is in charge of the rounds has checked every room and is going to sleep.
The moment the door was closed, rustling sounds could be heard from the originally quiet private room. Lin Zhaoxi sat up from the quilt and bent down. She pulled up the quilt to cover herself completely, and set up a tent above her head.
The flashlight was turned on immediately, and the entire small space was filled with warm yellow light. After a few breaths, the air inside became extremely stuffy.
She bought the flashlight with the money she spent buying milk every day, and inside the quilt were the Mathematical Olympiad textbooks and workbooks she dug out, a thick stack.
Recalling the bet with the dean's mother, she herself felt passionate, but life is like this, and suddenly something happened to make her comfortable life messy. Of course, she has never been comfortable since she came here.
So if we want to talk about the disadvantages of going back to the past, one is that the lights are turned off early, and the other is that computers are not yet popular. These two points seriously affected her review progress. It took only three days from making a bet to taking the Saturday exam. It would be difficult to finish reading an elementary school Mathematical Olympiad book in three days. There are six Olympiad textbooks in the sixth grade.
There are hundreds of lessons and thousands of formulas. It is true that she is a rebirth, but it does not mean that a 22-year-old is really sure that she can learn all the knowledge. And having a short board means that if she can't do this in the test, she will definitely not be able to enter the summer camp.
But let go of all the harsh words, except for full marks, any score is not guaranteed.
Want full marks? There is no other shortcut but to stay up late and study carefully.
so…
She put her head deep outside the quilt, took a deep breath of the fresh air outside, held the pencil, slipped back under the quilt, and continued with the questions.
No wonder she was nervous.
In her previous life (that is, in Strawberry World), she did not pass the summer camp. She doesn’t remember whether she miscalculated on one of the questions or was not sure about the last big question, but in fact she was really good at math. Grasp the questions, which indirectly shows the difficulty of the Jinbei Summer Camp.
And if there is no problem with her memory, although Pei Zhi went, he did not represent Anning City in the competition in the end, so I don't know what went wrong.
In any case, An Ning's primary school mathematics education is actually not as bad as Lao Lin said. For example, there is Pei Zhi, and there is Zhang Liang who is now overshadowing Pei Zhi.
Therefore, in those few days, she has been reading books at every turn. During Chinese and English including mathematics classes, she is always flipping through Olympiad textbooks. The teachers of all subjects criticized her, but little Lu Zhihao's mother was also the head teacher, Mr. Xu, who was an expert at protecting the weak. The teachers of all subjects were dismissed when they complained, so that on the last day before the exam, she simply spread the Olympiad books on the table to read. .
Because the knowledge points of elementary school Mathematical Olympiad were broken up, in fact, some content was taught in the third grade, and it was more in-depth in the fourth and fifth grades. She compiled a table of knowledge points, summarized all the knowledge points with internal connections, and carried them with her. Take a look at the memory when you have time. Later, classmate Xiao Lu secretly copied a copy and gave her a pack of popping candies as a reward.
Lin Zhaoxi felt for the first time that knowledge is power (ling) and quantity (shi).
…
It wasn't until after class on Friday evening that Lin Zhaoxi had time to find Lao Lin. In fact, it wasn't that she had finished her studies so she was free, and she would never finish reading the book. She was suddenly anxious before the exam and wanted to talk to her father.
It was getting hotter and hotter, and Lao Lin was wearing a white old man's undershirt with a small hole in the back, and was locking the door of the utility room in the park.
Lin Zhaoxi jumped out from behind the wall, patted him on the back, and asked with a smile, "I haven't been here for a few days, did you make breakfast properly?"
Lao Lin took half a step back and said in surprise: "You are here, I thought you would not come."
"Do you miss me?" Lin Zhaoxi asked.
"How is it possible, where did your misunderstanding come from?" Lao Lin waved at her with "Go away" written all over his face.
The weather was extremely hot, dragonflies were flying very low, and there was no one in the children's playground not far away. Lin Zhaoxi looked at the tip of her toes, but couldn't speak the line she had thought up for a while.
"Where have you been these few days?" Lao Lin closed the door and left, but his light inquiry came from the wind.
Lin Zhaoxi was a little happy, and immediately regained her spirits, and asked Lao Lin very dog-leggedly, "Master, I'm going to take the summer camp selection exam tomorrow!"
"oh."
"Do you have any secrets to pass on to me?"
Lao Lin turned his head and looked at her with drooping eyelids. Just when Lin Zhaoxi thought that Lao Lin was going to tease her again, he saw Lao Lin snap his fingers and said, "Follow me."
Lin Zhaoxi was so happy that she followed behind her father with her schoolbag on her back.
Lao Lin went back to their guard room. Another uncle was on duty today.
"What secret book?" Lin Zhaoxi waved hello to the uncle, and excitedly leaned over to ask Lao Lin.
Lao Lin didn't speak, he walked to the table with his hands behind his back, squatted down, Lin Zhaoxi already had a bad feeling.
Lao Lin raised the wooden table slightly, took out a book from the corner of the table, patted the dust on it, then turned around mysteriously, and handed it to her: "Ancestral secrets, passed down from daughter to son."
Lin Zhaoxi was stunned, looked down, almost didn't spit out.
It was the white book "Mental Arithmetic Instant Dafa", which was sold by Mental Arithmetic King at a stall in the park, and the price was 100 yuan.
And another uncle in the guard room laughed badly, and lifted a piece of floral cloth, inside was a thick stack of mental arithmetic quick tricks.
"This is?" Lin Zhaoxi was dumbfounded.
"That day, we secretly handed it over to him!" The guard uncle waved his hand and pointed at Lao Lin behind his back.
"I don't know anything!" Lao Lin took half a step back in shock, showing off his acting skills.
Lin Zhaoxi looked at the white paper, then at the black-skinned old Lin, and was speechless.
You really are my dear father, that's all she can think.
…
Because of the pressure in her heart, Lin Zhaoxi didn't spend long before returning to the orphanage.
The "cheat book" given by Lao Lin is contained in the schoolbag, no matter what, it is a pre-exam gift from his father. Lin Zhaoxi took out the "Instant Dafa" and put it on the upper left corner of the table, hoping that the power of the old Lin Xueshen would possess her.
Before turning off the lights, she turned out the Mathematical Olympiad textbook again, preparing to go over the important and difficult points that she picked out.
Before I knew it, the sky was dark again, the building outside the window was not as tall as before, and the stars could still be seen vaguely.
Lin Zhaoxi yawned, and her eyes fell on the "cheat book" placed on the corner of the table. The evening breeze blew away a corner of the white paper. There seemed to be pencil writing in the book, Lin Zhaoxi was stunned, dragged the cheat book given by Lao Lin to her front, and opened it.
On the first page is written a very clichéd sentence - "Reading a hundred times, its meaning will be seen by itself", which is very in line with the setting of cheat books.
Lin Zhaoxi was very curious, and continued to read, the original curiosity was replaced by shock.
In the one hundred or so pages of the cheat book, almost every page was marked by Lao Lin. Sometimes it is to correct mistakes, sometimes to adjust the order, and sometimes to make annotations. Lao Lin will also write a series of questions in the corner, densely packed, with no details.
At the end of the bibliography, Lao Lin also made a table for her, which probably rearranged the order of the mental arithmetic methods taught in the book. It may be from easy to difficult, or it may be arranged in another order, Lin Zhaoxi can't understand it very well.
But sure enough, Lao Lin is still Lao Lin.
Lin Zhaoxi dug out the table of Olympiad knowledge points she had sorted out, and compared it with it. Similar format, similar method, this is what Lao Lin taught her. There was some soot in the last corner of the page, she brushed it with her hand, and then looked out of the window, as if she could see Lao Lin writing these words casually while smoking a cigarette.
After Lao Lin's comments, Lin Zhaoxi discovered that the book "Mental Arithmetic King" is actually far from the regular mental arithmetic books introduced later. In fact, what she said at the time was not completely correct.
She couldn't tell how she felt.
On the one hand, she felt ashamed of her own inadequacy, and on the other hand, she felt that her father was too kind, so she casually gave this kind of thing to a strange loli who called her master to hug her thigh.
Maybe it's because of loneliness, or maybe it's just casually flipping through this bastard thing that Wang Dong put together in his mind, and couldn't help correcting his mistakes. After correcting his mistakes, he felt that the writing of this shit was not good enough, so he reorganized it again. In the end, it's basically a rewrite.
He modified it too carefully and meticulously, as if he found something to do casually, and it happened to be his field of expertise, so he couldn't help but do it casually.
After all, it is still lonely.
Lin Zhaoxi can clearly experience the feeling of being lost in the direction of life, having nothing to do all day long, and having nothing to do.
She closed the book, feeling warm and sad at the same time.
Once, Lao Lin also took a similar book, hoping that she could practice mental arithmetic well. The specific reason was thinking training or purely because Lao Lin thought the algorithm was very interesting and hoped that she would like it too. Lin Zhaoxi can't remember clearly.
Come to think of it, both the former Lao Lin and the current Lao Lin seem to be expecting her to study mathematics well, but behind this "study mathematics well" is actually Lao Lin's own pursuit and love for mathematics.
Randomly, involuntarily.
Before, she also believed that it is not correct for parents to pour their unfinished pursuits on their children. After all, everyone's life is independent of each other.
But when she grew up and came back, thinking of these small details, she suddenly realized that her thoughts at the time were not completely correct. After all, there are not so many black and white, absolutely right or absolutely wrong things in the world.
Parents do this to their children, and children do the same to their parents.
So after thinking for a long time, she suddenly realized that there seems to be a chance to do it all over again now