There are some things where you work hard and you will have results, but anything that involves exploration is a combination of talent, intellect, and luck.
For example, the progress of mathematics research does not depend on human will. The problem Pei Zhi is facing now is actually the same.
So although Lin Zhaoxi was anxious, she didn't urge Lao Lin too much, let alone force Pei Zhi to confide in her heart. For her, there was another very important thing to do.
She was leaning against the gate of Anning No. 1 Middle School at 8:30 in the evening.
After the self-study in the middle of the first day and evening, the students walked out of the school one after another.
Pei Zhi was originally standing beside her, but because of Brother Pei's schoolboy temperament, he was asked to call several times in a row by the young lady. After they negotiated, Pei Zhi first went to stand in a shameful place.
Lin Zhaoxi put down her phone, and in the dark, a tall and thin boy walked out of the school with a schoolbag on his back.
With headphones in his ears, he didn't know whether he was listening to words or songs, but he didn't look like he saw her text message.
Lin Zhaoxi could only wave at her from a distance, very enthusiastically: "Brother Sleeping God, Brother Sleeping God~"
Chen Zhu raised his head, his eyes were indifferent: "What are you doing here?"
This sentence is not so friendly, Lin Zhaoxi is helpless.
This matter is still related to Gao Lin Zhaoxi.
At that time, Chen Zhu's high school entrance examination scores were still a few points away, so he could go to the best experimental middle school, but because the experimental middle school was private, it needed a school selection fee. Entered the public No. 1 middle school.
Gao Lin Zhaoxi found out about this later, and felt that Chen Zhu's choice was problematic both emotionally and rationally, and had a fight with him, and now the two are in a state of semi-breakup.
It was also because of Gao Lin Zhaoxi's quarrel that she no longer has a computer to use when she comes back.
So when Chen Zhu asked "What are you doing here", Lin Zhaoxi replied very straightforwardly: "I want to borrow your computer..."
"Don't you look down on me?" The boy walked away.
"How could I look down on you!" Lin Zhaoxi followed with small strides.
Chen Zhu was still walking forward, and other students passed by, casting curious glances at them.
"Didn't you say I'm short-sighted?" The boy simply pulled out the other earplug and stared at her angrily.
"You are indeed short-sighted." Lin Zhaoxi stopped and answered him seriously.
Chen Zhu's eyes turned cold: "Do you think you can dictate my life because you have helped me?"
Lin Zhaoxi thought for a while, looked towards the shadow by the bushes, and asked, "Why do I hear this sentence so familiar?"
"Bao Xiaomeng told you?" The boy standing by the tree straightened up and said.
"Pei...zhi?" Chen Zhu frowned even tighter.
"Relax." Lin Zhaoxi stepped forward boldly and patted Chen Zhu on the shoulder.
Chen Zhu shook his shoulders, feeling like she was some kind of dirty thing, disgusted: "Don't bother me."
"Why didn't you listen to what she had to say?" Pei Zhi walked up to Chen Zhu, "We chatted in another place."
Lin Zhaoxi always felt that according to Chen Zhu's current state of mind, maybe he would just throw Pei Zhi's hand away and say "Get lost".
But she didn't expect that Chen Zhu's expression changed. After a while, I said "yes" very reluctantly.
Lin Zhaoxi was very frustrated. It was really useless to be beautiful, she was not as attractive as Brother Pei in essence.
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The place they chose to chat was Chen Zhu's small garage.
Chen Zhu opened the garage door, and Lin Zhaoxi walked in familiarly. She first turned on the light, then turned on the electric fan, and finally went to her place to turn on the computer.
Her usual water glass was still on the table, as were her notebook and pen holder.
Lin Zhaoxi directly picked up the water glass, went to the water dispenser to get a glass of water, drank it and said to Chen Zhu, "Well... I poured Coke in it before I left and didn't drink it, thank you for washing the glass for me."
"You never wash the cups yourself." Chen Zhu was disgusted.
"nonsense!"
"Pei Zhi washed it for you." Chen Zhu said.
Lin Zhaoxi was choked, and subconsciously went to look at Pei Zhi. Seeing that Brother Pei silently turned on his computer as if he hadn't heard this sentence, he dragged a chair in front of Chen Zhu and asked him to sit down.
Lin Zhaoxi ran to pour two glasses of water, and put them doglegs in front of Pei Zhi and Chen Zhu. The three of them sat down around a small table.
Lin Zhaoxi sipped her saliva, cleared her throat, and said, "Actually, I think the past is over, so I don't mind mentioning it, but you insist on arguing about it, so I want to tell you that until now, I think you chose wrong.
Chen Zhu wanted to interrupt, but Lin Zhaoxi looked at him and signaled him to wait with his eyes.
"First of all, what misunderstanding do you have about the salaries of civil servants in our country? After all, Lao Chen is a traffic policeman with a solid job. Although 50,000 yuan for school selection fees is not a small sum for him, it will not ruin his fortune. .”
"Secondly, although No. 1 Middle School is not bad, but the annual college entrance examination rate is far lower than that of Anning Experimental Middle School. Just looking at this data, you will know how to choose.
"And the most important thing is, have you ever thought, if Lao Chen knew that you chose to go to No. 1 Middle School because you wanted to save him 50,000 yuan, what do you think he would think?"
Chen Zhu still wanted to refute, but Lin Zhaoxi said slowly: "As a man, Lao Chen will be very, very sad. He will feel that he has failed completely in this life. He is useless and even his son pities him. To save him sacrificing his future for money."
"My dad is not like that!" Chen Zhu yelled these words, but suddenly he stared at the door blankly as if being strangled by the neck.
Lin Zhaoxi also felt something was wrong, she slowly turned her head and looked at the garage door. In the dark shadows, the middle-aged man slowly took off his gloves, his body tired.
Why is it the same as the plot on TV, whenever you say something behind your back, you will definitely be heard by the other party.
"Uncle Chen, are you off work?" Lin Zhaoxi stood up and said awkwardly.
Old Chen nodded to him, and forced himself to say: "You are all here, it's been a long time."
Lin Zhaoxi felt remorseful and wanted to explain, but Lao Chen said to her in relief as if he knew what she was thinking: "It's okay. When I was young, I quarreled with his mother, and his mother always said I was a poor man, and he always thought so , I think it would be good to save me a little bit, he is a good boy, the one who didn't become a good father... It's me... "
Old Chen couldn't continue, he turned his head and looked upstairs: "I'm going back first, you guys have fun."
"Dad!" Chen Zhu stood up.
Lin Zhaoxi and Pei Zhi looked at each other, looking at the back of old Chen who was eager to leave, Lin Zhaoxi said: "Uncle Chen, just now Chen Zhu sat down and listened to me, can you listen to me too?"
Old Chen stopped.
"Chen Zhu is unwilling to accept your money to go to a better school because he doesn't trust his father enough. This is his problem. But if you say that, Uncle Chen, you also don't trust yourself in essence. son."
Lin Zhaoxi looked at Chen Zhu, raised his head slightly and said, "If he has thought it through and thinks that no matter what the environment, he can study hard, we should believe in his determination."
On nights in late summer and early autumn, the small garage was quiet.
After a while, Chen Zhu couldn't help but said: "Just to use the computer, don't you blush when you say these words?"
"I don't blush, why did you blush before me?" Lin Zhaoxi paused, "So, student Chen Zhu, for three years in high school, can you maintain the determination and perseverance in making decisions as always?"
Chen Zhu fell silent, Lin Zhaoxi bent down to pick up her cup, and took another sip.
"Three years is a long time." Chen Zhu looked at her and recalled, "I think you are setting me up to keep me from slacking off for three years, or was it because I was overheated and impulsive when I made the decision?"
"Ah, nothing, I'm not this kind of person, so don't talk nonsense." Lin Zhaoxi directly denied Sanlian.
While she was talking, she kept secretly looking at Lao Chen.
But Lao Chen has been watching his son deeply.
Chen Zhu was a little embarrassed by his father's stare, but forced his head up, and finally couldn't help but said to his father: "I study the same everywhere, just because of this, not to save you money, don't listen to her nonsense. "
Hearing this, Old Chen's slightly hunched back straightened up again, as if his son's ambition also made him straighten his back, and he said, "Okay, I don't believe it."
Lin Zhaoxi rubbed her nose beside her, pretending she didn't exist.
"Can I meet your dad when I have time?" Lao Chen looked at her, "He taught you very well, I want to learn from him."
"Just praise me...don't praise my dad..." Lin Zhaoxi blushed.
After that, they didn't say anything more, and the matter between father and son was almost fine.
She returned to the computer, and the boy sat down at the computer desk opposite her.
He took out a stack of Lao Lin's draft paper from his schoolbag, and opened the dovetail clip. They just naturally started to do what they wanted to do.
Lin Zhaoxi opened her unfinished forecasting program in the computer, and began to add the part she had learned in the Strawberry World Modeling Competition.
After Lao Chen left, Chen Zhu also sat down. Instead of playing with the computer, he was doing math problems.
At a certain tired moment, Lin Zhaoxi stared at the lines of code on the screen, thinking about what old Chen Gang said.
—He taught you well.
In a sense, Lao Lin has always been her teacher. Her outlook on life and values are inevitably influenced by Lao Lin.
So, what about Lao Lin's teacher
The great powerlessness that once sat in Lao Lin's office suddenly emerged. Lin Zhaoxi opened the webpage and typed the three words "Feng Deming" in the search box.
Before the result appeared, she took a peek at the boy opposite.
Pei Zhi kept his head down, his eyelashes drooping, and the pencil made rustling noises when it came into contact with the manuscript paper. He was probably doing a testimonial for Lao Lin himself. Their computers were placed back to back, and it was impossible for him to know what she was looking up.
The page was refreshed, and Lin Zhaoxi looked away.
On Feng Deming's Baidu Encyclopedia, his personal resume is clearly written.
Skipping the awards, papers and honors that Professor Feng received, Lin Zhaoxi saw the paragraph around 1994.
—Since 1990, he has served as a professor and postgraduate tutor at the Institute of Applied Mathematics, Yongchuan University.
According to the timeline, Lao Lin entered the Graduate School of Yongchuan University in 1991, and Feng Deming was likely to be his graduate tutor.
In fact, Lin Zhaoxi had guessed these contents long ago, and it was not surprising to see them, but now, the whole picture of Professor Feng was clearly presented in front of her, which made her want to know more.