Lao Lin recovered quickly, as if the discovery of the mistake did not have much impact on him, he quickly devoted himself to the self-correction after the discovery of the mistake.
Lin Zhaoxi actually didn't believe that Lao Lin could recover so quickly, but she was too embarrassed to say something like "Dad, tell me what you are unhappy about". She only dared to carefully observe Lao Lin's reaction, so that her attitude towards Lao Lin himself became doglike.
She would get up half an hour earlier in the morning than before, and take care of Lao Lin's work of buying breakfast and doing housework. When she came back in the evening, she would cut fruit and make tea for Lao Lin, and she only missed his shoulders and legs.
Lao Lin himself probably also noticed her apology, and was a bit aggressive. He asked her to eat puffed wontons at noon, and asked her to run two extra streets to buy his favorite barbecue at night after school. Lin Zhaoxi usually followed him.
Even so, Lao Lin still had the habit of moaning and whining whenever he felt dissatisfied.
Autumn was getting stronger, it was Sunday, and the sky was still not bright when Lin Zhaoxi woke up in the morning. The lights in Lao Lin's small study were on, as if he had worked all night.
She crossed the yard, knocked on Lao Lin's study, and asked him what he would like for breakfast as usual.
Lao Lin looked up, looked at the drizzle outside the window, and slowly put down his pen: "This rainy day should make a cup of Huangshan Maofeng, plus Lin Ji's flatbread fried dough sticks, Aunt Zhang's glutinous rice balls, and two freshly picked Little Apple, isn't it beautiful?"
"You're almost ready." Lin Zhaoxi folded her arms and looked at Lao Lin indifferently.
Lao Lin groaned, covered his heart, and then felt something was wrong, and began to cover his head: "Why do I feel a little dizzy, it must be because I have worked too hard recently..."
Lin Zhaoxi took a deep breath: "I'll go!"
"Why are you still scolding people?"
"I said I'll go buy it for you now!" After she finished speaking, she turned around and left.
"Wait~" Lao Lin stopped her again.
Lin Zhaoxi thought he was asking for something, so she turned her head angrily, but saw Lao Lin picking up the long-handled umbrella by the table, he yawned, took two steps, and opened the umbrella on top of her head with a swish.
"Let's go." Lao Lin said with a smile.
It was just after six o'clock, and the sky was still very dark, but the old people in the alley had already started burning coal stoves, and the green smoke was curling up, mixed with the aroma of deep-fried fried dough sticks at the breakfast stand and the wet rain.
The premise is that Lao Lin does not speak.
"How is your performance in school recently?" Lao Lin asked for the first time as they stood in front of the deep-fried dough stick stand.
Lin Zhaoxi took a bite of the crispy fritters: "Father, are you really concerned or are you obliged to ask?"
Raindrops sprinkled lightly on the umbrella, the air was damp, they waited in front of the breakfast shop,
"Of course it's just a random question."
"Then I'll report it on a voluntary basis." Lin Zhaoxi cleared her throat, "Your daughter has recently achieved excellent academic performance and is willing to help others. She has repeatedly won school radio awards, brackets, because she is good at collecting money. And she has made breakthroughs in her grade rankings. ,Won… "
Lin Zhaoxi couldn't continue when she said this, and the grandparents around her looked at her curiously.
"Go on." Lao Lin walked forward and took her to the next restaurant.
"I feel a little ashamed of boasting, and I can't go on."
"Pei Zhi's ranking is higher, or yours?" Lao Lin asked.
Lin Zhaoxi was shocked: "Dad, when did you become such a vulgar educator? Why do you compare me with other children?"
Lao Lin was also shocked: "When am I not vulgar?"
Lao Lin asked for two rice balls while talking, the umbrella in his hand tilted because of the action of taking out the money, the rain slid down, and half of Lin Zhaoxi's head fell, she jumped and said: "Dad, don't have anything to say, let's talk about it." The umbrella is upright."
The number of people on the street gradually increased, and Lao Lin peeled off the rice balls and started eating again. He looked relaxed and happy, Lin Zhaoxi thought, he probably made some new progress last night, otherwise he wouldn't have stayed up all night.
"Anything to be happy about?" she asked.
Lao Lin moved the umbrella slightly, and looked up at the sky very artistically: "After the rain, the sky will be blue."
"Azure is waiting for misty rain." Lin Zhaoxi followed suit.
"Hugo once said that there are three keys to open the treasure house of human wisdom, one is mathematics..."
Lin Zhaoxi: "You're making it up again."
Lao Lin looked at her and shook his head: "Student Lin Zhaoxi, you still need to read more books."
"???" Lin Zhaoxi looked at Lao Lin's serious expression, "Hugo... really said that?"
"Really." Lao Lin continued walking slowly, and said slowly, "I saw something interesting with Pei Zhi yesterday."
"How interesting?" Lin Zhaoxi jumped for joy. Could it be that Lao Lin has discovered a new algorithm that he was unable to complete later? She hasn't had time to hang up with him yet.
"It's hard to say, it's hard to say now." Comrade Lao Lin kept secret, but he was cheerful.
Lin Zhaoxi thought for a while and asked, "You just asked me if my grades were as good as Pei Zhi's. Is it because you think that you can't surpass Pei Zhi's intellectual level in this lifetime, so you want your daughter to surpass him? Dad, An excellent educator should not pin his hopes on his own children."
"I didn't pin my hope of completing it on you." Lao Lin said.
"ah?"
"Personally, I always think that whatever you want to do is good. I have been taking you to learn mathematics because you have this desire, and I personally think mathematics is quite interesting. The most important thing is that I am only good at it."
Lao Lin was suddenly sincere, he took the last bite of rice and burped.
Lin Zhaoxi was a little dazed, but the emotion lasted for a short time, because after a while, Lao Lin said, "I'll tell you the truth, because I have always regarded Pei Zhi as my own child."
This means, anyway, you can pin your hopes on Pei Zhi, so...
After Lao Lin finished speaking, he shook his umbrella and slipped away.
Lin Chao wanted to hit someone.
—
She and Lao Lin went home noisy and noisy all the way, the rain had almost stopped, and the aroma of fried chestnuts in sugar filled the air again.
Lin Zhaoxi thought, the relationship between their father and daughter seems to have always been so dull, and the most communication is always during meals and meals.
Sometimes they chatted a few words, and sometimes they talked about some nutritious content, but no matter what, the process was always relaxed and happy, which probably owed to Lao Lin's own literary attainments.
This Sunday, after serving Lao Lin's meal, Lin Zhaoxi could have had a good night's sleep. But because the selection for the National Mathematical Olympiad Winter Camp is about to start again, Sunday is the training class organized by the city, and she has to go to it.
As an old comrade who had participated in the provincial training team, Lin Zhaoxi felt that it should be very easy for him to go to the city training class. But when she sat down in the classroom, she found that half of the class was unknown to her.
In just a few months, it seems that many new seedlings with good mathematics have emerged in the city.
She came a little late, looked around the classroom, but did not see Pei Zhi's figure.
Lu Zhihao sat in the front row, the seat next to him was vacant, and Lin Zhaoxi walked towards him.
When there were still two or three rows left, a black figure passed by her, jumped ahead of her, and sat down beside Lu Zhihao with a bang.
Lin Zhaoxi didn't know the boy sitting next to Lu Zhihao at all, and Lu Zhihao himself was very confused, obviously he didn't know him either.
"Student Lu Zhihao, can I be at the same table with you?" The boy looks handsome, but he is a bit of a fool. He is the type who is very smart and does not work hard at first glance.
"I don't know you."
"It's okay, I know that Lu Zhihao's math grades are very good, I really want to learn from you."
The boy's eyes were obviously not as sincere as he said, Lin Zhaoxi walked over and knocked on the table: "Student, please get up, you are sitting in my seat."
The boy looked up at him and smiled: "Student Lu Zhihao not only has good grades, but also has many girlfriends."
"It's not his girlfriend, it's his elder sister."
"No, I want to be with classmate Lu Zhihao, you can't take him away."
The students around looked at them and started to laugh lowly.
Lu Zhihao, a straight man of steel, had an ugly face.
"Let's switch to the back." Lin Zhaoxi looked at the boy's face and said to Lu Zhihao.
—
Lin Zhaoxi thought that it was just that the boy saw Lu Zhihao having fun, so he teased him. But she didn't expect that during the next self-introduction session, the boy stood up and reported his family.
"My name is Zhang Yao. I'm from Anning No. 1 Middle School. I have a request. I want to be at the same table as Lu Zhihao."
When Lu Zhihao heard the word "Zhang Yao", Lu Zhihao had already raised his head suddenly, and the second half of the sentence made Comrade Lu's face turn livid.
"Who is it?" Lin Zhaoxi asked.
Lu Zhihao frowned, as if hesitating for a while, but did not answer.
"Lu Zhihao's grades are very good. I want to learn some mathematics experience from him. I hope the teacher will agree, and I also hope that Lu Zhihao's current deskmate can change seats with me."
Hearing this, small-scale whispers broke out in the class, and some girls laughed ambiguously.
At this moment, another boy in the classroom suddenly shouted in a drawn-out tone: "Teacher, I also want to sit with classmate Lu Zhihao, he is so cute~"
There was a burst of laughter in the class.
"Wow~Wu Skye, did you cross the bar?"
"Lu Zhihao, who do you choose?"
There were more and more booing voices, Lu Zhihao's face was flushed, and he looked like he wanted to curse.
Lin Zhaoxi probably understood that although they didn't know what was wrong with Lu Zhihao, these two people deliberately came to disgust Lu Zhihao.
—
Because of Zhang Yao and Wu Skykai's booing, one class was over, and both she and Lu Zhihao were called to the office by the teacher in charge of the training class.
That was the teacher of the municipal teaching and research section, after so many years of Mathematics Olympiad class, Lin Zhaoxi was also a little familiar with him.
So when the female teacher cleared her throat and wanted to speak, Lin Zhaoxi said directly; "Teacher, what happened today is obviously that those two boys are bullying Lu Zhihao. We don't know them, and we don't know why they did this."
"I know, I know, it's a trivial matter, I'm here because of Pei Zhi."
Lin Zhaoxi raised her eyes: "What's wrong with Pei Zhi?"
"Isn't Pei Zhi not coming to participate in the training camp organized by the city?"
"That's right, these lessons are too easy for him." Lu Zhihao said.
"But he refused to participate in the math league, you know?"
"No, why didn't Pei Zhi participate?" Lu Zhihao said.
The mathematics league is the threshold for going to the national winter camp, and only after entering the national winter camp, it is possible to be selected to represent the country to participate in the International Mathematical Olympiad.
Lin Zhaoxi pursed her lips, but did not speak.
The teacher began to be persuasive: "We all know Pei Zhi's strength. Whether it is to win glory for the school, the city, or even the country, he must participate. I know you have a good relationship, so I hope you I can persuade him."
Lin Zhaoxi: "You should call his parents about this matter."
The teacher was also very helpless: "I have never seen such a parent. When they heard that I was engaged in mathematics, they hung up the phone and blocked me. Teachers from the teaching and research sections in the city have visited the door, but they can't do it."
Lu Zhihao looked at her with a puzzled expression, which meant: Why don't we persuade Pei Zhi
"Then there is nothing we can do." After Lin Zhaoxi finished speaking, the class bell rang just in time. She bowed to the teacher, pulled Lu Zhihao's sleeve and walked out.
"Wait." As soon as he went out, Lu Zhihao grabbed her: "What's wrong with Brother Pei? Why did you quit everything? It's not normal not to participate in the training camp. He really doesn't want to win the gold medal in the Olympiad?" Old Comrade Lu asked. A series of questions.
The autumn wind came through the corridor, which was somewhat bleak.
"I don't know." Lin Zhaoxi didn't want him to ask again, so she changed the topic, "You should explain the matter between you and Zhang Yao first."