Anning City No. 1 Middle School bus station, in front of the math league.
Lin Zhaoxi got off the bus, the winter cold brought cooling and drizzle.
She swept the raindrops on her hair, and on the far side, there were blossoming umbrellas. It was colorful at a glance, and candidates were waiting at the gate of No. 1 Middle School to enter.
Lin Zhaoxi looked at the time, looked at the opposite bus stop, and began to wait.
Buses stop and pass one after another, parents and students come and go, silver needle-like rain falls, and everything is foggy.
It seems that since she came back, she has taken extra exams, promotion cups, grade exams, high school exams, summer camp exams...
But in fact, among all the exams, in terms of significance, it may not be more important than the math league she is going to participate in now.
The last time she was in Strawberry World, she was not eligible to participate in the mathematics league in her first year of high school. In her second year of high school, she switched to liberal arts because of Lao Lin's affairs, and she missed the league.
Pei Zhi won the international Olympic mathematics gold medal in the second year of high school.
But now, they are freshmen in the same class, Lin Zhaoxi looked at the platform in the distance, wondering if the result this time would be different from the last time.
When thinking of this, a No. 75 bus left the platform, and Pei Zhi's figure appeared.
The boy didn't have an umbrella, and the sweater hat was pulled up to cover his eyebrows. He carried a schoolbag, crossed the pedestrian crossing line, and always had a straight back.
Lin Zhaoxi waved at him through the misty rain and the vehicles, feeling relieved that Pei Zhi really came.
The rain got heavier, Lin Zhaoxi took out her umbrella. Pei Zhi walked up to her, took the umbrella, opened it, and covered their heads.
There was a shadow under the umbrella, Lin Zhaoxi was stunned, but the atmosphere was unusually peaceful. She got closer to the boy, and walked with him to the door of No. 1 Middle School.
Pei Zhi seemed to have grown taller again, Lin Zhaoxi looked up at him.
"What's wrong?" Pei Zhi asked.
"Did you bring your 2b pencil?" Lin Zhaoxi found a topic.
"Bring it."
"Where's the eraser?"
"I brought it too."
"Then... what about the ruler?"
"Although it's not very useful, I also brought it." Pei Zhi answered her patiently.
Lin Zhaoxi sneered, and wanted to ask something, but couldn't say it for a while.
"I brought the pen, the knife, and the admission ticket..." Pei Zhi finished speaking to himself, and finally his eyes fell on her face, "I brought myself too, so, did I forget anything? "
The conversations among the students around him gradually became louder. Lin Zhaoxi looked at Pei Zhi and knew that he was actually asking, "Do you have anything else to ask?"
In Strawberry World, Pei Zhi only won the gold medal in the Olympiad in his sophomore year of high school, which means that all his efforts in his freshman year were in vain.
Lin Zhaoxi then said straightaway: "If you don't take the exam and you don't have a certificate, wouldn't it be troublesome for your aunt to find out about you? Is it worth it to take such a big risk to take the exam and lie to your mother?"
Pei Zhi turned his umbrella a little and looked at her deeply.
Lin Zhaoxi was a little apprehensive: "I'm not saying you're wrong, I just think that people like me, Brother Pei, don't know how to do these things. It's too expensive for you, and in fact, next year will be fine..."
Lin Zhaoxi's voice became softer as she spoke, "Am I a little indecisive again?"
"When are you not indecisive?" Pei Zhi rarely smiled, held an umbrella, and led her to continue walking into the campus.
"In fact, I also thought that when I was in the second year of high school, I might have the same opportunity—as you said, without lying or taking risks, and taking the exam openly."
The rain sprinkled on the umbrella surface, it was very quiet, Pei Zhi said: "But actually there will be no next time."
"What do you mean no next time?"
"All opportunities are only once." Pei Zhi said, "This time is this time, it's different from next time."
Lin Zhaoxi thought for a while: "Hmm... seems to be talking about a philosophical question?"
Pei Zhi stopped in front of the bulletin board: "Your examination room is in 102."
"Ah, oh!" She hurriedly turned out her transparent pencil case, and found that her examination room was right in front of her.
"Then come on."
"Come on!" Lin Zhaoxi nodded vigorously.
—
When the exam was over, the sky cleared up.
Lin Zhaoxi packed up her pencil case, and finally passed on the paper full of drafts.
The mild sunshine in late autumn shone through the gaps in the clouds, the voices in the classroom became louder and louder, and two or three students who knew each other began to answer the questions. But more people walked out of the classroom to stretch in the sun.
Lin Zhaoxi sat in the sun for a while, and began to fantasize about entering the national winter camp, being selected into the big list with Pei Zhi, and finally going abroad to compete together.
It seems that things that were unbelievable before, as long as they are taken step by step, it seems that they are not so difficult.
However, the routine process after the exam is of course not to go back to each house and find each mother.
When she walked out of the classroom, she first looked at the sad-faced Comrade Lu, who pretended to be aggressive, and then was beaten up by Comrade Lu, and then everyone tacitly agreed to go eat something together
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Anqing Tang Xiao Hot Pot Restaurant, at noon.
The name of the hot pot restaurant is very big, but in fact the store is very small, but because it is close to the city's No. 1 Middle School, it is very popular.
On the way from No. 1 Middle School to the hot pot restaurant, Lu Zhihao kept asking Pei Zhi about the answers and solutions to each question. He was very eager to learn and refused to admit defeat.
Lin Zhaoxi occasionally interjected a few words, bouncing up and down, in a very good mood. And when she opened the curtain and saw the girl sitting inside, her good mood reached its peak.
"Xiaomei?"
Shen Mei blushed, and stood up to greet them: "Lu Zhihao said he was afraid that there would be no seats here at noon, so let me take them. How did you do in the exam?"
"Excellent!" Lin Zhaoxi said without hesitation.
There were two order menus on the table, with paper and pens. After they sat down, Pei Zhi turned one of them over and drew a picture for Lu Zhihao.
Lin Zhaoxi took another order and started to order. The two boys discussed "intensively". Shen Mei was stunned for a while, having never seen such a battle.
"Do you eat spicy food?" Lin Zhaoxi asked her.
"Don't eat..."
"Then how about some tomato pot for you, beauty~"
"Okay, okay."
Lin Zhaoxi began to tick off the order menu casually, only to feel that the small shop was getting hotter and hotter.
The number of students coming to eat at noon is increasing, and most of them have just finished attending a nearby cram school and come to have lunch. The students are in twos and threes, very lively.
Lin Zhaoxi handed the menu to the waiter, and went to the front desk to buy Mirinda orange flavored soda.
With her back to the counter, the screwdriver "clicked" to pry off the bottle cap. The door curtain was opened, and several tall boys walked into the hot pot restaurant one after another.
Lin Zhaoxi inserted the straw into the bottle, turned around, and saw a familiar figure from behind.
The enemy's road is narrow, and it's Zhang Yao again.
Standing next to Zhang Yao were 4 boys wearing the same basketball uniform as him. They seemed to have just finished exercising. The five men were tall and tall, and the hot pot restaurant seemed to be packed all at once.
They stopped in unison, and after a while, one of the boys stabbed Zhang Yao, signaling to her that Shen Mei was here.
Zhang Yao came to his senses and greeted, "Shen Mei, what a coincidence."
"Student Xiaomei~" The boys around Zhang Yao also waved to greet Shen Mei.
"Hi, hello..." Shen Mei waved her hands in embarrassment, probably feeling wrong, and then lowered her head after speaking.
The hot pot restaurant's originally hot atmosphere stagnated for a few seconds. The boys around Zhang Yao looked at me and I looked at you. Suddenly, someone suggested: "Since it's such a coincidence, why don't we all sit together and eat?"