What happened later that day was not that important to Lin Zhaoxi.
Lao Lin didn't come at the first time because of the tutoring class on Sunday afternoon, and Pei Zhi left with his mother.
The remaining students went to the hospital for examination first, and then the lawyer brought by Pei's mother negotiated compensation matters.
Probably because what happened to Pei Zhi was a little crueler than ordinary people imagined, and the follow-up matters were handled surprisingly smoothly.
None of the parents of the students who were injured by Pei Zhi asked for any compensation. Zhang Yao's father apologized to all of them by touching his son's head.
When everyone was about to leave, Lao Lin still hadn't arrived.
Lu Zhihao was very depressed all the time, and he was the last one to leave.
Lin Zhaoxi sent him to the gate of the police station, and saw Comrade Lu's eyes were red, and his round and clear eyes were wide open, as if he was trying to hold back something with all his strength.
The clouds in the sky lowered again, and the rich light gray approached the eyebrows and eyes. She looked at the small flower bed in front of the police station and asked the police uncle, "Can I have a few words with my classmate over there?"
After the police uncle nodded in agreement, Lin Zhaoxi put his hands on Lao Lu's shoulders and led him to the flower bed.
She sat down and took some money out of her pocket: "Go to the opposite side and buy two pieces of crushed ice."
Holding the money, Lu Zhihao still stared at her with red eyes, and finally said, "You already knew it, why didn't you tell me!"
Lin Zhaoxi did not answer his question, but looked at the canteen across the street and said, "Cross the road carefully."
Lu Zhihao had no choice but to turn his head and cross the road.
The boy's back is heavy and his mood is very wrong.
Lin Zhaoxi really wanted to go back to Strawberry World and ask Pei Zhi, how did you persuade Lu Zhihao back then
She thought for a while, but there was no good solution, but Lu Zhihao had already returned with the crushed ice.
"The boss said there was only one left." Lu Zhihao said.
The yellow leaves are falling by the roadside, and the branches are empty.
Lin Zhaoxi snapped off the last piece of crushed ice with a "click", put half in her mouth, and handed the other half to Lu Zhihao.
Lu Zhihao couldn't accept it.
Lin Zhaoxi: "Have some cold drinks and calm down."
I don't know how this sentence ignited Lu Zhihao, the boy was extremely painful: "Pei Zhi is doing this to help me!"
"Um?"
"He didn't want to go to class at all, he went to protect me! I'm useless!"
The weather was already very cold, and after breaking the cold drink, his hands hurt from the cold. Lu Zhihao's parents stood far away and did not come to disturb them.
"You said you don't regret it." Lin Zhaoxi said plainly.
"I didn't say that. If Pei Zhi has to pay so much, I shouldn't be with Xiaomei, let alone mess with Zhang Yao!" Lu Zhihao hammered his head heavily, "I'm not worth it, I'm not worth it at all It’s all my fault for paying such a high price.”
Lin Zhaoxi sighed, and rubbed Lu Zhihao's head vigorously: "I thought about it for a long time, and you seem to be right. If you were wrong, why would Brother Pei help you
"I!"
Lin Zhaoxi sipped a cold drink, and said slowly: "Old Lin said it before, but I didn't quite understand it at the time. We have always needed Brother Pei very much, but in fact he also needs us very much."
Lin Zhaoxi remembered that this morning, Pei Zhi was still telling her that this time was this time and there would be no next time.
Thinking about it now, Pei Zhi still understands better than each of them.
"Not only me, but also you, and many others, including Mathematics. He also needs all these, so he will come to the Mathematics Olympiad class again in order to stay with us for a while."
"If it wasn't for what happened today, Pei Zhi wouldn't have been discovered at all!"
"Then have you ever thought that Mr. Pei is so calm, did he really not think about what the result would be before he took action today?"
"He knew what would happen, but Shen Mei and I..." Lu Zhihao blamed himself very much, "I shouldn't have proposed to have dinner together."
"Actually, that's not the case." Lin Zhaoxi bent her eyes and looked into the distance, recalling the scenes that happened not long ago.
Pei Zhi didn't seem to regret it from the beginning to the end, even after his mother appeared, after he knelt down, all he had was relief.
She thought for a long time, and finally became a little relieved: "He is probably really too tired. He is also a human being, and he is only 16 years old. He also needs an outlet."
"You can't say that about Pei Zhi, he is acting bravely, you can't say he is venting his emotions."
"He's not venting his emotions." Lin Zhaoxi said, "He probably just suddenly wants to protest this fucking world."
Lu Zhihao also fell silent.
The popsicle water flowed all over his hands, and he finally seemed to understand something, so he took a deep breath.
"Can we help Brother Pei? What should we do?"
"I don't know." Lin Zhaoxi thought for a while and said, "We probably have to trust him."
"Didn't you say that you didn't say it!" Lu Zhihao shouted.
"Be respectful to me. Generally speaking, when elder brother is under house arrest, you have to follow my lead." Lin Zhaoxi said in a very soft voice.
Lu Zhihao sobbed: "It sounds strange when you say that."
"What's strange?"
"You're not with Pei Zhi, I know." Lu Zhihao said with certainty.
Seeing that his mood had stabilized, Lin Zhaoxi smiled faintly: "Huh?"
"Pei Zhi likes you, and you like Pei Zhi, but you are not together, I know."
"what are you saying?"
"I said you were not together."
"The previous sentence."
"Pei Zhi likes you?"
"Say it again."
"Pei Zhi likes you."
Lin Zhaoxi raised his head, and Lao Lin was pushing his bicycle and standing across the road.
Vehicles pass by, yellow leaves fall.
Against the smoky gray background, Lao Lin waved at her.
Lin Zhaoxi rubbed her eye sockets: "Yes."
—
Lu Zhihao was taken away by his parents, and Lao Lin handled things quickly and neatly.
After signing, he took her away directly.
Lin Zhaoxi didn't speak from the beginning to the end, and Lao Lin knew what happened, so he didn't express his opinion.
When the father and daughter walked out of the police station, it was already dark.
Lao Lin kicked up the bicycle stand, and finally said: "I'm promising, I'll fight~"
It was almost a very happy tone, with admiration and praise, Lao Lin sincerely felt that she would be very promising in fighting.
During the evening rush hour, the car lights were dim, illuminating the hazy autumn rainy evening. Lin Zhaoxi touched her bag, only to remember that the umbrella had been left in the hot pot restaurant.
She stood silently without speaking.
Lao Lin pushed the cart a few steps and looked back at her: "What's wrong?"
Lin Zhaoxi sniffed, and was about to speak, when Lao Lin said, "Are you going to cry directly, or do you have to follow the procedure and tell Dad what happened first, and then cry while whimpering?"
Originally, Lin Zhaoxi's choice was b, but after Lao Lin finished speaking, she walked over, hugged Lao Lin, put her head on Lao Lin's shoulder, and burst into tears.
Lao Lin was really taken aback.
Many, many emotions accumulated in my chest can no longer be suppressed.
Even when she was splashed with hot soup at a hot pot restaurant, or kneeled down when she saw Pei, or even when she learned that Lao Lin had Alzheimer's, she was never so afraid.
For her, if Pei Zhi still walks on the old road of Strawberry World, it may also mean that Lao Lin's car accident is doomed to be inevitable.
Although she knew that these were two different worlds, everything in reality had already happened, so it was useless for her to panic here.
But she knew better that the man who panicked because of her crying was her father.
Knowing what is going to happen in the future, but being unable to stop it, the sense of powerlessness is terribly frightening.
She cried for a long time clutching Lao Lin's coat of rough cloth, her nose and half of her face were flushed.
Lao Lin murmured a lot and tried many ways to coax her. He could hear the rumble of vehicles passing by on the street and Comrade Lao Lin's voice teasing her.
Lin Zhaoxi cried for a long time, and finally calmed down.
"Xiaoliangshan's beef noodles are not good." She looked up at Lao Lin's messy hair and said.
Lao Lin froze for a moment, then patted her on the back: "Then what do you want to eat?"
“Barry's BBQ Buffet.”
"The lion opened his mouth?!"
Lin Zhaoxi choked, and was about to cry again.
Lao Lin hurriedly said: "Let's go!"
—
On the way to the barbecue shop, Lao Lin bought her ointment for burns.
The pharmacist ordered a light diet, which fell into Lao Lin's arms.
With a big wave of his hand, he took advantage of the opportunity to cancel the barbecue, and went to the vegetable market to buy a catty of beef, saying that he would cook Cordyceps beef porridge for her to nourish her brain.
No. 284, Zhuanzhu Lane.
There was a small fire in the yard, and hot porridge was gurgling on the coal stove. Only a few plants around are still green, so it looks bare.
Lin Zhaoxi sat on the stone bench and slowly told Lao Lin what happened in the police station.
The rain will not fall, and the air will be humid.
From the beginning to the end, Lao Lin kept his back to her, busy at the base of the wall.
"It would be great if you were here." Finally, Lin Zhaoxi said silently, "I really don't know what to do."
"It's useless if I'm here." Lao Lin was very calm, "We talked about it."
"with who?"
"Of course it's Pei Zhi's mother."
Lin Zhaoxi looked at Lao Lin's back: "Then?"
"There is no way to communicate." Lao Lin straightened up, returned to the stone table, grabbed a few balls, and walked to the flower bed.
"Can't convince his mother? What did Pei Zhi say?"
"Can't communicate, how can we talk about persuasion?" Lao Lin put the ball into the soil, it was a few tulip bulbs, "If possible, I would like to adopt Pei Zhi, oh, let Pei Zhi marry here."
"Dad, is this the time to joke?"
"Then what should I say, let you marry Pei Zhi?"
Lin Zhaoxi couldn't take it anymore.
She didn't know anything about what happened to Pei Zhi during the summer vacation, so she couldn't do anything.
And now, she already knew what would happen in the future, but she still seemed powerless.
Fatalism can put people in a mood where no matter how hard you try, nothing will change.
Lao Lin was still busy by the flower bed, burying tulip bulbs in the soil one by one.
He planted tulips last year, saying that they were planted in autumn and bloomed in spring, which had a good meaning, but it still ended in failure.
Lin Zhaoxi was a little sad. She stared at Lao Lin's movements for a while, then jumped up and shouted, "Plant deep in the soil, shallow in potted plants, the depth of your digging is wrong."
"Nonsense, it's obvious that the soil is shallow and the pot is deep. This is scientific logic." Lao Lin shouted.
"The soil is deep, and the potted plants are shallow!" Lin Zhaoxi shouted.
Lao Lin put down the shovel and walked into the house, "Did I really remember wrong?"
He started to rummage through the boxes in the house, Lin Zhaoxi sat on the stone bench, changed direction, and looked at Lao Lin.
"Are you running into a bottleneck?" she asked.
"Why did you say that?" Lao Lin shouted.
"When people encounter bottlenecks, they will find other things to change their minds, plant flowers or something?"
"Student Lin Zhaoxi, what misunderstandings do you have about yourself? You are not enough to change your mind for your father, you need to rely on planting flowers?" Lao Lin straightened up, held up a "Tulip Planting Guide" and said happily, "I found it."
Lao Lin sat down in front of her with a book in his hand, and started flipping through the pages.
"Are you implying that I'm a troublemaker?" Lin Zhaoxi asked.
In the night, Lao Lin looked at her carefully: "Since when have you been troublesome?"
"If I'm a troublemaker, why did you give up your studies for me?" Lin Zhaoxi asked.
"When will I give up for you..." Lao Lin jumped up suddenly when he said this, "Did you steal Dad's things?"
Lin Zhaoxi was stunned.
She had seen Lao Lin's letter in the photo album in Strawberry World, but this is Cheese World, the episode where she cried out for Lao Lin to give up her life for her never happened, so is that letter still there
"What is peeking? I'm looking at it openly." Lin Zhaoxi panicked.
After she finished shouting, she rushed into the study, looking for the photo album where Lao Lin had turned over the gardening book just now.
On the penultimate floor of the bookcase, next to the iron box, where the photo album is placed, the yellow leather photo album is still there.
The style is an old model more than ten years ago, and the photos after opening are not the same as in memory.
Her heart was beating extremely fast, and on the next page, a letter fell from the album.
Sure enough, it's still inside.
Lin Zhaoxi picked up the letter, ran out of the house, and slapped it on the stone slab in front of Lao Lin.
"Chu is such a good school, you were admitted, why didn't you go, and said it wasn't because of me!"
Lao Lin slightly raised his head and looked at her with gentle eyes.
The courtyard lamp shone on the stone tabletop, giving it a gray luster.
Lin Zhaoxi lowered her head and saw the printed envelope with red letters on a white background.
It was a printed envelope in Chu's standard format, complete with the school badge and address,
The recipient is the English address of Lin Zhaosheng of Yongchuan University, which was typed out with a standard dot matrix printer.
It seems that in Strawberry World, the letter written by the professor to Lao Lin was not received in the envelope.
Lin Zhaoxi pulled out the letter paper strangely, and there was a line—congratulation.
The signature is the dean's signature.
This was the admission letter that Elder Lin received back then, not the letter she had seen.
It seems that something has become different.