Lin Zhaoxi has been thinking about what she would do if she were Lao Lin.
She may bring her daughter to see Pei Zhi, but she will definitely not easily decide to stay and spend the most painful time in her life with that boy.
She didn't understand why Lao Lin could make a decision so easily, as if living in Yongchuan for a week and keeping her from going to school was very easy.
Lao Lin took her to book a guest house casually.
The location is between Yongchuan University and Grace Hospital, Lin Zhaoxi suspected that Lao Lin had lived in this guest house. It is deep in a narrow alley and looks old.
The room is painted with green walls one meter high, gray terrazzo floor tiles, the bed is also made of wood, and there are even enamel teapots and crystal ashtrays from that era. Fortunately, the hostel is very clean. Lao Lin asked for a family room, which has two rooms and a computer connected to the Internet.
Lin Zhaoxi put down her schoolbag on the coffee table, only to realize that Lao Lin really decided to take her to live in Yongchuan for a few days.
Sure enough, all the plans were messed up, so what about her program
"Aren't we going back?" Lin Zhaoxi turned her head, "Where's your thesis, isn't it a report?"
Lao Lin took out a bunch of keys from his pocket, pointed to the pendant on it and said, "Don't you know there is something called a USB flash drive?"
"What about my class?"
"Why are your grades so good? Isn't it just because you want to skip classes, can't you?"
Lao Lin imitated her tone, vividly, Lin Zhaoxi was so choked that he couldn't speak, and finally he could only say: "But I didn't bring any clothes."
"It doesn't matter, anyway, someone wants it."
Lin Zhaoxi: "..."
Lao Lin defeated her, turned on the computer leisurely, sat down on the chair, and inserted the USB flash drive.
She had no choice but to pick up the electric kettle to boil water, and inadvertently saw the back of Lao Lin sitting in front of the desk, but she couldn't feel the relief after bickering with Lao Lin as usual.
Lao Lin seemed to be downloading some software, and suddenly turned around and said, "Don't think too much, there are still many details to be revised in the paper. I report to Lao Zeng's every day, and it is convenient to live here."
Lao Lin felt her emotions and began to comfort her.
At this moment, Lao Lin stood up, picked up the coat hanging on the back of the chair, and said, "Let's go~"
"Where are you going?"
"Buying clothes for my youngest daughter and medicine along the way," he said.
—
When visiting the night market with Lao Lin, Lin Zhaoxi got a rough idea of the geographical situation nearby.
There are three Internet cafes nearby, not far from Sanwei University, one of which looks very high-end, with a 1000m broadband high-speed connection to the Internet.
The remaining two are relatively small, but they seem to accept minors surfing the Internet.
She thought as she walked, first of all, she had to re-collect the traffic data in the Yongchuan area.
Sanwei University has road information and reference books, which are very complete, but a large amount of traffic data can only be entrusted to others.
Then repeat the previous process again...
She tried not to think about the difficulty, but how many days and nights she spent sorting out the data, setting parameters and modifying bugs to complete the program.
She and Lao Lin were walking in the night market, the lights were dim.
She told herself that Lao Lin had made the best decision for her.
Then she should try again.
After returning to the guest house, the first thing she did was to call Chen Zhu.
The phone rang many times before it was picked up. Chen Zhu should have fallen asleep and was woken up by her from his sleep.
Standing in the corridor of the guest house, Lin Zhaoxi briefly stated her plan.
"You won't be back in Yongchuan this week, let me pack all the programs for you?" Chen Zhu's voice suddenly sobered, "Am I dreaming?"
"I just had a sudden idea." Lin Zhaoxi tried her best to finish her sentence at once, otherwise she would feel that the matter was unreasonable, "Also please tell your uncle that the location of my request has changed, and I still want Yongchuan City traffic data."
"I'm definitely not awake yet." Chen Zhu said.
"No bro, you're sober." The hand holding the phone was quickly frozen, and Lin Zhaoxi switched hands and said, "I want to redo something with a smaller scope but more accurate predictions, and the location is in Yongchuan."
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, and Chen Zhu finally said, "This isn't cool at all."
Lin Zhaoxi didn't know what he guessed. After a while, she said in a very soft voice, "Please help me."
There was another long silence on the other end of the phone, but Chen Zhu was still a straightforward person: "Think about the documents and programs you want, try to write a complete list, and I will pack it and send it to you."
"Thanks."
The phone hangs up.
Lin Zhaoxi was lying on the railing in the corridor of the guest house, not feeling sleepy at all.
If possible, she would like to spend the money and go to the Internet cafe all night. But in fact, she has nothing in her hands now.
She stood in the corridor with no one around, and the moonlight was covered by clouds, making her feel cold.
—
Lao Lin had already given her enough pocket money.
Early the next morning, Lao Lin went to Sanwei University, and Lin Zhaoxi went directly to the small Internet cafe to buy two of the best machines, the speed of the network and the hardware were very good.
Chen Zhu sorted out all the documents for her overnight, packaged and sent them all.
In the morning, Internet cafes are full of the smell of smoke and instant noodles after an overnight stay, and the air in the closed space is dull in winter.
Lin Zhaoxi sat in front of the computer in the Internet cafe, took a deep breath, opened the program, and dragged the scroll bar.
Every line of code on the page was typed by herself. She originally thought that the problem of modifying the program could be overcome no matter how difficult it was.
But when she saw every line of code that she typed with her own hands, she still felt like standing in front of exquisite ruins.
Although the buildings are still there, they are all useless efforts, and she will soon demolish them by herself.
She was silent for a while in front of the computer.
The young man who played all night yelled "fuck it".
Lin Zhaoxi rubbed her face and forced herself to cheer up.
She reread the code she wrote and began to sort out and revise her ideas.
First, she called up the map of Yongchuan area.
The Yongchuan area seems to be shrinking in actual forecast area, but it is a megacity in itself. Its road data, traffic volume, and car accident situations are far from being comparable.
In the traffic accident prediction in Anning City, she set several possible starting points for Lao Lin, and the whole procedure was carried out based on this.
But in Yongchuan, Lao Lin's starting point has changed. Because of the city change, she doesn't have much original data to refer to, so it will be more difficult to predict Lao Lin's path of action.
This is only the smallest difficulty among them. The greater difficulty is that she doesn't even have the basic traffic flow data of Yongchuan.
Then Chen Zhu's father's phone call came.
Without so much foreshadowing before, Lao Chen only said four words: "I can't do it."
Lin Zhaoxi was choked by the smoke from the Internet cafe and coughed several times: "Uncle, you are in the same system, and there is no one you know, can you trust me?"
"To be honest, Yongchuan is too far away from our home. The relationship between big cities is more complicated than you think. If you want Yongchuan's traffic data, I really can't do it."
"Maybe you have friends who are in the Yongchuan transportation system, even if you ask your friends to find out, is that okay?"
Old Chen was almost her greatest hope, so she asked persistently.
"Chaoxi, why are you so persistent, what you want is beyond what you should do at your age."
"Could you please try again and ask for me?" She continued to insist.
"Why do you want something from Yongchuan all of a sudden?" Finally, Chen Zhu's father couldn't bear it.
Lin Zhaoxi clenched the phone tightly, thought for a while, and replied, "If you need an explanation, I can say that it's because I suddenly felt that An Ning's prediction could be done easily, so now I want to challenge Yongchuan."
She said this, and then took a deep breath: "But if, you want me to be honest, all I can say is, 'There is no reason'."
Like his son, Chen Zhu's father also remained silent for a long time.
"Okay, let me ask you again." Chen Zhu's father said.
—
After hanging up the phone, Lin Zhaoxi continued to look through her address book.
If this is the 22-year-old girl in Strawberry World, she has quite a lot of college classmates and friends in Yongchuan, so she can have the cheek to ask the friends she knows to go to the transportation department for help.
But now she is only 16 years old, and there are only a few people she knows.
Lin Zhaoxi squeezed the phone tightly and dialed Jie Ran's number.
The same process applies to all adult requests.
She was asked to explain why, she was suggested that her ideas were too exaggerated, and finally asked what she wanted to do, and she could only plead.
Xie Ran was relatively easy-going and agreed to ask her questions.
When it was Zhang Shuping's turn, it was not so easy to pass.
She was scolded first by covering her head and face, and then she was asked what she wanted to do.
It had been a long time since she had the feeling of being taught a lesson by the teacher, but she could only bite the bullet and kept saying "I'm sorry for you".
Finally before hanging up the phone, he said, "I don't know anyone, but I can ask you a little bit."
She rummaged through the phone's address book, and finally saw a name.
For some reason, she suddenly felt a lot of bitterness in her heart, but she also felt happy.
She rubbed the phone screen, pressed the name, and finally put the microphone to her ear.
After a long waiting tone, the phone was finally connected.
"Xiaomeng, can I trouble you, do me a favor."