"Why didn't you knock on the door just now?" Lin Zhaoxi asked while walking on the stairs, nibbling on a piece of bread.
She moved her eyes to her side, and the little boy who was slightly taller than her turned his head slightly, raised his other hand, and pointed at her eyes.
His eyelashes are long and slender, covering his eyes as peaceful as still water. Although you rarely see such gazes from children's eyes, you feel that such gazes are completely normal in this child's eyes.
Because that's Pei Zhi.
Lin Zhaoxi looked at him, dazed for a while, wiped her eyes, the back of her hand was wet, she was immediately ashamed.
Pei Zhi is saying, you must be crying, so I can't go in.
"No..." As soon as she finished saying these two words, she choked up, which seemed like the best proof.
She really wanted to ask how you knew I was crying, but she definitely couldn't ask such a question. After thinking for a long time, she could only say: "We are a water sign, and our inner drama is so rich."
Pei Zhi: "..."
Lin Zhaoxi: "What constellation are you?"
Pei Zhi didn't answer.
Lin Zhaoxi felt that her level of chatting was similar to that of Lao Lin, but when she opened the door and saw Pei Zhixiao sitting cross-legged on the ground, it would be a lie to say that she was not shocked.
But the shock was soon replaced by a warm sense of camaraderie.
She didn't know what Pei Zhi was thinking while sitting behind the door, but it didn't matter what she was thinking, and company was the best comfort.
She looked at the stainless steel dinner plate in Pei Zhi's hand, and asked, "You've already been to the cafeteria... did you get up early?" Lin Zhaoxi tentatively asked, "Still up?"
"Didn't sleep."
"Eh?"
After a while, Pei Zhicai said, "Last night, I heard what Vice President Zhang said."
Lin Zhaoxi rubbed her eyes again, Pei Zhi's words obviously answered her first question.
—Why don't you knock on the door.
"I was wondering why you didn't refute him, obviously what you said to Lu Zhihao was a perfect refutation."
"Because, what he said is right." Lin Zhaoxi choked again, this kind of physical reaction after crying was completely uncontrollable, "Just like now, I don't like him, I'm very sad, I really want to leave, It’s okay to even want everyone to leave together. But if I leave, am I just making excuses and giving up like he said?”
While they were talking, they had already walked out of the small dormitory building. The entire base was bathed in the bright morning sun, and every leaf seemed to be glowing.
"It's too difficult." Lin Zhaoxi sniffed, "It's easy when you talk about Lu Zhihao, but it's terribly difficult to do it yourself. The excuse package is so perfect, it's more attractive than Ultraman, and it's fragrant and sweet, so I think Vice-principal Zhang is really right, why is this person so annoying.” Lin Zhaoxi took a bite of the bread and said, “But I hate myself even more. .”
"Well, what then?" Pei Zhi asked.
"Brother Genius, shouldn't this be the time for you to pour me chicken soup?" Lin Zhaoxi turned her head, "Tell me that I'm on the edge of a dead end, let me stop thinking so much, just leave, it's not a big deal..."
"If you want to hear it, I can talk about it." Pei Zhi had already started to repeat, "Lin Zhaoxi, don't think so much..."
"Don't, don't." She interrupted him hastily, making a gesture of begging you.
Pei Zhi closed his mouth in a timely manner and asked, "Then what are you going to do next?"
"I don't know either." Lin Zhaoxi said, "The most difficult thing is to always make the right choice, but this time I decided, whatever is difficult, what to do!"
After she finished speaking, she turned to look at Pei Zhi, with expectant eyes, hoping that the other party would give him some encouragement and a call.
But no.
"I'm a Capricorn." Pei Zhi said something almost completely irrelevant.
Facing the rising sun, Lin Zhaoxi was stunned for a while, then laughed.
Capricorn, never give up until you reach your goal.
So, don't ask.
—
Xie Ran rushed to the gate of the base.
There was a man and a woman standing in front of the guard room, they should be the staff of the orphanage who came to pick up Lin Zhaoxi on the phone.
He looked at them, his running legs stopped suddenly, and he really faced the parents of the students, but Xie Ran couldn't think of what to do for a while.
But it was already here, so he could only bite the bullet and go up to say hello: "Hello, I'm Lin Zhaoxi's head teacher at the summer camp." He said.
"Sanwei University Mathematics Department?" Leaning in front of the guard room, the man who was smoking slightly raised his eyelids to look at him.
"yes… "
"Oh, you sent someone to drive me away yesterday?"
"You left last night?"
Xie Ran instantly understood that this was not a staff member of the orphanage, the teacher Lin Zhaoxi had hired to teach the students in the summer camp, last night, he notified the security guards to take him away, he would never...
"Tell me to get the hell out of the oasis in the middle of the night, don't you want the credits?" the man said after taking a puff on his cigarette.
Xie Ran:? ?
"You... are our school teacher?"
"Oh no." The other party paused and said naturally, "I was just expelled from your school."
Xie Ran looked at the man in the ragged sweatshirt in front of him, and was shocked to the extreme. How shameless it was to say such a line, he couldn't catch it at all.
"Don't say a few words." Fortunately, the lady next to them interrupted them at the right time. She stretched out her hand and said modestly, "Hello, I am the director of the Red Star Welfare Institute, Dang Aiping."
"Hello, President of the Party." Xie Ran shook hands with the other party as if he was saved.
The dean of the party poked his head and pretended to ask: "Where is our Lin Zhaoxi? The school persuaded her to dismiss her, but didn't she send her to the door?"
This sentence is obviously angry.
Xie Ran is very regretful, this man and woman don't look like one. It's annoying.
He suddenly wanted to join the team again and continue to be Vice Principal Zhang's dogleg...
—
Zhang Shuping didn't know what Xie Ran was thinking, let alone the little things that happened around the oasis base.
After he got up today, he jogged for half an hour as usual.
In terms of time, after Pei Zhi finished saying the word "morning", when Lin Zhaoxi opened the gate door with red eyes, he had just sat in the cafeteria and started having breakfast.
Today, he deliberately came down from the teacher's dining area on the second floor of the cafeteria and looked around. There were gaps between the tables and chairs, and the noise of people.
It's hard to imagine how the little girl who was punished by him to work in the cafeteria could make such a big fight in such a few days.
It was only later that he found out that the teacher Lin Zhaoxi had hired had been working in the cafeteria for the past few days, taking time off to teach the children.
He hadn't met each other, so he couldn't judge the level of teaching, but here...
He looked up and looked around the noisy environment, which was obviously not a suitable place for teaching.
Probably because it was too noisy, for a moment, he felt as if he saw Lin Zhaoxi walking between the tables, smiling and clearing away the dishes.
Of course not, she has been expelled from school.
Zhang Shuping's thinking ends here, and a person like him will not be moved by some extra efforts and perseverance.
If you have seen countless children crying and falling down, or students who can only climb to the starting line of others after climbing for a long time, you will also make yourself work hard to maintain this clear understanding.
Otherwise, he would have gone crazy, Zhang Shuping thought mockingly.
He wiped his mouth, drank the last mouthful of porridge, and stood up from his seat.
—
"Are you sure it's here?"
At the door of the office on the 7th floor of the teaching building, Lin Zhaoxi asked Pei Zhi in a low voice.
The wooden door in front of him was closed tightly, and there was no window on the door, so it was impossible to see clearly what was inside.
"Yes, I took the test in this office." Pei Zhi added, "The one with 0 points."
Lin Zhaoxi clasped the door panel behind her back, and retracted her hand again when she heard the latter sentence.
Pei Zhi turned his head slightly and stood beside him, looking very relaxed, as if he didn't understand why she was so hesitant.
Pei Zhi: "Then why don't you go back?"
Lin Zhaoxi shook her head.
She took a deep breath, looked at the ocher-red wooden door in front of her, her brain was blank like a lack of oxygen, but even at this time, she knew, since she came, how could she go back
She summoned up her courage, raised her hand, and knocked three times.
Clang, clang, clang.
After that, there was an unbearable silence. In order to hear the movement inside the door, her face was very close to the door panel, her heartbeat even reached the extreme within a second, and she was so nervous that she couldn't be more nervous.
However, there was no sound from the office, the sound of tables and chairs, footsteps, nothing at all, and the wooden door was pressed against the tip of her nose, tightly closed.
There was a very faint woody smell in the breath, Lin Zhaoxi was a little discouraged, she really wasn't there, right
She took half a step back and put down her hand, but at such a moment—
"What's the matter with you?"
Zhang Shuping's deep and serious voice suddenly sounded, and Lin Zhaoxi turned around abruptly.
The shadow of the staircase more than ten meters away was dim, and the man who was darker than the shadow stood there silently. He held a thermos cup and looked at them.
Like all film and television dramas, the decisive battle must happen in an unexpected moment.
For some reason, Lin Zhaoxi felt that she was really cowardly. When she saw Zhang Shuping, she felt that she should say something, but suddenly forgot the words.
A long wind blows across the corridor, and the lake wind is damp and cold.
Zhang Shuping walked towards her step by step.
He is so firm and unshakable, no matter what she says, the other party will not change his mind.
Just after a moment of hesitation, Zhang Shuping had already walked in front of them.
Lin Zhaoxi looked at the other party, took a step forward, and called out to him: "Vice Principal Zhang."
The middle-aged man stood still by the door, and interrupted her casually: "What are you doing here, no matter what you want to say, I can only tell you that the decision already made will not be changed."
He took out the key from his pocket and was about to open the door. Lin Zhaoxi knew he was serious, so she opened her mouth to say something.
"Didn't you understand?" Zhang Shuping turned his head, "You have already been fired."
"You are really annoying." At that moment, Lin Zhaoxi's mind exploded, and she said bluntly.
Zhang Shuping's hands stopped, his gaze was lowered, and he looked at her silently.
"Before I came here, I always wanted to talk to you, but I really hate you now. Because the starting line may be different, but as long as you try your best, even if you try your best just once, for people like us, it is very, very It's a great thing, but you don't recognize this effort in your bones!"
For some reason, Lin Zhaoxi's decision to discuss it turned into a quarrel, and her eyes turned red.
"Oh, and then?"
Vice-principal Zhang was still very calm, making Lin Zhaoxi feel that he was the black dragon entrenched in the cave, with a huge body and unshakable will.
She tried her best to raise her head, gave up all the established lines, and said seriously: "Anyway, what I say is useless, you will not agree! If this is the case, please give me a chance and let me prove it to you with actions."
Zhang Shuping finally turned around completely, facing her: "What makes you think that if you use all your courage to rush up and swear to me, I will agree with what you said?"
There was disbelief in his tone: "I'm not a patriarch who dotes on you. I would look soft-hearted at a crying little girl who tried her best. Why should I give you a chance to prove it?"
"I'll hold your leg." Lin Chao finally calmed down.
"I will pester you in a way that you must not be able to bear. I will keep crying and yelling in front of you. Even if you throw me out, I will come back." She took a breath, made up her mind completely, tears burst into tears Stop, "Teacher, I know I'm useless, and I don't know any adults who can shake your mind. This is the only thing I can do! But I won't give up, because I can't let you use your me!" Don't think it's the right way to teach my classmates."
Zhang Shuping narrowed his eyes and raised the corners of his mouth coldly, as if he felt that what she said was really interesting.
"I don't agree." He only said four words without hesitation.
The air in the corridor seemed to be evacuated in an instant, but the moment Vice Principal Zhang finished speaking those four words, the bell rang.
The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment, he paused, and then pulled out the phone from his pocket.
It was an old-fashioned promise. He glanced at the yellowed screen, and his expression tightened. He immediately picked up the phone, walked a few steps to the window, and said respectfully, "Professor Zeng?"
The battle was suddenly interrupted, and Vice President Zhang leaned over the window and retreated unilaterally.
The wind brought him another kind of voice, humble and polite, no longer aggressive.
I don't know what kind of coincidence it is, Professor Zeng will call suddenly? While hesitating, Lin Zhaoxi suddenly remembered something.
At night, she and Pei Zhi stood in front of the small white building, talking to the computer in the living room.
—Send an email, there is a computer over there.
— I'll send it.
The voice disappeared, her scalp became numb, and she immediately turned to look for Pei Zhi.
"Why did Professor Zeng call?" she asked, "Did you email him?"
Before Pei Zhi could answer, Zhang Shuping hung up the phone and walked over aggressively.
"Did you email Professor Zeng?" He asked the exact same question.
"Yeah." The little boy still kept his peaceful face,
But Lin Zhaoxi felt that it was not just like that, and she didn't sleep all night
Zhang Shuping: "Professor Zeng said that you sent him two answers and asked him to call me and give your classmate a chance."
"Two copies?" Lin Zhaoxi didn't care about the latter part at all, she only knew that before last night, Pei Zhiqing had tried his best to solve one.
"As you said, if two solutions are solved, he should read it." Pei Zhi said.
"one night?"
"Hope more." Pei Zhi said, "This seems to be the only thing I can do."
Even though the clouds were overcast, the dense clouds suddenly dispersed at this moment, and the sky was bright and clear.
Pei Zhi is still the boy with simple and casual clothes, and he will still become an excellent young man in a few years.
Lin Zhaoxi was completely relieved, she turned her head again, and Zhang Shuping was still standing behind her.
The person she had been unable to defeat all this time suddenly lost her dragon disguise and turned into a very ordinary middle-aged man, yes, what's so scary
"Very good." Zhang Shuping looked at Pei Zhi sincerely.
"So what are you going to prove to me?"
His eyes shifted to Lin Zhaoxi in a blink of an eye.
"I want to prove that you are wrong." She replied, "The elimination system is to select more outstanding students, so I don't think it has anything to do with giving up or not. It mainly depends on the grades. If the method is right, ordinary students will become more outstanding. student, then you are wrong," she said.
Zhang Shuping frowned for a moment, then said slowly, "Zhang Liang."
Lin Zhaoxi's eyes widened, not knowing why.
"It's not better, but the best." Zhang Shuping shook his phone, very simply, "Professor Zeng said he would give you a chance, so now, the chance is like this - the same group elimination system. During the mid-term exam, use what you want The method used is to make the average score of the 12 of you higher than that of Zhang Liang's group, if you can do it, you can stay, otherwise the 12 of you will go together."
He paused, and added: "You can go back and ask your classmates for their opinions."
Lin Zhaoxi hesitated when she heard that, why Zhang Shuping was so difficult, she couldn't answer this question immediately.
At this time, footsteps sounded again at the stairway, and there should be three people coming.
She was still thinking, but someone had already drawn out the tone and answered for her in advance.
"Okay~"