The weather was hot in the morning, and the sun finally released its power, scorching the whole world.
Lin Zhaoxi knelt on the bed and packed her schoolbag for a while, but she didn't need to bring anything for the exam itself. So in the end, she stuffed three bags of raccoon crispy noodles in her schoolbag, and went downstairs contentedly.
Pei Zhi sat in his own exclusive seat. For more than ten days, he always sat on the left side of the sofa by the door, and he always got up earlier than all of them, making it very doubtful about his sleep time.
Lin Zhaoxi glanced at the living room and found that the children were almost there.
Most of them gathered around the Lego stand, studying a yellow Lego tractor.
The plastic building blocks are superimposed on each other from bottom to top to form a very complete and delicate model. The sun was warm and bright, and the young Anakin was sitting in the cab of the tractor, and it seemed that he had changed his career quite well.
She stared at the tractor, and the more she looked at it, the more familiar it became, as if Pei Zhi had been obsessed with the model tractor for a while and couldn't help herself... Thinking of this, she couldn't help but look at the little boy on the sofa.
Did you take it
Pei Zhi raised his index finger and quietly gave her a "shh",
The LEGO tractor certainly has no special magic to relieve stress, it's just a very ordinary toy. But even if Pei Zhidu had to get up early to build Lego to decompress because he couldn't sleep, then the situation of other children would definitely not be better.
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"Affected by the subtropical high pressure, the highest temperature in our city will still reach about 37c, and the daytime will be sunny. Please pay attention to heatstroke prevention and cooling..."
Elementary school, middle school, high school group...
All the students waiting for the summer camp mid-term exam to start have already stood outside the exam room. The sound of the weather broadcast from somewhere, together with the sound of cicadas singing and reciting mathematical formulas, made the atmosphere before the exam extremely tense.
"This time the paper must be difficult, I think I will definitely leave."
"My wrong question book is left in the dormitory. There is a question that I haven't figured out. I want to go back and get it."
"Shut up, don't you bother!"
A roar erupted from the elder child, and the room was suddenly dead silent.
Lu Zhihao was sweating profusely, and kept on loosening the collar of his t-shirt. He hiccupped in fright, and his face turned even paler.
Many children were silent, trying to stay away from the cranky high school students.
Only Pei Zhi slowly unfolded the exercise book he brought casually and handed it over as if nothing happened.
"Fan fan." His voice sounded, breaking the dull atmosphere.
The sun was particularly dazzling, Lin Zhaoxi also reacted, took out a napkin and handed it to Lu Zhihao, and then distributed it to other people around him, like handing out leaflets, stuffing them into people's hands.
"Aren't you nervous?" Lu Zhihao asked after wiping his face.
Lin Zhaoxi and Pei Zhi looked at each other, and before they could speak, Hanajuan hurriedly interrupted them.
"Don't ask, they will definitely say that it is a perfect score anyway, why are you nervous!"
"I... I'm still nervous!" Lin Zhaoxi hurriedly raised her hand.
"Why?" Hanamaki was surprised.
"What if I don't get a perfect score in the exam?"
Before she finished speaking, she was naturally surrounded and beaten by her friends.
—
The noise of fighting came from bottom to top, and when it floated to higher floors, it was not very clear.
Someone is standing by an office window.
"Before my son's college entrance examination, I didn't have the feeling of goosebumps."
The teacher of the high school group looked down at the students who looked like a colony of anxious ants, and said so.
"Because your son was admitted to Baicao University." Another teacher mocked him.
"Don't say that."
He turned around with a smile, and Vice President Zhang just happened to walk into the office with the test paper bag.
All the teachers fell silent immediately, and returned to their seats one after another, pretending to be ready for the exam.
Zhang Shuping sat down, briefly described the examination process, and handed out the test paper bags one by one.
"Maintaining the fairness of the exam is the top priority."
"I hope all the teachers will be strict about the discipline in the examination room."
"Cheating is strictly prohibited."
The last three sentences, after finishing speaking, the noisy noise of children came from downstairs. He clearly heard Lin Zhaoxi's voice, the little girl was laughing and begging for mercy.
"These kids..."
"I'm not nervous at all!"
The teachers were a little annoyed when they took the test paper bags from their own classes.
"Let's end the meeting," he said.
The scorching sun outside the window, the laughter downstairs gradually dissipated, and the teachers in the office had almost left.
"What's the matter?" Zhang Shuping raised his head.
Xie Ran stood by the table, pressing the test paper bag, very close to him, there were only the two of them in the office.
Xie Ran asked: "Are you still insisting? If the average score of the 12 children in our class can't get the first place, they will be eliminated?"
"certainly."
"After the mid-term exam, I want to resign."
"Yes." Zhang Shuping said.
—
"But to exceed the average score of Zhang Liang's group, we have never surpassed it once."
Before entering the examination room, I didn't know whether it was Lu Zhihao or An Beibei. Anyway, one of them brought the topic back to the question of failing the first group and being eliminated.
Lin Zhaoxi just tore open a bag of crispy noodles and almost spit out: "Why are you talking about Zhang Liang again, can you change the subject and tell me why I got another xx!"
"They told me to take it apart!" Hanamaki snatched the card and sighed, wishing to take the crispy noodles apart again. .
Lin Zhaoxi stared at him and did not let go, but her ears followed the children's discussions.
"You want to stay so much, is Zhang Shuping more attractive than our teacher Lin?" After listening for a while, she asked very dissatisfied.
"No, it seems to be because..." Amber paused.
"Because of what?"
"Disgraceful?"
"That's right, it's too embarrassing to be eliminated like this!" Lu Zhihao said.
"Then work hard on the exam!" Lin Zhaoxi said.
Huajuan took out a large piece of crispy noodles, crunched and chewed, and said, "How about this, if our grades are still not as good as Zhang Liang's in the end, give him a good beating before we leave?"
There was still a lot of chicken soup in her heart, but she was blocked by these little bastards and couldn't say anything. Lin Zhaoxi almost suspected that their nervousness was all faking.
The topic quickly progressed to a discussion about why going to Zhang Shuping's room in the middle of the night was scary, and the children's faces were full of happiness. They were obviously nervous and afraid one moment, but wished to fail the exam on purpose in the next moment, so that they could do bad things.
They chatted so excitedly that when Lin Zhaoxi put the pencil and ruler eraser on the desk, she realized that she had unknowingly entered the examination room, and everyone didn't seem to cheer each other up? In short, the process of opening the exam is not the same as imagined.
Familiar classrooms, familiar lake wind, electric fans whirring overhead, all anxiety and irritability are isolated.
The 45 people in the junior high group were divided into two examination rooms. There was no member of the same group in the examination room where she was, but Zhang Liang and she happened to sit in the same diagonal position of the examination room.
When she was looking at Zhang Liang, Zhang Liang was also looking at her.
The shady little boy sat in the shadow of the back door without provoking him. Although he tried to put on a cold look that you were all doomed, the tight corners of his mouth still betrayed him.
Even Zhang Liang was nervous.
Lin Zhaoxi noticed this, she pointed to the test paper on the podium, and then pointed to herself, making a gesture of 100 points, then smiled at Zhang Liang, and turned her head.
Strangely, at that moment, Lin Zhaoxi neither felt that Zhang Liang was hateful, nor did she seem to hate Zhang Shuping anymore, as if she had no emotion.
The invigilator divided the test papers on the podium, a stack of test papers, a stack of answer sheets, and a light yellow draft paper.
The lake wind that passed through the hall turned up the test papers one by one, and two of them floated to the ground. There was a low breath-taking exclamation in the classroom. The teacher hurriedly pressed those on the table and lowered his head to pick them up.
Just like this time and time again, the clock went to 9:00 and 5 minutes short, and the bell rang, and it was time to send the papers.
The surroundings are very quiet, like an empty universe, or a forest covered with snow in winter. The test papers were passed down one after another, flying to every desk like snowflakes.
She lowered her head and tried the pencil. The tip of the pen was not broken, and the eraser was still there. There was nothing wrong with it. Then she spread out the test paper.
10 questions, 6 to choose and 4 to fill in the blanks, advance to the cup standard test paper.
This time Zhang Shuping didn't do any weird exam procedures or curious question types, they were normal Mathematical Olympiad questions, and Lin Zhaoxi was a little surprised after reading the questions one by one.
The distribution of difficulty is even, the test points are clear, and students with different ability levels can be distinguished very well. The simple questions can almost know the answer at a glance, but she is not sure about the most difficult question for a while.
This is a very solid examination paper, Lin Zhaoxi secretly commented.
When the exam bell rang, twenty children raised their pencils together, and soon there was a rustling sound in the class, as if spring silkworms were eating mulberry leaves.
Lin Zhaoxi also picked up the pen at the same time, instead of looking at the last test question, she started from the beginning.
Mathematics itself, is still mathematics.
Like a clear stream in the winter forest, there are nimble fish swimming in the stream, and she is like a shrewd hunter, waiting for the opportunity to spear out the harpoon.
d/a/c/b…
There were no obstacles in the first 9 questions, but when it came to the tenth question, her pen stopped.
9 running teams, each team has 3 runners, each team is numbered with numbers 1-9, and distinguished by 9 colors. But at the finish line, their position and graphic structure change as follows...
Ask for the graphic structure formed by the athletes at the end point.
At first glance, this question is a question of logical reasoning, but it involves sequences, so it is definitely not that simple.
This is the deciding question.
She is very aware of this.
After looking at it for a while, she vaguely saw the answer when she was preparing the quiz question bank in college, but she couldn't recall it at all now, and it would be false to say that she didn't feel upset for a few seconds.
But it is useless to recall the answers at this time. Previously, she could rely on the advantages of adult experience, but in the face of this real test of ability and intelligence, any previous advantages no longer exist. She is on the same starting line as all the students. Give it your all, there are no shortcuts.
Lin Zhaoxi focused entirely on the topic and picked up the pen again. Recalling the thinking problem that Lao Lin had emphasized many times, she wrote down her ideas on paper step by step, and then started to try.
If one kind of exploration is not enough, then switch to another one. The whole manuscript paper is full, and she starts to make a draft after the test paper. Time passed by, and she was so immersed in it that she didn't even hear the teacher's voice reminding the end of the exam that there were still 15 minutes left.
But hitting a wall, hitting a wall, still hitting a wall, like a valley across the valley, she went to the last direction to solve the problem, and found that she couldn't find any correct thinking except for brute force.
The exam will be over in 10 minutes. But going this way, she may only try a very small solution in 10 minutes, and she needs a little patience, as well as luck.
—Anything in this world can happen to anyone, no big deal.
Lin Zhaoxi took a deep breath, thought of this sentence for no reason, and began to write.
—
When she walked out of the examination room, Lin Zhaoxi still felt uncertain.
The scorching heat is coming, the sun is shining brightly, and the gaps between the leaves are full of dazzling sunlight like diamonds.
Surrounded by students' voices, Lin Zhaoxi couldn't hear what they were saying very clearly, but felt that it was like a pleasant or unpleasant piece of music, and the tonality was unclear, but it was very clear anyway.
She looked at the dark pencil marks on the edge of her palm, and before she got out of the last test question, when she stepped down the steps, someone patted her on the shoulder.
Pei Zhizheng was putting on his peaked cap and looking at her.
Lin Zhaoxi hurriedly asked, "The answer to the last question?"
"There is only one correct solution." Pei Zhi said.
Lin Zhaoxi thought for a while, and suddenly let go of her hanging heart. The two of them looked at each other, smiled, and nodded.
Not only her, every student who walked out of the examination room had a similar sense of trance. Many days of high-pressure study and life, and the feeling of trying my best not to be eliminated, suddenly disappeared at the moment after the exam.
I can't tell what it's like, obviously there will be so many exams in their unfinished life, but this time it seems to be very different.
It seems that I have never worked so hard, and I have never wanted to lose so much.
Unknowingly, the 12 of them patted each other on the shoulder to greet each other and got together again.
Lao Lin put his hands in his pockets and stood outside the woods in the distance. He was leaning against a tree with wind chime-like flowers, and dense and thick white flowers were adorned in bunches, which made people look down on him.
Of course, it is also possible that the sun is too bright, but Lin Zhaoxi knows that it is her father in her sight.
She jumped up and waved to him. Lao Lin didn't raise his hand, but just looked at her from afar. Like doing nothing, but also like waiting for something.
Probably waiting for her to finish and go to the laboratory to get the report together.
Lin Zhaoxi took two steps towards Lao Lin, when someone behind her stopped her.
"Back to the classroom." Lu Zhihao shouted.
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It is the practice of summer camp to release the results immediately after the exam. The more important the test, the faster the result is, which is also a rule.
The 45 students returned to the classroom collectively, and half of them left after about half an hour.
They only stayed here for ten days, but probably the experience of these ten days was so unforgettable that even the "Zhang Shuping big villain" written on the desk exuded an aura of nostalgia.
The big lake was still outside the window, and in just ten days, the wild ducks on the lake didn't grow fat.
The children exchanged answers in a low voice at first, but as they talked, they felt that the grades would come out soon, and it was boring to talk about it.
Lin Zhaoxi took out the last pack of crispy noodles and threw it to Hanamaki.
Hanamaki pressed the pocket: "Which card do you still lack?"
"Gao Qiu."
"Fuck, I haven't opened this card yet, it doesn't exist at all."
"I... our school sells 300 pieces of high-quality goods!"
After hearing the set card, An Beibei came over excitedly and said. 300 yuan in that era was not a small amount, enough to show how rare the non-existent Gaoqiu card was.
"Brother Juan, can you please, please don't waste my last pack of raccoons." Lin Zhaoxi lay down on the table to grab it.
Hanajuan hurriedly took the crispy noodles under the table, not letting her touch it: "I'll try it, try it."
"If we can really get Gao Lian, maybe we can really get the first place in the exam..." Lu Zhihao muttered beside him.
"Yeah?"
"Pump fast.
The children's eyes lit up immediately, and they almost said goodbye to her pack of little bears. No matter what time and space, superstition activities are popular.
Hanamaki held up the crispy noodles, pinched the mouth of the bag with both hands, and just as it was about to be opened, a hand popped out and pulled the crispy noodles away from underneath.
With a stabbing sound, Pei Zhi directly tore open the mouth of the packaging bag.
When Xie Ran walked into the classroom, the whole junior high group classroom burst into cheers like a tsunami.
"Wow! It's really Gao Qi!"
"300 yuan, 300 yuan!"
"Show me, show me!"
Almost all the boys were gathered around the back door, where there was a crowd of people, with countless little hands stretched out, as if they were grabbing something.
Xie Ran stood on the podium for a long time, but no one paid any attention to him. He looked down at the test paper and the thin report card, feeling a little skeptical about life.
Finally he cleared his throat and asked, "What baby?"
At first, it was still, and all the children seemed to be under the spell of immobilization, and then someone slowly turned around to see him, and I don't know who looked at him, "Mr. Xie!"
With a clatter, like a broken bird's nest, the children finally realized that they all flew back to their seats.
More than ten days ago, when reporting the results of the summer camp's first exam, they would chatter about this and that, but this time after everyone sat back to their seats, no one said a word.
The classroom was silent, and the wild ducks by the lake came, very lonely and loud.
"The results are out." Xie Ran said.
The 45 small faces were tightly packed, and Xie Ran was also a little nervous for a moment. He really wanted to say something, but found that any words to ease the atmosphere were inappropriate.
"Then I will report the results directly." He said.
There was still no response from the audience.
Xie Ran lowered his head, held the report card, and half-raised it. The report card that had just been filled in was wet with wet ink. When the wind blew, the pages were gently folded.
Xie Ran calmed down and read: "The first group is 4 people. Zhang Liang, 90 points; Wang Feng, 80; Lu Ming, 80; Xu Zhao, 90, with an average score of 85 in the mid-term exam."
The classroom was still quiet. The results of this group were already very high, but the short celebration after each result came out was also stopped. The children stared with bated breath, waiting for the results of the next group.
Xie Ran looked at the group of boys and girls in the corner, lowered his head, and read: "An Beibei, 80; Hanamaki, 70; Chen Chengcheng, 90; Lu Zhihao, 90..."
As the grades were read out one after another, the classroom became more and more quiet. Lin Zhaoxi quickly calculated the average score, like riding a roller coaster, her mood fluctuated up and down.
Xie Ran reported very slowly.
After the 10th place, their total score is 840, with an average score of 84, which is 1 point away from the average score of the first group.
If the last two are at 90 then they will be tied with the first group unless…
Unless she and Pei Zhi got full marks at the same time.
Not only them, but the rest of the class is waiting.
At this moment, Xie Ran stopped.
The young college student finally no longer looked like he used to. It seemed that a certain part of him had changed since many days ago.
Maybe even Xie Ran didn't know it, but serious eyes can never deceive anyone.
Xie Ran put down the paper in his hand, and said: "For so many days, although I have been your teacher, I am actually just a college student, and I am also in a period of confusion and at a loss in my life. What is mathematics and why do you need it?" Learning it, I suddenly don't quite understand..."
He seemed to be muttering to himself, and he seemed to be speaking to them: "But after teaching you for so many days, I seem to see those things that I used to be familiar with and then forgot, but in fact, they are very, very beautiful. I can't tell the truth. What is it, but to sum it up, I think it is the talent, hard work, and determination you have shown in the process of learning mathematics... ”
"It may sound nasty to say it, but I hope you applaud yourselves for talent and perseverance, for occasional flashes of wisdom and hard work..."
At first, the children didn't understand what he was talking about, and they felt at a loss, but gradually, they probably recalled their daily study, the days and nights when they struggled with difficulties, and the ecstasy when they solved the problem.
The applause of the whole class gradually sounded, getting louder and louder, like a torrential rain pouring down, but it will boil when it touches the body.
Amid the applause, Lin Zhaoxi heard Xie Ran say: "Lin Zhaoxi, 100 points; Pei Zhi, 100 points. The average score of the second group is 86.7 points."
When hearing the results, probably because the lake was still hot, Lin Zhaoxi felt that it was unreal.
But someone was pushing her, someone was patting her, and someone was whistling at her. This noisy feeling made her and the world seem to be separated by a thin film.
She looked down at Gao Qiuka on the table, the card was covered with reflective film, so the face and most of the clothes could not be seen clearly.
She touched the card, probably because of the stimulation of money, she had a real feeling.
She got it right
She did it right!
They won
They won!
Looking up again, the diaphragm disappeared, and the surrounding sounds were completely filled.
The children were completely excited, and some even slapped the table in celebration, crackling and booming. Even if they were not members of their group, they seemed to be infected by this excitement and punched them.
On the podium, Xie Ran looked very pleased, but also somewhat regretful.
The classroom gradually became quiet.
Zhang Liang had been lowering his head and clenched his fists tightly. The moment he looked up and saw Xie Ran's expression, he suddenly seemed to grasp some hope, and raised his hand and shouted: "Teacher, what is the average score of their first 10 exams?" ?”
"78 points." Xie Ran said calmly
"What about us?"
"83.5."
That day, what Zhang Shuping said while standing on the podium echoed again—30% of the usual score, 70% of the test score on July 15, and finally the group average score based on the total score for elimination.
Zhang Liang slapped the table and stood up, pointed at them and said, yelling loudly on purpose, pretending to be very confident: "Your total score is only 84.1, we have 84.55, you lose, and we are number one!"
After Zhang Liang finished shouting, the group of them had already started to celebrate loudly.
They yelled twice, the whole classroom was very quiet, and the children looked at them questioningly, and they stopped awkwardly.
Lin Zhaoxi did the calculations, Zhang Liang's calculations were indeed correct, they lost 0.5 points in the total score.
"So what?" she asked very quietly.
The boy, who was as proud as a peacock, moved his eyes and shrank obviously.
"The total score means we are higher." Zhang Liang said.
"So what!" This is Hanamaki.
"Isn't it because you finally replaced someone with better grades into the group?" This is the little girl in the sixth group.
"We are taller than you in the end!" This is An Beibei.
"We will be better than you in the future!"
"We will be better than you!"
The children talked to each other, their faces were very red but their eyes were bright, and they were determined not to admit defeat.
Yes, they have worked hard, and the result is good, and they can shout at those who like or dislike them with a clear conscience!
What more did Zhang Liang say
At this time, Chen Chengcheng's voice sounded.
"Even if we are eliminated, we will continue to learn." He said.
This is a very common sentence. The little boy who has always been like seaweed raised his head and said to the people who used to bully him.
The surroundings are still noisy, but compared with the noise just now, it seems very real.
After hard work, there will be good results. It is probably something in novels or hot-blooded comics. The real world is always good or bad, but it may not bring you the most desired ending.
Is this the end
Lin Zhaoxi was very uncertain.
Countless episodes flashed back in her mind, she was very sober, what she knew most was what Zhang Shuping said, because they would always give up, sooner or later.
But they didn't make excuses, and they didn't give up. They already won, but the goddamn difference of less than 0.5 points...
Lin Zhaoxi clenched her fists, was she about to leave? The poor students overtook the top students. It is honorable enough to leave like this, but is that all it is
Everyone has done their best.
But has she really done her best
Lin Zhaoxi looked up at the ceiling, at a place higher than the ceiling.
Finally, she held down the desk and stood up!
Xie Ran was stunned, and the whole class looked at her with incomprehensible eyes.
Lin Zhaoxi rushed out of the classroom without hesitation, turned left and went up the stairs, and started running wildly.
The wind blew past her ears, and she felt that her blood was burning all over her body.
The most difficult thing is this kind of moment, all the omens are telling you, it’s okay, leave, give up, pointless persistence is meaningless, even you don’t know what you are still insisting on.
But she was still climbing, and the endless stairs before her eyes were not right, she still felt sorry, she still felt sorry for everyone.
It's not what she wants, and she doesn't want to give up just yet.
Standing in front of the familiar ocher red wooden door, Lin Zhaoxi had difficulty breathing, but she still raised her heavy arm and knocked hard three times.
"Please come in."
Pushing open the door, the dazzling sunlight suddenly spread out. The middle-aged principal was sitting in front of the French window, and he could only see his outline clearly, deep and dark, majestic and majestic.
"What's the matter?" Zhang Shuping asked.
Lin Zhaoxi was panting heavily, she knew that Zhang Shuping had scolded her, and she even looked down on this stalker-like effort in her bones.
But she still walked up to him step by step.
She was close enough to Zhang Shuping, but very far away, she looked at him, stared into his deep and joyless eyes.
It was also at that moment that she realized that this was not a giant dragon, but that sitting mountain.
But even if it is a mountain, people can still move it before they die. Even if you die, there are still children and grandchildren who can work hard.
As people are to people, so are people to mathematics.
All the efforts of the human world are to keep moving that mountain away.
Lin Zhaoxi said: "Our mid-term exam results are higher than Zhang Liang's group."
"I know."
"But the total score is less than 0.5 points."
"I know too."
"But you're still wrong."
"Where did I go wrong?"
"We work hard enough and are good enough. What you measure by grades is only a small part of us, and there are many, many things that you cannot measure, which determine that we are qualified to stay!"
Zhang Shuping looked at her with searching and meaningful stares in his eyes. Lin Zhaoxi didn't know if it was a mockery.
"So, even if you hate me so much, you still come upstairs to beg me?"
"I'm not begging you, but if we go like this, don't we give up like you said? Anyway, in order to prove that I won't give up, I will try again."
"I see." Zhang Shuping looked at him and stood up. He stuffed all the things he had arranged on the desk just now into his bag, "So, you win."
—
When she went downstairs, Lin Zhaoxi was still confused.
Stepping down the last few steps, he saw Comrade Lao Lin's dark face.
Father was holding a bright ice cube in his hand. The ice cream looked soft, but it still had a white and delicious sweetness.
Lin Zhaoxi took the third step and took the first step, stepped down the last step, rushed up, and hugged Lao Lin tightly.
"Wait, wait, the ice cream is dripping down." Lao Lin struggled.
Lin Zhaoxi pulled him and forced him to be at eye level with her. She took a bite of the ice brick and said, "Master..."
"Call Dad."
Lin Zhaoxi was already dazed enough, when she heard these words, she was stunned for several seconds, her ears seemed to be stuffed with wet cotton, and her voice lost its shape.
"Did you go to the laboratory secretly?"
"I didn't go, but there is still something in this world called the phone."
Lao Lin's face was dark, except for the red corners of his eyes, he could hardly see any emotion.
"Why are you not excited at all?" Lin Zhaoxi asked.
Snow-white ice cream flowed on her hand. She tried hard to distinguish the emotion from her father's face, but she found that it should be happiness, an unreal feeling like waking up from a dream.
"There will be oil bottles in the future, why get excited?"
Lin Zhaoxi was dumbfounded, thinking that the waking up and joy must be her hallucinations, but the next moment, Lao Lin pressed the back of her head hard and held her tightly in his arms.
It wasn't until the ice cream turned into cream and dripped onto her hand little by little, turning his entire shoulder white, that she heard Lao Lin whisper, "I'm sorry."
What are you sorry for
"I'll take good care of you."
Lao Lin didn't answer, just said so.
It is still the scorching summer wind, hot and dry, with the determination to melt everything, making the skin warm and the blood scalding.
The chirping of cicadas fills the space of a summer noon.
Lin Zhaoxi wrapped her hands around her father's shoulders and rubbed against his forehead.
Don't be sorry, Old Lin.
I have received your love and care for many years, and I should take care of you in the future.
And this world, your daughter, she really needs you.
She is me and she is not me.
She may still be a child, and I, may have grown up.