As the days passed, Lin Chaoxi realized more and more clearly that if time was a river, then she was just a stone in it.

She is at a certain point in time, but the river always flows through her.

For example, she no longer understands the latest progress of Lao Lin’s work, but she knows that Lao Lin is moving in a direction that he will not be able to continue in seven years.

Although the river had already flowed past the point where she was, she roughly knew that seven years later, a similar quasi-polynomial algorithm would become the most sensational news in academia that year.

But perfecting many things requires a lot of time and patient exploration, and that's where she can't help much.

But what she is doing now is very similar to this, which requires time and patience.

Chen Zhu's father found her all the traffic data of Anning City over the years.

Some of the information was available on the government website, but the information that Chen's father had asked his friends to find was more detailed. Most of the data needed to be sorted and entered again, and Lin Chaoxi was busy with this in the small garage of Chen Zhu's house all day.

She sorted out data, debugged programs, and dealt with various bugs. In addition, she also needed the weather and traffic conditions in Anning City that day. These could be simulated through data from previous years, but still needed to be judged based on the specific conditions of the day.

If she were to stop Lao Lin from getting into a car accident, there would always need to be someone sitting in front of the computer to summarize all the data and tell her what the final result would be.

She didn't know whether to ask Brother Pei to do this?

If she wanted to find it, how should she start?

Fortunately, there was still some time since Lao Lin’s car accident, so she still had time to think about it carefully.

——

As the overall program becomes more and more perfect, the Math League is approaching.

The person who lives the happiest life is Comrade Lu Zhihao.

He felt that no matter what, it was a great thing that Pei Ge could come back to class and be with them again. It was a blessing in disguise.

Naturally, his underground "teacher-student love" with classmate Shen Mei is still continuing.

During lunch at a training camp, Lin Chaoxi finally met his classmate from seven years ago.

Shen Mei stood in the sun, wearing a pink scarf because the weather had turned cooler. Behind her was the blue sky and white clouds, making her look even more juicy and fresh, making people want to pinch her face.

Lin Chaoxi was stunned until Pei Zhi gently patted her shoulder.

"What's wrong?"

"That little..." Lin Zhaoxi pointed to the tree, and suddenly realized that she shouldn't know Shen Mei, and quickly changed her words, "The little sister is so pretty."

"You like it?"

"Just pure admiration." Lin Chao folded his hands. At this time, Lu Zhihao had already rushed in front of Shen Mei. Lin Chaoxi pretended to be exaggerated, "Oh my God, Lu's girlfriend?"

“Probably.”

"What kind of shit luck does he have? Such a pretty girl, I want to..."

"Don't cheat on your friend's wife." Pei Zhi said.

Lin Zhaoxi: “…”

——

Wang Damin Snack Bar.

Before sitting down, Lin Chaoxi was still lamenting the corresponding situation seven years later. At that time, they seemed to have sat together and eaten like this, but not as close and casual as now.

However, Lin Chaoxi's emotion only lasted for a short time before it was shattered by Lu Zhihao's performance.

As soon as they sat down, Lu Zhihao began to take care of Shen Mei.

He first pulled the stool, then helped to break the chopsticks, and when ordering food, he specifically asked to avoid spicy food. Even more excessive, when the vermicelli soup came, Lu Zhihao even blew the soup cold.

Lin Chaoxi coughed heavily to remind Lu Zhihao to be careful.

Shen Mei felt embarrassed and pulled the bowl of soup over to drink it herself.

"Don't scare Xiaomei." Lu Zhihao warned her.

Pei Zhi broke the chopsticks and handed them over. Lin Zhaoxi took them and poked Lu Zhihao and said, "Don't scare me. How can you be in love like this?"

"You haven't talked about it, so you don't understand."

Lin Chaoxi slammed his chopsticks, the words stuck in his throat, unable to refute.

Shen Mei raised her head in confusion, first looking at her and then at Pei Zhi, and finally at Lu Zhihao with a questioning expression.

"What's wrong?"

"Lin Chaoxi and Pei Zhi, right?" Shen Mei's voice was very soft, but Lin Chaoxi still heard it.

"The two of them?" Lu Zhihao laughed. "We grew up wearing the same pants. We are too familiar with each other. It's impossible."

Lin Zhaoxi stared at Lu Zhihao with eyes wide open: "How is that impossible? I'm telling you, stop looking down on others!"

"Then ask Pei Zhi?" Lu Zhihao raised his eyebrows and looked in Pei Zhi's direction, his expression suddenly changed.

Lin Chaoxi turned around and saw Pei Zhi slowly put down his chopsticks, took out a tissue and gently wiped his hands.

Afterwards, Pei Zhi gently placed his hand on hers, his fingertips lightly clasping her palm, his movements very casual and natural.

His palms were warm, but his fingers were still cold.

Time seemed to stop at that moment, and there was a thin layer of mist on the glass. Lin Zhaoxi's heart was beating very fast. She stared at Pei Zhi's eyes in a daze, but she couldn't tell what was in them at all.

Pei Zhi quickly withdrew his hand and continued eating noodles.

Lin Chaoxi took a while to react, her heart was beating very fast. But when she turned around and saw Lu Zhihao's jaw dropping, she immediately became proud again. Pei Zhi was probably acting with her.

"You just can't bear it psychologically," she said.

"You...are you kidding?" Lu Zhihao said, "Does the master know about this? Didn't he break your legs?"

"Master is very open-minded..." Lin Chaoxi paused, "No, why did you break my legs instead of beating Pei Zhi?"

"How could Master bear to hit Pei Zhi?"

Lin Zhaoxi was speechless. She looked at Pei Zhi and said, "I decided not to tell him the truth."

"That goes without saying." Pei Zhi said.

Lin Chaoxi picked up a piece of noodles and started eating it by himself.

Lu Zhihao's true nature came out, and he couldn't help but start to nag: "You two are in love now, what should we do? Does the master really know? When he gets angry..."

He kept talking, and Lin Chaoxi listened for a while. He couldn't help laughing, so he could only laugh and say, "I was just kidding you!"

The excuse of "cheating you" certainly cannot completely convince Comrade Lao Lu.

On the way back to school from the snack bar, Lu Zhihao held Shen Mei's hand with one hand, but kept nagging them.

Lin Zhaoxi's ears rang when he heard this, and he raised his hands in surrender: "Really not!"

"You are the only one who said no. Pei Zhi has never expressed his opinion."

This means that they are trying to cover up something.

Lin Zhaoxi was so angry that he pulled Pei Zhi over and said, "Tell him!"

"Tell him what?" Pei Zhi asked.

Somehow, seeing Pei Zhi's slow pace, Lin Chaoxi suddenly didn't want to explain to Lu Zhihao. She smiled and teased Pei Zhi: "Since we can't keep it a secret anymore, then tell him when we're going to get the marriage certificate?

"About 25 years old." Pei Zhi said lightly.

“Why 25?”

"If you want to go earlier, I have no objection."

Although he knew it was a joke, Pei Zhi lowered his eyes and didn't speak like a joke.

Lin Chaoxi was suddenly shocked: "No, no need to be early!"

——

It was very strange. Even though they were the ones talking nonsense, Lu Zhihao and Shen Mei blushed.

Lin Chaoxi was very surprised: "Why are you shy?"

As she spoke this, she caught sight of Zhang Yao standing on the opposite side of the street.

Zhang Yao stared at Shen Mei, his eyes finally falling on the girl's and Lu Zhihao's clasped hands.

A bus passed by.

Zhang Yao crossed the street and walked towards them.

When Shen saw a boy crossing the road, he waved and greeted him, seemingly unaware of what had happened between Zhang Yao and Lu Zhihao.

Ten seconds later, Zhang Yao stood in front of them.

Lin Chaoxi noticed that his hands were clenched tightly, as if he was about to punch out at the next moment.

At this moment, Pei Shang stepped forward and gently stood in front of Lu Zhihao and Shen Mei.

Zhang Yao's expression was tense, and even Shen Mei noticed something unusual.

"Zhang Yao?" The girl's sweet voice rang out.

Zhang Yao finally suppressed his anger and said to Shen Mei, "What a coincidence, you came here specially?"

"Yes... let's have lunch." Shen Mei said timidly.

"Okay, I get it. Uncle and aunt said we'll have dinner together tonight, don't forget it."

"Yeah, okay."

Hearing this, Zhang Yao turned around and left without any hesitation.

——

Later, Lin Chaoxi asked Lu Zhihao, when his high school studies were so stressful, was it a bit...ignorant of priorities to secretly have a relationship with Shen Mei before the math league that he valued so much?

Lao Lu had wasted too much time tutoring Shen Mei on her homework and was writing furiously at the time.

He put down his pen and said seriously, "If Xiaomei doesn't become my girlfriend now, it will be too late for someone to snatch her away in the future."

Lin Chaoxi admired the fact that her classmate Lao Lu had a strong sense of crisis, but because she had been single for two lifetimes and had been in secret love for a long time, she could not understand his eagerness.

"I mean, is this the right time? If she likes you and you like him, you'll always be together, right?"

Lu Zhihao was shocked: "Now I know, you are definitely not in love with Pei Zhi."

"Why?"

“Because you don’t understand.”

Old Lu had a look of contemplation like a philosopher, and an expression of meditation like a sage, and he said something that she really couldn't understand.

Lin Zhaoxi thought about it and could only say, "I can't refute it."