In Room 303 of the Red Star Welfare Home, it was late at night, and the pink dacron curtains swayed in the wind.
The lights in the entire welfare home have been turned off. The auntie in charge of rounds has checked every room and is preparing to go to bed.
The moment the door closed, a rustling sound came from the quiet little room. Lin Chaoxi lifted the quilt, sat up and bent down. She pulled up the quilt to cover herself completely, creating a tent above her head.
The flashlight was immediately lit, and the entire small space was filled with warm yellow light. After a few breaths, the air inside became unbearably hot.
She bought the flashlight with the money she saved from buying milk every day, and inside the quilt was a thick stack of Olympiad mathematics textbooks and exercise books that she had dug out.
Recalling the bet with the dean's mother, she felt her blood boiling, but that's life. Suddenly something happens and the comfortable life becomes shattered. Of course, she has never had a comfortable life since she came here.
So what are the disadvantages of going back to the past? First, the lights went out earlier, and second, computers were not yet popular. These two points seriously affected her review progress. There were only three days from the time she made the bet to the exam on Saturday. It was difficult to finish a primary school Olympiad math book in three days, but she had six large Olympiad math textbooks from the first grade to the sixth grade in primary school.
Hundreds of lessons, thousands of formulas, she was born again, but that didn't mean that a 22-year-old could be absolutely sure of knowing all the knowledge. Having a weakness meant that if she couldn't do this content in the exam, she would definitely not be able to enter the summer camp.
But I have made no harsh words. Except for full marks, no score is insured.
Want to get full marks? The only way is to study hard late into the night. There is no other shortcut.
so……
She put her head under the quilt, took a deep breath of the fresh air outside, held the pencil, crawled back under the quilt, and continued working on the question.
No wonder she was nervous.
In her previous life (that is, in Strawberry World), she failed to get into the summer camp. She couldn't remember whether she got a problem wrong or was unsure about the final question, but she was actually quite good at math. She was still unsure about some questions at that time, which indirectly shows how difficult the Jinbei Summer Camp was.
And if her memory was correct, Pei Zhi went, but in the end he did not represent Anning City in the competition. No one knows what went wrong.
No matter what, the mathematics education in primary schools in Anning is not as bad as Lao Lin said. For example, there is Pei Zhi, and there is also Zhang Liang, who is now more popular than Pei Zhi.
Therefore, during those few days, she kept reading whenever she had the chance. She would read the Mathematical Olympiad textbooks during Chinese, English and math classes. All the teachers criticized her, but Lu Zhihao's mother, Ms. Xu, the class teacher, was an expert in protecting her. All the teachers rejected her complaints, so on the last day before the exam, she simply spread out the Mathematical Olympiad textbooks on the table to read.
Because the knowledge points of the elementary school Olympiad mathematics were scattered, some of the content was actually taught in the third grade, and the fourth and fifth grades went deeper, so she compiled a knowledge point table, summarizing all the knowledge points with internal connections, and carried it with her, taking a look at it when she had time to recall it. Later, Xiao Lu secretly copied a copy and gave her a bag of popping candy as a reward.
For the first time, Lin Chaoxi felt that knowledge is power (ling).
…
It was not until after class on Friday evening that Lin Chaoxi had time to go to see her father. In fact, it was not because she had finished her review that she had time. She could never finish reading a book. She just suddenly felt anxious before the exam and wanted to talk to her father.
The weather was getting hotter and hotter. Lao Lin, wearing a white old man's sweatshirt with a small hole in the back, was locking the door of the park's utility room.
Lin Chaoxi jumped out from behind the wall, patted him on the back, and asked with a smile: "You haven't been here for a few days. Did you make a good breakfast?"
Lao Lin took a half step back and said in surprise: "You are here. I thought you were not coming."
"Do you miss me?" Lin Chaoxi asked.
"How is that possible? Where did you get this misunderstanding?" Old Lin's face showed a look of "go away" and he waved at her.
The weather was unusually hot and muggy, the dragonflies were flying low, and there were few people in the children's playground not far away. Lin Zhaoxi looked at his toes, and the lines he had prepared could not be said for a moment.
"Where have you been these days?" Lao Lin closed the door and left, but his light voice of inquiry was carried in the wind.
Lin Chaoxi was a little happy, and immediately recovered his spirits. He asked Lao Lin in a very flattering way: "Master, I have to take the summer camp selection exam tomorrow!"
"oh."
"Do you have any secrets to teach me?"
Lao Lin turned his head and looked at her with drooping eyelids. Just when Lin Chaoxi thought that Lao Lin was going to scold her again, he snapped his fingers and said, "Follow me."
Lin Chaoxi was so happy that she followed her father happily with her schoolbag on her back.
Lao Lin returned to their guard room. Another uncle was on duty today.
"What secret?" Lin Chaoxi waved and greeted the uncle, then excitedly walked over to ask Lao Lin.
Old Lin didn't say anything. He walked to the table with his hands behind his back and squatted down. Lin Chaoxi already had a bad feeling.
Old Lin lifted the wooden table slightly, pulled out a book from the corner, dusted it off, then turned around mysteriously and handed it to her: "This is a secret handed down from our ancestors, passed down to girls, not boys."
Lin Chaoxi was stunned, looked down, and almost vomited.
It was a white-covered book called “Quick Mental Arithmetic Method”, the same one that the King of Mental Arithmetic was selling at the stall in the park, priced at RMB 100.
Meanwhile, another uncle in the guard room smiled wickedly and lifted up a piece of floral cloth, revealing a thick stack of books on quick mental arithmetic.
"What is this?" Lin Chaoxi was stunned.
"We paid him secretly that day!" The security guard waved his hand and pointed at Lao Lin behind him.
"I know nothing!" Lao Lin took a half step back in shock, showing his acting prowess.
Lin Chaoxi looked at the white paper, then looked at the dark-skinned Old Lin, and was speechless.
You are indeed my biological father, that’s all she could think.
…
Because he had something on his mind, Lin Chaoxi didn't stay there for long and went back to the welfare home.
The schoolbag contained the "secret book" given by Lao Lin. No matter what, it was a gift from her father before the exam. Lin Chaoxi took out the "Quick Success Method" and placed it on the upper left corner of the table, hoping that Lao Lin's power of learning would possess her.
Before the lights were turned off, she took out her Olympiad mathematics textbook and prepared to go over the key and difficult points she had highlighted.
Before I knew it, it was dark again. The buildings outside the window were not as tall as they appear later, and I could still vaguely see the stars.
Lin Chaoxi yawned, his eyes fell on the "secret book" placed on the corner of the table. The evening breeze blew open a corner of the white paper. There seemed to be pencil writing in the book. Lin Chaoxi was stunned, dragged the secret book given by Lao Lin in front of him, and opened it.
There is a very clichéd sentence written on the first page - "Read a book a hundred times and its meaning will become clear", which is very consistent with the cheat book setting.
Lin Chaoxi was very curious and continued to flip through the pages. His original curiosity was replaced by shock.
In that 100-page manual, almost every page had Lao Lin's annotations. Sometimes he corrected mistakes, sometimes he adjusted the order, sometimes he made comments, and Lao Lin would also write a series of questions in the corner, densely packed and detailing every detail.
At the end of the book, Lao Lin also gave her a table, which probably reorganized the order of teaching mental arithmetic methods in the book. It might be arranged from easy to difficult, or it might be arranged in another order. Lin Chaoxi couldn't understand it very well.
But as expected, Lao Lin is still Lao Lin.
Lin Chaoxi flipped through her own Mathematical Olympiad knowledge table and compared it with the previous one. Similar format, similar method, this was taught to her by Old Lin. There was some cigarette ash in the last corner of the page, she reached out and brushed it away, then looked out the window, as if she could see Old Lin smoking and casually writing these words.
After reading Lao Lin's comments, Lin Chaoxi realized that the book "The King of Mental Arithmetic" was actually quite different from the formal mental arithmetic books introduced later. In fact, what she said to the King of Mental Arithmetic was not entirely correct.
She couldn't explain how she felt.
On the one hand, she felt ashamed of her lack of solidity, but on the other hand, she felt that her father was too nice, casually giving such a thing to a strange loli who called him "master" and flattered him.
Maybe it was because I was lonely, or maybe it was because I just flipped through this mess that the mental arithmetic king cobbled together, and I couldn't help but correct the mistakes. After correcting the mistakes, I felt that this shit was not well written, so I sorted it out again. In the end, it was basically equivalent to rewriting it.
He made the revisions too carefully and meticulously, as if he had just picked something to do, and since it happened to be his area of expertise, he couldn't help but do it casually.
But in the final analysis, it's still loneliness.
Lin Chaoxi could clearly feel the loneliness of losing the direction of life, doing nothing all day, and feeling that everything he did was dispensable from the book revised by Lao Lin.
She closed the book, feeling warm and sad.
Once upon a time, Lao Lin also took a similar book, hoping that she could practice mental arithmetic well. The specific reason was to train her thinking or simply because Lao Lin thought algorithms were interesting and hoped that she would like them too. Lin Chaoxi could no longer remember.
It seems that both the former and current Lao Lin seem to expect her to study mathematics well, but behind this "study mathematics well" is actually Lao Lin's own pursuit and love for mathematics.
Casual and involuntary.
Previously, she also believed that it was wrong for parents to focus their unfinished pursuits on their children, after all, everyone's life is independent of each other.
But when she grew up and thought back to these little details, she suddenly realized that her thoughts at the time were not entirely correct. After all, there are not so many things in the world that are black and white, absolutely right or absolutely wrong.
Parents do this to their children, and children do the same to their parents.
So after thinking for a long time, she suddenly realized that it seemed like there was still a chance to start over?
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