The bell rang for the end of class, and Ma Pingping collected her papers and left.
Although she didn't look happy, Lin Chaoxi thought, there was nothing she could do about it. When their results came out, she would only be even more unhappy.
Lin Chaoxi sat back in her original seat and pushed her deskmate, trying to wake him up.
Pei Zhi was already packing his schoolbag. It was time to leave school, and the remaining students in the class were also packing their own things, preparing to leave.
Lin Chaoxi kept shouting for a while before the boy sitting next to him was finally woken up. He rubbed his eyes and automatically picked up his schoolbag to leave.
Looking at the boy's back as he walked away, Lin Zhaoxi asked, "Are you still going to play games?"
The boy stopped walking, forced his eyes open, and looked back at her impatiently.
Lin Chaoxi had always believed that she and this "sleepyhead" classmate got along well because they never bothered each other. Now that she had called him so suddenly, it seemed like she was meddling in other people's business.
Lin Chaoxi hurriedly explained: "I want to go to the Internet cafe, can you take me there?"
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"Where are we going?"
On the way home from school, Huajuan picked his ears and asked in disbelief.
"Internet cafe." Lin Chaoxi broke the Wangwang ice cream and gave him half.
"Middle school students can't go to Internet cafes." Huajuan looked at the lavender grape-flavored popsicle and shook his head, "Too much pigment."
Lin Chaoxi turned around in mid-air and handed the cold drink to Pei Zhi respectfully: "Brother Pei, please."
Pei Zhi didn't mind and took it and ate it. Lin Chaoxi was very pleased.
"We can't go to ordinary Internet cafes, but we have 'Brother Sleeping God' to lead us." Lin Chaoxi pointed to his deskmate who was leading the way in front.
The boy was tall and thin, with a schoolbag slung across his body. He ignored everyone and walked away on his own.
"You just finished your exam, don't you want to study anymore?" Comrade Lao Lu pulled her over, looked at the figure leading the way, and advised her worriedly, "Don't play games with classmates who are not good at studying, you will get addicted."
"I want to go to the Internet cafe to study."
"ah?"
"The 21st century is the age of information technology. If you don't know how to play games... no, how can you not use the Internet to learn?"
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The Naimao Internet Cafe is a little distance away from their junior high school, but very close to Zhuanzhu Lane.
The Internet cafe is not big, with only two rooms. It is dimly lit and filled with smoke, with dozens of computers. When I walked in, the smell of braised beef noodles hit me.
With their sleepy classmate leading the way, the Internet cafe owner did not check their ID cards but directly opened 5 machines for them.
Lin Chaoxi looked deeply at the owner of the Internet cafe, then walked through the array of machines with his classmate Sleepy God and headed to the corner of the Internet cafe.
The five of them sat down in front of a row of machines.
Hua Juan was disgusted with the environment here. Lu Zhihao was determined not to touch the computer and took out his homework to start working. Pei Zhi, as always, followed suit, supported himself with one hand, and started browsing the web. His profile was simple and handsome. But it was always a bit impolite to look at other people's screens...
Lin Chaoxi turned around and clicked on the "e" icon on the desktop browser and entered a few keywords.
The page expansion speed in this era cannot be compared with that in later times, but it is sufficient.
She began to filter the search terms, clicking on some entries that talked about advanced mathematics learning methods, and continued her unfinished preparation for the postgraduate entrance examination before coming to Cheese World.
Although she had extra time, she couldn't guarantee that she could go back suddenly at any time. Therefore, while relearning junior high and high school mathematics to consolidate her basics, she thought that she couldn't relax her preparation for the postgraduate entrance examination.
But if she went to Lao Lin now and told him that she wanted to learn advanced mathematics, it would seem too ambitious for a junior high school student, so she decided to use the Internet to study on her own for a while, and then go to Lao Lin when the time was right.
While thinking and browsing the web, at a certain moment, Lin Chaoxi looked at the cashier of the Internet cafe again.
"Come on, come on, come on, why are you surfing the Internet at such a young age?" The Internet cafe owner waved his hand to collect the two elementary school students in front of the cashier.
"We have money."
"It doesn't matter if you have money. Go back and study hard. Looking at the computer at such a young age will damage your eyes."
The boss spoke sternly, and the elementary school students started chattering and arguing with him.
Lin Chaoxi couldn't help but look at the students standing in a row. He felt that the boss' age standard seemed a little strange...
But looking at her boss's current appearance, she couldn't help but fall into memories.
In fact, she has always had a deep impression of the Naimao Internet Cafe, but not because she had come here to surf the Internet when she was in junior high school, but because in her memory, this place would be burned down by a fire on New Year's Day next year.
The fire happened on New Year's Eve. She and Lao Lin were out for a walk at the time. Fire sirens rang in the distance. Lao Lin and she followed the noise and found that the fire had been put out. The fire was not serious. Not only did it not affect the two shops next door, but no one was injured. However, all the computers in the Internet cafe were scrapped and the inside was in a mess.
She didn't remember many things, but she clearly remembered that night when the Internet cafe owner, who always seemed very amiable, squatted at the door of the store and cried loudly.
The weather was already very cold, and the water vapor from the middle-aged man's crying spread in the night sky. His daughter patted her father on the back and comforted him, saying "It's good that he's okay", "You can buy more if you run out of things"...
She also remembered that the arsonists were caught at the fire scene that night. They were elementary school students, and when the police educated them, they stiffened their necks and refused to admit their mistakes.
It had been a long time and Lin Chaoxi had long forgotten the faces of those elementary school students, so he was not sure whether they were the two people who were arguing with the boss now.
Moreover, the arson took place on January 1, which is more than three months ago. If it was really these two children, there seems to be no need for them to wait so long before taking revenge.
Unable to win over the stubborn Internet cafe owner, the two elementary school students left in shame.
The Internet cafe owner sat down again and continued to greet other customers in a friendly manner, but he was so sad when the fire burned the place down.
"When there is a chance, I should remind him," Lin Chaoxi made a decision secretly.
When she thought of this, she suddenly felt a strange pair of eyes staring at her.
She turned her head nervously, only to see Brother Sleepyhead sitting still in his chair, staring blankly at her screen, a little dazed.
"What's wrong?" Lin Chaoxi asked.
"Are you really here to study?"
This may be the first complete conversation they have had as classmates.
"Yes." Lin Zhaoxi smiled. "Online learning is efficient and convenient. If you want to work in the game industry in the future, you must know how to program. Do you want to learn online by yourself first?"
Hearing this, Brother Sleepy looked at her as if she were a mental patient, shook his head in disgust, turned his head away, continued playing games, and ignored her.
Lu Zhihao had just finished a homework and happened to have some free time, so he turned around and looked at her screen.
"Are you really here to study?" Comrade Lao Lu asked again.
"Yes, do you want me to teach you how to look up materials related to the junior high school mathematics league?" Lin Zhaoxi smiled at Lu Zhihao and felt like an old witch bewitching a young man.
"It's not like I can't type!" Lu Zhihao said firmly.
"Okay, okay." Lin Zhaoxi smiled and nodded, not trying to save face for the little boy. But in fact, among them, Lu Zhihao was deeply influenced by his mother and regarded computers as a scourge. In computer classes, he never messed around except doing what the teacher assigned him, so his computer skills were... very... limited...
To save his face, Lu Zhihao bent over to turn on his computer, then opened the browser and began to tap the keyboard with two index fingers. He slowly typed a line of questions into the search bar, but the results were not ideal.
Lin Chaoxi propped up his head and found that he was searching for a multiple-choice question from their digital selection exam today.
"I chose C." Lin Chaoxi said.
Lu Zhihao's eyes widened: "I chose D."
After saying that, they looked at Pei Zhi at the same time: "Don't say anything yet."
"Why don't you try erasing the specific numbers and conjunctions and only searching for a few keywords?" Lin Chaoxi instructed Lu Zhihao.
Lu Zhihao did as he was told, and indeed a series of similar questions appeared on the webpage.
He clicked on a question and started the calculation again according to the solution presented on the web page.
At a certain point, Comrade Lao Lu suddenly held his head and howled: "I calculated wrongly, there is another situation I didn't consider!!!"
A group of bad boys in the Internet cafe cast vicious glances at me.
Lin Chaoxi quickly held Lu Zhihao down and touched his head to comfort him: "It's okay, it's okay, it's just a multiple-choice question."
"I'm even worse than you in this multiple-choice question!"
"What do you mean by 'better than you'..."
"It's just... I got all the multiple-choice questions wrong. What if I can't pass the school?"
"If you are so worried, why don't you check with Brother Pei?"
Pei Zhi's calm gaze swept over, and he and Lu Zhihao looked at each other, and then they both said in unison: "Forget it."
"The results will be out tomorrow anyway, and if you find out you made a mistake you'll be upset all night." Pei Zhi looked at her and added, "You too."
Lin Zhaoxi was about to say that I was not like that, but thinking back to when she was a child, she would still pull Pei Zhi to talk in frustration...
Hearing Pei Zhi's words, Huajuan, who was chatting on QQ, also took the time to glance over and said, "Choose C? Then I was wrong too. If I had known, I wouldn't have done it myself. I would have believed that my intuition would have led to the right choice."
Lin Zhaoxi: “…”
Hua Juan still found it unbelievable and continued to confirm with Pei Zhi: "This question is very difficult. Did she really get it right?"
Pei Zhi nodded.
"Not bad. Lao Lu and I were waiting downstairs for you to finish the exam. He also said that Brother Xi and Brother Pei didn't hand in their papers early, and they are not as good as before."
Lu Zhihao blushed: "That's not what I meant!
Lin Chaoxi was very honest: "Because I haven't learned much in the past three years, so my progress is very slow. I hope I can be more down-to-earth and improve my accuracy."
Huajuan smacked his lips, turned back to look at the QQ chat, and after a while he slowly said, "Are you mocking Lao Lu?"
Lin Zhaoxi: “…”
At this point, the QQ notification sound on Huajuan's computer started to sound wildly.
After he clicked on it, his face changed. He clacked on the keyboard for a while, then closed the dialog box and even logged out of QQ, looking panicked.
"What's wrong?" Lu Zhihao asked.
"Those bastards from Yongchuan Middle School asked us if we have time tomorrow?" Huajuan looked frightened.
"No!!!" Lu Zhihao said quickly.
"I've already replied to them. We have make-up classes at school tomorrow, so we don't have time!!"
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