Winter vacation is short to begin with, and after the Spring Festival, there is not much time left.
Lin Chaoxi buried her head in writing for the whole day and finished all the Chinese homework at the end, especially the composition. She simply used all her life's fabricated skills to finish all 10 essays on the topic.
During this period, Lu Zhihao and Huajuan came to see her once, of course, to discuss how to "systematically allocate" so that so much winter vacation homework could be "separately" completed.
At that time, Huajuan was stretching her legs on the bed rail. Lin Chaoxi was shocked to see a large stack of blank papers that Huajuan brought. "You didn't go to the training team, so why are there so many questions left unanswered?"
During the winter vacation, Huajuan's figure became noticeably taller. He said as a matter of course, "I'm going to attend art training."
At another crossroads in life, Lin Chaoxi was a little nervous: "So are you going to apply to an art school, or go to Anning High School like us?"
"Of course it's a key high school, my resume must be perfect," said Huajuan.
"Why did you copy my winter vacation homework when you were admitted to a key high school?"
"It's too easy. I don't want to do these questions over and over again. It's meaningless." Comrade Huajuan retracted his legs and ran over to flip through her paper. "You've finished it. Let me copy it. Don't look so heartbroken as if you've lost a few pounds..."
"I will expose you when you become famous!" Lin Zhaoxi threatened.
"It's just right to lose weight." Lao Lin came in with a plate of fruit and said this.
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2.26, reporting day.
This day is the most painful day for all students after the new year. They have to bid farewell to their warm homes and comfortable lives and return to school.
According to the report, the school directly arranged a preliminary test at the beginning of the semester in the afternoon. The test lasted for two consecutive days. Classes officially started on Monday, which meant that the final sprint time for the high school entrance examination had arrived.
In the morning before going to school, Lin Chaoxi strongly asked Lao Lin to steam two eggs for her and also bought fried dough sticks and cakes. This means studying hard, making progress, being happy, and getting 100 points in the exam every day.
"This fried dough stick and egg are perfect. Counting forwards is 100, and counting backwards is 001..." Lin Chaoxi said this to Lao Lin while sitting at the small dining table, meaning: You can't find any fault with it, right?
Lao Lin impatiently took the breakfast she ordered out of the steamer and asked: "The full score for the three subjects of Chinese, math and English in the high school entrance examination is not 120?"
"..." Lin Zhaoxi held his breath for a while, then said reluctantly to the two eggs on the plate, "Numbers represent...good wishes."
"I hope you can see Pei Zhi coming back when you go to class?" asked Lao Lin.
Because of what Old Lin said, Lin Chaoxi felt a little uneasy on the way to school with his schoolbag on his back.
She was too lazy to complain about Lao Lin for "talking about things that are not worth mentioning". During the Spring Festival, she and Pei Zhi spoke on the phone several times, and Pei Zhi never said that he would not come back, which actually made her feel relieved; but on the other hand, Pei Zhi didn't seem to say that he would definitely come back.
When we reached the school gate, a spring breeze blew by.
As the winter approaches, the wind is no longer as cold and harsh as it was in winter.
Many students like her returned to school with their schoolbags on their backs. Seeing so many young boys and girls full of youth, she put aside a lot of her worries.
In fact, whether Pei Zhi comes back or not, it won't change anything. She will still study hard and make progress.
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"Happy New Year."
"Happy New... New Year!"
In the last row of the Grade 9 (Class 13) classroom, Pei, a classmate, raised his hand and greeted her.
Lin Chaoxi responded subconsciously, then froze.
After not seeing each other for a Spring Festival, Pei Zhi seemed to have not gained any weight at all. Apart from the slightly blue eyes that looked like he had not had enough rest, he was no different from them, still a very handsome and sunny young man.
Ah, women always say one thing and mean another.
What do you mean by "can't change anything"? Pei Zhi's coming back at least makes people very happy!
Matt Zheng hadn't come to report yet, so Lin Chaoxi sat down next to Pei Zhi casually and chatted with him.
"When did Brother Pei come back? Did he just get off the plane?"
"No, I came back the day before yesterday."
"Then why do you have dark circles under your eyes?"
"Because you asked me to make up for my winter vacation homework." Pei Zhi said.
Lin Chaoxi was stunned for a moment, thinking that Huajuan was slacking off while Pei Zhi was still working hard on his homework, which seemed a bit cute.
She patted Pei Zhi's shoulder, took out her homework from her schoolbag and walked to the podium: "It's okay, you can do anything quickly anyway."
Pei Zhi: “…”
The classroom was noisy. Li Shu, the head teacher, was collecting homework in front of the podium, and the group leaders were helping to check whether the homework had been completed, to avoid situations where someone had quietly put in homework but had not actually done it.
Lin Chaoxi hid behind the team leader and tried to cover her eyes secretly, but before she could reach out her hand, the team leader's cold voice rang out: "I stopped playing such childish games when I was three years old."
Lin Chaoxi was shocked. The kids who had received the age-reducing money became more confident and started to act wildly and coolly.
But the team leader's anger did not stop there, or rather, it was not directed at her.
The team leader looked up indifferently and said to the girl who was handing in her homework: "Bao Xiaomeng, you didn't do any homework during the winter vacation?"
Lin Chaoxi raised her head suddenly, and her eyes met Bao Xiaomeng's. She hadn't noticed Bao Xiaomeng was there just now.
After not seeing her for a winter vacation, Bao Xiaomeng seems to have become darker and thinner.
Bao Xiaomeng quickly turned her eyes away and no one spoke, and the scene suddenly became a little awkward.
Just when Lin Chaoxi was thinking that he should say hello after all, the team leader said, "The high school entrance exam is in June. Today is exactly 100 days away. Are you really going to give up?"
The classroom suddenly became quiet, and most of the students who were still playing cast curious glances.
Bao Xiaomeng was even more embarrassed. She tried to say, "I...I...have my own plans. You take care of yourself."
"I'm doing OK. At least he can get into a key high school. Needless to say, Lin Chaoxi will definitely go straight to Anning Middle School. What about you?"
The team leader was too lazy to meddle in other people's business. She probably said that because she was really anxious. Lin Chaoxi stood aside, looking here and there. She had no idea how to persuade girls to stop quarreling.
Bao Xiaomeng's face flushed red. This was a naked humiliation for her. She yelled, "I don't need you to care about me anyway!"
After she said this harsh word, she turned around and ran out of the classroom. Lin Chaoxi thought she must be crying.
The air in the classroom was stagnant. The team leader was angry and no one dared to act rashly.
Finally, it was the team leader's own sigh that broke the freezing cold atmosphere in the classroom.
"You go and comfort her." The team leader said angrily.
Lin Chaoxi pointed at his nose, meaning to ask: Me?
"If not you, who else could it be?" The team leader pointed at Bao Xiaomeng's back as she ran away and said, "Really, she doesn't want to study anymore, not even go to technical secondary school. This won't work."
Lin Chaoxi held her winter vacation homework and looked at the back figure at the door which she would never see again with some worry.
Pei Zhi and Lu Zhihao would finish the homework by themselves. Even if it was Hua Juan, he knew that it was useless but still needed to be completed. She could even copy the homework for Bao Xiaomeng like she copied the homework for Hua Juan, but the latter would never agree.
"I don't know what to do, but I know it's useless for me to go out now," she said as she put down her winter vacation homework.
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With Bao Xiaomeng's episode, Lin Chaoxi's excitement subsided a lot. She sat back in her seat, and Chen Zhu also came.
After not seeing each other for a winter vacation, Brother Sleepy has shaved his head, but he is still so thin. Lin Chaoxi couldn't help but glance at the top of his head.
"Will you go directly to Anning Middle School?" Chen Zhu asked.
Without saying hello or asking Bao Xiaomeng, Chen Zhu asked her this directly.
"I think so." Lin Zhaoxi said in a low voice.
"Because you won a prize in the Math League?"
"Um."
"First prize?"
"Um."
"Great."
"Thank you."
The conversation was brief, and Brother Sleepy's tone was calm, making Lin Chaoxi think he was going to fall asleep again. In order to prevent this embarrassing situation from happening, she tried to find a topic: "What are you busy with during the winter vacation?"
Chen Zhu glanced at her and said, "You're asking even though you already know the answer. Of course I should go to the cram school you recommended."
"Uh..." Lin Zhaoxi touched his nose, "How does it feel up there?"
"I don't know. It depends on the test results later."
Chen Zhu was very calm.
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Lin Chaoxi thought that Chen Zhu was able to be so calm because he had built up sufficient confidence through studying during the winter vacation.
But she soon discovered that he was pretending.
Registration in the afternoon, before the first exam.
Almost everyone in the classroom had arrived, but the seat next to Pei Zhi was still empty because Matt Zheng had not arrived yet.
"Brother Tian is not coming, right?"
"Not really?"
The boys were reviewing and whispering to each other.
"Have you made a phone call?" Lin Chaoxi happened to pass by and heard them, so he asked them casually.
"I called, but Brother Tian didn't answer." Zheng Matt said to Ban Jia.
"Lin Chaoxi, give him a call. Maybe Brother Tian will pick up the phone when he sees your number!" said Student B.
"But I... don't have a cell phone."
At this time, Pei Zhi touched his pocket and handed the phone over.
Lin Chaoxi took it and asked Pei Zhi directly without hesitation: "Did you save his phone number?"
"It starts with z."
The call was connected, Lin Chaoxi put the receiver to his ear, and soon Zheng Matt's voice came, but... it was from outside the window.
"'Chaoxi baby', 'Brother Pei baby', do you miss me!?" Through the window, classmate Zheng panted and shouted at them frantically.
After saying that, he rushed into the classroom from the back door and gave Pei Zhi a huge bear hug. "Brother Pei, did you specifically ask Chaoxi baby to call me?"
Pei Zhi was stunned and speechless.
Lin Chaoxi silently put down the phone, quietly returned it to Pei Zhi, and said to his followers A and B: "Don't worry, it's okay..."
She walked back to her seat and found that Chen Zhu was not reciting things as he had just done. The pencil he was holding was broken and the black lead was bent to one side.
"Uh..." Lin Chaoxi didn't know what was going on and sat down carefully next to Chen Zhu.
"What? We're taking the Chinese test now. Isn't it tomorrow?"
Zheng Matt's shouting came from the back of the classroom again.
"Brother Tian, you remembered it wrong..."
"Damn it! I didn't even memorize it!" Zheng Matt sat down in a panic, quickly took out the book, and immediately started chanting sentences like "I examine myself three times a day".
Lin Chaoxi carefully observed Chen Zhu and found that the veins on Brother Sleepy's forehead were becoming more and more obvious. He was obviously very annoyed by the noise at the back of the classroom.
It seems like the exam is very stressful?
Lin Chaoxi thought silently, she observed Chen Zhu for a while and found that Chen Zhu was slowly clenching his fists and was even trembling slightly.
Lin Chaoxi was afraid that he would get up and beat up Zheng Matt, but saying "don't be nervous" was useless. She thought about it, opened the book of wrong words, and poked Chen Zhu.
Chen Zhu shuddered, glared at her, and resisted the urge to curse.
Lin Chaoxi handed over the Yicuo lyrics with both hands and asked respectfully and carefully: "Brother Sleeping God, no, Brother Chen, how about we write it down for each other?"
Chen Zhu frowned and looked at her, while Lin Chaoxi smiled awkwardly.
After a while, Chen Zhu finally nodded, and Lin Chaoxi handed the notebook over.
"Should I be silent first or should you be silent first?" Chen Zhu asked.
"I'll go first. Do you know the words?"
"good."
Chen Zhu opened the notebook and began to read quickly: "To be flexible and to go hand in hand without conflict."
Lin Zhaoxi begged for mercy: "Please go slower... I can't keep up..."
Chen Zhu was stunned for a moment, then he took a deep breath and began to slow down his recitation.
"They run parallel, hesitate... pale in comparison..."
His voice became slower and slower, gradually becoming calmer, and finally stopping.
"Thank you." Chen Zhu said quietly.
Lin Chaoxi looked up and saw that the boy had already closed her notebook and handed it back to her.
Chen Zhu said nothing more. He turned around and continued to recite ancient poems. He was concentrating and his hands no longer shook.
When faced with pressure, people will always be nervous and anxious, but some people choose to stand up resolutely, while others choose to continue to escape.
Lin Chaoxi sneaked to the other corner of the classroom, where there was a very obvious empty seat, which belonged to Bao Xiaomeng.
She had countless chicken soups to instill in Bao Xiaomeng, but in fact, she couldn't change anything.
Nothing can change a person except herself.
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