Lin Chaoxi didn't want to cry at first, but after she fell into Pei Zhi's arms, she couldn't stop crying.
Pei Zhi put one hand on her waist, gentle and gentlemanly. Just like the phone call in Nanshan, she should have been the one to comfort Pei Zhi, but she was the one who comforted him instead.
She clasped the boy's back tightly with both hands and buried her head in his neck, not feeling embarrassed at all.
Boys are not as soft as girls when they are held. Their skeletons are hard and their collarbones hurt her nose. But maybe it's because of her girlish heart, she always thinks Pei Zhi smells good, like a mixture of lemon and mint, sour but refreshing.
The wind blew through the corridors. Although she could hardly hear Pei Zhi's heartbeat in this position, it made her feel extremely calm. She even felt so peaceful that she soon forgot she wanted to cry.
"Are you ready?" Pei Zhi said after a while.
"Oh." Lin Chaoxi let go of her hand, lowered her head and rubbed her nose, her face still a little red, "Your shampoo smells good."
"It's shower gel."
"What brand?"
"For men."
"Oh..." She continued to blush.
Pei Zhi picked up the coffee can on the windowsill, drank the last sip, and threw it into the trash can. He took her and continued to walk towards the inpatient ward.
Lin Zhaoxi looked in the direction of the ward and panicked: "Are we going to see Auntie?"
"Do you want to go?"
"If I go, should I buy a bouquet of flowers?" Lin Chaoxi panicked, "Auntie, do you like roses or carnations?"
"Just walk over here and there's an elevator going downstairs."
"oh……
"Lin Chaoxi breathed a sigh of relief. She had never dealt with that aunt since she was a child, except for the time when she secretly saw Pei Zhi's mother at the parents' meeting in junior high school.
She even had a vague feeling that she and Lao Lin were both on Pei's mother's blacklist.
"Then why did you take me here?"
"It's higher, so you can calm down."
I'm even less calm!
Lin Chaoxi took a few gulps of orange soda; the icy drink made him shiver.
Pei Zhi walked to the elevator entrance and pressed the down button. She looked at the boy and suddenly asked, "Don't change the subject. What if you go to the training class and get discovered by your aunt?"
"You'll be scolded." Pei Zhi said.
"Is it just being scolded?" Lin Chaoxi didn't believe it: "But you have withdrawn from all the training and exams before, and it feels like the consequences will be very serious."
"I didn't attend the training because I had other things to do on the day of the league match."
"What is it?"
"Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu rank test. The math league test time is heavier than this."
"!!!" The elevator door opened and Lin Chaoxi stepped in quickly. "So you're here for the training, and what about the exam?"
"It depends on the situation." Pei Zhi's tone was very calm, "If it doesn't work, just pretend to be sick."
——
Pei Zhizhu has a strong opinion.
If he has made his decision, no one else's opinion will matter.
After Lin Chaoxi returned home, Old Lin crossed his legs and ate wontons in the yard.
"Where have you been?" Lin Chaoxi asked.
"I'm going to buy wontons."
"Why didn't you answer the phone when you bought wontons?"
"You have to answer the phone even when you want to buy wontons? I was working hard just now and my phone was on silent mode." Lao Lin felt in his pocket and took out his phone. "Why did you make so many calls?"
Lao Lin ate with great pleasure, and Lin Chaoxi looked at him deeply. When she needed Lao Lin, his phone was turned off, and everything seemed to be going as planned.
"What happened?" Lao Lin looked her up and down.
"I'm fine. Lu Zhihao was splashed with paint by a guy named Zhang Yao from our training class."
"then?"
"I took Lu Zhihao to the hospital, but couldn't find you, so I called Pei Zhi."
"Lu Zhihao called you to explain that the paint splashing on him was a private grudge that could not be known to others. Pei Zhi will definitely find out the whole story when he arrives. Lu Zhihao wants to let it go, so he has no choice but to go to class..."
Lao Lin scooped a spoonful of wontons and said, "And my fragile daughter will start to worry again."
Old Lin's reasoning was absolutely correct. Lin Chaoxi stood up and stared at him blankly.
"What's the matter?" Lao Lin scooped a spoonful of wontons.
"Are you a devil?"
"Just reasoning."
"Did you know Pei Zhi promised his mother not to learn math?"
Lao Lin pointed at his chest and looked at her in shock, meaning: How could I not know?
Lin Zhaoxi sat down: "What should I do? Should I tell Lu Zhihao?"
"Tell Lu Zhihao what? Tell him 'You know how much Pei Zhi has sacrificed to protect you'?" Lao Lin scooped a spoonful of wontons. "Personally, I think you should tell Pei Zhi about this."
"What?"
"You're so nice to Lu Zhihao, I'm jealous~"
Lin Zhaoxi: “…”
——
Lao Lin was very smart and knew how to convince her.
Lu Zhihao's father began to pick up and drop off his son every day.
As expected, the police investigation yielded no results. They also retrieved surveillance footage from the time of the incident, but the surveillance footage in the old streets and alleys had too many blind spots, and with so many people coming and going, it was difficult to identify the suspect.
However, the police still went to the school to investigate symbolically, and of course they would not let go of the training team that had classes on the weekend.
It's another training day of the week.
When Pei Zhi walked into the classroom, most of the students were still working hard on their homework.
The boy with the backpack didn't attract anyone's attention at first until he sat down next to Lu Zhihao.
The tables and chairs moved, making slight noises.
Zhang Yao turned around and said, "Hey, Lu Zhihao, why are you seducing someone else again?"
Some students heard the sound and turned around. When they saw Pei Zhishi, their expressions of anticipation turned into surprise.
"Brother Pei is here?"
"Wow, Pei Zhi, I thought you would let us go this time!"
"I'm going to shut myself off~!"
Students who were familiar with Pei Zhi chatted with each other, and the atmosphere in the classroom instantly became warm. Students who did not know Pei Zhi began to ask around, wondering who the person next to Lu Zhihao was.
At this moment, two police officers in charge of Lu Zhihao's case walked into the classroom under the guidance of the teacher.
The class suddenly fell silent.
The teacher briefly introduced the situation, and the classroom became even quieter.
The students had never seen such a battle, and Zhang Yao was also scared.
Lin Chaoxi did not miss this opportunity.
The two policemen began to ask questions and Lin Chaoxi raised his hand.
"Uncle police, I suddenly remembered that during the last class, classmate Zhang Yao had been bullying Lu Zhihao. I wonder if he did it." She said in a loud voice.
Zhang Yao was obviously nervous. He immediately put down his pen and explained, "I just like Lu Zhihao, so I was joking with him. Why are you like this?"
The community police were all smart people. The two uncles looked at each other and asked the man to leave. Zhang Yao only came back before class started.
Zhang Yao couldn't lose his temper when the teacher was around, but it was different after class.
The bell rang and the teacher walked out of the classroom.
Zhang Yaomeng pushed the table away, stood up, and walked straight to Lin Chaoxi's seat.
Lin Chaoxi wrote down the last few symbols of his ideas for the homework in his notebook, then slowly raised his head and looked at the boy who was approaching.
Zhang Yao didn't want to pretend anymore and said directly: "You damn bitch! What right do you have to slander me?"
"What did I say?" Lin Zhaoxi laughed.
Zhang Yao was enraged again, with flames in his eyes.
Lin Chaoxi looked straight at Zhang Yao with a provocative smile. She really wanted Zhang Yao to take action now, then his true colors would be exposed.
"This classmate."
Suddenly, Pei Zhining's gentle voice rang out.
Zhang Yao shuddered, but Pei Zhi didn't give him a chance to interrupt: "Please go back to your seat."
"Fuck, why are you pretending to be so arrogant? What does it have to do with you that I'm standing here?"
"Then you stand."
Pei Zhi's voice was still clear and calm. After he finished speaking, he lowered his head and continued to do his own thing.
Lin Zhaoxi smiled helplessly, and followed Pei Zhi to continue looking at the unfinished questions in front of him.
The classroom was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, but the autumn sun outside the window was very warm.
Zhang Yao stood beside her desk, in a dilemma, until the bell for class rang again.
After losing his initial impulse, he was actually nothing. Lin Chaoxi thought that Zhang Yao would probably be able to stay quiet for a while.
——
Pei Zhi began to be Lu Zhihao's deskmate on weekends.
The current math training, especially the competition content taught by teachers in Anning City, is probably really dispensable to Pei Zhi.
Lin Chaoxi sat behind them, sitting at the same table with Chen Chengcheng.
Every time when discussing a topic, she would look up at the boy in front of her.
She noticed that Pei Zhi would still carefully do each question first, although very quickly, and then put it aside to do his own thing.
Most of Pei Zhi's homework was to help Lao Lin check some draft papers.
Sometimes he would take a very basic math textbook and start reading it.
A lot of it was about university mathematics. He probably wanted to make some of the less solid things more solid, but it was also possible that these things would make him calmer.
Lin Chaoxi would sometimes get distracted and stare at Pei Zhi's back at the desk for a long time.
She always felt that Pei Zhi was studying eagerly, as if he was afraid that time would run out, as if if he didn't study now, he would never be able to learn again.
She could even understand that feeling, which is that when the external environment is extremely confusing and hopeless, only by relying on what you are best at can you hold on and not give up your beliefs.
Although Pei Zhi did not show it, Lin Chaoxi always noticed it.
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