Chapter 74
On the deserted street, Lin Xiaohan walked alone in the night.
When he had walked halfway down the road, he suddenly took out review materials and a flashlight from his schoolbag.
Then I would read for a while while walking with the flashlight in hand, then turn off the flashlight and recite silently for a while.
When Chuxia asked him which university he wanted to go to, he actually didn't have a definite goal yet.
When he learned that the college entrance examination had been officially resumed, in addition to thinking that this was an opportunity to leave the factory and change his destiny, he also had a rough idea in his mind - why not go out and have a look around.
Although he was born and raised in Beijing.
But he doesn't have much sense of belonging to this city.
There is no one he loves in this world, and there is no home for him. It doesn't matter where he goes.
In Beijing, he couldn't help but be disgusted by his father's family of three.
It would be better to go to another city and make a name for yourself before coming back.
But now, he has a clearer and more specific goal in mind.
He decided to stay, to get into the best university, and to change his path.
Of course, this road is full of risks and challenges for Chuxia, and for him as well.
He had a solid academic foundation in school, and after graduation he worked as a teacher in the countryside, so he was not completely separated from textbooks and knowledge, so he was confident that he could get into a good university.
But he was not so blindly confident that he could easily get into the best university.
It would definitely not work according to the review pace and intensity he had originally planned.
Therefore, he must work hard on reviewing this matter and try his best to give it a try.
So he carried the books all the way back to the factory dormitory, and after washing up, he continued to review for two hours. After that, I only slept for four hours and continued to review after getting up.
In the morning, apart from working time, I spend the rest of the time reading and reviewing.
After lunch at noon and returning to the dormitory, the first thing I did was to sit at the table and open a book.
He opened the book and read for less than ten minutes when someone called him outside the dormitory door: "Lin Xiaohan, someone is looking for you downstairs."
Lin Xiaohan was a little confused as to who would come to the factory to find him.
He responded and went out. When he reached the dormitory building, he turned around and saw his stepmother Lu Fangying.
When Lu Fangying saw him, she hurried over to him and called him with a smile, "Xiao Han."
Lin Xiaohan looked at Lu Fangying without saying anything, and naturally couldn't smile. His face was expressionless and his eyes were cold.
Lu Fangying was not embarrassed and continued, "I wanted to come to the factory to see you a long time ago, but your father was always angry and wouldn't let me come, so I didn't dare to come. I didn't handle the room issue properly. If I knew you would come back, I would definitely clean up the room for you in advance. Now I have cleaned up a room for you, and your father is almost calm. Come home and stay today, okay?"
Lin Xiaohan was too lazy to act with her and just said, "If there's nothing else, I'll go back."
Seeing that he was about to leave, Lu Fangying hurriedly stopped him and continued, "Xiao Han, you finally came back from the countryside, so don't get angry with your dad because of this. We really didn't know you were coming back. Seeing you and your son quarreling like this just after meeting, I feel very sad."
Lin Xiaohan: "You must be so happy that you woke up laughing in your dream, right?"
Lu Fangying: “…”
She had long been accustomed to Lin Xiaohan's harshness, so she didn't take it seriously and said, "Why do you think of me like this? I have always hoped that our family can be harmonious, and that you and your father can be fine. Xiaobo only has you as his brother, and I have always hoped that you two brothers can be fine."
Lin Xiaohan stopped talking and watched her perform.
Lu Fangying was unable to continue speaking under Lin Xiaohan's gaze.
But her worried and sincere expression did not change. She sighed and said, "If you really don't want to go back, just accept these things. I bought them especially for you. If you need anything else, tell me. I'll come to see you next time."
Lin Xiaohan took the bag from her hand and stretched out his hand, saying, "Money, tickets."
Hearing this, Lu Fangying's expression froze. Then she took off the bag on her shoulder and took out her purse from the bag.
Before she opened her purse and took out the money, Lin Xiaohan took it away.
Lin Xiaohan took out all the money and bills from her purse without saying a word, then threw the purse directly into her arms, turned around with the bag and went straight back to the dormitory.
Lu Fangying: “…”
She caught the purse thrown at her and watched Lin Xiaohan enter the dormitory building, thinking to herself - As expected, after returning from the countryside, he has become more mean, rude and even more annoying.
After looking away for a moment, Lu Fangying put the purse back into her bag, turned around and walked away with the bag.
When I got home and opened the door, my husband Lin Bingwei and son Lin Haobo were playing table tennis in the room.
The father and son were having a great time. Lin Bingwei smiled and praised Lin Haobo for being so good.
Lu Fangying walked out of the room without disturbing them.
Lin Bingwei saw her and asked first: "Why did you come back so late? Did you have lunch?"
Lu Fangying replied, "I had something to do at work so I left a little late. I ate in the cafeteria. I also bought a lot of Xiaohan's favorite snacks and went to his factory to see him. I persuaded him to come back to see you, but he said he didn't want to come back at all. He spoke to me in a very bad tone and was obviously still angry. He took the snacks, emptied my wallet, and went back to the dormitory."
Lin Bingwei said, "That cold-hearted bastard, why did you go to see him? It would be best if he doesn't come back. If he does, I will break one of his legs and let him know who is my boss! I told you a long time ago, don't bother with him. No matter how many things you buy for him or how nice you treat him, he won't think of you at all and will only give you a bad face. How many things did you prepare for him when he went to the countryside? Did he write you a letter after he arrived? He didn't even tell me in advance that he was coming back, and he went crazy when he got home and smashed my good ping-pong table to pieces. I haven't settled the score with him yet!"
Lin Haobo suddenly spoke up and said, "That's right, he is a cold-blooded freak with no humanity!"
When Lu Fangying heard this, she glared at Lin Haobo without any anger and said to him, "You can't say that about my brother. He is your brother no matter what."
Lin Haobo said: "Humph! He is not my brother!"
Lu Fangying stopped talking about Lin Haobo and looked at Lin Bingwei and said, "Anyway, he is your son, and he is my son. I treat him as my own son from the bottom of my heart. It's just that he has disliked me since he was a child, and he still hasn't accepted me. Maybe I haven't done enough..."
Lin Bingwei said, "Haven't you done enough for him? Is it good to give him your heart? You don't need to think so much, and you don't need to care about him."
Lu Fangying: "Alas... I really want to take care of him and keep the family harmonious, but I have to control his temper. I can't do anything else. I can only coax him carefully and give him his favorite food and drinks..."
***
Food factory.
Girls dormitory.
Six girls sat together around the table in the center of the dormitory.
Feng Jingzhi flipped through the review outline in her hand and said happily and excitedly, "No one in the entire factory has found anyone who has grabbed this book. Where did you borrow it from, Chuxia?"
Chu Xia did not give a detailed answer, but just said: "Hurry up and copy it. Each of us will copy a part and pass it around during the review. After copying, I have to return it quickly."
Feng Jingzhi nodded and said nothing more, and quickly copied the outline.
As the review time is tight, they no longer take naps at noon. They use all the time they can squeeze out to review, memorize books and do exercises.
I studied until the afternoon working hours, then closed the book and continued to work in the factory.
After get off work in the evening, I went to the cafeteria to have dinner, and then naturally rushed to go to night school.
Chuxia and Feng Jingzhi arrived relatively early again today.
When I got to the classroom, I didn't hesitate and sat down in the middle seat in the front row.
Not long after they sat down, other people sat down next to them.
Someone sat down in the seat next to her, and Chu Xia subconsciously turned her head to take a look.
But after she turned her eyes away, she paused, because the person sitting next to her was Lin Xiaohan.
Chuxia looked at him for a moment, hesitating between saying hello and pretending not to know him.
Hesitated and didn't react.
Lin Xiaohan spoke first: "You don't recognize me after not seeing me for just one day?"
Hearing this, Chu Xia smiled and took out the review outline from the desk, handed it to him and said, "I haven't finished copying it yet, so I'll give it back to you for review first."
Hearing Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan talking like this, Feng Jingzhi, who was sitting on Chu Xia's right, stretched her head and looked over here curiously.
After Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan finished talking, she whispered to Chu Xia: "Who is it?"
Chuxia didn't follow in a low voice.
She introduced Feng Jingzhi generously: "Oh, this is my classmate when I went to the countryside to work in the production team, Lin Xiaohan."
After that, he introduced her to Lin Xiaohan: "This is my current colleague, Feng Jingzhi."
Feng Jingzhi first politely greeted Lin Xiaohan: "Hello, comrade."
Lin Xiaohan naturally simply replied: "Hello."
Feng Jingzhi could see that Lin Xiaohan's attitude was distant, so she didn't continue the conversation.
Just after a while, the teacher entered the classroom, and they all focused on listening to the lesson.
Three hours later, school was over and everyone packed up their bags and left, yawning.
Lin Xiaohan moved quickly and left early, while Chu Xia and Feng Jingzhi were a little slower. After packing up, they carried their backpacks and left the classroom, going in two different directions.
As she was walking towards the carport alone, Chu Xia suddenly remembered the old gangster from Shuangqiao that Lin Xiaohan had told her about last night, and she felt a little scared subconsciously.
Feeling nervous, I quickened my pace unconsciously and started to jog.
But as soon as she ran to the carport, her heart, which had been hanging in the air, suddenly fell again.
Because she saw that there was not only her bicycle under the shed, but also Lin Xiaohan.
When she saw Lin Xiaohan, she stopped and then stopped running.
She walked steadily to her bicycle, unlocked it and said, "Are you using my bike again?"
Lin Xiaohan replied: "Yes."
Chuxia opened the car lock and locked it to the frame.
Lin Xiaohan directly stuffed the bag in his hand to Chu Xia, pushed the bicycle and said, "This is the fare for tonight's ride."
Chuxia looked at the bag in confusion and hurried to get on her bicycle.
When Lin Xiaohan rode her bicycle onto the road, she unzipped her bag and looked inside, only to see that it was filled with all kinds of snacks.
This is another pack of snacks that is not cheap.
Chu Xia was stunned for a moment before asking, "You didn't... buy it specially for me, did you?"
Lin Xiaohan rode on the road: "No, my family gave it to me."
Hearing this, Chu Xia couldn't help but feel curious again.
In fact, she had been curious about this matter for a long time. She had wanted to ask about it when she was in the countryside, but she never asked.
So she hesitated for a while and asked tentatively: "Don't you not eat sweets?"
Lin Xiaohan replied calmly: "Yes, otherwise why would I give you a discount as a ride fare?"
Although she thought he might not tell her, Chu Xia still tried to ask, "Doesn't your family know that you don't eat sweets?"
Lin Xiaohan said in the same tone: "I know."
At least the person who sent him these snacks knew.
Chu Xia was even more curious and couldn't help but continue asking: "What does this mean? Your family members are not good to you, but they spend so much money to buy you things that ordinary people can't eat. But they say they are good to you, but they buy you things they know you won't eat."
Lin Xiaohan didn't say anything else.
Chu Xia felt that he definitely didn't want to say it, so she hurriedly said, "I'm just asking casually. You don't have to say it if you don't want to."
Lin Xiaohan has never told anyone about his own affairs, so he really can't say much.
He rode in silence for a while, then said in a more calm tone: "Simple, she wants others to know that she is good to me, but she doesn't want to really see me being good."
Chuxia knew that he was probably talking about his stepmother.
But she still asked, "Who is it?"
Lin Xiaohan said: "Stepmother."
Chu Xia didn't expect him to answer so straightforwardly, and she was stunned.
Then Lin Xiaohan continued riding his bike, "My mother died when I was very young. My father married her and had another son, who was held in the palm of his hand. When I was a child, I loved sweets. When she knew about it, she found ways to buy me a lot of sweets, including spending the family's living expenses. The family's life was affected because of this incident, and I also broke two teeth. My pregnant stepmother starved for me, and I actually broke two teeth. When Lao Lin found out, he was furious, slapped me, and punished me by not allowing me to eat for three days. Those two teeth hurt so much that I couldn't sleep every day. One tooth hurt for ten days, and the other hurt for fifteen days. Later, I stopped eating sweets."
Originally, Lin Bingwei just didn't care about him that much.
Ever since this incident, Lin Bingwei has developed a dislike for him.
After Lin Bingwei got angry, Lu Fangying never bought him many sweets again.
Especially after Lin Haobo was born, it was never his turn to enjoy the good things in the family.
Of course, when encountering special circumstances, Lu Fangying would still buy him sweets. She would buy less when the family conditions were ordinary, but she would buy more after Lin Bingwei was promoted and his conditions improved, so as to let Lin Bingwei know that she was a good stepmother.
Chu Xia was silent for a long time after listening to Lin Xiaohan's words. She didn't expect that he didn't eat sweets because of this kind of thing.
Of course she knew that Lin Xiaohan didn't need other people's sympathy, so she took two deep breaths and said in an angry tone: "She designed your not to eat sweets. She deliberately continued to buy them for you. I don't know if it was to let your father or others know that she treats you well. Anyway, she must be deliberately disgusting you and irritating you. If it were me, I would throw the snacks in her face."
Lin Xiaohan: "Isn't that what she wished for? If she burst into tears, I would be scolded for being ungrateful and get nothing. I might as well get some snacks."
Chuxia thought about it and agreed.
She then asked Lin Xiaohan: "Are you a very capable stepmother?"
Lin Xiaohan laughed and said, "It's just that I'm not liked by Old Lin."
If Lin Bingwei had any concern or care for his son, he would never have done this.
Although Lin Xiaohan spoke with a smile and sounded relaxed, Chu Xia still felt depressed and wanted to take a deep breath and sigh.
But she held back her sigh, and just in time the bicycle arrived at the entrance of the alley.
Lin Xiaohan stopped the bicycle and Chuxia jumped off the back seat.
Lin Xiaohan took the bag from her hand and hung it on the handlebars, handed her the bicycle, took out the review outline from her schoolbag, stuffed it into her schoolbag and said, "Go home, see you tomorrow."
Chu Xia hesitated and said, "This snack..."
Lin Xiaohan didn't let her finish and interrupted her, "So it's just free ride fare, it's all good stuff, I won't eat it anyway, so it's a waste for you not to eat it, don't act like a fool."
Chu Xia immediately replied to him: "You are like a fool."
Lin Xiaohan said in a hissing voice: "You can do it. You must have pretended to be very hard in front of me before, right?"
Wasn't it very tiring to be so cautious in front of him every day and then try to please him?
Chuxia didn't say anything more to him. She said "goodbye" decisively and pushed the cart into the alley.
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