"Oh, what a nice day! The sun isn't so strong, and it's not so hot!"

It was already three o'clock in the afternoon when Zhang Li and her mother walked out of the hotel.

Not long after Zhang Li and her mother finished lunch, the mother and daughter each took a bed and went for a nap. When they woke up, it was already past one in the afternoon, almost two.

Zhang Li had planned to go to school to see the examination room after waking up, but was stopped by her mother.

Zhang's mother thought that since it was so hot now, there must be a lot of people in the school, and it would be even hotter if they were crowded together.

In this case, Zhang's mother thought that Zhang Li should read for a while in the hotel room, and then go to No. 2 Middle School to check out the examination room later when the sun is not so strong.

After thinking about it, Zhang Li felt that what her mother said was indeed very reasonable, so she no longer insisted on going to No. 2 Middle School to see the examination room immediately, and decided to go early and come back early.

Unexpectedly, after Zhang Li had been reading for a while, around three o'clock in the afternoon, the sky outside the window gradually darkened, and it seemed much gloomier than the previous clear sky and scorching sun.

It is summer now, the season with the highest temperature in the year, and three o'clock in the afternoon should be the hottest time of the day. However, due to the long period of dark clouds covering the sun, it is not very hot at this time.

"It just feels a bit stuffy, like it's going to rain!"

Mother Zhang looked up at the sky which had already darkened, and said with some concern, "Wait here for a moment. I'll go back to the room to get an umbrella. Otherwise, if it suddenly rains heavily later, we won't be able to come back."

After Zhang's mother finished speaking, she didn't care about Zhang Li's reaction and walked quickly into the hotel, leaving Zhang Li alone at the door of the hotel.

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"Let's go!"

Zhang's mother found an umbrella in the room, hurried out of the hotel, came to Zhang Li, said only these two words, and then took Zhang Li to the campus of No. 2 Middle School to check it out in advance.

The mother and daughter walked side by side on the way to school, and no one spoke.

Perhaps it was because the weather was too hot and humid, causing everyone to feel cold all over, so both mother and daughter looked a little depressed. Even Zhang's mother, who usually talked a lot, had no interest in talking.

Along the way, there were many people like Zhang Li and her daughter who walked forward silently with their heads down, on the way to No. 2 Middle School.

I guess it was parents who brought their children to No. 2 Middle School to see the examination room in advance and find classrooms and seats.

Fortunately, the hotel found by Zhang's mother was in a good location. After walking for only a few minutes, the mother and daughter could vaguely see the gate of No. 2 Middle School.

After arriving near No. 2 Middle School, the most immediate feeling Zhang Li and her daughter had was that everywhere they looked was people.

It was pitch black.

The last time Zhang Li saw so many people was last time.

Zhang Li had seen this scene before, but Zhang's mother had not seen it very often.

"Oh my, so many people?" Zhang's mother sighed, "This is much more than the number of people who come to the morning market in our town. It's so crowded, there must be thousands of people, right?"

Zhang Li knew this very well. After all, she took the exam in the same place last year. So she knew that No. 2 Middle School alone could not accommodate thousands of people.

As Zhang Li and her mother walked into the No. 2 Middle School, she casually replied, "Not that many. Looking at the crowd now, more than half of them must be parents, and the rest are the real candidates."

"That's not a small number. Let's find your examination room quickly and go back. There are so many people here. It makes me feel uncomfortable and chest tightness just looking at them." Zhang's mother complained casually.

"Then you wait for me outside, Mom. It won't take me long to get in there. I'll be out in about ten minutes." Zhang Li said, considering her mother.

However, Zhang's mother disagreed with what her daughter said. She was not very comfortable with her daughter going into the messy campus alone, and was afraid that if she waited outside the school alone, something might happen to her daughter.

In the eyes of Zhang's mother, Zhang Li is still the little girl who cannot leave her parents, but she has completely forgotten that Zhang Li has lived and studied in this school for nearly a year, and that at this time last year, Zhang Li also came alone to check out the examination room in advance.

However, Zhang Li did not explain. Seeing that Zhang's mother insisted on going in with her, she went with her mother into the campus of No. 2 Middle School.

The process of finding the examination room was relatively smooth. After all, Zhang Li had lived in this school for a long time, so it didn't take her long to find her seat in the second classroom on the south side of the third floor of the main teaching building.

"Where is your seat?" Zhang's mother was outside the classroom, stretching her head to look at the seats in the classroom, trying to see the seat numbers clearly in an attempt to find her daughter's seat.

"That position!" Zhang Li pointed to the fourth row in the middle.

"This location is good, this location is good!" Zhang's mother nodded happily, "This location has good light, good ventilation, and is not far from the electric fan. It won't be hot at all!"

Compared with last year, the weather is not as hot this year, the seats in the classroom are better, and I live closer than last year. Not to mention that I have my mother to take care of me this year, and I didn’t meet that lunatic who asked me to show him the answers like last year.

Everything seemed to be destined, as if even God was helping Zhang Li, piling all the favorable conditions on Zhang Li.

Zhang Li was a little dazed for a moment. It seemed as if all of this was telling Zhang Li that since she had fallen down in this place last year, she had to stand up again in this place this year.

Thinking of this, Zhang Li's trance gradually disappeared, and her eyes were gradually filled with determination.

"Mom, let's go back while it's still early. I'll go back and read more." Zhang Li whispered to her mother.

"You don't want to watch it anymore?"

"No, I've finished watching it all."

"Okay, then let's go back." Zhang's mother nodded, and took her daughter back along the way they came.

Not knowing if it was the effect of psychological suggestion, Zhang Li felt that maybe God was really helping her. Just as she returned to the hotel, a violent storm blew up, protecting Zhang Li and her mother from the wind and rain.

The closer it gets to this time, the more superstitious people may become. Not only Zhang Li, but even her mother thought so, "Oh, Zhang Li, the heavens are helping us! Otherwise, why did it have to wait until we arrived at the hotel for the heavens to rain so heavily!"

"I'll find you a temple later to burn some incense and ask the Buddha to bless you. I'm sure you'll perform exceptionally well tomorrow and get better marks on the test!"

Her mother's words strengthened Zhang Li's psychological suggestion. Zhang Li became more and more convinced that she would succeed tomorrow and that something like what happened last year would not happen again.

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I was delayed by something today, so it's so late.

There will be more later, and I will keep typing until midnight.