Chapter 20 He was born in the sun...
Lin Qingxu asked Kan Zhao: "Do you still remember Xu Yuying?"
Kan Zhao: "Who?"
Kan Zhao also looked at her: "Who is your online lover?"
Lin Qingxu: "..."
Lin Qingxu found that he seemed to have fallen into a misunderstanding before. Kan Zhao was born in Xiangyang, so how could he be brooding over something that happened a long time ago.
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The competition was held in early July at Nanchuan University.
Two teachers from South China High School accompanied the students.
The time limit is one week, and it is not just an exam.
Teachers and senior students from Nanchuan University led the invited students to visit the school, introduce its history and share learning methods.
The first two days were relatively easy, and then there was an open competition.
The students who come here are all top students from all over the country, about 20 to 30 of them, but three of them are from Nanhua alone.
Lin Qingxu was quite nervous at first. Although these awards would not be of much use to her in the future, the results would represent the honor of the school after all.
All participating students were assigned to the same classroom, where they listened to the teacher explain new concepts they had never heard of before during the day and took an assessment the next day.
Almost everyone who came would stay up until the early hours to digest the knowledge that was fed in. Some were lucky, and some concepts were predicted in their respective school training in the previous weeks, which was a matter of probability.
Everyone got through those few days with panda eyes.
The food at Nanchuan University is quite plentiful, and in order to save time, they all choose to eat in the cafeteria.
The fish-flavored shredded pork was the best seller, but unfortunately the last portion was bought by the person in front of Lin Qingxu. She had no choice but to choose the sweet and sour spare ribs.
The competition was coming to an end and was almost over. Lin Qingxu tried other signature dishes of Nanchuan University. After all, it was his last meal here.
While eating in the cafeteria, someone sat down opposite her.
"Lin Qingxu, are you going to the Peking University winter camp during the winter vacation?" asked the boy who was sitting down.
Lin Qingxu looked at the boy opposite her whom she didn't know, and she began to identify him based on his appearance.
It seems to be from another school.
They had met several times before in other competitions, so they knew each other?
Lin Qingxu has ranked pretty well in these rounds of exams, and if nothing unexpected happens, he will be able to get a place in the winter camp.
But she shook her head.
Seeing Lin Qingxu's reaction, the boy asked anxiously: "Is it because of something that delayed you?"
Lin Qingxu felt that his attitude was a little strange, as they were obviously not related, let alone familiar with each other.
She said honestly, "I'm going to take the art exam route and I won't take it again in the future."
The boy seemed very disappointed. Lin Qingxu felt that his expression was very similar to Wang Hong's when he knew about her subject selection.
Realizing that this might be the last time they met, the boy mustered up the courage to say, "Lin Qingxu, can we add each other's contact information?"
Suddenly, the phone rang, and the name on the other end was Kan Zhao.
It seems like an unfortunate coincidence.
Lin Qingxu apologized to the boy, got up and went to a quiet place to answer the call.
Ask Kan Zhao what's the matter.
Kan Zhao retorted: "There's nothing important to say. I just had nothing to do, so I just made a phone call."
Lin Qingxu just believed it when he heard Kan Zhaogang bring the topic to Xu Yuying not long after he started talking.
Kan Zhao knew that a person like Xu Yuying still had to rely on the loud voice of the physics teacher of Class 2.
In the previous class, they were studying English. Class 1 and Class 2 were close to each other, just next door.
The whole class was concentrating on doing the test paper when they heard someone from Class 2 suddenly say, "Xu Yuying, you can answer this question."
The decibel level was quite high, and several people in the class were startled.
Kan Zhao didn't have any special feelings at the time, but the name the teacher called out sounded familiar.
Xu Yu wins?
I called Lin Qingxu right after class.
"Lin Xiaoxiao, is your online crush from the class next door?"
Lin Qingxu: "..."
Why can't I get over the topic of my online crush?
Lin Qingxu: "I don't have an online dating partner."
"He can't even explain an electromagnetic field problem so well. That person is no good. You have such poor judgment. Let me tell you..." Kan Zhao stopped talking, "...really?"
"You have it and I don't."
"Okay." Kan Zhao seemed in a good mood and found another topic to talk about.
They have known each other for a long time and live close to each other. In the end, they only have so much to talk about and there is not much to talk about, but they always talk for a long time.
When Lin Qingxu returned, she found that the boy who had been looking for her was nowhere to be seen. She realized later that the boy seemed to have misunderstood the meaning of "sorry".
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Human emotions are always complex. Lin Qingxu's worldview is not so black and white.
At first she didn't know Xu Yuying. There were so many people in the school and she couldn't get to know them all, even though she had met Xu Yuying several times.
Later, she felt that Xu Yuying was jealous and self-deprecating, and that he was hurting others' pasts to satisfy his distorted self-esteem. He refused to repent after being taught a lesson, and kept pressing her even though he had done something wrong himself.
Uncle Kan said that he beat Kan Zhao simply because he acted without considering the consequences and wanted to teach him a lesson.
But Lin Qingxu felt that if Xu Yuying had not mocked her family affairs and was heard by Kan Zhao, the series of events that followed would not have happened.
It wouldn't take nearly half a year for the bruises Kan Zhao received from punishment to disappear.
Blame Xu Yuying for being narrow-minded and also blame him for not being careful enough.
She knew Xu Yuying's pain.
Lin Qingxu had deliberately planned the competition, sacrificing her own rest time rather than give up her spot. She had been thinking that until she received an apology, she would continue to sign up ahead of Xu Yuying.
But when you know the root cause of the bad guy's evil deeds - perhaps a miserable childhood, or sympathy, you will find that this person does not seem so hateful.
That's human nature.
Lin Qingxu seemed to remember that she had met Xu Yuying a long time ago, when she was very young.
At that time, she was busy with various interest classes, which were considered enlightenment classes. Many children were unwilling to come and wanted to play games at home.
Including Xu Yuying.
It was hard for Lin Qingxu not to have an impression of him.
Xu Yuying was simply too much of a nuisance. He clung to the elevator door, tears streaming down his face. His mother feigned anger and refused to leave, but eventually agreed to buy him a car. Only then did Xu Yuying reluctantly agree to go to class.
Lin Qingxu was able to take the elevator to the calligraphy class upstairs.
Later, I gradually forgot about this person until the third year of junior high school.
Lin Qingxu thought of Xu Yuying's mother. In her impression, she was so delicate and full of vitality, but later the broken marriage devastated this woman who had cut off touch with society for love.
That day, Lin Qingxu looked down from the upper floor and caught a glimpse of her long, dry hair, which had been neglected for years. Xu Yuying's relatively thin shoulders were completely overshadowed by her, and her long hair was as rough and sharp as weeds, as if it could strangle both of them by the neck, making it difficult to breathe.
In the name of love, she forged hatred into shackles, which bound the child she once loved most, forcing him to walk, fight, and grab according to the trajectory she wanted.
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The school holds a "Heart Express" event every month.
Students can randomly or selectively write anonymous words to others to encourage or comfort them.
All the papers are handed in at once, collected by the class monitor, and then screened by the head teacher. This is not an intentional attempt to steal privacy, but to prevent young men and women from using this as an excuse to "do something else".
This time, Lin Qingxu wrote to Xu Yuying anonymously.
Everyone has the right to choose their own life, dreams, and desires. Do your best, rather than constantly exhausting yourself trying to meet your parents' unrealistic expectations and neglecting your own needs and desires.
—To be honest, I used to think you were like a rat in the gutter of Montorgueil Street.
——But you also need to face the sun. It can be the light of judgment, or the warmth that welcomes new life. Nothing can be harmed by the sun, unless you are a vampire?
——No way, you’re not a cold-skinned person.
Lin Qingxu tried her best to make her tone sound less like herself. After all, she had just said something harsh to Xu Yuying a few days ago.
This is not a Mary act.
Just returning the kindness shown to her to the world.
It turns out that some people have been in darkness for a long time.
And because of the kindness of the world, a corner of her closed world was carefully opened long ago, and since then the sky has been bright.
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