Chasing Summer

In the midsummer of August, the bright sun is like fire, and the cicadas are constantly singing.

Lin Zhexia huddled on the sofa, with a bag of potato chips in hand, the lights in the room were not turned on, only the projector in front of him was glowing faintly. The movie is playing to a point where the fluorescent light is bright, and the fierce ghost suddenly rushes out with grinning teeth—

The room suddenly lit up, and part of the furnishings could be seen from the projected light.

The whole house was impeccably tidy.

On the table are several copies of "Competition Training", a black alarm clock, and three or two black fountain pens.

Other than that there is nothing superfluous.

It doesn't look neat and out of place here, only the pile of snacks that are scattered here and there.

Lin Zhexia watched a movie for a while, and then sent a few messages to a certain chat box with her mobile phone in her hand.

- Fraud.

- Definitely a scam.

-The scariest movie of the year is not scary at all, it can be reported to the National Anti-Fraud Center.

Every ten minutes.

- ouch.

- But this ghost's cry is quite special.

- Whoops.

Another ten minutes.

- half an hour.

- you haven't called me back yet.

- are you fooling around outside

Lin Zhexia lowered her head, and typed out the second half of the sentence word by word with extra seriousness: Then I had so much fun that I forgot about me as a father.

A few seconds after these words were sent, there was finally movement on the other side.

A line of words appeared on the top of the chat box with the comment "taking medicine": [typing...]

After a while, a few lines of arrogant characters appeared on the chat interface through the network.

- fooling around, very busy.

- as for not replying to you because

-Too lazy to chat with people who don't know their seniority.

Before she could reply, another message came from the other side: Where did you watch the movie.

Lin Zhexia looked around the room, it was completely different from her own room, it looked like a boy's room, and a projector was installed in the living room, which was the main reason why she appeared here today with snacks.

But she was a little embarrassed to speak directly, and replied with three words: cinema.

-?

Thinking that there were no horror movies showing in the theater, Lin Zhexia changed his words: ...private cinema.

-Oh

Lin Zhexia knew that this person was not so easy to fool, and sure enough, the next sentence of "Oh" was: Take a picture and see, I have never been to a private theater in my life, let me see the world.

-…

Where is she going to take pictures.

She couldn't hide it, so she could only answer honestly: Your family. Didn’t you just buy a new projector, but you went on a long trip right after you bought it, so let me try it for you to see if it works.

The other party seemed to have already guessed the answer.

After a few seconds, another sentence came over in a dragging voice:

-so, who is daddy.

-…

-you.

Lin Zhexia pointed her fingers on the screen, omitting even the struggle, and slid to her knees in a gentle manner:

- It's because I didn't figure out the seniority.

-dad.

The conversation ended here, but was interrupted by a phone call.

Lin He's familiar voice was on the phone: "Xia Xia, we'll have dinner later, when are you coming back?"

"I forgot to check the time," Lin Zhexia hurriedly paused the movie, "I'll be right back."

Lin Zhexia came back very quickly.

After Lin He made the phone call, just as the food was on the table, Lin Zhexia had already arrived at the door: "Mom—I'm back."

Lin He glanced at her: "He came from Chi Yao's house."

Lin Zhexia didn't expect her to guess right: "Why don't you change your career to fortune-telling."

"Does it matter?" Lin He was able to estimate her daughter's movement path according to the time. "You came back so fast, you can't just take a walk in the community. But isn't Chi Yao not at home during the holidays? It's... a relative's house is a bit What are you going to visit relatives? People are not at home, what are you doing at someone's house?"

Chi Yao.

She is small.

That is, the one who was talking in the chat box just now.

The two have known each other since childhood.

Chi's family lived in the building opposite her house, and the distance between them was no more than three minutes.

When she looked out of the bedroom window, she could see the curtains drawn by his house.

Lin Zhexia slowly stuffed the food into his mouth, really embarrassed to say that he unilaterally went to test the quality of Chi Yao's newly bought projector. And when you're at home on vacation, it's always easy to be scolded by Lin He, so I found a reason for myself: "He...he said he was in a hurry when he went out, and he didn't remember whether the window was closed or not, so let me go and see."

Lin He was not suspicious.

As a "high school life expectant", Lin Zhexia spent this holiday in style.

She did well in the senior high school entrance examination. After graduation, she naturally didn't have homework during the holidays.

Lin He obviously couldn't see her daughter living so chicly: "I bought you a few high school textbooks, and you can learn them from the summer vacation, so as not to be unable to keep up after entering school."

"..." Lin Zhexia swallowed the meal, "High school...teaching materials?"

"Stupid birds fly first, you should understand this truth."

Lin Zhexia argued for herself: "I have already passed the entrance examination of the district, and I am in the same school as Chi Yao, so I am not considered a stupid bird."

The results have been released long ago, and the scores of each school have also been announced.

Lin Zhexia's previous mock test scores had been fluctuating up and down. When she encountered suitable papers, her grades rose like a rocket.

Fortunately, the final exam paper was quite suitable for her.

Lin He concluded: "You performed supernormally, which is an accident."

"And why do you have the nerve to mention that you and Chi Yao go to the same school?"

Lin He spoke slowly, with a bit of disbelief in his tone: "Although you are in the same school, you are stuck in the score line to enter, and they exceed the admission score line by more than 90 points."

"..."

Lin Zhexia felt a little choked on the food in his mouth.

"But it's strange to say," Lin He changed the subject, "With such a high score, he can be admitted to the first place, so how could he stay here?"

No. 1 Middle School is a key high school in Lianyun City.

Lin Zhexia didn't report to the city, firstly, he failed the exam, and secondly, he was too far away from home.

The main thing is that I still can't pass the exam.

She resolutely applied to the No. 2 Middle School. Although the two schools were only one stroke behind, the score line was quite different.

Although she and Chi Yao were young, they only went to the same elementary school, because she always hung out with boys at that time, Lin He felt that her personality didn't look like a girl, and threw her to a girls' school after graduating from elementary school.

Now that the girls' school career is over, it's been a long time since I went to the same school with this person.

Lin Zhexia thought for a while: "Maybe it's because it's close to home."

After finishing speaking, she tried to change the subject, seeing only her and Lin He at the dinner table, she asked again, "Where's Uncle Wei?"

The Lin family is a reorganized family. Lin's father left when she was very young, and Lin He worked hard to support her alone. When she was seven years old, she met Uncle Wei. It was precisely because of family reorganization that Lin Zhexia moved here when he was seven years old.

"Your Uncle Wei's company has something to do." Lin He brought her some food, "I guess I'll be back later."

Lin He returned to the topic after picking up the dishes: "Will the three textbooks be enough? I heard that the difficulty of high school has indeed increased a lot. Many people are asking for tutors."

"Three books are... quite enough."

"You have nothing to do during the holidays, and you are still idle when you are idle."

Lin Zhexia was holding the rice bowl, she was so choked that she couldn't eat it anymore.

In the following days, Lin Zhexia lived in dire straits.

Gone are the days of hiding at Chi Yao's house and borrowing a projector.

In front of her were three textbooks, namely: "Selection: Summer Improvement Training", "Entering High School in Advance" and "One Hundred Questions for Thinking Training".

Twenty pages a day.

every day.

-555

-Life is pressuring me.

- i'm so miserable

- i can't live

When Lin Zhexia was writing questions, she pressed her mobile phone under the textbook, and poked at the screen of the mobile phone word by word:

- I'm about to be, crushed, crushed.

The man on the other side responded with his persistent tug-of-war attitude.

- I will burn paper for you in Qingming

Lin Zhexia: "..."

After taking a deep breath, she exited the chat interface, clicked on the contact card, and changed the note "take medicine" that was homonymous with Chi Yao to "Chi Dog".

The word "Chigou" is not very depressing.

But with her poor vocabulary and good personal qualities, she couldn't think of other more insulting words for the time being.

She didn't plan to chat with Chi Yao anymore.

She clicked a few times in the contact list and opened another chat box.

Then click the output.

- Chi Yao.

-you are not human

-you are a dog

- When you come back, I must beat you.

The contact with the note "Da Zhuang" returned a long series of ellipses.

Da Zhuang: ...

Da Zhuang: Why are you two having conflicts again?

Da Zhuang: No, if you scold him, don't talk to me.

Lin Zhexia replied: Aren't you afraid that you won't be able to beat him?

Da Zhuang: Got it.

There are many people of the same age in the community, and Da Zhuang is also a member of the group they grew up with. Da Zhuang's name is He Yang, and he was fat when he was a child, so he was nicknamed "Da Zhuang".

After He Yang asked about the cause and effect, he comforted her: "Be content, I sent him a message and he didn't bring it back, and occasionally replied with two words, but I still read it." You have, let me count, six words. In contrast, my brother Yao gave you such an enthusiastic reply, I couldn't help but feel jealous, so please have fun secretly.

This time it was Lin Zhexia's turn to be silent.

-thank you.

Lin Zhexia put down her phone and wrote a few more questions. When the clock passed eleven o'clock and was about to take a break, she suddenly thought of the pile of snacks she had left at Chi Yao's house.

"I wanted to leave it for you to eat, so I didn't borrow your projector for nothing," Lin Zhexia poked the page of the book lightly with the pen tip, and muttered to himself, "But I didn't expect you to be a human being."

Lin Zhexia thought of this and decided to pay attention.

She dropped her pen, trying to get her snack back.

When she hurried out, she didn't notice that a dark window suddenly lit up in the opposite building.

It's past eleven o'clock.

It was pitch black in the neighborhood, only the street lights were still on.

Lin Zhexia took the key and ran into the opposite building familiarly.

She will have the key to Chi Yao's house, the main reason is that she always went to his house since she was a child. The frequency was too high, and Chi Yao felt annoyed, so he gave her the spare key and let her open the door by herself.

This bunch of keys stayed in her hands for many years.

Chi Yao's parents are very busy at work, and they usually run business outside, so Chi Yao is basically alone at home.

So when Lin Zhexia put the key in the door lock, he didn't pay attention to whether there was a sound inside the door.

She opened the door and found that the light inside was actually on.

Then she glanced around the living room and saw a black trolley case.

The last time she came here, she didn't see this box.

She didn't even have time to think about who was back.

next second.

The bathroom door was pulled open.

The person who came out was wearing a black T-shirt, his hair was not dried, and the slightly long hair fell on his forehead.

He was tall, in his juvenile period, and his bones seemed to have not fully grown, so the first impression he gave was that he had a thin waist and long legs. Underneath the black clothes, his skin was so fair that he even looked a little sick.

The young man is well-defined, his brows and eyes seem to have been accentuated, he is unruly and undisciplined.

He is drooping his eyes at the moment, the end of his eyes is long and narrow, and his double eyelids are very deep. Different from the thick and colorful eyebrows, his pupils are unexpectedly light, with a little edge.

Chi Yao glanced at Lin Zhexia who opened the door and came in, and after a long while, he calmly said, "Isn't that a surprise?"

"?"

It seemed that she didn't see Lin Zhexia's confused expression.

He dropped another sentence.

"Your father is back."