Chasing Summer

The next day, Lin He and Wei Ping booked air tickets, and the two went on a long vacation.

Lin Zhexia, who didn't want to go out, sent them to the door: "I know, remember to bring the keys, and remember to eat well."

Before Lin He left, she was still worried about her: "How does your knee feel today?"

Lin Zhexia: "I just had a broken skin, and the wound was not deep, and the scab formed quickly. After a day of rest, the pain is gone today, and there is no big problem in walking."

Lin He: "You must pay attention to safety when you are alone at home—"

"understood."

After Lin He and Wei Ping left, Lin Zhexia went back to bed and lay down for a while.

Chen Lin made a phone call: "Tang Shuxuan and I are planning to go out to play, how is your condition today, do you want to go with us?"

"where to."

"I don't know yet, do you have any ideas?"

Lin Zhexia thought for a while: "Let's go to the temple."

Chen Lin: "Huh?"

Lin Zhexia began to check the map: "There is one nearby, it only takes 20 minutes by car in the past."

Chen Lin: "I asked you to talk about your ideas, but I didn't let you be so creative. I thought everyone would want to go to places like dessert shops. Why would you think of going to a temple?"

Lin Zhexia: "Because Chi Yao is going to participate in a physics competition."

Chen Lin: "So?"

Lin Zhexia: "That's why I want to go to the temple to worship. I heard that the lucky charms in that temple are very powerful."

Chen Lin: "..."

After a while, Chen Lin said, "Okay then, I'll ask Tang Shuxuan, if she wants to go, we can go, but I think there is a high probability that she won't—"

When Chen Lin said this, she paused.

Chen Lin: "She came back to me and said she was very willing, and she wanted to go and ask for a marriage."

Lin Zhexia was also silent for two seconds: "This is indeed something she would say."

Chen Lin sighed: "Then I'll go and ask for a smooth pass in the college entrance examination."

Chi Yao set off at two o'clock in the afternoon, so the trip to the temple was very rushed. Lin Zhexia was afraid that when she came back with the things, he would leave before he had time to give them to him.

So before she set off, she sent a bunch of messages to Chi Yao.

- remember to tell me before you get in the car

- i want to see you off

- Even if I'm on crutches, I'm here to see you off [smile]

But to her surprise, there were a lot of people in the holiday temple, and there was a long queue at the place to ask for amulets.

After leaving school, it was rare for everyone to wear their own clothes. Tang Shuxuan wore a dress today, which looked very ladylike.

Tang Shuxuan comforted: "Don't worry, I should be able to catch up."

Lin Zhexia blamed herself a bit: "If I had known earlier, I would have come yesterday."

Tang Shuxuan: "...Yesterday your legs were not fully healed, how did you come here?"

Lin Zhexia: "Rent a wheelchair?"

"..."

The three chatted for a while while queuing.

Chen Lin cheered up the atmosphere, and joked: "Shuxuan, what kind of marriage are you looking for, please be with that senior."

Tang Shuxuan didn't deny it: "I hope we can go to the same school after graduation, and I hope that when he wants to fall in love in the future, he will consider me first."

She continued: "Actually, when I first asked for contact information, I just asked for it casually. I didn't expect so many stories to happen later, although they were all unilateral stories on my part." When she said this, she paused, "I really like him very much."

Lin Zhexia listened from the side, and she looked at the seemingly endless queue in front of her, as well as the cigarettes lingering around her, and the pious believers prostrating in front of the Buddha statue.

The temple is a bit old, and there is a century-old tree in the yard with luxuriant branches.

She retracted her eyes, and suddenly asked Tang Shuxuan: "What is liking?"

She continued to ask, "How do you like someone?"

Tang Shuxuan was stunned by these two sentences.

She thought for a long time, and finally said: "I don't know how to explain it, but if you like someone, you will definitely find out."

The line was long that day.

When Lin Zhexia arrived in line, she held the lucky bag and kowtowed to the Buddha statue a few times devoutly.

As she bent down, she muttered to herself:

I hope Chi Yao's game goes well.

No, it's not just the competition, I hope everything goes well for him in the future.

And safety and health are also very important... Wouldn't it make too many wishes?

The "lucky charm" that is said to be very effective on the Internet is actually a small red lucky bag, which is strung with a red string, like a small pendant.

However, as soon as Lin Zhexia stood up with the lucky charm, she received a message from Chi Yao.

- get in the car.

…

Lin Zhexia: Didn't you say to leave in the afternoon, it's only noon now.

Chigou: Old Liu drove over to pick me up

"What's wrong?" Chen Lin asked her.

"Chi Yao left early." Lin Zhexia put down the phone, a little disappointed, "I still didn't catch up."

There was no need to rush back to deliver things to Chi Yao. After they came out of the temple, they picked a restaurant with a better environment to have dinner together.

After ordering, Chen Lin saw that Lin Zhexia was still staring at the lucky bag.

After she put down the menu, she said, "It's okay, his grades are so good, participating in a competition is just a trivial matter for him."

Tang Shuxuan also said: "Yes. If you think about his score, even if he meets an opponent from Lianyun No. 1 Middle School, he won't be afraid."

"And even if you don't want his grades, you have to think about this person's character—"

Tang Shuxuan shook her head, "With such a character that is invulnerable to all poisons, he is the only one to poison others."

From Tang Shuxuan's point of view, she never imagined that Chi Yao would need to be worried about participating in the competition.

She even felt that she should be more worried about Chi Yao's opponent.

Lin Zhexia pinched the lucky bag and said, "No, he..."

Sometimes he just wants to save face.

He also gets nervous. He even, sometimes can't sleep.

But these words, which only she knew, swirled around her mouth, and finally she didn't say it.

At the same time, Lin Zhexia's memory was pulled back many years ago.

At that time, Chi Yao's health was better, and he returned to school normally, but he was not very popular in school.

In the eyes of other students, Chi Yao is difficult to get along with.

He doesn't talk to people very much, and always has a "stay away from me" attitude.

Only she followed him after school and chirped: "Chi Yao, the food in the cafeteria is really bad today."

"Chi Yao, I don't know how to do my homework in the technical class. I know that a helpful person like you will definitely help me."

"Our teacher mispronounced my name in class today, and he actually called me Lin Chaixia."

"As a result, my classmates are now calling me to dismantle Xia—"

"..."

The road back to Nanxiang Street from elementary school was very short, surrounded by trees, Lin Zhexia at that time walked with Chi Yao, carrying the pink schoolbag that Wei Ping gave him.

She changed the subject several times, and finally remembered something, and shouted again: "Yes, I heard that you are going to participate in the Mathematical Olympiad next week."

Lin Zhexia continued: "Don't be nervous."

At that time, Chi Yao stopped, put his hands in his pockets, and spoke with a cold and condescending look: "Am I going to be nervous?"

At that time, she didn't understand what Chi Yao meant by saying this, she just said: "Everyone is nervous."

Chi Yao blocked her words: "I won't."

"That kind of small game, I don't take it seriously at all."

But no matter how ignorant she was, she still vaguely felt Chi Yao's unusual persistence.

It seems that being underestimated and considered not strong enough is an unacceptable thing for him.

This suspicion was accidentally verified the day before the Mathematical Olympiad.

Coincidentally, Chi Yao's house key was lost that day.

The worker who unlocked the lock has already left work and will not be here until tomorrow morning, so Chi Yao can only stay at her house temporarily.

Lin He and Wei Ping originally wanted to give him the bedroom, but Chi Yao didn't want to bother them so much, so he couldn't hold back and spread a quilt on the sofa for him.

Lin Zhexia looked at Lin He spreading the quilt with her hair down: "He can also sleep with me."

Chi Yao directly refused: "Who wants to sleep with you."

"..."

Lin Zhexia: "It's your honor that I allow you to sleep with me, don't be ignorant of good and evil."

Lin He turned to look at her: "Speak less."

Lin Zhexia shut up.

Then she got up at night, and when she passed the living room, she found that the quilt that Lin He spread was still intact, without any trace of being used, and only a very weak light was turned on in the whole living room. Through the dim light, she saw the man sitting on the living room rug.

After returning to the room, she paid special attention to the clock on the wall, and the direction of the hour hand was "2".

…why is this person still up at two o’clock in the middle of the night.

When Lin Zhexia thought of this, the waiter just served the food: "Hi, the dishes are all ready, please take it easy."

She recovered and said, "Thank you."

At this time, Chen Lin and Tang Shuxuan's attention had already been attracted by the new dishes.

It happened that she didn't want to continue talking, so she took the opportunity to skip this topic and said, "Let's eat."

Before eating, she took pictures of the dishes on the table and sent them to Chi Yao, with a text:

- don't be too envious of dad

Chi Yao is probably still on the way and will return soon.

- Can you go down?

Lin Zhexia replied: The pain is gone and I can walk.

She continued typing: And don't tell me that I am really disabled.

After Chi Yao went to the next city, the contact between the two could only rely on the Internet.

But through the Internet, she could also basically understand Chi Yao's movements. She knew that the school had rented a hotel for them and that they were going to have a training camp, so she stayed for three days.

After Chi Yao sent the hotel photo, Lin Zhexia chatted with him on WeChat: Your hotel is so big, I am so envious, I have never stayed in such a big hotel in my life

Chi Gou: It's over, take it

Lin Zhexia: Oh, I just want to give you a little face

Chigou: no need

…

After a while, she poked him again: what are you doing

Chigou: [/Photo]

Chigou: Write a question.

Chi Yao would tell her these things before, but at that time she was only focused on bickering with him, and didn't pay much attention to the content.

Not like now.

It's strange that she stared at the photo sent by Chi Yao for a long time.

In the corner of the photo, Chi Yao's hand was captured on the test paper.

She had to admit that it made her happy to know all about his activities at all times.

Inside the hotel.

"I borrowed a classroom," said the teacher leading the team while instructing them in the training camp, "but there was a problem with communication, so let's make do with it in the hotel. We have six people in a team, and two tables are enough. gone."

Chi Yao and Xu Ting sat together.

He held a pen in one hand, and a test paper was spread out in front of him.

A mobile phone was blatantly placed next to the test paper.

Xu Ting: "I admire you for replying messages."

After Chi Yao replied the message: "Don't you have a mobile phone?"

Xu Ting: "No one sent me a message."

Chi Yao ignored him.

Xu Ting joked casually: "You two are really good brothers - can you ask Brother Xia to send me some messages, my phone will rust if it doesn't move."

This time Chi Yao reacted, he took Xu Ting's test paper out of his hand with one hand, including the paper and the pen, and then patted it on the opposite side.

"Change your seat," Chi Yao said, "You sit across from me."

Xu Ting: "..."

The whole day of training passed quickly.

After nightfall, the members of the training camp went back to their rooms to rest.

The teacher who led the team warned: "Go to bed early, don't stay up late, and recharge your batteries."

After returning to the room, Chi Yao took a shower, but he didn't go to bed after the shower.

The single room was very quiet, and it was already pitch black outside the window. He sat on the chair by the window with his legs bent, still holding a pen in his hand, and occasionally wrote and scratched on the pad of paper on his knee.

But most of the time, he just stared out of the window with a pen in a daze.

The black fountain pen rotates freely at the fingertips, and the clock on the wall rotates as time goes by.

The hour hand quickly passed three o'clock.

Three o'clock in the morning.

Lin Zhexia was woken up by a specially set alarm clock.

She was still half asleep and half awake, so she fished out the mobile phone next to the bed, and unconsciously found the familiar Mao Maotou.

-Are you asleep

After she finished sending, she really wanted to open her eyes, and in a brief haze, she saw the line "The other party is typing" flashed on the top of the chat box.

It's really a blink, a, one, and a down.

The person on the other side looked like he clicked in subconsciously and wanted to reply to her.

But he reacted immediately, and then started pretending not to be there.

It wasn't until eight o'clock in the morning that the other party replied to her as if pinching the time: I just woke up.

Lin Zhexia stared at the phrase "just woke up" for a long time.

She was a little angry, but more, it was an emotion called caring.

Concerned about the fact that he doesn't sleep at night.

He cared that he was afraid that she would be worried, so he deliberately pretended to be asleep and would not reply to the news.

Concerned about whether he...will affect the game the day after tomorrow.

And it's physics, a very important game for him.

Lin Zhexia suddenly seemed to be filled with something called courage and impulsiveness. She opened the travel software to check the ticket to the next city.

It is more than 1,500 kilometers to Haicheng City from here.

The high-speed rail takes more than six hours.

The closest shift is 3pm.

"Xia Xia," Lin He was worried in the afternoon, and would call her every day, "How are you at home?"

Lin Zhexia said, "Mom, I'm fine."

Lin He: "Why are you so noisy over there? Where are you?"

Lin Zhexia stood alone in the crowded train station, surrounded by people coming and going, and the screen showing the train number kept flashing: "I... I am playing outside with my classmates."

Lin He: "Student?"

Lin Zhexia was worried that the broadcast at the train station would reveal her location, so she didn't dare to say to Lin Heduo: "Yes, I'm too noisy to answer the phone, I'll send you a WeChat message later. That's it, I'll hang up first."

Lin Zhexia hung up the phone in a hurry.

Then, holding the ticket from Lianyun City to Haicheng City in her hand, she looked for the location of the entrance to the flashing train number screen.

Lin He usually controls her very strictly, so this is the first time she has traveled far alone.

Go to a place more than a thousand kilometers away alone.

Haicheng City is a coastal city in the north, a place completely different from Lianyun City.

But as long as she thought that the person more than a thousand kilometers away was Chi Yao, she didn't feel scared at all.

Recalling afterwards, the time in the car that day seemed to be very short, and it seemed to be very long. The scenery outside the car window kept changing. I left the Jiangnan water town, experienced a large area of ​​farmland and mountains, and stopped in several different cities.

Finally, she squeezed out of the crowd at the train station, stood at the exit of Haicheng Railway Station, looked at this strange city, and felt a little overwhelmed.

Chi Yao had sent her photos of the hotel before, but she didn't know the exact location.

It was already past nine o'clock in the evening.

The sky was dark, and the accents of the people around me felt strange.

Someone saw her standing at the exit and spoke to her, but the words were in a local dialect, which she didn't understand.

Lin Zhexia ignored everyone.

He found a corner at the exit and squatted down, and called Chi Yao.

"Chi Yao."

After the call was connected, she asked, "Are you asleep?"

on the other end of the phone.

Chi Yao sat on the chair by the window, glanced at the bed which had not been used at all, and said, "Just going to sleep."

Lin Zhexia said in his heart that he believed you, you idiot.

She didn't insist on this topic, and suddenly said: "Do you believe in magic in the world?"

There was silence on the other side of the phone.

He seemed to have heard some noisy voices during these short seconds.

"If you don't come home so late, where are you now?"

Lin Zhexia didn't answer his question, and continued on his own: "I know magic. You send me a location share, and I can come to you."

On the other side of the phone, the boy's tone changed.

When Chi Yao spoke, his tone was lowered, and he asked repeatedly: "Where are you?"

Lin Zhexia realized in a second that Chi Yao was a little angry.

Or anxious.

Lin Zhexia didn't dare to continue joking, and said honestly: "I'm in Haicheng City now."

"Exit No. 2 of Haicheng Railway Station, on the side, next to the pillar."