Chasing Summer

Lin Zhexia's grades rose rapidly.

In the final exam of the last semester of the third year of high school, she took the first place in the class.

And in class 7, where almost all the members are at the end of the crane, the grade ranks in the top 50.

Their seventh class is a liberal arts class.

At the time of class selection and class selection in the second year of high school, a very miraculous phenomenon appeared - when other classes were frantically choosing their own subjects, only Class 1 and Class 7 seemed to stay out of it.

The group of academic masters in class 1 defaulted to reasoning, and the group of "students" in class 7 unified in literature.

At that time, Tang Shuxuan and Chen Lin discussed this in secret: "This is the gap. After all, if you choose liberal arts, you can endorse it no matter how much you don't understand the knowledge... If you don't understand science, then there is really nothing you can do. You just put me in the On the test paper, even if I was killed, I couldn’t figure it out.”

As for class one.

It seems that everyone thinks that science is a better major to choose, and judging from the average score of their class, science has a greater advantage.

There was only one reason she started to bury her head in her studies, she wanted to meet him again.

If university...she can go to the same university as him.

But the difference in scores between the two is really difficult to make up.

Lin Zhexia was not happy with this report card that was praised by the head teacher.

…

Compared with Chi Yao, this result is still far behind.

She has checked several schools with relatively well-known physics majors, but none of them can be admitted by her now.

In the end she sighed and said to herself that she should work harder.

After Chi Yao left, Lin Zhexia was worried about his family's situation.

She knew that he would not accept money, but she couldn't help it.

She deposited all her New Year's money in the mobile bank, saved more than 2,000 "huge sums", and deliberately changed an unfamiliar mobile phone number to transfer money to Chi Yao.

It was only the next day that Chi Yao transferred the money back.

Lin Zhexia remained silent, and turned around again.

Chi Yao finally replied to the message through the transfer note: [Transferred to the wrong person. 】

Lin Zhexia: [I did not turn to the wrong person. To be honest, I am actually a rich man. As a person, I have a lot of money. I like to randomly select a few lucky people on the Internet every day, and then give them money. 】

Within ten minutes.

Her WeChat rang.

It was a message from Chi Yao. It didn't say anything, only three words.

Chi: Lin Zhexia.

Lin Zhexia: ...

Lin Zhexia knew that he had discovered it.

She expected it, but also wondered.

-How do you know it was me

Chi Yao replied her with four words: Do you still need to think about it?

Lin Zhexia was afraid that he would be unhappy, so she typed to make amends for herself: I'm sorry.

-Actually, I am simply because I have a rich dream.

-I have wanted to say such arrogant things to people online for a long time.

…

After about half a year, she began to get used to life without Chi Yao.

When I see a place on the Internet that I want to check in, or a new product package recently launched by the school canteen, I will not immediately think: I want to go with Chi Yao.

Only occasionally, very occasionally, I will think of some small details that only belong to the other party.

"The commissary recently started selling popcorn!"

Tang Shuxuan excitedly came over and informed them, "Ten yuan a barrel, you can buy it during physical education class."

Lin Zhexia's first reaction was that Chi Yao didn't like popcorn.

But Chi Yao ate the bucket she was holding in the movie theater.

In the third year of high school, Lin Zhexia was still immersed in her studies.

After Chi Yao was no longer by her side, unknowingly, the opposite **** appeared beside her who wanted to get close to her.

She began to have "suitors".

One of them was a boy who had been sitting behind her since her freshman year.

The boy asked for her contact information, but like the other students, he didn't talk much after that, and only sent holiday greetings during the New Year and holidays.

During a class break, she found an extra box of biscuits on her desk.

There was a message lying quietly on the phone: I see that you eat very little at noon...so I bought it for you.

Lin Zhexia was stunned for a moment, and replied: Thank you, but I can't take your stuff, how much is the biscuit, I'll pass it on to you.

But the boy unexpectedly persisted.

Even after she refused repeatedly, she couldn't help but say: "Student Lin Zhexia, I have actually liked you for a long time."

Lin Zhexia was a little confused: "Huh?"

The boy in the back seat: "Actually, I've been paying attention to you since the first year of high school... when I first entered school."

"I think you're cute," the boy was cautious when he spoke to her, "It's just that there were too many people around you before, so I was embarrassed to talk to you."

Lin Zhexia didn't expect that she could still receive a confession.

She felt embarrassed, but she still said seriously: "Thank you, but I have an appointment with someone, and I will study hard in the third year of high school. I hope you can study hard too."

After she got out of school, she told He Yang the key information about what she had confessed.

He Yang's expression was a bit complicated.

Lin Zhexia: "Why do you react like this, is it strange for someone to confess to me?"

He Yang said, "It's not strange, it's not strange."

Lin Zhexia: "Da Zhuang, there is something wrong with you."

He Yang couldn't say that he was thinking of another person far away from home who liked his brother Xia: "I'm very satisfied."

He Yang hid this secret by himself, and it was somewhat uncomfortable to hide it.

After a while, he couldn't help but said, "Did you ask me before what kind of girls Chi Yao likes?"

Lin Zhexia suddenly recalled the "black history" caused by hand slipping: "...how?"

—Haven't you ever thought that Chi Yao would like you?

But Chi Yao hid this matter so deeply that he was not qualified to speak for him.

In the end, He Yang came back rationally, and swallowed the words that came out of his mouth: "It's nothing, I just happened to think of this."

The days passed like this day by day.

It's just that every time she raised her head from the endless test papers, she was often surprised that the distance between her and Chi Yao seemed to be farther than before.

She slides the phone away.

Looking through the chat records with "Chi Mou", I found that the topics between the two became less and less.

-I just saw it

- i just finished my homework

-I've just got home

- i am writing a test paper

- There are actually five sets of questions in mathematics today, and I may not be able to finish writing them

…

The words are repeated meaninglessly.

The news from Chi Yao's side is also: in the hospital.

- just had surgery

- just got out of school

- The teacher confiscated the mobile phone this week

…

The two talked more about learning instead.

Chi Yao will regularly summarize knowledge points for her, and send photos to her.

Lin Zhexia originally thought that although Beijing was a little farther away, the two of them could still meet.

She knew that Chi Yao couldn't leave in the hospital. She had originally planned to go to Beijing to visit him during the winter vacation, but there were always many such and such accidents in life.

Cheng'an No. 2 Middle School and Senior Three have only five days of winter vacation.

And these five days...

"Xia Xia, let's go to Uncle Wei's hometown for the Chinese New Year this year," Lin He said to her before the holiday, "It takes two days to go back and forth, and it's just right to stay there for three days."

Lin Zhexia's plan came to nothing, and she let out an "oh" in disappointment.

Wei Ping's hometown is in the countryside, and it was the first time for her to go there.

Grandpa Wei and Grandma Wei are very kind, knowing that she is going to take the college entrance examination, she told her not to be nervous, and gave her a big red envelope.

There are many children here, Lin Zhexia was surrounded by a group of children as soon as he went there.

On New Year's Eve, she received a video call from Chi Yao amidst the noise of the children and the sound of firecrackers.

From the background of the video, Chi Yao should still be in the hospital. During the Chinese New Year, the corridors of the hospital were empty, and occasionally a doctor in a white coat patrolled by. He was wearing a gray sweater, his facial features resisted the camera, and his eyebrows and eyes were still familiar. Maybe it was because the lights in the corridor were too dark, which caused his eyes to be deep when he looked at the camera.

Lin Zhexia picked it up and said, "Why do you remember to call me a video."

"look at you."

Lin Zhexia's heartbeat stopped because of these three words.

Chi Yao's voice also paused, and he completed the sentence: "...Look at how you are doing recently."

Lin Zhexia Xin said that she didn't finish what she said just now: "Oh, I've had a good life recently."

"Where are you?" he asked.

"Uncle Wei's hometown," Lin Zhexia didn't dare to look at him after not seeing this face for a long time, she lowered her gaze, "It's my first time here, but they treat me very well."

Lin Zhexia said again: "Are you in the hospital? Why are you still in the hospital during Chinese New Year?"

Chi Yao: "My mother's physical condition is not very good. After the operation, she recuperated for a while and after she was discharged from the hospital, she had some other symptoms."

It's been too long since they've seen each other.

Even across the Internet, I feel a little inexplicably restrained.

Lin Zhexia: "Then what's going on in your family...how are things at home?"

Chi Yao: "It's still being processed. If the problem with the new production line can't be solved, the factory and the land itself still have a certain valuation, and it should be filled in."

It's just that this "filling in" has cost many years of hard work.

After exchanging pleasantries, the two fell into a brief silence.

Lin Zhexia found that the feeling of suddenly discovering the other party, a little farther away from herself than last time, came back in an instant.

…

It turns out that after two reacquainted people leave the same environment and social circle, they will become speechless.

"Chi Yao."

She finally held up her mobile phone and pointed at the fireworks in the night sky and said, "Happy New Year."

Fireworks rise into the sky and explode in the dark night.

"Happy New Year."

In Beijing First People's Hospital.

Facing the phone, the boy said in a low voice.

On the screen of the mobile phone, fireworks were brilliant, and the camera swayed. There should be a child running past her, making a lot of noise, calling her "sister".

After a while, the girl in the video said hastily, "My mother called me, I'll hang up first."

Video call disconnected.

Chi Yao sat on the bench for a few minutes. He put his phone in his pocket, put his hands in his pockets, and lowered his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.

Immediately afterwards, Bai Qin's voice came from the ward behind him: "—Chi Yao."

Chi Yao responded, pushed the door open and went in.

Due to illness, and Chi Yao has been by her side to take care of her, Bai Qin, a strong woman who has never been subdued, began to rely on her son. It is rare for her to have such a soft moment in her life: "What are you doing outside?"

Chi Yao said, "I made a call."

After finishing speaking, he walked to the bed again, helped Bai Qin up and asked, "Do you want an apple?"

It has become a habit for Chi Yao to take care of her, so he quickly peeled the apple and handed it over. When Bai Qin took the apple, she was about to sigh with emotion when she saw Chi Yao's cell phone next to her bed turn on.

His cell phone screen saver is a photo.

Bai Qin looked carefully, and saw a blue-purple hydrangea cluster and the silhouette of a girl squatting on the lace.

She felt familiar.

After thinking for a long time, she remembered where her impression of this girl came from.

The impression came from years ago, when she and Han Shan went back to fetch things, she suddenly ran out to stop them from going and questioned the little girl why they didn't accompany Chi Yao.

The two faces are very similar, but the little girl in my memory is still very young, with baby fat on her face.

And the girl in the photo, with delicate features, is much taller than when she was a child, with the slenderness unique to her teenage years.

Bai Qin took a bite of the apple and asked, "Do you still have contact with... your former friend?"

Chi Yao said, "Yes."

There are also fireworks outside the hospital.

It's rare for two people to celebrate the New Year together, and it's actually like this scene now.

Bai Qin couldn't help being sentimental, she suddenly said: "Before mom, she wasn't a qualified mother. I missed a lot of your growing up."

Chi Yao was picking up the peel, and when he heard this, he paused.

"I used to be like a person who had to move forward with a heavy shell on his back. Along the way, I felt that the "shell" I was carrying was very important. Career was very important, money was very important, social prestige was very important, and the "white" in the eyes of others was very important. Boss "Three words are very important."

"I don't know when the word 'mother' became less important in my life."

For so many years, she has missed the most important things.

Sitting on the hospital bed, Bai Qin thought, what the girl said back then was correct.

But at that time, she and Chi Hanshan were in a hurry to return to Beijing, thinking that the child was young and ignorant.

"During this time, you have been taking care of me," Bai Qin looked at Chi Yao, "You are in the third year of high school, and you have to run between the school and the hospital. I never thought that I would be relying on you now. You didn't see me place...to grow into a very good, great 'grown-up' on his own."

It was beyond her expectation.

Chi Yao packed up the fruit knife, looked at her, and said word by word, "I'm not."

Bai Qin froze for a moment.

"I didn't grow up alone," he added.

One day after Lin Zhexia thought that the distance between her and Chi Yao was getting farther and farther, she suddenly had a new feeling.

A very important mock exam before the college entrance examination.

She performed exceptionally well, and even did well in mathematics, which is always easy to lose points, and ranked among the top 20 in her grade.

This result is almost the result of the top students in "Class One".

Both Lao Liu and Lao Xu were ecstatic, and Lao Liu called her into the office on purpose, and repeatedly praised her as a "dark horse".

"Xiao Lin, I never expected it," Lao Liu patted her on the shoulder, and handed her a poor-quality certificate printed by himself, "I never expected you to have such a talent in learning."

"As a student who has been classified into Class 7 by his entrance score, he will challenge Class 1 with his own efforts through his continuous efforts."

"The school needs people like you and excellent representatives like you."

"..."

Lin Zhexia lowered his head and glanced, Director Liu's big handwriting on the inferior certificate read: Lin Zhexia, a prodigy in learning!

She took a deep breath: "Thank you Director Liu."

Old Liu waved his hand: "You're welcome, if you want to thank me, then next Monday's flag-raising ceremony, you can go up and give a speech? Share your learning experience and give everyone a pre-examination mobilization."

"...?"

Lin Zhexia couldn't help but said: "Director Liu, you are very good at doing business."

Old Liu made a final decision: "Then it's settled."

"..."

Publish learning experience at the flag-raising ceremony.

She couldn't imagine such a thing when she was in school.

With her personality, she is the kind of person who stands in the audience and applauds others.

Lin Zhexia went out of the office with the certificate, and sighed. Although she didn't resist, she was still a little nervous thinking about it.

After she got home and finished writing two sets of questions, she began to write about her learning experience.

Her study method is actually clumsy.

There are no special tricks. After writing, I also feel that reading this experience will be boring.

The day before she came on stage, she happened to tidy up the bookcase.

The moment she opened the cabinet door, she saw the little rabbit in the bookcase.

Because it is well protected and usually stored in the cabinet, the bunny keychain still looks new.

She picked it up, and for a moment, she seemed to be back when she and Chi Yao were squatting in front of the claw machine together, and she seemed to be able to see the boy hooking the key ring and sending it to her.

And what he said to her that day.

"coward."

"You shouldn't be too unlucky tomorrow."

Before this day, Lin Zhexia felt that the distance between her and Chi Yao was getting farther and farther, so far that she could hardly grasp it.

But it was also on this day that she suddenly discovered that the silent companionship in the long past had been immersed in each other's bones without knowing it. Because of his existence, a certain part of her made up who she is now.

This is the real distance between her and Chi Yao.

Although, he has not been by her side for a long, long time.