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Shang Mu and Lu Fan had lunch at their grandparents' house, and then strolled to the municipal square.

The two randomly found an alpaca coffee shop, drank coffee, and stroked the vicuña in it. Most of the afternoon passed.

When the sun began to slant westward, I turned to a nearby snack street to eat the special food of Q City.

Tofu skewers in chicken sauce sprinkled with cumin, steamed roasted sweet potatoes, cut a piece of jujube glutinous rice cake, and a bunch of candied haws.

After the last bowl of hot mutton soup, Shang Mu's stomach was full, and there was a thin layer of sweat on his forehead.

After eating, the square was already full of people.

There are less than four hours left before the New Year's Eve at zero o'clock.

The position of the two of them was not too far in front, and they found a place where the crowd was a little sparser to stand, and Shang Mu quietly put his hand into Lu Fan's pocket.

The boy was wrapped in a thick down jacket, and the neckline was also stuffed with a thick scarf knitted by his grandmother, which was round and fluffy.

Taking a slight step forward, he entered Lu Fan's arms.

"Just watch it here, don't squeeze in front. Anyway, it's a firework show, and you can see it from a distance."

Shang Mu looked at the tall People's Monument Tower not far away: "At that time, the fireworks will be released from the third and fourth floors of the tower. We can see it clearly from here."

Lu Fan put his hands into his pockets, held the soft back of the boy's hands, and whispered, "Okay."

Time passed little by little, from eight o'clock to 08:30, and continued to move backward from 08:30.

There are more and more people around, and the originally sparse location has become a little crowded unknowingly.

Shang Mu kept his hands in Lu Fan's clothes, and chatted with him in a low voice: "You can check the results of the competition after ten o'clock."

After speaking, he looked at the dial at the top of the People's Monument.

The closer to ten o'clock, the slower the minute hand felt.Like a late old man, staggering, step by step, and walking slowly, obviously it has been a long time, but it seems that he has not taken a few steps.

"Lu Fan." Shang Mu pursed his lips, leaned close to the boy's ear, and whispered, "If you fall out of the top five, you can let me go, and you can't go back on your word."

The corners of Lu Fan's lips raised slightly, and he let out a indulgent smile.She tilted her head slightly, and her lips just brushed against his temples: "Silly baby, do you remember? Then do you want the top five, or do you want me?"

Shang Mu took a step forward, reached the boy's toes, and said very honestly: "I will definitely remember such a big thing... And, of course, I want you more than the top five."

Lu Fan took out his mobile phone from his pocket and scratched the tip of his nose: "Didn't you let me hurt you tonight at noon?"

Shang Mu's ears, which were already red from the cold, suddenly turned even redder: "Why are you mentioning it again!"

Thinking of noon, he wanted to plunge his head into the ground.God knows what madness he was having at that time, why he suddenly said such shameful words.

Lu Fan: "Baby, you can't count your words."

Shang Mu's face was about to turn red, and he buried the tip of his nose in the scarf embarrassingly. After a long time, he stammered out a sentence: "Today, tonight, you come... I can find a day later, it's okay ..."

The boy touched his head gently, and heard him spit out the word "good", indulgent and gentle.

The young man pursed his lips, raised his head, raised his eyebrows, hugged Lu Fan's waist, and swayed happily: "Brother, why are you so nice..."

While speaking, there was another burst of cheerful music in the square.on the monument;

The clock finally pointed to the ten position.

Lu Fan clicked on the result inquiry page, and first entered Shang Mu's name and ID number.

When Shang Mu saw his name, all the hair bombed: "Why do you look at me first, first look at your own, you give me a little bit of preparation ..."

As soon as the words were finished, the display on the screen of the mobile phone was refreshed.A few rows of eye-catching small characters show his total score and ranking in the national competition.

Name: Shang Mu;

——National X Mathematics Competition National Finals——

Score: 138/150;

rank: 4 (one new message);

Shang Mu: ...

Neither entered the top three nor fell out of the top five.

I can't add 20 points to the college entrance examination, and I can't pass his husband.

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

However, behind the fourth place, there is actually a row of small red characters, which seems to be clickable.

Shang Mu pointed to the red message: "What is this, congratulations?"

After clicking on it, the page was refreshed again, and both of them took a breath.

It was an invitation letter from Seongnam University.

Dear student Shang Mu,

Hello there!

I am the head of the Department of Mathematics at Seongnam University. Congratulations on getting No.4 in the finals of the National Mathematics Contest. I wish you sincerely here.

Seongnam University has been following you since the game in H City.As the only dark horse in this competition, we saw your progress and your potential in mathematics, so the school decided to invite you for an interview.

Now, I use Seongnam University;

In the name of the Department of Mathematics, I sincerely invite you to come to Building 1 and Room 5 of the Faculty of Science, Seongnam University at 3:1 am on January [-]th to conduct an interview for the college entrance examination.

I wish you a successful interview!

——Dean of Mathematics Department of Seongnam University——

Doctoral supervisor and special research professor of Intelligent Mathematics at Seongnam University;

——Chen Xianfeng——

Shang Mu, who had read the entire letter, pinched his face and rubbed his eyes, completely in disbelief.

You must know that in the national mathematics competition, only the top three will get interview invitations from Chengnan and Qingbei universities every year!

And Shang Mu, ranked fourth, even got an invitation letter from one of the schools!

Now he wished he could jump up and cheer!

This is the Mathematics Department of Seongnam University!You must know that the top mathematics research professors in the country are basically divided up by the two universities in Chengnan and Qingbei!

"Lu Fan... Lu Fan, Lu Fan..."

He tugged on Lu Fan's arm so hard that his voice was shaking.

"Seongnam University asked me to go for an interview, Seongnam University asked me to go for an interview!"

Although he was excited, his voice was very low, only people who were very close to the two heard it, and turned their heads to look at them.

Lu Fan bowed his head and kissed the corner of his lips, the young man shrank his neck, and hurriedly urged him to check his grades.

Lu Fan logged out and changed his name and ID card.

When the page was swiped out, it turned out to be all red.

Name: Lu Fan;

——National X Mathematics Competition National Finals——

Score: 150/150;

rank: 1 (three new messages);

Shang Mu: ...

nest rub...

Maybe this is the real god in the world.

This is the first time Shang Mu has seen so many math competitions throughout the ages;

Full marks for the competition.

He put his fist to the boy's mouth and pretended to pass the microphone: "Student, may I ask if you are a Wenqu star? What is the sky like? Can you tell me? I want to know."

Lu Fan laughed amusedly by him, and then clicked on the three new messages.

Different from Shang Mu's interview letter, the letters he received from the two universities in the south of the city and the north of the Qing Dynasty were all written by the principal himself.And it is not an invitation letter for an interview, but a direct admission letter.

The other one is a congratulatory letter from the National Mathematical Association.

The entire page is beaming and filled with red.

The corners of Lu Fan's lips twitched happily, he pressed the phone lock screen and put it back in his pocket.

Hearing the sound of breathing in through his nose, he raised his head, only to realize that his little one was crying excitedly at some point.

The boy didn't make too much noise, he just shrugged his nose and blinked a pair of clear eyes, looking at him.

The corners of Little Alpha's lips were raised high, and when he saw him looking over, his eyes also curved into a pair of crescents.

Wet eyelashes have a slight tendency to condense in the cold air.

Lu Fan quickly hugged him, took out a tissue, and gently wiped his eyelashes.

Following his movements, the boy obediently raised his head and closed his eyes obediently.

Gently, bit by bit, the tissue was wiped on his eyelashes, the corners of his eyes, and his cheeks.

In the end, the cool skin gently rubbed against his face, with a little callus... It was Lu Fan's fingertips.

Shang Mu slowly opened his eyes, and hugged the boy on tiptoe.

"Great, Lu Fan..."

He knew that after all the suffering, there will be sweetness in life.

Lu Fan inserted his fingertips into his hair, rubbed it back and forth, and whispered in his ear, "Baby, don't cry anymore... I will feel bad if I cry again."

Shang Mu got off him embarrassedly, rubbed his eyes, and squeezed out two small dimples.

Then he took out his mobile phone and said, "I'll report my grades to my family."

He first called his grandparents.

He bragged to the two of them, saying that Lu Fan is so good, he got the admission notice of the first or second university in the country, and he didn't report his grades until the end, and he also received the news of the interview at Chengnan University.

I hung up on my grandparents and made a video call to my father.

Danced and danced to announce the good news to everyone, grandparents rushed over and praised the two of them.

Father Shang even transferred a red envelope of 1 yuan to Shang Mu directly.

On the red envelope, it was boldly written: The tuition fee for the third year of high school will be deducted, and the rest will be used for travel!

Shang Mu complained to his father in a long voice: "It's so picky, Dad! The tuition and living expenses for the third year of high school, plus the summer competition training, the 1 yuan deduction is not enough. How can there be money for travel!"

Before his father could speak, his grandfather pointed at his father's head first: "Tuition and living expenses plus summer training expenses are only 1 yuan? The children don't even have enough to eat! Mumu is so promising, you don't know how to give more money , supplemented with supplementary nutrition."

Mr. Shang is a veteran cadre of the military department. He is an old general who has followed Shang Mu's great-grandfather to carry out the reform and new policy since the feudal period when Alpha was in power.After the liberation of the three sexes, the military has been maintaining the military operations of the country.

He has been in a high position for a long time, and he usually doesn't feel comfortable talking to his family, but once he starts training people, his official authority will follow.

"Mu Mu, your father has no money, and grandpa will sponsor you! Grandpa—give you—2 yuan to help you go to college!"

Father Shang hurriedly stopped him: "Dad, don't meddle in it, Qingyun will have to give him money later, and his grandparents will also have to give him money, this kid has a lot of places to make money, you can't let him spoil you! "

Shang Mu watched his brother Song Qingyun transfer money one after another on the horizontal screen at the top of his phone screen, smiling like a kitten who stole fish.

[Song Qingyun: Transfer [-].Take the reward that grandpa gave you. 】

[Song Qingyun: Transfer [-].Grandma's reward for you. 】

[Song Qingyun: Transfer thirty thousand.I gave it. 】

[Song Qingyun: Transfer [-] yuan.It was given by your aunt and uncle. 】

[Grandpa: Transfer [-].Sending my grandson to college! 】

Shang Mu asked Lu Fan to hold the phone for him, and bowed to the phone himself: "Thank you grandpa! Thank you dad, happy new year, happy new year!"

Then, mercilessly hung up the phone.

Round after round of greetings on the phone, and after showing off in the Wchat group for a long time, cheers erupted all around.

Shang Mu raised his head, only to realize that it was almost midnight.

The clock of the People's Monument suddenly went out, and there were whispers all around.

"It's counting down, it's counting down!"

"so excited!"

In the next second, the surrounding lights suddenly dimmed.

On the clock on the memorial tower, a large number suddenly appeared: 10.

In the crowd, excited shouts erupted: "Ten!"

The number flipped down again and became: 9.

Everyone also shouted together: "Nine!"

Lu Fan hugged Shang Mu's back tightly, took him into his arms, and put his chin on the young man's shoulder.

There was a lot of noise around, but they could still hear each other's voices, as if they were transmitted into each other's bodies through physical sound waves.

"Eight!"

"seven!"

"six!"

"three!"

"two!"

"one!"

The clock finally turned out a large Arabic numeral: 0.

A final cry erupted from the crowd: "Zero!"

A wisp of fireworks suddenly lifted into the sky, dragging a long tail in the strong firelight.

There was a "bang", and fire trees and silver flowers exploded above the head.

One is not over yet, and the next one will go up to the sky.

One after another... in succession.

At this moment, there is silence everywhere, only the fireworks in the sky.

Shang Mu raised his head to watch intently, and suddenly the tip of his ear was kissed.Lu Fan's low voice entered the cochlea.

"Mu Mu."

Shang Mu turned around: "Brother..."

Before he could finish a title, his lips were sucked by this man.

Hugging each other tightly, and entangled tightly.

Under the sky full of fireworks.

In the bustling crowd.

Time flies by, and it is already the next year in a blink of an eye.

Let's be together next year...

Shang Mu closed his eyes and quietly made a wish in his heart.

Not just next year...

The year after, the year after...

In the years to come, I should also spend time with him.

The author has something to say: Congratulations to Mu Mu, congratulations to Lu Fan.

The future looks bright.