Chapter 6: The Father and the Son
It's all small people, don't say anything big, just live.
Li Lei never felt that he was one of those small group of outstanding people, from elementary school to junior high school, all the way to high school, maybe because of family reasons, or because of personality, Li Lei lived alone in school most of the time.
He is not the kind of good student in the eyes of the teacher, not the kind of troublemaker who likes to cause trouble, if there is one word to describe Li Lei, it is ordinary.
Exceptionally ordinary.
is so ordinary that except for a few people around them, many times everyone will ignore the existence of such a person in the class.
Along with the people who are ignored by the classmates, as the class leader of the next class and the man of the year in the grade, Tang Xin's impression of Li Lei is even rarer.
The only thing that can impress her is because since high school, when the two of them did recess exercises, they were next to each other.
Tang Xin is also a lonely person in school, but unlike Li Lei's loneliness because she is too ordinary, Tang Xin's loneliness is because she is too good.
With beautiful appearance, good academic performance, and a superior family background, Tang Xin has all the advantages that a girl can have.
In this way, she stands out from the crowd among her peers, which is enough to dwarf those ordinary girls or boys.
But even so, at the most terrifying moment in his life, Tang Xin had no way out and never thought that the person who appeared in front of him would be Li Lei.
Such a feeling is difficult to describe in words and words, Tang Xin's despair in the face of the woman in red, no one can understand it except herself.
"How did you do on the exam?" When leaving the examination room, Tang Xin took the initiative to walk to Li Lei's side and asked. Because there is a listening test in English, the test lasts two and a half hours, and because there are too many multiple-choice questions, everyone waits until the end to hand in the answer sheet.
Li Lei glanced at Tang Xin in surprise, as if he didn't expect her to take the initiative to communicate with him, although he saved her yesterday, but the relationship between the two people is actually not very close.
"General." Although Li Lei was quite wary of being involved with Tang Xin because of his precautions against the mysterious call, after all, he was a girl who had been secretly in love for so long, so his attitude was not bad.
"Oh......" I could see that Li Lei's mood was average, Tang Xin didn't say anything, and the two walked out of the examination room side by side.
Naturally, there were all parents outside the examination room, and Li Lei was stunned when he saw a familiar figure when he went out, but he didn't expect his father to really come.
"Brother Hu." Li Lei walked up to a young man in a shirt, the man was probably not more than thirty years old, wearing a pair of glasses, and looked polite.
"Xiao Lei has finished the exam." The young man known as Brother Hu was named Hu Dingguo, and after seeing Li Lei, he showed a smile: "How did you do in the exam?" ”
Li Lei smiled faintly: "General." ”
"Haha, you kid." Hu Dingguo didn't mind Li Lei's indifferent attitude, and stretched out his hand to rub Li Lei's head: "Let's go, your father is waiting for you over there." ”
Li Lei nodded, and followed Hu Dingguo into the distance.
The two of them came to the box of a hotel near the test center one after another, and He Changsheng and Li Donghua were already waiting there.
Li Lei greeted politely: "Hello Uncle He." ”
"Uh-huh, how is little Leikao?" He Changsheng asked Li Lei with a smile.
Li Lei replied: "It's okay, let's play normally." ”
He wasn't that kind of student in the first place, so naturally he didn't need to think about other things.
The meal was eaten quickly, Li Donghua and He Changsheng exchanged some things from time to time, Hu Dingguo was responsible for helping to pour wine or something, Li Lei was silent, eating his own things silently, and occasionally the topic was introduced to him, he would answer respectfully.
After eating, He Changsheng still had a task, so he left first, and only the father and son were left in the house.
Li Donghua asked Li Lei for the first time: "Is there a school you want to go to?" ”
Li Lei was stunned for a moment, and was silent for a few seconds before saying, "Let's take a look at the score, if I can, I want to go to Ninghai University." ”
His grades have always been average, and if he plays normally, he should be able to go to a second-class university.
Li Donghua nodded: "Yes, don't be ambitious, it's best to be down-to-earth." ”
After saying this, the father and son fell silent again.
Li Lei sat there, occasionally fiddling with his mobile phone, and did not speak.
Since he was a child, the communication between him and his father is basically like this, his father is not the kind of violence that adds fists and kicks to him, but looking at his father's unsmiling face, Li Lei will unconsciously stay away from him.
Eighteen years on, this has become a habit.
Looking at his son sitting there, Li Donghua sighed silently in his heart. This child is really like his mother, they are so silent, they are so quiet and introverted.
"Leader, the time is almost up."
At this time, Hu Dingguo knocked on the door and walked in, and said to Li Donghua respectfully.
Li Donghua nodded and said to Li Lei: "Go home early after the exam, I have a meeting today, and I may have to go back later." ”
Li Lei seemed to have been accustomed to such a scene, and sighed: "Got it." ”
Seeing his father's car leave, Li Lei casually found a shady place to sit down, looked at the time, and there was less than an hour before the start of the exam.
People who are used to loneliness sometimes feel quite awkward about a lively place.
It's not that I don't want to be lively, but I'm used to being alone, and suddenly being in the middle of the city will make people have a sense of noisy irritability.
Of course, there is also a sense of alienation, as if standing on a crowded street, surrounded by people, but no one has anything to do with you.
"Li Lei, have you eaten?"
At this time, a soft voice sounded in Li Lei's ears.
When he raised his head, he saw Tang Xin looking at him with a smile on his face, and next to him was the relative from yesterday, who seemed to be Tang Xin's aunt.
"I've eaten it." Li Lei replied to Tang Xin, and then looked at Tang Xin's aunt: "Auntie, hello." ”
From childhood to adulthood, my father and grandmother have taught Li Lei to be polite enough no matter who he faces, especially strangers.
Tang Xin's aunt smiled and nodded to Li Lei: "Hello." ”
As she spoke, she asked strangely, "What about your parents?" ”
Li Lei paused, hesitated for a moment before saying, "My mother is gone, and if my father says, he is very busy with work." ”
Tang Xin and her aunt looked at each other, and the two of them were all stunned, they didn't expect to hear such an answer.
All of a sudden, the atmosphere became a little awkward.