Chapter Twenty-Four: Alone in the Woods
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One night in the self-study class, Lin Meihui poked Zhong Shan's arm, who was immersed in the question, and quietly put a handful of small white biscuits in his palm into Zhong Shan's palm, only smiled, and his eyes remained on his language book as if nothing happened. Zhong Shan's heart was beating faster and he was at a loss.
In another evening self-study class, Lin Meihui poked Zhong Shan's arm again, and this time it was not a biscuit that was stuffed into his hand, but half a white pill. Seeing that Zhong Shan was a little surprised, Lin Meihui whispered: "This is brain rehabilitation, brain supplementation, half of our family, aren't you tired from your former tablemates?" We have to take precautions early and survive the college entrance examination. So he picked up the enamel jar painted with the pattern of the little white rabbit, drank a sip of water and sent down the pill first, "Look, it's not poison, eat it with confidence", and handed the jar to Zhong Shan, who swallowed the pill with water and didn't taste anything.
When I was studying on my own next night, it was already past ten o'clock at night, and Zhong Shan and Lin Meihui walked out of the classroom with their classmates one after another.
Lin Meihui said: "I don't want to go back to sleep so early, let's go for a walk in the grove, breathe fresh air, relax and relax, and add some oxygen to the brain." ”
Zhong Shan was silent, but followed closely behind Lin Meihui. The two of them came to the poplar forest on the campus one after the other.
The spring night breeze is warm and soft, rustling the leaves of the young trees that have just grown. During the day, there are always many students who go to the grove to memorize English words, but at night, it is very quiet, and it is a world that belongs only to these two young people. A full moon hangs in the middle of the sky, and the shadows of the trees are mottled on the cement stone benches. Lin Meihui gently blew the dust on the stone table with her mouth, took out a handkerchief from her jacket pocket and spread it, and sat down first. Zhong Shan hesitated for a moment, and also sat down, a body distance from Lin Meihui.
Lin Meihui said: "I actually don't want to take the college entrance examination, I want to go to the song and dance troupe to sing, the teachers in the troupe all say that I have a good voice and a talent for singing, but my mother disagrees, and I have to be admitted to university, and singing is not a serious career." I still want to be an actor, like Liu Xiaoqing and Zhang Yu, acting in movies, how energetic and beautiful, but I don't dare to tell my mother, I guess she won't agree. ”
Seeing that Zhong Shan was speechless, Lin Meihui said again: "Zhong Shan, you don't know, I am not born to my parents and my parents, I am the child they adopted." They still hide it from me, thinking that I don't understand anything, but I already know, but I still don't know who my real parents are. ”
Zhong Shan turned sideways to look at Lin Meihui's beautiful face, a little shocked, he didn't know that the lively and cheerful classmate Lin Meihui actually had the same life experience as himself, and he was naturally emotionally closer. He thought that Lin Meihui might accuse more adoptive parents of their sins next.
"Growing up, they always arranged for me to arrange for me and that, and never asked me what I wanted. It's not that I don't want to go to college, but I'm not that material, especially mathematics, it's so difficult for me, it's just listening to the heavens, and it suffocates my head. One day when I break down, like your former table mate, they'll be happy! Zhong Shan, I see that you can do it this time, the key is mathematics, the progress is really fast, and the results of the mock test have reached a higher level. Seeing that Zhong Shan didn't speak, Lin Meihui pulled his sleeve, Zhong Shan was excited, and Lin Meihui was happy, "Look at your little cowardice, what do you think, I won't eat you again." “
"You don't know, since I first saw you, I found out that you look very much like Guo Kaimin, especially your eyebrows and eyes, and your demeanor is also similar, I like his "Lushan Love", and I haven't seen enough after watching it three times. A lot of female classmates say that I look like Zhang Yu, I compared the photo with the wall calendar, it's a bit similar, what do you think? Lin Meihui couldn't help but approach Zhong Shan's side and took his hand.
Zhong Shan unnaturally wanted to pull it back, but finally didn't, his heart was beating faster, his face was hot, and he didn't let Lin Meihui see his embarrassment because of the cover of the night.