"I'm almost home, hang up first."

The yellow and dry rolled sycamore leaves fell to the ground, making the impersonal cement floor stained with a bit of autumn. Bai Jinyan tightened the school uniform jacket on his body, stood at the wide intersection, and reminded the other end of the phone that his trip had reached the end.

Chen Ruowen sighed.

"Why do you hang up on me when you get home? Could it be that you secretly raised a little lover at home behind my back? ”

"What nonsense are you talking about......"

Bai Jinyan couldn't cry or laugh.

"It's not that you don't know the situation in my family, and it's inconvenient to answer your phone."

The situation of Bai Jinyan's family...... Chen Ruowen pondered for a while what was going on in his family, and then he was a little amusedly surprised.

"Isn't it? You're in your third year of high school, is your grandfather still doing that? ”

Bai Jinyan sighed and nodded with a more helpless look than when he dissuaded Chen Ruowen from messing around.

"I've been like this since I was a child, what can I do."

"Haha, I really want to eavesdrop when you say that, can you turn on the phone on the speakerphone and put it in your purse for me to audit? I promise not to say anything, you just let me listen to it! ”

"Chen Ruowen!"

Bai Jinyan finally stopped, he stood under a dim street lamp, pursed his lips and looked at the girl who was already trembling with inexplicable laughter across the screen, the expression on his face could hardly be said to be annoyed or embarrassed.

"Why are you murdering me!"

“……”

Bai Jinyan was immediately deflated.

"I ...... No......"

"Then why are you calling my full name so loudly?"

Chen Ruowen immediately took a bite back and climbed the moral high ground.

“……”

Okay, what am I going to do with her? Isn't this looking for trouble for yourself? Bai Jinyan patted his head, only to feel that his reaction just now was extremely incorrect.

"Okay, I'm going home, let's not talk about it."

Chen Ruowen snorted, her face full of reluctance.

"Then you call me tomorrow."

"Hmm."

"I've said it a hundred times, don't reply to me, um!!"

“…… All right. ”

"What's going on?"

"Call you......"

"Call me what?"

“…… Minwen. ”

"That's pretty much it."

Bai Jinyan sometimes really regrets it, why should she take the initiative to find Chen Ruowen if she has nothing to do, her temper is really unbearable, although she ...... It's actually quite cute when the temper goes down.

Crossing the last boulevard, Bai Jinyan finally stood in front of his house.

Since the refusal of the home to drive the pick-up and drop off is not good, whether it is a bus or a taxi can only stop at the entrance of the community at most, the distance between the villas is very large, and it is extremely difficult to walk in.

This is fortunate that Bai Jinyan's house is not very far from the entrance of the community, if he is in the middle of the community like Chen Ruowen's house, it is really impossible to keep a low profile and not drive.

"Di-" printed his fingerprints, the door opened, and he put on the cotton slippers that the maid had prepared a long time ago, and as soon as he turned a corner, Bai Jinyan ran into his grandfather Qi Ziyi, who was sitting on the sofa in the living room reading the newspaper.

Qi Ziyi heard the sound of the door opening, looked up at the pendulum clock placed in the corner, and silently withdrew his gaze.

"It's a quarter of an hour later than usual today."

Bai Jinyan hummed, put down the schoolbag behind him and sat on Qi Ziyi's side.

"It's a bit of a delay."

Walking while talking on the phone would have been slower than normal, not to mention that Chen Ruowen had a lot to do......

It was only a quarter of an hour late, and Bai Jinyan felt that it was all thanks to the taxi driver who was speeding today.

Qi Ziyi didn't bother much in this quarter of an hour, he closed the newspaper and put it back on the coffee table, straightening his slightly rickety back.

"Let's get started."

Bai Jinyan sighed secretly in his heart, habitually looked up at the frame in the center of the living room, "It's better to keep the middle", and opened his mouth numbly.

"The Tao is the way, the very way; The name is famous, and the name is not very famous. The beginning of the nameless heaven and earth, the mother of all things. Therefore there is no desire ......"

Qi Ziyi is an out-and-out admirer of Lao Tzu, which can be seen from the name he chose for Bai Jinyan.

Before the old man retired, he taught at Nancheng University, the most famous university in Nancheng, and as an old scholar who had taught for half his life, Qi Ziyi also contracted a very nasty occupational disease, that is, he had to force his children and even his grandson to like what he admired.

If you don't like it, keep preaching until you like it.

Bai Jinyan's mother, Qi Faran, has been ravaged by the Tao Te Ching since she was a child, and she endorses it every day after school. It wasn't until I went to college in another place that I was freed from this nightmare.

Then feng shui takes turns, the son inherits the mother's business, Bai Jinyan just learned to speak, and when other children were still learning to "look up at the bright moon and bow their heads to think of their hometown", Qi Ziyi began to teach his grandson to read aloud and recite...... The full text of the Tao Te Ching.

This is 14 years, rain or shine, even if there are so many homework in school that I can't finish it, even if I am sick and injured and have a high fever.

Others always think that Bai Jinyan is a person with great self-discipline, but no one knows how this self-discipline is formed under the high pressure that cannot be resisted, and whether the future will explode in oppression or perish in oppression, perhaps only time can know all this.

“…… The way of heaven is beneficial but not harmful, and the way of the saint is not to fight. ”

After reciting the full text, Bai Jinyan finally came back to his senses like a music box at the end of the clockwork, and changed from mechanical mode to a normal person.

Qi Ziyi nodded with satisfaction, picked up the newspaper and gave Bai Jinyan a signal of "You can go".

It's just that this side of the matter is over, and the other side of the matter has just begun. When Bai Jinyan returned to his room, he ran into his mother Qi Faran head-on.

Qi Faran took a glass of warm milk and put it in front of Bai Jinyan's table, sat down opposite his son dignified and elegant, and began a new round of interrogation.

"Sincerely, in the afternoon, my mother talked to your teacher Wu on the phone, and I heard that the results of the autumn joint entrance examination have come out today?"

Bai Jinyan snorted, and continued to solve the physics problem in his hand without raising his head.

Qi Faran frowned slightly.

"When you talk to someone, you have to look them in the eye, have you forgotten the etiquette that your mother taught you?"

"Mom, I haven't finished my homework yet, can you please stop bothering me?"

"Mom cares about you, why is it a disturbance to you?"

Seeing that his son still didn't answer, Qi Faran had to give up preaching and turn back to the topic.

"How's it going?"

Bai Jinyan paused, leaned over and took out a few neatly stacked test papers from his schoolbag, threw them in front of his mother without looking at them, and continued to work on the questions.

Qi Faran was completely quiet at this time, and first took out the one that belonged to mathematics from a small stack of papers, and frowned just by looking at the score.

“145？”

"Well, a multiple-choice question is wrong."

Qi Faran skimmed through the dense test questions at a glance, and finally focused on the only place where the red cross was drawn, and his face changed again.

"How could you get this simple logic problem wrong?"

"The option was misprinted, and I didn't pay attention to it when I did it." Bai Jinyan explained simply.

Qi Faran put down the test paper and taught patiently.

"Although our family doesn't need you to be good in the college entrance examination, but after all, my mother used to be a math teacher, and if you are weak in other subjects, it's okay to say, but you can't always fail to get a perfect score in math, right?"

"Didn't you get a perfect score in the October exam?" Bai Jinyan was already a little impatient.

"Mom is talking about this exam, what are you doing about the October exam?"

Bai Jinyan listened numbly to another round of preaching and encouragement from his mother, and it was not until the door of the room closed again that he closed the lid of his pen, threw himself on the bed irritably, and grabbed a pillow to cover his head, as if he had made up his mind to suffocate himself in the futon.

When will this controlled life end?