Chapter 54
The woman threw herself on the table like a madman. Because her arms were restrained by her clothes and could not reach out, her body could only curl up and twist violently like a stressed python.
Her eyes were as red as if they were about to bleed, and her expression was fierce as if she wanted to choose someone to devour.
Everyone outside the visiting room, except Li Zhuiyuan, could not help but be shocked. Even Tan Yunlong was not exempt from this, because normal people would feel extremely uncomfortable seeing this scene.
After all, the other party is a human being, his own kind. Under the influence of a long-term peaceful environment, everyone generally cannot accept such hysteria of animalistic nature.
Li Zhuiyuan had a different feeling. Through the glass, he could see a kind of catharsis in the woman's screams and frantic body movements.
What is scary in the eyes of ordinary people, to him, is a sign that a benign stage in the cycle is about to begin.
This kind of empathy makes no sense. It’s a crude analogy. It’s like a drug addict can find out where to buy goods by just walking around in a city alley, or an old prostitute can tell if there’s any big work inside by just glancing at the door of a store. .
Special groups of people are like having radars installed on their heads. They can sense each other's presence, which is another kind of "similarity".
But it was obvious that Aunt Xu didn't understand, because she started to put away the photos on the table, thinking that the interrogation was over and she wouldn't be able to ask anything further.
Li Zhuiyuan felt that Li Lan would keep her by his side as his secretary, not because of her ability, but because she is a fellow countryman and can speak Nanjing Dialect, which can be used to talk to his parents on the phone in the future.
Even though it took several years for that phone call to be made, it was indeed something Li Lan would do.
"Brother Binbin, I know the aunt inside, and I don't want her to know I'm here."
This was not just said to Tan Wenbin.
After saying that, Li Zhuiyuan turned around and ran into the toilet on the side of the corridor.
The man next to Xu Wen helped her open the door. She walked out and saw three people standing at the door.
Xu Wen asked: "Who are you?"
Tan Yunlong replied: "I am the policeman from the place where the people inside have their registered residence. I will bring them here to have a look."
With that said, Tan Yunlong reached out and patted Tan Wenbin on the shoulder.
After all, Tan Wenbin had dinner with Die Dao.
At this moment, he lowered his head first to prevent the other party from noticing the convergence between his eyebrows and that of the "policeman" behind him, and then lightly shrugged his shoulders.
Xu Wen looked a little guilty. After all, she was responsible for the madness of the woman inside, so she just nodded, turned around and walked out, with the accompanying man following her.
When they walked to the toilet door, Xu Wen stopped and washed her hands.
The man lowered his voice and said: "I didn't ask for any results."
Xu Wen had no awareness of this and said in a normal voice: "She probably never went down there. She was just severely stimulated by her husband's affairs. Where is the next crew member?"
"Lianyungang."
"Then let's set off quickly."
"Do you want to visit them all?"
"Otherwise, for him, I want to see him alive, dead, or dead."
"This is your hometown, don't you go back and have a look?"
"I have already taken my mother to Beijing, and I don't have any relatives worth visiting in my hometown."
"I heard..."
"I don't dare to contact the director's relatives, otherwise when the director comes back..."
They left the toilet and walked outside, and the conversation behind them could not be heard.
Li Zhuiyuan came out of the toilet and turned on the faucet to wash his hands.
Thanks to being blind for a month, his hearing has been further developed, and he could hear the previous conversation.
Aunt Xu is looking for someone, but that person is not Li Lan, because Xu Wen would not describe Li Lan as "seeing people alive or dead".
Therefore, the mission Li Lan went on was not the area where Zheng Haiyang's parents had an accident, but Li Lan had indeed not returned yet.
What kind of task would take so long? It has already been two months.
Li Zhuiyuan walked back while waving his hands. In the past, he would take the initiative to meet and greet Xu Wen, calling her "Aunt Xu" affectionately, but now, he rejects contact with Li Lan and the people around him.
If he had a choice, he would rather not have any interaction with Li Lan for the rest of his life. I believe Li Lan thinks the same way.
Because after their mother and son met, no matter what they did or said, they were always picking each other's skin off.
The doctor came out and was communicating with Tan Yunlong.
"The patient is really emotionally unstable now and is not suitable for further visits."
Tan Yunlong pointed at Li Zhuiyuan who came back and said, "Let the child go in and see alone. The child is very pitiful."
The doctor looked down at Li Zhuiyuan. After hesitation, he nodded: "Okay, let him go in alone. You are all waiting outside and are not allowed to come in."
Tan Yunlong bent down and seemed to whisper in Li Zhuiyuan's ear: "That man has been a soldier and been on the battlefield."
Li Zhuiyuan nodded: "Thank you, Uncle Tan."
Tan Yunlong smiled and sat back on the bench in the corridor.
Li Zhuiyuan was put into the visiting room.
He sat down opposite the woman. At this time, the woman was no longer as excited and crazy as before, but she was still breathing heavily, and the redness in her eyes was still scary.
Li Zhuiyuan just sat there and said nothing.
He came here just because of "interest" and had nothing to do with the friendship between classmates, so he didn't want to mention Zheng Haiyang and use it as an entry point for chatting.
He didn't even want to use his thoughts and methods to guide the topic, even though he was very good at it.
Xu Wen's acting style made him feel that doing so was boring. He didn't want to base his fun on destroying and toying with innocent others.
What's very interesting is that when I decided to use Li Lan as the wrong question set, I went against her style, which was really to protect human nature.
Tan Wenbin, who was looking through the glass outside, asked Runsheng with some confusion: "Why doesn't Brother Xiaoyuan speak?"
Runsheng shook his head: "Xiaoyuan's silence means that he doesn't have to talk."
After Tan Wenbin chewed it carefully, he said: "What nonsense are you talking about?"
But soon, the turning point came.
The woman calmed down and began to speak actively. She didn't scream or go crazy. She just sat there and talked normally.
Unfortunately, the volume is too normal and cannot be heard outside.
This made Tan Wenbin scratch his head and head with anxiety, and he wanted to rush in and listen together.
Runsheng didn't understand and said: "Why are you anxious?"
"Are you not in a hurry? Now we can go in and listen to it firsthand. When Brother Xiaoyuan comes out and tells us, it will be what he has condensed and summarized."
"Isn't this bad?"
"My bad, why am I discussing this with you."
In the visiting room, the woman's expression returned to normal.
Li Zhuiyuan knew that his "feeling of empathy" was correct and he had picked the peach.
Xu Wen successfully stimulated the woman and made her lose control of her emotions. Then she left, leaving a better situation for herself.
If Li Lan were here, she would never make such a stupid mistake.
"I once persuaded him not to go down with them, but he didn't listen. Moreover, he persuaded me to go down together."
"Are you going down?"
"Yes, I went down. I shouldn't have gone down."
"I'm curious, what's down there?"
"A very, very big place. In it, there are the sun, the moon, and the stars."
"You mean, under the sea?"
"Don't you believe it?"
"I believe it."
"Outside there, there are many sunken ships."
"There should be a lot of treasures there."
"Yes, but it's hard to find because these ships are all broken, except for a few special ones."
"Why is it special?"
"Most of them are wooden, and a few are not. They are buried under the sea sand, with only a little bit exposed. It is in a turbulent area and cannot be excavated at all. After so many years, even if there was something on it, it has been blown away or Buried deeply.”
"That's a shame, so you went in?"
"Yes, we are in. Once we are in, we can take off the oxygen masks. There is a dry land there, where we can surface and see the sun and stars."
The sun and stars...
Li Zhuiyuan knew that the woman was very awake now, so the counterintuitive juxtaposition of the sun and the stars might have a special meaning.
Due to the lack of relevant professional knowledge, Li Zhuiyuan was unable to judge from a scientific perspective whether this place on the seabed could really exist, but he felt that the woman was not lying.
I still need to go to college.
"This isn't the first time you've gone in, is it?"
"It was my first time, but not my husband, he came in for the second time."
"Does the job of a seaman also include these?"
"It depends on how you understand it. This is just a job, and work is not everything in life. In fact, our salary is quite high, but we don't get much of the proceeds from smuggling. My husband is jealous and wants to make a lot of money quickly. Okay. I will never go to the sea again, that’s what I think.”
"I understand, how many people did you go down in total?"
"I can't remember clearly, there should be more than a dozen."
"So many?"
"Because we are just leading the way."
"Who asked you to lead the way?"
"There should be two groups of people, both in the name of marine ecological protection organizations. The leader of one group is named Honda, and the leader of the other group is named Ashley. The latter is British."
"Should?"
"There is another new seaman named Zhu Changyong. He has a good relationship with my husband, but my husband said that he should also come here for this place."
"So there are three groups. Please lead the way. How will the proceeds be distributed?"
"The toll is very high, and there will be a share afterwards."
"Go on and tell us what happened after you went in. I want to hear what's inside."
"There is a wall inside, and there is a very big door on the wall. However, this door cannot be opened. Honda said that it serves a decorative purpose and is solid and closed inside. Since it was built, there was no intention to open it. Then open it to let outsiders in. ”
"Then how did you get in?"
"There is a gap between the top end of the wall and the cave. It may have been a tight fit at first, but over time, it became separated from the wall. We climbed up and then got in.
After entering, I saw..."
The woman's face showed pain and struggle.
Li Zhuiyuan stopped asking and waited patiently.
After a while, the woman calmed down and continued with a trembling tone, "After entering, we found that this is where we came from."
Li Zhuiyuan frowned slightly and asked, "How long does this drilling process take?"
"Ten minutes. Because it is very narrow, I can only crawl forward with equipment."
"That's a long time, so what are you afraid of? Even if you get in, you'll get back out again."
"That's where you came from."
"Well, you said it."
The woman looked at Li Zhuiyuan and said word by word: "We are still where we were when we came."
Li Zhuiyuan subconsciously sat up straight.
He understood why he was afraid.
"Then...what?"
"They started fighting."
"Them?"
"I was the last one to get out. According to Honda and Ashley's requirements, my husband and I had to go one in front and one in the back.
When I got out, they had already gone down, along the rope ladder. ”
"You mean the rope ladder?"
Li Zhuiyuan began to try to outline the scene in his mind as much as possible in the woman's simple description, without missing any details.
"It was the ladder that Zhu Changyong hung up."
"Is there Zhu Changyong on the opposite side?"
Li Zhuiyuan suspected that what Xu Wen was looking for was definitely not Honda and Ashley. There was a high probability that it was Zhu Changyong.
"Yes, when I got out, they had already gone down the rope ladder. They were communicating, and my husband was also inside, two husbands.
When the two of them stood together, as a wife, I couldn't tell which one was real. ”
"What about yourself? Have you seen another you?"
A smile appeared on the corner of the woman's mouth, and the smile was gradually widening, and her eyes also revealed a rich meaning.
She did not answer the boy's question directly, but asked a rhetorical question:
"What do you think?"
Li Zhuiyuan turned slightly and continued to ask: "You said they started fighting later?"
"Yes, there was a fight. Many people died and were lying on the ground, bloody and bloody."
"Who is dead?"
"I can't remember clearly. Anyway, I am the only one who is still standing in the end."
"Are you also lying on the ground?"
"What do you think?"
Li Zhuiyuan sat upright again, lowered his head, looked at his fingers, and asked: "Is there one Zhu Changyong left?"
"Yeah."
"What's next?"
"Next, we went in again."
"Still that hole?"
"No, I took the door this time, because the remaining Honda found that the door can be opened. It cannot be opened completely, but it can open a gap enough for a person to get in sideways."
"You guys are continuing to form a team again?"
"Yeah."
Li Zhuiyuan wanted to ask, how do you know who among the survivors are from the group you came in with and who are from the group you met?
And the door that cannot be entered from the outside can now be entered again.
So, are you in or out?
But the boy didn't dare to ask too detailed questions. He had already noticed that the woman's state had fluctuated again.
This kind of short-term peace gained through catharsis is actually similar to drinking poison to quench thirst, and it is also because it was not long after her accident. If nothing goes wrong, her subsequent mental problems will become more and more serious.
Eventually, this period of calm and rationality that still occasionally appears will be completely submerged and covered.
In other words, he was probably the last person to know the information at that time from her.
Li Zhuiyuan couldn't help but slandered Xu Wen again in his heart. If he hadn't happened to come here today, this information chain would have been buried forever. No wonder Li Lan didn't take you as his secretary when he went to implement the project.
"Has the environment changed after entering through the door?"
"Yes, it's very open and bright inside. The sun, moon and stars are all above our heads."
"What specifically, I mean, feet."
"At your feet, there are pits one after another. Next to each pit, there is a stone sculpture with water in the pit. Bronze chains are tied to the stone sculptures and extend into the pit next to it."
"How many seats are there?"
"Countless, keep going all the way to that... house."
"A house? Is there a house there? How big a house is."
"Big, very big."
"Shouldn't that be a palace?"
"It's not a palace, it's just a house. It has two horns, a long beard, and a terrible big mouth."
"Animal? A huge animal?"
"It's not an animal, it's a house."
Li Zhuiyuan sighed inwardly. The woman's condition had deteriorated, and his narration gradually became stumbling. He could no longer describe the environment in detail in his mind.
"Have you entered this house?"
"I didn't. I was left there while my husband and the others went in, into the house."
"Who are your husband and the others specifically referring to?"
"Honda, Ashley, Zhu Changyong."
"Who else is staying where you are?"
"Four or five people."
"Why separate?"
"Because we have to be responsible for tying the rope."
Her description no longer has progressive logic.
"Tie a rope? What's wrong with the road ahead? I mean the road leading to that house."
"It's rising."
"Isn't it dry? Where did the water come from?"
"The water in the pit gradually overflowed, and they walked forward with ropes tied to their bodies."
As the woman spoke, she stood up and her body began to shake.
"What next?"
Li Zhuiyuan felt that he could not wait any longer and had to find out the result.
"Then black, black, everything turned black. The things in the house woke up, and the sun, moon and stars above their heads disappeared. I saw a circle of red, like eyes, very big eyes.
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It woke up, it was irritated, they all crawled out of the pit, so many, so many, countless..."
"What are they?"
"Many, many, all of them, the rope broke, the rope that tied my husband broke, they were swallowed up by the house, ah ah ah!"
Li Zhuiyuan stood up: "What about you, where are you people who stayed behind?"
The woman held her head: "I'm running, we are all running, we got out of the door, the gap is only big enough for one person to get out, they are still squeezing, one of them knocked two to death with a pickaxe, He squeezed in first, then I went in last.
I left my husband behind, I left him behind. ”
"You can't save him, it's not your fault."
"Really..." The woman's mood stabilized slightly after receiving these words.
Li Zhuiyuan really wasn't trying to comfort her on purpose. In such a strange environment, it was out of the scope of traditional dangerous situations. It was difficult for people to be rational at that time.
"How many of you were the last ones to go out?"
"Two, me and him."
"Did he come out too? I mean, back on the ship."
"No, I saw the diving equipment we left behind when I came in. His equipment is still there."
"Where's everyone else's equipment?"
"They are all here. I am the only one who came back with the equipment in the end."
"It was you... who killed him." The woman's eyes were focused and her expression was solemn, but soon, a smile appeared on the left corner of her mouth.
This seems to be a default.
"Why did you kill him?"
"Because I suspect that he and we are not the same people."
"So, in the end, you are the only one who came back."
"Yes."
"What happened to the ship after you came back?"
"When they returned, they all started acting strangely."
"How weird?"
"Like crazy."
"Same as you now?"
"Yes."
Li Zhuiyuan breathed a sigh of relief and finished asking.
And the woman seemed to finally hold on and finish speaking.
Although it is fragmented, with a large number of details missing and many inconsistencies, the story of the matter finally has a beginning and an end.
Among them, the most hidden thing and the most difficult to describe in detail is how the two teams of identical people killed each other and how the remaining teams fought against each other.
At this time, the woman was no longer excited, and her eyes showed confusion.
This meant that her condition was more serious than Li Zhuiyuan had previously expected. Sometimes the intense emotional reactions proved to a certain extent that she had a strong sense of self.
The woman began to shake her head and began to hum a song.
She chose to escape, destroy that memory, and destroy her own life.
From beginning to end, she never asked about her child.
Li Zhuiyuan: "Thank you for your story, please take care of yourself."
The woman ignored it and continued humming.
Maybe soon, she would no longer have to be restrained and could change into loose patient clothes.
Li Zhuiyuan walked a few steps outside, then suddenly stopped, turned around, looked at her, and asked:
"Are you who came out the same as you who went in?"
The woman visibly paused, then continued humming and shaking her head.
Li Zhuiyuan took out the talisman he drew from his pocket, quickly walked around the table to the woman's side, and put the talisman paper on the woman's forehead.
"Crack!"
As soon as the bright yellow talisman paper was attached, it immediately detached and fell to the ground.
The woman continued humming without any response.
Li Zhuiyuan bent down and picked up the talisman.
The talisman paper has turned pitch black.
After Li Zhuiyuan walked out of the visiting room, the doctor behind another door walked in and took the woman out.
Tan Yunlong put down his crossed legs and asked: "Are you done asking?"
"Yeah."
"How's it going? Have you satisfied your curiosity?"
"No, getting more curious."
If he had the chance, he really wanted to go there and see what kind of weird place it was.
Maybe, I can also see another version of myself that is exactly the same.
Then, will I fight with "myself"?
Li Zhuiyuan could understand that in that kind of environment, it was the most normal choice to make the choice of "killing the opponent."
But for myself, if that "self" is really exactly the same as myself, then why not join hands and explore the secrets inside?
He is often troubled by the exhaustion of his brain power. It would be great if he could have more spare brains.
Unfortunately, at present, we can only think about the fact that he does not have the external and internal conditions to make the trip.
The external conditions are that you have to wait until you go to college or even graduate before you have the corresponding opportunities. The internal conditions are... you have to at least grow up.
On the way back in the market's seafood cart, Li Zhuiyuan recounted the story told by the woman without avoiding Tan Yunlong.
After all, this story was created with the help of others, so it should be shared. Besides, like son, like father...
Looking at Tan Wenbin, Tan Yunlong probably has similar preferences deep down in his heart.
After listening, Tan Yunlong said while driving: "There are indeed too many mysteries in this world, which are quite good. Waiting for you to explore when you grow up, so you won't feel bored."
Tan Wenbin teased: "Dad, why did you suddenly start to gain value?"
"It's just an emotion. When I'm your dad's age, sometimes I feel that no matter how much money I make, or how high I climb, what I see and live in are still not the same.
Those scientific researchers, at a glance under a microscope, see a new world that most ordinary people will not be able to touch in their lifetimes. ”
"Dad, where is your money and where is your position?"
"Little beast!"
Li Zhuiyuan can resonate with Tan Yunlong's words. Isn't what he is currently learning in a brand new field?
To a certain extent, Li Lan seems to have chosen this path. Now that Xu Wen has come to investigate this matter, it proves that Li Lan is not the traditional archaeologist he thought he was.
Only the unknown and mysterious realm can make mother and son feel like human beings.
"Xiaoyuan, who are you, that woman?"
"Uncle Tan, I didn't mean to hide it from you, I just didn't want to say it."
"Well, it's okay, uncle, I understand. So are you going home now or going to school?"
"Go back to school, we have to go to class at noon."
"Binbin, look at Xiaoyuan, and then look at you. His grades are so good, and he still wants to take classes."
"Dad, I'm going to class, he's going to class."
Tan Yunlong understood: "Who does Xiaoyuan teach?"
"The Mathematical Olympiad class organized by the school." Tan Wenbin replied.
"Then can you go in? I heard that winning this award will be very helpful for the college entrance examination."
"Dad."
"Huh?"
"My genes are bad."
"Buzz!"
The pickup suddenly accelerated.
After being put down at the school gate, Li Zhuiyuan looked at Tan Wenbin: "Brother Binbin, aren't you afraid of being beaten by your uncle when you go home when you talk like this?"
"What does his beating Binbin have to do with me Zhuangzhuang?"
"I'm hungry, let's go to the cafeteria to eat."
"You know, Xiaoyuan, since my academic performance has improved, I feel that I am particularly powerful now.
I used to know in my heart that if I didn't do well in the college entrance examination, I would have to rely on my parents to survive, including getting married and having children. I would have to live in the shadow of my parents for the rest of my life.
If you eat what they have, use what they have, and take advantage of them, you will have to continue to endure their instructions on your life.
Now, I feel that my wings are starting to get a little hard. ”
"Brother Binbin, you are not a shadow."
"What an exaggerated rhetorical technique. Who would really deliberately cast a shadow on their children?"
"Well, you're right."
The fourth period had not ended yet, and there was no one in the cafeteria. Tan Wenbin went to get food, and Li Zhuiyuan went to get free soup.
This soup can be made at will, and many students rely on the dry food they bring to eat with this soup.
After dinner, the bell rang for the end of get out of class.
Tan Wenbin lazily walked to the classroom, while Li Zhuiyuan walked into the small classroom alone.
What surprised him was that there were already many people sitting inside. Some students were eating steamed buns, while others ran in with books in their arms after class without eating at all.
They all cherish the opportunity to compete, which is also an opportunity for them to change their lives.
Li Zhuiyuan was in a daze. This probably meant that what he had at his fingertips was what others only dreamed of.
Vice versa, I also envy their health.
Everyone smiled gratefully at Li Zhuiyuan's arrival. They had received word that the prodigy had taken leave and did not come to class in the morning.
Some people ran over with steamed buns in their mouths to help lift the bench, while others stood beside them to support them.
Li Zhuiyuan stood up, picked up the chalk, and began to write down the solution process for the unticked questions on the blackboard.
The people below were watching and discussing quickly. Everyone seemed very anxious. The weekend was the competition day in the city. Logically speaking, a few people had to be eliminated.
After writing the solution process, the taller classmate helped wipe the blackboard while Li Zhuiyuan continued to pose questions.
After finishing the question, I clapped my hands, and a classmate handed me a wet handkerchief.
Teacher Yan and several other math teachers were also sitting below. When Li Zhuiyuan came down, Teacher Yan stood up and handed out the test paper in his hand:
"After copying the questions on the blackboard, I will do this set of test papers. It takes two hours. You can hand in the papers in advance and don't have to worry about the afternoon class."
This is to determine the final participating teams based on rankings.
Li Zhuiyuan said goodbye to the teachers without assigning himself test papers, got up, left the small classroom, and walked to the principal's office.
Zheng Haiyang was eating in the principal's office, and Wu Xinhan sat across from the desk and ate with him. The food was stir-fried in the cafeteria.
As soon as the funeral was over, he came back to school. After all, the body was not brought back and there was nothing complicated to do.
"Xiaoyuan, have you eaten?" Wu Xinhan asked with a smile.
"Grandpa Principal, I ate."
Zheng Haiyang stood up awkwardly, not knowing what to say.
He was very grateful that the principal specifically found him in the morning and invited him to have dinner and chat with him at noon, but he still couldn't adapt to this atmosphere. Most students would be very uncomfortable.
But from another perspective, as a principal, it is already very good to be able to do this.
"Brother Binbin is back too." Li Zhuiyuan said with a smile to Zheng Haiyang, then walked into the partition, lay down on the spring bed, closed his eyes and began to take a nap.
He fell asleep quickly and had a dream.
In the dream, I was standing on the deck. I seemed to have become taller, as tall as Brother Binbin now.
The person he is holding is Ah Li, and the person standing beside him is Cuicui;
Further away, there were Runsheng and Tan Wenbin. Behind them, there were many figures, but their faces could not be seen clearly.
The ship anchored in an area.
In the dream, he stepped on the side of the ship and pointed downward: "This is the place, get ready, let's go down!"
Behind them, a response came, and then everyone began to put on diving equipment.
Li Zhuiyuan himself also wore a suit. After putting on the mask, his vision became slightly blurred.
Some people went down the boat ladder, and some people simply jumped down.
Li Zhuiyuan chose the latter and jumped into the air.
"Crack!"
The moment he fell into the water, he sat up and woke up.
The curtain was lifted, and Wu Xinhan asked kindly: "Are you dreaming?"
"Yeah."
"Take more rest when you are tired. I'm sorry for you. The burden placed on you by the school is too heavy."
"No..."
Li Zhuiyuan was really embarrassed to say that he was tired. After all, he was either sleeping or reading extracurricular books during class.
"Xiaoyuan, this is the scholarship and subsidy given to you by the school. The detailed catalog is in it, and the money is also in it. After you take it back, give it to your parents."
"Thank you, Grandpa Principal."
"Well, this is..." Wu Xinhan took out a piece of money from his pocket, "This is my personal pocket money as a grandfather."
"I can't have this."
"Here you go, come on for the weekend competition. I've already asked someone to order a warm celebration banner. Well, don't blame grandpa for putting pressure on you."
"Thank you, grandpa."
Li Zhuiyuan took the money. He was not under any pressure. Even if there were gifted students from other schools competing, he would not be worried. After all, the whole class used to be gifted.
"It's grandpa thanking you."
Wu Xinhan breathed a sigh of relief. This was the money he was willing to give. All he wanted was to be able to be as weird as possible during the meeting.
"Grandpa Principal, I'm going to class."
"Well, I don't have to watch anymore. The bell is about to ring for the fourth period."
Li Zhuiyuan was surprised. He actually slept all afternoon?
The effect of sleeping all afternoon was that I couldn't sleep at night after I got home, so I painted with Ali until late at night.
Ah Li sat there, acting as her own model, painting her by herself.
But as I continued to draw, I was still dissatisfied and tore off many pieces of paper.
This made Ali, who was sitting there, feel a little guilty and uneasy. She looked at Li Zhuiyuan and asked: Did she do something wrong?
"Ali, it's your fault. You are too beautiful and elegant. My skills are too poor and I really can't draw you."
The girl frowned and pouted slightly, as if glaring at the boy.
"Hehehe..." Li Zhuiyuan laughed. Now Ah Li can understand the pros and cons.
In fact, this is indeed the case. Good-looking things are actually easier to draw, mainly because of their temperament.
Ali's temperament is partly innate and partly cultivated by Liu Yumei.
In this era, from living habits to clothing style, people all follow the trend and learn Western aesthetics regardless of whether it suits them or not. Those who wear traditional costumes are only a minority among the minority, and they can only be seen on the stage.
Li Zhuiyuan sighed helplessly. It is indeed too difficult to draw Ah Li now, but even if his painting skills continue to improve, Ah Li will grow up, and by then he will have another temperament and style, and there is a high probability that he will become More difficult to draw.
How about changing to another object and practicing first?
Taking Ah Li back to the east room downstairs, Liu Yumei opened the door wearing white pajamas and asked: "Where is the painting?"
"Not drawn."
“It’s our Ali who’s so pretty.”
"Yes."
After returning to the room, Li Zhuiyuan was not in a hurry to go to bed. Instead, he spread the paper again, mixed the paint, picked up the pen, and started painting.
This time, what he drew was - a little yellow warbler.
After finishing half of the painting, Li Zhuiyuan felt sleepy finally coming, so he put down the pen and went to bed.
The evening breeze blew in through the screen door, shaking the drawing paper and gently rolling up a corner.
It's like someone is standing in front of the painting table, admiring it carefully.
……
The day of the Municipal Mathematical Olympiad has arrived.
Different from the past of rushing there and back again, with a low-key and humble style, this time Shigang Middle School brought a bus with banners hanging on the left and right sides of the bus, and even red flowers were hung on the front of the bus.
All in all, very vulgar and arrogant.
In addition to the teachers accompanying the exams, Principal Wu personally led the team this time. After getting on the bus, he cheered up and distributed fruit bread and drinks.
The test center is Pingchao Middle School. The school is very large and impressive.
After sitting down in the classroom, Li Zhuiyuan looked out the window. There was a row of beautiful ginkgo trees there.
After the paper was handed out, Li Zhuiyuan was still reluctant to come back to his senses.
The invigilator came over and tapped the table as a reminder.
Li Zhuiyuan lowered his head, picked up the pen, wrote his name, answered the questions quickly, and then handed in the paper.
After leaving the classroom, he stood under the ginkgo tree for a long time.
But when he left the examination room, he was still the first, and his speed was still astonishing.
The test buses from each school were parked on the playground, and teachers from each school gathered together, smoking cigarettes and chatting. They seemed to be polite to each other, but in fact they were quarreling with each other.
The examination room is a battlefield for students, and even more so for teachers. To a certain extent, young students are often not very sensible, but teachers feel more involved in this battle.
When Li Zhuiyuan came out, Teacher Yan hurried over with water and food.
Wu Xinhan is not here. He is staying in the principal's office of this school, accepting the other party's yin and yang, and at the same time accumulating his own strange energy.
When the surrounding teachers from other schools saw such a child coming out, they all looked shocked and had an ominous premonition in their hearts.
Or, you think the teachers at Shigang Middle School have completely given up on themselves and brought the principal's grandson over to experience the atmosphere of the examination room.
Either that, or this kid has a great background and is very unusual.
Obviously, no one is stupid enough to believe the former.
They are all in the education circle. If you have never eaten pork, how can you never see pigs running? I have never taught a prodigy, so how could I not have heard of the story of a prodigy?
At the same time, everyone is deeply puzzled, how could such a child end up in a rural middle school?
Immediately, everyone began to take the initiative to get close to Teacher Yan and inquire about the little boy's origins. Their tone was really polite and respectful, not just pretending.
It’s a joke. They have already used their secret weapons. Now if you take it big, wouldn’t you take the initiative to send your face over so that you can beat the other party after their test results come out?
Teacher Yan was very happy and extremely excited. He was also glad that Principal Wu was not here, leaving him alone to enjoy the stars.
As a transparent person who focused on participation and companionship in the past, he, Principal Wu, had already prepared a draft. How could he, Lao Yan, not prepare some essays? The math teacher was also talented in literature.
"Hey, hey, you've said it, you really have said it. This is nothing. Isn't it just a competition in the city? It's not worth being happy about. There will be competitions in the province and the country in the future, so it's worth celebrating a little bit. .”
Li Zhuiyuan lay on the bus for a long time before the exam end bell rang.
There are indeed those who submit their papers in advance, but very few. Most students submit their papers at the end. For example, students in our school are jointly requested by Teacher Yan and Principal Wu not to submit their papers in advance!
Of course, Xiaoyuan is not included here because he is an assistant coach.
On the way back in the car, Teacher Yan and Principal Wu began to ask other students about their exams, and the feedback they received was relatively positive.
After all, he is the top student in mathematics in the school and has experienced targeted simulations. It is normal to get good results in the exam.
Principal Wu was very happy and took the lead in singing a song in the car:
"As the sun sets and the red clouds fly over the western mountains, the soldiers return to the camp from target practice, return to the camp..."
It was already afternoon when we returned to school. Principal Wu waved his hand to signal the candidates to finish school early today.
Li Zhuiyuan returned to the classroom and walked out of school with Tan Wenbin after school.
At the school gate, I saw Tan Yunlong sitting on a motorcycle.
Tan Wenbin suddenly panicked and quickly protected Xiaoyuan in front of him.
Tan Yunlong got off his motorcycle, pointed to his son, and then pointed to the trash can in the distance.
Tan Wenbin saluted and immediately stayed away.
"Uncle Tan, what happened?"
"Zheng Haiyang's mother died in a mental hospital. She committed suicide."
"How could it be?"
Li Zhuiyuan didn't believe it. She was already crazy, and she accepted it actively. For her, the next goal should be to survive.
"She had a visit record yesterday. In the story you retold of her, this name appeared many times. According to the story, he should have stayed at the bottom of the sea."
"Who is it?"
"Zhu Changyong."
(End of chapter)