don't force me

When Ma Jing was cleaning her son's room, she found a photo of Lin Ting'an standing in silence facing the school gate of Beihang University.The photos were placed on the desk in the simplest wooden frame photo frame. Due to the enlargement, the picture was a bit blurry, but the school name of Beihang University still shone with golden light.Ma Jing was able to guess who took this photo and when it was taken. That day Lin Tingan happily followed Du Xuan out early in the morning, thinking that the two children were going to play.When Lin Tingan came back in the evening, he locked himself in the bedroom without even eating dinner.The next day, Lin Tingan stuffed all the messy comics and magazines in the bookcase into the box under the bed, and then threw away all the sundries that had been piled up on the desk for almost a year. A desk lamp.Ma Jing never knew what kind of madness her son was having, and she didn't understand why until today.

"Beihang." Ma Jing sighed, and went to find her husband with the photo.

Ji Dong took the photo and looked at it: "This kid, he dares to think about it."

"I know my son, so he didn't dare to think about it. I guess Du Xuan thought about it." Ma Jing sighed, "I'm ashamed, as a mother, I didn't dare to think about it."

Lin Yi: "Do you think there's something going on?"

Ma Jing: "It doesn't matter whether he gets into Beihang or not. The important thing is that if he works hard with Beihang as his goal, no matter what, he won't be far behind. It's a certainty, right?"

"Yes," Lin Yi looked at the photo. His son's back was tall and firm, and Lin Yi yearned for it: "Beihang..."

Ma Jing didn't mention this matter to Lin Ting'an. Firstly, she was worried about putting pressure on her son, and secondly, she didn't dare to take it too seriously. She was afraid that if she took it seriously, wouldn't her son be hit hard by his old ways in two days?But what Ma Jing didn't expect was that for the whole summer vacation, Lin Tingan spent more time sitting at the desk than the sum of the past three summer vacations.Ma Jing tentatively asked: "Xiao An, you have been studying very hard recently."

Lin Tingan gave an "hmm".

"Why are you working so hard all of a sudden?"

"I want to get into a better university," Lin Ting'an said seriously, "Du Xuan wants to get into Beijing Medical University, so I can't be too bad."

With tears in her eyes, Ma Jing wanted to send Du Xuan a pennant.

Lin Tingan said: "Du Xuan said that my science is very good, but Chinese and English are not good. I studied these two subjects by myself in the second year of high school. When I am in the third year of high school and he is in the freshman year, he will have time to help me sort it out. .”

Ma Jing thought, I have to send two pennants.

Zheng Ziyan asked Lin Tingan to come out to play, and when Lin Tingan appeared on the court, he was still listening with headphones in his ears.Yang Lemeng asked in surprise: "Are you planning to go abroad? I didn't hear what Zheng Ziyan said."

"Not out."

"Then you are actually listening? Have you changed your mind and started a new life?"

Lin Tingan grabbed Zheng Ziyan and said, "Take care of your wife, will she speak?"

Zheng Ziyan pulled Lin Tingan's hand away: "My wife can say whatever she wants, can you control her?"

Lin Tingan angrily took off his coat and left the stage. Yang Lemeng was sitting on the edge of the venue looking at his bag. In a blink of an eye, he found a copy of "64 Ancient Poems and Essays Must Be Memorized for College Entrance Examination" in Lin Tingan's schoolbag. The schoolbag is far away as if it is a bomb.

After playing a round of golf for three hours, Zheng Ziyan proposed to have dinner together after drying off his sweat. A group of golfers also blatantly said that they were going to barbecue. Lin Tingan shook his head: "I have lessons."

He has language remedial classes from 04:30 pm to [-]:[-] every day. During this time, Du Xuan is studying mathematics, and the two of them work hard in different classrooms, and learn to do homework together in the self-study room after the break.Lin Tingan knew that if he was not with Du Xuan every day, he would never be able to persevere. Only when he sat next to Du Xuan and watched him study as if he had entered the enchantment, would his heart calm down. "Zhihu Zheye", who would be very irritable, is also a little bit kinder.And once the mind calms down, many things don't matter, such as Li Tianyou.

Since the city competition, the frequency of Li Tianyou's appearance in front of Du Xuan has been much lower, and he occasionally plays basketball in physical education class.After the summer vacation, Li Tianyou asked Du Xuan several times, but Du Xuan refused each time.

Li Tianyou sighed and said, "Du Xuan, I always feel that I offended you somewhere."

Du Xuan felt that this matter couldn't go on like this. If he didn't bother him, he would bother himself, so he said happily, "You didn't offend me, but the plums in the melon field, I have to avoid suspicion, right?"

What he said was very clear. Li Tianyou was silent on the other end of the phone for a long while, and struggled to say, "What are you avoiding? You can bring Lin Tingan with you."

Du Xuan said, "Actually, he doesn't mind now."

"That……"

"Then I can't go." Du Xuan said, "Li Tianyou, there are some things that I didn't understand before and now I understand. Now that I understand, there is nothing to say."

Li Tianyou hung up the phone silently.

Later, Lin Tingan sipped his milk tea and asked, "What do you understand?"

Du Xuan said: "He didn't say anything from the beginning to the end. I always felt that he just wanted to make friends, and his attitude has always been very good. But every day you flirt with others, and the more flirtatious you are, the more cautious he will be." If you act on your face, then of course I will be very guilty. So we always quarreled at that time, remember."

Lin Tingan thought for a while, then snorted, "Divorce."

Du Xuan: "So now he realizes that my attitude is quite firm, you don't fall for it anymore, and he is not a fool, so there is no need to pester me."

Lin Tingan slapped his hands: "But I still want to ask him something."

"what?"

"On Valentine's Day, how did he know that we were going to the temple fair? I wouldn't believe it was a coincidence even if I was killed."

Du Xuan shrugged: "I really don't know, or you can ask him."

"I won't go if I pay him back." Lin Tingan said arrogantly.

Du Xuan smiled and said, "Okay, then you can hold back."

Sure enough, Lin Tingan held back for several years.

Before school started, Lin Tingan stuffed all the summer homework into his schoolbag and carried it to Penumbra. Ding Zimu squeezed juice for them and asked, "Do you have so much homework in the first year of high school?"

Lin Tingan handed over Chinese and English to Du Xuan for inspection, and said excitedly: "Brother Ding, this is the first time I have finished all my homework for the holiday."

Du Xuan: "Usually, the monthly exam in September is all summer homework. You should review it carefully and try to pass the monthly exam for the first time."

Lin Tingan: "Others are okay. I am a little bit afraid of Chinese composition and modern Chinese reading. I can't memorize the answer for this."

Du Xuan spread the exercise book on the table: "Come on, let me tell you."

Ding Zimu looked at the two people occupying a small corner, leaning their heads against each other, analyzing those "connecting the past and the future", "pointing out the center" and "promoting the plot" without distraction...Ding Zimu thought, the beauty of life probably lies in this : There is a future to look forward to, with a partner hand in hand, whether the goal is achieved or not is no longer important, what is important is the laughter and tears along the way.

Of course, if the goal can be achieved, it will be even more beautiful.

Ding Zimu happily put a small paper umbrella on the juice cup, although it was superfluous, but whoever made him happy, who made him like serious children.

Lin Tingan also felt that he had never been so serious, not even in the third year of junior high school.He knew very well that based on his performance as a special student, he could at most reduce his score to enter Beihang University. If he wanted to enter the School of Aeronautical Science and Engineering, he would not even have a chance.If you want to enter that college, you have to get real results from the actual test for every point.Lin Tingan didn't want to separate Du Xuan, let alone disappoint Du Xuan, he had to get in.Lin Tingan's determination was so firm that he almost jumped in when he stepped into the examination room of the first monthly exam.As a thorough science student, Lin Tingan enjoyed the happiness of not taking history and land administration for the first time, and he almost cried when he answered the papers.

Du Xuan waited outside the examination room, watched Lin Tingan walk out with fluttering feet, and asked, "Did you do well in the exam?"

"I don't know," Lin Tingan shook his head, "But I don't need to study history and land administration. I'm so happy, so happy."

"What about Chinese and English?"

"Anyway, I answered all the answers I could, and I was confused if I couldn't answer it. It depends on fate if I get it right."

Du Xuan: "What should I do if I do poorly in the exam?"

Lin Tingan froze for a moment: "No way, I have never done my homework so seriously during my vacation."

"How can it be impossible? Exams, there are always contingencies. Besides, the test is not completely the original question, especially in Chinese and composition."

Lin Tingan opened his mouth, and said a little frustrated: "60.00% of the questions come from summer homework, so I can't pass the exam..."

"That's what makes you happy." Du Xuan hugged Lin Tingan's shoulders, "Only when you make a mistake, can you know where the problem is, and then it will be easy to handle."

Lin Tingan raised his eyebrows: "Although what you said is the same as what our teacher Xu said, why does it sound so pleasant to my ears?"

Du Xuan: "If you fail the exam, show me the paper."

Lin Tingan nodded.

When the results were announced two days later, Zheng Ziyan looked Lin Tingan up and down with the result slip, and whispered, "Did you cheat?"

"roll."

Zheng Ziyan sighed: "Numbers, physics and chemistry are fine, you have always studied well, and you actually got 75 in Chinese."

Lin Tingan shook his head: "The composition is too bad. If the composition can pass, you can enter the top [-] in the class."

"It's pretty good already, do you still want to reach the sky in one step?"

Lin Tingan was too lazy to listen to Zheng Ziyan's yelling, so he lowered his head to check the paper carefully. Du Xuan told him that after getting the paper, he would check it to see if there was anything that could be corrected. Collect wrong questions and puzzles.Other subjects are fine. Chinese is one of those things that you can't do without reading the answers, and you don't even understand after reading the answers. Lin Tingan scratched his head, slapped the table and stood up.

"What are you doing?" Zheng Ziyan looked up at him.

Lin Tingan walked to Zhou Chen's table step by step with a sullen face.

Zhou Chen folded the paper he just got and put it aside, and said lightly, "What's the matter?"

"Show me your Chinese paper."

"Why do you bother me to borrow it? There are so many people in the class."

"Nonsense, your Chinese score is the highest." Lin Tingan said impatiently, "Do you want to borrow it or not?"

"Oh, I have the highest score." Zhou Chen said in a long voice.

"Hiss—do you want to fight?" Lin Tingan's poor patience finally ran out, "If you don't borrow it, you can say it, there are so many nonsense."

"Do you understand?" Zhou Chen snorted.

"My day!" Lin Tingan rushed forward, and just as he was about to push him, Zhou Chen stretched out his hand: "Give me your paper."

"What?"

"I'll help you see."

Lin Ting settled down and was happy.

After commenting on the test paper, Lin Tingan cut out all the key questions and pasted them on the loose-leaf book, and then took the book to check for Du Xuan.Du Xuan said, "Do you know it? Didn't I ask you to bring it and let me tell you?"

Lin Tingan curled his lips: "It's not that I don't have a teacher, just ask the teacher for this little thing. You just take care of yourself, a senior in high school, and you still have the time to give lectures to others."

Du Xuan said, "That's also a senior high school student. It won't take much time to talk about this stuff."

"If you have this little time, it's better to do two more math problems. How is your monthly math test?"

"115 and 92."

"Tsk, this is too bad."

Du Xuan looked at Lin Ting'an in disbelief, and suddenly rushed over and pressed him on the table: "You scumbag dare to say that I did poorly in the exam, what's wrong?"

"Li Tianyou got 133 in mathematics and 109 in physics."

"How did you know?"

"It's posted on the bulletin board, okay?" Lin Tingan struggled out from under Du Xuan's body, and said with a straight face, "You haven't passed the biology test yet."

"Huh? What first."

"'Grand Slam', you are still short of biology." Lin Tingan pointed to Du Xuan and said, "Can you be a little bit more angry? Ah, this is the third year of high school, the monthly exam is not counted, and you still have the final exam, one year exam There are a total of three chances for the first and second models. When will you be able to take the first biology test? Why have you insisted on it for five years, and you can’t complete the task in the last subject? People who won prizes in biology competitions have never passed the test. First, you are not ashamed of yourself."

"The competitions are different from what I usually learn."

"quibble!"

Du Xuan said tremblingly, "Okay, I understand, Mom!"

The two of them arranged their time very well. Lin Ting'an was doing homework in the self-study room after school and waited for Du Xuan. At school, Du Xuan walked with Lin Tingan home, and then took the subway back.After returning home, they each read a book for a while. At 09:30, Lin Tingan would say good night to Du Xuan, and Du Xuan went to bed on time at 11:30.Whenever Lin Tingan felt that he couldn't hold on, he looked up at the photo on the desk, and thought about what Du Xuan said "your favorite", and felt that even if he wanted to be closer to Du Xuan for four years of university, he still had to Stick to it.

Seeing this, Ma Jing was delighted. She cooked a bowl of wontons for her son as a supper, and then whispered to her husband, "I think Xiao An's condition is very good recently."

Ji Dong nodded: "From the beginning of school to the present, this has been going on for about a month."

Ma Jing patted Lin Yi's thigh excitedly: "I think our son may really be admitted to Beihang University."

"Yeah." Lin Yi rubbed his sore leg from his wife's iron sand palm, and couldn't help laughing: "This kid has really changed a lot."

"That's right, speaking of it, it's Du Xuan's credit."

Ma Jing said: "I don't know what Du Jiancheng thinks, what a good son, if you don't want it, then you don't want it."

Ji Dong sneered: "Sometimes he regrets it."

Ma Jing: "You men are all like this. If you want to say that you love your children, you have to be a mother. Look at Zhou Man, you can do anything without giving up on Du Xuan."

"What is 'our man'? Can I be the same as Du Jiancheng?" Lin Yi protested dissatisfied.

Ma Jing said with a smile: "It's different, it's not the same... However, Zhou Man is also quite difficult."

Zhou Man's life is indeed not easy. At this age and this position, she is doomed to be under a lot of pressure at work, but she can't be sloppy in the slightest.Open your eyes every day, rent water, electricity and natural gas, tuition fees and living expenses, all kinds of economic pressures come one after another, Du Jiancheng’s monthly alimony is not enough for Du Xuan to enroll in cram school, the 30 Zhou Man will leave for his son to go abroad to say He refused to use anything.For bonuses and commissions, she worked overtime until eight or nine o'clock every day, and the promise to make dinner for Du Xuan was in vain. Fortunately, there was dinner in the school cafeteria.Once, Zhou Man cooked noodles for Du Xuan for supper. He stood alone in the kitchen, guarding a steaming pot, and tears came down while cooking.She is not afraid of hardship, she just feels that her son has been wronged, but Du Xuan's grades not only did not drop, but she even won the first prize in the municipal competition...

After the noodles were cooked, brought them to Du Xuan's desk, and Zhou Man who wiped away his tears said, "Xiao Xuan, you have to study hard and persist for another year. Don't forget, our goal is Peking University."

Du Xuan reflexively felt annoyed, and opened his mouth to refute, but he felt that there was something wrong with this statement. After finishing a bowl of noodles, he suddenly understood that what his mother said was "our goal is 'Peking University'".