senior [rebirth]

Turning at the intersection, he finally walked out of the bombing range of the new store, and Lin Xi also recovered from the shock.

"One, one month?" He opened his eyes wide and turned his head.

How can it be?

The grades of many subjects at the end of the last semester of the senior are still hovering around the passing line. No matter how deep Lin Xi’s filter is for him, he has to say that there is a distance between the passing line and the excellence, and the distance between the excellence and the first place in the grade is even more so. .

No. [-] High School is a key institution in the city. There are many students with excellent grades, and some of them are stable in the first and second places. These are the achievements of others after years of hard work, and it is basically impossible to easily surpass them.

However, the senior said, "Yes."

His speech has always been more casual, but it is inexplicably difficult to question.

Turning from that new store is the block near the No. [-] Middle School, and walking a little further is another small side entrance to the community where the senior lives.

The small side door is not big, and it can only accommodate one person at a time. Xu Hanlai stepped forward with his long legs and walked in first. After entering, his steps slowed down a little, waiting for someone.

The wind was still strong at night, so Lin Xi hurriedly followed through the small side door, and then quickened his pace and ran to the senior. He didn't think of a suitable question under the shock for a moment, and just paused: "Senior, are you serious?" yes?"

"Yeah." Xu Hanlai replied, "Let's count based on the results of the monthly exam in the first month of the third year of high school."

It is true that senior high school students will have a big exam every month that concentrates on ranking results.

but……

Lin Xi silently asked: "Senior, what was your ranking in the class at the end of last semester?"

"I don't remember." Xu Hanlai's black hair was gently blown by the sudden gust of wind, and his eyes narrowed comfortably, looking very comfortable: "About 30?"

... There are only 52 people in the class.

Moreover, Class [-] and Class [-] in senior high school are still Class [-] of Science, and Class [-] is the real Class [-] of Science, plus students from other classes...

"I don't think I'm in a hurry." Lin Xi silently passed a small step to the senior.

Xu Hanlai was amused by his unbearable tone, and at the same time walked into the unit building with Lin Xi.

The light in the building fell on his fair cheeks, Xu Hanlai tilted his head to look at the child cautiously and smiled: "You don't believe me?"

"No," Lin Xi shook his head. Seniors can go to Capital University in the end, so there must be potential: "It's really difficult to achieve such a high goal in a short period of time."

Lin Xi euphemistically persuaded him, because he was not used to saying such offensive words, so he broke his fingers uncomfortably.

Xu Han came to see him, and after getting out of the elevator, he opened the door of the house, held Lin Xi's head and led him in, and said, "How do you know if you don't try?"

...But this is not something you can just try.

Lin Xi blinked her eyes.

After being rescued by his seniors in the first year of high school in his previous life, he began to study hard, and he chose liberal arts, which he was relatively good at.After two years of catching up like this, Lin Xi gradually entered the top ten of the class from the ranks of poor students, and even the top twenty of the grade, and was finally admitted to the English Department of Nancheng University.

He felt that he was already considered a good counterattack sample, but even so, it was a pity that he missed the first place in the grade, and the highest was only the third.

In addition to strength, dark horses who want to surpass perennial top students sometimes need a little bit of luck.

And the senior didn't study hard this summer vacation, so I'm afraid that his strength should be questioned first.

After entering the house, Lin Xi stood in the living room and watched the senior enter the kitchen to boil and pour water, his cheeks were full of hesitation.

But he changed his mind, it was enough for the senior to have this kind of heart, maybe this was the first step for him to be admitted to Capital University later?Set the goal first, then fail the exam, realize the danger of reality, and then work hard.

Young people always dare to take big strides forward.

As for whether he can really reach No.1 in the first month, he just needs to listen to it.

Thinking of this, Lin Xi immediately relaxed, took the honey lemonade handed by the senior, collapsed on the sofa and drank it relaxedly and happily, and stopped talking about what happened just now.

Xu Hanlai looked at the child who was used to being a little old man, but now he had finally learned to understand himself, and he was happy, and turned and walked into the study.

"Are you still busy today?" Lin Xi asked curiously as he watched him go in.

"En." Xu Han responded.

But it's not that I'm busy in the study.

After 2 minutes, Xu Hanlai took out an English paper from the inside and placed it in front of Lin Xi who was sunk in the sofa.

Lin Xi stopped drinking lemonade: "?"

"I haven't done the real test papers of last year's college entrance examination all over the city." Xu Hanlai said while putting a pen on it.

He didn't know when he put on the glasses. When he bent down, the frame and the black hair tip were slightly tilted forward, but it still didn't cover the usual smile on his face when he looked at Lin Xi: "The time limit is one hundred minutes. I started?"

The English college entrance examination is a total of 120 minutes. Xu Hanlai directly removed the listening comprehension, starting from the selection.

Lin Xi didn't realize it at first, and didn't realize that he was serious until he saw that the senior really found a cushion and sat on the ground to start doing the questions.

The air conditioner in the living room sends out cold air. When they came in, they turned on the overhead light on the coffee table, which was casting a dazzling cold light downward.

For Lin Xi, the coffee table would be a bit high if he sat on the floor, which is why he didn't like to do problems on the coffee table and turned to the kitchen.

But Xu Hanlai did not have this problem.

The height between the coffee table and the floor seemed tailor-made for him. Because of the long legs, he could even lean his back comfortably against the side of the soft sofa.

Slightly straightening the back, lowering the eyes, the eyes in the metal frame swept flatly, and the pen swiped across several questions.

Lin Xi graduated from the English Department in his last life, and he often read original English books when running a pet cafe, and his level has been maintained. It is not difficult to read the college entrance examination papers.

So within a few minutes, he completed the state transition from being dazed to sliding his body to the lower edge of the sofa, and his eyes followed the senior's pen to read the questions. Soon, he found out that something was wrong.

Xu Hanlai almost didn't pause in the questions. After reading the questions and choices, the answer could immediately fall into the brackets--this is not a speed that ordinary people can't achieve. It cannot be classified as "good sense of language", that is, when he is doing the reading comprehension after filling in the blanks--

Still no pause.

After reading the original text once, the senior seems to be able to memorize all the details. When looking at the questions, there is no need to go back to the original text to confirm the answer. The speed is so fast that Lin Xi almost wonders for a moment whether he took this piece of paper or not. The answers to the papers were memorized.

But he soon realized that idea was wrong.

Because judging from the speed and time of browsing, the seniors are indeed reading articles. Lin Xi has read too many short stories, so he is very clear about the state of people when reading.

What's more, the senior is not someone who will deliberately write the answers he has memorized for him to read, that would be too boring.

But how is this possible?It’s okay to choose and fill in the blanks. Even Lin Xi can’t guarantee that he can have such a speed in reading comprehension. Moreover, after a rough look, he also found that the senior’s choice of every topic was consistent with him.

Based on Lin Xi's English proficiency, this means that Xu Hanlai basically chose the correct answer.

But this level is not in the same world as the English test papers that Lin Xi saw during the day. Some of those test papers were made not long ago in the second year of high school.

……why?

In the empty living room, this idea popped up in Lin Xi's mind again.

"I used to," as if guessing what he was thinking, Xu Hanlai who was in front suddenly said, "In junior high school, my grades were pretty good."

"Huh?" Lin Xi didn't understand, but subconsciously looked at the senior.

Only to find that the senior didn't look at him when he said this, but was still looking down at the paper, and dropped another answer while speaking.

It was also at this time that Lin Xi noticed the senior's pen along with his movements.

He used a fountain pen with a dark gray barrel, a slender shape, and a cap that shone in the light.In this era, Lin Xi seldom sees students using fountain pens to solve problems. Compared with ordinary fountain pens, fountain pens are too heavy, and the way students write vigorously is also incompatible with the temperament of fountain pens. No one will pursue these in this period.

But seniors are different.

He didn't look like he was doing a problem at all, the nib of the pen was flowing, and he was even a little loose, and he couldn't find the serious expression that students are used to when they think deeply.

It seems that just after thinking about it, the tip of the pen went down.

"My father wanted me to study high school abroad because he thought that the educational resources there would be much better than those in China." After finishing another question, Xu Han said, "But I don't want to go, so my grades have plummeted since the second year of junior high school. "

It is said that the time limit is [-] minutes, but in fact it is less than half an hour, and the senior has already written most of the topics and entered the last one to read.He finally stopped the pen again, his eyes fell on the content of the short reading, and his black eyes swept quickly.

Lin Xi was stunned for a moment, then answered his words: "...so later in high school——"

"It's the same." Xu Hanlai said while turning around and continuing to write the reading questions.

He was indeed reading those articles, so he could focus on two tasks, so his speaking speed would be slower than usual, and his tone would be lighter, but since there were only two of them in the living room, Lin Xi I can hear the senior's words very clearly, and I can even hear every subtle pronunciation between his words.

"The first and second grades are almost like this. If I don't want to prove myself to you, I may maintain this level in the last semester of the third year."

"Student Xiaolin, if grades are compared to the weight of life, in exchange for part of the benefits that will be needed in adulthood, then the education I have received since childhood is that I cannot leave any weight behind. I can keep others from knowing, but I can't Really do not have."

"Only in this way can I have the initiative." Xu Han said, and wrote a rounded arc on the last reading question, but at the end there was a sharp letter "C".

"This is the case with many things. I know myself. If I don't want to go in the direction that others have arranged, my grades will become unsatisfactory, but if I need to use it, for example, I want you to know me again, next I will be number one in the grade in the next month's exam."

As Xu Han said, he took off the cap of the pen in his hand and put the cap back on the tip of the pen.

There is no trace of reading on his test paper, except for the original print, only the answers he wrote are left, which are neat and crisp.

Seniors rarely talk to Lin Xi so much at once, so Lin Xi paused for two seconds before saying, "So you...didn't do well in the exam before?"

So it was the same in the previous life. It wasn't that his grades improved by leaps and bounds and he became a dark horse, but that he had been like this from the very beginning, and he just didn't want to show his edge too early?

Xu Hanlai did not answer Lin Xi's question directly, but handed him the test paper: "Check it?"

...of course you are right.

Lin Xi had already expected the answer before, and after matching it, he found that it was so.

"Then," Lin Xi looked at the paper a little at a loss: "Ah, is it the same for other subjects?"

Xu Han came and hummed.

"...Why?" Lin Xi asked subconsciously.

However, he regretted it when he finished speaking. The senior just said it was because he didn't want to obey the family's arrangement.

It's just that the amount of information to be processed is too large, and Lin Xi didn't think about it for a while.But Xu Hanlai was always patient with him. When he asked, he repeated the reason for him: "I want to go to high school in Mancheng No. [-] Middle School, and I don't want to go abroad."

The senior's voice was very gentle, Lin Xi sat on the sofa beside him and scratched his ears.

This may sound exaggerated, because he was unwilling to obey the arrangement of his family, so he kept suppressing his grades, but Lin Xi believed it immediately when the senior said it.

It made sense logically, and the English paper before him made him believe it even more.

But he still couldn't accept it for a while, and some thoughts flickered in his mind, urging him to ask quickly, so Lin Xi paused for two seconds and said, "So you were serious when you said you wanted to learn astronomy?"

"En." Xu Han nodded.

Lin Xi was puzzled: "But why Nancheng University? The astronomy department of Nancheng University is not top-notch in China."

Nancheng University is Lin Xi's alma mater, so Lin Xi can't understand its situation very well. Astronomy is indeed not their school's strong point.The proportion of domestic students who want to study astronomy is relatively small, so in terms of astronomy-related educational resources, they still have to go to the capital.

And the grades of the seniors are completely enough.

"The theory put forward by a professor of cosmology at Nancheng University is very interesting. I want to stay there for two years, and then I may consider going abroad." Xu Hanlai said in a leisurely manner.

Lin Xi was stunned.

...Senior has already considered such a far place?

This doesn't sound like a temporary idea at all, but why is it completely different from the previous life?

Lin Xi couldn't figure it out.

Lin Meiling's pregnancy, which is different from her previous life, happened after he came back. This can still be attributed to him through the butterfly effect, but the senior's wish... even the relationship between him and Liu Hao can be traced back to Lin Xi's return before this era.

So why are there so many differences from the previous life?

And if the senior in this life really doesn't plan to study science, then what's the point of his desperately trying to get into Capital University?

...Does the senior really need him to save?

Lin Xi seemed to have suffered quite a shock. When he put down the English test paper and went to the bathroom to take a shower, he almost bumped into the door because of desertion.

Xu Hanlai, who was still on the floor, glanced up and saw that Lin Xi had closed the door without incident, and then he retracted his eyes and landed on the English test paper in front of him. After a while, he gently pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose, and then propped his chin He tilted his head and looked out the window.

Black hair drooped along the eyebrows and eyes, and the emotion in the eyes was very dull.

He just lied.

Although it is true that he never let go of his schoolwork, it is only half and half, and the other half of the truth is that he can't let go of it at all.

Because all the subjects, all the test papers, and all the knowledge will be automatically analyzed into his mind the moment he spreads them out.

This feeling is hard to describe, as if he has done all this thousands of times, so it gradually becomes the same as eating and drinking water, and he doesn't need to use his brain at all.

And that's true for a lot of things besides learning.

The words "teach yourself without a teacher" are vividly reflected in him. He can always learn many things without too much effort, such as swimming, climbing, motorcycles and so on.

Xu Hanlai used to think that this kind of life was very strange. There were too many instincts and memory fragments in his mind that should not belong to him, even those strange dreams.

Some of the dreams do not even belong to this era, but there will always be some faint information revealed, leading him to do various things.

This is the second lie in the explanation he gave Lin Xi just now, about the fact that he let his grades plummet just to study in Mancheng.

It's also fake.

Xu Hanlai did not reject the idea of ​​going abroad at the earliest time. In his opinion, there is no difference between Mancheng and foreign countries. They are just going to school. He was even a little curious about those memory fragments that emerged from dreams if he chose to go abroad. What will it look like again, or hint him to do something.

But his consciousness finally made him stay in Mancheng, and it was Mancheng No. [-] Middle School.

This kind of compulsion made Xu Hanlai suspect that the world is not real, and he is not himself.

And this sense of doubt accompanied Xu Han for many years, until he was led to meet Lin Xi at the school gate that day.

The child seemed to awaken something deep in his heart, and since then, the mysteries surrounding Xu Hanlai have been gradually solved one after another.

Walking into the study room, sitting on a chair, turning on the computer, and taking the book "Suta's Fantastic Drifting" on the desktop into his palm, Xu Hanlai casually flipped through it, waiting to see a certain page where little Suta was once again attacked by a weasel. When knocking on the dizzy illustration, he couldn't help laughing.

He still doesn't have a clear understanding of what exactly happened, but he has been able to figure it out a little bit.

Probably the same as in this book.

In order to catch up with his benefactor, little Suta had crossed the foggy forest countless times, so many times that even Suta himself could not remember clearly.And according to the records in this book, every trip it takes in the foggy forest is also different.

Sometimes you will be chased by other ferocious animals, and sometimes you will work with some animals, such as building a bridge, cutting down a tree, or even building a spaceship and so on.

Colorful.

The process is always changing, but the only constant is that Zesuta has never been able to catch up with its benefactor, and every time, its "Suta Diary" will be swallowed by the misty forest.

But even so, Suta is still going forward.

Sister Huangying persuaded it to give up, saying that its benefactor might not remember this weak little rabbit for a long time, so why should Suta waste energy chasing after it again and again; Aunt Rhinoceros also persuaded it to give up, saying that it knew Suta’s benefactor. It is not any kind of animal in the foggy forest, but a god above the forest; Uncle Crocodile laughed when he heard it, saying that he has been in the foggy forest for more than 100 years, but he has never heard of any gods in the foggy forest. There is only strength here.

Suta listened to what they said, and Suta listened to and wrote down everything about his benefactor, but he didn't believe a word, and continued to search stubbornly with his diary.

Sometimes on the green field full of yellow flowers, the little Suta, who was tired from walking, would sit down for a rest, look up at the sky, and wonder whether he should continue chasing, but every time Suta remembered that his benefactor had fallen on his hair Gently stroking it, as if the herbal medicine was applied to its eyes, Little Suta would pick up the notebook and continue to drive outside the foggy forest.

It's a pity that Suta failed to catch up with his benefactor until the end of the book.

At the end of the book, the words of Sister Huangying, Aunt Rhinoceros, and Uncle Crocodile are repeated again, and then it is said that the diary that fell on the ground shows that Suta is still on the road today, so it stops abruptly.

The author of this book is unknown, and it caused a small wave of discussions after it was published, probably because of the strong contrast between the story style of the book and its wonderful content, which was unexpected and also aroused the curiosity of many people.

Some people say that this is a very philosophical book, and they have published their own long speeches; some people say that this may be just a simple fairy tale, and they want to tell children to repay their kindness and never give up no matter what they encounter; others are very serious. According to the details in the book, I analyze who Suta's benefactor is, whether he remembers the little rabbit who has gone through the foggy forest so many times for him, and why he can build a safe place for this little rabbit in the foggy forest. homes.

Xu Hanlai had read all these comments on the Internet, recalled it now, and tapped the pages of the book lightly.

He didn't understand the book when he first read it, but after being led to read it again and again, he seemed to understand a little bit in his heart.

Xu Han came to think that Suta's benefactor should have remembered it, otherwise Suta's journey through the foggy forest would not have been chased and bitten by crocodiles and wolf dogs at the beginning, and then the painting style had changed suddenly, and sometimes he could even meet others in the foggy forest Have fun together for a while.

Although Suta has never found a benefactor, his journey through the foggy forest has become safer and easier every time, and sometimes he even overcomes some risks with the help of a god.

But Suta itself has not changed significantly. It has always been the little rabbit with limited abilities despite its courage.

As for who Suta's benefactor is.

Xu Hanlai gently touched his chin.

When he was a child, he once had a dream. He dreamed of the scene where his father asked him to go abroad when he was in junior high school.In the dream, Xu Hanlai faintly realized that he should accept it, and that going abroad was the direction he should, or must go.

But Xu Han came but didn't go, he seemed to have negotiated a condition with a certain voice in his heart, temporarily moved the correct path aside, and then said to that voice.

It's fine in the later years, he wants to stay in Mancheng to find someone.

This time, I can't let him foolishly follow me.

The dream came to an abrupt end here, and the young Xu Hanlai couldn't figure out what these intermittent dreams were trying to express.

Now he can understand.

But then the bigger problem is how he can convey what he understands to him in a way that the little guy can accept.

Seeing Lin Xi in the living room after taking a shower, wiping his hair perfunctorily while walking out with a severely injured expression on his face, Xu Hanlai slightly raised the corners of his lips, and raised his voice to remind him.

"Brush your hair well."