crossing the northern latitude

Meng Tunan's jump left some psychological shadows on Lu Yan.

If you go back two years, then Lu Yan can understand Meng Tunan somewhat, but at this time, some changes have occurred in Lu Yan's life, and he began to understand the truth that too much is too late.Willful, flamboyant, frivolous... These descriptions are far away from Lu Yan. Now he often feels that the world is very big, but he is very small, and there are many things that he can do nothing about.

It's just that it's no use telling Meng Tunan this kind of reasoning, people will only know the pain when they stumble, and it's a master who doesn't understand good words.

Lu Yan thought that he could handle the oncoming conflicts well, and Meng Tunan seemed to have his own plans in his heart... They didn't have an open and honest chat about the future, and they would quarrel.

Although it usually seems that Meng Tunan gave way to Lu Yanduo, they competed with each other in such a big matter, probably because boys of that age have a strange desire to win no matter what, and they also want to like To behave like this in front of more people...

So the conflict dragged on and on, and they ushered in the most intense change when they were unprepared.

That day was the day of scoring.

Lu Yan was actually very nervous.He felt that he didn't do well in the last two subjects, especially English, he finished it completely in a trance... Comprehensive literature was not his strong point at all, and he really didn't know how much he could take.

For those who are used to being excellent all the year round, it is a very scary thing to be confused in the exam.

Unlike Meng Tunan's family, almost all of Lu Yan's mother's family graduated from prestigious schools. Needless to say, his grandparents, Xie Yu came from Ivy League. Very good school.

When I was a child to participate in competitions to win prizes, Lu Yan’s grandparents even joked that he might become a scientist and win the Nobel Prize... It seems that everyone thinks that the college entrance examination is a very simple thing for Lu Yan. The probability of it is very small.

Waiting nervously, he simply ran to Meng Tunan's house to stay.Gao Hui was making kimchi, and Lu Yan and Meng Tunan helped her wash the jars and choose vegetables when she had nothing to do.I thought it would be enough to wash one or two, but Meng Tunan handed over one after another...

In the end, Lu Yan's back hurt a little from washing, so he stood up and counted, and they washed fourteen pickle jars!

Lu Yan couldn't help sighing: "Let auntie change her career to sell kimchi."

"It just looks so much..." Meng Tunan shook the water off his hand, "I'm exhausted."

"I seem to have heard from Aunt Mei before that Yan Yan will judge whether a woman is diligent or not by looking at the number of kimchi pots in her house." Lu Yan said, "Your mother is so capable."

"I heard from my mother that the kimchi made by your grandma is the best. It's amazing... But she seems to make it very rarely, anyway, I haven't eaten it."

After speaking, Meng Tunan felt that it was inappropriate to mention Grandma Lu Yan, so he immediately answered: "I feel like it's almost time, let's check the score?"

For the sense of ritual, Meng Tunan also deliberately found a history book and turned to the side with Confucius and dragged Lu Yan to worship. If the conditions did not allow it, Lu Yan felt that Meng Tunan would definitely offer himself a few sticks of incense.

When it was time to enter the exam admission number, Meng Tunan twitched again. He deleted half of the input, stopped to catch his breath, stood up and walked around twice, entered again, deleted again, got up and scratched his hair again...

There is no time to laugh at Meng Tunan anymore, Lu Yan feels that he is not much better.In the end, they made an appointment to enter the information together, and then read the results together, but what they saw was not their own, but the other party's.

Maybe it's because there are a lot of people checking scores that day, and when I entered the page, it couldn't be loaded for a long time.

"...I've been going in circles."

"Me too."

……

"Have you loaded it yet?"

"No."

……

Another minute passed, and they raised their heads at the same time, looking at each other with surprise in their eyes.

Lu Yan was surprised that Meng Tunan did so well in the exam.

What surprised Meng Tunan was that Lu Yan's test was so... not good enough.

This deer is a person who takes the big score, why is it so low? ? ?

After a brief silence, Lu Yan first said that sentence: "Congratulations, you can go to any school you want...you can go to any school that doesn't take the art test." After finishing speaking, he held his mobile phone in front of Meng Tunan Show him the score.

But Meng Tunan didn't have much joy on his face, looking at his expression, it could even be said that he was a little... frightened.

Lu Yan understood most of it, and after his heart sank, he asked, "Is it terrible?"

"Ten points taller than me...seems like it to you."

It really is a mess.

The question is not difficult, and Lu Yan knows very well that this score is extremely harmful, and it has reached the point of hurting his self-esteem.He endured the embarrassment, took the phone and looked at his score seriously.

It was true that I did not do well in the last two subjects, and almost failed in English.

But you can't be too sad at this time.Lu Yan forced himself to smile: "My comprehensive essay is really... not as good as yours. It seems that I am really not suitable for studying essays."

"Yes...you've got full marks in math." Meng Tunan began to try to find a way for Lu Yan to step down, "I think maybe it's because of my good handwriting that I took advantage of it?"

"Well..." Lu Yan nodded absently, "You have passed the math, congratulations, you have made great progress."

After that, he congratulated Meng Tunan several times.

No matter how much you pretend, you can't hide your disappointment.Meng Tunan panicked all of a sudden, and hurriedly grabbed Lu Yan's hand: "How could this be?"

How could this be?

Lu Yanxin said how do I know.

"Maybe it's bad luck." He adjusted his tone very flat, "To tell you the truth... I've been a little afraid of this kind of big test since I failed the last test, and it's very strange... Every time I take a big test, I will Some accidents came to my door. The first time it was because of my dad, and this time it was because of grandma..."

Unable to continue, Lu Yan pressed the phone lock screen, went to the bed and sat down.His mind was a little confused, and he felt as if he had stepped into an unsolvable situation... Dazed, he found that Meng Tunan had already sat on his lap, and soon his hands and feet were wrapped around him, strangling him tightly.

Lu Yan patted him on the back: "Play a song and listen... I'll leave after listening."

"...Stay with me."

"Go back and tell them the bad news."

"Actually, you didn't do badly in the exam, not to mention you still have extra points." Meng Tunan whispered, "If you compare me with me and feel that you did poorly in the exam... then I think you are insulting me."

"You did well in the exam, you can play for a year." Lu Yan squeezed his waist, "Hurry up and play the song... I'll go back after I calm down."

"...You are the smartest deer I have ever seen. If you don't do well in the exam this time, you won't count." Meng Tunan sighed, "I'm really not bragging about you, I'm very serious."

"Okay." Lu Yan's tone was perfunctory, urging him, "Play a song, hurry up."

In fact, Meng Tunan didn't have the heart to listen to any songs with him. Now he was both happy and sad, for himself and for Lu Yan.

Now it seems that his good test is more like mocking Lu Yan, this deer is so strong, he must not listen to those few words of comfort, he will only blame himself.

And another secret thought in my heart is: Am I so inferior to him? It's too ironic to get [-] points higher than me in the exam and look like the sky is falling.

Taking out the mobile phone, Meng Tunan found a song from Mayday and played it casually.At that time, it was the era when Jay Chou and Mayday dominated the campus. The class could basically sing their songs together, and the boys and girls copied the lyrics one after another.

The finger nodded casually, and "An Apple" was played.It was a brisk song, but they listened very quietly... It was a good song, and Meng Tunan was affected by Lu Yan's deep loss, and he always felt that the more he listened to the song, the more depressed he became.

Lu Yan has always kept his word, stood up and left after listening to a song.When he turned the doorknob, he found that Meng Tunan didn't lock the door... But now he didn't have the strength to go back and preach, so he left Meng Tunan's house in a hurry.

After telling Xie Lin and Xie Yu the news, Lu Yan felt that at least they didn't look very surprised, and he didn't know if they were forcing a smile because they didn't want to make him feel emotional.

Xie Lin didn't know how to care about people, and said a few words in a pale voice that her grades weren't too bad... But Xie Yu was not easy to deal with, so she called Lu Yan into the room directly.

After calling him in, Xie Yu ignored him at first, pointed to the chair and said, "I want to have a meeting, you sit and wait for me first."

After that, there was a distraught wait.Xie Yu spoke English the whole time, at a very fast speed, and it took him half an hour to speak into his laptop.

The more Lu Yan sat down, the more anxious he became, he faintly felt that Xie Yu seemed a little angry.

His uncle is a powerful character. He started a company with his classmates when he was in his early twenties. It is very skillful to start a solid family business by himself.Xie Yu has a cold personality, and speaks directly and viciously. To be honest, Lu Yan is actually a little afraid of this uncle.

He had the impression that Xie Yu would only wear those gold-rimmed glasses when he was going to talk about important matters, but Xie Yu put them on today.

After all, he didn't dare to say anything first, and he didn't have the confidence.Lu Yan'an quietly waited for Xie Yu to finish the phone call, and then began to admit his mistakes: "During the last two exams, I was not in good shape, and my luck was not good. I just happened to meet my grandma..."

Xie Yu closed the computer, looked up at him, and looked at him for a long time.

He didn't scold Lu Yan, but asked first: "What are your plans?"

"……Intend?"

"Yes, I plan." Xie Yu folded his hands, "According to what I know about you...you should consider the result after failing the exam."

In fact, Lu Yan really didn't think about such a "result".He is indeed mentally prepared, but he has not yet figured out how to deal with it.

"……I have no idea."

"Actually, it's not as bad as I imagined. I imagined that you would directly score more than 400 in your studies." Xie Yu's tone was gentle, but the meaning of the words was sarcasm, "You have other bonus points, such as competitions, children of martyrs, etc. …With a little credit from your father, you can get up to [-]."

It is not an exaggeration to poke a knife into Lu Yan's heart.

He let out a slow breath.

"I... I can go to the flying academy, and I should be able to get the grades. If I study in the air force, I have passed the political review..."

"You can't get into the military academy with your score, you're not qualified." Xie Yu shook his head resolutely, "What's more, what escape route did you think of for yourself?"

Lu Yan stopped talking.

Xie Yu looked at him for a while before slowly saying: "No one will blame you for failing your first exam, and no one will blame you this time. After all, you have too many reasons that can be used as a shield. You used to play tricks I won't stop Wen, if you want to make your life more difficult, I'll just look at it coldly, thinking that you should fall hard once before you know how good you are..."

Young people will feel ashamed to hear such words.Lu Yanyue lowered his head as he listened, and didn't even dare to look up at Xie Yu.

But the fact is true, he didn't earnestly pass the normal test, this year he was distracted by playing and chatting with friends, he didn't fulfill his obligations as a student, and he didn't seriously complete the test...

"It's self-willed for you to study literature on your own. If you have a bad attitude in the exam, it's because your psychological quality is not good enough. If you want to perfunctory after the exam, it's irresponsible to yourself. Don't talk about luck with me. The scores are very fair. Psychological quality It is also a part of the assessment, everyone only looks at the results, no one cares about your reasons."

After speaking, Xie Yu stood up, walked slowly around Lu Yan, and stopped with his back turned to him.

"I actually think it would be better for you to fail the exam. You need to have a longer memory. If you are used to being praised, you should know what reality is." Xie Yu said, "Go back and think about it carefully. I hope you repeat the exam for another year. , or go abroad with your mother directly... Anyway, you are young, so it doesn't matter if you come for another year."

"I don't want to go abroad." At this time, Lu Yan still insisted, "It's okay to repeat my studies, I can go to civil aviation, and I can go to an ordinary university..."

"We gave you a lot of freedom before, but now it turns out that your own decision-making is not very good, so now I have to intervene." Xie Yu's tone has begun to be severe, "If you want to make peace with yourself... Okay. But I still want to ask, Lu Yan, are you really embarrassed to get into a good university with the credit of your father's death?"

The last sentence hurt Lu Yan deeply.Xie Yu knew him too well, and knew what to say could hurt him the most.

His father is his eternal pain point.

Lu Yan's face turned red in an instant, and he couldn't help shouting at Xie Yu: "I didn't come to intervene before, what are you doing now? Even if I mess up everything, I will take responsibility. What does it have to do with you?"

Xie Yu directly threw the pen in his hand at him, and shouted angrily, "What do you think has anything to do with me? I'm your uncle!"

"I don't want you to meddle in my business!!"

The anger and shame made Lu Yan almost lose his mind, he got up and left in a hurry.When I opened the door, I saw Xie Lin with a sad face outside. She must have been listening... She wanted to come over and hold Lu Yan's hand, but Lu Yan avoided it.

After going out, he ran to Meng Tunan's house without looking back, but when he arrived at the other's house, he saw Meng Tunan holding Gao Hui's hand and acting like a baby, as if he was asking for some reward, and Meng Jianjun was calling on the sidelines. Cheerful face.

Lu Yan paused, suddenly feeling abandoned by the whole world.That's right, that person has a family, has passed the art test, and the college entrance examination is also good, why should he bother a proud person with his failure face.

But his whole world only abandoned him for a few seconds, and Meng Tunan soon found his pitiful figure standing at the door.After seeing him, Meng Tunan suddenly changed his face, and rushed over without hesitation——

Seeing Meng Tunan rushing over, Lu Yan really wanted to cry.

He comforted himself and said: This is enough, I must at least grab something.