Chapter 68 I need my sister’s comfort (please subscribe)
With the successful preparation for the Chinese language test in the morning and the math test in the afternoon, Lin Lu became more confident before the exam started.
Of course, "confidence" between people is a quantifier of varying degrees. Just like when a rich person says he will be too poor to eat, he means too poor to afford a meal that costs 3,000 yuan a meal.
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Lin Lu's confidence meant that he was sure to get around 80% in the test. If this score were given to the top students taking the exam in the laboratory building, they would probably be frightened, right?
Happiness is something that can be said to be simple or difficult. The key is to look at your own pursuit, but people are often like this. The more they lack something, the more they pursue it. If you can't see it, you won't think about it. Once you see it, you won't think about it.
You will think about it, but if you think about it but cannot do it, you will naturally feel depressed.
It is said that people’s living standards have improved, but the happiness index has declined. In fact, this is also the truth. After all, everyone’s horizons are now broader. They are used to seeing videos of luxury cars and villas traveling around the world. Who can expect to live in a city with just three meals a day?
Having enough food and clothing is considered happiness.
Lin Lu remembered the popular show in the past called Metamorphosis. To be honest, it was actually a very cruel thing to let a child from a mountain village experience the life of a rich family and then throw him back to the mountain village.
The invigilator handed out the math test paper and scratch paper, and Lin Lu also put his thoughts away and took the exam seriously.
Unlike the Chinese test in the morning, there were two different teachers in the afternoon, and there was still one sitting at the side and back of the forest road.
If I had known, I would have moved the teacher's chair to the other side!
But it's okay. Anyway, I took the Chinese language test in the morning and got used to the feeling of the invigilator being right next to me. If I don't pay attention, the teacher will be just air and won't have much impact.
The template for college entrance examination mathematics is almost finalized. During this period, Li Xingruo's tutoring also focused on the basics.
"...Don't be depressed because of this kind of thing!"
After concentrating his thoughts, the presence of the invigilator sitting behind him gradually became weaker, so much so that Lin Lu thought he had quietly left.
Back in the classroom, Fatty Liu was in high spirits.
"Of course I know." Lin Lu looked at her and smiled.
For the usual math test, Lin Lu never felt like he did today. It's not that he could do all the previous questions, but even if he couldn't do it, he didn't feel anything, just like Liu Pang took the English test and never looked at it.
When the questions and answer sheets were handed out, I filled them all up randomly, and then I lay down and went to sleep peacefully.
Li Xingruo was not afraid of lies, but she was most afraid of the truth, especially when Lin Lu looked at her eyes like this.
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With the last ten minutes left, Lin Lu checked again.
Although his voice was quite high-pitched, Li Xingruo felt that when he spoke it, his voice didn't have much power.
After realizing this, Lin Lu decisively abandoned all the difficult questions. Instead of wasting time thinking about it, it was better to ensure that the questions he completed did not make stupid mistakes. With one third of the time left, he started to check the test papers.
Lin Lu looked at her expectantly, imagining his sister gently holding him in her arms, making him feel suffocated.
"I just……"
Li Xingruo washed a tomato and cut it in half. She ate half and gave Lin Lu half.
Ying Yingjie: "..."
"really?"
"But what should I do if I'm still depressed?"
Okay, it seems that my judgment is correct. It's not that he is more troubled, but that the questions this time are indeed very difficult.
"Sister Xingruo is really nice. She has a gentle personality and is beautiful and has long legs. I'm going back to take a shower and come back later."
"I slept very well!" said Fatty Liu.
"Um?"
The last four remaining multiple-choice questions and the two fill-in-the-blank questions that you don't know at all can only be answered by guessing. For the fill-in-the-blank questions, guess 0 and 1, and for the multiple-choice questions, just rely on your feelings. Anyway, I have answered a lot of questions during this period.
There are always options that look like answers...
Although it is said that when God opens a door, he will close a window. Imperfection is the normal state of life. If you are not good at math, you will be bad. The key is that the movie tickets you paid for are gone, and Lin Lu is not well.
He simply estimated that as long as these questions were good, he would still have a score of sixty. Even if he couldn't go to the movies with his sister, he would at least be better than last time.
Lin Lu left school and sat home. He kept thinking about the math questions in his mind all the way, and repeatedly calculated whether his estimated score was wrong.
Lin Lu, who felt guilty because he failed in the exam, followed the kitchen honestly and squatted down to help peel garlic.
Mathematics is always the subject that makes people feel that time flies by the fastest among all subjects. If you hesitate or think about it, time will pass. Worse, if you overturn all the previous calculation steps and repeat them, time will pass in vain.
"I need my sister's comfort..."
Lin Lu: "..."
Lin Lu looked up at the students taking exams around him. His expression was more or less different from when he took the Chinese language exam in the morning, especially Ying Yingjie, who was three rows away. She looked like she was in a hurry to go to the toilet.
The cap of the pen was tightly grasped in his left hand, and the pen in his right hand was pointed at the draft paper, but he did not move for a long time.
Lin Lu briefly looked through the test paper and started with the multiple-choice questions.
"...each other."
"But the depressed look you have now is not convincing at all!"
Keeping Li Xingruo's advice in mind, after pondering for a minute, Lin Lu decisively changed the next question. Fortunately, the next question went smoothly, but the eighth question got stuck again.
"You are only……!"
"You haven't finished peeling the garlic yet...!"
After all, as long as he has sixty points, maybe if he gets a few more correct answers on the multiple-choice fill-in-the-blank questions, he still has a chance to get seventy-five points.
It's a pity that my sister, who has always been gentle and considerate, couldn't help laughing when she saw his appearance.
"Go away, go away."
Lin Lu looked into her eyes again and said softly: "I'm just afraid that I won't be able to go to the movies with Sister Xingruo."
"You didn't lie to me, did you? After hearing what you said, I felt a lot more comfortable..."
He had never felt this way during art competitions or exams, because he knew that his paintings were absolutely excellent.
"Ying Yingjie, you can get 80% in math, but I can only get 50%. Why do you seek comfort from me for your feelings?"
"What's wrong?"
"It's smashed." Lin Lu lay weakly on the sofa. His sister refused to comfort him. Only the little fat cat in her arms could give him some warmth.
Sure enough, Lu Xun was right, the more we know, the more miserable we will be; the less we know, the happier we will be.
She avoided Lin Lu's gaze and turned around to continue washing vegetables.
"Did you fail the math test?" she asked with a smile.
The first five multiple-choice questions went smoothly, but when it came to the sixth question, Lin Lu suddenly got stuck.
As Li Xingruo spoke, he tied up his hair, opened the refrigerator, took out the meat and vegetables, washed them, and prepared today's dinner.
"What? Is it harder than before?"
"Then, as long as there is progress, it's not impossible to invite you to watch the movie..."
Li Xingruo laughed and drove him away with the bamboo stick in his hand.
Lin Lu sat expressionlessly on his chair for a long time without moving. If he had a chance to ask the guy who gave him the test paper an art question, he would have to draw a picture of Riverside During the Qingming Festival!
After the invigilator finished collecting the papers, Lin Lu and Ying Yingjie returned to the classroom together.
But today was different. Maybe it was because he valued the results and was unwilling to let his efforts for more than half a month go to waste. He didn't want to see Li Xingruo disappointed. Lin Lu's heart beat faster.
"Well, this is an objective fact. There's nothing you can do if you fail in the exam. After all, your foundation is already weak."
The little girl was thoughtful and could tell at a glance that Lin Lu was depressed.
Probably this is the only way for low-school students to get a little comfort.
Then the very quiet clock ticking in the classroom began to become clearer, and even the invigilator, who had seemed to have no presence when he was sitting behind him, reappeared out of thin air, as if his back was being stared at, and insecurity spread in his heart.
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"Woo..."
"Sister Xingruo, do you believe me?"
"Does it feel more difficult than before?" Ying Yingjie was unwilling to give in. After returning to the classroom, she asked each of them one by one. Only when she heard the other person also said that it was difficult, she could feel relieved.
"I'm not that unsure. If I brag, I can make Sister Xingruo not recognize me."
After stumbling to finish filling out the multiple-choice questions, Lin Lu's heart became more ominous. He looked up at the time, his pupils suddenly shrank, and a plant appeared in his heart——
Fortunately, after seeing Li Xingruo returning home full of energy, Lin Lu's depressed mood improved a lot.
"I believe I have really made progress. I failed this test because it was difficult."
"Ugh...! It's over! Lin Lu, how much have you done? Most of the questions behind me are empty!"
Fatty Liu was surprised and said, "I haven't heard anyone say it's difficult after taking the exam in Class 16!"
"Fat man, how did you do in the exam?" Ying Yingjie also asked him.
The longest and shortest time in the world is in the examination room. From the moment Lin Lu's palms began to sweat, time began to pass twice as fast. Even if flowers bloomed on the tip of his pen, he could not keep up with the speed of passage.
"Hearing what you said, I feel a lot more comfortable."
As a math scumbag who only scored 54 points in the last exam, it was normal for him to get stuck on the questions, but he got stuck on the sixth question, which made Lin Lu feel a little bad.
Then he continued: "What I want to say is, don't deny your efforts during this period! This is the most important thing!"
"...Sister Xingruo is still smiling, please comfort me quickly." Lin Lu gestured to hug her.
"Hmph, I'll make you proud. I've already said that it's the most difficult thing to do exactly the same."
"real."
"You little brat, what do you know? You look like you've been knocked down." Li Xingruo looked like a queen, leaning over with her hands on her hips to look at him.
Visible to the naked eye, Lin Lu's entire mental state immediately changed, so much so that Li Xingruo thought he would excitedly rush over to hug her the next second.
Even if it wasn't the emotion of love, Li Xingruo couldn't help but feel her heart beat faster when such a high-spirited young man sincerely looked into her eyes and said these words.
Starting from the eighth question, even if the subsequent multiple-choice questions can be solved, the calculation process begins to become difficult.
The bell rang.
"Anyway, I definitely won't be able to score 80 points this time."
There were sighs in the classroom, and there were many candidates who were unwilling to give up, scratching their cheeks and immersed themselves in calculations...
The guy who asked the question, you are a kind of plant!
The difficulty of today's paper is completely different from usual ones, isn't it? This is exactly how it was done?!
When Li Xingruo turned around, Lin Lu had already run away, taking away the keys she put on the shoe rack.
Damn little devil! He must be trying to trick me again!
No, you have to regret it!
She covered her face with her little hands wet with water, feeling more obvious heat than usual.