Absinthe

Two months of vacation is a long time, but at the end it always feels too short.

Two weeks before the start of school, Hao Aicai finally had a sense of urgency, and he didn't touch much of his summer homework.After leaving Lijinghua Mansion, Hao Ai lived in his uncle's house, sleeping on the small sofa.

Zhong Xiu told him that it doesn't matter if he continues to live with me, he changed the door code, and no one will come in suddenly.

But Hao Ai said it was inconvenient, and he had to take care of his grandma.Zhong Xiu knew that this was just a refusal. Grandma and uncle's family went on a trip. Uncle wanted to take advantage of grandma's ability to move around and take her around more. Hao Ai had mentioned this to Zhong Xiu before, but he seemed to have forgotten , Zhong Xiu didn't expose it either.

Hao Ai went to the library to do his homework every afternoon after taking a nap, and Zhong Xiu was with him.With Zhong Xiu supervising him, the efficiency of homework has improved a lot. Hao Ai is sure that this time he will never make up his homework until late at night on the first night of school.

When he received Zhang Zhiyuan's call, Zhong Xiu was sitting with Hao Ai in the study room of the library. He glanced at the caller ID, then stood up and went out to answer it.

Zhang Zhiyuan asked him on the phone if he was going to change classes at the beginning of school.

"Ah?" Zhong Xiu was stunned, unable to realize what he was saying for a while.

"Your mother told me that you agreed to transfer classes." Zhang Zhiyuan was also stunned.

"Oh, yes." Only then did Zhong Xiu know that Yang Yingqiong had already told Zhang Zhiyuan without saying hello, and kept it from Zhong Xiu, as if he was afraid that he would go back on his word.

Zhang Zhiyuan's tone was still a little uncertain: "I didn't believe it when she said you agreed to change classes, did you really decide?"

"Ah."

"It's fine to transfer to a key class." From resistance to acceptance, Zhang Zhiyuan didn't know why Zhong Xiu suddenly changed his mind, but he still persuaded him earnestly: "Don't always confront your mother, she won't harm you."

"Ah."

Zhang Zhiyuan told him a few words not to relax during the holidays, and then laughed at what he said was nonsense, he knew that Zhong Xiu had always been self-disciplined.

After finishing the phone call, when he returned, Hao Ai was already clearing up the test papers on the table.

"Stop writing?" Zhong Xiu walked over and asked in a very low voice.

Hao Ai nodded.

So Zhong Xiu also packed up his exercise booklet and hugged it in his arms, and the two quietly walked around the rows of people sitting in the study room and walked out the door.

There is a milk tea shop outside the library. Hao Ai always orders a cup every time he finishes studying. Today he bought pearl taro milk tea.

"I'm starting school and I'm going to transfer to a key class." Zhong Xiu said suddenly while walking on the road.

"Ah," Hao Ai stopped chewing pearls for a moment, and said vaguely, "Key classes... are pretty good." Then he puffed up his cheeks and continued chewing pearls.

Seeing that Hao Ai's reaction was so flat, Zhong Xiu felt a little uncomfortable, and the two walked a certain distance, he couldn't help asking: "...Do you have anything to ask?"

"Why do you want to go to the key class?" Hao Ai looked at him.

Zhong Xiu didn't know what he wanted to hear, so he shook his head.

"Otherwise, what do you want me to say?" Hao Ai lowered his head indifferently, took a sip of milk tea, and said, "Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

Zhong Xiu: "..."

"I'm not going to be like this," Hao Ai raised his face and smiled after finishing speaking: "It's not a bad thing for you to go to the key class, right?"

Zhong Xiu did not agree with this sentence.

Hao Ai put his arms around his shoulders: "Okay, don't worry, I will study hard without your supervision."

"En." Zhong Xiu's expression was no longer as stiff as before.

Seeing that he had been coaxed a little better, Hao Ai stopped talking about changing classes just now, but asked, "Have you finished your English homework?"

"It's finished." Sure enough, Zhong Xiu said what he wanted to hear as he expected.Hao Ai said: "When you come to the library tomorrow, you can bring all the English papers, and I will get the answers right."

"Isn't there an answer?" Zhong Xiu asked strangely.

There are answers at the back of each set of test papers they bought, and the answers can also be found on the Internet for the test papers printed by the teacher.

"I was afraid that my self-control was too weak and I couldn't help copying. I tore off the answer and put it away, but I didn't know where I threw it. I searched for a long time at home and couldn't find it."

Zhong Xiu smiled and said, "It might be in my place, I'll go back and look for it."

"Okay." Hao Ai took two steps forward and threw the empty milk tea cup into the trash can on the side of the road.

"How much is your homework missing?" Zhong Xiu asked.

"A dozen papers." Hao Ai said.

Zhong Xiu asked suspiciously, "Only a dozen?"

"Yeah, I saved English for last."

"Didn't write your answer to what?"

"I can score more than 100 points in the English test now. There is really no need to write some basic questions. Do you understand me?"

Hao Ai is good at changing the subject, "What's for dinner today? It's your turn to decide."

In the past few days, when the two of them came out of the library, it was always near dusk. On the way back, they chatted for a while, and then had dinner together, so that the exhaustion from studying would be wiped away.

Every time Hao Ai asked what Zhong Xiu wanted to eat, he would agree, as if he had no preference at all.

"Do you have any ideas?" Hao Ai was also very helpless, and asked him to choose every day. With so many delicious foods, he would have a phobia of choosing.

Finally, Hao Ai came up with a perfect idea: let him decide where to eat on the first, third, and fifth, and Zhongxiu decides on the second, fourth, and sixth. On Sunday, he will go to Lijing Hua Mansion to cook. Under his guidance, Zhongxiu has already learned how to eat. Fried simple dishes too.

Zhong Xiu chose a barbecue restaurant nearby.

As soon as the fragrant barbecue was served, the two people at the counter suddenly quarreled, and the diners around looked over there one after another, and Hao Ai didn't hide their curious eyes.

When they first entered the store, the two people were already arguing, and they looked like a mother and daughter.

The girl who yelled first looked young, with a childish look in her eyebrows, but she was dressed brightly, wearing a light green umbilical suspender and hot pants.

"I'm going to learn acting! I'm going to test Nortel in the future!"

"How much money does your family have for you?" The woman's sharp voice exploded in the small storefront: "Just like you, you are counting down in class, so return Nortel?"

"I have a low score in acting, and I can get in with more than 300! Don't look down on me! If you don't give me the money to register for classes, I won't go to school! Anyway, I can't get into any school without studying art, so go to work early. gone."

The girl was probably in the first year of high school and wanted to study art, but her mother objected. This kind of dispute seems to be quite common.

The woman walked in, perhaps seeing Zhong Xiu's secret college entrance examination papers on the table, and then turned her head to yell at the girl: "Look at her, you still study during the holidays, how about you? You know how to talk all day long." Falling in love, can you be admitted to university if you fall in love?"

"Cough..." Hao Ai cleared his throat unnaturally, and lowered his head, as if he wanted to bury his face in a bowl that didn't exist.

The woman didn't finish yet, and pointed at the girl again: "I don't know how many times stronger than you, can you ask how many points you got in the test?"

The girl yelled "None of my business" in annoyance, and then rushed out the door.

Hao Ai raised his head and looked at Zhong Xiu, both of them were a little embarrassed.

The barbecue meal was not enjoyable either.

"Scores of more than 300 don't seem to be enough for Nortel," Hao Ai said with a smile, "Chinese opera is not very good either."

"Yes, isn't Chen Rao able to take the [-] exam?" Zhong Xiu also laughed.

They both remembered that Chen Rao once passed 840 in the cultural class of the midterm exam, and sent [-] yuan in red envelopes in the group.

Starting with this topic, Zhong Xiu naturally led the topic to the university.

"I'm not planning to go to the National Academy of Sciences." Zhong Xiu and Hao Ai said that the first prize in the last competition would be admitted in advance by the National Academy of Sciences.

"What about H University?" Hao Ai asked.

Compared with H University, the National Academy of Sciences focuses more on the scientific research field of basic disciplines, and H University has more than one strong discipline, and chemistry is not the most prominent among so many strong disciplines.

"H University's chemistry major is not strong." Zhong Xiu said.

"Really?" Hao Ai didn't understand so much.

"Ah."

"If you go to another school for self-enrollment, have you considered which school to choose?"

"No," Zhong Xiu asked again, "What about you?"

"I...may be Z." Hao Ai's eyes flashed, and he laughed at himself: "I may not be able to pass the exam."

Z University is a key university in Zhengchuan City, and its score line is quite high. This is the only good university in Zhengchuan City in China, but for Zhong Xiu, this school can only be regarded as mediocre.

"Boss Z, you should be fine." Zhong Xiu was silent for a few seconds before saying.

He couldn't ask Hao Ai to follow in his footsteps, but he did selfishly want Hao Ai to go to the city he was going to.

"I'm afraid we will have a long-distance relationship in the future." Zhong Xiu said again.

"It's okay, I can visit you when I'm on vacation." Hao Ai's tone was pretending to be relaxed.

"Well, I can go to you too." Zhong Xiu said.

The two walked for a while, and Zhong Xiu could walk home directly, but it was far away from Uncle Hao Ai's house, and he needed to take a bus back.

The time of the last bus is [-] o'clock in the evening, Hao Ai and Zhong Xiu always chat until this time, and then say goodbye at the bus stop.

The two stood at the bus stop, and the last bus hadn't arrived yet.

"I don't know where I'm going in the future," Zhong Xiu said suddenly, "I don't seem to have a particularly pure passion for chemistry. It's not certain whether I will learn it in the future, but I'm not very interested in other things."

"How can there be absolutely pure love?" Hao Ai sighed.

Love will always be mixed with other things, such as vanity, rebellion, freshness, competitiveness or other things, but it is undeniable that there are thousands of kinds of love, and the forms of expression are also different, whether it is simple or demanding. OK, but can you deny that's not love?

"If you really don't know what to love," Hao Ai's voice was very soft, and it didn't sound so firm, as if joking: "Then love me."

"No matter where you go or what you have to experience in the future, I hope you can be happy and freely pursue all the things you love." Hao Ai paused, and then said: "If you feel pressure, you must tell me."

The last bus came, Hao Ai got on the orange bus and waved to him through the window.

Zhong Xiu watched the empty bus drive into the depths of the night, and the vague thoughts in his heart suddenly became clear. Perhaps Hao Ai had been aware of what he deliberately concealed.

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