Secret Love · Orange Raw Huainan

Chapter 38 Those who are favored are fearless

It was still snowing heavily on Saturday. She went out early to wait for the bus, but the bus was delayed due to the road conditions. She hurriedly reached out to take a taxi, praying secretly that she would not be late along the way.

There were very few pedestrians on the campus in the morning. After entering the door, she walked along the test center route signs posted every ten meters.A girl in a red down jacket ran over to strike up a conversation and asked her if she was going to the exam room too.The two walked together, chatting casually, and the white air they exhaled was instantly swept away by the oncoming wind and snow.For a moment, Luo Zhi felt in a trance, feeling that the wind had taken away the voice as well.

"I major in tourism management. Our school collected a lot of money when recruiting students for this major. It is a joint school with a university in Ireland—I forgot the name, and it is not well-known anyway. Once I got 6 points in IELTS, I was a senior. I can go out, study for three years, and directly turn the undergraduate into a double degree. The graduate student is the same as the Irish university. But I have to be able to pass 6 points. This is the fourth time for me. The last time was 5.5. I almost missed it. It made my intestines green. I haven't passed the fourth level yet..."

I don't know if it was because of the snow, but the girl's slightly hoarse voice didn't make much noise in the empty campus.

While Luo Zhi was distracted, she listened to the girl complaining that her parents were meddling.

"Nowadays, everyone knows that going abroad is not as easy to bluff people as it was a few years ago. With my virtues and the Irish university, it looks like it was piled up with money, and no one wants to write it on the resume. I and My mother said, I went back to the province after graduation, and worked as the lobby manager in the bathing center opened by my dad. The recruitment of lobby managers in Xiaopo places all said that they need a master's degree. Don't you think this is sick?..."

A dark-skinned foreigner ran up to them, wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt and thin sports trousers, and smiled at them who were dressed thickly. His eight white teeth formed a sharp contrast with his face.

"Damn, don't tell me, this nigger is really handsome."

As soon as the girl finished speaking, the foreigner who ran past suddenly turned around and replied loudly in Mandarin with a Beijing accent: "So-so, thank you!"

Luo Zhi laughed, and the girl beside her returned to dejection after laughing: "My English is definitely not half as fluent as his Chinese."

When they were queuing up in the examination room, they said goodbye, Luo Zhi waved to her and said "Come on", the girl smiled carelessly, as if she was not afraid of anything.

Those who are favored have nothing to fear.Luo Zhi felt envious.

Entering the examination room, Luo Zhi adjusted the wireless headset according to the instructions, fidgeted restlessly with the special egg-laying pencil and eraser that had been placed on the table by the examiner beforehand, and then waited boredly on the table.The man beside him seemed to be quite old, and he was leaning over and chatting up with a smile: "Little sister, how many times did you take the test?"

Luo Zhi has always been a kind person on the outside, so she couldn't help but frowned and said, "It's the first exam."

"Oh, it's okay, it's okay, don't worry, usually you can get better at the second test."

Luo Zhi laughed angrily.

The old British lady who invigilated the exam had a friendly tone and a warm smile, but the moment she saw a girl flipping the exam paper ahead of time, she immediately slapped the table and shouted "You!" The sharp and serious voice scared Luo Zhi so much that her heart was pierced. , As soon as the hand is loosened, the egg laying pen falls to the ground.The uncle who was once acquainted with the first time and second time at the side helped her pick it up, and said softly with a smile, "You answered very quickly."

Luo Zhi frowned and ignored.

At the end of the reading test, the examiner asked everyone to put the test paper back on the table, and no one was allowed to move.But the man beside him kept winking at her, signaling her to turn over the paper and let him copy two strokes—she turned her head to the other side indifferently.

She was the third candidate for the oral test in the afternoon, and when she was sitting at the door waiting quietly, she met the candidate who came out in front.

"Be careful, Indian." The frustrated candidate left with his shoulders slumped.

Luo Zhi's distracted mind gathered urgently.

Sure enough, it was a dark-skinned Indian female examiner, but when the other party spoke, she had a beautiful American voice.Luo Zhi was really taken aback, but felt like good news from heaven, and her whole body became excited.Both spoke at the speed of a debate, but the conversation was pleasant.

Luo Zhi's voice had already returned to normal, but now it's a bit unbearable, it has become a little hoarse, and she always clears her throat before speaking

The examiner said, I have one last question:
"Why do memories sometimes differ from facts?"

Luo Zhi opened her mouth and laughed dumbly.

She lowered her head and thought silently for more than ten seconds, then raised her face and said slowly: "Maybe it's some kind of self-protection. The facts are bad enough, why bother to embarrass yourself when remembering."

A very arbitrary and emotional answer that also lacks logic.The examiner was stunned for a few seconds, and then gave her an extremely dazzling smile.

Luo Zhi sighed heavily at that moment.Everything was so real in such a waking day, the table, the chairs, the rough texture, the dull sheen—such a reality reflected the absurdity of everything she cherished in her memory.Is everything in the past real or just whitewashing?
It was already three o'clock in the afternoon when I walked out of the examination room.The snow didn't know when it stopped, but the road traffic was even more congested, so she could only walk slowly along the road on the fresh snow.After a while, the bitter cold wind froze the tip of her nose until she lost consciousness.

She suddenly remembered that she hadn't switched on the phone after the exam.Not long after the screen turned on, the phone started vibrating constantly.Luoyang, Zhang Mingrui, Belle, mother... many people sent her text messages asking about the exam situation, and even Xu Riqing, presumably Zhang Mingrui told her.Luo Zhi felt very warm in her heart, and lowered her head while walking to reply.A few minutes later a phone call came in, it was my mother.

"Lolo, are you done with the exam?"

"Just after leaving the examination room, your call was really timely."

"Telepathy." Mom laughed on the other side of the phone, "How is it?"

"Good."

"By the way, do you have a holiday for Christmas?"

"What holiday do we have for Christmas? Do you think I'm at Harvard?"

"The aunt Fu I mentioned to you last time said that she has a relative who works in the railway bureau. If you come back around Christmas, you can buy a platform ticket and get on the train and then make up for the student ticket for the sleeper berth. When you return to Beijing With Aunt Fu and the others, she doesn't need to bring you the down vest, you can just send them to the subway, understand?"

Luo Zhi could only laugh temperlessly at this long-winded narration: "Understood, I understand."

My mother talked to her about how to find the train conductor, the time and train number, and asked her if she had any important courses. She talked for a long time before putting down the phone.

December 12th is a Saturday, and Luo Zhi plans to get on the bus on Friday morning, skip politics and physical education, and return to school on Sunday night.

December 12 this year is the 24th anniversary of my father's death.

Luo Zhi could not remember the funeral scene clearly, from her home to the crematorium, she met countless strange relatives along the way.During the lengthy and complicated ceremony, she just kept on crying, and only one aunt was in charge of taking care of herself who was dressed in filial piety.

All she needs to do is cry, the child's sadness is pure and simple, all she needs is to see a father who doesn't move, pale and cold, and only needs to hear someone say "Dad will never come back" to cry In the dark, until tired, calm down for a while, take a rest, be mentioned a few more words, and then cry...

Anyway, many people would kneel down and hug her and say "poor child".She could cry forever.

But for some reason, she suddenly raised her head in her aunt's arms.It was also snowing heavily on the day of the funeral, even worse than this one.

Snowflakes are fragments of the sky.

She opened her eyes wide and watched the snow grow from scratch and then fell into her eyes, freezing her tears.Such repression and grandeur suddenly made the little Luo Zhi no longer sobbing, but turned around to look at the mother in the crowd, her lips were white and trembling, the mother who was smashing a clay pot but couldn't break it several times had lost her strength .

She knew that the hard times were just beginning.

At that moment, the sadness increased, surpassing the ignorant sadness and tears of children.

Just as I put down the phone, the phone vibrated again.

This time it was Sheng Huainan.

"IELTS finished?"

"Oh, that's alright."

When the same greeting comes from someone else, she just smiles and says "thank you", and if it comes from him, she will be very moved.The human heart is always biased.

"Normally, even if others do well in the exam, they will only say 'Well, that's it, it's okay'. You are really honest." Sheng Huainan's voice was very bright.

"Really." Luo Zhi was not in the mood to argue.

Sheng Huainan paused for a moment, then asked again: "Go back to school?"

"On the way. The snow is too thick and there is a traffic jam again. I will walk back. Fortunately, BLCU is not far from our school."

"I'll pick you up."

"There's a traffic jam here, the only thing that can come over is a helicopter, how do you pick it up?"

"Oh, that's right." Sheng Huainan smiled, a little embarrassed, and didn't speak for a long time.Luo Zhi didn't wear gloves, her fingers soon became stiff, but she didn't urge her.

"Is it cold?" he asked.

"Ah."

"Without gloves?"

"Ah."

"Then hang up the phone. Are you still cold? Your voice is still a little hoarse. Put your hands in your pockets to warm up. I wish you good grades in the exam."

"Thank you."

Luo Zhi put the cold mobile phone back into her schoolbag.The intersection ahead was chaotic, and pedestrians shuttled freely between the vehicles.She stared blankly for a while, then lowered her head and continued walking.

No matter how badly you are injured, as long as the other party asks "Does it hurt?", you can come back to life.

The oncoming wind blew away the smile left on her face.

(End of this chapter)