Chasing Summer - Chapter 28

At night, Lin He delivered milk to Lin Zhexia before going to bed. She knocked on the door and said softly, “Xia Xia, are you doing your homework? I’m coming in.”

Lin Zhexia replied: “Come in, I’m reading—”

Lin He opened the door and came in. She has been going to bed early recently, and she is actually a little sleepy now.

But she cheered up and asked her with concern: “Did you tell the teacher about the retirement?”

Lin Zhexia took the milk: “No.”

Lin He: “Why don’t you say it? Is it because of embarrassment, or because I am afraid that the teacher will disagree.”

“neither.”

She shook her head and said, “I want to try again.”

Because when she gave up, someone told her that she thought she could do it.

So, she wanted to try again.

Lin Zhexia drank a few sips of milk, thinking of the chat records with Chi Yao just now.

—No one thinks you can’t do it.

—Only you think.

…

It was just a speech contest, so many people participated, and she could do what others could do.

Lin Zhexia usually always thinks like this, Lin He didn’t ask her why she suddenly changed her mind.

But since her daughter decided to do it, she naturally had to encourage her: “No matter what the result is, the most important thing is to participate, and there must be no pressure.”

Lin Zhexia said “hmm”: “Go to bed quickly, I’m going to sleep after reading a book.”

That night, she didn’t sleep well.

After all, thinking about the game, the psychological pressure is still there.

She had a dream. In the dream, she was captured by a group of monsters, and then the group of monsters forced her to speak on stage.

She was very fluent in her dreams.

As a result, the head of the monster said: “You speak very well, let me listen to another one.”

…

After getting up, she rubbed her head and felt a little pain in her head.

9:00 in the morning.

After she washed up briefly, she revised the manuscript again.

Just as she was hesitating whether to practice at home or go to Chi Yao’s house, someone called her name downstairs: “Brother Xia—”

It was He Yang’s voice.

She walked to the window, poked her head out to look down, and saw He Yang and Chi Yao standing side by side downstairs.

Chi Yao squinted his eyes from the sun, he seemed to think that He Yang was too close to him, so he stepped back to the side.

He Yang raised his head and made trumpet-like hands with his hands. The voice came from the bottom of the building: “Brother Xia, I need you for something, come down.”

This call brought her back to her childhood.

When she was a child, electronic devices were not as popular as they are now, and she didn’t have a mobile phone. The most common thing she did was to call people downstairs to play.

“What’s the matter?” Lin Zhexia went downstairs with her hair down.

“Let’s go,” He Yang said to her, “Go to Brother Yao’s house, I have prepared a surprise for you.”

Lin Zhexia: “?”

He Yang: “Let’s go.”

Lin Zhexia was suspicious: “Are you sure it’s a surprise? Why do you want to prepare it for me? If you don’t have anything to do, it’s either adultery or robbery.”

He Yang: “You will know when you go.”

Lin Zhexia followed the two of them to Chi Yao’s house.

Not long after she entered the room, someone knocked on the door suddenly. The person who came was tall and wore black-rimmed glasses: “Brother Yao, I’m here.”

No more than thirty seconds.

Another person came in.

“I’m here, too, and I’m here, too.”

“And me. I have something to do on the way. I’m not late as promised at 9:20.”

“Me, me, me, I’m here too.”

“…”

There are more and more people.

Soon Chi Yao’s living room was packed.

The sofa was crowded with people, and those who could not sit down stood.

There are about two or three rows of people standing.

Most of the people who came were people of the same age in the community. This weekend, everyone has free time.

There was even a child in the room full of people.

Holding a lollipop, the child looked at her eye to eye, and shouted innocently, “Hello, sister.”

Lin Zhexia’s expression cracked: “Who is this kid?”

“This is my cousin,” He Yang said, “Erya, come here, sit here.”

He Yang explained: “Brother Yao said to gather more people. My cousin happened to be at my house, so I called him over by the way. Although he is only five years old, he already understands people’s language. Listen to you Speech shouldn’t be too much of a problem.”

Lin Zhexia wondered if he heard it wrong: “Listen to my…speech?”

He Yang: “That’s right, aren’t you going to participate in the competition? It’s still the kind where there will be a lot of people in the audience. What’s the matter, it’s interesting enough, let’s rehearse for you, just our momentum, with a large number of people, you and us After the rehearsal, I will be able to adapt to so many people in the audience.”

Lin Zhexia: “…”

very creative.

Who came up with such a creative idea?

She almost clapped.

He Yang said again full of expectation: “When will your speech start?”

Lin Zhexia glanced at the people in the room, and finally fell on the most conspicuous person in the group – Chi Yao sitting in the middle of the sofa, looking as if surrounded by everyone. Everyone was doing it very straight, only he looked very relaxed, and inadvertently lowered his head and slid down his phone.

When he looked up again, the eyes of the two people just met.

“Start now.” Although the scene was too outrageous, Lin Zexia had to admit that this was a good opportunity for practice, “Get ready, I’m going to start the speech.”

After she finished speaking, Chi Yao put the phone away casually.

Then he showed his leadership as the originator of this idea.

He leaned back and clapped his hands leisurely.

He took the lead, and the others started to applaud, and for a moment, thunderous applause erupted in the living room.

Lin Zhexia was speechless for a moment, then cleared her throat and began to write: “Hi everyone. The topic of my speech is Youth.”

As soon as she finished speaking, someone turned her head and asked, “Brother Yao, do you want to cheer here?”

Chi Yao nodded slightly: “Yes.”

The audience in the living room immediately erupted into a very enthusiastic response.

When she just finished talking about the topic, a warm voice broke out: “Okay! Well said!”

“This beginning, very fluent!”

“As soon as I heard it! I felt that Brother Xia was the seedling who won the first place in the speech contest.”

“…”

Mixed in with this was the childish applause from He Yang’s five-year-old cousin: “Sister, your Mandarin is ruthless.”

…

“You guys be quiet.”

Lin Zhexia stopped and said, “How could the spectators be as noisy as you during the competition? I was competing in the school auditorium, not in the chicken farm.”

He Yang: “In case everyone is overwhelmed by your speech and can’t help themselves, you have to adapt to this unexpected situation. Amidst the cheers, how to deal with it calmly.” After he finished speaking, he wanted to seek help from other places Agreed, “Brother Yao, what do you think?”

Chi Yao didn’t answer his words: “The situation you mentioned is unlikely to happen.”

Lin Zhexia: “…”

In the end, Lin Zhexia rehearsed four or five times in front of this group of people.

I don’t know if it is her illusion.

Today, she doesn’t seem to be as stuck as yesterday.

The words on the paper, as if leaving the paper, came out of the mouth easily.

Obviously yesterday she almost told Lao Xu that she wanted to give up.

He Yang stayed at Chi Yao’s house for nearly an hour and a half. The people who came to listen to Lin Zhexia’s rehearsal had all dispersed, and he was also preparing to go home.

But halfway, he found that he didn’t bring his mobile phone, so he turned back.

“I lost my things.” He Yang found the phone from the sofa.

Just as he was about to leave, He Yang thought that his mother seemed to be quarreling with his father before going out, so he sat down on the sofa again: “I’d better sit down for a while before leaving.”

Chi Yao didn’t respond, he was cleaning up the coffee table that was messed up by the crowd just now: “It’s up to you.”

He Yang: “I’ve been meaning to say for a long time, when did you get your earrings done? I’ve been staring at your ears for a long time just now.”

Chi Yao didn’t speak.

He Yang: “He’s already handsome enough, can you give people like us a way out, if you go to school like this, those people in the school won’t be crazy—”

“I don’t know if they’re crazy or not,” Chi Yao said, “I think you’re pretty crazy today.”

He Yang has long been used to the way he speaks, and he couldn’t help touching his ears: “What do you think I’ll give you a beating, I should be quite suitable.”

Chi Yao didn’t raise his head: “Go and look in the mirror.”

He Yang: “…”

After a while, He Yang talked about the rehearsal just now: “My brother Xia is still participating in the competition, I really didn’t expect that.”

When Lin Zhexia was mentioned, he opened up the chatterbox.

“Speaking of which, didn’t we go to school together by car in the morning? There was a classmate of mine from the same school in the car. He came up to say hello to me a few days ago and said he saw me in the car.”

“He also asked about that pretty girl next to me. I was stunned for a long time before realizing who this “pretty girl” was. At that moment, I realized that I had known Brother Xia’s gender for so many years.”

Speaking of this, He Yang said with emotion: “I didn’t expect my Brother Xia to be quite popular. Of course, don’t worry, I didn’t give you the contact information.”

“This classmate is also curious about whether I have ever had a crush on her, and it gave me a fright, the kind whose hairs stand on end all over,” He Yang said, “How is it possible, this is a good buddy I grew up with, and I am not crazy Oh, there are so many girls in the world, I just like any one, and it can’t be my brother Xia. You say so.”

The more He Yang thinks about this assumption, the more terrifying he feels: “Tsk, that’s so embarrassing, I’m afraid this will end in breaking up the friendship. Brothers who were good at first, can’t even become brothers.”

Chi Yao listened, but didn’t speak.

But the hands that were clearing the coffee table paused.

He Yang’s topics changed quickly, one after another.

Chi Yao interrupted when he changed the topic.

“Have you sat enough?” Chi Yao said, “Get out of here if you have sat enough.”

He Yang: “Yao Yao, you are so ruthless.”

Chi Yao closed his eyes, then opened them again: “Get lost.”

“Let’s go.”

Before He Yang left, he pompously pointed at him, “If you hurt people’s hearts like this, they won’t come next time.”

The weekend rehearsal went well, and Lin Zhexia breathed a sigh of relief.

The remaining half of the mouth cannot be released until the end of the game.

On Monday, Tang Shuxuan saw that she was in good condition: “I was still worried that you wanted to retire, but I didn’t expect you to prepare well.”

Lin Zhexia said while handing in her homework: “Well, I practiced at home for two days on the weekend. I thought about shrinking back, but now I still want to give it a try.”

Tang Shuxuan was happy for her: “That’s good, don’t be nervous, there is still me.”

Lin Zhexia thought she would not be nervous at first.

But the closer it gets to game day, the more uncontrollable it becomes.

The day before the competition, she only ate half a bowl of rice.

Wei Ping asked nervously: “I ate so little today, is it because the food is not to your liking? In this way, what do you want to eat, uncle will take you out to eat later.”

Lin Zhexia shook her head: “I’m full.”

She is mainly afraid of eating too much, and she will be so nervous that she will feel like vomiting.

Lin He: “The game will be played tomorrow. Is the game time in the morning or in the afternoon?”

Lin Zhexia: “Afternoon.”

At ten o’clock in the evening, she went to bed on time to get ready for bed.

Even had a glass of milk before bed.

However, after a long time, she admitted that she couldn’t sleep, opened her eyes again, and found that the time displayed on the phone screen had changed to “11:03”.

The house is very quiet, Lin He and Wei Ping have already gone to bed at this moment.

She lay on the bed and sighed, unable to fall asleep, and since she couldn’t find anything to do, she casually clicked on the game.

Her enthusiasm for the game came and went quickly, and she put it aside quickly after playing for a while during the previous vacation.

She went up to get her things, looked around, and was about to go offline when she received a message from her friend.

Piggy overboard:?

Poof: …

Piglet fell into the water: still not asleep

Lin Zhexia was caught and typed a reply.

Puff: You found out

Pu Tong: I secretly came up to practice game skills.

Pu Tong: I just like the feeling of becoming stronger behind the back of my friends.

Piglet fell into the water: oh

Then “Little Pig Fell into the Water” didn’t speak again.

After about two or three minutes, “Chigou” played a voice call.

“What are you doing?” Lin Zhexia picked up the phone, lowered her voice so as not to disturb Lin He, and whispered, “I’m going to sleep.”

Chi Yao mercilessly exposed her: “Coward, can you fall asleep?”

“…”

Lin Zhexia was about to tell her to give her some more time so that she could fall asleep, when the person on the phone said: “I’m downstairs at your house.”

“Now?”

On the other end of the phone, apart from the familiar voice, there was also the faint hum of cicadas.

“Well,” he said, “can’t get down.”