Two hours later, several people gathered in the hospital ward, in a two-person room, where a few girls were either sitting or standing around a bed, talking.
The one lying in the bed was Xiao Chong, with his lower leg in plaster hoisted up on the other side, his face a colorful mosaic, sared with iodine and rcurochro.
Li Xianglu said guiltily, "Xiao Chong, I’m sorry, it’s my fault that you got hurt. Look at your face; even your mom wouldn’t recognize you, right?"
Xiao Chong tried to speak, but the pain was unbearable whenever he opened his mouth. Frustrated, he gestured with his hand to express his anger.
Iro, standing nearby, chuckled and patted Li Xianglu, "Alright, enough teasing. He’s already like this. Don’t provoke her anymore."
Lu Anna, who was peeling an apple, cut the peeled apple into small slices, placed them on a plate, and set it within Xiao Chong’s reach.
Tears welled up in Xiao Chong’s eyes as he whispered a soft "Thank you!"
Lu Anna let out a sigh and said, "Xiao Chong, you chose not to ignore the danger at the critical mont. Actually, you didn’t have to co yesterday, but you did, and you got hurt. If it weren’t for you distracting those people, Xiao Xiang and I would have been in big trouble." She took Xiao Chong’s hand earnestly and said, "Thank you!"
Xiao Chong’s mouth was injured, and it hurt terribly to even smile, but hearing Lu Anna’s words made her happy. She had done the right thing and could now return to the group. Although the cost was heavy, she had proven with her actions that she had changed.
Xu Xin couldn’t stop shaking his head, "How could Li Dayu do such a thing? We could say we’re from the sa dorm, yet she betrayed soone just for a few words from her boyfriend."
Li Xianglu, unaware of what had happened, had gone to sleep last night and only heard the explanation from Iro, "The police interrogation revealed that Li Dayu’s boyfriend didn’t offer to introduce Anna to soone for no reason; he was offered one hundred yuan."
Ah, how could this even be?
Iro then recounted what happened after she left yesterday.
"After I went back ho, my family said they hadn’t called , so I thought there might have been a mistake and just stayed ho. When my second brother ca back and asked why I was there again, I told him the whole story. He felt sothing was wrong and he took back here. By the ti my brother and I returned, it was already past nine o’clock, and none of you were here anymore. We waited for a bit until Wang Ke ca running back, panting. Only then did we find out sothing had happened."
What happened next was that by the ti they arrived, Qin Xi had already brought people over, knocking down and tying up the three assailants, and Anna had been rescued. When they entered, they saw Qin Xi fiercely holding Li Xianglu as they left.
While talking about this, Iro curiously asked, "Why are you standing all this ti? Why not sit?" It was at this mont that Iro realized that while everyone else was sitting, only Li Xianglu was standing.
Li Xianglu tried to appear calm, "It’s nothing. I just want to stand."
Lu Anna, who had witnessed Li Xianglu getting beaten yesterday, didn’t want to expose her, but she glanced at Li Xianglu’s buttocks. She couldn’t even sit. It must’ve been quite a beating.
This Qin Xi is truly an enigma. Normally, he’s gentle and courteous, seen as an excellent prospect by many girls. Even my sister-in-law and brother said that if Li Xianglu hadn’t claid him first, they would have tried for him themselves. But who would dare now? Hitting soone’s buttocks—what kind of habit is that? No way would she want that!
Lu Anna felt an endless surge of sympathy for Li Xianglu.
Xu Xin knew about the incident too. When she ca back yesterday, it was already late, eleven o’clock. The dormitory was in total chaos, with Iro and the others coming back to get things for Xiao Chong, saying that his leg was broken. She was so scared that she followed along, never expecting so much to happen in one afternoon.
Xu Xin cautiously asked, "How should we treat Li Dayu in the future?" Are we going to treat her like we did Ma Lingling? But Li Dayu probably didn’t do it on purpose, and she helped to find soone afterward.
Lu Anna smiled faintly, "Let’s just leave it at that, it’s just a schoolmate relationship." In fact, she never had any bad feelings towards Li Dayu, she’s just a girl from a well-off family with a bit of petty-mindedness and so small flaws, but overall not bad. In this incident, there really wasn’t much malice on her part, but people always make comparisons. Why didn’t Xianglu do such things? If soone offered Xianglu one hundred yuan or even one thousand yuan to invite her out, would she do it? The answer is no.
So please excuse her for not being able to understand.
While everyone was still talking, a figure quietly left the hospital room.
There were no classes in the afternoon, and after Qin Xi got the full story, she took Xianglu straight ho, and they even took another day off.
The two first went to the food supply station to buy so vegetables and fish at, along with corn bones and pig trotters. They had a special guest at ho, so they had to treat them well.
When they got back to the courtyard house, it was past noon. The elders had already finished eating, and Ms. Su Yan, undeterred by the chill of early sumr, was wearing a long-sleeved cheongsam and watering the flowers. Mr. Li had so orchids and roses.
Xianglu went over and upon seeing her wearing her own floral cloth shoes, she smiled and said, "You know, those cloth shoes really suit you."
Su Yan elegantly rolled her eyes and checked the soil moisture, "Well, I usually wear leather shoes, but the yard is all dirt, I had no choice but to wear your shoes for now." The way she looked so put out made Xianglu almost want to take the shoes off her feet.
The two then went to the lon patch at the back and looked at the ground full of lon tendrils, and Su Yan laughed, "Sigh, can’t you plant sothing like flowers instead, just look at you, always thinking about eating."
Xianglu replied irritably, "What’s wrong with waterlons? They’ve already blood, so I can enjoy both the flowers and eat lons – it’s killing two birds with one stone!"
While they talked, Xianglu crouched down and fiddled around before picking a small musklon, not too small, with a white rind. Su Yan curiously asked, "Is it ripe?"
Xianglu nodded, "I covered and buried a few seeds on March 7th or 8th. They grow fast; these plants are already ripe. I even ate one a few days ago."
Su Yan looked at the lon with so skepticism. It was only a few months into the year, and they were already able to eat musklons.
Later, the two sat outside on the stone bench eating musklon. Su Yan nodded her head, "Hmm, not bad, very sweet. I didn’t expect you to have so skill in planting!"
Xianglu took a bite of the lon, grimacing, and looked like she didn’t want to talk.
Su Yan glanced at the person who had been slightly hit by the bench and teased her, "You only dare to ss around in front of . Just look at that pathetic look of yours, even getting hit on the butt!"
Xianglu retorted in a fit of pique, "You don’t hit the face when you’re beating soone, and you don’t expose people’s shortcomings when you’re scolding them."
On the side, Qin Xi and Mr. Li could only helplessly shake their heads, as the two started bickering again.
ps: Did everyone see? The plot behind is so terrifying, the chase is so close, I’m so scared.
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