chapter16

  He Sheng was now in so much pain that he couldn't speak, every breath felt like it could kill him, his hands grasping onto Yuan Zhi's arm were white and trembling with force.

  Chen Jiayin rushed over in a fluster and anxiously asked: "He Song, how are you? Ah, won't your bones be broken?"

  She stared at He Song, and at this time she didn't care about anything else, only asking about her situation with all her might. He Song clenched his teeth and shook his head, but couldn't say a word.

  He Shou Si looked at Chen Jia Yin squatting there, which was really annoying. He pulled her up and dragged her to his side, educating her: "Don't be afraid, kid. The black skin is thick, nothing's wrong!"

  Chen Jiayin was so scared that she had tears in her eyes, and she glared at him, shouting: "What do you know? Are you a doctor? What's with the 'little black'? Her name is He Song."

  "Huh!" He Shouci couldn't believe his eyes, when had he ever been yelled at by a little girl like that? But the situation was chaotic now, and he didn't bother to argue with her, silently turning his head to look at Yuan Zhi and the others.

  Yuan Zhi helped He Sheng up a bit, paying attention to her expression, and asked: "How is it? Is the pain still severe? Can you get up?"

  He Xiang swallowed hard and spat out a word, "Can!"

  "Come on, I'll support you, slowly!" Yuan Zhi half-embraced He Sheng, putting more than half of her weight onto himself, and propped himself up with her.

  He Sheng's face turned pale and his forehead began to sweat.

  The person on the other side stopped again due to another sudden situation, Gu Wei held the remaining half of the wooden stick, coldly staring at He Song. Only when the person slowly turned around and saw his pale face did he frown slightly in confusion, thinking for a moment before raising an eyebrow and laughing: "So it's you, little girl, we really have fate."

  At this moment, her smile was as beautiful as a flower, and there was no trace of the disheveled state she had been in when the trash was dumped on her, as if the dirt on her body was just an illusion.

  "What's going on? Do you know him?"

  He Qian quickly glanced at him and whispered: "Last time he was locked in the warehouse, he also had a share."

  "You said last time you didn't see clearly."

  "It was unclear, but I remember his voice."

  "Didn't expect the little girl to be so loyal, throwing herself at him like that. Yuan Zhi, is she your new girlfriend? Tsk, your taste in women has really gone down a notch."

  Yuan Zhi glanced at him lightly, the corner of his mouth hooked, and he steadily hugged He Sheng, stroking her head, saying calmly: "Is that so? Ugly is a bit ugly, but just because she's willing to stand in front of me, even if she's uglier I'll want her, what about you?"

  He provocatively looked at Gu Wei, his hand continued to pat He Song's head, "Can you find a woman who can be your crutch? Mr. Gu has also experienced many women, right? Just one, can you find her?"

  He smiled faintly without saying a word, but his eyes were icy cold. A moment later, he threw the stick and roared: "Leave!" He turned around and took the remaining two away.

  As the others walked away, He Shouci walked up to Yuan Zhi and asked, "What should we do now?"

  "Go to the hospital, then go home." After finishing speaking, he lowered his head and looked at He Song. The other party hung down her eyes, her eyelashes trembling straight, and she was poked several times on her forehead with her index finger, scolding, "Stupid!"

  Then he carried the person on his back and said to He Shou Si, "I'll wait for you at the school gate, can you help me get He Song's backpack?"

  "Alright!" He Shouci yelled out, looking at Chen Jiaoyan who was staring at them with a surprised face, "Beauty, let's go, lead the way!"

  Chen Jiayin picked up the trash can that had fallen to the ground and led He Shousi back to the classroom. He Song's backpack was quite heavy, and He Shousi took it in his hand and shook it, "This weight is almost as much as mine, what did you put in here?" As he spoke, he reached out to pull the zipper.

  "Hey, what are you doing?" Chen Jiayin stopped him discontentedly. "How can you casually look at someone else's private matters?"

  "What secrets could Xiao Hei have?" He Shouci smiled and glanced at her, unbothered, continuing to zip up.

  Chen Jiayin couldn't help but grab He Sheng's backpack and pull it over, frowning at him, "What's wrong with you? Why did you call someone Xiao Hei?"

  "Doesn't her own height being so short still allow people to call her?"

  "Then you can be called a white-skinned pig just because you look like one?"

  "What's wrong with you? I was calling her, not you. What business is it of yours? Are you her mother?"

  Chen Jiayin walked out with her own backpack on her back and He Sheng's in her arms, glaring at him angrily without a word.

  He Shouci immediately followed with a dark face and whispered, "What's the fuss about, like a cicada chirping away."

  After meeting at the school gate, they rushed to the hospital together. He Sheng frowned and patted Yuan Zhi's back, still looking uncomfortable. Chen Jiaoyin walked up with her backpack and whispered, "Does it still hurt?"

  He Sheng nodded and said nervously, "What if we break our bones?"

  "No way!"

  "How can it hurt so badly?"

  Yuan Zhi coldly interjected, "You can't stop it, you'd better speak less now." This person's backbone is about to break and they still dare to be stubborn? I reckon they'll wail until death.

  He Sheng and Chen Jiayin exchanged a glance, each of them falling silent.

  To get to the hospital as soon as possible, they took a taxi and rushed over. After arriving, Yuan Zhi and others lined up to register, while Chen Jiaoyan supported He Sheng on one side and waited.

  "He Sheng, do you know Yuan Zhi?" Chen Jia-yin asked softly as soon as she sat down.

  "Ah, acquainted." She licked her lips and glanced in Yuan Zhi's direction, "I live with Yuan Zhi."

  "Ah?" Chen Jiaoyin's mouth opened in shock, and she said disbelievingly, "Don't mess with me, if we lived together, how come you guys didn't speak to each other when you met at school?"

  "I'm just temporarily staying here, and I don't have a good relationship with him. He gets annoyed when he sees me, so we pretend not to know each other at school."

  Chen Jiayin frowned, "Then you're still helping him cover up today."

  "At the time, I didn't think so much." Just felt it was necessary, so rushed over.

  Just as they were talking, they had already hung up and walked over. Chen Jiayin hurriedly closed her mouth. Yuan Zhi looked at them, then pulled He Sheng up, bent down and wanted to carry her on his back again.

  He Sheng retreated and said, "I can walk, no need to carry me."

  Yuan Zhi gave her a silent, sidelong glance, straightened up and, with Chen Jiaoyan supporting one side of the person, went to the doctor's office. After asking a few questions, they went for an X-ray, then came back. The elderly doctor looked at the X-ray and said, "It's not a big problem, no bones were injured, but you must be careful in the future. Your back isn't something that can be hit casually; if your spine is ruined, you'll be ruined."

  Yuan Zhi told He Shou Si, "Mian Tuan, see this person off."

  He Shou Si glanced at Chen Jia Yin with a somewhat unwilling expression, and similarly frowned, "It's not late to send her off at this hour! Who can harm her when she looks better than a cicada?"

  Chen Jiayou raised an eyebrow and said with a hint of disdain, "You make it sound like I'm eager for you to send me off. Having a white-skinned pig following behind me would be embarrassing too."

  "What the hell are you talking about?"

  Chen Jiayin retorted: "I'm speaking human language, if you can't understand then forget it!"

  Yan Kan saw the increasingly intense trend and calmly said, "You discuss, we'll leave first."

  Chen Jiaoyan handed over He Sheng's school bag, called for a rickshaw, and stuffed He Sheng in, who was still looking back with something to say, then quickly got on himself, and subsequently sped away under the astonished gaze of the other two.

  He Guanshu came back to his senses and the car was already gone. He cursed under his breath, turned around with a scowl on his face and said to Chen Jia Yin, "Let's go, are you going to continue being a model?"

  "What's it to you?"

  "Don't give face and don't want face."

  "You'd better not give it to me, I'll just have to throw it away, what a hassle!" Chen Jiayin said with raised eyebrows as she started walking out.

  "Damn it! I'm deaf!" He didn't hear anything, and He Guanshu gazed at the distant figure for a moment before turning around and walking in another direction.

  The car was speeding along, and He Song could only lean forward with his back hurting, but even when he went over a speed bump, it still shook him so much that it hurt. No matter how he sat, he couldn't get comfortable.

  Yuan Zhi comfortably leaned against the car seat, his line of sight occasionally sweeping towards He Song's direction. With the light from outside casting a dim glow, he could still make out He Song's knotted facial expression. He looked at her for a while before speaking: "Why did you rush over so stupidly today?"

  He Sheng leaned his elbow against his knee, his forehead pressed against the front seat, and said in a low voice, "If you want to pounce, just pounce."

  "Have you grown stupid?" Yuan Zhi coldly scolded, "This stick is already thin, if it were any thicker, you'd be spending the rest of your life lying in bed."

  He Sheng's fingers touched a piece of wood and scratched it back and forth without saying a word.

  Yuan Zhi said, "You say how come the stick didn't hit your head? It could have knocked you silly directly."

  He Sheng turned his head and looked at him with dissatisfaction, saying, "Why make me look like a fool?"

  "Do you think you're clever now?" Yuan Zhi raised his hand to pat her back, but thought better of it and only tapped her head instead. "Are you comfortable shrinking away like a turtle? In the future, use your brain when doing things, don't always look for trouble."

  He Shuang blinked his eyes and said in a low voice, "Don't scold me anymore. If I don't become a turtle, you'll have to become one instead. Do you want to shrink?"

  "Are you deaf? If you don't come forward, you won't have to suffer this torture. Are you comfortable with the pain that's killing you?"

  "But wouldn't you be hurt if I didn't rush up to you?" He Xiong thought for a moment, then said, "Anyway, it's all painful, what's the difference whether I come or not?"

  Yuan Zhi was stunned for a moment, and his exquisitely carved face had a brief stagnation. Another speed bump made He Song hum, Yuan Zhi came back to himself, and the next second he suddenly leaned in close to her. The proximity of the distance made the space even narrower, and the already weak light was so dark that it could be ignored. They couldn't see each other's facial expressions clearly, but they could feel the warmth of each other's breath.

  "Are you afraid I'm in pain so you came up?" Yuan Zhi asked in a low voice.

  He Sheng felt a bit tense at such close distance, and didn't dare to look at him. He lowered his eyes and said honestly, "No, that situation wasn't thought out so much, it just happened naturally."

  "If it wasn't me, would you pounce?"

  "If it were Da Ge Yan, I would pounce."

  Yuan Zhi gave her head a hard push and sat back down. An idiot is an idiot, he clearly knew that Yan Bai was the one person he couldn't afford to offend, yet he still said those words, obviously asking for trouble.

  He Sheng's body was pushed by him and he twisted, pulling to the injured place, suddenly painful and gritting his teeth, and hurriedly sat back in the same posture as before.

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