Chapter Eighty-one: Seasonal Wind's Distant Wound Plaster

  After going home, I first washed the broken skin on my palm with water, then took out a small medicine box and wiped it with iodine to prevent infection, after all, it's summer.

  Lu Zhanfeng came over and asked me, "Cousin, want a Band-Aid? If it's not convenient, your cousin-in-law can help you put one on."

  I smiled and said, "It's just a minor injury, don't worry about it, I'm not made of tofu. Besides, summer is not the best time to use band-aids." After that, both of us shifted our attention to the computer. He continued playing his online game, while I chatted and listened to music.

  Because I met Ji Fengyuan today, the emotions hidden deep in my heart have been stirred up. Let's not mention that I've lived for nearly 30 years across two lifetimes, but I still haven't had a proper romance. My unrequited love ended without a word, and I didn't even get to experience a real romance. Suddenly, I feel a little melancholic. It's all because of running into Ji Fengyuan today that I've become a pseudo-literary young woman. After going online, I changed my QQ username from the silly yet lovely "crystal" that I'd been using since my past life to "My Heart Was Always Directed Towards the Bright Moon". Although it's a bit hard to let go of the old name, as someone who loves nostalgia, this new name seems to be tinged with a hint of sadness.

  Whatever, I'll go into the space to see if anyone has left a message and change my signature while I'm at it. Then someone wanted to add me as a friend. Anyway, there's no one familiar to chat with. When I saw his username, "Naihe Mingyue Zhao Gouqu", I thought maybe she was also heartbroken. It's really "same fate, different roads". This is quite to my taste, so I added him without even looking at his profile.

  Eh eh, isn't this a bit too rash? Not to mention whether the other person is heartbroken like you imagined or not, it seems like you yourself aren't in love either. Hehe, everyone shouldn't add online friends as casually as I do.

  She first greeted me, just a general hello with a smile. I also greeted her, and then we chatted on and off, from age and name to interests and hobbies, but I only gave selective answers, avoiding anything that might be sensitive, and she didn't mind. [ww] No awkwardness at all. Moreover, she herself didn't take the initiative to tell me about her situation. We chatted for a long time, and I thought she was quite nice, anyway, the more we talked, the more energetic it became, until my mom and dad came back. They called me to eat, so I told her I had to go first, 886. Out of curiosity, I asked by the way, you're a girl, right? Maybe because talking to her was very comfortable, without any pressure. I thought about chatting with her often. She quickly replied, saying: Sorry, I'm actually a boy, an incoming freshman boy. Seeing this response, I felt my face burning with embarrassment, having chatted for so long without realizing he was a boy. However, it turned out that he was also going to be a freshman, never mind. Didn't think much about it and went offline.

  When I had lunch, I told my parents about the military training tomorrow. As soon as mom heard that there would be military training, she asked: "Military training? Where is the military training? Won't you go out again? This time I have to prepare things for you and Zhanfeng, it's not like the summer camp military training in elementary school."

  "Ah, Auntie, it's not what you think," replied Lu Zhanfeng. "Our military training is being held in school and will last for eight days. In the morning, we train from 8 to 11 am, and in the afternoon, we train from 3 to 5 pm."

  "Oh, I see. So it seems that you students who don't live on campus can all go home now and take a long nap in the afternoon. You two should go to bed early tonight so you won't oversleep tomorrow. And about that computer, try not to play with it too much lately. I'm starting to regret buying it for you guys - every free moment you have, you're staring at the screen, hurting your eyes and body. Especially you, dear, earlier when I called you for dinner, you didn't come until I'd called several times... computers are that fun? You're so obsessed...

  Haha, mom, you just don't understand computers - it seems like in 2012, you were even more obsessed than me! All day and night staring at the computer chatting on QQ, watching TV dramas... and they were all those super long Korean dramas too. Mom went on and on as usual, my cousin and I listened while eating, but we couldn't help feeling a bit like it was all going in one ear and out the other..."

  The next morning, my cousin and I couldn't sleep in like we usually did. We were woken up by our mom at 6:30, then started getting dressed, washing up, and having breakfast. After everything was ready, it was 7:15. After resting for a while, my cousin and I rode our bikes to No.1 Middle School. When we arrived at school, we went to our respective classrooms.

  I arrived at the tenth class and found that many people had already arrived. I saw Ji Fengyuan, who was as dazzling as ever, no matter what time it was. You couldn't help but notice him even if you wanted to ignore him. He was surrounded by a group of boys and girls, seemingly chatting about something. Today, he was casually dressed in a blue short-sleeved shirt and white sports pants, looking very sunny and comfortable.

  I looked around again, searching for Wu Hanwen's figure, and indeed, he was standing by the back door. Next to him stood a boy who wasn't Li Muyu, the one who sat behind me during the exam? At that time, he said he was Wu Hanwen's good brother, and also mentioned that Wu Hanwen's nickname besides Mantou was Mosquito.

  There are still some classmates who look very familiar, but I don't have a relationship with them. They must be from Yangguang Elementary School. As I walked towards the back door, someone suddenly called me from behind, "Nan Xixi." The voice was unmistakably that of Ji Fengyuan's, and I would never mistake it - in my past life, I even dreamed of him calling my name so gently. But I'm too self-abased, and don't even have the courage to wait for him at their classroom door.

  I wondered what he wanted from me. I psyched myself up and turned around calmly, saying "What's up?"

  The autumn wind smiled very warmly and said, "Nothing much, just wanted to ask if you cleaned the wound on your palm when you went back yesterday. I saw that you didn't seem to have a band-aid on it, I have some here, brought from home this morning, for you." As he spoke, he raised the band-aids in his hand.

  Oh my, this is unbearable! How can I possibly withstand it? Although I've already seen the boys in class looking on with amusement and the girls looking curious and jealous, I still feel too embarrassed to go pick up that band-aid. The things I said to my cousin yesterday have long been forgotten, who knows where they've gone.

  I walked towards Ji Fengyuan under the gaze of my classmates and said politely, "Ji Fengyuan, I really forgot to put on a band-aid." After taking the band-aid from him, I waved it and said, "I won't be angry anymore, thanks for the band-aid."

  After finishing speaking, I feel my heart beating very fast. I quickly turn around and continue walking towards Wu Hanwen. Although I walk normally without a hint of panic, my heart is racing inside.

  I heard the boys in our class saying: "So she's Nan Xixi, I didn't expect it, not very tall, but really impressive, actually tied with Ji Fengyuan for first place in our city's exams."

  There were also girls who said with envy: "Yes, it was her after all. I heard that she had good grades at Yangguang Elementary School, but she never came in first. This time, she really got lucky and scored the same as Ji Fengyuan, the undefeated champion of our Experimental Primary School."

  Another boy laughed and said: "Gan Lingling, are you possessed by a jealous heart? If you have the ability, show me a stroke of good luck, take the first place in the exam for me to see. No need to be the first in our city, just being the first in our school's grade is enough."

  The boys and girls in the class are divided into two factions, oh my, it's really being shot while lying down, and indeed same-sex repel each other and opposite sex attract each other, this principle is absolutely correct.

  As I walked up to Wu Hanwen, he suddenly grabbed my hand and asked with concern: "Xiao Xiao, what's wrong? Did you hurt your hand yesterday?" The atmosphere was a bit strange all of a sudden. Wu Hanwen had always been polite and considerate, but today he was acting rashly, which was unusual for him as he would usually ask for permission before doing something.

  Li Muyu saw me stunned, and said with a smile: "Mosquito, you're too tense. Look at the little girl, she's scared of you. There must be nothing wrong, otherwise she wouldn't have come to participate in military training today."

  Wu Hanwen let go of my hand, and I also smiled and said: "Yes, shaobing, I'm fine, but the palm of my hand is scratched a bit, don't make a big deal out of it, I'm not Lin Daiyu, I won't be extinguished like a lamp with just one blow." I stretched out my left hand and said: "Look, it's right here, it'll definitely be fine in two days."

  Wu Hanwen took a closer look and made sure everything was fine, saying: "En en, it'll definitely be okay in two days. I think you should put the band-aid on now."

  In a crowded place, although I'm familiar with Wu Hanwen, I still fear being misunderstood, and even more afraid that he would misunderstand. In fact, he might not even notice me, it's just my own paranoia. I quickly waved my hand and said: "No need, you guys have heavy hands, I can stick it on myself, if not, wait till YaYa comes later, I'll ask her to help me stick it."

  Wu Hanwen's eyes dimmed slightly as he said, "But Hou Jingya has applied for exemption from training, she won't be coming today."

  "How did you know?" Wu Hanwen hesitated for a moment, saying: "I... I guessed it, she's not in good health, doesn't even exercise normally, how could she possibly come to military training today?" Wu Hanwen didn't know what was wrong with himself, subconsciously he just didn't want to let Xiao Xiao know that his family and Hou Jingya's family were actually very close privately. A few days ago, he already knew that Hou Jingya wouldn't be participating in the military training, the application had been submitted, at that time the class list for No. 1 Middle School hadn't even come out yet, but Hou Jingya's family had already treated the school's principal to dinner.

  "Oh, oh, oh, you're right, pancake, your heart is quite delicate. I didn't think of that point myself. Then I'll just stick it on myself, after all, it's just a band-aid, I'm fine with that." Now you say it's just a band-aid, who was the one whose heart accelerated for a band-aid earlier? I despise you!