Chapter 30 Suddenly Want to Try

The bracelet Meng Tang bought was delivered the next morning. She didn't even eat and ran to the delivery point.

When Wei Chuan received her call, he was practicing alone in the training hall while the others had gone out to eat.

He paused and said on the phone: "I'm going to take a shower. Can you buy me some food?"

Meng Tang agreed, as she hadn't eaten either.

Wei Chuan quickly tidied himself up and sat down on the steps at the side door of the training hall.

Meng Tang saw him from a distance and waved to him.

Wei Chuan saw that she had ordered two meals and stood up to greet her: "You haven't eaten either?"

"Yeah, I'm busy picking up the express." Meng Tang gave him his share.

Wei Chuan: "...are you really that serious? You'd rather not eat than take the package."

Meng Tang smiled.

The two of them sat down on the steps. Wei Chuan opened his lunch box, stuffed a piece of meat into his mouth, and complained, "Why is the spicy chicken in the South Canteen so bad today?"

"No way?" Meng Tang glanced at him. "The South Canteen is famous for its spicy chicken. How could it be bad?"

Wei Chuan turned his wrist slightly and moved the lunch box in front of her: "If you don't believe me, try it."

Meng Tang hesitated for a moment.

"My chopsticks didn't touch it, and you despise me?" Wei Chuan glared and frowned.

"I don't mind." Meng Tang took a piece of spicy chicken from his lunch box and said after a while, "It's delicious. What's wrong with your taste buds?"

Wei Chuan lowered his head and picked up another piece, but still found it unpalatable.

After dinner, Meng Tang put the garbage into a bag and gave another bag to Wei Chuan.

"A bottle of Red Bull for you. Please give the bracelet to Xu Heqing."

He still had a bottle of Red Bull. Wei Chuan raised his eyebrows, but... he only had one bottle of Red Bull.

On someone's request, Wei Chuan and Meng Tang said goodbye and returned to the dormitory.

"Where are they?" Wei Chuan asked Xu Heqing.

Xu Heqing replied: "Li Zhuo is on a date, and Liang Heng is acting as a third wheel."

"What's wrong with him?" Wei Chuan scolded with a smile, "How can Li Zhuo tolerate him?"

Xu Heqing shrugged: "Who knows."

Wei Chuan pulled a stool over and sat down next to Xu Heqing.

Xu Heqing turned his head and asked, "Do you have something to tell me?"

Wei Chuan took out the bracelet and placed it on his desk: "I met Meng Tang. She bought this for you. She said thank you for blocking Zhang Yifan that day."

Xu Heqing glanced at it and said, "She's already thanked me, so this is unnecessary."

"It's a thoughtful gesture." Wei Chuan stared at the bracelet box.

"I really don't need it." Xu Heqing said with a smile, "Please help me return it to her."

Wei Chuan: "It's not expensive, and she's not short of money."

Xu Heqing: "It's not a question of money. If you were there that day, you would have blocked it too. After all, we are all girls."

"Really?"

"No, if you don't pay it back, I'll pay it back myself."

"I'll give it back." Wei Chuan quickly took it and said, "You don't have classes this afternoon. I'm leaving soon, so I'll bring it to you on my way."

Just as I left the dormitory, Meng Tang sent me a message: [Did he receive it?]

Wei Chuan could imagine her uneasy expression, and his hand stopped replying.

Meng Tang finished two classes in the afternoon, but Wei Chuan still hadn't replied.

Maybe she was busy, so she left the classroom but was stopped by Tan Xi.

The two looked at each other for a moment, and Tan Xi asked, "Are you going to repair the laboratory?"

"Um."

"Chat for a while?"

"good."

The two of them walked around the teaching building. After a while, Tan Xi said, "My feelings towards you are actually very complicated. There's jealousy, admiration, and fear."

Meng Tang really didn't expect this. She said, "I once had a senior brother, and I felt the same way about him."

Tan Xi: "Then he must be very powerful."

This statement was equivalent to indirectly praising Meng Tang.

Meng Tang said: "It's really amazing. My grandfather said that his hands are born to hold a carving knife. Boxwood is difficult to work with, but he can carve out the warmth and vitality of the wood when he was only a teenager."

Tan Xi: "I just lack vitality."

"Eyes and touch," Meng Tang pointed to the location of her heart, "both are indispensable here."

"Grandpa always said that wood is not dead. You should have a sense of awe and let it think for you. But some people will never understand it in their lifetime."

Tan Xi: "This also has something to do with a person's growth environment."

"Maybe."

As they walked and talked, Tan Xi felt that she was completely wrong and she had never had the qualifications to be arrogant.

After separating from Tan Xi, Meng Tang went to the restoration laboratory.

The overhead light was cold and white, making her skin look pale.

After scanning with the thermometer, it was found that the temperature and humidity of the damaged wood sculpture had reached the most stable state.

Under the microscope, Meng Tang used a 0.3mm hook knife to cut into the edge of the scratch at a 75-degree angle.

She felt a slight sluggish sound from the machine at the tip of the knife. She put away the knife and took out the steam-fumigated wood wool from the incubator.

The treated wood fibers are soft and delicate, and are kneaded with shellac, then embedded into the scratches and grooves to fill the gaps.

After waiting for more than four hours and feeling so hungry that his stomach ached, Meng Tang finally left the repair laboratory.

There was still no reply from Wei Chuan on the phone. She stood at the door for a while and called him. The phone rang for more than ten seconds before it was connected.

"Hello."

Meng Tang felt a numbness in his ears and subconsciously put the phone away.

Wei Chuan was breathing heavily, and the tone was low and seductive along with the radio waves, and his breath seemed to rise and fall beside his ears.

"Meng Tang?" Wei Chuan's voice came from the phone.

"It's me," Meng Tang came back to his senses, "I want to ask you—"

"Wait a minute." Wei Chuan stopped, "I have something to do now. I'll come find you later, okay?"

Meng Tang: "Then I'll go out for dinner first."

Wei Chuan frowned: "Why are you eating so irregularly? It's already half past eight."

"A bit busy."

"Go ahead."

Meng Tang went to a seafood wonton shop outside the school.

She ordered a small portion and ate it slowly by herself.

After eating, she went through the small door from the shop and waited for Wei Chuan under the camphor tree at the entrance of the men's dormitory.

After a while, Wei Chuan stood in front of her calmly.

Meng Tang was startled at first, but when he saw it was him, his eyebrows curved: "You're here."

"Um."

"Then..." Meng Tang smiled even brighter when she saw that he didn't have anything in his hand. "Did Xu Heqing accept it?"

The bracelet was in his bag. Wei Chuan saw the light in her eyes and stopped talking.

If he said that Xu Heqing had confiscated it, she would definitely be disappointed.

He couldn't even say it.

Meng Tang raised his face and said cheerfully, "Thank you."

Wei Chuan was embarrassed: "I didn't do anything."

"You've done a lot and helped me a lot." Meng Tang seemed to be hesitant to speak, "I..."

Wei Chuan asked considerately, "Do you have anything to say?"

"Yeah." Meng Tang responded softly, "When we were in Yanqing, you encouraged me to confess my feelings. Do you remember?"

Wei Chuan's heart tightened inexplicably: "Remember, you have... thought it over?"

"Um."

It doesn’t matter whether it succeeds or not, Meng Tang just wants to give it a try.

She doesn't care about the result, just consider it as giving herself a chance.

Wei Chuan smiled and said, "That's good, but did you suddenly realize this because of Xu Heqing's injury?"

"A little bit." Meng Tang confided in him as if he were a close friend, "I suddenly wanted to try it."

Wei Chuan nodded blankly.

Meng Tang raised his hand and waved slightly: "Then I'll go first."

"Um."

Meng Tang put her hands behind her back and walked with a swaying posture, showing the demeanor of a little girl.

Wei Chuan stared at her for a long time and forgot to ask her when she would confess.