sanitary napkin
After taking just two steps, Jiang Qing felt a faint pain in her lower abdomen. This familiar feeling made her freeze in place.
She reached out and opened the notebook on the table. She looked down and up in confusion. It wasn't her due date yet, so how come her period came early?
Jiang Qing thought that it might be because she had been under too much pressure recently and drank so much beer yesterday, which led to menstrual disorders.
Ahhh, she took out a brand new pair of panties, covered her belly and moved across the living room step by step.
In the bathroom, Jiang Qing searched high and low but couldn't find the sanitary napkin.
Jiang Qing: ...
"Mom——" She didn't care whether it was normal or not, she screamed for help.
"Hey, here they come!"
There was someone who responded, but it wasn't her mother, Ms. Wang.
Jiang Shanhai approached the bathroom and asked, "Jiang Jiang, your mother is out. What do you want to talk to her about?"
Jiang Qing kept searching, "Why is she here so early? Dad, where did Mom put the sanitary napkins? I can't find a single one."
Jiang Shanhai immediately understood what was wrong with his daughter. "It's on the shelf next to the toilet paper. It's usually there. Your mother made an appointment with someone yesterday to pick up the vegetables early today. After you finish breakfast, I will also go to the store."
"I know." Jiang Qing searched carefully from top to bottom three times, and found in despair that there was nothing.
"You should drink less cold water today..." Jiang Shanhai was giving these instructions when he saw the bathroom door open a crack and a round little head poking out.
The little head raised up, revealing a bright smile, "Dad..."
Jiang Shanhai subconsciously smiled and looked at her puzzledly.
Jiang Qing hesitated for a moment before asking, "Can you... go buy some sanitary napkins?"
Jiang Shanhai said without hesitation: "Sure."
Jiang Qing breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that. Usually, she and her mother would discuss what to buy and how to buy it. Her father would usually sit aside and just listen without saying anything.
Jiang Shanhai asked, "Which one do you want? I can't tell the length or anything like that."
Jiang Qing: "It's okay, just the green packaging bag. It doesn't matter whether it's long or short. You can take whatever you want. It's just for emergencies."
"Okay, I'll buy a pack first," Jiang Shanhai walked to the door, changed his shoes, and picked up his keys. "I'll ask your mom to buy you a box online later. It's more cost-effective that way."
"Yeah." Jiang Qing watched Jiang Shanhai walk away and returned to the bathroom.
First wash off the bloodstained underwear, then put toilet paper on it. Although it is a bit uncomfortable, at least I can move around and avoid bleeding.
She poured herself a cup of hot water and took a sip to relieve the pain in her stomach.
I picked up the phone and the first message popped up impatiently.
[Jiang Qing, that day I took photos of Li Liang smoking and talking to 'Li Qingyun'. He asked Zhang Chao to come over to warn me.]
I thought about it all night. Li Liang is a person without moral bottom line. I don't want him to appear in my life anymore, and I don't want to be bothered by him all the time.
So, let’s not be related to each other from now on.
Jiang Qing slowly put down the water cup in her hand and saved the strange number.
Her fingertips paused for a moment, and she typed a few words and sent them.
Song Yao looked at her mother who was sleeping beside her bed, carefully picked up her silent phone, and kept refreshing it.
Suddenly, a reply appeared on the lit screen.
[Jiang Qing: Got it. I'll come see you today. Wait for me.]
Song Yao stared at it for a long time, then she closed her phone and looked at her mother's tired face for a long time before closing her eyes.
Jiang Qing flipped through the next unread message, which was sent from another unfamiliar number.
She clicked it, but before she could even look at it, her father opened the door and came in, holding a familiar packaging bag.
"Why don't you have porridge?" Jiang Shanhai handed the sanitary napkin to Jiang Qing. "I made millet porridge for breakfast."
Jiang Qing glanced at the yellow plastic bag in his hand and asked, "What is this?"
"Oh, you mean this?" Jiang Shanhai held it up for her to see. "Old Zhang brought me some wild chrysanthemums while he was guarding the store today."
Jiang Qing paused for a moment, not knowing what to say.
The small supermarket near the community downstairs is a husband-and-wife store, but the male owner also runs a flower tea business and can only open the store for a few days a year, so every day when she goes there to buy things, she sees the female owner.
And now, she looked at the sanitary napkin in the transparent plastic bag in her hand, and then looked at her father's back as he walked into the kitchen as if nothing had happened.
She couldn't say for sure whether it was better for her father to buy sanitary napkins and meet the hostess or the host.
She didn't even know where this feeling of embarrassment for her father came from. Her father hadn't said anything, but she had just imagined the whole thing on her own.
Jiang Qing felt that she was too bored, so she went into the bathroom with her sanitary napkin.
When she came out again, the table in the living room was already filled with breakfast. She sat down as if reborn and scooped a spoonful of millet porridge into her mouth.
Hmm, delicious.
Jiang Shanhai looked at his daughter's forehead with satisfaction as she ate happily. Suddenly, he remembered the issue he and his wife had argued about for half the night yesterday. He picked up a piece of side dish with his chopsticks and gave it to Jiang Qing.
"Will you bring breakfast for Xiaonan today?"
Jiang Qing replied without even looking up: "We're already late, he must have left long ago, should I bring it to the air?"
"......" Jiang Shanhai hesitated for a moment, "So you know you're late."
Jiang Qing threw her pink phone onto the dining table, indicating that she had a phone and could check the time.
"The day before yesterday..." She slowed down her eating. "Did our homeroom teacher call you... or your mother?"
Jiang Shanhai: "Yes."
Under Jiang Qing's shimmering gaze, Jiang Shanhai spoke without hesitation, "Your homeroom teacher said you skipped classes and were distributing flyers all over campus, causing quite a stir."
Jiang Qing stirred the porridge in the bowl and mumbled, "Then..."
Jiang Shanhai knows his daughter so well that he knows what she wants to ask right from the start.
"Your mother was very angry the day before yesterday, but wasn't yesterday your grandfather's death anniversary? She didn't want to fire you before that, not to mention that yesterday was Xiaonan's birthday."
"As for today—"
Jiang Shanhai glanced at Jiang Qing, and all his attention was diverted to the emotional dispute between Jiang Qing and Lin Nanyan. How could he have time to go back and settle old scores?
"It was so late yesterday, and your mother is busy preparing the dishes today, so she doesn't have time to take care of you."
Jiang Qing breathed a sigh of relief, feeling relieved that she had escaped another disaster, but she also didn't know when the sword hanging over her head would be swung down.
"I gave you 500 yuan yesterday," Jiang Shanhaidong said tentatively, "What gift did you give Xiaonan?"
This sentence instantly brought back many memories for Jiang Qing. She replied without any emotion, "A bunch of keychains."
"Keychain?" Jiang Shanhai pondered. An ordinary keychain wouldn't be worth 500 yuan. "What kind of brand name is so expensive?"
Jiang Qing: "I bought it from an old lady on the street at a friendly price of 2.8 yuan."
!!!
For a moment, Jiang Shanhai suspected that his wife might have seen it wrong because of her old eyesight. The two of them had been discussing things all night long and it was all in vain.
Jiang Jiang's behavior doesn't seem like she likes Xiaonan.
Even if it's an ordinary friend's birthday, you have to spend at least 100 yuan out of the 500 yuan budget.
How can this be called love?
It was obvious that he didn't take it seriously at all and just sent him away.
Jiang Shanhai: "...Xiaonan didn't say anything?"
"He doesn't want it," Jiang Qing tightened her grip on the chopsticks, "I threw it away."
Jiang Shanhai couldn't help but get angry when he heard this. "No matter how cheap the gift is, you carefully selected it. How can you say no?"
Jiang Qing was instantly amused by her father's reaction.
"I was angry yesterday, but then I thought about it and I wasn't angry anymore."
"Although he didn't say to my face that he didn't want it, but since he didn't really want it, I won't give it to him."
Jiang Shanhai gave a thumbs-up and said, "My daughter is very generous."
"Okay, Dad, I won't talk to you anymore. I'm going to school." Jiang Qing didn't want to mention Lin Nanyan anymore, at least not today.
She picked up her schoolbag, rinsed her mouth and went out to school.
Jiang Shanhai looked at the closed door and felt that his old couple were worrying too much for nothing. They were almost getting dark circles under their eyes.
He stretched, ate the leftovers on the table, and walked out while yawning, carrying his black shoulder bag.
When Jiang Qing passed by the second floor, she glanced at the house number, turned around and went downstairs without stopping.
Lin Nanyan stood in front of the window, listening to the familiar footsteps passing by the door, and watching the girl's back gradually disappear around the corner of the road.
The boy lowered his eyes and stroked the black puppy in his hands.
The puppy had fine hair all over its body. It looked at him with a pair of wet eyes, whimpering, and licked the white palm right in front of it with its pink tongue.
Lin Nanyan purred his stomach, turned around, and put the puppy into the pet backpack.
Put on a mask, lower the brim of your hat, open the door, go downstairs, and turn the corner.
The sun shines on the earth. On the empty road, a man and a woman are walking back to back in opposite directions.
When Jiang Qing stepped into the school, the first class was already over.
"You're awesome!" Song Shuang couldn't help but admire her sister's courage. "Yesterday I said we'd submit a self-criticism together, but you asked for leave and were late today. Didn't you see the teacher's face? It was blacker than the bottom of a burning pot."
Jiang Qing put all the stationery in order and said, "I'll hand it in today."
Song Shuang: "What about Lin Nanyan?"
Jiang Qing paused what she was doing and glanced to the side. The empty table indicated that the owner was not there today.
She lowered her head and opened her textbook. "I don't know."
"Is there something you don't know?" Song Shuang asked in surprise, "Aren't you two conjoined twins? How come you don't know about him?"
"First of all, he is him, and I am me," Jiang Qing took a deep breath. "Secondly, my last name is Jiang, and his last name is Lin."
"Finally, I don't want to hear his name again today," she asked with a smile, "is that okay?"
What was Jiang Jiang mumbling? Song Shuang made the final decision, "You two are having a fight."
Jiang Qing: ...
Ye Meiyan happened to hear these words when she approached, and she confirmed Song Shuang's guess in her heart.
It seems that after one night, the two still haven't reconciled.
"Senior Jiang Qing arrived home safely yesterday," she said.
Jiang Qing turned around and said seriously, "Thank you, Meiyan."
"It's okay, it's just a few steps," Ye Meiyan lowered her voice, "But starting tomorrow we have to be extra careful."
Jiang Qing was puzzled. "Tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow is June 4th, and the senior year will officially be on holiday to prepare for the college entrance exam on June 6th," Ye Meiyan looked at Jiang Qing, "Senior Jiang Qing will not be in school for the next two days."
"In other words," Jiang Qing understood what Ye Meiyan meant, "if something happens to Senior Sister, it's very likely to happen within these two days."
Half of the sunlight shone on Ye Meiyan's cheek, and her eyes seemed to be swimming in the shadows.
"Even if he didn't have any plans before, he has to take action now."
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