Chapter 38 Chapter 38 "Teacher Pei, the young lady is sending you...
She seemed to have forgotten what he had just said. In order to avoid angering her, Pei Lanqing chose to keep silent and turned to eat.
The food on the coffee table was very light, matching her diet. Perhaps aware of this, she looked solemn. Pei Lanqing smiled and said, "I think this is good."
"Oh," he said, "OK."
Lin Qianyuan turned away and stirred the porridge in silence.
She ate the meal in a state of anxiety, her eyes often drifting to the faces of the people around her, then stopping and focusing on them, without any restraint.
She stared at him so openly, but they were not sitting face to face. Pei Lanqing was sitting next to her, so he could easily catch her distraction with his peripheral vision.
Pei Lanqing glanced over naturally. Lin Qianyuan quickly averted his gaze, feigning indifference as he lowered his head and slurped down his porridge. Fearing she might choke, he hesitated to interrupt her, feeling rather strange.
After a few minutes, Pei Lanqing noticed the gaze of the person next to him again. He didn't look over and didn't say anything, and continued to let her look at him.
Lin Qianyuan looked at his profile and recalled what Liang Siyu asked her in the afternoon, "Where is your teacher?"
Will he become a tutor for others?
In other words, she and he could only be friends from now on, and they were friends whose lives had no intersection at all.
Not to mention real life, there might not even be any contact online. How is that possible?
They would become alienated and more and more strangers. Although she could know everything about his life just like Song Wenci hired someone to monitor Lin Fusheng, but...
Lin Qianyuan lowered his head and eyes, and the spoon in his hand unconsciously stirred the porridge, creating ripples.
Lin Qianyuan suddenly asked, "Teacher Pei, do you want a raise?"
She suddenly spoke so politely that he was a little overwhelmed and shook his head honestly, "No."
The tuition fee paid to him by the Lin family was very high. After he learned about the tutoring market, he discussed this issue with the assistant who contacted him. The assistant's tone of reply was very official, but there was something strange in his words.
He said: "You are worth it."
Because of these three words, Pei Lanqing realized for the first time that his mouth could be very stupid. After thinking for a long time, he couldn't think of what else to say, so he had to give up.
Even after Lin Qianyuan was hospitalized and tutoring was suspended, he was still able to receive compensation for his lessons, and his assistant still answered all his questions with these three words.
Lin Qianyuan took a sip of the porridge, and the warmth flowed through his body and sank into his stomach. With no more room in his stomach, the words he had been holding back suddenly came out, "If they paid you a little more, would you..."
Lin Qianyuan couldn't continue speaking and kept silent.
How she wished that his answer just now was affirmative, that he didn't regard her as a sincere friend, but just wanted her money and wanted to gain some benefits from her, so that her conscience would be less condemned.
Although she was used to the lack of care, she knew one thing very well - "getting and then losing" was always more terrifying than "not getting it at all".
"I'll return the extra money to you."
Lin Qianyuan was stunned and turned to look at him, "What did you say?"
Pei Lanqing did not avoid her gaze and repeated it with a slight smile.
He didn't know exactly what she was thinking; he just sensed she wasn't feeling right. Even if it was an unfinished hypothesis, he would still come up with an answer based on that half-answered question. "If they'd paid me a little more, I'd have given you the extra money. You told me before that you weren't familiar with them."
One sentence to state her position, and another to explain why. He was right, she was not on the same side as them.
Lin Qianyuan didn't want to continue chatting with him. She was in a state of confusion. She threw down the food on the table, lay down on the bed, and buried herself in the quilt. "Let me think about it."
Pei Lanqing was not curious about why she was acting abnormally tonight, nor did he ask her what she was thinking.
He looked at her quietly for a while, then turned off the downlight above the bed and replaced it with a soft, warm yellow wall lamp. He spoke in a lower voice, "I'm going home."
Lin Qianyuan didn't say anything. He turned around to open the door. Just as he pressed the doorknob, he heard a voice from behind him, "Will you have dinner with me tomorrow?"
Lin Qianyuan did not come out from under the quilt, so his inquiring voice was muffled and low, very much like his usual unhappy tone.
Pei Lanqing looked at the bulge on the bed and said, "Yes."
When Lin Qianyuan heard his answer, his tone became even more annoyed and he looked even more unhappy. "You are not someone who can refuse?"
Will he agree to whatever I ask for?
Lin Qianyuan's inner irritability instantly reached its peak, and he began to mutter to himself, "I'm going to sleep."
Pei Lanqing lowered his eyes and said nothing more.
Lin Qianyuan stopped him the next second, pushed back the quilt and sat up, his expression unnatural. "Don't take a taxi, I'll let Uncle Chen take you."
Pei Lanqing opened his mouth, wanting to say no.
Lin Qianyuan turned his gaze away and spoke first in a bad mood: "He's already waiting for you downstairs."
After saying this, she closed her eyes without even looking at him. Pei Lanqing didn't have a chance to speak, so she turned and opened the door.
Wu Ma looked over at the noise and saw that he looked troubled. She stood up, walked closer, and asked quietly, "Teacher Pei, did the young lady lose her temper with you?"
Pei Lanqing closed the door and smiled when he heard this, "No."
Wu Ma knew that the person in front of her was very important to Lin Qianyuan, and she was afraid that he would have a bad impression of her. After hesitating for a long time, she explained with a tangled look on her face: "Teacher Pei, the young lady is in a bad mood today."
Wu Ma didn't dare to mention the specific reason, and instead said, "If she said anything bad to you, please don't take it to heart. She doesn't always mean what she says."
Wu Ma also had a headache when she thought about it. What Lin Qianyuan said was not necessarily the truth, and her face showed nothing. If she wanted to have a deep communication with her, she would have to rely on her guessing. If she guessed right, it would be fine, but if she guessed wrong, it would be shocking.
Thinking of this, Wu Ma immediately felt embarrassed to talk to Pei Lanqing more and asked him to bear with her.
She could see that Pei Lanqing was a good person, with rare patience, and his conditions in all aspects were not bad. Whether he met the young lady or not, he should have a good life.
But her little lady is not a bad person by nature. She just grew up in a bad environment and was always suppressed and controlled by her young lady, so she says one thing and does another.
Wu Ma felt uncomfortable thinking about these things, and sometimes she even forgot that the young lady was just a half-grown child at that time. She sighed and wondered what all this was about.
The door of the ward was opened from the inside, and Lin Qianyuan looked straight at her, "Aren't you going to come in?"
Aunt Wu nodded immediately and said, "I'm coming." She said goodbye to Pei Lanqing and turned to walk into the ward.
After saying this, Lin Qianyuan returned to the bed. Her chin rested on the table on the bed, and her hands were moving, not knowing what she was doing.
After cleaning the coffee table, Wu Ma walked over and found that she was holding a dagger in her hand. The tip of the knife scratched the table, leaving a clear cut.
Lin Qianyuan stopped and looked towards her. "What did you say to him?"
The wall lamp illuminated the entire ward, illuminating only the bed. The face of the person sitting in the shadows was completely dark. The curtains were undrawn. Aunt Wu glanced at the shadow on the window, feeling gloomy. She shook her head, "I didn't say anything."
Lin Qianyuan believed her statement and stopped questioning. He turned around and continued to play with the dagger in his hand.
Aunt Wu raised her eyelids tremblingly and said, "Young Miss, do you not want Teacher Pei to go to the Lin family?"
Wu Ma could only think of this one reason, and she couldn't help but ask, "Why?" She couldn't figure out what the connection could be.
Lin Qianyuan said nothing, turned the dagger twice nimbly, grasped the handle in an instant, and inserted the dagger accurately into the scratch on the table.
The tip of the knife trembled, and she calmed down, lowering her eyes. "If someone who doesn't like you accidentally knows your secret, what do you think she would do?"
"She'll use something to threaten you?" Wu Ma put herself in the situation, thinking carefully. "If you resist, she'll definitely expose your weakness, which will have a negative impact on you."
As Aunt Wu was speaking, she suddenly realized what was going on and opened her eyes wide to confirm, "Young Miss, what you mean is..."
Lin Qianyuan drew out the dagger and said nothing.
Mother Wu blurted out, "Do you really like Teacher Pei?" She just thought he was very important to her, and never thought he would be so important.
Aunt Wu now understood why Lin Qianyuan was in a bad mood, because she didn't want to fire Pei Lanqing, but she also didn't want anyone from the Lin family to hurt Pei Lanqing.
The dagger in Lin Qianyuan's hand trembled, scratching her index finger. Bright red blood flowed out, turning into pain as it pierced her vagina. Her expression did not change at all, not even a frown appeared on her face, her face as usual.
Lin Qianyuan clenched her fist to hide the blade, "Why don't you go back?" She turned her head and glanced at her.
Mother Wu didn't notice anything unusual, so she responded immediately, picked up the lunch box and left.
Lin Qianyuan opened his palm and stared at the wound.
She clenched her left hand into a fist again, this time using all her strength to hold it tight. The pain in her index fingertip was palpable, and blood flowed out, clenching between her fingers, hot and sticky.
Finally, she was willing to let go, and the pleasure deep in her heart gradually disappeared. Lin Qianyuan looked at the bloodstains on her hands, lost in thought.
“Knock knock knock—”
There was the sound of someone knocking on the door. Lin Qianyuan raised her head slowly. The person outside knocked three more times patiently. She lifted the quilt and slowly got out of bed.
Pei Lanqing stood outside the door.
Just when he thought she had fallen asleep and was hesitating whether to trouble the nurse, the door opened.
Pei Lanqing raised his eyes. Lin Qianyuan looked a little strange at this moment, so he changed the words of explanation on his lips to another one, "What's wrong with you?"
Lin Qianyuan looked at him in silence.
During the distance from the hospital bed to the door, she had thought countless times that it shouldn't be him.
He shouldn't knock on her door anymore, he didn't know how destructive her desire was.
Why did he always appear in front of her at this time?
Why is there a clean, snow-like, clear and pure line?
Lin Qianyuan lowered her head and avoided his gaze.
Pei Lanqing thought he had asked too many questions, so he turned around and told her the reason for his return. "Did I bother you? I left my schoolbag here."
"Well, I made a fuss. You need to apologize to me."
She said it swiftly and without hesitation. Pei Lanqing bent down without any principles and compromised, saying softly, "I'm sorry."
As he lowered his body, his gaze suddenly fixed on her left hand, which was covered in blood. "You..."
Pei Lanqing looked at her in surprise.
A tear fell on the floor with a plop sound. Lin Qianyuan didn't look up, and the tears fell drop by drop onto the white tiles, which was heartbreaking.
"Pei Lanqing."
"Um?"
He responded so softly that it was so gentle in his ears that it made people let down their guard.
Lin Qianyuan looked at him with red eyes, raised her hand, and spoke with a heavy nasal voice, with a hint of tears, "Pei Lanqing," she said, "My hand hurts."
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