Chapter 68: The Sixty-Eighth Day of Restraint Stepping on the Golden Sunlight...
Pei Yunhe never expected that Shan Yin would suddenly bring this up.
He was stunned for a moment, his eyes dodging guiltily as he was stared at by Shan Yin. He quickly turned around and called the convenience store clerk, "Hello, we want all this milk here."
After finishing speaking, he took a moment to calm down before turning back to Dan Yin: "Isn't it a compulsory course for every man to fully understand his wife's preferences?"
Shan Yin blinked and frowned: "Slippery tongue."
However, Pei Yunhe's statement did fool Shan Yin.
Pei Yunhe had just ordered so much milk at once. She was afraid that it would expire and go bad if she couldn't finish it, so she went back to count it with the store clerk and asked them to deliver the milk, some to the hospital and the old house.
Pei Yunhe just sat in the wheelchair and watched Shan Yin talking clearly and making arrangements with the store clerk. The sunlight shone through the huge floor-to-ceiling glass door onto the white hem of her skirt. Everything in front of him seemed to overlap with what it was more than ten years ago. The white hem of the skirt turned into the blue and white corner of the school uniform.
At that time, Shan Yin was even thinner than she is now. She carried a square schoolbag, which was wider than her shoulders when it was full of books. Every time she walked on the road, Pei Yunhe was either worried that she would be blown away by the wind or that she would be crushed by the schoolbag.
Ever since he saw Shan Feiyu bullying Shan Yin on Fenglin Road, Pei Yunhe didn't let the driver take him to school for a long time.
Meng Chuan was too lazy to do anything, and Pei Yunhe didn't force him. Pei Yunhe just estimated the time and walked along the maple forest road every day, sometimes walking ahead of Shan Yin, sometimes walking behind Shan Yin.
As time went by, he even walked further away than just Fenglin Road. He looked at the way Shan Yin came and finally realized that she had taken the bus from the city park and walked another block to reach Fenglin Road.
When he was young, Pei Yunhe didn't know that Su Wan and Johns' way of educating their children was to be independent. Seeing Dan Yin taking the bus and walking every day, he thought that her family was not well off, otherwise she wouldn't be so thin and always have a pale face and look lifeless.
Once, Pei Yunhe went to the bus stop to wait for Shan Yin. As soon as the bus stopped and the door opened, a group of young boys pushed and shoved their way in. Shan Yin was swayed from side to side among them. His brows were furrowed and his face turned blue.
His heart suddenly tightened for no reason, and he almost wanted to go over and help her, but he felt it was presumptuous, so he stood a little further away and stared at Shan Yin for a long time behind the bus stop.
She probably didn't have time to eat breakfast because she was in time to catch the bus, and was squeezed again. She was in a daze, with a sullen face. She stood there for a long time, so long that Pei Yunhe thought she was going to vomit. She moved her feet tremblingly twice, gritted her teeth and walked towards the school again.
The reason why I guessed that Shan Yin probably didn't have breakfast was not only because Shan Yin always came early in the morning and rushed into school, and then spent almost the entire morning half-lying on the desk, looking listless, but also because there was one morning flag-raising ceremony when Shan Yin went to school even earlier, and just when the principal was giving a passionate speech, she fell to the ground with a thud.
Pei Yunhe rushed out in one step, but he was at the end of the team. Before he could reach Shan Yin, Shan Yin had already crawled up tremblingly. Lao Bai was also shocked and asked the squad leader to send her to the infirmary.
Meng Chuan hooked his arm around Pei Yunhe's shoulder with great interest, "I didn't realize our Master He also loves to watch the fun."
Pei Yunhe rolled his eyes at him and walked to the back of the team.
During the break, he saw that Shan Yin had not returned to the classroom yet. He kicked the leg of Meng Chuan's stool, touched the bridge of his nose and asked him, "What did you say about that incident this morning? What happened?"
Meng Chuan grinned, making Pei Yunhe feel uneasy. He didn't expect that he would just say, "I knew you were a gossipy kid! You were pretending this morning!"
Pei Yunhe's mouth twitched twice, "If you say so, then so be it."
"I'll go find out for you!"
Meng Chuan volunteered to go to the monitor's side. The monitor looked up from his exercise book and frowned when he saw that it was Meng Chuan. When he learned that he was asking about Shan Yin, although he was reluctant to talk to him, he still said a few words out of friendship.
"Are you asking about Shan Yin? She's hungry and has low blood sugar. She's still in the infirmary."
Pei Yunhe came over and pretended to talk to Meng Chuan, then interrupted, "Doesn't she usually eat breakfast?"
The monitor shook her head. "No. She's always like this. She comes early in the morning to do more homework so she can ask the teacher questions. She often misses meals, and even when she has free time, she doesn't go to the cafeteria. She doesn't want to waste time."
Pei Yunhe blinked. He had never heard of such a thing before. "But not eating and being hungry is not good either. I won't have the energy to attend class. How can I learn anything?"
He felt that Shan Yin was putting the cart before the horse. He had seen her several times in class with her originally straight back drooping, and she probably had no energy at all.
The monitor curled his lips and said, "I've tried to persuade her, but maybe she just doesn't think it's a big deal if she doesn't eat. She seems to be under a lot of pressure."
Pei Yunhe remained silent.
The monitor added, "But you're right. It's important for the students to study and keep healthy. I'll think of a way to give Lao Bai some advice later."
Pei Yunhe had no choice but to say "hmm", pretending that he didn't really care whether Dan Yin had breakfast or not, and then walked away.
However, he did not wait for the squad leader to come up with a solution and make suggestions to Lao Bai. He was a man of action and could not delay anything. He called Meng Chuan over that day to give him some advice.
"Don't you often complain about not having enough to eat and being hungry during class?"
"Yeah, aren't you hungry? I was starving after playing ball in last gym class. I'm telling you!"
"Then I have an idea for you. Go talk to Lao Bai and the class monitor. The academic pressure in the second year of high school is getting heavier, and everyone is growing and needs more nutrition. You and the class monitor should set up a food bar in the corner of the classroom. Just put some snacks, milk, cakes, bread, etc. in there, and everyone can grab some when they're hungry."
Pei Yunhe even picked out a place, "Right there, it's spacious."
Meng Chuan listened without thinking, just hearing that there was something to eat, he grinned and said happily: "That's a good idea!"
But after a while, he remembered that he was supposed to ask the squad leader, so he frowned and asked, "Why me again?"
Pei Yunhe shrugged, "Who told you to be both the living committee member and the psychological committee member?"
For the first time, Meng Chuan felt the weight of responsibility that comes with being a class leader...
However, in order to satisfy his own stomach, Meng Chuan still made this suggestion.
Lao Bai looked at him with a new respect, and the squad leader even gave him a look of surprise and approval, which made Meng Chuan feel a little embarrassed. He touched the back of his head, and while making sure the matter was settled, he took the opportunity to interrogate Pei Yunhe.
"Ahe, I think there's something wrong with you." His eyes searched the class like a searchlight, finally landing on Shan Yin's seat, "There's something wrong with you."
Pei Yunhe lazily sat in his seat, looking open-minded. He just reached out and touched his nose bone silently, "What's wrong with me? What's wrong with me?"
Meng Chuan glanced at him sharply, "Why do you always give me those ideas? Last time, you wrote a poem about the exam and asked me to help the monitor sort it out, and you wouldn't let me tell anyone else. This time, you want me and the monitor to prepare this meal..."
His eyebrows twisted into a hemp rope, "Boy, you are not secretly in love with the squad leader!"
"What?" Pei Yunhe's heart was in his throat.
Meng Chuan raised his chin and said to the squad leader who was sitting in front of Shan Yin, "You always use my name to get the squad leader to do good things and get attention. Aren't you secretly in love with the squad leader?"
At this point, Meng Chuan was unhappy. He leaned over Pei Yunhe's desk and said, "Ah He, be honest! You and I are brothers who grew up together. You can't just stand on the side of the monitor because of a beautiful woman! Don't you know that the monitor and I don't get along?"
He continued to list the class monitor's faults, "Let me tell you, she's pretty, has good grades, is great at hosting school events, and is well-liked by everyone... But she's too particular, always meddling in everything. Let me tell you..."
Pei Yunhe put his mind at ease again and squinted at Meng Chuan, "Are you criticizing the monitor or praising her?"
"..." Meng Chuan was speechless, "How can you speak like that!"
Pei Yunhe was too lazy to pay attention to him. After all, Meng Chuan was a little stupid and didn't really understand what he meant to Shan Yin.
He was still observing Shan Yin. Since the class cafeteria was set up, Shan Yin had indeed gone there to get food a few times.
After all, it’s in the classroom, so there’s no need to go to the cafeteria so far. Eating snacks also saves time than eating.
Pei Yunhe also noticed that Dan Yin's favorite was a kind of milk produced in Yunsu. Once, Meng Chuan accidentally bought some and brought it back to class. During those days, Dan Yin didn't take anything else but that kind of milk and could drink several boxes a day.
The way she bit the straw to drink milk while concentrating on solving the problem made Pei Yunhe laugh.
Later, Pei Yunhe and Meng Chuan specifically asked to buy that kind of milk every day. Meng Chuan also complained to him that it was a specialty of Yunsu, and it was not easy to buy in Nanqiao, and it was difficult to buy it online.
Pei Yunhe took advantage of the weekend to visit several large supermarkets, and also found channels online to ask someone to bring it from Yunsu. He finally got a few boxes.
Afraid that it would be snatched away by other classmates, he brought a box from home every day, arrived at the class early in the morning, and stuffed it into Shan Yin's drawer. Shan Yin thought it was a benefit from the class, so she didn't ask much and just kept drinking it until she returned to Yunsu.
"It's strange. This kind of milk is obviously unique to Yunsu. I can hardly find it in Nanqiao. But when I was in high school in Nanqiao, it seemed that this was the milk that my class ordered."
After Shan Yin settled the bill with the clerk and arranged the delivery, he walked towards Pei Yunhe again in the golden sunlight.
"Did you order this kind of milk at school before?"
When Pei Yunhe was asked by her, his thoughts were pulled out of his memories. Looking into Shan Yin's clear and bright eyes, he smiled lightly and shook his head.
"That's really strange."
Shan Yin couldn't figure it out, and pushed Pei Yunhe out of the convenience store thoughtfully.
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