Chapter 89 Chapter 89 I Like You
Free clinics are not like internships in hospitals where you can take breaks from time to time. We often sit for the whole morning. If we encounter patients who are not feeling well and cannot go out, we have to follow the doctor to visit them at their homes.
On Monday, I went to Hehua Town, on Tuesday, I went to Sanlipu, and on Wednesday, I went to Chenjiatun...
In just a few days, they took turns to set up free clinic tents in several places. Even though Shen Miao and the others were just there to help, they felt the pulse hundreds of times and tore a thick book of prescription paper.
It has been a long time since I last saw a doctor, and this time I finally made up for what I owed before. Shen Miao had never been so tired when she opened a clinic in the village before.
No one is invincible and does not know how to get tired. The doctors in the free clinic are rotated every day, let alone the "interns" who come to help?
Thinking that Shen Miao and the others had been working non-stop for several days, on the sixth day, they were not allowed to come anymore. Instead, they were asked to have a good rest at home over the weekend, so that they would not be lack of energy when they started to immerse themselves in review next week.
When she returned to school to pack her things, Shen Miao happened to run into Lu Xin.
I don’t know if he was waiting in the classroom on purpose, but as soon as he saw Shen Miao, he said happily: “Sister, it’s my birthday tomorrow~”
“Oh, then I wish you a happy birthday in advance.” Shen Miao took out a few books from the table and replied indifferently.
It wasn’t that Shen Miao wasn’t happy for him, it was just that after a busy day she was really a little tired and it was hard for her to pull herself together.
Lu Xin still didn't go to the internship this week. He only came for the whole morning on the first and third days while he was still busy. I don't know where he went to play the rest of the time.
Don't look at his young age. If he sat outside for ten hours in a row like me for several days in a row, his "energy" would be drained.
Helping to take out the books one by one, while handing them to her, Lu Xin asked again: "What are your plans for tomorrow?"
"I was going to go home for two days, but I haven't been back for a week."
Luxin: "In the morning?"
"Um."
Seeing a flash of disappointment in Lu Xin's eyes, Shen Miao asked him: "Why? Do you want to treat me to a meal?"
"If you want to go home, forget it. We can eat when you come back." Lu Xin scratched his head, trying to ease the embarrassment.
"Tomorrow is your eighteenth birthday, won't your family throw you a birthday party or something?"
Lu Xin didn't say anything, but silently took out a stack of hundred-dollar bills from his pocket and put them on the table, "Here, my birthday party."
Shen Miao: ???
Fifteen in total, one thousand five hundred yuan...
The Lu family had a new child last year, who is Lu Xin's half-brother.
The child is not even one year old yet, and his stepmother has been in the hospital recently due to illness. All the family’s eyes are on the mother and son, and they really have no interest in celebrating his birthday.
His mother, who was far away on the other side of the ocean, was thinking about him, but she was too far away to come back, so she could only call him to express her concern for him.
It just so happened that Lu Xin didn't want to celebrate his birthday in this incomplete family, so he asked them for money and prepared to celebrate it by himself.
Since Shen Miao didn’t have time… then he would go find his high school brothers to have a meal. Although they had to prepare for the college entrance examination next year and had to stay in school to attend classes during the day, they should have time during the evening self-study.
"Then I won't leave any cake for you tomorrow. I'll treat you to a meal alone when you come back."
Lu Xin’s words sounded casual, but Shen Miao still heard his regret and loneliness.
"Actually, I can go home the day after tomorrow," Shen Miao put her bag back on the table, "Do you have any plans for tomorrow? Take me with you?"
Lu Xin raised the corner of his lips slightly bitterly: "I'm fine, there's no need to be like this, you should go home."
"Hey, stop talking nonsense."
Shen Miao picked up the stack of bills and rubbed them over and over again, “Just tell me what arrangements you want to make. Eating? Singing? Or watching a movie?”
Lu Xin was the first friend Shen Miao met at the tutoring class, and he was also the person with whom she had the best relationship.
Although Lu Xin himself did not study or learn in school, he never affected her, and occasionally brought her some delicious snacks. Perhaps there was something unhappy about his ancestors, at least Shen Miao never regarded him as an enemy.
The coming-of-age ceremony at the age of eighteen is very important, and the necessary sense of ritual cannot be missing.
With his hands on the desk, Lu Xin thought carefully: "Well... I haven't thought about it yet, let's talk about it tomorrow."
"Then, if you trust me, let me take care of it."
Shen Miao took half of the money in her own hand, and then stuffed the other half back into his chest pocket, and took the initiative to suggest, “You just need to follow me obediently tomorrow, and be prepared to have a crazy day of fun.”
"good!"
Play?
How could Shen Miao possibly know how to play?
She spent the whole day either studying in a tutoring class or doing internship at the hospital. She almost forgot how long it had been since she had a good time outside. Add to that the free clinic this week...she really couldn't figure out how to arrange her schedule for tomorrow.
Fortunately, Shen Miao has a "big player" by her side. When it comes to how to play, I'm afraid no one can understand it better than him.
"You stupid girl, you still remember to call me?"
As soon as he heard Shen Miao's voice, Yao Heng angrily scolded her, "I thought you were about to forget about me."
"I was wrong, I was wrong, brother. I was wrong."
Shen Miao apologized very actively, and it took her a long time to react. She didn’t seem to be the one who was wrong: “Huh? Wait…I called you last month and asked you to go out for dinner, but it seemed like you rejected me, right? And the last time I asked you to go to the movies, you also said you didn’t have time.”
Yao Heng was very stubborn, even though he was exposed by Shen Miao, he refused to admit his fault, instead he started to make excuses: “Oh, it’s because I’m too busy at work, you know, I don’t even have day or night when I’m busy with work.”
Yao Heng changed jobs.
Who says sales is the best way to train people? Apart from accelerating the consumption of life, there is absolutely no place for it to train people.
After resigning from his sales job last year, Yao Heng became the operator of a little star in Henan City. I heard that the little star was his college classmate.
In order to increase her fame, the little star often has to participate in some city or provincial singing programs, and the people around her all have to work with her.
So even though they were in the same city, he couldn't spare much time to meet Shen Miao.
Although it is also busy, Yao Heng likes this job very much and he can learn a lot more than in sales.
Yao Heng is a playful person, and he is also in charge of arranging itineraries for little stars. It would be perfect for him to help arrange Lu Xin's itinerary for tomorrow.
After Shen Miao explained the situation, Yao Heng agreed straightforwardly, and almost an hour after hanging up the phone, he made a full day's schedule according to the 700 yuan budget given by Shen Miao.
"I have booked tickets for Century Amusement Park for you. You just need to arrive at 9:30 tomorrow morning. Tell my name at the ticket counter and the guard will give you the tickets."
“I have explained to people that some tickets that require additional fees can still be obtained by stating my name, but the queues still need to be queued as normal.”
"When it's time for lunch, go to the Haojiating Steakhouse in District 2. I've already told the manager, and he'll give you a 30% discount on everything you order."
"Oh yeah, I've arranged fireworks tonight, but there will only be ten of them, so just make do with it."
…
Yao Heng had arranged everything for them. Rather than running around aimlessly in the city, it was better to have fun in one place.
This operations job allowed Yao Heng to get to know a lot of people, and he could arrange everything with just a few phone calls. And he didn't have to pay for anything. He just told them that they had to pay a few hundred yuan for the fireworks themselves.
Shen Miao wrote down everything Yao Heng said in the notebook, and thanked him: “Thank you, brother~ I knew you were the best~!”
"Hey... stop it," Yao Heng couldn't stand such cheesy talk, "My birthday will be coming up in a few months, so just make arrangements for me then."
Shen Miao: “Don’t worry, I will definitely prepare in advance this time, I guarantee you will be satisfied!”
*
The next morning, Shen Miao and Lu Xin gathered at the school gate.
Lu Xin changed into a new set of clothes, which was the same style as his usual style, light blue and white, but a little more casual, and the baseball cap on his head also had a touch of red.
Century Amusement Park was built last year, and Lu Xin had been there a few times, but he was still looking forward to Shen Miao's arrangements today.
After entering the park with the ticket, thanks to Yao Heng's arrangements, there was no need to queue for almost any project.
The exciting pirate ship, the childlike carousel, and the haunted house that scared people to scream... This was Shen Miao's first time here, and she was able to have such a good time because of Lu Xin's birthday.
After eating steak at the restaurant at noon, they went to the theater in the afternoon to watch a fairy tale play performed by actors. Before they knew it, it was night. After it got dark, the colorful lights in the amusement park lit up one after another.
To watch fireworks, it is naturally more interesting to watch them in the widest possible place.
So Shen Miao pulled Lu Xin to make the Ferris wheel, and told the masters who were setting off the fireworks to wait until eight o'clock, when they were about to reach the highest point, before lighting them.
"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you~Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you..."
Sitting on the Ferris wheel, Shen Miao took out the small cake she had prepared in advance, lit the candles and sang a happy birthday song for him.
Holding the small cake in both hands, just when they were about to reach the highest point, Shen Miao said to him in a gentle voice: “Make a wish.”
"Um."
Bang...pop!
Outside the glass window, the fireworks quickly rose into the sky, and then bloomed into a gorgeous and bright flower in the darkness.
One after another, red, yellow, blue, green, all kinds of colorful clusters were dazzling to look at.
“The fireworks are so beautiful…”
Looking at the light spot so close to him in fascination, this dreamy feeling made Shen Miao's face reveal an intoxicated smile.
At this time, Lu Xin beside her suddenly called her in a gentle voice: "Sister."
"Um?"
"I like you."
Shen Miao was stunned for a moment.
She thought she had heard it wrong.
Turning her head to look into Lu Xin's eyes, Shen Miao asked again: "What did you just say?"
Their eyes met, and Lu Xin repeated the four words he had just said, word by word: "I. Like. You."
Shen Miao, who was still immersed in the romantic atmosphere the previous second, immediately pulled out of his emotions the next second and also replied him with four words: “Are you sick?”
"I'm serious. I'm not kidding."
Turning his body completely around, Lu Xin held Shen Miao's hands tightly with both hands, trying to let her feel his most real body temperature and most real feelings: "I really like you, I want to be with you..."
“Stop, stop, stop!”
Shen Miao interrupted what he was about to say, pulling her hand out while putting some distance between them: “Am I drunk from the cake? Or is my brain lacking oxygen at high altitude? I am eight years older than you. If I had tried harder back then, my son might be the same age as you now.”
What you like and what I like seem to be different.
Shen Miao treated him as a "son", but Lu Xin wanted to treat her as a girlfriend? !
Eight years old, doesn't sound that old, but getting along with him is no different from raising a child. He's just a kid who's half a head taller than you.
Lu Xin: "It's not that exaggerated. I'm an adult now. Even if there's an eight-year age difference, we're still the same age."
“…” Shen Miao was a little speechless, “Then tell me, what do you like about me?”
"I just like you. I thought you were interesting the first time I saw you. You're not like what my grandfather said, that you're a dull, stupid, and nerdy nerd. But the more we got to know each other, the more I felt that you were a good person with a good personality."
"I like being with you. I feel that as long as I can be with you, everything I do is interesting. Sometimes, just thinking of you makes me feel very happy."
Lu Xin enumerated Shen Miao's strengths in a detailed manner, just like a primary school student writing an essay. Although the incoherent narrative looked messy, one could feel the emotions between the lines.
His love was like that of a child, very pure, he just liked Shen Miao as a person.
He likes her when she is happy and when she is angry. As long as she is the same person, he likes her no matter what emotion she is in.
Especially today, Shen Miao stayed specially to celebrate his birthday with him, to ride the roller coaster and pirate ship with him, and to watch the stage play with him… It was as if the happiness that had been lost for a long time had been found back by herself without her noticing.
Looking at her own shadow in his clear eyes and listening to his most sincere tone, Shen Miao knew that he was not joking.
Thinking about it carefully, it seems that he really never regarded me as an ordinary friend from the beginning.
Just like he said, at first he thought I was "unfashionable, stupid and dull", so he treated me as a fun toy. But later, after getting to know me, he found that I was not as boring as Lu Jianghai said, so he changed the way he looked at himself.
Regardless of Lu Xin’s past emotional changes, just talking about the present, Shen Miao doesn’t like him at all.
Although Lu Xin was indeed a bit handsome, and was the sunny and cheerful boy that Shen Miao would have liked during her school days, she really didn't have any feelings for him and only regarded him as an interesting little brother.
"But I don't like you, what should I do? I don't want to be with you."
Lu Xin shrugged and said in a relaxed tone: "It doesn't matter, I will pursue you slowly, maybe one day you will fall in love with me."
Shen Miao: ???
So, does this mean that he intends to keep pestering me?
After taking a long, deep breath, Shen Miao stretched out the index finger of her right hand and said to him seriously: “Let me be clear with you, all my attention is now on the examination, I don’t have the energy to fall in love, and I don’t want to fool around with you, if you affect me, I…”
"I know, I know." Lu Xin held her fingers. "Don't worry, I will never disturb you or distract you. I will stay by your side quietly to protect you and take care of you."
Shen Miao: …
This sentence is a bit inappropriate for his age. It sounds a bit strange to hear such responsible words coming from his mouth.
“Then how are you going to ‘take care’ of me?” Shen Miao asked again.
Seeing that Shen Miao did not reject him again, Lu Xin’s face was filled with a happy smile again, “Well, you will know later.”
Shen Miao suddenly recalled her youthful days in school.
Although she was not the most beautiful girl in class or school, there were still many people pursuing her when she was in school.
There are many people pursuing her, but she doesn't like any of them. She doesn't think she has high standards, she just simply doesn't like anyone.
So after those boys realized that Shen Miao was a "stone that can't be warmed up", they all gave up chasing her after a short while.
The longest time the guy pursued her was for a month?
Well, I have to say that she had a pretty good month.
That person was a good student in the class and helped her with her math and history homework for a whole month, but later he gave up after realizing that Shen Miao only used him as a “tool man”.
I don’t know how long Lu Xin will last this time…
*
Lu Xin kept his word, since he promised not to affect Shen Miao’s review for the exam, he really didn’t drag her down.
His way of pursuing Shen Miao was simple: bringing her food in the morning, bringing her water at noon, and riding a bike to send her home at night. Rather than wanting to be a boyfriend, he seemed to want to be a qualified bodyguard.
In addition to this, he would also help Shen Miao copy down the notes she needed to take, and would run errands for her to go to the bookstore to buy books, as if as long as he could help Shen Miao a little, it would be a very happy thing for him.
Shen Miao also gradually got used to his kindness to her.
Lu Xin has a strong sense of boundaries and will not force her to do anything under the banner of pursuing her. Even when Shen Miao is in a bad mood, he will consciously "hide" and wait until her mood eases a little before coming over to comfort her.
Many people in the school noticed that Lu Xin had suddenly become very attentive to Shen Miao recently, serving her like a eunuch beside Empress Dowager Cixi.
But no one thought much about it, because Lu Xin still called her "sister" every day, but no one noticed that his eyes were filled with hot and strong love when he called her "sister"...
"This is the last one. Does anyone in your class want to keep one?"
After school that afternoon, several girls from the nursing class in the next building came to the doors of several TCM classes with a puppy in their arms and asked one by one, "Do you want to keep it? It's a little female puppy, it's already weaned, and it's easy to keep."
There is often a local dog wandering around the campus of Xinglin Medical Auxiliary School. It has accompanied many groups of students who came to the school to review for exams. People are not afraid of it and will take the initiative to feed it some steamed buns and dumplings.
At the beginning of last month, it gave birth to a litter of five puppies in the garbage room. It had been raining in Henan for a few days, and the average temperature, which was originally nearly 30 degrees in the hot summer, suddenly turned into a cold autumn with a temperature of more than 10 degrees. A group of girls who were studying nursing and preparing for the nursing certificate exam took it and its children to the teaching building to raise them.
Now that the cubs are one month old and weaned, it is not appropriate to let them wander around the school with their mother, so we ask each class to see who can take them home and provide them with food and shelter.
The other puppies have all been taken care of, and now only the last one is left.
Woo, woo…
The newly weaned puppy is very small, with a light khaki color all over, and a tuft of white hair on the tip of its tail, which looks very cute.
It has been raised by people with help in taking care of it since it was young, and it is not afraid of people. It just lies obediently in the girl's hands, watching the people around it.
There may be people in other classes who can support it, but it may be difficult in traditional Chinese medicine.
Because half of the people here are not locals, and they are generally older, and they don’t have much patience for these cats and dogs, so let alone taking them home to raise, there are very few people who even walk by to look at them.
When Shen Miao came back from dinner, she took a quick look at the puppy. The puppy was indeed adorable, chubby and plump, with a faint puppy scent emanating from its body…
Unfortunately, she couldn't raise it.
She herself was still living in Qin He’s home now, and even if she brought it back to the village, there would probably be no place to put it after the village was demolished, so Shen Miao simply touched it and returned to her seat to continue reading.
When no one in the class responded, they left with the puppy and went to another class.
That puppy was so cute, and as Shen Miao read the words on the book, her mind was filled with the pitiful look in the puppy’s eyes when it looked at her, as well as the smell on it.
"Want to raise one?"
Lu Xin saw what was in Shen Miao’s mind, so he asked her quietly.
Shen Miao sighed and asked him, “Can you raise it?”
"I can't. My dad won't let me keep a cat or a dog."
Turning his head, Lu Xin said, "But I think you can actually keep one."
Shen Miao: “I am living in someone else’s house now, and I can’t support him.”
"Let me tell you, raising a dog isn't that troublesome. Not only do you not have to keep it at home, you don't even have to feed or water it. All you have to do is touch it occasionally and treat it with care."
Shen Miao frowned, "You have to be responsible when raising a dog, it's a life, it's not as simple as you say."
"Yes, it's really that easy."
Lu Xin came closer, put his hands on the edge of the table, and blinked his eyes like a puppy.
"Sister, you can keep me as your puppy. You don't have to feed me or take care of me. Just touch me and love me occasionally."
Shen Miao: …
Shen Miao felt more and more that she had no romantic cells. It was clearly a playful and coquettish remark, but Shen Miao couldn't help but dig her toes into the ground, wishing she could dig out a two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment and throw him in.
Seeing Shen Miao blushing, Lu Xin simply rested his chin on her arm, tilted his head and said in a milky voice: “Sister…ah no, Master, can you take me in and let me be your most loyal puppy?”
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