Chapter 035 The Thirty-fifth Melon
In early September, Lin Yuan was successfully sent to elementary school by Gu Xicao.
Fortunately, Gu Xicao had prepared in advance and let Lin Yuan take extra classes, otherwise it would have been difficult to just get through the first grade. The traditional Chinese characters and pinyin in Hong Kong are different from those in the mainland. After Lin Yuan came back from school, he told Gu Xicao, "Sister, this school is great, everyone is very friendly."
"That's good. Did you make any friends?"
Gu Xicao picked up a piece of roast duck for him with chopsticks and asked.
Lin Yuan ate the duck meat with a smile on his face: "Yes, they played well with me in front of me. After class, we played football. Our head teacher Miss He was also very nice to us."
Gu Xicao felt much more relieved.
Seeing Lin Yuan doing his homework with a smile on his face after dinner, she secretly sighed in her heart, as expected, children still have to go to school, only by going to school can they have companions. Lin Yuan was a little depressed before, but he seemed to be much better in the past few days.
But it was too early for Gu Xicao to feel relieved.
One week after Lin Yuan started school, his homeroom teacher Miss He came to visit his home.
When Gu Xicao opened the door, she saw a strange woman at the door and was stunned for a moment. When she saw the woman holding Lin Yuan's hand, she was even more stunned. "Who are you?"
"Hello, Miss Gu. I am He Yiquan, Lin Yuan's class leader." He Yiquan was also a little surprised when she saw Gu Xicao, but after all, she had worked for many years and had seen all kinds of situations. She showed a friendly smile and said, "Miss Gu is Lin Yuan's parent, right?"
Gu Xicao glanced at Lin Yuan. Lin Yuan lowered his head, tapped his toes on the ground, and glanced at Gu Xicao from time to time, looking a little nervous.
"Yes, it's me. It's Teacher He. Please come in." Gu Xicao reacted and realized that he was afraid that he had encountered the legendary home visit. He was nervous but also found it funny.
She invited Teacher He in and quickly brewed a cup of green tea and brought it over: "Teacher He, have some tea. We don't have anything good to offer you at home, so please don't be disgusted."
"How could that be." He Yiquan stood up and took the teacup. "I'm really sorry for coming here so suddenly. I hope I didn't disturb you."
Gu Xicao quickly waved her hands: "It's okay, it's okay, I'm off work. Teacher He, is there something wrong with Xiaoyuan at school? Why do you have to come to visit after work?"
Lin Yuan pouted in grievance: "I didn't cause any trouble."
He Yiquan showed an embarrassment on his face, holding the teacup, hesitant to speak, "It's like this, it's not a big deal, it's just, it's just..."
Before coming, she had never imagined that Lin Yuan's family was in such a situation, with only a little girl as the head of the family and the house being empty.
Teacher He felt a little reluctant for a moment.
But she still sticks to her principles: "Lin Yuan told his classmates at school that he can tell fortunes and that he is very accurate. A male classmate said he was bragging, so he got into a fight with him. Although I pulled them apart in time, I think your parents still need to know about this."
"Teacher, I'm not bragging!"
Lin Yuan raised his head unhappily, clenching his fists. "My sister is really good at fortune-telling. Many people want to ask her for fortune-telling! It was that fat guy who first said that my sister is a charlatan!"
He Yiquan had a headache, but subconsciously corrected Lin Yuan's words: "Lin Yuan, you can't call your classmate Xiao Pang, it's impolite."
"I can stop calling him Xiaopang, but he has to apologize to me, because I'm not bragging, my sister is really awesome, right, sister!" Lin Yuan turned his head and looked at Gu Xicao with admiration.
Gu Xicao was silent for a moment, and for a moment he even wanted to touch his forehead.
She thought it was some big deal, but it turned out to be this.
Gu Xicao just wanted to say a few words to send Teacher He away, but when she looked up and met Lin Yuan's admiring and expectant eyes, the words on her lips were somehow unable to come out.
She lowered her eyes and thought for a while, then said, "Teacher He, Xiaoyuan didn't lie. Although I'm a fortune teller, my predictions are indeed very accurate."
He Yiquan was a little amused.
This little girl is really stubborn.
"Miss Gu, you can say some things to outsiders, but you shouldn't lie to children. I don't think it's appropriate to publicize these things in school. Besides, there's no truth to the sayings of ghosts and gods telling fortunes."
What she meant was to suggest that Gu Xicao should not keep Lin Yuan in the dark.
When Gu Xicao heard what He Yiquan said, she was not angry but felt relieved instead.
This teacher is so thoughtful, he is really a good teacher.
Lin Yuan is really lucky to have such a class teacher.
"What a pity, He Yiquan has a bad fate." The gossip system complained in Gu Xicao's mind.
Gu Xicao was stunned. "What did you say? Is something going to happen to her?"
"Well, the melon on her body is very explosive, and it involves human life..."
After He Yiquan said those words just now, she originally wanted to persuade Gu Xicao to mend her ways, but she saw that Gu Xicao was distracted in front of her and looked nonchalant. She couldn't help but frown, thinking that maybe she had misjudged her and that this Miss Gu was actually an unreasonable parent.
"Sister, sister."
Seeing Gu Xicao in a daze, Teacher He frowned again. Lin Yuan hurriedly pushed Gu Xicao's sleeve and called out to her a few times in a low voice.
Only then did Gu Xicao come back to his senses.
She looked at He Yiquan, her expression becoming serious, "Teacher He, I won't tell you anything else. I want to ask you one thing. Do you have a daughter?"
He Yiquan was stunned. How did she know?
She nodded subconsciously.
"Your daughter has had a fever recently, but the fever is very strange. It goes away but comes back again from time to time, is that right?" Gu Xicao said in a serious tone with a nervous expression.
He Yiquan's heart tightened, "How do you know these things? No one in the school knows that my daughter is sick."
"Now, hurry up and come back to your home with me."
Gu Xicao quickly picked up her coat and stood up. "Your mother-in-law wants to kill your daughter. If you don't go home now, it will be too late!"
"What?!"
He Yiquan was completely stunned: "This, this you, you..."
She was in shock because the news was so bizarre that she didn't believe it was true.
"Give me back what? Now is not the time to discuss whether my calculations are accurate or not!"
Gu Xicao was so anxious that she said to Lin Yuan, "Xiaoyuan, go see if Uncle He is at home and ask him to drive us there!"
"Okay!" Lin Yuan's reaction was much faster than He Yiqun's. He knew that what his sister said was always true, so he went to find Uncle He without any hesitation.
Uncle He is a taxi driver. As he is old, he is not so hard-working to make money and usually finishes work early and goes home to eat.
Hearing that Gu Xicao was in urgent need of the key, Uncle He took the key without saying anything and asked, "Xiao Gu, where are you going now?"
Gu Xicao looked at He Yiquan.
Somehow, He Yiquan's heart tightened, and he answered subconsciously: "Sai Kung Biyun Building."
"Saigon?" Uncle He frowned. "Then we have to hurry up, or there will be a traffic jam on the road!"
Gu Xicao said, "Uncle He, we have something urgent to do here, so please drive faster!"
"Hurry up? I get it. Okay, let's go."
Uncle He nodded without hesitation.
Gu Xicao pulled the still dazed He Yiquan into the car. Lin Yuan wanted to follow, but was stopped by Gu Xicao, "You stay here to look after the house, don't run around."
"But I..." Lin Yuan was not at ease.
Gu Xicao waved her hand: "Xiaoyuan, be obedient. Sister really doesn't have time to talk to you."
She hurriedly closed the car door and mouthed the word "go home" to Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan had no choice but to nod obediently and watch the taxi shoot out like an arrow.
There is no traffic jam on the road at this hour.
Uncle He was very familiar with the road conditions and took various shortcuts along the way. Gu Xicao looked at the watch on his wrist from time to time, and his forehead was covered with sweat.
He Yiquan couldn't help but speak: "Ms. Gu, how did you know about my family's situation? And my mother-in-law wants to harm my daughter. How is this possible? She was the one who took care of my daughter when she was sick. She was more worried about my daughter than I am."
Gu Xicao saw the traffic light turn green, then turned around and talked to He Yiquan: "As for how I know, I can only tell you that I calculated it. You can choose not to believe it, but you can't not believe this. I won't say this for no reason. You will know when we get there."
She said it with finality and sincerity.
He Yiquan was actually a little shaken for a moment.
For some reason, she felt a sudden pain in her heart, and recalled Gu Xicao's words that her mother-in-law wanted to harm her daughter.
"Ouch!" Uncle He suddenly shouted.
Gu Xicao and He Yiquan turned their heads to look ahead at the same time, only to see that for some reason, several cars had rear-ended each other. The cars stopped immediately, and the owners got out of their cars. After checking the situation at the rear of their cars, they started arguing.
"Beep beep beep--" The cars behind were instantly blocked, and the horns honked one after another.
The traffic police has already run over to mediate.
Gu Xicao rolled down the car window and heard the car owners in front of him cursing. They even ignored the traffic policeman.
grass!
Gu Xicao wanted to curse in her heart. She looked at Uncle He and said, "Uncle He, can we turn around and take another route?"
"Of course you can." Uncle He said with embarrassment, "But this road is the shortest. It will take more than ten minutes to take a detour!"
Ten minutes?
Gu Xicao frowned, "Can you be faster? If you are late, something bad will happen."
When He Yiquan heard this, his face turned pale instantly.
Gu Xicao couldn't bear it when she saw her like this.
She caught a glimpse of something outside the window out of the corner of her eye, and an idea suddenly came to her mind.
"Nobita, Nobita, you ruined my things again!"
In Room 1209, Biyun Building, in the children's room, Xu Xinxin was sitting cross-legged on the bed, watching the cartoons on the small TV and laughing heartily.
"Xinxin, grandma has made some medicine for you, drink it while it's hot." Yang Fengxia pushed open the door with a bowl in her hand.
As soon as she came in, the bitter smell of medicine in the bowl hit her face.
Xu Xinxin immediately shook her head and rolled over on the bed: "Grandma, I don't want to take the medicine. It's so bitter and useless!"
"No, this medicine is very effective. Grandma specially asked someone to find the herbs from Lantau Island and boiled this bowl of medicine. You must drink it."
Yang Fengxia's face darkened.
But Xu Xinxin hid under the quilt and said coquettishly: "I won't drink it. Grandma always lies. She said before that the medicine is very effective."
"This time is different."
A smile appeared on Yang Fengxia's wrinkled face, enough to scare a child to tears.
She had finally found someone to prescribe a medicine, thinking that it would kill the money-loser, but it didn't work at all.
This time, Yang Fengxia simply bought some pesticides and mixed them in. She didn’t believe that this money-losing guy would not die after drinking the pesticides!
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