Chapter 8 If busy Ru Ru Ru Ru knew you dared to plot like this...
Zhou Ci had a fever and the infected wound had reached 40 degrees Celsius. He did not go to school and was lying in bed in a daze when he was discovered by the hourly cleaner who rushed him to the hospital.
This incident of course alarmed Zhou Ting'an. When Zhou Ci woke up from his semi-coma, Zhou Ting'an was sitting on the sofa in front of his bed with a grim expression.
Zhou Ci blinked, and before he could think of what to say, Zhou Ting'an spoke up: "Go study abroad! Wherever you want to go, I'll take you there."
Zhou Ci sneered. After a high fever, the corners of his lips were dry and blistered, and his throat was hoarse, but he refused to show weakness. "You are so eager to get rid of me. Grandpa agrees?"
Zhou Ting'an glared at him. "I'm sending you abroad to study for your own good. The old man will agree. You haven't been a good student in China either. You've been fighting every day. This time you even ended up in the hospital. I'll give you a change of environment and you'll be fine."
Zhou Ci sneered, "Why don't you ask me why I fought? Are you hurt anywhere? Does it hurt? If you want to play the role of a loving father and a filial son, shouldn't you be filled with righteous indignation and seek revenge on the person who hit me?"
Zhou Ting'an's throat choked. Before he could think of a good excuse, Zhou Ci said again, "I'm not going abroad!"
Zhou Ting'an said firmly: "This is not up to you!"
Zhou Ci treated him like air, unmoved at all, and said lightly: "But you have to let Grandpa do what he wants."
Zhou Tingan was furious: "Don't think that just because your grandfather casually praised you during the meal, you are any different. He is my father first, and your grandfather last."
Zhou Ci looked at him sarcastically: "Why don't you go ask your father whether he wants a useless son like you or a grandson like me, who is a generation apart?"
Zhou Tingan was furious: "Zhou Ci!"
Zhou Ci turned over, his back to him, and said nonchalantly, "I'm listening! No need to be so loud. Remember to ask that woman to make you some heaty soup when you get home, or you'll die of anger one day and lose all your wealth to me."
Zhou Ting'an pointed at him and cursed, "Zhou Ci, do you have any manners? What woman? She's your mother!"
Zhou Ci, ignoring his injuries, suddenly stood up and yelled at Zhou Ting'an, "My mother died a long time ago! She was forced to death by you, Zhou Ting'an!"
Zhou Tingan flew into a rage and threw the thermos cup at him, "This is outrageous!"
Zhou Ci had been hurt enough by Zhou Ting'an, and he would never allow himself to be hurt even a little bit because of Zhou Ting'an. He even brought the matter to Old Man Zhou's attention and insisted on learning Muay Thai, determined that if Zhou Ting'an dared to hit him again, he would definitely fight back.
He easily dodged the thermos cup thrown by Zhou Tingan, but the noise in the ward was so loud that it alarmed the nurses outside.
When the nurse pushed the door open, she saw Zhou Ting'an smashing Zhou Ci's thermos cup and quickly stopped him loudly: "What are you doing?"
Zhou Ci immediately put on an aggrieved expression and said pitifully to the nurse, "Auntie Nurse, I feel so uncomfortable."
The nurse, who was in her thirties and also a mother, immediately disagreed, "The child is already in this state, and you still want to hit him with a thermos?"
Zhou Ting'an felt a little embarrassed by what the nurse said. He wanted to explain, but he felt that there was no need to say so much to an outsider. In the end, he just said stiffly, "This is our family matter."
The nurse walked over to Zhou Ci to protect him and confronted Zhou Tingan: "Domestic violence against minors. If your son is willing, he can sue you. I can testify for him."
Zhou Ting'an frowned: "This is none of your business, don't meddle in other people's business."
Zhou Ci felt sick when he saw Zhou Ting'an's expression. He said softly to the nurse, "Nurse, I want to sleep. Can you let him go out?"
"Okay!" The nurse responded to Zhou Ci gently, then turned to Zhou Ting'an and said firmly, "The patient needs to rest. Please leave first."
The doctors and nurses in the top-level hospitals are busy like tops every day. They don’t care how rich you are, they treat everyone equally. Zhou Tingan was driven out by the nurses in great disgrace.
After the nurse chased Zhou Ting'an away, she smiled and gave Zhou Ci a victory gesture. She took Zhou Ci's temperature again and said gently, "The fever is gone. You can sleep a little longer."
“Thank you, Auntie!”
Zhou Ci was indeed very sleepy, his head was dizzy, and he was just holding on during the quarrel with Zhou Tingan, he lost the fight but not the battle.
He remembered that he had made an appointment with his sister today, but he was sick now and had to cancel the appointment, so he had to call to let her know so that his sister wouldn't have to wait for him.
Zhou Ci forced himself to stay sleepy and waited until Huayang High School was over in the afternoon. He called, but the phone rang for a long time without anyone answering. He couldn't hold on any longer and fell asleep holding the phone.
When he woke up again, it was already midnight. He was the only one in the ward. There was a thermos of pork rib porridge on the bedside table. The hourly worker had gone home after delivering the food. There were two missed calls from Song Yu on his mobile phone. Zhou Ci looked at the time and resisted the urge to call his sister. He just restrained himself and sent her a text message.
While drinking porridge, Zhou Ci thought to himself: My sister will see my text message tomorrow morning and know that I am in the hospital. She should come to see me, right?
Zhou Ci dragged his sick body to take a bath in the ward. He had a fever and was sweating all over, and his body was sticky. He was afraid that his sister would dislike him.
The water temperature was not too high, so he didn't care. He just wanted to go to bed early after taking a shower. Maybe when he woke up tomorrow morning, his sister would come to see him.
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Song Yu didn't come the next day, nor the third day, nor the fourth day...
She didn't come until Zhou Ci recovered and was discharged from the hospital.
It’s not that Song Yu didn’t come on purpose, but that she didn’t notice the text message.
Song Yu doesn't usually send text messages. Her friends contact her through QQ. Her phone often receives spam messages, and she almost never reads them, but just cleans them up regularly. Zhou Ci doesn't have her QQ, so he can only send her text messages. Their messages are thus perfectly missed.
Song Yu was very busy during those days, as she was busy with something important.
Shen Zhiyan's birthday is in these two days, and all her extra energy is focused on this matter. She wants to take advantage of her birthday to coax Shen Zhiyan and has no other energy to think about other things.
She remembered the appointment to apply the medicine to Zhou Ci. When Zhou Ci called her, she was eating, so she didn't answer his call. After she finished eating, she took her phone and called back, but Zhou Ci didn't answer again. She went to the alley behind the school to look for Zhou Ci, but he wasn't there. She called Zhou Ci again, but he didn't answer.
Because he agreed to help Zhou Ci apply the medicine, Song Yu deliberately cleared the time before evening self-study that day. He even moved the plan of buying a birthday present for Shen Zhiyan to noon the next day. The bell for evening self-study had already rung, so Song Yu had to go back for evening self-study.
The next day was Friday, which was also Shen Zhiyan's birthday. As soon as Song Yu got out of school at noon, he didn't even have time to eat, and hurried to the shopping mall to pick out a birthday present for him.
There was only a short time at noon and there was not much to choose from. Fortunately, the highlight of her preparation was not a birthday gift. The role of a birthday gift was just to add icing on the cake.
She took a fancy to a new ring in a certain store and thought it was very suitable for Shen Zhiyan, so she asked the salesgirl to pack it up and take it away. After looking at it for a while, she thought the women's version of this ring was also very beautiful, so she couldn't help but buy one for herself.
After going back to eat and attend class, Shen Zhiyan walked into the classroom as the bell rang, sat down in the seat next to her and ignored her.
The first class on Friday afternoon was geography class. Song Yu took a pen and wrote a note to Shen Zhiyan: Are you really ignoring me?
Shen Zhiyan glanced at it out of the corner of his eye, then looked back at the blackboard without even giving Song Yu a single feedback.
Song Yu continued: "Please don't be angry with me, okay? Today is your birthday..."
Shen Zhiyan looked at the book and then at the geography teacher on the podium, but remained unmoved.
While the teacher turned around, Song Yu gently shook Shen Zhiyan's hand and handed the note over again: "Prince, I was wrong! I was really wrong! Please forgive me, okay? Let's have dinner together tonight to celebrate your 14th birthday."
Shen Zhiyan still ignored her.
Song Yu knew that Shen Zhiyan didn't get angry with her easily, but this time he had been angry for so long, he must have been furious. Song Yu secretly stuck out her tongue at him, but didn't force it. Anyway, she and a few of Shen Zhiyan's good friends had already agreed that they would be responsible for tricking Shen Zhiyan into going to dinner, and the rest would depend on her performance. She had prepared so many things for Shen Zhiyan's birthday, it was unreasonable that she couldn't coax him.
As soon as school was over in the afternoon, Song Yu disappeared, running faster than the birthday boy Shen Zhiyan.
Shen Zhiyan was not angry. He walked out of the classroom slowly with his schoolbag on his back, and was not surprised to see his two childhood friends at the school gate.
Zhang Chengyu walked over and hooked his shoulder: "Happy birthday, Brother Yan, we're throwing a birthday party for you at Bandao Shiguang. How about we have dinner together tonight?"
Shen Zhiyan curved his lips: “Ru Ru sent you to deceive me?”
Hong Minbo stood on the other side of Shen Zhiyan and jokingly said, “It’s true that nothing can be hidden from our Brother Yan.”
The three of them walked out of the school gate together. Shen Zhiyan was in a good mood, "What surprise did Ru Ru prepare for me tonight?"
Zhang Chengyu said, "You'll know when you get there, won't you? Ruru won't let us tell you. She specifically told us several times to keep it a secret, saying she wanted to give you a surprise. How could we dare tell you in advance?"
Hong Minbo joked, "Brother Yan, you're really quite composed. You sit with Ru Ru every day, yet you never say a word to her. How did you manage to ignore her for the better part of a month? Didn't Ru Ru get angry with you?"
Shen Zhiyan glanced at him lightly and said slowly: "Ru Ru's biggest problem is that she is too enthusiastic towards others. She is almost 14 years old and has no sense of boundaries with others. I have to let her know what my bottom line is and what she absolutely cannot do."
Zhang Chengyu shook his head and scolded with a smile: "Chen Zhiyan, you scheming boy, Ru Ru is in trouble, she is so innocent, she really can't play you."
Hong Minbo interrupted, "If Ru Ru knew you dared to plot against her like this, she would definitely kill you."
Shen Zhiyan was calm and composed: "So you two should keep your mouths shut. If she explodes with me, I will explode with you."
There was a threat in Shen Zhiyan's words, and the two laughed and said "I dare not" repeatedly. The three of them got into the car that came to pick them up and drove to Bandao Shiguang's villa.
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