Chapter 84: Woohoo got my retribution
Xia Linxing lay on the hospital bed with his eyes wide open, staring at the ceiling in a trance, seriously wondering if he was having a bad luck in his life.
It wasn't long after the last time I came to the hospital (because of a sprained ankle) that I came back here again.
The story... starts from what happened in the afternoon -
In the afternoon, Cheng Xuezhou reported to the staff what Xia Linxing had arranged in the utility room. After the false alarm, Xia Linxing decided to give himself a good rest!
So after getting Shen Sibai's approval, Xia Linxing did not go to the trainee cafeteria for dinner in the evening. Instead, he secretly returned to the dormitory as he did at noon and opened a box of spicy self-heating hot pot.
The bright red and shiny soup base was rolling in the white plastic box. Occasionally, tender white lotus root slices or translucent wide noodles would pop out, but they would soon sink back into the boiling hot soup. Beef slices and luncheon meat were faintly visible in the red soup, with an attractive oily sheen after absorbing the soup. Just looking at it made Xia Linxing uncontrollably start to drool.
So as soon as the waiting time written on the box arrived, he couldn't wait to pick up his chopsticks.
The richness of the butter is wrapped in the salty and fresh taste of the bean paste, and the gravy mixed with the spicy soup bursts between the teeth. The slightly tingling spiciness burns all the way from the throat to the stomach, and just one bite is so spicy that the scalp numb.
This is... so delicious!
Even though his eyes were red from the spiciness and his mouth was making a hissing sound, Xia Linxing still refused to put down his chopsticks.
This luncheon meat soaked in red oil, these crispy lotus root slices with a hint of sweetness... this is life! Xia Linxing sighed while wiping the sweat from his forehead due to the spicy taste. At the end of the meal, he even sipped the soup base twice.
Then, he got his comeuppance—
In the middle of the night, Xia Linxing was awakened by a sudden, sharp pain deep in her abdomen. It felt like countless cold needles stirring inside her body, or like being gripped tightly by an invisible hand.
Sharp cramps came over him, and Xia Linxing couldn't help but let out a suppressed cry of pain. But as soon as the sound came out, he realized that he might wake up the others in the dormitory, so he immediately bit his lower lip hard to control himself from making any more sounds.
He curled up in the quilt, his fingers clutching the sheets tightly, trying to hold back the pain. Even his breathing became cautious, fearing that the slightest movement would trigger more severe colic.
Just when Xia Linxing was wondering if she would die of pain on this bed, Shen Sibai's sleepy voice suddenly came from the dormitory: "Xingxing?"
"What's wrong with you?"
"I..." Xia Linxing had just opened his mouth when he couldn't help but let out a cry of pain.
Shen Sibai, who was originally half asleep, woke up instantly when he heard the voice. He suddenly threw back the quilt, climbed down from the upper bunk, stepped barefoot on the cold floor, and took a few steps to Xia Linxing's bed.
With Chen Sibai's height, he could just see through the railing of the upper bunk and see Xia Linxing curled up on the bed, his fingers tightly clutching the sheets. The strands of hair on his forehead were soaked with cold sweat and stuck to his face, which was now pale.
"What's going on?" Chen Sibai asked anxiously, "Xingxing, what's wrong with you? Is it hurting somewhere?!"
"Stomach, stomach..." Xia Linxing squeezed out two words with difficulty from between his teeth, and then closed his mouth tightly. He was afraid that if he opened his mouth again, he would not be able to suppress the painful groans that accumulated on his lips.
Seeing Xia Linxing in such pain, Shen Sibai turned around decisively: "I'll find the staff (to take you to the hospital)..."
"No, no!" Xia Linxing stretched out her fingers to hook Shen Sibai's clothes and shook her head at him with difficulty: "No, no..."
Chen Sibai thought Xia Linxing didn't want to go to the hospital, so he immediately advised her earnestly, "You're in so much pain, you have to go to the hospital."
"Xingxing, be obedient!"
"No, no." Xia Linxing shook his head again, raised his head a little, and said to Shen Sibai: "No, I won't look for a staff member..."
Shen Sibai was stunned for a moment before he realized what Xia Linxing really meant: “What you meant just now is not that you don’t want to go to the hospital, but that you can’t go to the staff?”
Xia Linxing nodded weakly.
Xia Linxing probably guessed why he had a stomachache in the middle of the night - it was obviously because of the spicy self-heating hot pot he had eaten that night - so if he went to find the staff on duty and asked them to take him to the hospital, there would be no doubt that his secret eating of the self-heating hot pot at night, or the fact that Shen Sibai or Lu Zimo secretly hid food in the dormitory that was not allowed by the program crew, would be exposed.
After all, the doctor would definitely ask him what he had eaten recently. If he lied, not only would it arouse suspicion that the other trainees were fine while he was the only one suffering from abdominal pain, but simply concealing this information from the doctor would also be detrimental to subsequent treatment.
So...you must not look for staff.
"But..." Chen Sibai also understood what Xia Linxing meant from his intermittent words, and looked embarrassed: "Without the staff (leading), we (the trainees) alone will not be able to go out (to the hospital for treatment)..."
Xia Linxing was in so much pain that the ordinary medicines prepared by the program team in the medicine box probably wouldn't be of much use. She would probably have to go to the hospital for a blood test.
"Is there really no other way?" Xia Linxing looked at Shen Sibai eagerly.
Under this pitiful gaze, Shen Sibai really thought of something: "Unless——"
"Let's find a mentor to take us out..."
Huh? Xia Linxing looked puzzled. He picked up the phone next to his pillow and checked the time. It was almost 3 a.m., so which instructor could take them to the hospital?
Shen Sibai seemed to have already made up his mind: "Xingxing, wait for me..."
He hurried back to his bed, fumbled in the closet in the dark for a while, took out something and put it in his pocket, then hurriedly left the dormitory.
A moment later, Shen Sibai came back.
"Xingxing has been taken care of... Someone will come to pick us up soon..." He carefully touched Xia Linxing's forehead and breathed a sigh of relief when he found that Xia Linxing did not have a fever.
Xia Linxing also breathed a sigh of relief.
Maybe Shen Sibai went out and found the instructor who hadn't left the base yet to take them out...
Anyway, as long as they are not staff members...
Soon, there was a gentle knock on the dormitory door.
Huh? So fast?
Xia Linxing raised his head slightly from the pillow and looked towards the dormitory door, a little curious about who the mentor Shen Sibai had contacted was who could take them out.
Shen Sibai walked over and opened the door.
The door opened and Xie Tinglan was standing at the door against the light from the corridor.
Xia Linxing: “?”
Xia Linxing: “!!!”
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