Xia Xi pushed open the dormitory door and shouted, "I'm back!" She took the canvas bag off her shoulder, threw it on the table, and stretched her body. "Great, tomorrow is Friday. I can rest after just one more day."
"Have you eaten?" Zhao Lei tapped the tablet screen twice, pausing the variety show she was watching. She twisted her neck and asked, "Why is the meeting taking so long?"
Xia Xi said: "I met Su Yuanjia after the meeting. I had lunch with him in the cafeteria and chatted with him."
Zhao Lei's eyes lit up instantly. She dragged the chair under her butt to Xia Xi's side, put her elbows on the table, and put her hands on her face, putting on the standard gossipy expression of a melon-eating person: "So, how was your conversation with him?"
She winked as she spoke, unable to hide her smile.
The result was disappointing. Xia Xi spread her five fingers, covered her face, and pushed her away: "I have explained everything to him clearly."
Zhao Lei's mind was a little slow: "What do you mean by making it clear?"
"What I mean is that I told him clearly that I don't like him. If he insists on pursuing me, it will only waste our time. It will be better for both of us if we stop now before we get too involved."
"No, you...you say it so bluntly? It's so hurtful?" Zhao Lei felt a little sad for Su Yuanjia.
"Not really." Xia Xi poured a cup of hot water and took a sip from it. "I know the art of speaking. I was talking to him in a tactful way."
"So how did he react?"
“It’s a little sad, but it’s okay.”
Wang Qiuyu was hanging clothes on the balcony when she came in with a plastic basin and interrupted their conversation: "Rather than Su Yuanjia, I'd like to know if you, Xixi, broke down your defenses when you saw Xu Yanfeng during the meeting today."
"Yes, yes, that's what I wanted to ask too." Zhao Lei regained her gossipy expression and no longer felt sorry for Su Yuanjia.
Xia Xi leaned her neck back, resting her head on the back of her chair. Her mind was replaying the scenes of seeing Xu Yanfeng in the conference room. The corners of her mouth curled up unconsciously: "How could I be so vulnerable? It's just a failed confession. It's no big deal."
Speaking of the meeting, Xia Xi had a lot to say: "You don't know, today our minister... oh no, I should call her the former minister, that Zhou Xiaoyu, who I mentioned to you before, was making fun of me, and Xu Yanfeng happened to walk in and heard it. Although he didn't say anything, he slammed the documents on the table and made a lot of noise, as if he was angry. I think he was defending me in his own way. You weren't there, so you didn't see how scared Zhou Xiaoyu was."
Xia Xi started shaking her body as she spoke, demonstrating to them how Zhou Xiaoyu trembled all over. "She was shaking like a sieve, it was hilarious."
After listening to her description, Wang Qiuyu and Zhao Lei felt that she might be a little crazy.
Zhao Lei was always quick to speak. "Is it possible that Xu Yanfeng, as the student union president, doesn't like people stirring up trouble, and it has nothing to do with you?"
Wang Qiuyu had the same idea as her.
The silly smile on Xia Xi's face disappeared, and she narrowed her eyes and stared at them: "Are you questioning my sixth sense as a woman?"
Her threatening look made it seem as if she would jump up and fight any of them if they dared to say "yes." Zhao Lei, knowing the current situation, quickly shook her head, "No, no."
Wang Qiuyu shook her head, then whispered to Zhao Lei, "I'm an experienced person, so I understand. Xixi is currently at a stage where even a sneeze makes her suspect the person she likes is thinking about her. It's no surprise that if the person she likes gets angry at someone who insults her, she'll think they're standing up for her."
Zhao Lei understood: "You know more."
Xia Xi sipped the hot water, the corners of her mouth curled up more and more exaggeratedly, and her apple cheeks bulged. "Tell me, I've been sneezing so often lately, is it because Xu Yanfeng keeps missing me?"
Wang Qiuyu held her forehead with her hand: "Sister, you haven't recovered from your cold yet, just drink your hot water!"
"oh."
Xia Xi finished a cup of hot water and poured herself another.
She was actually a little angry, angry that they didn't trust her intuition. When Xu Yanfeng walked into the meeting room, his expression was different from his usual indifference. It was a cold expression that suppressed his anger. His subsequent action of throwing the folder confirmed her suspicion - he was angry.
But at that point in time, apart from Zhou Xiaoyu's mockery of her, what else could be worthy of his anger?
All the evidence suggests she didn't think much of it.
Unfortunately, no one believed her.
*
On Saturday, Xia Xi slept in and didn't get up until after nine in the morning. Her cold was still not healed, her nose was runny and she was coughing, so she was destined not to be able to swim a few laps in the swimming pool.
She was in a daze for a while, then she took off the quilt cover and sheets on the bed, took out a clean set of sheets from the cabinet and spread it on the bed, then took the ones she had taken off to the laundry room to wash.
By the time the sheets and quilt covers are washed and dried, it’s almost time for lunch.
Xia Xi combed her hair in front of the mirror and asked if anyone was going to the cafeteria for dinner. Wu Qinglu raised her hand and said she would join her. The other two, languishing in bed as if they had grown together, emerged from behind the curtain, disheveled and bedraggled, asking them to bring her food.
After asking what the two wanted to eat, Xia Xi and Wu Qinglu went to the cafeteria, ate, and brought back two servings.
Only then did Wang Qiuyu and Zhao Lei get up from the bed, go to the bathroom to wash up, and prepare to eat.
Xia Xi took the canvas bag beside the bed, put the laptop, drawings, pencil case on the table into it, and also stuffed a pack of tissues.
Zhao Lei came out of the bathroom in her pajamas, her face still sleepy after washing. She yawned and asked Xia Xi, "Where are you going?"
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