Chapter 63 Winning the Award "Mr. Yu, I am surrounded by zombies."...
Mrs. Du is frail and is accompanied by a small medical team of five people. No one dared to move Du Danren, so he just lay stiffly on the ground until two doctors hurriedly turned him over.
Du Danren was like a salted fish. The first thing he did was to check his glasses, and sure enough, one corner was broken.
"Danren, how are you?" Mrs. Du asked, "Doctor, please take a look at him."
The doctor didn't have a keen eye, so he couldn't tell what was wrong. He just asked, "Boss Du, are you feeling unwell?"
Du Danren felt it and said, "My bones hurt."
"… Let's send him to the hospital for a checkup."
Du Danren wanted to get up by himself, but as a fifty-year-old "old man", his bones were not as strong as when he was young. As soon as he sat up, he lay down again because of the pain.
Tian Ruan was surprised: "You are in this condition, and you are still doing sit-ups?"
Du Danren: “…”
Yu Jingmo suppressed his laughter and pulled Tian Ruan over, "Don't make trouble."
Tian Ruan: “???”
Soon, with the joint efforts of Du Henbie and the doctor, Du Danren was lifted onto the "ambulance" originally prepared for Mrs. Du.
The car was fully equipped. The doctor first used a small wooden board to fix Du Danren's painful leg to prevent him from moving. In fact, Du Danren didn't move at all. He only looked around from time to time and asked, "Can I wear glasses? I can't see clearly."
Mrs. Du sat aside and said, "What are you wearing? You will have to take it off when you get to the hospital. Don't wear it anymore."
"oh."
Tian Ruan sat on the other side and asked, "Then can you see me clearly?"
Du Danren looked at Madam Du and said, "I can see clearly."
“…”
Mrs. Du: "Xiao Ruan is on the other side."
Du Danren: "? Isn't your mother you?"
“…”
Tian Ruan: "Really? Not mom."
Du Danren didn't hear the difference, frowned slightly, and turned his head to look at the roof of the car.
The space inside the car is so small that once it becomes quiet there is an awkward atmosphere. It was Yu Jingmo's low and gentle voice that broke the awkwardness: "Does father-in-law usually have symptoms of neurological disorders?"
Du Danren: “No.”
"I suggest you go to the neurology department for another checkup."
Madam Du asked hurriedly, "Jingmo, do you have any research in this area?"
"I know an expert in this area. He said that many people's nerves become very sensitive as they age, especially when they are mentally and physically overworked. If they are not careful, they will become unbalanced and suffer accidents such as falls and injuries."
Mrs. Du looked solemn and said to Du Danren, "It just so happens that you haven't had a full-body checkup for two years. It's a good opportunity to go to the hospital and do it this time."
Du Danren thought for a moment and said, "I have a cocktail party to attend, and it's less than half an hour away."
"Then I won't go." Mrs. Du was so angry that her heart ached. "Which is more important, your life or your job?"
Du Danren was shocked: "Of course my life is more important. If I'm gone, no one will make money to support you."
"...I hate that you can make money. You are already fifty years old, it's time to take a break."
Du Danren: "I feel like I am no different than when I was thirty."
Mrs. Du: "Just look at your son-in-law and you will know whether you are different from when you were thirty."
Du Danren looked at Yu Jingmo, the difference was too big.
At the age of 30, Yu Jingmo is in his prime, strong enough to lift a tripod, and his handsome figure is as dazzling as the rising sun.
In comparison, Du Danren already exudes a faint sense of death.
Yu Jingmo smiled politely: "Father-in-law is still very young."
Du Danren: “…”
When he arrived at the hospital, Du Danren was sent for emergency treatment. The orthopedic doctor said that there was no serious problem, just a fracture, and he would be fine after resting for ten days to half a month.
Du Danren was devastated when he heard this: "What about my job? I have already agreed to talk tonight, play golf tomorrow, go to a meeting the day after tomorrow, and inspect the day after tomorrow..."
Du Henbie said: "Dad, I can do all this for you."
Du Danren: "...Do you think I'm old and useless?"
"How could that be, Dad? Everyone gets old one day. When I get old, I might not be as blessed as you are."
"That's true. Who told you to like men and not have children?" Du Danren seemed to have come to terms with it a little, and said to Madam Du, "Madam, I haven't eaten yet."
The butler Dew followed in another car and said, "The food has been packed and brought to you."
"Yeah." Du Danren was about to eat. He saw four or five lunch boxes, each containing a small amount of food. "These aren't enough for our family of five, right?"
Mrs. Du: "You eat here, we'll go back and eat."
“…”
Before Tian Ruan came, he seemed to see the eight words "an elderly widower who eats alone" in Du Danren's eyes.
Yu Jingmo was very polite: "Father-in-law, Tian Ruan has to go to school tomorrow, goodbye."
Du Danren: "Well, study hard and make progress every day."
Tian Ruan: “…Okay.”
I took the Du family's car back to the Du family first and had a meal with Mrs. Du. Without Du Danren, the party was harmonious. However, Tian Ruan had an indescribable feeling, as if something was missing.
Even if my stepfather doesn't have a strong presence, he is still a human being after all.
As a result, we didn't even eat together.
After dinner, Tian Ruan returned to the manor and let out a long sigh.
"Why are you sighing at such a young age?" The first thing Yu Jingmo did was to wash his hands.
Tian Ruan played with the white bubbles on his hands and said, "I don't know."
Yu Jingmo grabbed his hand and rubbed his slender fingers carefully. Only the palm of his hand had a little flesh, which was very soft and easy to pinch.
The hand washing bubbles merged into one, sticking to each other, inseparable. Tian Ruan's fingers were played with by Yu Jingmo's slightly rough hands, which made her feel a little itchy, but she didn't want to separate them, so the sink was covered with bubbles.
Yu Jingmo forcibly pulled his hands under the sensor faucet. The sound of splashing water washed away the foam, revealing two clean and slender pairs of hands.
"As expected, you are young and like playing with bubbles." Yu Jingmo chuckled.
After hearing this, Tian Ruan felt that he was a bit childish and yawned after washing his hands.
"Go to bed."
"Yeah." Tian Ruan ran to the guest room, and Yu Jingmo didn't say anything.
The next day at school, Tian Ruan was relieved to find that there was no rift between Yu Shang and Lu Qiuyan, avoiding the confusing and depressing misunderstanding in the original book.
After lunch, Wang Weiqi excitedly ran up to Tian Ruan and said, "Tian Ruan, you are so awesome."
Tian Ruan: “?”
Wang Weiqi: "Didn't you read the group message? The monitor announced the winners of the city essay competition, and you are the first place!"
Tian Ruan: "Ah? What essay competition?"
"It was during the short holiday. Did you forget?"
Tian Ruan thought for a long time and finally remembered that he finished all his homework, including essays, in half a day during the short holiday and submitted them to the class group.
The class monitor did say that he would select a few essays for the competition. Tian Ruan handed it in as homework, but then forgot about it afterwards.
Now tell him about the award? There is no sense of reality.
Wang Weiqi said enviously: "You are really awesome, everything you do is easy."
Tian Ruan: "I just wrote it casually. There won't be people with the same name, right?"
"Tian Ruan, Class 1, Grade 2, Deyin Senior High School, only you."
Before the afternoon class, the head teacher came to the class and brought Tian Ruan the certificate of honor for his award, praising him: "The composition is well written, and it has been posted on the notice board."
Tian Ruan quietly sent a message to Yu Jingmo to ask about this.
Tian Ruan: It's not you who is behind this, is it?
Yu Jingmo: What kind of shady dealings could there be in an essay writing competition?
Tian Ruan: Then why didn’t Yu Shang’s composition win the prize? He writes better than I do.
Yu Jingmo: He did not participate in the competition.
Tian Ruan: ...
The protagonist didn't want this halo, but it accidentally fell on Tian Ruan. This was a coincidence.
During the afternoon break, Tian Ruan couldn't help his curiosity and quietly went to the notice board. As expected, many students gathered around him, reading his composition and exclaiming, "It's so well written."
Tian Ruan put on the mask silently, and suddenly felt the pressure of being a "campus star".
Squeezing into the crowd, he looked at the enlarged composition book on the electronic screen. It was four pages long and filled with fluent writing. His handwriting was neat and fluent.
Tian Ruan had already forgotten what he had written, but when he looked at it again, he suddenly found that this essay was indeed very creative.
The title of the composition is "I am a Tree".
At the beginning, the story describes the death of the tree, and then in a flashback style, it describes several important nodes in the first half of the tree's life. Finally, in the early morning, the dead tree comes back to life under the moonlight, beginning a new cycle of life.
The subject matter is standard, and the life cycle of a tree is also normal, but for some reason, when Tian Ruan looked back at this essay, he felt some indescribable emotions.
Probably because he died once.
"…I stand in the wilderness facing the wind. The grass and trees wither and grow every year. The wild geese fly south every year. The cold winter brings ice and snow, and also brings a squirrel. The squirrel rests on me and picks fruits until spring comes and the flowers bloom. It leaves and comes back again."
"I have nothing to desire, nothing to look forward to, nothing to fear, I am just a tree. But every year, I will still grow new buds to embrace the spring breeze and feed the cicadas and bees. Until the drought, I finally realized that I was also trying to take root and try to stay alive."
A short-haired girl read the essay with great emotion, and burst into tears at the end: "I am a tree, a tree that was born in the wilderness and died in the wilderness!"
Tian Ruan: “…”
There was sparse applause all around.
The girl uttered an "Ah" as if singing, and squeezed in front of Tian Ruan, "You are, you are - the talented Tian Ruan from Class 1, Grade 2!"
Tian Ruan: “?”
The people around looked over.
Tian Ruan ran away.
"Don't run—" Everyone followed the crowd mentality. As the lady started to chase, more than a dozen boys and girls followed her, "Don't run, talented man!"
Embarrassed, Tian Ruan ran faster and closed and locked the door after arriving at the classroom.
On the way, the group brought a dozen students with them, and the word spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred, until it became "A star is coming to Deyin High School to hold a concert, and it's in Class 1 of Grade 2."
Hundreds of people came running over, "Which celebrity? Male or female? Last name Yan? Could it be Yan xx?"
"Ahhh! Yan xx!"
Tian Ruan: “?”
Wang Weiqi was also in the classroom. He looked around in shock and asked, "Where is Yan xx?"
Tian Ruan: “I don’t know.”
The doors and windows in front and behind the classroom were filled with excited students, all with red faces, like a zombie siege: "Did you see that? Where is Yan xx? Don't squeeze me..."
Wang Weiqi: "...Brother, I'm a little scared of this situation."
Tian Ruan: "I'm scared too."
Tian Ruan had no control over what these NPCs would do. He called Yu Jingmo for help: "Mr. Yu, I'm surrounded by zombies."
Yu Jingmo: “?”
The ones who arrived before Yu Jingmo were the Student Union.
With so many people, Yu Shang could only shout through the loudspeaker: "Go back to your classes, or else you will lose credits!"
No one paid any attention to him.
Yu Shang: "Everyone go back to your classes, or else your credits will be deducted."
Still no one paid any attention to him.
Tian Ruan heard everything in the classroom, so it was impossible for people outside not to have heard it. It seemed that the authority of the Student Union was in jeopardy. As a member of the student union, he must stand up.
So he opened the classroom door and took a few steps back as if he had anticipated it. Sure enough, the students outside came in one after another and fell down.
Tian Ruan went out through the gap. When the group of people saw him, they didn't react and continued to go into the classroom.
Wang Weiqi was miserable. For the first time, he experienced the feeling of being used as a "stepping stone to stardom" and was stepped on several times.
Director Hu and Principal Li rushed over after receiving Yu Jingmo's call and scolded them, thus avoiding more stampedes.
Wang Weiqi was carried out by the student union crying and groaning. When he saw Nan Mengyao, his expression became even more desperate because he had also been stepped on by Nan Mengyao.
Nan Mengyao: "...I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that. I was pushed by someone."
Wang Weiqi: "Why are you here? You just like Yan xx!"
Nan Mengyao: "Who I like is none of your business?"
Wang Weiqi: “Woo wow wow…”
Tian Ruan silently lit a candle for the unfortunate Wang Weiqi.
Then he reported to Yu Jingmo: Mr. Yu, I'm fine.
Yu Jingmo: Yes, to the school gate.
Tian Ruan:?
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