Chapter 152 Nian Nian is sick
September was gradually fading away, and watermelon became an out-of-season fruit. Nian Nian's summer school uniform was also covered with film and placed at the back of the closet.
As autumn arrives, students at Haishi Concordia Bilingual School most often wear autumn school uniforms with jackets. They can take off the uniforms when it is hot and put on more when it is cold, which makes them flexible.
Today Nian Nian is wearing the autumn school uniform.
Outside the window, the drizzle hits the window and the yellow leaves, and the dripping sound plays a slowly flowing music in the quiet campus.
Nian Nian was listening to such sounds while attending the last self-study class of the morning.
The pencil left marks on the thin exercise book, and Nian Nian fell on the table while writing.
Ji Shuhe, who was sitting behind him, saw it, stretched out his leg, and kicked his stool twice, neither lightly nor heavily.
Her butt shook, and Nian Nian slowly straightened her back, which was bent on the table. She picked up the pencil and started writing and drawing on the notebook again.
Until the bell rang, the students in the class stood up in a noisy manner. For a moment, the classroom was filled with the harsh sound of tables and chairs rubbing against the floor.
It was time for lunch. Nian Nian had to leave her seat.
Xi Zimu beside him and Ji Shuhe sitting at the back table surrounded him on the left and right and walked with him.
"Why do you lie down for so long during self-study? Are you sleepy?" Ji Shuhe tilted his body, stepped out of the classroom door first, and turned back to look at Nian Nian.
"No." Nian Nian shook his head, and the dryness in his eyes made him close them. "Ji Shuhe, I feel a little sleepy."
"Sleepy?"
Xi Zimu asked: "Did you not sleep well last night?"
"I slept very well." Nian Nian watched Ji Shuhe and Xi Zimu take umbrellas from the locker, and as if she just remembered that it was raining outside, she took out her own small umbrella as well.
The first-grade classroom was on the first floor. After the three of them took their umbrellas, they turned around and left the storage room. They walked through the corridor, opened their umbrellas, and stepped into the rain.
All I hear is the white noise of the rain. Drops of rain hit the umbrella, like a lullaby that makes me drowsy.
"Will you still feel sleepy if you sleep well?" Ji Shuhe said casually.
Autumn is always cool, but when it rains, the autumn wind becomes a bit bleak. Nian Nian, sitting under the umbrella, shuddered as the cold wind blew against her face.
"I don't know. I don't seem to be sleepy." He was slightly refreshed by the cold wind and walked slowly towards the cafeteria. Ji Shuhe and Xi Zimu accommodated his pace and slowed down their pace.
After a few words, the three of them finally reached the cafeteria. They folded their umbrellas, lined up at the window, got their food, and found a seat.
Ji Shuhe and Nian Nian sat on one side, and Xi Zimu sat opposite Nian Nian.
"Your face and eyes are so red today." Face to face, Xi Zimu took in his facial condition completely. "Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?"
Ji Shuhe immediately put down the chopsticks in his hand and put the back of his hand against Nian Nian's face. "It's so hot, Nian Nian, are you hot?"
Xi Zimu couldn't sit still any longer. He got down from the table and stood beside Nian Nian, raising his hands to touch his neck and cheek to test his temperature without giving him permission.
He couldn't help but raise his voice: "Niannian, you're so hot! Are you really not hot? I think you're sick."
"It's not hot." Nian Nian touched her face in confusion. "I was still a little cold on the way."
The three of them couldn't come to a conclusion after much discussion, and finally Ji Shuhe made the final decision: "Niannian, are you hungry? If you are, eat first. Afterwards, we'll go find the teacher to see if you're sick."
"Okay. Let's eat first." Nian Nian touched her empty stomach, licked her lips, picked up the chopsticks, and prepared to start eating.
Although he was not in good condition, Nian Nian lowered his head and ate carefully. In the second half of the meal, he gradually felt full. He picked up the food with chopsticks and put it into his mouth one by one.
Her absent-minded state vanished when she heard a crunching sound in her mouth while gnawing on a chicken leg. A jolt of pain shot through her lower gums, and Nian Nian instantly put on a mask of pain.
The chicken leg between the chopsticks fell back onto the plate with a plop. The taste of rust filled her mouth, and a small hard object seemed to be rolling across her soft tongue. Nian Nian lowered her head and spat out the hard object at the table like a bone.
A tooth covered in blood suddenly appeared in front of the three people.
The taste in her mouth was really unpleasant. Nian Nian suppressed the strange taste and spat on the ground, staining the white floor with a bright red color.
Xi Zimu and Ji Shuhe were stunned by the scene before them.
"Nian, Nian Nian," Xi Zimu swallowed his saliva, his voice trembling, "Are you terminally ill? You are vomiting blood."
Ji Shuhe's face turned pale.
Nian Nian is not much better.
He had been feeling a little unwell this morning, and he had no idea why his teeth had fallen out and there was blood in his mouth. He was already unsure of what to do, but Ji Shuhe and Xi Zimu looked terrified as if they were facing a formidable enemy, which made him burst into tears.
"I, I..." Nian Nian's tears fell rapidly. In such a life-or-death, terrifying moment, Shi Guilin's three principles for children to go to school played a significant role.
Xi Zimu and Ji Shuhe were still at a loss, but Nian Nian had already opened the phone watch on her wrist and dialed Shi Guilin's number.
The beeping sound suddenly stopped.
"Hello? Nian Nian?"
The moment she heard Shi Guilin's gentle voice with a smile, she couldn't hold it in any longer.
He cried and said, "Wuwuwu, Dad, I have a terminal illness, I'm going to die, what should I do, Dad, I don't want to die, wuwuwu..."
The person on the other end of the phone was silent for a moment, then said in disbelief, "Niannian? What terminal illness? Don't cry yet. Daddy said your school has arranged a physical examination, right?"
"No, no physical examination," Nian Nian took a deep breath and continued with a sob, "I've been feeling unwell all day. I suddenly vomited blood during lunch. Wuuuuu, Dad, I'm scared... wuuuuuu..."
Vomiting blood?!
Shi Guilin Teng jumped up from his office chair, pushed open the glass door without even putting on his suit jacket, rushed out of the office, and strode out.
"Mr. Shi? What happened?"
"Mr. Shi!"
"What happened to Mr. Shi?"
Gui Lin didn't have time to answer any of the secretariat's questions. He slipped into the president's special elevator, took the phone in one hand, and frantically pressed the button for the first floor with the other.
"Niannian, don't be afraid. You're in the cafeteria now, right? Is there anyone around? Mumu... ask Mumu and the others to call the teacher. Don't move in the cafeteria. Daddy will drive over right now."
Shi Guilin rushed to the underground parking lot, turned on the car key, found the car, got into the driver's seat, and slammed the door shut. Only then did he realize that the call was interrupted because of the poor signal in the underground garage.
He started the car and anxiously pressed redial.
"Sorry, the number you dialed cannot be connected at the moment..."
"Tsk." Shi Guilin was very anxious. He hung up and called another one.
"Sorry, the number you dialed cannot be connected at the moment..."
The same mechanical announcement repeated four or five times, and Shi Guilin's heart sank. He didn't dare to speculate on the worst-case scenario, so he frowned and called Teacher Nian Nian.
"Hello? Hello teacher, I am Shi Nianzhu's parent..."
The cafeteria of Hai City Concordia Bilingual School.
Xi Zimu ran to find the teacher, leaving Ji Shuhe to look after Nian Nian.
Nian Nian was so desperate when he found that his phone was disconnected for no reason. He contacted another person with his phone watch with tears in his eyes.
"Where? Brother Duan, wuwu..." Nian Nian cried bitterly as if she was informing Jiang Duan of her own death. "Brother Duan, I'm going to die. I just vomited blood, wuwu..."
Ji Shuhe didn’t know what was said on the other end of the phone. He just watched Nian Nian sobbing as she reported her coordinates.
In less than five minutes, he saw two figures running towards him, one in front and one behind.
Jiang Duan, who had rushed over from nowhere, ran to Nian Nian with a pale face and a heaving chest. He grabbed Nian Nian's shoulders and said, "Are you feeling uncomfortable? Are you still vomiting blood? Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, don't be afraid..."
He repeated the word "don't be afraid" several times. He said it was to comfort Nian Nian, but to Ji Shuhe, it seemed like Jiang Duan was saying it to him.
After living in fear for so long, she finally found someone older than herself and reliable. Nian Nian immediately hugged Jiang Duan and cried, "Wow, Brother Duan..."
Ji Shuhe was also afraid. He held back his tears and quickly told Jiang Duan what had happened.
When he pointed to the tooth on the table, Jiang Duan's mouth twitched noticeably.
This was the first time Ji Shuhe saw his expression like that, and he even slowed down his speech when he was talking about the blood on the ground.
"That's how it is..."
Chu Qingyu, who was a step behind Jiang Duan, sneered rudely, "You're so scary! I thought it was just the time for teeth to change. Losing a tooth and bleeding a little is normal. It's not a terminal illness at all."
"Is that so?" Ji Shuhe stuttered, feeling a little embarrassed after realizing it belatedly.
Nian Nian, who was crying hard in Jiang Duan's arms, stopped crying.
After a long moment, he raised his head and asked cautiously, "Then, then I don't have a terminal illness?"
Jiang Duan's fingertips gently stroked Nian Nian's tear-swollen eyelids and said helplessly, "No."
"I won't die either?"
"Won't."
"But, but," Nian Nian said aggrievedly, "but I've been feeling uncomfortable for a long time. I'm hot, but I feel cold."
Jiang Duan took off his school uniform jacket without a word and wrapped it around Nian Nian. There was a height difference between them, and with Jiang Duan wrapping her up, most of Nian Nian's body was completely covered.
"Look up." Jiang Duan instructed.
Nian Nian obediently raised her face to him.
Jiang Duan put his forehead against his.
As soon as their skin touched, a burning heat was transmitted between their foreheads. Jiang Duan immediately understood: "You have a fever, you need to see a doctor."
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