Chapter 50: You can’t bring anyone home. It’s a rainy winter in Ailan City…
It was so embarrassing that Yu Han said, "Yes, cousin. Teacher."
"Oh, oh. What about Qin Yi?"
"My brother, he, he's busy. I'm playing on my phone."
"Then do you know why he asked for leave? Ask him to call me back later."
Yu Han immediately said, "Teacher, I know. I'm injured and he has to take care of me, so I won't be able to go to class later."
"Are you hurt?"
"Yeah, I-I broke a bone."
head teacher:"??"
Qin Yi: “…”
The head teacher's tone was full of surprise: "You have a fracture, so where are your family members? Is there no one to take care of you? Why is it Qin Yi who is taking care of you?"
"I'm a teacher from out of town. I came to Lan City to see a doctor, but my family is busy and can't stay with me the whole time. My brother said it doesn't matter if he can attend classes later, so he can take the day off to be with me."
"Oh, I see." The homeroom teacher suddenly realized that this made sense. "Then tell him to have his elders, or your elders, call me, okay?"
"Why?" Yu Han pouted, feeling this was a long shot. She glanced at Qin and blinked.
The homeroom teacher said, "Because taking a long-term leave is a big deal, and it's not even December yet, our school still has over a month before the holiday, so he can't just say he won't come. It's okay for him not to come to school, and whether he attends classes or not is not a big deal, but I need to ensure his personal safety."
"He, he's safe."
The head teacher laughed and said, "What I mean is, just like last time he didn't come for tutoring in August, I knew he went to Singapore to visit his family. So this time I also need to know his reason and ask his family to tell me."
Qin Yi was listening on the side, frowning slightly.
Yu Han said into the phone, "Did he ask his family to call you in August? Then, can we include this leave request in that call? Because his family will definitely agree to it, teacher."
head teacher:"……"
Qin Yi chuckled, shook his head, and continued to do the questions on his phone.
The head teacher quickly said, "No, no, he didn't ask his family to call last time. He just said he was going to Singapore to send his sister to study. I know his sister, she was my former student. We teachers all knew that she was leaving for the United States to study, so we were sure that his reason for leaving was genuine. There was no need for his parents to call.
But this time, I can’t tell you if you’re really injured or just pretending, right?”
Yu Han blurted out, "I'll send you photos of my fracture, teacher. There are also photos of the surgery."
“…”
The head teacher laughed and said, "No, classmate, how can you prove that you are brother and sister?"
Yu Han: “…”
The head teacher coaxed her in a gentle tone: "You can ask your parents or his parents to call me, okay? He can skip evening self-study tonight, but for daytime classes, you can tell him that he must call his parents. Just go through the motions, okay?"
"Oh, okay."
After hanging up the phone, Yu Han looked at the boy beside her in despair: "I'm sorry, I came back empty-handed."
Qin Yi smiled, handed her the phone with the solved problem, and took his own phone, "It's okay, I'll call my family later."
"No, no, how could you really ask my family to take leave? What excuse can you use to lie to them?"
"No need to lie. It's okay, don't worry. I can take care of it."
He hugged her and went to eat, "Have you decided what to eat, baby?"
"Um, no, what do you want to eat?" She took a bite of the snack and licked the candy on her lips.
A gust of wind blew, and the street was filled with the mixed smell of fireworks from various snack stalls. Qin Yi was just trying to see if she was cold, but she happened to be licking her lips at him.
Qin Yi's eyes darkened uncontrollably, like the night tide, and he suddenly took the snack box from her hand.
Yu Han was at a loss.
Qin Yi: "I can't eat anymore. I can't eat dinner anymore. I want to eat you too."
“…”
Yu Han bit her lip and didn't say a word to save her delicious food.
Qin Yi happily held her in his arms and went to find a restaurant.
Lanshi is a place where you never have to worry about food. There are many old and new restaurants with a wide variety of options. It is impossible to eat all the food in an international metropolis in just three or two days.
Yu Han only realized in the past two days that she was like an outsider, and she knew far less than Qin Yi.
Before I even finished my dinner tonight, Qin Yi's phone was flooded with messages. It was already 7:30 at school and evening self-study had started, but they were still chatting in the restaurant's private room about the questions Yu Han had done during the day. She still had some questions she didn't understand, and Qin Yi was here giving her one-on-one guidance.
Over there, Chen Ze sent a message to him in the group: "@Qin Yi, what's going on? My homeroom teacher asked me if you have a cousin who broke a bone. He said you'll be taking a leave of absence and won't be coming until the end of the semester. What's wrong with you, brother? Didn't you say you wouldn't take a leave of absence today?"
Qin Yi glanced at the little princess who was solving a puzzle, picked up his phone to check the message, and replied: "I lied to him, play with my Hanhan."
All roommates in the group: "..."
Han Zhou: "You originally wanted to take leave just to play with me, right? You're amazing! You can even make that up."
Lu Yuxing: "But it's good that the Singaporean princess has a broken bone, so it can't be considered as lying to him."
Han Zhou: "But didn't she say she was just here for the concert? I've been following the Singapore Princess' Instagram lately, and I asked her about it while chatting with her this afternoon. She said she was going back home after the concert."
Lu Yuxing: "So who are you playing with when she goes back @Qin Yi?"
Qin Yi: "Can't I go to Singapore?"
Everyone: “…”
Shen Ze: "Chasing my wife."
Everyone: “…”
Qin Yi: “…”
Ten minutes later, the group exploded again.
Tang Fei: "What's going on? What's going on? I heard there was a fight across from our back door this evening. Two men and two women were beaten and their injuries were pretty serious."
Shen Ze: “There are so many schools nearby, fighting is not a common thing.”
Lu Yuxing: "That's right."
Lu Yuxing: "But the girl was beaten too? Who is so cruel that he doesn't even let the girl go?"
Tang Fei: "No, some people said they saw Qin Yi and a girl coming out of that alley. The girl looked terrified. Some people said they saw her crying in his arms. The shops nearby also said it was a student from Lanzhong."
Shen Ze: "??? Could it be that the little princess broke her bones again today?"
Han Zhou: "Oh my god, is this true? The little princess was bullied? And Qin Yi fought???"
Lu Yuxing: "I was wondering why he suddenly asked for leave again. There must be a reason."
Chen Ze: "@Qin Yi@Qin Yi@Qin Yi, was it really you who hit me???"
Qin Yi took a moment out of his busy schedule to tutor the little princess while replying, "Yeah."
"Oh my god, why?" Lu Yuxing was shocked. "Why are they fighting for no reason?"
Qin translated: "Bullying my Hanhan."
Shen Ze: "She's really been bullied. Sad.jpg, the little princess has been having a lot of trouble lately."
Lu Yuxing: "Is it really a broken bone? Damn, should we go and comfort our little princess of Singapore?"
Han Zhou: "I'm really impressed by those uneducated idiots out there!! Why are they bullying a foreign kid like her? They're sick."
Qin Yi: "I was beaten up if I was a second late. I'm lucky I didn't die."
Well, this has completely stirred up a huge uproar.
Chen Ze: "??? Are they sick? Why are they bullying her?"
Han Zhou: "I'm crying. I'll go to the hospital tomorrow to remove the IV tubes of those hospitalized patients."
Lu Yuxing: "Heartbroken.jpg."
Qin Yi suddenly remembered and asked, "@Chen Ze, what did you say to the head teacher?"
Shen Ze: "Just tell me whatever he asks me."
Han Zhou: "@Qin Yi, don't worry. He asked if you have a cousin at home, and Shen Ze nodded. He asked if your cousin was injured recently? He nodded again. He asked if the cousin's injury was so serious that you needed to take care of her, and he nodded again. Damn, he just copied the answers, and the head teacher didn't even know he was giving them the answers."
The group erupted in laughter.
Qin Yi was very satisfied.
But who should he ask for leave? Grandpa and grandma? Asking his sister wouldn't work, she would definitely ask who he was asking for leave for. If he said he was asking for leave to take care of a same-sex friend, that would be too strange, but saying he was asking for leave to take care of a friend of the opposite sex was tantamount to seeking death.
It would be best if my cousin could do it. Dong Lanyi is the one who supports him the most.
But all the teachers in the school knew Dong Lanyi, and they probably couldn't pretend to be his sister to ask for leave. Her own words were not convincing because she was too young.
Or, find your parents?
This is really a big adventure.
"What are you thinking about?" Yu Han asked the person who was leaning on the sofa in deep thought, tilting her head while holding a pen.
Qin Yi came back to his senses: "I'm trying to find someone to ask for leave."
Yu Han turned around, slowly approached, stretched out her hand, and climbed onto his shoulders.
Qin Yi put his hands around her slender waist and pulled her into his arms.
Yu Han especially loves his embrace, which makes her feel safe.
She put her forehead against his, staring closely at herself in his pupils, and murmured, "Forget it, just go to class and we can meet somewhere else or wait for you to get out of school and take a taxi to find me."
Qin Yi's voice was as light as the wind: "I'm not considering it anymore. Don't worry. I've made up my mind."
Yu Han puffed out her cheeks.
She is cute, and this action makes Qin Yi always feel like a cute kitten, who is unaware of her own cuteness, but he always feels moved every time he looks at her and can't wait to kiss her.
While he was hesitating whether to give her a deep kiss in such a place, the little princess had already quietly closed her eyes.
She held a pen in her right hand behind his back, but it was inconvenient for her to hug him, so she put the pen in her left hand, lowered her arm, and reached back, wanting to put the pen on the table.
Qin Yi took the pen, and his eyes happened to fall on her test paper on the table.
"That question is wrong."
“…”
Yu Han's move to kiss him suddenly faltered and she opened her eyes.
The rippling water makes me feel pity.
Qin Yi's thin lips curled up in a smile. She glanced back at the test paper shyly and irritably, "How could it be wrong? I don't know how!"
Qin Yi brought the test paper and held her in his arms while they looked at it together. "Right here, this is the wrong step."
"Well, I don't want to take the exam anymore." She said coquettishly, turning her head to bury it in his shoulder and rubbing it, "I won't."
Qin Yi's heart softened: "Be good, our Hanhan is the smartest. This is the only mistake she made today."
Yu Han listened to him coaxing her in many ways, telling her a way to solve the problem, but he still only told her the correct way without telling her where she went wrong or how she might have gone wrong.
She learned it in the blink of an eye and continued to do the questions obediently.
It was already nine o'clock when we left the restaurant.
It's raining outside.
It rarely rains in Lan City at the end of November. The sudden and continuous rain caused the temperature to drop by ten degrees, making it as cold as ice.
Standing under the eaves of the restaurant, the breath felt like ice, making people shiver. Qin Yi was not cold. He took off his school uniform and covered Yu Han with it, holding it tightly, and then took a taxi.
While waiting for the car to arrive, Yu Han was held in Qin Yi's arms to keep her warm.
Many people were passing by the eaves to take shelter from the rain, and they were rubbing shoulders with each other, but she was never touched by anyone.
In the corner of my eye, I saw the image of rain falling on the ground, creating ripples, like dancing butterflies.
Yu Han thought that she really loved the early winter rain in Lan City near December. It had a kind of romance that was worth remembering forever.
They were struggling with how to ask for leave tonight and how to accompany each other. She was painfully doing homework, and everything was going on at the same time as the homework and the delicious dinner.
Today is a very beautiful day. Today is a day that is completely for the future. This winter is a very beautiful winter.
Because it was raining, they couldn't spend a long time flirting downstairs like they did last night after they got home. Qin Yi directly sent her to the elevator of the apartment building and then left.
The driver drove in from Building E, drove to Building G, and stopped.
The boy got out of the car and made a phone call to Singapore as he walked.
"Xiao Yi?" The voice of stepfather Dong Shuqing came over.
"Dad." He entered the elevator.
Dong Shuqing was puzzled: "Why are you so late? Is there something wrong with your grandparents?"
"No, I haven't."
"Oh." He breathed a sigh of relief. "I'm glad you're okay. So why are you here so late?"
"I'm out having fun. I'm not going back to South Bay tonight."
Dong Shuqing smiled and said, "If you're going to play over there, then you can go home and sleep directly without telling me. This house belongs to your mother, so it's yours."
Qin Yi reached the floor, stepped out, and pressed his fingerprint: "I took a friend to South Bay One. She lives here, and then it started raining."
"Is it raining in Lan City? Singapore has started to clear up these past few days. If your friend lives in the same complex, you can bring him home if you want to hang out. If the weather is bad, just hang out at home and don't stay out too late."
"Yeah, okay. Is my mom rested?"
"She's not here yet. She's in her room. I took a work call and came out of the study. I thought something was wrong with the elderly at home."
Qin Yi fell on the sofa in the living room and said, "No. I'm home."
"Okay. You should get some rest early, because you have classes tomorrow. Oh, no, so you're taking a day off tonight? Are you going out to play with your friends?"
"Um, cough." He coughed uncomfortably. "Um, Dad, I want to discuss something with you."
"Huh? What's wrong with you?" Dong Shuqing teased, "Did you call me specifically and not your mother?"
"Yeah." Qin Yi turned on the air conditioner and opened the floor-to-ceiling window curtains to watch the rain.
My stepfather smiled on the phone: "Really? What's wrong with you?"
Qin Yi said carefully, "I don't want to go to class anymore, but our homeroom teacher insisted that parents call to ask for leave. Please help me make one."
"You don't want to go? Isn't this semester only about a month away?" He teased. "You can skip next semester, so why can't you stick with it for just this one month?"
Qin Yi said calmly: "No, it's just that I have a friend who just came back from abroad, and I want to spend a few days with her."
"Just a few days? Then I'll call your teacher tomorrow, okay? It's too late now."
"No, I won't go this semester."
My stepfather didn't understand again, and his voice came over: "Your friend is going to stay in the country for so long? So he won't go to school?"
"She has already finished high school. The courses abroad are different from those in China."
"So you plan to play with people all the time and go on a trip?"
"No, she has an exam next month, and I want to accompany her and also give her some tutoring."
Dong Shuqing was a little curious: "Which country is this student from? He's taking the exam next month, going from high school to college? And you have such a good relationship with him."
“Yes, from Singapore.”
"What?"
“…”
Qin Yi fell back on the sofa, closed his eyes and sighed, feeling that this matter was very tricky.
My stepfather asked me on the phone, “You’ve been talking for a long time, but your friend is from Singapore. Do you have any friends in Singapore?”
"Yes, yes. Didn't you go to visit someone who was sick last time?"
"Oh, the one you visited in August?"
"Um."
"He's back home now? Did he come to visit you specifically to play?"
"Um."
"You have such a good relationship, yet you're still tutoring someone and not even going to school. What kind of person is he? Is he reliable? This is..." Dong Shuqing hesitated. "Although you've been recommended for admission, you've never made such a big decision before. I think you need to explain it to me clearly."
Qin Yi had a headache and said in confusion, "I've known him for several years. I know him very well. Don't worry."
"You said you were sending someone home at South Bay One."
"Um."
"He immigrated from Singapore and lives in One South Bay in China. His family must have a business in Singapore. Do you know which one it is? Tell me about it."
“…”
Qin Yi was silent for a few seconds, thinking that his stepfather knew the person 90% of the time. If the person he knew happened to have only one daughter, wouldn't that be the end of him?
It would be better for her to confess her gender honestly and hide some of her family information so that her mother, grandparents, and sister won't know about it early in the morning.
By then, there will be no way out.
He suddenly said, "Dad."
"You must be in trouble, don't yell so nicely."
“…”
Dong Shuqing's tone turned serious: "What's going on? Explain it to me clearly."
"This friend is a girl."
"What???"
“…”
Dong Shuqing's heavier breathing could be clearly heard over the phone: "Girl? What kind of girl are you so close to?"
"Yeah, it's pretty good."
"This..." The middle-aged man on the phone was silent for a few seconds, and finally said, "Is it what I thought, Xiaoyi?"
"..." Qin Yi was silent for two seconds, then said, "Yeah."
"You, you...Qin Yi!"
“…” They have been married for so many years, but she has never called him by his full name.
Dong Shuqing's tone was so incredulous: "No, at your age, shouldn't you focus on studying?"
"I'm pretty heavy, Dad."
"..." Dong Shuqing was speechless when he thought about the fact that he had been recommended for the most difficult medical major. "What about you, this little girl? Her grades are not as good as yours, right? How come she..."
"As long as I'm fine, I'm going to give her some tutoring."
“…”
"And her grades are pretty good, almost as good as mine. She just had an accident a while ago and missed some time. She has exams in Singapore next month, so I can only make up for it. She waits for me every day to get out of school, and it's really unsafe for a little girl like her to be alone. Today, she was bullied by someone outside the school. Dad, please call my homeroom teacher and ask for leave. My homeroom teacher said I can skip school, it's just a matter of formalities."
Dong Shuqing took a deep breath and said, "Let me think about it. I haven't quite come to terms with this yet."
Qin Yi: "I told my homeroom teacher that she is my sister and that she was recently injured and needed someone to take care of her, so I couldn't go to school because I was taking care of her. Please explain it this way."
"I haven't promised you yet, you kid." Dong Shuqing said to him, "Just arrange it for me. Give me a sister. When did you have a sister? You only have two sisters."
Qin Yi laughed: "I've said so much, Dad, it's almost dawn. If you don't agree, you won't have to sleep tonight."
"..." Dong Shuqing still found it incredible. "If I don't tell your mother, I won't be able to sleep tonight. You're going to piss me off in the middle of the night."
“…”
Qin Yi said calmly, "You don't have to feel the psychological burden of hiding it from my mother. I'm just in a relationship. I haven't done anything else. You should be thankful."
“…”
Dong Shuqing suddenly changed his tone and said, "I can promise you this."
"Really? Thanks, Dad."
"But Xiaoyi, what I said earlier is now null and void. It doesn't count."
"Which one?"
"You can't bring anyone home, and you can't go to a friend's house."
“…”
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