Digging up old scores
Teacher Wu could no longer hold back her tears, but she refused to stop. Instead, she turned her sorrow into a sharp sword and was determined to express the sadness that was suppressed in her heart.
"She's always 21..."
Teacher Wu wiped away her tears and stopped dodging the camera. Her eyes were filled with determination. "I'm Wu Lili. I'm being interviewed as a teacher in front of the camera. That's why I chose to be a teacher at the girls' high school."
In front of the camera, Teacher Wu was crying and laughing at the same time. She finally did it.
From now on, she will no longer feel pain when faced with the pressure from her parents, relatives and friends to get married.
She used to be afraid of this world and hid in her shell like a turtle, trying to protect herself in this way.
But after speaking out about what she once feared, Wu Lili suddenly realized that she could live the way she wanted, even if she was called a weirdo.
Xia Zhitang and Lin Jingming applauded at the same time. They felt a sense of power in the narrative time and space. The past, present and future seemed to be intertwined in the same time and space.
"Let's go to the hospital in the afternoon." Lin Jingming watched Xia Zhitang push the meat away, sighed, and gave her the vegetables in his bowl.
"Except for the lack of appetite, everything else is fine. In our line of work, everyone has some gastrointestinal problems." Xia Zhitang moved his lunch box, "That's enough. I can't eat so much."
"Xia Zhitang, are you afraid to go to the hospital?" Lin Jingming suddenly stared at her. "I fainted on the set of 'Blue Luan Tribulation'."
"That's not an exaggeration. I just didn't get enough sleep!" Xia Zhitang was frightened by Lin Jingming's stare. "Hurry up and eat. We still have 20 minutes to eat."
"When are we going to the hospital? Give me a precise number!"
Lin Jingming suppressed the expression on his face. Xia Zhitang had a feeling that he was on the verge of losing his temper, so he didn't dare to continue to be stubborn.
"Tomorrow morning, we'll go to the hospital in the morning and then go to Teacher Ye's house to shoot in the afternoon."
"Give me your ID number, I'll help you register." Lin Jingming decided to supervise her personally.
"I'll register myself." Xia Zhitang felt that she could handle this kind of small problem. "Give me the car keys tonight and I'll drive over myself tomorrow."
"Xia Zhitang, have you forgotten that during the filming of 'Blue Luan Tribulation', it was the martial arts crew who carried you to the hospital on a stretcher?" Lin Jingming sneered, "Gu Zian, don't you know that you had gastroenteritis and refused to go to the hospital? As the director, I have an obligation to inform the family of the unsuspecting employee."
Xia Zhitang felt that he was making a fuss: "Lin Jingming, you..."
"I've noticed. You've been avoiding seeing a doctor until the last minute or until someone forces you to." Lin Jingming had already obtained Xia Zhitang's information from his assistant and registered an appointment for her. "Is it because your parents are in poor health that you're reluctant to go to the hospital?"
"Maybe..."
Xia Zhitang was a little discouraged. Lin Jingming was indeed terrifyingly sharp at times.
"So you need someone to accompany you even more. Call me at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. I'll come to see you at 7 o'clock." Lin Jingming put down his phone. "Hurry up and eat. We still have work to do later."
Xia Zhitang looked at Lin Jingming and inexplicably recalled the scene where this guy knocked on her door in the middle of the night to cause trouble after attending the Su family's dinner.
She felt her emotions rising all of a sudden, and she picked up the interview outline placed aside and greeted Lin Jingming.
"Auntie, what's wrong with you?" Lin Jingming felt that Xia Zhitang was baffling. "You're hiding your illness and avoiding medical treatment!"
"Lin Jingming, how come you haven't changed at all over these years!" Xia Zhitang felt that he was still as unreasonable as before.
"No, why are you talking about the past again?" Lin Jingming grabbed Xia Zhitang's wrist, "If you have any dissatisfaction with me, please tell me clearly now."
"Let me go!" Xia Zhitang tried hard but couldn't break free. "Why are you always so overbearing? You're hurting me!"
Lin Jingming heard the crying tone in her voice and the tears in her eyes, which scared him so much that he quickly let go.
"I was wrong, okay?" He raised his hand and shrank back behind his chair. He felt a headache watching Xia Zhitang's inexplicable temper tantrums. It was strange. Her period was over, so why was she so emotional?
"You pinched my hand until it turned red." Xia Zhitang was so angry that she wanted to kick Lin Jingming, but her remaining rationality made her lift her foot halfway but then she held it back abruptly, her face turning red with anger.
"Come, let me bite you." Lin Jingming stretched out his arm.
Xia Zhitang turned his face away and snorted coldly.
"Once you miss this opportunity, you'll never get it again!" Lin Jingming extended his arm forward, "This is Lin Jingming's hand!"
Xia Zhitang gritted her teeth and lowered her eyes as she watched him swing his arm close to her lips.
Lin Jingming looked at her hesitant expression and deliberately stretched out his voice and said, "If you don't bite, this matter will be over. Hurry up and eat and get back to work."
"You let me do it." Xia Zhitang grabbed Lin Jingming's arm and bit it.
Lin Jingming frowned exaggeratedly and took a breath: "Really bite? Xia Zhitang, you are a sick rabbit who only eats vegetarian food, so weak and delicate."
"Just shut up, why do you deserve a beating?" Xia Zhitang felt much better after biting the man, but he still couldn't help arguing with Lin Jingming.
"Okay, now can you tell me why you are angry again?" Lin Jingming took out a tissue and wiped the teeth marks stained with Xia Zhitang's saliva.
"When we were filming 'The Blue Luan Tribulation', you went to the Su family for a family dinner, got drunk, and filmed us in the middle of the night!" Xia Zhitang finally calmed down. "Lin Jingming, you're really capable. You always force others."
"Xia Zhitang, didn't you realize that you're so fond of bringing up old things?" Lin Jingming looked at Xia Zhitang in disbelief. "Didn't I apologize to you back then?"
"Bah, that's what you call an apology?" Xia Zhitang turned around to look for the interview outline that had been thrown away somewhere.
"Hey, hey, hey, you bit it!" Lin Jingming felt that Xia Zhitang was really hard to coax recently.
"That's the one that bit you for scratching me just now!" Xia Zhitang finally found the manuscript that fell on the floor. He picked it up and slapped Lin Jingming several times before he felt relieved.
"Lin Jingming, do you know how much you deserve a beating?" Xia Zhitang threw the crumpled interview outline aside, checked the time and saw that there were only 10 minutes left, and quickly lowered his head to eat.
"You are so hard to please. Why did I think you had a good temper before? You are clearly a wild cat." Lin Jingming sighed. He must have been blind to think Xia Zhitang was sweet and soft.
"That's because I didn't dare to scold you at the beginning." Xia Zhitang rolled his eyes.
"You've gone against me a lot." At that time, there were few people in the crew who dared to slam the table in front of him.
"What do you mean by 'working against you'? What part of my job have I failed to complete?" Xia Zhitang laughed in anger. "You like all these flatterers to surround you and fawn over you? You call a normal handover work 'working against you'?"
"I didn't say that. Xia Zhitang, can you please be reasonable?" Lin Jingming had been coaxing Xia Zhitang for so long, but he was still like a powder keg. He was also feeling angry.
"Let's eat!" Xia Zhitang looked at his watch and felt that it was not a good time to have a good talk with him.
"Hey, you're really going too far!" Lin Jingming felt as if he had punched cotton. He was just getting emotional, but Xia Zhitang didn't take the opportunity to make a fuss!
Xia Zhitang sighed, reached out and grabbed Lin Jingming's chopsticks and picked up a piece of meat: "Come on, come on, eat."
Lin Jingming glanced down at the food on his chopsticks and said, "Oh, a honey trap?"
"Who can use a beauty trap on you? Even if a female celebrity handed you a room card, you wouldn't even accept it!" Xia Zhitang pushed the dish towards his mouth. "The shooting starts in 5 minutes."
Oh, don’t you always use the beauty trap on me?
Lin Jingming looked at Xia Zhitang, complaining in his heart, but his mouth opened uncontrollably.
"Okay, let's eat." Xia Zhitang looked at Lin Jingming and knew that he could not make trouble anymore, so he put down his chopsticks.
"Oh, you're so nice." Lin Jingming was still waiting for Xia Zhitang to feed him the second mouthful.
"I'm hungry." Xia Zhitang made up an excuse to answer Lin Jingming.
Look how much I’ve spoiled you! Lin Jingming complained as he picked at his food with a resentful look on his face.
"That year, I thought I'd go with my husband. I figured it was fine, why waste the money?" Principal Wang rubbed his plastered finger. "I'd almost given up on treatment, but so many women here pulled me back from the brink of despair."
Principal Wang smoothed his short, silver-streaked hair and said, "It's my responsibility as a teacher to teach here, but I never expected they would care about my life more than I do."
Principal Wang looked at the warm light from the window shining on the heart-shaped leaves of the green radish and smiled gently: "I thought to myself, the devil can't take me away."
The one-hour interview ended in a flash. When Xia Zhitang stood up and shook hands with Principal Wang, Lin Jingming also walked over and shook hands with Principal Wang solemnly.
"Thank you very much for accepting our interview and filming. The stories here have touched us, and the children here deserve to be seen." Lin Jingming took this opportunity to summarize the interview which was coming to an end.
"You're too polite, Director Lin. We've really troubled you during this time." Principal Wang patted Lin Jingming's hand. "You've helped us so much, but we don't have any good facilities to entertain you here. I'm really sorry."
"You're being polite."
While the two were chatting politely, Xia Zhitang, who was standing beside them, couldn't help but yawn.
Principal Wang studied Xia Zhitang's face and suddenly asked, "Teacher Xia, have you been feeling unwell lately?"
"Yes, first she had heatstroke, then she got gastroenteritis and she hasn't recovered yet." Lin Jingming looked at Xia Zhitang and deliberately complained to Principal Wang, "You don't know, she's a desperate woman. I asked her to go to the hospital for a checkup, but she refused!"
Principal Wang looked at the two young people who seemed a little confused, stepped forward, patted Xia Zhitang on the shoulder and warned: "Tang, your health is the capital of revolution, you can't take it lightly."
She paused, and said with a serious expression, "Listen to Teacher Wang. You really need to go to the hospital for a check-up. There might be some surprises waiting for you."
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