Chapter 43
Lan Shuqing's voice was a little muffled. It was rare for her best friend to be like this. Xie Rong put down her pen and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Lan Shuqing spent two minutes explaining the whole process to Xie Rong. Xie Rong was speechless after listening to it. "Please, Lan Shuqing, you are not her father or her mother. Why should you take care of her?"
"If you have this intention, why not take care of me? I'm almost depressed from doing the test papers!"
Lan Shu turned over lightly, "I'm just worried about her..."
This stubborn guy, Xie Rong rolled his eyes where Lan Shuqing couldn't see, "Then if I get hurt, will you come and take care of me?"
Lan Shu thought for a moment and said, "It's okay to go and take care of her for a day."
Xie Rong rolled his eyes again, "Lan Shuqing, don't you think you're too nice to Jiang Bai? Even your boyfriend isn't this nice."
"What?" Lan Shuqing didn't understand the rest of the sentence.
"I'm saying," Xie Rong explained to her patiently, "only boyfriends and girlfriends would worry about each other so much. Lan Shuqing, you're a girl. She can worry about Jiang Bai's affairs herself. Otherwise, she can find someone else to worry about it for her. It's not your turn, okay?"
Boyfriend? Someone to worry about Jiang Bai?
Lan Shuqing felt the phone next to her ear getting a little hot. After hearing what Xie Rong said, Lan Shuqing's first thought was why, why did Jiang Bai let other people take care of her?
She heard herself asking Xie Rong, "Why can't I?"
What? Xie Rong couldn't believe her ears. She widened her eyes and said, "Lan Shuqing, what did you say?"
Lan Shuqing's heartbeat was a little faster. She seemed to understand something, but also seemed not to understand. She coughed, "Nothing." Lan Shuqing lowered her head and tugged at the bed sheet. "Aren't you doing a test paper? What test paper? Is Old Xie giving you some special treatment again?"
Xie Rong's attention was successfully diverted. She slumped over the desk and collapsed. "Yeah, I can't eat anymore..."
Lan Shu chuckled and said, "Will you come out for dinner in a couple of days?"
Xie Rong exclaimed, "Sure, sure. Old Xie said as long as I do well on the test paper, I can have fun!"
Lan Shuqing tugged at the bed sheet again, "Then come find me when the time comes."
Xie Rong nodded, "Okay."
After hanging up the phone, Lan Shuqing buried herself in the quilt again, thinking over and over again about what Xie Rong said in her mind. Whenever she thought about another person taking care of Jiang Bai and being close to Jiang Bai, Lan Shuqing felt that it was not possible. She could not accept that situation.
An hour later, Lan Shuqing got up from the bed and went downstairs, but did not see Li Liyue. She went to the kitchen and saw Aunt Yao was already preparing dinner.
"Aunt Yao, where's my mom?"
Aunt Yao glanced at Lan Shuqing without stopping her hands, "The madam just went out."
Lan Shu lightly scratched his hair and asked, "Didn't you say when you would be back?"
Aunt Yao shook her head, "No."
Lan Shuqing was a little confused. Did he go to find his father?
At this moment, Li Liyue was on her way to Jiang Bai's house.
After Jiang Bai and Lan Shuqing separated, she called a Huolala on her mobile phone, then took a taxi back to the intersection, waited for Huolala to come and take the electric scooter back, and then she asked the driver to help her park the electric scooter in the underground parking lot before paying the driver.
After getting the electric scooter, Jiang Bai went to the barber shop downstairs to get a monthly card. She used it for two months. She could take out the plaster in more than a month, so it wasn't a big problem.
Jiang Bai returned home, sat on the sofa, looked at his left hand in a cast, and smiled bitterly.
When Lan Shuqing said she wanted to come over, Jiang Bai was not indifferent. His subconscious refusal was only because he was afraid. He was afraid that he would become too dependent on Lan Shuqing and that he would not be able to control his love for her.
So she refused.
Just when Jiang Bai was feeling depressed, a message popped up on WeChat from someone Jiang Bai had not expected.
If parents understand their children well, they will know what their children are thinking. When Lan Shuqing herself didn't understand what she was thinking, Li Liyue noticed the clues.
Half an hour later, Li Liyue arrived downstairs of Jiang Bai's building. Jiang Bai had been waiting there for a long time. The two of them went to the milk tea shop next door and ordered a cup of milk tea each.
Li Liyue and Jiang Bai sat facing each other. She saw the plaster on Jiang Bai's left hand and asked, "Is yours serious?"
Jiang Bai shook his head, "It's okay, it's not serious."
The other party was Lan Shuqing's mother, so Jiang Bai couldn't help but feel a little nervous, especially because he didn't know what the other party was going to say.
Li Liyue changed her previous gentle attitude and said in a neutral tone, "Shu Qing told me that she wants to move to your place."
Jiang Bai looked up and smiled, "She's really just a child, Auntie. I rejected her. It wasn't necessary."
Li Liyue came here today mainly to see Jiang Bai's attitude. When she heard her refusal, Li Liyue suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, but when she thought of Lan Shuqing's attitude, her heart began to lift again.
"I'm afraid she'll talk about it again."
After hearing Li Liyue's words, Jiang Bai seemed to understand what she was going to say. Jiang Bai smoothed his hair and continued, "Auntie, I won't let her come over."
A hint of appreciation flashed across Li Liyue's eyes, and she said slowly, "That's good."
Jiang Bai placed his hands on the table, his face expressionless, his eyes clear, "Auntie, just say whatever you want to say."
Unexpectedly, Jiang Bai could tell that she had something to say. Li Liyue coughed lightly and then crossed her arms. "Then I won't beat around the bush."
"Shuqing is about to start school, and I don't want her to come to you every few days like before."
Especially when Jiang Bai was injured, that guy didn't even want to go home.
Jiang Bai leaned back in her chair and looked at Li Liyue. "Can I ask why?"
Li Liyue was stunned. Was she going to say that she felt her daughter had a special relationship with the man in front of her? She came to her senses and continued, "Jiang Bai, I've lived more than twenty years longer than you. I've seen everything, so I don't want Lan Shuqing to get too close to you."
Not wanting to get too close, Jiang Bai carefully considered his words, "So, did Lan Shuqing have a fight with you?"
Li Liyue was stunned again. How did Jiang Bai know that?
Seeing Li Liyue's stunned expression, Jiang Bai lowered her eyes. She was silent for a while, then stood up and looked at Li Liyue again. "I understand, Auntie. I'll go back first."
As she said this, she took her cup of milk tea and walked out of the store.
Li Liyue was a little confused. What did she know?
Jiang Bai is a very sensitive child, and has been since she was young. This is due to her natural character and her acquired family.
If she wasn't good at observing people's expressions, she wouldn't be able to survive the repeated quarrels and insults between Sun Mei and Jiang Tongguo. She had to pay close attention to the moods of the two people to prevent them from quarreling or fighting as soon as they were in a bad mood.
Many people looked at Jiang Bai with sympathy or pity. Jiang Bai also knew what those people were thinking. They just felt sorry for her.
Judging from the atmosphere, the Lan family is an open-minded family, otherwise Li Liyue would have restricted the contact between Lan Shuqing and Jiang Bai a few months ago. After all, who would allow a senior high school student with excellent grades to have frequent contact with a small employee?
Even if both parties are girls.
It is easy to guess what Li Liyue is thinking. The fact that Lan Shuqing quarreled with her about taking care of herself shows that things were beyond Li Liyue's expectations.
Li Liyue was just cutting her losses in time.
Jiang Bai walked out of the milk tea shop and took a deep breath. His chest felt a little stuffy and he wanted to cry, but he also felt lucky.
She was crying for her and Lan Shuqing's future, but she was also feeling relieved.
No one wants to get into the quagmire, and Jiang Bai doesn't want Lan Shu to get into the quagmire easily.
She can endure it, it's not like she hasn't endured it before.
In the evening, Lan Shuqing sent a message to Jiang Bai.
Q version character: Jiang Bai, have you eaten?
Pure white avatar: Yeah, I ate it.
Q version of the little man: What are you eating?
Pure white avatar: instant noodles.
Q version of the villain: How to eat instant noodles? How can you eat instant noodles when you are injured?
Pure white avatar: blue book light.
Lan Shu lay lightly on the bed, looking at these three words, and suddenly felt a bad feeling in his heart.
Pure white avatar: Whether I eat instant noodles or not is none of your business.
Lan Shuqing didn't cry when she was rejected by Jiang Bai, and she didn't cry when she was scolded by Li Liyue, but when she saw these words, the corners of Lan Shuqing's eyes turned red.
Q version villain: Jiang Bai, did you do this on purpose?
Pure white avatar: Yes.
Q version of the villain: Why?
Pure white avatar: I just feel a little annoyed.
Pure white avatar: It’s none of your business.
Q version of the little man: I didn’t feel annoyed before, but I feel annoyed now?
Pure white avatar: Yes.
Q version of the villain: Why?
Pure white avatar: No reason.
Pure white avatar: I will delete your fingerprints and don’t come here again.
Q version villain: Jiang Bai, you are too much!
Pure white avatar: Yeah.
Tears suddenly fell from the corners of Lan Shuqing's eyes.
Q version of the villain: I don’t understand, I just want to take care of you, why does everyone oppose it, you are like this, my mother is like this too.
Pure white avatar: Lan Shuqing, everyone has boundaries, you can't cross my line.
Pure white avatar: That would annoy me.
Q version of the villain: Can I not tell you about it in the future?
Pure white avatar: There is no need, you should just concentrate on your studies.
Q version of the villain: Is there something you can't tell me? You promised me.
Lan Shuqing noticed Jiang Bai's abnormality, but she did not accept this way of dealing with it.
Pure white avatar: I don’t remember.
Q version villain: Jiang Bai, you are so cruel.
Pure White Avatar: Thank you for the compliment.
Typing is easier than speaking. Words are cold and don't reveal emotions, while speaking is not like that. If you can't control yourself well, you will easily be exposed, so Jiang Bai chose typing.
Jiang Bai leaned against the floor-to-ceiling window as if exhausted. She looked at the lights outside the window and the cars coming and going on the street, slightly lost in thought.
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