The next second a new message came:
[Supplementary Chinese.]
The screen lit up again, and he added slowly:
[composition.]
This is absolutely true. Ban Sheng's transcript was good in every aspect except Chinese. Liu Xiping called him out in class and said that his composition was seriously off-topic. He also asked him to go and ask Lin Weixia after class how she wrote the composition that got almost full marks.
Lin Weixia typed and asked, subconsciously raising her defense line: [Is that all?]
She waited for a long time, but the other party didn't send any messages. When Lin Weixia was about to turn off the screen, he sent a message.
Ban: [Hmm]
Lin Weixia still insisted on tutoring Ning Chao in English, thinking that he would make some progress, but the result was ridiculous. When Teacher Zhang walked into the classroom to teach English, he called out the student numbers and asked the students to stand up and answer questions.
“Number 36!”
Ning Chao yawned and stood up lazily. The English teacher raised an eyebrow when he saw him and said, "Ning Chao, I heard that you have been taking tutoring classes recently. Just recite a good sentence and let everyone test your learning results."
"Hi kang kang, how are you?"
"I'm fine, thank you."
Ning Chao blurted out these words, causing the whole class to burst into laughter. Even the English teacher who was drinking water with a stern face couldn't help choking.
The atmosphere in the class suddenly relaxed. Ning Chao looked over with sleepy eyes. These two English sentences were the ones he had heard the most from junior high school till now. Was there anything wrong with them
Ning Chao saw Liu Sijia, who had a cold face and was sitting upright in the front row for several days, couldn't help but smile. Her red lips were slightly raised, and a few strands of her hair, which were originally tied up, fell on the sides of her ears, making her look bright and beautiful.
Ning Chao looked at it in a daze for a moment.
The weekend came as scheduled. Not long after Lin Weixia got up in the morning and made breakfast for the family, she found that her period had come. She had always had a hard time during her menstrual period. After changing her menstrual pad, she endured the discomfort, cleaned the house, and then lay down on the bed to rest.
Lin Weixia broke out in a sweat soon after she covered herself with the quilt. Not long after, she began to have abdominal pain. The longer the pain lasted, the more it felt like something was twisting her abdomen. The pain made her curl up involuntarily.
When Lin Weixia's menstrual period came, she felt like she was collapsing. The worst time, she endured the pain and asked for leave, but she fainted next to her bicycle near the school gate. After being found, she was sent to the hospital for intravenous drip, and then she got better.
I had agreed to go to Ban Sheng's house in the afternoon, but now... Thinking of this, Lin Weixia's eyelashes moved, and she took out her phone from the drawer with great effort, edited the message and sent it to Ban Sheng:
[Sorry, I'm having my period and I'm not feeling well today, so I probably won't be able to go. ]
After sending the message, Lin Weixia turned off her phone screen without caring whether there was a reply or not. Lin Weixia pulled the quilt and turned over, closing her eyes, but she couldn't fall asleep because of the pain in her stomach.
At eleven o'clock, the landline in the living room rang. Lin Weixia was too tired to move, so she tried hard to open her voice and call out to someone:
"Gao Hang, answer the phone."
Gao Hang's voice roared in the room diagonally across the room: "I give up, are you playing the game with your feet? If you are so bad, don't drag your teammates down with you."
"Idiot, I'll beat you up and make you go home to do the dirty work."
Gao Hang typed loudly on the keyboard, and the room was filled with his roaring voice. Lin Weixia sighed, threw back the quilt, slowly got out of bed, and walked to the living room to answer the phone.
"Xia Xia, I won't be back at noon because I have something to do. Remember to cook for Hangzi." Aunt said on the phone.
Lin Weixia sat on the sofa, holding her stomach, and hesitated for a moment before speaking: "Aunt, I feel a little uncomfortable, can we order-"
"By the way, I've paid for this month's water and electricity. Alas, eating is different with one more person at home. It's all your uncle's fault..." There was a noisy background sound from my aunt's side, and it seemed to be hinting at something.
My uncle has been driving a long-distance truck and seldom comes home. Recently it is the off-season for transportation, so he is idle at home and usually helps out in my aunt's fruit shop.
The words "order takeout" got stuck in her throat, and Lin Weixia swallowed them back, forcing a smile: "Okay, aunt."
Lin Weixia sat in front of the sofa in a daze, and saw a greasy flyer on the coffee table. It was Gao Hang's aunt who used it as a cushion when he was eating noodles that morning. The oil blurred the handwriting on it, and the words "Cello Club Recruitment" could be vaguely seen.
Lin Weixia bent down and pulled out the paper, throwing it into the trash can. The flyer was completely covered by the trash. She walked to the refrigerator to see what other ingredients were there.
The cold air rushed over, and Lin Weixia was in so much pain that she held the refrigerator door with her hands. Her lips were pale. She took a look in the refrigerator and saw a piece of lean meat and some vegetables.
At this time, Gao Hang came out of the room in slippers. He scratched his head and said, "Sister, don't cook. Let's eat instant noodles."
Gao Hang was a little adult and considerate except when he was playing games. Lin Weixia smiled faintly and changed the subject: "Do you think I will give you an excuse to eat junk food?"
Lin Weixia closed the refrigerator and walked to the kitchen to wash the rice. She turned on the tap and the running water rushed into the rice container. Just as she was about to wash the rice, the phone beside her vibrated.
An unfamiliar number flashed on the screen. She clicked to answer it, and the voice was very low: "Hello."
"It's me." A low and faint voice came from the other end of the phone.
"What are you doing?"
The receiver was filled with the sound of a lighter clicking repeatedly. Ban Sheng spoke in a leisurely tone, waiting for her answer. Lin Weixia didn't know whether he was here to cause trouble or for some other reason. She was very tired and in a low mood. She was in so much pain and sweating profusely that she really didn't feel like dealing with him. She said stiffly:
"Cooking. If nothing else, I'll hang up now."
Without waiting for any reply from the other end, Lin Weixia quickly hung up the phone, and then she asked Gao Hang to take out her phone.
After Lin Weixia washed the rice and cooked the meal, she felt sleepy and in pain at the same time. She went back to her room and planned to rest for a while before getting up to cook.
In her dream, Lin Weixia faintly heard Gao Hang repeating in the living room: "No, this is No. 7, Lane 16. Come in and walk straight. Turn left for three lanes and then turn right and you will be there."
"Okay, I'll go down."
Lin Weixia slept for a while and was woken up by Gao Hang, who asked her to come out for dinner. Lin Weixia walked out dizzy and found the table full of exquisite meals, with a fragrant smell and a pile of lunch boxes with the words "Yunshangfang" on them.
"Where did these come from?"
"I don't know. Your phone was ringing just now. It was the delivery man calling. He couldn't find the place, so I went downstairs to get it." Gao Hang said in a cheerful voice.
"Then guess what? I met a handsome guy downstairs. He said he was your classmate and asked me to watch you drink the porridge." Gao Hang pointed to a bowl of porridge in a thermos bucket next to him, and next to it was a box of warming patches for relieving dysmenorrhea.
After unscrewing the lid, she found a bowl of five-red porridge that relieved menstrual pain, and the hot steam rushed in front of her. Lin Weixia closed the lid and walked towards the living room.
Gao Hang was still sighing behind him: "I heard that this restaurant is a membership-only restaurant and is not open to the public. My classmates wanted to dine here but couldn't get an appointment. I have to take a picture to show off."
"Sister, your classmate is very nice to you. You don't have to cook now."
After Lin Weixia found the phone, she went back to her room, closed the door, looked up the number in the call log and dialed it back. The call was connected shortly after.
No one spoke on either side, there was only the quiet sound of electricity.
"Thank you, how much is it? I—" Lin Weixia spoke first.
"Have you drunk the porridge?" Ban Sheng suddenly interrupted her.
Lin Weixia felt puzzled, but continued: "No."
"Go drink it," Bansheng said, pausing, "and put on the heating pad as well."
"But you ordered the takeaway, I can't just give it to you for no reason—" Lin Weixia insisted on clarifying things with him.
Ban Sheng changed his hand to answer the phone, stopped a car at the intersection, got in, and said:
"Save my number."
It is no exaggeration to say that he is selfish. He pays precisely and then claims the rewards, making her save his number willingly without him suffering any loss.
Lin Weixia leaned against the door, bent her fingers and knocked on the wall, hesitantly saying, "How about... I can help you review your essay online this afternoon."
There was a sound of a car speeding past from the other end of the phone. For the first time, Ban Sheng called her name seriously, his voice deep and pleasant:
"Lin Weixia."
Her heart trembled, as if an electric current passed through her. Lin Weixia subconsciously held her breath and heard Ban Sheng chuckle, his tone playful and strong:
"You owe me one day, and I can't get away with what's mine."