When Lin Xi calmed down and took the phone back from the nurse, she suffered another heavy blow.
"We originally wanted to help you contact your family, but your phone was broken and couldn't be turned on. Our head nurse wanted to call the police, but later the doctor said you might be fine, so we didn't rush to find your family. Oh, by the way, your teacher came yesterday, but knew you were fine, so he stayed for a while and then left." The nurse returned the phone, which was broken into pieces and the internal components could be seen through the screen, to Lin Yan.
Lin Yan held in her hand the new mobile phone she had just bought with the money she had saved for half a year and which was less than three months old. She wanted to cry again.
She was so poor that she had to tell fortunes many times to earn enough to buy a mobile phone. Others could still make do with old phones, but her old phone was gone when she traded it in for a new one.
"If you want to make a phone call, can you use the phone at the service desk?" the nurse said considerately.
"Thank you." I should have kept a hundred yuan in cash in my bag. Now I can't even take a taxi back to school.
Who should I ask for help? Lin Yan thought for a while, and just as she was about to make a phone call, she found that she couldn't remember the phone number. Usually, everyone communicated through WeChat, and no one would deliberately remember the phone number. If they suddenly needed it, they would not be able to remember it. Lin Yan was annoyed for a while, and found that the only phone number she remembered seemed to be the cake shop where she worked part-time, and she had memorized it deliberately for the convenience of sales.
The store manager must be angry because I didn't go yesterday. I have to explain myself.
Lin Yan was about to call the cake shop when a figure rushed over like the wind, leaned over the nurse's desk and asked the nurse: "Sister nurse, do you have a patient named Lin Yan here? She is a student at Green Leaf University. She was hit by a car around one o'clock yesterday and was sent here."
Lin Yan's hand holding the receiver froze: "Ran Ran?"
The person who came was Lin Xi’s best friend Song Ranran.
"Yin'er?!" Song Ranran saw her friend in a hospital gown and rushed over to her, looking her up and down. "How are you? Where are you injured? Are your arms and legs okay? Are you disfigured..."
"I'm fine. It's okay. I'm just disfigured." Lin Xi answered one by one.
"What? Where is the disfigurement?"
Lin Xi pursed her lips and pointed at the "bald spot" on her head.
Song Ranran was stunned at first, and after seeing clearly, his expression gradually became strange, and the hand that was holding Lin Yan's shoulder began to "tremble".
"Laugh if you want to." Lin Xi was helpless.
"Hahaha." Song Ranran laughed for a long time before she remembered to save the friendship. "It's okay. Baldness is only temporary. Hair will grow out soon. Before it grows out, I can sponsor you a few wigs. The quality of wigs nowadays is very good. You can't even tell."
"Thank you so much." Lin Xi didn't want to continue the topic of her "bald head" and asked, "Weren't you on vacation in the suburbs with your brother? Why are you back?"
"You've been in a car accident, how could I still be in the mood for vacation." Song Ranran blamed herself, "I'm sorry, I didn't rush here the first time. We went to the mountains to play yesterday afternoon, and the signal there was not good. It was already evening when I saw the news of your car accident in the school group. My brother said it was unsafe to drive at night, so he could only send me here in the morning."
"Ranran, thank you." Lin Yan was touched when she heard this. Song Ranran's vacation spot was not close to here, and it was only half past nine, which meant that she had left the resort at almost six o'clock.
"I'm glad you're okay. But you, why didn't you call me when you woke up? I was so worried." Song Ranran asked.
"My cellphone is broken." Lin Yan showed the horribly damaged cellphone to Song Ranran.
"How did it become like this? You worked so hard to save money for so long." Song Ranran accompanied Lin Xi to buy this mobile phone, so she knew very well how long Lin Xi had saved the money.
"Forget it, I'll buy a new one after I'm discharged from the hospital." Five hundred should be enough to buy an elderly smart phone. I'm so poor, why would I need a bicycle? "By the way, Ranran, can you lend me some money?"
As soon as Lin Xi finished speaking, she felt someone was looking at her. She turned her head and couldn't help but wail when she saw the other person's face clearly.
How come I was bumped into by him again!
The person looking at her is Song Wei, Song Ranran's brother, a paranoid man who thinks that she is friends with Song Ranran just to cheat his sister of her money.
Song Ranran came from a well-off family and was a nice person. Lin Yan would occasionally borrow some money from Song Ranran when she needed it urgently, but she would pay it back quickly and not often. But for some reason, every time she borrowed money from Song Ranran, she would always be caught by Song Wei, as if some magical mechanism had been triggered. As a result, Song Wei looked at her more and more as if she were trash.
Sure enough, Song Wei's expression began to change as he looked at her: three parts mockery, two parts ridicule, and five parts contempt.
"Sure, how much do you want?" When Song Ranran heard that her friend wanted to borrow money, she took out her cell phone and said, "Wait, your cell phone is broken, how can I give you the money? How about I go out and buy you a cell phone first?"
"No... no need, I'll buy the phone myself later." Lin Yan quickly stopped Song Ranran.
"But you don't have any money? How can you buy it?"
"Then let's go buy it together." She didn't dare let this young lady help her choose a mobile phone. What if she was satisfied with the choice? One mobile phone would be enough for her living expenses for a year.
"Okay." Song Ranran agreed readily.
Lin Yan glanced at Song Wei and added, "I'll return the money to you as soon as I buy the phone."
"Haha" Song Wei laughed and walked over.
"Brother?" Song Ranran saw Song Wei and said happily, "Lin Yan is fine, just a little bald."
The latter sentence actually needs no mention.
"Brother Song." Lin Xi greeted him reluctantly. She actually didn't like Song Wei either, but they both tacitly maintained basic social etiquette in front of Song Ranran.
"I told you a long time ago, she's fine." Song Wei couldn't resist his sister's request last night, so he called the hospital and found out that Lin Yan was fine. "It was such a serious car accident, but she just got a bald head. She's lucky."
"Bald for the time being." Lin Xi said stubbornly.
Song Wei didn't care whether Lin Yan was really bald or not, he just wanted to take his sister away: "You have seen the person, now you can go back with me."
"No, I have to accompany Lin An to buy a mobile phone later." Song Ranran took Lin An's arm.
"You haven't had breakfast." Song Wei frowned.
"No." Lin Xi had just woken up. She was busy familiarizing herself with the system and hadn't had time to think about being hungry. Only when Song Ranran reminded her did she realize how hungry she was.
If you count carefully, she has not eaten for three meals.
"Brother, Lin Yan and I will eat together later." Song Ranran said to Song Wei.
"Why can't you come home and eat with me?" He hadn't eaten either.
"Oh, Lin Xi is a patient, and I have to accompany her to buy a mobile phone." Song Ranran said coquettishly.
Song Wei glanced at Lin Yan with disgust from behind his glasses and said, "Go home for lunch."
Lin Xi gloated, "You must be jealous, sister-con. Your sister just likes me more."
As soon as Song Wei left, Lin Xi felt a lot more relaxed.
"Let's go, let's go eat first, and then buy a cell phone." Lin Yan took Song Ranran downstairs.
Lin Yan was so hungry that she didn't want to leave the hospital, so the two decided to buy some food at the 24-hour convenience store on the first floor. The hospital was always short of people, and there was only one convenience store in the entire inpatient building, so there was a long queue in the small convenience store. Lin Yan had no money, so she left the queue to the rich woman Song Ranran.
Lin Yan held her hungry stomach and waited for Song Ranran at the door of the convenience store. She looked around casually and saw a child running in. The child looked about four or five years old, chubby and very cute, holding a string in his hand, with a yellow hydrogen balloon tied to the other end of the string. The child's cheerful smile gave people a feeling of full of energy.
Lin Xi smiled knowingly and turned back to look at the convenience store. There were two people in front of Song Ranran, and they were almost there.
"Crash!" Without any warning, a huge stick tube appeared in front of Lin Xi's eyes. It shook slowly twice, a bamboo stick fell out, and it was automatically released.
[An Ruici, five years old, was followed by a mob into the children's ward and slashed.]
Lin Yan looked up suddenly, and a yellow hydrogen balloon just floated past her. Behind the hydrogen balloon, a middle-aged man in a dark coat was staring at the child's back with burning eyes, following closely. His right hand was hidden in his coat, and he seemed to be holding something.
This middle-aged man followed the child when the child came in. At that time, Lin Xi thought he was the child's parent, but now it is obviously not the case.
Thugs, stalking, children's wards.
Lin Xi looked in the direction the child was running. The third floor of the inpatient department was covered with colorful cartoon patterns. That was the children's ward, and one could go up directly from the escalator in the center of the hall.
No, he can't go up.
Lin Yan rushed over without thinking and grabbed the child's arm. The child looked up in surprise, looking puzzled at the strange sister who was holding him.
"Hey, kid, where did you buy this balloon? It's so beautiful. I want to buy one too." Lin Yan suppressed her fear and tried not to let her voice tremble. She didn't look at the thugs, but she could clearly feel their eyes on her. Lin Yan felt a chill rising from her spine.
"Xiao Rui!" A young man ran up, grabbed the child and held him in his arms. He looked at Lin Yan warily and asked in a bad tone, "What are you doing?"
This is the child's father. He just received a work call, so he walked slowly, but he always kept the child within his sight. When he saw someone holding his son, he immediately ran over.
"I just want to ask where you bought this balloon. I want to buy one too." Lin Xi had to repeat the reason.
The young man looked down at his son and saw the child nod. His expression improved a little. "It's right outside the hospital. There's some for sale outside."
The young father pointed outside the door.
When the child's father appeared, the thug took a step back, hesitated for a moment, then made way and walked forward on his own.
"Ding, congratulations to the host, you have successfully helped An Ruici avoid bad luck and obtained ten merit points."
Lin Xi breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, things had changed.
"Thank you." Lin Xi thanked him and turned to run out of the hospital. She was not really going to buy balloons, but the thugs had not left yet.
"Ying'er, where are you going?" Song Ranran had just come out of a convenience store and saw her friends rushing out, so she reached out and grabbed them.
"Go find the security guard at the door."
Song Ranran was even more confused: "Why are you looking for a security guard?"
"I just saw a man with a knife going to the children's ward on the third floor." It was too late to call the police, and she was afraid that the thug would suddenly go crazy and hack people in the hall, so she could only go to the security guard. She just hoped that the thug would not hack people as soon as he entered the ward, so that there might be time.
"What?" Song Ranran's face turned pale with fright.
"Ranran, come out with me." Not knowing whether the fight would spread to the first floor, Lin Xi pulled Song Ranran and ran out together.
The two girls ran very fast. What they didn't notice was that right behind them, a young man who had just bought water from a convenience store and was about to leave the hospital paused and turned to look towards the center of the hall.
In the hot summer, only one man in a coat walked through the atrium among the crowd and headed for the elevator.
The young man turned around and followed. When he passed the nurse's desk, he casually placed the water on it and said, "Put it down for a while."
The clear sound is like an ice spring in summer.
The nurse looked up and saw only a tall, thin figure with a hood on.
(End of this chapter)