"Cough... When did you wake up?" Ning Xingzhou cleared his throat and asked calmly.
He felt so embarrassed that he almost wanted to shut himself in place. In that wave just now, he didn't know what his hideous face looked like, the other party wouldn't treat him as crazy, right
The person on the bed was silent for a while, before uttering two words, "Just now."
Several layers of gauze were tied on his face, leaving only his eyes, mouth and nostrils, so his voice was muffled and deep.
He fixed his eyes on Ning Xingzhou, and after a while, he seemed to realize his abruptness, and he turned his head awkwardly, and didn't speak any more. He didn't ask himself why he was here, or who the other party was, as if he restrained all his curiosity.
Well, I guess I've seen my embarrassing appearance just now. Ning Xingzhou straightened his face and resolutely decided to pretend nothing happened.
"How are you feeling? Do you need to call the doctor?" he asked.
"No need." It was still two short words, cherishing words like gold, and the tone was calm.
The other party's reaction was cold, but Ning Xingzhou didn't feel embarrassed, and continued to talk about the topic, "Oh, by the way, how did you provoke those social gangsters? It's so shameless for a group of old men to bully you, a high school student!"
He sighed with righteous indignation, but the person concerned remained silent, holding back a word for a long while.
So cold!
Ning Xingzhou propped his chin, tapped his cheek with his little finger, and looked eagerly at the patient on the bed, "Hey, brother, can you give me a response? Talking to yourself is so boring..."
The person on the bed seemed to be stiff for a moment, and then he sneered, and his voice finally became a little turbulent, "There is nothing to say, and I don't know."
Ning Xingzhou's eyes lit up when he got a response. The other party was obviously not interested in talking about this topic, and he didn't go any further. "Then let's not talk about it. Tomorrow Monday, you will definitely not be able to go to school. Do you remember the teacher's contact information? May I help you ask for leave?"
The patient on the bed turned his head, fixed his eyes on Ning Xingzhou, and remained silent for a while.
He didn't know this familiar guy, this should be the first time they met. But... The other party's behavior was too weird, and it didn't seem like a normal attitude towards a juvenile injured patient when they met for the first time.
"What... what's wrong? Is there something on my face?" Ning Xingzhou was stared at awkwardly by the other party. He reached out to touch his cheek and asked suspiciously.
"You know me?" It was obviously a question, but it was said with a sense of certainty.
Ning Xingzhou's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly realized something was wrong. As a stranger who met for the first time, after chatting for a long time without asking the other party's name or the contact information of the other party's parents, it is too strange to plan to ask for leave here!
It's all because the system gave him too much information all of a sudden, resulting in unequal information between the two, and he made such a low-level mistake!
He knew that the other party was called Lu Yuan, and he also knew that the other party was an illegitimate child. His mother was dead and his father was not around. Because of this, I didn't think of asking the other party these common sense questions at all, but instead made the other party see something wrong.
At this time, if you deny it categorically, it will be unreasonable.
"Ha... haha, that's right." Ning Xingzhou smiled awkwardly, racking his brains to think of excuses, "Actually, I'm going to transfer to your school recently, so I went to the school forum to familiarize myself with the situation in advance, and saw Many posts about you are familiar. Oh yes, my name is Ning Xingzhou, and I should be an alumnus in the future, please give me more advice."
Ning Xingzhou couldn't help giving himself a thumbs up for making up such a reasonable excuse temporarily.
"Oh." Lu Yuan responded lightly, as if he had been fooled. He hesitated for a while, but didn't report any number, but stood up vigorously, as if he was going to get out of bed.
"Ehhh? Don't move around! There's still water hanging on!" Ning Xingzhou was anxious, afraid that he would tear his wound.
Then he watched helplessly as the other party pulled out the needle.
It hurts to look at it.
"..." Ning Xingzhou's mouth twitched, "No, what are you doing?"
Lu Yuan glanced at him, and said as a matter of course: "Leave the hospital and go home."
"...Why are you in such a hurry to go home?" Ning Xingzhou was shocked, "Don't say anything else, at least wait for the gauze to be removed? To be honest, your face is quite swollen, and it may leave scars if you don't do it properly. It affects the appearance very much!"
"It doesn't matter." No one cared anyway.
As he said that, he got off the hospital bed, except for a little shaking in his movements, he couldn't see anything unusual.
"Don't, don't, don't make things difficult for yourself." Ning Xingzhou became a little anxious, trying to think about the possibility that the other party was in a hurry to go home. According to the plot information just learned, Lu Yuan is now alone, living in a dilapidated and crowded small bungalow, with poor grades, poor interpersonal relationships, and always fighting.
Ning Xingzhou had a vague guess in his heart.
"You are in a hurry to get out of the hospital. Could it be that you are worried about the hospital bill? Don't worry about it, I will put it on for you." Ning Xingzhou said cautiously, worried that he would poke the other party's sore feet.
Lu Yuan's movements obviously froze for a moment, "...Thank you, I will pay you back."
Sure enough, Lu Yuan in this period was still a poor little wretch who was in trouble for money.
"Hey, you don't need to pay it back, just treat it as a friend. Besides, if I hadn't been meddling in other people's business, you probably wouldn't have come to this hospital." Ning Xingzhou blinked at the other party, with a sincere smile in his eyes, "But since we're here, wait for the wound to heal before leaving. Anyway, staying for a day or staying for a minute is the same price."
Lu Yuan frowned, the coldness in his eyes gradually eased, but he was still a little confused and embarrassed.
The other party looked very young, his face was tender, and so was his voice. But it is so strange to pretend to be mature and stable, taking care of him in a grown-up tone inside and out.
To say that he is mature, but sometimes he is stupid as hell, after all, a mature person would not tell such a lame lie. He said that he saw his news from the school forum, and their school didn't have a forum at all.
Lu Yuan didn't know what the other party was deliberately approaching him for, so he was on guard.
"Uh...does it make you feel awkward that I'm staying here?" Sensing the other party's defense, Ning Xingzhou touched the tip of his nose and asked tentatively: "Why don't you call a familiar friend to accompany you? Remember the number—”
Halfway through the conversation, he realized what a stupid question he had asked. It's the middle of the night now, and it's not a life-and-death emergency, so it's too much trouble to call someone over here.
Lu Yuan glanced at him and said lightly, "I have no friends."
"Eh?" Ning Xingzhou was stunned for a moment, then he bent his eyebrows and showed a big smile, "Then you have it now~"
When he smiled, his brows and eyes were curved into crescent moons, and there were a pair of lovely dimples at the corners of his mouth, like the sky after the rain, bright, pure, and full of sunshine.
Lu Yuan couldn't tell how he felt, but there seemed to be a tinge of heat in his heart. He thought, even if the other party approached him with ulterior motives, it didn't seem to matter. Anyway, there was nothing to gain from him.
Today was their first meeting. Lu Yuan's impression of Ning Xingzhou was that apart from his tender face and strange behavior, there was one more thing - he had a sweet smile.