On the afternoon of July 5, it was exactly five o'clock when Zhu Xingyao finished her math exam. She was in the same exam room with Jiang Tu and Lin Jiayu. Jiang Tu handed in his paper half an hour early and left first. Zhu Xingyao finished his test paper more than ten minutes early, but Lin Jiayu seemed to be short of time.
As soon as the exam was over, Li Xixi came over and dragged her and Lin Jiayu downstairs, "Come on, let's go early. We can go there early and sing for a while after eating barbecue."
They have an exam tomorrow, so they have to go home by 11 o'clock at the latest.
Lin Jiayu asked: "Where are Lu Ji and Xu Xiangyang?"
Zhu Xingyao opened her phone, saw Lu Ji's text message, looked up and said, "They handed in their papers early and went over first." She glanced at Li Xixi and remembered what Xu Xiangyang had said before about confessing his love to Li Xixi.
Lao Liu was already waiting outside the door. The three of them got in the car and headed straight for the barbecue restaurant.
The first one to arrive was Jiang Tu. He parked his bicycle and then Lu Ji, Xu Xiangyang and others arrived.
Jiang Tu glanced at them and walked into the barbecue restaurant. It was only five o'clock and there were not many customers in the restaurant. Liang Cheng was not here today. He turned around and looked at Ding Xiang: "You guys take a seat first."
He turned and walked into the kitchen. Zhou Yuan was surprised, "Why does he look so familiar?"
A few people sat down at the same table near the glass door. Ding Xiang explained, "Oh, Tu Ge works here. In January, we celebrated Tu Ge's birthday here on the day it snowed." He suddenly remembered something. He pointed to the small platform with a few steps higher than the glass door and became more and more excited. "That day, the goddess said she wanted to give Tu Ge a birthday present, which was to play the cello. She was sitting there, playing the cello, and then it suddenly started snowing."
Lu Ji was stunned, frowned and asked: "You said... Zhu Xingyao played the violin for Jiang Tu as a birthday gift? And it happened to snow?"
Ding Xiang's EQ is not low. He suddenly realized it and hurriedly scratched his head and laughed: "Hey, it's just a birthday present. Everyone has prepared it. It's not special. Li Xixi also asked the goddess to play the violin for her tonight!"
Lu Ji stopped talking and absentmindedly flipped the charcoal fire in front of him. Xu Xiangyang glanced at him and smiled, "That won't work. If Zhu Xingyao plays the violin, she will steal my limelight. I have to discuss this with her later."
There was a traffic jam on the road, and it was almost six o'clock when Zhu Xingyao and her friends arrived.
Zhu Xingyao came in with a cello on her back. As soon as she came in, she felt Lu Ji's burning gaze on her. She was stunned for a moment, and Li Xixi pulled her over, "Come on, why are you standing there!"
Lin Jiayu didn't see Jiang Tu, so she asked them, "Where's Jiang Tu?"
Ding Xiang said, "In the kitchen."
After a while, Jiang Tu came out with a bottle of sour plum juice in his hand. He put it on the table and said calmly, "There are exams tomorrow, so you girls should stop drinking."
Last time, Lin Jiayu drank two cups and slept until noon the next day. She didn't dare to touch it and said quickly, "Okay, I won't drink."
Lu Ji raised his eyes to look at him, then reached out to take away all the beer, "Forget it today, don't drink anymore."
Li Xixi curled her lips and said, "Okay, in order not to affect tomorrow's exam, let's not drink. After all, it concerns Lao Cao's lifelong event, and tomorrow's exam is still very important."
Halfway through eating the barbecue, Jiang Tu's cell phone rang.
He took a look, stood up calmly, and walked to the back door. The call was from Shu Xian. As soon as the call was connected, he heard her crying: "Jiang Jinhui, that damn guy, owes money again. How can he be such a bastard..."
Shu Xian cried and scolded for more than ten minutes before Jiang Tu asked in a deep voice, "How much do you owe?"
"I don't know exactly, maybe tens of thousands..." Shu Xian cried intermittently, "Why did I marry such a person in the first place?"
A few tens of thousands of yuan, less than Jiang Tu guessed.
Twenty minutes later.
He hung up the phone and looked at the starry sky with a heavy gaze, a breath of foul air in his chest. Suddenly, someone patted his shoulder. He turned around and saw Zhu Xingyao standing behind him with a cello on his back.
It was almost seven o'clock, and the barbecue restaurant was crowded with customers, so the table where they were originally seated was empty.
Jiang Tu looked depressed and indifferent. Zhu Xingyao felt a little flustered for some reason. She was actually afraid of seeing him like this. The kind of suppressed emotion that made people helpless. She asked in a low voice: "What's wrong with you? Is there something wrong?"
"It's okay." Jiang Tu calmed down and asked her in a low voice, "Where are they?"
Zhu Xingyao looked at him hesitantly, and said helplessly: "Xu Xiangyang asked me not to play the cello. He wants to play the guitar for Li Xixi. He has been learning from Lu Ji for a month. If I play the cello, it will make him look ugly... so he asked me to hide the cello first."
No one knew how Xu Xiangyang was going to confess his feelings to Li Xixi. A group of people colluded and went to help him. Lin Jiayu was responsible for taking Li Xixi out first.
Zhu Xingyao looked up and asked him: "Where should I put it?"
He raised his hand, then paused, turned around and walked ahead, "Come with me."
Zhu Xingyao said "oh" and followed him. The waiter came over with the charcoal fire. They stepped aside and waited for a while. Just after taking a few steps, the cello on her shoulder was suddenly grabbed by someone. She turned around quickly with her eyes slightly widened.
"Tsk, it's you again, little beauty. Long time no see." Chen Yi looked down at her, his eyes shining.
Jiang Tu turned around almost instantly, pulled Zhu Xingyao to his side, looked warily at Chen Yi and the gang of hooligans behind him, and asked in a cold voice: "What do you want to do?"
"What do I want to do? What do you think I want to do? Your father owes money again. He can't pay it back, so he'll collect interest from you. It's not much, just three thousand yuan." Chen Yi grinned and glanced at Zhu Xingyao and the cello on her shoulder. "It doesn't matter if she can't pay it back. Let her play the cello for us and forget about the money."
"impossible."
Jiang Tu said coldly, he pulled Zhu Xingyao to his side, "You go to the back."
Zhu Xingyao was a little panicked. She was afraid that he would fight. Chen Yi and the other seven or eight people... He would suffer. She refused to leave and even raised her hand to grab the corner of his clothes. Chen Yi looked at her, raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Little beauty, I remember I told you that his family owes a lot of money. It's really not worth it for you to be with him. With a family like his, he might be dragged to death by his father in this life. Will your family help him fill this hole?"
"Shut up."
Zhu Xingyao glared at him angrily, so angry that she even ignored his words.
They had already affected the customers in the store. Some people just sat down and then stood up to leave. A waiter came over and whispered to Jiang Tu not to make trouble. Jiang Tu took a step forward with a sullen face and looked at Chen Yi: "I'll give you the money, come with me."
Chen Yi put his hands in his trouser pockets and raised his chin: "Okay, add the previous 5,000, a total of 8,000."
Jiang Tu narrowed his eyes. He didn't even dare to look at Zhu Xingyao's eyes. Her eyes must be very complicated at this moment, worried, angry, sympathetic... He was silent for a few seconds. Zhu Xingyao suddenly felt uncomfortable and took a step forward.
She stood in front of him: "Don't force him."
Jiang Tu lowered his eyes to look at the top of her head and her slender white neck, and swallowed hard with his Adam's apple rolling. The defenses in his heart collapsed an inch again.
The more Chen Yi looked at her like that, the more excited he became, and he raised his hand to grab her cello.
The cello was Zhu Xingyao's treasure. She didn't want this annoying person to touch it at all, so she quickly took a step back. Just as Jiang Tu was about to walk up to her, he was pushed by two people behind him. He struggled hard for a few times.
Over there, Chen Yi seemed to be teasing Zhu Xingyao. Every time she took a step back, he would take a step forward.
Several people held Jiang Tu down. He struggled so hard that his face turned red, and the veins on his forehead and neck were bulging.
Zhu Xingyao felt that she would probably never meet Chen Yi in her life, because every time she met Chen Yi, nothing good happened. Her heel got stuck on the food cart next to the dining table, and her foot sprained. Chen Yi subconsciously grabbed the strap of the cello bag on her shoulder.
The cello suddenly slipped out of his hands, and Zhu Xingyao lost his balance and fell precariously.
She turned pale and screamed.
She reached out in panic to grab something, but there was nothing to grab. When the back of her head hit the corner of the glass table, she felt that she had never felt such pain in her life. She might have a hole in her head...
There were noisy exclamations in the store.
Clang, clang, the sound of pots and pans falling on the table.
Jiang Tu's heart-wrenching roar: "Zhu Xingyao!"
Lu Ji flew over and covered her with his entire body, blocking all the falling objects. Zhu Xingyao felt dizzy and vaguely saw Lu Ji's frightened face, then lost consciousness.
Outside the door.
Xu Xiangyang was holding a guitar, Zhou Yuan and Ding Xiang were holding a big bag of things, Lin Jiayu pulled Li Xixi back, and they all looked at the barbecue restaurant with pale faces. In less than half an hour, it had changed into a completely different place.
Jiang Tu broke free from his restraints, rushed over and punched Chen Yi, causing blood to instantly flow from the corner of Chen Yi's mouth.
Jiang Tu's eyes turned red with anger. He grabbed Chen Yi by the collar, his chest heaving with anger. He looked at him and said word by word: "Chen Yi, if anything happens to her, I will fight you to death."
Others reacted.
"Call an ambulance!"
"She's bleeding!"
"Don't let anyone get killed!"
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Lu Ji was dizzy after being hit on the head by the casserole, and he was flipped over by someone with great force.
Jiang Tu looked at Zhu Xingyao's pale face and the blood on the ground and felt like an executioner. He picked him up with trembling hands and walked quickly outside. Xu Xiangyang reacted quickly, threw his guitar away and ran to hail a taxi. Zhou Yuan hurried to lift Lu Ji up.
Lin Jiayu and Li Xixi followed with red eyes, crying and wiping their eyes. They were terrified.
In the hospital.
Zhu Xingyao was in the emergency room and Lu Ji was doing an examination.
Except for Jiang Tu, everyone was waiting outside the door. Ding Yu had already returned home from get off work, and he and Zhu Yunping arrived very quickly. They were also very scared.
Jiang Tu sat at the dark stairs with his head down, looking extremely depressed.
A long time passed.
The operating room door opened.
He stood up suddenly and walked out.
The doctor was Ding Yu's colleague, and was telling her about Zhu Xingyao's injuries, including four stitches, concussion, and hospitalization.
Jiang Tu suddenly appeared. Ding Yu and Zhu Yunping were both stunned for a moment and looked at him. On the way here, Li Xixi called them, and they roughly understood a little. This was probably the classmate whose family owed high-interest loans as Li Xixi mentioned.
Li Xixi was afraid that they would blame Jiang Tu too much, so she emphasized that Jiang Tu was very good at exams and was ranked first in the grade.
The young man was wearing a pair of glasses and had a pale face. He looked similar to Zhu Xingyao. His clothes and hands were dirty, even stained with Zhu Xingyao's blood. He looked a little scary, but he didn't care. He looked at Ding Yu and Zhu Yunping, his voice hoarse: "I'm sorry, it's my fault that I got Zhu Xingyao into trouble."
Ding Yu and Zhu Yunping looked at each other with mixed feelings. How could they blame him for such an accident
Zhu Yunping patted his shoulder and sighed, "My daughter's condition isn't serious. Go back and change your clothes. Go get checked for any injuries you have." Then he turned around and looked at the group of students, "Go back first. Everything is fine now."
Zhu Xingyao had been pushed into the ward. Jiang Tu only glanced at her quickly. He looked at Ding Yu and asked in a low voice: "She... When can Zhu Xingyao wake up?"
"Maybe in the middle of the night, maybe tomorrow morning." Ding Yu also sighed, "Go back, it's okay."
It just means that the exams and courses will be delayed. Originally, Zhu Xingyao was supposed to go to Beijing to take classes with Chen Lan the day after tomorrow.
Now all plans are disrupted.
Except Zhou Yuan who stayed to accompany Lu Ji, everyone else left.
After a while.
A tall and thin figure came back.
Jiang Tu walked into the bathroom, took off his clothes and washed the bloodstains. It didn't wash away the bloodstains completely, but at least it didn't look scary anymore. He wrung out the water and put the clothes back on.
He sat on a bench downstairs in the hospital all night.
After dawn, he went to wash his face and looked at himself in the mirror with deep disgust in his eyes.
Zhu Xingyao woke up once in the middle of the night and fell asleep again. Zhu Yunping had to go to the company, so Ding Yu told the nurse, "Keep an eye on him. I have to go to the clinic too. I'll come back at noon."
After the nurse finished her rounds, she closed the ward door.
Jiang Tu pushed open the door of the ward and walked in.
Zhu Xingyao had a bandage wrapped around her head, and she lay on the bed, pale and fragile. She moved slightly, as if she was uncomfortable, and her eyelashes trembled slightly. Jiang Tu sat down beside her bed quietly, leaning against the back of the chair and looking at her intently.
After a while.
Her slender white fingers moved.
Jiang Tu lowered his eyes and looked at her hands.
Her blood vessels are very thin, and it is very difficult to find them every time I give her an injection. Every time I give her an injection, there are several needle holes on the back of her hand, which are blue and purple.
After a while.
Jiang Tu raised his hand and gently hooked her little finger with his index finger.
Zhu Xingyao's hand moved again, as if hooking his hand. Jiang Tu looked at their hands, his Adam's apple rolling with difficulty. He raised his eyes to look at her pale face. The nurse had just used water to moisten her lips.
The girl's lips were pink and soft. Jiang Tu looked away, struggling and tormented inside.
for a long time.
Her finger gently hooked around his index finger again and moved it a little.
All the struggles and torments, including reason, collapsed.
Jiang Tu thought, he would be mean just this once, maybe only this once in his life.
He stood up and approached her, his right hand still hooked with her fingers, his left hand carefully holding her face, and lowered his head to touch her soft lips. The footsteps of people coming and going outside the ward could not compete with the sound of his strong heartbeat.
The girl's eyelashes trembled slightly.
Jiang Tu's throat rolled. He didn't know whether she was conscious or about to wake up. He stood up almost instantly, turned around and left the ward.
A minute passed.
The ward door was pushed open again.
Lu Ji walked in, he called out to the nurse who was passing by and asked in a low voice: "Is she still not awake?"
The nurse remembered him and knew that he and Zhu Xingyao were classmates. Lu Ji was handsome and polite, so she smiled and said, "He will probably wake up soon. You can go in and take a look. If he wakes up, press the bell."
Lu Ji sat in Jiang Tu's previous seat, looking at Zhu Xingyao, his eyes falling on the back of her hand.
He thought of what Jiang Tu had said to Chen Yi before, and always felt that his feeling was correct. Jiang Tu should like Zhu Xingyao. He also thought of what Ding Xiang had said before, and felt inexplicably irritated.
Zhu Xingyao moved several times, as if he was trying hard to open his eyes.
Lu Ji subconsciously grabbed her hand, stood up and approached her, whispering: "Zhu Xingyao, Zhu Xingyao..."
After a while.
Zhu Xingyao opened her eyes dazedly. When she saw Lu Ji's handsome face, she suddenly froze, opened her eyes wide, and looked straight at him. Lu Ji's heart softened when she looked at him, and he smiled, "Awake?"
Two seconds later.
She realized that he was still holding her hand.
Thinking of the soft and warm touch just now, she bit her lip, and her pale face suddenly turned a little red. She pulled her hand back and slowly buried her chin in the quilt, her eyelashes drooping and fluttering gently, her voice was small and soft: "I haven't promised you yet... You can't do this..."
Lu Ji was stunned for a moment, rubbed his fingers gently, and whispered, "I'm sorry."
Zhu Xingyao turned his head and looked over slowly, seeming to want to say something but stopping himself.
In the end, nothing was said.
She bit her lip and looked at him from time to time.
Seeing this, Lu Ji's heart softened and he even wanted to laugh. He looked at her and couldn't help but chuckle, "Zhu Xingyao, why are you so shy?"
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