The girl looked at Hesta, "Are you from our school too?"
"Uh...yeah." Hesta nodded.
"Help me take a look at something?" The girl took a few steps to the side and turned to leave, "I'll be back in a minute -"
"I - I have class!" Hesta quickly shouted at the girl's back, "I can't - be late!"
"Then help me see when you have to leave!" the girl replied, "It's okay if you don't look!"
Hesta stood there with a surprised look on her face, speechless for a moment facing the tent in front of her.
Before Hesta could recover, the young man who had walked about ten steps suddenly turned around and rushed back to the tent, adding a pure black soft suit to his jacket.
This soft suit looked old and big, and it looked particularly dragging on the girl who was less than 1.7 meters tall.
Some traces of light-colored cat hair, cotton wool, and dust were stained on it, which was made more conspicuous by the black fabric.
The man stood up again with his shoulders hunched, muttering to himself as he walked out, "...it's still a bit cold in the morning."
Looking at the back of this man leaving again, Hesta finally felt a little familiar at this moment - she had a vague impression that when she met Lin Jiao twice, Lin and her friends also wore similar styles... …
The girl trotted towards the teaching building nearby.
Hesta stood by the tent, staring at her watch and pacing. She mentally estimated the time it would take to run back to Wenhui Building from here, hoping in her heart that the girl would come back soon.
At 8:26, the girl came back with a toothbrush. Her hair was slightly damp and there were some water stains on her collar. Her previous sleepy demeanor had completely faded, as if she had just washed up.
"You haven't left yet!" She saw Hesta from a distance and quickened her pace, "Isn't it that you have classes in the morning -"
"What's your name?" Hesta quickly asked her question.
The girl quickly said three words. Seeing Hesta's expression of confusion, she immediately took out a pen from her left pocket and a rolled-up note from her right pocket, writing quickly on the paper. Next name: Xiang Hanshan.
Hesta put away the note, "...Okay, get out of class is over, I'll come back...to find you."
Just as the girl was about to say something, Hesta had already started sprinting towards Wenhui Building at an alarming speed.
"Don't be late," the girl whistled, "Come on!!"
…
Almost at the moment before the bell rang, Hesta rushed into the classroom. The first row seat she had sat in last week was already occupied by other students, so she had to find an empty seat in the back row.
... Being late is a clear deduction, but I don’t know how it will be judged if I miss the mark like today.
After sitting down, Hesta observed the entire classroom with her peripheral vision - fortunately, her hurried entry did not attract much attention.
The phone in his pocket vibrated. Hesta took it out and saw that it was Si Lei who had replied to the message.
"I'm fine. I've been here at Songseolhara Blood Disease Hospital recently. How are you? Are you still getting used to life at school?"
"I'm not used to it." Hesta replied quickly, "If you were in Songxueyuan, we would be quite close. Can I visit your place on the weekend?"
"You can come if you want. But I can't be a landlord. I'm not familiar with this place at all."
Along with this message, there was an address with coordinates.
Putting down her phone, Hesta raised her head again and looked seriously at the blackboard and podium.
new friend. Old friend.
Thinking of this, Hesta took out his to-do book and added another item on it: Go back and write a letter to Rico and Turan in the evening.
…
At almost the same time, Ding Jiali was sitting leisurely in the living room, scrolling through his cell phone and eating breakfast in a crystal bowl.
After finishing her housework, Xu Ruyi walked out of the kitchen and sat opposite Ding Jiali with a bowl of berry yogurt.
"It's delicious when you eat," Xu Ruyi frowned, "Don't look at your phone, it will hurt your eyes."
"My eyes are fine." Ding Jiali smiled, "Mom, are you familiar with Hesta?"
"well enough?"
"Don't you two have a particularly good relationship?"
"What's wrong?" Xu Ruyi looked at her son, "She is very warm-hearted."
"Hey, I'm just asking...a blind question." Ding Jiali looked back at the phone again, "Do you think there's anything wrong with her?"
"Don't talk nonsense, what's wrong?" Xu Ruyi raised her head, she thought for a while, and then said, "She is quite tall, but it's a pity... a bit too tall -"
"No, I'm talking about life, what do you think of her?"
"...What exactly do you want to ask?"
Ding Jiali lowered his lips and sat next to Xu Ruyi with his bowl in his arms, "I'm going to tell you something...just listen to it and don't tell anyone else, okay?"
"What's the matter?"
"Didn't I go to help Dad hand over documents the day before yesterday? I happened to find that a document from Hesta had fallen into our house."
Xu Ruyi listened half-comprehensively, "...what kind of documents, why did they end up in our house?"
"I didn't quite understand it. When I asked about it, it probably meant that she was stuck with some procedures at school, so she couldn't apply for things like student insurance. Then she didn't know who arranged it, so she just put it in Hesta is hanging up at our house, so that we can buy commercial insurance as an Orange Town resident - I guess they will notify Dad and Hesta to sign it together in two days."
"Oh..." Xu Ruyi nodded, "Will there be any bad effects?"
"What bad effects could this have?" Ding Jiali chuckled. "The key point is not here. It's in the notes on that material - do you know what is written on it?"
"What?"
"It appointed a special person to take charge of this matter, and then it said, 'The principle of handling is to put the convenience of the parties first, give priority to speed, and accept the maximum reimbursement' - maximum reimbursement! Who will reimburse?"
"Over there in the third area?" Xu Ruyi didn't notice anything unusual here, "Didn't you say that she was in the army before? There may be some welfare policies-"
"Let me put it bluntly, ordinary veterans cannot receive such treatment," Ding Jiali interrupted her mother, "And if they are really ordinary medical soldiers, why can't they recuperate in the third area and have to be transferred to the fourteenth area? Come? There must be something wrong here."
"Oh..." Xu Ruyi responded, but the expression on her face became even more confused.
"I've been searching the Internet for the past two days, but I didn't find any clues, so I just wanted to ask you..." Ding Jiali leaned on the chair again, "You really don't feel that this person can get along with others. no the same?"
Xu Ruyi shook his head.
"Hey, Mom, can you be more careful in the future?" Ding Jiali said with a smile, "I feel that maybe, like Sinan, our family is also a hidden rich man with a good background."
