Hesta immediately started looking around, trying to find mirrors around her to see what she looked like at this moment.
"Is it possible?" Hestad was still surprised. "Maybe he is tired after a day of class today."
"After all, you are not as energetic as when you first got off the ship," Si Lei looked at her. "Is it because you are not used to living in a livable place, or is it because you are simply under a lot of pressure to study?"
"Everything is... okay," Hesta whispered. "I always thought that I have recovered well in the past few months. I eat and sleep quite regularly."
"That's good," Si Lei smiled, "Have you made any new friends?"
"Hmm..." Hesta thought for a long time, "I don't know."
"I do not know what that means."
"...No." Hesta adjusted her sitting posture slightly, "But I have met a lot of people."
Before the ice-breaking period of their conversation had passed, the boss had already arrived with a basket of edamame.
"Are you two drinking?"
"No." Si Lei and Hesta replied in unison.
The boss laughed out loud, and after a while he brought two more bottles of soy milk. There was wind at her feet, so she put down the glass bottles and left. Si Lei quickly shouted at her back: "We didn't order any drinks——"
"This is for you!" The boss didn't even look back, he had already rolled up his sleeves and went back to the store.
Over soy milk and edamame, Si Lei and the two started talking again. Hesta talked about today's unreasonable disaster, which made Si Lei burst into laughter.
"...Is this funny?"
"Of course, it's not funny, it's just... it's too similar to what happened here." Si Lei still couldn't stop laughing, and even choked and coughed a few times, "Then do you know now why you were kicked out?"
"Yes." Hesta replied with a complicated expression, "I asked the classmates who left with me, and they told me."
"What did they tell you?"
"They first asked me where I came from. I said District 3, and everyone's eyes widened." Hesta took a deep breath and suddenly changed to Cheng Xiaoshu's tone: "'You are from District 3? District 3, then why don’t you understand? You have been hunting for witches for more than three hundred years. You should have heard about how bad women’s menstrual blood is since you were a child - as long as you are touched by a menstruating woman, you will be a warrior. It will hurt, the tender plants will wither, the wine will turn sour, and the cultivated land will become barren... How can you not understand?'"
Saying that, Hesta raised her head.
"How do I know? No one has ever told me these fairy tales. Sometimes training coincides with my menstrual period, and if I am not prepared in advance, there will be blood all over my pants, and no one will laugh. At most, the blood will be stained for a long time. If you can’t wash it off, you have to find a logistics provider to replace it with a new one.”
Si Lei chewed the beans and finally breathed a sigh of relief: "...You mercury needles are like people living in fairy tales."
"Why."
"I can't explain it either... maybe you'll understand if you stay for a few more weeks." Si Lei laughed, "How are you getting along with your roommates? No one should dare to embarrass you."
Mentioning this matter, Hesta clearly felt the nerves on his forehead jump twice in succession, and Si Lei also immediately caught the instant changes in the person in front of him.
"...Have you had a conflict with your roommate so soon?" Si Lei asked.
"no."
Hesta shook his head in pain, and then recounted what happened during this period bit by bit - but omitted the part about Lin Jiao.
This time Si Lei didn't smile. Her eyes always fell on the rippling shadows of street lamps in the small puddle on the roadside, her expression thoughtful.
In Hesta's narration, the stir-fried dishes were served one after another, and the two of them chatted and ate. When the last dish was served, Si Lei's cell phone suddenly rang.
She picked up the phone, chatted for a few words and then frowned.
"I have to leave first," Si Lei looked at Hesta, "There is something going on at the hospital and I need to go back."
"Is there something wrong at the hospital?"
"No, just an analysis report has come out. The chief physician will fly to Pingjing on a business trip tomorrow morning. He wants to tell me the results before leaving."
Hesta put down her chopsticks, "I'll go with you."
…
The two of them walked back quickly carrying their lunch boxes. Along the way, Si Lei asked about Ding Xueyang's situation again. However, Hesta didn't know much about this person, so he couldn't answer many things.
"You were right to stay home that day," Si Lei said. "It was dangerous to leave her alone at that time."
"Well, I know," Hestad lowered his eyes slightly, "I was thinking about another person that day..."
"Alvira?"
"……Um."
"It's still different," Si Lei exhaled. In this slightly cold autumn night, some traces of white mist were barely revealed. "The situation of pregnant women will be more complicated. Life and death are a matter of an instant... There are When you encounter a life-saving straw, you can survive."
"...I have no other choice." Hesta whispered, "I can't do anything."
"You really can't do it," Si Lei replied. "The cage at that time was airtight, and those who jumped out... probably relied on a little bit of luck."
Hesta looked at Si Lei with some concern - her tone when she said this was as if she was talking about her own mental journey.
Soon, Hesta followed Si Lei to the blood hospital.
Even at night, the corridors of the inpatient department are still brightly lit. Si Lei's pace became faster and faster, and Hesta followed closely behind, taking the elevator all the way to the twelfth floor.
In the silence, Hesta suddenly spoke: "What is your child's name?"
"Si Yu."
In an instant, a distant question was suddenly answered.
Light rain.
Hesta finally realized that the name Si Lei called out in his sleep that night was her child.
"Is everything okay with him?" Hesta asked again.
"It needs to be observed, but he hasn't had a fever in the past week, which is a good sign." Si Lei said softly, "And he has a pen pal who has been in contact for five years who recently came to Songxueyuan to see him...she comes every week. Maybe it's For this reason, he is in a better mood than before."
The internal structure of the blood hospital is very complex. After getting out of the elevator, Hesta followed Si Lei around and around, and finally reached the vicinity of the intensive care unit. Most of the wards have turned off the lights at this time, and the family members accompanying them have either fallen asleep or are puffing away in the smoking area in silence. Except for the slight machine noise, the surroundings are very quiet.
Not far away, a young man wearing a light brown fedora hat sat on a chair in the corridor.
He heard the footsteps and turned around. Just as he was about to stand up, his whole body suddenly froze.
At this moment, besides Officer Si Lei, there was another person approaching quickly from far away in the corridor...
"Sinan?" Si Lei greeted softly, "Why are you still here? Haven't you gone back?"
Methnan suddenly became incoherent. He lowered his head slightly and used the brim of his hat to block the line of sight between Hesta and himself.
"...Doctor Zhang said that he is in the office on the 16th floor now. You can go up and find him when you come," Mei Sinan replied almost in a whisper, "I also want to hear about Si Yu's condition, so..."
