Back in the dormitory, Jiang Suchu took out the mobile phone locked in the cabinet. While waiting for the phone to turn on, she felt as if her heart was being hung higher and higher by a rope.
After turning it on, she found her aunt's mobile phone number. When I pressed the dial key, I realized that my fingers were shaking.
Du~du~
Listening to the mechanical sound on the phone, she felt a little breathless. Just when she felt like she was suffocating, the call finally came through.
"Hello."
Jiang Suichu squeezed the phone tightly, took a breath and said quickly, "Auntie, I am Suisui. Grandma, she..."
Before she could finish her question, her aunt's sharp voice came from the other end of the phone, "What's the matter with you? I keep calling you and can't get through. Do you know that your grandma keeps calling your name in the hospital and is waiting for you?" .”
"What!?" Jiang Suichu's legs went weak and he fell to the ground.
She panicked and tried to grab something, but in the end she only grabbed the cold iron railings of the canopy bed. "What happened to grandma? Why are you in the hospital?"
Her eyes were scarlet and her voice was trembling.
How did that happen? She called her grandma two days ago and she was obviously fine.
There was a lot of noise on the other end of the phone, and then she heard her uncle's voice on the other end of the phone, "Suisui."
Jiang Suchu was a little stunned, "Uncle?"
She became more and more panicked, wondering why even her uncle was back.
Jiang Suchu cried and asked him, "Uncle, what's wrong with grandma?"
Jiang Zhiguo choked and said: "Sui Sui, grandma is in the county hospital. If you can come back, please take a leave and come back."
Jiang Zhiguo didn't say it clearly, but the meaning in his tone was already clear. Jiang Suchu felt cold all over and his mind went blank.
"Okay...Okay...Uncle, I'm going back now." Jiang Suichu pulled on the railing of the bed and tried to stand up, but failed to stand up after standing several times.
Finally she fell to the ground, collapsed and covered her face and cried bitterly.
"Uncle, grandma..." She cried too fast and was a little choked, "...can you let me talk to grandma?"
She wanted to hear grandma's voice.
Jiang Zhiguo sighed, "Sui Sui, grandma is in the intensive care unit."
He Min originally planned to go back to the classroom and change into a thicker coat, but as soon as he walked to the door of the dormitory, he heard Jiang Suchu's cry. Before she could open the dormitory door in time, Jiang Suichu ran out crying.
He Min caught her in time, "Sui Sui, what's wrong with you?"
Jiang Suchu's face was full of tears. She just pulled her sleeves tightly, "Xiao Min, I...I want to go home."
He Min frowned and said, "There is an exam in the afternoon, aren't you going to take it?"
Jiang Suchu cried and shook his head, but kept saying, "I want to go home, I want to go home."
He Min looked at her and guessed what happened at home. But she didn't dare to ask her directly, she was too emotional now.
She thought for a moment and asked, "Have you asked for leave?"
Jiang Suchu was stunned for a moment. She was now thinking about her grandma, and she forgot that she couldn't go out to school without asking for leave.
"Yes, please take leave." She called her class teacher on her mobile phone and ran downstairs while calling.
"Hey, Sui Sui!" He Min wanted to chase, but the bedroom door was not closed yet. She was worried that if she lost something, she would be in trouble later, so she had to go back and lock the bedroom door first.
When she hurriedly closed the bedroom door and chased downstairs, Jiang Suchu was nowhere to be seen.
The lunch break is almost over and the English test is about to take place. She glanced in the direction of the school gate, and finally ran back to the classroom.
Lu Zhinian stood in the corridor outside the classroom, looking in the direction of the stairs. It's almost time for the exam, and Jiang Suichu hasn't come back yet.
Feeling more and more uneasy, he took out his mobile phone and dialed Jiang Suichu's number and walked towards the water room. But the call was always on and couldn't be connected.
"Lu Zhinian." He Min happened to see Lu Zhinian when he went upstairs and called him quickly.
Lu Zhinian saw He Min and remembered that she seemed to be in the same dormitory as Jiang Suchu.
He Min said: "I just went back to the dormitory and saw Suisui crying."
Lu Zhinian's expression condensed, he put away his phone and walked to her, "Is she still in the dormitory now?"
He Min shook his head, "She kept crying and said she wanted to go home. She just called her class teacher to ask for leave. She is probably out of school now."
At this time, the class bell rang, and the corridor was full of people going to the examination room.
Lu Zhinian turned around and ran downstairs without any hesitation.
Tang Zi had just returned from using the restroom and met Lu Zhinian in the stairwell. He stopped him and said, "A-Nian, we are about to enter the examination room. Where are you going?"
Lu Zhinian didn't reply to him, just brushed his shoulder and hurriedly ran through the crowded stairs toward the school gate.
Tang Zi looked at his back in confusion and scratched his head, "Why are you so crazy again?"
Lu Zhinian kept calling Jiang Suichu while running, but no one answered.
When he ran to the school gate, he was stopped by the guard, "Hey, classmate, stop."
Lu Zhinian gasped and asked the guard, "Uncle, did any female classmate ask for leave just now?"
The guard uncle looked at him strangely and nodded, "Yes, who are you?"
"I..." Lu Zhinian paused and said, "Brother, how long has she been out?"
Uncle doorman: "It will take about ten minutes. I will take a taxi at the door and leave."
Today, the whole school took the monthly exam, and only Jiang Suichu asked for leave, so the guard uncle remembered it very clearly. Moreover, Jiang Suchu had been crying, and it seemed that his cell phone was broken, so he used the landline in the guard room to call the head teacher to ask for leave.
Lu Zhinian frowned deeply and took out his cell phone to call his class teacher to ask for leave. He just said he wanted to take leave, but his head teacher refused and asked him to go back to take the exam immediately.
The guard uncle also kept staring at him, fearing that he would rush out the door.
Lu Zhinian thought for a moment and called Shu Yuan while returning to the classroom.
The call was answered quickly.
"A-Nian? Don't you have an exam today?" Shu Yuan was busy in the company and felt a little strange when she saw Lu Zhinian's phone call.
Lu Zhinian got straight to the point and said directly: "Mom, something seems to have happened at Suisui's house. She just asked for leave and went home crying, and now she can't get through on the phone. You go to the East Bus Station first and have a look. If she returns to Muyang Town, she can only go back in the afternoon. There’s another bus at three o’clock.”
When Shu Yuan heard that Jiang Suichu had something to do, she immediately stood up and said, "Okay, I'll go now."
Lu Zhinian: "Yeah."
After hanging up the phone, Lu Zhinian called Jiang Minghao again.
"Jiang Minghao, which hospital does grandma usually go to when she gets sick?"
After much thought, he realized that the only thing that could make Jiang Suichu cry was something about his grandma. He guessed that grandma might be sick, but if she was really sick, she would most likely be in a town or county hospital.
Now that Jiang Suichu couldn't get through on the phone, he could only ask Jiang Minghao, maybe he could find out.
Jiang Minghao: "Grandma Jiang is sick?"
Lu Zhinian: "It's possible. Jiang just took leave at the beginning of the year and went back."
Jiang Minghao: "In three minutes, I will send you a message on WeChat."
Lu Zhinian: "Okay. Thank you."
Jiang Minghao paused, "It's okay."
After hanging up the phone, Lu Zhinian still called Jiang Suichu over and over without giving up, but he still couldn't get through.
Soon, I received a message from Jiang Minghao on WeChat.
Jiang Minghao: [Grandma is at the Fifth People’s Hospital of Suyang County. 】
It was really like this. He didn't dare to think about how helpless Jiang Suichu was now.
Lu Zhinian took a breath and replied: [Thank you. 】
He then forwarded the message to Shu Yuan, and then sent a message to the pinned person.
[Jiang Suichu, I am here. 】
I am always here.
It was the fastest exam Lu Zhinian had ever taken. He answered all the questions in less than half an hour, and even his listening skills were intuitive.
When he handed in the paper, everyone in the examination room gasped. Even the invigilator looked at him in disbelief, "Are you sure you want to hand in the paper?"
"Yeah." Lu Zhinian put the test paper on the podium, left the classroom and went straight to the teacher's office to write a request for leave.
