When Jiang Qiao handed the phone to Cheng Ruoxi, the screen just lit up.
He didn't see clearly what it was, but it seemed like someone had sent her a WeChat message.
Cheng Ruoxi took the phone, her expression was stagnant, and she looked a little hesitant.
She silently opened the message, and after a few seconds, her eyes lowered, covering her eyes that were slowly dimming.
"Sister Xi, what's wrong with you?" Jiang Qiao still didn't understand what was going on.
How could a person who was so lively just now become so wilted?
"It's nothing, it's just my mother who sent me a message." Cheng Ruoxi whispered, her smile a little bitter.
Jiang Qiao's heart skipped a beat: "Did Auntie say something?"
He could probably guess what it was about. It was nothing more than words about whether the condition was serious or not, and about taking care of yourself. Cheng Ruoxi's parents didn't know how many times they had used these words to respond to her expectations, but they couldn't come back because of something.
"It's nothing, just some useless nonsense." Cheng Ruoxi forced a smile: "Jiang Qiao, you'd better go back to class. It's not good to delay class."
"What will you do when I go back?"
"I'm not a child. I can do it alone. Besides, there's no nurse... Oh, go to class quickly."
Cheng Ruoxi almost wanted to drive Jiang Qiao out.
"Then what will you do for lunch?" Jiang Qiao asked.
Cheng Ruoxi took out a lunch box from her schoolbag and placed it in front of Jiang Qiao: "I still want to take it to school to eat... I'll just ask the nurse sister to heat it up for me later."
"Can you eat enough? Do you need me to go outside and buy you another meal?"
"You really think I'm a pig," Cheng Ruoxi said, "There are so many fruits here."
Jiang Qiao thought for a while, then nodded and said, "Okay, have a good rest. I'll come back tonight. What do you want to eat tonight?"
"I don't want to eat it." Cheng Ruoxi shook her head.
"Okay, let's have eel rice."
Cheng Ruoxi:......
In her strange eyes, Jiang Qiao walked out of the ward with his schoolbag on his back.
It was already noon, and there were many family members walking around with lunch boxes in the hospital, as well as some riders carrying takeaways.
Even outside the hospital, there was an alley lined with a series of pots and pans. The alley was filled with people, and they were all cooking and cooking there.
The person who prepared the meal hurriedly packed up the food and ran to the hospital, where the next person would take over.
Probably such a special place appeared to facilitate the patients' meals.
Looking at the smoke of fireworks, Jiang Qiao felt that something in his heart seemed to be loose.
When he was about to walk away, he suddenly saw a familiar figure in the alley.
Tian Zhen, who had a shaved head and wore a yellow cotton jacket, was holding the iron pot with one hand and waving the spatula vigorously with the other.
The table holding the gas stove vibrated due to excessive force, and even showed signs of tipping over, but Tian Zhen didn't notice.
"Be careful!" A gentle voice sounded behind Tian Zhen. He noticed the signs of the table and adjusted the movements of his hands.
The oil smoke floated up in waves, causing Tian Zhen to cough several times.
Add salt, thirteen incense, and oil to the pot together, stir-fry again, and the aroma will rise, mixing in the alley, like rivers flowing into the sea.
Turn off the heat, simmer for ten minutes, stir-fry and put into a plastic box.
"Why are you here?" Tian Zhen glanced behind him and kept moving his hands neatly.
Two identical plastic boxes were already placed on the table next to him, but they contained different dishes.
"My friend is hospitalized and I came to see her," Jiang Qiao said.
Tian Zhen was silent for a while, until he put three boxes of vegetables into non-woven bags, and then said:
"Grandma is hospitalized, and I'm here to take care of her."
Jiang Qiao also fell silent. It was a sad thing to meet at such a time and on such an occasion.
He still remembered the first time he went to Tian Zhen's house. The old lady was in good condition, and at least her voice when asking Tian Zhen to go back was still loud.
Unexpectedly, just over half a month later, the old lady would be hospitalized.
"I cooked some more vegetables, do you want to ask your friend to eat with us?"
Jiang Qiao was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Thank you, but no, my friend is probably eating there right now."
…
Saying goodbye to Tian Zhen, Jiang Qiao took the subway back to school.
At this time, school had been out for a while at noon. Jiang Qiao returned to the classroom with the rice he had just bought, but there was no one in the classroom.
Before his butt was warmed up in his seat, he had just opened the lid of the packing box when he heard a familiar voice at the door:
"Jiangqiao?"
He looked up and saw Li Wan standing at the door, looking at him with a smile.
"Didn't I ask for a day off for you? You came so early." Li Wan walked into the classroom, holding a box of lunch in her hand.
Jiang Qiao explained: "I've finished handling the matters at the hospital. If there's nothing else to do, I'll go back to class."
She sat down opposite Jiang Qiao, moved the book away, and placed the lunch box on the desk.
"Okay, classmate Jiang Qiao, how about I take this opportunity as my teacher to tutor you?" Li Wan said with a smile.
"Teacher, I really have something wrong." Jiang Qiao buried a mouthful of rice in his mouth.
"Well, I'm listening." Li Wan opened his lunch box, which contained three dishes, stir-fried beef, scrambled eggs with tomatoes and a box of stir-fried broccoli.
On the other hand, here in Jiangqiao, there is only an ordinary box of fried noodles, which looks quite shabby.
Before Li Wan started eating, he took a look at Jiang Qiao's noodles.
Almost without hesitation, she picked up the box of stir-fried beef and used chopsticks to chop most of it into Jiang Qiao's bowl.
"Teacher..." Jiang Qiao was a little at a loss.
"My chopsticks are clean... the students should eat more, the teacher can't eat." Li Wan picked up the box of tomatoes, scrambled eggs and broccoli, and repeated the action just now.
Li Wan didn't stop until the three dishes covered Jiang Qiao's box of noodles tightly.
"Okay~ Now you can talk about your affairs." She smiled and started to eat.
"Well, teacher, can I not come to the evening self-study this semester? I have something to deal with."
Li Wan frowned: "There is more than a month left in this semester... Isn't it convenient for you to tell the teacher, what is so important?"
"Cheng Ruoxi is injured and hospitalized. She needs me."
Li Wan's expression was immediately filled with surprise: "What's wrong? Is it serious?"
Jiang Qiao shook his head: "It's not serious. It just needs to be observed in the hospital for more than a month."
"This is not serious!"
Li Wan's frown relaxed again: "Fortunately, you didn't say anything about wanting to go home and study... OK, I promise you, but in exchange, I have a condition."
"What conditions?" Jiang Qiao asked.
"In this final exam, you have to promise me that you will be ranked first in the school and in the top 30 in the city."
"That's...ok." Jiang Qiao was a little embarrassed, but he still agreed.