Chapter 232: Chapter 232

It was too early for buses, so Qin Xi treated everyone to a bowl of wonton in the hospital cafeteria before they took the bus back.

After arriving at school, it was just past seven o’clock, and Iro and Anna went back to the dormitory first.

Li Xianglu and Qin Xi stood by the parallel bars across from the dormitory and chatted for a while.

Qin Xi was taken aback when he heard about Xu Xin’s situation. He thought it was appendicitis at first, but it turned out to be a severe hemorrhage. He reached out and took Li Xianglu’s hand, comforting her, "Were you scared?" Such an incident is a particularly frightening experience for an unmarried girl.

Li Xianglu nodded, "A bit, but I’m more worried that Xu Xin won’t be able to be a mother in the future."

Qin Xi shook his head, "That won’t be the case, if she can come to terms with adopting a child, that’s also an option. It depends on how they both face this situation." Pregnancy is not a matter for just one person.

Li Xianglu nodded thoughtfully and then whispered, "I’ve placed the items."

Qin Xi raised his eyebrows, smiling, "Hmm, good that you placed them. If they try to probe you, it’s better to show some flaws."

Huh? Li Xianglu didn’t understand why that was necessary.

Qin Xi smiled and said, "Actually, if you plant the information, they will believe it more because you have your grandfather; they won’t think the information was prepared by you or me, but rather that your grandfather took action."

Then why make them think it was the grandfather? Li Xianglu frowned, puzzled.

Qin Xi smiled and said, "Alright, don’t overthink it, it’s only eight now. You can still sleep for a couple of hours."

Li Xianglu was indeed very tired. She loved to sleep, always going to bed early. She had gotten up at two the previous day and was really sleepy. After saying goodbye, she returned to her dormitory.

Qin Xi watched her enter the dormitory before turning away to leave.

Unbeknownst to them, someone was standing at the dormitory window, watching the whole time.

Seeing the two part ways, Tian Tian turned to Lin Dongxue, who was lying on the bed, and said, "Li Xianglu is back," then sat on the edge of the bed to comb her hair.

Soon, Li Xianglu entered the room, looking exhausted. Only Tian Tian and Lin Dongxue were in the dormitory at the time.

Li Xianglu stood still, changed her shoes, took off her outer pants, and sat on her bed to ask, "Tian Tian, why is it just you two?"

Tian Tian explained, "As soon as Lu Anna and Iro came back, they went upstairs to find someone. Xiao Chong and Wang Ke went to have breakfast. How is Xu Xin doing? Does she need surgery?"

Li Xianglu looked a bit awkward, not knowing how to respond since Xu Xin’s situation was supposed to be kept confidential, so she just lightly nodded.

Tian Tian’s eyebrows slightly furrowed, then she suddenly smiled and asked, "Xiao Xiang, did you see anyone approaching my bed yesterday?"

Li Xianglu, who had been looking down, suddenly looked up and met Tian Tian’s smiling face. She laughed nervously and shook her head, "No, I didn’t see anyone."

Tian Tian’s mouth curled up, the expression on her face saying ’I knew it’.

Li Xianglu then took off her outer clothes and socks and lay down, saying she needed to sleep for a while.

When Li Xianglu woke up, it was already ten o’clock. Xiao Chong woke her up, telling her there was only twenty minutes until class started, and urged her to hurry.

Li Xianglu, still drowsy, quickly got up, found a clean pair of pants and a velour top, and threw on a thin nylon jacket. By this time, Lu Anna and Iro were also awake, the three of them hurriedly washed up and rushed to the classroom.

This class is so hard to endure, it’s a math class, three people are drowsily nodding like pecking chickens, and finally, after two hours, the class is over.

Li Xianglu rubbed her face and said, "I’ll go buy some soup outside, you guys go put the books away, and ask if anyone else wants to go, then let’s meet at the school gate, okay?"

Lu Anna nodded and said, "Okay, just give us the books, we’ll go change our clothes. See you at the school gate later."

Li Xianglu wasn’t actually going to buy soup; she had stored several servings of chicken soup, fish soup, and pork rib winter melon soup in her Storage Ring, just needing to find a place to take it out.

However, regarding the soup container, she decided to just say it was borrowed.

Thinking this way, Li Xianglu hurried out of the school gate, and just as she was about to go to the store across the street to see if she should buy some sanitary pads for Xu Xin, she saw a familiar figure walking towards a black sedan.

How come it’s her? School just ended, where is Tian Tian going? I haven’t heard that she has relatives in the capital.

Li Xianglu was puzzled; as she approached, the car started and soon left.

Li Xianglu then went across the street, bought some items, and managed to prepare a bucket of pork rib winter melon soup at a corner.

About ten minutes later, Lu Anna, Iro, Wang Ke, and Xiao Chong, four people appeared at the school gate, and after the five of them gathered, they decided to take the tram.

Xiao Chong said, "Let’s go buy some fruit first, Lin Dongxue gave us three yuan, said to buy some fruit for Xu Xin."

Li Xianglu was stunned for a moment; this is postpartum care, she shouldn’t eat anything cold.

Lu Anna firmly shook her head: "She can’t eat anything too cold. When she’s discharged, buy some eggs and keep them in the dorm for her to boil and eat."

Xiao Chong didn’t understand why they couldn’t buy something cold but nodded anyway: "Alright, let’s go then."

Seeing the food container in Li Xianglu’s hand, no one asked further; it took about half an hour by tram as the military hospital was seven or eight stops away from the school. Except for Xiao Chong and Wang Ke, the other three were somewhat somber; they didn’t know how to face Xu Xin who had her uterus removed.

But as the five of them approached the door of the ward, they heard laughter coming from inside; it was Xu Xin laughing, wasn’t she supposed to be very sick? Why would she still be in the mood to laugh? All five were taken aback.

Leading the way, Xiao Chong knocked on the door, the laughter stopped, and Meng Gang came to open the door.

Seeing that it was people from Xu Xin’s dorm, he was a bit embarrassed and guilty, nervously stepping back.

Xu Xin, seeing everyone had come, smiled and asked, "Why are you all here?"

Xiao Chong blinked, looking somewhat strangely at Xu Xin, apart from looking pale, she didn’t seem like someone who had just undergone an appendectomy; his mother had had the surgery, it was quite painful, one would need to support themselves on the wall even if in pain, afraid of things like intestinal adhesion.

Everyone settled in, Li Xianglu handed the food container to Meng Gang who was nearby, saying, "Pork rib winter melon, buy some buns to go with it."

Meng Gang nodded, placed down the food container, and left.

Li Xianglu then said to Xiao Chong and Wang Ke, "Xiao Chong, Wang Ke, why don’t you go sit outside on the chairs for a while, we’ll call you in later."

The two of them, deemed the most naive in the dorm, immediately nodded and left.

As soon as the two of them left, Xu Xin’s smile completely faded from her face, she became pensive, staring blankly at the quilt on her bed.

Li Xianglu looked and sighed without saying anything, wondering how to comfort her.

Iro glanced at Lu Anna and tugged at her arm, the two sat together on the opposite bed.