Chapter 59: Fallen Ill

  Staring at the car driven by Lin Yan, it was actually an off-road vehicle with a military license plate. If this car were to run on the road, ordinary traffic police would not dare to stop it.

  Xīng yè pulled open the car door and sat in the front passenger seat, knowing that he was Lín Yéyé's grandson. Xīng yè then put him in the category of acquaintances, so there was no need to be overly cautious anymore.

  "Where did you get this car?" Xing Ye couldn't help but ask. The license plate was from Tianyun, it's impossible for him to have driven it from home.

  "This car, I borrowed it from my uncle." Lin Yan drove skillfully.

  "How old are you? When did you get your driver's license?" Xīng Yè saw that he drove very skillfully, but knew that he was not very old.

  "I'm one year older than you, I'm in high school now, and I've been driving for three or four years, don't worry about it, I guarantee there won't be any problems," said Lin Yan.

  "That's because you don't have a driver's license." Xīng Yè couldn't help but say, "Heavens, it turns out you're also a minor. Without a driver's license, how dare you borrow a car? And your uncle dared to lend it to you too."

  "I borrowed the car just because no one dared to check, my uncle knows I'm a good driver. Let me tell you, when I was thirteen, I drove my dad's unit's truck around the military compound for a whole circle." Lin Yan said with pride.

  "Good luck you didn't hit anyone."

  "No one was hit, but two small trees by the roadside were knocked down and the big canopy of the logistics team was torn."

  The "puff" sound made him burst out laughing in the middle of the night.

  "Don't laugh..."

  The two of them returned to the entrance of the residential area laughing and chatting.

  "Go ahead, don't you go see my grandparents." Xīng Yè suggested, knowing that he recognizes him every year when he comes to pay New Year's respects to his grandmother.

  "Never mind, I'm not ready for the engagement gifts yet, it's embarrassing to see the old man." Lin Yan still couldn't change his habit of making jokes.

  "I'm too lazy to reason with you, I'm leaving." Grabbed his backpack and umbrella and got off the bus in the middle of the night.

  "Let's go out and have some fun together tomorrow, I'll pick you up at the entrance." Lin Yan said behind her.

  "No, I have to accompany my grandmother tomorrow." Xīng Yè got off the car and refused.

  "Then I'll come and tell Grandma tomorrow." Lin Yan said persistently.

  Waved goodbye in the starry night, without a response, walked into the residential area.

  "Welcome back," said Mei Ayi, taking Starry Night's umbrella.

  "Aunt Mei, has Uncle Zhu's leg gotten any better?" Xing Ye asked while changing his shoes. Aunt Mei's husband, whose surname was Zhu, had suffered from avascular necrosis of the femoral head, a supposedly incurable disease that could only be managed through care and nursing. As a result, it had always been Aunt Mei who earned money to support the family. A few days ago, her sister-in-law had helped him get in touch with an expert who performed surgery on him.

  "Uh-huh, the day before yesterday I went with him for a check-up and the doctor said the surgery was very successful, he can now walk downstairs with crutches in moderation." Mei's aunt couldn't hide the smile on her face.

  "Aunt Mei, you've been running around these days, it must be very tiring for you. You've even lost weight." Xing Ye put his arm around Aunt Mei's shoulder as they walked in, to him, Aunt Mei was a kind and lovable elder.

  "Besides, I'm even more embarrassed now. I've been taking my salary, but coming late and leaving early, which has delayed a lot of work these days. Now it's fine, he can basically take care of himself. I come in the morning and go back at night, and Xiao Jia comes back once in between, so nothing is delayed." Mei Ayi's face was full of gratitude.

  "Let Uncle Zhu have a good rest and don't worry about rushing down," said Xing Ye.

  "I also told him that, but he's just so anxious. I know the past two years have been frustrating for him, always saying to hurry up and find a job already." Mei said about her husband with a mix of anger and love. "Never mind, you go change your clothes quickly, why are they still wet after using an umbrella? Go change, don't catch a cold."

  "Ah" Xīng Yè answered hastily as he quickly went upstairs, this after-school moment had too many things happening, the umbrella was also unstable, getting his clothes all wet.

  After changing clothes, went downstairs to a happy family dinner, sent away Mei Ayi who wanted to stay and help with the cleaning, worked through the night, washing dishes and humming while quickly tidying up the kitchen, also made tea for Grandpa.

  Accompanied grandfather to play chess, under the pretext of having a monthly exam next week, refused to watch Taiwanese melodrama with grandmother and went back to my own room.

  Xing Ye spread out the letter paper to write a letter to Hui Ye, which became her habit. Every weekend when she came back, she would write a letter to Hui Ye, telling her about the people and things she encountered at school. Sometimes she would even write about what she ate that week or who found a bug in their food. She was afraid that Hui Ye would be annoyed by her, but Hui Ye's reply said she was very happy to receive Xing Ye's letters, so Xing Ye's letters became thicker and thicker.

  After finishing the letter on a starry night, I wanted to take out my homework and sit down, but I was a bit drowsy. Looking at the clock, it wasn't even nine o'clock yet, so I went to take a shower and sat back down at my desk. However, when I picked up my book, I couldn't read a single word, feeling extremely tired.

  Maybe it's because I've had too many things happen today, and it's unbearable. I simply closed my book and went to bed early tonight.

  She was sleeping drowsily on a starry night when someone pushed her. Her eyelids were heavy, and she used force to open them, only to see her grandmother and Mei's mother standing by the bed with worried faces.

  "What's wrong with me?" Xīng Yè said in a hoarse voice, his entire body feeling sore and aching.

  "You're sick, come on, take your medicine and go back to sleep," said Grandma.

  Under the help of Mei Yi, Xing Ye swallowed a dose of Chinese medicine and didn't have the energy to speak, burying his head in bed and falling into a daze again.

  When she woke up again, it was already afternoon.

  She slowly sat up, throwing off the thick quilt, her head still spinning and she didn't dare to make any big movements. She turned her head to look at herself in the mirror, her hair was disheveled, her face was pale, and her lips were dry and cracked. No wonder it hurt so much.

  I've caught a cold. It's as if I hadn't been sick since my rebirth last year, and it all accumulated to this one time. The cold is so severe.

  A fit of coughing, saw water on the small tea table in the middle of the night, got out of bed and wanted to drink a glass of water.

  "Are you awake?"

  The door was opened and Xing Ye was startled by the sudden voice in the middle of the night. Just as she wanted to speak, she started coughing again.

  Someone quickly came in, poured a glass of water and handed it to Xing Ye, who took several sips before stopping his cough.

  "What's Lin Yan to you?" Xing Ye asked as soon as he stopped coughing.

  Lin Yan took over the cup from Xing Ye's hand and said: "Looking at you now, it seems like you're going to faint at any moment. You'd better go back to bed."

  Looking at the starry night, Lin Yan smiled and said: "I waited for you all morning but didn't see you come out, so I came in to find you. I heard that you were sick, at first I thought you didn't want to see me, so you pretended to be ill on purpose."

  "Are you here looking for me?" Xing Ye hastily asked.

  Lin Yan looked at Xing Ye and didn't tease her anymore, telling the truth: "No, I just said that I arrived in Tianyun today to visit them on behalf of my grandfather."

  Xīng yè fàng xīn de diǎn diǎn tóu, "lín yéye de wán xiào huà, hái shì bù néng dàng zhe wǒ wài gōng tāmen shuō le, wài gōng bù xǐ huān."

  "No wonder," Lin Yan said with a look of realization, and Xing Ye looked at him curiously, explaining: "You know, every time I come to Grandpa's house, he's always polite and even praises me a couple of times. But today, from the moment I walked in, he didn't give me a good face, and he even dragged me to play chess with him, knowing full well that I'm not good at it. That wasn't playing chess at all, I think he just wanted to humiliate me and vent his anger."

  Xīng yè mò jǐn le zuǐ, rěn zhù shuāi zi de kě yì, wèn tā: "Nǐ bú shì péi wài gōng le ma? Zěn me yòu zài lóu shàng?"

  Translation:

  Xingye pursed her lips and suppressed the urge to cough, asking him, "Aren't you supposed to be with Grandpa? Why are you upstairs again?"

  Xing Ye coughed uncomfortably under the starry night sky, and Lin Yan suddenly produced a box of lozenges from somewhere, handing one to Xing Ye. "Suck on this, it'll soothe your throat." Only after Xing Ye put the lozenge in his mouth did he continue, "I'll be staying in the guest room tonight, and I'll leave early tomorrow morning."

  Xīng yè de dù zi yí zhèn gū gū jiào, xīng yè róu róu dù zi, yào xià chuáng, "wǒ è le, hái shì qù chú fáng zhǎo diǎn chī de ba."

  Translation:

  Xing Ye's stomach growled, Xing Ye rubbed his stomach and got out of bed. "I'm hungry, I'll go to the kitchen to find something to eat."

  "No, no," Lin Yan stopped her, "Aunt Mei has instructed that once you wake up, go call her, just wait, I'll go call"

  Lin Yan went out and soon after, Mei Yi and her grandmother both came up.

  "Awake," Grandma came in and touched Xing Ye's forehead first, "Hmm, the fever has gone down."

  Xing Ye pulled her grandmother's hand and coquettishly said, "Grandma, don't worry, I'm fine. You see, after a good sleep, everything will be all right."

  "You child, why didn't you tell us that your body wasn't feeling well? If we hadn't come to call you for dinner, we wouldn't have known. You were in a daze this morning and couldn't even be woken up by calling your name, which really scared me. I called Doctor Wang over to give you an injection, and only then did you start to feel better. Now, just lie here honestly and take good care of yourself." Her grandmother scolded her.

  "You must be hungry, have some porridge first, and then take your medicine." Mei Yi brought over the white porridge that had been cooked a while ago.

  The porridge was handed over on a starry night, and I was hungry too, so I finished it quickly.

  The person was stuffed back into bed by his grandmother, "Lie down properly and don't go anywhere."

  Lin Yan stood at the door, smiling and watching everything, until his grandmother turned around and saw him, and only then remembered to introduce him.

  "Look at this brain, Lin Yan comes," the old man greeted Lin Yan in front of the starry night, "This is Lin Yan, your grandfather's grandson, and also my own grandson, you can just call him brother."

  "Brother Lin Yan." Xing Ye called out "brother" sweetly in front of her grandmother.

  "Starlight sister," Lin Yan smiled even more happily, since meeting her, she had been punched in the head and kicked once, but never so gentle before. Listening to her call him "brother" was quite sweet! It seemed that there were still many twists and turns in her heart.

  "You young people know each other, our two families are just like one family." Xing Ye's grandmother was very satisfied with their attitude and reminded Xing Ye again before leaving, "Get plenty of rest, no more reading, it's exhausting."

  Lin Yan wisely closed the door and followed the old lady downstairs.