You hidden in my heart - Chapter 12

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Chapter 12
After Xu Dongruo told Li Xining about Lu Yuling that she had inquired from Ma Peng, Li Xining kept her promise and told Xu Dongruo about the matter between herself and Lu Yuling.
Xu Dongruo: “Are you two not together?”
Li Xining’s cheeks became hot, and she firmly denied it. “No, don’t think about it!”
Xu Dongruo: “You are telling me not to talk nonsense, but the way you are jabbering now looks like puppy love.”
Li Xining: “…”
As a top-level gossiper, Xu Dongruo didn’t intend to stop there. “Hey, tell me the truth. Do you like him?”
Li Xining thought for a while and replied, “I don’t know.”
Xu Dongruo: “What do you mean you don’t know? You have never treated a boy like that. You are giving him extra lessons and urging him to cut his hair. And even you are jealous because other girls like him.”
Li Xining sighed. “I think I might like it a little bit, but I don’t know whether it’s because of my gratitude for him or not. He rescued me from the accident that day. The moment I got down, I even had the heart to give him a baby.”
On the silent night, Xu Dongruo burst out laughing instantly. “Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!”
Li Xining said helplessly, “Oh, don’t laugh, really, I… I feel that I owe him a life, and I don’t know how to pay him back except by giving birth to him, so now I don’t know whether I like him or appreciate him. I just want to be good to him.”
After hearing what her friend said, Xu Dongruo probably understood how Li Xining felt that day. It was impossible for her not to be grateful to Lu Yuling for saving her life. “Then if you still can’t figure it out, how can you still be so ambiguous with him?”
Li Xining was taken aback. “Are we now ambiguous?”
Xu Dongruo told the truth, “It’s quite ambiguous! Let’s ignore our classmates; even the class teacher thinks there is something wrong with the two of you. That day I was on duty to clean the teacher’s office, and he suddenly asked me, “Is Li Xining dating Lu Yuling?”
Li Xining was anxious and nervous, and she couldn’t even breathe properly. “H…how did you answer back?”
Xu Dongruo: “I definitely said no, I also said that you were classmates when you were in junior high school, so you have a good relationship.”
Li Xining breathed a sigh of relief. “I’m scared to death, why is Lao Zhou still thinking wildly?”
Xu Dongruo: “It’s really no wonder that Lao Zhou is thinking wildly, you give Lu Yuling extra lessons at noon every day, and he will go to you after class. Picking up water and buying snacks, anyone who sees it will think that there is something wrong with you two, and, do you know that you smile when you see Lu Yuling now? You smile like a flower.”
Li Xining began to feel hot all over. “Really? ”
“Really, once you see him, you don’t see anyone else in your eyes.” Senior gossip commentator Xu Dongruo made a conclusion on this: “I think you should like him, but you just didn’t figure it out.
After listening to her friend’s words, Li Xining, a good student who had never been in a relationship, felt shy. “How can you say that? I don’t like that kind of ba*tard!”
Xu Dongruo: “Oh, come on. I’m just helping you understand your own feelings.” As a bystander, she could clearly understand Li Xining’s heart.
Li Xining didn’t want to go deeper into this topic and said, “Okay, stop, this is the end of today’s chat, I’m going to bed. Remember to wipe off your nail polish tomorrow, or you won’t come to school on Monday! ”
“My nail polish is transparent, they can’t see it.” Xu Dongruo had good grades and was usually a well-behaved student. She didn’t have any other hobbies, but she liked to wear nail polish.
Li Xining: “Why can’t they see it? They’ll definitely catch you.” As the monitor, she must enforce the law impartially and avenge her personal revenge.
Xu Dongruo: “Okay, Li Xining, why didn’t I realise that you were so selfless before? You can just use Lu Yuling’s hair as an excuse, why do you still use my nail polish to sacrifice to the sky?”
Li Xining wanted to laugh but held back. “I don’t care, if you don’t wipe off the nail polish, stand outside the door with Lu Yuling on Monday.”
Xu Dongruo: “Okay, I’ll call Lu Yuling after I hang up the phone, and tell him that you want to give birth for him.”
Li Xining was anxious. “Dare you!”
Xu Dongruo: “Are you afraid? If you are afraid, call me Dad!”
Li Xining gritted her teeth. “You are really…”
Xu Dongruo: “Hey, Lu Yuling, our family Xining wants to give birth for you…”
“Father Xu!”
Xu Dongruo was satisfied: “This is a good boy.”
Li Xining was furious. “Hurry up and go to sleep!”
Xu Dongruo promised firmly. “Father and daughter, there is no need to talk too much. Don’t worry, for my daughter’s sake, I will definitely wipe off the nail polish tomorrow. They are all cut, and I will definitely not hinder the class.”
Li Xining: “Then I can thank you!”
Xu Dongruo: “I mean, you don’t have to think about me, think about your child’s father. If he really doesn’t want to cut his hair, what should you do?”
‘My child’s father?’ Li Xining’s cheeks were red and hot in an instant. “Xu Dongruo, if you talk nonsense again, I will break up with you!”
Xu Dongruo felt that Li Xining was shy, so she quickly changed her words: “Okay, okay, I was wrong, I apologise, I won’t mention it again in the future.” Then she explained, “I just gave you a booster shot in advance to prepare you mentally, he probably won’t cut his hair, and when the time comes, he will be accurately pointed out by the seniors.”
Li Xining didn’t like to hear these words, as if Lu Yuling was hopeless. Xu Dongruo successfully aroused her aggressiveness and defensiveness, and she said firmly, “He will definitely cut it! If you don’t believe me, let’s make a bet. If you lose, I will treat you to dinner, and I will treat you for a week, and I will treat you with whatever you eat!”
Xu Dongruo replied, “If he can really cut his hair, then I believe he will turn his prodigal son back.”
Li Xining was stunned for a moment. She suddenly realised that this was no longer simply a matter of hairstyles, school rules, and discipline, but a matter of dignity and worldliness.
Everyone thought that Lu Yuling would not get better. He wouldn’t obey school rules and study, and he wouldn’t turn his prodigal son back. His classmates thought he was hopeless, and the teacher felt that he was degenerate to the end. He didn’t even care whether he was in class or not. He felt that it didn’t matter if he missed a class. This was prejudice. Perhaps it was precisely because of this prejudice, precisely because everyone gave up on him, that Lu Yuling became more and more rebellious. To break this prejudice, Lu Yuling had to prove himself with actions, so that everyone would know that he hadn’t fallen to the end and that he would get better and better. But he had to take action first. Even if the whole world gave up on him, she would not give up on him. After thinking for a moment, Li Xining said to the phone, “Tell me, if he doesn’t cut his head, is it useful for me to cry, make trouble, and hang myself?”
Xu Dongruo: “…” This question…was beyond the outline. “I, how do I know?” Xu Dongruo said it truthfully.
Li Xining: “Didn’t you always treat your brother like this before? Did it work?”
When she mentioned “brother”, Xu Dongruo’s heart softened. He was not her own brother, but he was the person she couldn’t let go of in her life. She felt that the most unforgettable tenderness she had felt in her life all came from him. However, he was no longer with her. Sighing, Xu Dongruo replied softly, “It’s useful for my brother, as long as I cry, he can promise me everything.”
Li Xining: “Then I will cry too.”
Xu Dongruo: “…In case Lu Yuling won’t. I think he is quite obsessed with his hairstyle.”
Li Xining: “Then in my heart, he will always be a dead person who cannot be resurrected!”
Xu Dongruo: “Okay…”
After hanging up the phone, Li Xining still couldn’t sleep because she was worried about Lu Yuling, so she picked up her phone and sent him a WeChat message: [Don’t forget to cut your hair tomorrow, you must cut it! On Monday morning, the grade head has to stand at the gate of the teaching area to catch people. ]
She didn’t get any reply, and around 1.30 a.m. she fell asleep and didn’t wake up until eight o’clock in the next morning until her mother called her for breakfast.
The first thing Li Xining did when she opened her eyes was to look at her phone. And still, Lu Yuling hadn’t replied. ‘Maybe he was still sleeping.’
After breakfast, Yu Wenyin took her daughter to buy a bicycle.
They returned home at noon, but still, she didn’t get a reply. So Li Xining sent Lu Yuling a WeChat message with anxiety. [Did you cut your hair?]
A reply came after a few minutes. [Okay, I will cut it when I have time.]
As soon as Li Xining saw this reply, she knew that Lu Yuling had not cut his hair. ‘Can’t you make everyone look at you with admiration once?’
Afterward, Li Xining stopped contacting Lu Yuling and held back all her energy to do the maths papers all afternoon. Seeing that Li Xining had been studying nonstop for a long time, her grandfather and grandmother felt sorry for her. They were afraid that Li Xining would be under pressure because of her studies, and would become depressed. So they propose during dinner that she go directly abroad for higher studies without facing the university entrance exam. But, Li Xining, who was a hard-working, bright student, was unhappy hearing that. Seeing that, Grandpa Li changed the topic by asking about Lu Yuling. “Xiao Yao, will the boy surnamed Lu come to pick you up tomorrow morning?”
She was angry with Lu Yuling and didn’t want to hear his name, but she suppressed her temper and said to her grandpa, “I don’t know, it’s better not to come.”
Grandpa felt something was wrong. “What’s the matter? Did you two quarrel?”
Li Xining: “No, Ah, why am I arguing with him?”
Mr. Li: “Then why don’t you want him to come?”
Before Li Xining could answer, Mrs. Li replied angrily, “Are you getting more and more confused as you get older? He is a big young man, our Xining is a girl, and we don’t let him come to arouse suspicion!”
Mr. Li retorted. “What kind of thoughts are you thinking of?”
Mrs. Li: “Anyone must know the difference between men and women!” After speaking, the old lady turned her eyes to her daughter-in-law and began to complain to her. “Your father doesn’t know what’s going on these two days, and he keeps talking about this brat named Lu every day, and keeps saying that this kid looks like Zhao Hailan.”
Yu Wenyin didn’t take it too seriously, she just thought that the old man was getting old and began to miss the past, and Zhao Hailan was her husband’s best friend in childhood, and the old man might also miss his dead son, so she replied, “If you want to see Zhao Hailan, I will contact him and we will make an appointment to have a meal together.”
Mr. Li waved his hand, and replied, “I have something to do now, I will find him when I finish it!” That tone did not seem to be missing Zhao Hailan; rather, he was going to settle accounts with him.
Seeing her father-in-law’s attitude, Yu Wenyin asked curiously, “Hey, what’s the matter? You bother me so much.”
Li Xining also became curious. “That’s right, Grandpa, what’s the matter?”
Mr. Li was quite arrogant. “I can’t tell you, keep it a secret for now!”
Mrs. Li snorted coldly. “What can he do all day long? He’s just babbling.”
Mr. Li also snorted, and replied with a straight face, “What do you know? You don’t know anything!”
After dinner, Li Xining and her mother accompanied the two old people for a walk in the park near the community. After returning home, she took a bath first and then continued to write review questions.
The whole afternoon, she didn’t send Lu Yuling a WeChat message, and Lu Yuling didn’t send her a message either. The two of them were obviously at a stalemate over the issue of cutting his hair—she asked Lu Yuling to cut it, but he didn’t.
At about nine o’clock, Li Xining’s cell phone vibrated suddenly. She thought it was Lu Yuling, so she quickly took out her phone. But to her disappointment, it turned out that the person who sent her the WeChat message was not Lu Yuling but Chen Lin. [Tomorrow afternoon, there will be a big cleaning, is there anything I can help with?]
Chen Lin usually gave other people the impression that he was an elegant and noble son, and his tone of voice was as gentle as jade when he spoke, which made people feel like a spring breeze. Even looking at the text, Li Xining could imagine Chen Lin’s gentle tone.
She was the class leader, and she had to fully cooperate with the health committee to coordinate the assignment of tasks in the sanitation area during the general cleaning, and after the duty was completed, she had to go to the gate of the grade leader to meet the class leaders of other classes, and then the class leaders of each class would carry out their tasks to check other classes. And it would be a lot of work.
But she still replied: [No, there is still Zhao Yuan.]
Zhao Yuan was the health commissioner.
Chen Lin quickly replied: [Let’s clean the windows in our team tomorrow. Our team members are all tall, so you don’t have to find someone alone.]
The average height of Chen Lin and his group was indeed excellent, and it was really troublesome to find someone to clean the windows alone. Thinking about it, Princess Lu seemed to be very dissatisfied with the arrangement of letting him clean the windows for a long time, so Li Xining did not shirk and agreed to Chen Lin’s request. [Okay, apart from the windows in the classroom, the window at the end of the corridor on the west side of the second floor also belongs to our class. Please arrange it so that you don’t miss it.]
Chen Lin: [Okay, I promise to complete the task satisfactorily.]
End of chapter 12
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