She is in the fog

It took them a while to find Mingmei's ward. He Xi looked through the glass and saw the bed had been lifted up and turned into a reclining chair. Mingmei was lying on it with her eyes closed, looking sick. A woman in green was sitting next to the bed, who seemed to be her grandmother.

Wen Wan knocked on the door first. After Lin Ruxue opened the door for her, she asked in a low voice, "Grandma, how is Mingmei? Let's go in and see her. Is she still sleeping? If we disturb her rest, we won't go in."

Lin Ruxue saw Wen Wan and guessed that He Xi was also Ming Mei's classmate, so she quickly greeted him with a smile: "Ming Mei had a nap before and is resting her eyes. She is much more energetic. She will be very happy to see you. Come in quickly."

After they went in, Lin Ruxue tactfully walked outside and closed the door. She also stopped Shen Qingsong, who had brought chicken soup and rice porridge from home to the hospital, and let the children chat by themselves.

Noticing someone coming in, Ming Mei opened her eyes and asked in surprise, "Wen Wan, He Xi, why are you here?"

"I heard from our class teacher that you were sick, so we came to see you." Wen Wan couldn't wait to walk quickly to the stool to the left of the bed and sat down.

After putting down the fruit basket, He Xi walked over and sat down next to Wen Wan. Seeing Ming Mei's haggard appearance, he couldn't help but feel distressed.

However, before she could ask about her condition, Mingmei noticed the scars on her face and asked in confusion, "He Xi, what's wrong with your face?"

He Xi touched the band-aid on his face and replied, "I was accidentally rubbed by a branch."

"Have you applied the medicine?" Mingmei said worriedly, "Be careful of infection."

"Don't worry, it's been disinfected, it's fine."

Wen Wan asked, "Amei, what's wrong with you?"

"Acute gastroenteritis, probably because the food I ate last night was too irritating."

Hearing this, Wen Wan hurriedly turned her head to He Xi, and the two looked at each other, at a loss as to what to do.

Wen Wan felt very guilty, and He Xi blamed herself even more. Crab was her favorite food, and she just wanted to share her favorite with Ming Mei, but she didn't expect that her good intentions would lead to bad results. Seeing her so haggard from the pain, He Xi's heart ached, and she wished that it was herself lying on the bed.
She even had an unrealistic idea: My body is stronger than hers, so can she transfer her pain to myself? I can bear it.

Seeing the annoyed expressions on their faces, Mingmei smiled and comforted them, "It has nothing to do with you. It's my own fault. You see, you both ate it, but you're fine. Acute gastroenteritis is unpredictable. This is just my bad luck. It's okay, don't look so sad. I'll be fine after two days of rest."

Seeing Mingmei so optimistic, He Xi felt a little better. He turned his head and noticed that Lin Ruxue and Shen Qingsong were still waiting outside. He thought that they couldn't stand outside the door all the time, so after the two of them chatted with Mingmei for a while, they found an excuse to leave.

Shen Qingsong and Lin Ruxue closed the door and returned to Mingmei's bed. Lin Ruxue said softly, "I asked your grandpa to stew a pot of chicken soup and use the chicken soup to make rice porridge. How about eating this later?"

Mingmei nodded. She remembered the sports suit He Xi was wearing and that she also had an event in the sports meet, so she asked, "Grandma, when can I be discharged from the hospital?"

"You can be discharged from the hospital tomorrow and go home to rest for two days. We have already asked for leave for you. Anyway, there will be a sports meeting in the next few days, so it won't affect your classes."

"Okay." Mingmei nodded, "Then I'll sleep a little longer. Good afternoon, grandma."

Lin Ruxue smiled and said, "Go to sleep."

He Xi and Wen Wan returned to school and saw that their class had 18 points on the ranking list, still ranking first. However, Class 7 (17) currently had points, so they were catching up very closely and could not relax.

He Xi and Wen Wan were sitting in the stands. The women's 200m final and the women's running long jump competition were being held on the playground.
The two no longer had the heart to cheer for Li Xingyu. All they could think about was Mingmei lying on the hospital bed, and they were in a very low mood.

He Xi frowned, sighed and said, "After thinking about it, it's all my fault. I shouldn't have suggested eating crabs. If we didn't eat crabs, Mingmei wouldn't have had acute gastroenteritis."

Wen Wan frowned, then comforted him: "Don't blame yourself, who could have thought this would happen, you didn't do it on purpose, Ming Mei is fine now. And if you want to blame yourself, then I should blame myself, I am also an accomplice, I also let her drink ice cola. By the way, what's the matter with the wound on your face? When I asked you this morning, you turned around and left. Was it scratched by a branch? Does it hurt?"

"I ran into some thugs last night, but it was nothing serious."

"Thugs? Did you fight with them?"

He Xi shook his head and muttered, "No, I just ran away. I ran too fast and didn't notice the branches, so I got scratched by them."

Wen Wan was originally very sad, but when she heard He Xi complaining seriously about his unfortunate experience, she found it very funny and couldn't help but burst out laughing: "Is running away your style? Aren't you known for being invincible? What's wrong? Are you scared?"

"What do you mean invincible? How come I don't know? Where did you hear that?" He Xi touched the Band-Aid on his face and did not face Wen Wan's "ridicule".

Although she hated and loathed Sun Tingyu, judging from the time in her previous life, Sun Tingyu had not yet entered the ranks of drug dealers. And if she took action against him, given Sun Tingyu's level of vengeance, she would not be able to live in peace in the future. She was now devoted to Mingmei, so how could she have time to deal with Sun Tingyu? So she didn't want to continue to entangle with Sun Tingyu, so she ran away, but she ran too fast and didn't notice that there were branches sticking out of the fence, and she was accidentally scratched.

At this moment, cheers suddenly erupted from the stands. He Xi quickly looked towards the source of the cheers. It turned out that the girls from Class 7 (200) of Senior High School won the first and second place in the women's m final, and He Jiahe was third.

He Jiahe returned to the class base, and the class monitor Fang Yiyi brought a stool for her to sit on, while Ou Yanuo poured her a glass of sugar water. She picked up the sugar water and drank it all, and said indignantly: "It was just a little bit short. Class 7 is so insidious. Can't they run in a straight line? They blocked my lane and almost ran into my lane." Qin Yiran was also very angry and complained: "I saw it too. She was so close to you that you couldn't do anything." After that, she shouted again: "Classmates, we are temporarily behind Class 7 in the score, but it doesn't matter. In the tug-of-war competition tomorrow, we will play against Class 7 in the first match. Let's give it our all and make them eliminated in the first round. The points in the team competition are twice as many as those in the individual competition. We will definitely catch up!"

"Okay! We will definitely catch up!" The atmosphere group member Wenwan loudly repeated Qin Yiran's encouraging words.

He Xi complained: "You don't have any projects, but you are quite active in shouting slogans."

Wen Wan said unhappily, "I have an event. Although the 1500-meter long-distance race has been cancelled because of Qin Yiran, I still have a team event. Tomorrow afternoon I will have my 4×400-meter relay race, and I will be the last runner. It's a pity that Mingmei is sick. She had promised to come and watch my race. So, in the morning, you and Li Xingyu will play tug-of-war, and I will cheer for you. In the afternoon, you can also cheer for me in my relay race. Although it won't be as inspiring as Mingmei's encouragement, it's better than nothing."
After saying that, Wen Wan raised her eyebrows at her with a smug expression.

"Okay," He Xi nodded, "Then Li Xingyu and I will wait for you at the finish line to win the championship."

Wen Wan raised the corner of her mouth, stretched out her right little finger and placed it in front of He Xi's eyes, then said: "Then it's a deal, pinky promise."

"Childish." He Xi expressed his incomprehension of the pinky promise and simply stood up, looking at the venue of the long jump competition. Then he turned to Wen Wan and said, "I'll go see how Li Xingyu is doing." Then he ran down the stands without looking back.

Wen Wan retracted her arm, rolled her eyes at her back, and muttered, "So hypocritical? Mingmei is not here, she is too lazy to act. I think if Mingmei makes a pinky promise with her, she might not be willing to wash her hands for three days."

In the women's long jump competition, Li Xingyu lived up to expectations and won the second place, adding 2 points for the class.

Many classmates came to congratulate him. He Xi gave Li Xingyu a thumbs up, nodded and said, "Not bad, you jumped quite far."

"No, no, Sister Xi, you jump higher."

"No, no, no, Sister Yu still jumps farther."

"No one can jump as high as Sister Xi."

The two of them started praising each other. After they walked out of the crowd, Qian Ziyue suddenly caught up with them and said mysteriously, "Sister Xi, I have a good thing here. Do you want it?"
After saying that, he took out a box of cigarettes.

He Xi didn't smoke to begin with, but when he heard Mingmei say that cigarettes smelled bad and secondhand smoke was harmful on the day he was cleaning, he became even more afraid of smoking and stayed away from it.

What kind of tact is Qian Ziyue? He actually asked her if she wanted to smoke?
He Xi then held down Qian Ziyue's hand as he tried to reach into his pocket for his lighter, shook his head and said seriously, "I don't smoke."

"No way, I saw you smoking yesterday, Sister Xi!"

"Yesterday? I smoked?" He Xi thought about it carefully, and then helplessly held his forehead, "Qian Ziyue, are your eyes up to the sky? That was candy! Candy! Not cigarettes, understand?"

"Ah? It's not cigarettes?" Qian Ziyue muttered in annoyance, "Then I took it for nothing, right?"

"It's worth it!" Li Xingyu said as he snatched the cigarette box from Qian Ziyue's hand and asked eagerly, "Where's the lighter? Let me try."

He Xi was puzzled: "Li Xingyu, when did you learn to smoke? I've never seen you smoke before?"

"You can learn if you don't know!" Li Xingyu yelled, "I'm telling you, I've been rewatching old movies recently, and the scene where the protagonist uses money to light a cigarette is so cool! I plan to imitate it and shoot a scene, and upload it to the Internet, there will definitely be a lot of likes."

He Xi: "If you don't learn good things, you will learn bad things. Let's not talk about smoking for now. It is illegal to damage the RMB."

"Then I'll use ghost money."

He Xi: “…”
"As long as you are happy, stay away from me in the future."

"why?"

He Xi said bluntly: "I'm afraid that the smell of your cigarette will get on me, and it will be bad for Ming Mei."

Li Xingyu sighed and imitated what He Xi once said: "I understand, being excluded is my fate."

He Xi rolled his eyes at her and walked in another direction.

Li Xingyu threw the cigarette box back into Qian Ziyue's hands and quickly chased after her: "Sister Xi, please wait for me. Don't ignore me. It's okay if I don't want to learn anymore."

(End of this chapter)