Chapter 68: The Bracelet is Gone

  How could it be gone? I remember picking it up, where is it now? I lifted the quilt and searched everywhere. Wei Er and Yin Bing also helped me search around the bed.

  "What are you looking for?" The school doctor, Ruan Ayi, walked over curiously.

  "Bracelet, have you seen it? It's a silver bracelet, maple leaf-shaped!" I explained, hoping Aunt Ruan would know where the bracelet was.

  "Oh, maybe it's with Dr. Han Jian now, he was holding you when he came in and you were clutching onto something because you needed an IV, but you kept gripping it tightly and I couldn't insert the needle, so I had to pry it out of your hand. But even after a long time, I still couldn't get it out, and in the end, Dr. Han Jian had to help take it away! After that, I didn't see it again, maybe it's with him now!" Aunt Ruan looked up at my IV bottle and waved her hand, "Just a little while longer and you'll be done!" She said, then turned around and left.

  Where's Han Shaojin? It's okay, as long as I didn't lose him. "I'll go find him!" After saying that, I prepared to get out of bed. However, a sharp pain spread across the back of my hand, and I forgot that I was still on an IV drip.

  "Hey! What are you doing? Don't you know you're sick?" Viel pushed me back. The movement was too big, my hand hurts!

  "Vier, be gentle!" Yu Bing glared at Vier, who apologized and stuck out her tongue, "Whose fault is it that she's getting ready to get out of bed?"

  "I want to go find Han Shaojian, let me go!" I begged.

  "You can't go like that now, at least wait until you've finished getting dressed!" Viola said with a bit of anger.

  "But I..."

  "Vee is right," said Yubing. "I think the bracelet won't get lost on his side, you'd better finish your work before going!"

  "Xiao Yue——" I was about to say something, but then we heard the sound of Yezi's voice coming from the direction of the infirmary door. The three of us looked over at the same time and saw Yezi walking towards us with a tense expression.

  "Yèzi, how did you come?" I asked in puzzlement.

  "How did they beat you up like this?" Yezi walked to my bedside and sat down, grasping my shoulders, looking at me with a pained expression, her clear eyes still shining with tears that were about to fall.

  "Ah!" Yezi's hand accidentally touched my wound, and a sharp pain suddenly came from there. I winced in pain.

  "What's wrong, did I hurt you?" Yezi was so scared that she took away her hands, "Sorry, sorry, I didn't mean to. Really sorry!" Yezi looked like a child who had done something wrong, kept apologizing nonstop, and tears couldn't stop flowing down. Wei'er and Yubing standing beside also exchanged a strange glance.

  "Yèzi, it's okay, you didn't do anything wrong, I'm fine now, let's go home together later!" I reached out to help Yezi wipe away her tears, but they just kept falling more and more.

  "Xiao Yue... sorry... wu..." Yezi suddenly burst into tears, looking pitiful and heartbreaking.

  I stretched out my right hand and held onto Yezi's back, patting it gently. "Alright, alright, if you keep this up I'll start crying too!"

  Her chin rested on my shoulder, and she continued to sob, "Sorry, Xiao Yue!"

  After listening to Yeh's words, I couldn't help but shed tears too. I feel so fortunate to have such a wonderful sister and I hope we can always be this close!

  After finishing the IV drip, I felt much better, except for the parts of my body that were bruised from the injection, which still hurt a lot. Yezi had been accompanying me in the infirmary since she arrived, and in the afternoon we took Mr. Zhuang's car back home.

  Luckily, my dad and mom were not at home. Aunt He asked me with concern if it hurt here or there. Yezi personally cooked soup for me, I felt so happy, suddenly feeling that being beaten this time wasn't a bad thing after all.

  But why didn't I see Ouyang Luo at all? He shouldn't know that I got beaten up, right? Will he be anxious about me like Yezi and the others?

  "Ye Zi, how come Ou Yang Luo hasn't shown up?" Lai An finally asked at the dinner table.

  Yèzi added some greens to my bowl and said: "He went to Mingchuan City, he left this morning!"

  "Have you gone to Mingchuan? What did you go there for?" I asked curiously. No wonder I didn't see him all day, it turned out he went to Mingchuan.

  "The school arranged for us to go and participate in a math knowledge competition held by the province!"

  "Oh." Upon hearing Yezi say that, I took a mouthful of rice. Alas, sometimes I really wonder if the three of us are actually born to Mom and Dad, why two of them are so smart, and one is so stupid. Is it because they're twins?

  "When is he coming back?" I asked.

  "He was originally supposed to come back tomorrow, but he doesn't like staying out overnight, so he should be back tonight." Yezi said, putting down her chopsticks and looking up at me, "I've already called him and told him about you. So, he should be on his way back now!"

  "But isn't he competing? Will the school allow him to come back?"

  "Uh-huh, it's during a match, and you know his temper, he's that kind of person. As long as he wants to do something, no one can stop him!"

  I know his temper all too well, it's just that doing so is not worth it at all. If it were for me, I would be consumed by guilt.

  "Master and mistress are back!" said Aunt He, standing by the door. Yeh Zi and I both went forward to greet them.

  "Dad, Mom, you're back?" Yezi walked in front of me, holding her mother's hand and said intimately.

  "Hehe, Dad and Mom, you're back?" I also walked over.

  "My goodness, is...is this Yueyue?" My mom stared at me in surprise, letting go of Yezi's hand and walking towards me.

  "Hehe, mom, of course I'm Yueyue, just... uglier now!" I joked.

  "Yueyue, what's going on? Your face and your hands, how...how are they all injured?" Dad also came over, looking me up and down.

  "My goodness!" My mother grabbed my shoulder and pressed on the sore spot, I gritted my teeth in pain but didn't dare to make a sound. "You look like you've been beaten up?" My mother said with surprise and pity in her eyes.

  "What's going on here?" Father suddenly roared.

  I saw Yezi get scared and her body trembled, not just Yezi, but also me, mom, and He Yini were all startled, because we rarely see dad get angry. This time he actually got angry for my sake.

  "Xiao Yue... At school, someone... hit me!" Yezi said, her voice trembling.

  "Who is so cruel to beat up my YuYu like this?" Mom said, with tears almost streaming down her face.

  "What's going on? Speak clearly!" Father shouted.

  "Because... because..." Ye Zi didn't know what else to say and stood there muttering softly.

  "Dad and mom, I'm fine now. I hope you won't ask again, okay?" I begged, pulling on my mom's arm.

  "How can it just end like this? Look at the state you're in, it's heartbreaking for me to see! My poor YuYu!" Mother said angrily.

  "Yèzi, come to my study, I have something to ask you!" Father said and turned around to walk towards the study. Yèzi looked at me and mom with a tense expression and followed him.

  Xiao Tian's recommended work: "The Happy Garden of Little Fool"