Twenty-Eight Degrees Part 2

Zhuo Hui was sitting in a wheelchair with a blanket covering his legs. Shi Yun pushed him under the winter sun. It had snowed recently, and the sun didn’t feel as warm as usual. But perhaps it was because his health was getting worse.

He and Shi Yun were neighbors.

Shi Yun recalled that he was fat when he was a child. Because his fat body was inflexible, he always lost when playing games.

Later, she vaguely heard about Zhuo Hui’s plight from the mouths of the elders in the family.

There was almost no hope of cure for the disease carried from the mother’s womb.

But his family still took him everywhere to seek medical treatment, and even sold the family home. From that time on, Shi Yun never saw him again.

The optimistic little fat boy in my memory was now only skin and bones.

Shi Yun: “How is your health?”

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The patient of the other bed was not there. No one knew whether he had died, was being rescued, or was off relieving their boredom.

Shi Yun pushed the wheelchair to the bed and helped the frail Zhuo Hui sit on the bed. She then helped cover him with the quilt.

Before leaving, Zhuo Hui stopped her.

“Hey… I heard what happened to the He family from my parents.” Zhuo Hui sighed. He was obviously very pitiful, but he comforted Shi Yun, “It will be better in the future.”

Shi Yun pushed the wheelchair to the corner, looked at the person on the hospital bed, and nodded, either to comfort him or because she was ready to move forward.

No one knew.

Being busy seems to make time pass very quickly.

Shi Yun didn’t anticipate that she and Wei Congying hadn’t broken up yet.

She was very busy, but sometimes he was busier than her.

While on the topic of this unexpected circumstance, it was time for the white coat and stockings Shi Yun bought to come in handy, and Wei Congying “made the best of everything.”

Shi Yun hugged his waist and tried her best to cooperate.

If Wei Congying were to be asked why he and Shi Yun are still together now. It may be because when he said he was busy, she really believed that he was busy.

Unlike Fang Qian, she wouldn’t constantly check in and text him. Shi Yun never seemed to be suspicious of her boyfriend like how most girls would.

And most boys hated this.

Because ten percent of their busyness was fake.

But Wei Congying was actually busy.

Wei Congying ultimately agreed to Zhang Guangwei’s request for him to participate in the race at Xunchuan Zhan. He didn’t tell Shi Yun about this matter, but told Lin Fang and the others.

Lin Fang was so angry that he scolded him for a minute, just like how the girlfriend he(Wei Congying) broke up with did: “You really f*cking think your life is too long, don’t you?”

Jiang Xuyang’s attitude wasn’t any different from normal and he only asked when he would go to Xunchuan to compete.

Wei Congying responded: “It’s on the seventh day of the new year.”

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Shi Yun did not expect that the advisor was true to their word and gave them a holiday.

They had ten days off.

She could go back to celebrate the New Year.

The New Year was approaching, and the news was constantly talking about travel around the Chinese New Year.

The word ‘reunion’ was never absent from this kind of news.

Shi Yun didn’t have much expectations for returning home during the New Year, and the New Year atmosphere in their home was not as strong as before.

But this time Shi Yun was still prepared to go home. Because she had to go back, she went back to the dormitory to pack some clothes, and dragged a small suitcase back home.

She also called Wei Congying and told him that she was going home.

But no one answered the phone, so she ended up sending a message to Wei Congying.

It started to snow again today.

Shi Yun spent a long time waving down a taxi at the school gate before finding one.

Probably as the New Year was approaching, many people working in the capital had returned to their hometowns. Traffic jams on the way home were to be expected. Perhaps because of her reluctance to go home deep down, Shi Yun didn’t feel bothered by traffic jams at all.

Instead, she sat in the back row and looked at the snow-filled sky with interest.

She thought that for people who didn’t feel homesick, they would be like this when they returned home. She even hoped that the traffic-jammed red section would be longer, like the way you’d ride an empty bus when having nothing to do, and hope that the terminal was further away.

But maybe the driver didn’t want to.

The driver drove along the small roads with great skill, and finally delivered Shi Yun outside the old alley on time.

Looking around, brand new Chinese New Year couplets and the character “福”¹[1] It means happiness, luck or fortune.were posted on every house.

The wheels of the suitcase were difficult to move over the stone pavement, and the rolling sound of the wheels was too loud. Shi Yun didn’t want to disturb other people, so she simply carried it all the way from the alley entrance.

The suitcase was stuffed with a few clothes and books, as well as her laptop.

It was uncertain whether or not those books would be opened up during the break but they accounted for one-third of the total weight. Shi Yun took a break from carrying her luggage, and after walking a few steps, she suddenly felt the load in her hands lessen.

She didn’t know when He Sui appeared behind her.

The old alley was so old that cars couldn’t park in it. In the past two years, a piece of open space in front of the old neighborhood where the land was at a premium was transformed into a parking lot to facilitate the parking of people nearby.

He Sui stepped forward to help and handed her the roasted sweet potatoes and chestnuts in his hand: “Why don’t you pull it?”

Shi Yun took the thing in his hand and said, “The wheel is broken.”

He Sui did not doubt her words and helped Shi Yun carry it: “I bought two portions of chestnuts and roasted sweet potatoes. You can take one to eat.”

“Auntie is working hard to cook for you at home. Why don’t you eat well and buy something like this?” Shi Yun reached out and took out a chestnut from the paper bag. The chestnut had an opening. With a slight squeeze, the chestnut shell fell off.

He Sui still had not realized Shi Yun’s little plan: “Then take them all.”

Upon tasting the chestnuts, Shi Yun immediately concluded they were from Liangrenji, as only their chestnuts could be so delicious. In the past, in the winter, they would always pool their pocket money and go to Liangrenji to buy chestnuts to eat. Of course, most of the time it was not Shi Yun’s turn to pay.

The two of them walked in together, and the smell of food wafted from the half-open window next to them. Shi Yun peeled off another one and gave it to He Sui. He took it from Shi Yun’s hand and threw it into his mouth: “How long will you stay here this time?”

“Depends on my dad.”

Although chestnuts are delicious, they are dry to the mouth.

“Are you and Uncle Shi still arguing?” He Sui was concerned about her.

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Notes:

[1] It means happiness, luck or fortune.