Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 176 - 176 173 Seeking Medical Care at Midnight

Chapter 176: Chapter 173: Seeking Medical Care at Midnight (Third Update) Chapter 176: Chapter 173: Seeking Medical Care at Midnight (Third Update) Weng Minhong was wholeheartedly helping her, and Qi Lihong was grateful.

She also knew she had disappointed her and the class monitor’s good intentions, but…

She hesitated and stumbled over her words when she talked about Wan Yuan, finally adding, “He said his grandfather collected scraps to pay for his education, and his family is quite pitiful, I, I after all…”

“You after all have parents?”

Weng Minhong laughed in anger, “You do have parents, sure, but don’t you know what situation your parents are in, even if others don’t?”

Qi Lihong’s dad had suffered from polio as a child, which was imaginable. Her mother was mute, and the family could only live on the minimal sustenance provided by the city.

With her family in this situation, did she still have the capacity to pity others?

However, this Wan Yuan was truly something, a grown man running to women to play the sympathy card, where’s his pride?

Weng Minhong’s impression of Wan Yuan had completely changed!

“Alright, alright, I know what you mean, but it’s not up to me to decide who the tutor will be, that’s for the class monitor’s family to handle.”

After speaking, she confirmed with Qi Lihong again, “Are you sure you won’t go? Only eight sessions a month, eight hundred yuan, your living expenses would be covered, no need to struggle working in the library and the cafeteria.”

Qi Lihong opened her mouth to speak, but hesitated yet again.

Seeing this, Weng Minhong sighed inwardly, “Classes are about to start, go back to your seat.”

Jiang Yan hadn’t arrived yet; he had been called by a teacher to help mark homework and to pick up some textbooks.

Five minutes before class, Jiang Yan and Professor Shen entered the classroom together.

He tossed the homework he was holding to a student in the front row to distribute.

Then he went to sit down in a seat off to the side.

After two periods had passed and it was the big break, Weng Minhong found him and mentioned Qi Lihong’s situation to him.

Jiang Yan was flipping through a book on network security management, borrowed from Chi Zuo, which wasn’t part of their undergraduate curriculum.

After listening to Weng Minhong, he didn’t even look up as he replied, “Okay, I got it.”

Then he continued reading his book, expressing no further opinion on the matter.

Weng Minhong couldn’t hold back her curiosity, “What are you planning to do?”

“Do what?”

Jiang Yan finally looked up, surprised at Weng Minhong.

“About the tutoring, I know you definitely won’t choose Wan Yuan, but since Qi Lihong is hesitating, I could persuade her again…”

“No need,” Jiang Yan shook his head, “It’s not a big deal. If she doesn’t want to do it, then let it be, I’ll ask Dai Lei.”

Originally, he was worried about potential trouble by involving Qi Lihong, but considering her situation of not being able to make enough for living expenses despite working several jobs, he thought of lending a hand if he could.

But since she had refused herself, it saved him the trouble.

The world is never short of people in need; he wasn’t Guanyin, able to help everyone he encountered.

He neither had the kindness nor the patience for that.

As for Wan Yuan…

He turned to look back, his gaze locking onto Wan Yuan who was sitting in the second-to-last row, laughing and joking with a classmate.

“What’s up?”

Liu Wenhui was sitting behind him and had eavesdropped on Weng Minhong’s conversation out of curiosity. He hadn’t caught the full story, but he knew it was related to Wan Yuan and Qi Lihong.

Seeing Jiang Yan looking back, he anticipated some drama, looked back as well, and asked, “Need to straighten things out?”

Lately, this guy has completely succumbed to Jiang Yan’s authority, even though he used to sit as far from him as possible. Now he seems to wish he could sit on his lap.

It’s not for any other reason, just that he wants to copy his homework sometimes, follow along during lab classes, and when correcting homework for the teachers, to be a bit lenient and score him higher.

So now, he’s completely lost the desire to oppose Jiang Yan, he might as well call him dad.

After all, he’s afraid of failing too!

Wan Yuan felt his smiling face freeze and a layer of sweat formed on his back as Jiang Yan watched him, while Liu Wenhui’s smile appeared ominous…

Weng Minhong returned to her seat and after school, informed Qi Lihong that the class tutor, Dai Lei, should go too.

After saying this, she shook her head at Qi Lihong, signaling trouble…

But she couldn’t bear to see her suffer, so she comforted her, “You really need to change this timid nature of yours. You’re in college now, what’s there to fear about him? Could he possibly hit you? Lihong, you need to learn to protect yourself and firmly grasp opportunities that belong to you, not letting anyone take them away!”

Whether these words consoled Lihong or not, it was uncertain, but, at three in the morning the next day, the phone in Jiang Yan’s dormitory kept ringing incessantly.

Dai Lei was closest to the phone and picked it up groggily, with an unfriendly tone, “Who is this? What’s with the insanity in the middle of the night?”

“This is Weng Minhong. Can you please get your class monitor? Lihong seems to have acute appendicitis, she’s rolling around in pain and needs to be taken to the hospital now.”

Weng Minhong’s first thought was to contact Jiang Yan, not the counselor, Chi Zuo.

This gave Jiang Yan a strange feeling. Was he perhaps overdoing his role as class monitor?

And then there was Chi Zuo—the counselor seemed somewhat negligent.

To prevent Chi Zuo from neglecting his duties, he promptly notified him.

But damn it, the guy had actually gone to his girlfriend’s house and wasn’t on campus.

As Jiang Yan was getting dressed, he slapped Liu Wenhui on the head, “Damn it, get up quickly. Don’t you want a chance to play the hero? I’ll give you the opportunity.”

Dai Lei, who had answered the phone, knew what was going on and sprang up, getting dressed without waiting for Jiang Yan’s orders, “Let’s go over and take a look together.”

They didn’t yet know the situation; what if they needed help?

The three of them quickly dressed and rushed out the door.

Tian Xiaohui was sleeping groggily and mistook the sound of his roommates getting up for the call to class. He crawled out of bed with his eyes half closed, went to the bathroom to relieve himself and brush his teeth, then grabbed his backpack and headed out.

Once he felt the cold breeze downstairs, he instantly woke up.

Looking confusedly at the black night and the silent campus, he exclaimed, “Damn!”

…

On the other side, by the time Jiang Yan and his two companions arrived at the girls’ dormitory, Weng Minhong and another girl from the dormitory were already helping Lihong downstairs.

Seeing the three boys, she urged anxiously, “We need to carry her on our backs to get a taxi. It’s too slow to support her like this.”

The key issue was that Lihong was in so much pain that she was almost out of it; now, she was delirious with pain.

The light at the bottom of the dormitory was a bit dim, and the sight of Lihong’s pale ghost-like face gave the boys a huge fright.

“Old Liu, carry her on your back. Dai Lei and I will go get a taxi,” ordered Jiang Yan before he turned and ran, with Dai Lei quickly following.

Although Liu Wenhui inwardly lamented ‘damn it, why do I have to carry her,’ he promptly turned and bent down, letting Weng Minhong and the other girl lift Lihong onto his back.

The moment he hoisted her up, Liu Wenhui exclaimed, “Fuck,” and while rushing forward said, “Why is she so light?”

Truly, he never expected a girl at least one hundred and sixty-five centimeters tall to be lighter than his eight-year-old cousin. If the timing had been better, he would have liked to weigh her to see if she even reached eighty pounds.

He felt this was bad news.

Weng Minhong followed alongside at a jog, gently explaining, “She usually eats very little, hardly any nutrition. How could she possibly gain weight?”