Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 272 - 272 269 Gentle and Tactful

Chapter 272: Chapter 269 Gentle and Tactful Chapter 272: Chapter 269 Gentle and Tactful Jiawen only came today purely to accompany Jiang Yan, and since she herself is not a talkative person, coupled with her not-so-great impression of Shu Wan.

So when she heard Shu Wan’s question, she just glanced at her, nodded slightly without much expression, and didn’t even have a hint of a smile.

“Girlfriend!”

As soon as Jiang Yan finished speaking, he, like Jiawen, looked towards Ma Zheng, who was waiting for surgery on the hospital bed.

Although he had been eager for his brother to come, now that he was actually here, seeing the lack of a smile on his brother’s face, Ma Zheng felt a bit scared.

But thinking that the Doctor Yu who would operate on him was found by his brother, he felt that he should say something to his brother.

After deliberating, he cautiously asked, “Bro, brother, have, have you had dinner?”

Jiang Yan looked at him expressionlessly and let out a sound from his nose: “Hmm.”

Hmm?

His brother responded to him?

Ma Zheng’s eyes lit up, instantly delighted, and he happily asked, “What did you have then? Did you eat your fill?”

Jiang Yan: …

The kid talks too much!

Yet Jiawen couldn’t help but laugh, and she answered for Jiang Yan, “Your brother had a plate of fried rice with egg, two tea eggs, and a bowl of seaweed and egg drop soup. Can you guess whether he had enough?”

Ma Zheng blinked and asked back, “How do you know? Did you eat with him?”

“Hmm, together.”

“My brother studies at Beijing University, do you too?”

“Yes.”

Shu Wan and Ma Jiandong were surprised to hear this. They both passed the entrance exam to Beijing University from Yunzhou together?

Of course, what astonished them wasn’t just this, but also that this girl’s brother was Doctor Yu…

Jiawen and Ma Zheng didn’t talk for long before someone came to take Ma Zheng to the operating room.

Before leaving the hospital room, Ma Zheng waved timidly at Jiang Yan, “Bro, brother, goodbye!”

He also waved to Jiawen, “Sister, goodbye.”

He knew that after his surgery was over, his brother and this beautiful sister would definitely have gone back already.

Jiang Yan watched the little guy’s face, pale due to illness, and saw the hopeful look in his eyes as he suddenly said, “Is there any gift you want? I’ll give it to you later.”

“…Huh?”

Because Jiang Yan spoke so many words to him all at once for the first time, Ma Zheng did not react immediately. By the time he did, he had already left the hospital room and was being taken into the operating room.

“I… I want…”

“Little friend, do you need to pee?”

Ma Zheng: …

On the other side, after Ma Zheng entered the operating room, Jiang Yan and Jiawen planned to leave and go back to school.

Shu Wan caught up from behind, “Xiaoyan, can you give me your dorm phone number?”

After asking, she explained, “When we go back to Yunzhou, if Xiaozheng wants to reach you, can he call you?”

Jiang Yan was silent for a few seconds before he eventually gave her his mobile phone number.

…

The next morning at six-thirty, Jiang Yan opened his eyes, reached for his mobile phone to check the time, and saw a new message pop up on the screen.

He thought it was spam and didn’t care.

When it was time to silence mobile phones in class, he accidentally hit the message button and opened an unread message.

[Xiaozheng’s surgery went very well, his condition is stable now, please rest assured!]

The tone was polite.

Jiang Yan silently looked at the message from an unfamiliar number, sent last night at 11:40, then exited the message screen, closed the phone, and stuffed it into his pocket.

During the long break between classes, Dai Lei came over to talk to him.

“Xiaotie’s English is not good, he definitely won’t pass the Adult College Entrance Examination in June.”

Jiang Yan, without looking up, said, “There are still three months, there’s time.”

Dai Lei gave a bitter smile and said, “What time? You’ve been busy with your company’s affairs and haven’t been to Xinyu, so you don’t know. I assign him twenty words to memorize and a reading every day, but he can’t even memorize five words, let alone the reading. He stumbles through reading it, so don’t even mention memorizing. With the way things are going, don’t even think about the exam.”

Jiang Yan put down the pen in his hand, thought for a moment, then took out his mobile phone and sent a message.

After school in the afternoon, he went to the physics building to meet up with Mu Jiawen, and then the two went to Xinyu for dinner.

Big Brother hadn’t realized their purpose for returning today, and he had prepared several dishes on the table.

Grandpa Lou had been invited out for drinks by old colleagues and wasn’t home in the evening.

“Has Lou Jin not come to cause trouble recently?”

Big Brother, as he was serving beef soup to Mu Jiawen, heard the question and snorted coldly, “That coward. I beat him up once and he hasn’t shown his face since.”

Lou Jin had colluded with three thieves to steal things during the New Year period and was caught by the police and taken into custody. He would also have been arrested at that time if the debt collectors hadn’t beaten him so badly that he couldn’t get up.

Lou Jin came back to make trouble once he recovered and even threatened to move in, claiming the house was his.

Big Brother got angry and gave him a beating, but he didn’t really hit him hard. He had just finished cleaning an old computer and used the bucket of dirty water. He grabbed Lou Jin by the neck and pushed his head into the bucket, pulled him out after half a minute for air, and repeated the process several times. Eventually, Lou Jin collapsed beside the bucket, trembling with fear.

And from that bucket of dirty water, Lou Jin had gulped down half a bellyful.

Even then, Lou Jin didn’t dare to call the police because he understood his own criminal background; if he did call, he would be the one taken away by the police.

Perhaps he was genuinely scared; after that day, he never came back.

Grandpa Lou was home at that time but sat inside the whole time without going out.

Lou Jin’s childhood friend, who also lived in Xinyu, paid a visit once afterward, telling Grandpa Lou that Lou Jin couldn’t repay a loan, and his house might be confiscated.

If the house were confiscated, Lou Jin would have nowhere to live.

At that time, Grandpa Lou looked at his friend sidelong and sneered, “I’m renting the place I live in now. If you’re so close to him, why don’t you take him in to live with you?”

The childhood friend, having made a fool of himself, never came around Big Brother’s shop again after that day.

Good, it was peaceful!

After dinner, once the dishes and the kitchen were cleaned, Mu Jiawen went to Big Brother’s bedroom to fetch the English book Dai Lei had used for tutoring, holding a feather duster in her hand, and asked him pleasantly, “Which English homework did Dai Lei assign to you?”

Big Brother, looking at the feather duster in her hand, swallowed hard and trembling, flipped to the last page of vocabulary, pointing to a column and said, “This, this side… Jiajia, can we put this down, there are too many feathers, it’s tickling!”

Mu Jiawen lifted the feather duster and gave a “whack” on the table, “You have five minutes to review, then you’ll write it from memory.”

As her words fell, a few feathers broke away and drifted lazily to the ground.

Big Brother shuddered violently; he knew this girl meant business. If she said she would hit, there would be no hesitation.

But… to motivate him to study, why not use a more gentle and subtle method? Why be so simple and brutal?

After memorizing the vocabulary, he corrected the mistakes five times. He struggled to recite the text aloud, and only halfway through, Big Brother suddenly realized, “Wait, the homework Dai Lei gave me was to recite, not to write from memory!”

Mu Jiawen, without even lifting an eyelid, replied, “Here, you will write from memory!”

Big Brother: ….

He swore to himself that once Dai Lei returned, he would follow his requirements to the letter!