Forest Memories

Chapter 14. The Bambu

"You ask."

"Is this private hospital owned by your family?"

Jack nodded and smiled. "You found out?"

"Wow, your house is so good... ah!"

Anna tripped over an unfinished cup of milk tea that had fallen to the ground and fell heavily on the ground.

Just then, a phone call came in. Jack glanced at the caller ID and it was the head teacher Niu Qingfeng. He answered the call and then clamped the phone between his ear and shoulder, leaving his hands free to bend down to help Anna.

Niu Qingfeng: "Hey, kid, have you found Anna?"

Anna: "Wait, let me slow down."

Two voices came to Jack's ears at the same time, and he chose to respond to Anna first, so he didn't have time to speak on the phone.

Niu Qingfeng did not hear the reply, thinking that Jack had agreed that he had not found anyone yet, so he continued to say: "If you can't find her, just come back yourself. I have reported the situation to the school, and after the evening study, I will personally visit her home late at night according to the address in the address book."

Jack held the phone and squatted down beside Anna, calling the old cow: "I found it. I'm on my way back to school."

Found it! He said he found it on the phone.

Anna made sure she hadn't heard wrong, but she wasn't sure it was her.

"Yes, something went wrong. I just took her to the hospital for a check-up and there was nothing wrong."

"Well, good."

Just checked in at the hospital! Anna looked around Jack and made sure he was alone. So he was looking for her, and the ride was just an excuse for ——?

Maybe he really...

Anna waved her hand and patted her face.

Anna, Anna, do you know what you're doing? He's afraid of something happening to him, after all, he's the guarantor and he has to take responsibility.

Jack hung up the phone and put his phone in his pocket. "Are you all right?"

"Um," Anna nodded.

Jack got up first, then bowed and offered her a hand. "Now that you've recovered, get up."

Facing his hand again, the first time was because of unfamiliarity, unfamiliarity and shyness. This time Anna had an unprecedented feeling, wanting to hold it, but not daring to hold it.

Jack saw his hand hanging in the air without a response, he smiled and pulled his hand back. Clearly, he was extremely patient.

Anna put her hands on the ground and stood up with the help of her hands.

"Thank you!" She said.

"what?"

"Thank you for coming to see me, thank you for bringing me to the hospital, thank you!"

"you're welcome."

Back at school, the evening study session was nearing its end. Anna didn't want to enter the classroom with Jack, so she slipped out of the dormitory door, saying that she needed to change her clothes because of the dirt on her body.

Jack watched Anna slip away. Although he did not understand the girl's mind, he did not expose her and let her go.

It's good that people are okay!

Anna went back to her bedroom and looked at her phone. It was almost ten o'clock. The fourth evening study session was about to end, so there was no need to go. She decided to have a good rest.

After a whole afternoon of work, Anna was so tired that she slept in bed until dawn.

The next morning came as scheduled, and Anna got up early to run laps at the track as usual. Unconsciously, she had been doing this for many days, but she still didn't realize that there was someone who had been running with her all the time, morning and night.

As for yesterday when my father came to school and Anna suddenly disappeared, curious students could not help asking.

"Anna, is your father a star?"

Zhang Xiaojing in the back asked Anna on her shoulder.

Anna responded sideways: "No, my father is a real farmer."

"Really? How do you take care of it? My dad is only in his forties and looks more than ten years older than your dad."

Anna turned her eyes and thought for a moment, "If I must say that he is well cared for, it is because he often absorbs the essence of the sun and moon."

The two girls looked at each other across the table and smiled.

Zhang Xiaojing pouted, "Cut it out, speak human language."

"Haha. No kidding, my father is blessed with a divine face. Little sister doesn't know that farmers have no time to take care of themselves."

Then Anna sat up straight and began to read.

Time flies. A morning passes quickly and finally it is time for lunch break.

Instead of going out to dinner with her roommates and classmates as usual, Anna rushed to the cafeteria with a bowl in hand.

The whole lunch break lasted only two hours. Anna finished her meal as fast as she could and went to the parking shed to ride her bike. She had been alone with Niu Qingfeng since the time of self-study, explained the situation to him and got his pass to enter and leave the school.

With yesterday's experience, Anna rode her bike carefully to the right, listening to the navigation on her phone through headphones, and reached her destination at the fastest speed she could control.

At the hospital, Anna called her father.

[Hello, the number you dialed is empty. Please......]

Empty number? Dad hasn't changed his number for years. How can it be empty? Anna frowned and thought that this was not the time to think about these things. She had to find her father first.

In the information age, Anna soon found her father's ward.

At this time, Qing Hongzhi was lying in bed with an IV drip and chatting with his patients. He happened to talk about his children.

"My son is 18 years old and is in his senior year of high school. He is in the special class at No.2 Middle School and has done very well."

"Wow. My daughter is the same age as your son and is in the same senior year class, but she's at county High School."

"Wow, your daughter is better!"

"Where, where, average."

……

Anna shook her head and laughed as she saw her father showing off to someone else.

"papa."

Hearing his daughter's voice, Qing Hongzhi was stunned. "Yi Yi, how did you come here?"

Anna glanced around the ward and saw a disposable lunch box on the table beside her father's window. She felt a pang in her heart. She walked into the ward quietly, cleared the trash from the table and put the porcelain bowl with the food on it before she began to speak.

"Are you going to have surgery tomorrow? I'll come and see."

"I told you not to come."

The patient reacted even more strongly than Anna when she heard Qing Hongzhi's words. He frowned at Qing Hongzhi and said, "Your daughter is so filial that she doesn't rest to come see you at noon. Ha, I wish my son would come and see me too! He says his school is strict and he can't go in and out freely."

Qing Hongzhi smiled and said, "Different schools have different rules. Maybe No.2 Middle School is more strict."

"Yes, yes, No.2 Middle School is indeed stricter. My junior high school classmates in No.2 Middle School also said that they are not allowed to leave the school without special circumstances." Anna agreed with her father and comforted the uncle together.

The patient felt much better when he heard this, smiled and said nothing more, picked up his mobile phone and started to swipe.

Qing Hongzhi Anna and her father smiled at each other.

The tone of his reproach was very gentle, and Anna could tell that he was actually looking forward to his arrival.

"Are you deliberately changing your phone number so I can't come? That's too childish."

Qing Hongzhi smiled and nodded. He did not know that he had changed his number and almost lost his daughter.

"Dad, I searched the Internet. You will be unable to move for several days after this operation. Shall I ask the teacher to take leave to take care of you?"

"be not allowed."

"Why? I should take care of you. Besides, there is no new curriculum in the third year of high school, so it doesn't affect my study."

After thinking for a moment, Qinghongzhi said, "Since you searched, you should know that I need to go to the toilet. It's not convenient for a girl."

“……”

Anna really didn't notice this. She thought, if it was true, there was nothing inconvenient about it. Her father had raised her like this when she was a child!

Qing Hongzhi glanced at his daughter and saw her little thoughts. He said, "Study hard. Your uncle will come to take care of me for a few days tomorrow."

Uncle, yes, and Uncle. Anna's heart was suddenly touched. Her aunt and uncle were like another pair of parents to her, taking care of her and their family from an early age.

"Well, I'll repay you when I have a job and money."

Qing Hongzhi touched his daughter's head. "Yes. Let's go back to school first. Dad is fine. The doctor said it was just a minor operation. You checked it out, didn't you?"

Anna nodded, "Okay. Dad, you have to hold on, come on!"

Qing Hongzhi seemed to be impatiently shaking his hand, "Go, go!"

Anna smiled and stood up.

"Dad, I'll come over to sign the papers tomorrow morning and visit again at noon and in the evening. I went home yesterday to ride my bike over and brought a set of tableware. From now on, I'll bring you meals every noon and evening. You can have breakfast with Uncle at the hospital, and I'll bring lunch and dinner from school."

Anna knew her father would interrupt her and stop her, so she paused to make a gesture to her father, took a breath, and continued.

"The food in our school is very healthy, much cheaper than the hospital and delicious."

The bargain hit the point of Qing Hongzhi's heart, and he did not say a word.

Anna was so happy that her father did not refuse, "So let's say this, Dad, will I see you tomorrow?"

Qing Hongzhi nodded and smiled, "Yes."

Anna returned to school with peace of mind.

I listened carefully in class, slept after class, and rushed to the canteen when it was time for lunch.

At dinner time, many students saw Anna rush into the canteen with her bowl and a thermos, as if she were dying of hunger.

The students were talking in groups of two or three. Anna sensed it, but she didn't care. She washed the dishes and put them back in the locker room, then rushed to the parking shed with her insulated lunch box.

Dinner and rest are not as long as lunch, only an hour, so Anna has to control herself to go back and forth within that time.

Fortunately, there were not as many cars on the road at night as at noon, and Anna had a smooth ride.

Anna did not have time to wait for her father to finish eating. In order to catch up, she had to leave the bowl for her father to wash and hurried back to school with the insulated box.

After a day of running around, Anna decided to slack off and didn't go to the track that night.

There was only one sad boy running laps on the track this evening.