Regarding Zhou Shiyan's sudden visit, Liu Zhiyue was obviously surprised.

Liu Xiazhi, who was lying next to Liu Zhiyue, was holding a strange-shaped apple in both hands, maintaining the posture of preparing to take a bite, and also looked to the side a little blankly.

The brother and sister stared at Zhou Shiyan who suddenly appeared.

"Why are you here?"

Liu Zhiyue was the first to ask.

“……”

Without giving a response, Zhou Shiyan just took two steps forward, her eyes sweeping from beginning to end.

"Where did it hurt?"

"Huh?"

At first, I didn't react too much, and after a while, I lifted my right foot vigorously in a bit of confusion.

"The soles of my feet are punctured."

Zhou Shiyan looked at the foot that Liu Zhiyue raised.

There was a hint of unbearability on his face.

I stepped forward and wanted to touch it.

"Don't touch it, can you touch your feet casually?"

Liu Zhiyue's words reminded the other party, which made Zhou Shiyan's hand that was already about to reach out with.

Not knowing what to say for a while, Zhou Shiyan's hands were behind her back.

Liu Xiazhi, who was lying next to Liu Zhiyue, raised her little head and looked at Zhou Shiyan who was standing next to the bed.

stretched out his hand and patted Liu Zhiyue.

"Brother, who is this kid?"

"Call sister, she's my brother's classmate."

Stretched out his hand and patted Liu Xiazhi's head, Liu Zhiyue corrected her title.

"Brother's classmates!"

Liu Xiazhi was obviously surprised.

She hurriedly got off the hospital bed, and without having time to put on a pair of small leather shoes, she ran in front of Zhou Shiyan with her shoes.

looked at Zhou Shiyan, who was only a little taller than herself.

Tilting his head for a while, he asked.

"Did you skip a grade to junior high school?"

"Xia Zhi!"

Liu Zhiyue hurriedly got up and dragged his sister and looked at her seriously.

"Don't talk nonsense."

"But ......"

"Okay, don't talk, go and nibble on an apple for me."

"Didn't my brother just say that he didn't want to eat me!"

"Now that you want to eat it, go get one and wash it, and gnaw off the skin for me."

After listening to Liu Zhiyue's words, Liu Xiazhi's face was puffed up.

Just now she wanted to peel an apple for her brother to eat, but when she couldn't find the knife, she gnawed off the skin with her teeth.

At that time, Liu Zhiyue looked at the apple she handed over with disgust.

"Then I have a ...... left"

"You can eat this yourself, and supplement it with vitamins."

"Humph!"

Liu Xiazhi looked a little unhappy.

She placed the unfinished half of the apple next to the bedside cabinet, then pulled another apple out of the bag.

After putting on his little leather shoes, he walked out of the ward.

There are still two beds in the ward, but no other patients have been accommodated yet.

At this moment, because of Liu Xiazhi's departure in the ward, only Liu Zhiyue and Zhou Shiyan are left.

Look at each other.

Zhou Shiyan took the lead in breaking this atmosphere.

"I'm sorry."

"Huh?"

The sudden apology made Liu Zhiyue a little dazed, and he looked at Zhou Shiyan who looked a little guilty.

"Why are you apologizing to me?"

"Because of me, you were hurt......"

After Liu Zhiyue listened to what she said, the expression on his face became a little indescribable.

A pair of eyes stared at the guilty Zhou Shiyan.

"You don't have to apologize, it's okay with you."

"It's because of me, if it weren't for my dad......"

"Your dad?"

"Nothing ......"

Zhou Shiyan hurriedly stopped her mouth, she didn't say the next words.

Liu Zhiyue could see what the other party was hiding, but he was not the kind of person who liked to force him not to say what he didn't want to say.

He chose to skip the topic.

"By the way, how did you study today?"

"It's okay, I've gone through all the notes I remembered before, and I have consolidated the knowledge points."

"Then do you feel confident about this exam?"

"Okay."

"I really envy you that you can still go to the exam, my feet are like this, I definitely can't go to the exam room."

Liu Zhiyue's tone sounded a little lost to Zhou Shiyan.

Her eyes looked at Liu Zhiyue's injured right foot.

Something is going on in my head.

"Don't worry, you can take the exam too."

"Huh? How do I get to the exam room? Jumping on one foot? ”

Regarding what Zhou Shiyan said, Liu Zhiyue was quite puzzled.

Zhou Shiyan shook her head and rejected Liu Zhiyue's proposal to jump on one foot to take the exam.

"I'll propose to the teacher that I'll come and proctor you when the exam is over."

“……”

"In this case, you can also enter the results selection."

Liu Zhiyue seemed to feel that what he just said was like lifting a stone to shoot himself in the foot.

"Isn't it unfair that it won't be the first time to take the exam at the same time as you?"

"It's okay, I'll keep an eye on you, it's absolutely credible, and I won't let you have the possibility of cheating."

“……”

This guy ...... It's brainless, right?

Just as he wanted to say something, Liu Xiazhi ran in with the gnawed apple.

He raised his hand and wiped the juice from his mouth.

"Here, brother!"

“……”

Looking at his sister's appearance, Liu Zhiyue felt a little strange.

In the past, she never wiped her mouth with her hand.

Pulling out the tissue on the table next to him, Liu Zhiyue helped his sister wipe her mouth with her own hands.

"How do you gnaw all over the face?"

As he spoke, he wiped Liu Xiazhi's entire little face with a tissue in his hand, and took the apple she handed over.

The surface level is uneven.

As if thinking of something, Liu Zhiyue took out an apple from the bag and handed it to Zhou Shiyan who was standing.

"You can eat one too, my dad bought a little too much."

Zhou Shiyan watched the interaction between Liu Zhiyue and Liu Xiazhi, and slowly took the apple.

Hold it in your hand.

Is this a brother and sister......

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Zhou Shiyan was walking on the way home, and it was already dark when she walked out of the hospital.

Regarding the person who injured Liu Zhiyue, Zhou Shiyan is actually more or less clear, it should be the person who studied by himself that night and followed him.

Although she didn't want to involve the two together, Zhou Shiyan's heart had secretly linked that person to her father.

A man named Zhou Quan.

That's a guy who used to be nice.

In Zhou Shiyan's vague memory, she always touches her head and takes her father to play around.

If...... If you don't touch gambling......

Zhou Shiyan's memory comes to mind of the person who hugged her mother late at night, snorting and not daring to make a sound, for fear of waking up the drunken person.

She still vividly remembered Lan Yixian's swollen eyes, the bruises on her body, and the hair that was torn off the floor......

It seemed to be the darkest period of Zhou Shiyan's life.

Fortunately, now that I have severed my relationship with that person, life seems to be getting better.

Although the family is a little poor now, it ...... It's good to be alive.

Zhou Shiyan quickened her pace, and she began to climb the stairs.

I'm about to arrive at my door.

As he walked, he took the key from his washed and somewhat whitish school uniform.

Night crept in.

A hand jerked over her mouth.