Chapter 038: Illness Comes Like a Mountain
As early as the beginning of this semester, I was told that there was no May Day holiday this semester, and it was all used for the training of Olympic volunteers. Although everyone was reluctant at first, and even had some complaints, it is still very proud and proud to be able to participate in such an international event at the best of my age. This year's long vacation is gone, and there will be one next year, but the opportunity to volunteer may only happen once in a lifetime for some people. So even if there were some small emotions that arose before because I couldn't take a holiday, they were gradually replaced by a sense of participation and honor.
After the first round of screening, more than 20 people have been eliminated from our school alone, and 20 or 30 or even 40 or 50 people have been eliminated from other schools. When everyone gathered together to train again, the multi-purpose hall, which was slightly crowded, was actually a little empty.
May 1st was also the first time that various colleges and universities got together to train after our first round of selection. At first, I didn't pay attention to it, but after Xu Zhekai's prompt, I found that Liu Yilin was missing, and secretly asked my classmates at the National People's Congress, and it turned out that the written test score was not enough and was brushed off.
Since then, a grudge between us has come to an end. And Xu Zhekai and I also worked harder, and we didn't want to follow in Liu Yilin's footsteps.
This stage of training is even harder than before, in addition to the wider range of professional words, more difficult, faster listening playback, more tricky angles of oral dialogue, but also added the link of emergency handling.
All kinds of situations that are almost impossible to encounter in ordinary life are taken out and rehearsed, and they have to use English to solve problems, which makes everyone miserable, and at the same time feels that it is not easy for them to survive so far.
The routine of the past few days on May Day is as follows: gather at 8 o'clock in the morning, listen and train for an hour in the morning, explain proper nouns for an hour and a half, and translate between English and Chinese for an hour and a half. After the first and second classes, they will take a break of 15 minutes, and they will take a one-hour lunch break at about half past twelve, and continue at half past one in the afternoon. After class at about six o'clock in the evening, we will rest for an hour and a half, and we will gather everyone together at about half past seven to watch some wonderful game clips of the last Olympic Games, all kinds of sports, in order to let everyone continue to familiarize ourselves with the rules, processes and other contents of the Olympic Games. After all the training sessions, it was basically past nine o'clock, and everyone went back to rest and continued the next day.
Compared with the students from other schools, Xu Zhekai and I are already lucky, because after 9 o'clock in the evening, we can go back to the dormitory to take a shower and rest within 20 minutes, but the students from other schools can only rest after taking the commuter bus back to school, and those who are farther away will not be able to reach the school gate until about 9:45, let alone go back to the dormitory to wash up and get a meal.
Those days were really more hectic than the usual month combined. Due to the special full course arrangement, there is basically no time to digest knowledge by myself during the day, so I can only find time to review by myself after going to bed, so as not to be unable to keep up the next day, so as not to be unable to pass the final selection.
Compared with other volunteer groups, our translation team should be the hardest trained, so every time I go back to bed and see that the other three sisters have returned to the dormitory, lying in the bed and chatting, I feel envious and jealous in my heart, and I am even more resentful of how I have crossed over, how can I travel to this time period of time, and it is good to pass the Olympics! But there is no way, everything has happened, and I can't find a way to go back, and I don't want to give up, so I can only grit my teeth and persevere.
Fortunately, with Xu Zhekai by my side, I can only comfort myself like this.
On the afternoon of the third day of intensive training, I felt weak and had some chills. But I didn't ask for leave, I didn't want to miss the class, and I didn't want Xu Zhekai to worry.
But Xu Zhekai still saw my discomfort. In the second class in the afternoon, when the teacher was talking about the customs of some African countries in front of me, I really couldn't hold on, so I lay on the table for a while, Xu Zhekai next to me saw that my face was not good, and hurriedly asked me in a low voice What was wrong, I whispered "It's okay." But the beads of sweat on my forehead and my pale lips are not a sign of nothing, Xu Zhekai immediately raised his hand to signal to the teacher, and the teacher also saw that I was in poor health, so he gave me and Xu Zhekai leave, and agreed to Xu Zhekai's request to take me to the hospital for medical treatment.
Xu Zhekai was afraid that the school hospital would not be able to see me, so he decided to take me to the famous military hospital across the road from the school. He saw that I was weak and weak, so he asked me to sit on a chair outside the function room for a while, and he went outside to take me in and take me away, and put his denim jacket over me before leaving.
Since I was a child, I have always been in good health, and I rarely get sick, and this time, it should be too tired and my immunity has decreased, and I have a cold, it should be no big deal, I also told Xu Zhekai that there is nothing wrong, just go back to the bedroom to rest and rest, but he is still not at ease, and insists on taking me to the hospital to see.
The multipurpose hall was relatively close to the west gate of the school, and after a while, a taxi came in and stopped beside me. Xu Zhekai got out of the co-pilot, opened the door of the rear seat, helped me in, closed the door, went around to the other side, opened the back door and sat next to me.
The hospital is opposite the east gate, and it is only six or seven minutes by car from the west gate, and Xu Zhekai has been holding me in his arms for a few minutes in the car, and the back of his hand is constantly trying the temperature back and forth between my forehead and his forehead.
When I arrived at the hospital, I hung up the emergency department, and the doctor said that it was nothing serious, just a cold, and then opened a list for Xu Zhekai to accompany me to the infusion.
The liquid medicine entered my body along the plastic catheter, maybe it was a psychological effect, maybe it was because I felt a lot better with Xu Zhekai's company. I said to Xu Zhekai, "It's okay! It's just a cold, don't worry so much! ”
Xu Zhekai saw that my mental state was indeed much better than just now, and he also breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "I was scared to death just now!" You don't see your own face, white! ”
"Don't you just like my fair skin and beauty?" I deliberately joked in the hope that his worries would be eased a little more.
"I'd rather you have a ruddy complexion, as long as it's ruddy, like Guan Gong." Xu Zhekai looked at me better, and his tone was a lot more relaxed.
I just chatted with each other, and after a bottle of medicine was lost, I also felt that my body was gradually warming up and gaining strength.
The doctor also prescribed some oral medicine, Xu Zhekai took the medicine, before accompanying me back to school, he called Liu Jia and asked her if the training in the department had ended, and after receiving a positive answer, Xu Zhekai told her that I was sick and asked her to wait downstairs in the dormitory to pick me up, because our school does not allow boys to enter the girls' dormitory. I said that I could go up, but Xu Zhekai was not at ease, so he could only trouble Liu Jia.
When the two of us arrived downstairs in the dormitory, Liu Jia was already waiting there, Xu Zhekai handed Liu Jia the bag of medicine prescribed by the doctor, asked her to watch me take the medicine on time, and asked me and Liu Jia what we wanted to eat for dinner, and he went to the cafeteria to call back and bring it to the two of us.
Liu Jia already knew on the phone that I was just a cold and fever, but seeing Xu Zhekai so nervous, he hurriedly asked me as if he was deliberately teasing him: "Yiyi, don't hide it from me, do you have any terminal illness?" I nodded my head in agreement, and made a state of wanting to say nothing.
Liu Jia shook his head, held back a smile, and said with a sad face: "There is no hope, you should eat something, eat something, drink something, drink something!" ”
Xu Zhekai, who was originally serious and still worried, couldn't help but laugh when he saw Liu Jia like this.
Liu Jia patted him on the shoulder and said, "Okay, handsome guy!" You can go to the dinner with confidence, and I will take care of your baby. Give me a sweet and sour short rib and two taels of rice. ”
"I want to eat braised pork......" I said pitifully to Xu Zhekai.
"No, you have to eat light now, I'll watch it for you, don't even think about braised pork now!" Xu Zhekai rejected me directly.
Looking at me with a complaining face, he smiled again and coaxed me, "Baby, when you are well, let you eat enough." Not now. ”
More than half an hour after returning to the dormitory with Liu Jia, Xu Zhekai called and asked Liu Jia to go downstairs to pick up food.
When Liu Jia came back, he was carrying several plastic bags in his hand. Seeing my face of surprise, she said, "Your little poplar is really a wife protector. That's how much food you eat. ”
Open them one by one, in addition to the sweet and sour short ribs that Liu Jia wanted, there are also two kinds of meat dishes, of course, it is to thank Liu Jia, I can't eat it. Looking at the others, there are five kinds of vegetarian dishes and three kinds of porridge. There are also cakes and petit fours and things like that.
I called Xu Zhekai and asked him why he bought so much, and he said, "This is what you usually like, you can't eat meat, you have to eat some vegetarian dishes that you like." You and Liu Jia eat together, but you are not allowed to eat meat! Drink more millet porridge. ”
Before I put down the phone, I told him that I had nothing to do and that I would be able to train normally tomorrow, so that he would not have to worry about me at night and go to training with confidence.
Liu Jia was nibbling on ribs, looked at me with a smile on his face, and said, "I didn't see it, Xu Zhekai is quite good at taking care of people, Shen Yiyi, you are very blessed!" ”
I watched her eat pork ribs, she was greedy, and begged her to let me taste a piece, she immediately protected Xu Zhekai's pork ribs, spicy chicken, and boiled beef to her chest, and said seriously, "No!" Your little poplar won't let you! You have to be obedient, baby! ”
I could only drink porridge and eat fried lotus root slices, while staring hatefully at Liu Jia and the meat she was protecting, gritting my teeth and saying, "You'd better take care of your body and don't get sick!" ”
After eating, I took a shower and went to bed early. Before going to bed, I specially sent a text message to Xu Zhekai, telling him that I was much better, so that he didn't have to worry, I was going to sleep, let him go to bed early after going to bed, and look for him tomorrow morning.
He also replied in seconds: "Okay, baby, sleep, good night, kiss, hug!" Tomorrow is another good man! ”
Putting down the phone, I smiled and closed my eyes, and unconsciously touched the ring on the ring finger of my right hand with my left hand, and replayed Xu Zhekai's worried expression, busy appearance, and doting tone in the afternoon, and fell asleep contentedly.
Maybe I was really tired, I slept very deeply this night, and when I woke up, I felt that I had slept for a long time, I opened my phone and looked at it, it was already more than five o'clock in the morning, and I could lie down for more than an hour and get up again.
I was a little thirsty, and I sat up and wanted to get out of bed to get water, but I found my thermos cup next to my pillow, needless to say, it must have been Liu Jia who put it here last night. I sat on the bed, taking a sip of water, and watched the other sisters sleep, and felt that my illness was no longer serious.
Just as I was about to lie down again, Liu Jia on the opposite bed woke up, she looked at me, and asked me with her lips, "How is it?" I also responded to her with the same lip language: "All right! She picked up her phone, pressed it for a while, then smiled at me, closed her eyes and went back to sleep.
I was a little surprised, the phone vibrated a little, it was a text message from Liu Jia, which read: "Xu Zhekai was afraid of disturbing you after training yesterday, so he sent me a text message, asking me to take a thermos cup of warm water and put it at the head of your bed, I am afraid that you will have to get out of bed if you want to drink water." It's really invincible and heartwarming! Make a promise, baby! ”
I smiled and turned off the screen, stroking the thermos and feeling completely rejuvenated. When I got up, I was able to fight side by side with my "Little Topol" again!