After a hard day, they took Gu Lingling back to the dormitory, and the two picked up the bathtub again and hurried to the bathhouse.

The bathhouse of the academy is only open between 6 and 7 o'clock every day, and there are many people in line, and if you go late, you can't take a shower.

When the two came to the bathhouse, the line had already formed a long line, Tan Ran asked Gu Lingling to line up in front of him, and when it was Gu Lingling's turn, it was already half past seven.

Tan Ran gently patted Gu Lingling and asked her to take a bath.

Gu Lingling walked into the bathroom, closed the door, and Tan Ran waited quietly. There were two or three classmates behind her, and she thought to herself: When it's her turn to wash her hair later, she has to be faster, but she can't delay others.

After another ten minutes, Tan Ran vaguely heard a complaint coming from behind.

"Why did it take so long?"

"It's forty-five minutes, and if it goes on like this, the water should stop."

"It's too slow."

Tan Ran's heart was tight, and Gu Lingling wouldn't take that long to take a bath on weekdays. She stood on tiptoe with some anxiety and looked at the bathroom only the sound of rushing water.

She pursed her lips and wanted to shout Gu Lingling, but realized that Lingling couldn't hear her.

"What's the situation? What time is it? Why are there still so many people in line? ”

Several people turned their heads in a panic, and Mr. Sun, the dormitory manager, walked over with dissatisfaction in his eyes.

She is the management of the school, and she is also notoriously ruthless, and she checks the students' appearance and dormitory environment the most strictly, and she has to pull people to punish the ruler at every turn, and the girl behind Tan Ran hurriedly explained:

Teacher Sun...... It's really not our problem, the woman who took a shower inside has been in for almost twenty minutes, and there is no movement at all......"

Tan Ran's eyes widened, wanting to explain.

"How else can there be such a thing?" Teacher Sun's tone rose an octave, she rolled up her sleeves, and hurried to the bathroom. Tan Ran was stunned, hurriedly ran forward, and subconsciously grabbed her arm:

"Wait a minute...... Teacher Sun......"

Teacher Sun shook her off abruptly and glared at Tan Ran:

"Hindering official business, do you want to eat the ruler again? Tan Ran? ”

Tan Ran was stunned again, only to see that Teacher Sun finished speaking, walked in without looking back, and began to bang on the bathroom door.

"Open the door! Open the door! Who's in it? What's going on? If you don't come out for so long, it's against you......"

"Pretend to be deaf and dumb, don't you......"

Teacher Sun's face was pale, and he was angry, pulling the doorknob and pulling it violently, and the bathroom door shook violently.

Tan Ran's heart was as anxious as fire, and he hesitated for a moment, and there was a tingling pain in his right hand, which had not healed from being scratched by the ring ruler.

She ran.

She rushed forward.

She pounced on Teacher Sun, and the inertia almost caused the two to fall.

"Teacher! Listen to me...... Inside...... The child inside is called Gu Lingling, she is deaf, she is deaf, she can't hear us...... Don't be in a hurry......"

"I'm annoyed!" Teacher Sun pushed Tan Ran away, and she sat down on the ground.

"I'll get ten rings later!"

Teacher Sun kicked the door open. Tan Ran's pupils constricted.

On a cold winter night, the bathroom is steaming with fog. The body of the girl who fell to the ground was blistered white, and her naked skin was covered with shocking scars.

Gu Lingling, she ...... The condition of the home is not very good. ”

"I'm not talking about family background...... Mainly, she has been ...... by her father because she was born deaf Abuse ......"

"His dad was a drug dealer and went to jail. She was adopted by distant relatives who spent a lot of money to send her here, and it seemed that there was no intention of taking her back......"

Looking at Gu Lingling, who was unconscious, Tan Ran instantly recalled what Teacher Yu Zhen told her privately this morning.

Although she was curious in her heart, after she went back, she still treated Gu Lingling as usual, took care of her, and didn't say a word about her family.

She was curious. But she felt that it might touch Gu Lingling's sore spot. She didn't want to.

She had imagined in her heart what kind of abuse Gu Lingling had experienced, and when she really saw the shocking old scars on Gu Lingling's body, she was still so shocked that she couldn't speak.

It was obviously old scars, scratches, bruises, burns, all kinds of scars healed and fell off, and the new skin was connected to the old skin, making her whole person look like a rag doll that had been torn apart over and over again.

But she's not a rag doll.

She was just a thirteen-year-old girl.

Tan Ran didn't care about anything else, rushed up and hugged him.

"Lingling!"

……

The wound on Tan Ran's right hand was healing, like an ant crawling by.

There are new bruises all over the back of the left hand.

She was in so much pain that she couldn't sleep. Unable to turn around, he could only lie flat on the bed.

She didn't want to sleep either, and the bed was empty, and she stared blankly at the clock on the wall by the moonlight.

Gu Lingling was still breathing, but she was in a coma.

She was taken to the infirmary.

As for himself, he was given ten lashes because of his confrontation with the teacher.

Until nine o'clock in the evening, when Caude ended, all the students went back to the dormitory to sleep, Gu Lingling still did not come back, life and death are unknown.

The minute hand ticked and ticked twice, and the time came to eleven o'clock. In the quiet dormitory, there was a sudden sound of a cautious door opening.

The little girl in her pajamas and with a bandage on her head gently walked into the dormitory. Her forehead was injured by a knock on the wall from a coma.

Instead of returning to her bed, she crept down the aisle to the opposite bed.

She pursed her lips and stretched her head to look, stunned for a moment.

Tan Ran didn't fall asleep.

She opened her eyes and met Gu Lingling's eyes.

Under the unclear moonlight, Tan Ran's eyes gradually moistened.

Gu Lingling blinked her eyes and shrunk her neck in some shame.

Tan Ran sat up suddenly, ignoring the pain of the wounds on her arms, and rubbed Gu Lingling into her arms with all her might.

Gu Lingling didn't dare to move, she blinked her eyes blankly. For some reason, the corners of my eyes moistened.

After a while, the two finally separated. Tan Ran still had tears on her face, sniffed, and laughed.

Gu Lingling thought about it and cautiously started to sign language.

You, worry about me, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Tan Ran nodded and shook her head again. She was so happy that she wanted to cry, but in this place, at this time, she couldn't cry.

She just leaned over again, slowly stretched out her hand, and took Gu Lingling into her arms.

Gu Lingling's head rested on Tan Ran's shoulder, and her mouth was squeezed. She blinked slowly, hesitated, and cautiously stretched out her hand and wrapped it around Tan Ran's back.

There's so much to say, but it's good not to say it.