Chapter 96: Chapter 96 The First Day of Fifth Grade
Under Mengmeng’s daily care, which involved diligently pouring milk, the frail jujube tree shot up like a rocket, sprouting and growing rapidly until it was taller than her in less than half a year.
By this time, Mengmeng and Gu Zhihan had already advanced to fifth grade.
They weren’t split into different classes, merely moving up a floor to a different classroom.
On the first day of school, Gu Zhihan was all packed up and ready to leave when he realized Luo Mengmeng was nowhere to be found. After searching around, he found her in bed in the bedroom.
She was curled up under the blanket, as if hiding intentionally.
“Luo Mengmeng, didn’t I wake you up when I got up? Why are you still in bed now?”
Gu Zhihan walked over to her with a frown, slightly annoyed.
She was clearly becoming more difficult to deal with as she got older!
“I, my stomach hurts…” Mengmeng’s muffled voice came from under the blanket, pleading, “Hubby, I’m afraid I can’t go to school today. Can you please ask for a leave on my behalf?”
“Stomach ache?” Gu Zhihan couldn’t help but twitch the corner of his mouth upon hearing her excuse.
Stomach aches, headaches, family emergencies… these had become the most typical excuses (lies) for requesting (faking) leave.
“If you really don’t want to go to school, can you come up with a more convincing excuse?” Gu Zhihan assumed she had gotten too used to the wildness of the two-month summer vacation and now, unwilling to return to the routine, didn’t feel like going to school. He walked over and lifted the blanket, “Get up for me… Luo Mengmeng, does your stomach really hurt?”
Gu Zhihan had been somewhat angry, but when he lifted the blanket and saw her drenched in sweat with pale cheeks, he was immediately stunned.
Could it be that she wasn’t lying?
“I… I wouldn’t lie to hubby…” Mengmeng repeated weakly, with her small hand over the lower right side of her abdomen, biting her lip tightly, her face full of pain.
These signs made it clear that she really had a stomach ache.
“When did it start hurting? Why didn’t you tell me earlier?” Gu Zhihan was left with only concern, no longer harboring any doubt.
“It started hurting a bit when I woke up this morning,” Mengmeng answered.
“Then why didn’t you tell me earlier?” Gu Zhihan was almost driven mad with irritation. One’s health is no joke.
His stern tone immediately brought tears to Mengmeng’s eyes, and she began to sob, “I was afraid you would take me to the hospital for an injection…”
“You!” Gu Zhihan didn’t know what to say. Looking at the girl’s pale face, he pursed his lips, then quickly dropped his backpack, stepped forward, and picked her up, his tone brooking no argument. “Your stomach is hurting so badly now, we must go to the hospital.”
Moreover, the spot she was holding was on the lower right side of her abdomen; he suspected it might be…
“No, hubby, please no, I’ve had stomach aches before, and if I just go to the toilet later, I will be…” better.
While struggling and shouting, Mengmeng felt her stomach pain intensifying, roiling like tumultuous waves. Suddenly, her pupils dilated unexpectedly, and following that, she rolled her eyes back and slumped down limply.
“Luo Mengmeng!” Gu Zhihan’s quick reflexes allowed him to catch her. Seeing that he couldn’t wake her up no matter how he tried, he panicked, running to the living room to call for an ambulance.
However, the telephone lines in the area were under maintenance, and he couldn’t get through.