"Liao Jinling, what’s wrong with you?" Xu Nianhua also woke up, she sat up hugging her quilt, looking at the curled-up motionless Liao Jinling, she always felt that something was off.
Normally, if Fei Jiayi said one thing to her, Liao Jinling would not hesitate to respond with ten.
But today’s Liao Jinling seemed a bit off.
Liao Jinling was still curled up and did not answer a word.
"Who knows what’s upset her," Fei Jiayi grumbled, "Can’t we just sleep?"
In the conversation between Xu Nianhua and Fei Jiayi, Nianhua always felt that something was off, she put on her clothes, crawled out of bed, bent over and gently called out, "Liao Jinling, what’s wrong with you?"
Xu Nianhua moved closer, gently patting Liao Jinling, and could obviously feel Jinling’s body trembling. At first, she thought she was crying, but when she lifted the quilt, she realized that Liao Jinling was not crying.
"Liao Jinling, what’s wrong with you?"
Xu Nianhua’s voice became a bit urgent as she said, "Jiayi, let me use your flashlight for a moment."
Fei Jiayi had sat up when Xu Nianhua got up and immediately turned on her flashlight. With most of the dormitory awake now, the light allowed Xu Nianhua to clearly see Liao Jinling’s pale face, her forehead dotted with large beads of sweat, looking extremely uncomfortable, her hand persistently pressed against her lower right abdomen.
"Liao Jinling, does it hurt here? Say something," Xu Nianhua asked calmly.
In the dormitory, everyone got dressed and gathered around, saying, "The lights are out; what do we do now."
Panic spread through the dormitory.
"We should take her to the school clinic first," Xu Nianhua said calmly.
Nianhua stepped forward, hearing Liao Jinling’s pain-soaked voice that could hardly form words, she did not hesitate to pull her up from the bed. With the help of Fei Jiayi and the others, she carried Jinling on her back and walked out of the dorm.
Fei Jiayi led the way with her flashlight, while Ding Guo and Chang Hui helped support Liao Jinling on either side, helping to ease some of the burden off Xu Nianhua.
Although Zhou Wanwan usually didn’t join in on the dormitory’s chatter, she couldn’t stand by idly when someone from the dorm was in trouble.
With a clinic right on campus, they hurried Liao Jinling there, and once the on-duty doctor understood the situation, they were immediately advised to take her to the hospital.
The circumstances on the girls’ dormitory side couldn’t be concealed, and Pei Yicheng’s dorm wasn’t far from theirs. Upon learning that it was an incident in 302 dorm, Pei Yicheng immediately followed after them and coincidentally ran into Chang Hui carrying Liao Jinling out.
"Nianhua, what happened?" Pei Yicheng looked at Xu Nianhua with concern, and seeing her safe and sound, he finally felt relieved.
"Brother Cheng, she has acute appendicitis; she needs to be taken to the hospital right away." Xu Nianhua, having carried Liao Jinling all the way, was very exhausted, so after coming out of the clinic, Chang Hui took the initiative to carry Jinling. She was used to farm work at home and had the strength for it.
A sympathetic male student offered to carry Liao Jinling, but Chang Hui declined, saying, "I can do it."
"I’ll go get the car."
Pei Yicheng said immediately, leading the way to his car parked outside the campus.
Once they reached the hospital and the doctors took over, Xu Nianhua and the others finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"I’m exhausted." Fei Jiayi, whose heart had been in her throat the whole time, sat down in the corridor of the hospital and said, "What’s with Liao Jinling, really? If she wasn’t feeling well, why didn’t she say something earlier? Why insist on toughing it out?"