To Xu Qichen’s surprise, Mrs. Song still treated him nicely. Not only did she not express disapproval or reprimand him for attracting Miss He’s attention, but she also did not kick him out of the residence. Instead, he was given a day or two to pack his belongings and plan his next move.
Xu Qichen took some winter clothes, folded them and put them in a suitcase he had found in the closet. Then he went to the bookcase and picked out some books he liked and placed them on the clothes.
It seemed like there was not much else he could take.
As he turned around, the walking stick on the shelf caught his eye. He picked it up.
This was the only thing that truly belonged to him.
But it was too precious for him to take it with him. What if it got stolen?
His hand unconsciously stroked the patterns on the cane and found that the pattern on the other side of the sapphire seemed to be different.
He looked closer and saw that there were words in French engraved on it.
Mon trésor.
Xu Qichen had studied French in university, and he considered himself fairly fluent at it.
Why did Song Yuanyan get this phrase engraved?
Would it not be more personal and appropriate to carve ‘Sun Lin’?
The door suddenly opened, and Xu Qichen was so surprised that he nearly dropped the cane. He looked up and saw Song Yuanyan.
“Are you packing your things…?”
Xu Qichen placed the cane on the table and nodded.
Song Yuanyan shut the door behind him before walking up to Xu Qichen and pulling him into a hug.
Xu Qichen laughed, “Is this also a foreign gesture of courtesy?”
Song Yuanyan rested his chin on Xu Qichen’s shoulder and shook his head, “No, I just want to hug you. I want to hug you like this everyday.”
This kind of straightforward, artless words of love were particularly effective on Xu Qichen.
“He Yayin is now my number 1 enemy. She tried to take you away, and even though she failed in doing so, we’re still being torn apart.”
Xu Qichen could not stop laughing, “You can certainly afford to be a little more immature.”
“I’m sure, the children there will love you.” Song Yuanyan sighed heavily, “Then I’ll have a whole new bunch of enemies.”
Xu Qichen wrapped his arms around Song Yuanyan’s waist. “How do you know the children will like me?”
Song Yuanyan said, “I just do. I even know that you will definitely like the children. You won’t even miss me there.” He sighed, looking forlorn.
“You’re not wrong, I do like children,” Xu Qichen agreed. Seeing how upset Song Yuanyan was, he patted his back as he continued, “That’s why I like you. It’s because you’re even more childish than a child.”
“Wait for me,” Song Yuanyan let go of him and said seriously, “I will bring you back.”
Xu Qichen picked up the suitcase. Out of some strange habit, he patted Song Yuanyan’s head, “Sure, I’ll be waiting for you.”
His words seemed to have hit some strange button. Song Yuanyan suddenly kissed him, his arm wrapping tightly around his waist and forcing Xu Qichen to take step after step backwards, until they ended up on the mahogany bed.
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Xu Qichen’s reason was still with him. As he fell back on the bed, he pushed Song Yuanyan’s chest. When he broke free from his kiss, he caught his breath and asked, “Are you crazy?”
Vbcu Tejcsjc xlrrfv tlw jujlc lc gfqis.
Yes, I’m crazy. Even the thought of you not being by my side, hurts.
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Xu Qichen reached out with his tongue and licked the teeth resting on his lips, following along them to find that sharpest tooth.
The tip of the wet and soft tongue slipped lightly over the sharp edge.
Song Yuanyan froze and subconsciously released him.
Xu Qichen smiled, raised his body up, kissed the cartilage on his ear, and then whispered softly, “You have a very sharp tooth, I’ve always wanted to lick it.”
The gentle tone, like an invisible net, quietly enveloped Song Yuanyan’s heart.
Just when he wanted to go further, there was an untimely knock on the door.
“Lin Ge’er, the car is ready to leave for the school.”
Xu Qichen quickly shouted a reply as he straightened his clothes. Seeing Song Yuanyan’s dejected expression, he kissed the downturn corner of his lips, “I’m leaving now.”
With that, he walked to the table, picked up the suitcase and cane, and whispered to Song Yuanyan, who was still lying on the bed, “Wait a moment before leaving the room.” Then he opened the door and left with the girl waiting at the door.
Song Yuanyan stared blankly at the bed curtain above his head. He then unfolded Xu Qichen’s quilt and covered his head, greedily inhaling the scent on the quilt. He felt dizzy and a tightness in his chest. His mind full of that gentle smiling face from just now.
He subconsciously licked his own sharp tooth. His heart felt numb, and yet it seemed to ache.
He felt like he had contracted a serious, terminal illness.
The driver drove Xu Qichen to a church in the east of the city, which was built by a foreign businessman who lived in Jiangqu seven years ago. However, the church was originally a place where only the children of the rich families, who had had western education, would visit. It was also located in a remote place. For the first two years after its construction, it was very lively, but gradually no one paid attention to it. Later, the foreign businessman returned to his own country, and the church was completely abandoned.
From the outside, it is really beautiful, but there is too much dust inside, making it look old. When Xu Qichen arrived, there were many people, mostly girls, and several beautiful ladies, who were probably the members of the Women’s Association.
He knocked on the door, and several girls glanced over.
“I was sent by Mrs. Song, to temporarily fill the position of Chinese teacher.”
As the several young ladies whispered to each other, one of them, wearing a long skirt and a small shawl came over. Xu Qichen looked at her and thought that she was probably in charge, but strangely, the way she looked at him was not quite right.
She flipped through her notebook, “You must be Sun Lin?”
Xu Qichen nodded.
She walked in a circle around Xu Qichen, staring so hard that Xu Qichen felt nervous.
“Don’t you remember me?”
Xu Qichen frowned slightly as he looked at her carefully, “I…”
The girls behind covered their mouths and laughed, “To not even recognise Lin Nianzhi… what kind of person did the Song family send?”
Lin Nianzhi. Xu Qichen repeated the name in his mind and glanced at her again to see her prideful expression.
Ah, she did not perm her hair this time, so he did not recognise her.
“My apologies for not recognising Miss Lin,” Xu Qichen wrapped one fist around the other in a respectful gesture.
Miss Lin misunderstood him and Song Yuanyan last time and left unhappily. Xu Qichen thought to himself, at that time, she had decided that he was having an affair with Song Yuanyan; would she seek to make trouble for him?
Miss Lin harrumphed, “And? It’s your first day here, isn’t your young master interested in taking a look at the place?”
“The young master is busy with company matters, so he was not able to come.”
“You even make excuses for him.” Miss Lin turned, “The president of the Women’s Association is my mother, and I’m the person in charge here. Since you’re here, you should take good care of your responsibilities as a teacher, and I won’t interfere with the rest.” She stopped and looked back at Xu Qichen. “Do you understand?”
Xu Qichen did not expect that Miss Lin would take the initiative to avoid the previous incident.
“I understand.”
A few more guys came, all of whom were invited by Lin Nianzhi. A group of people helped clean up the church and bought some teaching aids, so the church finally began to look like a school.
Xu Qichen was helping to nail up a blackboard when suddenly, it was noisy outside. He put down his things and saw that the children had arrived. Several of the ladies went out to greet them. These children were of a range of ages; the oldest was already eleven or twelve years old, and the youngest was only three or four years old. It was the middle of winter in December, but they were wearing very thin clothes, and for several of them, the cloth shoes on their feet were worn out, revealing their frostbitten toes.
Xu Qichen’s heart ached for them. Lin Nianzhi came up to him, “Help me bring that box here, I can’t move it myself.”
“En,” Xu Qichen walked over and opened the big wooden box against the corner, which was full ofl cotton padded jackets and trousers of all sizes. Lin Nianzhi took out these clothes, “All of you, line up, and the teacher will give you clothes.”
The younger children were overjoyed when they saw the new clothes, to the point of dancing about, but a few of the larger faces seemed to be more suspicious. One of the boys, who was amongst the older children, said, “Why are you giving us clothes?”
Lin Nianzhi was stunned. She never expected these children to ask such a question. Didn’t all children like new clothes?
“This is your uniform,” Xu Qichen said. “You came here to study. Wearing school uniforms means you are students.” After saying that, he took out two larger clothes and handed them to the boy. The boy hesitated for a moment, but still accepted them with a whispered thank you.
Lin Nianzhi hurriedly chimed in, “That’s right. There were shoes originally, to make a whole set, but the shoemaker doesn’t know your sizes. Let’s measure them later, and the teacher will ask the craftsman to make it for you.”
After distributing the clothes, Lin Nianzhi took the children to the back of the church, where there were two bungalows, which used to be a large health center, but later closed down. These two houses were also unoccupied, and suitable enough to serve as dormitories for children and the teachers.
Everything was in order. Lin Nianzhi led Xu Qichen to the innermost room in the second house, “It’s quiet here, and the children are in the house in front.”
Xu Qichen said a word of thanks, and Lin Nianzhi added, “Don’t thank me. Just now you really helped me out.” She brushed her fringe aside. “We’re colleagues for now, so don’t be so polite.” She thought of something again, “By the way, we didn’t get to speak properly when we met last time. You and Song Yuanyan… you aren’t really…”
Xu Qichen knew that he could not avoid this topic forever. “Didn’t Miss Lin see it last time?”
Lin Nianzhi’s face flushed, “Then, who knows what your relationship is… In ancient times, there was also a fashion to keep a male servant…”
“No,” Xu Qichen smiled, “we’re lovers.”
The word ‘lover’ was said so frankly, that it surprised Lin Nianzhi. For a moment, she did not know how to respond.
Xu Qichen explained, “Miss Lin has also received Western-style education, and surely also believes in free love. Song Yuanyan and I are like this, mutually in love with each other.”
Lin Nianzhi nodded thoughtfully, “You’re right.” Then she resumed her usual style of being a young lady, “Although, I can’t understand it for the time being, I’m not qualified to intervene and object. Anyway, it’s your own business.”
Xu Qichen lowered his head and smiled. Yet another interesting young lady.
As they were talking, they suddenly heard the cry of the child and hurried to the front. It turned out that the children were too excited because they hadn’t slept in a bed for too long. One of the five-year-old children was bouncing on the mattress when he fell down from the bed, hit his head and was bleeding profusely.
“There’s no telling if it would have any serious repercussions, we must take him to the doctor.”
Lin Nianzhi knew this as well. She whispered,”But nowadays, many hospitals don’t accept these children, especially at the end of the year.”
Xu Qichen picked the child up, “I have a friend who would probably help us out.”
Hearing this, Lin Nianzhi immediately followed him and called a rickshaw to the place Xu Qichen said. Xu Qichen was rather lucky. It was late and the cafe downstairs had already closed. But while Xu Qichen stood at the door, he found that there was a small door next to it, with a narrow staircase inside. Xu Qichen carried the child on his back to the second floor and saw that the lights were still on.
“Are you sure there’s a clinic here?” Lin Nianzhi asked from behind him.
Xu Qichen walked towards the lights and saw an open door, with the words ‘He Clinic’ above it. “It’s here.”
He carried the child in and the nurse at the front desk immediately said, “Hey, we’re already closed.”
But it was an emergency, so Xu Qichen asked, “Is Miss… no, is Doctor He in?”
“She is, but…”
Xu Qichen did not have time to pay attention to her words. He walked straight towards the inner room, and really saw a short haired doctor in a white coat and a big mask. The other party was surprised to see him, “Mr. Sun, why are you here?”
“A child fell down and hit his head, it’s bleeding. I don’t know if he has a concussion. Can you help us if you are free?”
Lin Nianzhi also followed in and saw Doctor He in overalls.
He Yanyin gave an affirmative and immediately examined the child. Xu Qichen was relieved. They did not talk much. The diagnostic room was quiet. With a mask on, He Yanyin’s voice was muffled, but very gentle. She soothed the child in a low voice, cleaned and bandaged him, and asked about some things.
After the examination, He Yanyin wrote a medical record, tore it out and handed it to Xu Qichen, “It’s okay, he just fell, it’s not too serious. Try and avoid running and jumping for a while.” Then she took some medicine out of the drawer and gave it to Xu Qichen. “Take these back and give them to him according to the medical record, and he will be fine in two weeks.”
Xu Qichen repeatedly said thank you and was about to get up with the child in his arms. Heyanyin noticed Lin Nianzhi on the side, “This is…”
Only now did Xu Qichen remembered that Lin Nianzhi was also there. “It’s a long story. In short, I am now assigned to teach in a charity primary school. This is the person in charge of the primary school, Miss Lin Nianzhi.”
He Yanyin put her hands in her pockets and simply nodded at Lin Nianzhi, right as a greeting.
Lin Nianzhi’s hand unconsciously twisted the cloth of the skirt and hesitated, “Thank you, doctor.”
The two took the child downstairs. Xu Qichen remembered that he had a candy on him, and gave it to the child, “You were so good to not cry or make trouble when seeing a doctor, so, I’ll reward you with a candy.”
The child took the candy and happily lay on Xu Qichen’s back. Xu Qichen was about to talk to Lin Nianzhi, but when he turned there was no one beside him. He turned around again and saw Lin Nianzhi standing under the cafe looking up at something, so he called out, “Miss Lin.”
Lin Nianzhi hurried over to walk beside him.
The two of them walked down the street and saw an empty rickshaw parked on the side. Xu Qichen was about to go up and talk to the driver, but Lin Nianzhi suddenly said, “Mr. Sun.”
This was the first time she called him so formally. Xu Qichen turned around, “Yes?”
“That Doctor He… is your friend?”
Xu Qichen nodded, “I guess you can call it that. Doctor He studied medicine overseas and only recently returned home and opened a clinic. Fortunately, she mentioned it last time, otherwise I really wouldn’t know what to do now.” Xu Qichen said, feeling a little strange, especially at Lin Nianzhi’s expression.
She had completely lost that prideful aura. Instead, she was wriggling, and her ears were red. She whispered, “I think he’s very good. Although I didn’t see his face clearly, he has a good temperament.”
Xu Qichen understood in an instant, and then burst out laughing. The more he laughed, the worse it became, scaring the child on his back.
“You! What are you laughing at?” Lin Nianzhi was both angry and shy, “Surely you don’t think I’m not good enough for your friend!”
Xu Qichen finally got himself under control and shook his head. “No, no, no, you’re a great match.” He straightened up, “Except for one part.”
Lin Nianzhi perked up, “What is it?”
Xu Qichen purposely sighed, “Just like you, Doctor He is the young lady of a prestigious family.”
thanks for the chapter <3
Thanks for the chapter!
lesbians!!!
Yes please to the side pair.
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Yes please let’s go lesbians 😩
lesbians!!!
Please be a side couple!!! 🥺