The secret
roommate in the
milk tea quarreled with me and said he would poison me in a fit of anger.
We all took it as a joke, but the next day, another roommate drank my happy tea and was sent to the hospital by 120, which almost ruined his life. After class
last week, my roommate Jiang Boyi had a big fight with me in front of the whole class.
The reason is also ridiculous. I got a special scholarship this year
because I got 0.42 points higher than her this semester.
Pointing at my nose and scolding me the next day, she invited me a cup of milk tea for the first time, saying that she had a bad attitude yesterday and wanted to make amends.
It was more like she was trying to embarrass me than make amends.
At that time, she was elated, saying that this was the most expensive milk tea brand on the first floor of the shopping mall, and the grapes inside were all freshly peeled, and they cost 28 cups.
She said that the last time she bought a cup and took it back to the dormitory, she found that my eyes had been glancing at her Zhizhi Berry.
“I guess you’ve never seen it before.”
“Yes, it’s enough for four meals of Lao Gan Ma’s fried rice you ate at noon.”
Perhaps feeling humiliated enough, Chiang Po-yi, with a happy expression, handed me the fruit tea for apology:
“You just got a scholarship and you don’t want to buy it, so I’ll treat you as if it was yesterday.”
“No, I don’t like it either.” I put my hands behind my back and refused to answer.
“Take it.” She finally got to the point of what she called “making amends.” “I was out of line when I said that about you yesterday.”
I still didn’t pick it up, so she just put it on the table of my lower bunk, folded her arms and squinted at me.
“Ge Hsiao-chi, as you know, what I care about is not the scholarship money at all, but the honor.”
I got more extra points than you, so I should get a scholarship. Had it not been for the high proportion of specialized courses in junior year, the grand prize would have been mine.
Said to apologize, I did not see the appearance of her apology, a superior charity.
I did not intend to talk to her, turned to go, the bedroom door suddenly opened.
“Can you stop bullying Xiaoqi every day?”
It was Wang Ying in the lower berth of Jiang Boyi who took the elective course.
She blocked me behind her and pointed at Chiang Po-yi. “Yesterday was too much, but wasn’t it enough?”
“I’m making amends today. Well, she didn’t appreciate it!” Jiang Boyi pointed to the milk tea on my desk.
“Forget it. The dog really bit Lu Tung-pin.” She rolled her eyes and walked away with her mouth closed. “I’m going to the movies with Chou Rui.”
Zhou Rui is my secret love object, although I did not say, but Jiang Boyi should see it.
She just wants to say this on purpose, with a little show off: So what if you get the grand prize, the person you like, don’t you still date me?
“Che! Who cares?” Wang Ying also rolled her eyes. “Who hasn’t drunk a cup of broken milk tea?”. Ignore her. Pretending to be a princess, how much money does she actually have in her pocket? To see a play at half the price of 80 a ticket, everyone knows that you have to take a picture of Jiugongge.
I smiled awkwardly and patted Wang Ying on the shoulder. “She didn’t get the special scholarship. She’s in a bad mood. Don’t haggle with her.”
“Hey, who cares about her? I’m worried about you.”
Wang Ying nodded, took a few books, and went out to the library. I was
left alone, facing the cup of “broken milk tea.”. –
Well, I haven’t.
It’s just that we never thought that this cup of broken milk tea would soon destroy the “bright and beautiful” life of several people in our dormitory one after another.
In the evening, after the evening self-study, we went back to the dormitory one after another.
Xu Jiawen was the last one. She came back after the night.
Self-discipline and health are the labels of the real white, rich and beautiful.
Even though she is going to take the postgraduate entrance examination this weekend, she can still do well in her studies and sports. There were four people in
our dormitory.
Chiang Po-yi is a disliked “little princess.”.
Wang Ying is a native whose parents are in the system. She has a bright personality and loves to stand out when things happen. She is a member of the class’s activity committee and has a good reputation.
Only Dai Xue and I are small town girls who want to change their destiny through the college entrance examination.
Later, Dai Xue was suspended from school because of illness, and Bai Fumei and Xu Jiawen moved in.
Back in the dormitory, Xu Jiawen wanted to drink a cup of cold pure water, but the water dispenser ran out and had not had time to call a new one. Just as
she was about to go out to buy it, I handed over the milk tea that Chiang Po-yi had bought. “You can drink this.”
“It is a little sinful to drink sweet at night.” Xu Jiawen waved his hand.
“I can’t drink ice because my stomach doesn’t feel well. You can drink it, or it will be wasted.”
“Ha ha ha.” After thinking about it, she took it, put the straw in it and swallowed it in a big gulp, taking a long breath. “It’s really the dopamine pleasure of a long-lost sweet food.”
Unfortunately, this happiness did not last long. More than
an hour later, Xu Jiawen’s stomach began to ache, vomiting and diarrhea.
Her face was livid, she was sweating all over, and even her breathing became rapid. Several of
us were so frightened that we called 120 to take her to the hospital that night.
At this time, each of us remembered that the cup of milk tea that Xu Jiawen had just drunk was bought by Jiang Boyi.
Yesterday, when Chiang Po-yi scolded me in front of the whole class, she said,
“You robbed me of my scholarship. You are such a vicious person. Sooner or later, I will poison you.”
To say that Jiang Boyi really dares to poison, I can’t say whether I believe it or not.
But she is really not welcome.
Not only did I not like her, but the whole dormitory, even the girls in our class, all stayed away from her. On the first day
she lived in the dormitory, she occupied half of the balcony with a large drum washing machine.
At that time, Wang Ying also tried to dissuade her, saying that there was a washing machine in the laundry room at the end of the corridor, so it was not so troublesome.
Jiang Boyi blinked her innocent big eyes and shook the old MK bag on her shoulder, saying that she was a neat freak, which was special, and that no one else should touch it.
Occupying such a large public area, it is actually “exclusive use.”.
But we really can’t see Jiang Boyi’s cleanliness. The washing machine
she installed was soon dismantled by the dormitory aunt.
Without the washing machine, Jiang Boyi simply let go of herself. She
‘s a local. She comes home every two weeks.
So these two weeks of clothes, including underwear and socks, she simply did not wash any more, all saved to go home, packed and taken away together. Even
in winter, in summer, the sweaty feet and smelly socks covered by sports shoes are piled up under the bed one after another. Once
Wang Ying sat on her lower berth to eat noodles. Suddenly, a pair of old underwear fell from it and hung on Wang Ying’s chopsticks. She was so sick that she didn’t eat another bite all day. After the
military training, Jiang Boyi’s troughs changed again.
After only three days of military training, we heard her say the same sentence at least fifty times.
“It’s really hard. There’s no military training at the university in San Francisco.”
She always talked about how beautiful and open the schools in San Francisco were, and the student activities were a hundred times richer than here. “
My ex-boyfriend went to college in San Francisco. I should have gone, too.”
In fact, the “ex-boyfriend” in her mouth is just the campus male God she just chatted with a few times during the summer vacation.
Finally, she often teased our other three roommates with disgust, a group of poor people who had never eaten French foie gras or Iberian ham in her eyes.
Dai Xue, like me, is from a small town, and I don’t like to hear her say this.
Although she doesn’t normally like to talk, at times like this she would go back and say, “San Francisco is so great, why don’t you go?”
“She’s a princess. It can’t be because she doesn’t have money.” Wang Ying never shows weakness.
Chiang Po-yi would pucker her cheeks angrily and mutter,
“What do you people know? Sooner or later I’ll go. It’s better to go when I’m in graduate school.” Seeing that
three years have passed and graduation is approaching, Jiang Boyi talks less and less about San Francisco.
Until everyone planned their own way, Jiang Boyi did not even pass the IELTS and TOEFL.
She no longer had the option of going to graduate school in San Francisco.
Fortunately, she was a little more restrained later. It
probably started in September when Dai Xue was suspended from school and Xu Jiawen was transferred to our dormitory.
Unlike Chiang Po-yi, the boastful “princess,” Hsu Chia-wen is truly white, rich, and beautiful. He
not only has a good family and looks good, but also is very modest and has a very good family education. On
Jiang Boyi’s 18th birthday, the whole family spent a huge sum of money to eat French foie gras in a high-end restaurant, and bragged about it for several years.
Xu Jiawen, however, learned French from an early age and was able to receive a group of French scholars who came to the school to communicate in fluent French.
But when I asked Hsu Chia-wen why she didn’t go abroad to study, her answer was,
“I like to speak Chinese, talk to you, stay with you, and have my parents around. How happy I am.” In front of
Xu Jiawen, Jiang Boyi lost all her glory, and the superiority of packaging was worthless.
So several of us outsiders can see that she hates Xu Jiawen very much in her bones.
It’s a pity that all she can show is light and soft revenge.
For example, she chased Xu Jiawen to find fault.
She insisted that Xu Jiawen deliberately hung his wet socks next to her washcloth, and then cried and made trouble in the dormitory.
Xu Jiawen looked at the balcony and put away all her clothes without saying a word. After that, she never hung anything in the dormitory again.
Later, she also paid Jiang Boyi an expensive washcloth, which was more expensive than Jiang Boyi’s skin-peeling MK bag, and finally stopped her swearing.
In the second semester of our junior year, we began to practice outside.
Xu Jiawen often disappeared, and occasionally when he came back, he was wilting, as if he had some kind of disease.
A few months ago, once, Xu Jiawen took a bath for a long time, almost twenty minutes.
Chiang Po-yi ate too much in the evening and knocked on the door
desperately. “Hurry up. Why did you take so long?”? The world doesn’t revolve around you. I’m going to have diarrhea! “I’m sorry,”
said Hsu Chia-wen in a weak voice. “I’m almost done.”
In less than 30 seconds, Chiang Po-yi banged again: “I’m really going to have diarrhea. Why are you so selfish?”
With that, she rushed out of the dormitory and knocked on the door of the next dormitory. After
entering, however, she was not in a hurry to use the restroom. Instead, she accused Hsu Chia-wen of her “crimes” over and over again, wishing the whole world would know that she was “sanctimonious” and “selfish and hateful.”.
Strangely, later, when I went to the bathroom to get a towel, I saw fresh blood on the paper towel in the trash can.
Mingming, no one in the dormitory is on her period.
Unexpectedly, the mystery of those blood-stained tissues was solved with Xu Jiawen’s poisoning and hospitalization.
Xu Jiawen drank the cup of milk tea and had more than abdominal pain. Jiang Boyi was so frightened that she shrank on the bed and refused to come down, shaking her head.
This.. It must have nothing to do with me, you guys. None of you will set me up!
No one spoke, and she got out of the relationship in a panic.
Wang Ying gave her a meaningful look and said coldly, “You’d better pray that nothing happens to Jiawen.”
That evening, Xu Jiawen was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment, and I followed him with Wang Ying and the instructor.
Jiang Boyi still refused to get out of bed, but kept murmuring that it was not her, it was really not her, she did not want to poison anyone, do not catch her away.
After a while, Xu Jiawen’s parents also came. As we expected, they were a pair of middle-aged people who looked very decent. After listening to the instructor’s concise description,
Xu immediately noticed the problem and said he wanted to call the police.
The instructor tried to stop them:
“There are a lot of people in the school, so rashly reporting to the police and opening up the investigation may put these children in the center of public opinion.”. You see, why don’t we wait for Chia-wen to get a little better, and first listen to Chia-wen talk about the specific situation, and then we’ll decide how to deal with it later.
Xu Fu thought about it, then looked at me and Wang Ying, and finally put down his cell phone. More than three o’clock
in the morning, the doctor gave a conclusion, said some professional terms, summed up is:
severe acute gastrointestinal inflammation caused by diarrhea and electrolyte disorders, but what is caused, it is not clear.
“Will it affect your child’s postgraduate entrance exam this Saturday?” Father Hsu glanced at his watch and said, “It’s the day after tomorrow.”
“In this case, you should be hospitalized for the next few days. Let’s put the patient’s health first.”
The doctor flipped through the report in his hand. “Oh, yes, there’s something else. Come in and talk about it.”
With that, the doctor led Xu Jiawen’s parents into the consultation room.
Just a minute later, Hsu’s father growled, “Impossible, absolutely impossible!”
Immediately afterwards, Hsu’s mother also burst into tears: “Our Wenwen is the most obedient. It must be a mistake. It certainly won’t..”
After a while, Xu’s father slammed the door and went out.
Wang Ying and I looked at each other. When I
got back to the dormitory, it was almost five o’clock.
Jiang Boyi is still awake, and the light is on.
Hearing the noise, she bounced up and asked us, with dark circles under her eyes,
“How is Hsu Chia-wen?”? Is she all right? Why didn’t she come back with you? She didn’t pretend to be weak and insist on being hospitalized, did she?
“You’re finished, Chiang Po-yi. Her father has already called the police.” Wang Ying scared her on purpose.
Not me! It really wasn’t me! Chiang Po-yi cried out, pointing everywhere like crazy, “It’s you, Wang Ying. You don’t like me. Are you ***ing me with Hsu Chia-wen?”! Or you? Ge Xiaoqi, you hated me for scolding you yesterday, so you deliberately borrowed my angry words to poison others and frame me! Or maybe it’s Hsu Chia-wen herself. She took some medicine herself just to frame me!
Psycho! It’s disgusting to be in the same room with you! Wang Ying spat, did not sleep, took the bag and left.
Soon, when I went to visit Xu Jiawen again, the secret that the doctor kept secret was no longer a secret.
In the afternoon, I went to the hospital. In front of the ward, I heard an aunt chatting with a nurse at the door.
“Yes, it’s the little girl in bed 28. She’s beautiful. She was brought in last night.”
The nurse lowered her voice in a mysterious way:
“I heard her parents quarreling this morning. I can’t believe it. This little girl looks so cute. Listen to her mother. She said not long ago..”
She said, word for word, “Beaten, passed, and aborted.”
Abortion?
Xu Jiawen? With the
sound of thunder, I can’t connect these two words in any way.
Xu Jiawen is an angel, she should be holy, should be beautiful, should not be stained with dust, even sick should be killed by dirty roommates, how. How come?
But. Then I remembered the bloody paper in the bathroom that day.
And her gossamer voice, holding the wall when she came out.
Is she really?
Abortion?
“Classmate, are you here to see Wenwen?” I was frozen in place and my thoughts were flying, and a soft female voice pulled me back. Not far away,
Mother Xu waved to me, “Come here.”. Classmate, don’t be afraid. Auntie just wants to ask you, after all, who is trying to harm our family Wenwen?
“I don’t know.” I put my hands behind my back awkwardly, and the smell of her advanced perfume was dazzling.
“Don’t worry about anything. Just tell me what has happened to you during this time.”
I don’t say anything.
“Mom, let me talk to my roommate.” Fortunately, Hsu Chia-wen, who was in the hospital bed, spoke out in time to save me. “Is that Xiaoqi?”? Come on, Xiaoqi, did you bring me a book to review for the postgraduate entrance examination?
I was at a loss for words and didn’t know how to respond.
She did not know that she could not pass this year’s postgraduate examination and go to the university she had dreamed of.
Xu’s mother looked at Xu Jiawen expectantly, turned her back, sucked her sour nose, and stopped her tears.
“I’ll bring it to you in the evening.” I forced a smile and sat down next to her and squeezed her hand.
“It’s all right.” Xu Jiawen smiled brightly, still like an angel, as if there was no pain, no hatred, and no abortion. Her mother was
sent away, and she and I chatted like we were in the dormitory.
Hearing me say I was about to leave, Hsu Chia-wen suddenly grabbed my arm and smiled slyly:
“Xiaoqi, do you really think that Chiang Po-yi poisoned that cup of milk tea?”
I was stunned. I don’t know.
“Is it?” She let go of her hand and smiled like an angel again. “I don’t know.” When I returned to school in the
evening, I saw my classmate Zhou Rui holding a basketball and talking and laughing with several boys on the way. As
I followed, I saw one of them poking him with his shoulder: “Didn’t you always like Chiang Po-yi?”
Zhou Rui is the monitor of our class and the captain of the college basketball team. The height of
185 is matched with long legs. He is also handsome and has good grades. He is a local, and his parents are professors in our school. When I just transferred from the Department of Civil Engineering to the Department of Computer Science in my
sophomore year, I gained the favor of many girls.
That includes me.
But it seems that he only has a hot relationship with Jiang Boyi.
The last time I quarreled with Chiang Po-yi, I heard Chiang Po-yi say that he was still comforting
her behind her back: “What do you care about with her? It’s less than your money for a bag, which is more than a year’s minimum living allowance for a laid-off mother. What’s wrong with giving it to her?”. She’s already enrolled in graduate school. If she doesn’t get a scholarship and doesn’t have tuition, she can only go to work.
But now I heard him say, “Who would like her?” Then he
immediately gave his companion a heavy blow on his back. It was
not that I wanted to eavesdrop, but that his voice was so loud that he almost shouted.
“Haven’t you heard? Chiang Po-yi got Hsu Chia-wen into the ICU. Maybe tomorrow he’ll be taken away.”
ICU is an exaggeration.
“Oh, what a pity for Hsu Chia-wen.” At the mention of the real white, rich and beautiful, several boys sighed.
“Ge Hsiao-chi is not bad either.” Chou Rui was caught off guard when he mentioned my name. “I study well, I study hard.”. It’s just that the family is too ordinary. They’ve never seen the world, and the people are very rustic. What county did you come from?
“Excuse me.” I deliberately quickened my pace, pushed Zhou Rui’s shoulder away, and went straight through him and another boy.
Then glancing back at him, he scratched his head in embarrassment and blushed.
This is Zhou Rui’s evaluation of me.
Dirty? What county.
Even though I got a special scholarship every year, in his eyes, the birth of a small town writer still decided everything and left an indelible mark on me.
Back to the dormitory building, before I went up, I was pulled by a girl in the next dormitory.
She leaned close to my ear and said, “Xiaoqi, go and have a look, Jiang Boyi..”
I thought about it, but she was crazy again, and nodded and agreed.
But also do not want to, a upstairs, I saw Jiang Boyi’s body, with a strange posture trapped in the trash can.
Usually her princess temper, even the garbage will never personally go to dump, today, but wish the whole person into the garbage push.
“What are you doing?”
When I got closer, Jiang Boyi was frantically rummaging through the smelly trash can looking for something with her bare hands.
“What do you want to do?” I tried to pull her up.
Chiang Po-yi, however, was as strong as she had ever been, and immediately opened me up and said
, “Leave me alone!”! You, Wang Ying, Hsu Chia-wen, you want to hurt me, but you won’t succeed!
“What are you looking for? I’ll help you find it.” I asked her.
“Don’t pretend to be Ge Xiaoqi!” She laughed wildly. “I’ll find out. When I find that milk tea cup, you’ll know. Everyone will know. I didn’t poison it. I just..” It’s Xu Jiawen! She was acting, and you conspired to set me up! The trash can in the
dormitory building is cleared every morning. Xu Jiawen loves to be clean and threw it out immediately after drinking it last night. No matter how
Jiang Boyi turned it over, it was impossible to turn it out.
I wanted to persuade her again, but listening to her endless swearing, I finally had to give up.
On Friday night, the day before the postgraduate entrance examination, Xu Jiawen was still unable to leave the hospital, doomed to miss the exam she had been preparing for for a long time.
I got a postgraduate recommendation early in the morning, and there was no pressure.
Jiang Boyi always boasted that he would go to his uncle’s big company as a vice president as soon as he graduated, so he didn’t have to plan for the future.
Wang Ying has just finished the exam, and it seems that she is likely to go ashore.
Only Xu Jiawen spent too much effort on the postgraduate examination.
Her own grades are excellent, and it is easy for her to get a postgraduate recommendation.
But she is very perseverance, not to rush to a well-known local university, not to be admitted to the oath.
These days, we all see how she reviews all night long.
With this disease, everything was easily ruined.
In the evening, Wang Ying went to the hospital to deliver clothes to Xu Jiawen and saw Jiang Boyi searching for some law-related videos.
“If I had known I was afraid, why would I have done it?”
“I didn’t!” Jiang Boyi immediately bounced up from his chair and shouted hysterically.
“All right, all right, whatever you want.” Wang Ying shook her head and said, “Let me tell you the good news. Today Chia-wen said that she would let it go. She has no major health problems and no sequelae. She will not pursue the matter and will not report it to the police.”
Jiang Boyi was stunned at first and obviously took a breath.
Soon, she lifted her chin to the sky again. “Of course!”! How could Hsu Chia-wen have the face to call the police? It’s obvious that she directed and acted by herself.
Wang Ying suddenly stood up, without saying a word, grabbed the glass beside her and smashed it into Jiang Boyi’s chair. With a
loud noise, the glass splashed on the ground, scaring Jiang Boyi to jump up and cover her mouth.
After a long time, she finally realized, “Wang Ying, what are you doing?”! Do you want to kill someone?
“You deserve it too!” Wang Ying spat fiercely, put on her schoolbag on one shoulder, and walked away without looking back.
Passing by her, Wang Ying also kicked over Jiang Boyi’s chair, which was wearing a pink and dirty chair cover.
The storm was full of doubts, and after careful consideration, it came to an end with Hsu Chia-wen’s “no investigation.”.
On Sunday afternoon, with the bell ringing at the end of the last professional course examination, everyone filed out of the teaching building, some with a long sigh of relief and some with a frown.
Only Xu Jiawen, who was ill in bed, was not even qualified to take the exam.
She was able to leave the hospital during the day the next day, and I went to the hospital for the last time.
It’s a pity that the trip was missed and she was not in the ward. Where else can
a very weak patient who has not yet recovered go? On the way
out of the hospital, I heard her voice at the corner downstairs.
Not only her, but also a boy. Deep
in the corner of the stairs, where few people passed, there was a hidden and heated argument.
Intense curiosity forced me to take a step, and in my heart, there was a mysterious sweetness that could not be suppressed.
At this moment, I can’t tell whether I want to see her hysterical or the angel covered with dust.
「…… Your parents don’t know that I got you pregnant now, do they?
First came the boy’s voice, eager and excited.
Xu Jiawen bit his lip and said nothing for a long time.
“Don’t give me any trouble, okay?” As he continued, he spread out his hands and shook them hard. “You know, it’s not my fault!”! That time half a year ago, I told you to take the medicine, but you didn’t!
Hsu Chia-wen raised her pitiful little face, a pair of watery eyes glistening with tears on her palm-sized face:
“But you lied to me at that time..” You said it wouldn’t be the first time. You said I was in the safe period. It was you who coaxed me, and after you succeeded, you told me to take the medicine. This is the first time
I have seen such Xu Jiawen.
Decent and clean, always a good girl in the eyes of teachers and parents, how could she? How can you shed such cowardly and humiliating tears? So what
? Xu Jiawen, you volunteered for that. With someone you like. You should be thanking me. I told you to take your medicine..
The boy laughed frivolously, as if he was mocking each other’s throwing himself into his arms, and as if he was emboldening his own scum behavior.
Smiling, a slap fell on his face unexpectedly, which made me tremble. Xu Jiawen’s hand hung in the air in
front of her, and the excessive force made her palms red.
Angels can actually hit people. After
a moment of silence, Xu Jiawen also laughed, smiled and bent down to squat deeply, his face buried in his knees, helpless tears streaming down his face, but laughed wildly. After
being slapped, the boy looked a little exasperated, reacted and kicked her in the knee before turning away.
After receiving a kick, Xu Jiawen, who was already weak, fell to the ground in a mess. He glared at me as he
passed me.
I finally saw his face.
I have to say, this scum man is really handsome, and he is also a real scum. After I left the hospital
that night, I couldn’t calm down for a long time.
I can’t help thinking again, what kind of person is this girl who is so holy and perfect on the surface.
And in the shadow we can’t see, what kind of self does everyone hide. After
Xu Jiawen was discharged from the hospital, she was taken back to her local home by her parents, and even the clothes, shoes, and daily necessities in the dormitory were not packed up.
Because there was no class, she seldom came to school again, and we hardly met.
Near the end of the semester, one day, Wang Ying suddenly pulled me out of the dormitory mysteriously.
“Let me show you something.” She held out her clenched hand.
When I opened it, there was half a tube of used mustard lying inside, dirty, as if it had just been turned out of the trash can.
“I just dug it out of the trash can.” No, really.
Wang Ying lowered her voice:
“Chiang Po-yi threw it. She walked a few hundred meters by herself, wrapped it in toilet paper, and threw it into a public trash can outside the school.”
I looked at her quietly.
Wang Ying went on to say, “I happened to see her after self-study, and I thought something was wrong with her sneaking around, so I went to see her.”. After she left, I found out.
I understood what she meant. She felt that this was the “murder weapon” used to “poison” Hsu Chia-wen.
Jiang Boyi originally hid and did not dare to throw away, until the matter was completely turned over, he dared to run so far to destroy the evidence.
But half a tube of mustard, at most a trick, can toss people into the hospital, but also a few days can not get out of bed?
Xu Jiawen is not a fool, drink the milk tea with mustard, why not spit out, but also drink most of the cup without saying a word?
I know that Wang Ying is as puzzled as I am.
She waited for me to ask, but in the end, she only waited until I pushed her hand away.
Forget it, Wang Ying. Hsu Chia-wen has already said, “It’s over, and we won’t pursue it.” I said, “After all, it’s such a bad thing that happened in our dormitory. Let’s not mention it in the future.”
She looked at me in surprise, and finally did not ask. The
senior year passed quickly, but after a few months, everyone began to go their separate ways. It seems that the
dramatic and unbearable dormitory life is finally coming to an end. Before
graduation, according to common sense, there are all kinds of farewell meals. On the night of the
class reunion, Xu Jiawen did not show up as usual. After three rounds of
drinking, we girls gathered together to play Truth or Dare.
It was Wang Ying’s proposal, and everyone, with some drunkenness, agreed to come down, talking and laughing. After
a few irrelevant questions, when it was Chiang Po-yi’s turn, Wang Ying suddenly took the initiative and said,
“I want to ask Chiang Po-yi, who was the classmate you felt most sorry for in the last few years of college?”
Without waiting for her to answer, Wang Ying added, “It’s okay if you’re not there.” The directivity of
this statement is extremely obvious.
Chiang Po-yi immediately jumped up and said
, “Who am I sorry for?”? I’m not sorry for anyone! Does the poor man whose confession to me was rejected count? If it does.. Then
, she proudly and loudly announced the name of a male classmate at the next table, which instantly drew laughter and screams from the whole audience.
The boy, who had always been shy, was exposed and rejected in public. His face was suddenly white and blue, and he ran away in embarrassment amid laughter. What are you
running for? It’s all freshman year. Why can’t he let it go?
Jiang Boyi even continued to tease, not realizing that he was the culprit of the embarrassment.
Wang Ying was really a little drunk. She went up and hooked Chiang Po-yi around the neck and whispered in her ear,
“Don’t change the subject, Chiang Po-yi. It’s been half a year. Tell me, did you do that thing?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about..” Jiang Boyi quibbled stiffly.
Talking about the most secretive secret of our dormitory, the atmosphere quickly became eerie.
I quickly dismissed the other students and separated them: “Wang Ying, we have agreed not to mention this matter.”
What’s the matter? Why don’t you take me with you when we have a heart-to-heart talk in the dormitory?
My voice did not fall, and a long-lost voice came behind me. Incredibly,
we all turned our heads and saw Xu Jiawen standing behind us.
She is still so good-looking, with a warm smile, harmless to people and animals.
“Truth or Dare?” She came over and naturally sat down between Chiang Po-yi and me. “I want to play, too.”
Xu Jiawen’s sudden participation makes everything more unpredictable.
Jiang Boyi’s smile froze on her face, and she didn’t even want to look up at Xu Jiawen.
“I just got here. Why don’t I ask first?” But when Xu Jiawen spoke, he was still so generous and confident.
“Xiaoqi.” She suddenly called me, “Who do you like best in this dormitory?”
I was blindfolded and muttered, “You and Wang Ying are very kind to me.”. Po-yi is fine when she’s not in a bad temper.
Chiang Po-yi gave a sharp “cut” and turned his head away. With a noncommittal smile
, Hsu Chia-wen turned to Wang Ying and asked,
“Wang Ying, do you have a bad digestive system? I saw you bought laxatives before.”
Wang Ying nodded naturally: “Yes, but it was only a short time ago, and now it’s all right.”
She paused for a moment and then gave Hsu Chia-wen a big push.
“Chia-wen, don’t think about it.”. It has nothing to do with me that you took part in the postgraduate entrance examination in Qianjin Hospital. I’ve already run out of laxatives, and there’s no way they’re going to work so hard that you almost end up in the ICU.
“Of course I know.” With a gentle smile, Hsu Chia-wen gently squeezed Wang Ying’s hand with her backhand. “That had nothing to do with you. I want to thank you for coming to the hospital to see me and speak for me behind my back.”
Wang Ying breathed a sigh of relief.
On the contrary, Jiang Boyi stared at the empty bowl in front of him all the way, looking dignified and silent.
“Bo Yi..”
“Hsu Chia-wen.” Without waiting for her to ask a question, Chiang Po-yi called out her name first and asked in a trembling voice, “Just in time, I have a question to ask you.”
“Yes.” “Was that cup of milk tea good that night?”
She asked, with a cold voice.
Without waiting for Hsu Chia-wen to answer, Chiang Po-yi finally raised her head and stared at her
. “Doesn’t it taste good?”? How can it taste good with half a tube of mustard? Why are you drinking so hard?
Hsu Chia-wen froze for a moment, then quickly laughed again:
“What mustard?”? You won’t say that last time Xiaoqi gave me a cup of milk tea with mustard in it, will you? Why? Who added it? You? For a trick on Kiki? Or to trick me? I don’t know. I only drank a little of it. I didn’t taste the mustard.
“Stop pretending!” Jiang Boyi, drunk, suddenly howled like crazy and screamed in front of the whole class. The dust-laden embarrassment of
our dormitory was finally put into public view for trial.
I’ve had enough! You’re pushing me aside, you, Wang Ying, and Ge Hsiao-chi. You’re not good people! Chiang Po-yi pushed each of us vigorously. “I checked on the Internet later. Half a tube of mustard won’t make you sick for that long at all!”! I am not the culprit, it must be you, you conspire to frame me, you want to torture me together.
At this time, Zhou Rui hid far away, his face full of disgust, as if it was a shame to look at her more.
Finally, it was the instructor who came to end the farce.
She ordered several boys to send the drunken Jiang Boyi back, Xu Jiawen also explained that it was just a little joke, because he ate Jiang Boyi’s mustard and went to the hospital for a few days, which was half a year ago.
Jiang Boyi has always been unpopular, we only think she is nonsense, secretly accused a few words, no one continued to pursue.
But after the dramatic dinner, Xu Jiawen suddenly stopped me in the crowd.
This is the real purpose of her trip.
“Xiaoqi, I actually have a question that I really want to ask you.” She was still the same, smiling with arched eyebrows, and her voice was so soft that it almost made people apart. “It’s still Truth or Dare. Those who lie will be punished.”
I clenched my fists awkwardly and said weakly, “What’s the problem?”
“Usually, the water in the dormitory is not so fast to drink.” She leaned close to my ear, and her smile faded away. I still remember that on the morning of my accident, there was still half a bucket of water left, which was the usual amount for two days. But why, when I came back that night, there was nothing left, so I was hot and thirsty, and I could only drink your cup of milk tea.
I retreated in small steps, but Hsu Chia-wen pressed forward.
“Xiaoqi, tell me, do you know what’s going on?”? Do you know who poisoned me and targeted me?
I.. I don’t know. How should I know? It has nothing to do with me. I shook my head and ran quickly.
Unexpectedly, truth or dare, liars really have retribution.
That night, I drank wine, and my mind was haunted by Xu Jiawen’s words. On the way back by the shared electric bicycle, I was always in a trance, and my eyes were blurred. When I
crossed the road, I was so shaky that I couldn’t even see the traffic lights, not to mention the speeding car on the side.
By the time I reacted, I had been thrown three meters away from the electric car, a sharp pain came from my left leg and waist, and a fishy heat surged up my throat.
The unexpected car accident sent me to the hospital.
My parents came all the way from town to the big city to watch me outside the operating room.
Fortunately, it’s just a fracture, and the operation went smoothly, and I can recover in a few months.
Just like Xu Jiawen in those days, I still missed this year’s graduation defense, and also lost the opportunity to get a diploma and then go to Baoyan School for further study.
This is my karma.
Not only because I lied, but also because I really poured out the water in the drinking water early in the morning, in order to let Xu Jiawen drink the cup of milk tea.
Because I was really drugged.
Compared with Jiang Boyi, I have to admit that I still hate Xu Jiawen more.
Hate her perfect, her promising, her birth is the peak, she gave me the same kindness and gentleness.
I was admitted to a school in the province, and she only needed to be admitted to three thousand.
It’s just that there are 800,000 examinees in our province, and thousands of troops have crossed the single-plank bridge, while in the municipality directly under the Central Government where Xu Jiawen is located, only 50,000 people have taken the college entrance examination. The money
I earned from a summer job was not enough for a pair of shoes, and the special scholarship I won was not enough for a bag.
My mother’s annual minimum living allowance is not even enough for her to travel abroad.
There is only one thing that I am better than her, that is, I got excellent grades and successfully got the postgraduate recommendation of our school.
But Xu Jiawen, she disdains at all, she still wants to pass the postgraduate entrance examination, go to a better university, and hold me down forever.
I really hate and really fear to see her get what she wants. So I added some medicine to the cup of milk tea and framed Jiang Boyi, who was also annoying.
But obviously, my dosage will only make her unable to continue to review because of diarrhea, and in the examination room, she can also play abnormally because of physical discomfort.
It’s impossible to let her stay in bed for such a long time and miss the exam completely. All
these riddles will be solved in a year. In the graduation season of the
second year, I basically recovered, passed the graduation defense smoothly, and got the diploma.
However, because of illness, I did not play well in the second year’s postgraduate entrance examination and failed to enter the school of my heart.
My life, after all, has been ruined by myself.
Also in this year, I heard that Jiang Boyi did not go to her uncle’s big company after graduation, nor did she become a vice president. She was idle at home all the time. Later, she found an internship at home and stayed at home for a month.
Wang Ying became a civil servant as she wished, but she was quite popular in school on weekdays. Somehow, she did not get along well as expected, but attracted a lot of criticism.
And Xu Jiawen, who got good grades in both IELTS and GRE, got an offer and waited to go abroad for further study. Unfortunately, in the face of the epidemic, he could only stay under the eyes of his parents to receive long-distance teaching. On the day I
got my diploma, I took the initiative to bring everyone together after a year’s absence, and proposed to play Truth or Dare again.
This time, no one agreed.
“Why don’t you stop asking? Let’s talk about it.” Wang Ying was so drunk that her face turned red.
It can be seen that this year, she really has a lot of pressure in her work and needs to vent in front of her old classmates and alcohol.
“What are you saying?” I asked knowingly. In a flash
, everyone was quiet again.
Half a day later, Chiang Po-yi gulped down a glass of beer and said
, “I’ll go first.”. When I was in college, I didn’t like you, Ge Xiaoqi. I think you are rustic and poor, but Zhou Rui still looks at you a few more times. After you robbed me of my special scholarship, I was so angry that I said I would poison you. But I didn’t have the guts. I just squeezed a little mustard to see you make a fool of yourself.
“You want to see me make a fool of myself, but I really don’t want Hsu Chia-wen to get into a good school.” And then I said it.
This sentence made Wang Ying’s eyes widen.
I smiled and finally said the long-overdue apology
: “I’m sorry, Jiawen.”. At that time, I put some medicine in the milk tea, but also deliberately let you drink, in order to let you review a few days less, so that you are not in good condition when you take the exam. But I really didn’t want you to fail the exam.
Now, with the passage of time, I have suffered the punishment I deserve, and I want to apologize for the real end.
Xu Jiawen held the glass tightly.
She took a deep breath and said, “You want me to be in a bad state, but I really don’t want to go to the examination room.”
Her words made four people hold their breath in an instant.
Including me, the tip of my heart trembled fiercely. “What are you talking about, Chia-wen?” Asked
Wang Ying in an incredulous voice. When I
was young, I was a good girl, and my parents arranged everything. From what kind of school they go to and what kind of work they do, to what kind of clothes they wear and what kind of food they eat.
She picked up the cup and was caught off guard and smashed it on the ground. The crack of the
glass seemed to be in the heart of each of us. “I’ve had enough,”
says Hsu Chia-wen, helplessly venting his 20-plus years of depression
.
She said, Before the college entrance examination, I wanted to go to France to study art, but my father insisted that I become a computer engineer like him. Before taking an examination of grind, I want to go abroad to pursue advanced studies again, but my family arranged early in the morning good I want to take an examination of which domestic college. And which lab to go to, which tutor to follow, or even what topic to study. “I don’t like that subject at all. I want to study art. I don’t want to take the postgraduate entrance exam.”
She wiped her face
with delicate makeup. So, I added some medicine to that cup of milk tea.
I looked at her in disbelief as she described in anguish the troubles I couldn’t take any notice of.
I sympathized and resented. I was not only shocked by her behavior, but also annoyed that her troubles were divided into three or six or nine grades, and that I was not even qualified to touch or understand the troubles that drove her to a desperate situation.
At this point, the truth of the farce was finally solved.
Jiang Boyi put mustard, I took the medicine, and Xu Jiawen added the amount.
And always thought that we each pretend to be innocent, in the end, no one is innocent.
In the middle of drinking, Wang Ying’s leader asked her to go back to work overtime, and Jiang Boyi went home first under the urging of her parents.
Before leaving, Wang Ying left a note to me, saying that we should wait for her to leave. Hsu Chia-wen
and I were the only two people left. She turned off her cell phone and stopped answering her parents’ calls. She came to me and said, “You saw everything that day at the hospital, didn’t you?”.
“What?” I asked knowingly.
“I had a fight with a boy.”
I nodded.
“Am I naive?” Hsu Chia-wen raised her head and looked at the starless night sky. “I fell in love with a scum man. For him, for rebellion, for not being a good girl, I didn’t hesitate to hurt my body..”
I didn’t know whether to say yes or no. Finally, I hugged Xu Jiawen in silence.
“Let’s take a look at Wang Ying’s sincere words.” After sitting side by side for a while, I suggested.
Xu Jiawen nodded and we opened the note together.
“I had nothing to do with that, but I am not innocent.”
Her handwriting was scrawled and unrestrained, and every stroke was so heavy that she wanted to puncture the paper.
“I put Hsu Chia-wen’s socks next to Chiang Po-yi’s washcloth, and I gave Chiang Po-yi laxatives to rob the toilet.” Xu Jiawen and
I looked at each other, so many daily things happened in the past, in Wang Ying’s own account, it was all her deliberate.
「…… I do this, just to let the dormitory relationship deteriorate, let everyone exclude Jiang Boyi, so that I can come forward every time and become a righteous teacher. It was not until I entered the society that I realized that these minds and calculations were not powerful. They will only set me up and make my path narrower and narrower.
Finally, she said, “I’m sorry, Jiawen, Boyi, Xiaoqi.”. I think we may all be wrong.
Yeah, we’re all wrong. We’re not innocent.
Fortunately, and unfortunately, we have all paid the price.
And if I go back to that night, I think.
Jiang Boyi can’t put mustard, and she sincerely apologized to me.
I will drink that cup of fruit tea and praise the freshness of hand-peeled grapes. Xu Jiawen, who ran back
late, drank a glass of drinking water and then fell into a beautiful dream.
We all have a “bright and beautiful” future..
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