Chapter 159: Reveal the Sharpness

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Ning Wei didn’t meddle with her business, but it didn’t mean she didn’t understand it.

She was very clear about the Lin family’s att.i.tude towards Qin Ran. In fact, she knew that Ning Qing had always been in an awkward position in the Lin family.

She would never allow herself to drag them down.

If Qin Ran knew why she was staying in the hospital, there would be big trouble.

“The machine had never been faulty, but it made a mistake when I arrived. Don’t you know what kind of person our factory director is? What do we have against him?”

“This matter… there might be someone behind it… my leg has always been lame, so it’s fine even if it’s broken. I just can’t burden you and Ran Ran! Your grandpa…” Ning Wei said faintly and grabbed Mu Nan’s arm, her eyes bloodshot. “Mu Nan, listen to me, your sister is in Beijing, so you must hide this matter from Ran Ran and your grandma. You mustn’t mention a word about me to them. Promise me!”

Mu Nan loosened his clenched fists and lowered his head. “I promise.”

He always knew his limits, so Ning Wei sighed in relief and leaned back, her expression slightly relaxed. “Mu Nan, you have to keep the things your grandma gave you.”

Mu Nan scooped up soup and handed it to her.

Ning Wei didn’t use an a.n.a.lgesic pump and was in great pain. She didn’t eat dinner and only drank a bit of soup.

Since Mu Nan had to go to cla.s.s tomorrow morning, he caught the last bus home.

At home, he put the notebooks that Qin Ran had brought from Beijing on the table.

He sat down and reached out to flip through each of the books.

They were mostly Physics books and notes.

There were also several Physics exercise books.

Mu Nan lowered his head slightly, his eyelashes drooping and casting a shadow on his eyelids. After looking at it for a long time, he reached out and put the pile of materials in a cabinet and locked it.

**

Qin Ran returned to her bedroom and took a shower.

Then, she took her mobile phone to the school’s printing center.

“You want to print it all?” The uncle responsible for printing asked kindly.

Qin Ran nodded slightly, her fringe falling over her brow bone as she knocked carelessly and slowly on the table with her long and beautiful fingers.

The uncle in Wenyin Center helped her print it one by one.

Dozens of photos came out slowly.

Qin Ran leaned aside and put down the things in her hand. She held up her phone and started reading the information about her grandma that Chang Ning had sent her.

Qin Ran frowned slightly at the abundant information.

Especially when she saw Ning Wei’s name in the middle.

Twenty minutes later, all the photos were printed and Qin Ran looked at it absentmindedly.

She was still thinking about Ning Wei.

The boss helped her put the photos together and asked, “Student, did you print so many landscape photos to make postcards?”

“Oh, no.” Qin Ran responded a little slowly and stood up. “It’s a gift.”

The boss handed the photos to Qin Ran and nodded without asking more.

Qin Ran kept them in her pocket and went to cla.s.s 3.9.

The boss rarely saw someone who looked so good, so he slowly paced around after Qin Ran left before he went to play with his phone.

But he saw a student card on the table.

High School Cla.s.s 3.9, Qin Ran.

This name was familiar.

It was probably the good-looking girl from just now.

He chased after her but couldn’t see Qin Ran.

“She left so fast.” The boss thought about it and still kept the card. If the girl didn’t come to take it tomorrow, he would find a time to bring it to cla.s.s 3.9.

Most of the people in cla.s.s 3.9 were present.

Xu Yaoguang had already returned by the time Qin Ran arrived. He held a pen and was doing some Physics questions.

But all afternoon till now, he hadn’t even completed three big questions.

Upon closer inspection, his eyes were in a daze.

After the incident with Meng Xinran, Qin Ran’s popularity skyrocketed. But she didn’t come to cla.s.s for three days, so she caused quite a stir when she appeared in cla.s.s 3.9 at night.

“Sister Ran, do you want to play? The kind where you carry me!”

“Sister Ran, help. I’m at the robber stage!”

“…”

Qin Ran threw the photos on the table and sat down casually on her chair.

Hearing the howl of the people around her, she raised an eyebrow, leaned back on her chair, and extended a finger to knock on the table.

The hustle and bustle around her dissipated instantly.

Qin Ran withdrew her finger and took out her notebook from her backpack. She didn’t practice writing today nor look at her foreign book.

She just pressed the paper with one hand and held a pen in her other hand. She put on her headphones and began to refine the score into the frame.

Her mobile phone lit up.

Yan Xi sent her a smiley face.

She wrote with an unconstrained style, her strokes changing directions every so often. Lin Siran couldn’t understand her writing and looked away after a while to flip through the printed photos on her desk.

At the back.

Qiao Sheng looked at Xu Yaoguang, who seemed to be looking in Qin Ran’s direction. He put down his pen, poked Xu Yaoguang’s back, and whispered, “Young Master Xu, what are you looking at? I checked on Q these few days…”

He guessed it was because of “Q”.

Ever since then, Xu Yaoguang had been strange.

“Qiao Sheng, do you remember Qin Yu saying that Qin… she played the violin?” Xu Yaoguang turned sideways, narrowed his eyes, and asked in a low voice.

“Yeah, but Sister Ran’s violin isn’t good, and I’ve never seen her practice it before.” Qiao Sheng didn’t expect him to change the subject and only responded after a moment.

Xu Yaoguang leaned back on the chair, spun his pen, and looked coldly at him. “How do you know she’s bad if you’ve never heard it before?”

Of course, Qin Yu had told him.

Qiao Sheng scratched his head and looked carefully at Xu Yaoguang, not daring to refute.

However, Xu Yaoguang obviously didn’t intend to wait for his answer. He looked away and fell deep in thought.

**

At the same time.

In Beijing.

The apprentices.h.i.+p banquet ended successfully.

Mu Ying followed Ning Qing and the rest cautiously and went to the Shen family’s house.

Because Qin Yu had become Dai Ran’s disciple, the Shen family deliberately took Ning Qing back from the hotel to their villa and also arranged a room for her beside Qin Yu.

Mu Ying had never even seen the Lin family’s house before, so the Shen family’s house was simply like magnificent gold to her. She stared intently and couldn’t look away.

The Shen family and the rest all noticed this.

But they didn’t express anything.

Before going to sleep, Mu Ying stayed in Qin Yu’s room.

Ning Qing was calling Chen Shulan.

“Aunt, why is grandma looking for you?” Mu Ying hadn’t spoken to Chen Shulan since the last incident and was a little uneasy.

She was afraid of what Chen Shulan would say to Ning Qing.

Ning Qing put down her phone and smiled. “She heard that Yu’er became Dai Ran’s disciple and specifically called to ask me to send her Yu’er’s audition video.”

“Why does she want it? Wasn’t Grandma always uninterested?” Qin Yu came out of the bathroom after a shower and raised an eyebrow.

Ning Qing had sent Chen Shulan a video call when Qin Yu had been performing, but Chen Shulan had said she was sleepy and hadn’t watched.

So Ning Qing had sent it to Ning Wei.

“She regrets it now.” Ning Qing smiled, a little smug. “After knowing how impressive you are, how could she not be happy for you?”

She looked down and began to search for the video she had recorded on her mobile phone and sent it to Chen Shulan.

In the past two days, Ning Qing finally felt like she could hold her ground in front of Lin Wan.

Qin Yu rubbed her hair and frowned slightly, feeling like something was wrong.

But she couldn’t tell what was wrong.

“Oh, why didn’t your mother come?” Ning Qing finished sending the video to Chen Shulan and looked at Mu Ying. “She didn’t open the video I sent her, is she still working at the plastics factory this late at night?”

“Yes.” Mu Ying nodded. “She was still working when I left.”

Ning Qing squinted and went outside to call Ning Wei.

Qin Yu knew Ning Qing was questioning Ning Wei about why she didn’t spend the money she had sent her.

**

The next day.

In the office.

“What? You want to quit the Physics compet.i.tion? And you want to skip one grade?” The headteacher of the first grade held the paper for the compet.i.tion in his hand and looked at the proud student in front of him, stunned. “Why?”

Heng Chuan First Middle School always paid attention to various compet.i.tions.

Now, they could add points to their college entrance examination if they won the third prize or above for the compet.i.tions.

After the midterm exam, teachers in various subjects in the first grade paid attention to the juniors.

Mu Nan was first in his grade and the scores of each of his subjects were close to that of Qin Ran, the evildoer, so the Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology teachers had all been trying to rope him in. In the end, he had chosen Physics.

In the past years, a talent like Mu Nan would be regarded as a treasure.

But this year, there were a bunch of prodigies in the third grade.

Qin Ran, Xu Yaoguang, and Pan Mingyue were all talents, but even if Mu Nan was inconspicuous, he could still compete with these third graders.

After hearing that he wanted to quit the physics compet.i.tion and jump directly to third grade, the headteacher of cla.s.s 3.1 stood up.

“There’s no reason.” Mu Nan lowered his head, pursed his lips, and said coldly, “I just don’t like first grade all of a sudden.”

“Mu Nan, you have to think clearly. You have a good foundation and you might be able to learn the contents of second and third grade yourself, but you will just be a swallow with that short period of time. With your qualifications, you can enter First Middle School as the top scorer in a few years. You don’t have to do this to yourself.”

With that said, the headteacher paused and then asked in a low voice, “Did you encounter any difficulties? It’s okay, just tell me directly so I can help you.”

Mu Nan looked up, his eyes dark and icy as usual. “Teacher, I want to jump another grade next year in spring. I hope you can help me keep the Physics compet.i.tion a secret.”

The teacher looked him in the eye and finally sighed. “I hope you can go back and think about it again, or discuss it with your family.”

“Thank you, teacher.” Mu Nan bent over and bowed before standing upright and walking out.

He heard a sigh behind him.

**

The headteacher of cla.s.s 3.1 went to the printing center with a worried expression.

He couldn’t help but tell the boss there about it.

After talking, he realized that the whole printing center felt cold.

The headteacher froze and turned his head to see a girl wearing a white sweater and the school uniform outside looking at him.

She looked quite familiar.

“Sorry, but may I ask.” Qin Ran’s delicate face was expressionless as she bowed at him politely. “Who did you say just withdrew from the Physics compet.i.tion?”

Her voice was audible.

The headteacher thought about it and remembered that she was the black horse of the third grade, Qin Ran.

She was someone whom even Wei Zihang bowed down to, so how could he not recognize her?

“It’s nothing.” The headteacher kept silent after thinking of Mu Nan’s instructions.

Qin Ran just smiled distractedly and nodded as if she had just asked casually.

She stepped forward and smiled politely. “Boss, did I lose my student card here last night?”

Although she was smiling, her body exuded an unscrupulous sense of disagreeableness.

The boss was stunned for a moment before he quickly took out her student card and handed it to Qin Ran.

“Thank you.” Qin Ran took the student card and left.

The headteacher heaved a sigh of relief. “Students these days… aren’t easy to mess with.”

**

After school in the evening.

Mu Nan went home as usual, cooked, and took the thermos bowl to the hospital.

He didn’t ask for leave.

Ning Wei was too prideful and she would be angry if he asked for leave for her.

Ning Wei was still lying on the bed and sighed in relief when she saw Mu Nan.

Mu Nan put down the thermos and helped her to the bathroom.

As soon as they came back, they walked to the corridor and Mu Nan froze.

Ning Wei was stunned to see him stop. “Why…”

She looked up and saw Qin Ran standing at her hospital bed, her hand holding her medical record.

“Ran… Ran Ran?” Ning Wei gasped.

Qin Ran took a deep breath.

Turning around, even though her blood was boiling, she still said in a calm voice, “The diagnosis result is amputation after three days? Aunt, isn’t your leg almost healed? Amputation is recommended? Why is amputation recommended? Who did this? Huh?”

“Ran Ran, you’re here.” There were many people in the corridor and it was quite noisy. Qin Ran’s voice wasn’t abrupt and Ning Wei smiled as Mu Nan supported her over to Qin Ran. “I was careless and accidentally stirred my legs into the machine. It’s n.o.body’s fault.”

Qin Ran knew Ning Wei’s temper well.

Qin Ran stopped staring at her and turned to Mu Nan, her eyes almost bloodshot. She asked word by word, “Which factory was it?”