The college entrance examination has not yet arrived and the students have not collapsed, but the teacher has already left and gone to the hospital. It would be embarrassing if this matter were to be made public.
Evan Tong was never one to play the victim, especially in front of Lucas Huo. So, even though he had a headache and was beginning to feel nauseous, he still smiled as he walked out and asked Lucas Huo, "Why don't you keep it for yourself?"
"I'm rarely at home," Lucas Huo said. "I'm so busy that I don't have time to eat."
Mother Huo brought some fruits and supplements. Evan Tong subconsciously wondered if she was really pregnant by some miracle, and his mother-in-law knew about it, otherwise why would she get so many supplements?
"Are you getting ready to go out?" Lucas Huo was a former criminal policeman after all, and he was familiar with Evan Tong. Now was class time, and the other party looked well-packed and was walking out. It was obvious that something was wrong without him saying anything.
"Ah, no." Evan Tong didn't tell the truth, not wanting to look like a weakling in front of Lucas Huo. "I just came out to bask in the sun. You happened to call me, so I came over."
Lucas Huo nodded doubtfully and handed him the bag: "I've been busy this week. I was on a business trip and just got back."
Evan Tong nodded and thought to himself: It's okay, no need to report to me.
"You're doing well lately?"
"That's good." It would be good if Fang Baicheng didn't come to bother people.
Evan Tong said: "Well, I'll go back first, you should go back and rest early too."
"Okay," Lucas Huo motioned him to go first, "Let's have dinner together some other day. I have something to tell you."
"What?"
"Let's talk about it later. There's no rush." Lucas Huo waved his hand. Seeing that Evan Tong had no intention of leaving, he started to walk to the side of the road.
Evan Tong couldn't stand the feeling of being left hanging halfway through the conversation, which was the legendary "only one shoe fell off". He admired Lucas Huo very much and guessed that this man was deliberately keeping him hanging.
He stood at the school gate and watched Lucas Huo turn and leave, then waited for another three to five minutes before going to the roadside to hail a taxi.
"Teacher Tong has learned how to lie."
Lucas Huo suddenly came out from behind and looked at Evan Tong with a smile. Evan Tong was startled and cold sweat broke out on his palms.
He was scared not because of anything else, he thought it was Fang Baicheng.
"Why didn't you leave?"
"I dropped something, come back and look for it."
"What's dropped?"
Lucas Huo did not answer his question, but instead asked him: "So you really want to go out?"
Evan Tong raised his hand and rubbed his temple, muttering: "Headache, go to the hospital."
In Lucas Huo's impression, although Evan Tong is thin and doesn't exercise regularly, his physical fitness is actually pretty good. From the time they met to the time they got married and then divorced, in a period of one and a half years, Evan Tong never got sick.
"cold?"
"I don't know." Evan Tong said, "Probably not. I've had pain every afternoon lately. It might be because I've been overusing my brain."
He smiled and said jokingly: "I'm in my third year of high school. It's very taxing on my brain."
After hearing what he said, Lucas Huo looked at him carefully. His face was pale and his lips were also white.
"I'll go with you." Lucas Huo took the bag from Evan Tong, stood on the side of the road and waved to stop a taxi, "I'm worried about you like this."
"It's okay. I'm an adult. I'm just going to the hospital."
Evan Tong refused, but was still stuffed into the car by Lucas Huo.
He felt better when he was outside and enjoying the breeze, but as soon as he got in the car, Evan Tong's uncomfortable feeling came back again, with a headache and nausea. He was really a little afraid that something had grown in his brain.
Sometimes people are just like this, they like to scare themselves.
"How long has it been?" Lucas Huo asked him with a frown.
"Just this week." Evan Tong spoke weakly. After he finished speaking, he sighed, leaned against the car door on the other side.
Lucas Huo looked at him and reached out to hug him. Evan Tong groaned, and Lucas Huo said, "Don't lean against the door. It's not safe."
It is not safe to lean against the door, but it is very safe and secure to lean against people.
Evan Tong would not be able to do this at any other time, but he felt really uncomfortable at the moment and couldn't sit still, so he wanted to lean on something. Leaning in Lucas Huo's arms, he felt much better.
Lucas Huo didn't talk to Evan Tong along the way. He touched his forehead and compared it with his own to make sure he didn't have a fever.
The two went to the nearest hospital to the school, which took more than 20 minutes to drive. When they got off the car, Evan Tong ran directly to the outpatient hall and rushed into the toilet to vomit.
When Lucas Huo ran in after paying the taxi fare, he searched for a long time before he saw Evan Tong coming out of the bathroom. The man looked listless and pitiful.
"What's wrong?" Lucas Huo didn't know what was wrong with him, so he got out of the car and ran away as if he had seen a ghost.
"She vomited." Evan Tong forced a smile, "I'm afraid she's pregnant."
Lucas Huo also smiled, hugged him and found an empty seat in the lounge area: "I'll go register for you, wait for me here."
If Evan Tong came by himself today, he would be able to endure and go through the formalities no matter how uncomfortable it was, but since Lucas Huo is here, he might as well cheat and be lazy.
"Thank you for your hard work." Evan Tong sat there, holding the bag of food that Huo's mother brought to him, and said to Lucas Huo like a sick little rabbit, "Thank you."
The two of them suddenly seemed to be back to the time before their divorce, and they just said "thank you for the trouble and hard work" no matter what they did, which was boring.
Lucas Huo rubbed his hair and joked: "Don't tell me these things, the baby in your belly is mine."
Evan Tong laughed out loud and watched Lucas Huo go to line up. It turned out that the upright Officer Huo would also make such a joke.
Lucas Huo was busy running around, registering and looking for a clinic, then paying and accompanying Evan Tong to take X-rays.
Evan Tong thought it was just a headache and could be cured by taking some medicine, but the doctor insisted on taking a brain CT scan, and he had to wait until four o'clock to get the results.
"Four o'clock is perfect," Lucas Huo glanced at his watch. "If it's any later, the doctor will be off duty. I'll have to go back tomorrow."
Evan Tong was feeling uncomfortable, and Lucas Huo's heart was hanging as well. Without a result, he couldn't calm down and couldn't think of doing anything.
The hospital was very noisy. After Evan Tong finished taking the X-ray, he wanted to find a place to sit and wait for the results, but when he looked around, all the seats were occupied.
Lucas Huo saw that his lips were pale from the pain and his brows were twisted into a "井" shape: "Go out and find a quiet place to wait, so you can rest for a while."
Evan Tong was actually too lazy to bother, but in this place, he felt it was difficult to breathe.
The two of them left the outpatient building and walked toward the outside of the hospital. There was a coffee shop across the street. Lucas Huo said, "That's fine."
Lucas Huo originally wanted to find such a quiet place where they could chat, but he didn't expect that Evan Tong fell asleep on the table not long after he entered.
It’s good to fall asleep. Being able to sleep means that you don’t feel so uncomfortable anymore.
Lucas Huo gently draped his coat over Evan Tong, then sat opposite him. For the next two hours, he either flipped through magazines in the store, played with his phone, stared at Evan Tong in a daze, or took secret photos of him sleeping. As the sun set and it was almost time to take pictures, Lucas Huo gently patted the back of Evan Tong's hand, ready to wake him up.
Evan Tong had not slept well these days because of a headache. He was so confused that he subconsciously held Lucas Huo's hand and muttered softly, "Don't make noise..."
Lucas Huo had no way to resist Evan Tong's suspected coquettishness. The hand he held was damp, probably because he was sweating from sleeping. The humming sound was soft and sticky. He didn't look like a teacher at all, but rather like a cute student.
Lucas Huo seldom thought anyone was cute. The last person he praised like that was his four-year-old niece.
In Lucas Huo's opinion, calling a person "cute" is already the highest level of compliment. He will only use the word "cute" to describe a person when every aspect of the person touches his cute spot and makes him completely speechless.
To him, Evan Tong is very cute.
"Wake up." Lucas Huo gently squeezed his hand, but the other party did not respond. He simply sat over and patted Evan Tong's back like a caress, "Xiao Qiu, get up. The doctor will be off work soon."
Evan Tong rubbed his head in his arms and opened his eyes reluctantly. He looked dazed, as if his soul had flown away in this sleep.
He was so sleepy that his hair was messy. He didn't come to his senses for a long time and stared straight ahead without blinking.
Lucas Huo was amused by his appearance, raised his hand to tidy up his hair and said, "Drink some water, and cool down the sweat. We have to go get the film."
Evan Tong turned his head to look at him and took a breath. He suddenly realized that he had lost his composure.
"Hey..." He rubbed his temple, "I don't even know when I fell asleep."
"It's good to be able to sleep, but I'm afraid that I can't sleep because of the headache." Lucas Huo looked at him and felt that he still looked bad. "After seeing the doctor, go back and go to bed early. No matter how busy you are during this period, don't stay up late and don't drink."
Evan Tong wanted to explain that he was not an alcoholic, and he did not always stay up late when he had nothing to do. His living habits were good. Lucas Huo should actually know this. He was afraid that the other party would feel that he was free and liberated after the divorce, and it seemed as if the marriage bound him.
Marriage has indeed restrained Evan Tong's free and unrestrained soul, but if you really let him fly freely, he can't fly very far. He is a repressed person, and he often has the desire but not the courage to do anything.
"Let's go." Evan Tong stood up and his coat slid onto the sofa.
He bent down to take it and found it was Lucas Huo's police uniform cotton jacket.
Extra thick, extra heavy, extra warm.
Evan Tong has always liked this coat very much. Lucas Huo has two pieces, which were issued by the unit for them to wear in rotation. Before, when he was at home, the house was cold before the heating, so he would show off at home every day in his pajamas wrapped in someone else's police uniform coat.
He handed the coat back to Lucas Huo and watched him put it on. He thought of his one-bedroom apartment that was like a small ice cave, and suddenly missed the days when he could wear Lucas Huo's coat and read on the sofa at home.
Evan Tong thought: If it really doesn’t work, I can spend a huge amount of money to buy one from him?
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