Chu Xia's brain felt like it had been struck by lightning. She was so stunned that she couldn't react at all. Could she really be pregnant?
After she had sex with Sikong Jue that day and had gone home, she saw her mother sitting in front of the villa, crying. That's when she'd told her that her father had a gambling debt and that the house had been sold. They had no place to stay.
At that time, all she could do was to comfort her mother. Then, she sold everything that could be sold in the house for some much needed cash. She'd brought her mother to live in a small hostel.
When she settled her mother down a few days later, she remembered that it was already past the time for her to take her medicine. She calculated that it should be her safe period that day, so she didn't dwell on the issue.
Thinking of her safe period, she held onto a glimmer of hope. "I didn't take the medicine, but it's safe period. Maybe I'm not pregnant. It's just that my appetite hasn't been good these few days."
"You usually seem to understand. You didn't even remember to take your medicine at the critical moment! I'll go buy you a pregnancy test kit," Qin Sheng said as she ran off to the shops.
At the corner of the corridor, she bumped into someone who was walking over. "I'm sorry."
Qin Sheng hurriedly spoke. When she looked up, she saw it was Qin Yunting.
"F*CK! Do you walk without your eyes?" Qin Yunting said angrily.
"Yeah, I didn't bring my eyes with me. What do you think?" Qin Sheng couldn't be bothered to talk to Qin Yunting and ran around her.
Yan Fei was surprised. "Qin Sheng actually admitted that she didn't bring her eyes? There must be something wrong. Let's follow her to see what she's doing!"
Qin Yunting nodded. That was definitely not Qin Sheng's personality. She and Yan Fei turned around and followed Qin Sheng.
Qin Sheng didn't dare to go to the pharmacy at the school gate for fear of being recognized by the people there. She deliberately went into the alley and found a very small pharmacy, a kind of pharmacy that was privately owned.
A middle-aged woman immediately said, "Little Sister, where are you feeling unwell? What medicine do you want to buy?"
"I want to buy..." Qin Sheng's tongue twitched. It was really hard to say... "Well, I want to buy... I want to buy.... Errrr... a pregnancy tests? That'll be great."
Her tongue was almost tied into a Chinese knot before she'd said all the things she needed to say.
The woman looked at the girl's school uniform. "Hmmmm, the world is really declining. She's still a student, and she wants to buy this thing? When we were your age, we didn't even know what men looked like until we got married!"
Qin Sheng's face darkened. If she hadn't been in a hurry to get a pregnancy test, she would have quarreled with this woman!
She didn't even know what a man's thing looked like until she got married? Was she talking about his doodah? Maybe her husband was a eunuch...
"Are you selling it or not? If not, I'm leaving!"
"Don't worry, I'll give it to you!" the woman said quickly.
"How much for one?" Qin Sheng asked.
A golden light flashed across the woman's eyes. She could tell this was the first time she had bought one. "One for 50, two for 90. If you buy three, I'll give you a discount. You'll give me 120. You'll probably use it more than once, anyway. I say, buy more than one!"
"Use it more than once! Pfffft! One for 40, right?" Qin Sheng pulled out 40 and threw it on the counter.
"No, one for 50. If you buy three, I'll give you one for 40!" the woman shouted.
Qin Sheng picked up a box. "Are you selling it or not? If not, I'll go somewhere else!"
"Forget it, forget it. Since you're a student, I'll give you a discount!" The woman's tone sounded as if she had suffered a great loss.
The old woman's heart was bubbling with joy. She had sold something worth more than 10 yuan for 40 yuan. How could she dare to let Qin Sheng go somewhere else?
Qin Sheng hurriedly ran out of the pharmacy. She knew that she had been cheated, but she did not have time to argue with that woman. It was almost time for class!
Outside the pharmacy, Qin Yunting and Yan Fei looked through the glass of the door and saw the things on the counter.
"It's a pregnancy test! We guessed right! It's really something shameful!" Yan Fei's face was full of surprise.
"Well, let's go back and see if we don't ruin her today!" Qin Yunting said viciously.
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In the school bathroom, Chu Xia walked out of the cubicle with the pregnancy test. Her head was drooping. "Qin Sheng, help me take a look. Do the two red lines mean pregnant?"
Qin Sheng read the box's description again. "Yes, the two red lines mean pregnant."
"Could there be a problem with the pregnancy test stick? Was it a mistake?" Chu Xia could not accept the fact that she was pregnant.
"How could it be? I saw that the manufacture date was quite new. It should be accurate. What do you plan to do?" Qin Sheng asked.
Chu Xia bit her lip "No, I can't keep it. My father took the family money that day and went out to gamble. He owed two million yuan in gambling debts. He asked me to marry an old man. He said that the old man promised two million yuan in betrothal gifts. When I graduate, I'm going to get married."
She wiped away her tears. It was then that she told Qin Sheng what she had been worried about for the past few days.
"Damn! How can your father let you marry an old man? Don't marry an old man! At worst, I'll ask my uncle to give us money and we'll go abroad to study together!" Qin Sheng said.
"If I don't marry, no one will give my father the betrothal gifts. If he doesn't pay the usury, the usury will take my mother to the lowest place and do shameful things to her. My mother is already old. I can't let her do such things. It's better for me to marry an old man..." Chu Xia said softly.
Qin Sheng's eyes turned and she had an idea. "I'll go to class first. After class, I'll go find Li Ang and ask for Sikong Jue's phone number. Let's go find Sikong Jue!"
She threw the pregnancy test kit into the trash can and pulled Chu Xia out of the bathroom.
Qin Yunting and Yan Fei watched Qin Sheng and Chu Xia walk away before they entered the bathroom. As expected, they found what they were looking for...
It wasn't easy for them to last until class ended. Qin Sheng immediately ran to the office to look for Li Ang.
She pushed the door open and entered, and she saw the man lifting his pants.
Li Ang turned his head to look at the girl who had barged in. He raised his eyebrows and unhurriedly zipped up his pants. He said evilly, "If you want to see my body, just say it. I'll let you see it for free. Why are you barging into the office, anyway?"
"Pfft, forget about that little lipstick of yours! I'm not interested. Give me Sikong Jue's phone number!" Qin Sheng said.
Li Ang's lips twitched. That damn little woman! She said that he was a man with a lipstick, which meant small d*ck! He wanted to press her under his body so that she could see his size.
"What do you want Sikong Jue's phone number for?" he asked.
"Oh, err..." Qin Sheng's brain was working at high speed. She'd forgotten to invent a reason to ask for the man's phone number. "Yes, err, it's because my classmate is allergic. I saw that Sikong Jue's medicine was quite effective, so I wanted to ask him for more," she said, satisfied.
The medicine was very effective. They'd used Sikong Jue's medicine that night, and it was fine when they'd washed it off the next morning, so she hadn't missed any class because of the allergic reaction.
"Your classmate is allergic? Who is it? What's their name?" Li Ang asked.
"You don't know my classmate! Give me the phone number quickly," Qin Sheng said.
Li Ang's eyes narrowed and he scowled at the little woman in front of him. "I teach you palace etiquette, but I don't know your classmate?"