Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat-Chapter 70 - 067 Winning the Competition (Three More)

Chapter 70 -067: Winning the Competition (Three More)

Chapter 70 -067: Winning the Competition (Three More)

Song Jiawen focused on her painting until seven in the evening when she finally completed two pieces.

“Which one is mine?”

Jiang Yan couldn’t wait to take the painting that belonged to him, but Huang Kai looked shocked, “Why is it yours?”

As a senior student, he didn’t even have a painting from his junior sister, so why should this guy have one?

Jiang Yan boasted proudly, “She promised to give it to me.”

Huang Kai turned his head and looked at Song Jiawen with puppy dog eyes, his intentions clear without words.

Song Jiawen glanced at Jiang Yan and huffed, “I might need to take it back tomorrow.”

Jiang Yan smiled without saying a word, thinking to himself that now it was in his hands, how could he possibly give it back to her?

Don’t even think about it.

The gallery had professionals for framing paintings, and since it was not yet eight in the evening, they hadn’t closed. Jiang Yan, holding his own painting, excitedly rushed over.

After they finished, they went out for dinner, and when they returned to school it was almost nine o’clock.

Boarding students from the city area usually didn’t come over on Sundays but arrived early on Monday morning.

However, these days more city boarders had been arriving ahead of time, and in Song Jiawen’s dormitory, besides Meng Qing, both Zhu Jin and Wang Xiaole had come.

“Jia Wen, why are you so late today? Zhu Jin and I were studying in the classroom when the physics teacher and Teacher Gao went to find you several times,” Wang Xiaole said.

Song Jiawen tossed her backpack onto the bed and asked puzzled, “Do you know what it’s about?”

Zhu Jin covered her mouth with one hand and mumbled unclearly, “You won an award in physics.”

She had felt she did okay in the physics competition, but hadn’t thought about whether she could win a prize.

So, after hearing Zhu Jin, without even asking which place or what level prize she won, she indifferently grabbed the washbasin and headed to the bathroom to wash up.

Wang Xiaole’s eyes widened as she looked at Zhu Jin, “Did she not hear clearly?”

Zhu Jin, still covering her mouth with her left hand and holding a pen in her right, wrote while speaking indistinctly, “She heard.”

She heard and yet reacted like this?

Wang Xiaole simply couldn’t understand. To her, if she participated in any competition, not to mention a first prize, even if she just scraped a third prize, she would jump three feet high and go find someone to celebrate.

Zhu Jin glanced at her briefly, thinking to herself that this was precisely why she couldn’t become a top student.

In fact, that afternoon even the principal and Director Zhai were waiting for Song Jiawen. Their physics teacher was so anxious that he made several phone calls to his uncle’s place, which resulted in Xie Yanhai still being awake now. The last call with the physics teacher at 8:30 revealed that Song Jiawen hadn’t arrived at the school yet.

She left at three in the afternoon and hadn’t arrived by 8:30 in the evening?

Where had she gone, or had something happened?

Because Shi Peirong wasn’t feeling well, Xie Yanhai didn’t dare let her know.

“Should we call Xiaoxi? See if Jiajia is with her. If not, we could ask her to make a trip to the Yi Zhong [First Middle School].”

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Li Yun was also worried because by this time the teachers had already left for home, and Xie Yanhai had forgotten to ask for the dorm supervisor’s number. They were as helpless as if they were groping in the dark, anxiously waiting.

But in their anxiety, they couldn’t just blindly approach anyone. They didn’t consider the Shi Family or the Yang Family because having Song Xiwen, her own sister, it seemed inappropriate to ask others.

Xie Yanhai had no other choice at the moment. Disregarding Song Xiwen, he thought Zhou Youming was a good option, so he called his home.

At that time, Song Xiwen was putting the child to sleep, and Zhou Youming immediately dressed and headed out after taking the call.

With fewer cars on the road at night, Zhou Youming made it to the First Middle School in twenty minutes.

No sooner had Song Jiawen finished washing up than there was a knock on the dorm room door.

It was the dorm supervisor, saying someone at the school gate was looking for Song Jiawen.

Zhou Youming certainly couldn’t enter the school at this time, so he had asked the security guard at the gate to pass the message.

“Why is someone looking for you so late at night?”

Wang Xiaole was puzzled; she and Zhu Jin had heard about Song Jiawen’s award in the physics competition during their evening self-study, but were unaware that the physics teacher’s agitation had alarmed Song Jiawen’s family.

She stood up and grabbed her jacket, “I’ll go with you.”

Zhu Jin also got up and took her jacket.

Late at night, neither of them felt at ease letting Song Jiawen go alone, even though there were security guards at the school gate.

Song Jiawen felt touched as she watched them, and didn’t decline their offer.

“Brother-in-law?”

Seeing Zhou Youming, Song Jiawen was a bit surprised; her first thought was that there had been an incident at her uncle’s house, could it be her grandmother?

But she didn’t dare to ask directly, just looking at Zhou Youming, waiting for him to explain.

“Where did you go this afternoon? Your uncle said you left at three, how come you only returned to school so late?”

This child really is a handful.

When he had received Xie Yanhai’s call, it had given Zhou Youming quite a scare, and on the way over, he had even prepared to ask for help from his comrades and friends at the police station.

After all, with the girl’s face looking the way it does, it would be unimaginable if anything happened to her.

Now seeing her standing there safe and sound, Zhou Youming let out a deep sigh of relief.

Song Jiawen also breathed a sigh of relief, glad that it wasn’t an issue with her grandmother.

Facing Zhou Youming’s questioning tone, she responded with a smile, “I went to Shanshui Gallery to paint and lost track of time, sorry, brother-in-law. Could you call my uncle later and apologize for me? Though… could you not tell him about me selling the paintings?”

If she did, Xie Yanhai would guess she hadn’t spent his money.

After hearing what she said, Zhou Youming wasn’t sure whether to continue being angry or to feel sympathy. It was just that he had rushed out so quickly that he hadn’t brought any money with him.

Of course, he knew that even if he had brought money, she wouldn’t have accepted it.

He had offered her money before, but she had turned it down completely.

“All right, I’ve got it. Hurry back to your dorm with your classmates,” he said.

As Zhou Youming looked at the two girls standing not far away, he felt reassured. It seemed Jiajia’s personality wasn’t as aloof as he had thought, at least she had companions who came out with her at this time. That meant their relationship couldn’t be bad.

She had made friends not long after arriving at the school, hmm, that’s good.

Zhou Youming left, and Song Jiawen walked back to the dormitory with Wang Xiaole and Zhu Jin.

She expressed her surprise, “Why would my uncle know I didn’t come back in the evening?”

Zhou Youming had rushed over before he could get the full story, naturally unaware of the disturbance caused by their physics teacher.

This time, Zhu Jin suddenly remembered something, “I think I heard the physics teacher asking Mr. Gao for your school-stay phone number.”

Song Jiawen turned her head, but her attention had already drifted from the physics teacher asking for the phone number; she looked at Zhu Jin’s face, focusing on her hand covering her mouth, and asked curiously, “Why do you keep covering your mouth?”

“Pfft!”

Wang Xiaole couldn’t help but laugh out loud, and Zhu Jin shot her a cool glance. Wang Xiaole immediately covered her mouth.

Song Jiawen guessed, “Did you get braces?”

Zhu Jin was taken aback, her eyes widening, “How did you know?”

She had not shown her mouth in front of her ever since she entered the dormitory.

Song Jiawen smiled amusedly, it’s precisely because you didn’t show that I guessed it.

The three girls chatted and laughed their way back to the dormitory, completely forgetting what their initial topic had been.

The next morning, the school’s broadcasting room repeatedly announced one thing over the loudspeaker: Congratulations to Song Jiawen, a senior first-year student, for winning the first prize in the provincial physics competition…