護花近衛 - 第438章 打點滴 - 翰墨軒

Zhong Yongliang wiped the sweat from his forehead and felt power surge through his whole body. He was no longer tired at all.

He was still lost in his fantasy when Shen Yushu came over and looked at him with a grin. "Little Liangzi, Yaoyao asked me to ask you — are you tired?"

"Tired? We've barely even started! I'm not tired one bit! Pits like this — I could dig eight or ten of them in one go without breaking a sweat!" Zhong Yongliang declared.

"Oh, wonderful! Yaoyao says she likes strong boys who are always willing to help others. Hurry up and go dig pits for someone else!" Shen Yushu said.

"What?" Zhong Yongliang nearly toppled headfirst into the pit at her words. Go dig for someone else too? But he had already said it out loud — if he took it back now, wouldn't that be slapping his own face? There was nothing for it. Zhong Yongliang could only nod, thoroughly deflated. "Off I go to do good deeds..."

"Hee hee, I've finally gotten rid of this fool. Yaoyao, you can come over now — let's start planting!" Shen Yushu waved Gu Mengyao over.

"Xiaoshu, I really wonder — how are you so silly sometimes, and yet so clever at others? Tell me, is it all an act?" Gu Mengyao was utterly speechless at her best friend.

"Oh, no, that's not it. When I'm with you, Yaoyao, I turn into a little kid..." Shen Yushu caught Gu Mengyao by the arm. "I'm really not silly..."

"Fine, fine, you're not silly. I believe you." Gu Mengyao shook her head and decided not to dwell on it. She picked up a sapling and got ready to plant. A while later, when Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu had finished planting the saplings and were about to head back to the classroom to rest, several workers came running over carrying a grotesquely shaped sapling, with Zhong Yongliang directing them from the front. By now Zhong Yongliang was so exhausted that his arms and legs had gone weak, but to show off his strength in front of Gu Mengyao, he had no choice but to pretend everything was fine and wave his arms about. "Careful, all of you! This sapling is imported from overseas — don't damage it..."

"Yaoyao, look! That silly thing you talked about — someone's actually gone and done it!" Shen Yushu pointed excitedly at Zhong Yongliang's Eskimo tree. "Look, that tree's got an IV drip too!"

"..." Gu Mengyao was somewhat at a loss for words. Was Zhong Yongliang really this foolish? He had actually brought in a tree on an IV drip — and the moment he stopped the drip, the tree would probably die. "Let's go back to the classroom. Don't pay him any attention."

"Okay..." Shen Yushu still wanted to watch the fun, but she guessed it would be a while before Zhong Yongliang had his "fire trees and silver blossoms lighting up the night" ready. It would be no loss to come back out once he had it set up.

But just as Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu were about to leave, Zhong Yongliang finally could not hold out any longer and pitched headfirst onto the ground... He truly could not keep going. All that digging had left his legs weak and trembling, and now it was nearly noon and he had not eaten a thing. His stomach was growling with hunger — how could he possibly hold on?

"Yaoyao, Zhong Yongliang looks like he's fainted!" Shen Yushu wanted to go over and see the excitement.

"Let him be. Someone will deal with it." Gu Mengyao had no intention of caring whether Zhong Yongliang lived or died.

"Just one look, and we'll come right back. Please?" Missing out on a spectacle was simply not in Shen Yushu's nature.

"Fine, then. One look from a distance." Gu Mengyao had no choice but to nod in agreement.

Shen Yushu darted over, quick as a flash. Gao Xiaofu was just then frantically trying to haul Zhong Yongliang up. "Brother Liang, Brother Liang, what's wrong?"

"Let me have a look!" Shen Yushu ran over and bent down to examine Zhong Yongliang.