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Shen Nian looked at her frozen expression and sighed.
“Forget it, we’ll talk later. Get up first, I’ll take you to the hospital.”
She reached out to help Su Yutao up.
Qiansui whispered in her ear:
“She seems to think you’re crazy… no, that you’re too lonely… she looks a bit sorry for you…”
Su Yutao said nothing.
Shen Nian helped her up.
Su Yutao stood by the bed, wearing that oversized pajama, holding Qiansui.
Qiansui continued broadcasting in her ear:
“This pajama is way too big on you… sleeves are too long… the legs drag on the floor… and you… you’re so flat…”
Su Yutao: [Can you shut up.]
Qiansui sounded aggrieved:
“I’m helping you describe the environment…”
Shen Nian glanced at the tattered penguin.
“You’re still bringing it?”
Su Yutao hugged the penguin tighter.
Shen Nian raised an eyebrow but said nothing.
She just turned and walked out.
“Come on, let’s have breakfast first, then go to the hospital.”
Su Yutao, supported by her, walked out step by step.
Qiansui whispered in her ear:
“The living room is so big… the sofa is white… through the floor-to-ceiling windows you can see the whole city… there’s so much food on the table…”
Shen Nian helped her to the dining table and made her sit down.
Then she pushed a bowl in front of her.
“Congee. Do you want to drink it yourself, or should I feed you?”
Su Yutao reached out and touched it.
The bowl was warm.
The spoon was placed by the bowl.
She picked up the spoon, tentatively took a slow sip.
It was warm.
Soft and sticky.
Qiansui whispered in her ear:
“Is it good? What flavor?”
Su Yutao said in her mind: [Plain congee.]
Qiansui was disappointed:
“Ah… plain congee… I thought it was meat congee…”
Su Yutao ignored them.
She kept drinking.
Shen Nian ate something beside her, occasionally glancing at her.
After finishing the congee, Shen Nian handed her a bun.
“Here, take it. Eat it on the way.”
Su Yutao took it.
The bun was still hot.
She took a bite.
Meat filling.
Qiansui shrieked in her ear:
“Meat buns! I want one too!”
Su Yutao: [You’re a system attached to a penguin. You can’t eat.]
Qiansui whined:
“I know… I’m just saying… When I can take shape someday, I’m definitely going to eat a hundred meat buns…”
Su Yutao finished the bun.
Shen Nian stood up.
“Let’s go.”
She helped Su Yutao out the door.
Got in the car.
Put on the seatbelt.
The car started.
Qiansui began broadcasting again, this time a bit more energetic:
“The sun is out… the weather is so nice today… the sky is so blue… the clouds are so white… hey, there’s a bird over there… it’s a pigeon… no, it’s a sparrow…”
Su Yutao listened to them ramble, leaning back in her seat.
The sunlight streamed in through the car window, warm and cozy.
It had been a long time since she last basked in the sun.
Even though she couldn’t see.
But she could feel that warmth.
The car drove for a long time.
Maybe half an hour.
Maybe longer.
Halfway through Qiansui’s broadcast, they suddenly went silent.
Su Yutao was startled. She turned the penguin around to face her.
“…Huh? What’s wrong?” came a drowsy voice.
Su Yutao: [Did you fall asleep again?]
Qiansui yawned:
“The sun was too comfortable… couldn’t help it…”
Su Yutao: […]
The car stopped.
Shen Nian helped Su Yutao out.
“We’re here. The hospital.”
Su Yutao, supported by her, walked step by step.
Qiansui whispered in her arms, their voice still thick with sleep:
“Such a big building… white… so many people at the entrance… some on crutches… some in wheelchairs… and a kid crying…”
The smell of disinfectant grew stronger.
The sound of a door opening.
The noise of the crowd surged in all at once.
Footsteps back and forth.
People talking, people calling numbers, a child crying, an old person coughing.
Su Yutao shrank back.
Shen Nian felt her nervousness and tightened her grip slightly.
“Don’t be afraid. Follow me.”
Su Yutao nodded.
Qiansui continued broadcasting:
“We’re walking inside now… on the left is a row of chairs, lots of people sitting… on the right is a counter, some people are queuing… up ahead is a big screen, numbers are jumping on it…”
Shen Nian helped her to a counter.
“I’d like to register. She was bitten by a dog. Need a rabies vaccine.”
A woman’s voice came from behind the counter:
“Do you have your ID card?”
Shen Nian paused.
She looked down at Su Yutao.
Su Yutao felt her gaze and shrank back.
She didn’t have an ID card.
Did the original owner of this body have one? Probably, right? But she didn’t know where it was.
Shen Nian was silent for a second, then said to the counter:
“I forgot to bring it. Let’s pay out-of-pocket first.”
The woman muttered something, then started typing on the keyboard.
“Name?”
Shen Nian looked down at her again.
Su Yutao opened her mouth.
She couldn’t speak.
Shen Nian waited a second, then said:
“Su Yutao. Yǔ for feather, Táo for peach.”
The counter kept typing.
“Age?”
Shen Nian looked down again.
She looked at Su Yutao.
About 150 cm tall, thin and small, a petite face, her whole body curled up in the loose coat like a frightened little animal.
She looked like a kid of about ten years old.
But exactly how old?
Shen Nian wasn’t sure.
She paused, then said to the counter:
“Fifteen.”
Su Yutao was startled.
Fifteen?
The counter kept typing.
Shen Nian then recited an address—it was her own home address.
Su Yutao listened, feeling complicated inside.
Shen Nian was using her own information to register for her.
And she said fifteen.
Not seventeen.
The counter handed out a form.
Shen Nian took it and helped Su Yutao to the side.
“First, go pay.”
They queued, paid, got the receipt.
Then she was helped in another direction.
Qiansui whispered in her ear:
“She looked at you for a long time just now… then said fifteen… she probably guessed. You really do look young…”
Su Yutao didn’t respond.
She didn’t know how old she was supposed to be either.
Seventeen was what Mole found out.
But Shen Nian didn’t know.
She was just guessing based on appearance.
And she guessed fifteen.
Shen Nian helped her deep into the corridor.
Qiansui continued broadcasting:
“The hallway is so long… doors on both sides… numbers on the doors… there’s a nurse station up ahead… wow, one of the nurse sisters is really pretty, and she’s wearing black stockings—wait, how come someone is touching her…”
Upon hearing that, Su Yutao immediately covered the little penguin’s eyes and thought:
[Don’t look. It’ll dirty your eyes.]
Shen Nian stopped in front of a door.
Knocked.
Pushed the door open.
“Doctor, she was bitten by a dog. Needs the vaccine.”
A man’s voice answered:
“Have a seat.”
Su Yutao was helped to sit down.
Qiansui whispered in her ear:
“The doctor is wearing glasses… quite a bit of white hair… in a white coat… looking at the form…”
The doctor spoke up:
“When were you bitten?”
Shen Nian answered for her:
“Yesterday at noon.”
The doctor frowned.
“Yesterday at noon? Why did you come only now?”
Shen Nian took a deep breath.
“There was an unexpected situation. Please treat her first.”
The doctor sighed and stood up.
“Let me see the wound.”
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