Chapter 19 Gap

On Friday night, when Lin Shutang arrived at Chen's house, Li Yansheng was the only one in the living room.

He was smoking a cigarette. When he saw Lin Shutang come in, he pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray and looked down at the time on his watch.

"Xiaoling, Mommy needs to go out for a bit. Teacher Lin will be here soon. You better listen to her!"

"good."

Lin Shutang shifted his gaze from Li Yansheng and looked towards the stairs.

Mrs. Chen came downstairs with a bag in her hand, looking anxious to go out. Seeing Lin Shutang, she said, "Teacher Lin, Xiaoling's grandfather is sick and in the hospital. We need to go to the hospital now. You can go to class as usual. If you need anything, just tell the nanny."

"OK."

After giving Chen Runling extra lessons, it was half past seven. Seeing her packing up her books, Lin Shutang asked, "Are you hungry?"

Chen Runling nodded, "But Auntie isn't cooking today. Mom said my cousin will come and take us out to eat later."

Mr. Chen was usually in good health, but this illness came so suddenly that the Chen family wasn't prepared and forgot to bring many things. Not long after Li Yansheng and Mrs. Chen left, the nanny received a call to go to the hospital to deliver some things. Now, they were the only two people in the Chen family.

"Okay." Lin Shutang thought about telling Mrs. Chen and then taking Xiaoling out to eat, so there would be no need for Li Yansheng to come again.

Just as he finished speaking, the sound of a car parking was heard downstairs, and Lin Shutang took the little girl downstairs.

There was a noise coming from the entrance. Looking towards the source of the sound, I saw a man just sitting down on the shoe cabinet.

"Uncle." Xiaoling quickened her pace as she went downstairs.

Hearing this, Li Yansheng stopped changing his shoes, looked up and asked, "Is it over?"

"Yeah, it just ended. Uncle, shall we go eat now?"

"Um."

He took a look at the little girl's clothes and found that they were just the right thickness, so he bent down and picked her up and put her in the car.

After the back door closed, the car didn't start for a long time. Lin Shutang was wondering if there was anything he hadn't taken when he saw the assistant get out of the driver's seat and say, "Ms. Lin, it's getting late and it's hard to get a taxi. I'll give you a ride."

Lin Shutang glanced at his phone screen and saw that it was indeed late, so he did not refuse: "Thank you so much, just take me to Tingyuxuan."

Tingyuxuan is the community where Lin Shutang rented a house.

She walked to the passenger seat and opened the door, only to find a bag of things on the seat. They were all daily necessities, and it looked like they were meant to be taken to the hospital.

Lin Shutang had no choice but to close the car door and get into the back seat.

In the enclosed space, Chen Runling was placed near the door. She had fastened her seat belt and was watching cartoons on a tablet.

The man next to him was flipping through documents while talking on the phone: "Yeah, I'm just about to leave... My flight is tomorrow morning... No need, I'll arrange for someone to pick me up..."

He might have just finished a drinking party, and there was a faint smell of alcohol in the car. It was not very strong and not unpleasant.

Listening to the man's steady voice, Lin Shutang tried to reduce the space occupied by his body.

The phone was not on speakerphone, so Lin Shutang pieced together the general content from a few words - Mr. Chen was ill, and Li Yansheng had invited a team of experts from Gangcheng, who would arrive tomorrow.

This is the difference between the Feng family and the Chen family, and the difference between Feng Jiang and Li Yansheng. When Feng Jiang is sick, he can freely choose which hospital to go to and which doctor to consult.

The Chen family and Li Yansheng have the right to choose which doctor to go to the designated location for treatment.

The car stopped, and Lin Shutang put away his thoughts. After getting out of the car, he found that it was not Tingyuxuan, but a private restaurant.

At this point, she didn't have the nerve to ask people not to eat and to send her home first, so she followed the person in front of her and walked in.