Xiao Tingshen asked Wang Yaqiang when he borrowed the car, and the gatekeeper said it was around six o'clock, adding that it should usually be returned by this time.
Their company only has two vehicles: a large Jiefang truck and a jeep. The large Jiefang truck is no longer with the company, so only the jeep remains.
This jeep is only used by the leaders when they go out to meetings; otherwise, it's just parked in the company yard.
Generally, there's nothing to do, so few people borrow cars because not many people know how to drive.
In the past six months, Zhao Jingyu has only borrowed the truck twice: once to propose marriage, and the other time a couple of days ago to go to the hospital to take his wife to give birth.
However, last time, he returned it quickly.
Wang Yaqiang borrowed the car keys early in the morning without saying what he was going to do. The gatekeeper knew he had gone to get the car keys from Director Gao, but didn't ask any further questions.
Logically, Wang Yaqiang should have returned the car by now, but for some reason, it's already this late and he still hasn't.
Xiao Tingshen waited patiently for a few minutes, but Wang Yaqiang didn't return to deliver the car, so he rode his bicycle to find Xu Jianguo.
He remembered that there was a large truck at the No. 3 State-owned Cotton Mill, which Xu Jianguo knew how to drive. He searched the workshop but couldn't find Xu Jianguo, nor in the office.
I asked several people, and they all said they hadn't seen Xu Jianguo.
Liang Yufeng and several female workers were unloading goods in the backyard, chatting and laughing. Xiao Tingshen greeted her politely, "Hello, Auntie."
Liang Yufeng ignored him.
Xiao Tingshen and Tang Wenya are both bad people, so she couldn't be bothered with them.
"Auntie, have you seen my dad?" Xiao Tingshen asked again.
"Who is your father?" Liang Yufeng asked irritably. She didn't speak to Xu Jianguo and Jiang Yumei anymore, let alone Xiao Tingshen.
Their family has nothing of value.
Seeing them makes her angry.
The other female workers covered their mouths and laughed.
Oh my, such a handsome guy came over to chat her up, but Liang Yufeng didn't appreciate it at all. What's going on?
"Auntie, Qingning has been hospitalized, didn't you know?" In order to get closer to Liang Yufeng, Xiao Tingshen told Liang Yufeng about Xu Qingning. Liang Yufeng's eyes lit up: "When did this happen?"
"Where's my dad?" Xiao Tingshen asked again.
"Your dad's over at the warehouse." Liang Yufeng simply stopped working and immediately asked one of the female workers for leave, saying she needed to be with her niece who was giving birth. The female worker, who was the team leader, immediately agreed, "Your niece giving birth is a big deal, you should go right away!"
Liang Yufeng rode off on her bicycle, but when she reached the door, she turned back and asked Xiao Tingshen, "Which hospital is Qingning in?"
“She’s at the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital,” Xiao Tingshen replied. He took a few steps and saw Xu Jianguo. He quickly walked up to him and told him that Tang Wenya was about to give birth. “Our company’s car has been borrowed. Could you please borrow a car from your company and take her to the hospital?”
"Okay, I'll ask the office." Xu Jianguo put down his work and went to the office.
The people in the office said they could lend it to them, but the driver is out picking up goods and won't be back until the afternoon, so they should wait.
“We can’t wait that long.” Xiao Tingshen glanced at his watch. It was only a little past eleven. By the afternoon, the daylilies would be too cold.
“We have a tricycle in our warehouse, which we usually use to deliver fabric to the workshop. Now we can use it.” Xu Jianguo thought the tricycle was pretty good. Last month, a female worker in their factory gave birth, and her husband borrowed the tricycle to take her to the hospital.
“Okay, then we’ll use this tricycle.” Xiao Tingshen glanced at his watch again. He had been out for more than half an hour and couldn’t afford to delay any longer.
Xu Jianguo immediately went to the warehouse, pushed the tricycle out, cleaned it up, and even threw two pieces of cloth on the truck bed as a pad. He figured he could just put a quilt on it when he got home.
When Jiang Yumei saw Xu Jianguo return, she was overjoyed. She had already packed her bag and immediately grabbed her blanket and followed him out.
Xiao Tingshen helped Tang Wenya downstairs: "Once you've settled in at the hospital, I'll bring my parents over."
"You haven't come back for so long, I thought you went to pick them up." Tang Wenya was in pain for a while, but now the pain wasn't so bad. She was very nervous, but she didn't blame Xiao Tingshen.
But when she saw the tricycle parked downstairs, her face darkened: "Weren't you going to borrow a vehicle from your workplace?"
Their company vehicles are Jeeps.
Not this kind of tricycle... She didn't want to ride in a tricycle.
“Wang Yaqiang borrowed our company’s car, and I was in a hurry so I didn’t wait for him. This is Dad’s company’s tricycle,” Xiao Tingshen explained. “This tricycle is quite stable, so don’t worry about it.”
“This tricycle is very sturdy, no problem at all.” Jiang Yumei recognized that it belonged to their unit and handed the quilt in her hand to Xu Jianguo. “Here you go, I’ll go upstairs and get a mattress to make up this.”
System: "Wang Yaqiang borrowed the car to take Xu Qingning to the hospital. He is currently in the tenement, preparing to take Xu Qingning's father-in-law to the hospital to deliver food."
"Look, I've already given up on going against Xu Qingning, but she keeps causing me trouble." Tang Wenya felt a tightness in her chest when she heard this. "It seems that this antagonistic fate between us is unchangeable."
When she heard that Wang Yaqiang had borrowed the Jeep, she instinctively thought of Xu Qingning.
Although Wang Yaqiang was not a good person, he and Zhao Jingyu were so close that they were practically inseparable. He fawned over Zhao Jingyu like a lackey, and when he borrowed the car, it was as if Zhao Jingyu was borrowing the car.
System: "Host, now is not the time to talk about these things. Having a baby is the most important thing. I have experience with this, and I will help you."
Jiang Yumei laid out a mattress on the tricycle, helped Tang Wenya sit down, and comforted her, "When we get to the hospital, we'll go find your Aunt Lin. With her there, you don't need to be afraid."
Xu Jianguo rode his tricycle slowly forward, while Xiao Tingshen pushed his bicycle and followed behind them.
Sitting on the tricycle, Tang Wenya suddenly felt very unbelievable. It wasn't that she was narrow-minded or deliberately going against Xu Qingning, but rather that everything that happened was completely unexpected.
When Zhao Jingyu proposed marriage, he drove a large Jiefang truck, bringing whole pigs and sheep, along with a dowry of two hundred yuan.
Xiao Tingshen brought a pig's leg and a dowry of sixty yuan, which was nothing in itself, but compared to Xu Qingning, she was outshone.
Because of this incident, she was laughed at by her neighbors in the residential compound for more than half a year.
Especially Li Chunhua, the gossipy neighbor, would always bring up Xu Qingning's dowry whenever a girl in the compound got married, saying that to this day, no one in their compound had ever given a dowry that exceeded Xu Qingning's.
Even this time, Xu Qingning borrowed her jeep first, leaving her, the female lead, to take a tricycle to the hospital to give birth.
It's impossible for her not to hate Xu Qingning.
All her misfortunes were because Xu Qingning had seized the initiative.
Wang Yaqiang carried Zhao Chengjun and placed him in the back seat of the jeep: "Do you like riding in a big car?"
"I love it!" Zhao Chengjun was so happy that he touched this and that, almost jumping up. "Uncle Yaqiang can drive a big car, that's amazing!"
Zhao Futang carried a large iron basin in a bundle and sat down as well: "Let's go, or the food will get cold."
"Don't worry, it'll only take about ten minutes." Wang Yaqiang heard from Yang Yuelan that Zhao Futang had to deliver lunch to the hospital at noon, so he didn't take the car back to his workplace.
Anyway, Gao Dejian said he doesn't need a car today.
Upon arriving at the hospital, Zhao Futang asked Wang Yaqiang to play with Zhao Chengjun in the car, saying that he could go up by himself.
"Uncle, I'll take you upstairs. You won't be able to find your room." Wang Yaqiang felt that Zhao Futang was being too polite.
“Chengjun is just a child, don’t let him go up. You stay with him, I won’t take him into the room, I just want to see Chengjun’s grandma.” Zhao Futang got off the car with his bundle.
Wang Yaqiang didn't understand, but he stayed in the car with Zhao Chengjun; the old man was just deep in thought.
Zhao Futang went up to the second floor, placed the food at the nurses' station, and asked a nurse to call Yang Yuelan from the delivery room.
The maternity ward is always full of women giving birth, so it's not appropriate for a man like him to go in alone. Besides, it's his daughter-in-law who's giving birth, so he has to avoid any appearance of impropriety.
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