Go to the hospital
After standing there for a while, Song Yu took a deep breath while holding the water. Then he walked over and handed the hot water to Xu Qiao, "Are you feeling better now?"
"Much better." Xu Qiao nodded.
In the quiet hall late at night, only the nurses carrying boxes full of medicine were still busy coming and going. Song Yu took the doctor's order and looked at it. She couldn't understand a single word written on the order. She returned the order to Xu Qiao in disappointment and said, "It's so late, and there's nothing else to do anyway. Let's get the medicine and leave."
After the two of them got the medicine from the pharmacy, they walked out of the hospital gate together carrying the bags. Seeing that Xu Qiao was in good spirits, Song Yu didn't plan to send him home, so the two of them stood on the side of the road and hailed their own taxis.
"Are you still going back?" Xu Qiao looked down at the page on her phone, which showed that the destination was the bar.
"Lan Lin just sent me a message. They haven't finished their meeting yet. I'll go play for a while and then go straight to her house to sleep." Song Yu didn't even raise his head.
"Then I..."
"You can't. It's so late. Go home and take good care of your stomach. Follow the doctor's instructions and you'll get better quickly." Song Yu said, "You can play when you want later. It's better than overdrawing your body now."
Xu Qiao held the rustling hospital bag in his hand and said nothing. He blinked his eyes, which were red from the wind, and leaned against a nearby pole, watching the neon lights flashing by on the roadside. His eyes were bright, and he lowered his head and rubbed it with his hand, feeling uncomfortable. "I know."
Seeing the driver's arrival time in three minutes on her phone, Song Yu raised her head to say something to him. When she looked up, she saw that the corners of his eyes were slightly red and there was a little light in his eyes. She was startled. Is it really that serious? Isn't it just that I didn't take him out to play?
The driver shown on the map was getting closer and closer to her. She had a stern face, and as soon as she exited the taxi page, all she could see was the man crying because she didn't take him out to play.
Tsk, did this guy grow up in a honey jar? He can cry like this. If I throw him back home, I'm afraid his heart will be so fragile that he won't be able to put it together in a minute. How can there be such a person in the world?
"Hey." Song Yu looked up and called him. After Xu Qiao looked over, he gestured to the steaming and fragrant roasted sweet potato stall next to him and asked, "Do you want to eat?"
Eat something sweet and you won't cry.
"Wait." Before Xu Qiao could agree, Song Yu thought of something and lowered his head to press his phone, "Let me search if people with stomachaches can eat roasted sweet potatoes."
After searching for a long time, there were people who said both good and bad things about it. Song Yu was so annoyed that he simply asked the patient next to him, "Do you want to eat it?"
"I want to eat."
Song Yu pulled Xu Qiao over there and said, "Then eat. The patient is the most important."
The two stood in front of the roasted sweet potato stall that was filled with fragrance. Although they said that patients were the most important, Song Yu still only bought one. She picked a bigger one, and then asked the sweet potato stall owner with a smug look if he could give her an extra spoon.
The stall owner happily agreed, and then said that the roasted sweet potatoes on top were a little cold, so he put them inside to heat them up. Song Yu was too tired to stand, so he squatted on the road next to the stall, his nose filled with the warm and sweet scent of roasted sweet potatoes.
Seeing her squatting, the stall owner took out two folding stools from the cart for them to sit on. He also packed roasted sweet potatoes and spoons for them. Song Yu cut the roasted sweet potato in half and handed half to Xu Qiao, "Eat it."
"Isn't your car coming soon?" Xu Qiao asked, looking at Song Yu who was sitting opposite him leisurely digging roasted sweet potatoes.
Song Yu paused, then said vaguely: "The driver is stuck in traffic ahead, and it will take another ten minutes to arrive."
He glanced at the seemingly unobstructed road ahead, lowered his head, and used a spoon to peel off the crispy brown skin of the sweet potato, revealing the beautiful honey-like inside.
The two of them sat face to face eating roasted sweet potatoes in silence. During this time, some people came here to buy roasted sweet potatoes. After taking a look at the two of them, they said to the stall owner, "Boss, give me a roasted sweet potato like the one they have."
Judging from the expressions on these two people’s faces, the roasted sweet potatoes must be very sweet.
After finishing her meal, Song Yu threw away the garbage and stood up. This time, the taxi she took was really coming. "I'm leaving now. You should hurry back too."
"Yeah." He stood up and watched Song Yu wave at him, then got in the car and left in the dim night. He glanced at the map displayed on his phone, which was not the direction of the bar, but the direction of her home.
He opened the chat box with Song Yu, [Why didn't you choose me.]
Xu Qiao stood on the side of the road, staring at the line of words expressionlessly for five seconds, and finally deleted them all with a flick of his finger.
"Hey, where have you been?" When Song Yu called Lan Lin, she was very noisy on the other end. "What? You're not coming?"
Song Yu could barely hear Lan Lin's words while sitting in the car. "Can you answer my call somewhere else?"
"Can't you hear me? Wait a moment." Not long after, the noisy voice on the other end of the phone finally faded away, and Lan Lin's voice began to become clearer. "Is Xu Qiao's stomach in serious condition?"
"No." Song Yu didn't know what to say, so he simply repeated to Lan Lin what had just happened.
After a while, Song Yu didn't hear Lan Lin speak. She took her phone away and glanced at the page showing the call in progress. She didn't hang up, wondering why there was no sound. "Hello, can you hear me? Is the signal bad there?"
"You're the one with the bad signal, aren't you?"
"My signal is bad?" The signal indicator on the phone is clearly full. "My signal is good."
"I wonder if you're out of your mind." Lan Lin said speechlessly, "No wonder you didn't come. It turns out you went to coax a man."
"......" Song Yu's face was wooden. "I am a good person, doing good deeds. That is not coaxing. How can sending someone with stomachache to the hospital be called coaxing?"
"You bought roasted sweet potatoes again, but you didn't come to the bar to play. If you keep saying that, it's not just coaxing."
"This is pity. Do you know what pity means? It's sympathy."
"Yes, yes, then I'll wait for the day when you and the man you sympathize with invite me to dinner." After saying that, Lan Lin hung up the phone decisively.
“…”
"What did she say?" Xie Yunchao arrived late. Seeing that Song Yu was not there, he was about to ask Lan Lin when Song Yu called, "Not coming?"
Lan Lin hung up the phone, "Yeah, Xu Qiao had a stomachache and we took him to the hospital. He just called and said he won't be coming back."
"Send Xu Qiao to the hospital?" Xie Yunchao glanced at Lan Lin. "Did you call him?"
"What's wrong with me?" Lan Lin said, "It's my birthday, so I can invite whoever I want. Xu Qiao is so handsome, why not let him come over to support me?"
"Am I not good enough to support you? He is worse than me, right?" Xie Yunchao snorted.
Lan Lin rolled her eyes at him, not giving him face. "When a man is handsome without realizing it, that's what we call handsome. People like you are usually called narcissists."
This was a very rude remark. Xie Yunchao pretended not to hear and sent a message to Song Yu. The two of them had already come out of the box, leaving a group of people inside playing games and having a blast.
He raised his hand to order a glass of wine and sat at the bar. There were many beautifully dressed girls around him who were eager to come forward and talk to him, but because of Lan Lin who was sitting next to him, they never came up.
"Hey, can you please move aside?" Xie Yunchao said, "You're blocking my peach blossoms."
"What does it have to do with me? You're sick." Lan Lin stood up from the chair and cursed rudely, then walked to the other side. After a few steps, she saw Rao Xin's back. After all, he prepared so much for her birthday, so she should go and say thank you.
Perhaps because it was reopened today, the place was packed with people. Rao Xin stood in the corner with a glass of wine in her hand, looking very happy. Seeing Lan Lin approaching, she raised her glass towards her with a smile and said, "I haven't wished you a happy birthday yet."
"Thank you." Lan Lin looked around and said, "Your shop is doing pretty well. You must be making a lot of money every day, right?"
"It's just some pocket money," Rao Xin said with a smile. "Every single piece of furnishing inside was carefully selected by me. The renovations cost me a lot of money, and adding in the online marketing, it doesn't make much all in all."
Business people are talking nonsense. Besides, Rao Xin has not even graduated from college yet but he has managed to market such a store into an Internet-famous bar. He does have some ability. Although he himself said that he can't make much money, alcohol is a highly profitable business. Lan Lin doesn't believe a word of it.
"Why can't I see Song Yu?" Rao Xin glanced around her. "I think I saw her at the door of the bar just now."
"I came, but left quickly," Lan Lin said. "I haven't thanked you for the decorations in the box yet."
"It's okay. That's the standard gift for every VIP customer celebrating their birthday in our store. But that bouquet of red roses was indeed given to you by me." Rao Xin took a sip of wine. "When the store was closed for rectification, you were the only one who was considerate enough."
"It's a small matter. Just ask me to cooperate with you more often in the future and let me make more money from you." Lan Lin did not shirk responsibility and directly pointed out her purpose.
"Sure. If there's a chance for us to work together in the future, I'll definitely look for you again." Rao Xin was quite straightforward, and then asked curiously, "Song Yu left so soon. Is there something wrong?"
"She had a friend with a stomachache, so she took him to the hospital."
"Stomachache?" Rao Xin asked immediately, "Isn't it caused by drinking the wine in our store?"
Lan Lin laughed, "Of course not. We didn't drink much at that time. Maybe our stomachs just weren't very good."
Thinking of the two people walking together and looking very close that he had just seen at the door of the bar, Rao Xin took a sip of wine, put down his glass and smiled at Lan Lin, "I've been busy looking after the store recently and haven't contacted you much. Next time, call Song Yu out and we can go out and do some outdoor activities."
"Okay, I have friends here, so I'll go first." Lan Lin waved his hand and said, "Boss, please remember to contact me if there's any future cooperation."
Lan Lin returned to the bar, but before he could say anything, Xie Yunchao asked, "Who were you talking to just now?"
"The owner of this bar is a student from our school, and he started his own business." Lan Lin glanced at Rao Xin. "This place has had quite a few troubles. It was reported and rectified a while ago, and today is the first day of reopening. Poor thing."
"Report it." Xie Yunzhao smiled, "I think I know who reported it."
"Who is it? Do I know him?"
Xie Yunchao glanced at Lan Lin and said smugly, "I won't tell you." Then he walked towards Rao Xin.
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