Forty-nine stars
After the alumni meeting ended, Zhao Yingxun left first because he had something to do with the professor. When Lin Tang walked out of the hall alone, a freshman excitedly ran up to her and wanted to take a photo with her.
In my peripheral vision, I saw a person stopped not far away.
Thinking he would be willing to wait, Lin Tang agreed to the junior's request. After taking the photo, the junior asked her some professional questions, and Lin Tang patiently answered them.
Fortunately, he didn't keep someone waiting too long. After the schoolgirl left, Lin Tang walked in one direction. She smiled and said nonchalantly, "Oh, you came just in time?"
Feng Chibai hummed and said calmly, "I'm afraid if someone waits too long, he'll start cursing again."
Lin Tang: “…”
She doesn't have such a bad temper.
The workload had been gradually increasing, and she'd been working overtime almost every time she got home. Today was a rare weekend, but she'd gotten up early for an alumni meeting, and now she was so sleepy she'd fallen asleep the moment she got in the car.
Lin Tang was still sleeping soundly until the car stopped.
Knowing she was exhausted, Feng Chibai didn't wake her up, but carefully carried her back to her room. As if unaware of the outside world, Lin Tang's breathing was shallow and she showed no reaction.
After covering her with the quilt, Feng Chibai half-knelt in front of her and looked at her quietly for a long time.
Suddenly, a cell phone rang, and Feng Chibai subconsciously turned her phone to silent mode. After seeing the caller ID clearly showing "Mai Mai Crispy Chicken", he did not pick up.
After the call was automatically hung up, another call came in from the same person, but Feng Chibai still let it hang up on its own.
Then he stood up and walked to the sofa beside him and sat down. He poured himself a glass of water and drank it. His eyes were so calm that they did not stir up any ripples.
Lin Tang didn't sleep for long and woke up after about half an hour.
She slowly stood up and caught a glimpse of Feng Chibai, who was sitting on the sofa reading a document. As if noticing her movements, the person on the other end suddenly said, "Someone seemed to have called you just now."
Lin Tang responded and looked at her phone. There were indeed two missed calls on it. She looked up to check Feng Chibai's expression, then lowered her head and typed a few words on the screen and sent them to Feng Yunjing.
Sui Sui: [I just fell asleep, what happened?]
When the other party didn't reply immediately, Lin Tang got out of bed and sat down next to Feng Chibai. She bent her legs, wrapped her arms around her knees, and once again tried to see his expression. "Are you angry?"
She knew he must have seen the caller ID.
Ever since she learned the truth about his mother's death, she had no way of trying to reconcile the two of them. After all, they were on different sides. For Feng Chibai, his mother had collapsed in front of him, and that would be a shadow that would haunt him for the rest of his life. She had no right to forgive anyone on his behalf.
But Feng Chibai simply replied, "There's nothing to be angry about."
Lin Tang curled his lips and muttered, "Yeah, he has a really good temper."
The moment she turned her head to look at him, Feng Chibai turned in time as if he had expected it, and their eyes happened to intertwine in the air.
Lin Tang felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by him, and said unhappily: "What for?"
Feng Chibai had a faint smile on his face. His gaze slowly moved to the side, landing on her lit phone screen. He said casually, "There's new news."
Hearing this, Lin Tang glanced at his phone and opened it. It was an audio clip sent by Feng Yunjing, along with a file. It was the song he had previously discussed with her. He had just finished composing the first version and wanted Lin Tang to listen to it and give his opinion.
After all, someone was present. If she played it openly, it would be a blatant provocation. Thinking of this, Lin Tang stood up, found a pair of headphones, and put them on. After listening, she sent a few simple comments to the other party.
After finally finishing her business here, she put away her phone and suddenly met the gaze of someone beside her. A sentence rang in her ear for no reason: "You always seem to care more about other people's affairs than me."
Lin Tang was stunned. How did she come to this conclusion? But then she started to think again. Could it be that she was really too casual with him? Even Ying Yu had said so. She couldn't help but feel a little guilty. She chuckled twice and quickly said, "How could that be? We are the best in the world."
Feng Chibai seemed to enjoy it very much, with a smile in his eyes, and even a bit of arrogance: "Don't worry, I'm not jealous of him."
Lin Tang was confused. Why did this matter of jealousy come up for no reason?
The voice beside him continued: "After all, I am still your husband."
She was puzzled again. What did this have to do with whether he was her husband?
After Feng Chibai finished talking a lot of incomprehensible things, he was in a good mood. He stood up and asked, "What do you want to eat tonight?"
Lin Tang said hesitantly, "Whatever."
Then he walked out of the room without looking back, leaving her alone in a daze.
*
The overtime work at the institute continued until early June.
Lin Tang had just finished three sets of tests in the laboratory in the afternoon when he suddenly felt a lack of oxygen in his brain. His chest felt like it was blocked by a ball of cotton soaked in water, making it difficult for him to breathe.
I felt nauseous and wanted to vomit.
On the way back to the office, Lin Tang's brows were furrowed, and he felt more and more uncomfortable as he walked. Finally, he couldn't help but stop, put the palm of his left hand on Ying Yu's shoulder, leaned towards the ground, and gasped for breath.
Ying Yu immediately realized something was wrong and asked hurriedly, "Boss, what's wrong with you?"
But Lin Tang's breathing was still rapid, and he couldn't utter a word. He even had a faint cry in his voice because breathing was too uncomfortable through his trachea.
Ying Yu was so scared that he quickly contacted 120. When Lin Tang was sent to the ambulance, his face looked very bad and his head was dizzy. He fainted before he even reached the hospital.
When she woke up again, her body was much more normal. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath before slowly opening them. The moment her head tilted to the side, Feng Chibai appeared before her.
She moved her body and half sat up, raised her eyebrows in surprise, and her voice was still a little weak: "Why are you here? You are so well-informed?"
Before he could answer, Ying Yuxian appeared from behind him, raised his hand and said weakly, "Boss, I'm contacting President Feng."
Lin Tang didn't care. She looked at the time and saw that it was still early for the end of get off work, so she got up and put on her shoes.
Seeing this, Ying Yu asked in confusion: "What are you doing, do you want to go to the bathroom?"
Lin Tang glanced at him and said as a matter of course: "Go back to the lab, what else can you do?"
Hearing this, he hurriedly stopped her and said, "Oh, no need. You should have a good rest first. We've already figured out the ideas for those experiments this morning. We can finish them even if you don't go."
After all, the doctor said that Lin Tang's heart palpitations were caused by overwork in recent times. She had finally recovered, and they immediately took her to the laboratory again. Not to mention whether she could handle it, they themselves felt guilty.
After hearing this, Lin Tang silently retracted his feet into the quilt again.
Seeing that she was awake and still alive and kicking, Ying Yu breathed a sigh of relief. Since he still had things to do at the institute, he went back first.
When there were only two people left in the ward, deathly silence returned.
Feng Chibai's eyes were a little fierce, and his pair of phoenix eyes were always staring at her with a serious expression.
After a while, he snorted softly, raised his eyebrows and sneered, "What kind of work model is this? Risking your life?"
Lin Tang was choked by his words and retorted, "Can you please not be so harsh? The doctor said that I'm just overworked intermittently, not like this all the time."
Feng Chibai pursed his lips, feeling angry but unable to vent. He could only sit on the chair next to her, poured a glass of water with a cold face, and asked, "Want a drink?"
Lin Tang's face half buried in the quilt. Stop now? Did she just say something unpleasant to hurt him? Probably not.
She glanced at him, but still took the glass of water and drank it slowly.
The medicine in the hospital smelled terrible and she didn't like staying there, so she drank the water and planned to leave.
When I got home, I gradually felt sleepy again. I slept in my room for a long time before getting up and going to the living room to get a glass of water.
It was already getting dark outside, and she was sitting quietly on the sofa. Feng Chibai had just finished his work and came out of the study.
While she was in a daze, she felt that her breathing was a little blocked, as if she had stayed in the hospital for too long in the afternoon and was completely blocked by the unpleasant smell of medicine.
I suddenly remembered Grandma Lin. Because of cancer, she spent almost the rest of her life in that hospital filled with the smell of medicine.
Lin Tang's heart suddenly ached, as if someone was holding it tightly, and an unknown panic was quietly spreading.
She was gasping for air, and thought that she hadn't seen her grandmother for a few days, so she made a video call to her.
No one answered.
The throbbing in her heart intensified.
So I called again.
I waited for a long time this time, but I was finally connected.
Before she could see clearly, Lin Tang smiled and called out "Grandma." But when she saw the person in the video, her smile froze, her brows furrowed slightly, and she had a bad feeling in her heart: "Why do you look worse and worse?"
Hearing this, Feng Chibai's eyes trembled, but the person next to him was completely focused on the other end of the video and did not notice.
Grandma Lin was also stunned when she heard this, and quickly said, "How could that be? Sui Sui is worrying too much. Maybe you've been under too much pressure at work recently, causing you to be dazzled."
She spoke with some difficulty, but was afraid of being noticed, so she almost forced herself to speak fluently.
But Lin Tang still felt very strange. She glanced at Feng Chibai, as if wanting him to help her confirm her guess.
But noticing her gaze, Grandma Lin immediately guessed that Feng Chibai was beside her, so she added, "Xiao Chi is here too. Didn't you say last time that you were worried that Grandma wouldn't have enough things? Don't worry, Grandma has taken care of everything."
Lin Tang's eyes turned suspicious. She didn't quite understand what Grandma Lin meant, so she asked directly, "What's not enough? Have you been to Jingluo recently?"
After hearing what Grandma Lin said, the uneasiness in his heart faded a little, and he nodded calmly.
Lin Tang muttered, "Why don't you take me with you?"
At least it's very convenient to go back and forth by riding on his plane.
Her gaze returned to the screen. Although she couldn't understand what the older generation meant by "good complexion" or "bad complexion", the person in the picture looked so pale that it was difficult for her not to make random guesses.
She asked Feng Chibai again: "But, you really don't think..."
"You worry too much." Feng Chibai interrupted her, but his voice was not as firm as before.
Lin Tang was about to say something when another voice came from the other end of the screen: "Grandma needs to rest first, so I'll hang up now."
The last breath was somewhat suppressed.
But before she had time to react, the call was cut off.
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