"Auntie, I can help," Fu Jingchen pleaded again from outside the door.
Zhou's mother opened the door a crack: "Be good, go out for a walk."
"Let's go, Fu Jingchen." Zhou Luo pulled the man outside. "Don't you want to see what my place is like?"
"See you later, Uncle and Aunt." Fu Jingchen was perfectly polite.
Once outside the courtyard, Zhou Luo released Fu Jingchen's arm: "Not bad, you did a good job. My parents' eyes were practically slits from smiling."
Fu Jingchen didn't like hearing this, and he immediately retorted: "There's absolutely no pretense involved; these are all heartfelt words."
"Okay, that's from the bottom of my heart. But I have to praise you, you have a good eye. To commend you, I'll take you to see the primary school I went to, it's right at the edge of the village." Zhou Luo touched Fu Jingchen's face.
"Luo Luo is back." Just then, an auntie riding a tricycle and wearing a headscarf passed by and said enthusiastically when she saw Zhou Luo, "Is this your boyfriend? He's really handsome."
"Hello, Auntie." Zhou Luo greeted Fu Jingchen with a smile.
He thought the neighbor would just say hello and leave, but to his surprise, she got out of the car and looked Fu Jingchen up and down: "Not bad, Luo Luo. Your mother stood at the door for a long time at noon, telling everyone that Luo Luo brought her boyfriend home."
Zhou Luo awkwardly picked at his toes. His mother was usually quite composed, so why was she talking about her boyfriend to everyone?
"He's really handsome, Luo Luo. Why don't you come to my place for a bit? Da Liu gets off work at five."
"Auntie, let's talk about it later. I'll show him around the village first," Zhou Luo declined.
“Okay.” The neighbor got back on his bike and said as he stepped on the pedal, “From now on, Liu will have to meet this standard when looking for a partner. Tsk tsk tsk.”
Fu Jingchen gave an awkward, fake smile.
The two continued walking, and soon encountered villagers Yi, Bing, and Ding... who looked at Fu Jingchen as if he were a monkey.
“Fu Jingchen, they’re not bad people. We’re all from the same village, so if something happens in someone’s house, everyone knows. Actually, they’re not just here to watch the show; everyone’s praising you.” Zhou Luo knew that in a big city like Tiancheng, everyone lived in a “cage” of reinforced concrete. Let alone a group of people, even neighbors on the same floor might not exchange more than a few words.
She was afraid that Fu Jingchen wouldn't be used to it.
"I didn't say anything bad about them. Everyone was just being concerned, but they were a little too enthusiastic." Fu Jingchen had never been surrounded by so many relatives before, and since everyone was praising him, he didn't feel uncomfortable except for feeling a little embarrassed.
Instead, it felt like everyone was the center of attention.
"I'm glad you don't mind. We're almost at school," Zhou Luo said, pointing to the low houses in front of them.
Fu Jingchen followed his girlfriend inside and listened to her tell him funny stories from her childhood.
——
Tiancheng Airport.
Fu Jingsheng and Ge Tian saw Li Yun off together.
Before boarding, Li Yun was very surprised to see Fu Jingsheng appear.
He turned and hugged the man: "Thank you."
"Send me a message after I land, and I'll come to Lucheng to see you when I have time," Fu Jingsheng said.
"Okay." Li Yun nodded.
Fu Jingsheng and his group only left after watching the man's figure disappear through the security checkpoint.
Ge Tian patted Fu Jingchen on the shoulder: "You've become more humane."
"Praise me?" Fu Jingsheng tilted his head, his expression somewhat adorable.
“Of course, it’s completely different from when we first met. Do you have any plans for later? If not, would you like to have a meal together?” Ge Tian asked.
"Yes, I need to pick up my wife from get off work," Fu Jingsheng replied without hesitation.
Ge Tianchong gave him a thumbs up.
At Songsun Clinic, Rongyan and her colleagues are having afternoon tea together.
She ordered some small cakes for delivery.
"Dr. Song, the cake today is so delicious!"
"Sister Song seems to be in a good mood today."
"What's the good news?"
Rong Yan glared at everyone: "Do I need a reason to treat you to cake? I just happened to think of one this afternoon since I didn't have anything to do."
"Thank you, Dr. Song."
"Do you think it's necessary to add a cake to our afternoon tea every day?" Rong Yan asked.
"No, I need to lose weight."
"sure."
"The benefits are better now."
"Then I'll do the statistics." Rong Yan spent her free time in the office thinking about how to make her employees feel better at work.
Having to listen to so many people's unhappiness while keeping it a secret puts her under far more mental and physical stress than she does physically. She has to be very considerate of everyone's feelings.
"Dr. Song, our clinic is already a place that many people want to come to. You keep adding benefits from time to time. Won't the doctors in other clinics be green with envy? What if they all come and try to steal our jobs?"
"Don't worry, no matter what other doctors are like, I only trust you," Rong Yan said firmly.
After arriving, Fu Jingsheng went straight to Rong Yan's office. Finding her not there, he guessed she was deliberately in the rest area. Sure enough, before he even went in, he heard laughter coming from inside.
Fu Jingsheng knocked on the door.
"Oh, Mr. Fu is here. Dr. Song, I'm full, I'm leaving now."
"I'm full too."
"I'm off to work."
...
Several people walked out at the same time.
"Did you leave after seeing me come and go?"
"Of course, why are you here so early?" Rong Yan thought Fu Jingsheng wouldn't arrive until after get off work.
“I came directly from the airport. I called you at noon, and you said you were free in the afternoon, so I was thinking of picking you up as soon as possible,” Fu Jingsheng said, putting his arm around his wife’s waist.
"Did you go to see Li Yun off?" Rong Yan looked up.
"Well, it's our first client, so we have to take it seriously, right? Rongyan, is there anywhere you'd like to go? It's rare to be here so early, let's go together."
Rong Yan thought for a moment and said, "Hmm, the coffee shop. Ye Jianming just messaged me saying that Rong Bing went there. I'll go see how she is."
Fu Jingsheng gently pinched the woman's nose: "Okay, I'll go with you."
Coffee shop.
Rong Bing sat in front of the computer, working on a spreadsheet.
I took a day off to rest at home, but I couldn't fall asleep and instead kept having all sorts of wild thoughts.
After seeing her, Han Yue stayed at home for another half hour before coming to the coffee shop.
Upon arrival, she immediately asked Ye Jianming if there was anything she could do.
Ye Jianming guessed that she wanted to numb herself with work, so he took out all the product information he had collected since he opened the store and asked her to make it into an electronic file.
The document was a full centimeter thick; it would take several days to finish it all.
Rong Bing gladly took the file, turned on the computer, and started typing away.
I asked Ye Jianming if there were any formatting requirements halfway through.
Ye Jianming could almost hear the woman typing on a keyboard in the next room.
He shook his head; indeed, matters of the heart were difficult to overcome.
Not long after Zhao Rong left the coffee shop, she brought a friend with her.
"Boss Ye, I've brought some people over. Another cup of the same hand-drip coffee, please." Unlike her shyness at noon, Zhao Rong's voice was cheerful now.
"Oh, okay." Ye Jianming had some recollection of the people he had coffee with that day.
He returned to the brewing area and focused intently on making coffee.
"Zhao Rong, if I can't sleep tonight, will you stay up all night talking to me?" the girl said in a low voice.
"Okay, don't say it out loud." Zhao Rong covered Qin Meng's mouth.
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