Chapter 1019: Finding an old friend
Doctor Feng sat there staring at the phone number for more than four hours. He only came to his senses when the clock on the wall struck midnight.
He rubbed his dry eyes, glanced at the clock on the wall, and then his gaze fell on the phone number in his hand.
He had been looking forward to this moment in his dreams, and had been looking for her whereabouts in his dreams, but now that he had actually got news about her, he backed off.
Become cowardly.
He didn't know what he was afraid of.
Maybe, he didn’t know how to face her, or maybe he was afraid that the person on the other end of the phone was not her!
Just like that, Doctor Feng maintained the same posture and sat on the bamboo chair in a daze for a while. Finally, he raised his hand to wipe his face, mustered up his courage, picked up the mobile phone, and slowly and reverently dialed the number.
The call was made.
The moment the call was connected, he clenched his fingers nervously and wanted to hang up in panic, but the phone had already been picked up.
"hi..." an elegant female voice came.
Doctor Feng held his elder brother's hand helplessly. His elder brother wanted to speak, but when he heard the other party's language, his words got stuck in his throat.
"Who is that?"
The woman asked.
Doctor Feng Shen looked embarrassed and didn't understand what she said, so he could only remain silent.
He couldn't tell whether this female voice had any connection with the person he was looking for.
Too much time had passed, and he knew clearly that her voice could no longer be as clear and melodious as when she was a teenager.
Because of the silence on the other end of the phone, the other party seemed to have noticed something was wrong. He turned around and cautiously asked, "Who... who are you?"
As soon as the woman said this, Doctor Fengshen's bloodshot eyes suddenly brightened.
"Excuse me, is this call coming from the mainland?"
The woman asked again anxiously.
The other party said a few words in succession, and Doctor Feng's tense expression fluctuated again.
"Xiaobai, is it you......"
noob………
When Doctor Fengshen heard the name Xiaobai, the hand holding the phone shook uncontrollably, and the mobile phone fell from his hand and landed on the ground with a bang.
The phone was dropped and disconnected.
He sat on the chair, his mind full of the name he had just heard, and his thoughts couldn't help but fall into some distant memories.
"Xiaobai, this sweet potato is for you to eat. I secretly saved it for you."
"Xiao Bai, my dad is angry again. Have you memorized all the names of the medicines?"
As the peaceful smiling face of a young girl wearing embroidered shoes and long braids emerged in his mind, Doctor Feng sat up in shock from his chair, his face excited and his body trembling.
He couldn't believe that at his age, someone still called him Xiaobai.
He couldn't believe that he actually found her.
After a few hours, he calmed down and looked at the mobile phone that had fallen to the ground. He bent down and picked it up.
His heart was in turmoil and he held the phone with trembling hands, not having the courage to dial a second time.
Just when he was feeling mixed emotions, the phone rang.
Ju Jue told him that this call might be from her.
He paused for a long time, and even when the phone automatically hung up, he didn't have the courage to pick it up.
The person on the other end was not tired of calling again after the first call didn't go through. Then the phone rang again.
Doctor Feng Shen tremblingly pressed the answer button.
After the call was connected, he still didn't speak, and the person on the other end of the phone was also silent.
Just like that, after about an hour, the other party finally broke the silence.
The voice was the same as the last time, full of hope and tentativeness, "Excuse me, is this call from China?"
He spoke mechanically, "Yes..."
The other party seemed to have adjusted his mood, and tried to control his tone, and asked elegantly, "I am Nie Jiuer, may I ask who you are?"
“Jiuer…” Doctor Feng murmured with a dull look.
"Jiu'er, are you really Jiu'er?"
"Are you Xiaobai?"
The other party raised his voice excitedly.
Doctor Feng answered loudly and firmly with a trembling voice, "Yes, I am! Jiuer, I am Xiaobai!"
The moment he called out like this, there seemed to be a clanging sound coming from the other end of the phone...
After a long time, the woman's crying voice came.
"Xiao Bai, I didn't expect you to be still alive. I can't believe it. Yesterday, a Chinese person said that someone named Bai Zhifeng in China came to see me. I thought he was lying to me. I really couldn't believe it..."
"Jiu'er, I have been looking for you for a long time. I didn't expect you to be alive."
Doctor Feng also choked up with sobs.
The woman cried and asked, "Xiaobai, have you been happy all these years?"
"I'm not old, I'm not old at all. It's been 45 years, and I've been looking for you. I can't close my eyes in peace without hearing from you today."
Doctor Feng was already in tears. At this moment, all his longings and grievances came out with his tears.
The woman on the other end of the phone also burst into tears. "I want to find you too, but I'm in a foreign country and have lost all contact with China. There's no way to find you."
Doctor Feng was heartbroken when he heard the woman crying on the phone. He wiped his face and said softly, "Don't cry, Jiuer, don't cry. I don't want to hear you cry."
"I'm happy!"
Two elderly people were talking on the phone about their longing for each other for more than 40 years. It was not until the woman's voice, a young man speaking a foreign language, came from the other end that she ended the call in a panic.
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Gao Zheng and Tang Jingyue will hold their engagement ceremony in a month, and the Gao family has already begun preparing engagement gifts in full swing.
At the end of the year, Gao Zheng was busy with work and had no time to accompany Tang Jingyue to buy things for the engagement, so Mrs. Gao took Tang Jingyue to the grocery store to shop.
In the afternoon, Mr. Gao watched two women coming in with bags, and he really couldn't understand the women's train of thought. Couldn't they just stay at home in such a cold weather?
I have to go shopping today.
"Oh, we are freezing to death."
Old Mrs. Gao complained as she walked in.
Mr. Gao, who was sitting on the sofa watching TV, glanced at her and said, "Didn't you say you weren't cold when you left?"
"You old man, stop making sarcastic remarks. You are so happy and yet you are not positive at all!"
Old Master Gao glanced at Tang Jingyue who was following behind his old lady. Fearing that his daughter-in-law might misunderstand him, he hurriedly said, "How am I not active?
I have drawn up the guest list."
However, at Gao Zheng's request, only a few respected elders in the compound and a few direct relatives were invited.
He was more enthusiastic than anyone else about his son's marriage, but with his old arms and legs, he couldn't go shopping with them.
He couldn't understand why his wife was able to walk around for so long with her bound feet.
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