Chapter 59 Confession
After coming out of Xiangbei's house, Tao Nanfeng's eyes were slightly red, but her smile was bright and sunny.
It is like the sky after a heavy rain, clear and blue, which makes people immersed in it at first sight.
Xiangbei didn't know what she and her mother said after they entered the inner room, but seeing that she and her mother got along well, he felt relieved. He understands his parents and Tao Nanfeng. They are both kind and considerate people, and they should be able to communicate well with each other.
Xiangbei and Tao Nanfeng returned to the site to work together.
As soon as Tao Nanfeng walked into the office of the Infrastructure Department, Qiao Yadong came over.
He placed the two pages in his hand on her desk, his eyes showing a trace of caution: "The self-review is finished."
Tao Nanfeng set up the drawing board, taped an A3 drawing paper to it, picked up a pencil and began to sketch the hospital's graphic design. Without even looking up, he said, "Just give it to Xiangbei once you're done."
Qiao Yadong was very careful and felt something was wrong as soon as he heard it: "Are you calling him by his name now? Didn't you always call him Director Xiang before?"
Tao Nanfeng didn't expect Qiao Yadong to be so considerate. He looked up at him with a cold gaze: "Is it not possible?"
Qiao Yadong looked at her face from left to right, and the more he looked, the more frightened he became. Tao Nanfeng originally had delicate eyebrows and eyes, and now with a hint of rouge in the corners of her eyes, she looked even more gorgeous.
It's only been twenty days since I last saw her, how come she has become so bright and charming? Is she really in love?
Qiao Yadong dragged his chair closer to Tao Nanfeng, lowered his voice and asked, "You, are you..."
Tao Nanfeng frowned slightly, a little impatient: "Qiao Yadong, what do you want to say? Talk about work directly, and leave things unrelated to work until after get off work."
When Qiao Yadong saw Tao Nanfeng and Xiang Bei's tacit and intimate appearance in the morning, he had a bad premonition. He was anxious all afternoon and didn't see Tao Nanfeng return to the educated youth point. How could he bear it until after get off work?
He didn't care about being annoying and continued to ask, "Where did you go at noon? Why didn't you come back for dinner? Li Huilan and Ye Qin left some food for you."
Tao Nanfeng lowered his head and made two strokes on the paper, then said calmly, "Xiang Bei and I went down the mountain to visit the three injured workers."
"You've been gone for so long?" Qiao Yadong pressed on.
"Hmm." Tao Nanfeng snorted and didn't respond.
Seeing that she was keeping her mouth shut and he couldn't get anything out of her, Qiao Yadong got so angry that he stood up and circled around her desk.
Hu Huanxin kindly reminded him: "Qiao Yadong, Wei Min told you during dinner that you should go to their security department after work. This mine collapse is a big deal. You need to report the incident carefully and keep records."
Qiao Yadong glared at him and said unhappily, "I know, Hu Dou. You are the only one who knows the most!"
After saying that, Qiao Yadong looked at Tao Nanfeng who was concentrating on his work, gritted his teeth and said, "I'll ask you again in the evening!" After saying this, he seemed to have finally come to his senses and turned to leave.
Hu Huanxin ran to Tao Nanfeng and asked curiously, "What's wrong with Squad Leader Qiao? What does he want to ask you?"
Tao Nanfeng raised his head and waved at him: "Don't worry about him. Come and take a look at my design. We want to build a hospital on our farm. Where is the best location?"
When Hu Huanxin heard this, he came closer and smiled as he looked at the big engineering words "Xiufengshan Farm Hospital General Plan Design" on the top of the drawing: "Ah, are they going to build a hospital? That's great!"
There are four desks in the Infrastructure Department’s office, and the other two staff members also came over to show concern for the new project.
"Chief Tao, are we going to build a hospital? This is really good news. Some time ago, some employees came to complain and urged us to build a hospital quickly. The original clinic was too small, the equipment was too poor, there were too few doctors, and it couldn't treat any diseases at all."
"During the Chinese New Year, I heard that a child had a sudden emergency. He rolled on the ground in stomach pain. No one knew how to treat him at the clinic. The doctors and nurses were also a little panicked. The transport team didn't even have time to eat the New Year's Eve dinner. They drove the child to the town hospital in a hurry."
Tao Nanfeng was a little worried when he heard this, and asked quickly: "How is the child?"
"Oh, I heard it was a twisted intestine? I don't know the name, but fortunately he was sent to the hospital in time. He is still in the hospital receiving injections and infusions."
Tao Nanfeng frowned, feeling the burden was getting heavier. She nodded: "Okay, then we will hurry up and try to build the new hospital this year."
"Okay!" everyone said in unison.
Hu Huanxin suggested: "Tao Nanfeng, I think the original clinic is in a very good location. It is close to the farm headquarters and the main road of the farm, and has convenient transportation. The main problem now is that there are not enough buildings and the equipment is not complete. How about... like the primary school, we expand it?"
Tao Nanfeng thought for a moment, then nodded with a smile: "Well, I think it's a good idea. The one-story building with a yard is used as the inpatient department. There happens to be an empty lot next to it, so we can build a new outpatient building there."
With this said, my thoughts become much clearer.
Several people from the Infrastructure Department were talking to each other, while Tao Nanfeng was drawing on the blueprint.
"It turned out that the old building was going to be renovated. The dark red paint on the lobby and corridor floors had almost all fallen off. The lighting was not good either. It felt very depressing once you entered."
Tao Nanfeng nodded, wrote the words "Design Instructions" next to the drawing, and recorded a few points:
1. The floor is made of blue and white terrazzo; 2. While ensuring the earthquake resistance of the wall between windows, the size of the window openings should be expanded as much as possible to ensure the lighting area; 3. The wooden window frames are painted with bright colors.
When Hu Huanxin saw that all his opinions were responded to, he rubbed his hands excitedly.
"How about having two floors for the outpatient building? The first floor lobby is for registration, payment, medication, and examinations and tests. The second floor is divided into surgery, internal medicine, pediatrics, gynecology, and obstetrics. This time we must make sure everything works!"
Tao Nanfeng smiled and glanced at Hu Huanxin: "You really understand."
Hu Huanxin chuckled: "Even if you haven't eaten pork, you've never seen a pig run. I just took my grandfather to the hospital for a checkup and paid special attention to the floor plan."
With the collective wisdom of all parties, the appearance of the hospital's new outpatient building has begun to take shape in the drawings drawn by Tao Nanfeng.
After finishing the sketch, Tao Nanfeng took the blueprint off the drawing board and said, "I'll go and report to the director. We can't just build it. We also need to deal with equipment, doctors, and hospital qualification levels."
Hu Huanxin said hurriedly: "Yes, then you go quickly, I will write the design task book first."
Tao Nanfeng took the blueprint and walked briskly towards the office of the director of Dongtou Field.
Passing by the entrance of the security department, I heard Wei Min's loud voice: "Boss! Wake up, Panpan, although we call you squad leader, in fact, everyone is working in different positions now, and there is no such thing as who is in charge of whom. Who Tao Nanfeng likes and who he wants to be with is none of your business?"
When Tao Nanfeng heard Wei Min mention his name, he knocked on the door and said in a neither loud nor soft voice: "Wei Min, keep your voice down, what nonsense are you talking about?"
Wei Min didn't expect to be caught by Tao Nanfeng. He scratched his head embarrassedly, chuckled, and walked over to give Tao Nanfeng a flattering smile.
"Tao Nanfeng, am I not speaking for you? I don't know what got Qiao Yadong so angry that he kept talking to me for so long."
He suddenly lowered his voice, with a mysterious look on his face: "Qiao Yadong said you are in love? Really? Who is it? Do I recognize him?"
Passing Wei Min's shoulder, Qiao Yadong stood in the middle of the room, looking at her pitifully. A pair of delicate single-lidded eyes were full of pleading, as if asking: Who are you in love with? How can you fall in love with someone else?
Tao Nanfeng was speechless and glared at Wei Min: "Stop gossiping. The farm is planning to build a hospital. Aren't there a lot of wood piled up in the vacant land to the east of the old clinic? Remember to find someone to clear it out."
When Wei Min heard what Tao Nanfeng said, his eyes lit up: "Ah, we are going to build a hospital! Li Huilan will definitely be the happiest. I will take people to clean up right away and tell her by the way."
After that, he happily began to call out his troops: "Brothers, get to work!"
The gang of thugs from the security department were now completely subdued by Wei Min. When they heard there was work to do, they put on their hats and white gloves and set off in high spirits.
Qiao Yadong was still pestering Tao Nanfeng: "Tao Nanfeng, didn't you say you would work hard, carry out the infrastructure construction to the end, and work hard to build the farm? What's the point of dating? You won't return to Jiangcheng in the future? You don't want to go to college?"
Qiao Yadong felt indescribably frightened at this moment.
Although Tao Nanfeng rejected his hidden love, as long as she doesn't fall in love with other people, Qiao Yadong will have a chance.
As long as he could leave the farm and return to Jiangcheng to go to college, Qiao Yadong would bravely express his love. He is willing to wait for Tao Nanfeng, and Tao Nanfeng is the only one in his heart.
The reason why I didn't dare to pursue it boldly was because my parents had repeatedly told me that everything should give way to going to college.
Everything was fine before. Tao Nanfeng was simple and cold. She treated everyone the same and there was no sign that she liked anyone. Qiao Yadong was secretly happy. He decided to keep it up like this. As soon as the recommendation quota for the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University came out in March this year, he would apply. As long as... as long as he waited another half a year, everything would be as he wished.
However, in just twenty days, everything changed.
Tao Nanfeng's eyes became bright, the corners of her mouth were always curved, her cheeks were covered with a touch of rouge, and her lips were like blooming flowers, moist and gorgeous.
Qiao Yadong was not familiar with this kind of Tao Nanfeng.
He was very panicked now, so panicked that he was totally at a loss, as if the picture book he hid under his pillow when he was a child was discovered and confiscated by his mother. He wanted to cry but didn't dare to.
The treasure hidden deep in his heart was suddenly taken away by someone else one day. Qiao Yadong felt heartbroken just thinking about it.
He walked up to Tao Nanfeng again, not caring about the people walking in the corridor, and pleaded softly: "Tao Nanfeng, please tell me, are you in love with someone else?"
Tao Nanfeng was a little annoyed by his pestering. He snorted, walked around him and went straight to the director's office.
As they passed each other, her back looked proud and cold. Qiao Yadong didn't know where the courage came from, but he raised his hand and grabbed her arm, his voice trembling.
"I love you, I love you, you know that?"
Tao Nanfeng was suddenly grabbed by the arm by him. Although she was wearing a thick cotton coat, she was still angry. She was about to raise her hand to shake it off, but was stopped by his confession.
Because I have experienced love, my heart is more easily touched.
Tao Nanfeng looked up at Qiao Yadong, and the scenes of them building a brick house together, fighting against Jiao Liang, and stealing bacon all came to his mind.
Qiao Yadong's eyes were slightly red, his face was pale, and his whole body was trembling.
He is afraid, afraid of losing.
Countless thoughts flashed through Tao Nanfeng's mind in an instant.
In that book, Qiao Yadong is Tao You's husband. Because he was sad about Tao Nanfeng's early death, he transferred all his tenderness and love to Tao You, which led to the story of the couple starting a business together and becoming national real estate star entrepreneurs.
Now nothing has happened. Tao Nanfeng is not dead, and Qiao Yadong has not met Tao You. Everyone is still at Xiufengshan Farm, eating, living and working together, and has forged a deep friendship among the educated youth.
Qiao Yadong once confessed his feelings to Tao Nanfeng in a subtle way. He mentioned that he would have to leave the farm to go to college, so he didn't dare to fall in love now, and hoped that Tao Nanfeng could understand.
But at that time, Tao Nanfeng had just learned about the plot of the book, and was very uncomfortable with the idea that Qiao Yadong would be Tao You's husband, so he sternly refused and told him to fend for himself.
There was suppressed pain in Qiao Yadong's eyes, yet there was burning love. This contradictory mix of emotions, with madness and impulse, frightened Tao Nanfeng a little.
HOW DOES IT HANDLE? How should we respond?
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