Chen Guoxing stayed in the hospital for more than ten days. After finishing the examination on the morning of the 2nd, he packed up and prepared to go home with Director Zhou's full instructions.
"Huh, I can finally go home."
Although I go downstairs to get some fresh air every day, the feeling of going home and getting some fresh air is completely different.
It turns out that the old saying is true: there is no place like home, no matter how bad your home is, it is still the best.
The day before, Song Fuyu quietly transferred most of the things to the space and took them back home. Today, only a luggage bag, a kettle and a washbasin were packed.
"What happened to Chen Yuan today? I told him in advance that he would be discharged from the hospital today and asked him to pick me up early. It's almost eleven o'clock now and there's no sign of him. I can't contact him either."
The examination was completed at 9:30 and it took ten minutes to pack up. The father and daughter sat in the ward waiting for him to come.
"Maybe there was an emergency and he was delayed. Wait another half an hour. If he still hasn't come, I'll spend money to rent a car from the hospital."
Brother Chen is usually very cautious in his work. He is not the type of person who would stand someone up even though he knows something is wrong. There must be some force majeure factors.
This is the inconvenience of this era. Once an emergency occurs, you can’t contact anyone at all.
In the future, a phone call or a message would be enough to notify everyone in minutes.
At 11:15 in the morning, Xiao Chen ran to the ward panting.
"Director, I'm sorry I'm late and kept you waiting for so long."
Xiao Chen's face was full of apology, and he didn't care about the sweat running down his face.
Song Fuyu couldn't bear it anymore, so he handed him a piece of paper and asked him to wipe the sweat off his face first.
"We've been waiting for almost two hours. Where have you been? Is everything okay?"
"I'm fine, but there's something wrong with the car."
"I drove out of the factory at eight o'clock. Halfway through the journey, I must have run over a sharp object and punctured the right front tire. Fortunately, there was no one on the road."
"I contacted a car repair shop and asked them to help me change the tire, which caused such a long delay."
"I'm glad you're okay. Next time, drive more carefully and pay more attention to the road conditions. Take the invoice to the finance department to get the money you spent on changing the tire reimbursed."
"Okay, thank you, Director."
When Xiao Chen heard the factory manager say that the expense could be reimbursed, he breathed a sigh of relief.
The cost of replacing the new tires and repairing the car totaled more than half a month's salary. If this could not be reimbursed, he would have worked for nothing this month.
If his mother knew this, she would pull his ears off.
After letting him relax for a while, at half past eleven the three of them went downstairs and prepared to go home.
Along the way, Xiao Chen slowed down the car, fearing that another accident might happen.
"Hey, is that Aunt Zhu? Why is she standing alone at the door of an empty house?"
Xiao Chen was the first to notice a person standing in front of his house, and he asked the other two people in the car.
Song Fuyu, who was sitting in the passenger seat, had been leaning against the car window in a daze. When he heard Brother Chen's question, he looked over.
Isn’t that Zhu Fangjie at the door? Seeing her stamping her feet non-stop, it seems she has been waiting for quite a while.
Neither Song Fuyu nor Chen Guoxing answered, but the car soon stopped at the door of the house, so there was no need for an answer.
Oh... it's another dog-skin plaster! So annoying!
When Zhu Fangjie saw the car coming, she immediately adjusted her facial expression.
She heard that the factory director was going to be discharged from the hospital today, so she specially switched to another half-day shift with someone else and started waiting at the door before nine o'clock. As a result, she waited for more than three hours and her legs were stiff.
If I had known, I would have come later. She would have stood at the door like a fool waiting for so long.
She concealed her dissatisfaction caused by waiting in vain, and wanted to help open the car door with a smile on her face. Unexpectedly, Song Fuyu was one step faster than her and opened the back seat door where Chen Guoxing was in advance.
"Auntie, I'm strong, I can do it myself, so you don't have to do it."
She separated Zhu Fangjie and didn't let her get close.
"Comrade Xiao Song, you don't have to be so polite. I just heard that the factory director was discharged from the hospital today, and I didn't have to go to work. I thought you might not be able to take care of it by yourself, so I came to help you."
"Aunt, look at what you said, why am I the only one here? Isn't Brother Chen here?"
"He's a young man, so he's more suitable than you to help, don't you think?"
"Uh... yes, that's true, you're right."
Zhu Fangjie secretly cursed Song Fuyu in her heart. If it wasn't for the factory director, she wouldn't bother to pay attention to this little vixen who was brought back from nowhere.
Look at her figure and smiling expression. Even a woman would find her attractive, let alone a man.
When she and the factory director became a family, the first thing she would do was to drive this vixen away and never let her come to their house again and disturb their peace.
Although he was very unhappy with Song Fuyu, he still had to maintain a very good attitude towards her before she and the factory director got together, so as not to upset the factory director.
"Brother Chen, please help me move the wheelchair down from the trunk."
"Okay, right away."
Seeing that she couldn't get close to the factory director, Zhu Fangjie had to actively help Xiao Chen take off the wheelchair.
Chen Yuan didn't think too much about it. He didn't know what was in her mind. He really thought that the other party didn't have to go to work today and came to help out of kindness.
After all, the injured person was the factory director, and most employees wanted to have a good relationship with him.
The wheelchair was moved down, and Song Fuyu helped Chen Guoxing get out of the car.
"Xiao Yu, just help me into the house. There is a step at the door, and you will have to work hard to carry me in a wheelchair."
"OK."
She supported his uninjured side, and Zhu Fangjie wanted to support his other side, but Chen Guoxing cleverly avoided her.
This female comrade is really confused.
Putting aside whether he is interested in her or not, even if he is, the two of them have not yet confirmed their relationship, and they are having such intimate contact in front of outsiders, it is inevitable that others will think too much.
If someone with ulterior motives "reports" him and exaggerates and makes unnecessary remarks, his future will be over.
He still wanted to work hard in the future. He hadn't seen Xiaoyu and Ziyuan's child being born, and he hadn't held his grandson yet. He didn't want to die at the hands of such an unclear-minded woman.