Gong Linglong went to work early the next day. In the morning, she accompanied Director Yang to a meeting. After the meeting ended at 11:30, she immediately borrowed a bicycle and went to the sanatorium.
As I walked to the entrance of the sanatorium, a group of people came towards me. They were all dressed neatly and elegantly, and there were three familiar faces among them.
These three familiar faces were none other than Meng Xiaoying and her parents. After not seeing them for half a month, Meng Xiaoying had lost a lot of weight. Her originally rosy cheeks now looked sickly pale, making her look somewhat pitiful.
Meng Xiaoying also saw her at this time. Perhaps because of the mental stress she had experienced recently, she treated her like an enemy. Her eyes were filled with resentment, and her voice was much sharper than usual: "Gong Linglong, why are you here?"
Gong Linglong looked at her with indifference, and without giving face to Meng's parents and others, she spoke a little harshly: "Will you die if you meddle in other people's business all day long?"
"Every time we meet, you question me like you've eaten explosives. Who are you to question me?"
"Even if your Meng family is powerful, we ordinary people don't need to report our daily actions to you, right?"
"Young comrade, you're going too far."
Meng Mu took over the conversation. She remembered that this beautiful female comrade was a member of the military family, but she was not sure whose family she belonged to.
"Before you lecture me, you'd better take care of your daughter."
"There has to be a limit to being spoiled and willful. If you like to meddle in other people's affairs and never learn your lesson, please take care of things within your own family and don't interfere with me."
After Gong Linglong finished speaking, she ignored Meng Xiaoying's angry expression and left with her things.
Looking at her leaving figure, the middle-aged man walking in front turned to look at Meng Xiaoying and said to Meng's parents, "Your daughter really needs to be properly disciplined."
"Deputy Mayor, Xiaoying hasn't been in a good mental state recently. She's not usually like this." Meng's mother hurriedly apologized.
"If you're not in a good mental state, you should stay home and rest."
The person who spoke was Xue Hailin, the deputy mayor of Seoul. Today was his mother-in-law's birthday, and he and his wife brought their two children to celebrate during the lunch break. They just met the three members of the Meng family at the park gate. They also came to celebrate his mother-in-law's birthday, so they came together.
Previously, because of Gao Xuemei's incident, the Meng family was involved. Meng's mother Xiao Hongmei was a cousin of Peng Yuni, and the Peng family was jointly investigated by multiple departments.
Although Xue Hailin is the deputy mayor, he is also the son-in-law of the Peng family. In order to clear all suspicions, he actively cooperated with the investigation. Now the Xue and Peng families don’t want to have too much involvement with the Meng family from the bottom of their hearts, but they can’t do too much on the surface.
Father Meng heard the coldness in his words and his heart tightened. He quickly taught Meng Xiaoying: "Xiaoying, stop meddling in other people's business. Come with us to celebrate Grandma Peng's birthday and then go home and rest."
Meng Xiaoying lowered her head and said in a weak voice, "Dad, I understand."
After that, he apologized to Xue Hailin and his wife: "Aunt, uncle, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cause trouble, it's just that we didn't get along in the army before, and I acted impulsively..."
"Is she also from the art troupe?"
Peng Yuni asked. She had just seen Gong Linglong's appearance. She was very beautiful and elegant. Her facial features and temperament were better than Meng Xiaoying's.
As for the conflict between Meng Xiaoying and the other party, she could basically guess that her cousin's daughter had always been self-righteous since she was a child, and was often praised and praised as the most beautiful. She had probably been doing well in the art troupe in recent years. Now that she met someone who was more beautiful than herself, she couldn't suppress her jealousy.
"She's not from the art troupe, she's a military wife." Meng Xiaoying answered with her head down.
Seeing that she was a military wife, Peng Yuni frowned: "She's not from the art troupe, she's just an ordinary military wife. You two don't have any intersection, so why are you in conflict with her?"
Meng Xiaoying didn't know how to respond to this and hesitated for several seconds before answering: "I didn't have a conflict with her, she was the one who was rude."
Peng Yuni glanced at her indifferently, seeing through something, but did not say it out loud.
"Let's go."
Xue Hailin also saw through it and was too lazy to get involved in the trivial matters between these female comrades, so he just walked away.
When they arrived at the door of the room where Mrs. Peng lived, Gong Linglong happened to be there. She had just asked the staff and found out that her mother was giving massages in this room, so she was waiting outside.
Now it seems that the people her mother works for are relatives of the Meng family.
When Meng Xiaoying saw her here, she frowned. Thinking that she didn't know the Peng family, she guessed that she must be shameless to curry favor with the Peng family. Contempt flashed in her eyes, but she didn't say anything this time.
Xue Hailin walked in front, looking her pretty face up and down, and said in a friendly manner: "Comrade, this ward is where my mother-in-law lives. Are you here to see her?"
"No, I came to see my mother."
Gong Linglong didn't know their identities and didn't plan to ask more.
The staff just came to open the water, and when they saw Xue Hailin and his wife, they greeted them warmly: "Deputy Mayor Xue, Director Peng, you are here."
When she heard that it was the deputy mayor, Gong Linglong's eyes moved slightly. She didn't think of going forward to talk to him, but took a step back consciously.
"Sister Wang, how is my mother doing recently?" Peng Yuni asked.
"Director Peng, the old lady has been feeling much better these days. She just walked around for half an hour this morning and basked in the sun for an hour. Doctor Yin applied ointment to her yesterday, and Comrade Bai gave her an extra half-hour massage last night. She slept very well last night. She said she wanted to go home tonight and asked Comrade Bai to give her a massage in advance."
"Is it convenient for us to go in?" Peng Yuni asked again.
"Wait a moment, I'll go in and ask."
Sister Wang knocked on the door, then pushed it open and walked in. She quickly came out: "Deputy Mayor Xue, Director Peng, the massage is done in the room, but Comrade Bai is changing the old lady's clothes. Please wait a moment, it will be done soon."
Peng Yuni nodded. Seeing Gong Linglong retreat to the back, she guessed what was going on and asked, "Comrade, your mother is Comrade Bai Shuixian, right?"
Gong Linglong said "hmm".
Meng Xiaoying had known for a long time that her mother worked in a nursing home, but she didn't know it was here. When she thought about her mother's job of helping people with urine and feces and changing clothes, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but rise.
"Funny?"
Gong Linglong glanced over inadvertently and saw the sarcastic smile on Meng Xiaoying's lips.
Her voice was cold and her gaze was extremely sharp. Xue Hailin and his wife turned their heads almost at the same time to follow her gaze, just in time to see the sarcastic curve at the corner of Meng Xiaoying's mouth that had not yet disappeared.
"Your Meng family is really well-educated." Gong Linglong's sharp eyes moved to the Meng couple.
Meng Mu's face instantly fell, "Comrade Gong, please be more polite."
"Were you blind and didn't see the sneer on her face?"
Gong Linglong's voice was cold and merciless. "I know what she's laughing at. Isn't it just about my mom doing a menial job here? Someone who hangs out with enemy spies and is even related to them, how can she have the nerve to mock us working people?"
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