Chapter 1070: You’re Not Going Over to Take a Look?
Lin Nuan previously told Bai Xiaonian to just co with her father to the Fu residence, but Bai Xiaonian’s father smiled and said that it was a gathering among the youngsters, and he wouldn’t disturb. Hence, Bai Xiaonian declined the invitation on her father’s behalf.
Bai Xiaonian’s father hadn’t seen his daughter for a long ti, and he didn’t tell Bai Xiaonian that he was picking her up at the airport, giving Bai Xiaonian a surprise.
Bai Xiaonian, who hadn’t returned ho in a long while, couldn’t stop herself from crying the instant she saw her father…
Despite feeling very happy inside, she couldn’t resist grumbling with a frown. “Didn’t I say I would go back myself? You’re not in good health, why did you co all the way here? What if I hadn’t spotted you and we missed each other at the airport? Wouldn’t you have made a wasted trip then?”
“Dad knows you. I knew the instant you got off the plane, you’d call .” Bai Xiaonian’s father reached out to take Bai Xiaonian’s luggage from her. “Moreover, Dad missed you! When I found out that you were coming back, I wanted to see you as soon as possible. The cab’s just outside. We’ll take you to Lin Nuan’s first. Lin Nuan’s child is celebrating her first month today. There are plenty of people there, and it has been a long ti since you and Lin Nuan last saw each other, so you must have lots to talk about. I bet you haven’t been eating well outside. After we get ho, Dad will cook for you… I’ll prepare your favorite sweet vinegar spare ribs and stead turbot!”
Bai Xiaonian watched as her father took her luggage from her and continued walking. He nagged a lot, but it was to conceal his reddened eyes!
Looking at him, Bai Xiaonian felt that her father had a lot more white hairs now. Even his spine was bent now.
Her father only had her as a child all his life. How could he possibly not miss her?
When he woke up in the middle of the night, he might worry about her, who was all alone overseas. What if she kicked off her blankets? Would she catch a chill?
Her father was advanced in age, after all!
Bai Xiaonian’s eyes ward up. She quickened her pace and went up to hook her arm with her father’s, behaving like a daddy’s girl. “What delicious food have you prepared? Did you make Yuxiang shredded pork? That Chinese restaurant overseas isn’t authentic at all. It tastes awful! I miss that taste…”
“Yes yes yes!” Bai Xiaonian’s father nodded repeatedly. “And your favorite Cumin fried at. I’m making all your favorite dishes!”
“Then, ok, I’ll co back earlier tonight for dinner. Dad, this luggage is filled with things I brought back for you, so you can take a look first when you get back!” Bai Xiaonian then added, “Except for a notebook, which I use for work!”
“Why did you bring back work with you?” Bai Xiaonian’s father frowned, then asked, “Why did you buy stuff? Why didn’t you bring back your own stuff?”
“What do I need to bring back when I’m returning to my own ho? I have everything I need at ho!” Bai Xiaonian smiled and said to her father.
Although the father-and-daughter duo’s eyes reddened that day, it was a different aning than the day they parted. Today, both of them were elated… and their voices weren’t as solemn as they were before Bai Xiaonian went overseas.
In the cab, Bai Xiaonian called Lin Nuan and accidentally revealed that her father was in the cab with her. Lin Nuan hence insisted that she co with Uncle Bai.
Bai Xiaonian’s father took the phone from her and congratulated Lin Nuan. Lin Nuan told Bai Xiaonian’s father that there weren’t outsiders around…
Bai Xiaonian’s father disliked such occasions the most. Although Lin Nuan regarded Bai Xiaonian’s father as her uncle, others didn’t necessarily think the sa way. After Bai Xiaonian’s father made things so clear and declined the invitation, Lin Nuan didn’t insist…
Bai Xiaonian and her father were ticulous and didn’t say he was sending Bai Xiaonian to the Fu residence. Bai Xiaonian knew that based on Lin Nuan’s character, if she knew… Lin Nuan would definitely go to the door to welco Bai Xiaonian’s father.
If Lin Nuan—a person who had just finished her postpartum confinent—really went to the door to welco him, Bai Xiaonian’s father wouldn’t have the cheek to slip away!
After hanging up the phone, Bai Xiaonian’s father told her that while she was away, Lin Nuan didn’t have the ti to visit him, but she would frequently call him and have tonics sent to him. Bai Xiaonian’s father was soone who rembered debts of kindness, so he told this to his daughter so that she would repay Lin Nuan in the future.
“At the end of September, before the child was born, she said that they had grown so peanuts in their yard, and she even sent a box after they harvested the peanuts.”
“Got it!” Bai Xiaonian smiled and nodded. Her father had told her about this over the phone before, but Lin Nuan hadn’t ntioned a word of this to her.
Bai Xiaonian knew that Lin Nuan’s character had always been like this.
When they reached the Fu residence, Bai Xiaonian got out of the car. Bai Xiaonian’s father rolled down the window and stuck his head out to ask, “You’re going in empty-handed?”
Bai Xiaonian patted her backpack. “Don’t worry, it’s with !”
Bai Xiaonian’s father then nodded and told the driver he could drive on.
During those years in college, Bai Xiaonian and Song Yao had indeed helped Lin Nuan a lot. Later, it was Lin Nuan who helped out Bai Xiaonian. Never mind other things… when Bai Xiaonian’s father contracted that illness and needed money, Song Yao and Lin Nuan gave her their savings without a second word. She had never forgotten what they did for her.
That was so ti ago now. Her father’s condition had stabilized since he started taking the cheaper version of Abinoque. It didn’t matter whether Bai Xiaonian repaid this kindness or not, but if she wanted to be friends with Lin Nuan and Song Yao for life, she had to return the money to them.
Knowing Bai Xiaonian was an especially close friend of Lin Nuan’s, the door guards asked soone to drive Bai Xiaonian to the entrance of the house in a battery-operated cart.
When Little Lu heard that Bai Xiaonian had co, he went to the mahjong room. Although he lowered his voice and spoke by Fu Huai’an’s ear, informing him of Bai Xiaonian’s arrival, everyone at the mahjong table could hear him clearly.
Tang Zheng and Bai Jinyu both gazed in Lu Jinnan’s direction, and even Gu Qingcheng did the sa.
Sitting calmly on the sofa, Fu Huai’an raised a hand and nodded, holding his phone. “Got it!”
Fu Huai’an put his phone away and said to the people at the mahjong table, “I’ll go and inform Xiao Nuan…”
Fu Huai’an spoke like he usually did. Everyone looked at Lu Jinnan. It was Lu Jinnan’s turn. He held an “8 Characters” tile in his hand and grazed it with his fingers, gaze fixated on his tiles as if he didn’t hear a thing. He casually discarded the “8 Characters” tile he was holding, then drew another tile. It was another “8 Characters” tile.
One round had passed, but Lu Jinnan still said nothing.
No one really knew what Lu Jinnan was thinking, but it had been a while since he took a puff of his cigarette, and he looked a little dazed.
“She’s already back. You’re not going over to take a look?” Bai Jinyu asked as he ford a lded sequence with the “6 Characters” tile Lu Jinnan discarded.
Lu Jinnan’s brows knitted. He tapped away so cigarette ash but still looked calm enough. “Later…”
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