When Lang Feng approached Zhou Qichen, he could still smell the alcohol on him. However, since Lanting was still there, he didn't say anything. After Lanting drove away, Lang Feng turned around and walked into the unit door. It was Zhou Qichen who followed him.
He could feel the low pressure around Lang Feng. He had never seen Lang Feng so angry since the first day they were together.
So, he was the first to speak: "How come you're here so soon? Weren't you flying yesterday? Where were you planning to go when you came downstairs just now?"
"I..." Lang Feng almost forgot his purpose of going downstairs when he was asked this question. He hadn't been so angry for many years. "I walked in and saw your suitcase, but you were not there. I wanted to go to the company and wait for you. There was almost no news from you in the past three days, and I didn't know where to look for you. What happened?"
Zhou Qichen expected him to ask this, but he didn't expect him to ask it just two steps into the door. He didn't even have time to think about how to explain it.
"Please sit down first. I'll pour you some water."
"No, I've been on the plane for several hours."
"Then... do you want to eat something?" Zhou Qichen asked him tentatively again.
Lang Feng simply didn't answer this time: "Where on earth did you go? Can't you tell me?"
Zhou Qichen sighed and said, "There's nothing I can't tell you. I... went back to Shenyang. Something happened to my dad."
Lang Feng thought of what Lang Yi had said to him before, and tried to calm himself down: "You should at least call me and send me a few more messages. It's really worrying that you don't say a word and cut off contact with the outside world."
"I'm sorry. I really don't know how to tell you this."
Lang Feng looked at him for a while, then suddenly asked, "Are your ears better?"
"Well, it's almost healed."
"What happened specifically? Can you tell me now?" Although he was angry, he was still meticulous when asking questions, and his tone was not harsh. Zhou Qichen suddenly thought that when Lang Renning was angry with Lang Feng or Lang Yi, he would probably look like this, with his white shirt sleeves rolled up and his glasses placed on the table, slowly analyzing what was wrong with their behavior. Regardless of his position, Lang Feng would not bring his position into his emotions, would not speak harshly to him or treat him coldly, which was also Lang Feng's strength.
"On the morning you left, I suddenly received a call from my aunt, saying that my father had a heart attack and had emergency surgery. She asked me where I was and if I could go back. On the surface, she was concerned about me, but in reality, I guess she was asking me for money. The surgery fee plus the ICU hospitalization fee was over 200,000 yuan, and someone had to pay for it first. No one in my family could afford it. I hesitated for a moment, but decided to go."
After listening to him, Lang Feng was speechless for a while.
Zhou Qichen smiled bitterly and said, "I knew it."
"I haven't said anything yet."
"You don't have to say it, your words are written all over your face. You don't agree, and you think how can you still be a jerk at such a grown-up level? You haven't seen things clearly in three years, right?"
It was the first time that Lang Feng heard such words from him. For a moment, he didn't care about his anger. He pressed his index finger on Zhou Qichen's lips and said, "Don't say that." He knew that Zhou Qichen had a strong resistance to family and everything that came with it. Before, he thought he was only resisting this topic, but he realized for the first time that he was resisting himself.