Tang Zhi accompanied Xu Sheng out for work for the first time and waited for more than two hours in the parking area outside the golf course.
The course is not far from the manor, at the foot of the hill, and the parking area is empty and shady.
Xu Sheng's driver was a quiet and capable middle-aged man. He lowered the window halfway, leaned back on the chair, and sat silently. He had no intention of talking to Tang Zhi at first, so Tang Zhi He didn't speak either.
When Tang Zhi and Xu Keyu went out, another driver would always pick them up. But now, the life and death of the driver and Xu Keyu are uncertain.
The car turned off, and Tang Zhi turned his face out of the car window, looking at the lime-gray walls and pillars of the parking area, and heard the sound of the wind blowing the leaves not far away.
The gentle cool breeze passed through the workshop, and Tang Zhi smelled the moist breath of spring fields. He felt very calm, almost thinking nothing, just waiting.
When Tang Zhi saw a flock of birds flying in the clear blue sky outside the parking area, he heard the driver say to him: "Mr. Tang, thank you for last night."
Tang Zhi turned to look at him. The driver gave Tang Zhi a friendly and honest smile: "Excuse me."
"It's okay." Tang Zhi also smiled at him.
The two were silent for a while, and the driver called Tang Zhi again and asked him, "How were you last night, young master?"
Tang Zhi thought for a moment and then said, "It's okay, I fell asleep soon."
"I called the housekeeper several times before I came back last night, but I couldn't get through to him," the driver said in a low voice.
In the shadow cast by the roof of the car, the driver frowned and looked at Tang Zhi worriedly.
Tang Zhi looked at him for a few seconds and told him: "He fell down yesterday and is not in good condition. He went to the hospital."
The driver's brows furrowed even more tightly. After a while, he said, "What about the young master's family?"
Tang Zhi didn't know how to answer him, so he remained silent.
The wind was still blowing through the car, and the semi-open parking area was like a fish tank. The driver's worries were transmitted to Tang Zhi through the flow of water, and the whole tank of water became depressed.
Tang Zhi wanted to smoke, but he had no smoke or fire, so he couldn't help but sigh.
The two were silent for a while. Tang Zhi turned his head, looked at the silent driver, and asked him: "Brother, how long have you been following Mr. Xu?"
The driver glanced at him and said, "Seventeen or eighteen years ago." He said, "The third lady just brought the young master back to Bingang, so I drove for her."
"At that time," the driver suddenly seemed to remember something and grinned, "the young master was still in elementary school and had a very bad temper."
Tang Zhi paused, thinking slowly in his mind, thinking that Xu Sheng's temper seemed not to be good now.
"Mr. Tang," the driver called him. When Tang Zhi raised his eyes to look at him, he asked hesitantly, "Are you still here?"
Tang Zhi thought for a while and then said, "I don't know."
"It depends on Mr. Xu's arrangement." Tang Zhi added.
The driver said "Oh" and said, "I thought, if the housekeeper can't go back for the time being, if you and Alan are at home, the young master can take care of you personally."
He spoke as if Xu Sheng was a child who was indifferent to the four limbs and five grains, rather than an adult man who was several years older than Tang Zhi. Although in the final analysis, Xu Sheng does have no ability to take care of himself.
"But this morning, I called Alan to ask if the young master had gotten up, but she didn't answer the call." The driver said again in confusion.
Tang Zhi only had time to tell the driver, "She seems to have something to go back to her hometown." Before he could say anything else, three golf carts turned the corner and drove into the parking area.
Sitting in the car at the front were Xu Sheng and Xu Hefu.
"Get out of the car quickly." The driver closed the window, opened the door, walked out, walked around to the right back seat, and opened the door.
Tang Zhi also got out of the car and stood beside the car.
The golf cart stopped next to the car, and Xu Sheng helped Xu Hefu down.
Xu Hefu is in his eighties, but he is well-maintained, has a strong body, a loud voice, and looks energetic. If you look at his appearance alone, he looks more like he is in his sixties than Xu Sheng's mother in a wheelchair.
Xu Sheng stood beside him, his back straight, making him look taller.
The relationship between Xu Hefu and Xu Sheng seems indescribable. Because Xu Sheng was not like other people who showed a more or less flattering side to Xu Hefu, but he was not arrogant either.
With a great reputation and a long list of titles in the Xu family, it is said that the person most favored by Xu Hefu should be Xu Jin.
But the way Xu Hefu and the people around him looked at Xu Sheng made Tang Zhi feel that Xu Sheng was more like Xu Hefu's default successor.
The people on the golf cart got off the back. Xu Hefu didn't look back, so they stood silently.
When Xu Hefu saw Tang Zhi, he raised his eyebrows slightly, as if he didn't recognize Tang Zhi, and turned to Xu Sheng and asked, "New assistant?"
Xu Sheng seemed to be stunned, and then said: "Grandpa, this is Tang Zhi,"
Tang Zhi didn't dare to look at Xu Hefu's face, so he stared at his lowered hands.
The skin color of his hands is slightly lighter than that of Xu Sheng, and the wrinkles of the skin are very deep. There are deep and light age spots on the tiger's mouth and the back of the hands. The white coat of his golf shirt covers his wrists, and he has an emerald ring on his thumb.
Tang Zhi observed the lines on the wrench finger and heard Xu Hefu's voice coming from a position parallel to and slightly below him.
"Oh," Xu Hefu said slowly, "but..."
"How did you bring him out?" He asked Xu Sheng, "You don't like the ones your uncle found for you?"
Xu Sheng didn't answer immediately, so Xu Hefu said: "Forget it, it's up to you to decide on your own assistant."
"But..." Tang Zhi felt that Xu Hefu was looking at him, and his heart began to tighten. He didn't know if he should raise his head and look at him.
Suddenly, Xu Hefu burst out laughing, patted Xu Sheng on the shoulder, and said, "After all, you are the most like me."
Tang Zhi felt that Xu Hefu had misunderstood something, as if he thought Xu Sheng had some special purpose for asking him to be his assistant.
But Xu Sheng didn't deny it and gave a vague "hmm".
"Then let's do this." Xu Hefu retracted his hand, stopped smiling, and whispered a few business matters to Xu Sheng, then turned to look at someone behind him.
The man immediately waved to Xu Hefu's driver, who drove the car next to Xu Hefu.
After Xu Hefu's car left, Xu Sheng ignored Tang Zhi and got into the car by himself.
The driver closed the door for him and looked up at Tang Zhi, who quickly opened the door and took his seat.
The car drove for a while, and Xu Sheng was very quiet. Tang Zhi once guessed that he was asleep, but thinking about the strange conversation between Xu Hefu and Xu Sheng just now, he felt uneasy, so he stared at the rearview mirror and shook his position to the left. He swung to the right to find an angle, trying to see if Xu Sheng was awake.
Before I could find Xu Sheng's face in the mirror, I heard Xu Sheng's voice: "What are you doing."
Tang Zhi couldn't move.
"Go to the hospital." Xu Sheng said again.
Upon hearing this, the driver turned on the turn signal and changed lanes.
Tang Zhi wanted to ask a question, but he didn't know how to ask. After a while, Xu Sheng called Tang Zhi's name.
"Mr. Xu." Tang Zhi immediately turned back to look at Xu Sheng.
Xu Sheng was leaning on the back of the chair, with his chin raised slightly. He lowered his eyes and saw Tang Zhi turning back, his hand still holding on to the back of the chair, and frowned: "Turn back."
He looked a little displeased, probably feeling that Tang Zhi's movements were too aggressive and inelegant, but compared to when he was standing next to Xu Hefu, he seemed to be a little more popular.
"Oh." Tang Zhi turned back.
"You..." Xu Sheng paused briefly for two seconds and continued, "Did you hear what Director Xu said just now?"
Tang Zhi said hesitantly, "I heard it."
"Follow me for now," Xu Sheng said, "until Jiang Yan is discharged from the hospital."
"You don't have to do anything, just follow."