Your Distance

Chapter 38: The distance to the crematorium

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Area C, there are still five minutes before the report starts.

Sitting next to Zhu Ao, Ting Shuang felt for the first time that Zhu Ao exuded a smell of doubting the vicissitudes of life from the inside out.

I haven't seen each other for just a few minutes, how come such a big change...

"Dad..." Ting Shuang turned her head slightly to Zhu Ao's side and said in a low voice, "Is something wrong with the company?"

"What can happen to the company?" Zhu Ao casually flipped through the magazine of the conference, as if he didn't want to pay attention to Ting Shuang.

"Oh..." Ting Shuang thought about it and said, "Dad, I'm going back to school by train at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, why don't we talk for a while after lunch?"

The consensus has not yet been reached, but we can't just leave.

Zhu Ao said without raising his head, "I haven't seen one more phone call at home for a year. Now that I'm leaving, I think I want to talk? What's there to talk about?"

Ting Shuang was only taught by Professor Bai yesterday to communicate well and aim to solve problems, so her attitude at this time is much better than before: "Dad, I used to be ignorant, let's have a good talk today and solve the problem together. Didn't the professor come, so he didn't continue talking, we were talking before—" "Okay." Zhu Ao waved his hand, and his voice was full of impatience, "I don't want to listen."

The last thing Zhu Ao wants to discuss now is his son's orientation; the last four words he doesn't want to hear are "solve the problem".

Solve the problem…

After fifty years of living, Zhu Ao realized for the first time that he might have a psychological problem.

After working on it for a long time, my son has nothing to solve, and it is Lao Tzu who should solve it.

After returning to China, those psychiatrists, whether to contact or not to contact...

Zhu Ao's eyes fell on the magazine, but he couldn't read it at all.

What else could Ting Shuang say? Zhu Ao pressed his throat and said irritably, "Ting Shuang, can you rest for a while? Your business... I'll think about it again."

Thinking about it again, this is the closest thing Ting Shuang has heard from Zhu Ao.

Take it when it's good, he told himself, take it when it's good, take your time, and be steady.

It seems that Boss Bai is quite right, communicate well, ask people why, and ask people what they think...

Maybe people are willing to think about it again

Boss Bai is really wise and martial, long live.

At ten o'clock, Bai Changyi's report officially began.

Although the number of people at the scene far exceeded the usual number of people in class, and the people in the audience and outside were not students, Ting Shuang still felt Bai Changyi's control over the audience.

The content, vision, pattern, and bearing are the same.

Thought-provoking, thought-provoking.

Time passed unexpectedly, and before you knew it, the report came to an end.

Ting Shuang subconsciously felt a sense of fear: the suffocating moment has come, the class is over, Prof. Bai wants me to answer questions again...

Oh no.

This time, Boss Bai made the report, and it should be the question from the person who listened to the report below...

Ting Shuang's sense of fear continued unabated: the suffocating moment has come, and Prof. Bai has called me up again to ask meaningful questions...

Ting Shuang lowered his head, lest he would meet Bai Changyi's eyes, and only raised his head when the other people's questions sounded. Only then did he realize that there was a false alarm ahead, and there were too many people to ask questions and communicate, and it was not his turn at all.

He listened carefully to Bai Changyi's interaction with the audience for a while, and suddenly felt the phone vibrate in his pocket.

When I took it out, the caller's name was displayed on the screen: Liang Zhengxuan's mother.

The phone vibrated non-stop, and the movement was not small.

Zhu Ao glanced at him, saw the words on the screen, and whispered: "Either hang up, or go out to pick up."

After hesitating for two seconds, Ting Shuang left Area C with a bowed body and ran out of the exhibition hall to answer the call.

Before he broke up with Liang Zhengxuan, Liang Zhengxuan's parents had no contact with him. They accepted the fact that their son was gay very early on, but they didn't like Ting Shuang. They felt that he couldn't do any housework, and he always had to rely on Liang Zhengxuan to take care of him, not someone who could marry and go home. Ting Shuang knew that she was not popular, so she didn't take the initiative to annoy others, and only sent text messages to greet her during the holidays.

This call should be the first time Liang Zhengxuan's mother called him since he went abroad.

If it wasn't for an emergency, the other party would definitely not have made such a trans-ocean call after he broke up with Liang Zhengxuan.

And there was more than one phone call. It took Ting Shuang a few minutes to come out of Area C. Seeing that he didn't answer, he kept making repeated calls.

Finally, Ting Shuang left the exhibition hall and answered the phone.

"Aunt."

"Ting Shuang, you finally answered the phone-" The voice on the other side sounded anxious, "It's been announced that there is a car accident, you go to the hospital to see him."

"Auntie, please speak slowly." Ting Shuang's attitude was calm, "Which hospital is he in? Do you know the specific situation?"

"He was hit by a car when he was riding to school in the morning. Now he is awake, but he can't move. I'm afraid something will happen to him in the hospital... He doesn't even have anyone to take care of, and no one gives him Register, no one pays him money, what can he do alone..." Mother Liang urged, "you go to the hospital, which is the affiliated hospital of your university. He just made a phone call, and the nurse helped him to make a call. Don't answer our calls after that. When you arrive at the hospital, call me back and tell me about Zheng Xuan's situation."

If you can still talk on the phone, that means you are conscious, and the situation should not be serious.

"Auntie, I'm in Hannover now, and it will take four hours to get to the hospital if I leave immediately." Ting Shuang comforted Mother Liang, "but don't worry, the hospital does not need to register and pay, we have purchased medical insurance, and the bill will be paid by The hospital will send it directly to the insurance company, so there will be no delay in treatment.”

Mother Liang listened, and told Ting Shuang that she must see Zheng Xuan and auntie who didn't know anyone else, so she could only trouble you and hang up the phone.

While walking towards the exit of the Convention and Exhibition Center Park, Ting Shuang called Zhu Ao and briefly explained the matter. Please ask Zhu Ao to ask the driver to take the car out of the parking lot, pick him up at the entrance of the park, and take him to the train station. .

Zhu Ao didn't look down on Liang Zhengxuan at first, so he said, "Liang Zhengxuan doesn't have a friend himself? You have to go? What is your relationship with him now?"

Ting Shuang said helplessly: "Damn has called me, can I not take a look? If I don't go, he will definitely keep calling me. And this matter, even if it's not Liang Zhengxuan, It's my average classmate, and I will also go to the hospital. Anyway, I have to leave in the afternoon, and I will go home half a day early in a few hours."

The car drove from the Convention and Exhibition Center to the Central Railway Station. When it arrived at the city center, Tingshuang saw the spire of the new city hall, several different museums, the bell tower of the market church one after another through the car window...

Yesterday, Bai Changyi told him that when they took him to the train station this afternoon, they could stroll around the old town together.

Kind of a pity.

After getting out of the car, he walked to the train station and sent a message to Bai Changyi: Boss Bai, are you finished

Soon Bai Changyi called and said, "It's just over. Where are you?"

"I'm at the train station." Ting Shuang's voice paused.

How can I tell Boss Bai the reason for going back early...

If he said he was rushing to the hospital to see his ex-boyfriend, would Boss Bai be angry...

In fact, any classmate whose mother asked him to see a classmate who was admitted to the hospital because of a car accident would go there, not because it was Liang Zhengxuan...

Liang Zhengxuan is just an ordinary classmate...

"The train station?" Bai Changyi said, "Isn't the train at 5:36 in the afternoon?"

"I have to go back early..." Ting Shuang hesitated for a second and decided that it is better to do more than one less thing. "One of my classmates was in a car accident and was admitted to the hospital. His mother was worried in China and called me to go to the hospital to take a look."

Bai Changyi said, "Well, tell me when you arrive. Pay attention to safety on the road."

"Okay..." Ting Shuang said, "my suitcase is still in the room, you can take it for me, I won't go back to the hotel."

Bai Changyi said, "Okay."

Ting Shuang turned to the other end of the phone: "Mua." Bai Changyi smiled softly and said, "Received."

After hanging up the phone, Bai Changyi was going to have lunch with representatives of the two cooperative enterprises.

Zhu Ao just came out of the exhibition hall. Bai Changyi didn't know if Ting Shuang had informed Zhu Ao of the meeting schedule, so he mentioned: "Ting Shuang went back ahead of schedule."

Zhu Ao nodded and sighed, and said, "I know, I just asked the driver to take him to the train station. This kid, I don't cherish such a good learning opportunity. I don't want to stay here to watch the exhibition. I have to go to the hospital to see something. Ex-sigh, I'm too lazy to care about him. Even after breaking up, I still worry about it."