Chapter Seventy-One Cough

  Too tired, spent three hours and only got this much done, will upload first and make up for it later!

  Xiao Yu smiled faintly and didn't say a word. In his opinion, it was unnecessary to argue with the other party about this. Moreover, these were Yun Xi's classmates, as for their relationship being good or bad, Xiao Yu believed that Yun Xi could distinguish clearly herself, there was no need for him to worry.

  Wu Yali saw Xiao Yu smile and not say anything, also feeling bored. After all, Xiao Yu was accompanying his girlfriend Yun Xi, and they couldn't be too excessive. Thinking of this, she didn't bother with Xiao Yu anymore, turned her head to face Luo Jiao with a flattering expression, and laughed.

  Looking at the classmates in front of her with a smile, Luo Jiao now feels like a queen, overlooking her subjects. Suddenly, Luo Jiao saw Yun Xi not far away, looking at herself calmly. Yun Xi was standing there calmly, but to Luo Jiao, she seemed like a rebellious challenger to her royal dignity.

  "Yunxi, soon your Health Bureau's Director Chu will also come to attend the wedding banquet. Won't you go and toast a cup of wine to fawn on the leader? This is a rare opportunity! If your director knows that you are my classmate, he might show some favoritism towards you." Luo Jiao said with a clever smile, but her words were filled with arrogance.

  Luojiao was indeed born into an official family and had been exposed to intrigue and cunning from a young age.

  Actually, what Luo Jiao just said to Yun Xi can be interpreted in two ways. If Yun Xi goes to toast, she will be looked down upon by these classmates. Aren't you supposed to be noble? It turns out that it was all pretence! Why didn't you pretend to be noble when facing the leader?

  Another thing, if Yunxi doesn't go to toast, it's looking down on the leader. If it reaches the leader's ears, those with a big temper will be fine, but those with a small temper will probably make you wear small shoes every day. Even if the leader doesn't know that Yunxi is here, Luo Jiao will still create opportunities to mention it unintentionally.

  "I'm not going, I don't know him!" Yun Xi didn't expect that such a simple sentence would have so many twists and turns, so she directly said to Luo Jiao.

  "Jiaojiao, Qingzhi hurry up, we need to go to the main table for a toast!" A person suddenly pushed open the door of the private room and hastily said to Wu Qingzhi and Luo Jiao.

  "Alright, uncle!" Luo Jiao heard the person's words and turned her head to say. After finishing, she turned her head again to face the classmates in the room: "Classmates, you eat and drink well, wait for me to finish toasting with the leader and we'll come over later!"

  Luō Jiāo said with a proud expression when she mentioned going to toast her leader.

  After Luo Jiao left, Yun Xi's classmates returned to their seats, sitting in small groups of three or five, discussing how many city leaders would attend Luo Jiao's wedding, what positions these city leaders held, who was close with whom, and which one was more impressive, as well as some gossip.

  Xiao Ye sat alone drinking tea, while Yun Xi remained seated beside a group of female classmates listening to their stories about school days.

  Xiao Yu's phone suddenly rang with a pleasant ringtone, Xiao Yu took out the phone and saw that it was Li Chuan, Wan Hongguang's secretary. He thought to himself, "I hope nothing has happened in the hospital!" So he quickly answered the call: "Hello, Brother Li, what's wrong? Has something happened?"

  Through these dozen or so days of contact, under Li Chuan's deliberate friendliness, Xiao Ye and Li Chuan also became sworn brothers.

  "Little brother, didn't I tell you the other day? My mother's cough? Now I've brought my mom to Gucheng, where are you? I..." Suddenly a severe coughing sound came from the other end of the phone, interrupting Li Chuan's words.

  After a while, the coughing sound on the other end of the phone subsided, and Li Chuan said again: "Younger brother, where are you now?"

  "I'm at the Ancient City Hotel!" Xiao Yu heard that his mother was showing him this cough, and only then did he remember what Li Chuan said. His mother had been coughing for half her life, and when she was young, it wasn't so bad. Now that she's older, this bout of coughing could leave the old lady short of breath, gasping for air.

  A few days ago, Li Chuan deliberately made friends with Xiao Yu, and mentioned his mother's cough. He asked Xiao Yu to help take a look, so Xiao Yu told him to bring his mother to the ancient city for convenient treatment.

  "I'm also at the Ancient City Hotel, I'm in the first floor lounge!" Li Chuan heard Xiao Yu was at the Ancient City Hotel and let out a long sigh of relief. He had already been running around for his mother all morning, but if Xiao Yu wasn't there, he could have endured it. However, his mother was old and had a cough, which made her short of breath whenever she coughed, and she couldn't withstand any more running around.

  "Okay, Brother Li, wait for me downstairs, I'll be right there. I'm attending a wedding, just wait for me in the hall!"

  Xiao Yu heard Li Chuan say that he was in the first floor hall, so he got up and said a word to Yun Xi. Yun Xi heard Xiao Yu wanted to leave, stunned for a moment, thinking Xiao Yu didn't want to stay here after hearing his classmates' sarcasm.

  However, when Yun Xi heard that Xiao Yu was going to help someone see a doctor, her eyes lit up. Yun Xi had always wanted to be a doctor since she was young, but fate played tricks on her, and Yun Xi's personality wasn't suitable for being a doctor. Under helpless circumstances, she could only work hard to take the civil service exam, get into the Health Bureau, and count it as taking one step closer to being a doctor.

  So when Xiao Ye walked out of the banquet hall, Yun Xi told her classmates and followed him, but she promised to come back in a while.

  In the lobby of the ancient city hotel, a man in his 30s with glasses sat on the sofa, constantly patting the back of a 60-year-old elderly woman to help her catch her breath.

  "Sorry to keep you waiting, Li!" Xiao Yu walked out from the depths of the first floor.

  "I just arrived, but I'm disturbing you while you're eating." Li Chuan spoke very politely, without putting on any airs. Putting on airs wouldn't work with Xiao Ye anyway - hadn't he seen that even his own boss didn't dare to put on airs in front of Xiao Ye?

  "Auntie, hello! Please stretch out your hand and I'll help you take your pulse," said Xiao Yu as he walked to the old lady's side and took a look at her complexion.

  Cough... Cough... Cough...

  Xiao Yu was just about to take her pulse when the old lady suddenly burst into a violent fit of coughing that lasted for at least five minutes before slowly subsiding. Once the old lady had stopped coughing, Xiao Yu grasped her wrist and said after a moment, "You're from Northeast China, aren't you?"

  "Hey, how did you know?! I'm from Northeast China, I've been living here for almost twenty years, and my accent has become similar to the locals. How could you tell that I'm a Northeasterner?" The old lady was taken aback when Xiao Yu said he was from Northeast China, and her face was filled with surprise.

  "Director Li?" At this time, a middle-aged man in his 40s walked out of the great hall where Xiao Ye had just left, and looked at Li Chuan sitting on the sofa with a puzzled expression.

  Li Chuan heard the voice and looked up to see the person coming. He knew who it was, it was Luo Bingyang, the deputy secretary-general of the municipal government.

  Seeing the man walking over, Li Chuan quickly stood up and said: "Hello Secretary Luo!"