Chapter 2142: Chapter 2142: Heartache
Several cars gradually pulled up in front of the hotel where the dinner was being held. A group of people walked into the private room to prepare for the meal.
"Auntie, please sit here." Cao Yong pulled out a chair for the elder.
"You don’t have to be so polite." Sun Rongfang waved her hand as she sat down, inviting him to sit together.
The waiter brought the menu as needed.
Cao Yong took the menu and handed it to the elder with both hands: "Auntie, see if there’s anything you’d like to eat?"
"I’ll leave it up to you." Sun Rongfang did not take the menu from his hand, remembering the teacher sitting at the table, she asked Teacher Tao across from her, "Teacher Tao, what do you like to eat? This meal is on me for the teachers."
Catching this suddenly, Tao Zhijie was somewhat taken aback, smiled warmly: Sister’s mother really knows how to be considerate.
He Guangyou and the others helped block him, saying, "Auntie, you don’t need to feel obligated. Let Cao Yong treat you to dinner."
Why let this handsome young man treat her to dinner? Sun Rongfang felt it would be unfair to let her daughter’s friend, a landlord, say, "We can’t let him bear the expense alone." Inviting so many people is costly.
The others who heard this deeply felt that Student Xie’s mother was concerned about Cao Yong spending too much money.
Everyone smiled at Cao Yong sitting at the end of the table.
Cao Yong seemed to be deeply engrossed in studying the menu, and the Hepatobiliary Surgery group could clearly sense that his lowered face was a bit contrived in composure. Afterwards, Cao Yong talked to the called-in waiter and carefully inquired which ingredients were freshest in the kitchen today, wanting his aunt to enjoy something fresh.
Tao Zhijie started to say to Sun Rongfang, "Auntie, let me and Cao Yong treat you to this meal. Yingying is our ’junior sister’; we are not strangers to each other." Finishing, he made it definite that Sun Rongfang could not insist on paying, reiterating the rules: "Our rule here is only seniors treat juniors, not the other way around. You are the parent of our junior sister; we can treat you, but if you treat us, it’s considered bribery, against the rules."
In those days, Cao Yong’s excuse was really good, now becoming standard practice.
Here, the teachers maintain propriety, indicating resistance to student’s parents’ bribery. Sun Rongfang could only keep her mouth shut from trying to insist on treating again, silently appreciating: the atmosphere in a proper place is indeed different.
At the entrance, the late-arriving Wu Lixuan and Yin Fengchun came in with a shopping bag. It turned out that they had indeed seen a children’s clothing store along the way, stopped to buy a down jacket for the little one.
"Xie Youtian, come over. This is a coat your brother Yin bought for you. Try it on to see if the size fits and if you like the color and pattern. If you don’t like it, we’ll go back to the store for an exchange." As she spoke, Wu Lixuan swiftly took out the clothes from the bag, fluffed up the sky-blue jacket adorned with snowflakes and little toy cars, smiling as she showed it to little Youtian.
The down jacket in Sister Wu’s hands was very stylish. Little Youtian’s eyes fluttered as if they were flying along with the cars on the children’s clothing.
"Come back." Sun Rongfang reached out her hand and pulled her son back, whispering to her daughter, "Li Xuan, you cannot let him buy things."
Her own son is not her daughter’s real brother; there’s no reason for her daughter’s boyfriend to pay for her son’s clothes. When people hear this news, the daughter might get criticized behind her back.
