Chapter 2224: Chapter 2224: Reunion with Old Friends
Aunt Min walked in, calling out to her old friend.
"Comrade Xiao Min." Sun Rongfang leapt up from her chair and rushed over, embracing the old friend entering through the door.
The two women, who hadn’t seen each other for years and were nearing old age, looked into each other’s eyes, tearful, tears streaming down.
"I thought I wouldn’t see you again before I died," Aunt Min said emotionally, crying.
"I heard from my daughter that you were seriously ill and near death. That night, I couldn’t sleep, thinking about getting a train ticket the next day to come see you," Sun Rongfang cried as she spoke.
"Your daughter is good, just like you. You saved me back then. Many years later, your daughter became a doctor and saved my life again. You both are my lifesavers." Aunt Min held Sun Rongfang’s hand tightly, "Xie Xie, I’m very, very grateful to you two, mother and daughter."
"Why thank? She’s a doctor, saving lives is her duty," Sun Rongfang replied.
"Look at you, as a mother, aren’t you proud of your daughter?" Aunt Min criticized her old friend for being too hard on her child.
"Proud, yes, but I can’t let her be complacent. The path of medicine is a tough one." Sun Rongfang, who had tried this path herself, knew this well and didn’t want her daughter to become arrogant.
"Have you lost weight?" Aunt Min assessed her old friend.
"I’m much fatter than I was decades ago." Sun Rongfang laughed heartily through her tears, "I’m fifty years old, getting old."
"Your daughter looks like you, her eyes are beautiful," Aunt Min remarked.
"She doesn’t look like me, only her eyes do. Her appearance is more like her father’s aunt in the Xie Family, her grandfather’s sister."
"Was her grandfather’s sister a movie star?"
"You’re half right, her aunt went abroad and participated in beauty contests there. Later, somehow, she completely lost touch with relatives in China." As she spoke, Sun Rongfang led her old friend to a seat.
Meanwhile, another person had arrived early, listening to their conversation about Xie Wanying, saying, "Unexpected."
Everyone turned towards the source of the voice at the door, seeing a well-dressed and cultured elderly woman.
"My surname is Zhuang."
As soon as the elderly woman began speaking, Sun Rongfang realized and called, "Hello, Teacher Zhuang!"
Xiao Shugang and Shang Siling got up to move a chair for Teacher Zhuang.
All the guests were present, serving tea to entertain.
Everyone gathered here was due to Xie Wanying. They all spontaneously sought Teacher Zhuang to learn about Xie Wanying’s situation at school. Sun Rongfang confessed, "I’ve only met her homeroom teacher twice. Every time her teacher came to my house, she would say that she wasn’t doing well enough."
"You’re talking about Teacher Liu Hui?" Teacher Zhuang shook her head and sighed, telling the student’s parents, "Liu Hui didn’t like her. You needn’t take it to heart. Teachers always have favorable feelings toward some students and not toward others. But Liu Hui is a young teacher, prone to youthful impulses, unable to hide, exposing her sentiments to students."
"Do teachers also show favoritism?" Aunt Min laughed, asking the gathered teachers candidly.
Teacher Zhuang was retired and spoke frankly, "Who wouldn’t show favoritism? People’s preferences are always biased, like someone preferring red, another green, and someone else blue. Teachers, students, and parents need mutual understanding. Of course, being a teacher is like being a doctor; feelings might be biased, but work must be conducted impartially. Liu Hui failed due to youth, insufficient experience, and lack of skill."
