Rebirth on the Doors to the Civil Affairs Bureau

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“Don’t go to work tonight, just take a day off.” Xia Feng said as he drove.
“Un!” Yu Dong also felt that she wasn’t in good enough shape to do her work well.

Ring, ring!

Xia Feng heard his phone ringing. He took it out of his pocket and with a glance, immediately handed it to Yu Dong.

Yu Dong looked at the phone screen and saw that it was mother Xu calling. “I’ll put it against your ear?”

“No need, you can just answer it directly.”

“But auntie called you.” Yu Dong wondered.

“Every time mom calls she ends up mentioning you at least 8 times anyway.” Xia Feng replied with a laugh.

Yu Dong was stunned for a moment, but answered the call in the end: “Mom, this is Yu Dong.”

Mom, Xia Feng smiled at that.

“Oh, Dong Dong are you with Xia Feng?” Mother Xi’s cheerful voice can be heard on the phone.

“Xia Feng is driving right now, so he couldn’t answer the phone.” Yu Dong explained.

“Oh, that’s no problem.” Mother Xia thought for a moment then suddenly asked: “Dong Dong, do you have a cold? Your voice is a little weird.”

“Ah, yes I had a little cold, but I’m almost all healed.”

Xia Feng listened with a little furrow between his eyebrows, but he didn’t say anything.

“What happened? Really, that son of mine didn’t take good care of you at all. Put the phone on speaker, I’ll talk to him.” Mother Xiu suddenly became angry.

“Mom, it wasn’t Xia Feng’s fault. I just wasn’t paying attention to the weather and wore fewer clothes sometime before.”

“No that’s on him too. He’s older and a doctor why didn’t he say anything?”

“Mom, it really wasn’t his fault, he was in Kunshan on a business trip when I got the cold…”

“What you were sick, and he still went on a business trip? You give him the phone…” Mother Xia got even angrier.

Xia Feng couldn’t hear what his mother was saying, but he could guess from what Yu Dong was telling her. Seeing Yu Dong anxiously defend him, he thought the situation was funny, a warm feeling welling up.

“Put the phone on my ear.” Xia Feng saw Yu Dong’s difficulty and finally asked her this.

“Un.” Yu Dong obediently did so.

“Mom.” Mother Xia was still ranting about his lack of care towards Yu Dong when Xia Feng said this.

“Son?” Mother Xia noticed the change in voice.

“It’s me.”

“How can Yu Dong get sick while she’s in your care? Were you just learning a bunch of nonsense in medical school?”

“What nonsense, a doctor is taught on how to treat people, I can’t just make someone not get sick, you’re being unreasonable!” Father Xia’s arguments could also be heard through the phone.

“You shut up!” Mother Xia yelled.

Xia Feng listened to his parent’s banter and couldn’t help but laugh hard.

“Yes, it was my bad. I didn’t take good care of Yu Dong properly.” He tilted his head and glanced at Yu Dong in the peripheral of his view. Her face was red in embarrassment.