Medical Sage

”Mom, what’s going on?” Chen Fei pointed his lips towards the door and asked.

”Oh, don’t bring it up, mentioning this just gives me a headache again,” Lin Ling said helplessly, rubbing her forehead.

”Auntie, should I go out and tell her to leave?” Pei Wanning asked cautiously from the side.

”No need...” Lin Ling shook her head helplessly and said, ”This is an old classmate from my early years, we were quite close back then, but unfortunately later, sigh...”

Seeing Lin Ling’s helpless look, Chen Fei naturally understood that his mother’s relationship with this old classmate probably wasn’t great.

”What, could she be envious and jealous of you, Mom?” Chen Fei couldn’t help but ask.

This scene, why does it feel so familiar?

Chen Fei was a bit puzzled, but he couldn’t help it. He waited for his mom to continue.

”What nonsense are you talking about?” Lin Ling couldn’t help but give Chen Fei a side-eye, ”Her name is Chen Bing, she was in high school with me, but her family’s conditions weren’t great, she came from the countryside, so she’s always been a bit insecure… Just at that time, I was the top student in the class, so she was even more of that towards me…”

”Later, I went to the Capital City to study and lost contact with her, but who would have thought she’d buy a house upstairs in our building recently, so we ran into each other again. Originally, you know, old classmates not seen for twenty or thirty years, I was quite happy, but who knew, she was still the same as twenty or thirty years ago, maybe even more so now...”

As she spoke, Lin Ling couldn’t help but sigh. After all, she was still an old classmate; who would have expected things to turn out like this, who would feel comfortable?

”I knew it...” Chen Fei couldn’t help but mutter.

Back in the day, he also ran into this kind of thing quite a bit.

Many classmates from student days, even if there were some small conflicts, were still tolerable, but after graduation, meeting again, they seemed overwhelmed by that stench of copper, the atmosphere of the marketplace! Leaving one feeling a bit helpless.

In one’s life, the easiest relationships to navigate, besides those with family, are probably childhood friendships with classmates! But now, with this kind of classmate... better not to bump into them.

”Little Lin, Little Lin are you there? Don’t pretend you can’t hear, I know you’re definitely inside... What, how can you not show face when my old classmate’s daughter is getting married? This is too much, Little Lin, open the door and come to celebrate with us, Sister Chen will take you to see what Four Star Level high-class places are like.”

Outside the door, Chen Fei’s mom’s old classmate Chen Bing started shouting again.

The door was being pounded, thud thud thud. It was under considerable strain.

Chen Fei couldn’t help but cover his forehead speechlessly, looking at Lin Ling, he forced a smile, ”Mom, your old classmate is really something else... What to do? Ignore her, or what?”

He couldn’t even get angry at this kind of person, he could only be speechless, what else could it be if not something else?

”Forget it, forget it, at least her daughter’s getting married today, let’s show some face. You kid mind your words later...”

Lin Ling helplessly covered her forehead, in the end, considering the over twenty or thirty years of old classmates’ ties, she went to open the door.

”Sorry Sister Chen, I couldn’t hear you clearly while I was in the kitchen... Anyue’s getting married today, I haven’t bought anything, it’s not good to go empty-handed, how about we just forget it for today? Another day, I’ll give you a red envelope.”

Outside the door, a hefty person weighing at least over 200 pounds, short and fat, looking like a nouveau riche in a black mink coat... Come on, it’s early summer, wearing a mink coat on such a hot day, aren’t you afraid of getting heat rashes?

Chen Fei was speechless.

Pei Wanning also couldn’t help but slightly twitch her mouth, hiding behind Chen Fei, feeling amused.

”Hey, Little Lin, listen to what you’re saying, do you think I, Chen Bing, am after your few bucks in a red envelope? Don’t you know, my daughter Anyue found a groom who’s really wealthy! And Duan Hong works at the Kanda Grand Hotel, he’s a supervisor, with an annual salary of over 200 thousand! It’s fine, I know your situation hasn’t been great lately, if you can’t bring a red envelope then just forget it. Just think of it as me treating an old classmate to a meal, don’t let me down.”

The short and fat, ball-like Chen Bing said smugly, high-stepping and arrogantly, like a puffed-up peacock, looking proudly at Lin Ling.

Back then, Lin Ling was the top student in the class, good grades and pretty, so despite having a poor family condition, she was a darling, welcomed by classmates, loved by teachers... She was the star of the class, maybe even the school, like a shining star!

Later, Lin Ling even got into the Capital University with outstanding grades.

The Capital University was the top in the nation at that time, incredibly prestigious, and back then, over twenty or thirty years ago, even more amazing!

Back then, even the county head and city leaders were stirred and personally came to the school to present Lin Ling with awards.

Anyway, to put it simply, back then, compared to Lin Ling, she felt completely ashamed, a ugly toad compared to Lin Ling who was a glamorous butterfly! Making her forever, forever, forever... extremely envious!

But, that’s all in the past now.

Looking at Lin Ling now, wearing street-side cheap stall items of twenty or thirty bucks, and then at herself, Chen Bing, wearing expensive mink coats worth thousands or tens of thousands, she couldn’t help but feel endlessly satisfied and pleased.

Lin Ling, oh Lin Ling, years ago you were the school’s little butterfly, so impressive, getting into such a prestigious school like Capital University, while I was just a ugly duckling back then, how inferior I felt, but now?

Now, I, Chen Bing, have a good daughter, naturally beautiful and lovely, and she even found a groom with a yearly salary over 200 thousand, isn’t that over 200 thousand! Enough to make you envious, right?

Look at your shabby little house, though it’s in a building, this unit is probably the second smallest floor plan in the building, right? Just over seventy square meters, not even half of mine, tsk tsk, oh well, that’s life?

I, Chen Bing, have a good daughter and a high-salary son-in-law, in the future, don’t need to worry about money problems at all.

Lin Ling, weren’t you amazing and dazzling back then? But now? But now you’re probably envious of me, Chen Bing, right?

Sticking out her chest, when Chen Bing stared slyly at Lin Ling, she suddenly couldn’t help being stunned.

Because she seemed to notice that besides Lin Ling, there were two other people inside?

”Little Lin, who are they?” Chen Bing’s eyes fell straight onto Chen Fei and Pei Wanning, she couldn’t help but be dumbfounded.

She’s outdone, the guy too handsome, the girl too beautiful... Even her always-praised, born beautiful daughter, comparing her to Pei Wanning, her daughter instantly paled!

Just like herself compared to Lin Ling back then. In Pei Wanning’s presence, her daughter was like an ugly duckling, like a toad, compared to her, it was like night and day.