Returning home.
Song Yue, carrying the heavy bundle, turned towards the side room.
Lin Fan pushed open the main room door and called out, "Sister-in-law, I'm back."
"Xiao Fan, where have you been? You're back so late?"
Xia Xue, under the lamplight, was placing the freshly fried sesame balls, fritters, and other items into a thermal container one by one.
She looked up and added, "I asked your sister Yueyue to wait for you at the clinic, but you didn't come back until so late. She really should have come back first."
"Sister-in-law."
Lin Fan glanced at the items in the thermal container and spread his hands, "These things are useless."
"Useless, what nonsense are you talking about."
"Really useless!"
Lin Fan took a few steps forward, placed a stack of cash inside, and then smiled, "This is what's useful."
Xia Xue stared at the stack of crisp red bills and asked, "Where did you get this from?"
"I earned it with my own abilities."
"Is this your hidden stash of private money?"
Lin Fan chuckled, "Don't worry about where it came from, sister-in-law. Giving your parents more money is never a bad thing."
Xia Xue, with sharp eyes, noticed Lin Fan's bulging pocket and asked, "What's in your pocket? Let me see."
"It's nothing, sister-in-law, don't try to take it."
Lin Fan had intended to keep some pocket money, but he hadn't expected his sister-in-law to discover it.
One insisted on seeing, the other desperately dodged.
However, an arm cannot resist a thigh. Lin Fan was unable to keep the ten thousand yuan in his pocket.
Xia Xue said she would save it for him, to prevent him from spending it carelessly.
Lin Fan was unconcerned, thinking, "Besides the ten thousand for sister Yue, there's a full seventeen thousand left!"
After dinner, Lin Fan returned to the clinic.
The night passed quickly.
In the early morning, Xia Xue, while washing up, said to Song Yue, "Sister, can you go to the clinic and wake up Xiao Fan? Didn't he say he'd find a car today? Don't let it be delayed."
"Okay, I'll go right away."
Song Yue rolled her eyes, thinking, "Xiao Fan is so secretive, he's not telling Xue'er sister about the car."
"This little pervert's other skills aren't improving, but his ability to lie is becoming smoother and smoother."
Song Yue soon arrived at the clinic and woke up the deeply sleeping Lin Fan.
Lin Fan, while getting dressed, said, "I'll go to the village committee later to get Secretary Tian."
"Why are you looking for Secretary Tian?"
"Of course, to drive. None of us can drive, and there aren't many people in the village who can. Who else would I ask?"
"You're asking the village committee secretary to drive for you?"
Song Yue was extremely surprised.
No matter how young Tian Mengyao was, she was still a person of authority!
"Are you sure it's okay to treat the village committee secretary like a chauffeur?"
"What's the big deal? I'm already on good terms with her. Besides, isn't the village committee secretary there to serve the people? I'm a person!"
Lin Fan finished dressing and walked out directly.
Song Yue really didn't know what to say.
"The village committee secretary is there to serve the people."
If it were another village, with another secretary, just try it?
Five minutes later, Lin Fan walked into the village committee compound and shouted, "Secretary Tian, Secretary Tian!"
No one responded.
Lin Fan had been there a few times and knew that Tian Mengyao's dormitory was to the right of the office.
Bang bang bang...
The knocking continued for over a minute before Tian Mengyao, wearing a cute cartoon pajama set, opened the door.
"It's you!"
Seeing it was Lin Fan, Tian Mengyao immediately got angry, "What are you doing so early in the morning? Really, I thought something urgent had happened!"
"It is urgent."
Lin Fan said rapidly, "You forgot, my sister-in-law is going back to her parents' home, and you promised to help drive."
Upon hearing this, Tian Mengyao became even angrier, "You rushed here so early just to have me be your chauffeur? I won't do it!"
"You..."
Lin Fan hadn't expected her to go back on her word, so he bluffed, "You really won't do it?"
"What are you doing, trying to scare me?"
Tian Mengyao pouted her little lips and took a step back.
Lin Fan smiled slyly, "I'll give you five minutes. Hurry up and get dressed to go with me, or else..."
"Or else what? You dare to bully me?"
Tian Mengyao thought that this was the village committee, and immediately felt emboldened.
Lin Fan patted his chest and smirked, "I won't bully you. I'll just carry you home. I mean what I say, you decide."
"You!"
Tian Mengyao glared at him fiercely, then slammed the door shut with a "bang."
Fifteen minutes later.
Lin Fan knocked on the door again, urging, "Hurry up, why are you taking so long?"
"Just wait, don't I need to put on some makeup?"
"I'm asking you to be a driver, not to go on a blind date. Hurry up!"
"If you say one more word, I won't go. You figure it out."
Tian Mengyao held her lipstick, looking at the small makeup mirror, outlining her rosy lips.
She imagined Lin Fan's anxious and helpless look outside the door, and a smug smile gradually appeared on her face.
Hmph!
Let's see you bully me.
Another ten minutes or so passed, and Tian Mengyao slowly opened the door.
Lin Fan was about to complain but suddenly froze.
He saw Tian Mengyao, with light makeup, her face fair, her features exquisite, and her brows elegantly curved. She was even more beautiful than a fairy!
"What are you looking at? Am I that good-looking?"
"My dear aunt, I just asked you to be a driver, what does it matter if you're good-looking or not?"
Lin Fan finished speaking and pulled Tian Mengyao away.
"Let go! What will people think if they see us like this?"
"Alright, alright, I won't pull you. Just walk faster."
Lin Fan withdrew his hand, thinking, "I didn't expect this little girl to have such feminine charm after putting on makeup."
He figured that in a few more years, she would become even more beautiful and charming!
Under Lin Fan's constant urging, the two quickly arrived at the clinic.
"Huh?"
Tian Mengyao looked at the tall and imposing Wrangler SUV and asked, "Did you borrow this car?"
"Yes, why else?"
Lin Fan grinned proudly, "Not bad, right?"
"Tsk tsk tsk."
Tian Mengyao rolled her eyes at him, "Just 'not bad.' At least in town, it'll give you face."
"That's for sure."
Lin Fan thought, "A car worth five to six hundred thousand, even if it's second-hand, most people can't afford it."
Song Yue pushed open the door at this moment and smiled at Tian Mengyao, "Secretary Tian, you're here."
"Yes, Physician Lin personally invited me, so how could I not come?"
Tian Mengyao's tone was strange, leaving Song Yue unsure of what to say.
"Alright, alright."
Lin Fan handed the car keys to Tian Mengyao and urged, "Let's go, we've already wasted enough time."
Tian Mengyao let out a soft hum, then took the car keys and opened the car door.
Song Yue glanced at Lin Fan, then at Tian Mengyao, thinking, "If you say there's nothing going on between them, even a ghost wouldn't believe it!"
"The dignified village committee secretary is being ordered around by you, how come?"