Love That Extends Life

Fugui Xishan Community, a high-end residential area located in Qinhuai District, is like a shining pearl inlaid on the south side of Xishan.

There are 36 high-rise residential buildings in Fugui Community. It faces the urban village across the West Mountain, but they are two completely different worlds. The environment here is beautiful, with green trees and fresh air. Every detail shows dignity and quality. In the urban village, the roads are dilapidated, the trees have been cut down, and dust can be seen everywhere. Everyone in Qinhuai District knows that the West Mountain separates the two worlds.

Song Jibin, who works at the Qinhuai District Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, took a taxi to the gate of the community, and then returned home humming a little tune happily.

Song Jibin is the director of the finance department of the hospital of traditional Chinese medicine. He is 56 years old and a little bald, so he likes to wear a hat.

Song Jibin walked briskly back to his home in Fugui Xishan Community. As soon as he entered the door, he felt the discomfort of home.

"Old Song, you're back! What do you want to eat? I'll make it for you." The old wife who was watching TV said enthusiastically when she found her husband coming home.

"No need to bother, I've already eaten." Song Jibin responded indifferently, then sat down on the sofa.

His eyes were somewhat cold, as if he had lost his enthusiasm for this family. Whenever he saw his wife, who was a sallow-faced woman, he turned his head away, and when he thought about those young and energetic women outside, he suddenly felt moved.

"Since you've eaten, I'm going out to play mahjong!" said the old man and went out.

His wife has just retired and is at home. She likes to play mahjong and spends all day at the mahjong table.

After his wife went to the neighbor's house to play mahjong, Song Jibin felt much quieter.

Song Jibin took off his hat and wanted to wash up, but at this time the WeChat notification sound on his phone beeped a few times.

He took out his mobile phone, skillfully opened the WeChat app, and started chatting with a woman.

"Dear, are you home yet?"

"Honey, I miss you!"

A message from a woman labeled Luo Bing on WeChat.

"I miss you so much!" Song Jibin quickly touched the keyboard and sent a reply.

"Emoji (hug)" The other party quickly replied with three chat emoticons.

Song Jibin and Luo Bing started chatting.

Luo Bing: Honey, you were so great in the hotel this afternoon!

Song Jibin: Haha!

Luo Bing: Director Song, I still miss you...

The two chatted enthusiastically, seeming to forget everything around them. Their conversation was full of ambiguity and sweetness, as if they were a couple who had just separated.

Luo Bing: Director Song, please take the insulated box of seafood I gave you home!

Song Jibin: Seafood in insulated boxes...

Luo Bing: Why didn't you open the incubator? Tongue sticking out expression

Song Jibin: Oh no! I forgot you gave me the seafood.

Luo Bing: Haha, Director, you are a forgetful person!

Song Jibin: I...

It was then that Song Jibin remembered that when he and Assistant Luo Bing separated, Assistant Luo Bing gave him a packaging bag, saying it was some kind of insulated box of seafood, and he just took it casually.

But what about the packaging bag containing the seafood?

Song Jibin patted his head. He drank a lot of wine in the afternoon, so his mind was a little dazed. He tried hard to recall, but he didn't have much impression...

At 1 p.m., he remembered going to the hotel to attend a dinner with Luo Bing's assistant. He took a taxi there and then took another taxi back to the hospital. He put two boxes of high-end Feitian Moutai liquor and four cartons of Yellow Crane Tower cigarettes in his car in the parking lot, then went to the hospital office and took another taxi back when he got off work.

"Did I leave it in the hospital car?"

Song Jibin thought about it and these were all he could remember, so he believed that the bag containing the seafood should have been placed in the car.

At this moment, his cell phone rang twice and he looked at the phone.

Luo Bing: Is Director Song here?

Luo Bing: Director Song, seafood cannot be kept in the insulated box for too long, you have to take it out in time!

"It's just an insulated box of seafood. I don't care." Song Jibin thought it didn't matter even if it was broken, so he didn't take it to heart.

Song Jibin: Haha, I must have forgotten it in the car.

Song Jibin still replied to Luo Bing. He was afraid that Luo Bing would keep pestering him about the seafood, which would affect his mood for chatting.

Luo Bing: Director Song, you should go and get it back! That's not just some seafood, it's a small gift from Mr. Qin from our Ruikang Pharmaceutical Company.

Song Jibin: It can’t be a sea cucumber!

Luo Bing: Director Song, it is a very important seafood item, you should take it home and have a look.

Song Jibin: Okay then!

Song Jibin reluctantly put down his phone, then immediately put on his hat and left the house.

Song Jibin took a taxi to the Chinese Medicine Hospital and went to the parking lot to find a car.

When the hospital security guard saw Song Jibin entering the parking lot, he quickly ran over.

"Director Song, are you back to drive?" The security guard came to Song Jibin and greeted him respectfully.

When Song Jibin saw that the security guard on duty was Lu Dahai, he immediately said politely: "Ah, it's Dahai! I came to the car to get something. Didn't you see that I smelled of alcohol? Why would I drive?"

Lu Dahai was actually arranged by Song Jibin to work as a security guard at the Chinese Medicine Hospital. They are actually related! It turns out that Lu Dahai is the brother-in-law of Song Jibin's brother-in-law Yang Jinglin. After Lu Dahai was laid off, Song Jibin helped him get a job at the Chinese Medicine Hospital through his brother-in-law Yang Jinglin's intercession.

"Oh, Director Song, if you have anything to say, just tell me. I'll just be walking around here."

Lu Dahai was very tactful and left on his own initiative.

After Lu Dahai walked a little further away, Song Jibin then confidently opened the trunk of his Toyota Highlander. Inside, he saw two boxes of Feitian Moutai and four cartons of Yellow Crane Tower cigarettes neatly placed, but the only thing missing was the important packaging bag.

Song Jibin searched the car again, but still couldn't find the packaging bag containing the seafood.

At this moment, he sat in the car, silently lit a cigarette, and began to puff.

When Song Jibin was halfway through smoking a cigarette, his mind gradually became clearer. He thought carefully and felt that he should not have left the packaging bag in the car, so it was very likely that he had forgotten it in the taxi he took before.

Thinking of this, Song Jibin took a few puffs of his cigarette, feeling annoyed. It was such a pity to just throw away a whole box of sea cucumbers!

"Alas! It's a pity to put all the sea cucumbers in an incubator!" He couldn't help but sigh.

Just then, there was a sudden beep from the cell phone.

Song Jibin opened WeChat on his phone.

Luo Bing: Director Song, have you found the packaging bag in the car?

Song Jibin: Oh! The packaging bag was not in the car. There were only wine and cigarettes in the car. I felt that I forgot to take the packaging bag when I came back and threw it in the taxi.

Luo Bing: What?

Luo Bing: Director Song, are you available to talk?

Song Jibin: Yes!

Luo Bing: Director Song, I’m calling you!

Before Song Jibin had time to check the WeChat messages, his cell phone suddenly rang.

"Hello! Is this Director Song?" The voice of Assistant Luo Bing came from the other end of the phone.

"Yes, it's me! Luo Bing, is there anything wrong?" Song Jibin responded.