Chapter 1667 - 303:

Tan Wenbin didn't call him out: "I've had enough, you can eat the rest, if it's not enough, there are more in the well, you can open it."

"I'm good, it's enough for me. Sigh, Brother Bin, I find that reading in the school classroom still feels the best, reading efficiency is really low elsewhere."

"Just admit you miss Chen Lin."

"Who's Chen Lin?"

Lin Shuyou paused for a moment before matching the name to the person.

Mostly because the last encounter was too quick, coming and going in a hurry, this name hasn't really become familiar.

Tan Wenbin: "Keep pretending."

Lin Shuyou: "I'm not."

Tan Wenbin patted Lin Shuyou's shoulder: "Don't worry, Ah You, I understand you, you miss her, right? You want to use this as an excuse to go to Jinling to find her soon, right?"

Lin Shuyou: "Do I...?"

Tan Wenbin: "I'll mention it to Brother Xiao Yuan, but from the looks of it, Brother Xiao Yuan plans to deal with Run Sheng's issues first before heading to Jinling, shouldn't be long."

Lin Shuyou: "Oh."

Actually, Tan Wenbin wasn't sure if Lin Shuyou missed Chen Lin, but he did miss Zhou Yunyun.

At that moment, the pager on Tan Wenbin's waist went off, he picked up his big brother phone, pretended to look for a spot with good signal, and walked out of the living room, the number belonged to Jinling.

Hey, speak of Cao Cao and he arrives.

After connecting the call, Tan Wenbin said into the receiver:

"Hey, darling."

There was silence on the other end for a moment, then a response came:

"You should call me daddy."

"Yo, Director Tan, what made you suddenly think of calling your son who's been away for years?"

"Where are you?"

"In Nantong."

"I have a colleague who was recently injured on duty and is hospitalized at the City People's Hospital. Could you visit on my behalf? I've got a case here and can't leave."

"Sure, no problem."

Tan Yunlong mentioned the colleague's name, but Tan Wenbin would have to ask about the specific ward number himself.

"Also, your mom, Yunyun, and Yunyun's classmate Linlin went on a trip together."

"Where did they go?"

"Changzhou."

"Geez, going out for a trip, why go so far, from Jinling to Changzhou, the road is so dangerous."

Tan Yunlong naturally detected the sarcastic tone in his son's words, as domestic travel indeed lacks excitement.

"Originally, it was my company's benefit, could bring a family member, I couldn't go, so Yunyun accompanied your mom, as for Linlin, she's paying her own way."

"Dad, honestly, it's just because your son is excellent, if it were any other unambitious son, my mom would have considered her mission complete by raising a child to adulthood, and would've left you to pursue new happiness and freedom.

Last time you went traveling with my mom, there probably wasn't even a photo with me in our family album, right?"

"If you're free and available, you can go to Changzhou to find them."

"I'm really busy, just got back from an internship, and I have to go to Jinling for final exams in a couple of days."

"Alright, that's the matter, hanging up."

Tan Wenbin put away the big brother phone and shouted to Lin Shuyou: "Ah You, I'm heading to the hospital in the city, helping my dad visit a colleague."

Lin Shuyou wiped the watermelon seeds from the corner of his mouth, nodded and said: "Don't worry, Brother Bin, you go ahead, the house is covered by me."

Tan Wenbin got into the pickup truck and drove away.

After arriving at the City People's Hospital, he asked around, found the ward, and walked in with a fruit basket and nutritional supplements he bought on the way.

A middle-aged man was lying on the hospital bed, a young man sat beside him, presumably his son.

Tan Wenbin noticed that the young man, a few years younger than him, had a splash of vivid color at the edge of his black hair.

He must have dyed his hair in pursuit of individuality, then forcibly dyed it black again by his own father.

The middle-aged man's surname was Liu, named Liu Qiang, he was transferred in the last year of Tan Yunlong's tenure at Shigang Town Police Station, so Tan Wenbin didn't know him well.

He was injured in the head while capturing a fugitive, but the issue wasn't serious and requires rest.

Liu Qiang greatly admired and respected Tan Yunlong, he watched Tan Yunlong rise from the town police station, and not only in work, in marriage and family as well, Liu Qiang believed Tan Yunlong was far superior to him.

He got divorced, his son stayed with him, and ended up not getting into high school, the kind with scores too embarrassing to ask favors for connections.

After fulfilling the visit on behalf of his father, Tan Wenbin left the ward.

The car was low on fuel, so he drove to a gas station to refuel, and had to pass the hospital again on the way back, only to see Liu Qiang's son Liu Ping standing at the hospital entrance with a group of guys with colorful hair smoking and chatting.

Seeing Tan Wenbin in the car, Liu Ping tossed his cigarette and waved at Tan Wenbin, who smiled back at him.

Every young person goes through a phase of pursuing individuality, and having a police officer father often makes the role more domineering, which to some degree, provokes more rebellion.

As he drove, Tan Wenbin wondered what his life path would have been like if his own father hadn't brought Brother Xiao Yuan into the house on that high school sophomore summer evening.

Hey, thinking about it is quite interesting.

When the light turned green, Tan Wenbin lit a cigarette, holding the cigarette outside the car window.

Senior year of high school to the end of first-year college now, it's been two years.

Two years, passed so fast, like slipping away unintentionally; yet so slow that as he looked at Liu Ping now, he felt a perspective like that of a parent.

There was a traffic control ahead, with traffic police directing vehicles.