Chapter 196 — An Agitated Kang **
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On the ambulance, several nurses took Lan Zhi from Kang **'s arms, laid her on a stretcher, and lifted her aboard. Then a middle-aged man who looked like the doctor on duty addressed the crowd of onlookers: "Who is the patient's family? Come aboard and ride to the hospital with us. Everyone else, disperse!"
"Me — I'm Xiao Fen's mother!" Song Huiping stepped forward and said to the doctor.
The doctor glanced at Song Huiping and nodded. "Then get in with us."
Song Huiping hurried aboard after the doctor. But Liu Xinlan and Tang Zhi — and Kang ** especially — wanted to go to the hospital too, and pressed in around the vehicle. "We're her friends — can we come along as well?" Liu Xinlan asked the doctor.
"No. This is an ambulance! There aren't that many seats, and we can take only one more family member. Which of you will it be?" The doctor shook his head in explanation.
Before Tang Zhi or Liu Xinlan could answer, an agitated, urgent voice cut in. The two of them looked — it was Kang **!
Without a word, Kang ** made to charge onto the ambulance, and Wei Zhao, with a bitter smile, caught him and hauled him back. Of course Wei Zhao understood how he felt — but what would it look like for him to barge aboard? How would they explain to Song Huiping what he was to Xiao Fen?
They could hardly say they had only met today — or rather, had not even been introduced. It was nothing more than Kang **'s own love at first sight.
"Liu Xinlan, you ride with them," Wei Zhao said to her, having pulled Kang ** behind himself.
"Boss, let me go up — I'm begging you!" Kang ** was visibly overwrought, as though he would not rest until he was allowed aboard.
"...**!" Wei Zhao was somewhat at a loss for words. "What would it even mean for you to go up there now? Ride in my car — we'll just follow behind, won't we?"
"Uh... right, I suppose so!" Only then did Kang ** settle down. He nodded, a little embarrassed; Wei Zhao's words had brought him to his senses. Indeed, if he went up to the ambulance now, how would he ever explain it to Song Huiping, Xiaofen's mother?
Liu Xinlan and Tang Zhi both glanced at Kang ** with some surprise. Tang Zhi had vaguely guessed something — earlier, when Kang ** had been at her home, he had seemed unusually interested in the photograph of Lan Zhi. Liu Xinlan, though, was at a loss, unable to make sense of what had come over Kang **.
But now was no time for questions. The ambulance was still waiting, so Liu Xinlan could only leap quickly into the vehicle. The ambulance doors shut, and with a wail of sirens it sped off toward the Municipal First People's Hospital.
"Are you coming?" Once the ambulance had gone, Wei Zhao turned to Tang Zhi and asked.
Tang Zhi bit her lip. She did not much care for the idea of riding in Wei Zhao's car, but she was worried about Xiaofen, so she nodded: "Mm..."
The Beetle's back seat had no doors — the front seats had to be folded down before one could climb in, which was rather a nuisance. Yet Kang **, though his heart was still set on Xiaofen, did not forget to create an opportunity for Wei Zhao and Tang Zhi: he yielded the front seat to Tang Zhi and squeezed himself into the back.
"Tang Zhi... could you tell me about Lan Zhi?" Kang ** was profoundly curious about the matter between Lan Zhi and Kang Jingming, and was eager to learn the truth of it.