The Xin family was completely unaware of this conversation between Dai Jiaozhi and Xin Hailan.
Three days after Lin Leyao and Xin Ying had dinner at the Ji family home, she embarked on her journey to Yunnan.
The public welfare and charitable medical assistance project, which had been planned since last year, has finally been implemented.
A total of twenty celebrity volunteers participated this time, along with dozens of medical workers who participated in this medical aid project.
After resigning from Xiaomi, Lin Leyao didn't hire a new assistant. Because this event was a charity project, all arrangements for the participants' food, clothing, accommodation, and transportation had been made according to plan. Therefore, Lin Leyao had no intention of hiring a new assistant and planned to participate in the event along with the other participants as arranged by the organizers. Since this might be the last event Lin Leyao participated in while still with the company, Xiao Yan accompanied her to Yunnan, along with Iris.
During this time, Iris did not return to Australia, nor did she contact Lin Leyao. Instead, she spent all her time with Xin Wenwen.
Lin Leyao didn't inquire about her and Xin Wenwen's relationship, nor did she know about their progress.
Seeing the two of them together before, she thought Iris and Xin Wenwen were already together, but now, looking at their demeanor, it doesn't seem like they're dating.
It's unclear what happened between Iris and Xin Wenwen, but they seemed to have had a big argument. After learning that Lin Leyao was going to Yunnan for charity work, Iris immediately ran over to find her and said she wanted to go with her.
In the end, Xiao Yan and Iris accompanied Lin Leyao to Yunnan.
After arriving in the capital city of Yunnan Province, they switched to high-speed rail and went to a small city near the mountains. The journey from S City to here had been a bumpy one-day trip, and they hadn't even reached their destination yet. Iris suffered from severe motion sickness, experiencing dizziness and vomiting throughout the journey. They decided to rest in this small city for the night before rejoining the main group the next day.
The next day, when they left the hotel, a black car was parked in front of the hotel. Lin Leyao got in the car and was stunned when she saw the driver.
The driver called out with remarkable composure, "Little Aunt."
Lin Leyao was surprised to see Xin Wenwen there. She nodded and sat in the back seat. Soon after, Xiao Yan got into the car and sat in the back seat.
Iris gets carsick, so she was arranged to sit in the front seat today. When she opened the passenger door and saw Xin Wenwen sitting in the driver's seat, she was immediately stunned.
Xin Wenwen glanced at her, then turned to look at the car window and said, "Get in."
Iris got into the car and asked, "Why are you here? Aren't you going to work?"
Xin Wenwen started the car and drove away, saying, "My aunt sent me."
Lin Leyao, who was watching the show from the back, said calmly, "Aying didn't tell me you were coming."
Seeing the guilty look on Xin Wenwen's face after being refuted, Iris immediately snorted and said, "Liar."
Xin Wenwen wasn't angry when she scolded her; she silently drove towards the township where the medical team was providing assistance.
Lin Leyao had been gone from S City for a day, and Xin Ying still took Lin Leyao to the airport as before. She only drove away from the airport after Lin Leyao's plane took off.
Lin Leyao will be away in Yunnan for half a month this time. This is the first time the two have been separated for so long since Lin Leyao finished filming.
Xin Ying had just left the airport parking lot when her phone rang in the quiet car.
She glanced at the caller's contact information and answered the call.
After listening to the person on the other end of the phone report a series of matters, Xin Ying said, "You should go to Yunnan in the next two days and be ready within ten days."
The plan was finally approved, and the presenter on the other end was overjoyed. She immediately replied, "Okay, Ms. Xin, our entire team will head to Yunnan right away."
Xin Ying: "Okay."
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Chapter 107
After arriving in the town where the hospital is located, Lin Leyao and her group stayed at a hotel in the town.
Most of these rural hotels have old facilities, but when the hotel owner learned that a group of celebrities and medical staff who came to provide medical assistance were staying there, he immediately arranged for staff to clean the hotel rooms thoroughly.
Although there was no way to improve the hardware facilities, the staff involved in this medical aid project were very satisfied with the hygiene aspects.
Lin Leyao was a step behind the main group. After putting her luggage in the hotel and resting for a while, she began to devote herself to her volunteer work.
These twenty celebrity volunteers had different roles: some were responsible for logistical support, some for managing medical supplies, and Lin Leyao was responsible for guiding people to see a doctor.
This medical aid project was carried out with the support of the local government. Before the medical aid team arrived, the local government had already conducted a two-week publicity campaign in the countryside.
I heard that attending physicians and specialists from top-tier hospitals in big cities are going to rural areas to provide free medical care, so people lined up early this morning.
Nowadays, most of the people living in rural areas are elderly. These older generations, who toil under the rising sun and face the loess soil, have a deep-rooted habit of avoiding medical treatment.
The older they get, the more resistant they become to going to the hospital. They consider any pain or injury to be a minor matter and are unwilling to go to the hospital for check-ups, fearing that any problems found will add burden to their children.
Those who are not sick are like this, and those who are seriously ill are even more resistant to going to the hospital.
Now that people's living standards have improved, many people grow up without worries about food and clothing from birth, unaware of the hardships of life, and unaware that there are many ordinary people in this world whose wages are low, whose living standards are low, and whose lives can be broken by a single illness.
The purpose of organizing medical aid is to reduce the occurrence of such phenomena and to provide assistance to many people who are afraid of wasting money or who do not have the money to see a doctor.
This help may be small, and it may not help many people, but at least with the help of these medical staff and volunteers, some people have recovered their health and their families have become happy, and that is enough.
The volunteers were all wearing red vests. On site, you could see people queuing up for medical treatment grabbing a vest and asking questions whenever they encountered something they didn't know.
Iris was also wearing a red vest. She was tall and slender, and when she stood out from the crowd, she was easily spotted.
When word got out that celebrities and foreigners had come to town, people who didn't usually go to the doctor, and even people from other towns and counties, flocked to the town.
The medical aid team was stationed in the town's cultural square. The square was very open, and although there were cordon lines around it, crowds gathered around the tents again and again.
Some people know that there are celebrities inside, so they deliberately queue up to see the doctor, hoping to get close to the celebrities to take photos and record videos.
This minor situation was largely resolved with the help of government staff in the morning, and by the afternoon, the entire queue had become neat and orderly, and there were far fewer people coming to watch the show.
Several doctors from different departments sat under different tents, asking questions and examining each person in line.
Lin Leyao saw an elderly woman with a cane standing in the distance, looking very restrained and cautious.
Lin Leyao walked over, and as she got closer, she discovered that the old lady's eyes were cloudy and she could no longer see.
Lin Leyao took the old woman's arm and asked softly, "Grandma, do you need to see an eye doctor? I'll take you to the queue."
The old lady smiled kindly when she heard Lin Leyao's voice. The old lady couldn't understand Mandarin, but she vaguely made out that Lin Leyao had said "look at my eyes," and she quickly shook her head and said, "I've been blind for more than ten years, I don't want to see them."
Lin Leyao took the old lady's arm and said, "This is a public welfare project and it's free. Let the doctor take a look at your eyes. If it's not serious, you'll be able to see again after treatment."
The old lady still insisted that she wouldn't see a doctor. At this moment, a younger old lady in the next line shouted to her in her hometown dialect: "Let me tell you, young lady, the doctor's visit is free, and the medicine is free too."
After being persuaded by several people around her, the old lady finally agreed to see a doctor.
Lin Leyao led the old lady into the ophthalmology clinic's queue.
The number of people in front of the old lady gradually decreased, and soon it was her turn.
After a thorough examination and questioning, the ophthalmologist from the medical aid team told Lin Leyao, who had been staying by the elderly woman's side, "She needs to have a CT scan at the county hospital to determine the cause of her illness."
Upon hearing that he was to go to the county hospital for an X-ray, the elderly man immediately stood up anxiously and said he didn't want to go anymore.
Lin Leyao quickly said, "Taking X-rays is free. We'll register everyone and then take them all to the county hospital for checkups."
After everyone comforted her, the old lady calmed down.
These past few days, Lin Leyao has been repeatedly guiding, communicating, and mediating.
The work of volunteers is much easier than that of medical staff. Although many celebrities came to this medical aid project, no one had much expectation for them.
Celebrities are just a gimmick for charity. They come, take some photos, stay for a day or two, advertise for the foundation and the charity project, and then market themselves. That's how everyone achieves their goal.
Therefore, no one expected any celebrities to stay until the end of this medical aid mission.
As everyone guessed, one after another, some of the celebrity volunteers who came left because they had other events to attend, were still filming, and so on.
The original twenty celebrities were reduced by half, leaving only some less popular stars, so everyone was quite surprised that Lin Leyao was still there.
Among the twenty celebrities in this medical aid project, Lin Leyao is already the most popular, especially after she recently revealed her identity as the little princess of the Ji family, everyone has suddenly become much more cautious about her.
The charity team even came over to inquire and offered to arrange for her to do easy work like distributing bottled water and self-heating millet rice under the sunshade, but Lin Leyao refused. She continued to stand under the sun as originally planned, guiding people to seek medical treatment.
After the daytime support activities ended, Lin Leyao returned to her room and made a video call with Xin Ying.
Having been here for a week, Lin Leyao spent all day outside and couldn't have a proper chat with Xin Ying, so they could only video call each other at night.
After a week apart, everyone missed each other terribly.
The relationship between the two has changed a lot since a month ago. They have gotten through the stage of being stubborn, hesitant, and reserved, and now they can openly express their thoughts.
Just now, after chatting with Xin Ying for a while, Lin Leyao hummed, "I miss you."
Upon hearing these words, Xin Ying's previously expressionless face immediately broke into a bright smile.
She rested her elbow on the desk, propped her chin on her hand, and looked at Lin Leyao in the video, saying softly, "I miss you too, baby."
Lin Leyao pouted and hummed unhappily.
Xin Ying looked at Lin Leyao, who was acting coquettishly, with a smile in her eyes.
Looking at her adorable baby constantly acting cute on the screen, she thought that this might be the meaning of "absence makes the heart grow fonder."
That intense longing was fully conveyed to the other person in a short sentence and a long humming.
Xin Ying touched the person on the screen with her fingertip, and after a while she said, "A friend of mine went to Ecuador, and I asked her to help me order some roses to be flown back by air."
Lin Leyao blinked and asked, "A gift for me?"
Xin Ying laughed and said, "Otherwise what?"
Lin Leyao asked curiously, "Why did you suddenly order roses from abroad?"
Xin Ying said, "Seeing Ecuador reminds me of roses, seeing roses reminds me of you, and thinking of you made me buy them. I don't need a reason to give you a gift."
Lin Leyao grinned and said happily, "Okay, I've accepted your gift in advance."
Noticing that the background behind Xin Ying was her office, Lin Leyao couldn't help but ask, "Why have you been working overtime every day lately? Why are you still at the company now?"
"Why would I go home if you're not home? Before we were together, this was my usual time at the company."
Hearing this, Lin Leyao felt a pang of sympathy, remembering how she used to work alone in the office. However, she muttered, "Workaholic."
Xin Ying smiled and said, "I'll come find you in a few days and then go back to S City with you."
Lin Leyao's eyes widened in surprise, but then she hesitated and asked, "If you come to see me, do you have to work overtime at other times?"
Xin Ying stared at Lin Leyao's worried face, then suddenly sighed and said aggrievedly, "What should I do? I miss you so much. I can't even eat because I miss you. If this continues, I'll starve to death because I can't see you."