"I was taking a shower just now. Zhou Han must be in a bad mood today. I have to accompany her, so be good!"
Cao Mo made several phone calls and harassed her. It took her a long time to get a text message from Song Yuqing. It was as if frost had hit an eggplant. Her life had lost direction and her struggle had lost motivation. She had no choice but to take out her computer and open Sina Finance to browse the latest domestic securities. Market reports.
Cao Mo used to take time to pay attention to the domestic economic development, but after the Spring Festival, he devoted almost all his free time to the development and construction of the Wusang River copper and gold mine, and inevitably ignored the popularity of the domestic securities market.
Even when he met with Yang Deshan and Shen Ji, they would chat with each other a few times, but it was only as a conversation piece after dinner, and Cao Mo did not pay any attention to it.
This is also a common characteristic of all Chinese businessmen working and venturing in Africa.
We are 20,000 kilometers away from our homeland and have a completely different time difference. If we stay in West Africa for a long time, we will inevitably feel alienated from the country. We will always subconsciously think that news events, big and small, that happen in the country have nothing to do with us. what relationship.
Cao Mo browsed the financial reports, opened MSN, and saw that Cheng Xi had sent him a message at dusk:
"Have you arrived in Xinhai? How's the work going?"
Not wanting to waste time on the way, I took a red-eye flight from London in the early morning. When I arrived at Xinhai International Airport, I was taken directly to Jinchen Golf Course by Shen Ji, where I got a slap in the face. Cao Mo faced Han Shaorong and the trap set by the Lu family brothers. He was also furious. When he calmed down a little at noon, he was busy talking about work matters. Cao Mo didn't even have time to turn on the computer, nor did he take the time to call Cheng Xi.
But it was not that Cao Mo couldn't spare the time to make a phone call. In fact, what happened today made many situations more complicated and subtle, which made him subconsciously delay calling Cheng Xi.
Cheng Xi's mother, Yang Lifang, is the senior vice president of Huayi Commercial, and Han Shaorong's Huamao Investment Group has always been the second largest shareholder of Huayi Commercial; it can even be said that Yang Lifang was able to secure the listing because of her classmate relationship with Han Shaorong. An executive position in the company Huayi Commercial.
Yang Lifang has always been indifferent to his family and Chen Rong. In addition to her disapproval of personality, this is also the most critical factor.
This is an entanglement of grudges that cannot be resolved in the previous life.
Not only Yang Lifang, Cheng Zhengjie, Chen Rong, his father and Han Shaorong have known each other since childhood, but Yang Guocheng, who repeatedly harassed Chen Rong and was accidentally killed by his father, and Yang Jun, who harassed his family and was stabbed twelve times by him, as well as with him Before the relationship broke down, Cao Mo had called him "uncle" and "uncle" for more than ten years since he was a child, before the relationship broke down between Chen Hua, whose father once opened an auto repair shop as a partner, and Chen Xiaoping, who can now be said to be the general manager of Han Shaorong.
Although Cao Mo had always been wary of Han Shaorong, he still hoped in his heart that the old incident would be over and no one would have time to think about it anymore.
However, today's scene made him give up his last illusion about Han Shaorong, and things had developed to a point where no one could give up easily.
Then the attitude of Cheng Xi's mother, Yang Lifang, towards him would change from simple "disdain" to "hostility" where a clear line needs to be drawn.
"Things went quite well. I just got home after a busy day and was slapped by Han Shuyun's disgusting face..." Cao Mo left a message on msn, not knowing whether Cheng Xi had fallen asleep.
"Who gave you a bad face?"
Cao Mo was startled and almost threw his laptop away. He turned around and saw Han Shuyun standing silently behind him, staring at the computer screen.
"You are a ghost, why don't you make any sound? Also, didn't your father teach you to knock before entering other people's rooms?" Cao Mo shouted, slapping his forehead.
"If I knock on the door, will I still see you talking bad about me to Cheng Xi?" Han Shuyun looked at Cao Mo with contempt and said.
"What do you want from me?" Cao Mo asked.
Han Shuyun's heart was full of ghosts, but he couldn't guess what she was going to do when she suddenly came in.
"Nothing's wrong. I just came in to see what you were doing." Han Shuyun turned around and walked out. When he reached the door of the room, he suddenly turned around and stared at Cao Mo and asked, "Did you peek at my thigh just now?"
Han Shuyun wore a large white T-shirt with the hem reaching to his knees. When he turned around, the hem floated up, revealing his straight and long legs. Cao Mo smiled contemptuously and said disdainfully: "As thin as a bamboo pole, not even a hair."
Who wants to see two ounces of meat?"
"Hmph!" Han Shuyun pulled up the hem of his T-shirt again, revealing his white underwear, and stared at Cao Mo: "What about this?"
"Crazy!" Cao Mo stood up and pushed Han Shuyun out, closed the door with a "pop" and locked it, then sat back in front of the window sill.
After his room was occupied by Han Shuyun, a large Chinese-style couch was placed in the window of his study, which he used as a temporary bed for three nights after the Spring Festival. Lily returned to Kanem during the summer vacation and had an extra room in the house.
, he doesn’t need to sleep in the study, but he still likes to sit on the couch and read information by the window.
After a while, Cheng Xi replied to the message: "Ah, I just fell asleep on the table. I have been working for two years, and it is so painful to read!"
Cheng Xi recently applied for an intermediate qualification examination in the banking industry organized by Xinhai City. After two years of graduation and working, reading these professional books, even if they are related to this job, is extremely painful even for a former top student.
"Come out for a late-night snack to refresh your brain?" Cao Mo asked.
"Okay! But don't drive your motorcycle directly to my door! My mother is talking about you again today for some reason. She doesn't look good anyway. I don't have the energy to talk to her before the qualification exam.
in argument!"
Cao Mo patted his forehead.
Even though most of the people present could not figure out what was going on, not everyone would give Han Shaorong and the Lu brothers the face to not discuss what happened at Jinchen Golf Course today.
Cao Mo thought that some rumors might have reached the ears of Cheng Xi's mother, Yang Lifang, right?
His father would drive the Huachen motorcycle occasionally. Cao Mo went downstairs and saw that there was still half a tank of gas in the tank. He pushed the motorcycle directly out of the yard and quickly arrived outside Cheng Xi's house, which was about fifty or sixty meters away from her house.
Stopped under a streetlight meters away.
Cao Mo was just thinking about calling Cheng Xi when he saw her sticking her head out from behind the iron railing on the side of her house from a distance. She quickly climbed up along the pillar, but she didn't know if it was the long skirt she was wearing today.
Being caught by the railing, Cheng Xi did not jump down smoothly and hurriedly waved to Cao Mo.
He was startled, and hurriedly ran over, supported Cheng Xi from below, and let her sit on his shoulders. Only then did he see that the hem of the skirt was indeed caught by the pointed iron railing.
With Cao Mo hugging her from below, Cheng Xi steadied herself. After tugging for a while, she still couldn't pull down the hem of her skirt, so she directly grabbed the hem of her long skirt and pulled hard, completely tearing it open before she was able to escape.
"Is it necessary to make it so exaggerated and make it look like an elopement?" Cao Mo put Cheng Xi down and asked with a smile.
"I don't know why, but the look on my mother's face today makes me feel really guilty. I think it's better not to mess with this menopausal tigress at this time." Cheng Xi stuck out his tongue and said, turning around and talking across the garden.
You can see her mother sitting in the living room talking to her father about something.
The two walked to the motorcycle. Cao Mo handed the helmet to Cheng Xi. Cheng Xi shook his head: "Isn't it just to enjoy the feeling of being surrounded by the wind when riding a motorcycle?"
"Your father will be scolded if he hears what you said." Cao Mo said with a smile.
Cheng Xi sat sideways on the back seat of the motorcycle, hugged Cao Mo's generous waist from behind, leaned his head against it, and said, "My dad cares about me. He is not as hysterical and weird as my mom."
Feeling Cheng Xi's soft and warm body through the thin T-shirt, Cao Mo felt an indescribable tenderness flowing in his chest, and turned back to look at Cheng Xi.
"What's wrong?" Cheng Xi raised his head and asked.
"Nothing, where do you want to go?" Cao Mo said, looking at Cheng Xi's pure and charming face under the street lamp, with such deep and clear eyes.
"Let's go to school! Have you never been to school since then?" Cheng Xi asked.
"The school is near Dongsheng Building. We must have passed by it. Even if we have never gone in before, we still have to climb over the wall to get in! Can't we get in through the gate?" Cao Mo said hesitantly.
"How many times did you lead me over the wall to skip school? How come you are such a good boy now?" Cheng Xi said with a smile.
The two of them rode their motorcycles into the small alley in front of Qingzhong, and stopped at the courtyard wall they often climbed when they were studying. They saw that a piece of the wall had collapsed under the street lamp, and there were countless footprints on the white wall. They had not known it over the years.
How many students are flipping in and out of here.
Cao Mo climbed to the top of the wall first and pulled Cheng Xi up. Then he jumped down and caught Cheng Xi from below. For a moment, he thought about hugging Cheng Xi and not letting her go.
"Who? Which class?"
Following a shout, several beams of light came straight towards him. Cao Mo, who was still hugging Cheng Xi and was in a daze, was startled. He looked over in shock, and against the light he saw four figures coming towards him from the opposite side, like
The hunter catches prey caught in a trap.
Although this is the easiest place to get in and out, it is also the best trap for the school to ambush boarding students who do not abide by school rules and disciplines.
Many years later, Cao Mo recalled the cat-and-mouse situation with the teacher from the Academic Affairs Office. He grabbed Cheng Xi's hand and ran in the opposite direction.
The school has renovated many buildings over the years, but the overall layout has not changed. There is a zigzag river that separates the accommodation area, canteen area and teaching area.
When they ran to the river bridge to the west of the cafeteria, Cao Mo and Cheng Xi did not cross the bridge, but ran along the sidewalk along the river bank to the staff dormitory area to the north.
As expected, the teachers who were ambushing on the other side of the bridge stopped hiding their whereabouts when they saw that Cao Mo and the others had not surrendered themselves. They were also afraid of pursuing them any further and frightening the "students". Someone stood on the bridge and shouted:
"Which class do you belong to? Go back to the dormitory to rest. It's almost time for the final exam, and you sneak out to play all day long? The head teacher of each class has called the roll call, do you think you can escape? Also, your parents provide for you to study, not just for you to study.
You guys came here to fall in love, are you worthy of your parents?"
"Zhou Tuzi from the Academic Affairs Office, hasn't he retired yet?" Cao Mo heard the voice from a distance and asked Cheng Xi curiously. Seeing Cheng Xi's face turn red under the dim street light, he gasped with nervousness and laughed, "You
How many years have passed since you graduated from Youth High School, and you are still afraid to see Zhou Tuzi like this?"
"I'm not like you. I never feel guilty even if I do bad things. Also, Zhou Tuzi is so bad that he would complain to my mother every time!" Cheng Xi said with a guilty conscience, "By the way, if I were the academic administrator
I've been staying there the whole time, how are we going to get out later?"
"Then just sit on the playground all night. It's not like we haven't sat there before," Cao Mo said with a smile.
"You are still laughing. After that time, my mother never allowed me to stay in the hotel again." Cheng Xi pushed Cao Mo.
Cao Mo loosened his hand a little, but Cheng Xi's tender little hand did not slip from his palm. Cao Mo held Cheng Xi's little hand tighter, and they walked hand in hand to the playground.
Seventeen or eighteen years old is the age when youth begins to bloom. Cao Mo and Cheng Xi climbed over the railing and walked into the playground. They found that there were several pairs of boys and girls sitting on the lawn of the playground at such a late hour.
There is a circle around the playground
There were street lights, but the light was not strong. Cao Mo and Cheng Xi sat on the terraces on the side of the playground. They looked at the dimly lit playground and recalled that it was here that they held Cheng Xi's hand for some purpose for the first time. But
After that time, Cheng Xi stopped staying, and soon his father accidentally killed Yang Guocheng...
Cao Mo took Cheng Xi's little hand in his and turned sideways to see how fair and flawless her cheeks were under the street light. He stretched out his hand to push her long hair to one side, wanting to see Cheng Xi's neck more clearly.
When he was scratched by Cao Mo's finger, he was so itchy that he moved away. He turned his face and glared at him angrily, saying:
"I can't find the right one right now, so I'll just let you grab my little hand temporarily and enjoy the feeling of having a boyfriend. Don't push yourself too far."
"Yes, it's better than the spare tire, I'm satisfied!" Cao Mo proudly raised Cheng Xi's little hand and kissed the back of it.
"Disgusting!" Cheng Xi wiped the saliva from the back of her hand on Cao Mo's T-shirt. At this moment, her cell phone rang, and she turned a little pale with fright.
Cao Mo saw that Cheng Xi took out his cell phone from his bag and it was a call from Chen Chang. He asked Cheng Xi to lean against him to answer the call.
After Chen Chang broke up with Ding Xuerong during the Spring Festival, he resigned from Yinguang Plaza and applied for a job in the sales office of a securities company.
At this time, she was applying for a junior qualification certificate in the securities industry. Some basic subjects were similar to the intermediate qualification examination in banking that Cheng Xi was taking at this time. She often called at night to discuss the exercises.
Yu Jing's character is more easy-going and she continues to work at Yinguang Plaza.
Cheng Xi didn't say that she and Cao Mo were sitting on the playground of the middle school, and pressed her fingers on Cao Mo's lips to keep him quiet. She lay down with her pillow on Cao Mo's thigh, talking to him on the phone.
Chen Chang was discussing the subjects they all had to take exams. Yu Jing was right next to Chen Chang, interjecting a few words here and there.
At this time, several flashlight beams shone from the entrance of the playground. At a glance, it was obvious that the teachers from the Academic Affairs Office had come to chase away the boys and girls who had not returned to the dormitory so late but were having a love affair on the playground.
"Ah, I'm running away, I won't talk to you anymore, and I'm hanging up the phone!" Cheng Xi stood up in a hurry and said.
"You're not at home. Where are you? Why is it so noisy all of a sudden? Where did you escape to?" Chen Chang asked curiously, refusing to hang up the phone.
"My temporary boyfriend and I were watching the stars on the school playground. Unexpectedly, the school teacher came over to chase us away," Cheng Xi said with a smile.
"Who is my temporary boyfriend? Cao Mo, has he returned to China?" Yu Jing asked on the phone.
"We have to run away, or we will be caught!" Cheng Xi hung up the phone.
Yu Jing and Chen Chang didn't go out to relax for several days. When they heard that Cheng Xi was hanging out with Cao Mo so late at night, they immediately called with envy and shouted that they wanted to go out to play with them. They didn't have the consciousness of being a light bulb at all.
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In order to get out of school as soon as possible to meet up with Yu Jing, Chen Chang and the others, Cao Mo and Cheng Xi honestly confessed to the teacher at the Academic Affairs Office that they had sneaked in to miss their former students.
"Where can you young people go to fall in love? How dangerous is it to climb over the wall and enter the school?" A young Mediterranean old man waved a flashlight in Cao Mo and Cheng Xi's face, "Cao Mo, Cheng Xi?"
"Teacher Zhou, do you still remember us?" Cao Mo asked.
"Why don't you remember? I have so many students in my life, but few of them can make me mad. I still remember that Cheng Xi should have been admitted to Xinhai University later, right?" The little old man looked at Cao Mo and Cheng Xi a few more times.
He looked at her and said, "You are in love together. Let's go quickly. Don't fall into my hands next time..."
Seeing that the little old man was rushing to catch other students with puppy love, Cao Mo and Cheng Xi also hurriedly said goodbye, greeted the guard at the gate and left the school.
"Zhou Tuzi stared at me with a strange look. Do you think he thinks I am a thief, or does he feel sorry for sticking this flower on my pile of cow dung? If he hadn't thought that he was old and frail, I would have done it.
Beat him!" Cao Mo said with a smile.
"I think she has a good eye for it. She should have both!" Cheng Xi picked up her long skirt, sat astride the motorcycle, hugged Cao Mo tightly from behind, and smiled with her face pressed against his back.
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Cao Mo first rode a motorcycle to Xikang Road to pick up Yu Jing, Chen Chang, and the three girls got on the motorcycle and headed to the main street of Tianzifang.
Although it was almost eleven o'clock, the main street of Tianzifang on weekend summer nights was still quite lively at this time, especially young men and women. I saw Cao Mo riding a broken Huachen motorcycle and three beautiful girls sitting closely on top of each other.
Behind him, countless eyes of admiration and hatred were staring at him.
"Let me just say that I bought the right motorcycle. If I drove a sports car to pick you three up, how could I have such a beautiful scene?" Cao Mo parked the motorcycle in front of the barbecue restaurant and said with a proud smile.
"What's going on with you guys? Why do you still have a temporary boyfriend?" Yu Jing still couldn't forget what Cheng Xi said on the phone just now, so she walked into the barbecue restaurant and sat down and asked.
"Isn't it because I haven't found the right one yet? I can only use Cao Mo as a spare tire. When I find the right one, I will dump him immediately!" Cheng Xi said while stroking his long hair, "Otherwise I will
How pitiful is it that you have never had a serious love affair in your entire life?"
"How can we still do this? Why don't we become temporary boyfriends for both of us? We both will be very pitiful now?" Yu Jing leaned over and said with a smile.
"It's not impossible, but we have to negotiate our respective obligations and conditions first, for example..." Cao Mo said with a smile.
"Let me just say that Cao Mo is unreliable. He hasn't even eaten the food in the bowl yet and is already thinking about what's in the pot." Cheng Xi looked at Cao Mo "worriedly" and said, "I'm hesitating whether to eat it early tomorrow morning."