Chapter 36

Chen Mo walked in naturally.

He threw his shoulder bag onto the bed near the window and looked around. No wonder Lao Gou complained that this place was expensive. The facilities in the room were complete and tidy, the whole space exuded a faint fragrance, and the viewing position was excellent.

"Are you hungry?" Xi Siyan came in behind him and asked.

Chen Mo stood by the window and looked back, "What about you?"

Xi Siyan threw the room card on the bedside, turned on the air conditioner to adjust the temperature, and said, "I'm fine, it depends on you. If you're not hungry, wait until we finish cleaning up and go find others to eat together. If you're hungry, order room service and have a simple meal."

It's getting late now.

Chen Mo was too lazy to run, so he said, "Let's order room service. I'll do it. What do you want to eat?"

"It's up to your taste."

Chen Mo didn't hesitate and walked to the phone and ordered a few things.

During this time, Xi Siyan went to take a shower.

Chen Mo sorted out his bag. There was nothing else in it except a few books and papers.

When the bed opposite him started to vibrate a few times, Chen Mo looked at the closed bathroom door and ignored it. He hesitated for a moment before speaking until the vibration stopped and started again within two seconds.

"Xi Siyan."

There was no answer, only the sound of water running in the bathroom.

Chen Mo had no choice but to get up and walk over, picked up his phone, and saw an incoming call with the note "Mr. Jiang".

Go to the bathroom, knock on the door, and call, "Xi Siyan."

"Call me?" The sound of water stopped.

Chen Mo: "Well, your phone keeps ringing, do you want me to bring it to you?"

"Who's calling?"

Chen Mo thought this was some social figure he knew, "Mr. Jiang."

"Mom, you answer it. Say it's inconvenient for me."

Since he was an elder, Chen Mo didn't feel comfortable answering the call for him. "Open the door. I'll hold the phone and you can talk to me."

Xi Siyan's helpless laughter could be heard faintly through the glass door, "Chen Mo, I'm still naked."

"I don't want to see it either." Chen Mo said.

The frosted glass door could vaguely reflect the outline of a person. After Chen Mo heard a slight movement inside, the door opened from the inside with a click.

Only one third of it is open.

Hot steam rose up, and Chen Mo saw Xi Siyan pulling a bath towel off the hook beside him. The veins on his forearm were slightly visible, and he quickly said, "Okay, take it."

Chen Mo clicked the answer button, pressed the speakerphone button, and reached the phone into the door.

The woman's voice came out clearly in the spacious bathroom.

Jiang Jing: "What are you doing? I called you for such a long time but you didn't answer."

Xi Siyan: "Take a bath."

"Did you finish washing?"

"No." Xi Siyan interrupted the greeting, "What's the matter?"

Jiang Jing was obviously a man who didn't talk too much at critical moments, and she said directly, "Recently, the Yang family has contacted your father many times, all for the Beichuan project. I rarely ask about your father's business, but yesterday even your aunt Yang contacted me, asking if you had any unpleasantness with Shu Le during this period."

Xi Siyan's tone was as casual as if he was discussing the weather.

He spoke bluntly, "They were unwilling to give the Yang family convenience in business, so they changed a way to get the upper hand. Can't you tell?"

"Why do you have to be so direct?"

Jiang Jing added: "There are adult ways to deal with adult matters. You have known each other for so many years since you were little, are you really not going to have any contact with each other?"

Xi Siyan was already dressed at this time.

He opened the bathroom door completely, took the phone from Chen Mo's hand and came out.

The doorbell rang. It should be the room service. Xi Siyan motioned for him to open the door and answer it. He continued, "We have been in contact since childhood because of our ancestors. Now there is no need for contact because he has become more and more unscrupulous in his actions. It is true that Yang's great grandmother almost died while saving you from falling into the water, but this favor cannot be attributed to him anyway."

Jiang Jing rarely heard her son talk so much, and was a little surprised. "Are you saying something else?"

It just so happened that Chen Mo was discussing the menu with the waiter.

Because there was a free dessert, the waiter asked Chen Mo to help try it and give his evaluation.

Jiang Jing asked sharply: "What's that sound?"

"Classmate." Xi Siyan glanced towards the door.

Seeing Chen Mo bending over and filling out evaluation forms for people, and turning a deaf ear to what he just heard in the bathroom, he found it a little funny. He looked at the door and said to Jiang Jing, "Next time someone asks about this kind of thing, just say that I get along well with the son of the Yang family."

Jiang Jing: "This is nonsense. Not only did you expel him from your cycling club, but I heard that you also contributed to his leaving the experimental class. When we were young, I could see that you didn't like him following you, but you never did anything so extreme."

Xi Siyan: "It's not nonsense. The Yang family didn't treat the person they found as a son, but at least he has the title of a son."

Before the other party could say anything else, Xi Siyan just said good night and hung up.

Chen Mo turned around with the food.

"Did you finish the fight?"

Xi Siyan threw the phone away and said, "Yeah."

"Let's eat then?" Chen Mo raised the things in his hand to gesture.

There is no dining table in the room, only a coffee table.

Xi Siyan sat down on the sofa, not caring about his wet hair, and asked Chen Mo while opening the food box, "Don't you have anything to ask?"

"What do you want to ask?"

Chen Mo felt that the sofa was higher than the coffee table and it was uncomfortable to bend over, so he simply pulled a pillow and threw it on the carpet, then sat down cross-legged.

Xi Siyan glanced at him and reminded him, "The ground is cold."

"It's just for a while, it's not a big deal."

The topic just now has come to an end.

Chen Mo actually knew a little bit about the long-term exchanges between the Xi and Yang families, thanks to the old stories between the elders. However, from Xi Siyan's conversation just now, he saw more clearly that this kind of exchanges were full of temptations and gains and losses of interests.

He had not seen it so clearly in his previous life because even though he later held a senior position in the group, he had never touched any business related to the Xi family.

Of course, this excludes the last project completed before one's death.

At that time, the news of Xi Siyan's return to China was everywhere.

Although the team led by Chen Mo also worked tirelessly for more than half a month to fight for it, to be honest, he was not very confident of winning at that time.

However, Chen Mo was very curious about a question at this time, and asked: "If you become a boss in the future, and I don't do well after graduation, and I want to intern in your company, would you be willing to open a back door for me?"

"Come here." Xi Siyan said.

Chen Mo put a piece of green leaf into his mouth and gave him a speechless look, "No."

"Why?" Xi Siyan asked calmly.

Chen Mo: "You are too casual, which proves that your company is not that good."

Xi Siyan: “…”

The two of them had a simple dinner.

Lao Gou and his group also came back from eating at the restaurant outside.

Because it was very late, everyone came in one by one, said hello, made plans for where to go for a walk the next day, and then went back to their rooms to rest.

Chen Mo took a shower and then lay on the bed playing with his cell phone.

Xi Siyan might be suffering from mysophobia. Even though the room looked very clean, he was running back and forth, cleaning here and there.

Chen Mo put down his phone and said to the person who was still tying the garbage bag, "If the person in charge of this holiday villa knew that the boss behind the scenes came here and complained about the poor hygiene like a quality inspection committee, he would probably be so worried that he couldn't sleep at night."

Xi Siyan put the garbage at the door.

After closing the door, I finally went to bed and replied to him: "I'm not used to eating in the room. I always feel like the smell can't get rid of it."

Chen Mo was puzzled: "Then how do you endure it in the dormitory on weekdays?"

After all, Qi Lin and his friends often eat instant noodles and snail rice noodles in the dormitory.

Xi Siyan looked over and said, "That's because of limited conditions."

Chen Mo gave up, dropped his phone and went to bed to sleep.

Otherwise, if he continued talking, he always felt that the other party would think he was a germ and would want to kick him out of the room.

The night in the mountains is very quiet.

There are many people coming here to play during this season. Looking out from the window of Chen Mo's room, you can see the lights of the ski resort on the top of the mountain in the distance.

It was just late at night and everything was quiet.

Chen Mo couldn't remember what time he fell asleep.

I had a dream.

In the dream, he was also in high school, but I forgot whether he was in his second or third year.

winter.

He could never adapt to the cold and damp winter in Suicheng. There was no air conditioning in the classroom, and after sitting for a whole day, his legs would sometimes hurt so much that it was difficult for him to get up.

It's another day after school and it's raining outside.

Most people in the classroom had left, with only a few people still packing their bags slowly.

Chen Mo thought he had to sit for a while, but a message came in on his phone. It was an urging message from the family driver, saying that Yang Shule was in a hurry to go home because a classmate had asked him out.

There were also people talking in the corridor.

"Old Xi, are you still not leaving?"

Someone replied: "You guys go first, I still have to go to Lao Xiang's office."

"Okay, let's go first then."

"Bye-Bye."

"See you tomorrow."

Chen Mo was very annoyed.

He turned off his phone and ignored it.

Sitting there without moving.

Until a figure appeared next to the table, Chen Mo heard someone ask: "Not leaving?"

Chen Mo tilted his head and looked over expressionlessly.

The other party seemed to ignore his attitude and glanced down casually, "Leg pain?"

"No." Chen Mo stood up with his schoolbag. His knee twitched in pain, but he only paused for a moment and quickly walked out as if nothing had happened.

He started thinking about it after he walked out.

Who was that person just now?

Oh, it’s Xi Siyan, Yang Shule’s childhood sweetheart.

In the dream, Chen Mo felt that he was very strange.

There was a voice in my heart saying, aren't we quite familiar with each other? What is he doing?

He was about to turn back, but when he looked back, he found the classroom was empty and there was no one he knew well.

It was at this time that Chen Mo woke up.

He opened his eyes and was in a daze for a few seconds before he remembered where he was.

When I came to my senses, I felt something was wrong.

There was a dim bedside lamp on in the room, and there was a person sitting on the bed.

"Awake?" Xi Siyan asked.

Chen Mo propped up his upper body with his elbows, and was surprised to find that his knees were resting on Xi Siyan's legs. He was holding a towel in his hand, pressing it on his knees, and the constant heat coming over relieved the pain and discomfort.

"What's going on?" Chen Mo asked confusedly.

Xi Siyan glanced at him in the dark night and said, "I noticed you tossing and turning in the middle of the night, and even curled up your legs and hugged them. I guessed that you just arrived here and haven't adapted yet. Old Pang said that hot compress is good for blood circulation and can relieve your condition."

Chen Mo maintained that posture.

Everyone is dumbfounded.

He stepped back and said dryly, "Thank you. Actually, you don't have to worry about it. It's almost healed after acupuncture."

Xi Siyan placed his palm on Chen Mo's knee, holding it in place.

He said, "Don't move."