Chapter 44

Because of this New Year's Eve, Chen Mo was always in one family gathering or another until the sixth day of the New Year. He seemed to have become a popular figure all of a sudden, and uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters who he had never known before appeared one after another, as if they had never been estranged in the past.

Chen Mo never refuses. He accepts praise and listens to education.

However, whenever anyone asked him what good things the old man had given him, or whenever anyone wanted to "borrow" the old man's things from him on the pretext that they were busy, Chen Mo would pretend not to hear.

The year isn’t over yet.

The enthusiasm around him suddenly faded away.

Whenever his relatives mentioned him, they all said with a constipated look on their faces that he was a man who knew how to save money, and they were just short of saying that he was stingy.

Whether Chen Mo is stingy or not, those who know him will naturally know.

"Give us money again?" Not long after the second half of the second year of high school started, Lao K sent a message saying, "The investor you introduced before has decided to invest in us after evaluation. For this alone, I am very grateful to you."

The person opposite him immediately used a respectful title.

This made Chen Mo, who was secretly using his cell phone during self-study class, feel uncomfortable.

Chen Mo: "Just call me Chen Mo."

Lao K: "Okay, Boss Chen."

Chen Mo: “…”

Although he knew that the other party was not aware of his identity and he had also reminded Su Qianran not to reveal his information, when he was surrounded by high school students, he could not put himself in the shoes of the person sitting in the office in his previous life.

Besides, he doesn't like it.

I don't like the office environment with clear hierarchy between superiors and subordinates.

Every day there are endless documents to sign, endless meetings to hold, and endless personnel problems to resolve.

He thought back to when he was very young.

In a backward and secluded mountain village, I was shocked to find that the neighboring child's parents who were working away from home brought back a remote-controlled toy car.

That was the first time he developed a spirit of exploration into the world outside the mountains.

Even if he is in dire straits.

During the years he spent in junior high school in the county, he knew clearly from books, and from the various newly emerging KTVs and Internet cafes that not every pair of parents was like Chen Jianli and Li Yunru, and that life was never limited to the small space he could see.

Never falling behind in studying is his subconscious first way of escape.

Although he fell into another kind of self-cognition disorder after returning to the Yang family, this did not prevent him from giving up the search deep in his heart.

This is also why he later had the opportunity to meet Lao K and work with him.

He likes the ever-changing world.

Obsessed with cutting-edge technology and why it happens.

As long as he is in it, it seems that he is just himself at the beginning.

Chen Mo replied to Lao K, "This money is my official investment, and the previous money does not count. But I have a condition. I will not participate in any form of decision-making and management, and I cannot guarantee that I can provide mature technical support within five years."

Even though I own shares, this sounds like I'm giving away money for free.

The other party didn't reply for a long time.

Chen Mo had been keeping his head down when he suddenly heard two knocks.

When I looked up, I found that my homeroom teacher, Xiang Shengtaki, was standing next to me, staring at me with a deathly gaze.

"Hand it over." He stretched out his hand to Sheng Long.

This movement was enough to attract the attention of the whole class.

Chen Mo was suddenly brought back to his original form. He rubbed his nose, resigned himself to his fate, turned off the phone and handed it over.

After confiscating his phone, Xiang Shenglong did not forget to educate him: "It's been less than a month since the start of school and you're so indulgent. Are you getting carried away because of your good grades in the final exam last semester? There's still a long way to go."

"I was wrong, Lao Xiang." Chen Mo is a man of insight.

Xiang Shenglong: "What do you mean Lao Xiang? Pay attention to the classroom discipline and be serious."

There was a burst of laughter in the class.

Xiang Shenglong turned and walked towards the podium, saying unhappily: "What are you laughing at? Study hard. Look at Xi Siyan. He flew to the capital to participate in the competition at the beginning of the school term. If nothing unexpected happens, he will be able to complete the entire Olympic schedule by the end of his second year of high school. He is already far ahead of most people. And you are still here leisurely without any sense of urgency."

There were wailing sounds all around.

"Old Xiang, studying is hard enough. You don't need to use a monster like Brother Yan to humiliate common people like me."

"That's right. We are just honest people who follow the rules. Why should teachers and students be so treacherous?"

What students in the experimental class lack the least is eloquence.

Chen Mo was listening to Coke in the back, looked at the empty seat next to him, and felt a little dazed.

It's March now, and the cherry trees at the bottom of the teaching building are in full bloom.

At this moment, everyone in the classroom who said they were all ordinary people was working hard to pursue their own future.

Chen Mo felt a sense of urgency in his heart.

It is clearer and brighter than ever before.

Just a few days later, Chen Mo received information from Lao K about the project their team was currently working on, which was a special study on the application of intelligent technology in new media.

Chen Mo is no stranger to intelligent technology. After all, he had led related projects in his previous life.

This did not prevent him from consulting a large amount of information. There were many professional books as thick as bricks on the table in the dormitory.

He started from the beginning, and as his exchanges with Lao K increased, the content of their conversations became more and more professional. Lao K, who was still a college student at that time, also became more and more serious in his attitude.

As a high school student, Chen Mo naturally couldn't tell the other party his true information now.

People in the dormitory began to feel strange.

After all, Mr. Mo, who is known for his health preservation, doesn’t seem to be very health-conscious recently.

It’s not that he doesn’t soak his feet, drink tea, or wear long johns, but that he gives people a different feeling recently.

The laziness that had always been in him disappeared.

Instead, there was a feeling of firmness that seemed calm enough.

"What is this?" Qi Lin was flipping through an obscure English book on Chen Mo's desk while he and his girlfriend were having an affair online. He was shocked: "I can't understand it at all."

"It's about robots." Chen Mo said after taking a glance.

Qi Lin: "...Robot? What are you looking at this thing for?"

"I don't do anything, I just like it."

Chen Mo reached out and took the book back, weighed it, and said with a smile: "It's actually quite interesting."

"I don't understand your world." Qi Lin said in confusion: "I only had this feeling about Lao Xi before, and I felt that we were not in the same world at all. Brother Mo, are you going to follow in his footsteps recently?"

"I didn't." Chen Mo turned his chair easily. "Xi Siyan is cheating all of you. I am just cheating myself for my own pleasure. Look, Lao Xiang just confiscated my phone. I have to borrow yours to send a message to others."

As he was speaking, the black cell phone in his hand began to vibrate.

Chen Mo had already logged out of the social software, so he returned the phone to Qi Lin and said, "There's a call."

"It should be my girlfriend." Qi Lin looked sweet. He was too embarrassed to answer the call. He didn't even look at the screen. After the call was connected, he shouted, "Wife."

Chen Mo trembled in his chair.

The next second, Qi Lin's face was filled with a broken expression.

Stuttering: "Xi...Xi, no, wife, bah! I'm not calling you wife."

He explained for a long time, then handed the phone back to Chen Mo with a frown on his face.

"Looking for you."

"Looking for me?" Chen Mo checked for a moment before taking the phone. After seeing that it was Xi Siyan calling, he looked at Qi Lin with some sympathy before putting the phone to his ear: "What's up?"

I don't know if the signal on the other side is bad.

There was a crackling sound of electricity, but Xi Siyan's calm voice came through quickly, "Where's your phone? I sent you messages for several days but you didn't reply."

"You sent me a message?" Chen Mo was stunned. "My phone is with Lao Xiang. I was caught using it in class and it was confiscated."

Chen Mo spoke frankly, and Xi Siyan seemed to accept this reason and nodded.

Chen Mo now only knows that he is in the capital and is not very clear about the progress of the competition.

Ask him: "Where are you now? What are you doing?"

"I'm preparing to go abroad for a competition." Xi Siyan said, "I'm about to get in the car to go to the airport."

Chen Mo: "So fast?"

Xi Siyan: “Yeah.”

At this point, Chen Mo heard a voice calling out his name from the other end.

"Then go ahead." Chen Mo said with a smile, "Good luck in the competition, and a bright future ahead."

Xi Siyan responded: "Okay."

He added: "It's more troublesome to contact people abroad, so just leave a message if you have anything to say."

Chen Mo also agreed.

After what happened during the Chinese New Year, Chen Mo seemed to have gotten used to Xi Siyan knowing everything about him. He was also used to the possibility that if he really had something to do and went to him, he would not doubt the possibility that he would not help.

Even though he actually had nothing wrong.

Yang Qi'an has been busy trying to please himself lately, and his living expenses have doubled.

Zhou Yaoqiong didn't know if he had been taught a lesson by the old lady of the Zhou family again. After the beginning of the year, they suddenly implemented a policy of treating everyone equally. Apart from occasionally dealing with the soup and supplements brought by the driver, it didn't cause him much trouble.

As for Yang Zhi, Su Qianran was so busy with the project recently that he probably had a sense of crisis and had no time to pay attention to other things. After all, as far as Chen Mo knew, after Yang Shule was exposed for using his biological father and then being used in return, he did not stop there, but instead had more contact with him. The photos of them eating together in the restaurant were released, but the Yang family did not deal with it.

The platform that had been following Yang Shule was unaware of this.

He brought up the matter of his life again.

The title is quite sweet.

"The Rising Star and His Ordinary Father".

Yang Shule is probably busy trying to cover up the matter right now and has no time to appear in front of him.

Until he hung up the phone with Xi Siyan, Chen Mo didn't even think of asking him what he wanted to talk to him about.

On the other side, at noon when the sun was at its highest, the bus to the airport had been waiting for a while.

This time we went abroad to compete in groups.

Several young students, both boys and girls, sitting at the back were squeezing through the windows to look outside.

I saw the person who finally got his phone back.

Several people were excited: "Captain, who are you talking to on the phone?"

"Male or female?"

This is all the things young people of this age care about.

"Is it your girlfriend?" One girl seemed to be jealous, but in fact she was really asking in a low voice: "We were just released from prison with great difficulty, and we can't wait to call someone. Captain, tell me, who is so important?"

The person being booed wore an identity card on his chest indicating his nationality.

There was no trace of emotion on her face after being teased. She walked towards the car door without hesitation, reminding him, "Don't stick your head out so far when you're in a car. It threatens traffic safety, you know."

There was a burst of noise.

Wait for him to get on the bus and sit in the back window seat.

Someone was unwilling to give up, "Captain, you haven't answered us yet. Who did you just call? Was it a man or a woman?"

"Boy." Xi Siyan replied with his eyes closed.

The word "boy" directly killed most of the enthusiasm and made people feel it was boring.

One boy murmured, "What's the point of giving a call to a man at such an important moment?"

Xi Siyan opened his eyes and tilted his head: "It's quite interesting."

"……ah?"

Xi Siyan no longer dealt with these problems.

Close your eyes and go to sleep.

On the way to the airport, he took a short nap.

It was a short scene that was like a dream but not a dream.

It’s the same road, heading to the airport, but without the words “a bright future ahead”, that regret seems to be irreplaceable.

So when the plane flies to an altitude of ten thousand meters.

It's a small world, and the people here are typing a line in the memo.

——The road ahead is long and I wish you smooth sailing.