Chapter 2
Chen Mo took off his coat, slumped himself into the large chair in the corner, and lit a cigarette in silence.
The cigarette passed through his lungs, awakening his somewhat dull thoughts. He was immersed in it for a long time before he finally felt the reality of the fact that he had returned to high school.
All I could hear were the cursing voices of teenage boys, and the smell of summer sweat mixed with various cheap cigarettes, snacks and instant noodles, filling the entire space with a stuffy feeling.
There's a message coming in on the phone.
The person who mentioned the eldest brother asked: Where is he?
Chen Mo ignored him.
Another two minutes passed.
Big brother: Uncle Li, the driver, said he didn't pick anyone up after school. It's because my parents are unhappy about withdrawing the lawsuit. You want to kick Shule out of the Yang family, but that's impossible. I advise you not to make trouble.
Another two minutes passed.
Brother: Reply. You don’t even know how to use a cell phone, right?
Patience seems to be running out.
Twenty-five-year-old Yang Zhi has already been recognized as the heir of the Yang family.
The reason why my father Yang Qi'an was able to take over the Yang family from his four brothers and sisters was because he married Zhou Yaoqun, the second daughter of the Zhou family who was equally powerful. For many years, the couple lived in disharmony and their marriage was barely maintained by interests.
The year Chen Mo and Yang Shule were born, their relationship was in jeopardy.
Therefore, the elders on both sides love Yang Shule dearly.
Yang Zhi, his brother who was eight years older than him, was brought up to be serious and old-fashioned, but he truly loved Yang Shule and had protected her for many years.
Chen Mo is different.
He showed up halfway and had no feelings for the Yang family.
Except for a little guilt and some debt.
They sent him to the best high school, the best classes.
Give him enough pocket money to spend.
So they didn't understand, and even wondered, what else was he dissatisfied with?
Chen Mo also remembered what Yang Zhi mentioned in the message.
The cause of the incident was that the Yang family accidentally leaked the news of the search for their son, which affected the fluctuation of the group's stock price. In addition, Yang Shule had been ill for more than half a month, and the couple was very worried, so they directly withdrew the lawsuit against Li Yunru and clarified to the public: it was the nurse in the hospital who made a mistake at the beginning, and it was not a child swap.
Even in the clarification report, the Yang family created an image of Chen Mo as a rural inspirational role model.
He is ambitious and sensible. Although he is poor, his family is harmonious.
His parents worked hard to support his education, hoping that he would succeed in life. He was also very grateful, and his background meant nothing more to him than having another home.
In his previous life, Chen Mo made a big fuss in the Yang family because of this.
He suggested that if the Yang family wanted to withdraw the lawsuit, Yang Shule must leave the Yang family.
That was his revenge on Li Yunru's childishness.
Because from the day when he was found by the Yang family, Chen Mo finally realized that Li Yunru didn't love him. He didn't even deserve that cheap, remaining motherly love.
But for some reason, the news that he wanted to kick Yang Shule out of the Yang family spread to the school.
Li Rui and his gang blocked him into an Internet cafe.
His parents thought he was doing this out of jealousy and unwillingness, so Yang Zhi also sent a message to warn them.
Is it ironic?
Two lifetimes have passed, but I still find it ironic when I think about this.
Moreover, he had a high fever before he was forced into the Internet cafe, and it was the Internet cafe owner who sent him to the hospital for infusion after he fainted.
For the entire night, no one in the Yang family asked him where he had gone.
But when he returned the next day, he ran into Yang Shule, who also had a fever and was about to leave the Yang family with a suitcase.
Yang's parents pulled him aside, and said in great sorrow: "Where are you going when you are so sick? You are not allowed to go."
The eldest brother Yang Zhu took the suitcase from his hand, looked at Chen Mo, and said meaningfully: "Shu Le, this is your home, no one has the right to make you move out of here."
The driver and servants gathered around, pointing and talking.
"Why should Xiaole move away? He is my favorite person on weekdays."
"Yeah, so what if they are your biological children? They bully me like this as soon as they come back."
"You even insisted on sending my foster mother to jail. What an ungrateful person!"
"Growing up in the country, it's normal to be a little mean."
Yang Shule was the center of attention, but she was a victim that Chen Mo disliked. "I will move out, Chen Mo, can you please stop irritating my parents and being so hard on my brother in the future?"
All of Chen Mo's suppressed emotions burst out in an instant at that moment.
"Move out? Okay." Chen Mo sneered: "Then you must remember to love your biological parents as well."
Did you finally move out?
Of course not.
On the contrary, it was Chen Mo who completely understood his situation from that day on.
If you can’t keep up with the learning pace of the urban high school, you should study very hard.
He will fight hard for those things he wants that originally belong to him.
The fire of anger in his chest that could not find an outlet turned into his obsession to excel. It grew stronger and stronger, and after many years, it finally became a prairie fire, burning him beyond recognition.
When Chen Mo was 28 years old, many people hated him and were afraid of him. He already had enough confidence and money, but the price was a body full of holes.
The condition in the stomach is so serious that it is almost stomach cancer.
I often have respiratory infections and have fever from time to time.
The knee problem he suffered when Chen Jianli forced him to kneel in the snow for a night when he was a child was unbearable, and even after surgery, he still felt unbearable pain on rainy days.
The doctor, whom I had known for many years, slapped his medical records and said angrily, "If you don't quit smoking and drinking, you'll have to wait for someone to collect your body!"
Chen Mo was busy with work, "No, I'll find a place that doesn't need to collect bodies."
"You are sick!"
“You knew it on the first day?”
In fact, not long after that meeting, Chen Mo encountered revenge.
The middle-aged boss who had been the enemy of the Yang family for many years, with a dozen people, had a gloomy look in his eyes: "Yang Zhi is ruthless enough, so what if you join forces to destroy me. What you are getting now is what you deserve, and what your Yang family deserves!"
Chen Mo, leaning on the edge of the fourth floor of the unfinished building, looked surprisingly calm. He was neither surprised nor surprised at the upcoming ending.
He said calmly, "I don't object to joining forces with Yang Zhi. Who in this world doesn't love money?"
"But you are wrong about one thing."
"My last name is Chen."
"If you use me to take revenge on the Yang family, you will probably be disappointed."
Chen Mo didn’t know whether anyone came to collect his body in the end.
He thought, there should be.
After ten days or half a month, someone would find his body and call the police. For the sake of their reputation as a wealthy family, the Yang family would not be stingy with the funeral expenses.
*
Yang Zhu didn't send any more messages on the phone, but made a phone call instead.
Chen Mo let the ringing continue and shook off the half cigarette ash on his fingertips on the armrest.
The symptoms of high fever are obvious.
My limbs are sore and I feel dizzy.
A few boys who were playing games nearby came in later and started to curse and have a passionate discussion at the same time.
"Go around and around!"
"Fuck! Died again. Restart."
While waiting, someone said, "Did you check the group? It seems that the place where Li Rui and his gang blocked people today was this Internet cafe, right?"
"Who are you blocking?"
"Chen Mo from the experimental class."
"Oh, you and I are in the same class, Lao Gou. You must be a model student."
The boy named Lao Gou happened to be next to Chen Mo and cursed, "Get lost."
"Tell me about it. What's going on? There's been a lot of gossip about him and that Yang Shule from your class lately. I'm really curious."
"I'm not familiar with it. I can't remember clearly. If you like melons so much, why don't you just go to the door and buy two? Three yuan for two kilograms. You won't be too full."
After a burst of laughter.
Someone else responded, "I heard that his family paid for it. But I can't say for sure. The education method in some backward counties is like that. All good students are basically the same. They are all nerds who are good at rote memorization."
Chen Mo was bored listening to this and asked casually, "What does a nerd look like?"
Gou Yiyang was startled when he suddenly heard someone talking next to him.
When I turned around and saw him, my first reaction was: Who is this guy? He seems quite familiar.
Two seconds later, it was awkward, awkward again, even more awkward...
Is there anything worse in the world than talking about someone behind their back and being caught red-handed?
Someone else asked stupidly: "Lao Gou, who is that?"
Gou Yiyang coughed twice, leaned back to make it easier for others to see him, and introduced him: "Chen Mo, my classmate."
Others: “…”
Excuse me, the person next to me with crossed legs, eyes full of tiredness as if he had stayed up all night, and cigarette smoke all over his face, is he the rumored Chen Mo?
Gou Yiyang's mouth also twitched.
It was true that he said he was not familiar with Chen Mo. The person at the center of this topic had transferred to the experimental class for more than a month, and Gou Yiyang's impression of him still remained on his self-introduction on the first day.
The man standing on the podium was not as Vino as imagined, nor did he have the arrogance of making it to the top.
Those eyes always seem cold when he looks at people. He is indeed not an easy person to approach.
So he took the initiative to talk, and Gou Yiyang's first reaction was that he was looking for trouble.
Gou Yiyang had no intention of provoking trouble. He guessed that he was in a bad mood because of the trouble he had been in today, so he had to smooth things over for his brother: "Don't mind it, they don't have any other intentions."
"Do I have to make a fuss about it?" Chen Mo looked over and raised his eyebrows.
Gou Yiyang was stunned and let go of the mouse: "Then come at me."
Chen Mo retracted his gaze and suddenly smiled: "Forget it."
This classmate whose name sounds like "dog" is actually the doctor friend that Chen Mo later became very familiar with. It's just that they became familiar with each other in their previous life after graduating from college, not in high school.
In Chen Mo's impression, Dr. Gou always had a serious and occasionally funny face. Chen Mo could not remember what he looked like in high school at all.
He wasn't thinking about that at the time.
At this moment, someone at the door suddenly shouted, "Lai Tuzi is here!"
"Fuck!"
“Run, run!”
There was chaos in the Internet cafe.
Chen Mo raised his eyes and looked towards the door.
The next second, he was forcibly pulled up.
I heard Lao Gou say, "Brother, let's put aside our grudges and hatreds for now. Saving our lives is the most important thing."
Chen Mo slowly went to get his coat and asked casually, "Are you so afraid of him?"
"Aren't you afraid? That's Lai Xianfu, the head of the senior class." Gou Yiyang looked at him as if to say, 'I wonder how long you can keep up this pretense.' He then stepped forward and picked up his coat for him, saying, "Run first. The experimental class is our main target. If he catches you and me in the internet cafe, neither of us will see the sun tomorrow."
Chen Mo was inexplicably dragged away and ran out of the Internet cafe through the back door with a group of people.
It was already dark outside.
There are almost no pedestrians in this street in the back alley. The scattered shops emit dim lights, and some stray cats are frightened and quickly jump out from the garbage dump.
After running for such a distance, Chen Mo felt his heart beating abnormally fast.
He held the coat he had retrieved and leaned against the wall behind him.
Someone leaned on his knees and panted, asking, "Didn't Lai Baldy catch up with us?"
"Probably not."
"I didn't have any gaming experience today. What bad luck!"
"Then let's go."
"How about having a barbecue together?"
"Together?"
They asked Chen Mo.
Sometimes, things between boys are simple. These people are different from Li Rui's group of real scoundrels. They only heard about Chen Mo from hearsay before, and there is no real grudge between them.
Chen Mo shook his head. Due to the high fever, his back was already soaked with cold sweat.
The wind blowing in the back alley brings a chill that penetrates the bones.
"You go." Chen Mo's voice was slightly hoarse.
I don’t know if Gou is destined to be a doctor, but his intuition is amazing. He looked at him and said, “Are you okay? I noticed you didn’t look well when we were in there just now.”
After he said this, the others also looked over.
Chen Mo was used to getting along with the adult Gou Yiyang, so he habitually said, "He won't die."
Just then, there was another message reminder on my phone.
Upon closer look, it was actually Yang Zhi.
Yang Zhi: Can you please check what time it is now? Chen Mo, no matter how unhappy you are, there must be a limit.
What the hell, did Yang Zhi send him so many messages in his previous life?
Chen Mo replied: Care about me?
The other party must have been disgusted enough to fall completely silent.
Chen Mo achieved his goal, pressed return, paused for two seconds, and wrote a sentence on the blank tab.
——Please do not disturb me while I am enjoying my retirement.
Then turn off your phone.
His fingers unconsciously touched the cigarette box in his pocket, and he suddenly wanted to smoke another one.
Then he remembered that his lighter was left in the Internet cafe, so he gave up.
I put my phone down and looked up, only to find that none of the people had left.
"Aren't you going to have a barbecue?" Chen Mo changed his mind and said, "I'll treat you."
"No need for you to invite me."
"that is."
"Please, old Gou."
"Go to hell, why don't you ask?"
"Then let's split the bill."
The atmosphere among the young people was lively. For a moment, Chen Mo suddenly felt that life was not so difficult to live, and people did not need to live too clearly.
Chen Mo stood up from the wall and said, "Let's go. I'll treat you. I'm worried about having too much money and where to spend it."
"Fuck, that's such a bad thing to say."
"You are actually such a Chen Mo."
"Mr. Mo is generous."
Amidst the harmless jeers, Chen Mo just stood up and felt dizzy.
Old Gou, who was standing next to him, grabbed his wrist and said in surprise: "Fuck! Don't you feel the high temperature?"
Chen Mo used the force to stand firm and looked at Lao Gou's face, which still had collagen. "You are so jumpy that even if the patient is not sick, he will be scared to death by you."
"Let me see if you kill one of them."
"I'm sorry, I can't die for the time being."
"Neuropathy."
Chen Mo's shoulders shook with laughter.
The young Lao Gou looked gloomy: "Shut up, what's so funny?"
This place is not easy to get a taxi.
The head teacher was blocking the front door again.
Lao Gou had no choice but to use the love he had among his few classmates and asked others to support Chen Mo while he called someone to drive over to pick him up.
Ten minutes later.
A car slid quietly into the alley, the rear door opened, and a long leg stepped out.
The group of people spoke up.
"Brother Yan, here!"
"Squad leader, you are quite fast."
"Brother, you are awesome. You are driving a Maybach and showing off in the streets. Are you afraid that Lai Baldy can't catch us?"
The man wore a cap and his dark eyes swept over the people present. He asked in a deep and pleasant voice, "Where is the person in our class who is so sick that he can't walk?"
Chen Mo, who was standing in the dark at the back, cursed when he saw the tall figure clearly.
Lao Gou is unreliable. He cheated him the first time he saw him after coming back.
He invited the monitor of the experimental class, the top student in the grade, and Yang Shule's childhood sweetheart whom he had liked for many years.
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