Chapter 57
Qi Lin was already in a bad mood before meeting his "girlfriend", and he hurt his enemy 800 times and hurt himself 1,000 times. The other party stole all that was left of his underwear. In Xi Siyan's words, he deserved it. Of course, the other party lied first, which was really bad and deeply hurt the heart of an innocent boy.
Chen Mo really had doubts about Qi Lin's sexual orientation, although Qi Lin refused to admit that he had developed feelings for someone during those days.
"He will go astray."
On the swaying bus, Chen Mo said to Xi Siyan next to him, "Are you really going to just leave it alone?"
Xi Siyan looked over and asked, "What kind of forked road?"
Chen Mo was stuck for a moment, and after hesitating for a few seconds, he said, "For example, if he can't get over it for a while, and his private life becomes chaotic in the future..."
"The Qi family won't let it go."
Xi Siyan's tone was very calm. Seeing Chen Mo's disbelief, he said, "You probably don't know that the Qi family has very strict education. Qi Lin looks unreliable, but in fact, seeing his father is like a mouse seeing a cat. He doesn't dare. And it's not difficult to find the person, but didn't you notice? He shouted loudly, but in fact, he hesitated when it came to calling the police. He didn't want the other party to go to jail, and he didn't think about retrieving the lost property."
Chen Mo was stunned.
He certainly hadn't expected this.
Qi Lin spent more than one day with the other person.
Apart from what he himself narrated, no one else knew the details.
So how did those rumors about Suicheng start in the previous life?
Chen Mo had seen Qi Lin twice as an adult on certain occasions. His temperament was indeed quite different from now. He was completely the kind of playboy who had been around many women. But when he thought about it carefully, although the rumors were widespread, he really didn't see anyone around him.
He was a person who had suffered greatly from the rumors. Since Xi Siyan was so sure, Chen Mo let it go.
After all, compared to knowing Qi Lin or the Qi family, Xi Siyan must know more.
It was already mid-August.
More than half of the summer vacation has passed.
The day we set out was a sunny day with no clouds in the sky. It was almost noon when we got off the high-speed train and got on the bus.
There were quite a few people on the bus, and there was a special smell of old buses, which made one feel dizzy after smelling it for a long time. Chen Mo opened the window and let the summer wind pour in, feeling the swaying of the bus on the winding road, which gave him a refreshing and relaxing feeling.
From Baima County to the town, people continued to get on the bus.
The people on the bus were talking loudly in dialect, talking about trivial matters, which was completely different from the atmosphere in first-tier cities. Seeing people carrying live chickens and backpacks, squeezing Master Xi so hard that he had nowhere to stand, Chen Mo wanted to laugh.
"Change seats with me." Chen Mo suggested.
Xi Siyan moved the chicken cage at his feet to the aisle and said, "No need."
The aunt with the chicken noticed it and said loudly, "Hey, young man, don't mind it. I bought this black chicken from the city and brought it back to nourish my eldest grandson. He will be promoted to high school in the county soon, and he has extra classes during the summer vacation. It's very hard."
Xi Siyan shook his head: "It's okay."
"It looks like you are students too? Are you going home after your make-up classes?"
Seeing that Xi Siyan couldn't handle this kind of enthusiasm, Chen Mo poked his head out and said with a smile: "Yes, I'm a senior in high school, and I just finished my make-up class."
"Oh." The aunt nodded, "That's too hard."
After saying that, he muttered to himself, "Looks like he's from the city."
Xi Siyan glanced at Chen Mo and said, "You're a senior in high school and just finished the college entrance exam. Where did you take the extra classes?"
"If I hadn't said that, the women would have found out all about your family tree along the way." Chen Mo nudged his arm with his elbow. "They are all quite enthusiastic. You should have been on vacation at a beach or a five-star hotel. It was me who insisted on coming here. You have to overcome it."
Xi Siyan raised his eyebrows: "Who said that vacations must be at the beach and in a hotel? Don't think too much. The purpose of the trip is to be with you, not where to go."
The farther the car goes, the more familiar the scenery on the roadside becomes.
During Chen Mo's three years in junior high school and one year in high school, he would travel back and forth on this road every month.
In the eyes of others, he had only been away for a year.
In fact, he had been away from this place for more than ten years.
Chen Mo said he wanted to come back to take a look, but he actually had no destination in mind. After all, the old house of the Chen family was not considered a home, and after the couple went to jail, there should be no one inside.
So the first thing Chen Mo did when they arrived in the town was to take Xi Siyan to the only better hotel in the town to book a room.
Ten kilometers away from this town, there is a famous tourist attraction in Baima County. With its pleasant climate, many people come here every summer to escape the heat. Chen Mo was originally worried that there would be no rooms left, but the front desk said that he was lucky because someone had just checked out early this morning.
Standard double room.
The environment looks quite clean.
It was two o'clock in the afternoon.
Relying on his memory, Chen Mo took Xi Siyan to a noodle restaurant he remembered for lunch.
"I've been here." Xi Siyan sat on a small stool by the roadside, blending into the bustling scene without being abrupt.
Chen Mo looked up and hummed in confusion.
Xi Siyan pointed to the breakfast shop not far from the two of them and said, "Just over a year ago, a motorcade of reporters and local leaders arrived early in the morning. It was still dark and raining, and the guide said it would take another hour to get to Yuhuai Village. Only that breakfast shop was open at the time. The leader of your town asked someone to buy breakfast, and I got two buns and a cup of soy milk."
Chen Mo has a magical sense of time and space dislocation.
When he returned to this place after more than ten years, he listened to Xi Siyan, who had been here for a short stay more than a year ago, recounting the details of that time.
It seemed as if he understood this place much more deeply than he did.
It's like, it turns out I'm not the only one who remembers it, and someone else has taken away some of the unspeakable complexity.
This made Chen Mo recall the related situations in his memory.
"How does it taste?" Chen Mo asked.
Xi Siyan seemed to think about it, "I forgot, I didn't eat much, but I remember that it tasted very strong like soy milk."
Chen Mo smiled and said, "That's a pity, his buns taste pretty good."
Xi Siyan stared at his face for a while.
"Yes, I think it's a pity too. I should try it."
Finished lunch.
Coming across a tricycle that was heading to Yuhuai Village, Chen Mo decided to take Xi Siyan with him to take a look.
The road leading to Yuhuai Village was built only a few years ago and is a dead end. Apart from the farmers' own cars, there are almost no hitchhikers using this road.
The tricycle was making a lot of noise. The uncle driving it was from the next village and didn't know Chen Mo.
After chatting for a few minutes along the way, Chen Mo just said that he was here to visit relatives.
Xi Siyan and he sat opposite each other in the back truck bed. When the road was bumpy or there were stones, the car would shake violently. Chen Mo hadn't ridden in a car like this for years, and he was so frightened that he whispered "Fuck!" several times. Then he looked at Xi Siyan's messy hair blown by the wind, and his face was only slightly stiff after two bumps and shocks, and thought that his adaptability was actually better than his.
The uncle dropped the two off at the entrance of the village and left.
The other party refused to take the money that Chen Mo tried to force, so Chen Mo quietly put it in the corner of the truck bed.
He just planned to come for a stroll and leave.
As a result, before he could move from the big tree at the entrance of the village, he heard a voice: "Chen Mo? Is it Chen Mo?"
Chen Mo turned around.
Seeing a middle-aged woman with a basket of vegetables a few steps away, he identified her for a few seconds before tentatively speaking, "Auntie?"
"Oh, it's really you. Why didn't you tell me you came back?" The woman heard the word "Auntie" and came forward excitedly. She grabbed Chen Mo's sleeve and looked him up and down, saying, "You've changed. You've become taller and whiter. Auntie can't recognize you."
Chen Mo let the woman grab him, with a little smile on his face, and said, "How are you?"
"Okay, okay, there's nothing wrong with that." After the woman finished her excitement, she looked at the tall young man next to Chen Mo and asked, "What is this?"
"My classmate, Xi Siyan." Then he turned to Xi Siyan and said, "This is the auntie who used to live next door. She is the mother of Xiao Hei that I told you about."
"Hello." Xi Siyan greeted politely.
The middle-aged woman wiped her hands awkwardly and said with a smile, "Okay."
At this time, four or five people, both men and women, carrying hoes, were walking together on a small path not far away.
Compared to the sincerity of Xiao Hei's mother, the excitement in these people's attitudes was genuine, but their words were purely polite, and perhaps even contained a bit of temptation and gossip.
"Is it really Chen Mo? He has changed a lot. Otherwise, people would say that their parents are amazing. They are rich people in the city."
"Indeed, didn't Chen Jianli and his wife also go to the city to enjoy their lives?"
"No?" They chatted among themselves, "Can we trust Chen Jianli?"
"It's true. My sister-in-law's brother was doing decoration work in Suicheng. For a while, Chen Jianli took him out for drinks every day, saying that he was very rich. He even admitted that the money was given by the Yang family."
"How generous! Rich people just expose themselves, which is enough for ordinary people like us to eat for a lifetime."
"Yes, Chen Jianli even said that he recognized his son. With his character, I didn't expect that he would be born to be an emperor, which is better than the rest of us."
When this was mentioned, someone turned to Chen Mo.
"Chen Mo? Why did you come back alone? Your parents didn't come with you?" The person who said this looked at Xi Siyan: "Is this Chen Jianli's biological son? Why doesn't he look like him? I remember he didn't look like this a year ago..."
Xiao Hei's mother finally couldn't stand it anymore.
He said with two spit sounds: "What nonsense are you talking about! You say all kinds of nonsense every day."
Without waiting for others to reply, she directly pulled Chen Mo and Xi Siyan away, saying that she wanted to keep them for dinner.
Away from other people.
Auntie then carefully asked Chen Mo: "Tell me the truth, did Chen Jianshi really go to the city to look for you?"
"No." Chen Mo comforted: "He is in jail."
Xiao Hei's mother widened her eyes in shock, "Is this true?"
"real."
"That bastard deserves it!"
Chen Mo and Xi Siyan explained that the Chen family was the only family in Yuhuai Village, and they had no relatives. Chen Jianli usually made friends with a bunch of lousy people, and they might drink and brag together in Suicheng, but they were destined not to know the whole truth.
This is also why even though the verdicts for Chen Jianli and Li Yunru have come out, the people here are still completely unaware of it.
Chen Mo and Xi Siyan couldn't refuse the invitation and went to Auntie's house.
Auntie's husband injured his leg at a construction site three years ago and has been lame ever since. When he saw Chen Mo and Xi Siyan appear, he hurried to the field to pick some green beans, saying that he wanted to add a dish to them.
Xi Siyan took the initiative to help.
"Where's Xiao Hei?" Chen Mo didn't see anyone after he went in, so he asked, "Shouldn't he be on vacation too?"
"He stopped studying a long time ago." Auntie said unhappily, "He said studying was a headache, so half a year ago his uncle used his connections to get him an apprenticeship in a county barber shop. Now that he's got the job, he said he's busy and hasn't been home for several months."
Chen Mo was stunned for a moment, and said, "Then he did it. At least he was willing to do it."
"That's because he has no future. Unlike you, who has good grades since childhood and can earn your own tuition in junior high school. Unlike that brat, he is not easy to worry about. If you hadn't fought for him in junior high school, he would have been bullied." At this point, Auntie immediately stood up and said, "I have to call him. He will be happy to know you are back. He might even ask for leave to come back."
"Aunt." Chen Mo quickly pulled her back and said, "Stop fighting. We'll be leaving soon. It's too much trouble to have him come back specially."
Auntie hesitated: "In the year since you left, he still thinks about you a lot."
The next second he sat back and said, "Alright. Chen Mo, don't blame Auntie for being blunt. You shouldn't have come back. What's so special about Chen Jianli and Li Yunru that you should care about? And you don't belong in this poor mountain valley. Why did you come back after leaving?"
Chen Mo smiled and said, "I don't miss those things. I miss you and my uncle and aunt, the ditch in front of the door, and the big locust tree at the entrance of the village. If you hadn't saved me when I was a child, I wouldn't be alive today."
Chen Mo could never forget the warmth of the blanket wrapped around him on that snowy day.
It’s just that in his previous life he couldn’t face himself, and he didn’t have a peaceful enough mindset to look back on the past.
Auntie's eyes suddenly turned red.
He cursed in a low voice: "Those two people are black-hearted and blind."
Chen Mo smiled and took a piece of paper from the table and handed it over.
When I turned around, I saw Xi Siyan, who had just returned from the fields, standing at the door for a long time. He didn't say a word or move.
But seeing that the conversation was over, he said after entering the door: "Uncle asked me to come back and get another bag."
"Yes, yes." Auntie quickly went into the house and took out another one.
Chen Mo could feel the awkwardness of his uncle and aunt when facing Xi Siyan.
After all, it was obvious that he was not from here and did not fit in.
Moreover, they no longer remembered that Xi Siyan had actually been here, and Xi Siyan's attitude was completely different from the first glance he gave them last year, and it was completely impossible to make any association.
After dinner, the sun had already set.
Because there is no car here, the uncle and aunt refused to let them leave.
Chen Mo and Xi Siyan had no choice but to decide to leave early tomorrow morning.
At dusk, Chen Mo accompanied his uncle in the yard to enjoy the cool air, occasionally talking about Xiao Hei's current situation. Chen Mo would also talk about himself, but he would only talk about irrelevant things, such as his academic status, his target university, and his future plans.
The atmosphere is very harmonious.
In the lighted house behind her, the aunt took the vegetable basket from the young man, pointed to the yard and said, "I haven't seen him so happy in a long time."
Xi Siyan knew she was referring to her husband.
Seeing Xi Siyan listening attentively, the aunt couldn't help but nag at him: "He actually likes Chen Mo very much, and always says that the child is not simple. When he was a child, well, I can't bear to mention those things. Chen Jianli and his wife treated him like a kitten or a puppy. He was so thin that you could see his collarbone. Your uncle and I actually thought about bringing him here to raise him, but we are so rootless in this country, so we have no choice but to secretly give him some food and supplies sometimes. The child is honest and self-sufficient, he supports himself and earns a living from Chen Jianli. When he was in junior high school, he beat Chen Jianli so hard that the whole village called him an ungrateful person, but he is not an ungrateful person at all. Three years ago, your uncle injured his leg in the county, and he gave us all the few thousand yuan he earned from working..."
On the stone steps of the yard, Chen Mo squatted there and stroked a yellow kitten.
The light from inside the house created a fluffy effect on his head.
Xi Siyan looked at him for a long time.
For some reason, he felt as if he had stood in this place and heard these words more than once.
But the person chatting with the man was not on the steps in front of the house.
This illusion comes for no reason and is empty.
It makes people feel inexplicably uneasy.
"Is this like the one you had?"
Chen Mo heard a familiar voice behind him and subconsciously said, "I have never raised a cat."
After saying that, he was stunned and thought, it’s over.
That time, he was caught in a dream by Xi Siyan, and he made up a story that he had raised a stray cat named Ada. Xi Siyan also mocked him for being fashionable and giving the cat an English name.
Chen Mo turned around awkwardly, stood up, and acted as if nothing had happened.
"Oh, you mean the one? It ran away after just a few days of keeping it. I didn't even react when you mentioned it so suddenly."
Xi Siyan suddenly waved, "Come here."
"What are you doing?" Chen Mo was puzzled.
But he still took two steps forward, and the next second Xi Siyan pulled him to his chest and hugged him tightly.
Chen Mo was like a frightened bird, and whispered in shock: "Fuck, are you crazy?"
While he was struggling, he heard Xi Siyan seem to let out a long sigh of relief.
"What's wrong?" Chen Mo relaxed a little when he saw that the uncle and aunt didn't pay any attention to them, and asked, "I said you were spoiled, how could you..."
The rest of the words were not spoken.
Because the uncle who was listening to the radio turned around and asked, "What's wrong? Why are you hugging him? Chen Mo, is your classmate in trouble? Come and talk to me."
Chen Mo opened his mouth, and was overwhelmed by this sudden concern.
It was Xi Siyan.
He naturally let go of Chen Mo, but his left hand remained behind his waist.
Naturally: "Uncle, it's okay, I'm afraid he won't be used to it at night, and he won't be happy to let Chen Mo live with me."
"Chen Mo." The uncle immediately frowned and lectured like an elder, "That's what you did wrong. It's not easy for your classmates to come all the way here with you. Ask your aunt to move the bed. You're not used to the countryside. It's hot, so just bear with it."
Chen Mo glanced at Xi Siyan: "Are you really not used to it?"
"Yes." Xi Siyan said calmly, "Stay with me tonight."
Chen Mo spitted: "You are kidding."
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