Chapter 6
The next morning, before Chen Mo got up, he heard a noise outside.
The Yang family made a particularly extravagant event for a small class reunion. But perhaps because the old man came yesterday, the Yang couple went out early today and did not stay at home as they did before to show their respect.
It was almost nine o'clock and there were already quite a few cars parked outside the villa.
Those who can befriend Yang Shule are not from bad families. But he is popular, and many of the invited classmates are ordinary, and they can't help but be amazed when they enter the door.
A wide variety of juices and desserts.
Huge crystal chandelier in the living room.
The butler with his hands ready to wait, and the servants busying about in and out.
"Shule, are you feeling better?" Five or six young boys surrounded Yang Shule and asked him enthusiastically as they walked by: "Don't worry, we have divided up all the class notes during this period and sorted them in double copies. We brought them to you today."
"Yeah, you don't know how bored we were during the time you weren't here."
"When you come back, we'll make an appointment to watch a movie together. There's an escape room just opened in the south of the city. You're so smart, you have to take us through it."
Today, Yang Shule specially wore the dress that his mother prepared for him.
He wore a suit with a bow tie and had his hair done up, looking as formal as he did on every birthday in previous years.
After hearing these words, he finally felt relieved from his anxiety and a smile appeared on his face.
Before today, he was afraid that no one would come, afraid that they would look down on him, and even more afraid that others would point fingers at him. But the facts proved that he was not the biological son of the Chen family living in Yuhuai Village, and that all the interest classes and study classes he had attended since childhood were not in vain. Even though some rich kids had been good friends with him before and followed his lead, it was only because of his family background, but his parents' love was real, and he still had the surname Yang and was still staying here, and that was the fact.
She said she wanted to leave when she was angry, and said in front of Chen Mo that she didn't need charity, but she was just afraid that her parents would no longer love her and that she would lose everything in one day.
He didn't even bother to hide his hostility towards Chen Mo.
Chen Mo, what can he get from a family like the Yang family by charging around like that? Let him fight and compete. In an occasion like today, if he makes any move, he will definitely become the target of public criticism.
Yang Shule looked around and didn't see him, so he looked away, nodded and replied to his classmates, "I'm almost well now, and I'll be back to school soon."
"That's great." Qi Li, who has a baby face, comes from a catering family. His family is not as wealthy as the Yang family. He seems to be best friends with Yang Shule. He looked around at the door and said with envy, "Shule, your parents are so good to you. By the way, should we go say hello to your uncle and aunt?"
At this point, Yang Shule's face suddenly froze.
He couldn't admit to anyone that the parents who had agreed to help him entertain his classmates at home were not at home today.
Yang Shule's face showed no emotion at all, and he said casually: "My parents said that they would not participate in the children's party, otherwise they were afraid that everyone would feel uncomfortable. They were busy with business at home, so they were not here today."
"Oh, that's okay." Qi Li changed the subject and asked, "Where's your elder brother?"
Yang Shule felt a little disdainful of Qi Li's appearance.
He had been to the Yang family several times, and each time he had secretly inquired about his eldest brother.
My eldest brother has no say in his marriage and he already has a regular relationship with a male partner. How could he possibly have anything to do with a high school boy?
But there was nothing wrong with his expression, and he said, "My eldest brother is not here either."
"No." Qi Li was disappointed for a moment, but soon smiled again, "Then you can ask your brother to come with you next time we get together. When we had a party before, he paid a lot of guests to ask us to take care of you. It's hard to find a brother like him even with a lantern."
Others followed suit.
When Yang Shule heard this, he felt a little proud and did not refuse.
More and more people came one after another.
Yang Shule stood outside stubbornly, looking towards the door from time to time, as if waiting for something.
The two or three people who were with him smiled knowingly.
Qi Li said bluntly, "Waiting for the squad leader?"
"Don't talk nonsense." Yang Shule said, "The Xi family and our family only have some business dealings. Ah Yan and I met a few times when we were young. During the Chinese New Year last year, the two families found out that we were in the same class. You also know that I tend to have allergies and colds every year when the seasons change, so my parents asked him to take care of me at school."
"Oh~ Ah Yan." Someone started to make a noise and deliberately asked others, "Have any of you heard anyone in school call him Ah Yan?"
Yang Shule pretended to hit someone: "His family members all call him that, and I'm not the only one."
"Yeah, that's what family members call me."
"Ayan, Ayan, Ayan, that's Xi Siyan. He's so tall that I hardly dare to breathe every time he passes by me."
"It's not that exaggerated, right? The students in the experimental class often ask him to help with their questions. Besides, the boys and girls in basketball and track and field all say that he has a good personality and is a nice person."
"Yes, he is okay, but you have never seen his cold face, like the devil. When he sits on the podium during self-study, the class is like a cemetery, it is so silent."
"Shule isn't afraid of him, is he?"
Yang Shule thought that there was still pressure.
Although Xi Siyan had never been cold to her, their relationship was not as good as other classmates said, and it was not even special.
Yang Shule took every exam so seriously that he never allowed himself to be outside the top three in the grade, just to be on the grade honor roll with him. Every time he asked him questions, he even used the excuse that the driver was busy after school twice to take the Xi family's car. Even the simplest replies to his long holiday greetings were enough to make his heart beat for a long time.
If it weren't for the incident more than a month ago, he would have had more opportunities to see him.
Someone asked, "Is he coming today?"
"Come." At this point, Yang Shule's smile seemed sincere. "When I sent him an invitation message, he said that his class teacher asked him to give me a competition intention form to fill out, so he would come."
"Yes, you are good at physics, so you will definitely be included in the registration for this year's competition."
"Then won't you and the squad leader have to go out for training separately then?"
The entrance was bustling with activity.
Teenage boys and girls gathered in groups, chatting about everything. The girls discussed fashionable nail polishes, pop songs and idol dramas, while the boys discussed various e-sports games and who in the boys' dormitory didn't wash their smelly socks last week and was punished by the dormitory supervisor to clean the toilet.
Everyone who comes here today should have curiosity in their hearts.
After all, something big happened to the Yang family, and the heat is still high.
However, because someone didn't show up, everyone tacitly blocked the topic. No one would be so blind as to cause trouble in front of the host of the class reunion.
"Why don't you go down?" On the hollow balcony on the second floor, Chen Mo leaned against the railing and asked the person next to him.
Gou Yiyang was holding the same drink in his hand, looking downstairs, and said, "If you, the talk of the town, don't go, what's the fun in that? If I go, what's the fun in that?"
Chen Mo clinked the can of drink in his hand with the other person, "You really are... so straightforward that it's hard to dislike you."
"Same here." Gou Yiyang said, "Before I met you at the Internet cafe, I didn't think you were such an interesting person."
"interesting?"
"Is it meaningless?" Gou Yiyang raised his eyebrows. "Some people almost described you as a rural bully. When you come back, you will definitely turn the Yang family upside down. But I think you are too lazy. You are so lazy that you can't see any fighting spirit, my friend."
Chen Mo laughed out loud.
"I was also diligent," he said.
It's just that he was not diligent in the right place. When he was a teenager, the power of the Yang family was like a giant that he could not shake, so he could only make demands on himself. Later, when he grew up, he wanted those people to look up to him, so he worked hard to climb up.
Facts have proved that being in a high position does not necessarily mean that life is very comfortable.
Chen Mo turned around slightly, put his arm on the solid wood railing, looked at the lively scene below, and said slowly: "I still like my current life. I have endless money to spend when I lie down. I don't have to work too hard, and I won't starve to death in the future. It's really boring. Well... I can also watch other people's passionate youth."
As he finished speaking, a few more people came to the door downstairs.
When Xi Siyan came in, he was still wearing a simple black and white sports suit with sneakers, clean and eye-catching, he seemed to be passing by. When he entered the door, there were already several boys around him who seemed to have a good relationship with him. The unique vigor of teenage boys came to him through this scene.
All the boys and girls in the hall stopped and were attracted to it.
Chen Mo saw the figure following Xi Siyan closely. He saw him gently tug at the other person's clothes. The other person stopped, lowered his head and accommodatingly when he saw the person clearly, and they chatted briefly for a few words.
Chen Mo was bored, so he turned around and asked Gou Yiyang, "I want to go and wake up. I was woken up too early. Do you want to go?"
Five minutes later, Gou Yiyang stood beside the huge swimming pool, looking sullen: "Why don't we play games together to wake ourselves up? Let's go swimming. Have you asked a landlubber for advice?"
"Playing games hurts your eyes." Chen Mo grabbed a small yellow duck swimming ring next to him and threw it to the other person, "If you don't exercise now, you will really have a swimming ring before you are thirty, and it will be flesh-colored."
"Get lost, I'm still a handsome boy at 30."
Chen Mo sneered. It was not right to hit him, so he walked to the recliner where the bath towel was placed and raised his hand to take off his shirt.
Gou Yiyang glanced at him and was shocked: "Fuck, you are so white? And your legs are too good to be true. I don't feel it when you are wearing clothes, but when you take off your clothes, the proportions are so big that I am going to bleed."
"Just act again." Chen Mo remained indifferent.
The only time Gou Yiyang had a nosebleed was because he got a fever from staying up all night doing surgery. The next day, he accompanied his boyfriend to a bar and saw a girl with an overly hot body. For this reason, he went to ask for her phone number and planned to pursue her. He was so innocent, but it turned out that the girl had a boyfriend, so it was a misunderstanding.
Gou Yiyang is actually a pure straight man who doesn't look like a straight man. He just has a lot of mouth.
Although Chen Mo was thin in his teens, his life was not easy in the past years. He had a thin layer of muscle and looked very well-proportioned and beautiful. But when Gou Yiyang approached, he found that there were scars of varying depths on his back, legs, and feet. There were long wounds that looked like something had broken the skin, and there were burns and cuts the size of the tip of the little finger, with varying depths. Some had faded, leaving only shallow marks, but they were glaring enough.
Gou Yiyang opened his mouth, looked at him, and suddenly became speechless.
Chen Mo, on the other hand, glanced at the visible scars and said casually, "What's so strange about that? The man in the Chen family is a gambler. He beats people when he drinks, especially beating his son. It's natural for him to do that. But he didn't dare to do it anymore because I broke one of his hands."
"Do your biological parents know?" Gou Yiyang asked.
Chen Mo threw the clothes in his hand onto the stool and began to move his wrists and ankles. "I heard a little from the police."
"Fuck, beast."
I don’t know whether he was scolding the person with the surname Yang or the person with the surname Chen.
Chen Mo did not tell Gou Yiyang that the scar would eventually heal. People who have not seen the blood dripping when the flesh was torn apart and have not experienced the painful and itchy process of the wound gradually forming a scab would easily forget it.
Not taking something to heart could be because you don’t care enough, or it could be because you are deceiving yourself and unable to face it.
No matter which one it is, Chen Mo doesn't care now.
"Go in the water. I specifically told the servants not to let anyone else in."
Since no one is allowed to come in, naturally no one will come in and throw him into the water.
The tranquility is real tranquility.
Chen Mo dived into the water and swam towards the other side at an extremely fast speed.
His swimming style was extremely standard, as he swam up and down in the water, which also aroused the interest of Gou Yiyang on the shore.
Unfortunately, a landlubber is still a landlubber, and it is not embarrassing enough to wear a childish swimming ring.
Chen Mo had swum less than two laps when he felt a dull pain in his knee.
The problem with his knee was not as obvious this year, and he guessed it was because of the sudden contact with cold water. For safety reasons, he did not continue but went to the shore.
Just at this moment, there was a sudden noise at the entrance of the swimming pool.
"Why can't you let me in?"
"Shule, can't we use your swimming pool? The weather is so hot, it would be perfect for playing in the water."
Next was the voice of Yang Shule asking the servant strangely.
The servant was in great difficulty.
Everyone knew that Chen Mo was not the same these past two days, and the old man of the Yang family had just come and almost made them lose their jobs. Chen Mo said that they were not allowed to enter, and the servants really didn't dare to let anyone in.
"Master Shule, Master Mo is inside." The servant said in a low voice.
Yang Shule's face looked extremely ugly on the spot, especially when attracted by the noise and many people had gathered around him.
Yang Shule: "Open the door."
The servant did not move.
Yang Shule felt that Chen Mo was deliberately embarrassing him. He rarely lost his temper with the servants in the past, but at this moment, he was so angry that his face turned red. "I said open it!"
The servant was trembling with fear and hesitated for a long time, but finally pushed the door open.
The door slowly opened before everyone's eyes.
I only saw a figure splashing out of the water, and then coming out of the swimming pool with heavy water dripping down.
The man standing on the shore, bending over and looking up, had extremely bored eyes and spoke slowly, "Whoever dares to step into this door today, give it to me."
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