Chapter 176 Tell him to take care of his health and not indulge himself too much!
Xie Siyan came in.
Inside, a warm yellow light enveloped a slightly exhausted figure. He gently closed the carved wooden door, shutting out the late autumn chill outside and the clamor of the wind in the courtyard.
The room was filled with the scent of incense, Cheng Yu's favorite, the Shenshui incense. However, she had no intention of savoring it at the moment. She just lay alone on the recliner, swinging slowly. When she heard him come in, she raised her eyelids and asked solemnly, "You're back?"
Xie Siyan nodded, his expression calm. "The last time my mother came to Zhongjian, she spilled all the cakes she brought..."
Cheng Yu's expression suddenly became unbearable. She raised her eyes to look at him, staring at him for a long time, and only squeezed out four words, "...She still wants to eat?"
Cheng Yu didn't know how to react.
This son has been very opinionated since he became an adult. I have only been the boss for him a few times in my life. I finally did it once. The conflict between mother and son has been going on for two years, and there has finally been a sign of easing. Recently, he has come home several times... It turns out that he went to use his cooking skills to please the girl.
Cheng Yu rubbed her temples and suddenly had an absurd illusion - she wondered if her son's puberty was delayed for a full ten years, and he was only now entering his rebellious period.
The appearance of Xie Siyan in front of me is no longer the shadow of the well-behaved boy in the past.
Xie Siyan sat down on a Huanghuali wood chair nearby, tapping his fingertips on the armrest of the sofa: "Is mother still doing it recently?"
Cheng Yu's throat tightened. It was impossible for him to offer her homemade pastries to her. She simply went straight to the point, "Mu Jia... did you ask her to return home? And she just came back so obediently?"
Their agreement...
"No," Xie Siyan replied briefly, as if reporting to the board of directors, his tone calm. "She is the person in charge of the IPO of China Construction's investment project in North America."
Cheng Yu's voice was filled with disbelief. "China Construction invested in a project in North America?"
"I invested some..."
Cheng Yu simply lay back and didn't tell her that in order to get the other party to do this project, he went through so much trouble and even went to North America to invest in the project.
Cheng Yu didn't want to ask any more questions, his voice weak, "So you two have reconciled now?"
"No."
Xie Siyan's tone darkened.
"She doesn't want to?" Cheng Yu couldn't help but stood up again.
It’s not that she is protecting her son, but her son has been attracting girls since adolescence.
How many girls want to get close to him, and some even invite him to birthday parties, but they don't dare to come by themselves, so they ask their parents to invite her here. If it weren't for Bai Yirou in the past, even now, when she goes out, people still ask about her marriage... She is naturally confident that her son has the capital to attract girls.
Xie Siyan's eyes were cold, "How can mother be so sure that I must be pursuing her?"
Cheng Yu's eyelids twitched twice, and his expression was very unnatural. "Then you——"
This topic is taboo between two people.
She had used threats and bribes to send the man away. Logically, she didn't believe that the man would dare to mess with her son again.
Xie Siyan was lazily leaning on the backrest of the Huanghuali wood chair at this moment. He didn't mind that this antique wooden chair that Xie Yan had bought with a lot of money was hard. His slender fingers were casually turning the pinky ring. He raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, "If she pursues me, should I agree?"
Cheng Yu was choked by his cynical look and suddenly remembered another thing, "That little star named Chi Wu, and that actor..."
Xie Siyan looked lazily towards his mother, putting on an attitude that said, "Your son is so popular!" He then chuckled and slowly adjusted his cuffs. "Mother, you're asking so clearly. Are you trying to arrange another blind date for me?"
Before Cheng Yu could deny it, he said, "By the way, please ask for me if you can accept open sexual relationships?"
“…”
"We'll talk later after accepting it."
Half an hour later, Xie Siyan's car drove out of Xie's house.
The sound of a vehicle was heard in the yard, and Cheng Yu's breathing stopped, and he felt his temples throbbing.
In her mind was her son's handsome but lazy face. Thinking of his appearance just now, a sense of uneasiness suddenly rose in her heart.
Could it be that a long-term abnormal family environment had distorted his values? Why, not satisfied with just one wife, he was planning to carry on his father Xie Yan's style and keep three wives and four concubines at the same time?
She closed her eyes, trying to suppress her surging emotions, but the moment she raised her eyes, she accidentally caught a glimpse of the coat that Xie Siyan had left on the rosewood chair, with some red marks on it.
Cheng Yu immediately looked away, his fingertips unconsciously rubbing the edge of the teacup. He called the butler over in a slightly hoarse voice, "Call the young master in half an hour... Tell him to take care of his health and not indulge himself too much!"
The housekeeper agreed hurriedly.
——
After that day, Mu Jia was like a frightened bird, always on edge, waiting for Cheng Yu's call.
Before going to work every day, she subconsciously checked the missed calls at night. She was even more afraid of meeting her again at China Construction. She even dreamed that Cheng Yu came to her and said that she had not fulfilled the agreement and now decided to sue her. She woke up from a light sleep in the middle of the night and was in a daze for a long time.
But as the days passed, the expected "summons" did not come, so much so that Mu Jia could not remember clearly whether Cheng Yu did not see him clearly that day?
This kind of unresolved waiting is more tormenting than facing Cheng Yu's difficulties directly.
She simply relaxed and comforted herself that if Cheng Yu knew that she had returned to China and had contact with Xie Siyan, he would definitely look for her. Since he didn't see her now, it meant that he didn't see her.
As the due date approached, Song Mingxi's anxiety rose like a tide.
She often woke up in the middle of the night, grabbing her phone to send a message to Mu Jia, "Jia Jia, do you think giving birth will be painful?" Or during a video call, she would cryptically mention, "I saw in documentaries that the women's faces turned pale from the pain they were in giving birth."
Mu Jia had no choice but to comfort her and informed Zhou Xu to pay attention to the mental state of the pregnant woman.
That afternoon, sunlight shone through the floor-to-ceiling windows onto the sofa in Song Mingxi's house.
Song Mingxi leaned on the soft pillow in the bedroom, holding her visibly bulging belly, and video-called Mu Jia.
Mu Jia chatted with her for a while about giving birth, and asked her, "Should I go there on the day of delivery?"
She was mainly worried that the Zhou family might not want outsiders to come over and affect the mother's condition. She would probably be weak at the time and would not have time to deal with herself.
Song Mingxi said without hesitation, "Of course, you are the child's godmother! You should be the first one to hold it."
Mu Jia smiled, "Then it's settled. I'll be with you the whole time, and you should take good care of yourself and don't worry too much."
Song Mingxi didn't know what he was thinking about. He nodded, but still looked absent-minded.
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