Chapter 77: Going Crazy on the Seventy-Seventh Day: Did you steal something from the Nangong family? ...
Chapter 77
After being soaked in the rain for who knows how long, they had become real rain men, dripping with rain just by standing there. Naturally, no hotel was willing to accommodate them, let alone with a dog.
Finally, Tan Mo decided to go back to the house she had rented before.
Sang Biao also tried his best to walk in front of his master, not showing any squeamishness at all. He said nothing and just kept walking with his head down.
When they arrived at the narrow and cramped room, the light of the electric lamp suddenly lit up in the darkness, and Tan Mo's tiredness disappeared, and she felt relaxed both physically and mentally.
She breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Sang Biao is amazing. He didn't bark the whole way. I thought he was such a delicate dog that he would definitely give up halfway through the journey. I was wondering if he really couldn't walk anymore, should we let Nangong Lie carry him?"
"I didn't expect the dog to be so determined. He would look back from time to time and wink at us, asking us to walk faster."
Nangong Lie os: "Ah?! Why me!"
Sang Biao stared at Tan Mo and suddenly vomited on the ground. Tan Mo frowned and thought: No way, he vomited?
Looking again, I saw two diamond rings as big as sugar cubes lying in my saliva.
One of them is a pink diamond.
Tan Mo was dumbfounded.
The people behind him saw that Tan Mo didn't move and were about to urge her, but when they glanced over, they were dumbfounded.
There was a huge pool of saliva, which showed how hard it was for Sang Biao to hold those two big diamond rings in his mouth.
Even if these two diamond rings are soaked in saliva, their brilliance cannot be obscured. Even if they are not under professional lighting, they still shine brightly.
Tan Mo uttered a few words in disbelief, "Sang Biao, did you steal this from the Nangong family?"
The word "steal" is a bit serious. Sang Biao seemed to understand it and looked at Tan Mo with grievance.
"When did you steal it?"
"What's the point of asking him? Sang Biao can't talk." Nangong Lie squeezed in, "He must have picked it up when Xiao Nian and I had a fight and lost the diamond. He's so cunning, he kept sniffing around on the ground."
"Sang Biao, you're amazing! All those cans were worth eating!" Nangong Lie looked at Tan Mo and said, "But you, even a dog can understand the subtext between Xiao Nian and me. When we quarreled and dropped things, why didn't you two pick them up?"
Tan Mo: "Is your quarrel fake?"
Xu Xiaonian: "Of course. Lie and I agreed to communicate in time and not get angry and throw things. How could he go crazy? We learned this from Zhao Yun."
Lu Xingjian came in carrying the last bag of luggage, "What happened to her?"
He still felt a little PTSD when he heard the names of Zhao Yun and Bo Yanli.
"Have you forgotten?" Xu Xiaonian imitated the action, "Didn't she throw those pearl earrings away during an argument, and finally Lie snatched them away?"
Tan Mo: “…” It’s true.
Nangong Lie said disdainfully, “If you had understood our eyes at the beginning, there wouldn’t be only two rings now. You could have picked up a lot.”
She couldn't care less about what happened in the past. She pounced on Sang Biao, rubbed his wet fur, and kissed him. "That's amazing, Sang Sang. Biao Biao, I'll give you an extra can every day for the next month!"
Sang Biao: "Wang (no) Wang (white) Wang (steal)!"
The miserable situation of four people and one dog ended that night with the unfair decision of letting Nangong Lie alone blow-dry Sang Biao's hair.
The next day, everyone fell into a deep sleep until three in the afternoon and still hadn't woken up completely.
Lu Xingjian woke up earlier than anyone else. As soon as he opened his eyes, Sang Biao looked at him with a humming sound, expressing his dissatisfaction.
Because it was already past the time for dog walking, the previous Sang Biao was kept in wealthy families and had special dog walking staff.
Three times each in the morning, noon and evening, he has been holding his urine for a long time!
He began to wonder if he had chosen the poor one in his parents' divorce.
Lu Xingjian touched him and without even bothering to tidy himself up, he took Sang Biao out for a walk with the dog and bought him a week's supply of canned goods.
It took him more than an hour to get back, and on the way back, he bought dinner.
The two girls in the room had already woken up. While Lu Xingjian was preparing food for Sang Biao, he shouted at Tan Mo and the others to wash up, brush their teeth and eat.
When it was his turn to tidy up his appearance, Tan Mo and Xu Xiaonian had already placed the food on the dining table.
Nangong Lie was the last one to finish.
Everything is in order and without any rush.
Coming out of the bathroom and passing by the balcony window, Nangong Lie glanced at the scenery outside the window. The sun had already set and the world seemed to be immersed in a sea of oranges.
"I'm still so tired. It's true that I can't stay up late when I get older." Nangong Lie sat down and took a sip of water. "You guys are so cruel. You actually voted for me to blow dry Sang Biao's hair. Do you know what time I blow until?"
"Four o'clock, four o'clock in the morning!"
Tan Mo said "oh" indifferently. She was unconscious and fell into a deep sleep after taking a quick shower.
Lu Xingjian poured a drink for Tan Mo and said, "You should also have a taste of what it felt like when Tan Mo and I had to blow Sang Biao's hair until the early morning because of you, and then sleep for a few hours before going to work."
"Okay." Xu Xiaonian smoothed things over and handed a chicken wing with egg yolk to Nangong Lie. "Lie, thank you for your hard work. Assistant Lu bought this meal. We all worked hard."
Nangong Lie didn't dare to say anything. He could only shut up guiltily and concentrate on eating chicken wings.
Whenever he thought of the stupid things he had done in the past, he wanted to slap himself twice.
"Oh, right." Xu Xiaonian was extremely hungry. Even as she spoke, she took a few bites of rice. She puffed her cheeks and asked, "Lie, what happened last night? As soon as you came back, you asked us to pack our bags."
"Assistant Lu and I are still confused."
"Did something happen at the old house? Did Master Nangong just chase you away? Did you make a mistake again?"
Nangong Lie: "You are really prejudiced against me. I really didn't do anything this time."
The more he talked, the less confident he became. "I don't even know if I did anything. He got mad when he heard you and I got married, and he said a bunch of nonsense. You should ask Mr. Tan."
He pointed at Tan Mo. Tan Mo was very silent when she woke up. It was not known whether it was because she drank half a bottle of wine last night or because she was caught in the rain, but Tan Mo's head felt dizzy.
After eating half a bowl of food, she felt that her mind was being controlled. She said with little interest, "Nangong Xiong, that old fox, deceived us."
Lu Xingjian held the chopsticks and listened attentively.
"I'm not actually the real daughter of the Nangong family. Nangong Lie is, or has always been."
Lu Xingjian: "What do you mean? What about the paternity test he mentioned earlier, saying that Nangong Lie was taken away by mistake, and the competition and contest between you and him..."
"These are all Nangong Xiong's lies. It's a trap he set." Tan Mo lowered her eyes and played with the rice grains on the wall of the bowl with her chopsticks. "He pretended to be the real daughter of a wealthy family and made a fake genetic test report, saying that Nangong Lie was a fake prince. He did this just to train his abilities."
"Can genetic test reports be faked?" Xu Xiaonian wondered, "But didn't Shi Lie also get a genetic test?"
Although she didn't get caught at the time, she heard about it later, "Didn't Lie's decision result in a DNA mismatch between him and his biological father?"
Nangong Lie: "He must have tampered with it."
He recalled: "When I got out of the car, I almost fell down, and Qin Ming came to help me up. Now I think that's when my test results were switched."
"No wonder I felt weird. I was clearly looking at the test results of Mr. Tan and my biological father, but how did it end up being me and my biological father?"
"They even laughed at me because of this."
"I've been doubting myself for a long time." Nangong Lie felt a little painful whenever he thought about it. "And that genetic testing agency belongs to the Nangong family. I also miscalculated."
At this point, everyone tended to believe that Nangong Xiong must have done something.
Tan Mo said, "Have you heard of the catfish effect?"
Lu Xingjian continued cooperatively, "Norwegian fishermen discovered that when they were transporting sardines, they put catfish, the sardines' natural enemy, in the barrels. This increased the sardines' activity to avoid being hunted by their predators, thus improving their survival rate."
Tan Mo continued, "Yes, I am the catfish responsible for keeping Nangong Lie alive."
Xu Xiaonian asked confusedly, "Did Master Nangong Xiong deceive everyone just to make Lie better?"
"No, there's another one." Tan Mo raised her head and looked at Xu Xiaonian. She suddenly felt that revealing the truth was a bit cruel.
His eyes turned cold and he said, "You. Nangong Xiong doesn't want you to be with Nangong Lie. He thinks you are not worthy of his grandson."
After hearing this, Xu Xiaonian lost his spirit and his eyes flickered.
"I absolutely don't have such thoughts." Nangong Lie grabbed her hand and expressed his feelings, "I really like you, Xiao Nian, no matter whether you are rich or poor. That is my grandfather's idea, not mine."
"I know..." His voice was filled with sadness.
She also knew that with her family background, it would be difficult for her to marry into a wealthy family and be accepted by Lie's family.
But fortunately, she likes Lie, regardless of whether he is poor or rich.
Of course, before Nangong Lie left the Nangong family, she did have the idea that she liked him because he was rich.
But this thought was short-lived, just one of many.
Nangong Lie said: "In fact, I knew a week ago that I was Nangong Xiong's grandson. It's not fake."
"Huh?" Tan Mo and Lu Xingjian widened their eyes.
Tan Mo: "How did you know?"
Lu Xingjian: "When you did the paternity test for Bo Yanli and his two children, I kept thinking about this matter. I felt that I couldn't have been wrong at that time."
"I am an adult, how can I make such a low-level mistake?"
"So I submitted it again. And this time the result showed that my DNA was 99.99% similar to my biological father's. But at that time I didn't know it was such a conspiracy."
Tan Mo pulled the corner of her mouth expressionlessly, "Oh, then have you paid the money? This is my company."
"Hey, it's free for employees."
Tan Mo's eyes were filled with resentment.
Xu Xiaonian held his arm tightly, "That is to say, Brother Lie, even if you know that you are Master Nangong's grandson, you don't want to go back, right?"
"I have thought about it, after all, there is so much money. But compared to living like a canary in a golden cage made of money, I prefer the feeling of soaring in the sky."
"You might think I'm exaggerating, but let me tell you! I haven't been constipated since I left the Nangong family!!"
“Shit feels smooth.”
Tan Mo knocked on the edge of the porcelain bowl: "Remember the occasion, it's dinner time!"
By the way, I was sighing in my heart about what the hardships of life had done to a pompous and arrogant CEO.
Nangong Lie sneered: "I just want you to know my current situation. Anyway, I will definitely not give up Xiao Nian and return to the Nangong family for money."
"Brother Lie, you are so kind." Xu Xiaonian was moved to tears.
"Miss my sister~"
The two hugged each other deeply.
The edge of the porcelain bowl was knocked again. It was Lu Xingjian, "Pay attention to the occasion. Now is dinner time, not the time for lovers to do anything improper."
Nangong Lie reluctantly separated and said, "Eat, eat."
Halfway through the meal, Xu Xiaonian asked a crucial question, "What should we do now?"
Yes, after being kicked out by Nangong Xiong, Tan Mo is no longer the president. What should she do in the future?
Tan Mo looked around the house of more than ten square meters and realized that it was too crowded for four people to live in it.
Last night she slept on the bed, Xu Xiaonian slept on the sofa, and the two men slept on the floor and barely got through the night.
You can't live here forever, right?
Tan Mo pointed, "You three stay in the hotel."
"Ah!" Xu Xiaonian and Nangong Lie cried out, then looked at each other and said shyly, "Staying in a hotel is very expensive."
"Then stay somewhere cheap. I remember turning left and walking about 200 meters out of the gate, there's a hotel for 200 yuan a night."
"We're all exiles now, wandering the world, with no place to call home. Saving every penny counts."
Tan Mo looked at the sugar cube diamond ring on Xu Xiaonian's finger that had been cleaned of Sang Biao's saliva and fell into silence.
She looked at Lu Xingjian.
Lu Xingjian's defense was broken: "I have to stay in a hotel like them? I slept with you for so long before, and the doghouse is here. I... Besides, if I leave, who will clean up the house? Who will prepare meals for you?"
Tan Mo: "..." She was completely powerless to refute.
Ah, forget it, she doesn't want to care about it anymore.
She just stayed in a hotel.
The cell phone suddenly rang. It was Jiang Qingya calling.
Tan Mo pressed the answer button, and Jiang Qingya's unique voice rushed into her eardrums, "What's going on?! I finally got back to the city, and my old place is emptied out?"
"Who moved our nest? Who was it?"
"Where are you now? A new base?"
Tan Mo's eyes rolled back, she is not a member of the underworld!
She threw the phone to Lu Xingjian irritably, "You talk to her."
Regardless of whether these three people are willing to move out or not, there is not much food in Tan Mo's shabby rental house. After cleaning it up, she has to go to the supermarket to buy supplies.
Nangong Lie raised his hand excitedly, indicating that this task would be given to him, as no one knew the supermarket at night better than him.
He drove a van to various supermarkets and always took Tan Mo to buy the best value for money things.
Tan Mo did have a new respect for Nangong Lie. Before she transmigrated into the book, she also lived a hard life as a poor person and never dared to go to high-end supermarkets.
She didn't expect that she could find good value for money in a high-end supermarket that was about to close.
"Sure, Nangong Lie, you're quite good at shopping." Tan Mo praised him as if she was praising her female classmates from her school days, who could always buy high-quality products at the cheapest price.
This is the greatest compliment to a man.
Nangong Lie said: "This is also a post I found online when I was working in a factory. I didn't use it at the time and couldn't afford it."
He was happy to be able to help Tan Mo and demonstrate his value, because he was not sure whether he could still be considered Tan Mo's assistant.
This position was created in the past because Tan Mo still needed to take care of Longsheng Group and was too busy with work. But what about now?
Does she still need it?
Anyway, he was still willing to be Tan Mo's assistant. After all, other jobs were not as good as being an assistant.
Therefore, he shows off his value everywhere.
Seeing Lu Xingjian picking a handful of celery into the bag, Nangong Lie called out to him anxiously: "Assistant Lu, don't buy vegetables here, they're expensive. I'll take you to another supermarket later. They're cheaper there."
As a result, when I went to another supermarket, it was only 20 cents cheaper.
Lu Xingjian: “…”
He wanted to buy some snacks, but was stopped by Nangong Lie again. "This is so unhealthy, fried and puffed food, and it's expensive. I recommend you another cheaper and healthier one."
This happened two or three times, and Lu Xingjian gradually figured out what was going on: Nangong Lie was deliberately targeting him.
He wanted to embarrass him in front of Tan Mo, so that Tan Mo would think that Nangong Lie was more frugal than Lu Xingjian.
"Don't think that by doing this you can replace me and sit comfortably in the position of assistant." Lu Xingjian whispered in Nangong Lie's ear.
Nangong Lie's eyes were filled with surprise, thinking that his little trick had been seen through by him. Suddenly, he heard Lu Xingjian shouting at Tan Mo who was walking in front of him, "Tan Mo, Nangong Lie is picking his nose and trying to eat it."
Nangong Lie: “…”
At that time, Tan Mo and Xu Xiaonian were walking hand in hand in front to buy snacks, and there was a child crying loudly next to them.
His mother lectured him: "Didn't I just ask you to stop picking your nose? Why are you crying so loudly after just two words? Is that really necessary?"
"Look at that grown-up picking his nose! Stop it, it's getting bigger!"
The child did stop crying, but not because of his mother's threat, but because he heard someone who liked to pick his nose like him.
He pointed at the man and said, "Mom, his nostrils are really big!"
Nangong Lie: “…”
He yelled angrily, "Who picked their nose?"
And threw everything in Lu Xingjian's cart back onto the shelf.
Lu Xingjian picked it up again and said calmly, "You."
"Then you also ate my boogers!"
“…”
Xu Xiaonian: “…”
Tan Mo: “…”
The mother over there silently pulled the child away and said, "See? If you keep picking your nose and neglecting hygiene, you'll become mentally ill when you grow up. Let's see if you dare to do it again next time!"
The child crossed his arms in fear and said, "I won't do that again, Mom."
After Tan Mo paid the bill and came out of the supermarket, she started thinking about changing houses. Regardless of whether she was willing for these three people to continue living in her rental house, Sang Biao was always there.
Her rental house was still too small after all. Sang Biao’s previous doghouse was bigger than the rental house, and Tan Mo didn’t want to let Sang Biao down.
While Lu Xingjian and the other two were loading the daily necessities they had purchased from the supermarket into the car, Tan Mo looked around and found several phone numbers of houses for rent on the walls and pillars.
When they arrived at the door, Tan Mo said, "You guys move your things inside. I'm going to the rooftop to get some fresh air."
"Okay." Xu Xiaonian responded. She was working together with Nangong Lie to carry a box of drinks into the house.
Lu Xingjian was holding a brown paper bag of vegetables in his arms. His eyes followed Tan Mo's figure, but he eventually lost sight of her.
Tan Mo lay on a recliner, with her hands folded behind her head, basking in the moonlight. The moonlight was bright, and the ground was dark, and her figure was clearly visible.
After an unknown amount of time, the can on the ground made a crackling sound, as if someone had kicked it. Tan Mo turned her head and saw Lu Xingjian with an apologetic expression.
"I stepped on it accidentally. Who is so lacking in public morality that he didn't even take the Coke bottle back after drinking it?" Lu Xingjian kicked it to the door, ready to take it away when he left later.
He held a bag of mung bean and tangerine peel sweet soup in his hand and asked Tan Mo, "Do you want some? Iced."
"Bring it here."
When Lu Xingjian gave it to her, he also lay down on the recliner beside him.
He heard the sound of Tan Mo tearing open the package and said, "I bought this from the supermarket. I also bought the raw materials, but I haven't had time to make it yet. You can enjoy it first."
"Is it delicious? Is it not as good as the sweet soup I made?"
Tan Mo choked deeply and said, "Lu Xingjian, I find that you are becoming more and more shameless."
Lu Xingjian didn't refute. He looked up at the moon and said, "Maybe it's because it rained heavily yesterday, but today's moon feels so new. Not only the moon, but this city is brand new. I'm so happy."
"Are you so happy?"
"Yes." Lu Xingjian smiled. "Ever since I was little, I've wanted to have lots of friends to play with when I grow up. With friends like you around me, I'm very happy every day."
Tan Mo said lazily, "Even if you and Nangong Lie scolded each other for picking their noses in the supermarket, would you be happy?"
"Of course, don't you think he's stupid?"
Having said that, Tan Mo rarely showed a smile in the past two days, but it was still very shallow, with the corners of her mouth twitching slightly.
Lu Xingjian didn't catch it, he tilted his head and asked, "What about you, Tan Mo, are you happy?"
Tan Mo felt her heart sigh heavily.
She had to admit that ever since she learned the truth about the real daughter, she had been in a bad state, in a negative and dull state, not talking or playing around.
It turns out that Lu Xingjian also discovered it?
Tan Mo bit the plastic mouth of the sweet soup but didn't suck. Her eyes were filled with the bright and pure white moon.
She could feel Lu Xingjian's worried gaze.
Lu Xingjian coaxed him: "I think you are unhappy. Do you want to talk about your recent situation?"
After a long while, Tan Mo said, "Do you know what kind of people my parents are?"
Of course Lu Xingjian didn't know.
"Compared to people like Zhao Yun and Bo Yanli, they are very normal people, without too many extreme emotions. They are gentle, mediocre, and a little bit happy in the face of adversity."
"They work in factories, doing the most basic, unskilled assembly line work. Their combined salary is less than 10,000 yuan."
"They support me with this meager salary."
"But they love me very much and often buy me things that are beyond the reach of an average family. I have four pairs of Nike shoes that cost eight or nine hundred yuan, or even less than a thousand yuan. One pair is even very expensive, a co-branded pair, which is worth half a month's salary for my dad."
"My friends don't have a pair. They never say they envy me, but they always look at my shoes intentionally or unintentionally. I know they want to have them too."
"My parents only have two or three days off a month. To make more money, they do odd jobs during their breaks, like driving a farm vehicle to transport goods for a city boss."
"I often ask them not to take this odd job and to rest more at home, but they never listen to me."
"They probably wanted to make more money for me. After I went to college, they sent me to school, and I realized that many parents drove their children to school, but we were the only ones who took various buses from the surrounding suburbs to get to school."
"They can't drive, but they want me to have a car and preferably a suite, so they work day and night."
"I also like my parents very much. I love them very much. I feel like I am the happiest child in the world. Sometimes I also think, I wish I could get rich and have lots of money."
"This way my parents can stay at home, and the three of us can go out for a trip, see the sea, and see wild animals."
"Then one day during my sophomore year, I woke up in the morning and suddenly received a call from a stranger. He told me that my parents had been in a car accident on their way to the hospital and had died on the way to the hospital."
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