"Who is it?" Liu Xiangru asked.
Zhou Mo was also confused. "I'll go take a look."
After opening the door, Qi Yan appeared at the door.
"Senior Sister, don't cook anymore. Why don't we go out for a nice meal? We're both alone, so eating is boring. I'll treat you..."
"Uh... no need."
Liu Xiangru walked forward and saw the strange boy at the door. She asked Zhou Mo: "Who is..."
"Our new junior fellow student," Zhou Mo said, and quickly introduced Qi Yan: "This is my mother."
"Hello, Auntie," Qi Yan greeted politely with a smile.
"Hello," Liu Xiangru responded with a smile, then turned to Zhou Mo and asked, "Are you going out to eat? Then wouldn't my cooking be for nothing?"
"Um..." Zhou Mo looked at Qi Yan, "Xiao Qi, why don't you eat with us? My mom has already cooked."
"Isn't this a bit embarrassing?" Qi Yan felt a little embarrassed, but he had already stepped into the house.
Zhou Mo was embarrassed.
This person is really embarrassed.
Liu Xiangru is a hospitable person. She was so happy that Qi Yan came.
Not only did he greet him warmly, but he also wanted to pour the entire sumptuous dinner he had prepared for Zhou Mo into Qi Yan's bowl.
This feels like...loving my own grandson...
Zhou Mo felt neglected.
"Senior sister, you should eat too. Auntie's cooking is so good, don't you have an appetite?"
"..." Zhou Mo really wanted to roll his eyes at Qi Yan.
It was a delicious plate of braised pork ribs, but she had only eaten a few pieces. Qi Yan gnawed the bones faster than a Siberian tiger, and soon the plate of braised pork ribs was empty.
Fortunately, she was not very fond of meat, and she ate other vegetarian dishes with relish, but she did not wolf them down as voraciously as Qi Yan.
I have to say, looking at Qi Yan's greedy appearance, Zhou Mo thought of someone - Song Yan.
In terms of appetite, Qi Yan definitely beats Song Yan, and in terms of food protection, Song Yan beats Qi Yan.
When there was still a piece of spareribs left on the plate, Qi Yan pushed the plate in front of Zhou Mo and said, "Senior sister, you eat it."
Liu Xiangru didn't feel sorry for her own daughter at all, but instead felt sorry for Qi Yan.
"It's okay, kid, just eat it," Liu Xiangru said, "If she wants to eat, I can make it for her anytime."
Zhou Mo: “…”
Once again confirmed that he was not Liu Xiangru's biological child.
"Ladies first," Qi Yan refused, "Besides, I have a big appetite, and Senior Sister must not have eaten well."
"It's okay, there's enough food. If not, I'll steam more." Liu Xiangru looked at Qi Yan distressedly: "How long has this child been hungry? You are volunteers, don't you provide food there?"
"Of course, but the food is not tasty. It's all cabbage, and they are all roots. They are hard and not cooked," Qi Yan complained.
"That's too much hard work. You don't even get a good meal for the work. In the old days, landlords knew to give their slaves a few more steamed buns so they would have the strength to work. Why didn't you report this to your leaders?"
"Time is so tight, it's good enough to have something to eat, how can we be picky?" Zhou Mo said.
"You're so honest," Liu Xiangru said. "You and your father have the same personality. Even when you're at a disadvantage, you never make a fuss. There's a saying that goes, 'A crying child gets more milk.' You just can't cry, so you always suffer."
Zhou Mo said nothing and ate his rice bit by bit.
"Auntie, you are right. I have talked to my brother about the food issue, and he said he would contact the logistics department to handle it," Qi Yan said.
"Your brother?" Liu Xiangru asked.
"Yes, my brother. He's our leader, in charge of the dispatch station," Qi Yan said, "but the food isn't his responsibility. I can only report it to the higher-ups to see if it can be rectified. I guess the food will be better if I go back tomorrow."
"It's not certain whether we can go tomorrow," Zhou Mo said.
"Why?"
"Your brother said he's going to stop sending volunteers from the School of Health Management. Ren Huaibo and his gang are up to no good and are always stirring up trouble. There's no way your brother is going to use students from our school anymore."
"If Ren Huaibo is incompetent, what does that have to do with us? If he doesn't want to go, then we can just go, right?"
"Your brother is considering the whole picture. When selecting volunteers, they must be based on units, not individuals. That would make management difficult. Ren Huaibo dragged those people into trouble. Also, of the three girls who went to the information investigation center with me, which one performed well? On the other hand, look at the students from the College of Occupational Health. If you were the leader, which unit would you use?"
Qi Yan suddenly felt that the rice in his hand no longer tasted good.
"This Ren Huaibo, he provoked me and deliberately caused trouble for me, and now I have to pay for his actions... Isn't it unfair?"
"We can only blame ourselves for being unlucky to be in the same academy with someone like him."
Qi Yan looked irritable and worried.
I want to vent, but I don’t know how.
I didn't do anything wrong, but in the end, all the bad consequences befell me. Who can understand this?
"Senior Sister, how did you get to know someone like Ren Huaibo?"
"I also want to figure out this problem," Zhou Mo picked up a piece of fish and ate it slowly, with a heavy heart.
Liu Xiangru felt sorry for Zhou Mo, watching her being troubled by Ren Huaibo. "This is also my and her father's fault. Momo was in her third year of graduate school at the time, and we were already old enough. We thought it would be too late for a girl this old to consider getting married. We kept pushing her hard, and she probably got tired of our nagging, so she found someone like Ren Huaibo."
"It's not your or my dad's fault," Zhou Mo said as he picked at the fishbone. "When Ren Huaibo was in graduate school, he was quite the "Three Good Students." He was a good student, had a decent personality, and most importantly, he was handsome. He was the best-looking boy in our class. He was always enthusiastic about participating in activities, attending classes, and doing surveys. He had a good reputation among us girls. Who wouldn't think he was a good person? Who would have thought he had a problem with his character?"
Zhou Mo thought for a moment and said, "When he was dating me, he bought me breakfast and helped me research. He really is a caring boyfriend. If you say he became 'bad'... or his 'true nature was revealed', it was probably when he became an academic scoundrel. I guess he got a taste of the sweetness of being an academic scoundrel and couldn't stop. Some people may not have been bad from the beginning, but due to some 'coincidence', they tasted the benefits of a 'shortcut' and the greed factor in their body could no longer be controlled."
For example, he got close to Chu Xia; for example, he slandered Zhou Mo everywhere; for example, he committed fraud.
Qi Yan was surprised and asked, "Ren Huaibo was this kind of person before?"
"What else?" Zhou Mo said, "Nothing remains constant, especially people. Isn't there a study that says men's personalities change with age? Many older men, who were quite sunny when they were young, become withdrawn and eccentric in old age."
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