Chapter 96: Worrying Emotional Intelligence
"No, don't even think about it."
Qu Tao said, and almost trotted back to the bedroom. When Xi Mozhou followed him, the sound of locking the door came from inside.
It seems that he is destined to sleep in the guest bedroom tonight. Xi Mozhou was sighing, and the voice of Xi's father came from the corner of the stairs.
"Mozhou... come here."
Xi's father suppressed his voice and shook the key in his hand at him. Xi Mozhou's eyes lit up immediately and he walked over in a few steps.
"How do you know that I need this?" He
was okay in running the company, but his relationship was a little bit off. Xi's father looked at him with disdain and stuffed the key into his hand.
Seeing Xi Mozhou holding the key and walking towards Qu Tao's bedroom happily, Xi's father sighed and called him back.
"Silly boy, you go in now, are you thinking of handing in the keys and getting kicked out?"
"Go in later, wait until Taotao finishes taking a shower and goes to sleep, then you go in."
"Oh... got it."
Xi Mozhou went to the guest bedroom to take a shower first, and when he felt that the time was about up, he tiptoed to Qu Tao's bedroom.
As the door was gently pushed open, the curve of Xi Mozhou's lips became bigger and bigger.
But when he stepped into the room with one foot, there was a sudden sound of a balloon exploding above his head, and water splashed on his head.
Qu Tao was startled by the explosion, and thinking of something, he sat up from the bed and looked at the door.
"Xi Mozhou, how does it feel to be washed by cool water? Is it comfortable?"
Qu Tao's face was full of pride, and Xi Mozhou shook off the water stains on his pajamas.
"How did you know I would sneak in?"
"What do you think?" Qu Tao raised his lips, his face even more proud, "Xi Mozhou, I've been with you for a long time, and I know what you want to do as soon as you move your butt."
Qu Tao yawned after saying that.
"Okay, don't worry about catching a cold in this cold weather, leave the key and get out."
Xi Mozhou was unwilling to leave and stood still. Qu Tao put on his slippers, walked over quickly, snatched the key from his hand, and pushed him out.
"Okay, go back to sleep."
Old people don't think much. In the morning, Xi's father sat on the sofa in the living room, staring at the direction of the stairs from time to time.
Seeing Xi Mozhou coming down from the building, he glanced behind him, and after not seeing Qu Tao, he whispered, "Did you coax her?"
Xi Mozhou's spirits, which had just been raised, withered again when he heard his question.
"Don't mention it."
"The key can't open it?" Xi's father shook his head and denied it, "It shouldn't be like that. When you slept alone before, I often sneaked in in the middle of the night."
Xi Mozhou stood up instantly, "What did you say?"
"I..." Xi's father realized that he had let the cat out of the bag, and quickly changed the subject, "I was asking why Tao Tao hasn't come downstairs yet?"
After the car accident, Xi Mozhou had been complaining about him. When he came back from school during the holidays, he didn't even see him, let alone say a word.
As a parent, who doesn't want to chat with their children and take a few more glances at them? He could only sneak in and sit for a while in the middle of the night when Xi Mozhou fell asleep.
Seeing Xi Mozhou sleeping soundly and thinking about how he clung to him when he was a child, he felt satisfied and sad.
"You just said..."
Xi Mozhou didn't finish his words, and his father interrupted him immediately.
"Where's the key? Give it to me, and I'll go up and try it when you guys have dinner later."
"The key was taken away by Taotao."
Seeing the question mark in Xi's father's eyes, Xi Mozhou was not afraid of embarrassment and told him what happened last night.
But seeing Xi's father trying hard to hold back his laughter, he regretted it a second after he finished speaking!
"Laugh if you want to. You are old enough. Don't hold it back."
"Then I'm not welcome...haha..."
Xi Mozhou gave a half-mocking laugh and looked at his father with disdain.
He seemed to be holding it back so hard that he swallowed the last few words.
Xi Mozhou ignored him and went to the kitchen to prepare some side dishes that Qu Tao liked, then returned.
Xi's father had stopped laughing and waved to him when he saw him.
"Come, Dad will give you another tip. While Tao Tao is still asleep, go back to the bedroom and tidy up. The dirtier the better?"
"Why? He doesn't like me in the first place, and you asked me to tidy up even more."
His son's EQ... is really hard to describe. No wonder he came up with such a bad trick to trick the company after returning from abroad.
Fortunately, Qu Tao has never let him go. If he had let someone who had already forgotten him go, he would have torn his face with him long ago, and there would be no chance for him to explain or forgive.
Father Xi looked at him for a few seconds as if he was looking at the stupid son of a landlord, and raised his voice.
"Didn't you get wet last night? You're not pretending to be sick. You'd better go upstairs and lie down for a while, and wait for Taotao to call you, then come down."
"A self-torture trick?" Xi Mozhou's eyes lit up, and he showed an admiring expression to Xi's father, "You are worthy of being so cunning."
"........", cunning? Is there such a flattering thing?
In order to play the trick well, Xi Mozhou took a cold shower after returning to the guest bedroom.
He waited for a long time, until he was dizzy and about to fall asleep, and then he heard the sound of turning the doorknob.
"Xi Mozhou?"
"Xi Mozhou, why don't you get up yet?"
The voice came from far away, Xi Mozhou closed his eyes, and his eyelids drooped a little heavy.
"Tao Tao, I'm not feeling well. The water in the balloon last night... I seem to have caught a cold."
Qu Tao stretched out his hand, wanting to touch his forehead, but thought of something and retracted it.
"Xi Mozhou, stop pretending in front of me. When did you become so weak?"
"I'm not pretending. I really feel uncomfortable."
While speaking, Xi Mozhou coughed twice, which even scared himself.
It's over. In the middle of winter, this cold shower really got him into trouble.
Qu Tao seemed to have realized something was wrong. He reached out his hand without hesitation and touched his forehead.
"It's over. You have a fever."
Qu Tao regretted that he had gone too far last night.
He immediately stood up and walked out. "Lie down first. I'll bring you a bowl of porridge. After you finish, take the medicine quickly."
Qu Tao no longer rejected getting close to him. When Xi Mozhou secretly celebrated the success of his self-torture plan, Qu Tao saw that he had finished taking the medicine and stood up to say goodbye.
"Don't go to the company today. Have a good rest at home. I'll go to the company first. If you have anything, call your uncle to come up."
If Qu Tao wants to go to the company, then what's the point of his illness?
Xi Mozhou refused and raised his eyebrows immediately.
"You still want to go to the company?"
Why can't he go to the company? Qu Tao raised his eyebrows slightly and said something.
"Hmm?"
Xi Mozhou's words were slightly aggrieved.
"I'm sick."
So what? I'm not sick, Qu Tao nodded.
"Hmm."
"..."
After Qu Tao left, Xi Mozhou regretted that he had turned his fake play into reality. In order to recover quickly, he covered himself with a thick blanket under the floor heating.
He was sweating all over, and he quickly got rid of the fever he had just started.
It was almost lunchtime, and thinking about having lunch with Qu Tao, Xi Mozhou was excited to take the food and rush to Yuanhang, but was stopped by the front desk.
"Mr. Xi, I'm sorry, Mr. Qu issued an order yesterday not to allow you to go up."
"Yesterday is yesterday, today is today."
"Mr. Xi is right, but today, we did not receive Mr. Qu's order to revoke it."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
