Chapter 25 Returning Home
Xu Mo slept all the way in the car, and when she woke up she found her head resting on Lin Jingchuan's shoulder.
The train sped forward, and the blurry mountains and fields outside the window quickly receded. Xu Mo raised her neck with some effort and asked Lin Jingchuan, who was sitting next to her reading, with a nasal voice like she had just woken up, "You didn't sleep?"
"Fortunately, I'm not sleepy."
Lin Jingchuan closed the book and placed it on the small table. Xu Mo saw the cover and saw that it was a foreign book on business model theory.
"Hey, are you reading a book?" Xu Mo asked. "My boss recommended this book to me."
Lin Jingchuan picked up the book and handed it to her. Xu Mo took it and touched the smooth cover. The unique ink feel of the paper book made her feel very comfortable. She opened the pages and took a look. There were a lot of pictures and text inside. "It's very good. Easy to understand."
Lin Jingchuan asked, "Has your boss always been Manager Wu?"
Xu Mo nodded. "Yes, I followed her right after graduation. I've been working on her projects all these years. She was promoted from manager to senior manager, and I was promoted from consultant to senior consultant."
The expression on her face seemed to carry a hint of nostalgia. Lin Jingchuan asked, "What kind of leader is she?"
"She has excellent professional skills. After being promoted to manager, she negotiated many large projects for the firm. As a leader, she is very strict and has high expectations for her subordinates. When I first joined the company, she scolded me and made me cry."
"Scold and cry?"
"Well..." Xu Mo recalled, "When I first started working, I was timid and unconfident when facing clients. I would walk away from some projects without fully understanding them. I didn't meet her expectations, so she got angry and scolded me. But I learned my lesson, and I gradually became more proficient in project work."
Lin Jingchuan smiled: "No wonder."
It's no wonder his words were so incoherent that Xu Mo didn't quite understand: "What?"
"When I saw you in college, you were still a somewhat spoiled little sister." Lin Jingchuan narrowed his eyes and recalled, "When I saw you again at your company some time ago, you were completely different."
Xu Mo:!
"How am I spoiled?" Xu Mo pouted. "Okay, I did cry when I lost my bag at school. But there was a reason for that!"
"What's the reason?"
"Well... my ID is all in there," Xu Mo said roughly. "Of course I'm anxious."
Lin Jingchuan's gaze fell on her wandering eyes, and he said lightly: "Is it because of the quarrel with Zhao Tingyu?"
How did he know? Xu Mo felt guilty and sat up a little straighter. Without answering, she flipped through the book in her hand and changed the subject: "Is it almost time?"
It gets light late in winter, and it is still dark outside the train around six in the morning.
Xu Mo yawned and suddenly felt a little cold, hugging her arms and shivering.
There is a temperature difference between the two places. It is still sunny in Guangzhou, but back in the north, it is cold and damp. Fine and dense rain falls on the glass windows, and you can feel the coldness outside the window through the glass.
Lin Jingchuan stood up, took the backpack off the luggage rack, took out a windproof jacket from it, and handed it to Xu Mo.
"If you're waiting, put it on first." His tone wasn't particularly nice, and a bit stiff.
Xu Mo took it with a smile and put it on herself.
"Thank you, husband." She said with a smile.
Lin Jingchuan looked at her smiling eyes, leaned over slightly, and lowered his head to help her zip up her windproof jacket.
Xu's father originally wanted to come to the station to pick her up, but Xu Mo refused. After all, she had not yet told her parents that in addition to herself, she also brought her new husband back home. She planned to tell her parents the moment she knocked on the door.
She is somewhat of a procrastinator and would never do something a minute earlier than planned if she could leave it to the last minute.
After leaving the station, Xu Mo started calling for a taxi, and soon a driver came to take the order.
At this moment, her cell phone suddenly vibrated...
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Zhao Tingyu returned to Nanshi a day earlier than Xu Mo. He accompanied Xu's father to the vegetable market to buy a lot of meat and vegetables, and then went to the supermarket to buy couplets, blessing characters and red envelopes.
Xu's father was a long-time friend of his parents. After his parents passed away, Zhao Tingyu was taken home by Xu's father.
Father Xu treated him very well, just like his own son.
Zhao Tingyu is a grateful person, so even after he became an adult, he would go back to Nanshi to visit Xu's father every New Year.
The day before Xu Mo came back, he had helped to paste up the couplets and blessing characters, washed the curtains, and cleaned the house.
The day Xu Mo came back, Zhao Tingyu woke up at four in the morning.
Xu's father told him that Xu Mo arrived in Nanshi at about six in the morning and returned home at about half past six.
Zhao Tingyu was sitting at the head of the bed playing games. At around six o'clock, he heard the sound of Xu's father getting up.
Father Xu walked into the kitchen and turned on the stove. Zhao Tingyu followed him and asked, "Uncle, are you preparing breakfast with Xu Mo?"
Father Xu, wearing home clothes, smiled and said, "Yeah, after she finishes her meal, I should go to work."
He asked Zhao Tingyu: "What do you want to eat?"
Zhao Tingyu pursed his lips: "It would be great if I could be like Momo."
Father Xu said, "Okay, then I'll make Xu's egg noodles that you both like."
Father Xu sighed, "I still remember when you were in high school, I made egg noodles for you every morning. Momo liked eggs, so you gave her yours, and the two of you drank up the soup."
"Ever since Momo graduated, she's been spending less and less time at home. We only see each other during the Lunar New Year."
Zhao Tingyu forced a smile, his mind in turmoil.
Human beings do not share the same joys and sorrows. Facing the smiling Father Xu, Zhao Tingyu felt very heavy, depressed and unwilling at this moment.
Because he knew that Xu Mo did not come back alone this time, she brought someone with her - her so-called new husband, Lin Jingchuan.
Zhao Tingyu walked out of the kitchen and paced back and forth in the living room. He pressed his eyebrows, struggling over whether to go to the train station to pick up Xu Mo.
Thinking about it, she felt unwilling. She brought her husband back, and asked her ex-boyfriend to go to the train station to pick her up and go home with that man.
Zhao Tingyu called Xu Mo, and the call was quickly answered. Xu Mo's voice sounded tired and dusty: "What's wrong?"
She saved his new number. After realizing this, Zhao Tingyu felt a little better.
"Are we there yet?" Zhao Tingyu asked, "Do you want me to pick you up?"
The whistling sound from Xu Mo's side suddenly stopped, and then there was the sound of a car door closing: "No need, I got a taxi."
Lin Jingchuan's voice could be faintly heard from the other end of the phone, and Zhao Tingyu heard him call her Momo.
Green tea man.
Zhao Tingyu's face darkened and he hung up the phone.
He threw the phone away and cursed himself for being so sentimental.
Xu's mother is the financial director of a listed company in Nanshi. She is usually busy with work and goes out early and comes back late. It is usually Xu's father who cooks at home.
Today was a little special. Xu's mother got up half an hour earlier, Xu's father was cooking in the kitchen, and Zhao Tingyu was helping.
Mother Xu sat back on the sofa. Suddenly the doorbell rang. She raised a faint smile at the corner of her lips and stood up to open the door.
When they were about to reach the door, Xu's mother felt that it was inappropriate to appear too happy, so she adjusted her expression and tried to look calm.
During Xu Mo's growth, she and her father always adopted the educational model of strict mother and kind father. In front of her daughter, she always habitually kept her emotions hidden.
When she opened the door, Xu Mo's face appeared in front of her as expected. However, although she saw her daughter returning home safely, the smile on Xu's mother's lips suddenly froze slightly, because she saw a stranger standing next to her daughter, a man she had never seen before.
Her mind quickly calculated the various possibilities of this man's identity.
Xu Mo smiled and said, "Mom, I'm back."
Mother Xu glanced at her, then looked at Lin Jingchuan beside her: "What is this?"
Xu Mo said, "This is Lin Jingchuan."
Zhao Tingyu and Xu's father heard the noise at the door and came out of the kitchen. When they saw Lin Jingchuan, Xu's father was obviously stunned. Zhao Tingyu's expression was very secretive.
A handsome man in a dark green mountaineering suit took the initiative to nod to Xu's mother, calmly saying, "Hello, Auntie. I'm Lin Jingchuan, Momo's husband."
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