Chapter 29 Pattern
Zhao Tingyu was awakened by a sudden muffled sound.
He was so angry with Xu Mo that he couldn't sleep all night last night. He finally fell asleep in the morning, but not long after, he was woken up by a series of muffled sounds.
Zhao Tingyu opened his eyes, frowned and looked at the dark ceiling, trying for a moment to figure out what the sound was.
It sounded like nails being driven into wood.
Suddenly, an idea popped into his mind, he jumped up from the bed and flung open the door.
Opposite his room, in Xu Mo's room, a middle-aged man in work clothes was holding a black rubber hammer, with a brand new bed frame under his feet.
Zhao Tingyu immediately understood what was going on. He asked the installer, "Who asked you to come?"
The installation master squatted on the ground and looked up at him in confusion: "Customer."
"Which client?"
"A customer who wants to buy a bed." The installation master didn't bother to pay attention to him and continued to install it with the bang bang bang.
Zhao Tingyu felt like he was talking at cross purposes and the installation master couldn't understand what information he wanted to obtain, so he went back to the room and took out his cell phone to call Xu Mo.
Xu Mo didn’t answer the first time.
Zhao Tingyu persevered and fought a second time.
Xu Mo didn't answer again.
Zhao Tingyu texted her: [Did you buy a new bed? Did you tell your uncle and aunt?]
Xu Mo: [……]
Zhao Tingyu: [What do you mean by sending six dots?]
Xu Mo: [Speechless meaning.]
She's already in her twenties, and she needs to ask her parents for permission to buy a bed? I seriously suspect Zhao Tingyu is just making small talk.
Zhao Tingyu looked at these five words, and suddenly he smiled.
He thought he might be crazy, or some masochistic nature in his body had been activated. Now that she was talking back at him, he no longer felt angry, but instead felt a strange sense of happiness.
It's better to confront him than to ignore him all the time.
Zhao Tingyu felt that his perspective had suddenly opened up.
He glanced at the calendar on his phone. Today was the 29th day of the lunar year. If he remembered correctly, Liao Haizhou should have returned.
He called Liao Haizhou.
There was a faint sound of the high-speed rail station announcement coming from Liao Haizhou's side. Zhao Tingyu asked, "Have you arrived in Nanshi?"
"I just got off the bus." Liao Haizhou was freezing to death after getting off the bus. He dragged his bags and struggled forward in the cold wind.
"Is Xie Wan back?"
"No." Liao Haizhou felt depressed when Xie Wan was mentioned. "Are you home yet? Are you going out to have a party tonight?"
"Who is it?"
"Wang Shuai, Chen Kang and the others."
These two are brothers who played basketball together in high school, and they get together every Chinese New Year.
Zhao Tingyu agreed and put on his clothes: "Okay."
Xu Mo might be having fun somewhere with Lin Jingchuan right now, and he couldn't just wait at home like a resentful husband.
On the other side, the playground.
Xu Mo walked hand in hand with Lin Jingchuan in the park, holding an ice cream. She took a bite of the ice cream and handed it to Lin Jingchuan.
Lin Jingchuan lowered his head and took a bite. Xu Mo smiled, took the ice cream he handed over and took another bite.
Lin Jingchuan said, "I can't eat anymore after this bite."
"Why?"
Wiping the remaining ice cream from the corner of her lips with his fingertips, Lin Jingchuan said, "It's cold."
"Ice cream is only fun to eat in winter." Xu Mo blinked.
Lin Jingchuan said: "Your stomach is not in good condition."
"How do you know?" Xu Mo raised her eyebrows. "Okay, Lin Jingchuan, just observe me secretly."
Lin Jingchuan said frankly: "Well, yes, I still have a crush on you."
Xu Mo smiled: "Really? When did it start?"
Lin Jingchuan tapped her nose, and Xu Mo touched his finger with the tip of her nose: "Do you like me to call you Jingchuan or Senior Brother?"
"I like you to call me husband."
“That’s another price.”
“Do you need to bid?”
"You can buy it out."
Lin Jingchuan tilted his head and suddenly bit her ear gently: "You're smart."
Xu Mo smiled with her eyes curved, took his hand, and pointed to the path ahead: "Let's go over there and take a look. It looks like there's a zoo over there."
Lin Jingchuan nodded, and the two were about to walk over there when suddenly a figure jumped out from nowhere.
The yellow-haired woman in a black cotton coat looked at Xu Mo in surprise: "Xu Mo, it's really you!"
Xu Mo looked at her for a while before recognizing who she was.
Although the two were high school classmates, they hadn't seen each other for at least five years, so it was difficult to recognize them at once.
Besides, the relationship between the two is not that good.
"Don't you recognize me?" The blond woman greeted her warmly, "I'm Cai Yun!"
Xu Mo nodded: "I remember, we are old classmates."
She took the initiative to talk first: "Are you going home for the New Year too?"
Cai Yun said: "Yes, I just came back today."
Xu Mo nodded: "It's hard to get tickets for the New Year."
"I'm close by. I work in the provincial capital, so train tickets aren't a problem." Cai Yun said with a smile, "Hey, I heard from some of my former classmates that you went to Guangzhou to work? How's it going? What are you doing now?"
I started asking for information. Xu Mo shook her head and said casually, "I'm working for someone."
Cai Yun said, "Don't be so modest. You were a top student in our high school. Everyone knows that you got into a prestigious university and you must have joined a big company after graduation!"
Xu Mo smiled and said, "You too."
Cai Yun waved her hand. "Oh, there's nothing good about this company right now. The year-end bonus is only about 200,000 yuan."
Xu Mo: “…”
This is also called nothing good.
She didn't want to waste too much time with irrelevant people, so she prepared to say goodbye to Cai Yun: "I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."
Cai Yun rolled her eyes, but suddenly stopped her.
"Hey Xu Mo, you haven't introduced me to this handsome guy next to you yet!"
Xu Mo said: "This is my boyfriend."
Cai Yun blurted out, "Isn't your partner Zhao Tingyu? What? Did you break up?"
The atmosphere suddenly became solemn.
Cai Yun noticed Xu Mo's momentary distraction and continued, "I told you, it's useless for a woman to throw herself at him. Look, you chased him for so many years, but in the end he still dumped you. What a waste of your youth."
Xu Mo looked at her gloating expression and recalled an incident that happened in her senior year of high school.
Cai Yun likes Zhao Tingyu, but can't stand her always following Zhao Tingyu around, so she finds a group of hooligans from outside the school to block her on the way home from school.
She was forced into a corner, Cai Yun looked down at her, her enlarged yellow hair and heavily made-up face made her blood boil.
After all, Cai Yun was a teacher's child and had good grades. In the end, she was probably afraid that the matter would get out of hand and affect her college entrance examination, so apart from pushing her twice, she did nothing to her.
This was the closest Xu Mo had ever been to school bullying.
Xu Mo was lost in her memories, her expression a little dazed and solemn, when suddenly a voice pulled her out of her memories.
Lin Jingchuan looked at the yellow-haired woman opposite him, his expression calm but with an inexplicable sense of oppression: "What did you mean by that just now?"
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