Chapter 42

On Friday night, the day before going boating, everyone in the old house made their own preparations.

I had to pack some clothes and toiletries as I planned to pitch a tent by the lake for a night. The old man attached great importance to this trip. He bought the tent early, and spread a lot of things on the sofa in the living room. The military cans were built into a hill.

Zhou Zhenyue looked at the pile of canned braised pork, then looked at the iron stick in her hand, and shook her head.

“Canned food can be eaten up, where can I use barbecue.”

Mu Xueyi was putting the frozen chicken wings he just bought from the supermarket into the refrigerator, and sighed, “Bring something for barbecue, you’ll get tired of just eating canned food.”

When the old man heard it, he turned around immediately, picked up a box of canned food and shook it at Mu Xueyi: “Hey, girl Xue, this is what you don’t understand. This is a good thing, we were able to eat a can of food back then. After a month of fun, why are you still tired of it?”

Mu Xueyi smiled: “Yes, grandpa is here, so let’s eat canned food.”

Zhou Zhenyue put down the iron stick, walked behind Mu Xueyi who was squatting in front of the refrigerator, pressed her hand lightly on her shoulder, and lowered her voice: “If you want to eat barbecue, bring it with you, you don’t have to always follow Grandpa.”

The old man shouted: “What are you talking about? The voice is no longer small, I can hear it!” He looked at Zhou Zhenyue, pointed **** at her, “You, you, don’t leave me alone. With my granddaughter-in-law, who said I didn’t ask her to bring barbecue? I just said canned food is delicious, but I didn’t tell you to eat canned food. Grandson-in-law?”

Mu Xueyi hurriedly agreed: “Hey.”

The old man: “Bring what you want to eat!”

Mu Xueyi smiled and nodded: “Hey, good.”

At first, when the old man called Mu Xueyi his daughter-in-law, Zhou Zhenyue also teased Mu Xueyi, saying, “You really dare to agree.” But after calling for so long, she was not surprised. The housekeepers and servants in the old house had already truly treated Mu Xueyi as the young grandma of the Zhou family.

In the evening, Mu Xueyi took a shower first, Zhou Zhenyue went in to wash again, and Mu Xueyi sat on the balcony to open a new shoppingmode Lego box.

After finishing the fight last time, she casually mentioned something funny, and Zhou Zhenyue got another box back. Although she did think it was fun, the fighting process was quite torturous, with dizziness, back pain and sore neck.

But she didn’t want to disappoint Zhou Zhenyue’s kindness, so she still sat down and fought patiently.

While fighting, the phone suddenly rang.

Mu Xueyi picked it up and saw that it was Zhong Wan. After connecting, she put it in her ear: “Hello, Wanwan?”

Zhong Wan seemed to be in a hurry and couldn’t talk to her any more. She only said a word in a hurry:

“Xueyi, your father is back!”

When the words fell, the phone was hung up immediately.

Mu Xueyi froze instantly.

The fingers holding the phone seemed to lose consciousness, and at some point, the phone slowly slipped out of the fingers and fell on the blanket with a clatter.

But before he could react, the phone on the blanket rang again.

As if she sensed what she was most afraid of at the moment, she didn’t give her a chance to breathe at all, so she came to the door non-stop.

Mu Xueyi’s throat moved up and down with difficulty, forcing herself to withstand the huge fear in her heart, lowering her head little by little, and looking at the unfamiliar number on the phone screen.

When she was at Mu’s house, she was not allowed to get Mu Guocheng’s phone number, so Mu Guocheng was not in her address book. She doesn’t have any complicated social relationships, and no strangers will call her, so this number with exactly the same number as Mu Ruqing’s first three-digit number can only be Mu Guocheng’s.

Mu Xueyi took a deep breath, knowing that he couldn’t escape.

She picked up the phone on the blanket, her hands shaking uncontrollably, and she swiped the answer button twice.

Mu Xueyi closed his eyes and called softly, “Dad.”

The middle-aged man’s thick voice sneered in the receiver: “Can you guess it’s me?”

Mu Xueyi: “…Yes.”

“I heard Ruqing say that you seem to have been staying by Zhou Zhenyue’s side for the past few months.” From Mu Guocheng’s side came the sound of a cigar cutter clipping a cigar, “I don’t care about you in recent years, you are brave It’s a lot bigger.”

Mu Xueyi clenched her fists and tried to make her voice sound more confident: “My sister and I have made it very clear that the Mu family and I… have no relationship since three months ago.”

Mu Guocheng smiled, like the helpless smile of a parent when a child is lying on the ground asking for a toy, “Xueyi, you are almost thirty years old, stop talking about these ridiculous words. , who lost my Mu family, understand?”

There was a long exhalation sound in the receiver, like cigar smoke, “The stock market situation is not very good recently, I need a little public opinion to help, if Anyang University of Finance and Economics is willing to choose M Moser for the school-enterprise alliance, the effect of public opinion is It should be very good. Go back to Mu’s house, find a time, and I will arrange a meeting for you and Principal Shen’s daughter.”

Mu Xueyi said word by word: “I said, I have nothing to do with the Mu family anymore. I will not go back, and I will not have any development with Shen Huaixing.”

Mu Guocheng took another sip of the cigar and said slowly: “I guessed you would be like this, I heard Ruqing say that three months ago, you didn’t know which tendon was wrong and you became particularly stubborn. Ruqing can’t persuade you, and I don’t expect you to listen to me if I can say a few words.”

Mu Xueyi’s clenched fingers were trembling, she gritted her teeth and tried to lower her posture. “Dad, I’m living a good life now. I’m by the person I like, doing the job I like. If you… still have a little father-daughter love for me, please, let me go. If you think I’ve cost you I can use my future salary to pay you back, and I can also make my mother stop harassing the Mu family…”

Mu Guocheng interrupted her: “Okay, don’t say these words wasting my time. You only have one choice now, that is to go home obediently and get ready for the marriage with the Shen family. I’ll pack your things for you one night, and I’ll have it tomorrow. I saw you at Mu’s house.”

Mu Xueyi accentuated: “I said, I won’t go back!”

“…You think Zhou Zhenyue can protect you, so you talk to me like this, don’t you?” Mu Guocheng’s voice became cold, “Hehe, I’m not afraid to tell you, if Zhou Fengnian is in charge now, maybe I’m still worried. Point. Zhou Zhenyue, just rely on her, you dare to rely on her to contradict me? ”

Mu Xueyi: “What do you mean?”

Mu Guocheng: “It means, if you can’t see the situation clearly, I don’t mind helping you see it.”

“beep-”

The phone was hung up.

Mu Xueyi stared blankly at the screen of the phone, recalling Mu Guocheng’s last sentence repeatedly.

What do you mean to help her see?

How can I help her see?

Her mind was in a mess, Zhou Zhenyue finished taking a shower, opened the bathroom door and walked out.

She was wearing a loose nightgown, her hair was only half-dried, she walked behind Mu Xueyi and bent down slightly, the fragrant aroma covering her body.

“…I go in for an hour, and you build three bricks?”

Zhou Zhenyue bent down to look at the piles of building blocks on the carpet, and asked softly.

Mu Xueyi forced the corners of her lips to smile: “I…”

Zhou Zhenyue’s pupils slid to the corner of her eyes to look at her, “What’s wrong?”

“…I’m a little tired.” Mu Xueyi glanced at the ground next to her.

Zhou Zhenyue straightened her waist, continued to wipe her hair with the towel in her hand, and said casually, “Go to bed early when you’re tired. I’ll make an exception for you tonight, so you don’t need to write a love letter.”

Mu Xueyi hummed very lightly.

Zhou Zhenyue watched as Mu Xueyi silently got up from the ground and walked towards the back of the big bed, the movement of wiping her hair slowed down, her brows wrinkled without a trace.

the next day.

Zhou Fengnian got up at seven in the morning, Zhang Luo and everyone packed up, and the car had long since pulled out of the garage and parked on the side of the road to wait.

The old man couldn’t wait, so he took the car and left. Zhou Zhenyue and Mu Xueyi got into the car driven by Xiao Ai half an hour later, and it was only eight o’clock in the morning when they set off.

Mu Xueyi had something in her heart, and although she tried her best to hide it, it was too big for her to hide. He’s been in a half-wandering state since last night.

Zhou Zhenyue saw that she had been silent, and asked, “What are you thinking about?”

Mu Xueyi’s eyes were light blue after insomnia, and she covered her heart for a night, but she still couldn’t figure it out. She thought that if she couldn’t solve the matter by herself, it would be better to tell Zhou Zhenyue to be a little defensive.

She raised her eyes to look at Zhou Zhenyue and said, “Ayue, my dad has returned to China.”

Zhou Zhenyue was not surprised, just nodded: “Well, I know.”

Mu Xueyi asked subconsciously, “How did you know?”

Zhou Zhenyue: “I knew when he booked a flight back to China in Los Angeles. The Zhou family has his own network and contacts. Anyone who needs to be monitored will make a very accurate positioning and report back to me.”

After speaking, Zhou Zhenyue paused and asked, “Mu Guocheng is looking for you?”

Mu Xueyi nodded: “Well, he found me last night and told me to… go home and prepare to marry the Shen family.”

Zhou Zhenyue lowered her eyes: “…what do you say?”

Mu Xueyi: “Of course I refused, but I tried hard and soft, but it didn’t work. He also threatened me, I’m worried that he will treat you…”

“Don’t worry,” Zhou Zhenyue moved her hand on the seat and patted the back of Mu Xueyi’s hand twice, “The Mu family and I, the Zhou family, are opposite families, even if there is no such thing as you, Mu Sooner or later, Guocheng will start to deal with me.”

Mu Xueyi was silent for a while, then said dully: “I’m not worried about this…”

Zhou Zhenyue: “Then you are worried that I can’t fight him?”

Mu Xueyi twisted his fingers, “…My dad is very skilled.”

Zhou Zhenyue: “Do you think I have no means?” She smiled and folded her arms, “It seems that I am always too kind to you, which makes your perception of me a little off.”

The worry in Mu Xueyi’s eyes still didn’t fade away, and he shook his head: “I don’t doubt your ability to play games in the business arena, it’s just… my dad is a very good man, he asked me to steal from you before. It can be seen from the documents that he is very unscrupulous in his actions. Ah Yue, it is hard to guard against a dark arrow.”

Zhou Zhenyue’s thumb lightly rubbed the jade ring on her index finger, lowered her eyebrows, and chuckled: “I’m not afraid of his tricks, I’ve been in the business field for so many years, and my methods may not be all clear. To tell the truth, there is no way for people who are not both righteous and evil to be able to get along in this turbid place.”

“I’m only worried about you,” she looked at Mu Xueyi with an obscure emotion in her eyes, “Would you… feel that you’ve caused me trouble, so you secretly go back to Mu’s house alone?”

Mu Xueyi looked back at Zhou Zhenyue’s eyes, curled the corners of her lips, and smiled softly.

“Of course not. I promised you that no matter what happened, I would always be with you.”

The author has something to say: blackening has begun to warm up

The back of Xueyi is particularly crazy, so crazy that it’s not the same kind of crazy as it is now. How gentle in the front, how savage in the back

I just hope people don’t scold her when she’s crazy [laughs].