Chapter 64
Xia Mo didn't squeak, she didn't feel that she was that close to Leng Junsheng, but when she thought of Li Ji Yao's hidden body, she still preferred to spend time with the simple and straightforward Leng Junsheng.
"Won't that delay your work?" Xia Mo looked at Leng Junsheng.
"It's fine, I'll do my own work as I say." Leng Junsheng said with great bravado, Leng Ling looked at him from across the room and blinked, secretly discussing in her heart, if this was heard by Leng father, what would be his expression?
The few people sat here and decided to leave for S City in the afternoon, with Li Jiyao following, and Leng Ling and Song Jianan back to school.
On the way to S City, Li Jiyao contacted someone in S City to find out where Xia's mother lived.
"Thank you." Xia Mao was grateful in her heart for Li Jiyao's mutual help.
"We're classmates." Li Jiyao felt that Xia Mao had become significantly more distant from him since he knew that his father was the deputy mayor.
"Then I should thank you too." Xia Mao looked at him with a stony face all the time and wondered what she had done to offend him, so she smiled at him and said, "When things are done, I'll treat you to dinner."
Li Ji Yao looked at her deliberately smiling face and pulled the corners of his mouth along with her, "Sure."
"What about me?" Leng Junsheng, who was sitting in front, looked back at Xia Mao, "Will you take me with you for the treat?"
"Yes!" Xia Mao was busy saying, "You are also a meritorious servant, can I not take you with me?"
"That's fine." Leng Junsheng's eyes swept over to Li Jiyao who was sitting with Xia Mo, "It's just that Mr. Li's taste is rather high, I don't know if he can get used to our common people's food."
"My family is only working class, unlike Mr. Leng who is a wealthy family." Li Jiyao was no longer low key and choked out a sharp voice.
Leng Junsheng smiled coldly, "Hum", and looked at Xia Mao, "It will take more than two hours to arrive, if you are tired, you can take a nap first."
"I'm not tired." Xia Mao looked at the two people's incompatible appearance, opened her mouth, but felt it was better not to speak, lest a bad head start and the two people quarrel again, everyone would be embarrassed.
A few people arrived at S City in silence, and as soon as they left the highway toll booth, they saw a black Cadillac waiting next to them.
Li Jiyao pressed down the window and a man walked quickly up to him, gave him a piece of paper and asked, "Do you need us to follow?"
Li Jiyao looked back at Xia Mao and Leng Junsheng.
"We're going to identify our relatives, not to fight." Leng Junsheng's light-hearted words made Li Jiyao's face flush.
He turned back to the people outside the window and said, "No need for you to follow, don't tell my family that I've come to S City."
The person outside the window nodded and retreated to the side of the road without saying a word.
Leng Junsheng asked the driver to open the navigation according to the address, and it didn't take long for the car to stop at the entrance of an upscale district in the outskirts of S City.
There were four security guards standing at the entrance, saying that they were not allowed to enter, not only the car but also the people.
When had Leng Junsheng ever been so angry? And it was in front of Xia Mao.
He got out of the car and started unbuttoning his shirt and rolling up his sleeves, and he was about to go straight at the security guards who were talking.
Xia Mao was so scared that she pulled him back, "What are you doing?"
"I still don't believe this, what kind of people live in the district? What kind of people live in the district?" "Cars are not allowed in, even people are not allowed in?"
When Leng Junsheng was about to rush inside in front of him, his driver also came down from the car with a steel pipe.
When the security guard saw that the situation was not good, he started to run towards the door, shouting to the other three men as he did so, "Quickly copied the weapon!"
Li Jiyao was also afraid that the situation would get out of hand, so he followed and pulled Leng Junsheng along, "What's wrong with you? What are you doing in this area?"
"We're not going in, so we're just going to wait here? How long do we have to wait?" Leng Junsheng didn't dare to get angry with Xia Mao, so he sprayed Li Guiyao right in the face.
"You have a bag in your head, don't you?" Li Ji Yao pulled him with one hand and picked up the phone with the other, "I'll make a call first."
He said a few words to the phone before telling Leng Junsheng, "We have Xia Mao's mother's phone number, so we can call her, so why fight with the security guards here?"
When Leng Junsheng thought about it, that was exactly what happened, but how could he easily admit defeat?
"I tell you Li Ji Yao, this is only in your mu of land, if this was in D city, if someone was so ungrateful as to stop me, I would have let the grass grow so high on his grave." Leng Junsheng gestured with water to a height of about one metre and said, "That's ridiculous, it's the first time I've encountered such a thing in my life!"
"Didn't I say that I'm a working class man, I can't compare to you," Li Ji Yao stood there with his hands in his pockets, "I don't have the face of you, Leng Junsheng!"
"You ......" Leng Junsheng hiccuped as he swallowed.
"You two stop arguing," Xia Mao looked at the security guards looking out from the door not far away and gave them a blank look, "We're not here to put on a show for anyone."
Not two minutes later, another captain-like man came running out, asking people to open the doorway as quickly as possible, while smiling as he came up to them, nodding his head and apologizing, "I didn't know you were coming, please come in, which house do you want to go to? I'll have someone show you the way."
"Where is Building 8?" Li Ji Yao asked.
"I'll have someone show you the way at the front."
Li Ji Yao looked at the captain's appearance and boredly let Xia Mao get into the car first and followed him before calling out to Leng Junsheng, who was still standing outside: "Are you going to walk in yourself or are you going to take their car?"
Leng Junsheng turned his head to get into the car and turned back to Li Ji Yao, "This is my car, if Mr. Li doesn't want to sit in it, I don't object to you sitting with them."
Li Guiyao did not say anything.
Leng Junsheng turned back and said, "Actually, I find that most of the time, it is better to have power than money!"
Li Ji Yao still didn't say anything.
So Leng Junsheng stopped talking.
When they reached building 8, they saw Xia's mother and a middle-aged woman coming out, so Leng Junsheng turned back to Xia Mao and said, "Xia Mao, the one wearing a purple scarf is your mother!"
Xia Mao was busy leaning out of the car window to look, and Li Jiyao also stretched his neck to look out, "Do you recognize her?"
"I've seen her more than ten times when I was looking for Xia Mao, I definitely recognize her," Leng Junsheng turned his head and said to Xia Mao, "You need to get out of the car and go get her now, otherwise she'll be out and might not be back."
"What do I tell her?" Summer's eyes were red and she looked at the two men a little timidly.
"You can start by not saying that you've lost your memory and are just here to recognise her." Li Ji Yao came up with the idea, "After you've finished identifying her, then find time to talk to her in detail."
"Right, let's get the person first." Leng Junsheng nodded his head.
Li Ji Yao looked at Leng Junsheng and said shamefully, "A businessman can't do anything else but cheat."
"Being an official is not only cheating but also fooling!"
Xia Mao saw that the two were about to argue again, and discontentedly said in a low voice, "Are you finished?"
With that she pulled open the car door and dropped out of bed, calling out at the two backs who had just walked past the car, "Mom!"
Chapter 65
Xia's mother's body shook, her eyes immediately turned red, looking back at Xia Mao and extending her hands with a trembling voice, "Mao Mao? Is it really you?"
Xia Mao's heart was filled with sadness, although she didn't know where it came from, but she couldn't stop it even if she wanted to, she rushed over to her mother in big steps, wrapped her arms around her neck and wailed.
"Where have you been?" Xia's mother punched her back as she cried, "You didn't even call, do you want to kill me? Or are you angry with your mother that you only asked Mona to relay the message to me?"
"Mom--" Xia Mao wrapped her arms around Xia's mother's neck and sobbed uncontrollably, which was so heartbreaking to watch.
The woman next to her patted Xia's mother on the back, "What are you doing, mother and daughter? It's a happy occasion to meet, why are you crying like this?"
Only then did Xia's mother let go of Xia Mao and took out a handkerchief from her pocket to wipe the tears from her daughter's face and then wipe her own face, introducing her to Xia Mao, "This is Aunt Heng, who I've often told you about, she's no longer in D City and moved here, so I followed her here. Mona said you've been studying, what have you been studying? Have you finished studying?"
Xia Mao was dumbfounded by her mother's concerned words, so she had to greet Aunt Heng first, and then continue with Xia's mother, "Mom, I came here with my classmates and Leng Ling's big brother."
"Hello auntie." Leng Junsheng smiled and went to Xia's mother's side first to greet her, while Li Jiyao was obviously half a beat slower.
"Yo, isn't this Junsheng?" Xia mother was happy to see Leng Junsheng, "It's been a long time since I've seen you, you've become a lot thinner and more energetic than before."
"Is that so?" Leng Junsheng scratched his head in embarrassment, but his eyes looked at Xia Mao.
"This is your classmate?" Xia's mother asked kindly as she looked at Li Ji Yao.
"Well, it's my classmate." Xia Mao nodded.
"Then ......" Xia mother hesitated for a moment and said, "Let me treat you to dinner at a restaurant outside, okay?"
"Okay." Leng Junsheng, who hadn't eaten much at lunch and was hungry early on, said, "My treat, it has to be my treat today, how can you let a lady treat you when there are men around?"
Next to him, Li Ji Yao glared at him, holding back his words, but in his heart he cursed, "This Leng Junsheng has grown a different face, but he is really cunning.
"This child's words." Xia mother and Aunt Heng both cheered up, "You are all children, when you come here, of course you have to be treated by auntie."
"Yes, your Auntie Xia is the happiest today, it is she who has to treat." Aunt Heng interjected from the side.
"Just let my mother treat." Xia Mo also felt that it was too much trouble for Leng Junsheng and Li Jiyao, so she followed suit.
So the group got into the car again and went to a hot pot restaurant not far away.
After finishing the meal, Xia's mother was a bit puzzled, "I can go back with me for the night, but what about Junsheng and Ji Yao?"
"We'll stay in a hotel," Leng Junsheng said and looked at Li Ji Yao, "Are you going home or staying in a hotel?"
Li Ji Yao had been squeezed by Leng Junsheng several times in a row and was already upset to the core, but in front of everyone, he had no way to dislike him, so he could only smile graciously and say, "We'll stay at the hotel for the night and go back to D City with Xia Mao tomorrow afternoon."
"Go back tomorrow?" Xia's mother couldn't help but take her daughter's hand, "Why are you in such a hurry?"
"Mom, I'm currently at D City University of Finance and Economics, studying business administration." Xia Mao explained, "Tomorrow is Sunday, and the school will start on Monday the day after tomorrow."
"When did you go to university in D City?" Xia's mother was puzzled, "Mona said you had left the country and would not be back for two or three years, so why are you suddenly going to school in D City again?"
"Mom, I'll talk to you tonight." Xia Mao held her mother's hand and said softly.
Xia's mother then didn't ask any more questions.
Leng Junsheng drove Xia Mao and the girls back to the villa area first before dragging Li Jiyao to the hotel.
"Do you have any money and ID on you?" Leng Junsheng looked at Li Jiyao, who had a cool face, and teased, "Are you paying for the hotel, or am I?"
"AA," Li Jiyao took his phone and played King's Pesticide.
"Childish!" Leng Junsheng saw that and laughed disdainfully.
Li Jiyao, on the other hand, didn't bother to pay attention to him and just picked the corners of his lips.
Xia Mo followed Xia's mother back home, only to learn that Aunt Heng was working as a maid for someone else, then another maid who worked with her made a mistake and was thrown out by the owner, and only then did Aunt Heng introduce Xia's mother to the place.
Usually Xia's mother and Auntie Heng lived in the nanny's room, but as the owner of the house was away most of the time, Auntie Heng and Xia's mother discussed and made up a guest room for them to stay in for the night.
When it was time to go to bed, Xia's mother asked her daughter, "Moumou, tell mum what's going on? Where did you get the million yuan to pay off your father's debt?"
"Eh?" Xia Mao was stunned, what one million?
"Mona said it was a scholarship for you to get into a university in a foreign country, so how come you're back in D to go to university?" Xia's mother saw the surprise in her daughter's eyes, "Didn't you pay for this money?"
"Mom, actually ...... I have amnesia." Xia Mao said slowly.
"What? Amnesia?" Xia mother was shocked, and her eyes instantly turned red, "How could you lose your memory? Then how are you now? Is it better?"
"No." Xia Mao shook her head, took Xia mother's hand and said softly, "I don't know how I lost my memory, I don't remember anything from before, even you I don't remember, today I inadvertently ran into Song Jianan, he was the one who gave me your phone number, Li Jiyao found out your address, Leng Junsheng drove the car, I only had a hard time finding you."
"Oh my God!" Xia's mother was in tears as she raised her hand to touch her daughter's face, "No wonder you've lost so much weight, where have you been suffering all year? You've been suffering for a year!"
As soon as Xia Mao heard her mother's words, she also burst into tears. Aunt Heng, who was next door, was startled and ran over in a panic, looking at the mother and daughter in tears, and said, "What's wrong? What's wrong?"
"My precious daughter has lost her memory!" Xia's mother looked at her long-time friend and cried, "How much she must have suffered in the past two years? My heart is aching to death!"
Aunt Heng was also stunned, but then she sat down next to them and scolded them, "It's good that she's well now, isn't that what it's all about? Even if you cried yourself to death now, there's no way to go back to what you were before, as long as the child is well now, it's better than anything.
Only then did Xia's mother and Xia's mother slowly stop crying.
The next day, Leng Junsheng and Li Jiyao came nearly noon, picked them up and went out for a meal before saying goodbye to Xia's mother, who slipped Xia an envelope to her, telling her that she would go to D City to see her next week.
Xia Mao leaned on the car window and kept waving her hand to her mother until the car was far away and she could no longer see her mother's shadow, then she sat back in the carriage with tears in her eyes.
When she remembered the envelope her mother had given her, she opened it and found a pile of money inside.
Xia Mao's nose turned sour and she almost didn't shed a tear again.
Suddenly she felt that she had the strength, even if she left Ling Yichen she was not afraid anymore, she had a mother now!
Chapter 66
When they returned to D City, Leng Junsheng had to invite Xia Mao and Li Jiyao to dinner.
The first thing that I did was to ask Li Ji Yao to take me to a meeting tonight, so we didn't have time to eat.
Xia Mao, who hadn't been notified of the meeting, looked at Li Jiyao and didn't make a sound.
Leng Junsheng glared at Li Jiyao and muttered, "Ugly people do not have time to behave."
Li Jiyao did not squeal, still looking down and fiddling with his phone.
Xia Mao couldn't help but pull up the corners of her mouth and smile right next to her.
"Mao Mao, you look so good when you smile," Leng Junsheng looked back at her from the front and couldn't help but say, "You should smile more like this in the future ...... but don't smile like this in your class, it's not good for others to see. "
"Then you mean to let her go to a place where no one is laughing?" How Li Jiyao looked at Leng Junsheng he felt he was a bit silly.
"I'll pick you up for dinner every morning, noon and night, you can laugh then," Leng Junsheng thought about it and added: "The school dormitory is also too crowded, why don't you move out and live there, I'll buy a flat near your school ......"
"Are you out of your mind?" Li Jiyao couldn't help but raise his voice, "Where do students live if they don't live in school? Plus, why would she want to live in your flat?"
"Because we're ...... friends and she and my sister are classmates!" Leng Junsheng looked at Li Jiyao with disgust, "How come you are everywhere? I invited Mao Mao to go, not you!"
"I just see you as a bit silly, why should Xia Mao go with you?" Li Ji Yao did not look at Xia Mao, but he knew Xia Mao would be able to hear him, "What if people find out and cause unnecessary trouble?"
"That's what he said." Xia Mao saw the lost expression on Leng Junsheng's face and said intolerantly, "I still like living in the school."
Leng Junsheng nodded, "That's fine."
By Monday, Xia Mao's leg had healed and the school's various activities had increased.
It was Friday when Xia Mao became a little nervous.
"The person you're waiting for is here." The girl next to her, who was making a garland with her, looked at Li Jiyao who appeared at the door and touched Xia Mao with her arm.
"Eh?" Xia Mao looked up and saw Li Jiyao who was walking towards her, and asked the classmate next to her strangely, "What's wrong?"
"I see that this whole day is tense, isn't it just waiting for Li Jiyao?"
As soon as the female student's words left her mouth, several other girls around her said "Oh...", causing Xia Mao's face to blush and she looked at her female classmates in an angry manner and said, "Nonsense!"
"What are you talking about?" Li Jiyao looked at the crowd who were laughing inexplicably and walked over to Xia Mao's side, "How much longer do you have to finish?"
"Soon, another half hour and we'll be all done."
Xia Mao went and found two bags and Li Jiyao helped her put all the garlands into them.
"What were you guys laughing about just now? Did you stop laughing when you saw me coming?"
"Saying that you're handsome." Xia Mao said casually, carrying the bag to the wall.
"You noticed that too?" Li Ji Yao carried one bag to the side with one hand and followed Xia Mo's side, "I also found that I've become a lot prettier since I went to college."
Xia Mo raised her eyebrows at him, "You've grown up."
"Is that a positive or negative statement?" Li Ji Yao followed behind her and busied himself.
"Xia Mao, we'll go first." A few female students next to her greeted Xia Mao in a loud voice.
"Are you all done?" Xia Mao asked as she filled the bag with stuff.
"All done, let Li Jiyao help you with the late packing!" Several female students laughed as they spoke.
It made Xia Mao a bit puzzled.
"Fine, you all go first!" Li Ji Yao waved his hand at them, "I'll get it here."
"We're trying to create an opportunity for you," a few girls smiled and waved their hands, "you have to cherish it."
Xia Mao blushed at their words, "What are you guys always talking about!"
Li Ji Yao laughed and didn't squeal, just looking down and packing up his things.
Xia Mao watched as her classmates left, so she said no more, only speeding up the movement of her hands.
"Let's go out for something to eat tonight?" Only when the wreath was almost packed up did Li Jiyao speak up.
"No," Xia Mao said, whispering to Li Ji Yao with some hesitation, "My mother said she was coming to see me on Saturday, will she surprise me and come today?"
Li Ji Yao looked up at her expectant and pitiful face and inexplicably felt an ache in his heart, "Wouldn't you just give her a call and find out?"
Xia Mo's eyes lit up, "I'll give her a call?"
"She is your mother, of course you can give her a call." Li Ji Yao nodded.
"Good." Xia Mao was a little embarrassed because of her memory loss, even though she wanted to be close to Xia's mother, so even though she missed her mother in her heart, she didn't call her.
The call was quickly picked up and Xia mother's voice came through the phone.
"Mamoru, what's wrong?" Xia mother's voice sounded happy, "I'm making dumplings for you, all with pickled vegetables and meat, and I've fried a lot of delicious food for you, I'll bring it to you when mum goes tomorrow."
"Mom, I'm not short of food here, take care of yourself on the road, you don't need to take too much."
As soon as Xia Mao heard her mother's voice, she couldn't help the slight redness in her eyes, she was busy lifting her fingers to wipe away the tears at the corner of her eyes, but a tissue was pressed into the corner of her eyes first, Xia Mao looked up at Li Ji Yao in front of her and smiled tenderly.
"Mom knows, mum has it in her heart." Xia Mao happily followed her daughter with a few more words before hanging up the phone.
"Thanks." Xia Mao looked at Li Jiyao and said with a smile, "If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have been able to make up my mind to make this call."
"Everything is just difficult at the beginning." Li Jiyao took everything to the side and set it up, turned back to Xia Mao and said, "Let's go, I'll treat you to rice noodles."
"Okay ......" Xia Mao was just about to nod when a voice interrupted her, "What's so good about it? What's there to eat at rice noodles?"
The two of them were busy looking towards the door, and they saw Leng Junsheng standing at the door wearing a long black trench coat and freezing with a slightly green face.
"Why are you here?" Xia Mao asked.
"To treat you to hot pot!" Leng Junsheng wrapped his clothes around him, "It's so damn cold this day!"
Li Ji Yao who was angry at the sight of Leng Junsheng couldn't help but be amused, "Pretending to be cool in the middle of winter, live long enough!"
"Mamoru I'm only inviting you, no idle people." Leng Junsheng spoke first.
"It's a pity that Mou Mou promised me first." Li Jiyao followed suit.
"I'm not going anywhere." Xia Mao looked at the two with a headache.
"Don't ......" Leng Junsheng was busy giving in, "Then take him with you."
"I don't even care ......," Li Ji Yao's words didn't fall, Leng Junsheng was busy talking to Xia Mao, "Then there's nothing you can do if he doesn't go."
The phone rang, she looked at the phone strangely, her number was newly changed, not many people should know it!
"Hello?" She picked up the phone and just as she said one word, a man's low voice came out of the phone, "You've got some nerve!"
Ling Yichen, who had disappeared for days, appeared ......