1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 353 Small Conflict

At 6:30 in the afternoon, Yang Mo, who had reviewed more than a dozen products, stood in front of the gate of the courtyard and took out the key in a daze.

Behind him, classmate Tugou, who seemed to be fine, was holding a bag of freshly made egg rolls and eating them happily.

Glancing at this greedy cat who seemed to always have so much energy, Yang Mo sighed speechlessly.

We all worked non-stop for more than six hours, so why is there such a big difference between people?

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"Sister Mu, I'm here to see you!"

As soon as Yang Mofu opened the door, Tugou rushed into the yard barking with joy. Even though the two sisters had never gathered together since the beginning of spring, the three months did not seem to have diluted the feelings between them.

When classmate Tugou heard his voice, a beautiful figure came out of the house. After a brief pause, she happily walked towards Lu Yingying. It turned out to be Miss Mu.

Although since Miss Mu and Yang Mo confirmed their relationship, the two often made appointments to have dinner together and then stay in the house to watch TV; but due to her daughter's modesty, it was mainly Yang Mo who ran to Miss Mu's yard to eat, and Comrade Yaer seldom came to Yang Mo's side.

However, this situation changed after Mu Siyuan came to Texas.

Perhaps because she felt that this could be considered as "meeting some of the parents" to some extent, Miss Mu came here every night to prepare Yang Mo's dinner without fail these few nights, which seemed to indicate that she was about to get married. And Mr. Yang, who had been busy all the time, naturally gave a key to Miss Mu, so that she could just wait to eat the ready-made food when she got home.

Obviously, Tugou learned about this from Yang Mo, so he started calling "Sister Mu" before he even saw anyone.

"Sister Mu, do you want to try the freshly baked egg rolls? They are so delicious!"

After more than three months, Tugou showed a heartless smile on his face, then handed the plastic bag in his hand to Miss Mu, his eyes narrowed into crescent shapes.

Miss Mu kept smiling, but there was a hint of hesitation in her eyes. She was a Hui, and although she was not as strict as her fellow tribesmen in the gathering place, she had long been accustomed to not eating non-halal food.

Although the egg rolls handed to her now did not seem to violate her dietary taboos, it was hard to say whether this kind of food from a non-halal restaurant was within her edible range.

Just when Miss Mu was hesitating whether to take it, another figure jumped out of the room, took a look at the situation, and then took the bag from Tugou's hand. Then he pinched an egg roll from it and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing it. "It just so happens that dinner is only halfway through, and I'm hungry. Eating some snacks to fill my stomach is also a good choice... Thank you, Manager Lu."

The person who came was Lin Luosu.

In fact, whenever Miss Mu came to Yang Mo these days, this Eggplant Girl would always be by her side. When Miss Mu came, she would come too; when Miss Mu sat at the table, she would also sit at the table; when Miss Mu left, she would also leave.

Although Comrade Yaer did not say it explicitly, Yang Mo could tell that this Eggplant girl was probably asked by a certain Uncle Mu to help take good care of his daughter, lest the two young people get carried away and do something shameful when they are alone together... If his daughter gets pregnant before she gets married, it would be a huge loss of face.

Seeing that the egg roll he spent a huge amount of money to buy was taken away by an unrelated person, Tugou student glared at him and said, "This is mine!"

The eggplant girl didn't care: "But you just handed the whole bag to Wood."

Tugou was a little mad: "I just let Sister Mu taste one!"

The eggplant girl sneered, "So stingy, just trying one? I thought you were going to give the whole bag to Mu Tou... Manager Lu, have you been dealing with the people from Southwest Drilling Company for so long that you forgot we are in the north?"

Tugou choked up immediately. No matter if you are in the Northeast or some areas of Qilu, the default phrase is...

When you ask "Do you want to try XX?", it means you want to give it all to others to eat.

Similarly, when you ask, "How much is this?", it is assumed that you want to buy it; and when you ask, "Is this delicious?", it is assumed that you are begging the other person for food.

Puffing up his cheeks in frustration, Tugou stared at the woman with a buzz cut in dissatisfaction: "Even if it's a gift, it's for Sister Mu. How can you just snatch it away?"

The eggplant girl proudly hugged Miss Mu and said, "This is my sister. We grew up together. What's mine is hers and what's hers is mine... Since you gave it to her, I'll grab the whole bag and eat it. Is there a problem?"

It seems...it barely makes sense.

Classmate Tugou pouted in frustration and couldn't help turning his head to look at Yangshidan behind him.

Hey, hey, hey, we are childhood friends. Now your woman’s sister is bullying your brother, shouldn’t you stand up and help?

Seeing Tugou's eyes that looked like he was threatening to fight, Yang Mo felt a headache.

The experience of his previous life told him that he should never get involved in women's disputes, otherwise he would be the only one who would be hurt on both sides in the end.

not to mention……

How old are you?

They are all either department heads or managers. No matter which one of them you pick out, wouldn’t people outside have to greet them respectfully when they see them?
Like a little kid, he was arguing over a bag of egg rolls...

As for what!
Thinking of this, Yang Mo seemed to have become blind, ignoring the look cast by Tugou, and directly changed the subject: "What time is it? How come dinner is only half prepared... What are we having for dinner tonight?"

Tugou classmate: “…”

Eggplant girl: “…”

Miss Mu: "..."

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Perhaps knowing that Yang Mo would easily get a sore throat from eating fried, roasted or deep-fried beef and mutton every day, Miss Mu planned to prepare mutton and radish stuffed dumplings as the main dish for dinner today. However, the two young ladies did not seem to be good at making dumplings. Even though they asked the chef from the canteen to help make the dumpling skins and meat stuffing, it had been nearly an hour since they brought them back, and the total number of dumplings on the table was no more than fifty.

Looking at the dozens of crooked dumplings on the table, which were full of abstract artistic shapes, Tugou glanced at Eggplant Girl, whose hands were still stained with flour, with disdain, then ran to the kitchen to wash his hands, and then pulled a chair from Yang Mo's study over without any hesitation, rubbed his right hand, clenched his left hand, and then moved his hands several times like turning a rope...

Suddenly, a perfect half-moon-shaped dumpling appeared in Tugou's hand.

Seeing this woman showing the dumplings in her hand towards her as if in a protest, Lin Luosu's face suddenly turned dark.

Although a girl with her background was not required to be proficient in embroidery and housework like in ancient times, and she herself was also famous for being different and had always deliberately downplayed her feminine image; but Tugou's behavior still made her feel a little embarrassed;
If you are a strong woman, or when facing a weaker character, your androgynous outfit can naturally add points to you to some extent. Maybe people will even praise you as a trendsetting woman of the new era, a heroine who is as brave as men.
But if you are facing someone who is much stronger than you, then dressing in such an eye-catching way will seem a bit embarrassing... When your ability and achievements are not enough to impress others, your androgynous dress will only make others think of you as a clown who seeks to make people laugh, no different from those actors who dress in colorful clothes to entertain the public.

Although Miss Lin thinks that she is much better than most of her peers since she was a child...whether it is studying or fighting;

After joining the work, she achieved quite good results in Qingdao without relying much on her family connections, so she is worthy of the title of "strong woman".

But the problem is, whether you are strong or not depends on who you compare with.

But now he is in Yang Mo's yard. This guy has grown from nothing to something right under his nose. He has turned the tide in just over three months. Now even Mu Siyuan and a group of uncles are quite afraid of him.

How could she show off her past achievements in front of such a big shot? And how could she have the nerve to call herself a strong woman in front of him?

Humans are very strange creatures. When Lin Luosu's past achievements are no longer reliable in front of her peer Yang Mo, her perspective and the things she cares about will quickly adjust to another level.

Whenever she appeared in front of Yang Mo, she would unconsciously play the roles of "Miss Mu's sister" and "a woman of the same age with whom she has a decent relationship".

Therefore, in this situation, the perfectly shaped dumpling that Tugou used to demonstrate undoubtedly irritated her a little. In her opinion, this was clearly a satire on herself: You are not as good as Yang Mo or Sister Mu at work, and you are on par with me; even from a purely female perspective, as a Qilu woman, you can't even wrap a dumpling properly, which is simply a failure among failures!

Almost all women are born with a suspicious nature. No matter whether Tugou really means that or not, that's how it seems in Lin Luosu's eyes.

How could Lin Luosu tolerate this?

She slammed the table and said, "What's wrong with you? How can you be so uneducated? There are so many confidential documents in Yang Mo's study, why did you break in without permission? Can you take the responsibility if important documents are lost?!" Almost all women are experts at pointing fingers at others. It was obvious that Lin Luosu was annoyed with that dumpling, but she accused Tugou of "spying on secrets" and then criticized him severely.

Tugou was stunned, a little confused: "What's wrong with me going in to get a chair? When I lived with Yang Mo before, I often went to his study!"

Lin Luosu rolled her eyes in disdain: "Don't talk about the past... Yang Mo was just a small employee and team leader before. Even if there were some important documents in the study, how can it be compared with now?"

"You have to understand that Dahua Company is the core unit of the joint venture between the Drilling Company and Dongying. It is a high-level second-level unit with a deputy director-level cadre parachuted in! The initial capital injection is as high as more than 1 billion!"

"Although Yang Mo is no longer the vice president of Dahua Company, he is not only the deputy director of the second asset protection department, but also the leader of the commercial demonstration zone!"

"I don't need to emphasize how big and important the hundreds of signed projects in the commercial demonstration zone are, right? Once important business secrets are leaked, the loss will be more than tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. Can you bear such a huge responsibility? "

After a lot of complaints, Lin Luosu changed the subject and revealed her real killer move: "Besides, you have to understand that the past is the past, and the present is the present... When you were staying in Yang Mo's dormitory before, he didn't have a girlfriend, so naturally there were no such things to be said."

"But now, Yang Mo already has a partner, and they've even met each other's parents. They're going to get married soon!"

"So when you ran into someone's study without saying hello, did you ever consider the feelings of our Mu Mu!?"

"Even our Mu Tou wouldn't set foot in the study room without Yang Mo's consent. Why do you just walk in and drag the stool in so arrogantly?!"

"Just because you're Yang Mo's childhood friend?"

"Come on, no matter how good the relationship between childhood friends is, they are still childhood friends. Can they compare to that couple?"

"You keep calling me Sister Mu all day long, but do you know that your behavior is like rushing into someone else's house and rummaging through boxes and cabinets to find their passbooks? How embarrassed are you for our Mu Tou?"

It has to be said that Lin Luosu is actually quite good at provoking fights. She knows that if she simply accuses classmate Tugou of trespassing into the study room, neither Yang Mo nor Miss Mu will take it to heart, and it will make her unpopular on both sides.

But the following words changed the nature of the matter.

She knew that Miss Mu was actually somewhat wary of classmate Tugou, and she also knew that if she really had to count, the beautiful girl in front of her was the only love rival of her sisters.

What's even more mysterious is that she learned from her sisters that her childhood friend Yang Mo actually had feelings for someone, but for some unclear reasons, Tugou did not express his attitude, and her sisters' men were too dull, so they never discovered this problem.

Therefore, after such a barrage of accusations, Miss Mu would most likely not blame me for talking nonsense, and this country boy classmate in front of her would probably have to take the scolding obediently and not dare to talk back out of guilt.

As expected, after hearing Lin Luosu's next words, Miss Mu's expression changed slightly, and she finally stopped talking.

But classmate Tugou's face was pale, and he was trying to explain something, but he couldn't say a word.

Yes, Yang Shidan and Sister Mu will probably get married soon. When I am with Yang Shidan, I can no longer be as unscrupulous as before.

And what Miss Lin said was right. Yang Mo was no longer the team leader who could only stir up minor trouble in Linyi County. Now, he was responsible for the diversion of hundreds of thousands of Dongying employees. He should not have barged into such a sensitive place as the study room so indiscriminately.

Although Sister Mu didn't say anything to stop it just now, I guess she was actually very unhappy in her heart, right?

Right……

It turned out that before I knew it, Yang Shidan and I were no longer from the same world. Although he was still so cheerful when we were alone, with his current status and influence, there must be a lot of things he needs to be careful about...

Thinking of this, Lu Yingying suddenly felt an indescribable discomfort in her heart, as if something very important was gradually drifting away.

Just as she put down the dumpling wrappers in her hand with a frustrated look on her face and was about to find an excuse to leave, Yang Mo's cold voice suddenly came from the side.

"Miss Lin, I think you made a mistake..."

Yang Mo walked over and sat next to Tugou with an expressionless face. He picked up a piece of dough, added some stuffing, and threw it in front of Tugou as usual, obviously asking the girl to continue to help him pinch the edges as before: "First, I'm just an old-fashioned guy from the countryside. I don't have so many taboos and particularities like you young masters and ladies... The things in my study are very clean, and I never lock the door. Anyone who is qualified to step into my courtyard can come in!"

Yang Mo emphasized the words "the things in the study are very clean". Everyone could hear the irony in it. Lin Luosu couldn't help but change his expression when he heard it.

Yang Mo glanced at her with his eyes slanted, as if he didn't take the young lady's anger to heart at all: "Second, if there is anyone in this room who is really unqualified to enter my study, it is probably only you, Miss Lin... You are not a guest I invited here, and I just didn't kick you out for Uncle Mu's sake. This doesn't mean that you can talk nonsense as you please after entering this room."

At this point, Yang Mo showed a hint of sarcasm: "I know that you, Miss Lin, have always been high and mighty, and you always think that everyone is inferior to you, but I'm giving you a piece of advice... You'd better put away your airs when you're with me!"

"You can be as blunt as you want to me, but for Ya'er's sake, I can be indifferent. I don't care anyway."

"But if you dare to be sarcastic to my friend, especially this girl..."

Yang Mo smiled coldly, with a dangerous glint in his eyes: "Believe it or not, I will slap you right now! You can try and see if I am still with your so-called parents and your uncle in the army!"

Lin Luosu's face changed completely. She didn't expect that Yang Mo would actually break up with her in front of her sisters... She felt very clearly that the other party was serious. If she dared to show off again, the other party would really slap her in the face.

Although she knew that Yang Mo was just a show-off and that she could subdue him in two or three moves if a fight really broke out, for some reason, Yang Mo made her feel very dangerous and she really didn't have the courage to be stubborn and argue with him.

Seeing the young lady looking away, Yang Mo snorted softly, then shifted his gaze to the stuffing bowl on the table: "Third, let me emphasize again that Tugou girl is my childhood friend, a childhood friend who grew up with me naked... Don't doubt the value of this friendship over the past few decades!"

"If there is anyone in this world other than my parents who I can completely trust, it would not be anyone else but this girl... Do you understand?"

On the surface, this was a warning to Lin Luosu not to make random accusations. Given the friendship between Yang Mo and Tugou, if the other party wanted to know some business secrets, Yang Mo would tell him everything himself, and Tugou would not need to go into the study room specifically.

But Miss Mu knew that these words were actually spoken to her.

Obviously, Yang Mo was quite unhappy with his silence just now.

Of course, you can also understand that there is really nothing between Yang Mo and Tugou that Miss Mu needs to be shy about. If a person can make Yang Mo say in front of his girlfriend that "he is the only person I can completely trust besides my parents", then there must be no shady thoughts between the two of them.

In response to this, Miss Mu could only smile bitterly. It was indeed her fault for not stopping her sisters from talking nonsense.

But the problem is...

Just because you have no feelings towards Yingying doesn’t mean she really has no feelings towards you!

Thinking of this, Miss Mu glanced at her classmate Tugou, whose eyes were slightly red but whose expression was inexplicably mechanical, and a strong sense of powerlessness arose in her heart.

You bastard, do you know what it means to say such heartfelt words in front of everyone?
If Yingying is really a man, she would be filled with tears after hearing these words and would be willing to be your brother for life.
But the problem is...

Although you treat her as a brother, she is a woman!
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Five minutes later, Miss Mu sent Lin Luosu out the door, who had made up an excuse to leave.

Yang Mo snorted in dissatisfaction, threw away the dumpling wrappers in his hand, and then took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it: "Hey, girl, don't be angry there for now, I'll find a chance to help you deal with that girl later... Bah, you really think you're great just because you have a good father!"

As he spoke, Yang Mo rubbed Tugou's head and began to help her divert her attention: "Okay, I'm too hungry now anyway, so I'm not in a hurry to eat... Tell me, besides the new product review, is there anything else that you have to wait until you see your sister Mu to discuss today?"

Tugou, who had withdrawn his thoughts from his inexplicable thoughts, rubbed his hair in dissatisfaction and glanced at Miss Mu who had just returned to the room. "What else could it be? It's about the purple candy project. I discussed it with Lao Tan and Lao Yan. Since no one is willing to invest in this project for the time being, we are thinking about turning it into an internal incubation project with self-raised funds and good resources, just like the previous edible rose project... This matter is related to export trade, so of course I have to discuss it with Sister Mu."

Purple candy?
Become an internal incubation project?

Before Yang Mo could say anything, Miss Mu frowned and said, "No, this project cannot be operated like the previous 3,000-acre edible rose planting project and become an internal incubation project!"

Ok?
Classmate Tugou looked at Miss Mu in confusion. Isn't this internal incubation model of self-raising funds, land and manpower a good one? Why would Miss Mu oppose it without even thinking about it?
Seeing this, Yang Mo coughed lightly and said, "Well, girl, the nature of these two projects is quite different. It is indeed not suitable to be transferred to the internal incubation model..."

(End of this chapter)