Tech startup: I really do make mobile phones!

Chapter 32 Night. No Return

The battery laboratory of Yuantu New Energy.

"Alright!" Chen Mo glanced at the moonlit, starry night sky outside the window. "It's too late to go back now. Let's just make do in the lab tonight!"

Zhao Tiezhu nodded to indicate that he understood, then changed out of his protective suit and jogged over to carry out two cardboard boxes from a corner of the changing room.

Chen Mo looked at him curiously: "What are you up to now?"

Zhao Tiezhu smiled as he unpacked the cardboard boxes and laid them on the ground. On each box was a small pillow and a small blanket, thus creating two very simple makeshift beds.

"Boss! Please~" The kid pulled a show, acting like a five-star hotel lobby waiter.

"I don't have any tip for you, waiter!"

Chen Mo casually took off his shoes, stepped onto the cardboard, rested his head on a small pillow, and covered himself with a small blanket, which seemed to carry the unique scent of brand new plush.

"You've got a plan, kid!"

Zhao Tiezhu said with a grin, "That's right! I'm known throughout North China for being good at handling things!"

"Haha!" Chen Mo laughed, rolled up a small blanket and wrapped himself in it: "Alright! Go to sleep early!" He seemed relaxed, but he had actually been checking computer data all day, which was very mentally taxing, and his mind was quite sluggish.

Zhao Tiezhu said he was going out for a smoke.

Chen Mo waved his hand, indicating that he could do as he pleased.

Chen Mo originally wanted to help him quit smoking, so that he wouldn't die young like in later generations.

But thinking about it carefully, it's unrealistic to expect a smoker who has been smoking for five or six years to quit. In the future, we should make regular annual health checkups for employees a company benefit, so that early detection and treatment can be effective!

It is anticipated that if Zhao Tiezhu really has problems due to smoking, as long as he is still working at Orange Technology, the cost of treatment will definitely not be a problem for him.

Zhao Tiezhu helped turn off the lights and left the lab. Chen Mo lay down to sleep first. He had been staring at the computer screen for so long and had a terrible headache. He wanted to rest for a while.

In the height of summer, sleeping on the floor wasn't cold, but the terrazzo floor, separated by cardboard, was a bit hard. Chen Mo tossed and turned for a while, then, feeling tired, he drifted off to sleep.

At 2 a.m., Zhao Tiezhu leaned on the fourth-floor windowsill of the laboratory, a cigarette dangling from his lips, the cold light from his phone screen reflecting the dark circles under his eyes.

Ashes from his cigarette fell softly onto the windowpane as he stared at the message in the QQ chat window: "Sister Tian! Thanks, the pillow is so soft, and the blanket is so warm!"

The moment he pressed the send button, he seemed to hear the sound of Chen Mo turning over on the cardboard behind him. He hurriedly turned around and saw Brother Chen wrapped in a coat, curled up on the cardboard, breathing evenly.

A message came almost instantly from the other end. A grinning, red bean emoji popped up in the chat bubble, accompanied by the text: "Don't be so polite with me, are you coming over? I've left the door open!"

Feeling guilty, Zhao Tiezhu glanced back at Chen Mo, who was already fast asleep, then smirked and impatiently typed "Come" on the screen before sending it.

Then, he tiptoed out of the laboratory. The glass door creaked slightly, and his muscles tensed instantly.

After confirming that Chen Mo hadn't been woken up, he crouched down and slowly closed the glass door.

Old Liu, who was on night duty in the security room, was dozing off at the table. Hearing the noise, he looked up, and Zhao Tiezhu quickly took out his cigarette case.

"Uncle Liu! Want one?"

Zhao Tiezhu, who had sneaked out of the lab, chatted with the security guard for a bit, and then asked to borrow his electric scooter.

"You want to borrow my electric scooter?" Old Liu raised an eyebrow and took the cigarette, but not the lighter: "Don't drop it this late at night!"

The shrewd Zhao Tiezhu could easily understand what Old Liu meant: he was afraid that if something happened to him, he would try to extort money from others.

"Look at you!" Zhao Tiezhu said with a smile, taking out the remaining half pack of Shuangxi cigarettes from his pocket and handing it over: "I'll go back to the city right now, it's less than five kilometers, I'll return it by dawn!"

Five minutes later, he rode his electric scooter out of the suburbs of Longgang, and the night wind blew in the fumes from the roadside barbecue stalls.

When we arrived at Widow Tian's small supermarket, the lights on the second floor were indeed still on.

Widow Tian opened the iron gate, and he drove his electric scooter inside.
The next day. It was still dark, and there was no one on the street. A small door of the five-fold iron gate of Widow Tian's small supermarket was open.

Zhao Tiezhu pulled the electric scooter out of the small supermarket through the gap in the shelves and then parked it at the door.

After wandering around the small supermarket for a while, I finally grabbed a bottle of floral water.

"Oh! Are you leaving already?" Widow Tian came out of the inner room wearing only an apron. She glanced at him and couldn't help but smile. "Aren't you going to eat breakfast?"

"We're in a hurry!" Zhao Tiezhu tossed his head, went over and kissed Widow Tian, ​​stuffing money for mosquito repellent into the collar of her apron: "Remember to leave the door open!"

"Well, you're quite thoughtful now, kid!" Widow Tian teased him on purpose. "How about I warm your hands again? So they don't freeze on the way!"

"Sister! No, no, no!"

Zhao Tiezhu waved his hand, saying that Widow Tian was not a young girl or wife who could make grown men blush.

Zhao Tiezhu paid for the floral water, turned the electric scooter around, and in the rearview mirror he could still see Widow Tian standing at the iron gate, smiling, half of her white skin swaying under her apron.

At 5:30, just as the sky was beginning to lighten, Zhao Tiezhu rode his electric scooter back in a flash.

Freezing hands? Not a chance!
Not to mention it's summer now, and it's summer in the south, he's a young man with plenty of energy, so he doesn't care about the slightly cool morning temperature.

The plastic bag in the bicycle basket was soaked with oil, and inside the paper bag were three breakfast items: two rice noodle rolls with eggs and one fried dough stick with sugar.

Around six o'clock, Zhao Tiezhu returned to Yuantu New Energy Company.

He could have come back even earlier if he hadn't bought breakfast from the street vendor.

"Old Liu! Here you go~" Zhao Tiezhu handed the fried dough stick through the security room window: "I've charged your electric scooter!"

In the security room, Old Liu, munching on a fried dough stick, gave him a thumbs-up.

"You're a real gentleman!"

In the lab, Chen Mo was sleeping with a frown on his face. The cardboard was too thin, and it was making it very uncomfortable for him to sleep on the terrazzo floor.

If he hadn't stared at the computer screen all day yesterday and hadn't had such a bad headache, he might not have been able to fall asleep on such a hard floor.

Zhao Tiezhu pushed open the glass door and returned to the laboratory. He was relieved to see that Chen Mo, wrapped in a coat and a small blanket, was still asleep with a frown on his face.

"Brother Chen! Brother Chen!" he called to Chen Mo, "Get up and have breakfast!"

"Ah~"

Chen Mo sat up, rubbing his shoulders; his hair was a mess, like a bird's nest.

"This floor is too hard. How did you sleep last night?"

I didn't sleep on the floor last night, and
"Ahem~" Zhao Tiezhu coughed twice guiltily, pretending to stretch his back: "Yeah! Yeah! My back is aching from sleeping too!"

Then, to avoid being exposed, Zhao Tiezhu changed the subject and stuffed the rice noodle roll with egg into his hand.

"Brother Chen! Let's have breakfast first!"

He added, "I'm going to get a folding bed from Lao Liu today; they still have those mats for PE class!"

"Old Liu?" Chen Mo took a bite of rice noodle roll and raised an eyebrow. "Who's this? What plot point did you skip this time?"

Then Zhao Tiezhu explained to Chen Mo that Lao Liu was the long-distance security guard uncle, and a good person.

Yes! There are so many good people around Zhao Tiezhu.

(End of this chapter)