Rebirth Starting as a Stock Market Enthusiast

Chapter 156 Since Chen Xi is busy, let's invite Xu Lu over for dinner.

Chen Xi's soft laughter on the other end of the phone was like a feather, gently scratching Zhou Yun's already tense nerves.

She held her phone, her palms already damp with a thin layer of sweat.

"I—of course I love learning! Everyone improves!" Zhou Yun straightened her back, trying to make her voice sound more confident. "But you, what brings you to call me? Aren't you busy with your big project?"

She cleverly tried to change the subject.

But who is Chen Xi?

"What kind of books are you reading?" Chen Xi didn't respond at all, her voice lazy and languid. "Tell me about them, so that I, an uncultured person, can be enlightened."

"————" Zhou Yun's mind went completely blank for a moment.

Book?

This week, apart from looking at the densely packed production flow charts and financial statements that Zhou Xiaowen gave her, she didn't even turn a single page of a magazine!

"It's just... some world-famous works..." Zhou Yun forced herself to continue, "like 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'..."

It's quite profound; you wouldn't understand even if I explained it to you.

She deliberately chose one that she had only heard of but never seen.

"Oh? One Hundred Years of Solitude?" Chen Xi's tone rose slightly, tinged with amusement. "Then tell me, how does Márquez describe Colonel Aureliano Ciandia, facing the firing squad many years later, in the very first sentence?"

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Zhou Yun was completely dumbfounded.

How could she know anything about colonels or not!

"Are you kidding me?! What I do is none of your business! I just don't want to talk to you! I'm hanging up!"

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Zhou Yun yelled something, then pressed the hang-up button without thinking.

Hearing the busy tone from her phone, Chen Xi wasn't angry at all; instead, she chuckled softly.

She took the phone away from her ear and tossed it casually onto the wooden table next to her.

"This girl is definitely hiding something from me."

She knows Zhou Yun too well.

Whenever she suffers a little injustice or encounters something new, Zhou Yun's mouth is like a leaky sack, eager for the whole world to know.

She actually learned to lie today for the first time ever? And "One Hundred Years of Solitude"? She can't even finish reading "Grimm's Fairy Tales".

Chen Xi crossed his arms and leaned against the door frame, deep in thought.

Getting information out of Zhou Yun is clearly not going to work now. That girl is like a cat with its fur standing on end; she jumps at the slightest touch and is extremely wary.

Since a direct breakthrough is impossible, the only option is to outflank and encircle the enemy.

Chen Xi picked up her phone again, scrolled through her contacts, and slender fingers slid across the screen, stopping at the words "Auntie".

Zhou Yun's mother, Lin Li.

The phone rang three times before being answered.

"Feeding? Xixi." Lin Li's gentle voice came through the phone, accompanied by the rustling sound of turning over documents in the background, indicating that she was probably busy in the office.

"Auntie, are you busy?" Chen Xi's voice softened instantly, becoming sweet and obedient, completely different from the cold and aloof head referee of Shanghai she usually was.

"Just finished a meeting. How come you have time to call your aunt? Weren't you busy with your brand in Shanghai?"

"I just missed you," Chen Xi said with a smile. "I've finally sorted things out, so I'm planning to take a good rest during the May Day holiday. By the way, Auntie, what's Yunyun been up to lately? I called her just now, but she didn't answer. Is she sleeping in late again?"

Chen Xi threw out the bait, her tone extremely natural, as if it were just a casual chat between two sisters.

"Sleeping in late?" Lin Li sighed on the other end of the line, her tone a mix of heartache and helplessness. "If only she could sleep in! That brat, she's like a completely different person lately!"

Chen Xi raised an eyebrow; there was hope.

"What's wrong? Didn't she resign? How can she be tired from staying at home every day?" Chen Xi asked, following up on the conversation.

"Stay? She's busier than your uncle now!" Lin Li complained. "She leaves before seven every morning and doesn't come back until ten at night. As soon as she gets back, she falls asleep immediately and doesn't say more than a few words to me."

Chen Xi narrowed her eyes slightly: "Where did she go?"

Lin Li, caught off guard, said directly, "She's still running some food factory! A while ago she insisted on starting her own business, and I thought it would be good for her to suffer a bit, so I asked your cousin Zhou Xiaowen to mentor her. Now she's always wandering around the factory workshop."

"A food factory?" Chen Xi keenly grasped the key word.

The Zhou family has no food business at all; Longfor Properties is involved in real estate and cultural tourism.

"Which food factory?" Chen Xi asked casually.

"It used to be called Kangyuan Foods, now it's called Anyun Food Factory, what happened?"

An Yun Food Factory —

It turned out to be the case.

Chen Xi instantly connected all the clues in her mind.

Chen Xi knew that Shen Fei had registered a snack brand using Zhou Yun's name.

According to Shen Fei's idea, An Yun Foods was purely a ploy to lure that old bastard Zhao Dong, and Zhou Yun was just playing the role of a "mascot".

As it turns out, Zhou Yun actually went to learn management for this snack brand!

What kind of situation is this?

A strange sense of irritation welled up in Chen Xi's heart.

On one hand, she felt a sense of relief at Zhou Yun's growth. That girl was finally no longer the little girl who would just follow her around, begging for candy.

But on the other hand, she was more worried.

She was afraid that Zhou Yun would get too deeply involved.

That food factory, in Shenyang Aircraft Corporation's plans, could be abandoned at any time.

Once it has served its purpose, Shenyang Aircraft Corporation will discard it without hesitation.

How heartbroken will this silly girl, who has just tasted the sweetness of "building a career," be then?

The next morning, Shen Fei yawned as he walked out of his room at 10 a.m.

Last night I edited the first episode of Chen Xi's video, making a total of ten clips, and I didn't go to sleep until 3 a.m.

When Shen Fei arrived in the living room, Ms. Chen had already kept the breakfast warm in the pot.

A bowl of millet porridge, two tea eggs, and a dish of pickled cucumbers.

Shen Fei pulled out a chair, sat down, picked up the bowl, and slurped down his porridge.

Ms. Chen picked up a piece of cucumber with her chopsticks and put it in his bowl, then casually asked, "Son, it's almost May Day, when is Xixi coming over? I'd like to prepare in advance."

Shen Fei didn't even look up, replying vaguely, "She's not coming. Her store in Rongcheng is opening on May Day, she's busy."

"oh."

Ms. Chen responded, showing no disappointment on her face, and continued, "Alright then, since she's not coming, tell Lu to come over for dinner during the May Day holiday. I saw that girl last time, she was quite thin."

Shen Fei paused in his porridge-drinking motion, then looked up at his mother with some surprise.

Shen Fei was naturally unaware of Ms. Chen's ulterior motives.

In her opinion, Chen Xi was indeed a perfect match: she came from a good family, was beautiful, and got along well with her son.

But what's the use of being so good? Judging from my son's tone, he was so busy during the entire May Day holiday that we didn't even see each other. Isn't that a sign that things are hopeless?