Chapter 27 - 2#

He said: “March 4th, I want to book March 4th.”

Mo Xuzhi slightly pried Luo Wenyun’s hand open a bit and said: “March 4th is still far off, why book it now?”

“That day you…” Luo Wenyun stopped halfway through speaking and only said, “I want to book March 4th.”

Luo Wenyun seemed very excited, his hands even a bit shaking.

Mo Xuzhi shook his head: “That day might not work out.”

He wasn’t sure if he would still be alive that day.

He remembered “Mo Xuzhi” would die on this day, but specifically when, he also didn’t know.

In case he received the money but then the person was gone, the good credit he had accumulated would be gone.

“Why?”

“On March 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, I’m going out to play, and I have no intention of bringing an extra person—no matter how much money you give, it’s useless.”

Mo Xuzhi took out the key and opened the door.

“Good night, Big Financier.”

With a “snap,” the door closed in front of Luo Wenyun’s eyes.

No dreams all night.

The next day, Mo Xuzhi got up early.

He discussed it with Wang Zhifeng again last night and intended to set off at seven o’clock.

Wang Zhifeng originally wanted him to sleep a bit longer, but Mo Xuzhi felt that having someone pick him up could save more time, so he moved the departure time forward.

Compared to staying here to see biological diversity, going back to the laboratory to do testing was much more interesting.

Mo Xuzhi carried the suitcase downstairs.

He didn’t have much luggage; he was leaving the same way he came.

Entering the room at the same time as him was Shen Le. He was dressed neatly, appearing more careful than usual, looking like a little prince.

Du Minsheng got up wanting to see Mo Xuzhi off, but he was sleepy-eyed and almost fell on flat ground, so Mo Xuzhi pressed him back to the bed.

The second floor was quiet, but the first floor was incredibly lively. Staff members walked back and forth, and wires were piled everywhere.

Not only did he get up early today, but the production team’s staff also got up early, and some even didn’t sleep all night.

Yesterday the competition ended, the content of the first episode had been filmed, and the production team needed to edit the trailer and send it out before noon today, then edit the first episode and broadcast it two days later.

Time was tight and the task was heavy. Several main editors rotated, and the director watched from the side, not sleeping. They looked over, and Mo Xuzhi could even see the bloodshot in their eyes.

Compared to them, he was quite energetic.

After having a simple breakfast with several staff members, it was almost half past six.

Mo Xuzhi glanced at his phone, wiped his mouth, picked up the suitcase, and went out.

Shen Le followed him out.

The cameraman followed behind the two.

The production team wouldn’t let go of any possible material. Although the two were currently on leave, as long as they were in Wanwan Town for a second, they wouldn’t let go of that second.

After leaving the villa, there was a fork in the road. Walking along the left leads to the highway, and walking toward the right has a bus stop. Taking several buses can also return to the city.

Some fans didn’t return to the city yesterday and stayed here. Now several cars passed by from time to time, all toward the highway, and so far no one was seen toward the bus stop.

Some fans were standing far away, constantly looking here. Only a little girl was standing on the side, quietly, not looking as excited as the others, but instead a bit apprehensive.

Mo Xuzhi stopped and took another look at his phone.

The place Wang Zhifeng marked out was on the right, looking not far from the bus stop.

Slightly strange.

If his memory didn’t go wrong, although there was an empty space there, it was surrounded by a circle of stones, and a vehicle could not drive in no matter what.

Mo Xuzhi was thinking here when the sound of wheels rolling over crushed stones came from the other side of the road.

A very familiar Cayenne appeared in sight.

Mo Xuzhi recognized it at once.

It was Xue Feng’s car.

“Ah, coming!”

Shen Le waved slightly toward the person driving, his face wearing a smile.

Other staff members were looking at the luxury car. Mo Xuzhi wasn’t interested in these. He determined the destination and put his phone into his pocket, walking toward the other side of the road.

“Ah?” Shen Le called out in surprise behind him, “Teacher Mo is going in that direction… is he going to take the bus?”

Others heard the voice and looked toward Mo Xuzhi according to his words, finding that he indeed intended to walk toward the right.

Mo Xuzhi was lazy to explain and only looked up, asking back: “Is there any problem?”

“The bus… is a bit slow. If you’re willing, Teacher Mo can come with me, the car can seat two people.”

“Thanks, I’ll pass, have a safe trip.”

Mo Xuzhi took another look at the time, felt he didn’t have time to pull back and forth with Shen Le, said thanks, and turned back.

“Mr. Mo?”

Someone else stopped Mo Xuzhi.

Mo Xuzhi turned his head again and saw Assistant Li, who had just closed the car door, looking at him with a surprised expression, then smiling at him.

“Assistant Li.”

They had already met, and the other party had greeted him, so Mo Xuzhi had to give a slight nod.

He was also a bit surprised.

Mo Xuzhi also didn’t expect to run into Assistant Li here.

Xue Feng, on some level, could be said to know how to use people.

Assistant Li originally was sent by Xue Feng to handle everything related to him besides his own official business. Now that Shen Le had returned, he was sent to do the job of picking up and dropping off Shen Le.

Using people to their full potential.

It’s just that Assistant Li was quite miserable. Clearly a very capable and powerful person, as a result, he was doing the job of helping the boss pick up and drop off people every day, living like a driver at a young age.

Assistant Li lowered his head and saw the suitcase Mo Xuzhi was pulling in his hand. He paused first, then stepped forward.

Mo Xuzhi knew what he wanted to do. He nodded to Shen Le and took the lead in reminding: “Assistant Li, the person you want to pick up is there.”

“…Yes, that’s right.”

Assistant Li was silent for a moment.

Having picked up Mo Xuzhi for so long, he had developed a habit.

The car he drove still used peach-scented perfume, and the ugly but very soft cushion Mo Xuzhi liked to use.

Xue Feng would sometimes want to prepare gifts for Mo Xuzhi on a whim and send him some things, but usually didn’t understand, so he had him pay attention to these small places. When he wanted to know what Mo Xuzhi liked, he would find out from him.

Over time, he unconsciously developed a habit, and couldn’t change it for a while.

He also didn’t want to change it.

“That, Mr. Li, may I ask this is…?”

Shen Le and others watched for a long time on the side, looking confused.

He asked about the relationship between Assistant Li and Mo Xuzhi.

—He originally also wanted to follow Mo Xuzhi and call him “Assistant Li,” but his mouth stayed open for a long time, and finally he couldn’t say it.

He couldn’t be as natural as Mo Xuzhi.

Others looked back and forth between Mo Xuzhi and Assistant Li on the side, and their minds gradually became active.

Mo Xuzhi and this person he called Assistant Li knew each other.

This wasn’t an interrogative sentence, but a declarative sentence.

“He’s a friend of Chairman Xue.”

Assistant Li couldn’t define the relationship between Mo Xuzhi and Xue Feng, and also knew he didn’t have the qualification to boast that Mo Xuzhi was his friend, so he could only pass it off vaguely like this.

The Chairman Xue he mentioned could only be Xue Feng.

The others present were silent.

They didn’t have amnesia; several of them had witnessed with their own eyes yesterday the scene where Mo Xuzhi said he didn’t know Xue Feng.

Knowing Xue Feng but not admitting it, the first thought that popped into their heads was “patronage,” but seeing both Mo Xuzhi and Assistant Li were open and aboveboard, they dismissed the thought.

So it wasn’t that he didn’t know, but that he knew but didn’t feel it was necessary to say.

“Assistant Li, the scenery at the Haimao Building is good, and the smell is better than gasoline. Want to go take a look?”

Mo Xuzhi meant something.

After finishing his words, he took out his phone again to glance at the time, felt that he truly couldn’t dawdle anymore, said hello, turned around, and left.

“You go on, I’m in a hurry, so I’ll leave first.”

He really left this time, the kind that didn’t look back. The thin figure walked on the gravel road, stepping on stones and shaking from time to time, still pulling a suitcase in his hand, looking inexplicably distressing.

Assistant Li withdrew his gaze, “Mr. Shen, please.”

Shen Le took another look at Mo Xuzhi, pursed his lips, looking not as happy as when he just went out. He didn’t say hello, bent down, and crawled into the car.

Assistant Li also returned to the car. His face had no expression, and the bit of gentle feeling from before had already disappeared. He handed Shen Le a schedule, his tone extremely business-like.

“This is Chairman Xue’s schedule for today. He’s a bit busy today and might not be able to come to the old residence. May I ask if Mr. Shen has any arrangements? Or any requirements for the room, just ask, and Chairman Xue will definitely try his best to satisfy them.”

“He can’t come?”

Shen Le’s mood dropped. He took a look at Assistant Li, wanted to ask about Mo Xuzhi, then saw his expressionless face and finally didn’t ask.

His mood was inexplicably a bit bad now.

He came back and found that many things had changed.

When he was still in the country before, Xue Feng would push away work, even for a ten-million-level order, just to send him a bowl of porridge. At that time, everyone around Xue Feng knew him, knew that he was special to Xue Feng, and all looked after him; no one had ever given him a cold face.

But today Assistant Li, whom he sent over, except for smiling at Mo Xuzhi, almost had a cold face throughout.

This was already considered giving him a cold face.

When Assistant Li looked at the rear conditions through the rearview mirror, the lenses reflected light, and he happened to see Shen Le’s gloomy expression.

Rotating his wristwatch, he didn’t make any gesture, put on white gloves, and held the steering wheel, not looking back again.

Mo Xuzhi and Shen Le left, others dispersed. The cameraman originally wanted to follow Mo Xuzhi for a bit longer, but was refused.

This was originally Mo Xuzhi’s holiday, and he was also embarrassed to follow along thick-skinned.

Mo Xuzhi walked a long distance alone.

The little girl who had been standing far away saw Mo Xuzhi leave, gritted her teeth, and also followed.

She wasn’t clear what Mo Xuzhi had said to those people, only saw someone leave in a luxury car, while he seemed to be taking the bus.

The bus here was very slow. By the time he transferred several times back to the city, half the day would have passed, and then used half a day to return, so calculate it, he really couldn’t do much.

She was driven here by her driver. If Mo Xuzhi intended to take the bus, she would have Uncle Wang give him a ride.

She wanted to compensate.

After saying those things to Mo Xuzhi yesterday, she went back and thought for a very, very long time. Her mind was filled with the expression Mo Xuzhi had when he looked at her seriously.

She then realized that she shouldn’t have said that.

She hesitated here for a whole night and only just gathered the courage to come take a look.

If possible, she wanted to apologize to Mo Xuzhi.

Seeing Mo Xuzhi walking toward the bus stop, and a bus happened to be driving from the end of the road, the little girl who was still immersed in her own thoughts gave a start and immediately ran frantically.

Couldn’t let Mo Xuzhi get on the bus!

Then she watched Mo Xuzhi stop.

He took his phone and looked at the platform, then looked at his phone again. When he got close to the stop, he suddenly turned a corner and went toward the lawn.

The little girl followed and braked, a bit confused.

Where was he going this way?

Mo Xuzhi also didn’t know where he was going this way.

There was no road here, and it was surrounded by stones. Let alone four-wheeled cars, even bicycles couldn’t enter.

But he soon found out.

Coming along with the first ray of light penetrating the clouds was the sound of air being broken by a propeller.

Mo Xuzhi reached out to cover the hair on his forehead so it wouldn’t block his vision and raised his head slightly.

A military helicopter appeared in sight.

The fuselage was originally circling in the sky, then found the point and slowly descended.

The air current brought out by the high rotation of the propeller blew the surrounding grass and trees into flying, constantly falling toward the surroundings.

Mo Xuzhi took two steps back and stopped at a safe distance.

The strong wind lifted his hair, which fluttered forward unconsciously. The white shirt draped over his thin figure was blown up by the wind. He stood straight, with a bit of the unrestrained and uninhibited air of a youth.

The helicopter landed, and a figure in a white lab coat came down from it.

The propeller was still slowly turning, and the white lab coat on him was also blown up.

Wang Zhifeng stood still not far from Mo Xuzhi, pushed the silver-framed glasses he was wearing, smiled, and said:

“Captain, I’ve come to pick you up.”

This was the first time he had called Mo Xuzhi “Captain.” Calling it out in such a situation didn’t seem abrupt, but instead had a bit of a different feeling.

So the person he mentioned sending was himself.

Mo Xuzhi also smiled, checked his phone, and said: “Quite punctual.”

Neither early nor late, it was exactly seven o’clock now.

Wang Zhifeng walked closer and consciously took the suitcase from Mo Xuzhi’s hand.

Mo Xuzhi felt that such a small thing wasn’t heavy and wanted to carry it himself, but Wang Zhifeng refused, saying: “There are national secrets inside, I’m afraid you’ll lose them.”

What national secrets? They were all just some semi-finished products.

Mo Xuzhi knew Wang Zhifeng was joking, and the suitcase wasn’t very heavy, so he let him be.

Getting closer to the helicopter, Mo Xuzhi saw two people still sitting in the driver’s seat.

The military green shirts were crisp. The two people in the driver and co-driver seats also saw Mo Xuzhi approaching and raised their hands in salute.

“Captain Mo, Jinghua North City 1st Division, H-11, H-8II, H-8I, Lü Cheng and Chen Guohua reporting to you.”

Mo Xuzhi straightened his back and also returned a standard military salute, then was led by Wang Zhifeng onto the helicopter.

The propeller increased its speed again and slowly rose into the sky.

The little girl standing not far away watched the helicopter, which was already too high to see the situation inside, with a blank stare.

So… so her worries were all superfluous.

She naturally thought Mo Xuzhi walked this way to catch the bus, but she didn’t expect that there was also a large stone platform here sufficient for a helicopter to stop.

Mo Xuzhi relaxed a lot after entering the helicopter.

Wang Zhifeng was talking to him on the side, his voice neither hurried nor slow, not annoying to listen to, and could even be considered an enjoyment.

It’s just that from time to time he would pop out two “Captains.” The two pilots in front, who knows what Wang Zhifeng had told them, also followed by calling him “Captain,” making Mo Xuzhi somewhat unable to hold up.

He rubbed his forehead in pain, “Just call me Mo Xuzhi, whatever works, just don’t call me Captain.”

He added at the end, “Please.”

The corners of Wang Zhifeng’s mouth rose slightly. The two pilots in front had received professional training and held back, not laughing out loud.

Professor Wang had told them before they came that when they saw Mo Xuzhi they should greet him, and regardless of other things, just shouting “Captain” loudly was enough.

He said that Mo Xuzhi would already be very happy.

As a result, looking at the youth’s appearance now, one could easily feel his pain.

Mo Xuzhi wiped his face and tilted his head to ask Wang Zhifeng: “Why did you think of flying this over today?”

He was referring to this military helicopter.

Using a whole helicopter just to pick up a person felt like a bit of a waste.

“The Space Administration is urging, wanting their baby to be the first to use it. Any time that can be saved now should be saved.”

Mo Xuzhi raised his eyelids, looking a bit surprised, “Wanting to use it before the R&D has even started?”

Wang Zhifeng nodded.

Mo Xuzhi rubbed his hair.

“I’ve finished the drawings. When I get back to the Institute, use the computer to verify them, and then data comparison…”

“Data comparison doesn’t need you to do it.”

Mo Xuzhi looked up, “?”

Wang Zhifeng said with a smile: “The Director borrowed someone from the Mathematics Department next door specifically to handle data.”

“The person just returned from the hospital and came to the Institute of Science before returning to the Mathematics Department.”

Mo Xuzhi didn’t sense anything wrong. Hearing that he didn’t have to repeatedly handle data anymore, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Taking advantage of the remaining time, he handed the materials to Wang Zhifeng and dozed off in his seat for a while.

He lay there and sank into the seat, curled into a ball.

The pilot sitting in front glanced inadvertently and saw that Wang Zhifeng, who was originally flipping through materials, had already stopped his movements and was looking down at the youth beside him.