hypocritically

Chapter 52

Xu Keqin had to go home on weekends. He never disobeyed his father. As long as his father asked, he would basically agree to it. Even if he didn't want to eat at the same table with the rest of the Xu family, Xu Keqin would still pretend.

There are no outsiders for family dinners, Lin Peizhen is very good at maintaining the scene, as the hostess of this family, no matter how much she doesn't like to see Xu Zhenli's illegitimate son, she still behaves magnanimously in front of Xu Zhenli.

Seeing Xu Keqin coming home, while suppressing the resentment in his heart, he was very enthusiastic towards Xu Keqin, "Keqin is back, ask Fourth Sister to tidy up your room."

"Thank you, auntie." Xu Keqin didn't even bring back his luggage, and didn't hand over the computer bag in his hand to Fourth Sister, so he went upstairs and put it back in his room.

It was strange to say that he hadn't lived in this house for a long time, but every part of this house made him feel extremely disgusted. At this moment, standing in the room, he couldn't help but feel nauseated frequently.

There were signs of cleaning in the bedroom, nothing was moved, and it was placed in its original position. In fact, the outside is not much better. The whole house is full of pretentiousness. In comparison, it seems that the room is slightly better.

Xu Keqin pulled out his chair, sat down at the desk, and shifted his eyes from a distance to his front. This room, since he moved in two years ago, seemed to be independent from the Xu family, and it belonged entirely to him, only occasionally Someone came in and cleaned it.

In fact, Xu Keqin didn't bring many things, even the clothes in the closet were replaced with new ones, the only thing left...

With a sound of "huh", Xu Keqin opened the drawer in front of him, and there was a mobile phone lying in it. This was the mobile phone he used before. After coming out of it, he changed the mobile phone and changed the number.

Xu Keqin stretched out his hand and pressed the button. The screen was pitch black, and there was no electricity for a long time. He had no intention of contacting anyone before, whether it was his mother or Guo Xiao, until Guo Xiao appeared.

He didn't know how to deal with this number in the end. He didn't ask his father, and he never received an arrears bill. He thought that someone must have canceled his account and shut it down.

The charger and the mobile phone were put together, and for some unknown reason, a thought flashed through Xu Keqin's mind. He wanted to turn it on and take a look. He hesitated for a moment, and there was a knock on the door, and it was the fourth sister who came up to ask him to eat. .

Xu Keqin closed the drawer smoothly, "Here we come."

As soon as he reached the corner of the stairs, he had already heard Xu Xinglan's voice. Xu Xinglan probably had just arrived home, and the noise made everyone excited.

Lin Peizhen is very fond of her eldest son, "Did you drive back?"

"I'm so tired from driving, I flew back." Xu Xinglan happened to see Xu Keqin coming down the stairs, "Xu Keqin, why don't you come with me?"

Xu Keqin said indifferently: "It just so happens that there are discounted air tickets."

Xu Xinglan sneered coldly, he just liked Xu Keqin's poor appearance, no matter whether he pretended it or cultivated it since he was a child.

The atmosphere during the meeting was quite harmonious, during which Xu Xinglan went out to answer the phone, and when he came in, his face was full of red, he said to Xu Zhenli excitedly: "Dad, the project in Province A is finished."

Xu Zhenli was overjoyed, even looked at Xu Xinglan with surprise, "Father saw you right."

"This time I put that old guy Gu Yongfeng together, I guess he must have an ugly face now."

Xu Zhenli said: "In doing business, it is inevitable to use some tricks."

"Let me just say that my son is fine." Lin Peizhen was a little proud, and then ordered the fourth sister, "Here, bring a bowl of soup. The pigeon soup has been boiled for several hours."

Xu Xinglan couldn't sit still anymore, and waved his hand, "No more, I'm going back to Province A now."

"Why are you in a hurry? You haven't finished your meal yet!"

Seeing his son's high spirits, Xu Zhenli stopped Lin Peizhen, "Let him go."

After Xu Xinglan left, the whole family became quiet. The food on the table was heavy and oily, and I felt tired just looking at it. Where could Xu Keqin eat? After he took two mouthfuls of white rice, he didn't move his chopsticks much.

He had a little impression of the name Gu Yongfeng. Back then, there was a small charity auction. Xu Keqin went there with his father and Xu Xinglan. He had met Gu Yongfeng once.

As his father said, there are no permanent friends in the business field, only permanent interests. One second they are partners, and the next second they are tit-for-tat opponents.

"The food prepared by your aunt is not to your liking?" Xu Zhenli asked with concern when he saw that Xu Keqin's bowl had saved more than half of the food.

Xu Keqin wanted to say no, when the cell phone in his pocket rang, he said to his father, "Take a call", got up and walked to the side, what he received was not a phone call, but a text message from Guo Xiao.

I left in a hurry today, so I didn't have time to tell Guo Xiao that someone from the convenience store where Guo Xiao worked part-time always asked for leave to replace the shift, and the schedule was messy, so Xu Keqin didn't bother to ask.

"I'm off work in a few hours! Can I come to you directly later?"

Xu Zhenli looked at Xu Keqin's back, he didn't seem to be answering the phone, so he asked, "Whose phone is it?"

Xu Keqin picked up his cell phone, turned around and went back to the dinner table. He didn't want to come back, let alone stay overnight. He had a ready-made reason just right.

"My classmate sent a message. He didn't finish the group homework before, and the teacher urged him to hand it in. Dad, I won't stay at home tonight. I have to go back to school now."

"Now?" Xu Xinglan was busy with work, and it was reasonable, when the homework would not be handed in, Xu Zhenli looked at Xu Keqin suspiciously, "Are you in such a hurry?"

Her eldest son was not at home, and Lin Peizhen was even more unwilling to see a disgusted person wandering around at home. She wished Xu Keqin would leave early, and it was best not to step into the Xu family's gate for the rest of her life.

"It must be very urgent to send a message to Keqin at this time. You can't let your classmates wait for him alone. You still have to build a good relationship with your classmates at school."

Xu Zhenli sighed, "I was thinking that you could accompany Dad to the medical examination tomorrow."

Taking advantage of the physical examination, only father and son can talk well. He is most afraid that Xu Keqin will still remember the crime of Xu Xinglan. After all, Xu Keqin and Xu Xinglan are brothers. In the past, the older he became as a father, the more he wanted to have a harmonious family. It wasn't that Xu Keqin was not generous enough, but the more generous Xu Keqin was, the more uncertain he was.

"Physical examination? Dad, are you feeling unwell?"

Xu Zhenli explained: "Ordinary body persists. I am old and have some physical problems. Forget it. If you have something to do in school, you should hurry up and let your elder brother wait for you?"

"No need, the company's business is important, I can just book the ticket myself."

Xu Keqin went upstairs to get his bag, and before leaving, he remembered the mobile phone in the drawer, and after thinking about it, he took it away together.

Now is not the peak season, air tickets are not so tight, and it only takes half an hour to fly back to province A.

When it landed, Xu Keqin habitually turned on the phone to check the time. It was already past ten o'clock in the evening, and he didn't seem to have replied to Guo Xiao's message.

There were still quite a few customers in the store on weekends. After the customers eating fast food by the floor-to-ceiling windows left, the store became completely quiet. Guo Xiao took out his phone again, but Xu Keqin still didn't reply to him.

"Aren't you sleeping again?" If he couldn't go to Xu Keqin's place tonight, he would have to climb over the wall and enter the dormitory after get off work, otherwise he would definitely tell the counselor if he was discovered by the dormitory supervisor.

Guo Xiao glanced at the time. There was still more than an hour before it was time to change shifts. If you get busy, the time will pass quickly.

He sat on the stool, tapped the phone screen, thinking whether to send another message to Xu Keqin, the phone beeped, and a message came in.

The name on the note stunned him for a moment, it wasn't Xu Keqin, it was Min Yun.

"Guo Xiao, why are you going back to the dormitory tonight?"

There seemed to be no one in their dormitory tonight. Guo Xiao was the only one there when he went back. Guo Xiao usually didn't have shifts during this time period. It was a colleague who was busy, so he switched with him.

Guo Xiao was slow to reply to the news, Min Yun couldn't wait any longer, so he called directly and asked, "Why didn't you reply to my message?"

The wind can be heard on the phone, Min Yun doesn't seem to be at home.

"I'm just about to go back." Guo Xiao remembered that he tried not to mention the matter between him and Xu Keqin to others as much as possible.

The wind on the phone stopped, Min Yun was mysterious, and deliberately prolonged the syllable, "Do you want me to come..."

Guo Xiao gave a bewildered "hmm", and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of someone passing by outside the glass window, and then the sensor in front of the door also rang, indicating that a guest had come.

Xu Keqin?

Guo Xiao stood up abruptly, forgetting what Min Yun just said, hurriedly explained, and then hung up the phone, "I'll hang up first, Min Yun."

After finishing speaking, Guo Xiao came out from the cash register with an excited expression, and went straight to Xu Keqin, "Why are you here?"

He mentioned the location of the convenience store to Xu Keqin. He knew that Xu Keqin had a good memory, but he never thought that Xu Keqin would remember it.

The hottest time has passed, and now there is a hint of coolness in the night, Guo Xiao walks with the wind, Xu Keqin passed Guo Xiao, took a bottle of mineral water from the shelf, and signaled Guo Xiao to collect the money.

Guo Xiao hurriedly ran into the cash register, scanned the product code, and collected the money. Seeing that Xu Keqin was carrying a bag in his hand, he must have been out of the house, "Where are you going?"

"Aren't you going to my place later?" Xu Keqin didn't mention the fact that he had gone home, took out his mobile phone and said, "You can do your own business, just treat it as if I came here to buy things."

This hour and a half was faster than Guo Xiao had imagined. When his colleagues came to change shifts, they saw Guo Xiao smiling all over his face.

"I'm off work, so happy." He followed Guo Xiao's gaze, only seeing the empty glass window, "What are you looking at?"

"Huh?" Guo Xiao looked around, and Xu Keqin walked out of the convenience store as if nothing had happened while he was talking to his colleagues, "No...it's nothing...just order some change..."

After handing over the work to his colleagues, Guo Xiao couldn't wait. He was afraid that Xu Keqin would walk away, and he was afraid that Xu Keqin would not wait for him. When he ran out of the convenience store, Xu Keqin was standing by the side of the road.