Chapter 43 Sisters
The sky in February still darkens quickly. The night swallows up the last ray of setting sun, and the moon appears quietly, announcing her home turf.

The bright orange and yellow street lights on both sides of the road had already been lit. Looking down from the night sky at this time:

The brightly lit roads are like the blood vessels of the city, and the endless stream of vehicles is the blood in the blood vessels, pumping day and night like a pulse. The people in the cars are like the red blood cells in the blood, transporting and carrying oxygen, and together providing energy for the city, making it full of vitality.

But at this moment, the occasional honking of horns outside and the light music inside the car seemed unable to break or alleviate the overly quiet atmosphere between the two people in the car.

Chen Mo felt that he should say something, but he didn't know where to start.

Just as Chen Mo was racking his brains to find a topic, Xu Hongdou's cell phone rang.

Xu Hongdou took out her cell phone and found that it was a video call from her sister Xu Hongmi. She couldn't help but frown and glanced defensively at Chen Mo who was driving on the left.

Given last night's experience, Xu Hongdou didn't want Chen Mo to come into contact with her family too early or too quickly.

Chen Mo felt Xu Hongdou's gaze and listened to the ringing phone, and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?"

"Business secrets? Is it inconvenient for someone to be around?" Chen Mo asked jokingly.

Because Chen Mo was driving, he couldn't see the note on Xu Hongdou's phone and thought it was a call from Xu Hongdou about work.

After all, in the hotel service industry, we sometimes have to pay more attention to guests' privacy.

"No, it's my sister." Xu Hongdou shook her head.

"Then why don't you answer it? There's no outsider here." Chen Mo asked puzzledly.

Xu Hongdou didn't say anything either, just looked at Chen Mo quietly.

Under the light of the street lamp, Xu Hongdou could see Chen Mo's profile with clear lines and soft edges, a straight nose, a clear jawline, and his eyes looking intently at the road ahead.

Some people say that a man’s most handsome moment is when his profile is when he is reversing.

Xu Hongdou didn’t think so before, but now she believes it a little.

But she really couldn't understand why someone with such a handsome face could be so thick-skinned?
Are you not an outsider? Did I agree?

Chen Mo felt Xu Hongdou's gaze, and he knew what was going on. He couldn't help but cough lightly, "Ahem, well, don't worry, I won't speak if you don't speak."

After Chen Mo finished speaking, he turned down the music in the car and turned on the ceiling light.

Seeing this, Xu Hongdou didn't say anything and answered the video call.

"What are you doing? It took you so long to get through."

A smart and capable face with thick makeup and red lips appeared on the phone screen. It was Xu Hongdou's sister, Xu Hongmi.

"I'm not doing anything. What's wrong? What happened?" Xu Hongdou asked.

"It's okay, can't I call you?" Xu Hongmi said bluntly.

"Are you here to quarrel with me? If you're fine, I'll hang up." Xu Hongdou didn't tolerate it either.

"Why don't you try hanging one?" Xu Hongmi said with eyes wide open.

"Just try it. Do you think I don't dare?" Xu Hongdou said provocatively and was about to hang up the phone.

"Auntie~~" Suddenly a cute little face appeared on the screen, with a sweet voice.

"Hey, baby Bell." Xu Hongdou's expression changed immediately and she greeted the little person on the screen cordially.

"Aunt, have you eaten?" Lingling asked cutely.

"Auntie hasn't eaten yet. Has Lingling eaten?" Xu Hongdou's tone also became cute.

Chen Mo couldn't help but smile knowingly when he heard Xu Hongdou's voice.

"Yes, I ate a lot today!" Lingling said proudly with her little face.

"Really? Lingling is so well behaved!" Xu Hongdou praised.

Lingling laughed out loud when she heard this.

"Aunt, I miss you. Do you miss Lingling?" Lingling asked.

"Aunt must be missing Lingling." Xu Hongdou said with a smile.

"Then I'm going to the capital to visit my aunt this weekend, okay?" Lingling asked sweetly.

"Weekend?" Xu Hongdou was stunned.

"Lingling, give the phone to mom, and let mom talk to auntie." Xu Hongmi's voice came from the side.

"Oh, then auntie, mom will tell you." Lingling said and handed the phone to Xu Hongmi.

"Okay." Xu Hongdou responded with a smile, then when she saw Xu Hongmi, she instantly returned to her normal voice and asked, "Are you coming to the capital this weekend?"

"Well, I'm going on a business trip to the capital this weekend." Xu Hongmi explained: "I promised Lingling that I would take her out to play on the weekend, but I never had the time, so she insisted on going on a business trip with me this time, saying that she wanted to go to the capital to see you."

"Don't promise Lingling if you can't do it. How many times have you done this? It's just that our Lingling is obedient." Xu Hongdou complained.

"I didn't do it on purpose. I always had temporary work to do. What could I do?" Xu Hongmi defended.

"You haven't finished your work yet. If you continue like this, you might die suddenly one day," said Xu Hongdou.

"Don't worry about it. I work efficiently and in a planned way, and I get enough sleep every day." Xu Hongmi said, and then she made a sarcastic remark:
"You think everyone is as useless as you."

"I'm a salted fish?" Xu Hongdou pointed at herself and said in disbelief, "How can I be a salted fish when I work diligently?"

"It's obviously you who's a workaholic, okay?!"

"Okay, I'm too lazy to argue with you." Xu Hongmi said, "Anyway, this is how it is. You can help me take care of Lingling for two days."

"I'm too lazy to argue with you!" Xu Hongdou replied with disdain, then asked, "When are you coming over?"

"I'll go there on Friday and bring the bell to you on Saturday morning. I'll stay at your place for one night and pick you up on Sunday afternoon," said Xu Hongmi.

"Okay, I haven't seen Lingling for a long time." Xu Hongdou nodded.

"By the way, I heard from mom last night that you have been in contact with someone you like recently? Or is it your neighbor?" Xu Hongmi asked.

When Chen Mo heard this, he raised his eyebrows unconsciously. If he was not driving, he would have greeted and introduced himself.

Xu Hongdou glanced at Chen Mo and said, "Don't listen to mom's nonsense. They are just neighbors and ordinary friends."

"Really? Why did mom tell me that you went to someone's house for dinner, and they even picked you up from get off work?"

Xu Hongmi didn't believe it, she knew her sister too well.

Xu Hongmi knew very well that Xu Hongdou was not a person who liked to trouble others, otherwise she wouldn't have been asked to come to Shanghai so often.

If he treats her own sister like this, how much more so towards others?

"."Xu Hongdou listened to this and looked at Chen Mo right beside her. She didn't know what to feel for a moment.

When Chen Mo heard this, he couldn't help but smile silently.

"There was a power outage yesterday, and he gave me a ride home from get off work because it was convenient for us, and his company is also near our hotel." Xu Hongdou explained.

"Really?" Xu Hongmi remained noncommittal. In her opinion, Xu Hongdou's explanation was just pretentious.

"So where are you now?" Xu Hongmi asked.

"In the car." Xu Hongdou replied.

"The neighbor's car?"

"He's right next to me, don't talk nonsense." Xu Hongdou nodded.

"Then you won't let me say hello to them?" Xu Hongmi asked.

"He is driving." said Xu Hongdou.

"Ahem." Chen Mo coughed lightly, indicating that he wanted to speak.

Xu Hongdou glanced at Chen Mo and moved the phone a little towards Chen Mo, but did not let the two of them video chat. Driving safety comes first.

"Sister Hongmi, right? Hello, I'm Chen Mo, Hongdou's friend." Chen Mo greeted her.
Xu Hongmi heard the male voice and said, "Hello, Chen Mo."

"I heard that my sister received a lot of care from you?"

"No, no, it's not about taking care of each other. We just look after each other. We are all friends." Chen Mo said truthfully.

He wanted to take care of her, but he didn't have the chance.

Just asking for a ride now is not even helpful, let alone caring. "Thank you anyway," Xu Hongmi said.

"Sister Hongmi, please don't say that. I'll feel embarrassed if you say that again." Chen Mo said.

"Okay, you're driving now, right? Then I won't bother you for now. When I get to the capital on the weekend, we can have dinner together."

Xu Hongmi stated her main purpose. She just wanted to find a reason to meet Chen Mo and see what the relationship between him and her sister was like, and to do some screening at the same time.

"Why don't you ask me?" Xu Hongdou frowned, took back the phone and was about to say something to Xu Hongmi.

"Okay, I'll host the party then." Chen Mo said, raising his voice.

"How can this be possible? Since I proposed it, of course I'll treat you," said Xu Hongmi.

"No, no, no, Sister Hongmi, since you have come to the capital, I must play the role of host." Chen Mo shook his head and said.

"You two, don't you bother to ask me whether I agree or not?" Xu Hongdou laughed out loud as she listened to the two people's conversation.

"Do I need your consent to treat Chen Mo to dinner? What is your relationship?" Xu Hongmi asked puzzledly.

The venomous tongue from her own sister made Xu Hongdou take a deep breath and stare at Xu Hongmi with murderous eyes.

Xu Hongmi sneered, not afraid at all.

"Well, um, I'm inviting Sister Hongmi to dinner, and of course you have to be there, oh, and Lingling too." Chen Mo said soothingly.

Xu Hongdou and Xu Hongmi are sisters, so they can be so rude to each other.

Chen Mo didn't dare to talk like that because he hadn't even gotten his girlfriend yet.

Xu Hongdou rolled her eyes at Chen Mo and said to Xu Hongmi, "Hang up."

After Xu Hongdou finished speaking, she hung up the video call without giving Xu Hongmi a chance to speak.

"What did you promise my sister just now?" Xu Hongdou asked.

"Ah? It's just a meal and a way to get to know each other." Chen Mo laughed dryly.

"Why do you know her?" Xu Hongdou glanced at Chen Mo.

"It's a rare visit from your sister." Chen Mo said carefully, "She cares about you, so she wants to see me."

Xu Hongdou didn't say anything. She naturally knew why these two unrelated people wanted to meet.

"By the way, are you and your sister always so confrontational when you get along with each other?" Chen Mo couldn't help but ask, thinking of the conversation they had just had.

They both clearly care about each other, but their words are so impolite.

"There's nothing we can do. Jia Baoyu was born with a jade in his mouth, and my sister was born with a razor blade in her mouth." Xu Hongdou complained mercilessly.

"She has been bullying me since I was a child, so of course I have to resist."

"So is this how you all communicate?" Chen Mo found it quite interesting.

"That's about the same." Xu Hongdou said.

"When my sister was in college, my dad said she could get into Fudan University. I applauded her, but she said I could get into Hatchery University in the future."

"Why are you an incubator university?" Chen Mo asked.

"Because I have hatched eggs myself before." Xu Hongdou explained.

"Hatched eggs? How?"

"I just put it in my pocket. I hold it in my hand except when I eat."

"Won't this break? It's hard to last a whole day without breaking."

"It's really not broken, because my sister secretly replaced the eggs I was going to hatch with cooked eggs." Xu Hongdou sneered.

“So you finally found that it couldn’t hatch.”

"No, it finally hatched."

"How can this be?"

"Yeah, how is that possible?" Xu Hongdou shook her head.

"It's all my sister's work. She just smiled and watched me holding two hard-boiled eggs in my hands for so many days."

"Then she tricked me into putting the cooked eggs in my hand when my grandmother's old hen was about to hatch chicks, and then secretly replaced my eggs."

"Finally the chicks came out, and I kept thinking that it was because of my efforts that the chicks hatched."

"At that time, she praised me as a hatching general, and I was foolishly happy for a long time."

"This secret was kept from me for so many years." Xu Hongdou still feels indignant when she thinks about it now.

"You have brothers and sisters, which is quite interesting." Chen Mo said with emotion.

"Are you an only child?"

"Yes."

"So what were you like before?" Xu Hongdou asked.

"I was too young to remember it clearly. The one that I remember most clearly was when I was in junior high school."

"At that time, it was popular for band members to have long hair."

"At the time, I thought I couldn't form a band myself for the time being, but I could keep up with the hairstyle."

"I haven't had my hair cut for two or three months, and I have bangs covering my eyes."

"Shamatte?" Xu Hongdou asked in surprise.

"Not really. I didn't dye it green." Chen Mo said helplessly.

Xu Hongdou was amused: "Then what?"

"Then the school teacher called my home and said I looked like a scoundrel, not like a student but more like a hooligan."

"Indeed." Xu Hongdou nodded.

"That was the most fashionable hairstyle at that time, okay? Do you understand what fashion is? Fashion!" Chen Mo said unconvinced.

"Okay, okay, trendy." Xu Hongdou suppressed a laugh and said, "So what happened next?"

"Later, my mother dragged me to shave my head, and my dream of being in a band also fell away along with the long hair." Chen Mo sighed.

"I didn't expect that the road to your musical dream wouldn't be smooth sailing." Xu Hongdou said.

"The past is too hard to recall. It's all tears if I talk about it too much." Chen Mo shook his head.

The two returned to the community, and after Chen Mo got out of the car, he found that Xu Hongdou subconsciously touched his arm.

"Didn't you bring a coat? It's still quite cold in the morning and evening." Chen Mo asked with concern.

"It fell in our hotel. I didn't feel cold when I got off work just now." Xu Hongdou said.

"I have a coat in my car. I'll give it to you." Chen Mo was not wearing a coat, so he couldn't just take it off and put it on Xu Hongdou.

"No need. It wasn't cold in the car just now. Now we're here. We can just take the elevator and get home." Xu Hongdou said quickly.

Chen Mo walked straight to Xu Hongdou with his coat.

"Really?" Xu Hongdou wanted to refuse.

"Clean, never worn."

"That was not what I meant."

"Then put it on." Chen Mo directly helped Xu Hongdou put it on.

"Thank you, thank you." Xu Hongdou felt Chen Mo's masculine aura nearby, lowered her head slightly, and said in a low voice.

I don’t know if it’s because the clothes are too warm, but when Xu Hongdou put them on, her face turned red.

　Asking for a monthly ticket!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)