mutual benefit [gl]

The atmosphere in the office dropped to freezing point in an instant.

Chen Yuanzhen looked at Chen Yuanshuo's slightly deformed face because of worry and couldn't help but chuckled in his heart.

"Oh," she suppressed the sarcasm in her heart, waved her hand at Chen Yuanshuo and said with a smile, "I don't think so."

Although Chen Yuanshuo's face had become ugly, he still forced a smile and said embarrassingly:

"But actually... I don't think the eldest brother... he should not talk about it. After all, it's not a glorious thing."

"That's hard to say." Chen Yuanzhen became serious, "Although an illegitimate child is disgraceful...but it's also my own child."

"Yuan Zhen, brother..." Chen Yuanshuo realized that he had said something wrong, and quickly went back to make up for it.

"It's okay," Chen Yuanzhen said with a smile, "Even from my personal point of view, I don't think that an illegitimate child is something glorious. It's just," she stood up and paced in the office.

"It's just that although outsiders don't know the situation of big brother, you and I, especially Dad. He knows best."

Chen Yuanshuo's heart sank.

"So even if elder brother doesn't look for it, if dad knows, he will probably force him to look for it."

"But what about your sister-in-law?!" Chen Yuanshuo finally lost his composure, he stood up abruptly, and suddenly raised his voice.

Chen Yuanzhen was startled by him, and stared at him blankly.Only then did Chen Yuanshuo realize his gaffe, he quickly coughed a few times, then lowered his voice and repeated: "But sister-in-law...she is not so easy to talk to."

Sister-in-law?

She began to look up memories of this woman called "Sister-in-law" in her memory.

Unlike Chen Yuanshuo, Chen Yuanyang would maintain a relationship with her younger sister on the surface.Chen Yuanyang looked down on her from head to toe, from the inside to the outside, and he looked just like his mother Kang Lin.

And if this is the case with the husband, what about the wife?

Chen Yuanyang's wife Su Zhenzhen is the daughter of the famous Xiongcheng Construction, her marriage with Chen Yuanyang is a political marriage through and through.But fortunately, Chen Yuanyang's appearance is not bad, plus he has a sweet mouth and can talk, so Su Zhenzhen didn't have any special reluctance when he married.

It's just that the couple's single-mindedness has hurt Chen Yuanzhen. The first time Su Zhenzhen came to Chen's house, she gave Chen Yuanzhen a blow - the first time she came to Chen's house, she used the style of a sister-in-law to order Chen Yuanzhen, a quasi-sister-in-law Serve her tea and water.

Thinking of this, Chen Yuanzhen couldn't help but smiled contemptuously in his heart.

Although this Su Zhenzhen dared to boss her around, she was just a young lady who was nurtured and raised by money and everyone's admiration since she was a child.Such greenhouse flowers can't do anything to a guy like Chen Yuanyang.What's more, with her embarrassing status as a married daughter-in-law, she can only live better if her husband's career can develop better, so that she won't be looked down upon as a marginal figure by her family and her husband's family.

So if Chen Yuanyang insists on taking the illegitimate son home and raising him as a genuine young master, she, Su Zhenzhen, seems to have no other choice but to swallow her anger like Mrs. Chen.

What's more, the current Chen Yuanyang can only have that one and only child in his life.

Thinking of this, Chen Yuanzhen felt a little bit sorry for Su Zhenzhen in his heart.

But although Chen Yuanzhen was thinking clearly in her head, she kept her mouth tightly shut and didn't say anything. She nodded at Chen Yuanshuo.

"Yes, sister-in-law is quite scary, brother should..."

Seeing Chen Yuanshuo's tense expression, Chen Yuanzhen turned her beautiful eyes, smiled and said to his heart.

"Brother shouldn't dare."

Sure enough, as soon as Chen Yuanzhen agreed with his words, Chen Yuanshuo's face softened a little. He straightened his suit and walked in front of Chen Yuanzhen.

He is not tall among men, but Chen Yuanzhen was born tall at 1.7 meters. Looking at Chen Yuanzhen, who was only a little shorter than himself, he subconsciously glanced at her feet, only to realize that she was originally It was a pair of flat shoes.

"Our Yuan Zhen is really considerate of my brother." Chen Yuanshuo smiled.

"I still like to look shorter than my brother." Chen Yuanzhen smiled, she looked up at Chen Yuanshuo, her shining eyes were full of admiration.

"It feels like being a kid again."

Hearing this, Chen Yuanshuo grinned and showed two rows of neat teeth, and his smile became happier.

Chen Yuanzhen and him were laughing at the same time, and the memories in his mind flashed like slides.

How could she forget her childhood, even if Chen Zhishan and his son had forgotten it, she would never forget it.

The things she wanted to do had already been done, and Chen Yuanzhen didn't want to stay with Chen Yuanshuo any longer. She said goodbye to Chen Yuanshuo on the grounds that she was going to the shopping mall in the afternoon to sweep the goods. Pull out a card and hand it to her.

"Just treat it as the pocket money my brother gave you." Chen Yuanshuo said with a smile.

Chen Yuanzhen took the card almost without hesitation, she blinked at Chen Yuanshuo, said thank you second brother coquettishly, and left his office happily.

Watching Chen Yuanzhen close the office door, Chen Yuanshuo returned to his seat, his eyes turned cold for a moment.

He pondered for a moment, then grabbed the phone receiver on his desk.

"Let Special Assistant Zhang come to my office."

The elevator door opened slowly, and Chen Yuanzhen stepped into the elevator and directly pressed the button for the [-]th floor.

She glanced down at the watch on her wrist, secretly counting the time in her heart.

According to the current time, Chen Zhishan and Chen Yuanyang should be ready to end the meeting.

When the elevator reached the [-]th floor, Chen Yuanzhen had already faintly heard the sound of conversation. After she got out of the elevator, she quickly walked a few steps into the corridor opposite the conference room, and then pretended to be about to It looks like walking towards the elevator.

And in this way, she happened to run into Chen Zhishan, Chen Yuanyang, and the company's executives who were also about to take the elevator downstairs.

Sure enough, when Chen Zhishan saw her for the first time, his two gray eyebrows were tightly knit together.

"Ah, Dad..."

Chen Yuanzhen pretended to be shocked. When she was about to call Chen Zhishan, Chen Yuanyang coughed softly. She quickly stopped and bowed and said:

"Chairman."

A group of people then stopped, and after they looked up and down Chen Yuanzhen, Chen Yuanyang couldn't help covering his face and chuckled, while Chen Zhishan's face was ashen, watching Chen Yuanzhen bowing in front of him but not talking to her.

So the two of them stalemate in front of the elevator for almost half a minute, and she kept bending and bowing for half a minute.

Finally, Chen Zhishan let out a hoarse cold snort.

"You still think this is a company?!"

In front of all the company's executives, Chen Zhishan said angrily.

Chen Yuanzhen bent her waist even lower, and covered her chest with one hand holding the jacket over the skirt, while the fingers of the other hand were rubbing against the clothes nervously, looking embarrassed.

Chen Zhishan felt bored seeing Chen Yuanzhen's embarrassed and cowardly appearance.

"Something with a short memory!"

After he finished speaking in a low voice, he coughed and turned around, and Chen Yuanyang beside him quickly pressed the button of the elevator for him.The elevator door was opened, and Chen Zhishan ignored Chen Yuanzhen who was still bowing aside, and walked into the elevator angrily, followed by the executives who followed quickly.As for Chen Yuanyang beside Chen Zhishan, he turned his head and gave Chen Yuanzhen a sneering look before walking into the elevator.

The elevator door closed, and Chen Yuanzhen was the only one left in the corridor in an instant. Then she slowly straightened up and brushed her hair nonchalantly.

For Chen Yuanzhen, suffering from the eyes of her father and brother is no longer painful, especially for her now.

Only when Chen Zhishan hated her would Chen Yuanyang and Chen Yuanshuo not focus on her.

She stood there and watched coldly as the elevator's indicator light jumped and finally turned into a number one, before she quickly walked to the elevator on the other side and pressed the button.

When Chen Yuanzhen walked out of the gate of the group, the assistant just parked the car in front of her.

As soon as Chen Yuanzhen sat firmly in the car, he handed the card that Chen Yuanshuo gave to him just now to his assistant.

"You go to the mall in the afternoon."

The assistant was used to the kind of things Chen Yuanzhen arranged for him. After taking the card from Chen Yuanzhen's hand, he started the car and drove to Chen Yuanzhen's residence.

Chen Yuanzhen took out his mobile phone from his bag and made a call.

"Assistant Liao, that woman named Ji Cixi, I want all her information. Also,"

Chen Yuanzhen paused for a moment, his eyes full of determination.

"Commercial tutoring organizations only want money. I want you to let Ji Cixi's entire time belong to me no matter how much money you spend, not less than a minute. Do you understand?"

She ended the call with that.After everything was explained, Chen Yuanzhen finally relaxed her tense body. She raised her head and leaned against the soft car seat.

The assistant who was driving in the driver's seat looked at his boss through the rearview mirror, smiled and said, "It seems that you are very tired today."

Chen Yuanzhen smiled and said nothing.

Obviously he was going to see his brother and father, but Chen Yuanzhen felt that it was more tiring than asking him to move bricks for a day.

That tiredness is not physical, but mental.

"Zhou Ming, the minutes of the meeting..." Chen Yuanzhen spoke weakly.

"Don't worry." Zhou Ming smiled, "It will be sorted out and sent to my mailbox before dinner time."

Chen Yuanzhen nodded with satisfaction, and she confessed: "Remember not to treat that side badly, after all, they are people who are bought with money. The most reliable and the least reliable."

"I see."

Chen Yuanzhen closed her eyes, she was thinking about everything she would do in the future, and finally Ji Cixi's cold face appeared in her mind.

Sure enough, everything should start from Ji Cixi.

Even though she was sitting in the heated room, Ji Cixi sneezed for no reason.

The colleague next to her turned to look at her with a smile, and asked, "What's wrong with you recently? You were burned and sneezing again."

Ji Cixi rubbed her nose, she shrugged with a smile, without speaking.

She also felt that she was a little strange recently, as if everything about her had become difficult since she met Chen Yuanzhen.

While thinking about it, she glanced at the time in the lower left corner of the computer screen. It was now past two o'clock in the afternoon.

Time flies so fast, she opened the word document while thinking about what to cook for Ji Xu at night.

Thinking of this, Ji Cixi smiled self-deprecatingly.

What made me feel uncomfortable was Chen Yuanzhen, who was obviously my unworthy sister.If it wasn't for her sister, she probably wouldn't think about what to have for dinner at all, just take a bite if she has the time and forget it if she doesn't have time.

But now she has to consider cooking for Ji Xu.

The more Ji Cixi thought about it, the more she felt that it was really useless for Ji Ciwen to bring the child to her alone.According to her thinking, even if Ji Ciwen wants to take Ji Xu away from that man, he shouldn't look like such a dingy abandoned woman.

Sure enough, the most bastard was the man who abandoned Ji Ciwen's mother and child.

While Ji Cixi was gnashing his teeth here, the phone suddenly vibrated.She regained consciousness and picked up the phone, and saw that it was a text message from the head teacher Ji Xu.

"Ji Xu, this bastard again..." She thought it was something happened to Ji Xu at school, and she clicked on the text message to see the notification message from the head teacher.

"Hi, mother Ji Xu, I see that you have not joined the parent group, so I would like to inform you that the school will be cleaned in the last class this afternoon, and the school will be dismissed at [-]:[-] pm earlier, please be sure to pick up your children. Please take care of the child abduction case, Mr. Zhang."

Ji Cixi sighed, and muttered in her heart that it's really troublesome, but she still glanced at the time again.

25:[-] p.m.

The training institution is not too close to Ji Xu's school, even by bus it takes half an hour.Ji Cixi had no choice but to stand up, she roughly tidied up the desk, and asked the leader for a half-day leave, then put on her coat and hurried away with her bag.

Although Ji Cixi ran to the station, when she arrived panting, she still watched the car she was going to take slip away from her eyes.She took a few breaths and glanced at her watch, it was already two forty.

A little irritability arose in Ji Cixi's heart, it must be too late to arrive at Ji Xu's school like this, but after thinking about it, she felt that Ji Xu should have brought the keys of the house, and she felt a little relieved.

But what the head teacher said at the end of the text message made her pay special attention.

Abduction case.

Ji Cixi shook her head and forced herself to get rid of those bad thoughts, but those three words seemed to be imprinted in her brain, no matter what, she couldn't get rid of them.

After waiting for another 5 minutes, just when Ji Cixi couldn't bear to take a taxi, the bus finally arrived.

Maybe God couldn't bear to add fuel to Ji Cixi's mood, today's road is exceptionally smooth.Almost every time the bus reaches the intersection, the traffic light will be green.When Ji Cixi got off the car, it was [-]:[-] in the afternoon.

Ji Cixi trotted to the gate of No. [-] Primary School, only to see a group of children in school uniforms coming out of the school gate. She stood on tiptoe and looked inside the school, hoping that Ji Xu could see herself.

But I saw the children coming out of the school in groups, and then came out in groups of three and two, and finally turned into a group of two in a hurry.

Ji Cixi never saw Ji Xu's figure.

She looked down at her watch again, it was already [-]:[-].

She thought that Ji Xu might have gone home by himself, but she was not sure, so she took out her mobile phone and called home.

There was a busy "beep" in the handset, and it was automatically hung up at the end, and no one answered.

Ji Cixi hung up the phone, and she looked at the school again, and it had been a long time since no students had come out of the school.

She looked around, the neighborhood of the No. [-] Primary School had just undergone urban rectification, and the food stalls and small shops that could accommodate students in the past were all banned. Today, the No. [-] Primary School is surrounded by only wide roads.

She had no choice but to call the teacher in charge.

"Hi, I'm Ji Xu's mother."

After learning from the homeroom teacher that Ji Xu had left the school, Ji Cixi hardly hesitated for a moment, she turned around and thanked her mobile phone while running to the side of the road to hail a taxi.

She rushed home and hurriedly opened Ji Xu's door.

The room was empty.

Ji Cixi saw the gleaming key on Ji Xu's desk at a glance.

It turns out that Ji Xu didn't leave home with the keys today.

I don't know if it's because of Ji Xu or because of the burning pain caused by the unresolved blisters on his hands, Ji Cixi's back instantly burst into a layer of cold sweat.

She didn't have time to think about anything, and rushed out of the house.

She rushed downstairs like flying steps, but when she just reached the first floor, the phone rang suddenly.

A string of unfamiliar numbers was displayed on the phone screen.

Ji Cixi's footsteps stopped for an instant, she bit her lip and looked at the string of numbers on the phone screen, until she had prepared the worst plan in her heart, then she took a deep breath and swipe to answer.

"Hey."

"Hello?"

Hearing the voice from the receiver, Ji Cixi narrowed her eyes slightly.

This voice is so familiar, it seems to have been heard somewhere.

"Hello?" The voice in the receiver seemed a little strange that Ji Cixi couldn't hear her reply.

"you are?"

"Are you Ji Xu's mother?" The other party avoided Ji Cixi's question and asked her instead.

"you are?"

"Ji Xu is very distressed because he doesn't have a key to his house, can you come to the People's Mall to pick him up?"

Ji Cixi's hanging heart finally let go, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief, told the other party that she would be there soon, and then hung up the phone.

In a dessert shop in the People's Shopping Center, Chen Yuanzhen couldn't help laughing when she saw the words "end call" on the screen of her mobile phone. She turned to look at Ji Xu who was sitting opposite her and was eating ice cream.

It was the first time for Ji Xu to eat such a delicious ice cream, his small face was full of colorful colors.

Chen Yuanzhen reached out and wiped the ice cream off Ji Xu's face with a tissue, she smiled and said softly:

"Don't run around in the future, it will make your mother anxious."