mutual benefit [gl]

The People's Shopping Center is not too far from the No. [-] Primary School, but Ji Cixi would never have thought that Ji Xu would go there.

Outside the People's Mall is a square, adjacent to several scenic spots in Z City, plus various dessert shops and cafes on the first floor of the mall have opened their doors here, and it coincides with afternoon tea time at this time, so the flow of people is huge .Before Ji Cixi arrived, she was worried that she would not find Ji Xu.

After she arrived at the square, she quickly walked through the crowd, and finally saw the back of a tall and thin woman when she reached the end of the square and was about to enter the gate of the mall.

The woman was wearing an almond-colored cashmere coat with her back turned to her, and beside her stood a child in school uniform.

"Ji Xu?" Ji Cixi approached a few steps and called tentatively.

Because both the child and the adult turned their backs to Ji Cixi, she could only judge whether it was Ji Xu based on the child's figure.

Hearing Ji Cixi's familiar voice, Ji Xu turned around quickly, shouted his mother, let go of the hand of the woman beside him and ran towards Ji Cixi.

Ji Cixi finally let go of her heart completely, and at this time the woman whose back was facing her finally turned around.

The woman was wearing a wine-red silk shirt in her overcoat, her collar was unbuttoned, and her delicate collarbone was open.The woman was already fairer than others, and she was wearing a wine red shirt, which made her slender neck even whiter.She wore a pair of sunglasses on her small face, and her brown wavy hair was scattered on her chest.

The corners of the woman's lips curled up slightly after seeing Ji Cixi, she put both hands in the pockets on both sides of the coat, and walked quickly towards Ji Cixi very chicly.

Until standing in front of Ji Cixi, the woman stretched out one hand to her, and took off her sunglasses with the other hand.

"Hello, see you again."

The woman was already a little taller than Ji Cixi, and she was stepping on a pair of high-heeled boots, so Ji Cixi had no choice but to look up at her.The moment the woman took off her sunglasses, Ji Cixi's heart seemed to have a flash of lightning.She stared at the woman's pretty face for a while before finally speaking.

"Miss Chen, we meet again."

Although Ji Cixi talked to Chen Yuanzhen, she completely ignored Chen Yuanzhen's sharp hands.

Chen Yuanzhen cast her eyes on her outstretched hand, and seeing that Ji Cixi didn't respond, she curled her lips and shrugged her shoulders before taking her hand back, without any embarrassment on her face.

"You still remember me, it seems that I left a deep impression on you last time." Chen Yuanzhen smiled.

Ji Cixi said with a straight face: "My memory is not bad, and I can barely remember things I've seen not long ago."

thing?

Chen Yuanzhen secretly expressed dissatisfaction with Ji Cixi's use of this word to describe himself, but there was still the same smile on his face.

"Anyway, I think I have a lot of fate with you. I don't know how you call it?"

From the bottom of her heart, Ji Cixi didn't want to have anything to do with Chen Yuanzhen, so she didn't intend to tell her her real name.However, Ji Xu, who was standing aside at this time, was positive.

"Beautiful sister, my mother's name is Ji Cixi!"

Ji Cixi gritted his teeth secretly, and stared at Ji Xu with lowered eyes, but at this moment Ji Xu was busy introducing the basic information of his aunt to the goddess in his heart, and he didn't see the warning in Ji Cixi's eyes at all.

"Ji is Ji who is like me, kindness is kindness, and Xi is hopeful Xi!"

Ji Cixi never thought that she would be sold by her own people in the end.

Chen Yuanzhen smiled and squatted down to touch Ji Xu's hairy head.

"Ji Xu's vocabulary is really..." She raised her eyes and glanced at Ji Cixi's expressionless face, she secretly thought it was funny, so she smiled more happily at Ji Xu, "It's really big."

"Of course, I..."

"Ji Xu."

Just when Ji Xu was about to brag to Chen Yuanzhen how he got the top three in the class in dictation, Ji Cixi couldn't bear to interrupt him.

Chen Yuanzhen stood up, she smiled apologetically at Ji Cixi, and said, "I'm sorry, Miss Ji, I almost bumped into Ji Xu when I was driving past the No. That’s why I brought him here. As you know, there are only roads left around the school because of the creation of the city, and I’m really worried about the child standing there alone.”

Ji Cixi lowered her head and glanced at Ji Xu next to her. She sharply saw some colorful stains on the cuffs of Ji Xu's school uniform, and then glanced around and found that there were some dessert shops and coffee shops.

"Anyway, I still have to thank Ms. Chen." Ji Cixi took out the wallet from the bag as he spoke, "Ji Xu should let you buy him something to eat."

Chen Yuanzhen was stunned.

"It can be said that children are ignorant because of their age, but there is no reason for adults to be ignorant." After speaking, Ji Cixi took out a hundred-yuan bill from his wallet and handed it to Chen Yuanzhen.

"Thank you for giving him something to eat."

Chen Yuanzhen never thought that Ji Cixi would do this to him, looking at the money she handed over, Chen Yuanzhen was dumbfounded.

It was the first time she had seen such a person in such a big age.

Ji Cixi didn't want to waste any more time here. Seeing that Chen Yuanzhen hadn't accepted the banknotes for a long time, she folded the banknotes with a heart, and stuffed them directly into one side pocket of Chen Yuanzhen's coat.

"Farewell."

After Ji Cixi finished speaking, he turned around and led Ji Xu away in a hurry. His movements were so fast that even Ji Xu didn't realize it. He followed Ji Cixi for several steps before Ji Xu realized it. He turned around and rushed forward while still staying in the original place Chen Yuanzhen said goodbye loudly.

It wasn't until Ji Cixi completely disappeared from sight that Chen Yuanzhen realized it. She took out the banknote from her pocket and unfolded it, looked left and right in front of her eyes, and finally laughed.

Really a guy with personality.

"But how did such a woman fall in love with Chen Yuanyang?" Chen Yuanzhen muttered to himself.

She thought of Su Zhenzhen in Chen Yuanyang's family again, and couldn't help curling her lips.

"It seems that the guy's own taste is really much better than his mother's."

After grumbling like this in his heart, Chen Yuanzhen didn't know why he suddenly felt a sense of loss.

She remembered the way Ji Xu pounced on Ji Cixi just now, and there was a kind of envy in her eyes.

She couldn't remember the last time when she threw herself into her mother's arms like this, but she even felt a little envious when she saw this scene in front of her eyes today.

Just when she was feeling lost, her spirit suddenly seemed to be hit by something suddenly, Chen Yuanzhen regained consciousness and quickly put the sunglasses back on in front of her eyes.

On the other side, on the way home, Ji Xu timidly trotted behind Ji Cixi who was walking fast.

Looking at his aunt's ice-like face, Ji Xu opened his mouth several times but didn't dare to speak.

He remembered that his mother told him that his aunt was a person who was afraid of trouble, so he told him not to trouble her.

But he doesn't know what's going on recently, how he made his aunt angry again and again.

When he was depressed and distressed, Ji Cixi who was walking in front suddenly stopped. Ji Xu didn't react for a while and almost bumped into Ji Cixi's body, but fortunately he staggered but still stopped.

"Do you think your mother is enjoying the blessings lying in the hospital?" Ji Cixi turned around, looked down at Ji Xu seriously and asked.

Ji Cixi's voice didn't fluctuate at all, but the tone didn't sound like a blame, but a real question.

"Little, auntie..."

"Didn't your mother teach you not to walk with strangers?"

"I just saw that sister is very beautiful..."

"You mean everyone in prison is ugly?"

Ji Xu was speechless and could only lower his eyes in grievance.

Ji Cixi turned her face and glanced at the dead tree beside the road, bit her lip hard, trying to suppress the anger in her heart.

"You should understand that in this world, besides your mother, only you should be responsible for yourself."

After she finished speaking, she looked at Ji Xu.

"If something like this happens again today, don't follow me."

"Auntie!" Ji Xu was so frightened that he quickly raised his head, with tears in his eyes, "I don't dare anymore!"

Ji Cixi glanced at Ji Xu's teary eyes, and most of the anger in her heart subsided.

"and also,"

She looked at Ji Xu's dirty cuffs and said, "You should tell me what you want, and you shouldn't let strangers pay for you."

Ji Xu realized that Ji Cixi was talking about the cup of ice cream, he quickly shook his head and said, "No, that pretty sister invited me to eat..."

"I'm telling you not to take the kindness of strangers as normal and deserved."

Ji Xu was stunned, he still doesn't quite understand the meaning of Ji Cixi's words.

"Especially in the face of gifts from strangers, there is no such thing as a gift without a reason, do you understand?"

Ji Cixi bent down when she said this, she looked into Ji Xu's eyes and said very seriously, especially when she said the four words "non-existent", she said it word by word, very seriously serious.

Ji Xu raised his face and listened to what his aunt said to him in a daze. He couldn't say how much he understood, but at least he knew one thing, that is, he would never make today's mistakes again.

He reached out to wipe away his tears, and nodded heavily at Ji Cixi.

Ji Cixi sighed in his heart, and used the traditional argument in his heart: "He's still a child." To relieve his anger, although there was still no expression on his face, at least his walking pace was much slower, Ji Xu no longer needed to trot Only then can you keep up.

It gets dark very early in winter, and the sky is already dark as soon as six o'clock in the afternoon.

While thousands of houses were lit up, Chen Yuanzhen was still sweating profusely on the treadmill.

She was the only one in the huge gym at this time, and while she was running, she watched the economic news broadcast on the wall-mounted TV directly above her.

"Focus on hot news, focus on hot people. Good evening, viewers, welcome to watch the cover characters of this issue, I am the host..."

Just then, the phone rang.Chen Yuanzhen turned off the treadmill, and got off the machine while pressing the on button on the headset.

"Boss, the minutes of the meeting have been sent to your mailbox. The general content of this meeting is about the ownership of Jianyi Automobile, a subsidiary of the group."

Jianyi Automobile is one of the many industries under the Chen family that developed relatively early, and now it is eagerly waiting for the listing.

Chen Yuanzhen wiped the sweat off his face with a towel around his neck, and waited for Zhou Ming to continue.

"The current meaning of the chairman should be to hand over Jianyi Automobile to the deputy general manager."

Chen Yuanzhen's body froze, and she just turned her gaze to the TV at this moment. She took off the earphone on one side, and the clear and sweet voice of the hostess came into her ears.

"The cover of the business magazine "Eye of the Storm" is Mr. Chen Zhishan, the chairman of the famous enterprise Chen Group. It is reported that Chairman Chen said that he will announce an important decision of the Chen Group to the public this month. The details of this mysterious decision The content sparked heated discussions in the business community, and many people in the media speculated that this decision may have something to do with Chairman Chen’s announcement last year that he would retire within five years.”

Chen Zhishan's speech last year announcing that he would retire within five years was still in Chen Yuanzhen's ears. She was sitting in the audience watching the expressions of Chen Yuanshuo and Chen Yuanyang on the stage. Thoroughly.

I don't know if it's because this sudden news brought them so much surprise that these two so-called high-level business elites who have lived and worked with Chen Zhishan for more than 30 years are not as good as her, an unpopular illegitimate daughter, to Chen Zhishan. learn.

Five years later, Chen Zhishan was only 66 years old, and now 62-year-old Chen Zhishan is still in good health. It is not a problem for this old man to live to be 80 years old. Delegating power at the age of 66?It's impossible to even think about it with your toes.

"Boss, are you listening to me?"

Chen Yuanzhen pulled her thoughts away from her memories, she turned around and left behind the declining city outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.

"Although the old man plans to give Jianyi Auto to Chen Yuanshuo, he hasn't been brought up to the core meeting yet. But it seems that it will be soon," she sneered, "If Chen Yuanyang can't grasp it during this time, I'm afraid From now on, it’s not certain who will win the game.”

Zhou Ming understood what Chen Yuanzhen meant, so he said in a low voice, "Ji Xu's news has always been selectively disclosed there."

"Keep an eye on Chen Yuanshuo, he is more ruthless than his brother. From now on, send someone to guard near No. [-] Primary School every day, just in case. But remember, keep it secret."

Chen Yuanzhen finished the call.She turned around and stared at Chen Zhishan's face on the TV screen.

The Chen Zhishan on the cover of the magazine is no different from the Chen Zhishan that everyone sees, they are both calm and self-imposing, just sitting there can bring people an infinite sense of oppression.

"How can I stop you from showing such a disgusting look...Father." Chen Yuanzhen almost spit out the word "father" through gritted teeth.

In the supermarket, Ji Cixi was waiting in line for the checkout.

While waiting, she looked down at her watch from time to time, because her residence was too remote, she had to go to the supermarket in the city center to purchase.It's just that after what happened this afternoon, she didn't feel at ease to let Ji Xu stay at home alone.

She bought two bags of quick-frozen dumplings and a carton of milk.She didn't want to go to the supermarket today, but seeing Ji Xu's thin and petite appearance, she felt that she still couldn't allow him to continue to suffer from malnutrition.

After paying the bill, Ji Cixi walked out of the supermarket with her things, and walked to the side of the street, the bitter cold wind rushed to her face impatiently.Her nasal cavity was irritated by the cold wind, and it suddenly became sore.So she had no choice but to put the milk on the ground first, and gathered the scarf with one free hand.

Just as she was about to raise her head, a car passed by her at high speed, and then another gust of cool wind blew across her body.

When she stood up straight again, she could only see the back of the car, and it was not until she could no longer see it that Ji Cixi picked up the milk and walked slowly to the bus stop.

In the car that was running in the opposite direction from Ji Cixi, Chen Yuanzhen looked at Ji Cixi who was gradually shrinking in the rearview mirror, his eyes were flickering and it was impossible to see what kind of emotion he was holding.

She recalled the scene of Ji Xu throwing herself into her arms again, feeling like being thrown into a jar of wine.She pursed her lips and stepped on the accelerator again, and the car accelerated accordingly.

About 15 minutes later, Chen Yuanzhen arrived in front of the high-end apartment building where she lived. She saw Liao Tezhu standing in front of the building waiting for her from a distance, so she waved her hand and quickened her pace.

Special Assistant Liao saw Chen Yuanzhen walking towards him, and quickly walked up to him.

"Boss," she walked up to Chen Yuanzhen and was about to take out a document from her handbag to give her, but Chen Yuanzhen held her hand reaching for the handbag just in time.

She raised her head to meet Chen Yuanzhen's eyes, and released her hand that was already holding the document in time.

Only then did Chen Yuanzhen laugh, and she pointed to the door of the building, asking her to go home with her.

When the two arrived at Chen Yuanzhen's apartment together, Chen Yuanzhen turned on the light in the living room, and then said, "Put your things there," she said, taking off her coat and throwing it aside, and then untied the two sides of her shirt. With a button in his hand, he flicked his hair and asked, "What would you like to drink? You're not driving, are you? How about a cold beer?"

Special Assistant Liao carefully placed the document on the coffee table, she turned around and said to Chen Yuanzhen, "Although I didn't drive, I can't drink cold beer..."

Chen Yuanzhen froze for a moment, then smiled regretfully as if remembering something.

"I forgot that Liao Te is helping you to prepare for pregnancy." She put the can of cold beer back into the refrigerator as she said, and after closing the door of the refrigerator, she asked from the kitchen, "How about the black tea?"

Assistant Liao was about to decline, but Chen Yuanzhen was already busy making tea.

She had no choice but to sit on the sofa and wait for Chen Yuanzhen.

After about five or six minutes, Chen Yuanzhen came out of the kitchen with a cup of black tea.She put the black tea in front of Special Assistant Liao, and then picked up the documents on the coffee table to examine them carefully.

She flipped through her hands, her eyes quickly scanning the neatly arranged characters on the document. Suddenly, Chen Yuanzhen's eyes froze like a scanning machine, and she squinted her eyes and read it carefully again.

She turned her head and glanced at Assistant Liao, and then at the document.After making sure that he read it correctly, Chen Yuanzhen curled up his mouth and smiled.

"Is everything on the document true?" she asked.

Assistant Liao nodded, she put down the teacup, stood up and said, "I can assure you."

Chen Yuanzhen forced the smile on her face, she closed the document and sat on the sofa.

"Tell me, what reward do you want?"

"Eh?"

Chen Yuanzhen raised Erlang's legs, "I'll give you a chance to hit me big, what do you want?"

Liao Tezhu was a little puzzled for a while. Although Chen Yuanzhen was very generous to herself, what she did today was her duty. She didn't understand why Chen Yuanzhen suddenly planned to reward herself.

Is there really no place to spend money?

Chen Yuanzhen glanced at the bewildered Liao Tezhu. She actually didn't understand why she was so happy.

"I reward you for thinking slowly. But Special Assistant Liao," Chen Yuanzhen said sternly, "Only you and I can see the information about Ji Cixi from today on, understand?"

"Then...that Ji Ciwen...?"

"Anyone else," Chen Yuanzhen lowered his eyelashes, "you can't hide it."

Special Assistant Liao understood Chen Yuanzhen's meaning and nodded, and Chen Yuanzhen told her some details and asked her to go home and rest first.

After seeing Special Assistant Liao off, Chen Yuanzhen threw herself on the sofa, and she put the document in front of her eyes again.

"I just said that guy's eyes on men...can't be that bad."

Her eyes were fixed on Ji Cixi's college photo, she looked younger than now, but her expressionless face remained the same.

And at the bottom of that photo is a group photo of Ji Ciwen and Chen Yuanyang.