“Everyone go to the conference room next door to discuss first, I’ll be back in ten minutes.” Shan Qihuan reacted quickly and directly ordered the persons in charge to leave the office first.
Although he hasn’t been with Shen Yuhan for a long time, but in the past two days, he had heard Shen Yuhan call him ‘Husband’ in different tones, but he had never heard this tone just now, he immediately felt something was wrong, looking at his pale face and distracted eyes, it was even more clear that he was really frightened by the nightmare, and also frightened quite a bit.
The subordinates filed out one by one, everyone had guessed that the person coming out of the lounge was the boss’s wife, they didn’t dare to linger any longer.
They couldn’t help but sigh, it turns out that the relationship between the boss and the boss’s wife is so good, the way he was called was also so intimate, it was surprising to see that the boss was actually so affectionate.
Shan Qihuan walked up to Shen Yuhan, and his tall figure just blocked the sight of others, blocking Shen Yuhan.
At this time, Shen Yuhan also came back to his senses from that brief nightmare.
Everything in the dream was something he had actually experienced, it was so real that when he woke up, he couldn’t tell whether it was a dream or reality, so he ran out stupidly, for a moment, his hands were no longer hands, and his feet were no longer feet, everything was still too unfamiliar.
Shan Qihuan’s cool hand rested on his forehead: “Not feeling well?”
“No.” Shen Yuhan gradually recovered, the cold sweat on his forehead was gone, but he was still very scared, his bare feet were seen by others, he was almost crying. “I, I didn’t wear any shoes…”
Still care about being seen with his feet bare.
There has always been an unwritten rule in the Qi Kingdom, no matter whether it is a woman or a ger, their feet should not be exposed, and cannot be easily seen by men, if they are seen, they will be scolded for being immoral, which means they are no longer innocent, no matter who sees it, the family will betroth the woman or ger to the man who saw their feet, if they are lucky, they will be a wife, if they are miserable, they will be a concubine.
Except for Shan Qihuan, Shen Yuhan’s feet had never been seen by another man, there were only two women in the group just now, and the others were all men!
Shan Qihuan looked at his pitiful appearance and couldn’t say heavy words, fearing that he would burst into tears the next second, so he said in a soft voice: “Then just put on your shoes.”
Is the nightmare so horrible?
Shen Yuhan obediently went into the lounge, found his shoes, and put on his socks and shoes.
He sniffed, holding back his tears.
Now is a modern society, both men and women can wear open-footed sandals, some people’s thighs are exposed, feet don’t seem to be that important, his worries are a bit unnecessary, he was just really frightened by the dream, he is innocent, and his husband doesn’t dislike him.
Shan Qihuan knew he was all right when he came out, but his nose was a little red, why does he love to cry so much?
Last time at the banquet, he didn’t even cry when he was scolded, he even pulled out a handful of the lady’s hair, it can’t be that he let the water from the swimming pool get into his eyes, and got the ability to cry whenever he wanted.
Is he really out of his mind?
Shan Qihuan poured him a glass of water and told him the next arrangement: “I’ll take you down later, the driver is waiting below.”
Shen Yuhan sat down, drank the warm water, and nodded: “Um.” He was still a little confused.
Shan Qihuan made an intercom call: “Bring the new access card to my office.”
Assistant Qu sent a new multi-functional high-level access card, which can access quite a few places, but none of them are confidential.
After Shen Yuhan drank the water, he was about to follow Shan Qihuan downstairs.
But when Shan Qihuan saw that his hands were empty when he was about to leave and asked: “Where’s your mobile phone? Did you bring it with you?”
Shen Yuhan felt in his pocket, only to remember that he put his mobile phone on the bedside table before going to bed, not too enthusiastic about it, he said in a muffled voice: “I put it on the bedside table.”
“All right, I’ll get it, so careless1毛手毛腳 (máo shǒu máo jiǎo): carelessly and haphazardly; be flurried in movement; careless and not meticulous in doing things..” It’s unknown how this person grew up, he’s so forgetful and always leaving things behind2丟三落四 (diū sān là sì): lit. drops threes and leaves out fours; be forgetful and always leaving things behind; be forgetful/scatter-brained; be careless and sloppy; describes a person who is forgetful or ’empty-headed’., it’s no wonder he’s so disliked.
Listening to Shan Qihuan’s voice, Shen Yuhan’s heart gradually calmed down.
When Shan Qihuan came out with his mobile phone, he also took a cross-body bag given by a friend and handed it to Shen Yuhan: “Carry it on your back, the mobile phone is inside.”
Shen Yuhan had never used such a bag before, he didn’t know how to carry it, so he just carried it in his hand, his husband was very considerate, even gave him a bag: “Thank you, Husband.”
Shan Qihuan is now becoming more and more accustomed to Shen Yuhan’s address for him.
It takes others twenty-eight days to form a habit, but he adapted to other people’s habits in two days.
Originally, Shan Qihuan wanted Shen Yuhan to go down by himself, but seeing that he is in low spirits now, he simply sent him down, anyway, he didn’t know why when he came to his senses, he was already in the elevator.
When closing the car door, Shan Qihuan said to Shen Yuhan: “Call me if you need anything, go back by yourself in the evening.”
Shen Yuhan nodded, his mood has gradually turned around under his husband’s attentive care: “I understand.”
He gave Shan Qihuan a shallow smile.
Shan Qihuan wanted to reach out his hand and touch his face, but in the end he rationally closed the car door for Shen Yuhan.
He thought, he’s afraid he’s stupid, he was actually mesmerized by Shen Yuhan’s smile.
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In less than ten minutes, the whole company had spread the news that the big boss was particularly fond of his wife.
Assistant Qu also accidentally saw it in a company gossip group he lurked in, looking back on his boss’s behavior of buying a mobile phone, could it be that the boss is playing a big game of chess and wants to take advantage of the property in Shen Yuhan’s hands? But the company’s recent turnover is still normal, and the bank loan is also going smoothly.
The boss has always been a person who doesn’t get up early for no profit, it looks like there is a profit to be made3有利可圖 (yǒu lì kě tú): to have good prospects of gain; to stand to grain; to be profitable..
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Under the arrangement of Shan Qihuan, Shen Yuhan returned to painting and calligraphy training program, carrying a small bag containing a mobile phone, and Shan Qihuan’s company access card, on the way here, he saw a billboard advertising relevant to the bags, and then he knew how to carry it.
The lady at the front desk told him which classroom the afternoon painting class was in: “You come with me.”
Shen Yuhan stopped thinking about the mountain bandits, and tried to divert his attention to learn about hard-tipped pen calligraphy course from the receptionist lady.
“I want to practice hard-tipped pen calligraphy, can I adjust the course?”
“Of course you can, you are a VIP member, you can take any course you want, do you want to take one-to-one or one-to-many classes?”
“One to many.” He can observe people’s behavior and speech from a close distance.
“You have three calligraphy classes this week, which one do you want to switch to the hard-tipped pen calligraphy class? Or do you want to add another one?”
“There’s no need to add extra classes, just switch to two hard-tipped pen calligraphy classes and one calligraphy class.” He still has other classes to attend.
“Okay, I’ll make arrangements for you right away.”
The Chinese painting class is a class of five to ten people, when Shen Yuhan came to the classroom, there was only one person in the classroom, an old grandmother in her sixties, when she saw Shen Yuhan come in, she greeted him with a smile, Shen Yuhan received the kindness of a stranger.
There was no one in the classroom, so the grandmother talked to Shen Yuhan.
Mostly, the grandmother asked questions, and Shen Yuhan was answering.
“Little handsome brother, why did you come to learn Chinese painting? It’s very different, there are very few young people who like Chinese painting.”
“It’s okay.” Facing the grandmother’s enthusiasm, Shen Yuhan was relatively shy.
“Have you ever learned it before?”
“Learned a little bit.”
“Your accent doesn’t sound like a local.”
“Sort of, my family lives here.”
“What a beautiful young man, do you have a partner? My granddaughter goes to college in Beijing Normal University, and she is about your age, you see, this is a photo of my granddaughter…”
“I have someone.”
“…”
The conversation came to an abrupt end4戛然而止 (jiá rán ér zhǐ): with a grunting sound it stops (idiom); to come to an end spontaneously (esp. of sound); (especially of a sound) to stop abruptly..
At this time, several young people came into the classroom, two women and one man, who seemed to know each other.
Sitting next to Shen Yuhan was an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl, wearing ripped jeans, and chewing gum.
With the presence of girls in the classroom, Shen Yuhan finally felt more comfortable, and doesn’t feel so suffocated.
This class didn’t just start today, Shen Yuhan was kind of inserted halfway through, but it didn’t matter, he had a foundation in ink painting, for him, ink wash painting5水墨畫 (shuǐ mò huà): (painting) ink wash painting is a type of Chinese ink brush painting which uses washes of black ink, such as that used in East Asian calligraphy, in different concentrations. It emerged during the Tang dynasty of China (618–907), and overturned earlier, more realistic techniques. It is typically monochrome, using only shades of black, with a great emphasis on virtuoso brushwork and conveying the perceived “spirit” or “essence” of a subject over direct imitation. was just a way for him to cultivate his temperament.
The teacher taught them how to draw shrimps in this class, Shen Yuhan drew several shrimps with a few casual strokes, and then formed a painting.
After seeing Shen Yuhan’s shrimp, the award-winning teacher silently put away his works displayed on the stage, and said with a stiff smile that the painting was really good.
Shen Yuhan said that the teacher has overpraised.
The girl next to him couldn’t finish a single shrimp for a long time, and the teacher stayed away from Shen Yuhan to guide the grandma who kept asking questions.
When Shen Yuhan was looking at what he could add to his painting, the girl next to him came over and asked: “Hello, handsome brother, your shrimp painting is very good, can you teach me?”
Shen Yuhan thought to himself, the other party had come at the right time: “Okay, I will teach you how to draw shrimps, can you do me a favor too?”
The girl glanced at Shen Yuhan and smiled: “Okay.”
After Shen Yuhan guided her with a few strokes, the girl drew a picture, she also took the initiative to say that her name was Lin Meng.
Perhaps because he was facing a girl, Shen Yuhan felt more natural and talked more than in the morning.
During the break, Shen Yuhan asked her how to use the mobile phone.
Probably because Shen Yuhan’s accent didn’t sound like a local, Lin Meng just thought that he might have been living overseas, his Chinese wasn’t very good, as for why he didn’t know how to use a mobile phone, she didn’t ask much, she also taught him to register a WeChat account, and the two of them even added each other WeChat.
In one afternoon, Shen Yuhan learned how to use Siri, scan and add friends using WeChat, and also knew how to send words and emoticons, follow WeChat official account, and download social software such as search software, news software and other social software on his mobile phone.
After returning home in the evening, Shen Yuhan sat on the sofa and asked Siri to search for how to use WeChat, he also had a great time playing it, and opened up a new world, it was really fun, and everything was available.
And now he can start to seriously understand history, what happened to Qi Kingdom in the end?
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At eight o’clock in the evening, the car lights came on outside the floor-to-ceiling window, he heard the sound of wheels rolling over the ground, he put on his slippers and went to open the door.
Shan Qihuan, who came back smelling of alcohol, saw Shen Yuhan’s smiling face, and the unpleasantness he encountered while socializing dissipated a lot.
Shen Yuhan naturally took over his briefcase: “Husband, you’re back.”
Shan Qihuan said a single tone, he had drunk too much tonight: “Um.”
The two of them entered the house one after another, Shan Qihuan drank baijiu6白酒 (bái jiǔ): lit. white (clear) liquor; baijiu (distilled liquor), is a colorless Chinese liquor typically coming in between 35% and 60% alcohol by volume (ABV)., and his head felt a little uncomfortable, so he sat on the sofa to rest, the sound of advertisements came from the TV, but he actually didn’t feel irritated.
Shen Yuhan put aside Shan Qihuan’s briefcase and poured him a glass of water: “Husband, drink some water.”
“Thank you.” Shan Qihuan drank the water and handed him the glass of water, then he met Shen Yuhan’s bright eyes.
He was able to interpret the information revealed in Shen Yuhan’s eyes in two days: “What’s up?”
Shen Yuhan picked up the mobile phone on the table, sat next to Shan Qihuan, couldn’t hide his excitement and said: “Husband, I want to add you on WeChat.”
Shan Qihuan reached out his hand and opened his own QR code for him to scan: “Add it.” Turns out he didn’t think of adding him at noon? His good mood rose a little more.
When Shen Yuhan was learning how to use the mobile phone during the day, it was Lin Meng who used his account to add hers, and demonstrated it for him, now is the first time that Shen Yuhan learns how to add friends on his own.
Shan Qihuan is the first friend he really added added by himself, and this is his husband.
However, he hadn’t learned how to use the input method yet, so he didn’t change the note for Shan Qihuan, instead, Shan Qihuan changed the note for him.
The liquor he drank tonight was a bit heavy, so he didn’t think much about it and subconsciously typed the word in the note box with his fingers.
——Wife7老婆 (lǎo pó): (colloquial) wife; (Internet slang, ACG, neologism) waifu..
The same as ‘Husband’ SYH usually call SQH, ‘Wife’ is also an affectionate way a husband call their wife, it can be translated as wifey, honey, dear, and so on.