After Christmas, Shan Qihuan ushered in the busy period at the end of the year, at the same time, Shen Yuhan’s ‘old friends’ sent him invitations one after another, including Jiang Lao1老 (lǎo): T/N: In this particular use, this is used after the surname of an old person to address a venerable old person., who calls him directly to ask if he wants to see an opera2聽戲 (tīng xì): lit. listen to a play; to attend an opera; to see an opera; go to a traditional opera; refers to the art of listening to, watching and appreciating traditional Chinese drama performances. It generally refers to watching opera performances in temple fairs, theaters, teahouses, etc. in a narrow sense, and also broadly refers to all activities of watching and listening to opera performances..
See an opera?
Hearing this, Shen Yuhan’s eyebrows slightly raised, still can see an opera outside? He thought he could only see it on the traditional Chinese opera channel on TV.
Compared to the others, Jiang Lao had status and position, Shen Yuhan didn’t need to worry about anything when he went out to see the opera with him, When Jiang Lao asked him, he agreed decisively, there is no need to ask his husband first like when going out with Wen You and the others.
He likes to see the opera, this is an area he is familiar with.
After agreeing, Shen Yuhan told his husband and asked him if he wanted to go to see the opera.
Shan Qihuan heard that it was Old Man Jiang who invited his wife to see the opera, oh, it’s fine, go ahead.
The Old Men are his wife’s friends, so there is no need to be wary, as for the young men, he still needs to be more wary.
At this time, Shan Qihuan also realized that his wife also loved seeing the opera, if he didn’t cultivate this hobby at an early age, it would be difficult to develop it.
The day of the opera wasn’t a weekend, Shan Qihuan had something to do, so Shen Yuhan went to the teahouse where the opera was held alone.
Even though it was not a weekend, the teahouse was still very lively, with people coming in and out, Shen Yuhan asked the waiter to find the location of the private room, which was similar to the teahouses he had been to before, it was easy to recognize.
“Xiao Shen is finally here.” Old Master Jiang smiled pleasantly when he saw Shen Yuhan, “Sit down, sit down.”
“Uncle Jiang, long time no see.” Shen Yuhan presented a small homemade pastry, “This is the green tea cake3綠茶糕 (lǜ chá gāo): Green tea cake. 
I made myself, would you like to try it?”
“Oh? You still know how to do this?” Old Master Jiang opened the small paper bag, casually pinched a piece, and put it in his mouth, “Mmm, it’s delicious.”
Shen Yuhan smiled and said: “As long as you like it.” The old man has everything, and he has helped his husband, so naturally he wants to return the favor4投挑抱李 (tóu tiāo bào lǐ): T/N: May or may not be a typo for the idiom 投桃報李 (tóu táo bào lǐ), lit. toss a peach, get back a plum (idiom); to return a favor; give a plum in return for a peach—exchange gifts/favours; return present for present; you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours; From the Classic of Poetry, poem 256 (《詩經·大雅·抑》): 投我以桃，報之以李。, When one throws to me a peach, I return to him a plum..
“If you want to listen to any play, you can order it on the playlist, I’ve reserved the theater today, and I’ve invited some old friends to come over and see the opera.” Jiang Lao pinched another piece of pastry and put it into his mouth, when he paired it with tea, it tasted even more fragrant.
“It turns out you reserved the venue.” Shen Yuhan listened to the familiar singing voice on the stage, feeling as comfortable as Jiang Lao eating pastries.
“Nowadays, there are no young people who love to listen to the opera, Jiang Ruolin and Wen Yan don’t like to listen to it either, it was a rare occasion to call them here once, after listening for a while, they play with their mobile phones, which made me angry, I stopped calling them after that.” Jiang Lao complained to Shen Yuhan very seriously, meanwhile, Shen Yuhan had already seen the play that he wanted to listen to, so he also wrote a brief description of the play at the end of the playlist, making it clear at a glance.
“Then if you want to see an opera in the future, you can call me, I love listening to it.”
“That’s good.”
Shen Yuhan ordered a romance drama.
Just after ordering, someone came over to greet Jiang Lao, Shen Yuhan listened to the play carefully and didn’t turn his head, it was not until he picked up the teacup to drink tea that he saw the person clearly.
When the other party saw him, his pupils seemed to be shaking, and he immediately jumped up and said: “Shen Yuhan? Why are you here?”
Shen Yuhan didn’t remember who the other party was for a moment and was a little confused, his expression at the moment was simply insulting to the other party.
Jiang Lao was a bit dissatisfied with the other party’s questioning and said: “Xiao Shen is the friend I invited over to watch the play.”
The people who came were Jiang Tong and his grandfather, when his grandfather saw that his grandson had lost his face in front of his old friends, he patted him lightly, and said to Jiang Lao: “The child is not sensible, Lao Jiang, don’t care about the child, I see that this little friend looks a bit familiar.”
Jiang Tong’s grandfather also remembered Shen Yuhan, wasn’t this child the young man who won the first prize in calligraphy and painting last time?
“You’ve met before?”
“This little friend did well in the calligraphy and painting competition we held last time, so naturally I’ve seen him before.”
After the other party mentioned it, Shen Yuhan remembered, so it turned out that this was Jiang Tong who had a particularly foul mouth, Shen Yuhan didn’t want to talk to the other party, his mouth was too foul.
Jiang Tong’s grandfather also remembered what had happened that day, and after a few polite words with Jiang Lao, he dragged Jiang Tong away, so as not to continue to make a fool of himself5丟人現眼 (diū rén xiàn yǎn): to make a fool of oneself; to make oneself lose face; to make an exhibition of oneself; to be a disgrace..
“You won’t deal with it?” Jiang Lao wasn’t dim-sighted, Shen Yuhan did not show any respect to that young man and didn’t even bother to say anything.
Shen Yuhan mentioned casually: “There was a little verbal dispute.”
Jiang Lao could tell from his euphemistic expression that it was not simple, although he didn’t have much contact with Shen Yuhan, but playing Go is also about observing people, one can learn about the other person’s temperament from it, Xiao Shen has a calm temperament, and is generous, how could have a verbal dispute with people, that must be the other person’s problem.
“You just don’t associate with them in the future, Uncle will support you.”
“Thank you, Uncle.”
The two of them no longer mentioned Jiang Tong, both the grandfather and the grandchild, but continued to listen to the opera.
On the other hand, Jiang Tong, who returned to the opposite compartment, was furious: “Grandpa, what is the identity of the person beside Jiang Lao, Shen Yuhan?”
In the activities of the Painting and Calligraphy Association, he was highly regarded by the Liu family father and son, and now he encountered him again here, moreover, the person sitting opposite him turned out to be Jiang Lao, last time, he even sarcastically ridiculed Wen You in front of him.
Jiang Tong’s grandfather hated iron for not being steel and said: “I’ve told you before that the relationship between the wealthy and powerful circle is tangled and complicated, so you should restrain your temper! Didn’t you learn a lesson from the Painting and Calligraphy Association last time? You just had to behave a little better, so it won’t be difficult for Jiang Yanlin to remember you, now it’s great, you offend people as soon as you come up, I worry about you in vain.”
Where would Jiang Tong know how Shen Yuhan would appear, Jiang Lao also bluntly said that he invited him here, isn’t this flattering him?
Jiang Tong asked: “We’ve never heard of his name before, was there anyone named Shen in the circle of the wealthy and powerful?”
Jiang Tong’s grandfather shook his head: “Not really, do you still remember who came to pick him up that day?”
Jiang Tong: “Who?”
Jiang Tong’s grandfather: “The Shan family.”
Jiang Tong: “The Shan family? How did he get involved with the Shan family again?”
Jiang Tong’s grandfather: “You can ask here, there will always be someone in the younger generation who knows.”
Jiang Tong thought that the matter from last time was over, but he didn’t expect to be beaten by Shen Yuhan again here, he couldn’t swallow it, so he didn’t listen to the play, and immediately went to WeChat to ask friends within the same circle, asking them if they knew a person named Shen Yuhan.
One person said he knew Shen Yuhan, and then the other person told him about the glorious achievement of ‘Shen Yuhan’.
After hearing this, Jiang Tong was overjoyed, it turned out that he was not a young master from any family at all, but the ‘daughter-in-law’ of the Shan family, he dropped out of school after a fight, and even pursued Shan Qihuan’s half-brother, Shan Qiyun.
In the eyes of outsiders, the patriarch of the Shan family, Shan Tianfeng, has a romantic nature, so many people’s first reaction is that his sons are also romantic, Shen Yuhan was also entangled in a triangular relationship with the two sons of the Shan family, Jiang Tong immediately made up a great drama about the relationship between brother-in-law and sister-in-law, he wondered if Old Master Jiang knew about it or not.
He wanted to expose Shen Yuhan’s innocent mask.
Jiang Yanlin has invited a lot of old friends today, besides enjoying opera, he also likes calligraphy and painting.
Jiang Tong learns about this from Jiang Tong’s grandfather, so he asks the waiter to pass a note to their side.
On the note was a compliment about Shen Yuhan’s excellent calligraphy and painting, why not leave your beautiful handwriting here6墨寶 (mò bǎo): treasured scrolls of calligraphy or painting; valued pieces of calligraphy or painting; (polite) your beautiful handwriting.?
Jiang Lao was not surprised by the other party’s overt scheme, but he asked Shen Yuhan: “It is said here that your calligraphy is not bad?”
Shen Yuhan smiled modestly: “It’s just average, it’s hard to reach the level of elegance7大雅之堂 (dà yǎ zhī táng): lit. hall of great elegance; hall of grandeur and elegance; place of refined taste; great occasion; (figurative) formal and high-end occasion; refined taste; metaphor for high requirements and a perfect state; Derived from the idiom 不登大雅之堂 (bù dēng dà yǎ zhī táng), lit. not fit for elegant hall (of artwork); to be unrefined or unpresentable; to be too vulgar for polite company; to not appeal to refined tastes; unqualified to take its place in cultured circles; coarse and vulgar..”
Jiang Lao said: “Come on, write a few words for me.”
At this time, Jiang Tong and his grandfather were already waiting.
When Jiang Lao moved, his old friends also moved, they heard that there was a young man who wanted to offer characters to Jiang Lao, and it would be interesting to see who it was.
Listening to operas, and writing characters are both within Shen Yuhan’s familiar fields, so he doesn’t worry about it.
He changed his usual elegant style and chose a thick brush.
Only saw him gently holding the sleeve of his right hand with his left hand, writing a few big characters with his pen, his pen moved like flowing water, and his momentum was like a rainbow.
In the end, four words were formed on the paper: 海納百川 (All Rivers Run Into the Sea8海納百川 (hǎi nà bǎi chuān): all rivers run into the sea; the sea can accommodate the water of hundreds of rivers; use different means to obtain the same result (idiom).).
Jiang Tong and his grandfather’s expressions changed slightly, and their desire to stir up trouble suddenly stopped, was this an insinuation that they had small belly and chicken’s gut9小肚雞腸 (xiǎo dù jī cháng): lit. small belly, chicken’s gut (idiom); (figurative, of a person) narrow-minded; small-minded; petty.?
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In the evening, Shan Qihuan once again personally went to the teahouse to pick up Shen Yuhan to take him home.
As soon as Shen Yuhan got into the car, he took off the disguise of being overbearing, he handed his right hand to Shan Qihuan: “Honey, my hands are so sore.”
“How can you still feel sore after drinking tea and listening to a play?” Shan Qihuan glanced at him sideways, “What have you been doing?”
How could Shen Yuhan know that his husband’s thoughts were colorful: “Just now, a lot of uncles want me to write the characters, so I wrote several pieces, I’m tired, Honey, press it a little.”
Shan Qihuan rubbed his wrist and asked with a smile: “Did they give you any pocket money when you wrote for them?”
Shen Yuhan let out an ah: “No, but they all added me on WeChat, did I suffer a big loss?”
Shan Qihuan asked him: “Let me see who you’ve added.” He had to check to see if he’d added any messy people.
Shen Yuhan handed him the phone directly.
Shan Qihuan glanced down and saw a long list of familiar names, and then he fell silent: Wife, I’m sorry to bother you.
Seeing his subtle expression, Shen Yuhan thought that he had added someone he shouldn’t have added, and became nervous: “What’s wrong?”
Shan Qihuan sighed in his heart: “It’s nothing, you are great.”
After listening to a play, his wife gathered half of the connections he wanted, he suddenly felt that it was not good for him to learn how to do business, wasn’t it good to study music, chess, calligraphy, and painting? His life is obviously better than 90% of people, but compared with his wife, his life is on ten levels of difficulty.
After Shan Qihuan praised Shen Yuhan, he told him two pieces of news: “By the way, I have two pieces of news to tell you, one is that my father will have surgery the day after tomorrow, and we have to go to the hospital together the day after tomorrow.”
Shen Yuhan asked him: “What about the other one?”
Shan Qihuan pinched his slender wrist and said: “My eldest brother was diagnosed with liver disease, and was hospitalized, he may have to stay for a month, I have to handle the Shan family’s official business for him, so I will have less time to spend with you in the future.”
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