yournovel Chapter 294 Then it's decided, just like that!
Chapter 294 Then it's decided, just like that!
Chapter 294 Then it's decided, just like that!
The clock hands moved slowly and steadily, step by step, until it reached noon.
The blazing sun poured its light into every corner of the office, making even the finest dust particles in the air clearly visible.
After a busy morning of work, Yu Huan was finally able to relax and lean back in her chair.
He took his hands off the keyboard and mouse, moved his slightly stiff wrists a little, and a look of relief involuntarily appeared on his face.
Having been used to slacking off, he found it quite exhausting to have all his work crammed into just three hours.
Yu Huan let out a long breath, reached for her phone next to the mousepad, and turned on the screen to take a look.
He was so focused on meeting the deadline that he didn't even notice his wife sending him a WeChat message.
After entering the password to unlock, I glanced at it briefly:
'Honey, we've come to find you.'
The message was sent twenty minutes ago.
He picked up the black magic glass and drank some cold water, thinking he needed to finish things quickly and wrap things up.
Without the slightest hesitation, he picked up the internal telephone on the table, his fingers flying across the keys as he expertly dialed the number.
The call was answered quickly.
Yu Huan got straight to the point: "Chen Yaoyao, come to my office for a moment."
A crisp and efficient reply came from the other end of the phone: "Okay, I'll be right there!"
"Ah."
Yu Huan put down the phone and began to organize a small stack of documents on the table, putting them into the cabinet.
There was a sudden, gentle knock on the door, and he quickly raised his voice to say, "Please come in."
After receiving permission, Chen Yaoyao pushed open the door and walked in.
With her usual gentle smile, her gaze first fell on Yu Huan, who was wearing a wool sweater.
I saw Brother Yu slowly pouring water from a black mug into the cactus next to the computer screen.
Chen Yaoyao walked to the desk, clasped her hands in front of her, and leaned forward slightly, looking respectfully waiting for instructions.
Yu Huan glanced at her and, seeing her professional working-class demeanor, couldn't help but suppress a smile.
Where did you learn all these techniques?
Yu Huan's gaze returned to the lush cactus, watching the water flowing from the tilted cup gradually seep into the soil, and she said softly:
"Chen Yaoyao, I have some things to do this afternoon and need to leave early. I'll leave things to you to manage. There are a few important tasks that I need you to keep an eye on. I've sent the specifics and points to note to your work email. Before you leave work, please hold a short routine meeting for everyone."
Upon hearing this, Chen Yaoyao's eyes widened slightly.
After a moment of surprise, a feeling of tension and excitement surged up like a tidal wave.
Should we have her lead a meeting?
But Chen Yaoyao quickly regained her composure, her expression instantly freezing as she looked earnestly at Yu Huan and said, "Brother Yu, don't worry, I will definitely do my best!"
Upon hearing this title, Yu Huan subconsciously glanced at the bottom right corner of the screen.
It was indeed three minutes past twelve.
Little Potato timed it pretty well.
Yu Huan put down the empty cup, stood up, reached for the jacket hanging on the back of the chair, and said as she put on her clothes:
"This is also a great opportunity for you to learn. If you encounter any problems that you can't solve, feel free to call me anytime."
Chen Yaoyao nodded emphatically: "Brother Yu, you can go ahead and do your work without worry. I will report to you immediately if anything happens!"
"Alright, then I'll leave this to you. Go ahead and do it, and let me know if anything comes up." Yu Huan opened the drawer, picked up a pair of sunglasses, put them on his nose, and then walked towards the door.
Seeing this, Chen Yaoyao quickly followed suit and said, "No problem, Brother Yu, I wish you all the best this afternoon!"
Yu Huan smiled lightly without turning her head.
This little potato probably thought he had encountered some kind of emergency?
Yu Huan rushed to the elevator and looked at the thronging crowd.
The new media department now has more than 20 people, and one elevator can't even hold them all, not to mention the cunning employees on the lower floors who always try to take their spots when the elevator goes up.
He decisively chose to take the stairs.
Although they hadn't called to urge him yet, Yu Huan felt that they were definitely waiting for him downstairs.
As Yu Huan strode down the stairs, she quickly reached into her jacket pocket and grabbed the ear loop of her mask.
After taking out the mask, he deftly unfolded it with one hand and quickly put it on his face.
It was lunchtime, and there weren't many people gathered in the stairwell.
Yu Huan moved with lightning speed and quickly reached the first floor.
He calmed his slightly rapid breathing, quickly weaved through the crowd, and strode towards the main entrance in the lobby.
After going outside, I stood by the flower bed, staring directly at the sun high in the sky without any hesitation, and put my phone to my ear.
I made a phone call to my wife.
A few moments.
The soothing ringtone stopped abruptly.
A sweet, gentle voice came through the receiver: "Hello, darling, have you come downstairs yet?"
Hearing Lin Yourong's slightly strained voice, Yu Huan couldn't help but smile slightly.
Basking in the sunlight, I leisurely looked around the front square and said with a smile, "Honey, I didn't see you guys at the flower bed by the entrance?"
"Hmm... We waited for a while but didn't hear from you, so we thought you were busy and went to find a place to make a reservation..."
"How so?" Yu Huan looked up at the sky, the intense light becoming incredibly soft under the filter of his sunglasses.
"Chengcheng wants to eat hot pot. There's a Sichuan-Chongqing hot pot restaurant not far to the left of the Zaobao building, right?"
Without hesitation, Yu Huan replied, "I know! If you're driving, I'll come over."
"I drove here, we just arrived at this store. Take your time, there's no rush."
"Oh, see you later." Yu Huan withdrew her gaze from studying the outline of the sun, hung up the phone, and put her phone back in her pocket.
I walked slowly across the front square, following the tactile paving under the shade of the trees.
A gentle breeze blew, the sun shone brightly, and Yu Huan felt utterly content.
He glanced at the WeChat message his wife had sent him on the way and mumbled, "Room 07."
Upon arriving at his destination, he saw a BMW parked on the roadside and immediately resorted to his old trick, paying at the cashier first.
After counting out four red bills, the money detector made a "whoosh" sound as it processed the bills. I received a fifty-yuan change and was then led by a waiter through the hall filled with the rich aroma of hot pot broth to a corridor leading to the inner room.
The shop is doing fairly well. The walls are painted with brightly colored Sichuan opera masks, and the tables and chairs are arranged compactly but not in a cluttered way.
More than half of the customers were seated, making the restaurant quite noisy.
Nameplates are hung on the doors on both sides of the corridor.
After confirming the private room, Yu Huan immediately took the doorknob and pushed open the door.
The private room wasn't big, probably only six or seven square meters.
The first thing you see is Yu Songnian, a big, burly man, sitting close to the back of his chair, head bowed, eyes fixed on the bubbling hot pot. He looks very docile, like a quail.
Approaching.
It shows two figures wearing hats from behind.
Yu Songnian heard the sound and looked up to see who it was.
Despite the person wearing a mask and sunglasses, he recognized him instantly from his build and demeanor as his older cousin, Yu Huan.
He instantly relaxed and greeted Huan-ge with a big smile!
"Hey." Yu Huan closed the door behind her, took off her mask and stuffed it back into her pocket, taking a deep breath of the rich, spicy aroma.
Looking at the faintly running exhaust fan directly above Yu Songnian, there was only a small window covered with a paper-cut window decoration, which was obviously not meant to be opened.
He couldn't help but joke, "After we finish this hot pot meal, we'll probably all turn into walking hot pot broth. Wherever we go, the smell of the broth will waft over!"
Yu Chengcheng turned her head and said humorously, "Brother Huan, that's the effect we wanted, to make everyone drool just from the smell!"
At the small long table for four, his little cousin took up his 'husband's seat'.
Yu Huan smiled and could only turn sideways to pass by the cart full of various dishes, and sat down next to Yu Songnian.
Lin Yourong, holding a small dish full of condiments, stood up slightly and handed it to Yu Huan: "Here, Chengcheng made this for you."
"okay."
Yu Huan took off her sunglasses and casually placed them on the edge of a table. After taking them, she said something in English to Yu Chengcheng:
"Three grams of oil."
Yu Chengcheng was secretly amused as she observed Yu Songnian, who seemed incredibly relaxed as soon as Yu Huan arrived. Upon hearing this, she casually replied, "Too much."
"Yoshi!" Yu Huan nodded slightly.
Lin Yourong was throwing potato noodles into the clear broth of the hot pot when she noticed the two men's strange, unorthodox way of communicating, which made her burst out laughing.
Looking at his wife, whose smile was captivating, Yu Huan keenly noticed that she was wearing light makeup today, showing off her bright white teeth, and asked casually, "What's so funny?"
Lin Yourong coughed slightly and said with a serious tone, "I remembered something happy."
Yu Huan shrugged, took off his jacket, hung it on the back of the chair, and then picked up long chopsticks to start eating.
But it seems a bit quiet around here?
He glanced at Yu Songnian, who was sitting properly beside him.
This youngest brother is usually the fastest and most eager to eat, but now that everyone is here, he hasn't even started eating yet, which is really not like him.
Yu Huan patted his younger brother's fleshy, firm thigh and teased, "Song Nian, why are you being so reserved today? Why aren't you eating? Have you been frozen in place?"
Yu Chengcheng jokingly chimed in, "He was intimidated by Sister You Rong's superstar aura and got a little nervous."
Yu Songnian, whose sore spot was hit by repeated teasing, blushed with shame.
I am indeed a little nervous!
Just a moment ago, we were discussing Lin Su and listening to her songs.
The next moment they were face to face, and he was caught off guard to find out that the female celebrity on TV was actually his sister-in-law whom he had never met before!
God knows how bewildered he was by this dramatic turn of events; it was already a miracle he didn't embarrass himself.
Yu Songnian glanced at Lin Yourong's amused face, gave an embarrassed dry laugh, and then said to Yu Huan, "No, no, sister-in-law is so kind—I was just waiting for you to start eating first, Huan-ge!"
Yu Huan nodded and said seriously, "I understand. You're just pretending to be refined so as not to leave a rude impression on the female celebrity."
Yu Songnian's thick fingers were pinching relatively slender chopsticks when he heard this, and a dark rain cloud drifted over his head.
They were immediately speechless with embarrassment.
My family members are really sweating bullets because that hit the nail on the head.
Lin Yourong kicked Yu Huan lightly under the table: "What nonsense are you talking about? Stop joking with Song Nian—"
The words had barely left his mouth when...
Unexpectedly, Yu Huan reacted quickly, closing her legs together and trapping the foot that Yu Huan was kicking at her.
Lin Yourong glared at him for a moment, paused, and continued, "Everyone, hurry up and eat, or the food will get overcooked!"
Say it.
He pulled his foot out from between Yu Huan's calves, gave him a light kick, and then hurriedly withdrew it.
"Sister You Rong, I'm going all out!" Yu Chengcheng put a piece of mutton into her mouth with her chopsticks and wiped the juice that had overflowed from the corner of her mouth with a tissue.
Lin Yourong felt the stinky man following her like a leech, pulling her legs together and then clamping them between his legs...
On the surface, she casually picked up some baby bok choy from the pot, but inwardly she smiled with a hint of delight and asked, "Chengcheng, Songnian, what do you think of this hot pot?"
"Okay." Yu Songnian, whose name was called, looked up and responded.
As Yu Chengcheng chewed, she said with a grin, "I've finally gotten to eat the hot pot I've been craving."
Yu Huan looked at Lin Yourong, who exuded the air of an older sister, with a hint of surprise.
With such ease and composure, why would he need to bring his mother-in-law over as a savior?
This might be the first time I've experienced this situation. Before, I was just too worried to know what to do.
Yu Huan slightly raised his right leg, rubbed her calf, swallowed the mutton in his mouth, and asked, "Wife, what are the plans for this afternoon?"
Upon hearing this address, Yu Chengcheng's eyebrows immediately rose.
When my sister-in-law called me before, she called me "darling" in her voice, while Yu Ge called her "wife."
So sweet...
Completely unaware of the two people's little antics under the table, Yu Chengcheng couldn't help but show a maternal smile.
"Hmm... Chengcheng and I were discussing going to Yuelu Mountain or Orange Isle. Do you have any good recommendations?"
"I don't care."
Yu Huan turned to look at Yu Chengcheng, who was holding a watermelon in one hand and chopsticks in the other, and said with a smile, "Chengzi, you're the star today, where do you want to go?"
Yu Chengcheng's cheeks were bulging as she mumbled, "Anything is fine, as long as we go to karaoke at night."
Hear this.
Yu Huan recalled Yu Chengcheng's previous statement about "having my sister-in-law sing for me all night," and laughed as she made the decision: "There are no flowers to see on Orange Isle right now, so let's go hiking. We'll take the cable car up and walk down."
Upon hearing that they would be climbing a mountain, Yu Songnian remained silent, but as soon as he heard that they would be taking a cable car, he immediately raised his head and agreed, "I think it's a good idea!"
Yu Huan looked at the two women who were eating happily. They both nodded slightly, and then Yu Huan smiled and said, "Then it's decided!"
During the hot pot meal, Yu Songnian barely said a word, but he ate slowly and deliberately with Yu Huan until the very end.
The two of them drank the can of cola in sync.
Having eaten and drunk his fill, Yu Huan loosened his grip on Lin Yourong's legs and stood up first.
He draped his jacket over his arm, stretched comfortably, and uttered a single word: "Withdraw!"
Lin Yourong looked at the unserious Yu Huan and suppressed a smile: "You just finished eating, won't you sit for a while?"
Yu Songnian, who was about to get up, silently put his raised bottom down again upon hearing this.
Yu Huan pinched his sunglasses between his fingertips, walked around the trolley, bent down and brought his nose close to Lin Yourong's shoulder.
A faint, delicate body fragrance could be detected, along with the rich aroma of hot pot broth.
He sniffed the air and joked, "Let's not sit here anymore. If we sit any longer, the female celebrities will really get marinated!"
Lin Yourong, who was being teased, rolled her eyes and couldn't help but punch him on the shoulder.
Seeing this, Yu Chengcheng couldn't help but stand up and say, "This private room really isn't very well ventilated."
"Then let's go out first." Lin Yourong lowered her head slightly, tidied herself up, and slung her crossbody bag over her shoulder.
Yu Huan also put on a mask and sunglasses, and subconsciously intertwined her fingers with hers as she stood up, walking in front to open the door and go out.
Yu Chengcheng, who was a step behind, focused her gaze on those two hands and immediately clicked her tongue in disapproval.
To be honest, after seeing how they get along, I never imagined their relationship could be this good.
The private rooms are not ventilated, but they are very soundproof.
As soon as I stepped outside, I was greeted by a deafening cacophony of noise.
Yu Huan turned her head and whispered in Lin Yourong's ear, "I've already paid the bill."
"Oh." Lin Yourong nodded slightly.
(End of this chapter)