When Liu Zhishu sent the old man to the hospital and came back, Ding Yinan and Huo Zhixiao had already returned to the county.
There were not many recreational activities in the small county town. After the two of them had dinner and returned to the hotel room, Ding Yinan took out a book from the suitcase and sat on the bedside to read to pass the time.
Huo Zhixiao glanced at it casually and asked, “Rural architectural design?”
“Yes.” Ding Yinan said, “Just curious.”
There were almost no bestsellers book on Ding Yinan’s bookshelf, and very few literary works. He only reads reference books according to his own needs. For example, in order to master Huo Zhixiao’s dressing taste, he subscribed to men’s clothing magazines for half a year.
The advantage of this was that he could quickly grasp the information he needed and make up for the shortcomings in his knowledge as quickly as possible.
Huo Zhixiao on the other side also took out the geological data of Sanyang Village and spread them all on the bed. He himself sat in the middle and took whichever one he needed.
There was no problem between the two of them, each focusing on the words in their hands. This was the most ideal state in Ding Yinan’s mind. To be honest, although he wasn’t worried that Huo Zhixiao would do anything out of the ordinary, but with Huo Zhixiao’s unpredictable temperament, he might come up with some pranks to torment him.
However, this ideal state was finally interrupted by a thunderclap. As more and more raindrops hit the window, it gradually began to rain heavily outside the window.
Before Ding Yinan set off, he checked the weather forecast, and there would be heavy rain in this area tonight. He went to the window and drew the curtains, then asked Huo Zhixiao who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, “When do you want to take a shower?”
Huo Zhixiao straightened his back and stretched, looked at his watch and said, “Now.”
After finishing speaking, he stepped out of bed and walked straight to the bathroom.
Ding Yinan quickly realized that something was wrong, he stopped Huo Zhixiao and said, “Don’t you take change clothes in?”
Huo Zhixiao stopped and looked back at him: “I always change after I come out.” He acted as if it was a matter of course, without considering the current situation of the two of them at all.
Without saying a word, Ding Yinan walked to Huo Zhixiao’s suitcase, took out his change of clothes and pushed them on his chest, and said in a businesslike way: “Please change in it before you come out.”
Then he took out Huo Zhixiao’s toiletries and stuffed them into his hands: “Small hotels in this kind of place won’t provide you with disposable items.”
Huo Zhixiao took what Ding Yinan gave him, and said with a smile: “It’s not like you haven’t seen it before.”
Of course, Ding Yinan had seen it, even the most intimate parts, but it didn’t mean he wanted to see it again. He didn’t answer, but Huo Zhixiao raised his eyebrows and asked, “How about washing together?”
Ding Yinan knew it was a joke, so he simply pretended not to hear it, sat back on the bed and picked up the “Rural Architecture Design”.
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Ding Yinan waited for a while, and when he saw that it was almost time, he took the toiletries and a change of clothes and went to the bathroom. He also locked the bathroom door just in case.
He thought there would be no accidents after taking a bath, but as soon as Ding Yinan put the bath lotion on his body, he heard a loud “boom” of thunder outside the house, and immediately the surroundings were plunged into darkness.
There were no windows in the bathroom, and the lack of light means darkness. Human beings were born with a physiological fear of the dark, otherwise they would not use this term in a derogatory sense.
Ding Yinan flushed twice casually, turned off the faucet, wrapped a towel around his waist, and went outside the bathroom.
At this time, Huo Zhixiao just opened the curtains, and saw that the street outside was also pitch black, with only the faint moonlight barely illuminating the outline of the house.
Huo Zhixiao withdrew his gaze, looked at Ding Yinan and said, “The power is out.”
Ding Yinan couldn’t help having a headache, why did he encounter such a crap while taking a shower?
In the hallway outside came the chatter of the city leader who directed agricultural development, who stayed a few rooms down below. At this time, Ding Yinan heard the voice of the hotel owner again through the door panel. He was explaining to several leaders that the transformer was struck by lightning and the entire county was cut off.
In this case, the light will only be back after the transformer was repaired tomorrow. Ding Yinan suddenly thought that the hot water stored in the water heater might cool down soon, so he put aside the power outage for the time being, and planned to wash himself clean first.
He turned and went back to the bathroom, but didn’t hear the boss outside the door add that there were diesel generators in the hotel.
The small space was too dark, this time Ding Yinan only half closed the bathroom door.
He thought to himself that even if Huo Zhixiao came to the door of the bathroom, he could only see a vague black shadow. He was not so hypocritical, and he cares about this matter.
However, although Ding Yinan had calculated everything, he didn’t calculate that the light would lit up after washing the foam on his body.
He froze for a moment, then subconsciously looked back to the door. Huo Zhixiao probably wanted to go outside the door to see what was going on, so he happened to be standing at the door of the bathroom. The eyes of the two met so impartially.
The air was silent for a second, Ding Yinan immediately pulled the towel around his waist, and then walked to the door in two steps, trying to close the door that was ajar. But at this moment, Huo Zhixiao suddenly supported the door frame with one hand, and slammed the other hand on the door panel.
“Why hasn’t it disappeared yet?” Huo Zhixiao asked without beginning or end.
His eyes slowly swept across Ding Yinan’s steamy skin, as if it was tightly glued to it.
“What?” Ding Yinan didn’t understand what Huo Zhixiao said.
“Slap print.”
Hearing this, Ding Yinan immediately understood that Huo Zhixiao was talking about the marks left on his butt that night. He was a little annoyed, and said in a bad tone: “You pinched too hard.” Then he slammed the bathroom door.
Huo Zhixiao outside the door smiled lightly and said, “Then I’ll be lighter next time.”
That tone, as if there is really a next time.
Ding Yinan took a deep breath with a headache, he didn’t want to go out right away, just as the hot water in the water heater hadn’t run out, he washed in the bathroom for a while, and didn’t come out until the warm water gradually turned cold.
The heavy rain outside the window showed no sign of stopping, and the generator downstairs was still humming, which disturbed Ding Yinan, who was still unable to sleep peacefully.
He glanced at Huo Zhixiao who was lying on another single bed, and saw that he hardly turned over and his breathing was relatively steady, which showed that this old man had perfectly adapted to the environment here.
But to be precise, the reason why Huo Zhixiao was able to fall asleep so quickly was largely because in his eyes, sleeping is the biggest thing in the world.
When Ding Yinan started working, Huo Zhixiao always went to the office after eleven o’clock in the morning. Huo Xun’s first request to Ding Yinan is to ensure that his son will be on duty before ten o’clock.
——Actually, the normal working hours were nine o’clock, but Huo Xun doesn’t expect Huo Zhixiao to get up after eight o’clock.
Later Ding Yinan discovered that Huo Zhixiao didn’t have a sense of time, as long as he didn’t remind him, Huo Zhixiao would often forget the time.
So he came up with a way to come one minute earlier every day. After two months of persistence, he successfully brought Huo Zhixiao’s wake-up time up to eight o’clock.
When Huo Zhixiao realized why he got up so early, his biological clock was already used to getting up at this time, and he was just upset for a while, but he didn’t blame Ding Yinan in the end.
Ding Yinan was unconsciously thinking about things at work, but just as he was about to fall asleep in a daze, he heard a faint sound.
Slap.
Another sound. This time Ding Yinan heard it clearly, it was the sound of water droplets.
Huo Zhixiao next to him was obviously also affected by the sound. He sat up and turned on the light in the room, then touched his forehead, looked towards the ceiling, and said with disbelief: “Water leak?”
Ding Yinan followed Huo Zhixiao’s gaze, and saw water stains on the white wall of the ceiling, and there were signs of continuous dripping. He immediately turned over and got out of bed, and said to Huo Zhixiao, “I’m going to find the boss.”
Within five minutes, Ding Yinan came up with the boss. The boss glanced at the leaky ceiling, said “wait for me”, then returned to the first floor and brought up a bucket.
Next, Ding Yinan felt a little suffocated by the boss’ actions.
He dragged out the bedside table between the two single beds, moved it to the corner of the room, then pushed Ding Yinan’s single bed to the wall next to the bathroom, and then pushed Huo Zhixiao’s single bed ——
Together with Ding Yinan’s single bed.
Away from the leak point perfectly.
“There is something wrong with this room.” The boss put the bucket under the leak point, and patted the ashes on his hands as if he was done. “I’m sorry but the two masters will have to bear it for tonight. We don’t have any other rooms.”
Ding Yinan really wanted to ask from the bottom of his heart: Is this your only solution?
But if Ding Yinan was to deal with this problem, he couldn’t handle it better than the boss for a while.
Huo Zhixiao looked at the two single beds pushed together, seemed to find it funny, suppressed the smile on the corner of his mouth and said: “Thank you, boss.”
“No need for thank you.” The boss waved his hand, “Then I’ll go down first.”
Two single beds lay quietly there, forming a large bed. Huo Zhixiao neatly lay down again, looked at Ding Yinan with a stiff expression and said, “Secretary Ding, don’t you want to sleep?”
Ding Yinan slowed down for a while, and then he got rid of the suffocation. His single bed was pressed against the wall, and he could no longer get into bed from the side, so he had to climb up from the bottom.
However, the action of “climbing the bed” itself has an ambiguous effect, Ding Yinan didn’t dare to look at Huo Zhixiao’s eyes, and crawled back into his bed without looking sideways.
After the quilt was covered, he didn’t know what he was worried about, and reminded Huo Zhixiao behind him: “It’s very uncomfortable to sleep in the middle seam.” So don’t you crawl over here.
But Huo Zhixiao acted as if he didn’t hear it, and just called out: “Secretary Ding.”
Ding Yinan turned his head slightly, listening to the movement behind him.
“Unexpectedly,” Huo Zhixiao smiled, “The countryside is quite interesting.”
Boss: thank me for what
Ah, everything is going so romantic, ahahah
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dyn’s migraine must be extraordinary around hzx lolol
Thanks for the chapter!
Begging TLer please don’t drop this novel!!! 🙏🏼
This is pretty good so far! I like how ML thinks he’s hot stuff but MC couldn’t care less.
Ahhh!!! It’s interesting ☺️
The hotel boss is literally bringing these 2 together 😁
Thanks for the chapter 💞
Mc’s amazing as always uwu omnipotent and continuous learning
The countryside is indeed interesting for letting ml see more sides to mc, in addition to their moments in the hotel 🤭
Example: taking out toilet water to spray on ML. Like, what?? If the next sentence didn’t say it was because there are mosquitoes in the countryside, I would not have connected it to mosquito repellent. Another one is bath lotion. I thought it was body lotion applied on the body after bathing, but apparently, it’s body wash/bath soap, because the scene later explain that he will have to wash himself clean with the water that has already been heated up since the transformer will only be fixed the next day. Sometimes Ding Yinan is Dantes Yinan.But so far, the translation is not bad, just that there is room to make it better. Thanks for the hard work.