How would 3 rooms be allocated to 5 people? Under normal circumstances, it was, of course, a combination of 1, 2, 2.
As the superior, Huo Xun should have had a room to himself. The remaining two rooms were allocated to Huo Zhixiao and Ding Yinan, as well as Huo Xun’s secretary and driver.
Everything seemed so reasonable, but when the key in his hand was taken away by Huo Xun, Ding Yinan couldn’t help his heart skip a beat and subconsciously look at Huo Zhixiao.
Huo Zhixiao’s expression didn’t change much, but based on Ding Yinan’s understanding of him, he should have also been “as stable as an old dog on the outside, but flustered in his heart.”
“The mayor’s team should be upstairs.” Holding the key, Huo Xun said to Huo Zhixiao, “You and I will visit them later.”
When it came to work, Huo Zhixiao seldom played with his temper. He nodded and said, “Okay.”
Huo Xun turned around and went to the second floor, followed by the secretary and the driver.
Ding Yinan looked at Huo Zhixiao with lingering fear and said, “He probably didn’t know?”
“He probably didn’t know.” Huo Zhixiao shook his head, “If he knew, he would definitely have skinned me.”
Ding Yinan breathed a sigh of relief, his tense nerves relaxed. On the one hand, he also hoped that Huo Xun said that because he knew about the relationship between the two, but on the other hand, he also agreed with Huo Zhixiao’s statement that Huo Xun would never accept this matter easily.
After putting down the luggage in the room, Huo Zhixiao went outside the door. But within a minute, he came back halfway and said to Ding Yinan, “My father asked you to come out and greet someone.”
Hearing this, Ding Yinan’s first reaction was to feel normal. After all, in Huo Xun’s eyes, he was still Huo Zhixiao’s assistant, and sometimes the role of the assistant was a memo to help the boss write down the people who needed to deal with.
But after experiencing the room allocation just now, Ding Yinan inexplicably felt that Huo Xun’s actions seemed to be training his daughter-in-law.
He shook off the unrealistic thoughts in his mind and followed Huo Zhixiao to the open space next to the corridor.
At this time, there were three or five people standing in the open space, except for Huo Xun, they all looked like cadres. Huo Xun gave Ding Yinan a brief introduction of who was who. He picked out any one of these people at random, and they were all at a level that Ding Yinan could not usually come into contact with.
But Ding Yinan quickly understood why Huo Xun asked him to come out.
“This is your senior from the class of 2006, Zhang Hui.” Huo Xun gestured to a woman in her thirties next to her with her eyes, “Now she works in the Construction Bureau.”
Zhang Hui stretched out her right hand towards Ding Yinan and said, “You are Xiao Ding, right? We have contacted each other on WeChat before.”
Ding Yinan immediately realized that this was the senior sister who was in charge of bidding for the film museum. He stretched out his right hand to shake Zhang Hui and said, “Hello, senior.”
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Huo Zhixiao took off his shirt and asked Ding Yinan, “Shall we take a bath now?”
Usually, when Ding Yinan saw Huo Zhixiao undressing suggestively, he would step up to him and kiss him cooperatively. But looking at her boyfriend’s attractive eight-pack abs today, Ding Yinan didn’t have any sexual interest but asked, “Is Jiushan Office also coming to participate in the bidding?”
“Yeah.” Huo Zhixiao untied his belt and took off his suit pants, “It’s Zhao Yang’s team.”
In the last Blue Dot Award presentation, Huo Zhixiao lost to Zhao Yang’s team, Ding Yinan was unavoidably worried and did not respond to Huo Zhixiao’s temptation.
“Wife.” Huo Zhixiao took off the last fig leaf on his body, “Am I not even attractive to you?”
Since the two were together, each other’s bodies were like positive and negative magnets, always deeply attracted to each other. However, at this moment Ding Yinan really didn’t have the heart to be intimate, so he frowned and said, “If this time…”
“What are you worried about?” Huo Zhixiao said, “Just trust me.”
All along, Ding Yinan always felt that he was the one to be relied on, but at this moment, he suddenly felt that he could also rely on Huo Zhixiao with confidence.
“What if we fail?” Ding Yinan asked.
“If we fail, we’ll start all over again.” Huo Zhixiao said, “Ups and downs are normal, no one will succeed forever.”
Ding Yinan laughed and said, “You are quite open-minded.”
“That’s right.” Huo Zhixiao supported Ding Yinan’s hips and hugged him up, “With such a good wife as you, those are trivial matters.”
Seeing that Huo Zhixiao was going to carry him to the bathroom, Ding Yinan raised his eyebrows and asked, “Aren’t you afraid that Mr. Huo will hear us?”
“So what if he hears it?” Huo Zhixiao said nonchalantly, “Maybe he is waiting to eavesdrop.”
…
The next morning, Huo Xun and his party accompanied the mayor’s team to the library construction site in Sanyang Village.
The two buildings had been capped, and anyone could see the general appearance. The village party secretary was introducing the rendering to the village chief, while Huo Xun stood a little further away from the leadership circle and whispered to Huo Zhixiao, “Why did you add a slide in the middle?”
“Most of the users in this library are children.” Huo Zhixiao said.
“You think this is a children’s paradise?” Huo Xun said, “Have you ever thought about how the safety responsibility will be calculated if a child has an accident on the slide?”
Huo Xun always started from reality when thinking about problems and paid more attention to the interests and responsibilities of the project.
Ding Yinan secretly rejoiced that Huo Xun had not intervened in this project; otherwise, the final construction would definitely not have been what it was now.
“You think I haven’t considered it?” Huo Zhixiao said blankly, “I calculated the arc and length of the slide, and the risk of an accident was about zero.”
Huo Xun pursed the corners of his lips imperceptibly and didn’t talk about the slide anymore, but changed the subject and said, “What kind of building materials are you using for the aerial platform? Can it bear the force?”
“I considered the load of each part,” Huo Zhixiao said impatiently, “Am I a novice?”
When the two of them said this, the village party secretary suddenly waved and called Huo Zhixiao over.
“Master Huo, I’ll depend on you to talk about it. I don’t really understand it either,” said the village secretary.
“Okay.” Huo Zhixiao took the rendering and explained it unhurriedly, “The final result will be the effect in the picture. The exterior of the two buildings will be integrated with the mountain, and the interior of the building will be divided into detailed functions…”
The most interesting thing about this library was that its interior was extremely futuristic, and the spatial pattern broke away from conventional thinking, but it was within the scope of practicality.
After Huo Zhixiao finished his introduction, several observers couldn’t help but nod.
Zhang Hui pointed to the window frame design on the picture and asked, “What is the consideration for this reading space?”
“I hoped this is not only a study room for children but also for them to immerse themselves in it,” Huo Zhixiao said, “If there are only monotonous tables, chairs, and benches, it may be a bit boring, so I designed such a closed and bright space, allowing them to use their imaginations and regard this as their own world.”
Zhang Hui nodded, looked at Huo Zhixiao appreciatively, and said, “Sure enough, I didn’t misunderstand you, young man.”
Inspecting the construction site was only one part of investigating the appearance of the village. The mayor’s team stayed on the hillside for less than half an hour before planning to leave for the next village.
Huo Xun didn’t need to continue to accompany them, and the group parted ways at the entrance of the village.
The vehicles of the mayor’s team quickly disappeared at the end of the road. Only then did Huo Xun slowly look at Huo Zhixiao and say, “Don’t be proud. This is a public welfare project, so the requirements are not high. Your design may not be suitable for commercial projects.”
Huo Zhixiao didn’t bother to talk to Huo Xun at all. He put one arm wide on Ding Yinan’s shoulder and said, “Let’s go.”
“However,” Huo Xun changed the subject and stopped Huo Zhixiao who was about to leave, “The design of your reading space is really good.”
Huo Zhixiao glanced at Huo Xun indifferently and said casually, “Oh.”
“I know that you are also fighting for the project of the city’s film museum.” Huo Xun said again, “I handed over this project to Zhao Yang. He is more suitable for commercial projects than you. He recently won the Blue Dot Award, and his momentum is also good.”
“So?” Huo Zhixiao shrugged indifferently, “Everyone depends on their ability.”
“You…” Huo Xun frowned, “Will you talk properly?”
“No.” Huo Zhixiao said.
He looked as if he wanted to stick out his tongue and made a sound of bleh.
Ding Yinan suddenly discovered that since Huo Zhixiao left Huo Xun’s control, he spoke to his father more freely. He quickly smooth things over and said, “Mr. Huo, this film museum doesn’t have to be defined as a commercial project. Of course, profit is one of its main purposes, but isn’t it more meaningful to make it a cultural symbol of the city?”
“How you want to build it is one thing, and how Party A wants to build it is another matter,” Huo Xun said, “I remind you two, starting a business is not that simple, don’t take it for granted, it will only hurt you in the business world.”
“You are right.”
—— Ding Yinan resorted to his perfunctory method again.
“Since this is the case, it is better for us to start from our directions. As for the final result, it is not up to us to decide anyway.”
——After simplifying this sentence, it was actually Huo Zhixiao’s “each according to his ability”. But when it came out of Ding Yinan’s mouth, it was naturally much more pleasing to the ear.
“I had kindly reminded you.” Huo Xun said, “If it’s not suitable, then it’s not suitable. Don’t force it.”
After Huo Xun finished speaking, he took his secretary into the business car parked on the side of the road. Ding Yinan vaguely heard Huo Xun say to the secretary: “Fortunately, Secretary Ding is here; otherwise, I would be pissed off by that brat.”
Huo Zhixiao obviously also heard this sentence; he tightened his forearm, hooked Ding Yinan’s neck, and said: “What if he knows that you are his daughter-in-law?”
Ding Yinan had a headache: “So don’t be angry with your dad, okay?”
Thanks for the update
Does the dad know or not 😩 have a feeling he secretly does…
I feel like Huo Xun will treat Yinan better than his own son when he finds out 😂
Thanks for the chapter!
It seems Dad Huo does care about his son but it’s tough love? 🤔
Thanks for the chapter 💞
Thanks for the chapter 💕
felt warm when ml brought up cards and playing with the kids 😆 even bringing their child
What if no 🤭 transitioning treatment to an in-law keke
The library sounds nicee
*noh
Thinking the no could be misinterpreted as no-rejection 😅