Chapter 25 "Then you'll be my husband."...
The little capybara opened its eyes wide, and for some reason, its finger lightly touched the pop-up window.
The article was quite long, and some of the descriptions were a bit dramatic, but... he still read it all.
Passive-aggressive behavior.
Actually, he had been feeling that something was off these past few days, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what it was.
It seems like they know now.
Hmm.
Is he also experiencing passive-aggressive behavior?
The little capybara put down its slightly hot phone, its eyes unconsciously glancing at the closed wooden door of the study.
Is it possible that Dr. Guan is just too busy?
The little capybara's brain was now tangled up in a ball, making his brain capacity somewhat insufficient, and his head was starting to hurt.
Meanwhile, someone just a door away was writing a report.
After typing two lines of the report, my thoughts drifted off somewhere else.
I took out my phone.
Search online.
#Recommended Gifts for Elders#
#What do ancient book restorers like?#
#What should I pay attention to when making my first home visit?#
Eyes scan the screen rapidly, while fingertips scroll down in sync.
But then it suddenly stopped.
Why are you making such a fuss? It's just going out for a meal.
What's there to investigate?
What's there to be nervous about?
Are you crazy, Guan Yue?
The man slid his fingertip to the lock screen button on the edge of the phone and turned off the screen.
He then buried himself back in front of the computer.
For several days in a row, the weather was gloomy, but the temperature was not low, and it was very muggy, making people feel uncomfortable.
This kind of weather is the worst for ancient books.
Although the temperature and humidity in the workplace are artificially controlled throughout the year, there is still an impact.
Pei Xi's main task today is to clean the ancient books.
Stain removal can be done mainly with water, scraping with a knife, or chemical reagents, but precious ancient books can hardly be cleaned with chemical reagents. In addition, the principle of "restoring the old as it was" in restoration work makes stain removal a rather troublesome task.
Pei Xi wanted to catch up on the progress, so she was at her workstation early in the morning and never stopped working. She was even dragged to lunch by Su Mo.
Su Mo: "You've been practically glued to your work unit lately, aren't you going to date anymore?"
The little capybara was eating with its head down.
Hearing this, he slowly swallowed the food in his mouth: "We're...we're talking about it."
"How can you have time to talk like this? Are you going to go back and talk late into the night?" Su Mo laughed.
In fact, these past two days, besides thinking about Tianlu Linlang, Little Capybara has been thinking about that discussion about "emotional abuse".
"Senior brother." The capybara's expression suddenly darkened.
Su Mo: "What's wrong?"
Pei Xi: "Do you and Sister Tian Tian suddenly go for a few days without communicating much or video chatting? Is it because you're very busy?"
Su Mo and his girlfriend Zhou Tian have been in a long-distance relationship for many years, but their relationship has always been very stable, which is the envy of others.
“I’ll call even when I’m very busy,” Su Mo replied. “Only when your sister Tian Tian is angry with me will she not let me call, and even then she won’t really talk to me.”
Pei Xi: "So, would you call this passive-aggressive behavior?"
"Silent treatment?" Su Mo became alert. "What, is that kid giving you the silent treatment?"
“No…” Pei Qi quickly denied, “I’ve just been… researching the relationship between physical and emotional violence and intimate relationships recently.”
Wow.
He didn't even know how he made it up.
"Writing a thesis," Su Mo said, somewhat skeptical.
But his junior apprentice is indeed a person with many ideas. He had previously studied agronomy and the close relationship between tomatoes and potatoes.
"I have that idea." The little capybara lowered its eyes, somewhat afraid to meet its senior brother's gaze.
"Hmm... Anyway, passive-aggressive behavior means giving you the cold shoulder, not communicating, not exchanging ideas, and not getting angry." Su Mo seemed to have a lot of experience with it. "Your sister Tian Tian loves to do this. Every time, I feel like I want to fly over there and have a fight with her to get to the bottom of things."
"Hmm." Pei Xi tried to digest the information, somewhat understanding but not quite. "Doesn't it feel like it would be better to just have a fight?"
“Yeah, I’d rather we fight each other for real.” Su Mo replied, still a little worried, “Is it really not that kid giving you the silent treatment? If he bullies you, you have to tell your senior brother, you can’t let him get away with it.”
"No...no, he wasn't giving me the silent treatment, I really just wanted to do some research..." The capybara's voice weakened as she changed the subject, "Senior, you should try today's rice cake and pork ribs..."
However, the three "no"s Su Mo had just said kept repeating in his mind.
No communication, no interaction, no anger.
This sounds so much like his and Dr. Guan's recent situation...
The little capybara held the chopsticks in its hand and fell into deep thought.
But why does Dr. Guan use passive-aggressive tactics?
Are you angry because of something that happened before?
But he had clearly already appeased her.
He also knew that it was wrong of him not to introduce Dr. Guan.
Dr. Guan is clearly not angry anymore...
Why are you angry again?
He really wanted to send a message to ask, but he couldn't bring himself to press the send button.
I had no choice but to get back to work and start the decontamination process again.
In the afternoon, the sky grew even darker; it wasn't even four o'clock yet, and there was almost no light left.
Guan Yue had just taken a half-hour nap when he went back into the operating room.
His surgery schedule has been packed these past few days. He's on the operating table almost all day, and when he's off the operating table, he has to rush to the wards as soon as he gets off, except to drink water or go to the toilet.
"Senior, is there another appendectomy after this is over?" Lu Dongyi couldn't take it anymore. "My upper and right eyelids are practically fighting each other."
"Let them finish before you start," Guan Yue said, using a retractor to open the incision on the skin to make it easier for the laparoscope to be inserted.
Lü Dongyi: "......"
"It looks like the typhoon is about to make landfall." Old Wen, who was on the tour, was yawning and looking at his phone. "Come on, this weather is suffocating."
Guan Yue worked methodically, his eyes behind his mask fixed on the screen: "Old Wen, bring up some gauze to wipe the mirror."
Lao Wen: "Okay."
Lü Dongyi: "It's really suffocating. Going to work is already annoying enough..."
It's incredibly stuffy.
As soon as Pei Xi stepped out of the office building, the humid and stuffy air hit her face, making her feel extremely uncomfortable.
He glanced at his phone.
There are no unread messages.
Previously, he would send messages to Dr. Guan as if it were a task to be completed, asking if the man would be coming home for dinner that night.
But Dr. Guan declined the offer a few days ago, saying he was too busy.
So he stopped asking yesterday.
He was now hesitating whether or not to ask.
Why does he want to ask Dr. Guan about everything, yet dare not ask about anything?
Really...
Passing by the security room of the workplace, the gatekeeper was having dinner with a small bottle of Erguotou (a type of Chinese liquor) next to him.
Pei Xi: "Uncle, why are you drinking again?"
The uncle chuckled twice: "I like to eat dumplings with some Erguotou (a type of Chinese liquor), otherwise they're tasteless. Xiao Pei, would you like some?"
Pei Xi: "No need, I'll eat at home."
"Okay, be careful on the road."
Pei Xi left his workplace and took the subway, but when he was almost at his apartment building, he suddenly didn't want to go back.
He felt that the atmosphere in the apartment was even more stifling than the weather lately.
Besides, Dr. Guan is probably not home either.
The heavy rain finally started at seven o'clock in the night.
Guan Yue finally finished his last surgery at this moment.
The man turned his neck while opening his phone.
Um.
That naughty capybara hasn't messaged him for two days.
After hurriedly changing out of my work clothes and leaving the closed hospital building, I realized that the typhoon had already arrived.
A cool breeze whipped up raindrops, which swept across the dark night sky.
The rain was so heavy that his visibility while driving became very poor.
Such heavy rain.
Pei Xi didn't send herself a message either.
They also insist that they are not bad capybaras.
The man gripped the steering wheel, his expression grim.
It took him almost half an hour to drive into the apartment's underground parking garage.
It was almost eight o'clock when I got home.
When I touched the fingerprint lock, the security door automatically opened, but the lights in the living room were not turned on.
The man's face, which had been gloomy, darkened even further.
Pei Xi is not at home.
8:05 PM.
He couldn't resist sending a message to a certain bad capybara.
G: [Where is everyone?]
G: [A typhoon is hitting, aren't you going home?]
Don't you know to head home during a typhoon?
How could you be so stupid?
......
He waited for a long time but did not receive a reply.
...
G: [Pei Xi, where are you?]
G: [Please reply if you see this.]
G: [The voice call was not answered]
He was a little worried that the silly capybara might get stuck somewhere due to the typhoon.
...
After waiting for about ten more minutes, Guan Yue decided not to wait any longer.
He didn't have the contact information for those senior students from the Stupid Capybara.
The only way to find the phone number for the Cultural Relics Security Office is by using a mobile phone.
An elderly man answered the phone: "Hello, what's up?"
Guan Yue tried to remain calm: "Hello, I'd like to ask if Professor Pei Qi from the ancient book restoration team is still at the office?"
"They're all gone, they've all left, the buildings are all locked," the old man on the phone replied. "You...you mean Xiao Pei? That young man?"
Guan Yue gripped the fuselage tightly, swallowing hard. "Yes, did you see him?"
The old man said, "He left very early, around six o'clock. Wasn't he home yet?"
Guan Yue: "Around six o'clock?"
"yes......"
After hanging up the phone, Guan Yue glanced at the clock on the wall again.
It's already 8:30.
If Pei Qi left work at six o'clock, she should have been home by now, even if she walked.
The already taut nerves were stretched even tighter, reaching their limit.
The rain was heavy outside the window, and now it was even accompanied by a few muffled claps of thunder.
The man dialed the capybara's number again and walked around the central island several times.
No one answered the phone.
He decided to go out and look for it.
He grabbed the largest black umbrella in the house, changed his shoes, and opened the security door.
"Hmm..."
Before me was a small capybara, its body soaking wet.
"I didn't chant any spells, so how did it open..." Pei Xi tilted her head back, her round eyes were squinting, and her cheeks were rosy.
The man demanded sharply, "Where have you been?"
Pei Xi stood outside the door, seemingly unsteady on her feet, her center of gravity constantly shifting: "Um... I didn't go anywhere."
Guan Yue had already realized that the capybara had been drinking, and had drunk too much.
"Come in first." He frowned slightly.
"Who are you? Why are you in my house?" The young man leaned against the doorframe with one hand, showing no intention of coming in. "Or...or did I come to the wrong place?"
"N-no, I'm sorry, I was just wondering why this door looked so weird." With that, the little capybara turned to leave.
Of course, he couldn't get away.
Guan Yue swept his long arm around the person and pulled them inside the door. With a hook of his long leg, the door slammed shut with a "bang".
The little capybara was dizzy and confused; after being hugged like that, it was even more disoriented.
Guan Yue pressed the rain-soaked capybara against the shoe cabinet and bent down to change its shoes.
The drunken capybara was very restless and seemed not to recognize him.
She swung her legs, refusing to let him take them off.
"Don't move, be good." Guan Yue said patiently, "I'll change your shoes."
"Who are you? Don't...don't touch my feet." The little capybara's cheeks were flushed, but it didn't obey.
Guan Yue: "I am your husband."
Pei Xi: "You're lying."
“I’m not lying.” Guan Yue grabbed one of his ankles. “Don’t move.”
"My husband would never change my shoes," came the slightly aggrieved voice of a capybara hovering above my head. "He only gives me the silent treatment."
The man's hand, which was holding the young man's ankle, suddenly paused. He looked up and met the little capybara's drunken face.
The cold white light in the entryway suddenly gained a touch of warmth, and the shadows under the light seemed to sway.
The little capybara, its eyes glazed with drunkenness, suddenly reached out and touched his cheek, pinching it hard. Then, its fingertips pressed against the man's thin lips: "Then you can be my husband."
Guan Yue's eyes suddenly narrowed, and he tightened his grip on the young man's thin ankle.
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