Chapter 73 Study Abroad (1): "I hope you can stand higher."
He proposed four times and finally succeeded.
Teng Zaiye couldn't help but shed tears of excitement, wishing he could announce to the whole world: He has a wife!
I called Luo Yunqing in the middle of the night.
"Hehehe, little brother."
"He's asleep."
A deep voice flowed out.
Teng Zaiye's small brain froze for three seconds before he belatedly realized, "It's Lao Pei."
"Is there something urgent?"
Pei Yanli glanced at the time: 1:40 AM.
He really knows how to pick his timing.
"No, not really, hehehe, it's just..." He said this with a laugh, slowly building suspense. After waiting for Pei Yanli to ask him a question, he couldn't hold back any longer and proudly shouted into the phone, "I'm going to get my license to work!"
"Congratulations." Startled by the noise, Pei Yanli quickly pulled her close, leaned down, and kissed her, whispering, "The date has been set?"
"Not yet. I need to inform my husband and choose a good day."
“We do need to choose a date.” Pei Yanli quickly ended the conversation. “Then we’ll talk again after we’ve chosen a date.”
"Okay, okay, talk to you later!" Teng Zaiye hung up the phone cheerfully, then called the next person, "Hey, Xiao Chen, are you alone? Oh! Look at my memory, you don't have a boyfriend..."
Teng Zaiye was extremely smug.
After the successful proposal, he offended almost all of his relatives and friends. Even Grandpa Teng's newly adopted sheepdog was not spared, barking angrily on the phone and hurling very harsh insults.
Even the heavens probably couldn't stand his arrogance anymore.
Less than half a month after the proposal, she had a fight with Jiang Ziyu about the wedding ceremony.
"I figured this would be a once-in-a-lifetime event." Feeling incredibly wronged, she ran to Luo Yunqing for advice: "What's wrong with making it grander and more lavish?"
Luo Yunqing forked a strawberry covered in cream and asked as she ate, "So what are your thoughts?"
“I think…” Teng Zaiye picked up a strawberry and threw it into his mouth in frustration, “to Iceland, Romania, Morocco…to all over the world, to tell everyone we meet that we’re married! We’ll have a honeymoon after the wedding anyway.”
Luo Yunqing nodded, then casually forked a strawberry and fed it to Pei Yanli, "Isn't this good?"
“Right, you think it’s great too, don’t you?” Teng Zaiye hugged his knees and pouted, “Your brother doesn’t agree. He said the wedding leave isn’t that long, he has to go back to work.”
She became more and more aggrieved as she spoke, her eyes reddening: "He likes his work much more than he likes me, waaaaaah!"
In the end, the light was howling there.
Luo Yunqing forked the last strawberry from the fruit plate and howled even louder.
Annoyed to no end, Luo Yunqing quickly pulled the strawberry off the fork and stuffed it into his mouth, then hurriedly called Xiaoyu to take him away.
Before the person arrived, Teng Zaiye craned his neck to look outside, but when the person finally arrived, he became stubborn and inflexible.
"I'm not going back."
"Teng, in, the wild!"
"What do you want?" The person who was sitting immediately stood up, glanced at the couple watching the commotion out of the corner of his eye, straightened his back, and said fiercely with a guilty conscience: "We have to make it clear today, is it me or work that's more important?"
"If you don't want to go back, then stay here."
Jiang Ziyu didn't waste any words and turned to leave.
Teng Zaiye hurriedly chased after him, "Okay, okay, second place it is... but you didn't kiss me this morning!"
"Huh?"
Luo Yunqing and Pei Yanli tilted their heads at the same time.
So, in the end, is this what you really care about?
Jiang Ziyu glanced at the two burning gazes behind her, grabbed the person, and strode out.
"Honey, say something."
"Shut up!"
"oh."
"Shut up, it's a good morning kiss."
The sound faded into the distance and soon fell completely silent.
I guess I've already given him the good morning kiss.
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They picked the person up and put them in the car.
After closing the car door, Jiang Ziyu couldn't help but say to him, "Why did you come all the way to the Pei family for these things?"
"Why didn't you reply to my messages or answer my calls?" Teng Zaiye accused cautiously, tentatively reaching out to take his hand.
"I'm working, my phone is on silent," Jiang Ziyu explained, a rare occurrence. "After I finish this busy period... I still have a lot of annual leave left."
Teng Zaiye was focused on squeezing his hand, and blinked in confusion.
Jiang Ziyu turned her head away and coughed lightly: "Aren't we going to Iceland, Romania, and Morocco?"
"Wife!"
His eyes suddenly widened several times over.
Jiang Ziyu took a slow breath and turned to look at him: "Let's go together."
"Waaaaah, wife, I was wrong." Teng Zaiye cried with emotion, "I'll never run away from home again."
Jiang Ziyu: Running away from home? Heading to the Pei family?
"You should go to Xiao Luo's and the others' place less often in the future." He lectured again with a stern face, "And try not to bring these kinds of emotions to them. It's only because they have good tempers that they don't hold it against you. If it were anyone else, who would want to listen to you talk about those things every day?"
"My brother isn't just anyone."
Teng Zaiye muttered something, met his gaze, lowered his head and obediently replied, "Okay, I'll try not to bother them in the future. But to be honest, I really envy them. They've been married for more than three years and their relationship is still so good. They've never had a single argument."
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Sometimes, you really shouldn't make promises you can't keep.
Less than three days after this incident, Luo Yunqing and Pei Yanli had a fight!
To be precise, it didn't escalate to an argument; it was just that Luo Yun's list refused to communicate.
It all started when Pei Yanli casually used his computer to look up information and accidentally discovered his chat history with his tutor.
Around September of last year, his mentor recommended that he study abroad, but Luo Yunqing politely declined.
Now that it's late April, most universities have already closed their applications, with only two in the UK closing soon. My supervisor has rekindled his interest and brought it up again.
They had mentioned studying abroad before.
At that time, Luo Yunqing was very resistant and even sulked with him because of it.
"You've been abroad many times since then, haven't you? It's not as bad as you think."
Between the lines, one could see that the mentor also felt regret. Pei Yanli tried to persuade him: "The Song family's business and development in Germany are both going well now, but market trends change rapidly. Wouldn't it be better to have an opportunity to meet more people and learn?"
Luo Yunqing: "You really want me to go abroad?"
"I hope you can stand higher."
As a qualified manager, Pei Yanli deeply understands the importance of talent.
A person doesn't become successful just by standing there; they need to hone their skills and improve step by step. If they become complacent because of a little achievement, they will soon be surpassed and replaced by others.
As a partner, he was ten years older than Xiao Luo, and one day he would have to leave first.
He can indeed leave him countless amounts of money that he can never spend, but more importantly, he should have the ability to survive in the face of the tides of time, so that even if he is alone, he can withstand the storms.
If possible, he would prefer that Xiao Luo surpass him.
“Unwilling to study abroad…” Pei Yanli noticed that he hadn’t seemed to dislike studying abroad in the past few years, so she finally concluded: “Is it because you can’t bear to leave me?”
Luo Yunqing turned around with a muffled voice.
Then someone grabbed his shoulders and turned him around.
Pei Yanli cupped his face in her hands and suddenly smiled: "Since you can't bear to part with him, then I'll stay with you."
"Come with me?"
"Yes." Without hesitation, he said, "I'll go abroad to study with you."
"But domestic companies..."
Pei Yanli now manages not only the Pei Corporation but also the entire Pei family, making it even more inconvenient for her to travel abroad.
“No problem.” Pei Yanli quickly resolved the issue. “Can’t we do it remotely? We can have Chen Zhao handle it.”
He asked again, "I'll go with you, are you willing to go?"
Luo Yunqing didn't say anything more.
I thought about it carefully on my own for two days and submitted my study abroad application before the deadline.
The summer after graduation, I boarded a plane to England with Pei Yanli.
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Before he arrived, Pei Yanli had bought a courtyard in his name and furnished it in her spare time.
Luo Yunqing took some time to retake her driver's license test. On her day off, the two of them went grocery shopping together and took a detour for a drive on their way home.
He would occasionally travel to other countries, and even went to Germany twice before the start of the semester. But as soon as Charlene saw him in Germany, she would start crying, asking between sobs, "Why didn't you come to Germany?"
Luo Yunqing: "I'm afraid of delaying graduation."
The crying stopped a few seconds later, and Charlene started wailing at the top of her lungs: "I'll never choose Germany again!"
I regret it so much, it's unbearable, but there's nothing I can do.
After finishing her drink, Charlene wiped away her tears and continued working in the lab.
"Despite complaining, the senior student is still quite... strong inside." On the way back, Luo Yunqing finally came up with this word after a long time.
If it were him, he might have collapsed and given up.
“She also trained hard.” Pei Yanli put down the contract in her hand and kissed his forehead. “You can too.”
Luo Yunqing silently looked away, picked up her phone, and pretended to be very busy scrolling through her WeChat Moments.
"Look at Uncle Zhang!" He had only casually swiped a couple of times when he stumbled upon Steward Zhang, who had retired after handing over all his affairs.
He rarely posts updates: He and his granddaughter Zhang Shuyan, leaning against the front of a convertible sports car as the sun sets.
Pei Yanli glanced at it and said, "Father had planned to invite him to come on vacation, but his granddaughter kidnapped him just before he was about to leave."
"I think Uncle Zhang is quite happy."
"He's had a tough time all these years."
A few words changed the subject.
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September arrived in the blink of an eye, and Luo Yunqing would be starting school soon.
After the start of the school year, Pei Yanli spent more and more time at home, and no matter when he returned home, he was always working.
Endless remote meetings and countless phone calls – in the past, at the company, all you needed was an internal phone line to call someone to the office.
It's much more complicated now.
Even knowing that he doesn't like Western food, she still takes the time to cook for him.
In just two months, she lost nearly ten pounds.
"It's not just because of the multinational nature of the company." Chen Zhao asked Chen Zhao about the company's current situation, and after holding back for a while, he couldn't help but say, "After you went to England, in the period before the start of the semester, the boss put aside a lot of things... on vacation, yes! on vacation."
After hanging up the phone, Luo Yunqing remained silent for a long time.
"Xiao Luo, what's wrong? Are you in a bad mood? What do you want to eat today?" Pei Yanli asked as she rolled up her sleeves. "I'll make it for you. How about the braised prawns we talked about the other day?"
"husband."
"Um?"
“After I arrived, I found that studying abroad wasn’t as bad as I had imagined. I’ve also made a lot of friends at school.” Luo Yunqing bit her lip and forced a smile. “It’s okay if you don’t come with me. I can manage on my own… I can manage on my own.”
It must be exhausting for him to keep me company like this.
"So, you can go back now."
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