"Why don't you say something?"
The call again brought Shen Yanli back to her senses. The little girl in front of her looked up at her, her lips red without any licking, showing a delicate and tempting pink color. When she spoke, the tip of her tongue was slightly exposed, adding a bit of sexy charm.
Shen Yanli rubbed his thumb on the edge of the cold iron basin twice, as if he had thought of something, and his eyes suddenly turned away in embarrassment. He felt his earlobes begin to heat and itch again. It took him a long time to find his voice, and he stuttered, "No, I didn't do anything."
Staring at his obviously uncomfortable expression, Zhou Yunwan began to feel suspicious and couldn't help but ask, "Really?"
“Really.” Afraid that she would continue to ask, Shen Yanli could only lie.
Seeing his decisive answer, Zhou Yunwan felt like she had a lump in her throat about what she wanted to ask, and she had no choice but to give up.
In fact, what she wanted to ask was whether she had offended him when she was drunk, but he said no, so she was embarrassed to continue asking. Alas, what a pity, with such a handsome man in front of her, she actually acted like a gentleman?
Just as she was about to turn around and go downstairs, he called her: "Don't drink anymore in the future."
Perhaps because he felt that the tone was too overbearing, he added, "Even if you want to drink, you have to have me accompany you."
...
...
"Ah?" Zhou Yunwan blinked in confusion. Why were they suddenly talking about this?
I immediately thought that he might be speaking from the perspective of a brother caring about his sister. In this era, most people still have relatively traditional ideas, and it is indeed dangerous for a girl to get drunk outside.
Considering the original owner's alcohol tolerance of getting drunk after just one glass of wine, for her own safety, she probably won't drink easily in the future.
But before she could respond, Aunt Wang's voice came from downstairs, urging her: "Yanli, Xiaowan, come downstairs for dinner."
Zhou Yunwan raised her voice and responded: "Hey, here I come."
After she finished speaking, she turned her head to look at Shen Yanli, and smiled faintly: “Please hang up your pants before coming down, I’ll go downstairs first.”
Her words reminded Shen Yanli of the two forgotten pants in the basin, a pair of pajamas and a pair of underwear. He looked down and the scene he had finally forgotten came back to his mind.
Watching the pretty figure disappear around the corner, he raised his hand to pinch his aching brows, took a long breath, and then walked into his room.
But he didn't expect that since that day on, he would have similar dreams almost every night.
As a result, he was often in poor spirits during the day, which even affected his work. Although he did not make any low-level mistakes, his sleepy mental state had attracted the attention of his leader Yu Liwei.
Chen Yanli was promoted by Yu Liwei, and he knew Chen Yanli's personality and work style very well, so he attributed his abnormal behavior in the past few days to his desperate overtime work. He was the first to arrive and the last to leave. The intensity of working for more than ten hours in a row was something that even a machine could not bear.
“Yanli, you have done a good job on this project. After finishing the finishing work today, you can go back and rest for two days.” Yu Liwei walked to the side of Shen Yanli and patted his arm.
Shen Yanli frowned and refused subconsciously: “Director, I…”
"It's settled. It's good to be passionate about research, but you also have to take care of your health. You have dark circles under your eyes, which are heavier than mine. Are you still thinking about work when you get home at night?"
Shen Yanli was silent. The real reason was really hard to say. As long as he closed his eyes, the fair and enchanting figure would automatically appear in his mind, leaving him with no choice but to numb himself through work.
Under Yu Liwei's repeated requests, he had to accept the fact that he was forced to take a vacation.
Li Jinning, who was standing by, heard their conversation and was moved. She quickly took out the wolfberries she usually used to make tea and leaned over from her workstation: "Comrade Shen, wolfberry soaked in water can help relieve fatigue. Would you like to try making a cup?"
Shen Yanli buried his head in reading the documents, and he declined in a calm voice: “Thank you, but no thanks.”
Li Jinning bit her lower lip. It was like this again. He always had such a cold attitude towards her advances. He was unmoved and would not respond to any persuasion or words. He was like a huge iceberg that could not be warmed up.
She had never seen him care about any girl.
No, except the little girl I met that day.
If he had given her a little of the care he had shown that little girl that day, they might have been together a long time ago. Why would they still be trying to figure it out here?
If she continues to endure it with him, she will really become the yellow-faced woman that her mother says no man wants. She won't be able to get married even if she wants to, and will be laughed at to death by others.
She had to find a way to express her feelings to him, preferably to force him to accept her...but how?
Who knew that this method would be presented to her in just a few days.
*
During dinner in the evening, Shen Yanli announced the news that he would have a day off the next day.
"It just so happens that I have something to say." Guo Yulin put down his chopsticks and said, "I plan to take your father to the hospital for a full-body check-up tomorrow, and stay in the hospital for two days to learn professional rehabilitation treatment. I guess he won't be back in the next few days."
"Also, Aunt Wang told me some time ago that she's going to visit her daughter in the south of the city, and she's leaving tomorrow, so it should be okay for you two to be at home for the next two or three days, right?"
Zhou Yunwan's eyebrows curved, a smile bloomed on the corners of her mouth, and she said obediently and sensibly: "No problem, no problem, uncle, aunt and Aunt Wang, you can go without worry, we will take good care of each other."
Guo Yulin also smiled: "Then I feel relieved."
But she didn't expect that something would happen the same night they left.
In this era, there were two main ways to boil water for bathing: using a large pot to boil water and using a coal stove to boil water.
Given the Shen family's financial situation, they naturally used a coal stove to boil water. After boiling the water in the kitchen, they poured the hot water bucket by bucket into the bathtub in the bathroom, and then adjusted the water temperature to the appropriate level by adding cold water.
The whole process not only requires waiting for the water to boil, but also requires running around, which is very troublesome, but Zhou Yunwan has now gotten used to it.
In fact, she could complete all the steps by herself, but since Shen Yanli offered to help, she had no reason to refuse. After he finished everything, she only needed to take her change of clothes and happily go in for a hot bath.
Taking a bath in winter is a tormenting thing, not to mention there is no way to keep warm. As good as Zhou Yunwan's mood was when she came in, she feels like cursing now.
Thinking of finishing the job quickly, she quickened her pace, but just as she finished applying the soap on her body, the light bulb above her head went out.
The surroundings suddenly fell into darkness, so dark that you couldn't see your hand in front of you.
Zhou Yunwan was so scared that she immediately stopped what she was doing and subconsciously wanted to call Shen Yanli in the living room, but she quickly remembered that he had said he was going upstairs to get something before she came in.
So now she is the only one on the first floor.
The cool air gave Zhou Yunwan goose bumps all over her body and made her mind clearer. She realized that there was most likely a power outage. After all, the room was pitch black and no light came in through the small window above the bathroom.
Unable to see clearly around her, she could only grope in the dark and use a ladle to pour hot water on her body, washing off the foam while trying to warm her body up. She repeated this many times and finally washed away the sticky feeling.
I dried myself with a towel and was about to get dressed when I heard footsteps coming from the living room.
Zhou Yunwan's nerves tensed up immediately. She glanced at the warm light coming through the crack in the door, put on her clothes, and tentatively called out, "Who is it?"
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