
But since Liu Ci said to teach his instant son from time to time, Yan Shuyu still had to keep his promise. He tirelessly brought the cello to work during the day and brought it back at night. So, over the past few days, in addition to the regular piano, there was also the cello sound that came from his house occasionally.
She met the young couple again that morning when she left her home. The girl smiled and greeted him, “Hai, sister. Did you take your child to school?”
Yan Shuyu nodded and waved at him in high spirits. "Yes." Yeah."
Zhang Yuanjia, standing beside him, also looked up and greeted them with all his cuteness, "Good morning, big brother and sister."
"Little brains are also very cute these days." The young couple patted his head happily. The girl ran over to Yan Shuyu, smiled at him, and asked, “Female sister, I think I heard the cello from your place in the past few days? Do you teach that to a child too? ”
Yan Shuyu admitted it and asked anxiously, "Are we too noisy?"
"No-no. You always avoid the time when we are sleeping. No noise at all. Plus, you play the instrument very well. ” The girl explained. “I'm just impressed. You are so multi-talented. Do you think you can teach me when you have free time?
Perhaps realizing that it was not easy for Yan Shuyu to raise a child as a single mother, the girl quickly added, “I will pay the tuition.”
As happy as Yan Shuyu was praised for being multi-talented, she rejected his request after some consideration. He liked money, but now he was not so poor that he could not afford to eat, there was no reason to refuse him.
The moment Yan Shuyu rejected him, he did not forget to advertise Liu Ci and his comrades. “If you are interested, you can go to Fengyu Music Institution. They will hold a grand opening next month and should have some promotional activities. Most importantly, all of their instructors graduated from music academies. You know you will be able to learn a lot from them.”
Yan Shuyu only knew the magnitude of Liu Ci's organization at a later time. They opened the Fengyu Music Institution and the Galaxy. The former is intended for adult hobby classes and the latter only accepts children or students in art schools with careers in those fields.
It is appropriate to refer his neighbors there.
After hearing her introduction, the girl asked Yan Shuyu the location address as well. Yan Shuyu felt that she would become a potential customer. After they split up, he sent a message to Liu Ci through Wechat to brag about his achievements. “I talked about your musical institution with my neighbor today~”
Liu Ci's response came quickly, “We have activities this weekend. Do you want to bring Yuanbao to join us?
Thats perfect. Both Yan Shuyu and Zhang Yuanbao would be happy to network with them again. He turned to voice chat and let the little boy come to reply. The little boy said happily on the phone, “Ya! Yep!"
***
Then, after Yan Shuyu learned of the nature of his activities, he asked Manager Yang while asking for a break time, “Will Tongtong also be there? I've heard that there will be a lot of kids there. ”
“My sister didn't mention anything about that. He may not have time, but I can take Tongtong. He will be happy when he finds out that Yuanbao will be there too.”
And that's how the two of them happily made plans for the weekend. What Yan Shuyu never expected was that the boss would bring the male lead to attend a small activity at this music institution.
Nothing happened in the next few days after Yan Shuyu's conversation with the boss, so she was increasingly convinced that they had agreed to a peaceful farewell.
He was, of course, quite happy with the result. He is convinced that he and his insta son are now completely free from the male lead and his father and will be able to march towards their new, exciting life. He was stunned when he suddenly received a call from the boss on Friday night.
Thas right. Yan Shuyu, in addition to being friends with the boss on WeChat, also exchanged mobile numbers with him. Except that he was a passive participant when it happened, so he had trouble calling it an honor.
Seeing the call, Yan Shuyu said to herself to remain calm. He had rejected it explicitly and the boss had accepted the reality as well. There was no way his boss was the stalker type, so perhaps, he called out to him for some legitimate reason. As much as the possibility was slim to nil, it was not against the law for him to fantasize about it for a while. After all, the boss already knew the buildings and units they lived in. Should he turn into a stalker, whether he picks up his phone or not will not make much of a difference.
Therefore, after his experience of opening up to the boss, Yan Shuyu had seen a new side of him. The male lead's father might seem like a person who really likes books, but there is certainly a sinister side to him. For example, he had searched for so many reasons before to turn it off, including but not limited to damaging his own image, and he knew early on that he was just making it up to reject it. Even so, she played all the time just to mess it up until she finally gave up and bluntly told him that she was no longer interested in him and did not want to be in a relationship with him. He had accepted it calmly.
Maybe it's just a common problem with those who hold leadership roles. They can play around with others, but they will not let others do the same to them. That's the stubbornness of a boss. And the biggest lesson Yan Shuyu had learned from this incident was that really rambling with a boss with his limited intelligence would never end well. He might as well be open and honest from the start.
After he finished preparing himself mentally, Yan Shuyu finally decided to avoid him and boldly raised the call before it stopped ringing. "Hello?"
To his surprise, it was not the voice of the boss coming from the other end, but the familiar milk voice that said to him, “Hai, Aunt Yan. ”
Oh, that's the little male lead. Yan Shuyu immediately sighed in relief and her tone became cheerful. “Oh, hi. That's you huh, little Zhou Yi. ”
Yan Shuyu had always referred to the male lead as a child, although the male lead and his father had introduced them on the first day. Yan Shuyu's thought process was that she was just a cannon fodder stepmother, so she should have known better than to refer to the male lead intimately and always kept her distance with him politely. But now that the male lead had called out to him, it wasn't right for him to call him a child anymore.
“Yes, it's me,” the little male lead replied seriously. “You can call me Xiao Yi, Aunt Yan. ”
Yan Shuyu, in a good mood, was very pleasant. “OK, Xiao Yi. And why did you call me?”
Zhou Yi did not immediately respond to his question but properly exchanged pleasantries with him. "Have you had dinner, Aunt Yan?"
"Yes I have . Yan Shuyu was very cooperative when she did not speak to the boss. "What about you?"
Normally, Zhou Yi was only a 4-year-old child, so there was definitely an adult next to him. Plus, he called her from her father's cell phone. Technically, Yan Shuyu had to ask about his guardian just to be polite, but he did not want the boss to take over the phone, so he never talked about anything about him.
He might not have asked, but the little male lead, on the other hand, answered very appropriately, “My father and I ate steak and salad for dinner. How's yours?"
“We ate fried rice at Sunshine House. ”
"That's good?"
Yan Shuyu realized that the boss had no intention of taking over the phone, so feeling more relaxed, she smiled and said, “That's not bad. You can come and try it next time too. ”
“Alright, I will. Zhou Yi seriously made a mental note before he brought up the true purpose of his call. "Aunt Yan, this is tomorrow's weekend, will Yuanbao be in the store?"
Yan Shuyu paused for a while after she heard that. Not so many of the little male leader's questions but he was referring to his son by his nickname surprised him.
His instant son used his nickname a lot, especially when he was around little friend Yan Shuyu at work. Most of them have probably forgotten about their real names by now. He didn't know when it started, but even Instructor Lin from his school started calling it that way. When Yan Shuyu drove her son to school lately, she even heard some other children refer to him as Yuanbao. That was why he did not think too much when the boss also referred to him as Yuanbao like everyone else. As the saying goes, the devil is in the details. Naturally, the boss would pay attention to such a thing, for someone who paid great attention to detail.
But it really caught him off guard that the male lead was referring to his future cannon fodder half-brother in such an intimate way. His instant son would have so much respect for the male leader's father that after his mother married into the Zhou family, he even voluntarily changed his name to Zhou Yuanjia. Therefore, there was no way he would bring a childish name like "Yuanbao" to the male lead's house. Even if he did, there was no way the male lead would call it that. Both are destined to be bitter enemies.
Now the male lead was very friendly towards his cannonball bait son, even to the point of using his nickname. Does that mean the fate of his son's cannon fodder is officially starting to change?
Yan Shuyu could not read the boss, but she had some ideas about the personality of the male lead. In the novel, it is said that the male lead is the type of distant CEO who has had no love since childhood. The main cast of the little man he had been in contact with had yet to be withdrawn and had a lot of personality. It might not be easy to warm her up, but judging from the way she referred to her son, she had already officially accepted him as a friend and her son had also started his friendship with the male lead.
Once he got to this point of his thought process, Yan Shuyu instantly became happy. Even if she did not become her stepmother, her son being good friends with the male lead was also a good thing. The male lead had her male leader hello. It couldn't be wrong to be around him! He excitedly replied, “Do you want to play with Yuanbao-gege at Sunshine House? Tomorrow is not a good day. How about Sunday?”
The little man's main cast was silent for a while on the phone, as if he was pondering over it. Yan Shuyu had no choice but to wait patiently for him.
In reality, where he could not see, Zhou Yi had kept the phone away from himself and turned around and looked at his father in bewilderment. The father and son communicated briefly with their eyes before he picked up the phone again. Using a serious but still very gentle voice, he asked, "Does Yuanbao have plans tomorrow?"
Yan Shuyu was still working hard to nurture the friendship between her son and the male lead when the caller on the other end had been diverted. “Can we attend tomorrow's activities as well?” Come the delicate and cultured voice of Zhou Qinhe.
Yan Shuyu, who finished blindly, "......"
Boss, how have you had so much free time lately?
He thought about it in his head but also said it uncontrollably. Zhou Qinhe chuckled and said, “I haven't had much free time lately, but thank you for asking. “
Oh, hoho. Yan Shuyu was silent.
Seeing that he had not answered his question, he repeated again, "So, is it okay tomorrow?"
The boss just asked him. Does that mean he can only say "No"? Yan Shuyu's eyes flickered, and she was very tempted to say that when she heard her boss say very indifferently, “When you say activity, you are referring to Liu Ci's musical institution, Liu Ci, don't you? I still have Instructor Liu's business card that he gave me last time. I happen to have some questions for him. If you think it's inappropriate, I can contact them directly. ”
Yan Shuyu: “..
Zhou Qinhe sounded very reasonable, but Yan Shuyu knew very well that Liu Ci already knew the true identity of his boss. In addition to being a very outstanding musician, Lui Ci also wants to have a very successful business. That is, if the boss wants to reach out to Liu Ci, Liu Ci will arrange for the boss to come no matter what obstacles he has to cross, let alone it's just a regular pre-opening activity tomorrow.
So what was the point of making the boss take the indirect route and making him hold a grudge again against him? Although he had a hunch that his boss was threatening him a little, he still replied enthusiastically, “No, that's okay. I just heard that there will be a lot of kids there tomorrow. It might be very noisy and I'm afraid it's not your sight. ”
Yan Shuyu really hoped that the boss would think of all this. This father and son pair stood on top of the world. He could only imagine them going to places with other people of the same caliber and places that were majestic and majestic. It is not a farmer-like activity.
Nevertheless, Zhou Qinhe had already made that decision unilaterally. "That'll be fine . Xiao Yi and I would like to check it out as well. What time is tomorrow?"
Things didn't go as he expected. Yan Shuyu replied with a slight pressure, “I heard there will be some games as well. From 14:00 to 17:00 or 18:00 . “
Zhou Qinhe replied with "Mm" before he suddenly asked another question, "Do you have any plans tomorrow afternoon?"
Yan Shuyu had a bad feeling. “Maybe, maybe.. I don't think?”
“Then why don't we have lunch together?” zhou Qinhe asked directly without letting his tone bother him a bit. He then added, "Yuanbao can have seafood, right?"
He did not ask if Yan Shuyu could eat seafood, but as soon as he heard that word, his eyes beamed. All the words he prepared to reject her turned into, “What kind of seafood. ”
“They have every kind . Zhou Qinhe reminded kindly, "I heard that this restaurant is only on reservation. If you want to go, this is the perfect time to make a reservation. If we wait any longer it might be a problem. ”
A restaurant that even someone with boss status had to make a reservation to eat there? How High, Big, and Tall (Class) is this restaurant? If Yan Shuyu had only been tempted before, she was now completely fixated. Struggling, he asked, "Zhou Yi will be there too?"
"Of course . Laughing Zhou Qinhe. “Thus we can go straight to activity after lunch. ”
Yan Shuyu thought she understood now. The boss treated them as a token of appreciation for him and his son took him and his son out for fun. There is no reason to refuse.
Therefore, why should he? This would be an extra opportunity for his son and the male lead to get closer to each other. And that was how Yan Shuyu had happily made her decision. He was still being verbally polite. “Oh, I don't like you spending so much …. ”
“Quid pro quo. You bought me coffee last time. ”
Trading seafood from the boss with a cup of coffee for $ 20 is stealing. Naturally, Yan Shuyu, as a person who excelled at this, would not remind him that mathematics did not really work out that way. With her lips curled upwards, she nodded. "Allah . ”
“We will pick you up at 11am, will it work?”
Yan Shuyu thought about it for a moment. She really hoped the boss would give her address, so she and her son could take the subway. But he thought that the boss man's etiquette would never let him do that.
Well, he already knew where he lived, so what difference does it make now? He nodded happily and said, “Okay, see you tomorrow. ”
After she got home from work, Yan Shuyu immediately shared the good news about tomorrow's lavish free lunch with her son and got cheers from him. Then, the next morning, he was woken up by his impatient son.
Zhang Yuanbao inherited the personality of his mother who wanted to look good. It was usually not clear until such an important day as today. As soon as the little boy woke up, he sat on the bed, agitated, and asked, "What should I wear today?"
Yan Shuyu looked at the time. It was 08:50. Even though it was a weekend, considering his son always went to bed early and woke up early, it was very wise for him to wait until this hour to wake him up. He rubbed his eyes and sat down. Without thinking, he said, “What about that new yellow sweater? Plus jeans and little boots? You'll look handsome. ”
He had not gone shopping recently, but the weather was getting colder and Zhang Yuanjia could no longer wear his clothes since a year ago. He bought her clothes from the internet. His instant son was delicate and handsome, so as long as he bought the correct size, everything looked good for him.
Hearing his mother's advice, the little boy, as an action-packed man, immediately got off the bed and the jug ran into the closet in his sandal.
Ever since Yan Shuyu learned to fold clothes, she had been putting the little boy's clothes in the bottom drawer. That way he will be able to take out his own clothes.
Zhang Yuanjia was already used to doing this now. Without messing with the clothes in the drawer, she quickly picked up a sweater and jeans. They're both new. But considering that the children's skin was smooth and wanting to make sure his clothes would feel comfortable for him, Yan Shuyu had washed them first and dried them with air. Now clothes have the scent of detergent and sun.
Seeing the little boy putting his clothes on the bed, Yan Shuyu nodded in agreement. “This yellow will make you look whiter. That'll look good on you. So it's been arranged. ”
Zhang Yuanjia was unhappy with his new clothes, and he never cared much about materialistic items. But this time he hesitated a bit and asked, "Mom, do you think Xiao Yi will come with a suit and tie?"
Yan Shuyu thought about it for a while and felt that there was a great possibility for it. The little male lead always comes to the store in a formal suit and looks tall. He nodded . "Maybe . ”
This was the first time the boy felt a little lacking in confidence. "Then is this suitable for Yuanbao?"
"Of course . You two have different styles. Once we get to the music institution this afternoon, you will be the most handsome boy, ”praise Yan Shuyu shamelessly. Seeing the little boy still not too sure after he finished, he leaned over and whispered into his ear, “Let me tell you something. Zhou Yi and his father always wore matching father-son clothes. We can have mother-daughter clothes today as well. We can instakill them with our appearance. ”
Zhang Yuanjia recalled that Uncle Zhou also always wore a suit, indeed his style was the same as that of his little friend Zhou Yi, and somewhat understood what his mother meant by father-son clothing. But then, another question came to his mind. "Mom, do we have mother-daughter clothes?"
Of course, Yan Shuyu said as she excitedly went to the closet and pulled out her pink sweater. He bought this the last time he went shopping. The original owner may feel that he needs to look grumpy and soft, so the closet is filled with wedding-style clothes. Although she was beautiful and looked good in every way, Yan Shuyu still wanted to try different styles from time to time.
But since she was poor, she had not bought too many clothes recently. So this is his only sweater for now.
Although the colors are different, their styles look quite similar. Yan Shuyu placed her pink sweater next to her son's yellow sweater and forced, "Look, this is our mother-daughter's clothing~"
Zhang Yuanjia tilted his head and questioned life. "Mama?"
"Don't worry . My mom has jeans too. “There are three or four pairs of jeans in the closet. Yan Shuyu took out the one with the shade closest to Zhang Yuanjia and placed it next to each other. Zhang Yuanjia was convinced or resigned, he finally accepted the mother-daughter clothing arrangement and the two of them started to change.