Chapter 24

Meng Hechuan’s aura is too overbearing.

At such a close distance, Bai Yan was suppressed by the heavy aura in his eyes.

When he opened his mouth again, his refusal came out unsteadily, “I, I really am not very good at dancing.”

“I see.” Meng Hechuan did not give her a chance to escape this time. He directly reached out and held up Bai Yan’s right hand which was shaking left and right.

Their fingertips lightly touched.

“But I can dance. I’ll teach you.”

The next moment, leather shoes made a clicking sound on the ground, and Bai Yan’s hand was pulled over by Meng Hechuan.

The male hormones flooded in, and the distance between the two people was shortened from one meter to several dozen centimeters.

Meng Hechuan was very tactful and only lightly supported the outside of Bai Yan’s palm. Even so, the heat from his palm was burning her.

And his other hand, through the thin fabric of the dress, was vaguely around her waist.

As it spun, it took her into the center of the circle formed by the crowd.

Bai Yan looked up at him during the rotation. This man was really tall.

Even though she was wearing high heels, it just barely touched his chin.

Because she was so close, she could even see the blue stubble that had just appeared on the man’s chin.

Wei Wei glanced in their direction and sat down again cooperatively.

Fingers were flying, and a piano piece that almost no one had ever heard before began to play melodiously.

Bai Yan was slightly distracted when she heard the tone.

Plus, she didn’t know how to dance, and after a few beats she got nervous and her steps got messed up.

One foot stepped on Meng Hechuan’s shoes.

“You really can’t dance at all.”

The clear male voice sounded, and there seemed to be a hint of smile at the end, “God is indeed fair. He gave you a good voice but not coordinated limbs. If you are really Yan Zi, then the level of the institution that trained you is too poor.”

Bai Yan automatically ignored his next words and retorted, “Why? Are you afraid that I won’t dance well and embarrass Chief Engineer Meng?”

He lowered his eyes and saw the girl in front of him kept saying that she was not Yan Zi.

Indeed not.

She’s more like the kitten downstairs in the dormitory.

It looks soft, but it’s actually covered with thorns.

She just said a few words casually, but she felt like someone stepped on her tail.

His fur stood up and he began to bare his teeth.

Seeing her like that, Meng Hechuan patiently explained, “There are so many eyes watching, I just don’t want to make a fool of myself.”

But Bai Yan couldn’t dance, and she had to deal with Meng Hechuan’s questions from time to time, which made her even more distracted.

Not only did he fail to keep up with the music after turning around a few times, he also stepped on him several times in a row.

She looked over shyly and saw several dusty shoe prints suddenly appearing on Meng Hechuan’s originally shiny leather shoes.

“Or else stop dancing…” Bai Yan said weakly.

Since he didn’t want to make a fool of himself, and he also didn’t want to ruin Chief Engineer Meng’s reputation, it would be better to cut the loss in time.

“Let’s just go around a couple more times and call it a day.”

The man said nothing.

When Bai Yan accidentally stepped on Meng Hechuan again, he suddenly increased the strength of his grip on Bai Yan’s waist.

The empty embrace turned into a tight grip.

The two of them were almost stuck together.

The five words that entered Bai Yan’s ears were very soft and low, “Don’t move, stand up.”

But because he exuded such a righteous aura, even though the distance between them was so close that they could hear each other’s breathing, Bai Yan never saw any desire or offense in his eyes.

Because of this, she was inexplicably obedient and did not move.

He let the front of his leather shoe rest on the surface of his shoe without touching the ground.

Meng Hechuan took her and danced to the tune played by Wei Wei.

The romantic mood lighting, ambiguous notes, harmonious rhythm and two pleasing-to-the-eye people make the surroundings seem to have pressed the pause button.

Everyone stared at them without blinking.

It was not until the music stopped and Meng Hechuan took Bai Yan’s hand and made a curtain call that people around him reacted.

There was constant applause and whistles.

Tonight’s welcome party obviously went off topic and had the wrong protagonist because of Bai Yan’s appearance.

But the foreign teachers’ delegation headed by Wei Wei was not angry at all. Instead, they excitedly pulled Bai Yan to sing and dance, and welcomed her to join the next English training class.

The excitement lasted until after ten o’clock.

The next day, several more rumors about Bai Yan spread in the team.

Some people even used the fact that she danced with Meng Hechuan to confirm that Comrade Bai Yan was definitely the mysterious fiancée that Chief Engineer Meng brought back from the south.

The rumor spread more and more intensely, and some people even described Bai Yan’s appearance as somewhat similar to Meng Hechuan’s mother, which was why she was chosen by the Meng family to be their daughter-in-law.

Many people who did not have the opportunity to attend the welcome party crowded in front of Building 12, trying to get a glimpse of the true face of this “Little Mrs. Meng”.

The entire space brigade was immersed in an atmosphere of gossip, and the topic that everyone talked about after dinner was them.

It’s just that Meng Hechuan and Bai Yan, one is the chief engineer with the final say in the team, and the other is a translator who was specially approved by the leader to join the team.

Although they are at the center of the topic, the two protagonists are completely unaware of the rumors about themselves.

Because Bai Yan and Ruan Xiaohui were brought into the team temporarily, the transfer of their household registration could not be completed quickly.

In addition, Bai Yan had stated that she had no intention of becoming a long-term member of the team.

So Lu Zhenhua arranged for the two of them to continue living in the family building.

Bai Yan was officially “released” after the reception.

Although the ban is lifted, I still have to report to Meng Hechuan every day.

Meng Hechuan found a separate data room for her as her future office space.

At first, Bai Yan thought that she would receive such good treatment as soon as she started working, which meant that the team valued her very much.

But I was stunned when I saw the data room, which was the small room next to Meng Hechuan’s office.

Chief Engineer Meng brought the person in front of him and kept him under surveillance at all times.

Bai Yan gave up the futile struggle to explain to him and decided to start taking the route of “the innocent will be cleared”.

Her affairs here have come to an end and are back on track.

It’s almost the same with Ruan Xiaohui.

I don’t know how she told Meng Hechuan, but a few days after Bai Yan became a translator, Ruan Xiaohui was also kept as an exception.

However, she was assigned to the cooking class instead of the art class she had been dreaming of.

Ruan Xiaohui also had the opportunity to go out alone with Meng Hechuan for two nights.

When Meng Hechuan politely sent Ruan Xiaohui back, Bai Yan was sitting on a stool reading a book.

As the door opened and the wind blew, Bai Yan couldn’t help coughing several times and tightened her collar.

Meng Hechuan couldn’t help but ask, “Has your cough not healed yet? The exchange meeting is coming up soon, you have to protect your throat. Didn’t I send you a lot of pears before?”

Bai Yan glanced at the guilty Ruan Xiaohui indifferently.

She was not so kind as to cover for her, and pointed: “Your good sister ate it all.”

Ruan Xiaohui hurriedly explained: “Brother Hechuan, my throat has been uncomfortable these days. Those pears are not big, and Sister Bai Yan didn’t want to peel them, so she didn’t eat them. I was afraid that they would go bad and waste your efforts, so I ate them all.”

“Yes, yes, you are just being kind and don’t want to waste it, so you eat it all.”

After saying that, she stood up and poured herself a cup of hot water. Before getting back behind the bed curtains, she deliberately glanced at Ruan Xiaohui again: “You’ve only been here a few days, Xiao Ruan, you seem to have gained a lot of weight.”

Ruan Xiaohui’s face turned red and purple.

A few days later, Xiao Zhou brought loquats, which were rare in winter, and a silk scarf.

Ruan Xiaohui wanted to eat again, but was stopped by Xiao Zhou, “Comrade Xiao Ruan, Chief Engineer Meng has said that this box is specially prepared for Comrade Xiao Bai, and her throat must be protected.”

Bai Yan wrapped the scarf around her neck and felt that it relieved the itch in her throat.

…

Although I see Ruan Xiaohui every day when I open my eyes and close them.

But for Bai Yan, who had experienced a devastating start, this was already the best outcome.

When the project ends in a year, she will take the initiative to leave the team and stay away from Meng Hechuan.

The sky is wide and the sea is vast in the 1980s, when opportunities are everywhere.

With a new century mind, you won’t have to worry about achieving financial freedom.

With the vision of a bright future for herself, Bai Yan stepped into the archive room.

She put the stack of personal information in her hand on the table, pulled up a chair and sat down, looking through it carefully.

According to the team’s plan, after this weekend, the foreign teachers from Jingzhou University, led by Wei Wei, will officially join the team.

Bai Yan must conduct an initial screening of the list of people recommended by each class before this, and select qualified team members to participate in the next round of interviews.

The team originally planned to select twelve members to participate in the training class, but after Bai Yan’s one-by-one screening over the past few days, it was found that this number might be difficult to achieve.

Although we have entered the 1980s, the average cultural level per capita is still relatively low.

Most of the team members have only junior high school education and can read and write, but most of them are unwilling to learn English from scratch.

Bai Yan looked at the letter of intent she had received back, which contained a series of “personal intention is not strong”, and sighed heavily.

She dropped her pen, rubbed her swollen nose bone, and was about to rest for a few minutes when someone suddenly knocked twice on the glass window on the left.