Chapter 2079
Within moments, An Xin responded and burst into joy, “Fun fun fun, Daddy I want to play again! Giggle giggle ……”
Fu Shen Yan’s hair was all wet, obediently sticking to his forehead, water droplets were still flowing down, but he was very strict in controlling himself to remain motionless, “Now you know who you should learn to swim from?”
“I know, I know! An Xin wants to learn from Daddy! I want to play with the one I just did, and then I’ll fly!” An Xin, the “little traitor”, was hugging Shen Yu two days ago and saying “I’m best with my uncle”, but now he only has eyes for daddy, his stance is too unswerving!
The two big men exchanged glances, one showing off his triumph, the other his helplessness in defeat.
“Fu Shen Yan you’re foul, who can’t lift An Xin’s little body? This game doesn’t count, let’s have another game, this time a round trip, whoever swims around the pool first, will win!” Shen Yu cursed and swam towards them.
Fu Shen Yan ignored his words and carefully lowered An Xin from his shoulders, telling her to line up with Zhi An for all seasons, while he himself stood proudly, taking on the air of a general.
“Today, Daddy himself will teach you how to deal with drowning ……”
“Ha?” An Xin’s face drops as soon as he hears it, a face of aggravation plus caution asks, “Daddy we don’t play the game just now?”
The more you say, the smaller your voice gets, the more you say the words “An Xin would love to play”, but in the end you don’t dare to look at Fu Shen Yan’s cold face and boldly say it.
The answer could not be more obvious – there is no discussion, the atmosphere is somewhat dull, Shen Yu also gloating leaning on the side of the pool to see the joke, and did not say to help persuade.
I do agree that children’s attention spans are easily distracted, and it’s not a bad idea to be cautious when dealing with water.
The good thing is that the Four Seasons seems to remember Fu Shenyan’s temper, and fearing that An Xin will annoy him, she took the initiative to speak up and reassure him, “An Xin be good, finish practicing first, and daddy will reward you when you learn~”
The two sisters raised their eyes in tacit agreement while saying that they secretly looked at their old father who was not showing his anger.
Fu Shenyin has never been one to accept such threats, but somehow, he didn’t get angry, and after two seconds of silence, he unexpectedly gave in, “I’ll let you guys be.”
Sure enough, his daughter’s wishes were the bottom line for Fu Shen Yan.
“Oye!”
An Xin was so happy that both hands went up and her body slipped down the hole in the swimming ring, catching her off guard and filling her mouth with two mouthfuls of water, luckily Zhi’an and the Four Seasons were quick to act and Li hurriedly pulled her up, which allowed her to catch her breath.
“Pfft! Pffffffff!” As she spat out the water, she used her little eyes to check Fu Shen Yan’s expression, and when she saw that his face had not changed, she boldly squeezed her eyes and made a face to please him.
The three children had a basic knowledge of swimming and were smart enough to learn it in a couple of minutes, and spent most of the time playing in the water.
This is when Sang Yun suddenly appeared to save the day, “Shen Yu! You don’t care about your son, do you? If you don’t want to live, leave!”
A roar of the lion in the river, the vigorous Shen Yu instantly wilted, sighed and swam to shore, “This is good, there is no fun ~”
After saying that, he also forgot to playfully coax his wife, “Come on, come on, always talking about leaving the water, how can a fish leave the water~”
He said he was about to reach out and hug Sang Yun.
Sang Yun dodged perfectly with a sideways turn, stretched out her index finger against Shen Yu’s chest, narrowed her eyes and warned, “You want to sleep in the study again, right?”
Shen Yu made a fool of himself and could only give up, dropping his head and following behind him back to the front room.
By now it was almost dark, so Fu Shen Yan also hurriedly ended the first aid class, which was called a teaching session but was actually a parent-child game, and took the children back to take a bath.
I fell behind and watched from afar as Fu Shen Yan’s tall figure was surrounded by the children, laughing and talking, feeling that the years were quiet and the future was bright.
Suddenly, my eyes were drawn to a scar on the popliteal fossa of Fu’s knee.
Having experienced a trip to Burma, I could tell at a glance that it was the mark of a healed gunshot wound.
Chapter 2080
The wound is not conspicuous, and if Fu Shenyan had not left his swimming trunks all over today and happened to walk a long distance with his back to me, I probably would never have noticed it.
The only way I could have found out was if he had been injured for so long that he had forgotten about it.
When I was lost in thought, Chen Yi happened to be leading the servants who were packing their things past, so I called out, “assistant Chen, wait a minute.”
“Madam.” Chen Yi respectfully stepped forward and bent over.
“Hmm.” I answered in a whisper, my gaze still following the scar on Fu Shenyan’s leg, and asked, “What’s going on there on your husband’s knee?”
Chen Yi smiled, raised his head to follow my line of sight and forgot about it, silent for a moment, sunken eyes and said, “I don’t know yet ma’am.”
“Don’t know?” Looking at him, I was surprised and amused, Chen Yi had been with Fu Shen Yan for longer than I had, and he had taken care of my food, clothing, shelter and transportation, so how could he not know?
I simply stopped walking and stopped where I was, and said in a quietly threatening voice, “Special assistant Chen, do you know that your ears will twitch uncontrollably when you lie?”
Chen Yi’s face was stunned, his expression visibly frozen for a moment before he opened his mouth again in a feigned calm, “I don’t know, ma’am, I’m telling the truth, not everything about Mr. Chen Yi will be told.”
“Yeah well ……” I held the corners of my mouth and smiled.
Lying about moving his ears was something I made up, but his subconscious hesitation had completely betrayed himself.
The two of them are both the same, but they are both dead-headed, and if they decide they don’t want to talk, they can’t pry their mouths out with a shovel.
The past has been put aside, so maybe it’s not so hard to get Fu Shen Yan to be honest.
“OK, let’s let you go, go in first.”
As soon as Chen Yi left, I went straight back to my room and sat on the sofa for a while before Fu Shen Yan came out of the bathroom.
When I looked up, the top half of his body was exposed and the bottom half was wrapped in a bath towel covering him tightly, so if nothing else, the next step was to go change and wrap himself up tightly from the inside out.
Noticing me looking at him, Fu Shen Yan’s eyes narrowed slightly, revealing a hint of an impish smile, “I now have every reason to suspect that you’re psyching me out.”
The old married couple, of course, knew what his off-key expression meant.
Sure enough, just as he finished speaking he lifted his feet and walked towards the cloakroom.
“Don’t stink.” I hastily dismissed his thoughts.
I looked down and thought for a while, it seemed like a long time since I had seen Fu Shenyan change his clothes, and he often left early and returned late, plus we had been separated a lot over the years, so there were indeed few opportunities to observe each other’s changes carefully, and it was no surprise that I could not notice such a big gunshot wound.
The first time I thought of this, I simply got up and followed him over, leaning against the door frame, my eyes unafraid to look down.
The first time I saw you, I was just about to get up, but I saw me coming, so I gave you a little sideways glance before I continued.
I was so young and honest that it was hard to look at each other, but at this age, it was much calmer. I just focused on the scar on my left leg at the popliteal fossa, and pursed my lips, not happy or angry.
I was so smart that when I pulled my trousers online and followed my gaze to look down at my left leg, I knew I had discovered a secret he had kept in the back of his mind for a long time.