Chen Jinjun looked at the tall official gate in front of him and squinted his eyes.
She came this time not only to test Huo Tingyu's opinion, but also because she was afraid that he would not be present at the Chen family banquet in the evening.
This is a matter of gaining Huo Tingyu's trust. If he hadn't been present, tonight's banquet would not have been so grand.
With this in mind, Chen Jinjun was invited to Huo Tingyu's reception room.
She raised her head and looked around.
Unexpectedly, the reception room of this old-fashioned and stern commander was not the serious and rigid Qing Dynasty style she had imagined, but instead a gorgeous Western style.
"What are you looking at?" Huo Tingyu saw Chen Jinjun looking around as soon as he arrived in the reception room.
"Look at this reception room, it's very different from the Marshal's personality."
Chen Jinjun looked at him teasingly.
"I didn't do it. The government was done by those officials from the Qing Dynasty. I just took it and used it."
Huo Tingyu sat aside.
Chen Jinjun looked at Huo Tingyu up and down again.
A straight military uniform was wrapped in a long leather coat, and a pair of high military boots were worn on his feet.
"I didn't expect that the Marshal's clothes would be so different between his official duties and everyday life." Chen Jinjun was very curious about Huo Tingyu's outfit.
Huo Tingyu felt the hair on his back when he saw her, and a blush crept up to his ears.
But he still changed the topic: "What do you want to see me for?"
His appearance aroused one of the few bad thoughts in Chen Jinjun. He tilted his head and looked at him, with a bit of ambiguity in his narrowed eyes: "If you have nothing to do, you can't come and see the commander. Otherwise, how would you know that the commander is usually so rigid?"
, and have such a heroic demeanor?"
There was a bit of frivolity in her tone, and Huo Tingyu couldn't help but frown.
"What my boss said is a bit inappropriate."
He tried hard not to care about the dangerous ambiguity in Chen Jinjun's eyes, straightened his back, and reminded her seriously.
Chen Jinjun raised his eyebrows, put away his joking expression, and took out the small bag of tea leaves from his handbag.
Seeing that she finally wanted to get down to business, Huo Tingyu breathed a sigh of relief unconsciously, but when he saw the tea leaves Chen Jinjun took out, he still couldn't help asking: "What is this?"
"Evidence." Chen Jinjun put the tea leaves on the table and pushed them towards Huo Tingyu.
"This is tea." Huo Tingyu looked at Chen Jinjun.
"If I tell you directly, you won't believe it," Chen Jinjun thought for a moment, "May I ask, Commander-in-Chief, if there are any so-called chemistry laboratories opened by foreign students who have returned from studying in the West?"
"Yes." Huo Tingyu remembered clearly that the previous dynasty sent many students who had returned from studying in the West to Yongzhou, saying that they could help Yongzhou enter industrialization.
"Send someone to take it for testing." Chen Jinjun raised his chin at the bag of tea.
Huo Tingyu had some guesses in his heart, but he still wasn't sure.
Because most of these international students are not locals of Yongzhou, they did not have an early holiday as the Chinese New Year was approaching.
Huo Tingyu asked his adjutant to send over the bag of tea brought by Chen Jinjun, while he looked at Chen Jinjun.
"Aren't you worried that there is nothing wrong with this tea?"
"Not afraid." Chen Jinjun's eyes were firm. She had just let Zheng Wen smell it. The small bag of tea was the most concentrated tea in Yang Qing's hands so far. He had to make two false accounts on Cai Ying's account to get it out.
Authenticity is not in question.
"Then I will wait for the result with you." Huo Tingyu relaxed his tense back and leaned on the sofa.
Instead, Chen Jinjun looked at him doubtfully: "Is the Marshal out of official duties?"
Her tone was too cold and her expression was questioning.
Huo Tingyu looked at her in a daze, and his voice was a little shaky: "No, it was all dealt with in the past two days."
He was telling the truth. In order to have an early rest, he had basically finished all his affairs in the past two days. He came to the government office today just to attend to the occasion, and there was no actual work.
Chen Jinjun wrinkled his nose and clicked his tongue: "Okay, then just wait."
After saying that, he leaned aside and took a nap.
Her appearance made Huo Tingyu uncomfortable.
Although he has always known that Chen Jinjun's appearance is outstanding, he has been avoiding this problem in his heart.
But Chen Jinjun was so close to him now, and the warmth of the winter sun caused the faint fresh woody fragrance from her body to emit, slowly filling the small reception room.
Huo Tingyu's nose was itchy due to the smell, and he couldn't help but raise his hand to rub it.
In fact, from the bottom of his heart, he was unwilling to admit that Chen Jinjun's beauty attracted him. He had always been impressed by the calmness and ambition in Chen Jinjun's eyes.
But when she was just in front of him, closing her deep eyes, he had to admit that Chen Jinjun had another kind of beauty with her eyes closed.
Huo Tingyu twisted his thigh.
She couldn't do this. She was Ping Yan's widow. She couldn't do anything that was against ethics, not even think that way.
The pain in his legs restored clarity to his eyes. Huo Tingyu quickly took a sip of water to suppress the inexplicable irritability in his heart.
He stood up and walked to the window, looking at the scenery outside, trying hard to erase everything he had just seen.
Being blocked from the sunlight by him, Chen Jinjun raised his eyelids in displeasure.
Needless to say, Huo Tingyu's broad back does seem to make people feel at ease.
But she still frowned: "Do you have any books here?"
Huo Tingyu was relieved when he heard her voice.
Just now when she closed her eyes and took a nap, he would be at a loss and not know what to do.
But when Chen Jinjun was awake, those clear eyes would not make him think too much. Instead, they would make him think about her words more rationally.
"If you have a book, what do you want to read? I'll have someone pick it up."
Chen Jinjun thought for a while: "There's nothing in particular that I want to see. Why don't you show me what the commander-in-chief reads on a daily basis, so that I can learn from him."
Huo Tingyu hurriedly asked his adjutant to get the military book on his desk.
In this way, the two of them spent half the morning reading the military strategy in the reception room.
Chen Jinjun turned over the pages of the book in his hand and admired Huo Tingyu a little.
Not all of these military books were high-quality, and there were some mistakes in them that even a layman like her could see.
There are even a lot of typos in some books, which makes it even more difficult to read this obscure military book.
Even so, Huo Tingyu still read it with great interest, and then selected the parts suitable for Yongzhou.
Chen Jinjun couldn't help but glance at Huo Tingyu.
Then she was startled because Huo Tingyu was looking at her thoughtfully.
Chen Jinjun frowned: "Commander, what do you want me to do?"
Huo Tingyu's eyes dodge for a moment, but he still tries to look very calm: "It's dinner time, aren't you hungry?"
After hearing what he said, Chen Jinjun also felt empty in his stomach.
"Then could you please, Marshal, show me the official lunch?" She looked at Huo Tingyu openly.