Chapter 4 Chapter Four

She agreed to Mrs. Xu.Mrs. Xu will be leaving in a week.Liusu was busy arranging her luggage.Although there is nothing long in the house, there is nothing to tidy up at all, but it has been in chaos for a few days.I sold a few odds and ends and added a few sets of clothes.In spite of her busy schedule, Mrs. Xu spared time to act as a consultant for her.Mrs. Xu's courtship of tassels was noticed by the people in the Bai mansion, and they gradually developed a new interest in tassels.In addition to being suspicious of her, he also had three scruples, murmured behind his back, but stopped pointing and scolding her in person, and occasionally called "Sixth Sister", "Sixth Aunt", "Sixth Miss", I'm afraid that she really married a rich man in Hong Kong and returned home in a glorious way. Everyone must leave room for a meeting so as not to offend her.

Mrs. Xu and Mr. Xu came to pick her up by car with her children. She was in the first-class cabin of a Dutch ship.The boat was small and turbulent. As soon as Mr. Xu and Mrs. Xu got on the boat, they both fell asleep and vomited endlessly. The children beside them were crying. Tassel actually served them for a few days.After finally the boat docked, she just had a chance to go to the deck to see the sea view.It was a scorching afternoon, and the most eye-catching thing to look at was the huge billboards on the pier, red, orange, pink, reflected in the green sea water, strips, touches of irritating and offensive Pigment, jumping up and down, fighting extremely lively under the water.Liusu thought, in this exaggerated city, even if she stumbled, it would probably hurt more than other places. She couldn't help but feel agitated, and suddenly felt that someone was rushing to hug her leg, almost pushing her away. I fell down, but I was surprised, and then saw that it was Mrs. Xu's child, so I quickly collected myself and went to help Mrs. Xu take care of everything.Unexpectedly, the dozen or so pieces of luggage and the two children refused to be put together in one pile. When the luggage was packed, another child was missing in the blink of an eye.

Liusu was exhausted, so he stopped looking at Yeyan. On the shore, called two cars to Repulse Bay Hotel.The car drove out of the busy city, over mountains and ridges. After walking for a long time, there were only loess cliffs, red clay cliffs, dense green trees and blue-green sea exposed in the gaps of the clay cliffs.As we approach Repulse Bay, there are also earthy cliffs and jungles, but it gradually becomes brighter.Many people who came back from the mountain tour passed by their cars, one car after another was full of flowers, and the wind blew down their scattered laughter. When I got to the hotel, I couldn't see where the hotel was.They got out of the car, walked up the extremely wide stone steps, and reached the high platform with sparse flowers and trees, and then they saw two yellow houses on the highest place.Mr. Xu had already reserved a room, and the servants led them along the gravel path, into the dim dining room, through the dim hall, and up to the second floor.Turning a corner, there is a door leading to a small balcony with a wisteria trellis, half-baked in the slanting sun.There were two people standing and talking on the balcony, and I saw a woman with her back to them, with long black hair hanging down to her ankles, and a red gold twisted twisted bracelet on her ankles. She was barefoot. Wearing slippers, a section of Indian-style pink pleated narrow-leg trousers is slightly exposed.A man who was blocked by the woman yelled: "Hey! Mrs. Xu!" He walked over, greeted Mr. Xu and Mrs. Xu, and nodded to Liusu with a smile.Liusu saw that it was Fan Liuyuan, although he had expected this move long ago, his heart still couldn't help beating violently.The woman on the balcony disappeared in a flash.Liu Yuan accompanied them upstairs, and along the way everyone expressed surprise and joy as if meeting old friends in a foreign land.Even though Fan Liuyuan was not good enough to be called a handsome man, he was careless and careless, but he still had his wind spirit.Mr. Xu and his wife directed the servants to carry the luggage. Liu Yuan and Liu Su walked in front. Liu Su asked with a smile, "Mr. Fan, you didn't go to Singapore?" Liu Yuan replied softly, "I'm waiting for you here." Liusu didn't expect him to be so forthright, so I don't want to go into details, I'm afraid to put it bluntly, it wasn't Mrs. Xu who invited her to Hong Kong, but he invited her, and she herself would not get off the stage, so she just took him as a joke and smiled at him.

Liu Yuan found out that her room was No. 130, so she stood still and said, "Here we are." The servant took the key and opened the door, and as soon as Liusu entered, he couldn't help but walked straight to the window.The whole room was like a dark yellow picture frame with a large painting in the window.The scorching, shimmering sea waves splashed directly onto the curtains, staining the edges of the curtains blue.Liu Yuan said to Pu'ou: "The box is right next to the cupboard." Liusu heard his voice just below his ears, and felt a shock. When he turned around, he saw that Pu'u had already gone out, but the door was closed. It's not closed.Liu Yuan leaned against the window, stretched out a hand to support the window pane, blocking her sight, just looked at her and smiled.Liusu lowered her head.Liu Yuan smiled and said: "Did you know? Your specialty is bowing your head." Liusu raised his head and smiled and said, "What? I don't understand." Liu Yuan said: "Some people are good at talking, some are good at laughing, and some are good at housekeeping You are good at bowing your head." Liusu said: "I don't know anything. I am a most useless person." Liu Yuan smiled and said: "A useless woman is the most powerful woman." Liusu walked away with a smile: "I won't tell you anymore, let's go to the next door and have a look." Liu Yuan said, "Next door? My room or Mrs. Xu's room?"

Liusu was startled again and said, "You live next door?" Liu Yuan had already opened the door for her, and said, "My room is in a mess, I can't see people." He knocked on the door of No. 131, and Mrs. Xu opened the door to let them in and said, "Have tea here, we have a sitting room." Then he rang the bell and called for some refreshments.Mr. Xu came out of the bedroom and said: "I called Lao Zhu, and he made a fuss to catch up. He invited us all to the Hong Kong Hotel. It's today." He said to Liu Yuan, "Including you." Mrs. Xu said: "You are really interested. You have been seasick for a few days, why don't you take a rest early? Tonight, forget it!" Liu Yuan said with a smile: "The Hong Kong Hotel is the most rigid dance hall I have ever seen. The architecture, the lighting, the setting, the band, it's all old British, what was fashionable 40 or 50 years ago, it's not exciting enough now. There's really nothing to see, unless it's the weird-looking servants, the big hits God, it looks like northerners wearing legged trousers—" Tassel said: "Why?" Liu Yuan said: "Chinese sentiment!" Mr. Xu smiled and said: "Since you are here, you have to go and see it. I will wrong you to do it." Be your companion!" Liu Yuan said with a smile, "I can't say for sure. Don't wait for me." Liusu saw that he didn't look like he was going, Mr. Xu is not a person who often goes to the dance hall, so it is rare to be so happy, it seems that he is serious about going She seemed to be introducing a friend, but she was puzzled again.

However, that night, the group of people who greeted them in the Hong Kong hotel were all old men and wives in pairs, and the few single men were all young people in their twenties. Liusu was dancing when Fan Liuyuan suddenly appeared and took her from another man. Under the lychee red light, she couldn't see his dark face clearly, but felt that he was unusually silent.Liusu laughed and said, "Why don't you talk?" Liu Yuan laughed and said, "I've finished all the things you can say in front of people." : "Some silly things, not only have to be said behind people's backs, but also behind your own. It's embarrassing to let yourself hear it. For example, I love you, and I will love you all my life." Liusu turned her head away and gently Spit and said: "There are such nonsense!" Liu Yuan said: "If you don't talk, it's because I don't talk, and when I talk, I hate nagging!" Liusu said with a smile: "I ask you, why don't you want me to go to the dance hall? Go?" Liu Yuan said: "Ordinary men like to teach a good woman to be bad, and also like to influence a bad woman to make her a good woman. I don't think I'm so idle looking for something to do. I think it's better for a good woman to be honest .” Liusu glanced at him and said, “Do you think you are different from others? I think you are also selfish.”

Liu Yuan smiled and said, "How selfish?" Liusu thought to himself: Your highest ideal is a pure and provocative woman.Pure and clean, it is for others. Tease, is for yourself.If I were a thoroughly nice woman, you wouldn't even notice me.She tilted her head towards him and smiled, "You want me to be a good woman in front of others, and a bad woman in front of you." Liu Yuan thought for a while and said, "I don't understand." Liusu then explained: "You want me I am bad to others, but I am only good to you." Liu Yuan laughed and said, "Why is it upside down again? It confuses people even more!" He pondered for a while and said, "Your words are wrong." Liusu laughed and said: "Oh, you understand." Liu Yuan said, "Whether you are good or bad, I don't want you to change. It's rare to meet a real Chinese woman like you." Liu Su sighed slightly: "I'm just a passing It’s just people who are out of date.” Liu Yuan said: “A real Chinese woman is the most beautiful in the world, and will never be out of date.” Tassel smiled and said: “A new-style person like you——” Liu Yuan said: “You say The new school probably refers to the foreign school. I really can’t be considered a real Chinese, and it was only in recent years that I gradually became Chinese. But you know, Chinese foreigners are more stubborn than any old scholars. Tassel laughed and said, "You are stubborn too, and I am stubborn too. As you said, the Hong Kong Hotel is the most stubborn dance hall..." They laughed together.

The music happened to stop.Liu Yuan helped her back to the seat, smiled to everyone: "Miss Bai has a headache, I'll take her back first." Liusu didn't watch out for his move, couldn't think of how to deal with it for a while, and didn't want to offend him , because the friendship was not deep enough, not to the point of quarreling, so he had to put on the coat for her, apologized to everyone, and walked out together.