Chapter 3 03

"We have finished reading "Treasure Island" this semester, and we will read Tolstoy next semester," Juemin said to Qin, with a smug smile on his face, they had already walked out of the upper room and had just descended the stone steps , walked towards their room. "Next semester, our Chinese teacher will hire Wu Youling, the one who published the article "Etiquette of Cannibalism" on "New Youth." "Wu Youling, I know, he is the one who 'punches the hole with one hand'. You are so lucky!" Qin said excitedly and enviously. "Our Chinese teachers are always talented scholars from the Qing Dynasty, and the books they read are always the same. Speaking of English, I have been reading "Chambo's English Reader" for the past few years. It is always those old antiques!...I wish I could Your school will immediately open the ban on women."

""Qianbo's English Reader" is also good. Isn't there a translation in China? I heard it's called "The Poet's Interpretation of Yiyu", and it was written by Lin Qinnan," Juehui laughed at the back. Qin looked back at him and complained: "Third cousin, you always like to joke, and people are talking serious things!" "Okay, I won't talk anymore," Juehui replied with a smile, "Let you two talk about it." He deliberately slowed down and let Juemin and Qin enter the room, while he himself stood on the threshold. The lights in the main room were dim.The lights in the upper room on the left and right and the wing room on the opposite side were brightly lit, and the sound of playing cards came from the upper room on the left.There are voices everywhere.The patio is so beautifully and purely decorated with snow.Juehui raised her head and looked around, her heart was very light.He wanted to yell, and he wanted to laugh a few times.He waved his arms to show that there is a vast space around him, his body is free, and there is nothing restraining him or hindering him.

He also remembered that when he played the black dog in "Treasure Island", he used to pat the table and shout to the hotel waiter to bring wine.This kind of arrogance suddenly surged into his heart again, and he unconsciously shouted loudly: "Mingfeng, pour tea! Pour three cups of tea!" Someone in the room on the left answered.A few minutes later, the girl brought two cups of tea and came out from the room on the left. "Why are there only two glasses? I clearly told you to pour three glasses!" He still asked loudly.Mingfeng was about to walk in front of him, and when he heard his loud question, she seemed to be taken aback, her hands trembled slightly, and she poured out a little tea in the cup, then raised her head to look at him, smiled at him and said: " I only have two hands."

"Why don't you bring a tea tray?" He smiled as he spoke. "Okay, serve these two cups of tea to Miss Qin and the Second Young Master." He turned his body to the left, leaning against the door frame, and let her go in. Soon Mingfeng came out.Hearing the sound of footsteps, he deliberately let go of his feet and stood in the middle of the door to block her way. She stood silently behind him, rested for a while before saying: "Third young master, let me go." Her voice was not high. I don't know if he didn't hear it, or if he heard it and pretended not to hear it on purpose, in short, he didn't move.

She said the same thing again, and added a sentence: Madame wants her to do something.But he still ignored her.He stood on the threshold like a stone. "Mingfeng,...Mingfeng!" Someone called from the upper room, it was his stepmother's voice. "Let me go, my wife is calling me," Mingfeng whispered anxiously behind him, "Go to Yan, my wife will scold you." "It doesn't matter if you get scolded," he said with a smile, "tell your wife that I have something to do here." "My wife doesn't believe it. If it makes her lose her temper, she might be scolded when the guest leaves later." The girl's voice was still very low, and no one in the room could hear her.

At this time another girl's voice sounded, and his sister Shuhua said loudly: "Mingfeng, Mingfeng, my wife calls you to pack a cigarette!" He turned his body to the side to make way, and Mingfeng ran out immediately.Shuhua came out from the upper room, met Mingfeng, and asked reproachfully: "Where have you been? Why are you called, and you always refuse to agree!" "I'll bring tea to the third young master." She answered with her head down. "It doesn't take so long to serve tea! You're not dumb, why don't you agree when I call you?" Shuhua is only fourteen years old this year, but she also pretends to be an adult to scold the maid, and her attitude is very natural. "Go quickly, if Madam finds out, you will be scolded again." After she finished speaking, she turned and walked back to the room, and Mingfeng followed her silently.

These words were sent to Juehui's ears word by word, very clearly.They beat his head like a whip.His face suddenly became hot.He was ashamed.He knew that the scolding that girl received was all brought to her by him.His sister's attitude aroused his disgust.He really wanted to say a few words to defend Mingfeng, but something held him back.He stood silently in the darkness, observing these things as if they had nothing to do with him. They went, leaving him here alone, and the face of a girl appeared before his eyes again.There is always that expression on this beautiful face: resigned, without complaint, without complaint.Like the sea, it took everything and swallowed everything, and yet it made not even a roar.

The voice of the woman in the room also entered his ears from time to time, and made him see another girl's face.It is also a beautiful face.But its expression is different: rebellious, enthusiastic, and resolute, as if it can't bear everything.These two faces represent two lives and indicate two destinies.He compared them, and for some reason he always felt that he sympathized with and liked the former face more.Although he saw more happiness and light on the latter face. At this moment, the former face appeared bigger to his eyes, and the resigned and pleading expression appeared more moving.He wanted to comfort her, to give her something.But he couldn't think of anything he could give her.He inadvertently thought of her fate.He understood that her fate was arranged when she was born.Many girls of her kind have had the same fate, and she alone is certainly no exception.Thinking of this, he felt unfair about the arrangement of fate.He wants to fight it, change it.Suddenly a strange idea appeared in his mind.But after some time he broke into laughter again.

"No, such a thing cannot be done," he said to himself. "What if there is such a thing?" he asked himself again.So he imagined all the consequences, and his courage disappeared immediately.He smiled again and said, "What a dream! What a dream!" But this dream is also worthy of nostalgia, and he seems unwilling to abandon it completely at once.He asked another question with hope: "What if she is in the environment like Sister Qin?" "Of course not!" he replied decisively.At this time, he really felt that she was in Qin's environment, so everything between him and her became very natural and reasonable.

After a while, he laughed again, he was laughing at himself, and he said: "How can there be such delusions!... This is not love at all, it's just fun." Then the girl with a resigned expression The face gradually disappeared, and the face of another defiant and passionate girl appeared before his eyes.But this face soon disappeared. "The Huns are still alive, so what is the family for?" Although he usually doesn't like this old saying, but at this time he thinks it is a wonderful way to solve all these problems!So he calls it out in an impassioned tune.The so-called "Hun" does not refer to foreigners.What he meant was not to pick up real knives and guns and go to the battlefield to kill foreigners.He just thinks that to be a "man" should abandon the family and go outside to create an unusual career by himself.As for what this career is, he himself has only a little idea.So shouting, he walked into the room.

"Look, the third brother is going crazy again!" In the room, Juemin was standing next to the writing desk, talking to Qin who was sitting on the wicker chair in front of the writing desk. Hearing Juehui's voice, he looked up at him, and then smiled. He said to Qin. Qin also raised her head to look at Juehui, and answered Juemin mockingly, "Don't you know that he is a hero?" "Maybe it's 'Black Dog', 'Black Dog' is also a hero!" Juemin said with a smile.Jean laughed too. Juehui was a little annoyed by their laughter, and replied angrily: "Anyway, 'Black Dog' is better than Dr. Li. Dr. Li is just a gentleman." "What does this mean?" Juemin asked half-surprised and half-jokingly, "Aren't you a gentleman in the future?" "Yes! Yes!" Juehui replied angrily. "Our grandfather was a gentleman, and our father was a gentleman, so should we be gentlemen too?" He closed his mouth, as if waiting for his brother's answer. Juemin was just joking with his younger brother at first, but now seeing Juehui really angry, he wanted to find words to comfort him, but he couldn't find a suitable word for a while.Qin didn't say anything beside her, just watched them silently. "Enough is enough, I've had enough of this life," Juehui continued.The more he went on, the more excited he became, and his face turned red: "Why does elder brother often sigh and sigh? It's not because he can't live the life of a gentleman: can't bear the idleness in a gentleman's family? You all know this... ...Our big family has not yet reached the fifth generation, but only four generations, and it has become like this. It is obvious that we are a family, but there is no day when we are not fighting openly and secretly. In fact, it is just fighting for some family property!..." He said here He became even more angry, as if something was blocking his throat. He felt that there was a lot to say, but he couldn't say it for a while.In fact, it wasn't his brother who made him angry.There is another reason.This was the face of the girl with a resigned expression.He felt that he and she could have been approached.But misfortune had erected an invisible wall between them, the gentleman's family, which prevented him from getting what he wanted, and which made him hate it all the more. Juemin looked at his younger brother's flushed face and two radiant eyes.He walked over to hold his younger brother's hand, patted his shoulder again, and said emotionally, "I shouldn't be joking with you. You are right. Your pain is also my pain....We two brothers will always be together Together..." He didn't know that there was another girl's face in Juehui's mind. When Juehui heard his brother's words, his anger disappeared immediately, and he just nodded silently. Qin also stood up and said excitedly: "Third cousin, I shouldn't laugh at you either, I want to be with you forever. I should fight even more, my situation is more difficult than yours." They both turned to look at her, and there was a melancholy light in her large, beautiful eyes.It was as if something was rippling in her eyes.Her usual buoyant posture was gone, and the brooding, somber expression of her face expressed the strife of her heart.The first time they saw her look like this, they knew immediately what was troubling her.She was right that her situation was more difficult than theirs.Her sorrowful countenance, being uncommon, was more moving than her joyous gestures.At this time, they had a wish, and they were willing to sacrifice everything of themselves, just to make this girl's wish come true as soon as possible.But this desire is vague, and they don't have any specific solution, they just feel that this is their obligation. They completely forgot about their troubles, and all they thought about was Jean.Later, Juemin said, "Sister Qin, it's okay. We will help you. Just rest assured. I usually believe in the saying 'Where there is a will, there is a way'. You should remember that we used to go to school, and grandpa was extremely opposed at first. ? After all, we won.” Qin took two or three steps back, resting on the desk with one hand, touching her forehead with the other, leaning against the desk.She stared at them blankly as if waking up from a dream. "Sister Qin, the second brother's words are good, you just need to rest assured," Juehui also said to Qin earnestly; "You just need to prepare your homework well and study English a lot. As long as you are admitted to the 'Foreign College', other questions will be solved. There is always a solution." Qin gently picked her temples, smiled slightly, but said with a little anxiety: "I hope it can be so. Mom is not a problem. She will definitely agree to me. I'm afraid my mother-in-law will object. And relatives You can also gossip. Even in your family, other than the two of you, other people will object. " "What does this have to do with them? It's your business to study, and you're not from our family!" Juehui said half surprised and half angrily. "You don't know that because of me, my mother received a lot of slack. My relatives said that a girl of this age walks on the street every day, and what she looks like when she is seen by others, she has lost everyone's boudoir style. Five My aunt laughed at me once last year. I didn’t feel anything at all. But my mother was suffering. My mother’s thinking is completely old-fashioned. Although she is a little smarter than other ordinary people, she is not much smarter. Mom loves me, so she is willing to put The responsibility lies on her own shoulders, regardless of the gossip of ordinary relatives. It is not because she believes that it is right to go to school. . . . Think, which of our relatives dares to say that this matter is right?" Qin became more and more excited as she continued to speak, she straightened her body, her eyes shone brightly, and shot at Juemin's face, as if she wanted to find an answer from him. . "Brother won't object," Juemin said unintentionally. "What's the use of adding him alone? The eldest aunt will object. Besides, the fourth aunt and the fifth aunt have gossip again," Qin continued. "Don't care what they say!" Juehui interjected, "They have enough to eat all day and have nothing to do. Of course, they can only talk about the family's faults. Even if you don't do anything, they will make it up for you. In short, we can't stop their mouths, we should make fun of them anyway, and let them talk about it, as if we didn't hear it." "The third brother's words are very reasonable, sister Qin, let's make a decision like this," Juemin said encouragingly. "I've decided now," Qin's eyes suddenly lit up, and she regained her lively and resolute look, and then said firmly: "I know that the success of any reform requires a lot of sacrifices. Now let I will be a sacrifice." "If you have such determination, things will definitely work out," Juemin reassured her.Qin smiled slightly, and still said in a firm tone: "It doesn't matter if you succeed or not. Anyway, I will try it." Both brothers Juemin looked at her with admiration. The bell in the next room came, and it was nine. Qin straightened her hair and said: "I should go, and the four rounds of cards should be over." She walked outside, and then greeted them with a smile: "Come and play at our house when you are free. I am at home all day. Very empty." "Okay," the two brothers responded in unison.They sent her out the door, watched her back enter the upper room, and then turned back. "Qin is really a brave woman," Juemin thought of Qin, and blurted out such compliments unconsciously.He was still indulging in fantasies.Afterwards, he suddenly said: "A girl as lively as Qin also suffers from her pain. I really can't think of it." "Everyone has their own pain, and so do I," Juehui said in the second half of the sentence and suddenly stopped, as if saying something she didn't want to say. "You have pain too? What pain do you have?" Juemin asked in surprise. Juehui blushed, and quickly argued: "It's nothing, I'm just joking!" Juemin didn't say anything more, just looked at his face suspiciously. "Auntie's sedan chair!" Someone shouted outside, it was Mingfeng's crisp voice. "Promoting Madam's sedan chair!" The middle-aged servant Yuan Cheng's voice rang out.After a few minutes, the middle door opened, and two bearers brought in an empty sedan chair and set it down on the steps in front of the main room. Gongs sounded in the street, heavy and sad, and the second watch gong struck.