Chapter 9 Chapter 6 The Burial of Youth
The scorching Hong Kong summer greeted her. As soon as she stepped off the plane, she felt a threatening heat wave.
After getting off the plane, she almost thought her eyes were blurred, there was a young man standing next to her parents, who looked like An Xiong at a glance.
The man was talking as if he had known her parents for eight lifetimes.
"Are you...?" Shihua looked at the young man.
"I'm An Bang, An Xiong's younger brother. My brother asked me to pick me up at the airport. I met Uncle Sheng and Aunt Sheng at the airport."
"An Xiong is really, he often keeps quiet and arranges unexpected things for me." Shihua felt sweet in his heart.
"He never sent me your photo," Anbang said.
"Then how do you know who I am?"
"You were the one that Uncle Sheng and Auntie hugged when they saw each other," Anbang said.
"Then how do you know who my parents are?"
"Paging the ground crew at the airport, saying that Mr. Cheng is looking for Mrs. Sheng, isn't that easy?" Anbang had a weird face. Although his appearance was similar to An Xiong's, his expression was completely different, frivolous and playful.
"Goodbye, the task of picking up the plane has been completed, Uncle Sheng, Auntie, come to visit another day!" Anbang sent them to the car.
In the car, Mr. Sheng said:
"That lad is a good joker."
"Naughty." Mrs. Sheng asked, "Is that your boyfriend's younger brother?"
Shihua often mentions Anxiong in letters to his mother, except for the matter of living together.
An Xiong's glorious history naturally satisfies Mrs. Sheng.
"Do Cheng Anxiong and Cheng Anbang look alike?" Mrs. Sheng asked.
"Like, but Anxiong should be more attractive and serious." Shihua said.
"This is interesting, but a bit frivolous." Mrs. Sheng Da said.
"I've only met someone once, so I can make a judgment so quickly!" Shi Hua was most afraid of her mother's subjective opinion.
"Have you met him?" asked Mrs. Sheng.
"I've never seen it before, this is the first time." Shihua replied.
On the second day, Anbang came to visit.
"Wow, I'm scared!" Anbang said as soon as he sat down.
"What scares you?" Shihua was puzzled.
"My brother told me to pick up his girlfriend, why not scare me?"
"You don't need to answer, listen to your brother, you are not very obedient."
"He asked me to pick you up at the airport, and told me to come to see you often. I'm serious. In order not to ruin his event, and to please my future sister-in-law and her family, I had no choice but to take this job." Anbang frowned.
All the boys have always been too late to please Shihua, but this one, his brows were furrowed, and Shihua was so angry that he said:
"You don't pick up the plane and your brother doesn't care about you, who forced you to go?"
"Picking up at the airport is the easiest way to make a business trip. It takes three minutes at most to meet and greet." Anbang said, "I was thinking, what if my brother's girlfriend is ugly? It will take at least half an hour to visit, or should I go first?" Go to the airport and see what it looks like, if it's ugly, I'll disappear right away."
Shihua was dumbfounded by him.
Anbang, however, danced and said:
"When I saw you go out of the gate, it turned out to be like this, so I didn't get scared to death."
Shihua is angry and funny, these two brothers, one is so shy and steady, the other is so thick-skinned and talkative, although they look alike, their temperaments are worlds apart.
"Don't call me sister-in-law in the future, who is your sister-in-law?" Shihua said angrily.
"Aren't you my brother's girlfriend?" Anbang asked.
"Girlfriend and sister-in-law are two different things."
"I'm not going to be my sister-in-law, and I won't come here in the future." Anbang couldn't even sit still for a word, stood up and turned around.
"What are you running around for?"
"Here, this is sister-in-law's tone." Anbang pointed at her and smiled, as if grabbing her sore foot.
Shihua puffed up his cheeks and ignored him.
Anbang turned around, hunched over, with arms outstretched, walking around hesitantly like a gorilla.
Shihua couldn't help smiling.
As soon as Mrs. Sheng came down the stairs, An Bang saw his aunt coming, he straightened up quickly, and sat back on the sofa obediently.
"You look like a gorilla!" Shan Sheng said with a big smile, "Let's do it again."
This time, Anbang pretended to be a happy gorilla, which made Mrs. Sheng laugh for a while.
"Let's have a chat, I'll go to Aunt Ren's side." Mrs. Sheng went out gracefully.
"Look, your mother likes me too, we are destined to be relatives," Anbang said.
"It's not like I'm marrying you!" Shihua knew he had said the wrong thing as soon as he said it.
Sure enough, Anbang said:
"Marry me, I can barely think about it. Although your mother likes me so much, but you, I have to see clearly."
"Nonsense, who said I'm going to marry you!" Shihua stomped his feet angrily.
"Then you are implying that you want to marry my brother, then I have to see clearly for my brother. You know him, hard-hearted, beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
Shihua made him pale with anger.
"Oops, I'm annoyed." Anbang imitated Monkey King scratching his head.
"I don't annoy you, because you look like Anxiong, I don't annoy you, if you change your face, I will ignore you." Shihua said.
"Wow, An Xiong looks amazingly attractive, and I look like him, so I'm probably also amazingly attractive." Anbang said.
Shihua can't do anything against him, how did he know that Anxiong's younger brother is a big monkey?
At this time someone came, it turned out to be Fa Song, saw Shi Hua, kissed both cheeks.
Anbang looked uncomfortable, stood up and introduced himself:
"I am Cheng Anbang, younger brother of Shihua's boyfriend Cheng Anxiong."
Fasong, who has always been honest, was stunned, and Shihua had no choice but to make a rescue:
"He is Cheng Anbang, younger brother of my classmate Cheng Anxiong."
"This is Wang Fasong." Shihua continued to introduce.
Faxon shook his hand.
"I drove here, and we went to the Repulse Bay Hotel for afternoon tea." Fasong said to Shihua, "Is your friend coming too?"
"No, her friends won't come together." Anbang said, "I'll go first, bye."
Walking to the gate, Anbang kicked the tire angrily when he saw Fazonbo's red Ferrari sports car there.
Anbang returned home and sat there for two minutes, eager to jump back to Shihua's house immediately.
Unexpectedly, my brother's girlfriend is so delicate and charming, so small, like a flower that has just bloomed.
I saw Fazon, who was handsome and well-bred, driving a Ferrari in his twenties, so he must be a son of a rich family.
He also found that Fa Song's self-cultivation attitude is actually very similar to Shi Hua.
As soon as they met, they gave a Western-style kiss on the left cheek and right cheek. Although it may not be love, it was bamboo door to bamboo door, wooden door to wooden door.
His own family is well-off, and the ostentation of the Sheng family made him feel unnatural.
If the aunt of the Sheng family knew that they were not rich, she didn't know what would happen.
But whatever, that's Anbang's philosophy, just as he doesn't like reading.
In Repulse Bay, Fasong and Shihua are having afternoon tea leisurely. In his mind, Shihua is his.
He asked Shihua:
"That Cheng Anbang just said that you are his brother's girlfriend?"
"He was just joking with you. I have many classmates. His brother asked me to bring a bottle of perfume back to his mother. He just came up to get it. He is very naughty." Shihua lied.
Faxon was too honest to know as little as possible.
He doesn't need to know anything that doesn't need to break his heart.
When they were admiring the sunset, there were four or five people sitting at the next table, among them was a face she knew very well, that was Li Qi.
He didn't see her for a while, because those people were busy taking paper and pens out, and one even took a camera and pointed at Li Qi to take pictures, as if they were doing an interview.
"Who wants to interview Li Qi?" Shihua was puzzled.
Li Qi also noticed a pair of eyes looking at him, it was Shi Hua, he ran over overjoyed.
"Xiao Sheng, are you back?"
"Li Qi, what are you doing?"
"Reporters are interviewing me."
"Why should I interview you?"
Li Qi glanced mysteriously:
"My movie is a hit."
"I haven't seen you for half a year, when did you start filming?"
Li Qi looked at Fa Song and said hello.
"You have friends, it's a long story, I'll tell you another day."
Li Qi returned to the group of reporters.
Fazon spoke up:
"So you knew Li Qi."
"How do you know his name is Li Qi?"
"I came back before you, he's a new movie star, he's an instant hit, his movie was in theaters two weeks ago, it's such a hit, he's become a teenage idol, the rebellious melancholy kind, um, like Like James Dean."
Shihua was so surprised that his small mouth opened slightly. It hadn't been half a year, but the change was so big?
"Fazon, you don't watch local movies much, how do you know him?"
"My sister pestered me to accompany her to watch the sixth time. She fell in love with Li Qi. To be honest, he really knows how to act." Fasong said, "The appearance is also very special. I have never seen a chin like a foreigner. Like a Chinese male star with a dent."
Shihua was in a daze. He hadn't heard from him in the past six months. Unexpectedly, he became a red star.
"Why do you seem surprised?"
"He used to be a painter and is studying at the Polytechnic Institute. How did he start acting?"
"Not everyone decides to act when they're born, so what's so special about it? Anybody on the street can become a star in the sky."
This reminded Shihua of what she said when she and Li Qi parted, the stars in the sky.
"He is quite a star, I think he will be very popular, my sisters have always been fascinated by foreign male stars, this one, they are fascinated for the first time. Since you know him, introduce to my sisters See you, okay?"
"Okay, but I haven't seen him in a long time."
"Find a weekend and invite Li Qi to cruise the river on my yacht, so that my sisters will have a great day."
"Well, let me try."
Shihua Man responded.
During the interview, Li Qi looked at her across the table for a while, and You Ruo was signaling: "I will come to you."
"You really think he's good-looking?" Shi Hua asked Fa Song.
"The best-looking Hong Kong male star ever, he has a modern sense." Fazon said.
Shihua looked at Fasong gratefully, he was honest, fair, and generous, and he was really cute.
"However, I'm not asking you to be a matchmaker. It's enough for the younger sisters to meet him once. Don't let the little girls fall in love with him unrequitedly, and don't promise to make a second appointment." Fa Song said in a big brother's tone.
When she got home, Shi Hua didn't change her clothes, and she still didn't take a bath after dinner, she knew that Li Qi would come.
Sure enough, he came.
"Congratulations, Li Qi. Now you are really a star in the sky, and I am a mortal." Shi Hua couldn't tell whether she was happy or not.
Li Qi hugged her:
"Maybe it's just a firework. That was my first movie. How will I know what happens next?"
"You seem to be happier?" Shihua noticed that his spirit was bright.
"Movies are a strange business. In the past, who wanted to take a look at Li Qi? Everyone chased me and beat me up. Now, seeing his ghost, everyone is chasing Li Qi to see it." Li Qi is still a fool. Shrugged.
"Where is Shui Wenjun?" Shihua wanted to ask clearly.
"She went to Canada to study. Thanks to her, she introduced me to shoot a commercial. After the filming, the producer took a fancy to me and asked me to make a movie."
"Are you the hero?"
"No, it's the second leading actor. The leading actor is in his thirties. You don't watch Hong Kong movies, so you don't know."
"Then why are you red?"
"That role is just like me, so there's no need to play it."
"You don't study anymore?"
Li Qi shook his head:
"I'm not made for studying, besides, I need to make money."
"Do you like acting?"
"At first, there was nothing I liked or disliked, and the money looked good."
"Of course you're more interested now?"
"Yes. Although filming is quite hard and physically hard, since I was born in the womb, which day is not hard? Do you think it's better to be looked down upon by others for hard work, or to be praised everywhere?"
"You're getting arrogant."
"It's okay to be arrogant for a while? I hope you don't just like me who is unlucky everywhere."
"What happened to you and Ah Shui?" Shihua asked.
"I told you a long time ago that she and I were just passing by, and I didn't think of her much."
"You're red, she won't let you go."
"I just let her go, Ah Shui also has a pure side."
"She's familiar at first sight, she's passionate, and she may have fallen in love with more than half a dozen boys in Canada." Shihua couldn't help laughing when he thought of Shui Wenjun.
"Believe me, I was really looking for your shadow in her at that time, Xiao Sheng, I never forgot you for a moment. In the past six months, how are you?"
"What's so good about it? . . . The book reads well."
"Your mother doesn't control you so strictly?" Li Qi asked.
"It's been a long time. A's in all subjects. What else does she want?"
"And that handsome young man is your boyfriend?" Li Qi could tell, "Will you resist your mother?"
Shihua made a gesture of helplessness:
"Our two families are family friends, and we have played together since we were young, so it's nothing."
"You don't have a boyfriend in California?"
"It's hard to answer you. Let's say I ask you: are you my boyfriend?"
"I would say yes." Li Qi always said bluntly.
Shihua shook his hand.
Unexpectedly, there was another visitor at this night, and it was An Bang who jumped in, and saw Shi Hua holding Li Qi's hand.
"Hey, Anbang, why is it you? You didn't even shake the phone first." Shihua was still holding Li Qi's hand.
Anbang sized up Li Qi from Yushu Linfeng:
"Are you that Li Qi?"
"Yes, my name is Li Qi."
"How come everyone recognizes you all of a sudden?" Shi Hua looked at Li Qi.
"Didn't you know him before?" Anbang said, "Ah, you just held hands, haven't you met yet?"
Shihua wanted to let go, but Li Qiyi held on tightly.
"We've known each other for a long time." Li Qi said.
"Li Qi, let go." Shihua didn't know how to explain to Anbang.
Surprisingly, the sharp-tongued Anbang didn't say anything.
"I just happened to pass by, so I came in to say hello, and I'm leaving." Anbang said, "Can I treat you to lunch tomorrow, Shihua? I'll pick you up at one o'clock."
"Okay!" Shihua replied.
"Who is he?" Li Qi asked.
"My classmate's younger brother, Cheng Anbang."
"You live on the top of the mountain, does he also live nearby?" Li Qi asked.
"He lives in Kowloon, maybe he just visited friends nearby." Shihua explained indiscriminately.
"Why didn't he say that he just happened to walk past the cemetery?" Li Qiwei felt jealous, "He's just your classmate's younger brother, why did he come here in the middle of the night?"
"How do I know what he's here for?"
"I'm leaving too. I have an early shift tomorrow."
"I wish you good luck, Li Qi." Shi Hua had mixed feelings.
"You don't really like me making movies that much, do you?"
Shihua nodded.
"You guys have a choice. I don't. The next film collapsed, and I went back to my original form." Li Qi said, "This time the so-called instant hit, it was the first time that made me tremble."
"Have you ever been afraid?" Shihua crossed his hands.
"The previous experience was so bad that it couldn't be worse. What could be worse? I got lucky all of a sudden, and I'm not used to it."
Sehwa said it again:
"good luck."
Seeing Li Qi's leaving back, Shihua knew that he was determined to make a living in movies.
Even when he was penniless and doing nothing, he had a strange charm, maybe it was star power.
An Xiong checked her very closely, calling his brother every day.
It's a little strange to think about it, but An Xiong is not that kind of person.
Mrs. Sheng and Mr. Sheng came back from the banquet and saw Shihua still in the hall, neatly dressed.
"Why aren't you asleep? Fasong has been talking with you since the afternoon?" Mrs. Sheng seemed very content.
"I'm sleepy, so I went up to sleep, you mother and daughter have a heart-to-heart talk." Mr. Sheng has never been interested in talking to women, he is only interested in doing business.
"Shihua, do you like Fasong more or Cheng Anxiong?" Mrs. Sheng asked her daughter.
"Mom, I'm not going to marry."
"Cheng Anxiong sounds very good. I have no objection to your association with this outstanding boy, but Fasong is also good in everything, and we are family friends."
"That's fair competition. You haven't met An Xiong yet, don't worry."
"What's his family like?" asked Mrs. Sheng.
"It's okay, at least my sons are studying abroad." Shihua said.
At night, Shihua's heart was in turmoil again, and she got along well with An Xiong, and Li Qi appeared in her life again.In fact, he never disappeared from her life.
When I woke up in the morning, Anbang came again.
"He happened to pass by here again?" Shihua asked angrily.
"That youth idol is your boyfriend?" Anbang asked, "My brother doesn't know?"
"I don't know how many girlfriends your brother had before, and I won't send a younger sister to check and ask every day."
"Brother didn't ask me to check you and ask you, I'm just busy." Anbang said.
"Then don't worry about it."
"Go out and have breakfast," Anbang said.
"I have no appetite." Shihua said.
"Some things are inconvenient to discuss here."
"What's the inconvenience for me to talk to you here?"
"Yes." Anbang waved his head towards the door, signaling her to follow him.
He drove a small old Austin car to a small platform facing the sea on a mountain with few people, and sat down on the coarse sand.
Shihua also sat down.
"You have lived with my brother for half a year," Anbang said.
"How do you know? An Xiong told you?"
"How could he tell me? I have great powers, so I just need to know." Anbang said thoughtfully, "You two are happy together?"
"yes."
"Are you still a virgin?" Anbang didn't spare her.
"How do you know?" Shihua was startled.
"I'm not investigating you. If you find another boyfriend, I won't tell Anxiong. If you love him, you don't have to defend yourself like jade for anyone." Anbang said.
"How can a younger brother speak for an elder brother like this?" Shihua was very surprised.
"It's over, let's go." Anbang pulled her up.
In the car, Anbang, contrary to his usual mischievous talkativeness, suddenly fell silent, as if he was preoccupied.
When he didn't speak, Shihua became uneasy.
She never had to speak first to tease boys, but this time, the noisiest one was completely silent. She had only seen him four times, so what should I say?
After driving for about 20 minutes, Anbang smiled "pooh" and turned to look at her:
"You look like a log, why didn't my brother smother you to death?"
Shihua couldn't help reaching out to rub him:
"It turned out to be teasing me! I thought you had something on your mind?"
Anbang raised his hand to parry, dodging left and right to avoid, and turned the steering wheel left and right with the other hand, and the car slid back and forth on the road in a zigzag shape.
"If you hit again, you're going to crash!" Anbang said.
"Have you played enough?" Shihua withdrew his hand.
"Wow, it's hard for me to bear it." Anbang grinned. "Just to see how long you can go without talking."
"You are so good at acting, why don't you act?"
"If you can keep silent like this, why don't you just be a rock?"
"Okay, Anbang, wood, stone, what else is there to insult me?"
"Big guy!" Anbang finished, covering his head with both hands.
"Hold on to the steering wheel!" Shihua cried out in fright.It was about to turn a corner, but Anbang only put his hands on his head but did not turn the steering wheel.
Anbang chuckled, put his hands back on the steering wheel, and turned the corner in time.
"I'm afraid you'll hit me. Girls are the most annoying when people say she's big." Anbang shrank his head in fear.
"Am I fat?"
"No, you're twenty pounds below the standard for being fat, and two circles below the standard for being too big, and that's normal."
"No good words, I guarantee you don't have a girlfriend." Shihua said angrily.
"Even you are willing to see me four times, will I not have a girlfriend? It's really hard to find time to see you."
"Cheeky, who invited you here?"
"Okay, then I won't come if you don't invite me next time. My phone number is 2262393."
Se-hwa made him feel helpless.
When the car arrived at the door of Sheng's house, the servant opened the gate.
Anbang saw that Faxon's red Ferrari was already parked inside.
He didn't drive the car in, he just accompanied Shihua out of the car, passed a section of the road in the garden in front of the mansion, picked a small red flower, and handed it to Shihua:
"happy Birthday!"
Shihua was confused by him just now, and only now remembered that today is his birthday.
"How do you know?"
Anbang rolled his eyes and smiled mysteriously:
"Come early in the morning, just to be the first person to say happy birthday to you."
Anbang, who became gentle in an instant, also has his charming features.
When not winking, he is as handsome as An Xiong.Anxiong is handsome, but Anbang's stillness is poetic.
Urchin and poetry, that is Anbang, a very strange combination.
Shihua stared at him blankly for a while.Anbang slowly bowed his head and kissed her on the cheek lightly and softly, as if the wings of an angel passed by softly and warmly.
"Happy birthday!" Anbang said again solemnly and sincerely before leaving.
Shihua held the flower between his forefinger and thumb, rubbed the stems, and walked into the room like walking on clouds.
Fazon was sitting on the lobby sofa reading a newspaper.
"Shihua, happy birthday!"
He kissed her on both cheeks.Compared with Anbang, Faxon seems to be practicing official etiquette.
Shihua looked up and saw that the hall was full of flowers, there were ten or twenty bouquets, and there was also a beautiful basket of pink roses.
"Ah, thank you, Fazon, for so many flowers!"
Faxon said with some embarrassment:
"Only that basket of roses is from me, and the others are not from me. I didn't expect you to have so many boyfriends."
Shihua counted in her heart, there were not so many boyfriends who knew her birthday and Hong Kong address, and she was eager to see which one sent which one.
Faxon is an honest man and has always been a good tutor. She knew that he would not peek at the name of the flower-giver, even if he sat for a long time.
But she couldn't help not looking.
The first bundle is Cheng Anxiong, the second bundle is Cheng Anxiong, and the third bundle is Cheng Anxiong, all of which he ordered from overseas.
She thought to herself, could it be Anbang's tricks?Thinking about it, it seems plausible, An Xiong likes to surprise her occasionally.
If you ask Anbang, you will definitely not get the result, and he will play tricks on her again, why not make a long-distance call to An Xiong.Looking at the time, it should be evening on the east coast of the United States, and An Xiong may be in the dormitory.
She could wait no longer, and said to Fazon:
"I'm sorry, I'll go to Dad's study to hang up."
Fa Song saw her smile as sweet as cotton candy, it was a lie that he was not jealous, but it was Shi Hua's birthday, so he had no choice but to hold back his temper.He hadn't had a chance to mention the newspaper he was holding in his hand.
Soon after Shihua left, she came out disappointed, obviously not finding the person she was looking for.
"My classmates gave it to me." Shihua didn't want to feel bored, so he had to be more tactful, "It's not as special as your basket of flowers."
"Unfortunately not enough." Although Fazon was honest, he was not stupid. "The ten or twenty bouquets of flowers were packaged as if they were sent by the same flower shop, and they were all from the same person, right?"
Shihua was silent.
"And a birthday present." Faxon handed her the entertainment section of the newspaper.
After reading it, Shihua felt sweet in his heart and sore in his throat.
"Is that him?" Faxon pointed to Li Qi's photo in the newspaper.
Shihua shook his head.
Fazon looked at the newspaper and said:
"Li Qi said that his girlfriend who was studying in the United States came back. Tomorrow is today. Did he accept the interview yesterday? Tomorrow is her birthday. Unfortunately, she has to start work and can't be with her."
Shihua's eyes were red.
"Lovely, isn't it? Risking the risk of losing female movie fans and announcing that you have a girlfriend." Fasong half-sighed and half-smiled, "I'm also very touched."
Shihua bit her lower lip.
"The stack of letters sent to my house in New York was also written by him?" Fazon stood up, "Of course, you can say that it's none of my business."
"No, Fazon, you are someone very close to me, but, those are private matters, why should I tell you? Why should I keep it from you?"
"Shihua, I understand."
"You don't understand."
"I've made our relationship very clear, and it doesn't matter if I understand the rest." Fazon felt sad.
"Fazong, every time, I didn't intend to hurt your heart, why is it like this every time?"
"The more you don't want to hurt someone's heart, the more you hurt him to the bone. You just say it's okay."
"Fazon, I'm not lying."
"Shihua, you are not a lying woman, you are just a woman who refuses to tell the truth. I don't know if the same damage is more harmful." Fa Song said with self-deprecation, "From a legal point of view, it is impossible to refuse to tell the truth. Is it more misleading? I'll have to go back and look at my textbook."
"Fasong, those flowers were not sent by Li Qi."
"I'm not talking about those misleading, maybe, I misled myself." Fazon was a little humble.
"Don't make me say I don't love you, Fazon, I don't know how to say that."
"This is not a court, and it is not a matter of right and wrong. Shihua, you are eighteen years old today, make up your own mind, don't use me as a shield between you and your mother. Don't tell me who sent the flowers, I don't want to know either."
"Fazon, don't get me wrong that I'm using you."
"Stupid boy, I've been testifying against myself." Faxon gave her a hug. "I've tried my best to hold back my temper. Don't say any more, everyone. Please tell my aunt that I can't tonight. I'm coming to have birthday dinner with you."
There was a bang of thunder in the sky, and the rain suddenly poured down. Fazon ran out in the rain.
Mrs. Sheng just got up in the bedroom on the second floor, and the sound of thunder and rain reminded her to close the window. By chance, she saw Fasong running to drive, drenched all over. She hurried down the hall to take a look, and saw Shihua standing among a large pile of flowers. .
"Why didn't someone get Fazon an umbrella?"
"He ran so fast, how did he have time to call for an umbrella?"
Mrs. Sheng saw that her daughter's expression was not right.
"Why do you celebrate your birthday with a mournful face? Are you bickering with Fazon again?"
Before Shihua opened his mouth, Mrs. Sheng had already caught a glimpse of the daily newspaper that fell on the sofa, picked it up to read, and said flatly:
"It's Li Qi again, is he promising after only making one movie?"
"Mom, you know he's red, you just didn't tell me."
"Does this person want me to remember to report his current situation to you every day?" When Mrs. Sheng wanted to put pressure on her, even the most plain tone was aggressive.
Shihua was full of thoughts, didn't know who to tell, ran back to the room without saying a word, and locked the door.
She really wanted to talk to someone, but there was no one to talk to for a while, so she dialed 2262393 involuntarily.
"Hey, Cheng Anbang please listen to the phone."
"Ah!" An ecstatic voice came from the other party, "An Bang is not here, Shi Hua, I am An Xiong, how do you know that I came back just in time for your birthday?"
"An Xiong! An Xiong! You're back! There are so many flowers, no wonder I can't find you by long-distance call!" Shihua was full of surprises.
"Do you miss me?"
"Why don't you want to call you long-distance?"
"Are you happy to receive the flowers?"
"Happy. It would be nice if you could bring back our little white house too."
"Yo, it's so disgusting! Idiot, I'm Anbang! Once you pretend to be my brother's voice, you will lose your soul." Anbang laughed and returned to his original voice.
"You damn...damn..."
"You damn thing!" Anbang taught her, "If you don't know how to swear, don't swear. You can't find my damn brother, why are you swearing at me?"
"I was looking for you."
"Talk turns so fast!"
"No, I'm really looking for you, Anbang, don't be kidding, I'm bored to death, come and pick me up."
"Where are you taking me?"
"Don't ask, come quickly!"
"Okay, I'll be there in three days."
"Anbang!" Shihua was so anxious that he wanted to cry.
"Here we are, here we are, in forty-five minutes."
"Aren't you joking?"
"Stop rambling, I said I'll be there in forty-five minutes." Anbang became serious.
Shihua watched by the window, the forty-five minutes was longer than anything else, and he didn't know if Anbang was real or not.
Finally seeing his little Austin car on the road, Shihua rushed down, fearing that his mother would catch him and turn his back.
Panting, she jumped into Anbang's car, and the heavy rain drenched her all over.
"Where are you going?" Anbang asked her.
"Look at me like this, where can I go? It's up to you."
"Fell out with Ferrari?" Anbang was laughing, "I saw what Li Qi said in the newspaper when I got home. Why didn't you call Ferrari so angry that it turned red?"
When Li Qi was mentioned, Shihua couldn't help crying.
"Cry, cry, it's not because of Ferrari, but because of Li Qi. What a disappointment!" Anbang said impatiently.
Shihua thought that Anbang would sympathize with her, but the disgust on his face made her unable to cry.
"Cry, cry! I'm bored. Come to me and don't cry to me for another man."
Anbang drove the car very fast, and returned to the small platform with rough sand on the mountain facing the sea that he had visited with her in the early morning.
"You sit in the car first."
Anbang opened the trunk of the car while talking, and came out with a large bag of things in both hands.
I saw him insert a few iron tubes on the ground, pull a few rolls from top to bottom, and set up a small herringbone tent for camping, which was yellow, and then got into it and laid a dark green plastic mat.
"Come in, run fast!" Anbang waved to Shihua.
Facing the churning waves in the torrential rain, the small yellow tent swayed slightly from side to side in the wind.
"There is no small white house, I will build you a yellow tent."
The two sat in the small tent with their knees hugged. Anbang listened quietly to the wind and waves. The yellow light reflected on his face, which was surprisingly harmonious and beautiful, like a poem and a painting.
Shihua stared at him intently, Anbang looked back, his eyes were gentle, even beyond the kindness of this world, she found that Anbang's lips were closed, his mouth was very delicate, and everything he wanted to say in his heart was reflected in his eyes and The corner of the mouth conveyed to her heart.
The rain was beating relentlessly on their little yellow tent, and the accumulated water had flowed into the plastic cushions, and the rain was pouring in. They were no different from sitting on the mud.
They looked like two drowned chickens, but neither of them realized it.
Anbang remained silent, while Shihua shivered in the little yellow tent in the wind and rain.
"Don't get sick from the cold, let's go back to the car." Anbang herself was soaked, and there was nothing to cover her up.
"What about this tent? It needs to be dismantled, and I can't help."
Anbang shook his head:
"You don't need to dismantle it, just leave it here, and when you pass by in the future, you will remember today."
In the car, Shihua looked at the small tent that was only big enough for the two of them.She will never forget in her life that on the sandy mud platform facing the sea, facing the surging waves, the small yellow tent was swaying in the wind and rain.
"I'll take you home." Anbang said with a sad face, "Maybe this is the last time I see you."
"I'm not going home!" Shihua just wanted to escape.
"I can't see you again," Anbang said.
"why?"
Anbang was humming a tune to conceal his bewilderment.He's in love with his brother's girlfriend and can't tell any more jokes.
He is ashamed of what his brother entrusted him with. He didn't expect Sheng Shihua to be such a charming girl, such a pure girl. Should he tell her about his brother?
"Don't coax me home, I don't want to go back to the cage." Shihua said.
"If you get wet all over, you will get cold." Anbang himself sneezed.
Shihua had an idea:
"Let's go to the typhoon shelter and rent a sampan. It won't rain or shine. You can go to the store and buy some T-shirts and pants, then we will have dry clothes to wear."
"Shihua, you are actually a naughty boy. A lady is just your upbringing, not the real you." Anbang said.
Anbang snatched a few cotton clothes from the export return store.
Shihua looked at Anbang from a distance in the car, feeling like a confidant.He was the only one who didn't care what Miss Sheng she was, he set her heart free.
Anbang changed into a short-sleeved yellow T-shirt, jeans, and bought an umbrella.
He picked out a pink long-sleeved T-shirt, a light yellow pleated skirt, and a pair of white sports shorts for her.And a couple of oversized t-shirts to use as towels.
"There are no busts for sale, you can go to the bow of the boat to change clothes by yourself."
Shihua wiped his hair and body, and casually put on the wrong size, no shoes, no socks.
The boatwoman just acted as a couple dating in the rain, so she hid in the bow of the boat knowingly and wisely, and pulled down all the curtains on the boat.
"It's fun to celebrate your birthday like this."
"Your mother is afraid to call the police."
"You can't report to the police if you've been missing for less than 24 hours. Besides, I'm eighteen today, not an underage girl."
"Then I'm not abducting you." Anbang didn't get angry with her, "You abducted me."
"Anbang, the sound of rain is really nice."
Shihua lay in the sampan.
Anbang also lay on his back in the sampan.
"Shihua, is Anxiong the best in school?"
"yes."
"Did he say I can't study?"
"No, just that you rarely see each other. Why?"
"We have nothing to say."
"Anxiong said that his family doesn't care about him, they only love you." Shihua repeated the story of Grandpa Anxiong's death.
"I don't know either, I hadn't come back then."
"Then why is the safe at home empty? An Xiong suspects that you divided it up in secret and left him nothing."
"I don't share anything, here, only this little jade Buddha statue that grandpa hangs on the pocket watch, for you."
"I don't want it. It wasn't yours. That only represents your grandfather, not you." Shihua handed the little Jade Buddha statue back to him.
"My mother has a weird temper and always dislikes An Xiong."
"Then why do I like you? You can't go to school."
"I would joke and make her happy. My brother and her are like dead people, and they don't speak a word all day long."
"But An Xiong is quite cute sometimes. Like the little white house he found for me, like today's dozen or twenty bouquets of flowers, he knows how to please people."
"Are there really ten or twenty bouquets of flowers?" Anbang asked.
"You don't know? I thought you did it on your behalf."
"He won't ask me to do those things."
"Why did he ask you to come and see me in Xia Tian?"
"He just asked me to pick you up at the airport and visit your parents once."
Shihua thought of Anbang's disappearance in the morning and night, and Li Qi's jealousy with him, the way he stared at her, couldn't help reaching out to caress Anbang's arm.
"Don't touch me!" Anbang turned sideways, facing the side of the boat.
"Anbang!"
There is an impulse in Shihua's body that she never had before, which she didn't have when she was with An Xiong.
"Shihua, I'm a man, don't seduce me."
"Anbang, turn around, we're just talking." Shihua didn't quite understand the impulse in his body.
Anbang turned around and fell on Shihua's body.
"Haven't you and Li Qi done that?" Anbang was particularly jealous of Li Qi.
"When I met him, he was just a stern girl of sixteen. Now I understand how hard it is for him to control himself."
"Then you are very grateful to him?" Anbang said disdainfully.
"He suffered a lot for me, and my mother humiliated him very much."
Shihua briefly told her story with Li Qi.
"He said he would wait for me."
"You never told An Xiong this story?" Anbang asked curiously, "I thought you guys talked about everything."
"I haven't said that, he doesn't know Li Qi at all."
"So tell me what?"
"I do not know why either."
"Let me tell you why, because you're tired of being a virgin!"
Shi Hua felt as if someone had slapped him.
"An Xiong never touches you, you don't think you are a woman!"
安邦浑身火炭似的热，世华闭上了眼睛，就让第一次是安邦吧，她有点害怕，但是她却渴望他。
安邦狠狠地吻了她一下，爬了起身，抱头坐在船舱里。
安邦不是没有过女人的，此刻，他的心情矛盾得无以复加。
世华不禁有生以来第一次自卑起来，原来她对男人是没有性吸引力的。她第一次主动引诱男人便失败，她不知如何自处。
安邦见她楚楚可怜的样子，忍不住搂着她："你很动人，但我有难言之隐，终有一天你会明白。我爱我的哥哥，但那不只是爱那么简单。他所受的折磨，也太多了。"
世华喟然说：
"真是为了你哥哥？"
"我从未见他爱过一个女人，像爱你那般深。"安邦痛苦地说。
"李颀爱我一样深，安邦，我不晓得怎么办。"
"不要当我是闺中密友好不好？我不要听！"安邦喜怒无常起来，"我爱你，你这笨蛋明白了没有？"
世华的泪簌簌而下，是感动，也是千般愁。
"世华，就让我搂着你，听一天雨，至少，这一天是属于我们一辈子的。"
安邦紧紧搂住世华，世华有个生离死别的感觉，为什么是这么的悲凉？安邦的性格并非传统温顺，为什么他这么迁就他的哥哥？
两人依偎到入夜，安邦说：
"你回家吧。"
"安邦，你真的以后不见我？"
"是的，见了你，我不能自己。"
世华坐在安邦的车子里，相对无言。
车子到了门口，赫然见到李颀倚在盛宅大门旁的围墙外，显然已经等了很久，也不管大雨仍在倾盆泻下。
安邦和李颀交换了个极不友善的眼神。
"李颀，"世华忙钻出车子，"你在这儿站了多久了？"
"好几个钟头，你妈不让我进去，说除非我将你交出来！"李颀嘿了一声，"我怎么把你交出来？原来是他！"
安邦似乎心情落索地把车子开走了。
"请进来吧！"世华的心情乱七八糟。
"我这辈子也不会踏进你家！"李颀掉头便走，"要走，你跟我走。"
"淋得一身湿的，你又要患肺炎了。"世华担心起来。
"你跟不跟我走？"李颀坚持着。
这时盛家佣人打着伞出来了，开了大闸：
"太太叫小姐和李先生都进来。"
"我不进去。"李颀说。
世华半拉半扯地把李颀拉进去；
"半夜三更的，山顶没计程车经过的，你先进来再叫车吧。"
盛太太穿着旗袍端坐在大厅中，盛先生也在。世华知道，连爸爸也出现，大难临头了，但她想，大不了跟李颀走。
"这些是什么衣服？"盛太太看见女儿一身不称身的T恤裙子："这是怎么一回事？你到哪儿去了？"
"跟安邦露营去，不关李颀事。"世华说。
"安雄挂过几次电话来，"盛太太有意让李颀听个清楚，"我告诉他，他送来的十多二十束花你都收到了。"
"你的生日也蛮热闹的，就让李先生等久了。"盛爸爸说。
世华气愤地望着爸妈：
"为什么不让人家进来？大雨淋凉的，是你自己的儿子你们也会心疼了。"
盛先生是怕麻烦的，只不过让太太揪着下来坐着而已。
"那是你妈的主意。"盛爸爸尴尬地说。
盛太太脸不改容：
"你不在家，请人坐到几时？可没有人叫他在门口淋几小时雨的。"
"盛太太，我只要跟小盛出去说几句话，我没打算坐在你家里。"李颀说。
"世华，你不能再出去，我还有话问你。"盛太太的威严，令盛爸爸不敢吭声。
"李先生，听不听由你，我现在就问！"盛太太说。
盛爸爸最怕戏剧化场面，想溜上二楼，却被太太凌厉的目光射了一下，只好乖乖地坐下。
"这女儿愈来愈不像话了，跑了出去一整天，连衣服也换了才回来。露营会露成这个样子的吗？行雷闪电的，安邦带你去露什么营？"盛太太见李颀脸上妒意恼意愈起，便愈惬意，至少她要先收拾好一个。
"两兄弟一起追求你了？"盛先生觉得颇有趣地说，"年轻人是这样子的了。"
"请借电话用一用，让我叫部车子。"李颀强忍着怒气，"不过，小盛要跟我去。"
"妈妈，我一定要去。"世华说得斩钉截铁。
"这么晚了，到哪儿去？"盛爸爸问。
"到我家去！"李颀说。
"妈妈，人家一身都湿了，要着凉的，当然要回家换上干的衣服。"世华看见李颀脸色发青。
"就叫司机送他们去吧。"盛爸爸决定出主意，到底他是一家之主，"世华，一小时后回来，司机等你。"
"李先生，请写下地址电话。"盛太太冷冷地说。
李颀写下了，放在桌子上：
"这回不用报警了！"
李颀住在铜锣湾一间租来的房间里，房间虽小，却比从前的环境好多了。
"小盛，生日快乐！"李颀木然地说。
"李颀，我看到今天的报纸。唉，谁都看到了。"
"就只怕那个安雄没看到吧？"李颀边换衬衫边说，"似乎你跟他的弟弟安邦的感情也不错啊。"
"今天的事太混乱，我快要疯了。"世华找毛巾替他揩抹着，吻着他的背，"快换裤子，别着凉了。"
李颀转过身来扳着她的双肩，有点奇怪地说："小盛，比起半年前，你熟练多了。这半年，发生过什么事？"
这时有人轻轻敲门，李颀以为是同屋住客，一开门，原来是程安邦，不禁愕住了。
世华心如鹿撞："安邦，怎么是你？"
"我的车子跟着来的。"安邦看着李颀赤裸的上身。
"你跟着来干什么？"李颀一脸的不悦，长臂一紧，把世华搂得更贴近胸膛。
世华觉得李颀的胸膛壮阔了，一股男子汉气味。
安邦眼中闪着一掠而过的妒火，一涌现便马上抑压着的酸楚，世华都看到了。她不晓得自己但愿被李颀紧紧地抱着好，还是让安邦一把抢过怀中好。
然而安邦很快便恢复平日的俏皮，半开玩笑地跟李颀说：
"保护你们来着。三个人在一起，纵使盛伯母再度闯上来，也不能冤屈你李颀蹂躏她的女儿。"
李颀奇怪地望住了世华：
"小盛，你把我们从前的事都告诉了他？"
世华点点头，回眸看安邦，他嘴角仍是那个顽皮的笑容，只有那双眼睛在告诉世华："我想多看你一会儿。"
李颀哪里知道十天八天内他们之间所发生的事？既然安邦这么说，他便当世华已经让安邦两兄弟明白，她心中只有一个他。
他欣喜地俯首吻了吻世华的脸颊，感动地轻呼："小盛，小盛！"
"场面真动人。"安邦找着把椅子靠墙坐下。
方才在舢舨内的矛盾，是为了自己的哥哥，现在，到底为了什么？
"安邦，别捣蛋，"世华想传个讯息，"明天你来找我。"
"明天？太迟了。"安邦语带双关，"李颀，我们跟盛伯母捣蛋，便一直捣到底。"
Li Qi laughed:
"她也不喜欢你吧？盛家司机在楼下，盛伯母只给世华一小时，一小时之后，也许麻烦她大驾光临了。"
李颀边说边脱下了湿漉漉的裤子，随手往地上一掷，拿条毛巾围住了下身。
"怎么不脱内裤？"安邦跟李颀，像两个男生在宿舍内说话。
世华微微地别过了头。
"世华，原来你没看过男人脱内裤！"安邦故作惊奇地喊着。
"程安邦，别耍她，小盛很害臊的。"李颀背着身在毛巾底下换了内裤，然后一手拉掉了毛巾，抹擦那一头被雨打得湿透的头发，抹了几下，摇了几下头，转过身来，脸上还有几点随着额际湿发流下来的水珠。
安邦打量了这高大的身形一下，心里咒道："这该死的李颀，倒真是蛮俊逸的。"
李颀与安邦眼神相交，画家对脸孔的敏锐观察力令他凝了凝神。
那张顽皮的脸孔下面另有一张脸孔，闪烁的眼睛和双唇是诗意的，居然有无限温柔的。
李颀本不是个多疑的人，此刻不禁猛地警觉起来。
"程安邦！"李颀丢下了毛巾。
"什么？"安邦的肌肉紧张了一下。
"我替你画个素描。"李颀嘴角噙住个冷笑，"好给小盛留个纪念。"
"随便。"安邦故作漫不经意。
只有世华看出他内心的紧张。安邦这辈子都没让人耍过，只有他耍人的份儿，这回，他怕李颀耍他。
也只有世华知道，李颀天性不羁而纯厚，他不会作弄安邦。
李颀坐在床沿，抬睫看了安邦几眼，很快地替他作了个速写。
世华看了，不禁"啊"一声地叫了出来。那正是安邦清晨送她一朵花时的样子，那正是安邦在海旁黄色小帐篷内听雨时的样子。
那虽是安邦的肖像，却有如把她的心肝五脏画了出来一样。
李颀一看世华的神情，心里酸妒交集，不禁泪承于睫。
"给你吧。"李颀把肖像交给她，"此生，什么都是不属于我的。"
世华的泪珠滚滚而下，一手拿着肖像，一手执着李颀的手。
安邦从椅子里站起来走过去：
"喂，喂，又哭？发生了什么事？他画了些什么东西？让我看看，让我看看！"
安邦从世华手中拿过自己的素描，心中一阵震撼，又是仿佛让李颀把自己的心肝五脏画了出来。
他诧异地看着李颀：
"你不如我想像中那么笨。"
"我学过画画。"李颀叹了口气，"你那哥哥怎样了？"
"噢，样子跟我差不多。"安邦岔开了令他不安的话题。
"小盛？"李颀握着世华的手。
想起安雄，世华有犯罪的感觉，支吾以对：
"他们，他们两兄弟长得很像。"
李颀看了看安邦，再看了看肖像，逼视世华。
"你会说这是他哥哥的肖像吗？"
安邦和李颀两双眼睛观察着世华，令她觉得赤裸。
"不，不会。"世华摇着头。
李颀爱怜地轻抚她的头发：
"小盛，你到底是个不会说谎的女孩。"
"我，我会，我……"世华望了望李颀，又望了望安邦。
安邦伸手紧握着世华的另一只手腕，双目炯炯地看着她，有若恳求，又有若命令地不让她将她跟安雄住在一起六个月的事招供出来。
"世华，你是不会说谎的。"安邦微微摇头示意。
世华一手被李颀握着，一手被安邦握着，她觉得快被他们撕成两半了。
"程安邦，放开她！"李颀说，"别捏痛了小盛的手腕！"
"放开便放开，握着人家的手，未必握得住人家的心！"安邦搓搓世华被他捏得红了的手腕。
"我跟小盛说过，即使她有过十个八个男人，我一样等她。"李颀坚决地对安邦说。
安邦默然，他内心的挣扎，只有他自己知道。
世华对他的一言不发有点失望，到底，只认识了十天八天，也许对安邦而言，只是一段短暂的浪漫，然而那浪漫又是如许浓烈。
这时电话响了，李颀对世华说：
"一定是你的妈妈，你自己去听好了，我不想再听她的胡乱指责。"
安邦笑笑：
"让我去听，吓她一跳。"
安邦拿起了听筒：
"嗨，伯母，是我，程安邦，我们三个人在一起……噢，没什么，李颀在替我们画像而已……我怎么也在？……我跟着世华的车子嘛，替你看着女儿，也替我哥哥看着女朋友……啊……好，我叫世华来。"
安邦把听筒递了给世华：
"……是，妈妈，我们聊聊天而已，一会便回来……"
世华转头望了李颀：
"妈妈叫你听电话。"
李颀没好气地接过听筒：
"……当然这是我的家，要不要我下去把司机也叫上来听电话？"
安邦听了势头不对，从李颀手中接过了电话筒。
"伯母，又是我，安邦。……不如这样吧，叫司机先走，我送世华回来……为什么你要信得过我？……不许我先走又不许我送世华？……好，好，让司机等好了……十五分钟？半小时吧，李颀正在替我绘像……很好呢，李颀说你是最美丽的女人，虽然凶，但