Chapter 7 Chapter VII

Du Lilin thought Yancheng was a model husband.He is loyal—never flirtatious; he respects her, is considerate of her, and generally obeys her.For example, he loves listening to music, and Lilin loves watching movies. He always gives up his hobbies and watches movies with Lilin.But the two of them couldn't help being a little strange.Yancheng has clear boundaries with her, never willing to spend her money; sometimes he is very stubborn, and just ignores her words.He took a good chance to get a doctor, but he ignored it.When the Socialist State was liberated, he didn't dislike the "style", and he was so happy that he wanted to go back to the country before he got a job.Lilin felt that it was not appropriate for a husband and wife to live apart for a long time, and she often blamed herself for easily letting him go to England alone.Now that they have their own home, they can be very close.

Lilin had no mother since she was a child, and her father didn't care much about her daughter. There was a concubine in the family, an older brother and sister-in-law who were in charge of the family, a second brother and a second sister-in-law who were not in charge of the family, plus nephews and nieces, big and small, and one divorced and returned to her mother's family. elder sister.She grew up in this unharmonious family, she is very good at "being a person", and has many friends in school, but she lacks a caring person.What she pursues wholeheartedly is a caring husband.Fortunately, she caught Yancheng in time.But sometimes she couldn't help wondering if she had caught him.

They set up their new home, and Yancheng listened to her beckoning to tidy up, very diligently.But he only regarded this home as Lilin's home.He asks Lilin to give him a "kennel"—his personal den.He borrowed some furniture and a plank from the company, and made a small wooden bed with a saw and planer. Under the bed was a shelf with grids, where he hid his favorite music films.Lilin originally wanted to leave this wing room to her daughter, Xiaoli, whom she had not seen for four years.She was busy taking her home for a reunion.Ever since Mrs. Xu forcibly took the child away from Du's house, she hasn't seen a photo of the child in three years.Yancheng has no interest in this child whom he has never met.After he returned to China, he went to see his uncle's parents and the old lady alone, but he didn't let Lilin go.The reason was that he lied to the old lady that Lilin was not in Tianjin.Why didn't he tell the lie, he only admitted that he had lied.Ask him how Xiaoli is, but he can't answer a word, because Xiaoli refuses to call him, and ignores him; he thinks that the child looks like her grandma, and has the same temper.Lilin has been thinking that if necessary, she must bring the old lady along.Yancheng only told her to "speak slowly".

In the past, he and Lilin just played together, honeymooning intermittently.Now that they lived together, Lilin felt as if there was a hard core between them; Yancheng's heart was the benevolence wrapped in the core, which she couldn't feel or stick to.In the past, perhaps because it was a honeymoon, Yancheng never made her "jealous".Now——maybe she is supercilious, but she is always uncomfortable. Yancheng went to the library every day, and sometimes he brought a few young colleagues home, instead of sitting in the living room, he huddled in his "kennel" and played records.Lilin thought they were making trouble, so Yancheng didn't go home and played chess and ball with them outside.Without outsiders, he seemed to have no one to talk to.

When he came back from the library, he first surprised Lilin that "the person in charge of the books" was looking for books so quickly.Later, I admired "the person in charge of books" as if he had read all kinds of books, and later regretted that "the person in charge of books" only graduated from middle school, his family was not good, and he didn't finish college.He was surprised and said: "But she is not only good at English, but also understands French. She wrote the rules for borrowing books in the library. The calligraphy in Gongkai is very beautiful." One day, Yancheng told Li as if he had discovered something important. Lin: "Do you know who the person in charge of the book is? She is Miss Yao!"

Lilin had also heard about Ms. Yao, so she couldn't help asking curiously: "What kind of person is he? Pretty?" "Beautiful?" Yancheng thought for a long time. "She wears a gray cloth uniform every day, like a thirty-year-old person—not old, but old-looking; she looks quite pleasing to the eye, but I didn't look closely." Lilin believed that Yancheng was telling the truth, but in order to see Miss Yao, she followed Yancheng to the library to return a book that was due.This is her first time in the library.Yao Mi and her assistant Yu Haowen are in charge of book cashiers, and Yao Mi is still cataloging when he finds time.Lilin saw two people in gray cloth uniforms, the fat one was probably Yu Haowen, she was looking for books for someone, and when she saw someone coming again, she called out "Yao Mi".The other slender man stood up and went to the counter to pick up the returned books from Xu Yancheng and return them for him.Lilin took a peek at Yao Mi, she was very well-proportioned, with regular features, but wearing this kind of gray clothes with no style, she really looked old.When Yao Mi saw Lilin, she solemnly sent her a small notebook for her to fill in.She said, "This is a library card. You haven't picked it up yet, have you?" After she finished speaking, she went back to cataloging things. She didn't seem to be interested in the couple, it was just a routine.

Lilin was relieved, and on the way home she said, "Why are you wearing such ugly clothes? In fact, you are pretty good-looking." She then put Yao Mi aside. At the inaugural meeting of the Research Institute, Lilin saw Yancheng staring directly at her back, his eyes lit up as if he was greeting someone, and he smiled.She didn't have the nerve to look back at that time, and went home to ask Yancheng whom to greet.To be honest, Yancheng didn't greet anyone. "I see someone you're smiling at." "I didn't laugh." Yancheng said seriously. "I see the smile in your eyes."

Yancheng said stubbornly, "Why do you smile in your eyes? You have to smile on your face to smile. If you don't believe me, just smile for me." Lilin believes that Yancheng is not lying.Yancheng never lied to her, only to his mother, and always confessed to Lilin that he lied.But this time, Yancheng smiled at Yao Mi after reading Yao Mi's record, which was exactly the same as the day when the research society was founded. While eating, she tentatively said: "Miss Yao is really cute; the corner of the library is dimly lit, so I can't see clearly." Yancheng asked very interestedly: "Why is it so interesting?"

"Ask you! Haven't you been looking at her?" Yancheng panicked: "Really?" He thought for a while and said: "I probably watched it because——because I feel like I've never seen her before." "You'll be in the library in three or two days, haven't you read enough?" "I can only tell one is Yu Haowen and the other is Yao Mi. It seems like I haven't seen her clearly." "I didn't realize how beautiful she is! I still want to see her." Lilin said sourly. "Is it beautiful? I haven't thought about it." Yancheng spoke the truth.But after thinking about it carefully, he felt that what Lilin said was right.Yao Mi's complexion is not eye-catching, but his appearance is really good-looking, and he wants to take another look after seeing it.Her figure is a circle smaller than Lilin's and soft; her eyes are quiet, like a clear pool of water; her eyebrows are delicate, and the soft hair on her forehead is like a child's fetal hair; the corners of her mouth and jaw are beautiful and sweet.Her skin was light beige, very delicate.He was ashamed he said:

"Lilin, next time you find me looking at people, you remind me. How embarrassing. I have become a child." Although Lilin still felt uncomfortable, she forgave Yancheng. After dinner, she said, "Yancheng, have you drawn up your work plan? Can you let me have a look?" Yancheng said that it was drawn up but not written down, but the plans had to be determined individually, so they could not be copied. He suggested to go to the library with Lilin to find some materials, and read the books first. Many people came and went in and out of the library, and Lilin thought they were all looking for information in order to draw up work plans.They ran to the borrowing counter and saw Shi Nina standing there.Jiang Taotao rummaged through the drawers in front of the card cabinet.Shi Nina tapped the card in her hand on the counter and muttered loudly:

"Rules, rules! Do books serve research, or research serve books?" Yu Haowen ignored it.She just took the book card filled out by another person, and turned to the bookshelf to find the book.Yao Mi sat at a table a little behind and typed catalogues.She came over to pick up the stack of books that Xu Yancheng had returned, found the cards of the original books and inserted them one by one at the back of the books. Shi Nina said: "Hey, I have been waiting for a long time!" Yao Mi asked, "Did you fill in the book number?" Nina said angrily, "I can't find the book number, how can I fill it in?" Yao Mi said: "Without a book number, there are no books." "Why not! I came to find it myself, but I won't let it!" Nina said confidently. Yao Mi took the card that she didn't fill in the book number, and read:, written by Balzac. "She glanced at Xu Yancheng for a moment. Yancheng wanted to laugh. Yao Mi said, "Yes, but the author is not Balzac, is that okay?" Nina said vigorously, "I want Balzac!" Yao Mi said, "Balzac's, no." Nina said, "How do you know it's there? It's not on the bookshelf here, but it should be in that library?" "That library" refers to Yao Mi's library. Yao Mi said, "That's a private library." "Since the library is collected in a public house, why not open it to the public?" Yao Mi's eyes lit up, as if on the evening of a thunderstorm, before the thunder rang, the lightning first shone through the dark clouds.But she just said quietly: "That room has not been donated to the public, because there are many books in it. There are orphan books and rare books in it, but none of them have been cataloged, and some have not been registered. Foreign language books are all in their original languages, and there are no Chinese translations, and none of them have been registered. , so it cannot be borrowed, and it is not open." She canceled the books he had returned on Yancheng's library card and sat down to continue cataloging. Seeing that Shi Nina was staring blankly and had nothing to answer, Yancheng smoothed things over and said, "Comrade Nina, what book do you want, I'll help you find the ISBN." Nina angrily waved to Jiang Taotao who was looking at her, "Let's go!" She forced a smile at Yancheng and his wife and said, "Forget it! No more borrowing!" She waited for Jiang Taotao to come over, and walked out of the library together side by side. When Yancheng and his wife borrowed books and went home together, Lilin said, "She's amazing!" Yancheng didn't pay attention to who Lilin was referring to by "she", and said angrily, "That idiot! I don't know who is using the power to bully people like this! Should the person in charge of books serve her for research?" "I said that Ms. Yao is powerful enough, her eyes are bright and her face is full of authority." Yancheng interjected: "That straw bag is like a slug with salt! What a joke! Balzac's! I don't know which book in the history of literature it is from! I went to the Soviet Union with my ex-husband for two years and became a literature expert. ! Lucky not to be in a group with her! Whoever works with her is unlucky!" The glance between Yao Mi and Yan Cheng did not escape Lilin's observation, she said, "Let Ms. Yao catch her mistake?" "Save her face, implying that I told her, and still acting fierce!" Lilin didn't expect Yancheng to protect Yao Mi so enthusiastically.She herself only knew the title of the book, but couldn't remember the author's name.She doesn't read much except for homework, and she's an M.Ed. She said from another angle: "This Miss Yao is really serious, I have never seen her smile." "She just doesn't laugh like Jiang Min." Lilin was surprised and said, "Why are you laughing nonsense?" "Jiang Min is laughing like that." Yancheng's answer was very unscientific. Lilin asked, "What about me?" "You're a social laugh, all the way around." Lilin felt that it was not flattering enough.She simply asked: "Where is Miss Yao?" Yancheng said casually, "Smile when you are happy, or laugh when there is something funny." "Is she smiling at you?" Yancheng said: "Why are you smiling at me? - Anyway, I saw her smile. I saw her teeth are like yours." These words pierced Lilin's heart.She has good dentures like real teeth, and she can't forget Yancheng's expression when he first discovered her dentures. She felt that Yancheng was obsessed, and wondered if she should break him as soon as possible.