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Chapter 9 Chapter nine

bath 杨绛 3504Words 2018-03-20
Yao Mi didn't know why, but she was busy telling Mr. Xu Yancheng about her job transfer, listening to his opinion, and asking for advice on how to make her work plan.She felt that Mr. Xu would give her advice.He didn't make her wary like other expert old gentlemen.Zhu Qianli, who had stayed in France for many years, hated her the most. He smoked a pipe and was hippie.Mr. Ding Baogui relied on his old age to show off his old age, and sometimes patted her on the shoulder or on the head, but she was fine, after all, "Old Man Ding" watched her grow up.Zhu Qianli stroked the back of her hand once.She immediately lowered her face, pulled back and wiped the back of her clothes twice.Zhu Qianli didn't dare to be presumptuous anymore, but even though Yao Mi treated him coldly, his hippie silliness could not be changed.Mr. Yu Nan looks serious, but he glances at the corner of his eyes, as if taking her into his eyes.Just look at his ugly appearance of holding hands with Jiang Min, or the ugly appearance of showing respect to "standard beauties", Yao Mi suspects that he is completely hypocritical.Mr. Xu is different.There was no greed in his eyes.Is it because of marrying a "standard beauty"?It seems that his mind is not in this regard.Even if Mr. Xu stared at her, he turned a blind eye, as if he was thinking about other things.He's clearly a decent guy.

Mr. Xu once inquired about Yao Mi's education background, expressed deep sympathy for her, and occasionally tested her or taught her.Yao Mi thinks that Mr. Xu is knowledgeable, and Mr. Xu also appreciates that Yao Mi has read a lot and has a good understanding.Mr. Xu often came to the library to browse or borrow books. Yao Mi once invited him to read books in her father's library.They occasionally talked about writers and works, and the two got along very well; sometimes when they met in the crowd, he would brighten his eyes and say hello to her.Yao Mi felt that although Mr. Xu was polite, he was very friendly and would definitely care about her affairs.But it was Sunday, and she would not see him until another chance.

Yao's house often has visitors on Sundays.Yao Mi's mother and daughter made an agreement, lest Chen Shanbao come to "talk", Yao Mi went to her father's library early to register the bibliography. Before Yao Mi could go out, Jiang Min came.She was wearing a pair of gray suit trousers, a dark green double-breasted padded jacket, and a bright red sweater on her chest, and a bird flew in like a human.Jiang Min is petite, with a round face and watery eyes.She is used to hanging down her long eyelashes, squinting at people, and she has a trick of hooking the soul.The magnetism of her eyes concealed her small nose and crooked teeth.She greeted Aunt Yao, pulled Yao Mi and said, "I'm here to apologize to you—maybe I don't need to apologize, but I did something presumptuous. I didn't ask for your permission. I suggested to Comrade Fu Jin, Transferring you to research work! Never mind the books! What do you think? Am I being rash?"

Yao Mi said, "Am I qualified?" Jiang Min said: "I asked them all to guarantee that you have it!" Yao Mi laughed and said, "Hey! What a breath! Everyone listens to you!" Jiang Min said: "Anyway, everyone will agree." Yao Mi ignored him and said, "Jiang Min, I'm going to do something for my mother. You can sit with her for a while." Yao Mi knew that Jiang Min was here to wait for Shanbao.When Shanbao comes, she will go with her. Yao Mi hurriedly pushed the bicycle out.She rode her bicycle past the middle gate of the courtyard, when suddenly a child rushed out and stopped the bicycle to let her go.Yao Mi hurriedly got off the ground and stopped the car.She had never seen that child before, about four or five years old, wearing a thick cotton jacket with a monk collar, split trousers, and a pair of tiger-toed shoes on his feet.The front half of the hair is cut like a girl's boyish head, but the back half is like a monk's head.

Yao Mi said, "Little sister, be good, let me go." The child didn't let go of the car, just looked at people with bare eyes, and didn't answer. Yao Mi said, "Are you the younger brother? Whose family are you from?" The child spoke Tianjin dialect: "People want to ride a bicycle." It was Xu's maid who drove out the door.She said: "Xiao Li, you can't run around in the street! Come in!" She knew Yao Mi and explained: "The old lady brought her granddaughter here last night. This child can't stand for a moment." She caught her The child goes in.Yao Mi hurriedly got into the car again.

When the house was divided, she heard that the Xu family had an old lady.Is the granddaughter Mr. Xu's daughter?Her name is Xiaoli, she should be Lilin's daughter, right?Why doesn't he look like Mr. Xu, nor Mr. Du.That outfit is even more weird. Yao Mi entered the small door on the east side of the compound, and pushed the cart to the library, only to see someone pacing in the front porch, it was Mr. Xu. Yao Mi said: "Ah, Mr. Xu, the library is closed today on Sunday. The reading room will open in the afternoon." Xu Yancheng raised his hand and patted his forehead and said, "I forgot it's Sunday! I said why the door isn't open yet! But, I don't want to borrow books." He looked at Yao Mi in surprise and said, "Why are you here? You are on duty Son?"

Yao Mi talked about her mission.Xu Yancheng let out a breath and said, "Then, I'm sorry, let me come in and hide for a while, I'm terrible." It turned out that Xu Yancheng lied when he couldn't handle his mother, and he forgot after telling the lie.When he was abroad, he would receive letters from his uncle's parents every week or two, and there was always a letter from his mother inside.Every time my aunt explained that there were several more sheets of the same letter, but because the words were large and the paper was thick, and the content was the same, only one sheet was sent.The letter was repeated over and over with only one sentence: "Your father is only your son, and you cannot have no offspring." Then he asked eagerly, "Is the bride married?" "The word is always written in the word "Duo".) Yancheng knew that his uncle was busy with work and his aunt was sick, so he saved his mother from being annoyed, so he simply wrote back and said: "The bride has already had a flower".After a while, his mother wrote again and again asking if he had a son or a daughter.He wrote back and said: I gave birth to a son.It never occurred to him to tell Lilin these lies, and he couldn't remember how many children he had.His mother even remembered the children's birthdays, there were three in total, all boys.When Yancheng returned home, he first went to visit his uncle's parents and mother alone.When his mother asked about the three children, Yancheng said they were all by Lilin's side and hadn't come to Tianjin.He forgets when he tells a lie.It wasn't until Lilin wanted to see her daughter that she remembered the three sons that were born out of nothing.He thought this kind of lying was boring, so he only told Lilin that he lied and prevented Lilin from seeing her daughter, without explaining the reason.Yancheng intends to keep the old lady still living in Tianjin and give her as much money as possible every month.

Lilin's aunt delivered a batch of furniture for her niece and daughter. Recently, she ran into Mrs. Xu and told her that Yancheng and his wife had finished furnishing their new house.The old lady rushed to Beijing immediately with her granddaughter.Yancheng and his wife received a telegram from their aunt and went to the station to pick it up.When the old lady asked about her three grandchildren, Yancheng said that she had entrusted them all.Lilin was so focused on her daughter that she didn't find out who the three grandchildren were.She sent back a set of beautiful doll-style clothes for Xiaoli. The old lady thought it was inconvenient to wear, and they were obviously women's clothes, so she kept them intact, and brought them back to Lilin this time.Xiaoli's strange attire, which is neither male nor female, symbolizes "recruiting younger brothers".Lilin saw that she looked like a little nun in the front and a monk in the back, she was angry and laughed, and felt ashamed, so she restrained her from going out.The old lady kept talking about her three grandchildren, and if they didn't pick them up on Saturdays, they should pick them up on Sundays.Yancheng confessed to Lilin about his three sons only when the incident came to an end.He is now out to pick up his son.

Yancheng followed Yao Mi into the study, telling his bad stories.Yao Mi still held back her laughter, but she couldn't help it anymore, stepped into her father's library, opened the window, and hugged her stomach with both hands unceremoniously and burst out laughing. At this moment, Yan Cheng seemed to have lifted a layer of mist in front of his eyes, and it seemed that a thick fog covering Yao Mi suddenly dissipated, and he could see Yao Mi clearly.Relying on her simplicity and calmness, she pretended to be mature and prudent, but she was actually a little girl learning to be an adult carefully, afraid of being noticed, afraid of being offended, and afraid of being found out that she was just a delicate girl.Yancheng often felt that he didn't see her clearly. It turned out that she was hiding in the mist that he had imagined to protect himself.It is expected that she suffered from family accidents when she was young, lost her support all of a sudden, and provoked the burden of supporting the family and taking care of her mother, so she had to learn to be an adult.Yancheng felt full of pity and sympathy, seeing her childish smile, he laughed too.

Yao Mi suppressed a smile and said, "Mr. Xu, you can say that the children are all in foreign countries, and they haven't been brought back, so it's over?" Yancheng admits that he has no brains and only thinks about what is in front of him.He's really not used to lying.He said: "I didn't know that my son had already given birth to three. One was easy, so I just said that he died. The two died together, it must be an infectious disease. What about the three? Did they die separately? Or did they die together? No Faer murdered. Let Lilin say what she wants, and she'll deal with Mom." He sighed, "I'm very upset. Let me help you with your work and don't think about it for now."

Yao Mi said that he might transfer jobs.It's just that I don't know if things will be successful, and I don't know if I am qualified enough. Yancheng was so happy that he forgot about his three sons, and said repeatedly: "Wang Zheng is so kind! It should be said that the new society is so good! No one will be buried!" He then told Yao Mi solemnly: "Don't worry, you are better than others. Those who study abroad with a master's degree are much better, how can they be unqualified!" He helped Yao Mi to register the books, and said: "Keep all the foreign language books that are useful to you, and register the bibliographies of the rest that you don't use. Let's classify them and record the number." Yao Mi also meant the same thing, and the two of them did what they said.She had kept most of the English books, and Yancheng helped her pick out the French books, and at the same time introduced to her which books were easy to read and which were difficult to understand.Yancheng took the books Yao Mi needed from the shelf, and Yao Mi piled them on the ground.other classification points.The two of them worked diligently until Yao Mi felt hungry, and looked at the watch that it was half past eleven.She asked Mr. Xu if he was hungry, and if he wanted to have dinner with her house.Yancheng sat down among the piles of books and said, let's rest for a while.The two sat down opposite each other. Yancheng said, "Your mother must be angry when she sees a son like me." "No, my mother must like you." Yao Mi felt embarrassed after speaking, but luckily Yancheng didn't care.He told Yao Mi about his family's situation, and how his aunt treated him well. They rested for a while, Yancheng said, no matter what, he had to go home, he stood up first, and stretched out his hand to pull Yao Mi.Yao Mi followed him to pull her up, she laughed and said, "If you can't go home, come to my house for dinner." Yancheng laughed and said, "I have to go home to see my sons. Comrade Yao Mi..." "Call me Yao Mi." "Okay, Yao Mi, I have to go home." Because the library was cold, Yao Mi was wearing thick clothes. Seeing that Xu Yancheng was wearing thin clothes, he said worriedly, "There is no wind at this window, but it is blowing outside. Mr. Xu, are you cold?" Xu Yancheng said: "It's very warm after work, and I'm not cold yet, so I'll go first." He said "goodbye" and left in a hurry. Yao Mi went home, Jiang Min and Shanbao both left.Mrs. Yao said to her daughter: "Wang Zhengzhun and Fu Jin have settled the matter of your job transfer. Fu Jin has already mentioned it to others, so Jiang Min also knows about it." Yao Mi said: "Jiang Min, she took the credit after hearing some rumors. She is like this: flattering to the face, sarcasm behind the scenes, flattering the horse at the top, crowding people at the bottom. She only flatters Fu Jin, and also flatters Jiang Taotao." , I also shoot Shi Nina, I also shoot Yu Nan, and I also shoot standard beauties; Xu Yancheng can't be photographed, standard beauties are so sophisticated, I don't know whether to eat her or not." Then she talked about Xu Yancheng's "three sons" and his daughter who was neither male nor female, and Mrs. Yao laughed happily.
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