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Chapter 29 Chapter Seventeen

bath 杨绛 2782Words 2018-03-20
Xu Yancheng asked Yao Mi to open the door for him at exactly ten o'clock on Sunday morning, and asked Yao Mi to wait for him in the small study. The weather is already warm and the fire has been extinguished long ago, but the doors and windows have not been opened.He can enter the door quietly and go to Yao Mi's study quietly. Yao Mi lived anxiously for two days.On Sunday morning, she told her mother that she was going to study in the study, and everyone who came said she was not at home.It was a sunny day, and in Yao's small courtyard, the winter jasmine hadn't faded yet, and the bauhinia and elm plum blossoms were in full bloom. She heard two guests coming one after another.Near ten o'clock, Mrs. Yao personally sent the second guest out.Fortunately, Yao Mi didn't open the door too early.From a half-open window, she saw her mother standing in the yard looking at the flowers with a cane after seeing off the guests.Yao Mi was anxious, if her mother could not enter the house standing still, how could she open the door secretly?She didn't open the door and told Xu Yancheng to stand at the door stupidly, how could it work?

She ran out and said, "Mom, don't catch a cold!" Mom said: "It's not cold! The sun is so good, you don't come out to see the sun—Aunt Lu specially chose Sunday to come to see you" (Aunt Lu is Luo Hou's aunt), "but I will help you Lied." While listening to her mother talking about Aunt Lu, Yao Mi waited anxiously for the minutes to pass.It's ten o'clock, is Xu Yancheng at the door? Yao Mi pretended to hear something, raised her head and said, "Did someone ring the bell?" The electric bell at the door of her house went straight to the kitchen, and it was hard to hear it in the yard.

Mrs. Yao said, "No. Don't worry about it, go hide." Yao Mi said: "...Quietly, let me open the door." She peeked through the crack of the door and saw someone standing outside, of course it was Xu Yancheng.She was afraid that Xu Yancheng would not know that her mother was in the yard, so when she opened the door, she yelled: "Mom, Mr. Xu is here." She closed the door and went back to the study by herself, but she couldn't make up her mind.Should she come out to accompany the guests?Still waiting in the study?Perhaps Xu Yancheng thought that she was deliberately using her mother to block him, so he wouldn't come to the study.If she came out to accompany guests, didn't she tell her mother that she would not see any guests.

Mrs. Yao brought Yancheng into the house together.Yancheng asked about Yao Mi politely. Mrs. Yao said: "This child has become a hard worker! Is she so strong? Or can she not keep up?" Yancheng asked, "What is she busy with?" Mrs. Yao said: "Tell me early in the morning that she has to work hard, and anyone who comes will say that she is not at home." Yancheng thought: "She is waiting for me." A stone fell from his heart.He said, "I'll go and see her, okay?" Mrs. Yao nodded and said, "You are the mentor, tell her to relax."

She picked up a new novel and leaned on the recliner to read it.Probably the book was very dull, she dozed off after reading a few pages, I don't know how long she fell asleep, when she opened her eyes, the person in front of her was not Xu Yancheng, but Du Lilin. Lilin panicked and said: "Auntie, I woke you up - Aunt Shen said that Yancheng didn't come, if he comes later, please ask Auntie to tell him to go home immediately, someone is waiting for him." Mrs. Yao said: "Yancheng is here, in A Mi's study." She pointed out the window and said: "There is a window half open." She wanted to get up.

Lilin hurriedly said, "Auntie doesn't move, I'll look for it." "Have you been there? By the gate, through the door in the wall, up the steps." Lilin said she would look for it, apologized repeatedly to Mrs. Yao, left in a hurry, and found the door of the wall hole by herself.She had seen a broken door behind the door in the wall with a big rusty iron lock, and the study must be there.She quietly walked through the door in the wall and walked up the steps. Seeing that the iron lock on the door was gone, she gently opened the door and pushed it open. She stood at the door, condensed into an iron statue.

Xu Yancheng and Yao Mi had returned to calm.They had burning things to talk about, no time for obsession, but they felt they had known each other for a thousand years, that they had known each other for several lifetimes. There is only a small desk and a small round stool in the small study.At this time Xu Yancheng was sitting on the small desk, and Yao Mi was sitting on the small round stool opposite, talking intimately.Her face was on his lap, and his hand was on her arm.Yancheng looked up and saw Lilin; Yao Mi looked back, and they both stood up at the same time. Yao Mi spoke first.She smiled and said, "Mr. Du, please come in." She smiled sweetly and charmingly.Lilin thought it was the winner's smile.

Yancheng said, "We have something to talk to you about." Lilin walked into the study and said with a livid face, "Let's talk." Yao Mi said: "Mr. Du, please sit down first, so we can talk." She asked Lilin to sit on the small round stool, Yancheng was still sitting on the table, and Yao Mi pulled the small ladder with two steps and sat on the ground floor .She solemnly said: "Mr. Du, I only have one sentence, please believe me. I will never come among you, and I will never destroy your family." Yancheng said: "I will never do anything to be sorry to you, to her, or to Aunt Yao. I also ask you to believe me."

Lilin wasn't prepared for them to say that.But this kind of talk is pure nonsense.She didn't want to negotiate with Yao Mi, and this was not a place for her to argue with Yancheng. She didn't say a word, but said to Yancheng: "Someone is looking for you at home. Aunt Yao said that you are here." "Who is looking for me?" "It's important people, important things, I rushed out to find you." Yao Mi said: "Mr. Du and Mr. Xu please come back quickly!" Yancheng also wanted to talk to Aunt Yao.Yao Mi said, "No need, I will speak for you."

Lilin said, "I have already told Aunt Yao." As soon as Yancheng went out, he asked Lilin, "Is anyone really looking for her?" Lilin sneered and said, "I am a clairvoyant with Shunfeng's ears? I came here when I heard you talking about love and seeing you necking?" Yancheng was unconvinced and said, "You saw us, is it necking?" "Have you seen anything yet? From what you have seen, you can guess what you haven't seen." "Don't talk nonsense, Lilin, you saw it with your own eyes. There is still a window open in the house."

"But the study room is five or six feet higher than the yard. With the window open, you can't see the inside from the outside. Besides, the window is on the west end, and you are both on the east end—I never thought that there is such a meeting place in the Yao family !" Yancheng said: "I can swear, this is the first time I met Yao Mi there." "Meet! You also meet elsewhere! In that room, it's more than just meeting!" Yancheng said angrily, "Oh! Are you here to arrest us?" Lilin said, "I'm really sorry to bother you. If I had known earlier, I would have missed the point—it was Yu Nan who came to see us just now." "Is he still waiting for me?" "He came to invite us to dinner in person, just the two of us. We'll go to his house in a moment." "You promised him?" "Aren't you ashamed not to agree? He invited you before, and you didn't appreciate it. Now that you don't go, it seems that we are in a relationship. The team leader rewards the meal, and it's over after eating his." "Is there Zhu Qianli?" "No, probably not." "Hmph, it's his trick again, to win us over and isolate Zhu Qianli." They have reached home while talking.While looking for clothes, Lilin sighed and said, "I really have to apologize to you two for interrupting your love conversation. But, she has already come among us, why are you still talking nonsense?" "We are a community of sincerity." "We!! You two have become us, where am I? Isn't it outside of you? Why don't you come among you! Thank you both for your sincerity! I don't need your sincerity! She thought Are you destroying our family? Tell her to try! Do you want to do something wrong to others? You might as well try! I will tell Fu Jin, Fan Fan, Shi Nina, Jiang Taotao, and ask them to come together to treat it. you!" Yancheng said angrily: "You go to eat alone, I won't go." Lilin had already changed her shoes and socks, washed her face, sat in front of the large round mirror of the dressing table, lightly applied a thin layer of makeup powder, painted some natural-colored lipstick on her lips, changed her clothes, and buttoned them in front of the dressing mirror .Seeing that Yancheng was angry, she forced a smile and said: "I am patient, but you are angry with me! Our family can't be united, so we have to be bullied." "Don't you have one heart with others? I'm waiting for you to cure me with others!" "Could it be that you have already done something that is sorry for others, and you are so afraid! If you don't go now, is it a shame for me? Anyway, you have thrown away my heart like a waste, and you will cherish my face. What—what can I say to be sorry, I'm sorry!" Yancheng felt a dull pain in his heart, deeply sorry, and after a moment of silence, he said, "I'm sorry for you." Lilin felt that at this moment she had to go out as a guest, not the time for theory.Besides, the matter between the two of them cannot be finished in a few words.If Yancheng made a fuss if he didn't speak well, he wouldn't be able to get off the stage.She glanced at Yancheng, changed her tone and said, "You don't need to change your clothes, just go as usual." Yancheng suddenly saw a box of beautiful chocolate candies stuffed in Lilin's handbag, he asked in surprise, "What is this for?" "His family has a daughter, and it's just a gift for her. Do you have the nerve to come to the door empty-handed?" Yancheng obediently followed Lilin out.He was still thinking about Yao Mi and their deep conversation.
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