Chapter 3 2

A person may move many times in his life, but Jing believes that everyone has a place where he belongs.No. 3 Taoli Street is where Jing belongs.Although it wasn't where she was born, nor where she lived the longest.Just because she left there would keep dreaming about it.Jing often feels that certain memories from the past are like the root of the disease that has fallen, and at certain nights, it is like a rheumatism attack, floating out of the bones slowly. The girl Jing went to No. 3 Taoli Street for the first time, but she just thought it was like a castle in a fairy tale——she was fascinated by some images in fairy tales since she was a child.

She is very obsessed with castles, magic lamps, spells, etc., but she has forgotten that the castle is also a place where horror stories are particularly prosperous. It is sad and thunderous.She is heading towards a weird maze. Jing always remembers the day when she and her mother moved to No. 3 Taoli Street.It was raining heavily, and the sky was filled with the faces of resentful women, as if trying to prevent them from moving. Jing's mother, Man, walked in front, wearing a brown scalloped waist skirt windbreaker and a small color-block leather satchel.But Jing was dragging a large wooden box, which was filled with toys bought for her by her former grandma, clothes made for her and embroidered pillows.Man didn't allow Jing to take these, saying, if you go there, you'll have everything.But Jing looked at those dolls with missing arms and legs, and winter clothes with cotton exposed, and she couldn't bear to discard any of them.Man glanced back at Jing and scolded her for being useless.Man didn't take away any of her previous clothes. At the moment before moving, she just sat in front of the dresser seriously and put on impeccable makeup, and sprayed some perfume in the small round bottle—a lot this time.She used to warn Jing not to touch her small round bottle, which was worth enough to feed them for a month, but today she almost spilled the whole bottle of perfume on her body.

Jing couldn't open an umbrella because she was dragging the box.She was drenched in the heavy rain, and through the blurred vision of the rain, she saw Man holding a small white lace umbrella, and the high heels on the soles of her feet were rattling.She is as elegant as a peacock walking into a free forest.At that moment, anyone would forget that Man was already the mother of a twelve-year-old child. They walked in the rain one after the other.Jing knew that many people looked at her with pity. They must have suspected that she was this beautiful young woman's little servant. They probably made the master angry. As punishment, they were going to be drenched in the heavy rain.But Jing didn't mind this. Before she died, grandma told her to follow this woman as much as possible. Before she became an adult and was strong enough, at least she could give Jing a place to live.Later, when Jing grew up, she discovered that although her grandma and mother hated and cursed each other, they had many similarities in their personalities.The deep calculations and long-standing grievances of women are well reflected in them.It will also be continued in her.

When my clothes were soaked, I finally reached No. 3 Taoli Street. Taoli Street is a place they don't come to often, and most of them are small buildings with independent gardens.There are big blue iron gates on both sides of the road, and luxury cars painted with sunlight pass in and out, and in the car sits a beautiful lady hugging a long-eared poodle.Jing knew that her mother hated them, but she liked their outfits very much.Occasionally passing by here and seeing such women, Man would look at them with a complicated expression, full of disgust and boredom, as if she never wanted to look at them again.But she couldn't take her eyes off them for a moment--how she liked their clothes and accessories.At that time, Jing didn't know that Man would become one of them one day, and the careful observation she had made before was not in vain.Man can so easily become an elegant lady, all thanks to those vicious gazes she once paid.

The gate of No. 3 courtyard on Taoli Street was ajar.Man didn't ring the doorbell, and walked straight inside, acting like a hostess.Passing through rose bushes and grape trellises, they came to the two-story building.The small building is cream-colored, like a little white elephant with a lack of appetite and energy, sitting quietly in the deepest part of this tranquil garden.Jing now knows that the houses in Taoli Street are so beautiful.Previously, I only passed by the road outside. I saw the gate with black carved iron lattice, and I saw a large bunch of roses sticking out of it. Even they seemed to be stained with noble temperament, so melancholy and deep.

Man rang the bell at the gate of the white building.The door opened.Jing walked in with Man.Man said to the man watching them from behind the door: "I'm moving here." In autumn, Man married the man named Lu Yihan and became the hostess of No. 3 Taoli Street.Lu Yihan was three years younger than Man. He was the owner and collector of an art auction company and opened a magnificent gallery.There are many valuable calligraphy and paintings and antiques in his home, like a rich museum.Lu Yihan himself also likes to paint, and has a very spacious and bright studio.His paintings are also exhibited in his gallery, but never traded.Man envied Lu Yihan's leisure very much. He didn't have to go to work every day. When he was happy, he would go to his gallery and meet a few friends, but he could have a steady stream of money.Moreover, the circles he associates with are all celebrities in the cultural circles, and the frequent receptions are even more eye-opening for Man.

Man and Lu Yihan have known each other for a long time.Because Lu Yihan has friends in the song and dance troupe, he often goes to the opera.Man knew that Lu Yihan's wife had died many years ago, and besides a little boy under ten years old, he had no other relatives.Man really likes a handsome and wealthy man like him from the bottom of his heart.But Lu Yihan is cautious and decent, and Man is a married woman. Although he likes Man, he never thinks anything wrong.After her husband died, Man felt that Lu Yihan was the best support.She began to take the initiative to approach him, and let him know how rough her fate is. Now that she has lost her job in the song and dance troupe and has to support a ten-year-old child, how difficult it is.Man has experienced countless men, and knows men's thoughts like the back of his hand.She really attracted Lu Yihan's affection.

Suddenly, Jing also became a child living in Taoli Street.The family has a car and a big dog, and the big garden in front of the building can hold a grand dance if the lights are lit.And there was always a gardener who came to the garden every other week to clear the weeds, trim the trees, and plant strawberries and oleanders at her request.The fairy tale Jing read day and night as the truth actually happened to her, and Cinderella became a little princess.They often ask her, what else is there to be unhappy about?