Golden Pink Building

"Mom is back!" Little Pig rushed back to the room excitedly, Mrs. Bai and Mrs. Leng looked at each other with a smile and said to Yuan Yuan: "Hurry up and hide, are the flowers ready?" Yuan Yuan nodded excitedly head, pulled his younger brother and hid behind the door.There was a sound of a car outside, Bai Shaoyi and Qingqiu got out of the car.It was rare for Qingqiu to dress up very grandly today, she looked at Bai Shaoyi with a smile and said, "Thank you for being able to accompany me to sign the contract in spite of your busy schedule."

Bai Shaoyi looked at Qingqiu with gentle eyes that dripped water, he graciously supported Qingqiu's arm and walked slowly towards the house: "I also want to thank you, your generosity is really too timely. We have already done it for the domestic A lot of things were raised. You actually donated 10 yuan, how many medicines can be exchanged for this money and how many people can be saved.” The domestic war is raging, and the Anti-Japanese War has reached the most difficult time.Bai Shaoyi became the most famous lawyer in the overseas Chinese community in the United States, as well as the most influential fundraiser.

Qingqiu looked at her husband distressedly, and held his hand: "I also have selfish intentions, seeing you running around all day, I am very worried about your body."

Bai Shaoyi shrugged her shoulders indifferently: "My health is very good, you are the backbone of this family. My father and I are busy outside every day, and my mother and mother-in-law need you to take care of me. You have to worry about educating a child. Qingqiu, I feel so lucky to have you by my side. If you were not by my side, I would feel that the world no longer needs to exist. "

"What nonsense are you talking about. Let's go in quickly. Is father coming back tonight? I woke up in the morning and heard Yuan Yuan secretly calling her grandfather, urging him to come back. This girl, Yuan Yuan, is crazy all day long Yes, the day before yesterday she told me to do something! She hasn’t graduated from college yet.” Qingqiu mentioned that her daughter had a headache, even with the joint education of Qingqiu and her grandmother, it’s a pity that Yuanyuan still didn’t become In Qingqiu's heart, the ideal lady of every family.She is now like the little girl next door, wearing skirts, pulling her hair out in various curls, humming pop songs, and going out with pretty guys.

"Among the girls her age, Yuan Yuan is already a very good girl. She is serious about her studies, and she has chosen a biology major, and she is excellent in all high school courses, and won a scholarship in college. The girl has a lively personality and is very good. Well, you see, the girls in our neighborhood are all like Yuan Yuan. Young people should be energetic, it’s too gloomy to hide in the house all day. It seems that the classical beauty hidden in the boudoir is not very popular in the United States. You should know Yuan's personality, she is kind-hearted and likes to help people—" Before Bai Shaoyi finished speaking, Qingqiu's face changed color, she gave her husband a blank look, and said with a half-smile: "Oh, that's how it is, I am The kind of lifeless paper beauty who is sluggish all day long and hides in the house?!"

Bai Shaoyi realized that she had made a slip of the tongue, and quickly smiled and begged his wife for forgiveness: "The conscience of heaven and earth, what do I mean! I mean, there are many beauties in this world, and there are also many smart and beautiful women. But the temperament is outstanding, like a banished woman. A fairy woman is only the wife in the world. Although Yuan Yuan is good, it’s a pity that she can’t compare with the wife back then. With her rough temperament, wouldn’t it be a joke to pretend to be an extraordinary fairy?” As soon as Bai Shaoyi got angry when she saw Qingqiu, she couldn't care about anything else, and simply belittled her daughter in Qingqiu.

Before Qingqiu could speak, Yuan Yuan suddenly jumped out from behind the tree nearby, yelling and pulling Qingqiu to act like a baby: "Listen, Mom, Dad is too immoral, I am your own daughter! You To make my wife happy, to discredit my daughter! Mom, I'm so sad!" Yuan Yuan threw herself into Qingqiu's arms, stamped her feet on Qingqiu's neck and acted like a spoiled child.Qingqiu touched Yuanyuan's shoulder with a smile, time passed so fast, Yuanyuan was already as tall as her.

"You tricky thing, what are you doing sneaking around here?" Qing Qiu hugged Yuan Yuan's shoulder and patted her on the back.Yuan Yuan stood up straight with a guilty conscience, and shouted to the back: "Come out!" Xiaozhu immediately came out of the house with flowers in his arms. He handed the flowers to Qingqiu and kissed his mother on the cheek: "Congratulations to my mother for successfully signing the contract today!" .”

At this time, both Jin Ying and Mrs. Leng came out. They looked at Qingqiu with concern, and Mrs. Leng smiled and said, "I heard Xiaozhu say that a company wants to buy your patent, and today the contract has been successfully signed. I don't understand foreigners. According to the rules, how can a small rose be worth so much?"

Qingqiu said with a smile: "That's called a patent, mom, don't worry about that. That seed company is very powerful, and they invited me to lead the research work. I bought the patent for a new rose variety for [-] million yuan. I will see it in a few days." How about taking you out for a walk?" Thinking that her mother hasn't been anywhere in the United States for a few years, and now that she has more money, Qingqiu naturally wants to take her family out for a walk.

Mrs. Leng was busy waving her hands: "I'm not going. I can't understand what the people say in this place, and I'm not used to the food. I don't even recognize a street sign on the street. It's no different from a blind person. I don't want to go out. Just stay at home and look after the children with Zhang Ma. Instead, you should take Yuan Yuan’s wife and Shao Yi out for a walk. You young people have a lot of things to do, so you should relax. I’m an old woman who likes to stay at home and not to go out.”

Madam Bai was very happy to hear that everything was going well for her daughter-in-law, she looked at Qingqiu and said: "You are a real child, you just buy the patent, why bother to go to work, in fact, our family doesn't need to work as hard as you. You see Yuanyuan has already gone to college, and Xiaozhu is also very sensible. It is really embarrassing to that point. What should you do if you are tired?"

Qingqiu said with a smile: "I like to cultivate new varieties. I go to work because I have studied for so many years. It is a pity to be abandoned at home. I like to work in the laboratory. How can I feel tired doing what I like? Well. I still have a lot of assistants, so I don’t need to do everything myself.” Mrs. Bai listened to Qingqiu’s words, pondered for a while before saying: “Since that’s the case, I won’t talk about it. Anyway, your mother and I are old-fashioned people. We have never worked a day in our lives. It seems that the world has really changed, and women will go out to work in the future, what will men do?"

Yuan Yuan pinched his nose and said in a strange voice: "That's good. Women support themselves without having to look at men's faces. In the future, husbands will not dare to bully their wives, or wives will go out to earn money to support the family, and men will give birth at home." The child is a househusband!" Mrs. Bai frowned immediately when she heard her granddaughter's words, and taught Yuan Yuan a lesson: "You girl, what nonsense are you talking about, what kind of messy things did you learn in school! In the future, what will you say? Don't say it casually anymore, if people hear it, you won't be able to get married."

Yuan Yuan ignored her grandmother's scolding at all, stuck out her tongue at Mrs. Bai, turned around and ran away.Qingqiu looked at Yuanyuan's back helplessly, the power of the environment was too strong.If it was in China, Yuan Yuan would never have become like this.Bai Shaoyi came out to smooth things over: "Mom, don't pay attention to their little girls. Yuan Yuan must have heard some feminist speech at school."

"That's it. The schools here are full of fallacies. My good granddaughter was also kidnapped by them. If it weren't for the war in Europe, I would definitely send Yuan Yuan to England to study. Yuan Yuan always It's courageous, what if she listens to those radical thoughts and makes radical things. Leaving aside, let's talk about Lao Zhao's two younger sisters. Yuanyuan has grown up, so I'm worried." Mrs. Bai sighed at Mrs. Leng, and complained to her: "Maybe my mother-in-law is going to laugh at me, you are a sensible person, our thinking will be laughed at by them, this There are only us two old antiques in the family."

Mrs. Leng smiled and said: "It can be seen that we are old. What we were like back then is like a fairy tale to them. The world has changed, and we are also old. Children and grandchildren have their own blessings, follow them Go." Mrs. Leng comforted her mother-in-law while winking at Qingqiu.

Qingqiu and Bai Shaoyi were busy trying to smooth things over, and the family went into the house to celebrate without mentioning it.After dinner, Qingqiu and his mother sat in the back garden drinking tea and gossiping. "Although you have studied a lot, you haven't attended a day of serious work. Now that the children are grown up, you have to go out to work in public. It's all because of me." Mrs. Leng is the same as Mrs. Bai, In their minds, they firmly believe that a woman can take care of the housework and help her husband at home, so how can she go out and set up a household by herself. "You are a real kid. Back then I was safe in the Shanghai Concession. Although there were bombings outside, the inside of the Concession was still safe. What am I afraid of as an old woman? But you came back from the United States alone, you What should a woman do if she encounters something on the road. Now I have to tire you out to do things. I'm such a waste!" Mrs. Leng thought that Qingqiu went to work just to share her own living expenses.Thinking of her daughter risking her life to pick her up, she came to the United States, and the two families lived together, Mrs. Leng always felt a little dependent.She thought it must be Qingqiu who didn't want to gossip about her husband's family, so she went to work, and she was a mother who dragged her children down, thinking that Mrs. Leng couldn't help but feel sad.

"Where does Mom want to go? I went because I like to do research. Shaoyi is not only busy with the affairs of the law firm, but also has a teaching job. On the battlefield, I should also do my part to help the domestic war of resistance. I can donate more money to the domestic battlefield when I go to work." Qingqiu comforted her mother, she suddenly remembered the tragic scenes she saw when she went all the way to Shanghai, Can't help but sigh.

"If you say that, I have nothing to say. Although I am a woman, I can't just be selfish. You and Shao Yi are children who know loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness. I support what you do." Mrs. Leng wiped Out of the corner of his eye, he and Qingqiu went into the house.

Qingqiu sent her mother back to the room to rest, when she came out of Mrs. Leng's room, she saw Mrs. Bai sitting on the sofa thinking about something.Qingqiu was angry because Mrs. Bai was talking about Yuan Yuan's words, so she couldn't help going to the daughter in front of her to help describe it. "Mother is still angry with Yuanyuan? That girl is usually too pampered by me, mother, don't be angry, I will have a good talk with her." Before Qingqiu's voice fell, Mrs. Bai hurriedly interrupted Qingqiu's words: " I can't follow the child's knowledge. In fact, Yuan Yuan's words make sense when you think about it carefully. Marrying a man, marrying a man, dressing and eating, but holding someone's job depends on his face. Yuan Yuan is our baby. Think about it If Yuan Yuan is a daughter-in-law in someone else’s family and sets the rules, it will be very distressing. If the woman does not look at the face of her husband’s family, we can rest assured. I am not angry because of Yuan Yuan’s words, but I suddenly remembered that my relatives and friends in China would not Know how they are."

"Uncle's family, apart from Hesun who can't be contacted in Shanghai, and Yanxi who is in northern Shaanxi, the rest are in Chongqing and Kunming. Didn't they just send something to Peifang a few days ago. Although they are in material difficulties in Chongqing, they are safe. It can still be guaranteed." When the war broke out, Bai Xiong first took his wife to Chongqing, and later brought his whole family to the United States.Both Bai Xiongqi and Xiuzhu are in San Francisco, but they are a little far away from Qingqiu.Mrs. Jin's health has been bad for a long time. Before the fall of Shanghai, she died without any illness in the monastery where she practiced, and she was considered clean.As the flames of war spread, Fengju Pengzhen took his family to Chongqing for refuge, Daozhi left her husband and went to Kunming, Min Zhirun was far away in Europe, Yanxi went to northern Shaanxi, and the Jin family was completely dispersed.

"I'm getting old, and I often think about the past. At that time, your uncle's family was really prominent. Who would have thought that the prosperity was like a dream! The family broke up as soon as they said it." Mrs. Bai thought about the past. All kinds of emotions suddenly rose.

Qingqiu suddenly remembered that at that time she and Shao Yi had just got married, Jin Quan was still in the prime minister's seat, she had been to the Jin family, the huge mansion, the prosperous children and grandchildren.At that time, just after the Spring Festival, the portraits and tablets of the ancestors of the Jin family were still placed in the main hall. Looking at the portraits of the ancestors with brilliant heads, and the bronze ritual vessels on the red sandalwood case.For some reason, Qingqiu remembered that Jia's family in the last life was also the family of Zhongming Dingshi, which was equally prominent for a while.The result is not all the same, just a dream.

"Under the flames of war, people can't help themselves, just like duckweed on the water, we are just drifting with the tide. As long as the family can be together, Gou Quan's life in troubled times is also the greatest luck." Qingqiu couldn't help saying Feeling in my heart, power and money are all illusory in front of family affection.

The life of Qingqiu's family in the United States is still step-by-step. Bai Wenxin became the consul in New York. He used his skills as a diplomat all his life to deal with all walks of life in New York and win sympathy and help for the domestic anti-Japanese battlefield.Bai Shaoyi has traveled to almost any place in the United States where there are overseas Chinese, raising donations in the country, and using her ability and connections to win over sympathizers.Apart from doing research with peace of mind every day, Qingqiu just takes the children and takes care of the elders.

The life of the family is busy but fulfilling.The days slipped away day by day, more and more reports about the war appeared in the newspapers, and the whole world was shrouded in the cloud of war.Qingqiu looked at the city that was bombed into ruins in the newspaper, and couldn't help sighing that the world is so big that there is not an inch of quiet place.

One day, Qingqiu watched Xiaozhu go out and get on the school bus, about to go to work, and the phone at home suddenly rang.Qingqiu picked up the phone, and it turned out to be a call from the hospital.Qingqiu didn't expect the nurse on the phone to say that there was a patient there who wanted to see her.When Qingqiu found out the patient's name, he was stunned. Zhao Zhongshu was actually in a hospital in the United States!