A thought of Anru [Siege]

One's own hope depends on others, and one's life will be unsettled.

She said: "Mom, I'm going to visit Sister Liusu tomorrow, will you go with me?"

Hui Niang said, "Go by yourself, you two have a good talk."

"Ok!"

Before leaving, Hui Niang finally spit out the words she had held back for a long time, she said: "Ah Ru, you are not young, if you don't get a divorce like Liusu, you will be afraid of having children when you are your age It's time, it's time for you to take matters of marriage into consideration - mother knows that those of you who have studied abroad don't like family arrangements for marriage, if you can bring back a child from a good family by yourself, mother has no objection, but If not, Mom will have to worry about making arrangements for you."

An Ru smiled wryly. This marriage event was something she had been avoiding all along, but she couldn't keep avoiding it when her mother said it so frankly, "Mom, I know this matter well, you don't have to worry about it for me. I I already have someone I like, but he is not in Shanghai, when he comes to Shanghai, I will definitely ask him to visit."

Hui Niang was about to continue to ask, but An Ru pretended to be tired and pretended to go over.

She smiled bitterly in her heart, and she didn't know where to find a son-in-law for her mother. If she didn't say that, her mother would definitely not give up making arrangements for her marriage.

夏婵

On the second day, before breakfast, An Ru went out.The Bai mansion is not far from Xu's house, and she only walked for less than 3 minutes.

Before entering the Bai mansion, she heard the sound of huqin babbling inside, and Anru knew that the player who played the huqin was the fourth son of the Bai family, who had the least status in the Bai family.In addition to the fourth child, there are seven other brothers and sisters, Liusu is the sixth, and there is a younger sister who is just 24, and Tong'an is about the same age.

An Rusu had a good relationship with Liusu, but the seventh sister of the Bai family couldn't talk to each other. She rang the doorbell several times.I heard someone inside, "Wait! Come right away."After 5 minutes, the door was opened with a gap, and half of the old lady's head was exposed in the gap.

She looked at An Ru for a few times, and seeing that she was not an acquaintance, she asked suspiciously, "Who are you looking for?"

This old woman should be new here, An Ru was new to her, she had never seen her before, she explained: "Please inform the inside that it is the Xu family, Xu Anru, who is here to visit."

The old woman's thick nose snorted hot air, and then the door closed with a sound.

There is a faint fragrance of gardenia in the air in the early morning. It turns out that there is a gardenia tree planted not far away. The emerald green leaves have been washed by dew, and the green is impressive; Among them, when the wind blows, the flowers sway freely in the wind, and the dew mixed in the center of the flowers also dangles and falls to the ground.In a few days, this pure white flower will return to its original place and become one with the earth. Waiting for the next year, it will be another short but gorgeous bloom.

An Ru's feelings were dragged away by Gardenia, and after a while, the old lady opened the door and led her in.It seems that she went at the wrong time. The Bai family had just experienced a quarrel, and the air was still filled with the smell of gunpowder.

The third sister-in-law of the Bai family was not forgiving. She was afraid that not enough people knew about her family's scandals. When she saw An Ru, she said bluntly: "You don't know, our sixth girl from the Bai family is really good. My sister grabs a man, and she doesn't look in the mirror to see what she looks like, let alone a divorced woman, she eats so ugly, she is not afraid of being choked by herself."

An Ru didn't want to talk too much with the third sister-in-law of the Bai family. No matter what she said, she responded with a smile and didn't express her opinion. She was really annoyed by being questioned, so she just said, "The Bai family's affairs, I am an outsider in the same class. Good rating."

Seeing that she was not cooperating with her, the third sister-in-law of the Bai family didn't want to talk to her anymore, so she finally found time to meet Liusu.Liusu should have just cried, her eyes were red and a little swollen, her reddish nose gently rose and fell with her breathing, and the suppressed sobs broke through the master's control and hummed softly from her nose.The radiant bead curtains set off the tassels with a hazy beauty. She is a very beautiful woman. Time has favored her and never left marks on her face. It's just that the fate of beautiful women is always rough.

An Ru smiled at Liusu, gently closed the door, and sat beside her with the beaded curtain behind her. She pretended not to know anything, and lightly held Liusu's hand and said, "Tassel is getting more and more beautiful."

Liusu's tense face laughed softly, like ink was suddenly splashed on a piece of blue and white paper, abrupt but natural, she couldn't tell whether it was happiness or bitterness, she said: "Anru, it's good to be back."

In a word, An Ru choked up on the spot, she didn't know how to feel, it was her fault that she didn't stay by her side to be her spiritual support during the most difficult years of her friend.

She glanced over her head to hide the emotion in her eyes, lowered her head and took out a dark green box from her handbag. The box was only about the size of a palm, with a light green ribbon tied on it. She pretended to be mysterious and pushed the box to the tassel He said in front of him, "It's for you, guess what it is?"

Tassel just pretended not to know, An Ru had no choice but to put the box in her hand and let her open it to have a look.

Tassel opened the box, and the pure tea-green liquid flowed quietly in the square glass bottle.

"Perfume", Liusu looked up at her in surprise.

Anru nodded, caressing the green ribbon, tied her into a knot on the tasseled hands, and said, "I know you don't like strong floral fragrances, so I chose this light herbal fragrance for you when you were passing through France. .”

"An Ru, thank you."

Liusu hugged An Ru into her arms, rested her chin on her shoulder, and murmured thank you in a weak voice.An Ru patted her on the back and said, "Is Tassel going to Hong Kong?"

"Ok!"

There was a brief silence in the air, and An Ru thought over and over again: "It's better to go out to work..." An Ru closed her mouth only halfway through her words. Those words are unnecessary for Tassel. If she can go out to work, she You don't have to be angry with your family for so many years at home.She knew that Liusu went to Hong Kong only to seek asylum from an unknown man. In the end, the battle in Hong Kong dragged the man away, and Liusu also successfully married a prodigal son. But in that unequal marriage, how long could Liusu last? She didn't know either, maybe she could be happy forever, or maybe she would die without a problem.

In the end, she changed the subject and said: "I just came back, and you have to leave. This fate is too thin. You have to go out with me today, or I will panic."

"As long as you are willing, I will accompany you to the end."

The two tacitly refrained from mentioning those unpleasant things.To say that a woman should be gifted for shopping, Liusu suffers from anger at home all the year round, and her mood is melancholy. This time on the street, she naturally regains her vitality. Be flexible and free all of a sudden.

An Ru had previously promised to buy another snuff bottle for his father, so he dragged Tassel to a few shops and walked around for a whole morning. At the end of the day, the two of them had nothing to buy.The sun was getting bigger and bigger, An Ru told Liusu to find a restaurant to quench his hunger and thirst, and to have a rest.

The two found a Chinese-style restaurant. The restaurant was hidden in the alley, and the high wall completely separated the light, making the alley in a shade, and the cool breeze blowing from time to time dispelled the heat.

Although the small shop is hidden in a deep alley, it is a time-honored brand for more than ten years. The taste is very good. They often came here to eat when they were young. Now more than ten years have passed, and they can smell the fragrance from a distance.Entering the alley, a triangular tea flag hangs on a high place, with the black frame and red frame swaying in the wind, and there is a lively scene under the signboard, almost full of people. Bar!

Seeing that there were many people here, Liusu couldn't find an empty table, and didn't want to share a table with strangers, so he dragged An Ru away, saying to find another place with fewer people, which An Ru originally planned to do.While scanning the crowd, I accidentally saw an acquaintance.

In fact, he was not considered an acquaintance. This person was Fang Hongjian, whom she had had a brief friendship with on the ship returning home.Because she was not familiar, she didn't want to go up to disturb him for dinner, but suddenly remembered that Fang Hongjian and Miss Su were acquaintances, and he might know where Miss Su lived, so she asked him where she lived so that he could return her things.

So she whispered to Liusu a few times, then pulled Liusu forward, and went straight to the table, she called out: "Mr. Fang, how are you doing these days."

Hung-chien looked up, seeing that it was An Ru, he hurriedly got up, but because of his haste, he was almost caught by the stool and fell backwards. An subconsciously wanted to give him a hand, but before she could touch him, Hung-chien was gone. Standing on the table by herself, An Ru shyly withdrew her hand, Hung-chien smiled awkwardly, and said, "Miss Xu, long time no see."

"Is Mr. Fang alone?"

"one person."

The reason why Hung-chien came out alone was to avoid his fiancée's family.Speaking of which, it was the sponsorship from the family of the deceased fiancée that gave him the opportunity to go abroad. He just wandered abroad for a few years, attended a few lectures at this university, and took part in an auditor at that university. So four years passed without any diplomas. In the end, he had to buy a fake doctorate to fool his family, but this fake diploma was taken seriously by his family and his Yue family, and it was widely published in the newspapers.

When he saw An Ru, he knew that she had a Ph.D. from a prestigious university, and he felt a little less relieved. He was also afraid that An Ru would laugh at him about buying a fake diploma, and he would feel uncomfortable all over his body. An Ru didn't know Hung-chien's awkwardness.She didn't want to catch up with him, she just wanted to ask Miss Su where she lived.

Thinking this way in her heart, she also asked the question, "Mr. Fang, do you know where Miss Su lives?"