The Lighter and Princess Gown – Book 1: Barren Grasslands

A crowd of people.

The malls of the previous year were packed with men, women and children as if they didn't need money. The mother complained while walking: "Tell you to come back early, you will not listen, you see the shopping malls will be bought out."

"How could it be possible to buy it." Zhu Yun came out of the elevator with a big bag and a small bag, and arrived on the third floor, in ladies' clothing. "Isn't there much more?"

"Some are left by others." Mother also had a bunch of parcels in her hands. "You don't take some clothes back at school, now you have to buy everything again."

Zhu Yun made a grim face quietly.

Hurry up that day, she only had time to return to the dormitory to pack computers and books, how can she manage her clothes.

Entering a boutique apparel house, the mother chooses clothes, Zhu Yun follows behind her, and she slowly distracts herself.

Nowadays……

She looked down at her watch and it was noon.

Are he ready, have he gone to the company?

Zhu Yun sent a text message to Li Xiao in the morning, but he did not reply. She did not dare to call hurriedly, fearing to disturb him.

So annoying.

"How about this one?"

"ugly."

"........."

Zhu Yun coughed twice and explained to the dumbfounded salesperson: "No, I mean ... pretty good."

The mother said, "I didn't have a good rest last night? How do you feel like you're not there?"

Zhu Yun touched his nose: "It may be a bit tired to hurry."

My mother understood deeply and said to the salesperson on the side: "I knew how to study, and after the Chinese New Year, I said I would still be at school. The little girl's family is not at all concerned about dressing.

The salesperson inspected his words and admired, "That's so good. At first glance, this customer is a good student, and his temperament is particularly outstanding."

Mother handed the skirt in her hand to Zhu Yun: "Try it, this one is very beautiful."

Zhu Yun carried the skirt to the fitting room. Changing clothes in winter is very troublesome. Zhu Yun took off his glasses and prepared to take off his pullover sweater. Just half off, the phone shook.

Zhu Yun had no electricity to take off his clothes. The sweater stuck around his neck and freed up a hand to pick up the phone.

Sure enough, it was Li's reply.

"On the way, say later."

What time is late?

Zhu Yun has a lot of words to ask him, but he always feels that the time is wrong, and he only sent two words in the end-

"Come on."

Li Yao did not reply to her.

Zhu Yun changed her clothes and opened the door of the fitting room with her head down. The salesperson looked at her with a smile. She was about to praise her but found a fatal problem.

"Customer, your clothes are reversed."

Zhu Yun Yi bowed his head.

"..."

Mother is choosing other clothes, seeing this scene, "I said to you, what do you think about every day?"

Zhu Yun silently went back to wear it again. When she came out again, the salesperson finally praised: "Good-looking! Customer, the white color really matches you, your skin is so good!"

Zhu Yun bowed his head and prepared to wear glasses. The salesperson said, "Customers, you don't wear glasses to look better."

I don't even look at it without glasses.

Zhu Yun was fully dressed and looked in the mirror.

I have to say that my mother's vision is really good. A white hard dress with a floral pattern on the hem and a deer leather belt with a finger width on the waist. Short fur. Zhu Yun's face was hidden in furry fur, and it looked extremely small.

"It looks good! This one looks good! It's too good for you!" The salesperson highly recommended.

The mother smiled repeatedly in the praise of the salesperson and said to Zhu Yun: "I picked it well."

Zhu Yun nodded.

Mother said to the salesperson: "I want this one."

After buying several sets of clothes in a row, when Zhu Yun's arms were about to break, her mother was finally satisfied.

"These are almost the same," the mother said. "Wait a few days to give New Year to your uncles and aunts. They are all worn out.

On the way home, my mother counted the New Year's itinerary, and Zhu Yun listened absently. When she got home, her mother started to prepare meals, and Zhu Yun couldn't eat any more. She said that she would prepare for her homework and went upstairs.

"What kind of homework do you want? Just after the holiday, you don't even have books for next semester!"

Zhu Yun: "It's a review! You're wrong!"

The mother wore an apron and rushed upstairs and shouted: "It's not bad for the New Year!"

"Oh, you should let her read if she wants to read." In the living room, Zhu Guangyi was drinking tea and reading the newspaper. "You are more angry than anyone who doesn't read books, and you're anxious to read books, what do you want her to do?"

The mother fastened her apron and looked upstairs without saying a word.

Zhu Yun fell head to head on the bed, a new round of tossing and turning.

She kept looking at her watch, her cell phone, and everything she could see in her sight.

How can time pass so slowly?

She tried to read the book and write the code, but she couldn't do anything. It seemed that there was always something on her chest. She couldn't go up and down, anxious.

In the evening, her mother told her to go downstairs for dinner. Zhu Yun had no appetite at all, and he coped with his parents' discussions on the topic of studying abroad.

"How do you think Brother Xiaoyu?"

"pretty good."

"Now the opportunity to study abroad is very rare. There are few people and the resources are naturally good, but listening to your aunt Jiang said that when your brother Xiaoyu went out in his early years, he also suffered a lot. There are still prejudices against us."

Zhu Yun shrugged.

Mother: "However, if you really have the ability, you can be amazed. You can't be confined to your own small circle, you have to integrate into their big society."

Zhu Yun's heart was not on the topic at all, she glanced out the window.

"It's snowing again," she said.

"Again?" Mother said with a smile, "This is snow this year."

Zhu Yun was stunned.

It turned out that there was no snow in the city that day.

In the snow, only the two of them saw it, and Zhu Yun felt comforted for a moment.

*

At two o'clock in the middle of the day, Zhu Yun received Li Yu's reply--

"Ok."

Zhu Yun took a breath, she went down to lock the door, then went back to bed, covered the quilt over her head and called Li Xie.

"Hey?"

"Li Yu ..."

"Well, you haven't slept yet?" Li Xiao seemed to be outside, and there was wind in his phone.

Zhu Yun: "I was just watching TV with my family."

He snorted, obviously unbelieving.

Zhu Yun pursed her lips, "That ..."

"Which?"

She heard the lighter. Zhu Yun didn't turn around and asked him directly: "Have you seen the blue crown person? What do they say? How come so late?"

"A bunch of fools, the demo software has been demonstrating for a long time."

"Are they satisfied?"

"Except that the front page picture is too ugly, very satisfied."

"..............."

"Take a closer look at the contract tomorrow, it should be possible by the end of the year."

"Oh."

Li Yao smoked at the intersection where there was a lot of snow and snow. The snow was heavier than before. The temperature was low at night and a thin layer was deposited on the ground.

He smiled and said, "Okay, rest assured, sleep."

Zhu Yun: "Wait, is your cold better?"

Li Yao: "Okay."

"Then you have to rest early and go home for the Chinese New Year."

Li Xiao breathed slightly, then murmured lowly.

Hang up the phone, a big rock in my heart also fell. Zhu Yun stretched his waist, then covered his face in the pillow and pressed it tightly, then took a deep breath, tightened his muscles, and shouted.

"Ah ---"

She was afraid that her parents would hear the sound, so the pillow was buried very deep, so deep that when she raised her head, she was starved due to a lack of oxygen for a while.

Zhu Yun lay dizzy on the bed.

feels so good.

She did feel relieved, but that didn't mean she could fall asleep. Zhu Yun was up for a night, and the next day she was still alive.

A few days later, she began to help her mother prepare for the New Year. Because of Zhu Guangyi's identity, their family entertains many people during the Chinese New Year, and most of them are scholars or educators.

Fortunately, these activities started after New Year's Eve.

New Year's Eve dinner is still with my family. The hotel was booked more than two months in advance and was full. Grandpa Zhu Yun has passed away, leaving a grandmother in her 80s, with inconvenient legs and feet, and a little confused brain. Because Zhu Yun ’s parents were busy with work and no one was taking care of her grandmother, her father sent her to a senior convalescence center to visit her once a week.

Their table opened early, and they ate at seven, and ended at more than eight. Grandma had limited energy, and after her juniors had spent the New Year, she was already drowsy and the family drove her back to the nursing center.

The sound of firecrackers all over the city was deafening.

After sending grandma to the health center, Zhu Guangyi drove home. Too full to eat, Zhu Yun was too lazy to talk, put his head against the window, and looked up to the sky.

Today, the top is more lively than the bottom.

Fireworks.

The car drove into the area, the building blocked the view, and Zhu Yun untied the seat belt and was ready to get off. At this moment, she suddenly glanced at the community fountain outside the window, standing alone.

The car quickly turned a corner and turned into the trail. Zhu Yun had no time to see the man's general shape, even the basic recognition point-the hair color was not clear, and his heart jumped wildly.

Don't be excited, she told herself that tall boys are everywhere.

Useless, still excited.

Back home, his mother went to turn on the TV, Zhu Yun rushed directly to the bathroom, and closed the door with his backhand.

She took out her mobile phone and called Li Xie.

There were two sounds and they were connected.

"Hey?"

"..."

What should I say?

Zhu Yun: "... Happy New Year."

"You too."

"So ... what about the software?"

"It's long over and the contract is over."

Zhu Yun oh, Li Qio asked her over there, "What are you doing?"

Zhu Yun sat on the toilet lid and said, "I didn't do it, just finished eating, what about you?"

"The advance payment has been received and I am preparing to send red envelopes to the employees."

"Ah?" Zhu Yun cloud misty.

"Ah what?" He seemed to be laughing.

"Li Yu ..."

"I'm at your door."

Zhu Yun pinched the phone hard!

really! That was you just now! It's you! It's you! I **** said that I did not admit it!

She stood up, walked around twice in situ, lowered her voice, and quickly asked:

"How do you know I live here?"

Uncle Li said lazily: "Is it difficult for me to log on to your back office?"

"..."

Computer technology is not used this way.

Someone knocked on the bathroom door, and Zhu Yun jumped again, remembering that he had just locked the door.

"Zhu Yun, wait to eat fruit, which one do you want to eat, mango or grapefruit?" It was the mother.

Zhu Yunchong said outside, "Anyway, grapefruit!"

Mother left.

She didn't hear it, thanks to the firecrackers tonight.

Zhu Yun put the phone to his ear again.

"That, Li Dao, I'll probably be ..."

"I know." Li Xiao's voice was calm. "You know where Lihua Hotel is."

"Well." Not far from her house, two streets away, a small hostel.

"I live there, I'm free."

"Ok."

Just to say something, my mother knocked on the door again.

"Why is it so slow? Apples are going to wrinkle."

"Come on, now!"

When Zhu Yun picked up the phone again, Li Yao had already hung up.

I went to the living room to chat with my parents and watch TV. Zhu Yun's mouth was stuffed with fruit. The TV program caught my eye but didn't.

She looked at the joyous sketch, and suddenly remembered that she had just forgotten to ask him.

Why didn't you go home on New Year's Eve today?