This bland sentence was mixed with Gu Nanqiao's rather complex emotions. But Xiao Fangran didn't seem to hear it at all, or even if she did, she didn't bother to answer these questions, but just curled the corners of her lips rather casually.

Winter is the season when class and life are the most visible, and roadside vendors or people who need to spend long periods of time outdoors in the cold of winter are the most commonly dressed, after all, the nature of their work deprives them of unnecessary beauty, and the first task is to keep warm.

Busy office workers also always wrap themselves tightly, looking for a rare peace point between elegance and practicality, and will not blindly pursue external beauty. After all, whether it is waiting for the bus or waiting for the subway, it is a rather heat-consuming thing, and the distance from the platform of public transportation to the unit is the hardest hit area by strong winds and low temperatures.

And those who dress simply and thinly, and at first glance look to have a demeanor rather than a temperature, are probably traveling in private cars, and have enough economic strength to support decency, in order to maintain the elegance stacked by material conditions, and do not have to worry too much about other things.

This kind of person generally has a good life, and Xiao Fangran is obviously one of them.

Faced with Gu Nanqiao's many questions, Ms. Xiao didn't say anything, just naturally grabbed her daughter's shoulders, walked side by side to the silver-gray sedan parked not far away, and opened the door casually.

Xiao Fangran is quite familiar with this series of actions, and she can even be taken for granted, as if she didn't come back suddenly after a long absence, but simply picked up her daughter when she got out of school. She had just taken off her scarf and tied it around Gu Nanqiao's neck, just like an ordinary mother who saw her child wearing thin clothes on a snowy day, she couldn't help but say a few words, and she had to quickly add a piece of clothing for her.

All the details are covered up in whitewashing.

The silver-gray sedan was air-conditioned, and he didn't even pull out the car keys, so it was obvious that Xiao Fangran didn't plan to stay outside for a long time. In the small space, you can smell a faint smell of car perfume, which is a somewhat sweet floral note, with a long aftertaste that is not too sweet, and the wisps are diffused between the noses, calming people's thoughts for no reason.

And until this moment, in response to Gu Nanqiao's inquiring gaze, Xiao Fangran finally stopped going around in circles and opened her mouth unhurriedly.

The shocking story about the Mei family, as well as the reason why she left back then, were also clear, the past shrouded in layers of fog was suddenly turned out, those things that no one touched tore a crack, and all the secrets were finally explained.

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It is not so much a grudge between Xiao Fangran and the Mei family, but a past incident left in the previous generation.

All this can be traced back to the ancestors of the Mei family.

The Mei family has been consolidating its position in the Peking Opera family, and its influence has not been attenuated to this day, after several families such as the Yue family in Beiping and the Sun family in Jiangnan gradually disappeared, the Mei family not only withdrew from the historical stage, but developed better and better. This is certainly related to the Mei family's strong network of contacts and their deep relationship with the Ji family, but the most important reason is that in addition to the identity of the Peking Opera family, they are also a big business family that has been in business for generations, and they have a strong material foundation behind them as support, so that they can be enduring.

Probably because of his good family background, the old man Mei Chimei was wanton and chic when he was young, and he had a bit of the meaning of a noble son, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he fascinated a group of beautiful ladies.

On weekdays, Mei Chi is generous, and there are many sons and brothers who also have the shade of their ancestors, and they are completely good at social scenes. And unlike those gentlemen, he is an authentic son of a Peking Opera family, with a solid kung fu on stage, and his single-handed corner drama has reached its peak, and he has unlimited scenery on the stage, and he was honored by his peers as Boss Mei at a young age.

Like Mei Chi, one of the best romantic characters, he has been a son-in-law with a golden spoon since birth, he has never experienced a big storm, and his life is smooth, of course, he doesn't know what convergence is, and he doesn't know that feelings and respect are quite rare things, and he should be grateful no matter what he can get, even if he doesn't like it, he should cherish it.

At that time, Mei Chi had no shortage of confidants around him, and the girl's family who fell in love with him couldn't be counted on two hands, and he was also chic, and the girl around him was like a separation, enjoying the innate glory, and the coaxing methods and touching love words were as worthless as they were, just treating this as a source of left and right in the love field, and there was nothing special about it.

Mei Chi indulged and consumed without burden at the most reckless age, because of his young nature, he didn't think about making up his mind at all. At that time, he didn't know that romantic people also have a day when they are bound, and the more they don't take their feelings seriously, the more they will be trapped in the swamp of fate by love after a few rounds.

Love is the fairest in the world, and sooner or later there will be a time to return it.

Most people are probably unable to compete with the times, especially in the complicated times of the past few decades, the sudden and unfamiliar situation caused everyone to mess up, and in a panic and unease, the Mei family is of course unavoidable. The aura given to Mei Chi by the Mei family was quickly confiscated by the special turmoil he encountered, and the sense of superiority on his body was crushed to the scum in front of the wheels of the times, and all the glory became the most dispensable thing along with the frustrated self-esteem.

Mei Chi fell from the clouds to the ground, only to finally find that apart from those ethereal flattery and pursuits, she had nothing, whether it was emotion and heart, she was so fragile that she was vulnerable.

The whole thing came so fast that there was no room for maneuver and no turnaround.

Mei Chi moved out of the city mansion overnight, and was reduced to the point that he once thought that he would never patronize a remote village for the rest of his life, and did farm work such as harvesting wheat and feeding pigs with the peasants he once looked down on.

Only in the dead of night, Mei Chi would come to the river alone while everyone was asleep, babbling and singing a few words to the clear water. It is not so much that Mei Chi is afraid that his kung fu will decline and he will not be able to go on stage in the future, so he has to take time to practice basic skills, but it is better to say that he has a little bit of self-pity, and he is reminiscing about the days when he was on the stage in this way.

In the end, it's all a hopeless choice.

At that time, Mei Chi really fell directly from heaven to the ground, and was forced to accept the truth in a rather tragic way, and whenever he had a spare time, he would feel that his fate was unlucky. In the middle of the night, when she had not slept for a long time, and finally fell asleep and suddenly woke up from the straw-paved mat, Mei Chi thought about how to escape from this hellish place, return to her normal life track, stand on the stage again, and take back her glory one by one.

Many negative emotions were entrenched in Mei Chi's heart, he thought that this was the lowest point of his life, but he didn't know that he would meet his sweetheart in this situation by mistake, and he forcibly reversed this bleak years.

And if you meet the wrong person at the wrong time, how can you achieve positive results?

The real fate has always been silent and irresistible, and after meeting that girl, it is enough to change Mei Chi's entire fate after that.

That girl is Mei Chi's sweetheart, and she is also a prodigal and ridiculous son-in-law, a rare love affair.

In the village, Mei Chi borrowed to live in a farmer's household, and the girl was the next-door neighbor of the family, her surname was Xiao, and her name was also Xiao, which is said to be taken from Du Fu's sentence "Boundless falling trees Xiao Xiao, endless Yangtze River rolling", a Xiao Xiao shouted gently and euphemistically, like a mist around the mountainside, causing the dense branches of the trees to tremble slightly, in a group of "a certain fang", "a certain flower", "a certain orchid" can not be said unique, every time the name is evoked, the end of the words seems to be mixed with poetry.

According to the girl of the Xiao family, this name was given by her biological father who died early, and her family had a teacher earlier, and her father was also half a literati, and he would teach her to read and practice calligraphy since she was a child, and the poems and books she should learn were not left behind. The girl has a good foundation, smart and aura, and the literati masterpieces and the Four Books and Five Classics arranged by her father are all very familiar, and she will use the hand-written Xiaokai to transcribe some poems, although she does farm work on weekdays and wears an ordinary jinghai cloth skirt, she has a bit of charm in her gestures, and has feelings that are incompatible with this small village.

Xiao Xiao likes to read books, poetry collections, essays, chapters, and even foreign texts translated into English, there is nothing she doesn't like to read. In this remote village, it is rare to get a few books, so these books have become Xiao Xiao's rare things, she always flipped through her few private collections several times, carefully annotated on the title page, wrote a few sentences of thoughts after reading, and when she met a favorite paragraph, she would also take a brush dipped in ink and copy it on rice paper, and then carefully put it away in a drawer.

When Xiao Xiao is idle, she will use the pocket money saved from selling embroidery bags and embroidery handkerchiefs to buy some drama books to read, Wang Shifu's "The Story of the West Chamber", Tang Xianzu's "Peony Pavilion", Kong Shangren's "Peach Blossom Fan", and Hong Sheng's "Palace of Eternal Life", she doesn't know how many times she has watched it. When he was interested, Xiao Xiao would also create a few sentences of drama by himself, and hum a few words from time to time when doing farm work, although he didn't know the four skills and five methods of Peking Opera at all, but because of his tactful voice, it looked quite beautiful.

When she was fifteen years old, it was not until her father died of lung disease that she devoted more time to running the house, and only read books in her spare time. Since then, Miss Xiao has been living alone, because she looks good, and the conditions are top-notch in this village, and there is an endless stream of young men who come to propose marriage, and there are also a lot of people who secretly kiss her.

However, one of those people is counted as one, and she has not entered the eyes of Miss Xiao at all, probably because she feels that she has no common topic with those laymen, and she should not stick to such a place where birds don't lay eggs, and she doesn't want to easily explain this life.

It has been many years of procrastination, and the impression of the people in the village on her has changed from a flower in the moon mirror in the water at the beginning, to a joke like a stone, and those young men who can't catch her will try their best to please her at first, but then realize that it is really meaningless, and the good feelings of the year have all become sharp swords, but they began to look down on her.

It's probably too dazzling for people to stay in the wrong place, and it's also an anachronism.

Fortunately, Xiao Xiao sees the warmth and coldness of people very thoroughly, she doesn't expect the praise of others, of course she doesn't care about their ridicule, she has a casual attitude towards love, everything pays attention to fate, she has never been harsh on anything, and she doesn't have to be tempted by anyone.

And such arrogance collapsed when he met Mei Chi.

She knew that this Mei Gongzi, who fell here by chance, was the person she wanted.