An Cairui, who was full of food and drink, was chasing domestic dramas on the sofa, and the people in the play were divided and combined to see her tears.

Han Zhihuan was about to leave, but seeing her so into the play, he couldn't help but sigh.

An Cairui was very alert: "Boss." Can't watch TV too?"

Han Zhihuan was ruthless and nodded solemnly: "Yes." I also have a few books left in your bedroom. After reading a book, you can ask me for 200 yuan. ”

An Cairui blinked: "I don't understand." You don't watch TV, and you don't let me watch TV. Why do you have such a big TV in the living room?"

Han Zhihuan was speechless. After thinking about it for two seconds, I was suddenly discouraged: why did I work so hard. Whether she's that person or not is not certain. He shrugged and stopped talking.

Ahn Chae-rui hurriedly turned off the TV.

"You're not angry, are you?" she asked Han Zhihuan, who was standing at the door, a little uneasily.

Han Zhihuan smiled reluctantly. I opened the door and walked away without looking back.

An Cairui looked around the living room of Nuoda, thinking of his small home, the bunk beds in the small bedroom, the days when he coaxed his younger brother to sleep in the lower bunk, and remembered that he hadn't contacted his younger brother for a long time.

An Cairui went to the bedroom and took out the mobile phone given to her by the doctoral student and dialed the landline at home. Many families in Shanghai no longer use landline phones, but mothers, who have always been fashionable, insist on keeping landline phones.

Once the 7-digit number is dialed, it is picked up in almost a second. My brother was always like this, as if he was always at the telephone.

"Sister, sister. Younger brother An Xiaosi shouted happily on the phone, not at all as bitter and difficult as she imagined. Maybe her guess was right, and once she disappeared from the house, Mom would subconsciously treat her brother better.

"Brother Huang took me to McDonald's every week! Uncle Liao gave me 50 yuan every week! He asked me to secretly hide the money and buy breakfast!"

Brother Huang? Could it be that Huang Baocai and Captain Huang recommended her to Liang Mansion? Who is Uncle Liao? An Cairui was confused.

"Little four. How do you know them?"

An Xiaosi told his sister An Cairui in detail about the ins and outs.

"You just said that someone else asked about me?" An Cairui couldn't help but be nervous. She always felt that there were a pair of pubic eyes staring at her behind her. Those eyes were full of jealousy and hatred, and they didn't look like what a mother should have. She knew that her mother had never given up her life of exchanging houses and clothes for food.

"Yes. But don't worry, sister, I didn't reveal anything! Because I don't know where you are or your phone number. Don't tell me, I'm afraid I'll be tricked out by cunning adults. ”

"Good brother. An Cairui's eyes quickly moistened. She originally wanted to share the beautiful life she had with her brother, but when she heard her brother say that someone was inquiring about her whereabouts, she immediately dispelled the idea of sharing.

"I'm fine now and have a place to stay. I will be able to get paid soon. What are you missing, my sister sent it to you?"

"Sister, I don't lack anything. I have a hole in the knee of my pants, and I have already repaired it myself!" An Xiaosi's tone was full of pride.

Ahn almost burst into tears. She knew all too well what it was like to wear torn clothes.

"Sister will definitely buy you a new pair of pants soon!" An Cairui covered her mouth, trying to make her voice appear calm.

"The door lock is ringing, she's coming back!" Brother An Xiaosi suddenly lowered his voice and said quickly.

An Cairui looked up at the clock on the wall, it was only eight o'clock. She used to not return home before 12 o'clock, but she actually came back at 8 o'clock. An Cairui was worried about whether she lost money and lost badly, and whether her younger brother would suffer because of this...... After thinking about it for a while, I realized that I was crying wet from my placket.

She only has one set of pajamas in total. When I cried wet, I had no clothes to change. According to the agreement with her boss Han Zhihuan, she still put all her previous outer clothes into the trash, and only kept her pajamas.

Ahn Chae-rui kicked his slippers and went to Han Zhihuan's bedroom. She knew the three-sided wardrobe in the large bedroom, and she could figure out which clothes to put with her eyes closed.

She expertly picked out a small silk silhouette gown, and in the unlit room, she changed her wet clothes in the light of the unclosed window.

This is something that the boss Han Zhihuan explicitly does not allow. But An Cairui has always lacked reverence for the rules. If she had been in awe of the rules set by others, she would have become fish and meat. Greedy mom will be her first knife board.

She thought that when the pajamas were dry, they would be changed, and Han Zhihuan would not know.

In order to buy a new pair of pants for her younger brother An Xiaosi, An Cairui is determined to earn money by reading books - this is the easiest of the many conditions that her boss Han Zhihuan gave her to earn extra money.

An Cairui fiddled with a line of books in the bedroom bookcase. "A Brief History of Time", "The Potential and Value of Man", "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", "The Little Prince", "Four Lives in the Same House", "Alive", "The Old Man and the Sea", "Walden", "Letter to Garcia", "Ideal Country", "Death of a Salesman", ...... There are dozens of books.

An Cairui picked the thinnest book "Lover" among them.

Unlike most families who encourage their children to read, An Cairui's family does not have a single idle book, except for textbooks, the only "book" in the house is her mother's beauty magazine.

Throughout An Cairui's growth history, the proportion of extracurricular books is also very small. She may not read as much as a fifth-grader who loves to read.

An Cairui opened "Lover".

It begins: "I was getting old, and one day in the hall of a public place, a man came up to me. He took the initiative to introduce himself, and he said to me, "I know you and will always remember you." At that time, you were very young, and everybody said you were beautiful, and now, I am here to tell you, for me, I think you are more beautiful now than when you were younger, when you were a young woman, and I love your devastated face more than you were then. ”

Although I don't know Duras's place in the history of world literature, I don't know for sure that "The Lover", which won the Goncourt Prize, is regarded as a classic by the world. Angela was still impressed by the charm of Duras's language.

"Lover" recounts the love tragedy of a 15-and-a-half-year-old French girl and a Chinese man 12 years older than her in Vietnam. Love is intertwined with love and hatred for mother and brother, hope and despair of poor youth...... If there are fewer doctoral students than in China, it is partly in line with An Cairui's experience.

An Cairui's heart was overflowing with sadness, but this time, the sadness did not turn into tears, but only into sorrow, like smoke and fog, enveloping her face.