CHAPTER XXXVIII

Luo Shaoqing took my hand and walked into the hall, and the two men sitting on the sofa immediately stood up and greeted him: "Big brother, you are back." Overdrive starter"

"Second, third, this is your sister-in-law." Luo Shaoqing pulled me to them and introduced: "They are also my brothers, the second is the same age as me, called Yan Qing, and he is Yan Bin's own brother." You don't have to pay attention to him, the third child, he just came back with me pretending to be dead. ”

"Hello, my name is Lu Ruping." I smiled and reached out to shake their hands.

The second child looks more realistic, and speaks more realistically. He didn't call me sister-in-law according to Luo Shaoqing's meaning, but said very politely: "Miss Lu is good." ”

I smiled and nodded to him.

The third child was much more enthusiastic, he smiled and pushed the second child, and quipped: "What Miss Lu, the eldest brother said that this is a sister-in-law, sister-in-law is good, hehe!" This is the first time I've come to the house, so I'm going to call my wife down to see my daughter-in-law......"

"Yu Xuan, you're back." A soft and clear female voice came down from upstairs, I followed them and turned my head to look over, and there was a graceful middle-aged woman downstairs, that nobility and elegance that my mother and Aunt Wen did not have. She wore a pale cyan dark flower Suzhou embroidered cheongsam, a gauzy shawl fastened with a chic brooch on her chest, and a hosta neatly coiled her long hair into a bun at the back of her head. The face of a little pink delicacy is glamorous.

Luo Shaoqing shouted with a smile: "Mom! ”

She is Luo Shaoqing's mother, and Luo Shaoqing has a mother who is so earth-shatteringly beautiful. Growing up with a woman with such a look, how could he be interested in other women.

Luo Shaoqing led me to his mother: "Mom, this is Lu Ruping, my girlfriend." ”

I also politely greeted her: "Hello Auntie." ”

She looked at me, her eyes were very gentle, not half uncomfortable, she smiled and nodded lightly: "Hello Miss Lu, please sit down." When the speeding starter waited for a few children to come home, he called the kitchen to eat. ”

She walked to the sofa and sat down, asked Luo Shaoqing with a faint smile: "I came back quite early today, Xiaoliu, why didn't I come back with you?" ”

"She's still working."

"She's a girl after all, so don't arrange so many jobs for her in the future, it's not good after all." She gathered her shawl and sat on the sofa, and the maid served tea, she took it and took a sip and put it down, and whispered to the maid: "You are new here, my tea must be made with rainwater, and there is a saliva tank in the backyard, which is taken when it rains on weekdays, and you can use that to make tea every day." ”

The maid said she knew, and went down with the teacup.

The old lady has a lot of requests, this is about to go to war and you have to drink tea made from rainwater, you are always careful that there will only be rain and no tea in the future. It's not that I envy the exquisiteness of other officials' wives. It's just that in this eventful season, it is better to have more sense of crisis.

Not long after, Yan Bin and the others returned. Luo Shaoqing called them to the study to talk about things, and she asked me to sit and chat with his mother in the living room. Looking at Mrs. Luo elegantly flipping through the newspaper in her hand, I really didn't know what topic to look for.

Xiao Liu ran upstairs to take off his military uniform and put on an elegant cheongsam, and the whole person immediately became delicate and exquisite, and he lost the arrogance of the female officer on weekdays. She walked downstairs and sat down next to Mrs. Luo, took her arm with one hand and began to be coquettish: "Auntie, my eldest brother is so powerful today, he took those three reporters away in front of so many Japanese, and Bai Chuan's face turned black." ”

Mrs. Luo had a loving smile on her face, looking a little more kind than when she was facing Luo Shaoqing: "I was still telling your eldest brother just now, don't give you so much work in the future, when you get married in the future, you are still so busy, where can you still look like a home." Besides, I also need someone to talk to. Overdrive starter"

Xiaoliu leaned on her shoulder shyly and coquettishly: "Auntie, we are still young, what are we talking about, let's talk about ......" She raised her head and glanced at me: "Can't I often talk to you now?" ”

These words were specially addressed to me, and I heard them, and I understood them. Luo Shaoqing and Xiaoliu have a marriage contract.

At the dinner table, everyone laughed from time to time and talked about the current situation. Luo Shaoqing always told his mother about me, how good I was, how good I was...... Mrs. Luo just smiled and nodded slightly, and didn't say much.

After dinner, Luo Shaoqing asked me to go to his study. His mother stopped me: "Miss Lu, you can accompany me to the garden for a walk." ”

Hearing his mother's invitation, Luo Shaoqing seemed very happy, pushed me to his mother, and whispered in my ear: "Go and please your future mother-in-law." ”

I stood beside Mrs. Luo noncommittally, I was not stupid, she was ready to persuade me to disappear automatically, how could I be naïve to think that this was the future mother-in-law who was in contact with me.

"I heard Yu Xuan say that Miss Lu, your father used to be a soldier." She walks very slowly and seems to know how to maintain her health.

"Not anymore." I answered truthfully.

"Then you should understand that as a soldier, you are committed and keep your promises. What you have promised will never be reversed. "Why did she go around in such a big circle with me, and then she was going to start telling stories.

I nodded: "Madam, if you have something to say, please speak directly." ”

"Xiao Liu's surname is Qian, and his girlfriend's name is Haoya. This name was given by Yu Xuan's grandfather. Their Qian family, their ancestors followed the Luo family to fight in the north and south. His grandfather is still guarding the old mansion ......"

On the night Luo Shaoqing was chased and killed, when we hid in the old house, we all heard Lao Qian talk about it, but I didn't know that the girl had such an elegant name.

"Later, once on the battlefield. Xiaoliu's father blocked a shot for my husband, and he couldn't do it on the spot. The last wish is for our Luo family to take good care of his wife and the child in his wife's womb. At that time, Xiaoliu had not yet been born, and he had no father. Not long after, her mother gave birth to her and went with her father. The little girl was born an orphan. Since childhood, he has grown up with Yu Xuan and them in the old mansion. The only relative is her grandfather's old money. ”

The girl has a miserable background, but she can see that the Luo family should be quite good to her. There is no inferiority complex and timidity of an orphan girl, but there is still a little bit of the pampered willfulness of the eldest lady. It can be seen that her feelings for Luo Shaoqing are not a day or two, they have been accumulated since childhood for so many years. I'm afraid I've long regarded myself as Mrs. Luo.

"Yu Xuan's grandfather has long made a promise to Lao Qian that Haoya will be raised like a young lady, and she will be the granddaughter-in-law of the Luo family in the future. Later, when the old man was seriously ill in bed, he did not forget to ask my husband to guarantee the credit of a soldier that Yu Xuan would marry Haoya as his wife in the future. After telling the story, she turned her head to look at me with a smile: "At that time, they were both in Japan, and after Yu Xuan returned to China, he heard about this matter and argued with his father many times. He always said that no one could do his master, he regarded Xiaoliu as his sister, and he would never be able to marry her. ”

...... "I didn't answer, what can I say?" People Lao Tzu blocks guns for your Lao Tzu, and asks you to marry someone else's daughter to repay your kindness, which is not a difficult thing to do. Besides, with the style of a young master like Luo Shaoqing, he married an original wife at home, and he couldn't do it because of the constant celebrities outside.

"How can I, a mother, not think about him, I know that he has been abroad for so many years, and what he pursues emotionally is fate and freedom. He hated the family's arrangement, his parents' orders, and the words of the matchmaker. However, he should also think about his father's generation, a family like ours. The old man solemnly made a marriage contract to others before he died, how can we regret it? She paused and sighed deeply and turned to look at me.

I replied to her with a smile: "Mrs. Luo, I think it is more appropriate for you to say this to Director Luo." ”

"Miss Lu, you are very beautiful and smart, no wonder Yu Xuan is so infatuated with you. He would never take a girl home, and he would never admit that he had a girlfriend. But you were solemnly introduced to me by him when he brought it home, which shows how important you are in his heart. I think, you know what I mean. ”

I understand, you praise me for being smart and beautiful, and I can't do it if I don't understand.

"You are very good, and you are also very suitable to be the daughter-in-law of our Luo family. But we can't be untrustworthy. I can only blame you for having no share. I hope you can leave him on your own initiative. ”

It's one thing for me to understand what she meant, and it's another thing for me to agree with her. Why should I? Luo Shaoqing is her son, he doesn't listen to her, why does he listen to me?

"Mrs. Luo, I think there's something you're mistaken. That's not my obligation. I'm not Luo Shaoqing's parent, so I can't understand your difficulties. Of course, you're not his girlfriend either, and you can't appreciate how deeply I love. So, none of us should try to convince anyone. Let's try to convince him. If one day, he told me that he chose the family's arrangement to marry Miss Qian, I would naturally not be entangled. But if he chooses to stay with me for the rest of his life, I will not carry forward my style and ask him to leave in a righteous and awe-inspiring manner. ”

She was obviously taken aback by my words, and kept her grace and nobility with her lips slightly open, as if she was still pondering what I had just said. I didn't think what I had just said was a gaffe, so I looked at the sky and said, "I'm sorry, Mrs. Luo." It's getting late, and it's time for me to go home. Good bye! ”

"Then, Miss Lu walks slowly." She gracefully turned away.

I also turned around, but I happened to see Luo Shaoqing standing in the dark not far away, snickering, meeting my gaze, he raised his eyebrows slightly, stood up and gave a thumbs up: "My mother is such a pure-hearted person, she can make you speak a few words." Miss Lu is amazing. ”

"Did you hear that?"

"I hear you."

"Then send me home."