They are like every ordinary couple at this ball, but they are so different, it's just that, in the upper class society that is good at pretending, a couple who love each other is usually considered to have an opportunity.

That's what Volynsky thought.

He thought Anna was unhappy, and lo and behold, Karenin was a dozen years older than Anna, he was a rigid civil servant who dedicated his entire life to the cause.

He knew that Karenin had been working hard for the universal military service law lately, and to be honest, he himself had served in the ranks, and when he was in the army, he thought Karenin was right, but once he returned to Moscow or St. Petersburg, and got used to seeing the celebrities, he thought that Karenin was fighting against everyone.

Volynsky could not criticize Karenin's career, he loved Anna, so he thought that Karenin was not worthy of her horizontally and vertically. When he saw Anna smiling, he thought it wasn't sincere. Petesy says that Anna is a good woman, of course she is, and Volynsky thinks he should go and invite Anna.

After the first dance, Karenin returned to the rest area with Anna, where Seryosha was secretly drinking a drink.

"You're not good." Anna said.

Seryosha gestured with the thumb and forefinger of his right hand: "Only a little, Mom." ”

"Dr. Cullens said you have to watch your sugar intake, Seryosha. You've had a drink at Uncle Skiver's house today. Karenin glanced at Seryosha's drink and couldn't understand why fancy sweets and drinks were so attractive to children.

"I see, Dad." Seryosha replied softly, promising that he would obediently eat nothing sweeter today.

"Say you have to do it." Karenin said that although he always trusted his son in many things, he really had to stress about sugar. By the way, he had to remember that the goal of educating Seryosha for the next three months was to make the child a little less obsessed with sugar. Perhaps a penchant for excessive sugar intake was also a precursor to a disease, and he had to ask Dr. Cullens when he got back.

Fathers sometimes think a little too much, but fathers are more willing to think about it in their heads than mothers.

Turning from the question of the child, Karenin noticed that someone was coming towards them.

"Good day."

Count Volynsky said that he has black hair and shiny, and because he has been exercising in the team for a long time, he has a very good figure, and a civil official like Karenin is naturally incomparable, but all the momentum of Karenin's high position in officialdom for more than ten years is unattainable by Volynsky.

"Good day, Count Volynsky, there must be a bit of a distance from Petersburg to Moscow, and it took us a while to come from Petersburg." Karenin said lightly.

"My troops are in Moscow, so I'm here a little closer than you." Not to be outdone, Volynsky said.

Karenin looked at the other again, and knew what the gentleman had come to do, without guessing, and invited his wife to dance.

If it was in the past, or, if it was someone else, Karenin would not have cared.

The necessary social interaction does not need to be suspicious, he and her wife have their own circles, but at this time, he is a little unhappy in his heart.

It's as if a sheep has just arrived in front of a rich meadow, and another goat with a different appearance and posture tries to touch the grassland, which is really unpleasant.

Anna felt some of Karenin's emotions.

It's actually amazing, because Karenin doesn't actually see any mood swings on the surface, but she just knows it.

Anna looked at the Count Volynsky, and she thought to herself, "Why does this Count Volynsky insist so insistfully that I am an unfortunate woman who needs to be rescued?" ”

Then she thought of Petersy, so she rolled her eyes, turned her head to Karenin and smiled and complained: "I don't want to dance anymore, it's really uncomfortable to wear shoes that don't fit." However, if you want to invite someone to dance, I won't mind. ”

She meant two things.

To put it simply, she deliberately pretended to complain in advance in order to silence Volynsky, and on the other hand, if she had to sacrifice for it, then, as a husband who was a considerate wife, naturally needed to make a small sacrifice.

"Ill-fitting shoes can be uncomfortable, so next time you should take my advice, Anna, shoes that look good but don't fit are of no benefit." Karenin tilted his head to his wife.

Most people may not be able to hear what they are singing and harmonizing, but Volynsky, who already had an idea in his heart, heard it, his face was red, and he still couldn't believe it.

He believed that Anna was innocent and that Karenin was distorting Anna's meaning.

Men like him have been likened to ill-fitting shoes, and Volynsky's self-esteem made him not want to continue to be humiliated here.

He said coldly: "I remembered that there was something to do, so I left first." ”

Karenin raised his eyes: "Won't you stay and dance first?" ”

Volynsky blushed again, and then said, "Next time." With that, he strode away.

Skihua and his family came from not far away, and he wondered: "I just saw Count Volynsky, why did he leave in a little angry?" ”

"Really? Count Volynsky just came to say hello to us. ”

"Oh, maybe I'm wrong." Skihua smiled, "That Count Volynsky is a good man, he is very kind, and the people in their unit like him, and the last time I picked up an official from Petersburg at the train station, I happened to meet Volynsky." Later, an unfortunate incident happened, a man who was repairing the railroad tracks was run over by a train, and it was so tragic that Volynsky took out all his money on the spot and gave it to the unfortunate man's wife. ”

"Sounds like he's a good guy indeed." Karenin commented.

"Yes, I told it to others, and they all praised him."

"Who are you talking about?" Ji Di came over, her face a little flushed, she had just been surrounded by several young men, all of whom wanted to dance with her, but she had been looking for Count Volynsky.

"It's Count Volynsky, I'm talking about him giving money to the wife and children of the maintenance man who was run over by a train."

"He's such a nice guy, personable and kind." Ji Di couldn't help but say, her eyes were shining.

"Didn't anyone see Konstantin Dmitrych?"

Tao Li didn't want Ji Di to continue to talk about Count Volynsky, she didn't trust this man, she thought that if Ji Di fell in love with someone like Count Volynsky, she would definitely hurt.

"I heard he's coming."

"No, I didn't see him, did he really come?" Ji Di's attention was diverted, the tall and somewhat silent but cute Konstantin Levin, with whom she liked to talk.

"He said he would come, and he's always been a person who values commitment." Tao Li said.

The family was very close to Levin when her eldest brother was still alive, but then their eldest brother died, and Levin gradually distanced himself from them, until Schiever's intervention and her marriage to Skivah, they gradually became close again, but in the end it was different.

As they talked, Anna noticed that a tall man was approaching in the hallway, affectionately by Slyuddin, who was visibly uncomfortable.

"I think I may have seen the man you were talking about." Anna said, gesturing with her eyes for everyone to look over.

As if coercing a big man, Slyudin brought the other party's counterpart over.

"I picked up someone!" He proudly and proudly announced.

The man named Konstantin Dmitry Levin whispered with some embarrassment: "I'm just not very familiar with this kind of place. ”

"It's okay, I didn't know the way before." Slyuddin reassured the other party.

Anna pursed her lips in frustration at the obvious sight of the man.

"You're here." Ji Di said kindly, looking at each other with those beautiful eyes, she smiled sincerely.

Levin's face, which did not resemble the nobles of the upper class, and was not so white and tender, was smeared with a layer of redness.

"Spring planting hasn't started yet, and I have time now." He emphasized, "In another week, you'll have to get busy." ”

Ji Di didn't care about this kind of thing, but she was willing to tolerate Levin's weirdness of liking farm work, so she still seemed naïve and optimistic, instead of giving Levin an obviously uninterested answer like the other ladies.

Seryosha, who had been watching the adults talking, suddenly spoke:

"Why don't you go for a dance?"

When he saw that everyone was looking at him, he tilted his head and said, "Look, everyone else has gone to dance." ”

Squahua smiled and nodded, he invited Tao Li, and Tao Li accepted. Levin mustered up the courage to invite Ji Di under these circumstances, and the latter gladly agreed. Grisha did the same, and he couldn't find any other girls, so he asked his sister and Nikolai to join in, forming a chaotic threesome dance.

"Uncle Slyuddin, why don't you go find a girl?" Seryosha continued to raise his head and ask the single man.

"I only dance with girls but me, and I don't think about boys." Seryosha said seriously, as if he was convinced that he was hot.

"What are you going to do with us all away?" Slyudin bent down and pinched Seryosha's face.

"It's a ball, and the ball has to be fun. My mom didn't want to dance, my dad and I had to stay with her, and when we stayed with her, our family was happy. Uncle Flammykiel is gone, and you're the only one left, so go find another companion. Seryosha said earnestly, as if Slyudin were a poor man without company at the moment.

"You're really," Slyudin sighed, and then kissed Seryosha on the face, "super cute! ”

Seryosha was kissed violently by Slyudin, feeling a little dizzy.

"Father, next time you have to tell Uncle Slyudin that kissing others casually is not a good habit, and you have to change." He looked at his father with helpless eyes, as if to say, look, you take care of me every day, but Uncle Slyudin is right under your nose and you don't take care of him, and you have to let me worry about it.

"Seryosha, Slyudin belongs to the free people, and it is not under my control." Karenin is also fine now, so he is happy to say something light-hearted to his son.

"Then hurry up and take Uncle Slyudin in, he has a habit of picking up kittens and puppies casually, and he just picked up an uncle." Seryosha sighed exaggeratedly.

"Seryosha, you also have this habit." Karenin faintly pointed out the inadequacy of his son.

Seryosha glared at his little eyebrows: "No, I didn't, you remembered wrong, father." ”

"No, you have, before you were three years old, you used to pick up frogs and keep them in one of my favorite shoes." Karenin's tone was light, but he recounted the situation of the day word by word.

That was the first time he had experienced the feeling of fear, and in his familiar, comfortable shoes there was a frog with a bulging belly, and his son even blamed him for stepping on it. For a while, the frog incident did cast a shadow on Karenin's psyche. 166 Reading Network