Karenin returned to the bedroom.

Only Seryosha was still sleeping, it was not yet seven o'clock, and yesterday he had been playing with Grisha for a long time, and because of what happened to Sskyva and his wife, and because of the children's feelings, Karenin did not stop Seryosha from playing with Grisha and them, but he would wake him up at a quarter past seven and tell him to wash.

Morning reading is always a must, and you should not give up because of something, and you can move it to the back if you do it, because once you develop a habit and don't do the established things one day, then the rules and habits will be quickly broken.

Karenin heard a voice in the bathroom, he looked over and Anna had just come out.

She had just washed her face and wet a strand of hair on her cheeks.

In the eyes of the early morning, his wife's face looked a little familiar and a little unfamiliar.

Karenin not only doubted, but they really lived together for seven years?

Before that, he had always been on his own with his family, but not anymore.

"What's wrong?"

When Anna didn't see Karenin in the morning, she was actually relieved.

She lay on the bed for a while, and finally decided to get up, and when she came out of the bathroom, she saw that Karenin had returned at some point, and it seemed that there was still a wisp of early morning mist.

The man's hair and countenance were hazy with the mist, and the look in her eyes was a little unfamiliar. And this strangeness made Anna feel a very strange feeling in her heart, so she took the initiative to speak, as if she had forgotten all the things of yesterday, like an ordinary gentle wife.

What she didn't know was that her unintentional move was like a thorn in Karenin's heart.

"No, it's fine." Karenin said lightly.

"I'll go to Skiva's study for a while, deal with some of my official documents, and at a quarter past seven, call Seryosha up and urge him."

"I will."

Seeing that Anna had agreed, Karenin bowed his head and left the bedroom, not at all the same as usual.

Anna furrowed her eyebrows, the softness and suspicion on her face completely gone.

She knew better than anyone that the expression just now was the most common expression that others saw.

It is not for nothing that Karenin has been called a cold politician, it's just that, before that, she never seemed to think that one day she would be treated with such an attitude.

She wanted to criticize this man, and according to her selfish selfish nature, she would have come up with every reason to criticize him. But the truth is, she didn't think so.

At breakfast, the atmosphere was so strange that even the youngest Nikolai noticed it, but he didn't know why.

Nikolai, who was timid by nature, did not dare to ask anything, and could only eat his own food in silence. Grisha was a little older, and he sat next to Tanya, whispering to his sister for answers, but only to get a faint warning look.

Grisha pursed his lips and looked at Seryosha again, but the latter's eyes were only fixed on his parents, and he half-furrowed his eyebrows and lowered his head to eat his own food.

"Could it be that my aunt and uncle quarreled like my parents? But they didn't break anything! ”

No one could help Grisha solve this doubt, so he frowned the whole time, so that Tao Li was worried about whether he was uncomfortable.

"I just want to know, did my uncle and aunt quarrel like you?" Grisha said weakly.

All four adults have varying degrees of body stiffness.

"Grisha, did you just eat your food properly?" Tanya told her brother in a slightly stern tone, who realized that maybe he had said something wrong, so he muttered sorry and buried himself in the food pile.

Tao Li looked at Anna, who looked at Seryosha.

Seryosha never looked up, just quietly and slowly refused his own food.

Karenin, like his son, moved a little faster.

Tao Li looked at Schihua again, this is a habitual action, after all, Schihua is her husband, but after she did it so subconsciously, she regretted it a little.

When Skewer saw his wife's movements, his otherwise languishing face flushed with excitement, because he thought he had received a signal of reconciliation.

After breakfast, Karenin said that his secretary, Slyuddin, would be coming and that he would have to visit a local official.

"Oh, of course, Alexei Aleksandrovich, you can go with confidence, will you come back for dinner?"

Karenin glanced somewhere, and then said: "Not necessarily, please don't prepare me." ”

"Okay, okay, I'll tell Tao Li." Skihua nodded, he couldn't think of anything else now, only basking in the joy that Tao Li had already released a hint of reconciliation to him.

Karenin, of course, knew what Skiva was happy about. He thought it was unlikely that it would be Tao Li's intention to forgive him, but Schihua was right, a woman like Tao Li would always be soft-hearted if she softened and pleaded with her, and it was only a matter of time before she reconciled.

It's cruel to say that, but it's true.

He told Anna not to worry about this before, on the one hand, because he believed that in this era, divorce is too expensive for women to pay, and it may not be too bad at present. On the other hand, he realizes that Anna is sensitive to the matter, and if emotion is stronger than reason, then it is not a good thing for her personally or for their family.

Karenin took his leave to Sskyva for the time being, and he went to Seryosha and Anna, and everything seemed to be normal, at least, the parents behaved as usual and in harmony while they were both there, but Seryosha was only a child.

"Honey, why don't you go and hang out with Grisha and Nikolai for a while?" Tao Li kissed her nephew's little face, and then asked him gently.

"I want to finish my homework, aunt." Seryosha said, but there was a clear trace of sadness between his eyebrows.

"You're not happy, can you talk to your aunt?" Tao Li asked.

"I'm fine, aunt, I'm fine, please don't worry." Seryosha said.

Her three children, except for Tanya, the other two were somewhat naughty, but in any case, they were not as sensible and considerate as Seryosha, and on the other hand, it also meant that it was more difficult to hear some of Seryosha's heart.

Tao Li sighed.

"Maybe you'd rather tell your mother."

Seryosha's eyes widened, and there was a look of request in his eyes, and he carefully grabbed Tao Li's arm and said, "Please don't tell Mom." ”

"Why is that?"

Seryosha shook his head: "I don't want her to worry about me. ”

"That's it, please."

Tao Li couldn't bear to refuse Seryosha's request, so she nodded. Seryosha gave her a hug and said again that he was fine.

When she got out of the bedroom, she saw Anna standing in the hallway, with some cookies.

"Anna." Tao Li opened her mouth, unsure whether to say or not, but the latter only nodded slightly.

"I understand."

Seeing Anna's back, Tao Li didn't know whether to be happy or sad. Vaguely, she felt a little remorseful, for she remembered some of the things she had talked to Karenin about the previous night, and perhaps it was because of them that they had become the way they were this morning.

Maybe she shouldn't talk too much, after all, there are thousands of families in this world, and each family always has their own way of getting along, and her idealization may really be just an ideal.

However, there is one place that is still unwilling, and it is a pity, she thinks, she saw from Karenin and Anna, the feeling of becoming husband and wife because of their equal status. It's just that maybe there is a knot that hasn't been unscrewed yet, so it's a little unsmooth.

When Anna went in with the cookies, Seryosha was not doing his homework, he was pillowing his hands, looking at the table with some sadness,

"Are you crying?" Anna whispered.

Seryosha was taken aback, and he said, "No," and then, having seen who was coming, he added, "I have nothing unpleasant, Mom." ”

Anna put the cookies on the table, soothing language she didn't want to say, at the moment she really didn't want to think about what kind of technical language to use, to avoid contact with others, and to resolve all this, she just, relying on instinct, because she remembered herself, she regarded the current Seryosha as her former self, and then hugged the latter into her arms.

Seryosha was a little surprised at first, and then couldn't help but hug his mother tightly, but he didn't say anything.

Anna gently stroked Seryosha's back, as if to protect it, dispelling something unsettling for the child.

Seryosha felt the tenderness of the person holding him, he felt relieved, and a faint grievance rose from his chest, and then he couldn't help asking: "Did you quarrel with your father?" ”

"We didn't fight, but there was something." Anna truthfully said that she knew there was no point in coaxing now.

Seryosha grabbed Anna's clothes, and then asked with some fear, "Will you be separated?" ”

"No, it won't." Anna said, but she didn't know it.

Her words soothed the boy's heart.

"I don't want you to be separated, Grisha told me that his parents were likely to be like this, and that he had asked from a servant." Seryosha said with some fear.

"None of us."

In fact, before this, Anna was completely unsure whether she would follow Karenin's advice and do nothing in the face of Tao Li's situation, but what happened this morning, and many more factors, led her to choose Karenin's advice.

Maybe Karenin was right, maybe she just recognized it because of Tao Li's actions in the morning, maybe it was simpler, just like Seryosha comforted Grisha, and told a beautiful lie, but none of this matters for the time being.

"Yes." Seryosha nodded, "That's what I told Grisha, but now, Mom, I'm sure it will be so. ”

"So don't worry, for now, you can eat some cookies before you do your homework."

Seryosha smiled: "I will finish my homework quickly today, and I will also study the book, so that you will also be reconciled soon." ”

There was innocence in the child's words, and Anna clearly had more than a hundred ways to refute it, even laughing at such illogical and innocent reassuring words, but she didn't. In fact, she was reassured, and thought to herself, "Maybe, that would help." ”

This absurd thought stayed in her mind for three minutes, and after three minutes, she began to sink into another thought, thinking about the current problem like a calm adult. 166 Reading Network