Chapter 123: The Sound of Midnight
After getting off the car, An Nu carried her small suitcase and looked at the scenery of the courtyard, there are no people living here all year round, and it is certainly not as good as the flowers of the year, but the gardeners in the rose garden still have a regular time to cultivate and prune, so the scenery in front of you is more elegant, and it looks very comfortable.
"Not bad. ”
"It was nice to go upstairs and see your room. He took her suitcase, handed it to the waiting servant, opened the door, and made a gesture of invitation to her.
The furniture inside is well maintained, there is no old feeling of being uninhabited for a long time, and after An Nu entered the door, she felt in a trance back to when she was a child, when she first stepped into the door of the Luo family.
"Give. He put the key to the house in her hand, and Ann could not hide the joy of revisiting the old place in her heart, and stepped on the wooden stairs to her room before.
The interior was still decorated as when she left, even the small medicine box she had carefully placed behind the door.
Touching the small medicine box, she remembered what Lori had looked like before.
At that time, he was very naughty, almost unwilling to stay at home, running around outside every day, and his attitude towards her was also very average.
And this small medicine box is the bond that brings the relationship between the two closer.
Seeing these familiar objects, those ordinary old days are still vivid.
"Lori, why did you come back with another injury?" his mother slapped the dirt for him, very helpless.
"You can't learn from your brothers and sisters, you see where you look like a child of a noble family?!, you are not allowed to go anywhere from tomorrow!" was the father's angry reprimand.
"Oh. The young man returned to his room without looking back, and stubbornly refused to go downstairs at dinner.
It wasn't until An Nu knocked on his door and saw her carrying a small medicine box that Lori was angry and didn't fight.
"What are you doing here? He turned and slammed the door shut.
"A man doesn't leave a girl out and don't ask. An Nu knocked on the door again.
It worked very well for him, and it didn't take long for Lori to open the door again: "Come in." ”
Lori was sitting on a cushion on the floor, and although he had changed into clean clothes and the dirt on his body had been washed, he still stubbornly refused to let the maid treat his wounds.
"Does it hurt?" An Nu sat down beside him and took out a few band-aids from the small medicine box.
"Nothing, I don't need your sympathy. Lori gave her a blank look.
"I know, but even heroes can get hurt! If you are injured, you must be treated obediently!" An Nu was not angry, she skillfully disinfected his wounds, and wrapped gauze around him in serious places, and put a band-aid on his small mouth.
He was reluctant to resist at first, but Ann Nu moved softly and comforted him all the time, and Lori felt that it was very shameless to be comforted by a girl like this, so he also quieted down and was at her mercy.
Later, if he was injured, she would carefully medicate him, she never asked him why he was so disobedient, but asked him like a big hero: "Hero, where did you go today to save the world?"
And although he was overjoyed, he still dragged and snorted: "Childish." ”
When she wakes up in ecstasy, she returns to Lori and asks about the purpose of the trip.
"Do you know what my main business is at Conradle?" he asked, knocking on the notebook in front of him.
She naturally knew this: "Tobacco! You are the 'hero' who introduced sweet tobacco to Kanglai." "Old friends Chinese network
"Well, this is my business on the surface, because to ensure the quality, the planting and cultivation of tobacco leaves are carried out in Yuansen, and I can often go in and out of Yuansen, connect with this side and confirm relevant matters. ”
"Oh... Because the ban is going to be issued, do you think it's going to make your business go up again? So you're just here to talk about business?"
"Yes, the matter of the prohibition of gambling can be negotiated with the nominal father in Conley. ”
"By the way, speaking of which, you want me to be nominally involved with you, I wonder if I can help you in any way?" her voice raised slightly, as if she was expecting his answer.
"Not at all, you're just a good-looking gambler in terms of position, if you say it hard, there are rats who want to drag you into the ditch, I pulled you, you should thank me. ”
"What... I'm very popular in Passas and Blue Rose, isn't it better for you to be with me to hear some news and ideas?"
"Wouldn't it be more reliable for me to get money at the table? ”
This time, An Nu was speechless, could it be that everything she had gained over the years was of no value to him at all?
"Since it's worthless, then why do you want to maintain a nominal relationship with me, show me your identity, it's not the same to be friends, Benang's narrow-minded and suspicious people will not cooperate with me anymore when they see it. She muttered discontentedly.
"Because of gratitude. He didn't look at her, as if he was talking to himself: "Although I don't know what you are like now, but you gave me your gentleness when you were young, no matter what you want to do in the future, whether you want to marry or not, with me as a reference, the average frivolous boy will not easily beat your idea." ”
"You're thinking too far away... I didn't even think about it myself. An Nu helped her forehead.
"After all, as half of your brother, I have to think more about you. ”
"Then you just accept me as a righteous sister~"
"I don't have a sister like you, don't mess around. ”
His eyes always fell on the note, and she looked at him, thinking to herself that this person was really strange, in his heart, his sister was actually more important than his partner?
She then looked at his notes next to him, which contained records of tobacco fields in various regions, new recipes for tobacco, and so on.
It wasn't until the moonlight poured down and the servant came to call the two of them for dinner that she and her stomach remembered the thing about hunger, and along with her cheers of "yes!", there was also a "grunt~" from her stomach
An Nu immediately squinted her eyes in embarrassment, but Lori didn't care, just smiled and said, "I'm sorry to keep you hungry for so long." ”
So the two of them went to the table together in the same hour.
At night, she lay on the bed, smelling the fragrance of roses on the pillow that she had not smelled for a long time, and endured the irritability and uneasiness caused by her addiction to cigarettes, she did not want the sacred pure land in her heart to be stained with the smell of cigarettes.
At least he can't let Lori see himself in such embarrassment, at least he has a beautiful impression of childhood in his heart.
But along with the addiction to smoking, there is also the gambling addiction that has followed him for many years.
Her mind replays her moments at the table and the thrill of taking a risk to make a big bet.
She tossed and turned on the bed in discomfort, scratching back and forth on her neck.
Looking at the furnishings in the house, thinking of her former self, and then looking at the pathetic appearance of falling into the quagmire and unable to extricate herself, she began to cry uncontrollably on the pillow.
Until there was a vague tune in her ears, I don't know if it was an illusion, the smell of roses on the tip of her nose became more and more intense, and the note was also guiding her to where she went.
She put on her coat and walked out into the street like a ghost.