When Aijin returned to the bedroom, she just changed into a pair of slippers, threw her hair down, and played with it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Info took an unopened perfume box and walked to Hye-jin's house.

Hui Zhen was sitting on the bed reading a magazine, and when she came in, she deliberately lowered her head.

Ai Zhen saw a few cloves of melons in a colored glass bowl on the table, one of which had two tooth marks, so he accosted him and smiled: "I'm not feeling well, why do you still eat cold things." ”

Hui Zhen didn't raise his head when he heard this, bit his lip, and still lowered his eyes: "I feel much better now." ”

Ai Zhen moved a chair to her bedside, sat down and handed her the perfume box, and said, "I went to Huaijing today, there was nothing special, but I found that there was a perfume of this brand for sale, didn't you like this brand in the past." I bought a bottle of jasmine, and if I didn't like to spray it, I might ask them to drop a little bit when they were doing laundry to get a taste. ”

Hui Zhen took the box and swept her eyes, it was indeed the foreign name she was familiar with, so she looked at her and smiled: "Thank you, third sister." ”

This gift can be regarded as a settlement of the sisters' small dispute yesterday.

Ai Zhen said: "Today I first went to Guan's house, the second cousin, the fourth cousin and the fifth cousin were playing cards, I didn't know how to play, it was not a way to stand there, so I went to play with the sixth cousin, and then drank coffee with the sixth cousin and the fifth cousin." But there was no mention of the third person.

Hui Zhen asked, "Is the relationship between the sixth cousin and the fourth cousin good?" I always felt that my fourth cousin was so young, and she looked like a schoolgirl, and she couldn't get along with her sixth cousin. ”

Ai Zhen said: "I can't see that the fourth cousin treats everyone like that, but the meaning that the sixth cousin accidentally revealed is that she has a very cold relationship with her stepmother." I'm really strange, the fourth cousin is young and beautiful, what did I want to do for the fourth cousin in the first place. ”

Hui Zhen said: "Her family seems to be very poor, it is said that she also worked as a waitress in a Western restaurant when she was in school, and there are seven or eight brothers and sisters in the family to support, so there is no way to give up." ”

After chatting for a long time, the old mother came to call Aizhen: "Third Miss, the eldest master taught you to go to the study and said that he had something to ask you." ”

Love is really bitter: "Hey, Dad won't be trying to blame me!" ”

Hui Zhen smiled and grabbed her: "Go quickly, who told you to return late." ”

Aizhen arrived at her father's study, and the maid happened to tell Xiang Yan that he had a phone number, so Xiang Yan took the latch and went to the study to answer the phone. She sat on the couch outside, and with nothing to do, she picked up the clean ashtray on the coffee table and examined the lines on it. Suddenly, I found that there was a letter pressed under the ashtray, and the envelope turned out to be lilac, printed with daisy flowers, and it could not be an official letter anyway.

As if she had discovered an ambiguous secret, she hurriedly put the ashtray back in its place. Her father had been on the phone for a few minutes before he stepped outside, a lit cigar in his hand.

Ai Zhen got up and said, "Dad." ”

Xiang Yan nodded, took a puff of his cigar, sat down, and asked with a smile, "Aizhen, I heard that you came back late today?" ”

Ai Zhen smiled: "I haven't been back to my hometown for a long time, so I took the girl and walked around my home." The scenery of Jianxing is really beautiful, in the past, the teacher assigned an essay with the topic of my hometown, and now I really know how to write. ”

Xiang Yan said: "Don't forget where your ancestral home is, it's good." After speaking, his left index finger lightly tapped the armrest of the sofa, as if thinking about something.

Ai Zhen and her father often had nothing to say, so she asked, "Dad, is grandmother better?" ”

saw that Xiang Yan didn't seem to have come back to his senses, and he didn't even notice that the cigarette butt stained with sparks was about to fall to the ground. She had no choice but to say, "Dad? ”

Xiang Yan finally heard her question, and was stunned at first, and said, "Ah, what's wrong." ”

Ai Zhen said: "Is my grandmother's condition better?" "Although he was asking about his illness, he was actually asking about his grandmother's limit.

Xiang Yan rubbed his eyebrows and said, "Your grandmother...... The doctor said it would be a month at most. ”

Ai Zhen also felt sour when she heard this, coughed lightly, but couldn't think of any words to comfort her father, and said half-loudly: "You...... You want to mourn, and grandmother is also a happy mourner. ”

Xiang Yan nodded, and the father and daughter were speechless for a while. Xiang Yan was silent for a moment, and suddenly remembered why he called his daughter to come, so he said, "Have you ever been in contact with your eldest brother?" ”

Ai Zhen paused, in the year and a half after the eldest brother ran away from home, she and he had six or seven correspondence, but the relationship between the eldest brother and her father was extremely stiff, and she didn't know how to answer her father.

Seeing this, Xiang Yan didn't continue to ask, but just asked: "Your grandmother will die soon, but I don't know if your eldest brother, the eldest grandson, wants to come back." ”

Ai Zhen said softly: "If the eldest brother learns the news that his grandmother is critically ill, he will definitely come back - Dad, you also know the eldest brother, he is very good by nature." ”

"yes." Xiang Yan sighed deeply and said, "Aizhen, you can go back if you have nothing to do." I heard that Hui Zhen is not in good health today, you are a sister, take care of her more. ”

Ai Zhen said: "This is nature. Looking at her father's face, he was a little discouraged and powerless, and said, "Father, then I'll go, you have to pay attention to your body." In addition, it is better to smoke less, which is very bad for the lungs. ”

Xiang Yan nodded silently again.

Aizhen's mother started smoking when she was young, gradually coughed, and was diagnosed with lung disease only after entering the hospital, and finally intensified until she died in middle age.

*****

Second Master Xiang came back, and he brought his wife, who was divorcing him a while ago.

The second old man has a single name, and in his early years, he studied law at a university in Tokyo, and later went to the United States to study for a pheasant master's degree. Over the years, he was in charge of legal affairs at the Shanghai headquarters of Xiang Yan's textile company, and as a minority shareholder of the company, he also received the title of director.

Xiang's second wife's surname is Huang, and her maiden name is Peiying. It took more than ten years to get a son after being married to the second master Xiang, and the relationship has always been very good. However, at the beginning of this year, the second wife found out that the second master had raised an outer room from her, and had already given birth to two children, and the younger one was already old enough to make soy sauce. So he shouted that he wanted to divorce the second master, and he took his four-year-old son back to his parents' house.

Somehow, Pei Ying also followed Xiang Jin.

Peiying wore a dark green short-sleeved cheongsam, and a string of shiny diamond chains around her neck hid the dark color of her clothes. Her figure has always been very slim, and she has not lost her shape with age, but now her face is yellow and quite tired.

"I don't live in the same room with you, nor do I live in the same yard as you," she said with a sneer at Xiang Jin, then picked up the teacup and moistened her lips, facing the other side, "Mother Xu, what should you do." ”

Mother Xu said sadly: "Second wife, you are really embarrassed for me." There is an empty yard at home, but it is not cleaned, how can it live in people. ”

Xiang Jin's coat was full of pleats, a little gray-faced, he glared at Pei Ying and asked, "If you don't live in the same room with me, where do you plan to live?" ”

Pei Ying said disdainfully: "If it weren't for Zhuo Qi being your son, do you think I would rarely have anything to do with you?" ”

Xiang Yan, who was about to step into the main hall, resounded his steps, and the heels of his leather shoes clicked, making people hear it, and it seemed that even the air became hard with this footstep.

The second old man and his wife immediately couldn't put away the anger that was bubbling outward.

Xiang Jin hurriedly smiled: "Big brother is here." ”

Pei Ying also said lightly: "Big brother." ”

Xiang Yan said in a deep voice: "I don't know if my mother is still sick? As soon as the two of you get home, you quarrel like this, what kind of system, is it because you came here to sing swords? ”

Pei Ying held her temples, made a sad gesture, and did not answer.

Xiang Jin said: "Big brother, don't be angry, it's me who lost proportion with Peiying, but we also know that the Changning Hall where my mother lives is far away from here, so we dare to ...... Speak so loudly. ”

Xiang Yan was helpless, and asked again: "Where is Zhuo Qi?" ”

Pei Ying replied, "I asked the nanny to carry him to the garden to cool off." ”

Xiang Yan snorted coldly: "It's a shame that you still understand this truth, you know that the child is young, and you can't let Zhuo Qi hear his parents arguing." ”

In the end, Peiying still compromised and lived in the same courtyard as Xiang Jin, but her attitude towards her husband was still neither yin nor yang.