"Let me get out of the car. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info One way street next to my house, you won't be able to turn around later. ”

Yan Ran pointed ahead.

Jiang Yuan didn't listen to her, he still galloped over, and after a small turn, he turned into the most famous road in Shanghai.

Shanghai is a controversial city, rich and prosperous, full of high-rise buildings, but often accused of arrogance and xenophobia.

Yan Ran is an out-and-out Shanghai girl, and she herself admits to the point of "xenophobia".

However, such geographical exclusion is not limited to outsiders. Old Shanghainese like to divide Shanghai into "upper corners" and "lower corners".

Jing'an, Xuhui, Luwan, and Huangpu were once ten miles of oceanic fields, and the night was like day, which was called "Shangzhijiao" (Shanghai dialect means: upper class).

In Shanghai, Shanghainese look down on outsiders, and those who have the upper horn look down on the people who have the lower corner.

It is also this cycle of so-called high and low discrimination that has pushed the city to the forefront.

Yan Ran doesn't like to distinguish people by region in this way, but she enjoys the innate feeling of superiority as an "old Jing'an person".

In the eyes of old Shanghainese, the place where Yan Ran lives is the "upper horn" in the "upper corner".

Where the car stopped, there was an old-fashioned sign, and it did not have the majesty of a modern high-end community. There is just a line of words written in the simplest font and typography: Jing'an Villa, Lane 1025, Nanjing West Road.

Almost all old Shanghainese people will have a different feeling in their hearts after hearing this name. This place, known as the "villa", is actually an alley, which is the largest existing new-style alley in Shanghai. The northern section of the alley is in the bustling Nanjing West Road business district, with the door number of "Lane 1025 of Nanjing West Road" facing the gate of Isetan in Meilong Town, and the south end leading to Weihai Road Media Street. The original residents were high-level white-collar workers at Shanghai Tang & Co. During the old Shanghai period, Zhang Jingjiang, the teacher of ******, and his family bought this land and built a number of new-style lane houses imitating European-style townhouses. All clear water red brick exterior walls, Western-style door frames and window frames. The baroque cartouche corbels under the cement balconies and the arched brick ornaments on the upper part of the window frames on the ground floor were the popular styles of the time. In the thirties and forties of the last century, most of the celebrities of famous families lived here, Cai Yuanpei, Kong Xiangxi, and Yu Youren all lived here temporarily.

It can be said that this is a representative of old Shanghai, a dream.

The houses here don't look too big now, and they are not a little worse than the top villas like Tomson Yipin. Even it began to become commercial, and most of them were rented out.

But even so, the old Shanghainese still stubbornly thought that the nouveau riche and the officials with unclean hands and feet lived in Tomson, and the "old carat" in Shanghai, the former aristocracy, the most tasteful and respected people, would live in a place like Jing'an Villa.

Jiang Yuan squinted his eyes and looked at the sign outside for a while, "It's here, my Miss Yan." ”

Yan Ran smiled indifferently, "You mock me again...... This place was indeed a good house twenty or thirty years ago, but now I'm afraid it can't be in the eyes of your President Jiang, right? ”

Jiang Yuan smiled, shook his head and sighed, "It's different, nobles are nobles, nouveau riche...... Always a nouveau riche ......"

Yan Ran wanted to argue for him, but Jiang Yuan took out a box from the back seat, stuffed it into her hand, turned sideways and carefully unfastened the seat belt for her, and reached over with his thick hand to comb her messy hair between her sideburns, "You can't park here, I won't send you up." ”

Yan Ran pursed her lips and snickered, "It's as if you sent it to me." ”

Jiang Yuan shrugged his shoulders helplessly.

"You can take it back, you know, I don't like this kind of thing." Yan Ran tried to push back the box with the logo printed on it.

Jiang Yuan didn't accept it, and stuffed it back into her hand, "I picked it, this one suits you." Seeing that Yan Ran was still a little hesitant, he said in a tougher tone, "You are my girlfriend, I have an obligation to make your life better." ”

Yan Ran stopped talking and obediently took the box out of the car.

When he walked to the gate of the community, the security guard nodded to him, and Yan Ran also saluted.

"This Miss Yan is really blessed to find such a rich boyfriend."

When Yan Ran passed by him, he heard the two security guards talking about himself behind him.

Sure enough, he really laughed at the poor and didn't laugh at the prostitute, Yan Ran looked at the LV box in his hand.

I don't know when the reason for a woman's "good fortune" began to change from the smile on her face to a luxury bag and a high-end sports car.

If she was still a student, Yan Ran would definitely reprimand those who talked about money with their mouths closed, but when there were more things and people to watch, she would be relieved.

If a sick person survives in the middle of a group of people who are not sick, he is considered an outlier. But if a person who is not sick lives in a group of sick people, then he will also be an outlier. At this point, the person can choose to fight loudly and argue for himself, or he can choose to just go along with it...... The former will be very tiring, while the latter will be very easy......

When he walked to the third small bungalow at the entrance of the alley, Yan Ran took out the key from his bag and opened the door.

In fact, Jiang Yuan said that she was a nobleman, and that really promoted her. This old bungalow is already gold and jade, and it is ruined. It's nowhere near as comfortable as a fancy apartment. When he went in with his face inside, Yan Ran put the key bag in the small basket on the entrance, and then changed the number of slippers and was just about to go up.

A stiff voice came from behind her.

"Coming back?"

"Uh...... En......" Yan Ran agreed, and turned around to see her father standing under the stairs on the other side.

"I'm also tired, go up and rest after kowtowing to your grandfather twice!"

The living room of the Yan family is on the first floor. But there is another room on the first floor near the stairs, that room faces south, and there was originally a piano, which was Yan Ran's practice room. But since Yan Ran went to college, this room has gradually become vacant.

A room that was originally full of artistic atmosphere now has a portrait of Yan Ran's grandfather, with plugged candles on both sides, facing the portrait, and two futons.

After arriving home, you must come to this room to kowtow to your grandfather, which has become the family rule of the Yan family.

Yan Ran didn't say anything, and after putting down her things, she knelt on the futon and kowtowed respectfully. Dad watched from the sidelines and nodded in satisfaction.

In fact, the relationship between Yan Ran and her grandfather is very good, and this Jing'an villa is also passed down by her grandfather's generation, which means that Yan Ran was brought up by her grandfather when she was a child. So for Yan Ran, her father let her kowtow to her grandfather every day, and there is nothing to do with this action. However, Dad's temperament, temper, and way of dealing with Grandpa's matter have always been unacceptable to Yan Ran.

After Yan Ran kowtowed, she quietly looked at her grandfather's kind face.