At this time, it was the end of the year, and there was another month before the Spring Festival, Shen Yishi got his son's letter, so he took Jiarou and brought a lot of New Year's goods to the foreigners in the hospital to pay homage to the early years, and also gave the children a holiday, and returned to Tongzhou for the New Year together.

The three sisters and brothers haven't seen each other for a long time, and they can't stop talking when they meet. The two younger brothers took their sister to visit all corners of the hospital. Jiarou looked curiously and happily up and down the medical hall, the things here, and the people here. Those foreigners in white robes, hanging stethoscopes, some wearing masks, some not wearing. The foreigners communicated with each other, speaking foreign languages that Jiarou did not understand; Visiting local patients and speaking fluent Beijing. Jiarou seems to have seen the world in the west.

"Sister, come and meet our teacher." Galio tugged at Jiarou's sleeve and walked to the surgical office.

Bo Jia is changing the dressing of eye surgery patients with Meiyu, they are dressed in white robes, Bo Jia is tall, Meiyu is slender and enchanting, and Meiyu also wears a beautiful nurse's hat on her head. A foreign nurse walked in and said a few words to Meiyu in foreign language, and Meiyu nodded sideways and smiled. This picture was seen by Jiarou standing at the door of the ophthalmology clinic.

"Teacher, this is my sister, Jiarou." Carrieu said proudly.

"This is my cousin, Jiarou." Rong Chuan followed with a grin.

"Hello, beautiful young lady." Bo Jia's eyes were full of smiles, "I can't imagine that you two stinky boys have such a beautiful sister." I'm underestimating you. The foreigner's straightforwardness made Jiarou very uncomfortable, she wanted to be shy and shy, but in front of Meiyu, she was only ashamed of herself, and she didn't even dare to twist.

Meiyu stood behind Bo Jie and looked at Jiarou stunned: this is the girl who has a marriage contract with him that the third master said, she is not only beautiful, but also has parents and brothers, dressed in a rich and rich, bright red brocade coat, with pure white fur edges, like Xue Baochai in the book "Stone Records". And himself, at most, is the homeless Xiangling.

Two good girls, each envious of the other.

"Teacher, let's take a day off." Galloy asked with a smile.

Bo Jia nodded again and again: "Of course, of course." Then he turned to Meiyu and said, "Dear Meiyu, you should also go with the visitors for a walk, and also go to the vineyard to see." I'll come to you later. ”

Several children jumped out of the house, and Bo Jia shouted: "Rong Chuan, don't go." This requires your help. ”

Rong Chuan had no choice but to pout.

Meiyu smiled and waved goodbye to Rong Chuan, and said to Jiarou as she walked out, "Girl, I'll accompany you to the vineyard." She saw that Jiarou was a little uncomfortable, so she took the initiative to step forward and take her hand.

"I'm sorry for you." Jiarou is still a little restrained.

"You're welcome." Meiyu's big eyes, shining, looked at Jiarou and said.

"I don't know if you're older or I'm older." Jiarou asked timidly.

"I'm sixteen." Miyu laughed.

"Hello sister. I'm fifteen. Jiarou respectfully addressed Sister Miyu.

"Sister is polite, let's come to Baiwang Mountain for the first time." The two girls said as they walked.

"First time. How long have you been here? Jiarou began to ask what she wanted to ask. Ever since the first time she saw Miyu, she understood something.

"I've been here for six years. I came here at the age of ten, studied at the girls' school over there, and went to the infirmary, only two years ago. ”

Hearing this, Jiarou thought: Sure enough, it's two years. It's also embarrassing for the third master, she is so beautiful, how much the third master has to like it, thinking about it like this, it was her own fault, which tied up the pair.

Carrie walked quickly in front, and after a few steps, he stood and waited for them. Miyu saw that Jialuo had something to say to Jiarou, so she stepped back and followed behind their sisters, and vaguely heard their conversation.

"Sister, did the third master kiss? That's a great thing. ”

Meiyu's heart suddenly rose to her throat, although she was mentally prepared and knew that this was a matter of time or time, but at the moment when it was really confirmed, she also felt that the sky had fallen all of a sudden. Miyu's legs were weak, her heart panicked, and she forced herself to continue listening to their conversation.

"Isn't that a good thing? I don't know the bottom of my heart. Why did you suddenly come to propose. ”

Meiyu's heart was relieved again, it seems that what the third master said was unavoidable, it was true.

"Sister, isn't that what you've always wanted? The third master is a person who understands. It's not going to mess around. Carlevo said.

Meiyu was saddened by Jialiu's words. "Yes, he will never marry a nasty person, this girl, at least in the eyes of the third master."

Meiyu looked at the sky, trying not to think about these troubles, so that she could hold back her tears and not fall down. She cleared her throat and said, "Wait for me under the grape trellis, and I'll go to the cellar and bring up a good bottle of wine." When he turned around, tears fell from his eyes.

Jiarou saw Meiyu walking away, and hurriedly cut to the chase: "Does the third master come often?" ”

"Come often."

"Did he mention anything to you?"

Gallo's heart crossed those mysterious things, "No, I haven't mentioned anything." He stumbled.

"I always feel strange, I'm afraid that he is for something else, and marrying me is a disguise." Jiarou choked up aggrievedly, "Jialiu, do you say that the third uncle also has affection for me?"

"Sister, can't you see this?" Jia Luo knew about the third uncle and Meiyu, but he had to persuade him.

"I just can't see it, so I asked you." Jiarou said.

"Hey, don't you like to be able to propose?" Gallio asked.

"Doesn't it mean you like it? I just feel weird, and when I see Meiyu today, it's even more weird. Jiarou said.

"Sister, don't think about it, the third master is a good person!"

"It's good if you don't want to, but you keep thinking about it and can't stop." Jiarou choked up.

"That's better than proposing to someone else, right?"

These words frightened Jiarou, she stared at her brother tightly, and said for a long time: "I'm so tired!" ”

Caryo looked at her sister and said, "Yes, I'm tired when I look at you." "There are three of you in his sentence.

Sure enough, Jiarou asked, "How many of you are in this sentence?" ”

Carrieu was choked by her and didn't know how to answer, and stumbled and said, "Two, two." ”

"If it's two, you won't be tired." Jiarou said.

As soon as the words fell, Meiyu came up from the cellar with red wine in one hand and four glasses in the other.

"What two? It's four. Miyu forced a smile and raised four wine glasses.

Jia Luo wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, he said in his heart, if you count the uncle, isn't it four!

As he spoke, Bo Jia also rushed over, "Come on, children." This was the year before last when it rained well. "Uncle Jia helped Meiyu distribute wine glasses to everyone.

"The trellises are growing very well in the summer." Jiarou knows how to be polite, and she still holds on in front of outsiders.

"Of course, I, Yun Pu and Rigra took good care of it. When we buy the land at the top of the hill, we will plant another trellis there. "Yun Pu in Bo Jia's mouth is a gardener; Rigra is a winemaker.

"The top of the mountain? I thought all of this Baiwang Mountain belonged to you. Jiarou asked curiously, eager to know more about Baiwang Mountain.

"Not at the top of the mountain, but your third uncle will help, and he should be able to buy it soon." Bo drove a drink, then faced Meiyu and said, "Let's go to the top of the mountain?" ”

"It's so cold, it's even colder on the mountain, right?" Meiyu said coquettishly.

"It's warm when you get up." Uncle said and put his face in front of Meiyu and called out "head nurse".

Meiyu shook her head embarrassedly and explained to Jialiu and Jiarou: "Don't listen to him, I'm just the temporary head nurse, and now there are new candidates." ”

Galloy interjected, "The temporary one is also very powerful." Do I want to be an interim dean? ”

Meiyu remembered Bo Jia's joke and looked at Bo Jia and laughed.

Bo Jia was really stimulated, and said without thinking: "No, what do you want?" I'm not there yet. ”

Jia Luo laughed and hurriedly rounded the field: "Oops, the student is wrong. You have a lot of adults. ”

Jiarou looked at Meiyu and smiled, so envious. She didn't quite understand what the head nurse was, it sounded like a leader, this Meiyu sister was so bright and beautiful, and she had a lot of skills, so she had to like it.

"Let's go, sister," Garyo pulled up her sleeve, "I wanted to take a look at the top of the mountain." ”

"I've been on Baiwang Mountain for six years, and I haven't been up yet. The first time you come, you can go up. Meiyu really envied Jiarou's good fortune, and she was also secretly sad, the so-called good skin, and she couldn't move back to the game she came from.

Meiyu thought about it, and Bo took her hand and went up the mountain. Meiyu was not so close to the man in front of Jiarou, so she hurriedly withdrew her hand, and Bo Jia held it tightly and refused to let go. Meiyu remembered the "marriage proposal" in Jiarou's mouth just now, so she didn't resist it, and let her drive her up.

Baiwang Mountain doesn't look tall, but it is not short when it climbs. From the medical hall to the top of the mountain, there is only one dirt road that people have stepped on, which is quite steep, and the road is overgrown with weeds and rocks, and it is not easy to get off the foot. Several of them wore heavy cotton robes in winter, and their movements were clumsy. The steeper you go, the more windy it gets. The biting cold wind was accompanied by thorns that pierced the hands, and even if they were pulled by Jiajia and Bojia, they were only halfway up the mountain, and the two girls still couldn't walk.

"So, I'll carry you on my back." Bo Jia shouted at Meiyu very seriously.

Several of the children were laughed out loud by the serious shouting of the uncle. Sincere confession and courtship sweep away the tiredness. Jiarou looked at Bo Jia and Meiyu in surprise, they got along so naturally, it was really an enviable happy life.

Meiyu giggled, patted Bojia's back with her other hand, and said from ear to ear: "Don't mess around! Let's go! Meiyu tried to make herself happy, but she couldn't erase the sadness in her heart. She didn't know why she let her uncle be ambiguous, maybe it was to let Jiarou not pity herself too much.

Several people pulled each other like this, and it took more than half an hour to climb to the top of the mountain.

The top of the mountain was very cold, the wind was very strong, and everyone finally stepped on the highest point of Baiwang Mountain out of breath, standing at the commanding heights and looking at it, it was the panoramic view of the capital up to the horizon, and they shouted out at the same time: "Huh! Beijing! ”。

Before he let go of Meiyu's hand, he couldn't wait to point to the west and said, "From here, all the way to the west, around half the world, is my home." ”

Meiyu felt the eagerness coming from the palm of the uncle's hand, but the eagerness only reached the arm, and the sadness in her heart was still so cold.

Seeing her loneliness, Bo Jia squeezed her hand again and said, "I really want to take you back." Meet my mom. ”

This is what Meiyu has always wanted to hear from the third master's mouth, she was in a trance, but she didn't stop her tears. Meiyu quickly turned her head, not wanting to be discovered by everyone.

Seeing that Meiyu was moved, Bo Jia approached her and said, "My family is in Boston, and we have a big farm that grows wheat. Our wheat is exported to Europe. I was there, no worse than him. You know, only the children of wealthy families can study medicine, and I am the legendary: young, male, East Coast, upper class. ”

"What are you talking about?" Meiyu lowered her head and asked aggrievedly. ”

I would also say that in my hometown, there is a saying: "The one who loves you will never leave you, and even if he has a hundred reasons to leave, he will find one reason to persevere." Bo Jia looked at Meiyu and said silently in his heart: Whoever they say you want to say this sentence to, you are in love with whomever you love.

Meiyu looked at him in surprise, thinking about this beautiful sentence, the person who flashed in her heart was still the third master. Meiyu was in a trance again, and Bo Jia shook the hands they were holding each other and said, "I'll take you." I'll give you the back. This is a conversation that Bo Jia has planned for a long time, and he has always wanted to find a special place to tell Meiyu. This commanding heights of Beijing is the most suitable place.

Meiyu looked at the person who said that she was supporting her, and also clenched his hand. Yes, what woman can withstand such an emotional confession.

The mountain wind was very strong, and Jialiu and Jiarou on the side did not hear their conversation. Jiarou only tried to look in the direction of Dashilar, she wanted to find the Lin family's shop; Jia Luo pointed to the east of the distance, and shouted wildly: "Tongzhou Daying, Daying, our home, is over there." ”

Jia Luo saw that Bo Jia and Meiyu were chatting tightly, and finally remembered that he should do something too. He jumped off the stone platform and walked up to the top of the mountain. The top of the hill is a flat, bare land without any shelter. Except for the big rock that he had stepped on under his feet.

Meiyu turned her head and saw that Jiarou had left a single place, so she hurriedly broke free of Bojia's hand, walked towards Meiyu, pointed in the direction of Xishiku, and said, "That's where I grew up, Xishiku." ”

"Where is my sister's house?" Miyu asked.

"Well, I grew up in an orphanage. When I was ten years old, I came to Baiwang Mountain, and I was in Xishiku before I was ten years old, and I should not have a home. Miyu laughed.

"Nonsense! The clinic is your home, and the clinic has me. He argued, he couldn't listen to his lover say such heart-piercing words.

Jiarou was also made her heart tense for a while by these words, she couldn't listen to this beautiful girl, she had no home. Jiarou even secretly complained to the third master, why didn't she give Meiyu a home.

"Next time, bring binoculars and see better." Jia Luo didn't find anything on the top of the mountain, crossed his hands on his waist, looked at the direction of Tongzhou and said.

"When the grape trellis on the top of the mountain is erected, let's come up again and be lively." He jumped off the stone platform, stretched out his arm, and followed Meiyu down. Jia Luo also learned to take Jia Rou down.

Uncle said to himself: "If the third master gets the land quickly, he can come over this summer to enjoy the coolness." As he spoke, he walked around, muttering about how big a sanatorium he could build and how big a grape trellis he could build.

After a while, the heat on the four of them gradually dissipated, and the cold from the high place soon made people shiver, and their lips trembled and could not be closed. They persevered until the end, and then reluctantly left.

The way down the mountain is not easy, it is really a crawl.

Caryo kept an eye out for the bunkers, the bare mountains, and he didn't realize that he could hide anything. He has been so busy with typhoid fever for a while, he hardly touched the third uncle, and he didn't know if the third uncle was going to find something and found it, Jia Luo pondered.

As soon as he arrived at the foot of the mountain, he was impatient with Shen Yi's to greet him.

"Where have you been? I didn't say a few words to Dean Pasteur, and you were gone. ”

"We're going to the top of the mountain?" Carlevo said.

"The top of the mountain?" Shen Yishi asked in surprise.

"It's cold, mother, I'll go to my sister's house and have a look." Jiarou pulled Meiyu and walked to the hospital together.

Shen Yishi was speechless by the sister-like affection between the two, she wondered if the young people had changed now, or was she not generous enough?

Shen Yishi couldn't take care of his daughter, so he pulled Jia Luo and asked, "Let's go back to Tongzhou with my mother today." ”

"Don't go, don't be afraid of being like this because of a little typhoid fever, I can't embarrass the Tongzhou camp." Jia Luo said the same thing as Shen Zongfu with some impatience.

"Yes, auntie, my cousin and I just learned a little bit about it. Rest assured, we'll take care of each other. Rong Chuan, who rushed over, hurriedly helped, he had more vision than Jia Luo, knew that it was cold outside, and pulled his aunt and Jia Luo into the hall of the hospital to avoid the cold.

"I have to go home for the New Year." Shen Yishi instantly lowered his request to just go home for the New Year, and his mother was very sad in the face of this young eagle that had spread its wings and was about to take off.

It was very warm in the medical hall, and Jiarou, who had just come down the mountain, was sweating, and she asked Meiyu if she could take off her cotton robe to cool off, and Meiyu smiled and said, "No one comes in here." Needless to say, this house should be my home. ”

Jiarou looked at the neat but narrow room, and her heart tightened again. She didn't know what to say, so she had to bow her head and take off her cotton robe, leaving her soft pink and white cheongsam inside.

"My sister's clothes are so beautiful." Meiyu said enviously.

"My sister's nurse's uniform is beautiful. My sister lives in the world of books. My sister's rouge box is also good-looking. Jiarou is more envious of Meiyu. On the table in the room, there was the rouge brought by the third master. The rouge box is bright yellow and is particularly conspicuous. Jia Rou said as she held it in the palm of her hand and looked at it carefully.

Meiyu looked at the rouge box, looked at Jiarou, and remembered that the third master said that she couldn't come to the hospital these days, so she blurted out: "If my sister likes it, take it." ”

"No, no, no, no." Jiarou became shy, she felt that she had said the wrong thing, it was too reckless.

Meiyu picked up the rouge box, looked at it carefully, sighed, and stuffed the rouge box into Jiarou's hand. "My sister is here for the first time, and it's a welcome gift."

Jiarou was moved, she quickly took off the jade bracelet: "Sister, I didn't bring anything, if you don't dislike it, this is my meeting gift." ”

Meiyu then followed the white jade bracelet that Jiarou stuffed into her hand, and she was ashamed of the flower offering Buddha she had just arrived. But on second thought, apart from the rouge box, there really isn't anything long to give. came out of the orphanage and entered the Baiwangshan Girls' School, and every day was either a patient or a medical book. finally waited for a female companion who fell in love, but she was helplessly the wife of the third master. Is this fate, or debt?

"Sister, come to my house for the New Year, and we will be lively together." Jiarou took a step closer and said.

"Sister, everyone here has to go home for the Chinese New Year, and I have to stay and watch the patients." Meiyu is telling the truth, but she actually wants to see it, she wants to see what kind of family the girl the third master is going to marry.

"Will there be patients during the Chinese New Year? Sister, don't lie to me. Be sure to come home for the New Year. Jiarou persuaded.

Meiyu smiled and said, "Sister, don't worry, we also eat dumplings in the hospital." There are patients and doctors. It's not deserted. ”

Jiarou stared at Meiyu and said, "No, my sister is so beautiful, everyone likes you." Don't feel lonely. ”

Meiyu thought thoughtfully, smiled and bent her eyes, and said, "I like myself too." ”

Jiarou was confused by the sentence "I like myself too". Jiarou didn't understand what it meant to "like yourself".

In the hall of the medical hall, Shen Yishi pulled Jia Luo and kept talking, and persuaded his son to go home with her for the New Year.

"Rong Chuan and I arrived home at noon on the 29th day of the New Year's Day, and we couldn't miss the New Year." Galloy laughed.

Cousin Rong Chuan added: "Please also ask your uncle." ”

"Alright, go call your sister, we're leaving." Shen Yishi said angrily.

Shen Yishi turned around and looked at the door of the medical hall, sighing helplessly, who knew that he saw the third master walk in. "Oh, third master."

In the corridor, Meiyu and Jiarou were walking out, and when they heard their mother's shouting, they both paused.

The last time the third master came, it was still a typhoid epidemic, and he didn't bother to say hello at all, and after all, the two of them haven't seen each other for more than a month. Meiyu wanted to rush over and throw herself into his arms, but time had passed, and Meiyu had no strength.

Jiarou is also very embarrassed, since the third master proposed, they have never met, and Jiarou has not yet been affectionate about why he proposed. At this time, Jiarou didn't want to see him at all.

The two beautiful girls, each with their own hearts, don't know whether to advance or retreat.

"Sister, I have to go to see a patient, so I won't send you." Meiyu said as she went to the ward, nervously saying goodbye to Jiarou.

"Sister, then, I'll come to see you later." Jiarou was also very nervous, her tongue was not sharp, and the cotton robe was on her arm, and she couldn't care about wearing it. Seeing Meiyu go to the ward, she had no choice but to bite the bullet and go out.

"Three girls." When the third master saw Jiarou coming out, he hurriedly greeted him. This greeting was heard by Meiyu clearly, and her tears flowed down her eyes, and she really wanted to get the box of rouge back. She took a deep breath and wanted to walk into the ward, but she was afraid that the patient would see her crying, so she had to stand at the door and secretly wipe away her tears.

"Mother, I'll wait for you in the car." Jiarou pretended not to hear, and walked out in three steps and two steps, she wanted to escape from the sight of the third master as soon as possible, she didn't care about wearing a coat, and she didn't feel cold, so she walked out of the hospital hall.

The third master hesitated for a moment and mentioned the marriage to Shen Yishi: "Madam, my eldest brother and Brother Shen have set a good date."

"Yes, out of the first month, March 3 to give a bride price, set the right day." Shen Yi deliberately smiled. Their conversation was not loud, but it was still heard by Meiyu. Meiyu didn't enter the ward, turned around and returned to her duty room, sat on the edge of the bed, tears raining down.

The third master and Shen Yishi exchanged pleasantries for a while and sent Shen Yishi to the car. Then he went to the medical hall, intending to find Miyu. Bo Jia had already seen the third master visiting, and he deliberately waited in the hall.

"Third Master." Bethchael blocked his way.

"Brother Bojia." The third master nodded, he and Bo Jia knew what they meant, but they never clashed. Today, when the third master saw him menacing, he wanted to nod his head and bypass.

"Third Master." Bo Jia stretched out his arms and lowered his head, brewing something.

"What do you have to say?"

"Go to the office." Bo Jia took the third master into an empty consultation room.

The two were at arm's length.

Bo Jia said: "I heard Rong Chuan say that you and Jia Liu's sister Jia Rou have a marriage contract. ”

The third master said, "Does it have anything to do with you?" ”

Bo Jia said: "Meiyu has been very depressed recently, if you can't solve it properly, don't do it again." ”

The third master was so angry that he crossed his eyes and grabbed Bai and said, "Where are you a green onion!" "Then shake your hands and leave.

"You want her life, you go ahead!" Uncle shouted.

The third master stopped, his eyes staring at the ground in a daze. He walked around behind him and walked away without looking back. The third master stayed where he was, thought for a long time, and got up to go back to the dormitory building.

That night, Gallo ran to report to the third uncle that he had gone to the top of the mountain, which was a bare flat land without any shelter, and there was no mystery on the hillside where there was anything to hide.

The third master was absent-minded, he was upset by Meiyu's matter, and he didn't have the heart to tell Jia Luo these things that he didn't want to tell him in the first place. But when I went to Baiwang Mountain this time, I really came to Longshou. He brace himself and carefully plan his search in the basement tomorrow.

"Caryo, who is the key to the basement of the medical hall?" The third master asked suddenly.

Jia Luo was stunned for a moment and said, "Uncle Driver." ”

The third master sighed: "Sleep!" ”

Jia Luo said: "Third uncle, let me ask you, who do you like more, is it Sister Meiyu or my sister." ”

The third master was so angry that he smashed the pillow at Jia Luo: "Get out!" ”

Gallio laughed and ran.

At night, the third master took advantage of the moonlight to walk around the courtyard, and he carefully looked at the infirmary, dormitory, canteen, pharmacy, and church. He has been to these places no less than several times, so the precious things are not small, where can they be hidden?

The church is a holy place for foreigners, and if it is a sin to steal something, it will naturally not be hidden in the church by them;

The pharmacy is too small, and there are many people who come and go to deliver and get medicine, and they won't;

The canteen is heavy, the smoke is burning, the baby is placed there, I don't know when it bumps and burns, so it can't be the canteen;

Then there are only the infirmary and the dormitory: if there is a dormitory, it is nothing more than Pasteur's room or a few other empty rooms; If it is a medical hall, then there will be no wards and clinics, and there is only a basement.

Tonight's third master is like a god possessing a body with a flash of inspiration, such an analysis, the baby is either in Pasteur's dormitory, or in the basement of the medical hall. Pasteur's room is easy to say, and the room is also open, so let's go and explore it tomorrow; The basement is in trouble, and Uncle is holding the key in his hand, how can he ask him for it. The third master, who couldn't think of an idea for a while, decided to go back to sleep first.