Lin Hai remembered that his father once said to him, "Bamboo shoots in the mountains have sharp mouths and thick skin, and hollow bellies." At that time, it was twenty years, Lin Hai sat in the teahouse every day to listen to the play, he envied those who had sharp teeth and sharp tongues and could argue, so his father often counted him down.

Later, when his father died, he was not by his side, and the phrase "bamboo shoots in the mountains have sharp mouths and thick skin and hollow bellies" suddenly echoed in his ears.

Time has passed, and he has already understood what his father meant.

Lin Hai asked, Tang Yin, what book are you reading?

Tang Yin smiled, she flipped a few pages back, picked up the pen and circled a red circle on a word on that page. Then she got up, bent over the table, and pointed the page at Lin Hai. Lin Hai saw that the circled word was "pearl".

It's not necessarily the stars that shine brightly, but also the pearls that can be touched. It is the so-called pearl in the sky and stars on the earth. It may not be as good as gold, but it has always been loved by women, and even some foreign girls have the Chinese name for pearl.

Lin Hai thought of when he used to be with Tang Yin, and Tang Yin fell in love with a pearl necklace. Beauty looks good in anything, but that pearl necklace really sets off Tang Yin even more beautifully.

This was really valuable to them who were poor and poor at that time, Tang Yin said forget it, but he could see that Tang Yin wanted to get the pearl necklace very much.

Lin Hai remembered that that time was the hardest day of his life, Tang Yin broke with his family in order to be with him, and he couldn't let Tang Yin not even have a necklace that was both suitable and liked.

So he took out all the money in his hand, and worked as a "middleman" and a high-level "bag inquiry" for a while, and for a while he also worked as someone's bodyguard, and finally, he saved enough money the day before Xiaohan.

He rushed to the jewelry store, and he was reluctant to sit in the rickshaw, and when he took the necklace, his hands were shaking. Lin Hai carefully held the box containing the necklace and walked back to his and Tang Yin's house tremblingly.

He wanted to go back as soon as possible on the way, but he was afraid that he would accidentally lose the necklace, which was an ambivalent psychology, and his psychology only disappeared the moment he entered the house.

At that time, they lived in the alley, which was a crowded place, and Tang Yin went out to greet him, and she didn't know why her lover was getting busy until she saw the pearl necklace.

She cried, and Lin Hai hurriedly put the necklace on her, and then he took her in his arms and comforted her and said that everything would get better and better.

After Tang Yin cried enough, she said that Lin Hai was a loser, but she couldn't put down the pearl necklace. She said, Lin Hai, I want to give you a gift too. She was a budget-conscious person, and she had been carefully selecting for him for a long time, and finally chose a copper pocket watch for him.

She said that you should go home early in the future.

Lin Hai broke out from the memory, he knew why Tang Yin circled these two words, he smiled bitterly, took out the pocket watch from the inner pocket of his coat, and then looked at Tang Yin's eyes and said, I'm back.

Tang Yin cried, she said that she was twenty-six years old, she was an old girl, Lin Hai held her in his arms, and all his previous anxiety about "Tang Yin doesn't love him anymore" disappeared without a trace at this moment.

Lin Hai knew that the only thing he had to be afraid of now was Takeki Ya and Arakawa Yuanxuan. For a moment, he didn't want to go back to Chongqing, he wanted to be with Tang Yin, but he knew that the longer he stayed in Shanghai, the more dangerous Tang Yin and him became.

In the end, he still swept Tang Yin in.

Lin Hai said, Tang Yin, I will come back.

This reminded Tang Yin of the last time he said goodbye to Lin Hai, when Lin Hai said, Tang Yin, I will be a big official, and then come back to marry you.

In the blink of an eye, they hadn't seen each other for five years.

Lin Hai is not a person who can speak sweet words, after he fell in love with Tang Yin, he only said "I love you", and Tang Yin is the same. At that time, their neighbor had a good-looking woman, and in Lin Hai's opinion, she was only slightly inferior to Tang Yin.

She doesn't have a man, or it's her man who gives money, she keeps her love in her mouth every day, Lin Hai didn't understand why she could say it so easily, and then he remembered his father's words and understood.

He hugged Tang Yin at night and said what he thought. He said that the bamboo shoots in the mountains have a sharp mouth and thick skin and a hollow belly, so the woman who says love every day doesn't know love at all, she wants to get love, but she can't get it.

Tang Yin said that he always talked nonsense, so it was not good for others to listen. Lin Hai had no choice but to smile and say, "Okay, my Miss Tang, the little one obeys the order." This sentence made Tang Yin laugh, and she didn't hold Lin Hai accountable for talking nonsense.

It turns out that what Lin Hai said was right, the woman stopped Tang Yin one afternoon, and she said to Tang Yin, I envy you so much. Tang Yin was very surprised, and then the woman showed a wry smile, she stuffed a pair of jade bracelets into Tang Yin's hands, and then turned around and ran back to her home, locked the door, and didn't open the door no matter how Tang Yin shouted outside the door.

Tang Yin wanted to return the jade bracelet the next day, but when she came to the woman's house the next day, she found that she had hanged herself.

This scared Tang Yin a lot, and he often had nightmares at night, and Lin Hai saw it in his eyes and felt pain in his heart. He and Tang Yin buried the pair of jade bracelets next to the woman's grave, and that night, Lin Hai said, I have the light on, I am next to you, and the light is also next to you, you don't have to be afraid.

Strange to say, Tang Yin has never had nightmares since then.

They are a loving poor couple, and if it weren't for what happened later, they wouldn't have gone so bumpy.

At the birthday party, Takekiya soon found that Lin Hai was missing, and he told Shiro Kawamura to look for him, but he couldn't startle the snake, and said that if Lin Hai was looking for Tang Yin, he would go with him.

Shiro Kawamura went out for a while, and he came back soon and whispered a few words in Takekiya's ear, and Takekiya smiled, and he seemed to be in a happy mood.

When the sound of the record player came out slowly, everyone present was a little excited. The sky was overcast, and when you looked at the banquet hall from a distance, it seemed like a light surrounded by darkness, the only warmth left between heaven and earth.

When Tang Yin was about to leave, Zhu Muya walked over and toasted her with a glass of wine. He said, Miss Tang, you will meet a surprise tonight.

He took a sip of the dark red liquid in the cup, and at that moment, he and Tang Yin looked at each other for a second, and he knew that this woman was not an idle person. Tang Yin said to him, is it? That's curious.

Finally, the moment Tang Yin saw Lin Hai, she knew what Zhu Muya meant. Zhu Muya wanted to move her, he should have felt that there were too many things in her hand, so many that he wanted to cut her down and eradicate her.

Tang Yin is different from Lu Man, Lu Man is not a famous nobleman, she is just a popular actress with a good skin, although she and Tang Yin are known as the flower of Shanghai, but they are fundamentally different.

Tang Yin is a rose with spikes, and Lu Man is a daisy with romantic overtones. She had discussed the tea ceremony with Takekiya, and they were very speculative.

In the past two years, Shanghai has not been very peaceful, with melodious songs and popular culture from other countries covering up its turbulent secrets.

There is only one way for Takemuya to treat those who have power and money but cannot be used by him, and that is to get rid of them. He once induced the rich to lose their fortunes in casinos, secretly assassinated many powerful "diehards", and even on the bright side, he casually arranged some so-called clues to arrest countless "communists" or "Kuomintang agents."

Although the Tang family has been a little different in recent years, it can be regarded as a piece of meat for the hungry Zhumuya, but the bones that can't be eaten are a little bigger. And now, Zhu Muya wants Lin Hai to make a boning knife, and he may want to eat all the bones at once.

Tang Yin knew that she should pretend not to see Lin Hai, but she relented. She has always loved Lin Hai, and she has not married anyone at the age of twenty-six for Lin Hai.

Tang Yin said to herself that she wanted to help him in the end, and did her best not to let Zhu Muya have a handle to grasp, at least let him get on the train leaving Shanghai.

Lin Hai once wrote a small poem for Tang Yin, and she clearly remembers the content like this:

In places where drizzle is dense,

The spikes of the rose burst out,

It adds color to the tender rose,

Let her have the strength to resist the wind and rain of the outside world.

Her watery branches are growing slowly,

Whenever a rainstorm hits,

She'll be beaten to the ground,

If she hadn't been broken by the rain,

You have to endure this pain often.

But she never regretted coming into this world,

Because whenever the showers stop,

The golden light will appear from the far east,

The scorching sun will bring her a little warmth,

She will enjoy the light.

Because of the light,

So she began to expect rain.