Chapter Twenty-Nine: Xie Mu and the Painting
At the lively dinner table, everyone laughed and laughed, talked about many old things, and in addition to feeling the past, they also launched a beautiful vision for life in the next few years. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Seeing that everyone has their own beautiful plans for their future careers and lives, Xie Shuyao just smiled and said nothing, because she knew that in the next ten years, it would be very good if she could live, and those beautiful visions were just bubbles of fantasy. If you can prevent this war from breaking out, these beautiful bubbles may become true!
"Sister Shuyao, what are your plans for the future?" Xie Suxin saw that Xie Shuyao was stunned for a long time and didn't speak, so she asked Xie Shuyao.
Xie Shuyao, who came back to his senses, saw everyone staring at him, so he thought for a while, then looked at his father and mother, and said perfunctorily with a smile: "Me?" Of course I have to accompany my family's Lao Xie and Lao Zhou all day long! Take this old couple and go around the world! β
"We don't need you to accompany us, your dad and I hope you don't be so crazy, just let me and your dad rest assured." Mother Xie said to her daughter with a smile.
Xie Chen echoed: "That's it, you don't look like a girl at all." Every day you still make your mother angry, if you stay by your parents' side, your parents can be angry with you for several years! β
Suddenly there was a knock on the door, coming through the courtyard.
"Huh? It seems that someone is knocking on the door, Xiao Chen, you go and take a look. After hearing the voice, Mother Xie said to her son.
Xie Shuyao heard the sound of banging on the door, out of revenge, kicked Xie Chen's leg lightly and heavily, and said dissatisfiedly: "Tell you to gossip, hurry up and open the door!" β
Xie Chen snorted coldly at Xie Shuyao, who kicked him, put down the dishes and chopsticks, and trotted to open the door.
Xie Shuyao tilted her head a little curiously and looked out of the door of the living room, and saw that after Xie Chen talked to a strange man, he took a long box from the man's hand, and the strange man left.
"Yaoyao, who do you see coming?" Father Xie asked.
Xie Shuyao retracted his body, shook his head at Father Xie and said, "That person is gone, I don't know that person." β
Soon Xie Chen returned to the living room with the long box, and as soon as he returned to the living room, he said: "It's not a guest, someone asked someone to send something to my mother, oh, that's it." β
"What is it? Could it be that someone has a crush on our mother, so he sent a love token? Xie Shuyao saw his father frowning slightly, so he smiled at Father Xie.
Mother Xie and Father Xie glared at their daughter together, and Mother Xie was a little angry and said, "If you talk nonsense, see if I don't kill you!" β
After Mother Xie finished scolding her daughter, she saw Father Xie's somewhat puzzled eyes, so she opened the box angrily and said to Father Xie: "Let's open it and have a look!" β
Xie Mu opened the package, opened the box, found that the box seemed to be a roll of calligraphy and painting, Xie Mu took it out, slowly unfolded, and a landscape painting with thick ink was revealed.
After Xie Shuyao and Bai Ruolin saw this painting, it was the painting of 'People in the Mountains of Huangshan' that Xie Mu admired very much in the art exhibition, and the two glanced at each other and said in unison: "Lu Ming? β
Mother Xie glanced at her daughter and Bai Ruolin lightly, and then asked her son, "Did the person who sent the painting say anything?" β
"The man only said that he asked someone to send something, and he didn't say anything else." Xie Chen replied honestly.
Xie Shuyao ran back to the house and found a pair of earrings that Lu Ming gave last time, and Xie Shuyao, who returned to the living room, put the brocade box of the earrings on the table, and then said to Xie Chen: "When you go back to school, return me, well, and this painting to that Lu Ming." You tell him that we don't need these things in our house! β
Mother Xie smiled at her daughter and said, "Why are you so ignorant!" It would be nice to treat him to a meal another day! There's no need to lose face like this. β
Xie Shuyao heard her mother say this, and reluctantly compromised to her mother: "Okay, I know." β
Suddenly thinking of something, Xie Shuyao suddenly asked Xie Chen, "That classmate of yours, Lu Ming, does he have a fiancΓ©e?" β
Xie Chen glanced at his sister a little strangely, and when he saw his sister's urgent eyes, he replied honestly: "It doesn't seem to be." β
Xie Shuyao listened to this answer, and then asked very dissatisfiedly: "What do you mean that there seems to be none?" Is there any? β
"He didn't say, where do I know!" Xie Chen was annoyed by Xie Shuyao's questioning, and said impatiently.
Bai Ruolin secretly pulled Xie Shuyao to her side, and quietly comforted Xie Shuyao's ear: "You forgot, didn't he say it that time, he bought jewelry for his fiancΓ©e!" So, don't worry about him anymore, we can find a better one. β
After Xie Shuyao was pulled over by Bai Ruolin, she heard that she actually misunderstood herself, and explained softly to Bai Ruolin's delicate jade-like ear: "I have known him longer than you, I have always felt that this person is not a good person, he said, the last time he gave us something, it was because he owed the second brother a favor, and then I asked the second brother, and the second brother said that there was no such thing at all, it was all made up by him to deceive people." So I think he might be lying when he says he has a fiancΓ©e. I think he might be doing it for you. β
"Huh? It's disgusting. After listening to Xie Shuyao's explanation, Bai Ruolin couldn't help but be surprised, and said with disgust on her face.
When Father Xie saw Bai Ruolin's strange appearance, he asked with concern, "What's wrong?" Ruolin. β
Bai Ruolin smiled stupidly, hurriedly waved her hand and said, "I'm fine." β
Mother Xie glanced at her daughter and niece who had been muttering, and then shouted to everyone, "Let's all eat!" β
Xie Suxin suddenly asked at Xie Siting: "Sister Siting, I seem to have heard your father mention the name Lu Ming at home-"
"I mentioned him too, why don't you remember!" Xie Siting gently tapped Su Xin's head with her left hand, and on the other hand, she used her right hand to sandwich the last few pieces of bacon on the plate into her bowl.
Su Xin saw that the last few pieces of beloved bacon were secretly taken away by the cunning Xie Siting, and Su Xin, who reacted, shouted: "Ah-it's so annoying, you lied to me again!" Give it back! β
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After the meal, Siting and Su Xin were leaving, and Xie's mother took out a few dimes from her wallet and gave it to the sisters to use on the tram.
After the two sisters left, Xie Mu took out the landscape painting of 'People in the Mountains of Huangshan' and sat in the living room, admiring it lovingly.
Xie Shuyao saw her mother's obsessive appearance, and asked strangely to Xie's father, who was cleaning up the dinner table, "Dad, does your wife really know how to draw?" β
Father Xie put down the rag in his hand, frowned slightly, seemed to sense that something was wrong, and muttered in a strange voice: "When I was in Europe before, once I wanted to buy a painting, and your mother knew about it, and your mother scolded me for a long time. I've never seen her like to paint! It's really strange today, what's wrong with her? β
Hearing Father Xie say this, Xie Shuyao seemed to think of something, and then strode in front of Mother Xie, leaned over and whispered in Mother Xie's ear and said, "Mom, don't pretend." I know what you're thinking! β
Mother Xie raised her eyelids, glanced at her mysterious daughter, and then moved her gaze back to the picture scroll, and asked calmly, "Oh? Tell me, you know what I'm thinking? β
Xie Shuyao glanced at Father Xie, who was still pretending to wipe the table, and couldn't help but feel a little sorry for his old Xie; Looking at the forty-two-year-old Lao Zhou, who still has the charm in front of him, looks like a charming lady in her thirties, there is no trace of fat on her face, and her figure is still as good as ten years ago. Seeing this, Xie Shuyao couldn't help but sigh secretly: If my mother really has an extramarital affair, this figure and appearance do have capital.
Seeing that her daughter hadn't spoken for a long time, Xie's mother raised her head and saw her daughter looking at her like a hooligan; Mother Xie, who was a little uncomfortable, was forced to put down the picture scroll in her hand, looked at herself and didn't seem to have anything wrong, and then asked her daughter a little strangely, "Why are you looking at me like this?" β
Xie Shuyao turned his head and saw that Lao Xie was still wiping the table, so he leaned over and whispered into Xie's mother's ear: "Mom, you can't do anything to be sorry for Dad!" β
After Xie Shuyao finished saying this, he stopped and turned his head to look at Father Xie again, and saw that Father Xie was still there wiping the table, but his eyes secretly looked at him from time to time, Xie Shuyao saw that Father Xie did not come, so he whispered in Mother Xie's ear: "I know, the old husband and wife have been together for a long time, it is inevitable that it will, ah-pain!" Don't, Mom, you let go. β
Mother Xie, who finally understood what was going on, was about to be angry with her daughter, and Mother Xie, who was very angry, couldn't care about anything else, so she pulled up her daughter's ear, and scolded her daughter's ear loudly: "You little girl, where did you learn this?" See that I don't teach you well. β
Ahh
With Xie Shuyao's screams and begging for mercy, the magpies chirping on the poplar trees outside the courtyard were also frightened and flew away.