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On the other day, Lao Wu carefully closed all the iron windows and two security doors, and took Ah Ni to visit the shops on Guanqian Street. Shui Hong is not at home, but he is particularly concerned about the calligraphy and paintings, jade, antiques and other possessions at home. A few days ago, Ah Ni suddenly woke up from her dream and cried, and Lao Wu wanted to take her out for a walk and be distracted. He has been thinking about how to tell Ah Ni about his imminent breakup with Shui Hong, so that she can be mentally prepared.

Sooner or later, Shui Hong will leave this home, so Ah Ni, who stays in this family, is his only relative. Ah Ni is the only daughter he raised month after month, and it is the only work of art created by him, a person who does not understand art. The daughter is getting bigger and bigger, and Lao Wu always admires her for a long time as if he were admiring a masterpiece of art. He even felt that he could bear Shui Hong's departure, and if there was no Ah Ni, he wouldn't be able to live even a day. He has been quietly calculating that he can't marry Ah Ni, and it would be best to recruit a son-in-law in the future, so that he can live in the same yard with his daughter for the rest of his life.

Lao Wu likes to take his daughter to the street the most. Ah Ni is still young, so she doesn't have to hide herself tightly as soon as she goes out. Ah Ni can be displayed in front of everyone in her original color, and let Lao Wu enjoy the attention of pedestrians on her side. Over the past year, the pedestrians who walked by have turned their heads back to Ah Ni more and more. The person who was talking, as soon as he saw Ah Ni and stared at her, forgot to speak. Men watch, boys watch, women and girls watch. Lao Wu's voice often came from behind him, saying: This little girl is so beautiful. Almost all adults envy him for having such a daughter. If they happen to encounter out-of-town and foreign tourists with cameras on their shoulders, nine out of ten people will stop and ask Lao Wu to take a photo of them and Ah Ni. Once Lao Wu and Ah Ni ran into a group of French tourists who had just come out of the arts and crafts store, they exclaimed, surrounded Ah Ni, and the flashing lights kept on. Lao Wu received a large number of business cards, and Ah Ni received a large hug and small gifts. Soon after, Lao Wu received a pictorial from abroad, with a photo of Ah Ni on it, entitled: Beautiful Suzhou Girl.

Now Ah Ni is no longer a little girl. She had grown into a slim girl, several centimeters taller than the average girl of fourteen or fifteen years old. Lately, Lao Wu has felt a little uncomfortable, and the eyes of men and big boys are no longer as before, only showing admiration and appreciation, but obviously with lust, from her cheeks to her slightly erected breasts. They even looked at Lao Wu with suspicion, guessing their relationship, treating him as a big money hooking up with a girl, and Ah Ni as a sugar daddy Xiaomi. Lao Wu realized that Ah Ni had really grown up, and it wouldn't be long before Ah Ni would have to be like her mother, who needed to be wrapped up before she could go out. The danger period of Ah Ni has arrived, and the enjoyment of being a father's proudest street tour is about to be deprived. It is too hard to be the husband of a beautiful woman, and it is even more trembling to be the father of a beautiful girl. Sometimes Lao Wu also misses Zhou You's bad boy. He really couldn't understand why Zhou You fell in love with Shui Hong, not Ah Ni, who was half younger than Shui Hong. If Zhou You didn't go after Shui Hong and waited for Ah Ni, how happy it would be. Two majestic men protect two lovely women, what an enviable configuration it will be. It's a pity that the rational and ideal life was easily messed up by the irrational god of love and the crazy god of art.

Lao Wu came out today and also wanted to buy a beautiful piece of jewelry for Ah Xiu by the way. Although overseas relatives had given him and Shui Hong a pair of diamond rings, he didn't want to touch Shui Hong's things, the diamond ring that only belonged to Shui Hong, would be the last souvenir he left for Shui Hong. He didn't want to buy a ring for Ah Xiu, and even the diamond ring didn't protect his diamond marriage with Shui Hong, can the gold ring symbolize the failure of the golden wedding? He took Ah Ni around a few gold shops, and finally bought a new necklace of pure gold. Ah Ni asked him curiously, did he buy this necklace for his mother? But don't all the people in my mother's and grandparents' family like gold? He replied calmly that he bought it for Ah Xiu. Ah Xiu likes goldsmithing. Ah Ni became more and more curious, and asked him why he gave the necklace to Ah Xiu, and he said: I'll tell you later. It's a big deal.

Ani's interest was quickly drawn to the dazzling array of jewel colors on the glass counter. She became excited, her eyes wide open, and she watched with relish, and her eyes sparkled with colorful dots of jewels reflected in her pupils. Suddenly, she pointed to a ring set with rubies, and turned back to call out to her father:

"Dad, look, the red color on this ring is so transparent."

Lao Wu glanced down and shook his head again and again. "The gem is very beautiful, but the ring style is not good enough, you see that on the ring on both sides, there are two small blessing words, too vulgar and too vulgar......"

"Isn't happiness the blessing of happiness? Why is happiness vulgar? ”

This word of blessing is probably not the blessing of happiness, in the folk, it is used for the blessing of happiness, the blessing of blessing, and the blessing of having many children, and it is the taste of the rich people, small citizens, and nouveau riche. How do you like this kind of thing? ”

Ah Ni didn't pay attention to her father's explanations and comments at all. She said to herself:

"There is no engravement on it about happiness, blessings, many sons and blessings, or anything. The word Fu is a good meaning, what words to add in front and back, you can understand according to your own ideas. I think it's a blessing of happiness, or it's a blessing of blessing. The eldest brother said that painting should be painted so that there is a painting behind the picture, and the meaning is still interesting behind it, and it must not be understood at a glance. In fact, there are no words, this ring already has its meaning. The eldest brother said that color has language, and Dad, when you look at this ruby in the middle, it is full of happiness. Dad, you don't know what the language of painting is, no wonder your mother often says that you don't have artistic cells, and she doesn't wronged you at all! ”

Lao Wu was shocked. In the past six months, he seems to have lost more and more the authority of his parents, and his daughter, who had always admired him, actually taught him a condescending tone. She seems to be full of rebellion and wants to go against her parents everywhere. This is probably all caused by Zhou You's guy. He restrained himself and said with a wry smile:

"I can't imagine that the soldiers should be impressed every other three days."

"You should say that the lady should be impressed when she hasn't seen her for three days."

"Yo, you're only a little over fourteen years old, how did you become a lady?"

"I don't like to be a lady, I want to be a lady directly."

Lao Wu secretly complained. Originally, I brought her out to distract her and get her out of that big brother complex. It's good, how did I bring her to the jewelry store, but it was self-defeating. It seems that the men in the marriage change are stupid and dizzy, and they should take her to Dongshan Island on Taihu Lake to play, maybe it will be better. He sighed, turned back to Ah Ni in annoyance, and said:

"Your explanation just now is not right at all. You see, only uneducated people will wear this kind of blessing ring. Pray for more children and more blessings, hope for more children and more nourishment, and destroy family planning...... I think it's your big brother, and if I knew you liked this kind of ring, I would laugh at you for being cheesy......"

"Not really." Ah Ni pursed her lips. "Big brother never criticized me for my weird ideas, he always asked me why I thought the way I did. As long as I say something different from the other person's opinion, he will say yes. When I grow up, I'll give him a ring like this, and he'll love it. Maybe he'll give it to me too, and let him put it on my hand, just like ......they did," Ani pointed to an advertising drawing on the wall of the jewelry store, showing a dashing and handsome groom putting a diamond ring on the finger of a happily smiling bride in a wedding dress.

Ah Ni smiled mysteriously at her father, and said, "But it's too far away, just to say, I'd better draw a picture first, I've already thought about it, I'm going to draw a big ring, like the shape of a house, and the roof is made of rubies." My eldest brother and I live in this happy house, and the light of the jewels makes everything in the room shiny......"

Lao Wu was so angry that he really wanted to give Ah Ni a slap. He took Ah Ni's hand and walked out of the jewelry store, stretched out his hand to hail a taxi, he wanted to get out of the city as soon as possible. But the taxi doesn't stop. After waiting for a while, I remembered that it was a one-way street, and I got across the road to get a taxi. He beckoned Ah Ni to cross the street, and after a while, he found that Ah Ni's eyes were fixed on a photo studio on the side of the street, and he stood still again. Lao Wu turned around and saw a couple of newlyweds in wedding dresses, walking out of it, hugging a group of relatives and friends in front and behind, and two young people carrying cameras on the left and right. The couple attracted half the eyes of the street, and the mediocre-looking bride looked happily and proudly......

Lao Wu forcibly pulled Ah Ni across the road, and couldn't help muttering: "This kind of wedding is really boring, swaggering through the street, and if you go on, the wedding dress will become a vacuum cleaner, and she will soon become Cinderella......"

Ah Ni laughed happily, seemingly pleased with her father's assessment. She said, "Well, if I were to walk on the meadow by the lake, in the forest where there was no one, no one was allowed to follow us......"

Lao Wu sat in the taxi, confused. He felt that he couldn't control Ah Ni at all now. He suddenly hoped that Shui Hong would come back soon, so that she could see Ah Ni's obsessive look, would she regret her actions? No, no, Shui Hong is even more faint than Ah Ni now, and Li Lingzhi is so faint that he doesn't even care about his daughter. In terms of infatuation, their mother and daughter have some similarities, and it seems that they have to be classified as matrilineal inheritance.

But even if Shui Hong's trip to Beijing is frustrated, if she changes her mind again because she is dissatisfied with Zhou Yu, then what will Ah Xiu do? It was a big mistake for Shui Hong to go to Beijing, and he actually slept with Ah Xiu inexplicably, which was even more wrong. In this chaotic pattern, perhaps the most unfortunate is the youngest Ah Ni. Faced with this intricate, interpenetrating and intertwined cancer mass, Lao Wu felt that he had no way to go under the knife.

Lao Wu finally brought Ah Ni into a coffee house. As soon as he sat down, he realized that he was wrong again. In this secluded environment, there is a lover's corner. On the high backrest seat diagonally opposite their seats, a pair of lovers sat close to each other, as if no one was around. Ah Ni's eyes don't look at her father again. Lao Wu thought angrily that today's social environment is really like an aphrodisiac furnace for marriage and love. A few years ago, he exclaimed in the medical community that the first menarche of girls was much earlier, and he didn't think so, just as the result of improved nutritional levels. At this point, he realized that there were indeed many reasons for that.

Lao Wu found that Ah Ni's gaze was wrong again, and when he looked sideways, the pair of lovers had already sat side by side and kissed passionately. He quickly stood up and took Ah Ni to a seat in the corner of the room where no one else could see them, and no one else could see them, before he calmed down a little.

"Dad, why don't you always let me see what I want to see?" Ah Ni protested in a low voice. "You're a surgeon anyway, so you'd better sew my eyelids shut, that's the safest thing."

"A-Ni!" Old Wu screamed angrily. Immediately relieved himself and explained kindly: "You misunderstood what Dad meant, I'm afraid that you will always pay attention to Daddy's speech." Dad brought you here today and wants to tell you one or one important thing, something. Lao Wu suddenly stuttered for no reason, and he really didn't know how to start. This conversation was too difficult for him.

"A-Ni, I want to ask you, do you love your parents?"

"Of course I do."

"Do you think the relationship between Dad and Mom is good?"

Ah Ni thought for a moment and said, "It's good and it's not good. ”

"Why do you say that?"

"Mom doesn't like the smell of potion on you, and neither do I. Mom and I both like the smell of oil paintings, but you don't. You don't like music and art yet, and the last time you accompanied us to a concert, you dozed off while listening to music, and your mother was upset when you snored at the same time. ”

Lao Wu smiled awkwardly and said, "Why don't I like art? That time I dozed off listening to music because I was so tired, I had just had a major surgery that day, and I stood for eight hours, unable to eat, drink, go to the bathroom, or rest for a minute. After the operation, my father was about to collapse, but I still have to protect you and my mother to listen to music at night. Ah Ni, you are really ignorant. ”

"Then you can not go."

"Have you forgotten what happened to your mother last time? It's so dark in the alley, can I rest assured? ”

Ah Ni nodded and said, "Dad, when you are tired in the future, you have to tell me, I asked my mother not to take me out to watch the play." I can hold back. ”

"This is Dad's good daughter, but Dad will definitely try to accompany you as much as possible." Lao Wu slowly stirred the coffee, and asked again: "Ah Ni, do you think Dad and Mom will be separated?" ”

"You're saying, are you going to get divorced?" A's eyes widened. "I don't know. It's your grown-ups. ”

"Would you like us to divorce?"

"I don't want to."

"What if we do get divorced?"

"You want a divorce, what can I do? It's not unusual for several of my classmates to have divorced their parents. One classmate's parents rushed to ask for him, and he was better than before, and the other classmate's parents didn't want her, and she was very pitiful. I think as long as both of you are good to me and love me as much as you used to, your divorce has nothing to do with me. ”

Lao Wu was surprised. He couldn't imagine that his beloved daughter, who was closely related to his life, would be so indifferent and practical to his parents' emotional problems. Probably her current thoughts are all on Zhou You's big brother, her heart has flown out of this family, and she is indifferent to such a major matter at home.

Lao Wu Qiang held back the displeasure in his heart and made up his mind to say, "Ah Ni, if I divorce your mother, I can't have no one to take care of you...... What kind of new mom do you want? ”

"As long as you're good to your dad and me, don't just leave me alone."

“…… Look, do you think Ah Xiu is good? ”

"Sister Axiu?"

"Yes, it's Li Xiuxiu, who lives in the same alley as us. Dad bought the gold necklace just now for her. ”

Ah Ni's eyes turned in a big circle, and suddenly said, "Dad, you are more than twenty years older than Sister Ah Xiu, but the eldest brother is only fifteen years older than me." The gap between us is not as big as yours. That...... Then I'll call her Sister Axiu, not her mother. ”

"You still call her Ah Xiu, just remove the word sister."

"Ah Xiu is going to be my stepmother, it's weird." Ah Ni said to herself. "She can't control me, my mother always cares about me, now I'm free."

Lao Wu asked seriously: "Ah Ni, who will you live with in the future?" Father? Or Mom? ”

"Whoever doesn't care about me, I'll follow whomever I want. Anyway, in another year, I will go to Beijing to study and live with my big brother. ”

Lao Wu felt that Ah Ni had completely fallen into his imaginary phantom and was obsessed. As a father, he had to pour a spoonful of cold water on her to sober her up.

"A-Ni, you're really too young, but you're too confident. When you grow up, Zhou You may already have a girlfriend, so what should you do? ”

"Not really. Big brother said he liked me the most. He said that he used to give other girls paintings, at most two, but he gave me seven paintings at once, and the best! ”

"But what if he marries another girl first?"

Ah Ni's face turned white, and her lips turned slightly purple. She held her breath and suddenly said, "Then he is a big bad brother, and when I grow up, I will divorce him!" ”

"What if he doesn't leave?" Lao Wu asked closely. He felt that this sentence was too cruel, and it was shattering her hope of happiness in the morning. He felt his heart tremble.

"If you don't leave, you have to leave." Ah Ni bit her lip tightly, and her beautiful eyes were full of tears. "I'm going to have to let him go. In another year, I will be admitted to Beijing. I'll go to him every day, I'll go to his girlfriend and ask her to give him back to me...... I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid at all......"

Ah Ni hugged Lao Wu's neck violently, and cried nervously, venting all the anxiety and depression in her heart for most of the year. Lao Wu gently patted Ah Ni's shoulder and wiped her tears from the heavy rain. He felt A-Ni's body tremble violently in his arms, as if she was sick.

Old Wu's heart is like a knife. He really wanted to find a place to cry happily.

As soon as Lao Wu returned home, Ah Xiu walked in the door with difficulty. Lao Wu has been visiting her almost every day these days, and this incident has become the headline news in Xiaohe Alley. All kinds of well-intentioned, malicious and unintentional speculations are quietly surging, and everyone is waiting for the final press conference of the parties. Originally, Lao Wu planned to formally confess to Ah Xiu's parents that night, and then discuss some details with Ah Xiu. But at the moment he didn't have any emotions at all, he kissed Ah Xiu perfunctorily and said:

"Shui Hong has called, and she will be back tomorrow morning. I still have some important things to do today, you go back first, and when Shui Hong comes back, I will go to see your parents. Good no good? ”

He sighed again, remembered the necklace, took it out of his bag, and opened it to put it on Ah Xiu's neck. He said, "I will marry you, you can rest assured." Let's go back and get some rest. ”

Ah Xiu stroked the golden necklace and asked happily, "Is it pure gold?" ”

"24K solid gold, the latest style, do you like it?"

"Like. Mr. Wu, you are so nice. Ah Xiu cast a grateful glance at him, and walked out reluctantly with three turns.

Lao Wu's heart was in a mess, and he didn't know what he should do. He had sent Ah Ni upstairs to rest. Her nervous attack just now churned out all the depression and pain in Lao Wu's heart for more than half a year. He found that the most loved person in this world was Ah Ni. Shui Hong can't keep it, and the Ah Ni she will leave behind will become the only support of love in his heart. The reason why he decided to marry Ah Xiu was to maintain this broken family, so that Ah Ni could continue to get the care and warmth of family in a relatively complete new home. But if Ah Ni is also gone, then what's the point of marrying Ah Xiu? Shui Hong and Ah Ni used to be two trees that grew in his heart, but now they have been uprooted and cut down, and his heart has been blurred with flesh and blood.

He sent all his hatred to Zhou You. Zhou You is a thief who robs openly and secretly! The hatred of taking his wife is unforgivable, but he also stole his daughter's heart with his hands. "Damn Zhouyou, damn art! Damn the artist! Lao Wu was furious and scolded viciously. He really wanted to smash and burn all Zhou You's paintings on the wall, and then go to Beijing to settle accounts with Zhou You in person. To pick off the carotid artery of Zhou You, it is enough to bring a small scalpel. This kind of "operation" is simply easy for him.

Lao Wu slumped on the sofa, staring directly at the colorful and thought-provoking oil paintings on the wall; Looking at the portrait of the rainbow full of Zhou You's love. Why did Shui Hong and Ah Ni fall in love with Zhou You so obsessively and madly? If he really kills Zhou You, then Shui Hong and Ah Ni won't survive, and he will put the lives of both of them into it. He was reluctant, really reluctant. In that case, a good home will be completely finished. - Why do love and beauty always bring pain and death? He thought blankly. He decided that this love and beauty would not bring Zhou You more than just happiness and joy, and that Zhou You would inevitably be punished by love and beauty.

Lao Wu felt that his life was over. The rest of the time is just for Ah Ni to live. Protect her, guide her, set up layer after layer of barriers, control Ani's movements, and block all her contact with Zhou You...... In the future, he can no longer indulge Ah Ni, and he should become a stern and even cold father. wants to freeze the more and more outrageous unrequited love in Ani's heart, and turn herself into the world's most brutal executioner who strangles her childlike love. Lao Wu didn't know how much blood of the patient was on his hands, and he could only use this bloody way to save his daughter. But where did he go to find anesthetics for mind surgery?

At this moment, he suddenly hoped that Shui Hong could arrive home sooner and share some of Ani's troubles for him. He was overwhelmed by himself.