My friend was still babbling on and on about her tirade: "If she doesn't make it home, then you don't have to come back." Also, your car is parked at the entrance of the alley, and you can walk her in. Remember, don't be too ostentatious, the mother-in-law in the alley likes to add oil and vinegar the most......"

When the car started, I reluctantly said goodbye to the closed mouth. Cao Yu'an turned his head and said to me with his weapon-of-mass destruction-like smile: "My cousin is good at everything, but she is too nagging. ”

I waved my hand generously: "Hey, if you don't nag, it's not that I know Mislin." ”

When we didn't have anything to say, we all looked out the window tacitly. With neon lights and singing on the roads, ten o'clock is just the beginning of the day for the city.

I slipped through the small open door in the living room and into my room, and my mother, who was on vigil, should have seen me when she poked her head out, but she should not have told my grandfather in a broken mouth. I took off my Mary Jane shoes in my hands, and my bare feet on the wooden floor had a unique coolness. I watched Cao Yu'an's back fade away, my face suddenly became hot, and I was uncontrollably looking forward to when I would see him next time.

When I went downstairs the next day to see my serious-looking mother, I realized that everything was just on paper. Mother was going to the orphanage to teach the poor children today, and she could only say one thing at home, and that was that she already knew everything last night!

There is no suspense in the mother's opening line: "How did you come back yesterday?" ”

I replied pitifully, "Mislin's brother sent me back." ”

"You just go out for a stroll every day, and ask a boy to take you home at night, are you challenging your grandfather's bottom line of patience?"

"Actually, Mislin wanted to send me back by herself, but she just got her driver's license, and she didn't dare to drive at night......"

The mother sighed angrily: "Your grandfather has always asked me to find a partner for you, so that his wish can be fulfilled as soon as possible." How hard did it take me to convince him to let you study for a few more years, and if you don't keep it like this, he'll let you take a leave of absence from school and get married," her tone was rare and a little excited, like any traditional mother who found that her warbler had been abducted by an inexplicable bad boy. But the sly glint in her eyes couldn't hide it from me, so I decided to tell her the truth: "Cao Yu'an, that is, Mislin's cousin, came back from Japan for the summer vacation, but he is a top student at the University of Tokyo. ”

The mother couldn't hold back, and the two playful dimples at the corners of her mouth were exposed, no wonder many people said that her mother was like Hu Die, from her eyebrows and eyes to her smile, she seemed to be seventy percent. However, I inherited half of my parents' looks, with some traces of Westernization in my eyebrows and eyes, and a slender and soft curvature of my jaw, but my lips and skin inherited from my mother, and even the dimples at the corners of my mouth. The mother said, "It turns out that my little girl has grown up and has someone she likes, and I want to see if you can see if you have the right eye." ”

I laughed and begged her for mercy: "Maybe people just think of me as a sister, like Mislin." ”

"He dared not to dislike my daughter, it was really in vain to read so many years of sage books." My mother has always been like this, as long as she wants to know that she can definitely get words out of your mouth, even my father is no match for her.

My twin brothers, Zhu Qiming and Zhu Qizhi, finally got his permission to escape from the study after being tortured by my grandfather about their studies and thoughts for more than two hours. They said nothing about the two-hour experience, but judging by their pale faces and sweaty foreheads, the memory was anything but good.

After I swallowed the last bite of lunch, Brother Qiming asked me, "Ranran, I made an appointment with my classmates to play tennis at two o'clock, do you want to come?" "The eldest brother and the second brother are studying at Tongji University, one of the best universities in Shanghai, and in a few months, they will both go to the UK to study as soon as they get their bachelor's degrees.

The second brother of Qizhi has always teased: "It's better for her to stay at home and be a good girl." ”

Although I knew that it was a radical general, I finally couldn't hold back: "Hmph, I'm going to go, and I'll beat you all over the ground to find your teeth when the time comes." ”

The second brother smiled "hehe": "Oh, then let me teach you how to play your ball." ”

I found the only tennis uniform I had in my closet, the top was a classic roll-neck T-shirt, and the bottom was half skirt and half shorts, which looked quite novel. I practiced my batting movements back and forth countless times in front of the full-length mirror by myself, and fantasized about sweating on the court, before I was content to change into my coat and go out.

Maybe it's because I'm too blind to what's going on outside the window, or maybe it's because my family has protected me so tightly over the years, I don't even realize that in the past ten years since I was born, this land in China has been full of devastation and bones. Our car didn't drive long before it was blocked by angry students. Many of them were my age, and some of them were in their early twenties. At the end of February, they wore simple school uniforms and joined hands to form a wall of flesh and blood.

I heard the student leaders waving these hands shouting slogans against the "strict prohibition of the anti-Japanese movement", and I was ashamed of my ignorance and turned to my brothers for help.

The second brother's emotions had already been ignited by the students on the street, there was a fire in his beautiful eyes, his fists were clenched tightly, and even the green tendons on the back of his hands were clearly visible: "The national government is really too much this time, and even the great rivers and mountains will be given away by them if it goes on like this." We have 40,000,000 compatriots, as long as everyone contributes, the earth can be pried up, what can a small island country do?

The eldest brother or the grandfather who appreciated the elegant demeanor the most, he patted the second brother on the shoulder with his hand: "From the Opium War to the present, China has always been soft-spoken, and diplomacy is also stretched. If this time the trouble is too much to clean up, and the Japanese have caught the handle, and they can recklessly find an excuse to send troops, aren't those lessons of the past enough? ”

The second brother gritted his teeth: "Big brother, you think so, but Chairman Jiang doesn't think so." What people think is that they must first settle the interior before they go abroad, and they must first submit to the domestic repression before they settle accounts with the Japanese. It's really ridiculous, there are still few examples from ancient times to the present, first inside and then outside, which time is successful. Japan is a wolf that can't be fed, they can only make their relatives and enemies happy, and when they turn around and want to resist foreign thieves, they will find that their situation is no different from that of Song Huizong and Emperor Chongzhen. ”

Outside the window, the student leader's speech seemed to have reached its climax, and the students waved their arms and repeated his slogan repeatedly, and at this moment, even my heart, which had never cared about politics, began to beat with their enthusiasm.

The eldest brother pressed the second brother's hand that was about to push the car door hard, and his tone was full of warning: "Qizhi, don't be impulsive, you will only become a victim if you go now." ”