My words seemed to have had an effect, as I managed to see a look of surprise and confusion on Gu Zuoyan's cynical face. He looked down at his toes, and looked a little lonely at the angle of his lowered eyes: "Okay, since that's the case, we'll take business as usual." I will inform you when the time for the assassination is set, and when the time comes, you will do everything in your power to get the word out there, and I hope that the whole of Shanghai will be full of rumors about it. ”

He stood up and cleaned himself up, putting on his scarf, hat, coat, and finally the black gloves. Neither of us said a word during the whole process, and the atmosphere was very awkward. Gu Zuoyan is obviously the kind of person who will not suffer at any time, but I feel very self-inflicted that he is now like a child who has done something wrong, and he doesn't know how to ask for my forgiveness, so he has to flee in a hurry.

Shui Qing, who has not been remembered for many years, has become a powerful weapon to resolve embarrassment. She ran upstairs with a "puff", and there were still soap bubbles on her hands that had not had time to be washed off: "Miss, are you all right?" ”

I pretended to be calm and looked at her, "It's okay, what can I do at home?" ”

Shui Qing was robbed by me, and his face was a little sneering: "Well, it was Wang's mother who said that you were arguing with someone and asked me to come up and take a look." ”

The boss in my heart was unhappy: "Didn't she go to bed early, it stands to reason that she shouldn't know that Mr. Gu is here." ”

Shui Qing nervously leaned out of the door to look at it, lowered her voice and said, "Miss, don't you know who the Wang family's mother is?!" If she knew that you let a man in in the middle of the night, she wouldn't know what to say. After a while, I'll go and tell her that you're asleep, and she misheard. As for Mr. Gu, if there is nothing to do, I will take him out through the back door. ”

She came to relieve me and save me from trouble, and I have to say that the first time I found that the little girl who was so frizzy and always made mistakes had grown up unconsciously.

Gu Zuoyan was also very face-saving, didn't say anything more, but politely said goodbye to me. I hid behind the heavy velvet curtains and watched his car drive out of my field of vision, only to realize that the street had fallen silent and the whole street fell into a deep sleep. There was only one corner of the sky with a heavy blood, which was the prelude to the storm, and was a common color in summer. But now that it's the middle of winter, this terrible color seems to me to be the flame of the Japanese artillery fire.

I unsettled myself by closing the curtains and forcing myself to go to bed. But in the troubled times, even a good dream has become a luxury, and this night is destined to be a nightmare again and again.

The next day was a working day, and I woke up early in the morning to find that my mother was already busy in the kitchen. The rich aroma of the dashi stock wafted through the room, and I knew it was specially prepared for my grandfather. My mother has always been a perfect daughter-in-law, which makes me even more puzzled why my grandfather has always been cold to her, but is closer to her second aunt, who likes to tell right and wrong.

My mother turned her back to the door but could still guess that it was me: "Yes, have you eaten?" ”

I didn't want my mother to worry, so I replied seriously: "I don't have much appetite lately, so I'll ask Shui Qing to bring me some to eat on the road." ”

My mother turned around, but I was stunned for a moment. In my mind, she seemed to be forever twenty-eight or nineteen years old, but now she seemed to be ten years older suddenly. Her eyelids were swollen, she didn't know if she had cried or stayed awake all night, and she looked really haggard. However, before I could say anything, she already showed a distressed look. She stretched out her hand to tuck the broken hair around my ear for me, and her eyes shone with autumn light: "When will my Ran Ran grow up?" Now you're the only one with me, but I don't have time to take care of you. ”

I don't understand why she suddenly felt so emotional, but her appearance made me very worried: "Mom, you said that I have grown up, I can take care of myself, and you don't have to worry about it at all." ”

Mother sighed, and when she looked from the side, the lines on her face were much looser, and the traces of time were so clearly imprinted on her body. The philosopher said: No one has immunity in the face of time, and it seems true today. The mother's voice was also full of tiredness: "Silly child, you will have to be taken care of by me when you grow to dozens of years old." She wiped her hands with a rag, went to the cabinet to find the food box, and suddenly said as if she remembered something: "This time is like flying, and the New Year is coming soon, when are you going to have spring break?" ”

I was coldly asked by her, and I was stunned for a few seconds before replying, "Well, the exam starts today, and the results will be released on Friday." As I spoke, I realized that I had forgotten about such an important matter as the final exam, and there was no room for a quiet desk in this troubled world.

My mother filled two boxes full of spring rolls and scallion pancakes for me, and also filled a bowl of small wontons in stainless steel cups: "If I can't finish eating, I will share them with my classmates, and I haven't come back for two weeks in February, and she always says that she likes to eat the spring rolls I make the most." ”

The clock on the wall pointed to seven o'clock, and I realized that if I didn't leave, I might not be able to catch the first Chinese exam. So I carried my bag in one hand and my mother's breakfast in the other, and after saying goodbye to her in a hurry, I went out like a gust of wind.

Exams have never been a hassle for me, and they can even be considered the best way to show my self-worth. As soon as the three-day exam ended, the head teacher solemnly congratulated me, saying that if nothing else, I could still sit in the top ten of the grade.

I don't know when I started to see when I was a child, but the things that attracted me the most have lost their appeal to me, such as the pride that comes from good grades, or the curiosity I have about everything. Even when the class teacher and I were talking about my ideals, the dream of becoming a surgeon, which I had been extremely determined to fight for all my life, began to blur.

I hesitated and told him, "I should, maybe become a doctor." You see, I have always excelled in chemistry, and in the past two years, I used to go to the laboratory of Yan Chai Hospital to do experiments with medical students. ”

The look on the head teacher's face was confused: "What I want is not compromise or compromise, but your inner voice." Haven't you ever dreamed of what kind of person you wanted to be since you were a child, and the one that you would always persevere in even if you encountered many difficulties? ”