Chapter VIII Tianjin
But fate can't help but make her own decisions, she has already been the master for herself five years ago, and this time I am afraid that she will never be able to. She didn't even have the courage to kneel down and beg Dong Yun like she pleaded with her aunt. After all, her aunt treats her badly, she has thousands of reasons to hate, but in the face of Dong Huan, Yuan Anqi doesn't dare to hate, she would rather Dong Huan use a cigar to separate the two of them, and no one has to face anyone.
In a trance, she didn't fall asleep until the next morning. After sleeping for about two or three hours, the maid knocked on the door and asked her to freshen up, and also brought some exquisite small boxes of high-end cosmetics. Yuan Anqi already had a pretty face with eyebrows and lips that were red without dotting, and the maid applied a thin layer of fat powder to her, which was even more brilliant and beautiful, and faintly showed the beauty of seduction.
After freshening up, her aunt went upstairs to pick out clothes for her. Dong Yu thought that since Liang Mosheng really fell in love with her niece, he must also have taken a fancy to Yuan Anqi's dusty bookish atmosphere, not the fragrant flower resin powder that the dance hall and the opera garden grabbed casually.
Dong Yun glanced at the wardrobe, picked out a goose-yellow single cheongsam with white lace for her, and put a small blue shoulder on the outside, and finally gave up the two braids on weekdays in her hair, and pulled them into a Ruyi bun, with a light green ribbon in the bun, and finally picked a silk scarf that had rained through the sky and put it on her pocket.
After packing up Yuan Anqi, Grandma Bai Liu put on a rose-purple Jinyun Ge single cheongsam and a bohemian off-white shawl, called the big red convertible from home in a hurry, and pulled her niece out of the door.
The car was speeding all the way, but Yuan Anqi felt uncomfortable. Usually she sits with Bai Shuming in a canopy Lincoln, and she can calmly look at the street outside through the car window, but at this moment, sitting on her aunt's swaggering red hood, she only feels that the eyes of countless pairs of pedestrians on the street have fallen on her, and one pair is two goosebumps, so far, Yuan Anqi's whole arm can't help but get goosebumps.
Her aunt Dong Yun was quite happy before, and seemed to enjoy these glances very much, regardless of the envy, jealousy and slight hatred contained in these gazes. At the moment, he tilted his head and supported it with his hands, looking at the fast-moving scenery outside.
She really hopes that this car can be faster, pull her back to the spring of that year, she can stop the arms business, give up everything and follow Liang Mosheng to be two outlaw couples, maybe now she can still be the wife of the regiment commander.
I took my niece around all day, the clothes were ordered, the style of the jewelry was also selected, and Dong Yun specially took her to the Huale Hotel in the evening, and patiently taught her how to eat Western food.
On the morning of the third day, Dong Huan took back the batch of munitions, and got the telegram taken by Liang Mosheng, which was concise and clear with only four words: Hope to ship quickly!
A week later, in the early morning, Dong Yun finally put Yuan Anqi on the train to Tianjin. In this week, all the clothes and jewelry were ready, and she trained Yuan Anqi day and night, taught her to dance, taught her to smoke cigars, and taught her all the unwritten rules and etiquette that high society should learn.
The aunts and nephews gritted their teeth and tried their best to squeeze this short week to a second, and in the end, both of them were exhausted, and Dong Yun was so much that he almost fell to the ground and foamed at the mouth.
Who said life has treated her well?
After learning those dead things, Yuan Anqi got on the train in a dizzy head. She originally thought that her aunt would personally take her to mingle in the social circle, but unexpectedly, she was sent to Tianjin in a hurry after a short time.
In her short seventeen years of life, she has never been anywhere except Chongqing is Beiping, and this trip to the far side has taught her to remember that three years ago, she took a breath and didn't know a single big word, and came to Beiping alone.
There are many benefits from going to Beiping, so she is full of good feelings for traveling far away for a reason. The train "whined" forward, and her heart was torn so thin by the scream that it seemed that if the pitch was any higher, her heart would immediately break.
Her aunt only told her to keep her with a gentleman surnamed Liang, obey him in everything, and maybe send her abroad to see and learn when she returns. Sitting on the sofa in the box, she shivered coldly, this is a novel and exciting trip!
Here, Liang Mosheng received a telegram from Dong Huan, saying that he was asking him to go to the railway station to inspect the goods at about 11 o'clock at noon. Glancing at the telegram in a hurry, he had no choice but to send his adjutant to pick up Yuan Anqi.
Recently, the side surnamed Yan seems to have settled down a lot, but a commander surnamed Gu who has made a career in Hebei in recent years actually led his troops to the north and hit Ning County, which is not far from Min County.
His division seat was a little happy after he defeated Min County last year, occupying a few small county towns to be the emperor of the soil, and now when he heard the news of such a big soldier pressing the border, he panicked and immediately summoned his subordinates to a meeting. It was open all day long, and I didn't know what I was talking about in the end.
As soon as Liang Mosheng heard the word "meeting", he could only think of his elderly division bowing his old waist and pacing around the hall with his hands behind his back, not very irritable.
Yuan Anqi got off the train, and immediately people in military uniforms greeted her and invited her to the car. Sitting in the car, she glanced at the driver and the adjutant in the front seat from time to time, both of whom were wearing dark blue military uniforms, shaved their heads, and were in good spirits, with their hands on their knees, and their mouths drawn into a closed thin line.
"Miss Yuan, Liang Tuan went to a meeting today, I'm afraid I can't accompany you to lunch. The room has been cleaned up for you, now take you back. ”
The adjutant was a sturdy young man in his early twenties, and he had expected to receive a mature girl with heavy makeup, but he did not expect it to be a little girl who looked like a student, about the same age as his sister at home.
"It turns out that the young master is good at this." This was his first reaction when he saw Yuan Anqi.
When I arrived at the Liang Mansion, it was a two-story simple house, with white walls and gray walls, which was not as good as the small white building where she and Bai Shuming lived.
Liang Mosheng was looking for a temporary residence in this house, and he was always ready to evacuate, and then went north and kept fighting. But he didn't expect his master's seat to stop, and he was here to be well prepared to spend his old age in peace. He was frightened, but he still hoped that he would move to Beiping City tomorrow, so he didn't think about changing houses.
The adjutant took her to the bedroom and withdrew, and two maids, not much older than her, came up. The maid was sorting out the clothes in the box for her, and Yuan Anqi paced and looked at the room.
The outside of the building looks cold, but the interior of the house is splendidly decorated. It is a rectangular room, with a high red velvet sofa in the front, and a carpet of roses underneath it, soft as cotton, and a deep red sofa wrapped in snow-white petals. The windows are also rose-style glass windows with snow-white curtains. On one side of the wall, there are two sets of red sandalwood fine flower shelves, and there are flower porcelain vases.
The bed is not copper, it is a white lacquered shelf bed, hung with goose yellow summer cloth, Yuan Anqi sat on the bed and found that there was a large vertical mirror in the wardrobe opposite, which just reflected her bored face at this time.
Finally, her gaze rested on her already bulging chest in the mirror. This is a light cherry red mirror satin cheongsam, her aunt Dong Yun had to let the tailor make the cheongsam close to her figure, she was not comfortable walking, physically and mentally uncomfortable, she always felt that the people on the road were staring at her, and she went straight to the road with a red face.
At noon, Yuan Anqi was holding the rice bowl and eating seriously, when she suddenly heard the door downstairs open, and the adjutant standing next to her immediately said, "Liang Tuan is back!" ”
immediately stepped forward to greet him, so frightened that Yuan Anqi almost threw his rice bowl on the carpet. Trying to calm herself, she was sure she saw a tall, muscular young man striding in and hurriedly standing up.
"Liang Tuan, Miss Yuan has arrived." Seeing that Liang Mosheng's face was not good, the adjutant said softly.
Liang Mosheng continued to walk forward, not looking at Yuan Anqi who was cowering in the corner of the wall and hanging his head down. Striding up the stairs, he said to his adjutant without stopping: "The surnamed Gu has come to Anxian County, and the division has promoted me to be a brigade commander, and I am asked to lead the troops to take the lead." ”
The adjutant listened carefully to every word, and before he could say the words "Congratulations to the brigade commander", Liang Mosheng spat on the ground fiercely, and scolded with a slashing face: "Raised by a bitch!" I'm afraid of death, let me fight, but I only allocate one-fifth of my soldiers, and let him protect himself with the rest! The older you get, the more afraid you are of death! When Liang Mosheng thought of that old face, he was really willing to kick him over, so that the old bones fell apart.
The adjutant hung his head and listened respectfully beside him, and only after Liang Mosheng finished complaining did he dare to raise his head and ask, "Then brigade commander, what should we do now?" ”
"What to do? What can I do? Go for it! Lao Tzu is looking forward to this day, and it is not a day or two. Staying in such a place where birds don't poop all day long, people can go crazy! Liang Mosheng took a sip at the end, "Hurry up and have a full meal, let's set off as a whole army after eating!" ”
Watching Liang Mosheng go upstairs resolutely, the adjutant felt a little uncomfortable. When I found out that the head of the regiment I was with was a humble young master, he was so happy for a while, who knew that now he was stuffy alive, and his temper came as soon as he said it, and he didn't forget to greet his father and mother when he opened and closed his mouth.
"Miss Yuan, the military is urgent, our brigade commander can't take care of you, you can do it yourself." Only then did the adjutant think of Yuan Anqi who was standing in the corner, the little girl was cramped and restless, neither standing nor sitting, looking at him with a pleading face.
After saying this, Yuan Anqi had no choice but to answer "yes", dropped half a bowl of unfinished rice and went upstairs back to the house. Shut herself up in the bedroom, she listened to the movement with her ears pricked up for half an afternoon, and it was not until the sound of the boots kicking on the wooden floor went up and down the stairs that she carefully opened the door and asked the maid to get her some water. She was so thirsty.