Bai Shuming didn't see the dancing, and felt very bored, and it happened that the maid came to find them to go back for dinner. They ate in the living room on the first floor of the white building where they lived. In this building, although the sparrows are small, there are all kinds of organs, the living room on the first floor is also furnished with a velvet sofa, covered with a thick carpet, the heating pipe is no longer in use, the clean bathroom hot water pipe is available, and there is a phone in the corner of the stairs in the house, but it has never rang.

This can be regarded as a mansion of a random family outside, but this small mansion is not surnamed Yao or Bai, born in Baifu, but it is not stained with the drunken gold fans of the house in front of it, and the fragrant clothes are sultry.

On the morning of the second day, Yuan Anqi put on her school uniform, a blue dress and a white skirt, and then a pair of black velvet thin-soled shoes, with white socks, her hair was still combed into two black braids, and the schoolbag she carried was filled with books and a fountain pen. After breakfast, she went out directly through the back door, and Dong Yun gave her sister and brother the old American Lincoln car at home.

The car carried Yuan Anqi for five years, and a few days ago, Dong Yu suddenly remembered something, and said, "Is it time for Shu Ming to go to school, if I remember correctly, I will be ten years old this year." So, Bai Shuming began to follow her to be picked up by car to school.

In the past five years, Yuan Anqi has grown like a strip, and the ten-year-old boy is always below her waist, sitting in the car at this time, the boy leaned on her shoulder, and asked in a milky voice: "Sister Anqi, is it fun to read?" ”

"Hmm......" Yuan Anqi pondered for a while, she had been in the school for a few years, of course she knew that this "fun" could be divided into many kinds, such as unintentional schoolwork, but having fun with classmates in the school could be considered a kind of fun; Studying hard and getting good grades can also be considered a kind of fun, she belongs to the middle of the former and the latter, and is willing to be this kind of middle streamer.

Yuan Anqi didn't have much interest in studying, and at first she wanted to repay her aunt and go back with good grades. Dong Yun was happy, but after a while, she said that it was okay to be able to communicate with others in English, and it was okay to pick a few simple popular tunes on the piano and be able to play and sing, so later she simply didn't push herself so hard, and played crazy with female classmates on weekdays.

But she felt that boys should not be like her. Yuan Anqi touched Bai Shuming's hair and said, "Of course it's fun, as long as you study hard, your aunt will definitely send you to study abroad when you grow up." ”

"Like Big Brother?" Bai Shuming looked at Yuan Anqi with round eyes.

Yuan Anqi was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that Bai Shuming did have a big brother, who was her aunt's son and her cousin. This "big brother" often appears in Bai Shuming's mouth, it sounds like he went abroad when Bai Shuming was four or five years old, and he has always loved Bai Shuming's younger brother very much.

"That's right, deal with foreigners like your big brother." Yuan Anqi said with a smile.

"Then let's go together, okay? When the time comes......" Bai Shuming said happily, rubbed up from Yuan Anqi's arms, and his little arms danced wildly, "When the time comes, big brother, Shu Ming and Sister An Qi, the three of us will all go abroad to play together!" ”

"Okay, well, we'll all go abroad then." Yuan Anqi smiled and comforted him to sit down, but he didn't have any bottom in his heart. After all, she is not the biological daughter of her aunt Dong Huan, she is just a niece, and she has to rely on the meager sisterhood that her mother, who has been dead for more than ten years, has accumulated.

In the past two years, she has rarely seen Dong Huan, and Dong Huan has never mentioned how to arrange her in the future, and it seems that she intends to let her go to school so so-so. As for studying abroad, her aunt would definitely not agree to such a money-burning thing.

Besides, the cousin she had never met, she wasn't even interested in knowing his name. Yuan Anqi's understanding of the "cousin" is still in the impression that she was the same as her uncle in the broken stilted building back then, and would blush and scold people on the street after drinking. Thinking about this, she didn't want to discuss studying abroad with Bai Shuming anymore, so she took out a toffee from her bag and stuffed it into Bai Shuming's mouth, so that the little boy next to her who listened to the wind and rain quieted down.

After school that afternoon, Yuan Anqi stood at the school gate as usual and waited for the foreign car from Baifu to pick her up. Although the students in this school are basically children from rich families, there are also servants who pick up and drop them off, and some come by horse-drawn carriages, even if they also sit in the car, Yuan Anqi thinks that the car in their Baifu is the brightest and most eye-catching.

After dinner, she and Bai Shuming were playing in the garden. Yuan Anqi kicked the shuttlecock, Bai Shuming counted it for her on the side, she was tired of playing, the maid brought two cups of jelly, and she and Bai Shuming leaned on the white carved iron swing under the jujube tree and ate it. It's still the first mango jelly I ate a few years ago, after eating it for five years, playing with it for five years, and seeing it for five years, she doesn't feel as novel as she did at the beginning.

She took a small silver spoon and gently picked up the mango in the cup, it was a May day in Beiping City, and the evening wind gently lifted the corner of Yuan Anqi's pleated skirt with some warmth. She is seventeen years old this year, and she has adapted to the embarrassment of development, and can calmly accept the two hard bulging pieces of her chest, and she can also accept the slight pain caused by the crazy growth of bones. After sitting for a long time, she always has a sad pain in her buttocks, or she suddenly cramps in her feet while walking, in this case, she has to pose that nothing happened, and it is the most painful to continue to walk in the wind.

Yuan Anqi didn't know that it was just a little calcium deficiency at this time, and thought that she had some hidden disease, but it was not easy to tell her aunt, so she had to endure it for the time being, fortunately, the hidden disease she thought was not too difficult for her most of the time, and she could still maintain the dignified and charming girl in front of her male classmates.

She played with the crystal clear jelly in the small teaspoon, and was a little distracted for a moment. The orange color of the mango warm sun reminded her of the clothes worn by the boys of the Liang family today. The Liang family is the one who opened the foreign department store in Beijing and Tianjin, the old man of the Liang family is romantic, and among the strings of sons, this boy Liang Molian is the youngest.

Whether it is a romance movie from abroad or a novel magazine circulating among female classmates, Yuan Anqi thinks that at her age, she should like a healthy, handsome, lively and sunny boy. She locked the boy in orange on the playground and decided that it was time to carefully bring out the long-cherished girl's heart.

Yuan Anqi took the initiative to open up her love and began to completely admit that she was a girl.

After eating the jelly without a bite, she and Bai Shuming played for a while, and the maid came to take Bai Shuming back to the house to wash, Yuan Anqi was not sleepy, and still sat on the swing and was distracted.

The twilight of their place was dreary, and the crows perched on the branches, but the other end of the White Mansion was lively and bright, as bright as day. Dong always hosts a dinner party every month, inviting business tycoons from Beijing and Tianjin, and sometimes certain politicians or journalists are welcomed by her. After the banquet, the red men and green women sat in one place with wine glasses, or hugged each other and danced, trampling the silence and loneliness of the White Mansion in previous years. When Dong Yun went back to the bedroom to change his dancing skirt, he looked down from the window on the third floor and felt very satisfied.

Grandma Bai Liu changed into a purple dancing dress with fish scales. Holding her purple glittering dress, she was about to go downstairs, but the door was suddenly pushed open, and a man in a white suit and a red tie walked in.

The man sat down on the green velvet sofa in Dong Yun's room, and after assuming a comfortable position, he remained motionless like a gourd. Dong Yu glanced at him, took out two cigars from the box in the drawer, and lit one for the man and one for himself. The two sat next to each other on the sofa and swallowed the clouds, but neither of them said anything first, as if whoever spoke first would lose.

The cigar was about to burn to the end, Dong Yun put it aside, and finally said, "Mosheng him, but is he back?" ”

The gourd man lowered his eyes and said with a somewhat embarrassed face, "I'm back." After a while, he said, "He heard that you have a dinner party here, and he said that he wanted to come to see your old friend." ”

Dong Yun was startled, threw down the cigar in his hand, subconsciously held Old Man Liang's hand and asked, "Really?" Did he really say that? He's coming? ”

Old Man Liang looked at Dong Yun's red nose and eyes, and sighed: "I think he has already let go, and you don't have to worry too much about the past." But I still want to advise you, you and Mo Du should also wash their hands and stop drying, that kind of business is not necessary, in recent years, the situation has become more and more chaotic, and there is a small business enough for you to hold a church meeting every month. ”

"You said it lightly, you can do it all at once, how can you get rid of it if you want to, even if I want to get out of it, is your precious eldest son willing?" Trembling and touching the cigar that was still on the table, Dong Yun took two puffs fiercely, imagining that he was knocking on Liang Modu's body and sucking the marrow.

Old Man Liang was silent here, he didn't say anything anymore, and he didn't know what to say. Five years ago, when he handed over the Tianjin side to Liang Mosheng to take care of, his eldest son, who was quite capable and favored by him, was dissatisfied with his decision and threatened to threaten him by setting himself on fire if he handed over the business to Liang Mosheng. Just as he was taking the car to the procuratorate, Bai Liu's grandmother Dong Yun rushed back from Tianjin in a hurry, intercepted him halfway, and coaxed him to bed with kind words before stopping.

Of course, Old Man Liang knew that Liang Modu was not only dissatisfied with his father's beginnings to value Liang Mosheng, but also because of Bai Liu's grandmother Dong Yun. Liang Mo is Chinese New Year's Eve six today, five years younger than Dong Yun, he likes this big sister when he is young, and Old Man Liang remembers that his eldest son once said that he wants to earn all his Lao Tzu's things, and then bring them to Sister Dong - he refuses to call Dong Yun a white sixth grandmother.