"Aunt Bai, thank you for inviting me to participate in this lot exhibition."

After a while, Bai Wenyu took the young girl to the drink rest area of the exhibition hall, and Bai Tingting stayed in the jewelry area to continue to visit the exhibition, in the face of the little girl's thanks behind her, the mature woman did not respond immediately, and looked at the desserts and drinks neatly placed on the long table, she took a bottle of champagne in the ice bucket, confirmed the information label at the bottom, and handed it to the person in charge of reception on the side, and then looked back and smiled:

"You don't have to see Xiaocao so much, do you want wine, black tea or mineral water?"

Cao Aiqing said respectfully: "Just like you, champagne." ”

The receptionist, who had just taken the bottle, opened the champagne, poured it into two flute glasses with slender mouths, and put them on a silver platter and held them in front of the two women.

They each picked up a glass, and the glass naturally touched slightly in mid-air, making a crisp sound.

"I thought you'd come with Nature, I was thinking of surprise him."

Bai Wenyu took a sip of champagne, then put the wine glass on the long table next to him and spoke.

"Aunt Bai, I've broken up with Nature."

Cao Aiqing did not pretend to be cowardly, and responded generously.

Bai Wenyu was a little surprised, but it wasn't because of the breakup.

"Well, I know, but I was thinking, you kids, it's normal to be messing around, you know I gave you that invitation, right?"

Cao Aiqing nodded.

"Naturally, I was told about your profession, so the moment I received the invitation for the autumn auction, I almost confirmed that it was your invitation."

Cao Aiqing lied here, in fact, He Tianran rarely talked to her about family affairs during their relationship, and she knew that Bai Wenyu was also known in the future development project of Nanzhi Island.

The mature woman deliberately asked, "So you didn't think about telling nature about this?" ”

Cao Aiqing, who has been cooperating with Bai Wenyu for a long time and is well versed in his temperament, shook his head and said bluntly:

"Aunt Bai, since you know the situation between me and Nature, then I dare to guess that you want to use this to test whether there is still a turnaround in the relationship between me and Nature, but I'm afraid this will disappoint you, I'm sorry."

The girl's outspokenness and calmness made Bai Wenyu tilt her head slightly, and keep a smile on her face.

Temptation, when Bai Wenyu knew from Wang Ma that He Tianran and Cao Aiqing broke up, her first reaction was nothing more than the above, children, they quarreled today, and they will be reconciled in two days, which is normal.

An invitation letter is quite a step for the two to reconcile, whether the two can reconcile or not, whether Cao Aiqing comes or not, it represents a girl's attitude towards feelings.

In fact, thinking about it this way, it is not the most important thing to ask He Tianran to come together, the main thing is that Bai Wenyu wants to see in person what kind of person this girl who makes her shy son like her.

She picked up the wine glass on the table again, and said:

"Xiao Cao, you don't have to apologize to me, it's my mother's inconsiderate consideration, and I take it for granted. There is only your name on that invitation, whether you want to bring friends, whether you want to bring natural, this is all your freedom, Enjoy! ”

"Thank you again for having me, Aunt Bai."

The two women raised their glasses again, each taking a sip.

"Don't call me Auntie, call me Sister Bai, being called by you young people one by one, I feel that I am indeed much older."

"Okay, Sister Bai." Cao Aiqing smiled and agreed.

This is also what she will call Bai Wenyu in the future, and now that she sees her old friend again, she is naturally very cordial.

In fact, some of Bai Wenyu's style of acting had a great impact on Cao Aiqing at that time, although the girl was born in a happy home, her parents were soft, so it was difficult to see the strong side in Cao Aiqing, a good girl, in the past.

It's not good or bad, it's just that she is the weak when she first enters the workplace, and she is engaged in a high-tech and competitive industry such as architectural design, so it is inevitable that she will look cramped and immature at the beginning, and suffer some dark losses.

Bai Wenyu didn't teach Cao Aiqing how to do things, after all, they were engaged in two industries, but since these two women met, the girl was attracted by the independent and decisive tenacity of the other party, and after some cooperation, she couldn't help but want to emulate and learn from her advantages.

This is more like a kind of nature, after girls enter the social competition, they will gradually build a layer of protection for themselves, some rely on appearance, some rely on character, some rely on talent, some rely on qualifications, some rely on the opposite sex, girls will always find one or two things to protect themselves in the process of transforming into women, although the difficulty varies, but nothing more.

"Ai Qing, I heard that you are now studying in the Department of Architecture of the University of Hong Kong, and your art skills should be good, right?"

"Hmm...... Sister Bai, you embarrass me, I really can't say that I have a good foundation in front of you, I just have some foundation, I have taken art interest classes for several years in elementary and junior high school, and now I am a freshman, in school such as sketching, sketching, and watercolor, these are compulsory courses for architectural design. ”

After a few small talks, the two of them changed their names for each other, Bai Wenyu studied oil painting when she was young, and in order to relax the girl, she deliberately said some common topics, but she didn't expect that in the other party's words, she vaguely revealed that she knew about it.

"There is a specialization in the art industry, and architecture is an interdisciplinary major, Ai Qing, you are too arrogant, why don't we go to the calligraphy and painting area to have a look? There is a splash of color pictures of Zhang Daqian, which is the highlight of this autumn auction, and it is rare to see it. ”

Faced with the thunderous name and the masterpiece of the famous author, Cao Aiqing's eyes lit up and replied: "Okay! ”

……

……

He Tianran's class for a day, so Wen Liang began to pack up her things in the afternoon, in fact, she has always had a bad premonition today, but she can't say exactly why, she can only attribute the reason to not filming for too long, which leads to some nervousness.

Buzzing~

In the bedroom, Wen Liang used the computer to check the electronic script and schedule sent by Director Chen, and the mobile phone in his hand suddenly shook, it was a message from He Tianran.

"When are you leaving?"

"In a moment."

"Isn't it a seven-o'clock plane? It's only four o'clock, you wait for me to get out of class, and I'll accompany you to the airport."

Looking at the message that he got a response in an instant, Wen Liang smiled knowingly, thought about it and replied:

"It's seven o'clock, yes, but the director wants us to have a meal together before we leave and talk to everyone, after all, it's nine o'clock after the two-and-a-half-hour flight to the capital, and then I have to drive to the hotel where the crew is located, and it is estimated that it will be nearly eleven o'clock when I go to sleep, and I will start filming non-stop tomorrow, so now I can only eat here first~"

On the screen of the mobile phone, the prompt of "typing...... is typing" appears and disappears from time to time, and Wen Liang can think of the other end of the phone, and the boy is entangled again and again after seeing the reply.

After a few minutes, He Tianran finally replied:

"Can you not go? Or can you take me one for dinner? I'll be here after class, you shouldn't have finished eating yet."

"Who are you, dare to come to eat."

"I'm a family member!"

Wen Liang leaned back and closed alone in the bedroom, she squatted on the chair, her exposed white and tender feet happily cocked up, and continued to mess around:

"This is not good, what the director said during the dinner is the content of the shooting, and the Winter Olympics are all to be kept secret, and at noon, I also went to sign an agreement on confidentiality and portrait rights."

"What does that mean...... Won't I see you from today to the next three days?"

"I can't see it~"

"Really?"

"Really!"

"Yay~!"

"He Tianran, are you looking for death????

On the other end of the phone, He Tianran looked at the continuous question marks and the continuous flow of follow-up messages, he quickly put the phone in his pocket, fortunately, he deliberately turned on the mute before chatting, and Wen Liang probably knew that he was in class, so he didn't call Xingshi angrily to ask for guilt.

He Tianran smiled at the corner of his mouth, and he was very happy when he was so happy.

Refocusing on the class, time flickered, and it was time for the end of the class.

At a quarter past five, He Tianran walked out of the guide building with a few students from the director department, and when he raised his eyes, he saw the boredom next to him, sitting alone on the suitcase, stepping on the ground with both feet, and slowly pushing the roller to play in circles.

A few friends smiled ambiguously and left, He Tianran coughed lightly and approached with a smile, and greeted his girlfriend's vicious gaze.

"You're not afraid of sitting, aren't you afraid of your suitcase being rotten?"

"I think you're going to be hammered by me before it sits on me!"

He Tianran stretched out his hand, touched the warmth of his teeth on his fierce face, and said, "Spare my life first, it's a quarter past five now, and it will take us half an hour to get to the airport." ”

Wen Liang opened the hand he put on the top of his head, stood up and said very angrily: "You also know that He Tianran!" Say quickly, what are we eating! ”

"Still eating? Let's go out and buy something, I'll accompany you to the airport, and we'll eat in the car. ”

He Tianran held Wen Liang, Wen Liang dragged the luggage, the girl just deliberately stomped her feet and let her boyfriend pull her, and her mouth made a willful protracted sound:

"Uh-huh-He Tianran, you said that you are reluctant to let me go, will you die?!"

The boy held back a smile and pretended to be reluctant: "Ouch, I can't help it, I'm too reluctant, I love you to death, I don't see my warmth for a day, I'm like ants crawling all over my body......"

"No sincerity at all! You're going to be mad at me! ”

"Oh, let's go, or it's really too late."

He Tianran laughed and softened, and finally coaxed his girlfriend to walk outside the school.

Ten minutes later, Wen Liang, who was sitting in the taxi, took a set of pancakes and fruits, and nibbled on them one by one, with a look of lovelessness.

"The hot dog bacon and eggs have doubled for you, it is definitely a luxury package, VIP level enjoyment, I bought one, mine is not willing to add so many ingredients~"

He Tianran picked up his share of pancakes and fruits, which were much smaller than others, and took a bite of them, and a third of them were gone in an instant.

Wen Liang said aggrievedly: "You are less here!" I heard you calling when you were at the booth just now! You made an appointment with your roommate to eat mutton shabu in the evening, and you are saving your stomach! You don't even take me! ”

"Oops, they're all single, wouldn't it be a dog killer if I took you there? A meal of mutton shabu, are you afraid that you won't be able to eat it when you go to the capital? Wait for you to come back, when you come back, I'll call them for another meal, and you also call your single young lady in the performance department, let's have a friendship, look at this plan, how good it is~! ”

Wen Liang laughed angrily, stared at her boyfriend's hateful face, and took a bite of food hatefully, her delicate little face was propped up, and it was cute.

This rare expression made He Tianran's heart moved, he couldn't help but put the pancake fruit in his hand in his mouth, pulled out his left hand, bypassed Wen Liang's back, raised his index finger and middle finger together, and pointed at the other party's shoulder, and then pushed hard a little bit, the girl did not resist, and leaned her body towards her boyfriend's shoulder.

"Hmph~!"

"Hey~"

Wen Liang raised his head and glared at him, He Tianran retracted his left hand, took the food in his mouth, and smirked twice, the former picked out the hot dog he hadn't eaten yet, stuffed it in his mouth, and then ate his share with taste.

Immediately afterwards, there was a thin crunch sound of "click" in the car, which sounded very appetizing.

He Tianran looked at the window, a silver Mercedes-Benz S500L drove smoothly from the other end of the lane, he seemed to feel something, and his eyes subconsciously followed for a few seconds.

"My left eyelid kept jumping today." Wen Liang didn't notice He Tiantian's abnormality, and muttered vaguely.

"Wow, the left eye is jumping rich, don't say it's really smart, hey, isn't this the job you got right now." He Tianran turned his head and said exaggeratedly.

"But my right eyelid jumps ...... too," the girl was slightly uneasy.

"Oh, we're all college students, how can we still believe in these feudal superstitions?" The boy was momentarily dismissive.

The driver in the front row of the car laughed, Wen Liang was helpless, she squeezed into He Tianran's arms again, looked at the pancake fruit in her hand, and said softly:

"Natural, in fact, I think that when we are together, it doesn't matter what Chinese and Western food, meat and vegetarian food, whether it is roadside or restaurant......"

"You're so easy to feed, so what's important?" He has a natural eye full of tenderness.

"Of course, it's important to eat together!" Warm and cool, the words are chiseled.

"That's a must!"

……

……

In the Mercedes-Benz car, Cao Aiqing, who was sitting in the back seat, looked out the window, and Bai Wenyu, who was driving, glanced at the girl's expression in the rearview mirror and continued to focus on driving.

The autumn auction pre-exhibition ended at 4 p.m., and Bai Wenyu said that she wanted to come to the university town to see her son, so she took Cao Aiqing and Bai Tingting all the way, and the latter had gotten off the bus twenty minutes ago.

The car stereo was turned on, and a song of Richard Clayderman's "Autumn Whispers" slowly sounded.

Listening to music in a sedan of this class is a great auditory pleasure, and a piano piece jumps out lightly through the 31 Berlin Sound horns in front and behind the car, making you instantly immersed in the music, as if you were there.

"Speaking of which, I naturally learned piano when I was a child."

Bai Wenyu laughed softly and chatted about the old days.

"Piano? I knew he could play the guitar and his technique was good, but the piano was the first time I had heard of it. ”

Cao Aiqing said curiously.

"He's four or five years ......old," Bai Wenyu paused when he said this, as if recalling: "I still learned the piano at the age of six or seven, but I didn't learn it for long, and I played this song "Autumn Whispers" at that time, and he couldn't learn three fast arpeggiation transpositions in the second half of this song, and finally gave up because he found it difficult, he taught him a lot of things when he was a child, but he just likes to give up halfway, the only thing he is fortunate about is that his guitar was forced out by his father, he didn't tell you? ”

Cao Aiqing shook his head and hesitated: "No...... He...... He rarely talked about his family. ”

"Really? I heard from my family that after he was with you, his personality became a lot more cheerful. ”

"That's not my credit."

"Huh?"

Perhaps influenced by the gentle and melodious piano music, Cao Aiqing's thoughts were invisibly stretched, and she said slowly:

"It was another girl who changed him, and I liked him like this, but I was more willing to be my own informality than a lover who had a heart to belong to."

There was silence in the car, the car crossed the building and crossed the bridge all the way, the music in his ears echoed for a long time, Bai Wenyu's calm eyes seemed to be thinking about something, and he slowly asked:

"So, nature is with that girl now?"

"Hmmm......"

"Heh, it seems that he has indeed grown up and become a virtuous character like his father."

The housekeeper Wang Ma only told Bai Wenyu about He Tianran's breakup, as for her son's love life now, it is estimated that only He Panshan knows about it.

A few days ago, I talked to He Panshan on the phone, and the man said that this family banquet specially invited a little girl to come over, she and her son had been together in high school, and they were also very sensible, so he wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to push the boat and see if he could mend the family relationship with his son.

Although the details of the little girl He Panshan are unknown, it is rare that the former couple thought of going together, but due to the lag in news, Bai Wenyu always thought that the little girl was Cao Aiqing, so she was invited to this autumn auction exhibition, and she wanted to meet in advance, which could be regarded as helping her son ease the relationship, so as not to be embarrassed to eat.

But now......

No wonder He Panshan said it unclearly on the phone, He Tianran followed his father's old path, the reason why the couple divorced was because of this, if the causes and consequences were explained clearly, the two would definitely have to quarrel on the phone.

But at this moment, Bai Wenyu was very calm, through an afternoon of understanding and contact, she suddenly became a little curious, this girl sitting quietly in the back of the car, this young girl whose emotional trajectory is very similar to her, what will she do when she knows about it.

"Xiao Aiqing, do you still like nature now?"

Bai Wenyu asked coldly.

Cao Aiqing was stunned for a moment, she remembered the scene on Nanzhi Island, on the edge of the barren island headland, when the two of them faced the vast sea, and the teenager proposed the concept of "new life" for the art museum that had not yet been completed.

At that time, she seemed to feel something, but she was very confused.

And now, she is also experiencing a new life, but the direction of this transformation is still swayed by the monstrous resentment and unspeakable feelings.

She didn't want it, but it was a knot in her heart that she couldn't escape.

"I haven't figured it out yet......"

She gave the exact same answer as she had done on Nanzhi Island.

"There's nothing I don't understand, naturally when I was a child, I always told him, the more you are afraid of something, the more you should face something, because this is the time when a person can best reflect the value, all the confusion can be found in the face again and again, so as to usher in the opportunity of appreciation or depreciation.

Xiao Aiqing, there is one thing, I don't mean anything else, I just want to hear your thoughts. Tomorrow, I'm going to have a meal with my ex-husband and Nature, and the girl who was with Nature's should also come, and if I invite you now, will you come? ”

The Mercedes-Benz sedan slowly drove into the campus of the University of Hong Kong with Bai Wenyu's question, the woman in the front row looked for a parking space with an indifferent expression, and the girl in the back row was stunned at first, and her face flashed a little flustered, but soon, she lowered her head and pondered.

Her eyelashes drooped almost to cover her eyes, her upright nose seemed to have a little secret, and when she thought of it, her eyelids lifted as if they were open, and the dark pupils of the crystal light shone like usual.

Cao Aiqing said calmly: "Sister Bai, I'm very happy to meet you today, but I'm sorry, I don't think I'll go." ”

The car stopped smoothly, Bai Wenyu pushed the sunglasses on his eyes to the top of his hair, turned his head and asked with a smile:

"Why?"

"It's a very cheap behavior to be jealous, not to mention that the man doesn't love you, you're right, of course you have to face the confusion, but the meaningless face will only increase the troubles, if I promise you, then I will see your son tomorrow with the person she likes, I think, then I will be useless except for embarrassment, do you think that I will appreciate in his heart when I appear on such an occasion?"

Cao Aiqing replied in an orderly manner, and after finishing speaking, she smiled politely, opened the car door and got out of the car.

Bai Wenyu pressed the window and leaned on the edge of the window with one hand, Cao Aiqing passed by and was about to say goodbye to her politely, when she heard the mature woman say again:

"Then if I change the way, Xiao Aiqing, if you are free tomorrow, as my friend, I sincerely invite you to my house as a guest, what do you think?"

Cao Aiqing looked puzzled:

"Sister Bai, why are you ......?"

Bai Wenyu interrupted: "First, you are very similar to me, although we only met for the first time today, Ai Qing, you give me the feeling that we have known each other for a long time, which makes me very comfortable, which is the most important thing; Second, I can hear that you need a formal invitation from me. ”

The young girl was silent for a few seconds.

Bai Wenyu turned off the car, walked out and locked the door, and said another sentence inadvertently:

"When I met my ex-husband, no matter how big his current temper was, he didn't dare to appear in front of me, although Xiao Aiqing had different experiences, but what you said just now, you were expressing the same meaning with me."

Bai Wenyu turned around and faced Cao Aiqing, as if an adult had seen through the child's mind, she nodded slightly jokingly, and changed the topic and said:

"Let's go, accompany my sister to visit HKU? I haven't been here in years. ”

This time, Cao Aiqing did not hesitate, she smiled brightly and replied:

"Okay!"

(End of chapter)