Chapter 19: The Girl's Secret
Lan Yue ignored Xia Xinxin's shouts, she felt that she had almost escaped from Xinxin's shop, she wandered aimlessly on the street, her mind was full of Xia Xinxin's face that was extremely inappropriate for her age, and the sparkling wedding ring.
Winter evenings are always a little short, and before you know it, the lights are already on. Lan Yue passed by her father's unit, and the guard in the communication room said that Director Lan's lights had been on, and he probably didn't leave. Dad has been coming back late, what are you busy with? She remembered the picture of father and daughter often going home together when she was a child, and couldn't help but walk in. It was past the end of work, and the corridor was quiet, Lan Yue stood still in front of the door of the director's office, and after thinking about it, she didn't knock on the door. However, when the hidden door was pushed open, Lan Yue was stunned, and there was a beautiful young woman sitting in front of the wide director's desk: a high bun, a light blue high-necked cashmere sweater set off a beautiful face, she didn't seem to be working, but leaned very elegantly in the high-backed swivel chair, stretched a pair of jade legs, and turned gently, as if in contemplation.
Lan Yue thought she had made a mistake, and turned her head to look at the sign on the door again. At this time, the beautiful woman also saw her.
"Excuse me, who are you looking for?" The woman stood up from behind the table, such a slender figure!
"I'm sorry, I'm looking for Lan Tianming, I didn't make a mistake, right?" Lan Yue felt as if she had seen the woman in front of her somewhere, and her voice was extremely familiar.
"You're Lan Yue, right?" The beautiful woman smiled brightly and walked towards her with a gesture.
"You know me? You are ......"
"I've seen you after a few hours, you and Lan Ju's facial features look the same, this nose and eyes are carved out of a mold, even if it is a female college eighteen, it is easy to see." The woman looked Lan Yue up and down, her voice seemed to come from behind her ears, soft and clear.
"Really?" Lan Yue didn't know what to say for a while, she felt that the woman in front of her had an irrepressible attraction.
"By the way, I'm the secretary of the office, Liu Yin, and I'm helping the Lan Bureau sort out tomorrow's meeting materials, he was just called away by the phone from home, saying that there is something at home, and you are also here to call him, right? He's gone...... It looks like it takes about 20 minutes. Liu Yin raised her wrist and looked at the watch, which was a delicate watch that Lan Yue had never seen before.
"Oh, sorry for the interruption, I'm leaving. Thank you, sister.! ”
"No thanks, you go slowly, but I think you should call me...... Auntie," the corners of Liu Yin's mouth rose, her long eyelashes flickered unconsciously, and her smile was gentle and charming.
"I ...... I should call you sister, you are young and beautiful. Lan Yue also smiled, the corners of her mouth twitched, and her expression was very similar to Lan Tianming.
"Thank you, then welcome to come back next time." Liu Yin was still smiling, making a standard send-off gesture.
Liu Yin? Secretary!
Lan Yue thought as she walked, where had she indeed seen this sister, maybe she was too beautiful, and people who were too beautiful looked about the same, but they were ...... Her smile seemed to ...... It's a little bit weird. Hey, why am I always thinking cranky, why is my dad hurrying back to do it? What's going on at home? Lan Yue shook her head and couldn't help but speed up her pace.
Before she walked into the door of the small courtyard, Lan Yue heard her mother's voice an octave high, and Liu Yin's soft and bright smile suddenly flashed in her mind, and she was shocked, could it?
Walking through the hall, she noticed that her mother's voice was coming from her room...... She hid her two sweaters in the shoe cabinet in the living room.
"What's wrong? Mother? As soon as she walked in, there was a sudden silence in the room. Teacher Xiao didn't look at her daughter, her face was long, the small wrinkles at the corners of her eyes were like taut strings, and her brows were condensed into a pimple. You could tell she was suppressing her anger.
A storm is coming? Why is it in my room? Is it against me? Lan Yue's brain was running rapidly.
"Yue'er, tell me honestly, is there any secret hiding from us?" Mom finally couldn't help but fire. Although she tried her best to calm down her tone by accepting her husband's suggestion, it still seemed to Lan Yue that it was full of gunpowder. The mother's gaze looked at her daughter like a knife, as if she wanted to penetrate Lan Yue's heart to hook out her secrets and dry them in the air.
"Mom! What's going on? Lan Yue felt a little weak, she suddenly felt as if every sweat pore had been stretched open.
"What's going on? First of all, ask yourself, just half a year after leaving home, your mind is like a wild horse on the loose? Yes? You're only sixteen years old, I really regret listening to your father, if you repeat your studies for another year and get admitted to a prestigious university, there will be no such mess. The mother's elongated face was full of disappointment, even more disappointed than her daughter not being admitted to a major university.
"Why do you blame me for everything? Didn't you say that you should go to school in the morning and take the graduate school entrance examination early, and walk ahead of others in everything? Besides, does this matter have anything to do with which school you go to? Lan Tianming lit a cigarette, stood up and looked at his daughter, "Yue'er, you come out, Dad asks you something." ”
Lan Yue felt that her father's voice was so deep that it seemed to come from underground.
"Why do you want to go out, just say it here, you explain it to me, look at what fox friends you have made, are all the students in your school like this? If that's the case, don't go on it, come back and read it again! Xiao Ying turned her head and picked up the letter paper on the table, shaking vigorously.
Lan Yue was startled, and her knees shook a little, it was Zhan Simin's letter, and she realized where the source of the fire was. She felt that she was too careless and trusted her parents too much.
In fact, the postman has always been frequented these days, and Lan Yue's mother has long suspected it, but she is not willing to trample on her trust in her daughter, so she just asks on the side. If she hadn't bought a lot of things, both to lighten her weight as much as possible and fill her motherly heart as much as possible, she wouldn't have bothered to distribute these bags and suitcases, and of course she wouldn't have found the letter in the book, she wondered why there was only this one letter, and there were no less than five or six letters from Lan Yue on the holiday that she knew, and the others? She rummaged through the cabinets and couldn't find her. In a fit of anger, Lan Tianming, who was working overtime, was recalled.
At this time, Lan Yue quickly recalled the content of the letter in her mind, and at this time, she suddenly calmed down a lot.
"Mom! How do you peek at my letters? Dad, you also watched it, didn't you? Aren't you the biggest advocate of respecting human rights? Why don't you respect me? Lan Yue's tone was marked with anger and disappointment.
"Huh! You have a point, don't change the subject yet, first explain what happened to the boy in the letter? "It seems that Ms. Xiao is very experienced in dealing with this kind of thing, and her consistent style is to get to the bottom of it.
Lan Tianming was disgusted by his wife's way of dealing with the problem, so he sat back in his chair and took a heavy puff of his cigarette. "Xiaoyue, although I didn't read the content of the letter carefully, but I also know a rough idea after listening to your mother's chatter, we used to be teachers, we understand the psychology of you children, and we understand your feelings, we have always respected your thoughts and personality, because although you are still young, I believe that you are a sensible and intelligent child, you have seen a lot of examples of early love in school over the years, we are very glad that you have always grasped it very well, and we are also willing to give you free space, but now you are far away from our sight, We can no longer make reasonable suggestions for your words and deeds, we will feel very bottomless, Mom and Dad need to communicate with you, you are already a college student, we are psychologically prepared for your growth, but you can't hide it from us. ”
"Dad, I don't have anything to say, it's just a letter from a good roommate, you know, girls sometimes like to talk about what they think in their hearts, it's just an idea." Lan Yue listened to her father's sincere words, and felt a lot more comfortable.
"It's not that simple," Mr. Xiao still doesn't give up, "What about your other letters?" You receive 7 or 8 letters during a holiday, and now the communication tool is so convenient, and a few people still write letters. Take them all out, and we'll analyze your strange ideas for you! ”
"Mom! You've gone too far! You've violated my privacy, and I don't care about you, how can I ...... What about getting worse? Lan Yue heard his heart pounding, he felt scared and aggrieved, and tears began to roll in his eyes.
"Violations of human rights? I am a human rights violator, but who am I for? Don't make fun of us and talk about it, you don't dare to show us the letter, do you? I think it's time to violate you, otherwise, I'm afraid you'll fall into the abyss. Xiao Ying said as she took the key in the large satchel that Lan Yue was carrying......
Lan Yue felt an irrepressible current of anger fill her head, "Look! Look! Let's take a good look! She almost rushed to the writing desk, rubbing and tearing Zheng Min's letter as if venting, and the white letter paper fell like snowflakes on the open space between the three of them.
At this time, Lan Tianming, who was preparing to conduct an in-depth ideological education on his daughter, was stunned, Xiao Ying's hand holding the key to open the drawer twitched, and the key fell to the ground weakly. Even Lan Yue was stupefied by her actions, which was probably the most intense behavior she had ever done when she was so big.
"Xiaoyue, you're so disagreeable, what kind of attitude is this! Xiao Ying, you too, how can you force children so much, you have to leave some space for people in everything! "Dad was the first to wake up. Hodd got up from his chair.
Lan Yue began to crouch on the ground and cry.
"You are accustomed to eating and drinking, and you are accustomed to your temper, and you have really grown up, and your wings have hardened...... Good! You all need space, you need freedom, and I seem to be the most redundant! Xiao Ying never expected that her daughter, who had always been well-behaved and obedient, would make such a sad move, she felt unprecedented failure and helplessness, and a sour feeling arose in her heart, she hid her face and left her daughter's room.
"Xiao Ying, look at you, how can you look like a child...... Yue'er, you should also reflect on yourself. Lan Tianming followed his wife to the door, he didn't know whether to persuade his wife or his daughter, he couldn't figure it out, in fact, how could a very simple thing be so bad, in the past few years, he felt that he was getting farther and farther away from his wife's thoughts.
At this time, Lan Yue was the only one left in the warm hut, and she sat on the old wooden floor with her hands and knees.
"What's wrong with me? How can you be so impulsive? I must have broken my mother's heart. What will happen to her? Will you come back to school with me? Or just don't let me continue and come back and repeat it? How so? In fact, Zheng Minxin doesn't have anything substantial, I just need to calm down and explain, it's because I'm too weak-hearted. All this can not happen, in front of this pair of parents who used to spoil me so much, in this small courtyard full of poetry and ink, in the evening when I am about to go away......"
Lan Yue opened the door and sat under the dry grape trellises in the yard, with most of the moon disappearing from time to time above her head, she couldn't help but think of Cheng Yu: Do you know? It's all because of you...... With four hours to board the train back to school, will I be able to leave without any problems?
The moonlight shone on the ancient red walls and green tiles, and the small courtyard seemed to be calm again. Maybe everything is gone, maybe nothing has happened. The sound of chopping vegetables was already heard in the kitchen, and it was accompanied by the rhythmic pacing of Dad, this home was like that, it was so special, there were many civil wars between parents that were so unbelievable that they put on the brakes at the most intense stage, and of course it generally depended on Daddy's unconditional concessions. Dad once said that the Lan family has the instinct to take the initiative to avoid conflicts, so for hundreds of years, although the Lan Mansion has been rich in clothes and food, it has lived in a simple place to the outside world. Grandma also said that her mother is a rare daughter-in-law of the Lan family for several generations. Lan Yue had seen her mother quietly train the two big boys to tears, but within two days, the two boys called him Teacher Xiao respectfully, and the parents also came to visit with a thousand thanks, Lan Yue was strange, and Lan Yue admired.
The cold outside has made Lan Yue sober up a lot, and now Lan Yue almost hopes to understand her mother's tongue skills once, and of course, her father's "curve to save the country". But the kitchen door was closed, and Lan Yue didn't have the courage to push it open. What about pushing it away? Can you confess to your parents? What does a mother need to expose her daughter's thoughts to her like a corrected essay? Of course not. Then admit your mistake, Lan Yue, who has always been well-behaved and lovely, doesn't seem to have really admitted her mistake when she grows so big, let her say "I'm sorry, I was wrong...... this is even more uncomfortable than beating her.
Lan Yue returned to the living room, curled up on the sofa, her unprovoked thoughts had already stirred her tired, plus she had been shopping in the store for an afternoon, and she cried earth-shatteringly, she fell asleep unconsciously......