In the imperial capital in April, the locust flowers are blooming, and the loquat trees are bent by the fruits.

In the past few days, the temperature has dropped a little, and it is warm and cold at first.

"Changling."

It was Sister Tao, the proprietress of the fruit shop, who stood at the door of the store and waved at Wen Changling.

"It's time to eat loquats."

It was the season to eat loquats, and Sister Tao picked a basket in the morning.

Wen Changling came from the opposite side and walked into the fruit shop.

She works in the hospice ward, often leaving early and returning late on weekdays, and reversing day and night. She doesn't like to deal with people either, she has been moving to Hetang Street for more than half a year, and she is only a little familiar with Sister Tao in the fruit store, or because Sister Tao's son had a high fever last month, Wen Changling happened to be on duty in the hospital and took a hand, so she became familiar. Sister Tao is a good person, thinking that Wen Changling helped her, she will call her if there is anything delicious.

Lotus Pond Street is an old street to be demolished, the road is very narrow, the facilities are also very old, the government people have come to see several times, each time they say that they want to demolish, each time they can't do it, listen to the neighbors, Lotus Pond Street is full of old yards and old alleys, most of the people who live are locals, and there are many old houses with vestibules and backyards in and out, and ordinary people can't afford to demolish them.

Wen Changling sat on a small stool at the door, peeling the loquat, the sunset fell on her face, the wind blew the hair in her left ear, revealing a transparent hearing aid, which was behind-the-ear, blocked by hair, and was not obvious.

"What are you looking at?" Sister Tao asked.

Wen Changling raised his head and looked at the newly opened pawnshop opposite-Ruyi Pawnshop.

Sister Tao said: "This pawnshop has been open for more than half a month, not a single guest has been seen, eighty percent of the rich people are open to play, there is no appearance of opening a shop, it has been open for so long, and the boss's face has not been revealed." ”

In these days, pawnshops are rare.

Wen Changling has never met the owner of the pawnshop, and she has only one impression of the boss who has never shown his face: business is not good, and he is not active in opening a shop.

She lifted the thick glasses on the bridge of her nose and pulled her hair twice, so that the bangs on either side of her forehead covered half of her face.

When the loquat was finished, she got up and went home.

The house she rented was next to the Ruyi pawnshop, and the landlord was an old woman who lived alone, her mother-in-law's surname was Zhu, her wife passed away a few years ago, and she only had one daughter, who worked in a bank.

Granny Zhu's daughter is divorced, and occasionally sends her children over to live there. The house is two in and two out, it was just renovated the year before last, Granny Zhu lived in the front, opened a watch shop, and opened a small door on the right side of the store, and Wen Changling lived in the back. The small door aisle leads directly to the backyard, Granny Zhu is old, her legs and feet are not good, she can't bend over, the backyard is Wen Changling is taking care of it, she planted seasonal vegetables, and transplanted a hook kiss, I thought it would not survive, but I didn't expect it to grow very well, the crazy vines have climbed the osmanthus tree, crossed the wall, and climbed to the yard next door.

Next door is the Ruyi pawnshop.

I heard Granny Zhu say that the owner of the pawnshop bought the next door in full at three times the market price. Sister Tao of the fruit store guessed correctly, this owner is a rich family, no wonder he is not active in business.

By the way, the hook kiss is also known as the broken intestine grass.

The whole plant is poisonous, especially the young leaves, which is highly poisonous.

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The hospital where Wen Changling works is called Dihong Hospital, and the department where she works belongs to the oncology department, and the care ward of the oncology department is often referred to as the hospice ward.

The people who came to the care ward were all people whose names had been written down by Lord Hades, and one foot was stepped into the coffin, the treatment was basically useless, and the main direction was to alleviate the pain of the patient.

Mr. Gu is a master in the literary world, with lung cancer, and has been in the care ward for more than a month. Mr. Gu has been in good condition in the past two days, but it is the light of return, it should be the matter of these two days, the old man wants to go home, and the attending doctor Director Wan has approved it, and he will let two doctors and two nurses accompany him.

Wen Changling is one of them.

As soon as the hospital car arrived outside Gu's house, Dr. Qiao, who was traveling with him, advised: "Don't look around after entering, take your things and keep up." ”

The Gu family is not an ordinary family, and such a family will have many rules.

Dr. Qiao and Dr. Zhong pushed Mr. Gu in first, and Wen Changling and his colleague Jiahui followed behind with the medicine box. The sky was dreary and drizzling, but fortunately there were umbrellas in the car.

"It's raining as you say, and it's still sunny in the morning."

April in the imperial capital is like this, sunny and rainy, and goodness becomes very.

After stepping into the gate of Gujia, the first thing that catches your eye is the rockery and flowing water, koi and lotus ponds, Jiahui came to this kind of place for the first time, and couldn't help but look around, and her steps involuntarily slowed down.

"This house is magnificent."

Magnificent of course.

Huajian Hall is the most expensive property in the imperial capital, with only 19 garden villas in it, each of which has a 3-acre garden. The villa area is located in the center of the imperial capital, behind which is the largest freshwater lake in the empire - the Deciduous Lake, which tastes the joy of mountains and rivers and the branch of the spiritual spring in the downtown area.

It's not just money that you can buy here.

Walking through the corridor and coming to the vestibule, there was someone talking in the pentagonal pavilion on the west side, and the slightly older one was the housekeeping manager of the Gu family, Manager Ming. The other two young ones are gardeners and housekeepers, Xiao Yin and Xiao Xia.

Manager Ming was wearing the Gu family's work uniform, with a knee-length skirt and low hair, rigid and stern: "The guests are all in the hall, you don't go to entertain the guests, what are you doing here?" ”

Xiao Yin is a subordinate, a little submissive: "I saw that it was raining, so I came to prepare an umbrella for the guests." ”

Manager Ming stared at her face: "Did you put on makeup?" ”

Xiao Yin immediately bowed his head: "No." ”

The Gu family has people who are specially responsible for picking up and entertaining guests, and it is not the turn of the gardener to send an umbrella, so Manager Ming didn't want to listen to Xiao Yin's quibbles, so he directly ordered with words: "Go and wash your face." ”

"I didn't say it."

Xiao Xia, who was watching the play next to him, said: "The eyebrows and lipstick don't fall, but this hasn't melted yet?" ”

Manager Ming has lost patience: "Go and wash, you will be seen by the eldest lady, and you will resign tomorrow." ”

The Gu family is an exquisite family, and such a large garden villa needs to be taken care of, so they have hired several housekeepers with gardener qualification certificates.

Mr. Gu has a righteous life, but the two sons of the Gu family are mediocre and lustful, and it is common for them to be entangled with the housekeeping staff in the family.

Manager Ming reprimanded: "It's not the first day you came here to work, and you still don't remember the rules?" ”

Xiao Yin was silent.

Xiao Xia couldn't get used to it, and arched the fire next to him: "It's because Mr. Xie is coming." ”

"What nonsense are you talking about!"

"I'm not talking nonsense, the devil knows."

Xiao Yin was stabbed in the heart, and his face was red.

Only then did Manager Ming figure out what kind of idea this little girl with eyebrows and lips had made: "You really dare to think about it." ”

Manager Ming looked her up and down again, she was a good-looking person, but that Mr. Xie ......

"Hurry up and wash your face, don't dream day by day."

The three of them left the gazebo back and forth.

The rain became denser and denser, and in the misty rain, the lantern with the word "valley" written on the eaves swayed gently, and the tassels of the lantern fell looming.

The scene is unrealistically beautiful, like a film with a sense of age.

Jiahui felt and said: "Living in this kind of place, if you are me, I will also dream." ”

They walked through another hallway.

"The paintings hanging in the corridor are genuine, and TV dramas don't dare to shoot like this."

Jiahui is a talker, her mouth did not stop along the way, and she sighed more than once that the scenery of this house is exquisite, with eaves and corners, pink walls and tiles, showing the good taste of the owner's family everywhere.

At this time, a person came in front of him, he was dressed in a black suit, passed through the moon cave door, holding a black umbrella, and walked very slowly.

The umbrella was low, and Wen Changling couldn't see his face.

Jiahui suddenly retracted, her eyes couldn't help but look at the man, look at his pants that were splashed by the rain and were not embarrassed at all, look at his inconspicuous but valuable umbrella, look at his hand holding the umbrella, wearing a silver ring, slender and skinny, it is a pair of hands that will make people paint their eyebrows and lips and daydream.

The path between the rockery and the landscaping is narrow, and he can't squeeze two open umbrellas, Wen Changling was about to give way to the side, but the man took the umbrella first, turned sideways to the side of the road, and let the lady give priority.

Compared with his appearance, the first thing Wen Changling noticed was his hair color, which was between white and gold, and even a little bit of inconspicuous pink, which was a very bold, unusual, and uncontrollable hair color.

Generally speaking, people who dare to try this may not be very obedient, at least not to their elders. But his appearance is rare and decent, not strong, and good-looking with a sense of proportion.

His skin is cold and white, his gaze falls on him, his head is sideways, the mountain root is a beautiful streamline, the lip edge is obvious, the color of his pupils is not pure black, it is a slightly yellow amber, and his facial features are very clean when subdivided, but he has a temperament that is contrary to his appearance, more like a prodigal son than a noble son.

Wen Changling and Jiahui staggered by him.

On the other side of the road, a young voice shouted, "Fourth brother, why did you come?" ”

"It's raining heavily, and the road is jammed."

The voice is very good, with a low timbre and a calm tone, as if everything is elegant.

"Didn't you come from the Xie family?"

"From the pawnshop."

The surname is Xie.

Wen Changling thought to himself, he should be the Mr. Xie who harmed other girls' dreams.

The conversation between the two was far away, and Jiahui found the soul that was taken away by the man, and couldn't help but turn around and blurt out two words: "Excellent." ”

Wen Changling also thought of a poem very cheesily: The son of the emperor, the beauty is incomparable, the birth posture is rich, and the world is disciplined.

*****

Mr. Gu is afraid that he will not be able to survive these two days, the Gu family has come, and the side branches of the Gu family in Picheng have also come, and the rich and noble families are extremely particular, and when guests come, there will be a special incense master responsible for lighting incense.

Wen Changling stood on the second floor, attracted by the delicate incense burner on the table on the first floor.

"Why are you two so abrasive?" Dr. Joe had been waiting for a while.

How could Jiahui admit that she was stumped by men: "The house is too big, and it has gone a different way." ”

"Mr. Gu lives here, don't wander around after giving him the infusion, your temporary resting place is in the innermost part of the corridor."

Dr. Qiao is still admonishing, saying that the Gu family is a family with rules, so pay attention to this and that. Wen Changling was a little distracted, and at first he focused on the incense burner, but then Mr. Xie came in.

"I'll do it."

The perfumer, who had been lighting incense, stepped aside.

Mr. Xie handed over the suit jacket he had taken off to the housekeeper, hunched over slightly, and lit the charcoal, and from Wen Changling's angle, he could see the white back of his neck exposed in his white shirt.

After laying the incense ash, he picked a small piece of incense from the incense box, sniffed it gently, and put it into the incense burner through the mica flakes, and the whole movement was slow and orderly.

There were a lot of guests today, and he didn't talk to any of them, and he was devoting himself to lighting incense for the guests, elegant and free, like a noble son who was knowledgeable and read the scriptures in the old days. But the noble boy dyed his white blonde hair, and many eyes in the living room seemed to pass over him.

On such an occasion, his hair color seemed out of place, but in the smoke, he stood there, as if he belonged here, should be here, in the noise of the room, like a silent, light painting.