As I spoke, I arrived at Mr. Lil's study, and Secretary Gao opened the sliding door and ushered me in: "Sir, Miss Selangor is here." ”

As I stepped in, the tip of my nose lingered with a faint smell of Chinese medicine. The man in front of the window turned to look at me. "Snow, state." He hesitated to pronounce my name. I bowed and said, "Hello Uncle Li." ”

Mr. Ritsu is thin, with gold-rimmed glasses on his nose, and he is not angry. He gestured to the couch, "Sit down." ”

"Thank you." I sat down with my legs crossed, clasped my hands on my knees, and straightened my back.

Secretary Gao held a wooden plate to serve tea, she put a cup of hot tea on the coffee table in front of me, and Mr. Lu greeted again: "Drink tea." ”

Me: "Oh. "However, when I took the teacup, my sleeve swept off the small wooden box on the coffee table, I quickly put down the teacup and bent down to pick it up, without calculating the distance, my forehead just hit the coffee table again, making a "bang" sound, which made me clench my teeth and tears.

Mr. Ritsu didn't care, and laughed out loud.

"Don't be so restrained, I hugged you when you were a child, and when you were born, you were like a bean sprout, a little bigger, you can lift it with one hand, just like this-"

Mr. Ritsu spread his five fingers, fingertips pointing back, and made a lifting motion—how do I think that his movement is not like holding a baby, but like holding a basketball...... Sure enough, the next second he made a shooting motion......

I couldn't help but laugh.

With a sigh of relief, I noticed that my shoulders were sore from the tightness.

Mr. Lil: "You can stay here with peace of mind, and if you need anything, just ask Secretary Gao." ”

"Thank you, Uncle Lil." Mr. Ritsu's voice was as warm as his smile, and my heart, which had been beating wildly, eased a little. Mr. Lu asked me what the climate was like in Licheng and what my family and I usually do, and I answered truthfully one by one. When answering Mr. Ritsu's question, I kept holding the snack box my father gave me.

"You look a lot like Xiaoice. Very well-behaved and careful, for fear of doing something wrong. Mr. Ritsu fell into deep thought.

"Xiaoice?"

"Xiaoice is your mother's nickname."

I was amazed: "Uncle Lu knows my mother? ”

Mr. Ritsu: "Your grandmother is my tutor, and your mother lived in my house for a period of time when she was a child. We have a good relationship. She, she's like my sister. ”

Dad told me a lot on the train, but he didn't mention it.

At this time, the phone on Mr. Li's desk rang, and Mr. Lil asked Secretary Gao to take me to rest: "Selangor lives in 'Yuemingxuan', you can take her to familiarize herself with the home again, and let Qingqing accompany Selangor." ”

Secretary Gao glanced at me meaningfully before slowly replying, "Yes, sir." ”

After coming out of Mr. Lil's study, I followed Secretary Gao through the big room. I also didn't have anything to say: "This house looks like a southern building." ”

Secretary Gao looked ahead and explained coldly: "Originally, the ancestral house of the southern law family was going to be demolished, but Mr. Lu was reluctant, so he asked people to carefully remove the parts of the house first, and then transport the parts here, and then ask the master of his hometown to rebuild it, which took a year before and after. ”

It turned out to be so!

"It's amazing!" I couldn't help but exclaim.

"The 'Yue Ming Xuan' of this family, I don't know how many people want to live, even the young master likes it, it's been empty for more than a year, and no one is allowed to touch it, but I didn't expect to fulfill Miss Selangor's today."

I listened carefully.

"Mr. Ritsu is a nostalgic person. Therefore, not only his young friends, but also her daughter, he would be generous. Secretary Gao said suddenly.

“……”

Secretary Gao is reminding me that I am just an outsider, and don't try to rely on Mr. Li's care and consider myself the master.

Halfway through, I met a girl holding a large bouquet of fresh lilies. A small white crewneck shirt with a navy blue striped apron. "Secretary Gao!" When she saw us, she immediately raised her hand to greet us, and Secretary Gao beckoned her to come over, and she jumped in response, and the flowers in her arms also nodded.

"She's Qingqing." Secretary Gao said to me, and then introduced me to Qingqing, "This guest at home, Miss Mu Selangor." ”

"Qingqing, hello." I held out my hand to her.

The girl did not shake my hand back, but suddenly took a step forward and approached me, and the unique fragrance of the lilies came to her face in an instant. She took out one of her free hands and gently grabbed my long hair hanging down on her chest, raised it to her eyes, and after a long time, she sighed, "Miss Selangor, your skin is so white, and your hair is so black and smooth......

The little girl's reaction was completely beyond my expectations. Such a direct and enthusiastic compliment was also a new experience for me. I was a little embarrassed: "...... Thank you. ”

Secretary Gao patted Qingqing's hand again, and Qingqing came back to her senses and said solemnly: "Miss Selangor, you can come to me if you have any needs." I'll take good care of you. ”

"Thank you." I don't know what to say other than thanking me one after another.

Secretary Gao opened her hand and pushed open a pair of old wooden doors behind her. There is a relief carving on the door, carved with a pine tree, and the pine needles are like dandelions, fluffy and round, revealing the roughness and simplicity of the hand, which is very cute. When I looked at the relief, Secretary Gao explained by the way: "This is Yuemingxuan." ”

There are two rooms behind the wooden door, and the decoration and home furnishings are Chinese-style. The outer room is a living room, with a wardrobe and bookshelves, and a table and chairs near the window. The inner room is a bedroom with a bed with a walnut cylindrical shelf. I walked to the desk and looked out the window, a small courtyard with light white antiseptic wood, a red maple tree in the center stood elegantly, and directly opposite was a completely modern white house, with a whole wall of high floor-to-ceiling windows, the edge of the window was black, and the long hanging white gauze curtain was tightly drawn, so that it was difficult to see inside.

Qingqing walked up to me, we looked out side by side, her voice jumping briskly: "Miss Selangor, our young master is handsome." He'll be back another day......"

Before she finished speaking, she attracted Secretary Gao's sharp eye knife, and Qingqing stopped her voice in an instant.

After Secretary Gao explained to me again, he took Qingqing away.

I closed the window, sat on the bed with the snack box in my arms, and carefully lifted the lid. In addition to the pastries made by my mother, I found that there were also red hundred-dollar bills rolled into a fist. The red ticket is wrapped in a transparent plastic bag and placed on the periphery of the snack. I gently touched the curl red, my throat choked, and my eyes hurt and dried again.

That night, I had a fever and itchy all over my body, and I scratched all over my body unconsciously. Tossing and turning in the middle of the night, he got up from the suitcase, found the pill, swallowed water and sent the pill to the bottom of his throat. Lying back on the bed, I curled up, wrapped in a thick quilt, and told myself over and over again that I must get through......

In the confusion, I had a lot of dreams, in the dream, I was standing alone by the river, suddenly the waves were high, I turned and fled, but I was still swept by the waves.

When she woke up, she found that it was the next morning, and her ears were clear and light as the wind, and she opened the curtains briskly to let the sunlight in: "Miss Selangor, get up!" "I was sweating a lot, my pajamas were soaking wet, and the cool morning breeze blew and I coughed uncontrollably. I thought to myself, I've finally made it through.

Immediately after, there was screaming and glass exploding in her ears, Qingqing glared and covered her mouth, and took a few steps back, as if she had seen a monster, she was horrified and shouted: "Miss Selangor, you, you, what's wrong with you!" ”

On the wooden frame hanging from the bottom of the house, a fat white parrot came to a leisurely stop. I stood under the eaves of the hall and watched it fall off the stake as if drunk, and then climbed back to the stake with a chain in its hand, and I watched it perform "drunk" three times in the theater that I had tended to it for only half an hour. Even if it's just me, it's a dedicated performer. The food box on the side contained white melon seeds, which were obviously snacks prepared for this person. I picked up a few of them and held them in the palm of my hand and asked, "Do you speak?" The muffled voice in the mask was a little muffled, so I asked again.

The parrot ignored me. Could it be that it also thinks I'm ugly?

This morning, I was completely awake by Qingqing's exclamation, and I was also startled at the first sight of my face in the mirror—my whole face was high and swollen, and my eyes were squeezed into narrow slits, and I could only barely open them. It was as if my face had been brushed with paste several times, and my face was so hard that it blocked all my expressions.

I understand why Qingqing was terrified—I was the same last night and I am today. is like the demon hiding under the skin of the finely painted beauty in "Liao Zhai Painted Skin", which is soaked in the rain and dew in the early morning, revealing its ugly original form.

I'm allergic. I had been sick at home before, and I was fine after a few days of taking medicine. It's just that this time it's the most serious, and I can't even recognize the person in the mirror as myself. Allergies don't go away in an instant, so in order not to scare others, I found a mask to put on. Now it seems that not only people, but even parrots were scared by me.

Perhaps seeing my sincerity, the fat white parrot was finally willing to appreciate its face, and it jumped lightly, approaching me carefully, picking the melon seeds in my hand. I saw it tilt its head neatly to remove the melon shell and swallow the melon kernels, and after eating the melon seeds, it stared at me with black round eyes with a shrewd face.

At this time, listening to the futile noise on the other side of the corridor, Qingqing and two girls of her age walked briskly towards the door, and I heard Qingqing's excited and proud voice: "Look, that's our young master!" Handsome! ”

Master...... Is it Mr. Ritsu's son, Ritsu Terukawa? My father told me that Mr. Ritsu's only son, named Terukawa, went abroad as an exchange student in his third year of college, and rarely returned to China after that.

Should I be like them, and go and meet them, and stay there and not move? I was thinking about it when I saw two tall young men, one black and one white, quietly appearing at the end of the corridor. They walked briskly up the stairs, skirting the cloister and heading this way. I subconsciously hid behind the parrot frame, though it had no cover-up effect, and aimed at people through the eyes of the cockarot.

"Young Master, Young Master Ning, you're back!" Qingqing's voice was sweet.

"Hmm." Short and low response.

"Qingqing, long time no see, it's getting more and more beautiful!" Compared with the simplicity of the young man in black, the young man in white is much more friendly.

"Ah, Young Master Ning really likes to joke......" Qingqing sneered, shy and embarrassed.

Oh, and it's Ritsu Terrukawa in a black shirt.

I couldn't help but look at him a few more times.

Perhaps it was because there was a sudden unfamiliar face in the house, and he noticed me standing under the eaves, his brows furrowed, and he had long, narrow and sharp eyes, and his eyes seemed to be soaked in the cold of winter. He glanced at me quickly and walked briskly to the inner hall.

Somehow, his eyes made his chest feel stuffy, and there was a strange feeling of discomfort.

My hunch has always been accurate, and this discomfort seems to indicate that something unclear and unpleasant is not good......