Xia Rou got the news of Cao An, and went back to the annex happily. When I feel better, the stuffy weather doesn't seem to be so annoying anymore.
Upstairs, when passing by Aunt Fang's room, they heard arguing coming from the half-hidden door.
"You want to enter a large state-owned enterprise, and Cao Yang arranged for you to enter. What are you not satisfied with? What else do you want to do!"
"Yes, but I don't want to go to Fen City! I want to stay here!"
"This is the provincial capital, the headquarters of the provincial capital, is there such an easy way to get in!"
"I know it's difficult, but Cao Yang must have a way..."
There was a moment of silence in the room, and Aunt Fang's angry voice came out: "Is there anything I can do, what does it have to do with you!"
"The favor of the eldest son of the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Theater Command! Do you think you can use it casually!"
"You went to Cao Yang without telling me! Why are you so bold!"
"Do you know how many people are blocked outside the gate, even if they want to meet the Cao family!"
"Did you see the guard at the gate! Do you think that anyone can enter this yard casually? Do you think that anyone can use the Cao family's favors casually!"
"Do you think that if you use it and say you are not satisfied, they will have to make up for you?"
"Why don't you look in the mirror! Who are you!"
The room fell into silence again, and one could imagine He Lili's embarrassment.
Outside the house, Xia Rou was also in the same embarrassment.
Every word Aunt Fang slapped on He Lili's face, as well as on Xia Rou's.
She suddenly envied He Lili, envied her and Aunt Fang would scold her like this. If someone could scold her like this in the previous life, maybe they could wake her up too.
But He Lili obviously hasn't been woken up by the scolding.
She insisted on talking back: "Isn't it still your face?"
"Me?" Aunt Fang said angrily, "What face do I have? You've lost all my face!"
"Anyway, so many years of friendship..."
"Shut up!" Aunt Fang was furious. "Affection? What affection! You came up with that! I work for others, and they pay me wages. Where did you get the affection!"
After extreme anger is a kind of weakness.
"You... put your thoughts away! What you think... is impossible!"
"I, what am I thinking!" He Lili felt guilty.
"You think others are stupid? With your little thought, who can't see it?" Aunt Fang said weakly, "Why do you think I sent you to a boarding school when you were in high school? Is it because you always go to Caoyang?" Cao Bin approached, the commander was unhappy and beat me. If I don't send you to boarding house, I won't even have a job... "
He Lili was obviously stunned.
Aunt Fang said again: "If you want to stay here, of course Cao Yang can do it. How big a deal is this to Cao Yang? But he sent you to Fen City, why? Don't you think about it? "Her voice was indescribably tired, worrying about her ignorant daughter.
The room was quiet for a moment, and suddenly He Lili's weeping sound came out.
"Why! Why!" She cried, "How can I be inferior to others! I am also a college student who graduated from a second-year university! You work so hard with your own hands, how can we be inferior to others? "
"How can that mistress' child look like a big lady! Her mother can't even work! She will be someone else's mistress! Shameless!"
"Tell me, is she the commander's child? If she is the commander's child, I will be convinced, and I will accept my fate!"
Aunt Fang scolded her: "What nonsense are you talking about!"
"Just tell me if she is!"
Aunt Fang was silent for a while, and said, "Of course not. If she was the commander's child, she would have taken her home a long time ago, and she wouldn't have waited until now."
He Lili said stubbornly: "Then why should she!"
"We who work so hard to support ourselves are not as good as her mistress' child! Why should she step on us! Shameless!"
"Don't talk nonsense!" Aunt Fang scolded her, "When did Xia Rou step on your head! It's all your own wild imagination!"
"The main building is decorating her room! The Cao family arranged for her to go to school in Nanhua! What kind of place is that in Nanhua! A school for the children of the rich and powerful! Is it the place where the child of a mistress of hers should go? How can she get these! Why? I can't!"
"Is this comparable?" Aunt Fang shouted, "You are enough!"
is enough.
Xia Rou doesn't want to listen anymore.
A mistress' child—this sentence was like a spell in a previous life.
Xia Rou took a deep breath, shook her head, and shook off the curse. She strode back to her room and slammed the door shut with a bang.
The next door suddenly fell silent, and after a while, there was also the sound of "bang" closing the door.
why...
In her previous life, Xia Rou always asked herself this question.
Why should she marry an ordinary white-collar worker and return to the class of ordinary people
Why can't she stay in this class
Constantly asking "why", she was obsessed with it, determined to get engaged to someone who didn't match her.
How helpless the eldest brother was at that time.
His own marriage was not going well, and he had only been divorced for more than a year, but he still had to worry about her marriage.
But he indulged her again.
She still remembered him rubbing her head and saying in a low voice, forget it... With Big Brother around, he can always protect you...
The cold water splashed on her face with a "splash", which woke her up a bit.
Xia Rou wiped her face, raised her head, and looked at herself in the mirror.
The skin of an adolescent girl is almost flawless like a peeled egg.
Don't think about it, Xia Rou.
As if the past was a dream. A dream full of stumbling and mistakes.
You have had such a dream, and when you wake up, you should know how to go step by step in the reality in front of you.
Don't, fall down again.
Don't, go to live up to those who treat you well.
He Lili went to Fen City without saying hello to Xia Rou.
Aunt Fang and Xia Rou have also become polite and considerate. Both of them knew that the little intimacy they had had earlier could never be restored.
Xia Rou touched cold water that day, and her stomach hurt the next day, and she lay in bed for a whole day.
Sister Yu, who was still doing cleaning, noticed it, asked about it, and then talked to Lao Zheng in the kitchen. Lao Zheng stewed a nourishing hot soup for Xiarou, then turned around and told Xiao Yang.
Cao Yang couldn't see Xia Rou when he was eating at night, so he found out from Xiao Yang after asking.
He also made a special trip to see her.
"It's okay." She said weakly, "It hurts when you touch cold water, it's normal."
"You know it will hurt you to touch cold water." Cao Yang said sullenly.
Most of the women Cao Yang knew were slender but healthy, as weak as Xia Rou, and he had never met them before. The little girl's face was pale, her lips turned white from the pain. Originally thin and small, curled up on the bed, looking frightening.
But with women, he can't help at all.
Cao Yang has sharp eyes, and with a glance, he can see that the atmosphere between Aunt Fang and Xia Rou has changed. Thinking of He Lili again, it's not hard to guess.
He bypassed Aunt Fang and found Sister Yu, asking her to take care of Xia Rou.
With his special entrustment, Xia Rou was naturally well taken care of. Although it was in so much pain at the time, she recovered after her aunt left.
The weather was so hot that even morning jogging was unbearable, so Xia Rou went to swim in the basement instead.
When Cao Yang went down to the ground, he saw her happily swimming in the water. Snow-white skin, thin straight legs, like a little mermaid in the blue water of the pool.
Seeing him coming, she hurried to the shore, took off her swimming goggles, and wiped her face. He raised his head and called, "Brother Cao Yang."
Cao Yang squatted down: "You swim well, who did you learn from?"
With you.
Xia Rou smiled: "There are swimming lessons in the school."
"Hey, Little Mermaid!" Another person came down from the elevator.
"Brother Cao Bin, are you back? Where's Brother Cao Xing?"
"He has dinner today, so he probably won't be able to come back. Come back tomorrow." Cao Bin said with a smile. "How about it, are you still used to it here?"
Xia Rou said a few words to him and went swimming again.
She took a swim and saw Cao Yang and Cao Bin sitting on wicker chairs by the pool, and realized that they might have something to talk about, so she went ashore, said hello, and left first.
Before the elevator doors closed, she looked at the two people by the pool.
Both brothers showed off their long legs in boxer trunks. Both of them have abdominal muscles, and the muscle lines of their shoulders and arms are very beautiful. The two brothers also look alike and are equally handsome. Cao Yang is more masculine, and Cao Bin's eyes are full of maturity and sophistication.
Each has its own taste.
She thought of Cao Xing and Cao An again.
The four brothers of the Cao family, the famous four golden bachelors. Ladies from famous families flock to her.
The four of them are all born smart, and have much better backgrounds than others, so they are all destined to be dragons and phoenixes.
It's not something that He Lili or a girl like her can think about.
Xia Rou thought, she is actually better than He Lili. At least, she knew how big the gap was between her and them.
Therefore, in her previous life, although she was close to the water, she never thought about any of the four brothers.
Cao Bin watched her enter the elevator.
"It's quite sensible. I have some sharp eyesight." He turned his head and said to Cao Yang. "How are you? Is it troublesome?"
Cao Yang nodded and said, "Very good. He is an obedient child."
Cao Bin said: "I'm afraid I will be like He Lili in the future. That would be annoying."
"No." Cao Yang lit a cigarette, "He Lili has no one to teach, so Xiaorou has me?"
Cao Bin let out a "ho": "How long has it been since I came home? She has already been favored by you?"
"Get out." Cao Yang said, "Teach him well, he must be a good boy."
He paused, and added: "Dad likes her very much. With her here, Dad can eat more."
The brothers were silent for a while.
"Okay." Cao Bin said, "For that alone, it's worth keeping her."
He didn't ask much about how the Cao family wanted to raise Xia Rou.
He is also a person who makes decisions outside, but in this family, he still has Cao Yang on his head, and Cao Yang has Cao Xiong on his head.
It's not his turn to worry.
Cao Yang didn't like Cao Bin talking about Xia Rou in that way. As if she was a kitten and puppy.
But he didn't say anything.