"Can't I complain? She has been dead for so many years, and my mother has been depressed for so many years because of her! At home, she doesn't even leave the door. When she comes out, she kneels before the Bodhisattva to pray!" Feng Mingzhu! As he spoke, he raised his hand and rubbed his forehead, which was a little painful due to drunkenness: "I'm really fed up."
"It's because you have been talking about this person who has long since ceased to exist, that's why the Li family will find such an excuse, and would rather marry a man with a tomb than me! I have already been hurt enough by the Li family, and you still want to marry me It's time to pay homage to her!" Feng Mingzhu pointed to the jade beads in Qin Qiu's hand and the old baby clothes spread out on the table in front of her: "How long will we have to pay homage like this? Our family will last a lifetime. In the shadow of accidentally dropping the child into the sea?!"
When Mrs. Feng heard what she said, her face suddenly turned ugly: "You kid..."
"You are so presumptuous!" Mr. Feng said angrily: "This year is your sister's eighteenth birthday, and it is also the day that she sank to the bottom of the sea for seventeen years. If she were alive, today would be her coming-of-age ceremony, just like you did back then. Just like the coming-of-age ceremony, you invite guests from all over to celebrate together. As beautiful as you are, she should have the same beautiful scenery. After all, you are all the granddaughters of our Feng family, but now that she is gone, we can’t pay tribute at home. Memorial? You are so angry just for hanging two rabbit lanterns. Do you still want our whole family to lose their memory and completely forget about you, my sister?"
"I really hope that the whole world can forget about her, so maybe there won't be such a big joke that Li Nanheng wants to marry the second daughter of our Feng family, Yi Guanzhong! I am that big joke!" Feng Mingzhu was stubborn. Holding hands: "Mom, I am also your daughter. Can't you put all your thoughts on living people? Do you have to devote so much energy to thinking about someone who has been gone for so many years?"
"Today is your sister's eighteenth birthday. On this day eighteen years ago, our whole family was very happy when she was born. You were very young and ignorant at the time, but you also knew that people around the bed laughed and said that you had a sister. Well, we just want to have a good commemoration on this day. As for other things, we will talk about it another day." Mr. Feng frowned.
Feng Mingzhu rolled her eyes at the two white rabbit lanterns hanging outside, picked up her bag and turned upstairs, walking so fast as if all the people who were paying homage to the second daughter of the Feng family were crazy.
"It's no wonder that Mingzhu has no feelings for her sister. Mingzhu was not sensible at the time, and she didn't have a deep impression of her sister. Although her words were indeed a bit excessive, there is really no need to take it seriously. She recently broke off the engagement because of the Li family. If she's not happy, just give her some time." Mrs. Feng softened her expression, sighed, and said softly.
Qin Qiu, who had been kneeling in front of the Bodhisattva, closed her eyes. Over the years, she had not lost any love for Mingzhu, but she just did not put all her love into her alone. She often thought of her second daughter occasionally. I will be sad and worship at home on this day every year. After all, it is the birthday of the poor child.
But her private thoughts and guilt about her second daughter were a very disgusting existence in Mingzhu's eyes.
She sighed, looking at the old clothes in front of her, her heart couldn't help but feel sore.
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Los Angeles, night market.
The shopping was not over yet, and Feng Ling could not go back to the base directly for the time being. The hotel near the night market was not expensive, so she found a quiet, inexpensive place with a nice environment to stay.
She didn't eat at night and got hungry around nine o'clock. She left the hotel and walked around the night market. She looked at the things she bought on both sides. She looked at this and that, but in a few days she would be at the base. During an important inspection, she couldn't eat randomly, fearing that a bad stomach would affect her performance, so she bought a small pizza that looked pretty good to eat.
There were too many people in the pizza shop and there were no empty seats. Although the air was cool tonight, there was no wind. She took the pizza box and sat down on a step at the intersection in the middle of the night market. She took out the pizza and took a few bites. I picked up the mineral water and took a few sips. From the corner of my eye, I saw a large cake shop not far away. There were many young mothers and their children buying cakes of various sizes and colors in it. Full of happiness.
Feng Ling looked at the various cakes in the cake shop window, biting the pizza in his mouth while looking at it. Just when he was about to reach out and pick up the mineral water next to him, he touched nothing and touched it instead. A men's leather shoe arrived.
She paused, turned her eyes suddenly to look at the shoes she touched, and then raised her head along the man's black trousers until she saw Li Nanheng's stern face clearly. She suddenly felt her palms were hot and frightened. He pulled his hand back.
Li Nanheng looked at the people coming and going around him with a dull look, and then glanced at Feng Ling, who was sitting on the dusty stone steps eating plain pizza. She didn't see the seemingly cold and indifferent corners of his mouth. When she raised her head, she slowly walked down the stairs until she was many steps lower than where she was sitting. She turned around and looked straight at Feng Ling who was sitting there: "The base asked you to come out to purchase, and There’s no limit on how much you can spend, there are places to eat everywhere, what kind of pizza are you sitting here eating?”
Feng Ling had no expression: "I didn't want to have dinner at first, but suddenly I felt hungry, so I went out to eat something casually, as long as I was full."
She didn't ask why Li Nanheng came out suddenly. Anyway, he was the boss, and he could come and go as he pleased. He was so elusive that no one could control him.
She didn't ask him how he knew she was here.
The car she drove from the base was equipped with a GPS tracker. Every member of the team would know her whereabouts when she went on a mission. This was not surprising. Others also had GPS when they went on missions, whether they were helicopters or cars.
Li Nanheng put one hand in his trouser pocket and glanced back at the nearby cake shop: "You have been looking at the cakes in that shop just now, haven't you tried them?"
"I have eaten it. When the brothers in the base celebrate their birthdays, they occasionally buy it back, and I also eat some." Feng Ling lowered his head to bite the pizza. There was something in his mouth, and he said vaguely and lightly: " It just has a strong creamy flavor, nothing special.”
Li Nanheng glanced at her: "Want to eat?"
Feng Ling's hand holding the pizza paused, and she raised her eyes to look at him. She looked at the man standing at the bottom of the stairs with a somewhat amiable expression in his eyes, but at the same time, he also thought about how cruel this man was when his wolfish nature was unleashed. How shameless.
She stood up, reached out and snatched the mineral water he had just picked up, and said in a cold voice, "I don't want to!"