Miss Mu and the Canary

Chapter 70

At dusk, the setting sun generously presents the afterglow, paving a golden carpet for the white-capped boats on the Tonghua River, and sending them all the way to the stage on the other side.

The hustle and bustle outside made the mansion even more silent.In the room, two people who had had enough trouble sat at the desk, each reading a book.

However, when he came back this time, Mu Xing only brought back two miscellaneous books, which he had read before.At this time, listening to the bustle outside the window, I was already impatient and couldn't sit still.

Finally throwing away the book, she lay down on the table, blinked and said, "Shu Wan, Shu Wan, why don't we go and have a look too?"

She turned around on the chair, Bai Yan had already noticed it, but she deliberately didn't speak.Seeing her talking at this time, Bai Yan glanced at her and said: "Just now I heard someone complaining about backache again."

Mu Xing pretended to be stupid: "Really, who is it? I didn't hear it." Seeing that Bai Yan was unmoved, she frowned, "Hey, I'm so boring, so boring, I want to go out and play..."

Putting down the book, Bai Yan sighed: "Ancestor, if you don't take good care of yourself after a few days of trouble, you will suffer from the root cause of the disease in the future, and sometimes you will be bored."

Naturally, Mu Xing knew the reason, but at this time, he was full of food, and his mind was wandering, deliberately provoking Bai Yan to act like a baby.

She twisted on the table for a long time, turned her head to look out of the window, and suddenly had an idea, she straightened up and said, "Since you can't go out to look, how about looking at the head office from the air?"

Bai Yan laughed: "Look from a distance? Why don't you use clairvoyance?"

Stretching his waist and standing up, Mu Xing grabbed a light bulb and dragged Bai Yan to get up and walk to the back door of the room.

Bai Yan asked: "Where are you going? Do you want to find a place to perform your clairvoyance?"

Mu Xing snorted, "What's clairvoyance? I'll show you my big baby later!"

Bai Yan didn't understand why at first, and followed Mu Xing all the way to the wall behind her room where the sundries were kept.

Although the utility room is cleaned frequently, there is still some dust.Covering her mouth and nose with a handkerchief, Bai Yan said, "What big treasure, is it still hiding here?"

Mu Xing didn't speak, she turned around in the wall, stood in front of a cabinet that was so tall that it reached the ceiling, stretched out her hand and pushed it, and opened the door.

Bai Yan felt a sudden gust of wind blowing into the wall, startling all the dust.Before he had time to cough, Mu Xing grabbed her and burrowed into the cupboard.

"Let's go, before the ashes react!"

Getting into the cupboard, Bai Yan closed the door with her backhand, turned her head and saw a narrow staircase in front of her.

She quickly realized: "Stairs? Is this going up to the roof?" In the past few days, she has only been active in the front hall and bedroom, and she has never found such a passage hidden here.

The cabinet is very narrow, just enough to accommodate a narrow wooden ladder leading straight up.Mu Xing stood on the steps a few steps higher, and the electric light shone behind her, covering her eyebrows and eyes. The slender figure contrasted with the cramped stairs, like a farce.

She looked down at Bai Yan, stretched out a hand, and said in a deep voice, "Ma'am, please allow me to invite you into my castle."

Bai Yan couldn't help laughing, but Mu Xing still maintained an inviting attitude with a serious expression.Putting her smile back, Bai Yan raised her head slightly, and proudly put her hand into Mu Xing's.

"I accept your invitation, ma'am."

Mu Xing held Bai Yan's hand, and the two squeezed together on the narrow stairs with some difficulty, reaching the top within a few steps.

Stretching out his hand to push away the narrow board at the top, Mu Xing climbed up first, and then turned his hand to pull Bai Yan up.

"Be careful not to touch your head." Mu Xing squatted and said.

The roof was too narrow, so Bai Yan followed her example and squatted on the ground. Looking around, it turned out to be a small attic.

The attic is about [-] square meters in size, and the roof is so low that a ten-year-old child can barely stand on it.At the far left end of the attic, a small window shines through, allowing people to barely see the environment in front of them.

Although the attic is small, it has all the internal organs, a small table, a folding chair, and even a bed that can accommodate a child.The entire attic is fairly tidy - if you ignore the mess of papers on the surrounding walls.

After taking the light, Bai Yan moved over in an unsightly posture, and looked at the colored papers one by one.

"This is the attic where I hid my things when I was young. My aunt helped me clean it up." Mu Xing said behind her, "Even my mother has never been here."

Touching her nose, she added: "Of course, Yining and the others have been here before. Every time we come to Tonghua, we will have a small meeting here. The commander will send a token to Mengwei and the others to let them go. On mission..."

Turning around, Bai Yan pointed to a certain piece of paper pasted on the wall, and said with a smile: "I can see that you, a great commander, are very unpopular."

"Huh? Who said that, I'm competent..." Mu Xing moved over and looked at the wall.

On the piece of paper that has faded to yellow-green, there is a line of regular lowercase letters, every stroke exudes resentment: "Ah Xuan is a big fool!"

Mu Xing exclaimed: "Ah, I never found out! It must have been written by Yi Ning!" She laughed, "You don't know, at that time we all went to catch fish and dig loaches, and Yining was Jiao Didi's little girl. Princess, you don’t want to go with us. Every time I don’t give her a token, I leave her here to guard the house, and she gets angry.”

With the lamp on, the two looked back again.As time goes by, the colorful paper has long faded, and the joy it carried has long since become a yellowed page in memory.

"Oh, this Chinese teacher! I still remember. I couldn't recite the book, but he actually hit me on the palm in public! I was so angry that I didn't sleep all night, and I recited both texts hard, and guess what? He was the second God didn't ask me any more!"

"This? This seems to be the first time I wrote it when I came back from Beiping. The pheasant chicken floss buns are really delicious. I wrote it down and thought about it!"

Bai Yan pointed to another one, raised her eyebrows and asked, "What about this one? What do you mean 'the new English teacher who came this semester is very good-looking, and I heard that he also studied in the United States'?"

Mu Xing was stunned for a moment, thinking hard: "Well, this... I don't remember this... Why should I remember this, I forgot it a long time ago."

Bai Yan sneered: "Such a good-looking English teacher, is it harder to remember than pheasant floss buns?"

As soon as Mu Xing hugged her, he pecked at her: "What's so beautiful, I don't know!"

After looking all the way, I finally came to the small window.

Reaching out to open the latch of the window, Mu Xing turned his head and said, "Come on, I'll take you to watch a social drama in the air!"

The wind on the roof was very strong, just as Bai Yan climbed out of the window, she was almost slapped down by the hood. Mu Xing quickly pulled her into his arms.

Embracing the warm and soft person in her arms, she rubbed her chin against the spinner on Bai Yan's head, and said softly: "Look, this is a beautiful mountain and river."

The clear blue sky is gradually stained with blood, until the whole world is printed with the color of the setting sun, and the golden light covers the distant mountains with a layer of golden veil.

In the farther distance, the surrounding mountains are undulating, like a beast that has been dormant for many years.The beast's spine is shaking, ready to go, and when the time is right, it can sweep the fields and villages, changing the color of the world.In the paddy field at the foot of the mountain, the blue color is connected into a patch, one or two figures are floating, and the big buffalo has also turned into a dark spot.

"It's so beautiful." Looking at the scenery in front of her, Bai Yan murmured.

"I don't have anything, only this little treasure can be hidden." Mu Xing said, "Now I will give you everything, all of it."

Looking far away, you can find the golden Tonghua River, the crowd of people by the river, and the opera performers with flags all over their body and shaking proudly like a big rooster on the stage without much effort.

After quietly watching for a while, Mu Xing said, "I don't know which song this song is about."

"In the beginning, it's mostly fighting scenes, right?" Bai Yan said, "I heard Aunt Li said that one of the scenes was "Fighting Yan Song", and her youngest son complained a lot.

Mu Xing couldn't help laughing: "Why is this kid like me?"

She said: "When I was a child listening to operas with my aunt, I also heard Qilin Tong's "Fighting Yan Song". When I was young, I only liked to watch martial arts fight vigorously, or listen to Tsing Yi singing babbling. The most annoying thing is that the old students read it in a pretentious manner, like an old lady. Once I made a fuss to leave, it seemed that Ms. Feng was there, and I read it for a long time."

Speaking of Ms. Feng, Bai Yan suddenly thought of something, she said: "Speaking of which, I have talked about Feng Yingtian with the old lady's maid before, why is the maid not familiar?"

Mu Xingqi said: "You mean Jingye? How is it possible? I remember that Feng Yingtian has been to the house several times. Grandma still likes her very much. It is impossible for Jingye not to know. Maybe she remembered it wrong."

"Maybe." Bai Yan nodded.It just so happened that a strong wind blew past, sending a burst of fragrance, looking down, she couldn't help but said happily: "Look, the sweet-scented osmanthus is blooming!"

Following her fingers, Mu Xing was also a little surprised: "Ah, it opened so early this year?"

Bai Yan smiled and said: "This is good, we can beat osmanthus flowers to make osmanthus wine, and we can also make candied osmanthus flowers."

Mu Xing deliberately said: "Hey, didn't someone say last night that his fingers don't touch the spring water, why can hairpin flowers make honey again today?"

After a pause, Bai Yan said softly, "This is the only skill I learned from my mother."

The first time she heard Bai Yan talk about her relatives, Mu Xing couldn't help but feel her heart tighten. She withdrew her mind and listened quietly to Bai Yan.

Leaning in Mu Xing's arms, Bai Yan said, "I told you, I was originally from Yunnan."

Mu Xing nodded: "I remember."

"My father doesn't gamble or take drugs, but he only likes to drink two sips of wine. Laobaigan, rose wine, pine wine...he likes them all. He was an instructor in the martial arts hall at that time, and the management of the martial arts hall was strict. He only had monthly vacations. , you can have a couple of drinks at home." Bai Yan said slowly.

"My mother attaches great importance to these two sips of wine. Whenever my father takes a monthly vacation, my mother will always go to the best winery in the city to make a pot of top-quality wine, so that my father can enjoy himself."

Looking at a point in the void, Bai Yan smiled unconsciously.She said: "After several times of wars, my father left the martial arts hall and followed the Zhili with his friends, and our family moved to Suzhou Mansion with my father."

Hearing the word "direct line", Mu Xing could roughly imagine what would happen next.She put her arms around Bai Yan and said in a relaxed tone, "No wonder you can speak Suzhou dialect."

Bai Yan nodded: "I was not yet ten years old at the time, and I was studying in a church school. At first, my classmates laughed at me for a while, saying that I had an accent."

Mu Xing said, "It's a pity, I don't have the good fortune to go to the same school as you. If I were here, who dares to laugh at you, I will definitely beat him down."

Bai Yan poked her on the forehead with a smile: "When you were eight or nine years old, you must have been teasing cats and dogs. If we had the same school, I would ignore you."

Mu Xing pursed his lips and stretched out his hand to tickle her itch: "What are you talking about? How dare you ignore me?"

Bai Yan smiled and wanted to hide: "Don't make a fuss, don't make a fuss, just fall carefully."

Mu Xing refused to let go, she hugged Bai Yan tightly, and kissed her loudly on the forehead.

"I wish I didn't know you then." She said, "If I could meet you then..."

She didn't go on.

Bai Yan understood everything.

If they could meet at that time, maybe...Mother would not die, she would not be trafficked...they would have a better start and a better future.

However, in all kinds of things in the world, after all, there is no one "if".