Chapter 31
Lin Ran bent down and picked up the book on the table. It was a book of essays, which recorded many delicacies and some memories of food, clothing, housing and transportation. The writing was plain and warm, and it was very interesting to read.
She looked left and right but saw no one.
She lowered her eyes. Is there anyone else on Half Moon Mountain who likes books like this and has this kind of carefree mentality?
Seven years after she left, someone discovered her favorite back mountain and built a simple pergola like this. On summer nights, she would hold a star lantern and cool off under the pergola, or chase fireflies all over the valley. These were her childhood memories.
When she was a child, her family was poor and could not afford an electric fan. In midsummer, her grandmother would take her to live in an old house in the mountains for a few days. The old house had no water or electricity, so they drank mountain spring water and used kerosene lamps.
The nights in the mountains are cool. At night, fireflies fly out from the valley, twinkling like stars falling from the sky. She chases the fireflies, having fun like a wild child.
Since when did her dreams no longer contain valleys full of fireflies?
Lin Ran's eyes dimmed and she put down the book in her hand. All the people and things she cared about had left her forever.
All she could do was wait, wait for that day to come.
When we came back from the back mountain, it was almost noon.
When the housekeeper saw her come back, he quickly reminded her in a low voice: "Fifth Miss, you'd better stay away for a while."
Lin Ran listened carefully and heard Shen Zhongqi's furious voice coming from the side hall, mixed with the sound of broken porcelain, Chen Zhi's crying, and Lin Ruolan's gloating voice.
In short, the scene was very ugly.
Obviously, Shen Zhongqi, who was on a visit abroad, has returned and is settling scores.
Lin Ran frowned. She sat in the shed on the back mountain for a while and read a book. Her mood calmed down and she had a rare inspiration. She was about to go back to get her paintbrush!
She looked at the housekeeper and whispered, "Uncle Lin, can you help me get my painting supplies?"
The butler was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Please wait a moment."
The Fifth Miss is really out of tune with everyone here, as if she is living on an isolated island. No matter how turbulent the wealthy families in Hong Kong are, everything that happens in Chenyuan has nothing to do with her.
She only cares about whether it is sunny or rainy today, winter snow or spring flowers on her isolated island.
The housekeeper went into the side hall and soon brought out her painting supplies.
Lin Ran stood there for a while and listened roughly. Shen Zhongqi whipped Chen Zhi several times and angrily scolded her mother for not educating her well and losing the marriage with the He family in vain. The mother and daughter cried and screamed, and almost wanted to hang themselves.
Lin Ran lowered her eyes. In this world, every evildoer will be punished by his own evildoer.
Chen Zhi's current situation was all her own fault. If she had no ill intentions, how could she have ruined her marriage with He Yuanbai?
She took her painting supplies, hid under the shade of the trees in the courtyard, and painted the inspiration that flashed through her mind in the back mountain.
Regarding the fourth picture of the girl, she already had a new idea. This time she wanted to paint the girl and fireflies, and paint the valley that she could never return to even in her dreams.
Lin Ran was sitting under the shade of a tree drawing the rough draft. When she looked up, it was already dusk.
She moved her stiff shoulders and numb legs, put away her paintbrushes and painting tools, and stood up to go back to the side hall.
The fighting in the side hall had already stopped.
Shen Zhongqi was tired from fighting and went back to the second floor to rest.
Chen Zhi was whipped several times and her body was covered with wounds, but she refused to go to the hospital. The mother and daughter were tired of crying, and they hugged each other trembling, refusing to leave even if they died, for fear that if they left, they would be exiled to the frontier, just like she and Shen Zhuoyu back then.
Then there is really nothing left.
When Lin Ran came in with her painting supplies, Chen Zhi looked at her with resentment: "Lin Ran, were you the one who complained? It was you who wanted to kill me!
It was you who seduced Brother Yuan Bai and wanted to take my place. I know it was you."
Lin Ran lowered her eyes, feeling a little sorry for her. Although Chen Zhi was an illegitimate daughter, she had no worries about food and clothing since she was born.
If she could be as outstanding as Song Zitong, be excellent in both character and study since childhood, and be self-reliant and strong, with the power of the Shen family, she would definitely be able to marry into the He family and get what she wanted.
She was the one who ruined a good hand of cards.
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