He likes you

The villa on the mountain is called Baiyuan, a Western-style building in the late Republic of China, located in a location that is almost isolated from the world.Over the past few years, the owner of the villa has changed four times. The fourth owner moved overseas 20 years ago, and the White Garden has remained vacant.Until five years ago, it lived in the fifth owner, a woman who came back from the West and brought a boy.

That woman is Shang Junmei.

In the huge house with a big garden, only Shang Junmei and Shang Yan lived in it for five years.In this almost isolated location, lived a life of isolation.

He Yao brought Shang Yan back, walked into this garden that seemed to have existed in another century, his nervous breath was suspended again.

Shang Junmei likes to sit in a glass room full of flowers and plants and drink tea in sunny weather.

He Yao became the first guest she entertained in this sun room.

"I haven't been out for a long time. The things at home are delivered by phone." Shang Junmei told He Yao about their life here.

Shang Yan chooses to sit next to He Yao instead of his mother.He Yao seemed to be the closest person to him at the moment.

Shang Junmei picked up the teapot and poured it into He Yao's teacup, only a little bit of the maroon tea flowed out.

She glanced at the jar of tea, and then called to her son, "Shang Yan, go get some more tea."

Shang Yan looked at He Yao, but didn't get up immediately, Shang Junmei urged him with her eyes.He frowned dissatisfiedly, his movements dragged, he reluctantly stood up and walked out of the sun room.

As soon as Shang Yan left, Shang Junmei couldn't bear it anymore and began to ask He Yao about him: "Is he still used to living outside?"

He Yao said: "It's quite comfortable, but I rarely leave the house."

Shang Junmei said "Oh" and nodded, as if she was relieved.

She let He Yao eat biscuits, and then asked him: "During the time you spent with Shang Yan, did you find him strange?"

This question caught He Yao's attention, and he didn't know how to answer it best.When he first came into contact with Shang Yan, he thought he was strange, very strange, like a certain prince who was accidentally blown outside by the wind into a greenhouse, and had no intention of living among the people.Those were neither good nor bad ideas.

But later, he liked Shang Yan's innocence instead.

People say they like him, but they may not really like him.But when Shang Yan said he liked him, he must have liked him, liked him very much.

"Most people probably think he's weird. If the person he met wasn't you, he might be cheated out of his money now, and he doesn't even know if he will be able to return home." Shang Junmei sighed and scratched with her right hand Fingers of the left hand.Some things seem to have to be said, but it is difficult to say.

Seeing her sighing and blinking, He Yao asked, "Auntie, do you have anything to tell me?"

"Actually." Shang Junmei said at the beginning, paused for two seconds, and said, "Actually, his father is a prominent young master in the family in Europe. But I think this is a shame for him all his life."

Although He Yao knew in his heart that Shang Yan's background was not simple, he was still a little surprised when he heard such a difficult wording: "Why do you say that?"

"The thinking of their family is old-fashioned, and they retain a lot of feudal traditions. They educate their children and have to observe some useless rules and etiquette. If they make a mistake, they will be scolded. He only said to his brothers and sisters there I have never been out of that garden." Shang Junmei was holding a handkerchief folded into a triangle, as if thinking about how to express her words later, "His nationality has always been here, and I lived separately from his father five years ago. Bring him back to the country. But he doesn't adapt to life here, and has always been out of tune."

He Yao was a little dumbfounded.He has never seen the kind of life Shang Junmei said, so he can only rely on the imagination of foreign movies and TV shows he has seen before.

Shang Junmei always thinks every sentence well and thinks it through before expressing it in a tactful way. "Shame" is the worst word she has ever used.

He Yao was also affected by her speaking habits. When she asked a question, even though she didn't know how to express it tactfully, her tone was as cautious as possible: "Since he is used to living there, why...why did you bring him back?"

"The life there was too depressing and dull, and I couldn't bear it. When I met his father, I didn't know that he was in this kind of family. If I had known it earlier, I would not have been stuck in the mud and caused the current mistakes." Shang Junmei Crumpled the handkerchief in his hand, and thought for a long time, "His father often sends money. I have quite a lot of money. I didn't intend to force him to adapt to this society. After he comes back, I will hire a special teacher. I went to teach him at home. He has only passed the high school entrance examination and college entrance examination, and only stays in this garden for the rest of the time. The university did not intend to let him go to the school. He still asked his husband to teach him at home. But now, he is not allowed It’s not enough to adapt to this society.”

A little doubt floated in He Yao's eyes, he looked at Shang Junmei's worried face.

Shang Junmei rubbed her forehead and said, "I am sick, and I believe I will pass away in a few years."

"Auntie, you..." He Yao opened his eyes wide, "Does Shang Yan know about this?"

"He knows, and he cried too." Perhaps Shang Junmei remembered her son crying, and a little tear came out of the corner of her eye.She wiped the corners of her eyes with the towel, "I told him that I have to go back to his father. Because I promised his father that I would go back to him before I die. But I don't want him to go back with him, his Life is still long, and I don't want him to spend the rest of his life in that cage."

"Auntie, but you leave here without taking him away, what will he do?"

Shang Junmei's eyes were red, and she smiled at He Yao: "Yeah, what should he do? But even if I don't leave here, I will leave sooner or later. I can't take care of him forever, he should learn to get out of this The city wall." She sniffed, suppressed the tears in her eyes, and said, "I want him to join the army."

The air was momentarily quiet.

He Yao hesitated for a moment: "...Do you want him to join the army?"

Shang Junmei nodded: "Yes, only the army is the best for him. I told him about it. He thought I arranged his life arbitrarily, so he got angry and ran out of the house. I know it's very important for me to do so. No respect for him. I also hope that his life can be decided by himself. But he can't stay in this place forever, live alone, die of old age alone. He can't live like this for the rest of his life."

He Yao opened his mouth, he wanted to say, maybe he could stay by Shang Yan's side for a lifetime.But this sentence, he never said it out of his mouth.The world is impermanent, no one can guarantee that he will not die earlier than Shang Yan.This lifetime promise, even if he could be worthy of himself, he might not be worthy of Shang Yan, or Shang Junmei in front of him.

Shang Junmei probably knew what he wanted to say.She wiped away the tears that slid down her cheeks with her fingertips, and said to He Yao: "You can't help him either. You may be able to protect him for the rest of his life, but he has to learn to grow up on his own." She said, "When he is immature When...you have to leave him, and he has to leave you. "

He Yao clenched his fingers tightly, and silence became the only tacit understanding between them.

The person standing outside the sun room with tea leaves didn't open the door to come in for a long time.