“The wind blew, I guess, and probably didn’t close it tightly.”
Sister Lan finished wiping the table and carried the bucket towards the courtyard, “I’ll go and close it, Madam, you can rest early.”
Amelia Bright looked out and responded with a careless
“Good.”
In the next courtyard, a wall away, the open-air game of chess was interrupted by a knock on the door halfway through.
Adjutant Xun sent Xiao Zhang to open the door, Xiao Zhang is to know the visitor.
“Dr. Wen, what brings you here?”
White Wen often comes to Miyun, and this place is adjacent to Cheng House, it is difficult not to recognize.
” Mr. Austin is in, I think.”
White Wen’s question was very direct.
At that, Zhang immediately shook his head reflexively, “We don’t have Austin’s surname here.”
“I’m looking for Farren Austin, I saw him come in during the evening.”
Xiao Zhang’s face changed slightly, he is a local in the town of Miyun, just to cover up the ears, was hired to this inn as a fellow, high pay is not tired, the only requirement is a strict mouth, if something goes wrong, his golden rice bowl can not be guaranteed, when the head shook like a rattle drum.
“Dr. Wen, I really don’t know what you are talking about, our proprietor’s name is Chen, and there are no customers in the past two days, there is no Mr. Austin you are talking about.”
“Xiao Zhang,” Adjutant Xun’s voice came from behind him, and Xiao Zhang looked back with a puzzled expression.
“Mr. Xun …”
“There’s nothing more for you to do here,” Adjutant Xun said, dismissing Xiao Zhang and giving White Wen a look.
“Dr. Wen, you come with me,”
Farren Austin was playing chess in the yard, holding the black piece and watching the board intently, it looked like the black piece had the upper hand, and this was a time for stability.
“Sir, people are coming.”
Adjutant Xun only took White Wen to the pavilion and then turned away.
White Wen stood erect and looked at Farren Austin with obvious hostility in his eyes. He had just arrived in Hounslow and met this man for the first time when he knew that a man like him had a deadly charm in him, enough to attract women.
He used to think that Lucy Chambers’ capriciousness was an advantage, and that as long as he pampered her bottomlessly, she would become dependent on him, but five years ago she said she would leave, making him understand once and for all that Lucy Chambers still had an arrogance in her that overrode all her character traits.
And this arrogance of hers, unable to submit to his doting, unable to fall deep into his wide and gentle, but can be in a moment she herself does not know, was suppressed in front of this man’s strong, and then difficult to extricate themselves.
He was a step too late after all.
“Can you play chess?” Farren Austin’s voice pulled him back to his thoughts.
“You can try.”
“So open a new set?”
“No, stumpage is fine.”
As in life, when he came, there was already a wreck in front of him, and it was impossible to have given him the opportunity to re-plot the layout.
When it came to White Wen’s move, he took the white disc and made every move carefully, gradually repairing the previous holes.
Farren Austin, contrary to his style of play, is determined and resolute in every move he makes, and the moment he lands, he is determined and uncompromising in his movements and demeanor.
Half an hour later
“I lost.”
“White was already downwind, and you’ve played very well against the wind.”
White Wen lost in that he only Chambers to fill the holes of the previous defects, and his uncompromising defense eventually exhausted all the opportunities of offense, and was taken advantage of by Farren Austin, which eventually made it difficult to turn the game over.
“Start a new game, I may not win.”
“It’s not necessary.” White Wen looked cold, “There is no chance to start a new game in life.”
Life is like a chess game, no regrets in the fall.
A moment of silence, the sound of the evening breeze are heard extraordinarily clearly.
“When I return home, I hope you will treat her well.”
“I will.”
If someone else says this, Farren Austin must not bother to respond, his woman he will take care of Chambers, no need for others to say three things.
But if there is anyone in this world who is qualified to say anything, it is White Wen.
“She doesn’t like it when people hide things from her, even if you’re doing it for her benefit, she won’t appreciate it. In her view of love, trust is based on honesty, and she wants the other person to trust her judgment and respect her decisions, not to exclude her.”
Farren Austin’s brow furrowed slightly, and after a long time nodded his head.
“Good.”
The night breeze will blow the trees in the courtyard rustling, White Wen said the words gradually some confusion, driven by alcohol, he did things he would never do before, saying things he would never say before.
He also never imagined that he would graciously entrust the woman he loved most to someone else’s hands.
Farren Austin was patient and listened to him talk about everything upside down, even when it mentioned everything from five years ago.
After saying that there was nothing more to say, White Wen finally got up and stood sluggishly for a while, looking at Farren Austin with eyes still full of hostility.
“If you ever treat her badly, I’ll still come back and take her away, and you’ll never, ever want to see her again, and by that time you’ll know that nothing in life means anything when it’s clear you’ll never see her again.”
“There won’t be that day.”
“I wish.”
Having said that, White Wen turned around, left the pavilion, paced the courtyard, and suddenly stopped in his tracks
“Also, I’ve seen her take your picture in private and teach Ann numerous times about her dad.”
There is no such thing as a coincidence or a coincidence of blood relatives, those you think are destined to be, but there are people who spend countless efforts behind the scenes to try to create the atmosphere, ‘premeditated’ is far more painstaking than the ‘unexpected encounter’.
After the ‘creak’ of the door closing, Farren Austin was left alone in the courtyard against a chessboard that was a foregone conclusion.
White Wen’s words before he left suddenly reminded him of something, and when he thought of all the coincidences of these days, the fragmented images in his mind gradually became clear.
So the wall between the two courtyards, in fact, a long time ago has been a virtual nullity.
The next morning, Amelia Bright woke up for breakfast when White Wen was gone.
“I said to white this person can not see parting, certainly to sneak away, let you get up early today you do not listen, this is good, and later do not know when and how to see, you this scum girl.”
Early in the morning, Emily Guan was rambling on and on.
Amelia Bright took a doughnut and stuffed it into her mouth.
“The food can’t even plug your mouth, did I say I’m not sending him off? It’s just not appropriate this morning, he drank so much last night, and cried and laughed, he certainly does not want to see us this morning.”
Emily Guan chewed on a doughnut and slurred.
“You’re justified anyway.”
“I’m really going to see him off,” Amelia Bright said with a straight face as she took a sip of her porridge.
“The teachers of the training course have all been summoned, and the children are learning quite well, so after the Dragon Boat Festival, I plan to take Anan back to Hounslow to live for a while, and by then, just in time to send Ebai away.”
“You’re going back to Hounslow? What for?”
“No one will send the Chambers family to me if I’m always here.”