"Oh, my little Anna, you must miss me so much, God, it's been a long time since you called me that." Oblonsky exaggerated like a theater staff, and his beautiful gray eyes even had a flash of emotion tears.

"Okay, brother, I think we have to say goodbye to the Countess and Count Vronsky who have been neglected all this time." Anna reminded her brother with this body in a joking tone.

"Oh, yes." Oblonsky took out his handkerchief and wiped away his tears. He took Anna up to the countess, thanked him very solemnly, and said goodbye.

"You're welcome, your sister is a charming lady, and it's thanks to her that I keep my old bones from being torn apart by the train."

"You are a funny and knowledgeable lady, thank you for making this trip interesting." Anna smiled, and as soon as she finished speaking, she bumped into a person behind her.

"Oh, I'm so sorry ma'am, I didn't mean it." It was an old man with slightly gray hair, holding an iron rod, which seemed to be used to check whether the rails were broken, because the temperature was low in winter, and if the rails were frozen when they were frozen You can't tell if it is broken, but once it is really broken, the train will face the danger of derailment at any time.

"No, you don't need to take it to heart." Anna waved her hand to signal the other party not to panic, and the old man breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes filled with gratitude, "You are such a kind lady." After speaking, he bent over and continued to knock The rails are gone.

"Jingle - jingle -"

Anna was about to leave with Oblonsky, and Vronsky, mother and son, hadn't gone very far when they heard a shrill scream from behind, and the crowd exploded loudly, shouting "Crush people to death!" — crushing people to death —”

She looked back instinctively, her gray eyes widened, the ragged coat was the old man just now, she shook a bit, Oblonsky supported her sister, hugged her in his arms and comforted her, Vronsky put back the hand which he was about to raise.

"I'll go and have a look." Vronsky frowned, walked towards the crowd, and asked the members of the Ministry of Railways who were wearing signs.

"God!" The countess had seen the world after all, but she was a little panicked. She pressed her chest and kept muttering, looking at her son's handsome back as if seeking comfort.

A few minutes later, Vronsky came striding forward, his expression serious, and the wrinkles between his brows were deeper than when he had just left.

Anna raised her head from Oblonsky's arms and asked in a low voice: "How is it?"

"It's hopeless, and his wife and children are crying bitterly over there."

Anna quickly took out a sum of money from the small bag and handed it to Count Vronsky, who looked at her in surprise, and she explained with trembling lips, "Please give them to the mother and child, in such cold weather, at least let They have a little bit of material security."

"Okay." Vronsky took it, admiring Anna in his eyes, and Oblonsky at the side also handed over a sum of money to the other party, "Please also count my thoughts."

When they got out of the station, a man in uniform ran up to block them, that man was the station master of the train, and he said to Vronsky, panting heavily: "In such a panic, you gave me Two hundred rubles for the assistant, who is it for?"

"No, I'm for the mother and child." He shrugged, "It's a matter of course, isn't it?"

"Oh, of course, kind sir."

After the station master left, Vronsky noticed that Anna looked at him with admiration in his eyes, and he grinned, with a childlike innocence at the corners of his mouth, which was very charming, and for a young woman in her 20s, it was simply It is invisibly seducing others.

"Well done, Vronsky, what a handsome young man!" Oblonsky praised, evidently liking Vronsky.

After parting from Count Vronsky, mother and son, Anna sat in the carriage and asked Oblonsky, "You seem to know Count Vronsky very well, brother."

The man took a puff of his cigar, blinked his thick eyelashes and said with a smile: "Yes, he is a beautiful young man, and he is kind and generous. You see, he just gave him two hundred rubles in silence when something happened. It's not easy to have such an unassuming lad these days, so Dolly and I hope he'll marry Kitty."

"That's right." Anna was a little happy. She had never seen an authentic Western-style wedding, but this time she seemed very lucky to be able to see it. As for Kitty, it's really exciting.

Anna entered the house with Oblonsky on her arm. Her sister-in-law Dolly was sitting with a chubby little boy studying French.

"You're here, Anna!" Tao Li looked up to see Anna, her light-colored eyes lit up, she stood up with a smile and hugged Anna, "How are you doing along the way?"

"Very well, Tolly."

"Come here, Grisha, this is your aunt Anna." Oblonsky called his son, who stood up straight and smiled, with a small, fleshy face, but also a beautiful child, and Anna kissed him and praised him Really tall.

Dolly brought the remaining children, among them Tanya and Seryozha who were about the same age, and a little boy with blond hair called Nikolay, who was very pretty and delicate.

After seeing the children, Anna and Dolly were sitting on the sofa, Oblonsky had gone out, and the children had gone to their lessons in another room.She finally had time to take a good look at this poor woman. She was shorter than herself, with beautiful features, but her face was yellow and her hair was thin, and her cheeks were sunken. It could be seen that she had a bad life these days.

Maybe it was the sympathy in Anna's eyes that hurt her, Tao Li said indifferently: "If you are here to persuade me because of your stupid brother, Anna, I advise you not to waste your time."

"What makes you think I'm on my brother's side, Dolly, I swear I won't have a good word for him, even though he's my only brother."

Seeing the woman's serious expression, Tao Li relaxed a little. She held Anna's white hand with a very frustrated expression, "My dear Anna, everything is over, God has abandoned me."

"Please don't say that, Tao Li." Anna comforted the woman in front of her, wiping the tears from her eyes.

"No, how can I not think so?" Tao Li was a little excited, she looked at Anna with wide eyes, "I love him, I sacrificed everything for him, youth and life, I gave birth to him so much Having more children, raising them, and what I got, sagging skin and hair loss, all these years I can only comfort myself, I still have lovely children and a husband who loves me, but now, he abandoned me He abandoned me, I have nothing..." She couldn't control her tears at the end, and she just lay on Anna's shoulder and wept loudly.

The author has something to say: Tao Li is so pitiful. Sigh, it reminds me of many extramarital affairs nowadays. Women spend their whole lives for men, but an attractive man is transformed by a woman sacrificing everything.

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