Miss Mu and the Canary

After returning to Wenjiang, everything was back on track.Mu's family is busy doing rescue work for the three eastern provinces, and Mu Xing is also busy between the medical clinic and the rescue association. Correspondingly more.

Bai Yan is also busy here. In order to keep up with current events, she, the editor, has to work as a part-time author to write current affairs commentary articles.Changing from the original free novel creation to argumentative texts requires adaptation, not to mention the discussion of state affairs, which requires more and more prudence and sharpness. For this reason, Bai Yanzhen is about to scratch her hair.

Under such tremendous pressure, no matter whether Mu Yuan or the two parties involved, no one mentioned the relationship between the two of them. Xing suddenly popped up in front of her parents to talk about her children's affair. Before her parents could react, she might want to slap herself.

So Mu Xing could only pretend to be nonchalant, go to and from work as usual, go home as usual, and go to find Bai Yan as usual.To this, Mu Yuan didn't respond either, which seemed to be a kind of "acquiescence".

However, human nature is inherently cheap. When the incident did not happen, Mu Xing only begged her family not to find out; when her family found out, she hoped to pretend nothing happened; Thoroughly, let me know if I am dead or alive, I have a big scar on my head...

In short, Mu Xing was very anxious.

One night before the Mid-Autumn Festival, she was anxiously checking the collection of donations in her study when Mrs. Mu knocked on the door suddenly.

Mu Xing hurriedly stood up: "Mom, why haven't you rested yet?"

After waving her hand to signal her to sit down, Mrs. Mu put the hot milk on the table on the table: "You've been so busy these days, I'm afraid you won't be able to sleep well. I asked them to heat up the milk. Remember to drink it before you go to bed."

Mu Xing has always had the temperament of knowing what he hears, no matter how he thinks that there is something wrong with this glass of milk, he is a little apprehensive.She sat down apprehensively, and then looked at the account book in front of her, only to feel that the words were distorted.

Mrs. Mu was sitting next to Mu Xing, and she just asked about the medical clinic and fundraising. Mu Xing told the truth one by one, and when she was wondering how her mother would introduce the topic, Mrs. Mu suddenly took out a book from under the dinner plate. Come.

Flipping through the book, she said: "You said before that Miss Bai is working in You Cheng's bookstore now?"

With sharp eyes, Mu Xing saw that the book in Mrs. Mu's hand was the magazine edited by Song Youcheng, and hurriedly responded: "Yes, she was only an editor before. Recently, the bookstore wants to transform, so she also helped write some small articles."

Mrs. Mu clicked her tongue, pointed to the article she was reading and said, "She wrote this article, right? I think it was signed by her. This article said that women should also pay more attention to current affairs and politics, and contribute to the development of the country. She This political stance...isn't it a bit 'left'?"

Mu Xing almost jumped into the cup in fright: "Mom! You can't talk nonsense!" She was really frightened by the big brother's incident, "The current public opinion advocates that the people pay attention to politics, and she is just catering to readers. "

Mrs. Mu was noncommittal, watched another passage, and read: "'I see that the country is in dire straits, and it is difficult to think about it. At this time of crisis. I only hope that the glory of the motherland will be carried forward among thousands of women, and we will fight against the atrocities of the Japanese invaders...' The writing is fluent, and the diction is good. Miss Bai said before that she went to middle school, but it's been a long time, so why don't you find it difficult to write now?"

Mu Xing then told Mrs. Mu in detail that Bai Yan had studied in the warlord's adviser's house, and that she occasionally wrote and published articles when she was in Changsantang.

Mu Xing wanted to make his mother like Bai Yan, and he was always full of praise inside and out. When it came to excitement, he also took out the various magazines she kept in the bedside cabinet, and dug out the novels written by Bai Yan to Mrs. Mu. look.

After saying this, she couldn't stop the car even more. When Mu Xing realized that her mother hadn't spoken for a long time, she hurriedly stopped. She was silent for a while, and she couldn't help but blush.

But after thinking about it, she still looked firmly at Mrs. Mu and said: "Mother, Shu Wan is really, really a very good girl, and I like her very much. I dare not say anything in this life. If she has to, but at least at this moment, I miss her very much."

Mrs. Mu looked at the daughter in front of her, at her bright red face, her red eyes, at the smile she couldn't hide when she talked about Miss Bai... Isn't this kind of smile what they want to see the most as parents? of it?

Sighing lightly, Mrs. Mu patted Mu Xing's hand: "Mother knows."

...

The next day was still busy, Mu Xing didn't go back to Mu Yuan after get off work, but went to her and Bai Yan's small home.Stepping briskly upstairs, as soon as she opened the door, she smelled the aroma of food.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, Bai Yan poked her head out from the kitchen, and when she saw Mu Xing, she smiled and said, "Why are you here?"

"Of course I miss you." Putting down his things, Mu Xing walked into the kitchen.

Cabbage tofu soup is boiling in the pot, the pale soup is bubbling, and the honeycomb tofu just poured is tumbling along with it, flinging the aroma to the tip of the nose arrogantly.Bai Yan stood in front of the stove stirring the soup. She was not wearing all kinds of gorgeous and novel cheongsams in the past. Today she only wore an amber check cheongsam. It was of a moderate length and ordinary style. Pots and bowls, hot soup; with this small kitchen; with all the trivialities and plainness, it is very suitable.

Bai Yan talked to Mu Xing about the bookstore while scooping up the soup, but she didn't hear a response for a while. She turned her head and saw Mu Xing looking straight at her. She blushed, "Why are you looking at me like that?" Put it down. She caressed the cheongsam on her body, "Isn't this dress pretty?"

"It looks good, it suits you very well." Mu Xing recovered, "Wan'er, I have something to tell you."

"Really." Bai Yan said, "I just have something to tell you, wait a minute." She turned and walked into the bedroom, Mu Xing brought out the soup bowl and put it away, sat at the dining table and waited.

Not long after, Bai Yan came back with a white envelope.

Inside the envelope was the manuscript fee promised to her by the publishing house before. I delayed it a few days ago and didn't tell Mu Xing, so it was time to make a surprise.

"Are you going to talk first or should I talk first?" Bai Yan put the white envelope on the table with a smile, and when she looked up, Mu Xing also took out an envelope and pushed it in front of her.

Bai Yan was taken aback: "What is this?"

"This is a thank you gift from Mu Yuan." Mu Xing said.

Bai Yan couldn't help panicking: "What do you mean? Axuan, I said that you don't need any thanks, this..."

"Wan'er, listen to me first." Mu Xing hurriedly reached out to hold her hand, and squeezed it comfortingly.

Bai Yan bit her lip and nodded lightly: "Go ahead."

"I will not redeem you, nor will the Mu family." Mu Xing said word by word.

Unexpectedly, she would say that, Bai Yan was stunned and looked at her in a daze.

Mu Xing also looked back calmly with clear eyes.

Bai Yan had seen this look before.

In the first place, in Cui's foreign firm, Mu Xing saw her in the same way.Clean, pure, without a trace of obscenity, only appreciation.

But Mu Xing was just a curious passer-by in the past, and now she knows that Mu Xing has more than appreciation and pity for her.

"You saved big brother, Mu Yuan must repay you. Besides money, the family has nothing else to thank you, and you don't need it." Mu Xing said again.

"If you take this money, it will not only allow you to redeem yourself, but also allow you to find a good place to settle down. You can continue to write, and you can also do other jobs that you want to do."

Bai Yanhou reacted belatedly.

A thought gradually took shape in her mind, and her heart trembled heavily, making her breathless.

"I told my mother that you are a very good girl, and she doesn't need to force herself to accept you because of your kindness. Because you are worth it, and you will definitely be able to make her like and accept you."

Mu Xing looked at her with a smile, and his sharp eyebrows and eyes softened, turning into a gentle look.

"I love you, I'll catch you when you fall, I'll cook you, I'll cherish you and hug you, but I won't save you, I don't want to hold your life, and you don't need a hero. You can Have freedom, but not because of my love, not because of my money, but because of your bravery, your helping hand to the Mu family. At night, you can save yourself."

"You don't have to be attached to me to sing for me; you are not my foil, you need to make up for me. You can have your will, your choice, your dignity."

"You are free, and I stand by your side, ready to go forward with you at any time."

Before Bai Yan's thinking could react, the tears in her eyes had already flowed down one step at a time.

At this moment, she thought of many things, what she had talked about with Mu Xing, what troubled her...

She once told Mu Xing that even if she was redeemed by a wealthy person like Fei Hua, she was still a prisoner.She also said that she was unwilling to let Minister Cai get back the deed for her, because it meant a lot to her.

When she talked about these things with Mu Xing, she just expressed her feelings, but Mu Xing remembered them all.

She also had to admit that she had secretly hoped that the Mu family would allow her to be with Mu Xing because of her help.Even if it is unwilling, even if there is resentment, even if... the name is not right, she doesn't care.She is willing to give everything to Mu Xing, her freedom, her reputation, everything about her.

As long as she can be with Mu Xing.

And Mu Xing gave her another choice.

Because she loves her, she is willing to give her freedom, independence, and the power to choose.

She is no longer a bird being toyed with by others, she no longer needs to be trapped in one world, she is no longer the helpless little girl ten years ago.

She can finally take off this gorgeous prison uniform, stand in the sun, and become a truly free person.

"Cry, Shu Wan." Mu Xing stepped forward to hug Bai Yan, and gently kissed the corner of her eyes, "From now on, your tears can be shed for yourself."