Chapter 32

"Anna." Said Karenin in a low voice.

Anna was a little flustered, but she burst into laughter. She stood there, blinking, as if she had discerned some great secret, waiting for Karenin to walk slowly.

The man has a firm step and a calm look.

It was no different, but because one thing was clear, everything was very different.

Anna looked at the man coming towards her. From the half worn leather shoes of the other party to the well-cut trousers, the trouser lines are straight, long and soft over the feet, which are the clothes of the superior people.

Looking up, the lower hem of the coat is very tight, like the master's will, firmly wrapping the body. The dark blue scarf is an old acquaintance. Anna said hello to each other gently in her heart.

Finally, when Karenin came to her, she had to raise her head slightly, look from the other party's Adam's apple to her chin, and finally to her clear blue eyes.

"You're here to pick me up, aren't you?" Anna raised the corner of her mouth and asked, her eyes full of joy. She put her hands behind her in a gesture of pride and shyness.

Karenin looked down slightly at his wife, with black hair mischievously emerging from the brim of his hat, fine and delicate eyebrows, big curved eyes, and excessively ruddy lips.

Karenin raised his hand and took off his wife's hat. He saw the black hair coiled up.

He fumbled, found those hidden little clips, not very skilled in groping, and finally cleverly took them down.

His eyes were still, watching the curly hair slide down, and finally on his wife's shoulder, brushing her cheek.

Karenin's long, thin fingers ran down Anna's plump cheek, and his wife's skin was as white and moist as ancient ivory against his own slightly darker skin.

He lifted the curly hair a little with his index finger and thumb, brushed it behind his wife's ear, and then said, "dress up as a doorman, eh?"

That sentence ending light, but seems to have a thousand feelings in general, like accusation, like doting.

Anna couldn't stop her smile. She put her hands behind her back in front of her. She folded her hands together and made a gesture of "forgive me".

"Pavel, anuska's cousin, go to Mr. Maillard's house..."

Karenin slowly counted his wife's lies, a charge called "cheating" has been convicted.

"I was wrong!" Anna began to say goodbye, then blinked again. "But you didn't recognize me, did you? Doesn't it mean that I've done it successfully, that my previous ideas are feasible, isn't it? "

His wife's words silenced Karenin for a moment. Then he raised his hand and put the hat back on each other's hair.

He looked at his wife.

His eyes stayed on the "stubble not shaved" for three seconds. Facing the elegant doorman, Karenin finally just asked, "are you hungry?"

Anna nodded. She was going to steal something from the kitchen, but Karenin asked Mr. Peter to send his secretary to him. Anna was called to eat nothing. Anuska had been sent to bed by her. After all, it was nine o'clock.

Even if she would accept anushika's service with peace of mind, she should be a bit human right now, and she should not be involved in her own mischief.

But the husband is no one else, is he?

Anna looked at Karenin and said, "I'm hungry."

Karenin's family did not have the habit of preparing late night meals. Three meals were always fixed at a fixed time. Anna herself did not have the habit of eating night food, which led to a problem.

If you don't dig up Sasha the cook like a vampire.

Or Anna dragged her tired body to make something to eat.

Or ask your husband.

Karenin saw that his wife was looking at him, but he was a smart man after all, so he soon understood what his wife meant.

Karenin twisted a small fold between his eyebrows. After careful thinking, he determined the way.

"I'm not good at cooking."

Sure enough, Anna sighed. She could not expect men of this era to cook, especially those who were rich and powerful like her husband.

Karenin saw that his wife was like a rabbit with a shrill ear. He couldn't help saying, "is curry soup and black bread OK?"

Anna looked up at her husband and said, "can you do it?"

Karenin was somewhat uncertain: "in fact, I didn't do it."

"But..."

"I know what to do, but I haven't tried it." Karenin said, and then, as if inspired by something, he pondered for a moment and took Anna by the hand and led her to the kitchen.

During this time, they met korni, Karenin told him that they would use the kitchen temporarily."I can..."

"No, corney." Karenin said, pulling Anna to the kitchen.

Karenin looked at the kitchen. Although he had thought about living in the house, it was almost the first time for him to enter such a place as the kitchen.

The cooks he hired kept the place in order, and the kitchen utensils were scrubbed spotlessly.

Anna stood by and watched her husband get a general idea of the structure of the kitchen, then took off her coat, unfastened her sleeves, and pulled the sleeves of her shirt to her elbows, all in a blink of an eye. When Anna opened her eyes, Karenin was holding a potato in his right hand, which was round and chubby.

"Clothes will get dirty." Anna's economical lady Karenin quickly brought an apron.

Karenin examined the apron in front of him.

The white cotton fabric, with lace, obviously belonged to the maids in the kitchen.

He was silent for a moment and wanted to refuse, but before he could speak, the thing fell on him, and his wife was saying, "it's lovely that you're going to cook dinner for me, but we can't add more unnecessary work to Ian."

Ian is their laundry maid. Anna also likes the tall and thin woman. She has a lovely daughter, only two years old. She is a little fat and has a little cute freckles on the tip of her nose. She will call her mother Anna because she calls her mother when she sees anyone.

After her wife finally tied him a bow in the place of the two ribbons, Karenin was silent for a moment, and finally decided not to say it.

Carrots, potatoes, onions

"How can you make curry?" Anna asked as she watched Karenin slowly and carefully cut the food? Alexis. "

"I saw it in a book when I was reading."

"Why did you write this down in particular Anna asked, quite curious.

She knew that Karenin had always read carefully, but he paid more attention to the content of these books so that he could have good conversation resources when talking with stakeholders, rather than purely for his own personal feelings.

Karenin cut the last bit of onion, his eyes were a little spicy, and he was dizzy with tears. He blinked his eyes, his wife's words drilled into his ear, he distracted to recall, said: "can't remember."

Karenin did not remember it, because it was not so important. It seems to be something that is inadvertently remembered in weekdays, and then because it is too small to be noticed, it is gradually preserved in the years of continuous scouring.

Anna was still a little nervous, even in her rich association, almost to find a rival for her. Now, after listening to Karenin's explanation, she accepted it without any doubt.

She stood next to Karenin and watched him make the curry for her.

The man's expression is serious, the movement is meticulous, some places rare some clumsy, but in the enthusiasm transpiration, the fragrance of curry in the air dense out, Anna felt very happy.

On the long table, Karenin put the things on, then he pulled out his chair and sat down to one side.

Anna spooned the first spoon and delivered it to Karenin.

"Hard work."

"I'm not used to eating at this time, Anna." Karenin refused, Anna some regret into her mouth, did not force him.

Curry is delicious, not amazing, but really good. The round bread is very fragrant, and the smell of wheat has now turned into a sweeter one.

Anna slowly eating food, enjoy the expression of Karenin side also feel happy. But he said, "you need to eat on time, Anna. That's best for your health."

"Well, I'll remember." Anna blinked.

She ate the food so clean that she was almost full of it.

Anna didn't leave the dirty dishes in the kitchen until Sasha came to wash them the next day. Instead, she washed them herself. Karenin's assessment of this is - good habits.

When Anna wanted to walk towards the second floor, Karenin held her.

"Go for a walk in the garden, for your health, Anna."

Anna was surprised, and then she laughed.

Although the whole garden is very large and well organized, it is too orderly to be a gardener.

Anna thought about getting the garden up in the future.

She was thinking, not knowing that the man next to her had been watching her for a long time.

Before dinner, my wife had gone to change back to women's clothes. She wore a light blue dress. In the moonlight, it was more like cream white. The layers of long skirt made people remember the wedding day's dress.

Because it was nearly ten o'clock, the wife did not put all her hair up as in the daytime, but spread it out and tied a flower knot with a blue ribbon.It's better to look like this, Karenin thought.

"By the way, what about your reading plan today?" Anna suddenly remembered that it was not Karenin's style to take a walk in her garden at night or on a big night in winter.

"There is no reading plan today." Karenin said.

"Sorry, Alexis." Anna said apologetically.

"You don't have to apologize, Anna." Karenin said, then pausing, adding, "but next time, I want you to take care of yourself."

"I will." Anna laughed, and after a while she asked, "tell me more about your childhood?"

"For example, can you ride a horse? Alexis. "

"Yes."

"Can you hunt?" Anna became a little excited.

"I can, but I'm not very good at it. Your brother is better at it." Karenin said realistically. He was more inclined to civilian affairs, or to use his brain, such as horse riding and shooting, but only dabbled in it.

Kalenin suddenly thought of Nikolay, who was always the first in horse riding and shooting.

"What's the matter?" Anna felt that Karenin was a little distracted, so she cared.

Karenin looked at his wife and said, "the topic you are talking about reminds me of my brother Nikolay, who loved riding and hunting most in his life. Nikolay taught me my equestrian skills, but unfortunately, I'm not as good as he is

Anna looked at Karenin's expression and was relieved to see that there was no sad look on her face.

She changed from holding each other's arms to holding Karenin's hand, crossing her fingers, then smiling and saying, "I think you love him very much."

The man's eyes blinked slightly, then nodded slightly: "yes."

"Nikolay had a deep influence on me."

"How to say that?"

They moved on, and this time Anna became the listener.

"I always knew I couldn't match him."

Karenin used this sentence as the beginning of her memory, and Anna was a little surprised, but she didn't show it.

The man's eyelashes trembled and his thin lips opened and closed: "Nikolay is seven years older than me. He was very beautiful, and my mother once said that of the three children, only Nikolay looked like her the most. And my father said that Nikolay was like him the most. At a sensible age, Nikolay had begun to follow my parents into society, and my father's family friends were full of praise for him

When recalling these past events, Karenin's speaking speed is very slow, which is quite different from his usual handling of government affairs.

"In addition to his schoolwork and social activities, Nikolay is also very good at horsemanship. I was old enough to learn this skill, and my father wanted to hire a teacher for me. But Nikolay decided to teach me. It took me two months to master this skill. "

"Didn't he teach well?" Anna asked in a low voice.

"Not really." Karenin shook his head. "I have to say, I'm really not good at this kind of sport."

"On the contrary, Nikolay was a very patient man."

Karenin had a distant look in his blue eyes, he said lightly, without showing a trace of jealousy.

"In fact, we don't spend a lot of time together, and we don't have much intimacy with each other. But whether it's me or my eldest sister, we all love Nikolay. There is a charm in him. "

"After my parents died, Maria and I were fostered in my uncle's house. Nicholas stayed there for half a year, and when he was an adult, he was sent abroad. He was there for only a year and a half before he died of a common infection. He never talked about it, and then we got a letter saying that he had been ill for some time

Karenin stopped for a moment. There was a lump in his throat, but at last he swallowed again, and his words became calm.

"We know him. He never talks about anything bad in a letter. He mentions it, mostly because he feels something

"I asked my uncle, and after telling him, we would leave soon. By the time we got there, he was very weak. Within a week, he died. He died abroad and I took his body back. A lot of Kung Fu was wasted. For someone like him who died of illness, it is always difficult to return to Russia. I have done something, I think, I can't let his soul go back to his hometown. "

"After he was buried, I told my uncle that I was going this way."

"In this way, I will get to where I am today, and I have a deep relationship with Nikolay." Said Karenin in a low voice.

He remembered that it was not smooth to bring Nikolay's body back to Russia at that time. He remembered that because he had no right, his brother's body had to stay in that cold place.

Russian winter is also so cold, but there has never been a moment like that, let Karenin feel numb without feelings.Anna looked at each other, but from the steady narration of Karenin, she felt the emotion of that time.

Her eyelids were a little red, but there was no tears. She just stopped, padded her feet, folded her tall husband in her arms, gently stroked his back with her right hand, and whispered, "it's all over, Alexis."

"You are very brave. I really feel that you and Nikolay are very good people."

"And in my heart, you will always be the best one."

She said softly, her soft hand still gently stroking each other's back.

"If you're not really that good. At the moment, all I can hear is a man who is jealous of his brother and talks about each other with narrow eyes

"If you're not really strong enough, you're not going to be the one that makes me tick. Not after so much experience, you can still love others. "

Finally, Anna gave a gentle smile and whispered, "we all know that love is greater than hate, don't we?"

Karenin had been standing upright, but with his wife's words, he slowly bent down, and in the end, his wife did not need to stand on tiptoe.

Karenin hugged his wife in a calm voice.

"I don't like equestrian, but Nikolay said he would teach me more when he came back from public school next time. Sometimes he will make his own decisions, even if I refuse to do so, but he always abides by the agreement, although sometimes it is his unilateral decision. But then my parents died, and it was never mentioned again. "

"I always think about it when Nikolay dies. It took me more than half a year to forget it

"That's because you love him and miss him so much." Anna said softly.

Karenin was silent for a moment. His thoughts seemed to have passed through the dense fog and swept over the frosty pages in the forest. What he did not understand for a time, and even took him more than half a year to calm down his good mood. At this moment, because of his wife's soft and affirmative words, he understood.

As if through the fog, Karenin whispered, "yes, you are right."

After a long time of sad memories. But or it is because of the cold, so they do not want to let go immediately, let the warm arms leave themselves.

Until, Anna smiles and says, "well, let's make an appointment."

"What?"

Anna let go of her hand and looked up at the other party's blue eyes. There was a small gentle curve around the corner of her mouth.

"The second child is called Nikolay, and the first child, if he is a boy, is called seliosa."

"Seliosa must be a good brother, so that he can take good care of Nikolay. If they have agreed to teach each other how to ride a horse, they will remember it. If someone forgets, we can remind them

Karenin listened to his wife's gentle words. When she mentioned the child, the future overlapped with the past. Finally, he gave a smile.

That smile is just the radian of gently pulling the corner of the mouth, but for Anna, it is very precious.

There was a sense of fullness in her heart, for tonight, she touched the memory of Karenin, who was still very young Alexei.

Anna raised her hands, gently put her arms around Karenin's waist and said, "don't forget, I love you most now and in the future, Alexis."

Karenin's throat glided for a long time. His dry hands rested on his wife's hair. Along the direction of hair growth, he gently rubbed his wife's soft hair with his fingers. He kissed his wife's black hair, which was fragrant with hair oil, and then slowly said:

"I love you too, Anna."

Sound cannot travel in a vacuum.

It travels at 340 meters per second at average room temperature.

With the help of metal and other objects, such as iron bars, it will reach 5200 meters per second.

I love you. From the time Anna met Karenin, it has been 76 days, 15 hours, 32 minutes, and finally reached Anna.

She had imagined many scenes for this, but only now did she realize that it was the luckiest thing in the world to get the same response as she loved him, and it never mattered in what way.

So she didn't cry and didn't ask for more sweet words. She just said with a proud smile:

"I always know it!"

I always know you love me, otherwise, how can I love you so much?

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