you are my Destiny

Chapter 2 Uninvited
In 2022, when I was about to finish university in the capital and obtain a master's degree in history, I went to a TV station in Barnes and Noble for an internship. By accident, I stayed in a history column group as a director.Because of this favorite job, and because of my mother, Fu Tinglan, my only relative, I ended my life as free as air and came to Barnes and Noble.

I hated being face to face with my mother, especially her face and her eyes.I often call her that, or Mr. Fu outside, and almost no one has heard me mention my mother, or use any affectionate titles, so in the following descriptions, I still follow the old habit, calling her Mr. Fu or Mr. Fu Ting Lan.

In my heart, she is outstanding in talent and appearance, and all other women are eclipsed. She is strict and rigid, decent and disciplined, proficient in history, and so quiet that all emotions are incompatible with her. I even doubted that she is a perfect machine, because She has never aged in my lifetime, to be exact, she is a creepy oddity, the kind that never ages or dies.

When I was the same age as her facial features, I was 25 years old, and her age is breath-taking, she is already a hundred and ten years old, I have the same face as her, this is It's one of the reasons I hate facing her the most, and more importantly, her pair of cold eyes that can never be seen through are like eternal dead wood, which makes me feel like I'm about to fall into the wrong family without knowing it. In terms of status, who am I to her, or who does she not want me to be to her at all.On the contrary, when she looked at those ancient objects, there was always a difference in her eyes.

I have never heard her say love words for her daughter, and I have never met my father. From her description, the man died and the reason is unknown. I have not even found any clues about the man, not even a None of the relics.I have two big wishes in my life, to use my extraordinary powers of observation to explore the reason why my strange mother is not old and to find my biological father. If there is any clue that can break through those unsolved mysteries, it is that our family has lived for generations An antique handed down from generation to generation.I don't know whether I fell in love with antiques in order to explore the truth, or because of something, although she objected to my hobby inexplicably, but it has nothing to do with her.

Chen Siyuan is the only person close to me and Fu Tinglan. I call him my cousin. He is five years older than me. He took care of me and grew up together. There is no blood relationship. He is the descendant of the housekeeper left by the Fu family. He helped Fu Tinglan take care of his daily life and managed a private museum. The title of Mr. Na Fu also originated from him.In my impression, he always stands respectfully behind Fu Tinglan, he looks modest, but speaks very little. He is a neat man, tall, with bony, angular cheeks and facial contours. There are almost no faults to be found, except that the thin lips are tightly closed, which looks a bit strict and mean, which has the same feeling as Fu Tinglan.Chen Siyuan is a lover of classical music and likes to collect vinyl records. He usually lives in a house with me and Fu Tinglan.I rarely see them, and apart from the necessary family dinners every weekend, we have a party in each house, and no one interferes with the other.

April 20th was the last day of the weekend. Since it was early spring, Fu Tinglan hid in the study, wrapped in a woolen blanket, still buried in the pile of old books.Fu Tinglan's daily life is related to antiques. She runs a small antique shop and searches for treasures everywhere. Every weekend she is like this. She deliberately picks out a day to stay with me at home. She said that she hopes our relationship will be more like friends. But more are still busy with each other.Chen Siyuan was busy having dinner with the nanny in the kitchen, because the room was too cold this season, I half-lyed on the sofa under the patio of the living room, preparing the content of the unit's topic selection meeting next week, a ray of sunshine warmed my face , listening to the old-fashioned phonograph playing songs from the [-]s, I felt a little sleepy, and suddenly someone patted me on the shoulder from behind.

"Fu Ruibai, where's your sister? I just bought a good thing at the antique market, and I want her to palm my eyes for me."

My instinctive body was agitated, and I rolled from the sofa to the carpet, and at the same time I pushed the palm away, only to find that the gate of the yard was knocked open by my naughty Samoyed dog "dog". The name of the pet is "Dog", and this uninvited person is called Chen Chuanbai. I call him Uncle Bai. He opened a small antique shop next door. It's only been two years in Nuo City, but he is the one who has stepped the most.

Uncle Bai held a blue and white vase in his arms like a baby, and walked around the courtyard with curious eyes.When he walked towards the door of a room with a curtain, he stopped unconsciously. Fu Tinglan walked out in front of him, making Uncle Bai unconsciously take a few steps back. He immediately retracted those curious gazes, and returned to his face with a smile. .

"Well, Miss W, are these dried blue and white flowers?" Uncle Bai's shining eyes showed infinite greed and expectation.

I unconsciously stroked the short hair on my forehead back, sat back on the sofa, and took back the book in my hand, not wanting Fu Tinglan to see me falling to the ground in embarrassment.The dog sat obediently at my feet, sticking out its soft pink tongue. While I was stroking the fur on its head, I watched Fu Tinglan and Uncle Bai's every move from a distance.

Fu Tinglan has no expression on her face, a small oval face with delicate and fair skin, under the curved willow eyebrows, the long eyelashes tremble slightly with her big eyes with clear and deep pupils, a head of pure black hair Simply put it on one shoulder, hanging at the waist, wearing a pure white exquisite tailoring designer custom brand suit, the one-shaped neckline reveals a clear and beautiful collarbone, a large white wool shawl inlaid with red beads is casual She hung it on her shoulders, and naturally sat in the middle of the couch on the other side of the patio ten meters away from me. She gracefully took the coffee handed over by Chen Siyuan, and folded her long snow-white legs on the sofa.

Fu Tinglan stretched out her hand to signal Uncle Bai to sit down first, the elegant and vulgar aura inadvertently spread all over the room, making Uncle Bai feel stiff, and sat on a small independent pouf on one side, Chen Siyuan stood naturally. Standing behind Fu Tinglan, he gave me a small smile from a distance.

Uncle Bai obviously spent some money on this little gadget. Uncle Bai carefully placed the bottle on the tea table in front of the sofa, picked up the bottle again, exposed the bottom of the bottle, and waited for Fu Fu in a state of looking up. Ting Lan revealed the result.

"This life is eternal life, this life is eternal life, Miss W, look at the words under this bottle, what does it mean?"

Fu Tinglan has an extraordinary ability. As long as she gently touches an ancient object and closes her eyes for a while, she can see the past and present life of this object. Looking for something, showing a faint regret for what he saw.

What Uncle Bai brought was indeed a wonderful treasure, but for Fu Tinglan, it was the first time in my life that I saw her rippling in amazement.In other words, she hadn't touched the small and exquisite bottle yet, but a line of tears rolled down from the corner of her eyes.This made Uncle Bai stand up at a loss, hesitating and hawing, not knowing what to say.

Regarding how to explain the abnormal reaction, it must be explained that all of this is related to Fu Tinglan's life experience.In my memory, Fu Ting Lan has never been short of money, thanks to the grace of her ancestors.

Our Fu family has a decent family style. A hundred years ago, it was a well-known antique family in Jinghai City.Fu Tinglan's father, Fu Qianxiu, also my grandfather, was a well-known patriot at the time and had a good kung fu. He often used the Fu family's swordsmanship to take risks and attack some small thieves who resold cultural relics abroad.

Fu Tinglan is the only daughter in the family, and is doubly loved by her family. In the turbulent age, she lives like an innocent and romantic fairy. She learns from female celebrities every day, reads poetry and books, and smiles, which makes people feel the stars are shining as dazzling.There is always a smile on her pretty face. She wears two braids between her temples. The braids are embellished with beautiful beads and wrap around the folds of the dress on her chest. They are always paired with elegant long skirts and wrapped evenly. On the body, people can't help but imagine how wonderful it would be if a happy and stunning woman like her could be frozen in that moment.In the 26th year of the Republic of China, that is, 1937, Fu Tinglan was 25 years old. She got engaged to Shen Anzhi, the eldest son of a wealthy local family.

In the midsummer of that year, Fu Qianxiu personally escorted a group of tomb robbers' cultural relics of the Ming Dynasty with his bodyguards back in a hurry.Fu Qianxiu looked nervous, the sword beside him was still dripping with blood, he entered the secret room of the Fu family's old house regardless of the knife wounds all over his body.

Fu Tinglan accidentally saw her father's mysterious behavior, so she sneaked into the secret room while her family was asleep at night, but in the secret room, she only found an ordinary-looking ancient coin in the secret room, and she was rubbing it in the palm of her left hand. Suddenly, she heard the sound of swords and swords fighting outside. In the panic, she accidentally cut her finger by a coin. It was only a small wound, but the coin seemed to get into her hand. The blood in her whole body was sucked by the coin, and with the last sliver of strength, she only saw a looming figure who said to her, "This is the doom of the Fu family, Tinger, you must live." Fu Tinglan was in a trance Seeing a sword pierced into her father's chest, she wanted to cry out hoarsely, but she couldn't make a sound, and then fell unconscious.That night, there was heavy wind and rain, and thunderous thunder flashed in the sky. Every sound of thunder covered the sound of clanging and powerful swords. From then on, my life seemed to pass through a hundred years.

On the second day, Fu Tinglan woke up alone on the floor of the secret room. When she walked out of the secret room, her hair was disheveled and she looked like an exhausted old woman.Under the scorching sun, the Fu family seemed to have evaporated. The huge courtyard was empty, and there were traces of swords facing each other everywhere. The sword she clearly saw pierced into her father's chest was stuck in a pool of blood, but her father's body could not be seen. Kneeling down, a mouthful of blood spurted out from his mouth, blending with tears.Suddenly she heard someone calling her name behind her, and she was woken up in a trance. When she turned around, her appearance returned to 25 again.The person who called her name was Bell, the servant girl at home. She bowed and hugged Fu Tinglan, weeping uncontrollably, "Miss, madam asked me to go out to deliver things, and when I came home early in the morning, it became like this. I was looking for you like crazy, It's great to see you, great..."

Since then, various versions have been heard in the world. Some people say that the Fu family offended the thieves and their family was wiped out. Some people said that the young lady of the Fu family was a demon who came to the world and ate the Fu family.After all, no one knows what happened to the Fu family, but since then no one has dared to step into the former site of the Fu family, and because of the ancient coin, Fu Tinglan, as if cursed, has become a person forgotten by time, immortal and immortal alone. Lived for more than a hundred years.

In my memory, Fu Tinglan showed a sad expression for the first time. She turned her head and got up and walked into the study, leaving behind Uncle Bai who was at a loss. and go.

Chen Siyuan obviously recognized the object. I guess he saw it in the pictures of Fu Tinglan's restoration of the old house. This should be one of his missions to restore the original appearance of the Fu family's old house. He stopped him with a blank face and was about to follow. Uncle Bai.

"How much did you pay?"

"Three, thirty, thirty thousand... 30..."

Chen Siyuan wrote a check of 300 million and put it in Uncle Bai's hand. He looked at Uncle Bai with unusually sharp eyes for a while, and made a gesture of seeing off the guest.

Holding the check in his hand, Uncle Bai proudly kissed it fiercely, and he slowly moved towards the gate.Uncle Bai is a ruthless old man. He wanders around the ghost market every day. He has a few insiders, but his eyesight is very poor. Uncle Bai has missed several great opportunities. , Then hacked our house.

Taking advantage of Chen Siyuan turning to leave, he strode up to me and said loudly in an over-excited voice, "Fu Ruibai, did you see what happened just now? I really took this bottle by accident, hey Hey, your family doesn't discuss things with others, I haven't warmed them up yet, so I really can't bear it."

"I just saw this vase. It's not dried blue and white flowers. It's just a small thing with no provenance in the early Republic of China. It's an ordinary vase at home, but the workmanship is good. It's a bit like a private possession in a boudoir or a keepsake for men and women."

I know very well that he just wants to set the whole story for me, and I have always been not interested in such things with a strong feminine taste, especially in the Republic of China. Maybe it comes from my inner rejection of Fu Tinglan, what? "This life is eternal life, and this life is eternal life", at first glance it is a token of love.

I shook my head, jumped up from the sofa, stretched my waist, and stretched out five fingers to Uncle Bai, "At most [-], Uncle Bai, have fun!"

At the same time, I waved my palm as a goodbye gesture, "Remember to knock on the door next time, or I will sue you for trespassing!"

"However, what happened today is strange, as if someone forced me to pay. Do you think that I, Old Chen, have gotten rich? You don't know that person's accent is very strange, like a foreigner, and like no."

I forced Uncle Bai out of the gate, and the dog followed me, sticking out its tongue with a smile.

"Well... Did I just offend your sister... Do you really think this thing is not worth much? Then why did your sister buy it..."

After Uncle Bai's piercing voice was isolated by the thick wooden door, our small courtyard returned to calm.I originally thought that this matter could be left alone, but I never thought that it would lead to the following events. I never would have imagined that my random words would lead everything to an irreversible direction.

(End of this chapter)