Chapter 21: The Rite of Passage (I)
"In two days' time, it's the Double Moon Festival ball. The woman in the light screen was obviously not angry by the only child's slightly mocking tone, and said with a smile: "Your father and I met at that ball, and I hope you have the same good fortune as your father." Enjoy, kids, and see you during the winter holidays. ”
Tai Zhiyuan replied with a smile: "I don't think my father's luck is good. This is a joke that can be made as a son, and he added in his heart that his life is not a good one.
"Although the girl of the Zou family is definitely not likely to be chosen by you as a candidate for wife, I always think that with her appearance and relationship with you back then, you should not mind developing a relationship with her. The corners of the woman's lips on the light screen suddenly flashed a hint of bad taste, "What's more, I've always thought that her waist and hip shape are very suitable for childbirth." ”
The light screen turned back to darkness and then retracted into the ceiling, Tai Zhiyuan's expression calmed down, and wiped off the foundation he had made up under his eyes with paper dipped in water, although he was more in awe of his mother than love, and the relationship with his father was completely different, but he knew in his heart that his mother was thinking about everything, he was a filial son, and he was unwilling to let Mrs. Tai worry about his body.
With two days to go before the Double Moon Festival Dance, Tai Zhiyuan fell silent in the midday autumn sun. He didn't care about that prom, what Ikuko ran to Ewha University for, he knew very well that he was a little tired of appearing in front of those who knew him in some kind of established guise, because he didn't like to be surrounded by those people in the center.
According to the custom of the Bi-Moon Festival, I should be on the second floor, looking down at the men and women dancing downstairs. He would choose his favorite among the opposite sex at the prom and gently invite him. I hope she can become a close friend of her for a certain period of time, and at the same time end her eighteen-year virgin career.
Yes, according to the practice that has been passed down by the Tai family for countless years, this Bi-Moon Festival dance party happens to be Tai Zhiyuan's coming-of-age ceremony, but few people in the entire federation know about it, maybe some powerful characters vaguely smell some kind of wind, but they will never find out the real details.
The coming-of-age ceremony of Taijiadi is two years earlier than the coming-of-age ceremony of the rest of the big families. Choose to hold it at any dance party on any day of the year when the young man is eighteen years old. And what is very special is that the coming-of-age ceremony of Taijiadi is a trial about love and men and women.
No girl would be able to refuse the invitation of the descendants of the Tai family, even if some people didn't know who he was. I don't know the history of the oldest and most noble family in the Federation, but in the dreamy environment created by unlimited wealth and power in the future, they will sink into it.
Love is never the protagonist in this story, or that love itself can be planned, like a president who represents the spirit of the Union and the power of the people.
It is strange that the heirs of the Tai family in the past did not know that their coming-of-age ceremony was a trial. Many people pounced on it like moths, like children from every ordinary family, bravely loved, and some people chose dance partners at the coming-of-age ceremony to become women who accompany them all their lives, such as Tai Zhiyuan's father, which should be said to be a relatively happy result.
And many more people are found tastelessly in the process. It turns out that those iceberg beauties who are untouchable in the eyes of young boys in the budding youth. In front of the terrifying power of the Tai family. They will all become sheep that make them sad. In the process. They just understood. The so-called love. It turned out that it was not as holy as I thought it would be in the Middle Earth.
The ancestors of the Tai family set this strange rule. Originally, he wanted his male descendants to know. Love is a land item that can be purchased with money and power. So that they will not be in the rest of their lives. Because men and women have made irreparable mistakes.
Tai Zhiyuan is lucky. Because of the seven generations of single land. Or maybe it's because his father and mother are rare to love each other from the coming-of-age ceremony to the final pair. When he was very young. Mrs. Tai had already told him the true intention of the coming-of-age ceremony. And told him very calmly and seriously. Don't expect to have the same good fortune as his father. As the heir of the Tai family. Love can have. Love should have. But it can't be at a bar mitzvah.
This is also the most incomprehensible point of Tai Zhiyuan. Including the Tai family in the mainland seven families. Always pay great attention to the rules that have been handed down from time immemorial. Even if Mrs. Tai is not an ancient eater. He was even told the true meaning of the so-called coming-of-age ceremony. But he still asked him to take advantage of the opportunity of the Double Moon Festival Dance...... Looking for a female partner in the campus life of the year. In Tai Zhiyuan's view. This is undoubtedly like a common saying. Took off his pants and farted.
Tai Zhiyuan lived and grew up in the federal society. Read books. Watching TV is all about the content of this era. Although the environment where he grew up is rich and expensive to the extreme. The education received in the place is completely different from that of the peers in general. There is maturity and calmness far beyond age. There is also a heart that has the courage to take on family responsibilities. But after all, I still can't adapt to many details. The light of the Ancient Imperial Land was too far away from him. He didn't understand why his subordinates still regarded him as a prince. In his opinion. in a democratic society. This pattern of thinking should not exist at all.
Mrs. Tai spoke today. Let Tai Zhiyuan have a clearer understanding of his own identity and the glorious future that he has already planned. The pressure that has accompanied him since childhood. It seems to have become substance. Overflowing the entire room. It made him have some difficulty breathing. He was silent for a long time with his eyes closed. Then I picked up my own phone. Unplugged a number.
This number was only said by the guy once, and Tai Zhiyuan remembered it very easily, he thought that he would never pull out this number in his life, but he didn't expect that half a day had passed, but he had changed his mind.
"Don't bring supper tonight, bring a pair of clothes. In addition, do you know anything that is quieter in Linhai Prefecture...... Brothel?"
"No, I don't. ”
"Thank you. ”
Hanging up the phone, Tai Zhiyuan closed his eyes and recuperated, waiting for the night and tomorrow to come. He is a self-disciplined and responsible descendant of a family, although he occasionally rejects the atmosphere around him and his mother's arrangement, he will not choose childish escape or rebellion. But he thought in his heart that at least the coming-of-age ceremony should be arranged by himself. A brief encounter. Xu Le looked at the empty dining table in front of him in a daze, and there was no girl with black-rimmed glasses there. Four days had passed, and he felt that he had gradually become accustomed to living without her, because after escaping from the Donglin Region, he had become accustomed to being alone in silence, but he would still notice that there was no her on the other side of the table, no her on the runway, no her on the banks of the Rose River, and no her at night.
The students passing by occasionally noticed him at the table by the window, and those who knew about it cast mocking and contemptuous glances, and in the eyes of all, the swan might occasionally forage for food with a toad in the pond, but it was impossible to really marry a toad.
The noon autumn sun fell on Xu Le's body through the glass, and he felt a trace of warmth in a daze, and then his mobile phone rang, and the thin screen that popped up did not show the number or region. He answered, confused, and then heard the voice he had heard so often lately, and then he fell into an indescribable state of consternation.
What are you going to do in a brothel? Xu Le didn't know if the kid surnamed Tai had a problem with his brain, but he didn't want to stay at Ewha University at this time, staying in the mocking eyes of those students, after thinking for a while, he agreed, and then seriously suggested: "I don't know much about these things, but I have a friend who should know very well, do you want to call him too?"
"Okay, I'll be waiting for you in the lounge at night. ”
"No thanks. ”
"You're not going to run away from home, are you?" Xu Le looked at Tai Zhiyuan and asked seriously. He couldn't adapt to a child from a rich family like the other party, so he would actually use a thesis defense tone to ask himself to help him find a woman, saying: "No matter how much pressure there is at home, after all, your parents are for your good, don't come nonsense." ”
After saying this, Xu Le thought that the other party's father had already passed away, and his face showed a trace of apology, but his words were from the heart, and his family unfortunately died in that mining accident, which made Xu Le crave that kind of warmth more than anyone else.
Tai Zhiyuan replied calmly: "Don't you often taunt me for being a virgin? I just want to find a woman to try what is going on." It's strange to me that when you hear my request, you agree without blinking an eye, which makes people wonder if you often do this kind of thing. ”
Xu Le smiled bitterly and didn't answer, thinking that when he was on Zhonglou Street, he had to go to those recuperation centers every month to pay for the boss's prostitution, and he seemed to be used to this kind of request, so he naturally agreed on the phone.
Tai Zhiyuan glanced at the green military windbreaker on his body, tried to put the rain hat on his head, and confirmed that it was impossible for the monitoring equipment outside the area to photograph his face, so he nodded with satisfaction, and then frowned slightly and asked: "Xilin's military uniform, where did you get it?"
"I forgot. Xu Le is not very accustomed to lying in front of his friends, and he is reluctant to talk about things related to the little watermelon, he is not ready to have anything to do with the high-ranking Zhong family in his life, looking at Tai Zhiyuan, who was tightly wrapped in a windbreaker, and said suspiciously: "Why do I always feel that we are preparing to be thieves." ”
Tai Zhiyuan didn't answer his words, but walked directly to the outside of the district. At this time, it was four o'clock in the morning, and the district was empty, he and Xu Le talked casually, killing time, until more than six o'clock in the morning, when other students began to come in, they glanced at each other and walked outside.