A Noble Marriage - Chapter 66

As Karenin had always known, Alexei was a child worth the effort.

Even though birth is not his choice, cowardice is not his nature. With just a few tips and help, this smart kid always knows how to do it.

When Anna went to the study to deal with the mushrooms with Sasha, Karenin welcomed each other in the study.

He put down his official document and looked at each other calmly and carefully.

The boy’s golden hair is well combed. Unlike Andre or Charlie, the child’s pride is hidden in the depths of his eyes. Or, without Anna’s help, Karenin thought that the pride might have been buried over time.

“Uncle, I can go to the school you mentioned, right?”

Karenin clasped his hands and said calmly, “I can let you into school, but what happens after that, as I told you, is not up to me to decide.”

Alexei showed a slightly pale but modest smile.

“I will do it well, with all my efforts.”

The young man’s reply made Karenin point his precious head: “I will write a letter to the headmaster, be ready, Alexei, you don’t have much time.”

“I understand.”

Alexei made a deep bow. He fully understood how rare the opportunity was.

He is not the kind of naive child who is afraid of his cold expression at the first sight of his uncle, and will not think that he is a touching and unrequited gentleman after the other party provides help.

If he was weak and indifferent to the future, he had a goal from this moment on.

Karenin found that the child was coming back when he was about to leave, so he looked up again and motioned to the other party to say it.

“I know Aunt Anna helps me so much because she thinks I’m like you.” Alexei pauses for a moment, then looks solemn.

“I said I would do it well in all my efforts. Now I want to change it. ”

He licked his lips and pulled a smile.

“I will do it.”

Karenin looked at each other for a moment, then said slowly, “do you know what people are best at?”

He did not wait for an answer, and then calmly said the answer.

“It’s sentimental.”

“I hope you will bear this in mind when I get there. Making promises to others is like showing your back to the enemy. ”

“Just you.”

“If you really want to succeed, I don’t even agree with you.” Karenin said this in a gentle voice, while the boy in front of him showed a smile.

“But I don’t want to go that far, that’s not what she wants. Believe me, uncle Karenin. Because of these things that I can’t choose, I can tell better than many people which are good intentions and which will take me too far. ”

After the youth left, after a period of time, Karenin finished processing a document, and then slightly curved the corners of his mouth. Now, once again, he proved that he was right. A few years later, the senior official in Petersburg believed that there would be one more intelligent person in that circle, rather than some worldly fool.

While waiting for lunch, Andre is sensitive to a change in things, but he can’t say until Charlie kicks his foot under the long table.

“Alexei will go to military academy.” Charlie whispered as he approached Andrea.

“Why don’t I know?” Andre asked, a little unhappy. He didn’t want him to be the last one to know after everything had happened.

“You were immersed in Latin grammar when I asked you to eavesdrop with me.” Charlie wrinkled his nose. “To be honest, brother, your hobby is a little abnormal.”

“They’re fun.” Andre argued for his hobby.

“OK, OK, but I’d like to say, it gives me some ideas.”

“What do you think?” Andre said curiously.

The blonde boy touched his nonexistent beard, nodded his head and said, “maybe I should go to the military academy, too.”

Andrea rolled his eyes. “Let it go. If you do go there and make trouble, your father can’t help you

“Hey! I’m not the one who cries all day to tell my dad Charlie put his arms in his arms.

“You love your face even more than a girl. You’ve said goodbye to the Academy in your whole life.” Andrea scoffed.

Charlie felt his smooth, white face and finally drank a big gulp of orange juice.

“I’m hungry.” He announced it, and then he put it behind his head.

While Charlie was eating so much, Andre took time to think about his future.

Military academy? No, he’s not very interested. He thought about it for a while and then he felt that he was not interested in boarding school. In the end, it was over, until later, it became a headache for Andrea again.”Can we still ride in the afternoon?”

Charlie asked over the meal, looking a little excited. Andrea also slowed down his hand and listened.

Everyone’s eyes were on Karenin, who was sitting on the throne. The latter stopped for a moment and then said, “let cabidonec take you.”

Cabidonnecci is the gatekeeper of the family, but his riding skill is still excellent. I don’t know whether it was intentional or unintentional. In short, Karenin took the young man along when he started from the city.

Charlie gave a low cheer.

Anna saw Alexei’s inquiring eyes and gave her a positive reply.

“Will you come with us?” Andre asked, looking at Anna with a pair of familial eyes. He had to face the surly shadow of parting with his friends, but now it seems that all of them have disappeared.

“No, I’ll stay and make you something delicious?” She smiles.

Andre and Charlie look at each other and are very satisfied.

After eating, he took a rest. At Karenin’s command, kabidonec and two other servants took their three children to the open horse farm. Anna stayed, as she said.

She walked into the yard and took the hall to find that Karenin was already sitting there. She looked up with curiosity.

“You have something to tell me.” Karenin said that the affirmative sentence was used.

Anna began to laugh.

She went over and sat down next to Karenin. Of course she found it.

For a man like her husband, in a long time ago, or in some public occasions, the sofa was definitely his priority.

As the time of getting along with each other is getting shorter and shorter, there is no need to tell each other’s small habits with words, only need to be serious and attentive, each other’s various hobbies will eventually understand more and more.

“How do you know?”

She may understand, but Anna is always willing to ask in the absence of work or in the leisure time of visitors.

In doing so and saying this, people like her may not even think about what it is for. As if, she was born to be so optimistic and happy, always able to make people happy. As for her husband, who is said to be a bit cold, a wife is like complementing each other. She can often find a topic to praise her husband.

If this is really a negotiation or public opinion, Karenin will frown at Anna’s knowingly asked questions, and even make appropriate taunts in his heart according to the identity of this person, with a smile on his face.

But just because this is his wife, he also gave up those logical and interest thinking, just accompany the other party “stupid” go on.

“You didn’t go to the racecourse with Andre and them, did you?” Said Karenin.

Mr. Petersburg’s senior official answered the other party with a not the smartest one, because he reserved some words and wanted to use them for later chat. It’s not like when you’re working, you’re too stingy to say a few words of explanation.

Anna laughed, her gray eyes looking at each other, and even slightly raised her chin.

“But you don’t have to stay for me. You know, I also have my own job. ” Her deliberate emphasis on the word “work” seemed totally different from the generosity and propriety of those banquets in the city, and it was a sign of the complacency she could have at her age.

A little bit of the aggressiveness of Karenin’s character was aroused.

He smiles a little, then affirms his own thoughts in a calm and gentle tone.

“You’re not in a hurry to do your own business after lunch. You didn’t ask anuska to make a pot of hot water for you. Your clothes, “he pauses, then looks up and down.” unless it’s something you think of, you don’t normally choose to wear light colored clothes to do your job. ”

“Why wouldn’t I do that?”

Anna approached her, her eyes shining with a certain light.

“Because you like to unconsciously pick up a pen and daub it on the paper when you are thinking. When you look restless, you will walk around the room or eat something. If you are really in trouble, you will sit quietly and look very glum. At that time you don’t like to be disturbed, even to me, you may be a little angry

Karenin looked at his wife quietly after he finished.

In his blue eyes, his eyes are almost full of confidence as in diplomacy, so at the end of the day, his speech speed will be unconsciously accelerated, even different from his usual tone, it is almost light and slightly ironic.

It was almost frightening.

If this was Karenin’s political enemy, he would feel afraid.

If there were any other women in front of him at the moment, he would feel that his tone of voice showed intelligence and a bit of bitterness, and that he was a little scary.But fortunately, in front of Karenin at the moment is his wife.

People like Anna, who are different from the women in Petersburg and even the whole Russian society, are born to match him.

In fact, her cheeks looked a little red, and then, like an excited rabbit, she beat her claws so hard that she could carry the delicious carrot into her mouth before other wise people found it.

But Anna is not a rabbit after all, so she just gets up and quickly kisses her husband on the lips.

Then she sat down again, showing an honest look, but with a smile in the corner of her eyes and eyebrows.

“What just happened?”

“Oh, I don’t know.”

Karenin almost read these two words from his wife’s hair.

Then he raised his hand, clenched his fist, and coughed gently.

“You said, I can be less polite.” Anna quickly turned to add. Then, after a moment of silence, her husband nodded.

Anna snickered. Before long, one, not to say very gently, pulled her over and faced the direction of her prank.

Anna can’t say that she is very familiar with the strength at the bottom of her finger and cheek, but it’s not the first time to meet.

So after a little bit of instinctive surprise, she set her heart down and said hello to the hands kindly, and then faithfully fulfilled her promise. ( )