Chapter 56 (1/2)
The clock struck the hour.
Alexei got up and said, ”I'm going to bed, Aunt Anna.”
”Well, if you need anything, you can come to me or anushika and they.”
Alexei gave a light answer to understand.
After the boy was sent to the bedroom door, Anna said good night to each other before leaving.
She came to Karenin's private study, knocked on the door, got the voice of consent before entering.
She closed the door of her study gently and approached her husband, who seemed to have just finished his work.
”Have you finished your work?”
”Yes.” Karenin tidied up his desk.
Anna won't help him at this time. On the issue of official business, Anna would not touch each other's things without Karenin's request.
”I'm curious what you said to Alexei.” Anna asked sweetly. With my right hand on the desk, I'm really curious now, and I have to hear the answer.
Karenin was no exception to his wife.
In the past, he would have stopped carefully and answered her questions attentively, but now he is used to satisfying her curiosity while doing his own things.
He got up to put the papers on the hidden side of the shelf, and Anna followed him like a small tug.
”I told him that he could stay in Petersburg if he chose to go to the Academy I had arranged for him.” Karenin stopped for a moment, and his long, strong finger moved the book and put the documents in exactly the right order.
”And, I don't want to hear bad news.”
”But what if he was bullied?” Anna asked deliberately.
Then she saw her husband turn around and look at her after he finished his work, his blue eyes twinkled with indescribable emotion, and finally, like surrender.
”Anna, I'm saying don't let me hear you.” After that, Anna got a look of blame.
Karenin then went to the direction of his desk, put some letters in categories, and said casually, ”no matter where they are, there will always be things to deal with. It's the same even for people who have family patronage. It's just that the way they deal with it is different. ”
”It is inevitable that there will be some collisions and frictions in places like military academies, which are different from traditional boarding schools. No matter whether he is young and vigorous or his family background, since he has chosen this road, he will inevitably be provoked again in the future. ”
”It's obviously unreasonable to let him be patient. In recent years, he has always learned something about self-protection. ”
With this sentence landing, Karenin just closed the drawer.
”Before, did you do the same?” Anna asked in a soft voice.
She likes to know everything about Karenin, both good and bad.
The bad part is always hard, which means more heavy emotions and more heartache. But the more she understood the past, Anna felt she could find a better way to treat her husband.
Life is still very long, friction is inevitable.
But instead of becoming confused and confused at that time, Anna would like to know in advance how to solve and pacify.
”It's not that bad, Anna. I'm not in the position of Alexei
Karenin's voice was quiet.
He took Anna's hand and asked her to sit opposite, but was gently refused by the latter.
”I'll stand.” Anna said with a smile that sometimes she liked the height.
Because of her height, Anna spent most of her time looking up to her husband.
Looking up means more reverence. At the same time, Anna also knows that the people who are looked up to also bear more responsibilities.
No man likes to look up to his own sex.
But no matter who, or most men, have looked up to a woman.
That's the mother.
That means dependence and trust.
At such a time, Anna hopes to be someone who can make Karenin feel trusted. Her secret idea had not been told to anyone, nor had Karenin. More often than not, he persuades her to sit down, or, by gently wringing his eyebrows, allows her to be eccentric.
At this time, he was also like ordinary men, a little bit of smiling dullness.
However, it may be that the night is too gentle tonight, or it may be because of the long separation.
The adult, who was always too rigid and serious, suddenly did something that moved Anna.
Anna was standing in front of Karenin.
After the latter sat down, he did not open his mouth as usual, nor did he gently twist his eyebrows. He just raised his right hand and put Anna's overlapping hands in front of his abdomen into his hands.
”A little cold?”Karenin asked, and raised her other hand, drawing Anna closer to herself until Anna's knee touched the other's.
”No Well, a little bit? ” Anna froze for a moment and then gave another question.
Karenin took a look at her, frowned slightly, and finally let go.