The girl in the picture is graceful and elegant, beautiful and beautiful, with slender hands and feet, and a graceful figure, lying on her body to enjoy the coolness, and her body is a yukata with complex patterns, revealing a unique romantic atmosphere of the "Edo pattern and pattern era", but she is lightly touching the corners of her clothes, and her expression is a little sad, and she does not know what to think about, revealing the beauty of "mourning" in this tradition.

This is a ukiyo-e, originated from the Chinese Suzhou Taohuawu woodblock New Year painting, absorbing the Western perspective method at that time, and later said that the folk artists on this basis, and developed the "overlooking perspective method", like a bird from top to bottom looking down on all living beings, so named "Ukiyo" - originally a Buddhist term, meaning the empty earthly world.

This kind of painting is usually completed by the painter, engraver and rubbinger under the integration of the publisher, although the level of the painter is the key to quality, but the engraver and rubbinger must also have a considerable level in order to produce a high-level ukiyo-e, and as a work used to depict the daily life of the common people at that time, it is often used as wrapping paper, and many of the works that need to be printed at one time, and even the works that have been praised will be reproduced and reprinted many times, and naturally many have survived- Most of them wiped their butts, but due to the large base, there are indeed a lot of people left.

This "Young Ji after the Summer Festival" is a ukiyo-e masterpiece left after nearly 500 years, and the national treasure painting collected in the National Art Museum is from the same source, with great collection value and appreciation potential, so that Hakuba Zongzheng is extremely sad - this was originally his collection, he loved it very much, and he hung it in the study to appreciate the unique beauty of the lines every day, but his daughter was not filial, and he scraped it away, and now it is hung on the wall of his unlucky son-in-law's living room, and the pearl is secretly cast.

Chihara Rin was accompanied by one side, extremely sympathetic, and at the same time secretly wondered if this quasi-Taishan Lord wanted to get this painting back, but he couldn't be the master - he was not uncommon with this kind of wrapping paper from four or five hundred years ago, but Ning Zi liked it, and she scraped her father's things, which was actually an internal matter of the White Horse family, and he really couldn't say anything.

Besides, if he returned it, he didn't know where to buy another one if he had the money, and he couldn't rob the National Art Museum.

He hurriedly pushed the tea, distracting Baima Zongzheng, and said with a smile: "Please use tea, it is the best jade tea." ”

White Horse Zongzheng stared at the tea bowl in front of him silently, which was also his former collection, and the fragrance of tea was also familiar, and it was also his treasure - the things passed down from his ancestors, his accumulation over the years, all cheap this kid, it was not good to give birth to a daughter, no matter how much she hurts, sooner or later she will have to be thrown into the arms of another man.

But he can't say anything, his daughter has been a maverick since she was a child, has her own ideas, and does things as she wants, which is really a headache, and she can't manage it at all, at least now is the life she wants, and it would be good to be happy—it should be quite happy, right?

He no longer cares about his former collection, anyway, he is a direct heir to his daughter, and sooner or later it will be hers, he took a sip of tea slightly, and asked with concern: "Is the situation okay on the TV station?"

Chihara Rinren's matter, they heard about it, they were a little worried, it just happened that they hadn't seen their daughter for a long time, and they missed it a little, so they came directly from Kyoto to visit, this is just entering the house, and Chihara Rin also told the truth, and said with a smile: "I was transferred to an idle job, and now I have nothing to do every day." ”

Baima Zongzheng understood the situation and knew that he had offended his boss, but his personality was actually very civil, and he didn't care much, so he said directly: "If you are not happy, just resign, why bother to look at people's faces, it's not the same if you work in another place." ”

Chihara Rin knew that he didn't understand, and explained with a smile: "If the contract requires it, if I resign unilaterally, I will be banned from working for a period of time, and it will be difficult to find a job again, and there will be a certain price to pay for terminating the contract, so it is better to wait for the contract to expire." ”

"Do you want to pay liquidated damages?" Hakuba Zongzheng, as a wealthy local tyrant in Kyoto, said indifferently: "I'll do it for you, and you don't have to be wronged for money." If you can't find a job for a while, you can go to Kyoto to do something else, and there are many talented dramatists and famous maiko who have a good impression of you, so you can expand your network. ”

He didn't have anything else in mind, just casually suggested, but Chihara Rin was a little suspicious that Hakuba Somasa wanted to trick him into going to Kyoto to be a monk, so he naturally didn't do it - he was still thinking about joining the Kanto Union, how could he leave at this time, anyway, Ohashi Eishi was unpopular, and it would not be difficult to seize the opportunity to kick him out in the future.

It's just going to take a while, and he can afford to wait!

He has a very far plan, and he doesn't want to leave the TV production industry, let alone go to the Big Four - the Big Four have a long history, and the high-level relationships are intertwined, they will only use him, and will not give him the opportunity to ascend to a high position or even enter the council, he will inevitably stay in the Kanto Union, even if he wants to sit on the cold bench for a while, he has to stay, but it is inconvenient for him to say this directly, so he smiled and said: "Good intentions, but it doesn't have to be like this, it's just a little more than a year, it's not bad to take a break, just take this opportunity to accompany Ningzi more." ”

Hakuma Zongzheng felt that Chihara Rin valued his baby daughter very much, and immediately nodded with relief, and Chihara Rin didn't want to let him ask questions anymore, and immediately began to take back the initiative to talk, and then asked: "This time, can you stay for a while?" Ningzi should miss you very much, and definitely want to get together more. ”

The White Horse Sect is a character who wants to live a leisurely life, and he feels that it is not bad to stay in Tokyo and fish with his prospective son-in-law for a few days, but as the owner of the temple, there are many affairs and heavy responsibilities, and he can't help himself, so he can't help it, so he sighed and said: "I can only live for a day or two, it's almost the New Year, and the temple is also busy, so I can't leave for too long." ”

"In this case, is the situation at the temple okay? Now the economic environment is not very good, have you encountered any difficulties in operation?"

"It doesn't matter, people always have to die anyway, as long as someone dies, the temple doesn't have to worry about business. ”

"That's what I said......"

Their pair of would-be sons-in-law were chatting here, and Hakuba Mitsue looked at the two trees in the middle of Chihara's house, one big and one small, and was directly speechless - her daughter is really an iron-headed baby, she wanted to plant trees in the house when she was a child, but she was rejected at the time, but she didn't expect that after more than ten years, she still did it.

She looked at the big tree with lush foliage, and then looked at the thick glass skylight that was hard to open overhead, and endured it and didn't say anything, after all, this is Chihara's house, and it is not her turn to meddle in her affairs, but originally she wanted to ask her daughter if she was doing well in Chihara Rinren, and whether she was wronged, but now she doesn't want to ask - her daughter is simply wanton in Chihara's house, and a big hole is dug on the roof of a good one, and it is not too much for an ordinary bride to be driven back to her parents' house.

She held back for a while before leaving the "indoor patio", and then walked around the house, touching around from time to time to take a closer look, and gradually her face softened again, and praised: "The house is very clean, and you usually work hard." ”

She is also from a standard traditional family, and she knows that if she wants to take care of such a big house, the housewife must be very hard, but she is a little impressed with her daughter - she was not sent to participate in the bride practice in vain, and finally did not completely lose the face of the White Horse family.

Ning Zi didn't care much, and said with a gentle smile: "It's not hard, Mom, it's all done by part-time workers." ”

"Part-time worker, aren't you usually at home?" Mizueda, the middle-aged beauty, was taken aback, and her face trembled for a while, and her face was a little distorted, "You haven't done any housework at all, do you still look like a bride?"

It's not impossible to hire a part-time worker, but you're not married yet, and you're so lazy and lazy on weekdays, what if it's returned?

"I'm usually very busy, I have to draw drawings and write books. Ningzi didn't care what her mother thought of her, and said casually: "I also do housework, Qianyuan-kun loves to eat my food very much, and he has to hire part-time workers, he said that he doesn't like me to be busy with some trivial chores all day long, and hopes that I can do more things that can be happy." ”

Mitsueda's heart moved: "He loves you very much?"

Ning Zi squinted and smiled: "Yes, Qianyuan-kun is very good to me." ”

Mizueda relieved slightly, but she still said sternly: "It's a good thing that he likes you, but you also have to pay attention to it, don't take his liking for you for granted, there are some things that you must pay attention to!"

"I see, Mom. ”

Mizue looked at her daughter with a lazy posture, and she also had a splitting headache for a while - don't look at her daughter's promise so happily, but her own daughter has always agreed on the surface, and she must still follow her own ideas behind it, and it is impossible to change a little bit.

She actually hoped to take care of her daughter before, but her daughter didn't eat this set, and she saw that Chihara Rin was good and didn't say hello before she cut it first, and now she is living with Chihara Rin, so it's even more impossible to listen to her, it's really helpless - when her daughter is at home, she is urged to catch up every day, even if she often acts as yang and yin, she still looks like a little bit, but she has been with Chihara Rin for less than a year, and she looks like a lazy woman- She can make up for the appearance of this daughter lying on the recliner and sleeping until dark when Rin Chihara is not at home.

She really couldn't accept this, feeling that this was a big failure as a mother, and said bitterly: "A-Ning, you have to be with Qianyuan-kun, you will be a member of the Qianyuan family in the future, you have to take responsibility and run the Qianyuan family well." ”

"Chihara-kun won't be happy that I'm meddling in his business, and I have something to do myself. ”

"Then how can it be done, you have to work together to make the family prosperous!"

"Mom, I'm not you, and Rin is not a person like my father, it's different, you just take care of your father, how to live with Rin is my own business, and I will handle it myself. ”

"You ......"

Mitsue was almost angry, feeling that her daughter didn't respect her life experience at all, life is easy to say, but how easy it is to live a good life, it takes a lot of effort, and it is absolutely not okay to be lazy!

Besides, now it's Rin Chihara who is making money to support his family, but he is not in the Hakuba family, so let him take care of the trivial matter of hiring part-time workers while working?

Even if it's herself, her husband is confused all day long and doesn't know how to run the family business, and she has no choice but to take over the management of the family, but that's it, the affairs of the family haven't let her husband worry a little bit, how can my daughter be like this!?

Can you get married like this?

When Ningzi saw that her mother was really anxious, she immediately squinted and grabbed her arm, and laughed softly: "Mom, I know you want me to be happy, but now it's fine, Rin is different from ordinary people, we have a good relationship, don't worry about it." ”

"The relationship is good...... You haven't argued, have you? Did he get angry at you? Did he think you were bad?"

"No, Rin has a good personality, he ...... He wasn't quite like the men I knew before. Ning Zi tilted his head and thought about it, and said in confusion: "Men with a little ability all think that women should be their appendages, and it is natural to give orders, thinking that women should revolve around them, but Rin is different, he has special respect for me, he has never ordered me anything, he can do whatever I want, even if I try to go too far a few times, he doesn't feel the slightest, and he doesn't know what kind of family he was born in before, and it can be so different...... Mom, in fact, I was lucky to meet him, just like you can meet a good-natured man like Dad, you really don't need to do much. ”

Mitsue nodded silently, this daughter is not angry, she is a little wasteful, and she is too willful, but she is really smart enough, her eyes are bright enough, and it should be unlikely to look at people - she was more worried about her daughter's daily life, and Chihara Rin was annoyed after a while of freshness, and the two of them began to quarrel and quarrel every day, so everything is fine now, maybe it shouldn't be too much.

I don't understand today's young people!

She couldn't control her daughter in the first place, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to let her daughter run away from home for nearly two years, and she didn't say much when she saw that there was no major event, and she continued to look at the house with her daughter - as a housewife for many years, by observing the situation at home, she could know whether her daughter was really doing well, which was much more useful than asking.

Ning Zi introduced her to the road: "This is the bedroom of the Rin disciples, this one is Michiko, and that one is Hitomi's, they went to school and work, and they are not here now." Over there is the guest room, here is our bedroom, and then here is my studio, and across the street is Rinto's study......"

Mizue carefully observed all the way, not letting go of any clues, and didn't have any feelings about the fact that there were still two disciples living in Chihara Rinto's house - there were dozens of disciples living in her house, and two were not worth mentioning at all, and she didn't plan to go into Chihara Rinto's bedroom and study to have a look, but her daughter's studio didn't matter, she pushed open the door and went in.

She took a closer look and found that what her daughter said was true, she spent a lot of time in this studio every day, completely by her temperament, a lot of sketches, a lot of waste manuscripts, and a lot of strange broken bowls, broken bottles, and rotten painting scrolls, which were completely copies of her uncompetitive husband.

She didn't want to look at these more, she was too angry to see them, she turned her head to look at the calligraphy banner on the wall again, and Ning Zi's eyes showed a happy light, and she smiled: "Rin wrote it to me." ”

Mitsue glanced at the poems, and didn't care about the content, she was a business-oriented talent, and the White Horse Zongzheng was completely opposite, and she didn't look at these poems and songs at all, unless they were more valuable and could be used as a store of value, but she also understood that her daughter and her prospective son-in-law really got along well - knowing her daughter Mo Ruomu, if her daughter didn't really like it, she wouldn't have hung it in the studio and looked at it, and it would have been disposed of as waste paper.

At most, it will be dealt with secretly, and it will save face for Rin Chihara, and it is impossible to hang it in a place where you can see it when you raise your eyes anyway.

In this world, no one is more willful than her daughter, and she will definitely do this--it's really unlucky, what kind of sin she created in her previous life, and she gave birth to such an unobtrusive thing, and her heart is about to break for her!

She was also completely relieved in desperation, this daughter is actually more like her husband, she is a leisurely embryo, and she really does big things that are not worth the fart, so there is no need to force her to be a housekeeper or something, anyway, the prospective son-in-law is very shrewd and capable at a glance, and the sticky hair is better than the monkey, and he can't suffer a loss, as long as the daughter takes his heart, it is good to be a rich idler for the rest of his life - it is also complementary, fortunately, he had a good impression of him at the beginning, and he did not make it difficult for him, otherwise he would have missed it.

She reached out and took out a thin white envelope from the belt around her waist, slapped it heavily into her daughter's hand, and sighed: "You take this, whether you keep it for yourself or give it to Qianyuan-kun, you can do it yourself." ”