Hongzhu didn't walk for a while, and a person behind quickly chased after her and stopped her. She looked back, but it was Zhu Zilan who followed. Hongzhu asked very strangely: "What's the matter, is there anything else to find me?"

Zhu Zilan's face was still a little angry, and she glanced at her when she heard the words, "Why, can't I talk to you if it's okay?"

Hongzhu laughed when she heard this, "What do you want to say? We haven't talked very well before, aren't you funny? ”

Zhu Zilan looked at her again and didn't answer.

Hongzhu was speechless, and after walking for a while, she still couldn't help but tilt her head to look at her, "I'm going to the restaurant, can you still follow me?"

Zhu Zilan snorted, "Just go! Your food shop is open for people to go, can't I go?"

Hongzhu frowned, but she also guessed what she was thinking, "...... You don't want to stay at home? Didn't you just say you were going to your aunt's house?"

Zhu Zilan replied softly after a while: "Auntie is still talking." After a pause, he emphasized again: "I told her that I will come and pick me up when she goes back." ”

Hongzhu sighed, "Why do you bother? What kind of temper do your own mothers have, that is, can you live for the rest of your life when you go to your aunt's house? ”

"I'm not having a temper!" Zhu Zilan said, "It's her mistake." ”

"If you don't lose your temper, then you can go back. Hongzhu also knew that she was still angry, and it was impossible to persuade her to understand, it was good that Zhu Zilan didn't get angry with others.

"I'm not going back. ”

Hongzhu wanted to drive her away, but Zhu Zilan didn't want to. Hongzhu was in a hurry, and she really had no choice but to let her follow.

Soon walked to the Xingjia restaurant, Second Uncle Li and Zhong were stunned when they saw Zhu Zilan following, but soon came back to their senses, and Zhong greeted her with a smile: "Zilan is here! I haven't seen her for a few days." ”

"Second uncle, she is not an outsider, so you don't have to greet her. Hongzhu said as she pulled Zhu Zilan to the back kitchen, and said to Zhu Zilan: "Go to the back, save you from delaying business." ”

Zhu Zilan looked a little angry, and only said: "Where can I sit in front of me and ......delay?

Hongzhu glared at her, "What do you say? Our kitchen is clean, where is it dirty? If others hear it, it will ruin our business!"

Zhu Zilan was silent and followed her in.

Hongzhu casually moved a stool to sit with her, and didn't care about her when she was busy. Zhu Zilan sat quietly for a while, and felt bored and depressed, so she shouted Hongzhu: "Hongzhu?"

Hongzhu ignored her, Zhu Zilan frowned, and shouted again: "Sister?"

Hongzhu was taken aback by her title, and turned her head to glare at her, "Don't mess around! ”

Zhu Zilan pursed her lips.

When Second Uncle Li saw this, he said, "Hongzhu, I'll come, you can talk to Zilan." ”

Hongzhu said: "What kind of guest, I'm here to contain you, come and help." ”

Zhu Zilan turned her head and was silent, but after a while, she still felt bored, and she still followed to help with the words in her mouth.

It was strange to see her like this, what she said just now was just a casual remark, and she didn't really think that Zhu Zilan would listen to her. Hongzhu looked at her and saw that her expression was a little dazed, as if she was at ease with something in her hand. Hongzhu didn't stop her, but said disdainfully: "Will you, this vegetable leaf has been thrown to you." ”

"Who's to say I won't? I don't do much work at home. Zhu Zilan retorted.

Hongzhu glared at her and said, "Anyway, you have done less than me!" After thinking about it, he said, "We will move out in two days, and there will be a lot of work at home in the future." ”

Zhu Zilan was stunned when she heard this, stared at her for a while, and suddenly said in a voice that didn't know whether it was loss or joy: "...... There will always be a time to separate. ”

Hongzhu didn't show her any affection, but said, "Hmph, haven't you always wanted us to move away? ”

Zhu Zilan immediately regained her spirits, and quickly replied, "Yes, that's what I thought!"

After being busy for most of the hour, the Zhong family came in and shouted, "Zilan, your aunt and they are here." ”

Hongzhu asked Zhu Zilan to go out, and Zhu Zilan turned around and said, "You send me." ”

Hongzhu raised her eyes to look at her in surprise, and Zhu Zilan quickly reached over and pulled her out. Hongzhu sighed secretly in her heart, and did not refuse to go with her.

Zhu Zilan said softly: "Am I very bad?"

Hongzhu glanced at her, nodded seriously and said, "It's pretty bad." ”

Zhu Zilan threw her hand and walked away when she heard this, and Hongzhu said behind her: "You don't know how serious you are and you have made trouble, don't think that I will comfort you!"

"Are you rare for me!" After saying this, Zhu Zilan had already gone out.

Hongzhu followed out to take a look, there were two carriages of the Zhao family parked in front of the restaurant, and only Zhu Yanmei got off the bus station and waited there. Hongzhu wanted to go over and say a few words to her, but Zhu Yanmei ignored her, pulled Zhu Zilan who stepped forward and got into the carriage with her hand.

Hongzhu didn't understand anything when she saw this, Zhu Yanmei said a few times before that she wanted to come to the restaurant to have a look, but Hongzhu didn't agree, and today she also fell on her face for a few boxes of snacks, and now Zhu Yanmei is in front of the restaurant, and she doesn't come in. This is what Zhu Yanmei made for Hongzhu to see.

Hongzhu didn't have time to be angry with her like this, and when she saw that the people were gone, she immediately went back to the restaurant.

But the Zhong family on the side couldn't look at it and said a fair word: "What's the matter? It's a relative, she doesn't even say hello when she comes to see someone, she really thinks she is the wife of a big family, and she doesn't step on the ground!"

Hongzhu smiled and said: "Second uncle, it's good if she doesn't come, she will only calculate people when she comes, and she will cause a lot of anger." ”

Zhong didn't care, so he nodded and ignored it.

After staying in the kitchen for a while, the former Zhong said that He Mingheng was here. Second Uncle Li hurriedly packed up and hurriedly went out. Hongzhu remembered the matter of He Liu, and wanted to listen to them again. Unbeknownst to him, the restaurant was too small, so Second Uncle Li invited someone to go to the teahouse outside.

As soon as Second Uncle Li left, the Zhong family was in a trance, and Hongzhu teased her when she saw it: "Second Uncle is thinking about Second Uncle, so obsessed?"

Zhong thought she was weird, so he slapped her lightly, and said: "He came once at noon, and your second uncle entrusted him with something, and now he comes again, I'm afraid that he will give a result back and forth." ”

Hongzhu said: "What's the hurry, things are only good." ”

Zhong nodded silently.

After waiting for a while for Second Uncle Li to come back, He Mingheng seemed to be on the way and followed back. Second Uncle Li invited him to come in and sit for a while, but He Mingheng refused.

He only said, "Not long after I moved to that house, I didn't pack up a lot of things, so I went back." Just when he saw Hongzhu coming out from behind, he smiled and said: "I'm just an idler who doesn't work, and I have the fate to be a neighbor with Hongzhu girl, if there is any work to carry and lift, you must call me, don't be embarrassed." ”

Second Uncle Li and the Zhong family realized that He Mingheng had moved to the courtyard next to Aunt Gu's house, and they were surprised and happy. Second Uncle Li said: "That's good, if you live there, there will be no one who dares to go." ”

He Mingheng said modestly: "After saying this, I am a powerful person again, and I am just a little face for my uncle on weekdays." ”

Zhong smiled and said: "As the old saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, and if you can live in neighbors, then you can be a good helper." ”

He Mingheng looked at Hongzhu and smiled, "Very much." ”

Hongzhu was looked at by his eyes, and his heart flickered, and he said for a while: "Tai...... Trouble. ”

He Mingheng is now less than twenty, but he is a few years older than Hongzhu, if he changes to a different family, he is not a frivolous and proud age. But because his parents were lost when he was a child, his father was unreliable, and he had to live with his uncle, so he had to be more transparent than others. And because he was clever when he was young, his uncle Zeng Ya had high hopes for him, and always urged him to study and make progress, and later followed his uncle to walk around inside and outside the yamen, and the good and bad circles were used to dealing with each other. In this way, this person seems to be much more mature and stable at a young age.

He looked at people so carefully and seriously, and if his gaze was substantial, attached to people, the red beads seemed to be seen through by him, so he couldn't help but be surprised.

Seeing this, Zhong smiled and said, "It's not troublesome, you're all welcome, I'm not used to talking like this." ”

He Mingheng smiled and said a few more gossips before leaving.

After the people left, Zhong couldn't help but sigh and said: "This He Mingheng is really capable, how old is he, he can speak inside and outside here...... It's a pity that he has a poor background, he has no parents early and lives in another house, not to mention, and now it's only a few days after the New Year, and he actually says that he has moved out alone! How old is he, there are no elders to take care of him, and he hasn't married a wife and started a family, just such a person, who can neither sew clothes nor cook, how can he live?"

Second Uncle Li heard this but disagreed, frowned and said, "You, you are still doing this idle work for others." He is not twenty now, but also seventeen or eighteen, can he still take care of himself at such an age? He has hands and feet, and you also say that he is capable, but what about being alone, and the whole family is not hungry. ”

Zhong Shi said: "Do you only talk about eating and drinking? Whoever has a family and a room who moves out to live alone, should it be worth giving an extra rental money?" She raised her eyebrows and said sharply: "Although I don't know the roots, I know that it is not a good thing for him to move out at this time." He has always lived with his uncle, saying that he is an uncle, but he is inseparable from father and son. Now that he has not yet started a family, if nothing happens, how can his uncle let him move out alone? Needless to say, it is natural that the family is unhappy. Which of the mothers-in-law of the Zeng Ya family is easy to get along with, and it is great that he can live in it peacefully for so long, pitiful. ”

Second Uncle Li said: "How do you know the details of other people's affairs? His uncle has raised him for more than ten years, and now he can afford to support the door, even if he is a single family, it is nothing." What is the mother-in-law of the Zeng family, I see that the messy gossip outside is spread by you mother-in-law. also said that others are pitiful, and now our affairs are still required to be on his head to have a relationship with him, and you don't see who is pitiful. ”

Zhong glared at him, "Why did you talk about me again? I am pitiful, but this pity is not unusual from pitiful." He looked at Hongzhu again and asked her: "Hongzhu, you come to judge, this person has been raised as a son for more than ten years, how can anyone drive people out without marrying relatives?"

When she asked this, Hongzhu couldn't answer easily, so she smiled casually and said, "I don't know how." Second uncle, how old am I, how much can I know about the world? And this person says that he is a neighbor, but how many times have I only met someone? However, the three of our Cheng family are extremely happy to move, and there is nothing to be sorry for. ”

When Zhong Shi heard this, he laughed and scolded, "You little slippery head!" After a pause, he seemed to understand some scruples, and then smiled again: "People who are so transparent on weekdays still say that they don't know the world! Are you still afraid that I will make fun of you?"

Hongzhu rolled her eyes and said, "Yes, second uncle, just stop." ”

Second Uncle Li smiled, "You mother-in-law has a broken mouth, don't talk nonsense." ”

Zhong immediately laughed and scolded again, and laughed for a while before turning around and asking about what Second Uncle Li said to He Mingheng.

Second Uncle Li said: "Then He Liu found it, because he didn't know what the details of the person who got the bottom of it, so he just beat him with the things on the side." Turn around and let people follow, to see if he is messing around alone, or if there is some kind of instruction......"

Zhong Shi was already relieved when she heard that He Liu's beating, and she didn't pay much attention to those little bastards, what mattered was Li Nanxing's matter. Before she could think about it, she interrupted him, and asked, "What about Nanxing?"

Second Uncle Li glanced at her, but didn't say anything to her after all, but said lightly: "There are some ways." He Mingheng knew Mr. Xixi in Governor Liu's mansion, Mr. Nawen and the gentlemen in the academy were all familiar with each other, Ming'er took Nanxing to visit his husband in the school first, if he could ask him to lead Nanxing together, this matter would be one or two. ”

Zhong Shi was overjoyed for a moment, and only said in a stacked voice: "Then I have to prepare for my life!"

Hongzhu was also happy for her after hearing this, and thought about the style of gifts that Zhu Boxiu had prepared when he visited Mr. Zhu in the past and told Zhong.

Second Uncle Li said casually: "Prepare a double portion, and go back to Wenhan as well." ”

Zhong was stunned for a moment, but Hongzhu spoke first: "Don't be busy, don't be busy, the second uncle has a hard-won way, let's plan with my cousin." There are many of them in this situation, and it would be embarrassing to bring another one?"

Zhong also meant this in his heart, Hongzhu had found her cousin Zhu Boxiu's way before, if it weren't for Cheng Wenhan who fell into the water by himself without incident, he couldn't have even seen the gentleman in Xishan Academy, and it was rare to see Mr. Xixiwen.

Hongzhu also knew that Zhong's heart was a little troubled, and it was difficult to say it directly, so he continued to explain: "What's more, Wen Han is still sick, and the doctor said that although the illness is not big, he is young and weak, and it is a cold day, so he should recuperate quietly for a few days." ”

Hearing this, Second Uncle Li hesitated and said: "If you are more careful, you can't see the wind?" This way has been found, what is more than a person, at most it is just to prepare more gifts and thank you for money. ”

Zhong glanced at Hongzhu and didn't speak.

Hongzhu said: "Second uncle, I have already asked my cousin to ask and put up my name." I have heard that gentlemen also pay attention to their reputations, and if they know that we are blind flies and go to bump indiscriminately, we will look for this one and one for the other. Those who know know that we are anxious, and those who don't know are still when we are so good at drilling and climbing, which is not good. ”

Second Uncle Li's just that's it.