Zhu Hong walked in from the outside and saw Mrs. Zhu and Mrs. Cui Si sitting on the couch at a glance. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Mrs. Zhu pursed her face, her expression was a little cold and hateful that could not be hidden, and Zhu Hong thought to herself that she probably already knew that he had caused her precious son to fall off a tree.

Mrs. Cui looked at him with a kind and gentle face, as if she was looking at her nephew.

Zhu Hong stepped forward, saluted perfunctorily, and said, "Mother, fourth uncle." ”

Mrs. Zhu snorted coldly, turned her face and was about to reprimand him for hurting Zhu Rong, but Mrs. Cui pulled her clothes and reminded her.

Fourth Mrs. Cui was afraid that she would say something that would ruin the atmosphere, so she spoke first: "It's Hong'er who is back, I haven't seen her for a few years, and she is really more and more stable." As he spoke, he beckoned to him, and said with a kind smile: "Uncle and your mother have been thinking about you every day all these years, especially your mother, your hair is gray when you think about it, come over and let us take a good look." ”

Zhu Hong said: "If my mother and aunt have anything to say, just say it, I have been used to being alone all these years, and I don't like to stand too close to people." ”

Zhu Hong's unceremonious attitude made Mrs. Cui Si's face a little embarrassed, and Mrs. Zhu couldn't help but scold: "How can you talk to your aunt?" said with a cold look in her eyes and was about to attack.

Mrs. Cui Si hurriedly pressed Mrs. Zhu and said with a smile: "It's all a family, it's not in the way." As he spoke, he instructed the maid next to him: "Then move a chair for the eldest young master like this, don't stand." ”

The maid moved a chair over, and Zhu Hong sat down with it, looking at Mrs. Zhu and Mrs. Cui Si above.

Mrs. Cui Si pushed Mrs. Zhu again, and Mrs. Zhu had to look at Zhu Hong, trying to soften her voice and say, "What have you been doing outside all these years, and how are you doing?"

After all, it is a concubine who has been cold and despised for many years, and this kind of insincere concern always makes people feel awkward and cold.

Zhu Hong said: "It's good, I finally have three meals without starvation." ”

Mrs. Zhu frowned, a little unhappy with his tone.

Mrs. Cui Si saw that Mrs. Zhu was really not a person who could get things done, and she couldn't do the work well, so she hurriedly took over the conversation and helped her fill in the conversation, and said with a distressed and concerned face: "Honglang must have suffered a lot outside over the years, even if you don't say that your aunt knows." ”

said and said: "Speaking of which, you were also willful back then, and your mother just lightly punished you twice, and you ran out of the house and didn't return for many years." Why are you so angry? It has made your father, your mother, and your grandmother sad and regretful for many years, and I don't know how many people have been sent out to look for you, but there is no news at all. Your mother is so sad that she cries every day, her eyes are almost blind from crying, and she always blames herself for not punishing you in the first place. Later, when you returned to Beijing, the government sent someone out to take you back, but you were still angry with your family, and you refused to come back. ”

Zhu Hong snorted coldly in his heart, he was injured and almost half dead at the beginning, that is called two light punishments? If it wasn't for that time when he made up his mind to leave and resisted, Mrs. Zhu probably really planned to beat him to death.

Zhu Hong didn't speak, and Mrs. Cui Si continued: "How has Honglang spent all these years outside, when did he return to Beijing? Why don't you go back to live in Beijing after returning to Beijing? No matter how good it is outside, it is not as good as at home, where is there a comfortable home, Honglang should move back to live." Saying that, he pointed at Mrs. Zhu, and said: "Your mother used to be responsible for her deep love, but she has known that she was wrong all these years, and she will never treat you like before." When you go back to the house, she will compensate you well. ”

Zhu Hong said: "No need, I haven't lived in the house for ten years, I'm afraid that I won't be used to living when I come back." ”

Mrs. Zhu didn't like Mrs. Cui Si's gentle words and chirped crookedly with him, and she couldn't mention the idea for a long time, and she didn't like Zhu Hong's attitude of not taking the Zhu family seriously, so she interjected directly: "You are a young master of the Zhu family who doesn't live in the Zhu Mansion but lives outside, what kind of system do you become, do you want to trap the Zhu family in injustice and let people outside gossip about the Zhu family?"

Zhu Hong turned his head to look at Mrs. Zhu, his eyes were slightly cold, and said: "I have lived outside for the past ten years, I think the Zhu family is not very good, and no one is afraid of gossip." ”

Mrs. Zhu pointed at him angrily and said, "You ......" said that Mrs. Cui Si secretly shook her head at her, and then calmly waved her sleeves and withdrew her hand, saying: "For the sake of you returning home for the first time in so many years, I don't care about you." ”

Then he said in a commanding tone: "Since you have returned to Beijing, you will move back to the house to live, I have already instructed the maid to help you clean the yard where you used to live." You are also a big boss, these days I am going to give you a family affair, after you get married, you will take care of yourself and stay in the house, don't run out anymore. By the way, how many properties have you purchased outside the country over the years? Are there any other boats in Ruyi Fang and Jiangnan Taozhuang?"

Mrs. Cui sighed in her heart, only to feel that her eldest aunt was really unable to hold her breath, and now it was the right thing to coax Zhu Hong back to the house, and the matter of the industry would be slowly tried to ask after he returned to the house. It's too impatient and offensive to ask now.

In the final analysis, Mrs. Zhu still regarded Zhu Hong as the concubine who let her knead her, and did not pay attention to Zhu Hong from her heart.

Zhu Hong looked at Mrs. Zhu and asked expressionlessly, "What does Mother want to say?"

Mrs. Zhu said: "You haven't married yet, and you hold so many properties in your hands, it is inevitable that people will gossip." Give me all the property in your hand first, and I will send a capable steward to help you take care of it, and I will return it to you when the family is divided later." ”

Zhu Hong looked at Mrs. Zhu and said lightly: "I'm afraid it won't be as my mother wants." ”

Mrs. Zhu glared at him angrily and said sharply: "Zhu Hong, the Zhu family has not yet been separated, and it is unfilial piety for you not to hand over your private property to the public school." Do you want me and your father to sue you for unfilial piety?"

Zhu Hong patted the robe on his knees, sat in a different position, and said casually: "My mother hasn't seen me for a long time, so she probably doesn't know my situation." When I left home that day, I was penniless, and where did I have the ability to buy this large amount of property, I was just a steward, helping others to manage these properties. If the mother does not believe it, she can go to the government to check whether the property is recorded in the name of her son. A mother wants her son to be filial, and she must not let her son steal from the master's house to honor his mother. But the mother is also right, the family is not separated, there is no private property, the main family is good to the son, there is a salary of one hundred taels of silver a year, the son has some food, clothing and housing over the years, and about two hundred taels of silver have been saved, if the mother wants, the son will send someone to the mother tomorrow. ”

Mrs. Zhu was so angry that her chest thumped, who did he lie, who would trust this large amount of property so much and hand it over to outsiders to take care of, I haven't heard of other masters in Ruyi Fang and Jiangnan Taozhuang Boat Workshop over the years, even if these properties are not recorded in his name in the official documents, it is definitely his.

Two hundred taels of silver, he should have sent it to Huazi.

Mrs. Zhu snorted coldly, looked at Zhu Hong and said coldly: "Hong'er, you have learned badly from others in the years you have been outside, and you have forgotten your loyalty, righteousness, filial piety and honesty to the belly of a dog, and you have learned to deceive your elders." ”

Zhu Hong said: "What the mother said, the son doesn't understand very well. ”

At this moment, a maid came in outside the door and said to Mrs. Zhu: "Madam, the old lady has sent someone over there, saying that the old lady misses the eldest young master, please come over immediately." ”

Mrs. Zhu was thinking about how to let people send Mrs. Zhu's people away, but Zhu Hong had already stood up and said to Mrs. Zhu: "If the mother has nothing else to do, the son will go to the grandmother to say goodbye first." ”

After speaking, he didn't care about the anger on Mrs. Zhu's face, and left directly.