Liu Lao, who is in his forties, still retains the handsomeness of his youth, and the years have not left too many traces on his face, except for a pinch of white hair on his forehead that is tied into the bun, adding a little vicissitudes to him. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Such an elegant person, but he is the head of the Liu family, the first family in Jindu City.

Liu Lao is not old, but it is the honorific title of the people in Jindu City.

"Mengran is spoiled by me. Liu Lao smiled bitterly, as if recalling the past, his face was full of helplessness, "When she was five years old, there was civil strife in Liufu, and Luo Heng blocked the assassin's deadly sword for me, and I promised her that she would take good care of our daughter." If you weren't careful, you made me spoil me like this. ”

He glanced at the twilight sun and got up and paced out of the hall, looking out at the sky.

Back then, back then, it's a pity that it was back then......

Twilight quietly looked at Liu Laoqing's back. After a long time, a slight smile appeared on the corner of his lips, and he slowly walked over and stood beside him: "Meng Ran told me that she will not marry Xing Yan in this life." ”

Liu Lao's expression was mournful, and he closed his eyes and opened them again and returned to normal. Twilight's eyes caught a flash of his heavy sadness on his face, as if his heart, which was not very complete, suddenly collapsed and could never be brought back.

"That kid has almost forgotten who he is!" he said in a stern tone.

Twilight's original sentence "Is identity really higher than everything" almost blurted out, but she swallowed it stiffly: "Mengran is still young, let her think about it, she will always figure it out." Why is there such a quarrel between father and daughter?"

Liu Lao shook his head and sighed again, looking at Duyang: "You are also young, but you know a lot." If Meng Ran can be as sensible as you, what should I worry about?"

"If she shuttles through Flower Street and Willow Lane all day long like me, you don't have to worry about it every day?" Twilight pursed her lips and smiled, "I'm five years older than her, five years old!" She opened one hand and shook it a few times, frowning slightly, her eyes were full of anger, as if she was dissatisfied with Liu Lao's neglect of her five-year life experience.

Liu Lao smiled rarely, shook his head and patted her shoulder, and walked back to the flower hall. Twilight lowered her eyelashes, and smiled faintly at the corners of her lips.

I think that when she first arrived in Jindu City, the business of Yuefanfang had just opened, and she was not familiar with her life, so she relied on the recommendation of Liu Lao. Even in terms of business management, he will help Twilight come up with ideas and guide her on how to do it. He listened carefully as Twilight explained his way of doing business, and then praised and fully supported him without hesitation.

It seems that it was also in those years that the Liu family's business began to involve the tea industry and the silk village.

Twilight asks him curiously why he is so helpful.

Liu Lao looked at her with a smile and said, "It's probably because the edge of the eyes has arrived." Besides, you came to Jindu alone to make a living, and this courage alone really makes me admire!"

In this way, they became business partners in porcelain, tea, and silk. In private, he is her mentor and friend. Liu Lao once proposed that it would be better to accept her as a righteous daughter and help the Liu family take care of their business than to make a living in the land of fireworks. Twilight shook her head and didn't agree: "If I want to be your righteous daughter, I can't be like your daughter, I have to think about what I say and do in front of you, so I can't be as free as now." ”

There was a time in Jindu City that "the wealthy Liufu family has lost his wife for more than ten years and intends to remarry, and the object is the proprietress of the Moon Fan Workshop who has just emerged in the rivers and lakes". This rumor that was once used by the Jindu neighborhood as an after-dinner conversation reached their ears, and the two did not get angry, but looked at each other and smiled tacitly.

Liu Lao picked up a piece of pear blossom cake and handed it to Duyang: "Speaking of which, I would like to thank you for your help in yesterday's incident." ”

"Where is it, Liu Lao is polite. It's just that yesterday's incident Twilight was still negligent and couldn't help anything. Twilight took the pear blossom cake and took a bite.

He shook his head: "You can't prevent people with a heart." ”

Twilight nodded, eating almost the pear blossom cake in her hand, clapping her hands and preparing to leave, but saw Liu Lao staring at her. I touched my face, but I didn't get anything on it.

"I want you to go and see Mengran. Liu Lao was amused by her expression, remembering what he was going to say, and looked embarrassed, "You know that Mengran has lost her mother since she was a child, and she has no brothers and sisters to talk to, I am worried that it will be good if I figure her out if I lock her up like this, if I accidentally go on a fork in the road, how can I be worthy of her dead mother?"

"Good. Twilight hooked the corners of her mouth, "After all, she called me Sister Twilight." ”

Liu Lao looked at her with a complicated expression.

At this time, Mr. Liu hurriedly entered the hall, and saw that Duyang hesitated, and only spoke with the permission of Liu Lao's eyes: "Master, something happened to the porcelain kiln." ”

Liu Lao's face changed slightly, and he apologized to Duyang: "It's really unfortunate, it seems that I can't accompany you over." Twilight waved his hand, got up, and went to the inner courtyard as familiarly as a moon fan shop.

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The sky is getting dark, and Hualiu Lane is getting more and more noisy. At a glance, most of them are rich sons in gorgeous clothes and brocade clothes, or in groups of three or two, or with small servants, reflecting the red silk yarn lamps on the high branches on both sides, and the folding fans are gently shaken, making a rich and elegant style.

While talking and laughing, a group of rich sons walked into the gate of the Moon Fan Workshop.

Whether it is drinking, listening to music and dancing, or looking for a red face and drunk and lying in a gentle township, Yuefanfang is the first choice for rich sons in Jindu City.

I got off the sedan chair at dusk, paid the sedan chair man the money for his feet, and stepped up the stone steps, and couldn't help frowning. It happened that a handsome boy walked by beside him, and greeted her with a smile: "The owner doesn't look very good today." ”

"Oh, Feng Gongzi. "Towards the gold owner, Duyang has always been warm and polite, "The son is so careful, no wonder the peony girl is worried about the son." ”

Feng Gongzi has been in the fireworks place for a long time, and when he heard Twilight Yang say this, he couldn't help but feel proud in his heart.

There was a faint pain in the lower abdomen, and Dui Yang didn't want to entangle with him more, so she hurriedly recruited a girl from the wooden character generation and ordered her to take Feng Gongzi to Wangchun Garden.

"Mu Jiu. Twilight passed through the crowd, and Mu Jiu rushed to meet him, only to shout "Fang Master" was intercepted by Twilight, "Tell the kitchen to boil a dose of Guiqi soup and send it to my room." ”

Mu Jiuyuan wanted to report something else, but when he saw that the owner's lips were pale, he couldn't care about anything else, so he hurriedly helped her: "Sister Chu Li let the kitchen boil a dose early in the morning, and she has been using Wen Huo to heat it." ”

Twilight pursed her lips, bowed her head slightly, and returned to Twilight's house safely with the help of Mu Jiu's arm.

After drinking a bowl of Guiqi soup, the abdominal pain was still there, but it reassured her a little. Because she prides herself on being shrewd, she can't remember her own monthly letter period, and she suffers from menstrual abdominal pain for the second time, but fortunately, Chu Li is careful and remembers it for her.

"Mu Jiu. She handed over the porcelain bowl, "The order will go down, in the next seven days, Wangchun Garden and Yexinju will follow the previous rules, and the few grandmothers in charge will come to the house at three o'clock every day to report the situation of the previous day, and also bring the information written down by the girls." The hall is in charge of Mu Yi, you are here to assist, Mu Yi's temperament I don't worry. ”

"Yes. ”

Mu Jiu was just about to retreat, but Twilight remembered something and called her to stop.

"Do you have something to say?"

Mu Jiu scratched his head, thought about it before remembering, and said with a smile: "The business of Bairiju can't continue, it's closed." ”

"This is also worthy of your happiness?" No wonder she didn't hear the flower girl of Bairiju say hello in her voice when she got off the sedan chair, and the nine girls in the south hall all looked happy, so it was.

"Of course I'm happy! Owner, over the years, the name of the Moon Fan Workshop has become bigger and bigger, and few in Hualiu Lane can stand it except for those with a better foundation. Bairiju relies on its own wide range of customers, from the rich to the commoners, but after all, the children of rich families like to follow the trend, and Bairiju can't get by in terms of mixed face, and it can barely survive until today with a few taels of silver from the common people. ”

Twilight opened a booklet, which was the information that the girls had memorized a few days ago, and smiled slightly: "This is not like what you said. ”

"Hehe, the owner is wise. Mu Jiu stuck out his tongue, "It was Mama Yu from Wangchun Garden who told us." ”

Twilight nodded, said no more, and waved her down.

After Mu Jiu left, the room instantly quieted down. Twilight closed the book and looked out the window, the dark sky was dotted with broken silver stars. The lower abdomen is falling, and the pain is slightly relieved but still uncomfortable.

She thought of Liu Mengran who was locked in the boudoir, and the situation was really terrible. No wonder Liu Lao is so worried.

The torn tents, the broken cups, the crooked tables and chairs, the messy pen and ink, the good woman's boudoir has become that look. Liu Mengran, who was sitting in the corner with her knees crossed, her face was as white as snow, and she raised her eyes and looked at her for a long time before she saw that it was her, and cried "Sister Dusk" and threw herself into her arms.

Twilight frowned, the mixed feelings in her heart made her uncomfortable.

She said: "Mengran, I know that you can't help yourself and are in pain. But who is not the case with people alive in this world? You only see others who are chic and happy on the surface, but you don't know what kind of struggle they are behind them. Look at your father, is he in charge of everything? In your famous family, how helpless is he as a member of the family. Because in that position, he had to go against his will for many things. For example, for you, which father doesn't want his children to be happy, but you are the only bloodline of the Liu family, he can protect you for more than ten years without worries, but he can't let you follow your own preferences for the rest of your life. Behind you is the livelihood of the entire Liu family and hundreds of people! You feel that you are miserable, it is better to change your position and think about how hard Liu Lao is as a father. ”

Hearing the words, Liu Mengran was stunned, and Twilight smiled bitterly in her heart.

That's how the truth sounds.

Old Liu, you also convinced yourself like this at the beginning, right?

However, when she witnessed Liu Mengran's half-embroidered mandarin duck embroidery, her resoluteness when she held up the scissors, and her unbearable eyes when she started, Twilight suddenly wondered, isn't it, when everyone thought that it was just the youngest daughter's family worshipping heroes and not understanding **** at the beginning of love, but in fact she had already been deeply rooted? Is she heartbroken for the love that is facing death before she has time to thrive? Or is she heartbroken for the family's opposition and Xing Yan's indifference?

At that moment, Twilight suddenly remembered someone's narrow peach blossom eyes, and always liked to smile frivolously and openly, but the sadness in his eyes could not be hidden.

Is it true that the person who is hurt will always hide in a place where others can't see it, and grieve quietly?