Jinshui Town.

A large mansion is decorated with lights, red lanterns are hanging high outside, six tables of wine are set up inside, and a large family is eating.

I saw that on the dining table, there were eight cold basins, divided into four vegetarian dishes and four meats. The four vegetarian dishes are osmanthus sugar lotus, rose water chestnut, cold cress and lotus seeds. The four meat dishes are crystal cut chicken, tender frozen lamb cake, honey fried fish and Pingjiang sauce duck.

Look at the hot dishes again, obediently, this is even more mouthwatering, and look at the combination of dishes -

The white one is a clear jade, and the black one is shrimp and black cucumber; The yellow one is crab roe and fish maw, and the green one is the winter bamboo shoots with shepherd's cabbage; The tender is the fragrant fried fish steak, and the crispy is the honey sauce fire square; Beautiful but not strange squirrel mandarin fish, fat but not greasy braised river eel.

This table of dishes is serious and eight hundred, full of Jiangnan style and Pingjiang flavor. The dishes are exquisite but not extravagant, which not only reflects the strong financial resources of the main family, but also reveals the low-key connotation of the main family, which can be described as wonderful.

Such a good season, such a good dish, if you don't drink a few glasses, you will be sorry for yourself. Obviously, there are people in this room who think so.

"It's still comfortable at home." Han Er's face was red, he held his wine glass high with one hand and hooked Han Da's neck with the other, happily, insisting on having a toast with his eldest brother.

The family members sitting at the same table did not dare to speak, and stopped their chopsticks and watched worriedly. The cousins and cousins at the two tables on the side simply lowered their heads and ate the dishes with their heads bored, one by two, for fear that the uncle would get angry.

Only the second sister-in-law was in a hurry, and hurriedly pulled her husband by the hand, and said anxiously: "Second master, don't drink it." ”

The Han family is a wealthy family, and in the past 20 years, the sesame seeds have been blooming more and more, getting higher and higher day by day. In this case, there is no doubt that it has become the backbone of all kinds of cousins, and everyone leans on it. Among the six tables of people present, almost every family has men working in the Han family's firm.

is also because of this, everyone's style of saying the same thing to Uncle Han, as well as the strict standards of governing the family, are clear, and all of them have some psychological shadows.

Everyone knows that the uncle governs the family very strictly, and the restraint on his children is better than that of the monk's temple. Among the many vices, the uncle hates the most, in addition to bad gambling, is drinking and greedy.

In the words of the uncle, the most important thing for a businessman is wisdom, wine is not good for the brain, and drinking too much hurts the mind and destroys the mind. Therefore, if a businessman can not drink, he will not drink.

In addition, the uncle also said, "The drunken road is stable and should be frequent" and the like, chic and chic, but that is all a matter of poets and lyricists. The children of the merchant family will have to be the door sooner or later, and they will have to bear the risks and responsibilities of being in charge of the door. This kind of responsibility is related to the living conditions of the family, and is related to the future of the family, which can be said to be heavier than Mount Tai. The children of the Han family must get used to this kind of responsibility and pressure, and they must not use alcohol to escape reality, let alone fall in love with the feeling of being anesthetized.

The uncle who hates wine so much, was hooked by the neck of the drunk second master and forcibly persuaded to drink, no wonder the family members were frightened. Everyone knows it in their hearts, don't look at the uncle who is not angry on weekdays, he starts a fire, and there are few people in Pingjiang Mansion who can stand it!

But to everyone's surprise, this time Han Da did not get angry, but raised the teacup, replaced the wine with tea, and smiled and toasted with his brother. He drank a cup of tea, looked at the people in the seat, and understood what they were thinking, so he explained gently: "I am not an unkind person, I am not a person who is not close to alcohol, and sometimes I will do it." This New Year's Day, I will let you go, you can drink if you want, I will never keep a black account. ”

Everyone in the audience was relieved to hear the uncle speak like this, but no one dared to drink, and they were still eating with empty mouths.

Han Er didn't care about that, he applauded: "Big brother has a point!" At the end of the year, I'm either handling the goods, or I'm dunning, annoying, annoying! Three hundred and sixty-five days, I have been looking forward to today, and I have drunk them all. ”

Han Er made a few noises, but the scene didn't heat up, so he lowered his face and scolded in a low voice: "It's boring!" "It turned out that everyone was looking at Uncle Han with blank eyes.

Han Da also knew it in his heart, shook his head with a smile, took the wine jug from Han Jun, poured himself a glass of rice wine, and said to everyone in the seat: "Everyone has worked hard for a year, and this cup is my wish to everyone." ”

Like the first spring thunder when he was stunned, Han Da raised his wine glass and said a congratulatory message, and the six tables inside and outside were all alive at once. One by two, they all applauded, and they should be in harmony with Han Da. Then he pushed the cup and changed the lamp, chatted, the mood gradually rose, the voice gradually expanded, and the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner finally became lively.

Of course, the taste and happiness of the New Year may not be able to infect everyone. As the old saying goes, there are clouds, the year is cold, and then the pine and cypress are withered. Warren Buffett has clouds, and after the tide goes out, you know who's swimming naked. The two sentences are elegant and vulgar, but the truth is the same truth. When everyone is pretending to be sad, you won't know who is really unhappy. But when everyone is happy, the unhappy person will naturally appear.

"Sister, brother toasts you." Han Er drank too much and was a little confused. When he saw that his sister was sullen, he took the wine glass and made a gesture to toast.

Han Shaoqing was originally bedridden, and he didn't want to get cold tonight, so he reluctantly came to this banquet. She didn't have much appetite, and there was almost no good food on the table, and now when she saw her second brother making a mess, she felt even more upset.

"Second brother, Shaoqing never drinks." Han Shaoqing raised his head, there was no anger on his face, but he was full of tiredness.

"Everyone has a first time!" Han Er's brain was anesthetized by alcohol, and he completely lost his temper, as if he was not his own sister in front of him, but a partner in the business field: "Wine is food*** The more you drink, the happier you are." As he spoke, he tried to reach out and grab Han Shaoqing's arm, wanting to forcibly pour her wine.

Fortunately, Han Da was next to the two, and he strode over and separated the two.

"Second brother, you're drunk!" Han Da frowned and pressed Han Er back into the chair. The scene in front of him gave him a good footnote - why he hated alcohol so much.

If the matter ends here, it is nothing, and a drunk person talks a few words of nonsense, and no one cares. But everyone knows, what drunkard will be obedient?

I saw that Han Er broke free from the control of his eldest brother with the strength of wine, his mouth was full of wine, and he shouted noisily: "Are you still thinking about that surnamed Zhou?" Sister, let me tell you, based on your appearance, what kind of man you can't find, don't worry about this kind of shameless face. ”

"Second brother, you're drunk!" This time, Han Shaoqing finally couldn't stand it anymore, she stood up suddenly, but she could barely stand firmly, supporting the table with her hands, and then she barely stabilized her figure. Her face, which had always been unusually pale because of her long illness, was now unnaturally red with shame.

"I'm not drunk!" This was the standard response of a drunkard, and Han Er ignored the reactions of his brother and sister-in-law, and said again: "That kid is a wanderer, and he wants nothing to be a lonely ghost." Our Han family can take a fancy to him, that is the blessing he has cultivated in three lifetimes, and he dares to lose his temper...... Hehe, don't say it's you, it's the maid ring in my family, he can't climb it. Dare to shake his face, it's really a laughing person. ”

The atmosphere that was already active fell back to the bottom again, and none of the people at the six tables dared to speak, and they all listened quietly. The matter of Han Shaoqing and Zhou Zheng was spread all over the city at the beginning, and they naturally knew about it. It's just that where anyone dares to ask the Han brothers about this in person, so they have no way of knowing the inside story.

Especially in recent days, the news has become old news, and there is no follow-up, so naturally no one pays attention to it. In the recent public opinion rankings, the topics that the peddlers, pawns, aunts and aunts are most concerned about have changed from "Jinshui Town's jealousy incident" to "the cockscomb of the old Wang's rooster is green".

Against this backdrop, it's natural to dismiss this story as fake news. After all, the story of a rich daughter falling in love with a poor boy generally only appears in novels and picture books, and no one expects this to be true.

But at this moment, everyone heard Han Er speak like this, and they didn't understand it in their hearts-I'm afraid this thing is true, and I'm afraid it's quite a big trouble!

"Someone, the second master is drunk, help him back to the room." Han Da beckoned Jia Ding and took Han Er down, he also sighed in his heart, and said in his heart: "It's only that I was too anxious, but I didn't care about the other party's mood." ”

Han Er was taken down, Han Shaoqing felt some strange eyes from everyone in the seat, and felt even more worried, so he said goodbye to his brother and went back to the room to rest.

Just as Han Shaoqing was retreating, a slightly hunchbacked figure stood up from the wine table and followed him to the inner house.

Han Da originally wanted to see who was so blind, but when he looked at it again, it turned out to be the porter Qin Lao, so he didn't care. He coughed, drawing the attention of the guests, and said something like "work hard for the coming year", so that no one would be bored and use his sister's business as a talking point.

"Miss, if you were to fall in love with someone, what do you think he should look like?" Qin Lao took three steps and two steps, followed Han Shaoqing's side, and almost squeezed Rui'er away, causing Rui'er to roll her eyes.

Rui'er grew up beside Han Shaoqing, she was arrogant, and she was a character who was not afraid of anyone. When she saw that Old Man Qin was reckless, and heard him bring up such an embarrassing topic, she pushed him with hatred and wanted to drive him away.

This hand was pushed out, but Rui'er felt that something was wrong, and she regretted it a little in her heart, afraid that she would hurt Old Man Qin. But she didn't think that this time, she seemed to be pushed on the rock, and she didn't move at all. Rui'er was taken aback, forgetting what she was trying to say.

"Miss, if you were to fall in love with someone, what do you think he should look like?" Qin Lao didn't care about Rui'er, looked straight at Han Shaoqing, and repeated the question.

Han Shaoqing looked at the old man in front of him and felt that he was a little familiar, but a little unfamiliar. She blinked suspiciously, wanting to say a few words and let Qin Lao go away. Unexpectedly, her body was too weak, and just as she was about to speak, she felt dizzy and almost couldn't stand.

"Old man Qin, will you die if you don't add to the block during the New Year?" Rui'er saw that her young lady's expression was wrong, so she reprimanded her in distress, and felt that what she said was unlucky, so she hurriedly "blah blah" and wanted to drive away the bad luck.

Old man Qin didn't care what Rui'er said at all, he stared at Han Shaoqing, his eyes were full of love: "Emotional matters, the most complicated, no one can tell, who is the passer-by and who is the protagonist." My question may be difficult for some strong people. So to put it another way, if there is a man who, when you are about to fall into darkness, suddenly appears, like the sun, and illuminates your eyes, will you fall in love with him? ”

"This ......" Han Shaoqing understood every word of Qin Lao, but he couldn't understand his words.

Seeing that her young lady's face was a little worse, Rui'er hated Old Man Qin a little more, and said, "Old man, what are you talking about, old man, you are so old, what do you love and hate, aren't you ashamed?" ”

was pointed at his face and reprimanded, but Old Man Qin laughed hahaha: "Your life's major event also depends on Miss, you think about it carefully, whether you want to interrupt me." ”

"You...... Hum! Rui'er was choked by Old Man Qin, glared at him hatefully, and chose to shut up. Whether she wants it or not, admits it or not, on the day Zhou Zheng buys her candied fruit, she is no longer a child - she has expectations for marriage.

Thinking of this, Rui'er bit her lip and thought a little melancholy: "Why did that guy run away and disappear, is it that people are so bad?" She knew about Zhou Zheng's departure, and she cried for several days. If Han Shaoqing hadn't given her a good analysis and told her that Zhou Zheng was leaving, it was definitely not because he looked down on her, I am afraid she would have been able to cry for a few more days.

Speaking of Han Shaoqing, she was forced by Old Man Qin to think about those things that she didn't want to think about, and she felt a lot of pain. Distraught, she simply didn't think about it anymore, but nodded and said, "If there really is such a person, no matter who he is, I am willing to marry him." ”

"Oh, that's a great thing." Old man Qin got the answer he wanted, didn't speak again, and turned around and went to the banquet hall: "I just don't know, one percent...... Or one in 10,000 hopes, is it better to look forward to it or forget it...... Sorrow, sorrow! ”

"What's going on today, drunk drunk, crazy crazy!" Rui'er heard Qin Gate's words clearly, scolded, and helped Han Shaoqing back to the room.