Huo Cheng squinted at the green grass in the distance, and said with a smile: "You will know what kind of tea you will know as soon as you drink it." ”

He was in a happy mood, and even if the two of them lay down like this and didn't talk, they didn't feel bored.

After sitting for a while, the subordinates came to report again, Mrs. Xu from the Qin Mansion, Director Zhao from the Southwest Police Department, Mr. Chen Yueming, and Boss Zhang from Zhang's Car Dealership came to visit one by one.

"Go get a chair." Huo Cheng raised his hand.

Li Hao smiled and said: "It's just the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the people who come to pay New Year's greetings are so lively, and I'm afraid that Mr. Huo will rarely be free in the next few days." ”

"No matter what, the sixth day will have to be vacated." Huo Cheng smiled and asked, "Isn't it?" ”

Li Hao shook his head slightly, "You are really persistent." ”

In order to entertain guests in the mansion, the mansion held banquets during the day and danced at night, and the guests like an assembly line, a letter from the old house of the Huo family on the fifth day, asking Huo Cheng to go home for dinner, be sure to bring the fourth lady of the Ning family with him.

Huo Chengfang remembered Ning Zheng's matter, "What to take her for?" ”

The one who brought the letter was Shen Kun, the head and face of the Shen housekeeper in the Huo family's old house, who had served the Huo family for two generations, and his words were extremely heavy.

Shen Kun's hair on his head was several inches long, all gray, although he was a short and thin old man, but he was full of energy, and his body was a symmetrical diamond-shaped dark red embroidered horse coat, and the inside was a patina-colored robe with buckles.

"After all, Miss Ning Si is the daughter of the Ning family, Ning Shen, the person that Master Ning asked you to take care of personally, and they will be in-laws in the future, so it is natural to take Miss Ning Si back to the house for dinner." He respectfully persuaded Huo Cheng.

The banquet held on the lawn had not yet ended, Huo Cheng was sitting alone by the grape trellis, he heard this reasonably, "It is true that you can't make the future Lord Yue-in-law angry, Lan Xin, has Miss Ning Si gone back?" ”

Lan Xin trotted over from a group of busy servants and said, "Miss Ning Si said that she still wants to stay for two days, and she has not returned to the northwest yet. ”

"You go and tell her, pack up and go to the Huo Mansion with me."

This news was a joy for Ning Zheng, she was originally angry about Huo Cheng urging her to return to Ning's house, and deliberately snubbed Huo Cheng for the past few days, and when she heard the news, she thought that Huo Cheng must care about her.

However, women always have to be reserved, can't let men eat tightly, Ning Zheng deliberately dressed up heavily, and gave full play to the fashion knowledge she had studied in the UK, wearing shiny high heels, wiping brilliant red lips, the skirt was a fluffy pure white lace skirt, and wearing a pastoral top hat on her head.

And when she walked out of the room at night, before getting into the car, she gathered all her joy and stood proudly beside the car, waiting for Huo Cheng to open the car door for her gentlemanly and invite her to get into the car.

"Miss Ning Si, please," the driver saw that she hadn't gone up for a long time, and took a step forward.

"What about Huo Cheng?" I didn't see Huo Cheng's figure left and right, and Ning Zheng asked with a gloomy face.

The driver replied formulaically: "Mr. said that you were too slow, and you had already taken the car to Huo's house first." ”

What the? This man without gentlemanly manners! Ning Zheng gritted her teeth, she didn't believe that she would not be able to conquer him with her beauty and intelligence.

Huo Mansion has a history of 100 years, it is a traditional classical mansion in the southwest, with layers of eaves of green tiles, which is different from the popular western-style buildings and mansions in recent years.

After Huo Cheng got out of the car, Ning Zheng followed, and the two of them walked into the threshold of Huo's house, all the way to the house to spread the word, and the second young master returned home.

Huo Zhai's dinner today is waiting for this master to come back to open the banquet, and everyone will start to take their seats, a total of twelve seats, except for the positions of Master Huo and the eldest lady, and then the two young masters will be lined up, and the rest of the seats are only a few aunts who have a face, and the ladies and ladies who don't open their faces are not qualified to have a seat on this occasion.

Master Huo is a scholar, retired as a clergyman, but he has a rare temperament of a scholar, the eldest young master Huo Bai inherited his soft and ruthless temperament, and he looks like a gentleman, and Huo Cheng exerts this anger from the inside to the outside.

As a guest, Ning Zheng prepared her own gifts, and before the dishes were served, she gave them to everyone one by one, French perfumes, English lady's shawls, two gentleman's canes with diamonds, and precious gemstone brooches.

Everyone at the banquet has a share, Hopper's wife Bai got a commemorative badge issued by the Queen of England on the succession, the number is scarce, and it is a valuable commodity in the eyes of people who are exquisite, but Bai has studied old-style education since he was a child, and most of the conservative daughters don't know much about these romances.

There is no extra backup.

Huo Cheng quietly looked at his eldest brother's face, turning from white to blue, and then waited for Huo Bo to be angry at the Bai family: "A woman who has no knowledge! Go back to your room! ”

Bai rubbed his eyes with a handkerchief and wanted to retreat, Huo Chengpi smiled and said: "Why is the eldest brother so angry, it's rare for the family to get together for dinner, and drive the sister-in-law to the room, do you put your father in your eyes." ”

The Bai family was most afraid that Huo Cheng would intercede for himself, and he just added fuel to the fire, and sure enough, Huo Bai snorted coldly: "I teach my own insider, do I still have to be guided by my younger brother, as for the father-son relationship between me and my father, how can you instigate it." ”

"You see, every time I speak, you treat me as instigating, I treat you as a brother, brotherhood, how can my eldest brother speculate about me like this."

"Brother? Don't forget who shot me in this leg. ”

"The sword has no eyes, not to mention the gun, the situation was critical back then, my younger brother missed for a while, and I feel guilty for the mistakes of the year every day over the years."

"You are the apprentice of the sharpshooter, you can still miss, you declare personal vendettas, Dad favors you, do you think I will not know the truth!"

"Big brother, how can you say that about Dad." Huo Cheng seemed to be heartbroken.

Huo Bai was anxious to explain to Master Huo, "No, Dad, I ......"

"Shut all for me!" Huo Yuan's face turned red with anger, he gave birth to two sons, "Can you sit down and eat a good meal, you will be noisy when you meet!" How can there be half a point of the Huo family's children! ”

"Since you know that you will quarrel when you meet, why eat this meal," Huo Cheng stood up and wanted to leave, the eldest lady patted Huo Yuan's back for Huo Yuan, and said with a bitter face: "It's rare to have a reunion dinner a few times a year, Huo Bai, be obedient, let your brother, Huo Cheng, sit down." ”

Huo Bo had to stop hatefully under his mother's hint, Huo Cheng just looked at him and smiled, in the past two years, the eldest lady loves to pretend to be a good old man with kind eyebrows, and he is not in a hurry to debunk it, but this meal is becoming more and more boring.

Ning Zheng thought that he had done something wrong, so he went to ask Huo Yuan for dinner, Huo Yuan was tired, and he comforted her a few words, but in his heart he doubted whether such a foreign lady was suitable to be the daughter-in-law of their traditional family.

Huo Yuan asked Huo Cheng to come into the study to talk, with the light on his back, he faced the calligraphy and paintings left by his ancestors on the wall, and there were various family mottos about the children of the Huo family.

"Not long ago, I heard that you went to Bingzhou," Huo Yuan asked first.

Huo Cheng didn't rush to answer, he found a chair and sat down, took the teacup and lifted the lid to sip tea, and was leisurely.

"Your eldest brother has been recuperating well at home this year, you should arrange some affairs for him to practice when you go to Bingzhou, now you are swimming in the officialdom and coming and going freely, Huo Bai is your brother after all, it is the Huo family, you give him a career, and it will be a place to help you in the future." Huo Yuan turned around and looked straight forward to Huo Cheng's answer.

Huo Cheng put down the teacup and said with a smile: "Okay." ”

As if he didn't believe him was so straightforward, Huo Yuan asked again: "What career do you plan to arrange for your eldest brother?" ”

Huo Cheng said: "The eldest brother inherited your Confucian official and is good at civilian work, and it just so happens that there is a shortage of people in the military in foreign affairs, so let the eldest brother start with diplomacy first, it is not a condescending talent." ”

"Okay, good," diplomacy is the fastest-rising position, Huo Yuan patted Huo Cheng's shoulder with satisfaction, "You have this heart, it's very good!" ”

Huo Cheng smiled, the light in his eyes was cold, when he was a useless child, he did not hesitate to stay up late to copy books for a close compliment from his father, but Ran'er, a selfish man, never gave him a straight look.

Even if he was crying and kneeling outside the door of the eldest lady for his mother's medicine, the man gave him a disgusted look when he passed by.

In his previous life, he was expelled from the Huo family, chased and killed by Huo Bai, and fled to the northwest in embarrassment to live secretly for several years, but this man still turned a blind eye.

Since there is a person as good as the eldest brother, he is just a redundant pawn.

So in this world, on the contrary, my father's attitude towards my eldest brother is different.

The Huo family's eldest and youngest family motto is unbreakable.

Huo Cheng smiled mockingly.

This room was talking in the study, and Huo Bai, who returned to the room, directly slapped the Bai family, Huo Cheng wanted to marry the daughter of the Northwest Ning family, why was his wife a foot-bound woman who was not on the stage, and she made a fool of him.

The eldest lady Qiao hurriedly came, and scolded Bai with angry eyes: "What are you crying and crying, how can you look like a master's mother, retreat." ”

Bai covered his face aggrievedly, sobbed and went out of the house with the maid.

Huo Bai dragged a stump leg to sit on the chair, since his crippled leg, he no longer wanted to wear a suit, all kinds of gray robes all day long, plus his complexion was gloomy, he lived like ten years older than Huo Cheng.

And he gritted his teeth with hatred for Huo Cheng, if it weren't for him, how could he lose his official position and become this idle waste.

"Bai'er," Qiao Shi hugged his son and said, "Don't cry, your cry makes my mother's chest hurt here." ”

Huo Bai just sobbed, he was a dignified son of the Huo family who returned from studying in the West, but he became a joke in the southwest.

"Don't worry, your aggrieved mother understands that this southwest is not his Huo Cheng alone!" Qiao's well-maintained beauty's face revealed a ruthless killing intent.

From this day on, Huo Cheng already felt that the undercurrent in Huo's house was faintly growing.

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