After waiting for a long time, maybe the light bulb has been used for a long time, and the light has dimmed more and more, and even flashed, as if it would be extinguished at any time. Pei Mochi sat on the chair, with the light on his back, hidden in the shadows, waiting indifferently, exuding a sense of silence all over his body.

was suspicious, but he heard the door of the study "creak" and was pushed open, and then Master Pei walked in with his head down. Because Pei Mochi's place was sheltered from the light, Master Pei didn't notice it, so he walked straight to the desk, took a box of cigarettes from the drawer, and walked out again.

Seeing that his father didn't see him, Pei Mochi smiled bitterly, so he had to open his mouth and call: "Father." ”

"Why are you here?" Hearing this, Master Pei looked up, obviously a little surprised that Pei Mochi appeared here, and after thinking for a while, he remembered that he asked him to come over, and then said, "By the way, I have something to look for you." ”

Pei Mochi was sad in his heart, he was afraid that his father had called him here, but he went to the third aunt's room and forgot about it. If I hadn't come here to pick up tobacco, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to wait for anyone all night.

After pondering for a moment, Master Pei asked: "A few days ago, I found that a new batch of materials from our cloth workshop had quality problems, how do you think it should be solved?" ”

Pei Mochi glanced at his father, he had been at home for some time, his father had never let him participate in the family business, but his grandmother mentioned it a few times, saying that he was the only heir of the Pei family, and he had to follow his father to learn to run the business earlier. My father was noncommittal. Now I suddenly ask myself, do you want him to start learning to do business?

After thinking about it for a while, Pei Mochi said slowly: "If it is only caused by objective factors such as workmanship or mechanical failure, then it should be repaired as soon as possible, and if it is subjective and man-made, then the source should be cleared as soon as possible." Of course, the first thing is to make up for the adverse effects caused by this batch of fabrics as soon as possible. ”

Master Pei nodded, "I want you to take over the production of the cloth mill, can you do it?" ”

"Isn't that in charge of the second uncle?" Pei Mochi is a little strange, the second uncle has always been in charge of production, and his father suddenly let him take over, could it be that he wanted to refute the rights of the second uncle?

"Do you have the confidence to do it?"

Pei Mochi nodded, he has been exposed to it since he was a child, although the Pei family's business has never been handled, but he can understand seven or eight, if he can get his father's affirmation because of this......

Seeing Pei Mochi nodded, Master Pei didn't say anything more, and waved his hand at him, "Come with me to the factory tomorrow to have a look, and now rest early." With that, he left the study.

The Pei family's house was bought from an official family in the old dynasty, similar to the Jiangnan Forest Garden, which is very elegant. The house covers a large area, and there are countless courtyards, each of which has winding paths and carefully tended flowers and trees, and the scenery is pleasant.

In the early years, when Mrs. Pei was still there, Master Pei, Second Master Pei and Third Master Pei all lived in this house, and later Mrs. Pei died, and handed over the family business to Master Pei to take care of, and Second Master Pei only got a very small part, and did not move out of the Pei family's house at the beginning. Two years ago, Pei Erye finally bought a house outside, and his family moved over, but he still worked in Pei's cloth factory during the day.

For this reason, Master Pei also sent him a lot of subsidies in private, for fear of wronging this brother. As for his younger brother Pei Sanye, because he has studied in the East all these years, he is not in China, and he is alone and has never started a family, so Master Pei separated one-fifth of the house for him, as his residence, and sent someone to take care of him on weekdays.

The other four-fifths of the house is occupied by the most populated longhouses.

Among them, the ladies of the Pei family all live in the side courtyard next to their mothers, although it is a side courtyard, it is comparable to the size of the main courtyard of ordinary wealthy families. Because Tang Muyan is a guest house, he lives alone in a side courtyard in the northwest corner.

At this time, the night was dark, and the people of the Pei family were all nested in their own rooms. Only Tang Muyan wandered alone on the side of the path in the back garden, wearing a flying silk placket shirt, and a pure color pomegranate long skirt on his lower body, with eyebrows and bangs, and a twisted braid tied behind his head, fixed with a hairpin.

She's waiting for someone.

At this time, it was the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, the night was very cold, the north wind blew gently, she couldn't help but sneeze a few times, hurriedly took a handkerchief and carefully wiped her nose, through the horse lantern hanging on the osmanthus tree above her head, took a small mirror to look at her makeup, and made sure that she didn't make flowers, so she breathed a sigh of relief.

Suddenly, I regretted that I didn't listen to the words of the maid Haruka, and came out wearing an extra cape.

Although wearing less can certainly make Pei Mochi feel pity, but if his nose is red because of this, it will ruin his specially made makeup. She couldn't help but touch her face, because with two silver dollars a box of peach blossom rouge, the skin on her face looked smoother than usual, and the color was also very symmetrical, which made Chunxiang praise herself for being beautiful.

This is not in vain, and he cheekily borrowed the rouge from Yuying - this peach blossom rouge is new to Jinghuatang, and it is not something that can only be bought with money!

What's more, where can she be as generous as Yuying, spending two silver dollars to buy a box of rouge, in the end, she is just an orphan girl under the fence, even if her parents are alive, the family is not rich. Now living in Pei Mansion, I have no private house, no income, and even the dowry that my mother left for me was deducted by my aunt and said that she kept it for herself.

It's just a nice thing to say, it's in my aunt's pocket, where can I still make my own decisions?

But it doesn't matter, one day, everything in the Pei family will be her Tang Muyan's!

Just thinking about it, there was a faint sound of footsteps in the distance, Tang Muyan immediately came back to his senses, put the mirror in his pocket, and then took out a sachet and held it in his hand, waiting anxiously.

As the footsteps got closer and closer, the smile on Tang Muyan's lips expanded more and more, as if he remembered something, he reached out in a panic and stroked the bangs on his forehead, feeling that the bangs were not messy, so he put his heart down and waited quietly.

The person who came quickly approached, wearing a blue-black oblique satin embroidered robe, with the faint light of the horse lamp in his hand constantly shaking, emitting a lustrous luster, with a long body and a jade body, and a heroic and crisp posture, it was Pei Mochi, the young master of the Pei family.

"Cousin ......" Seeing that Pei Mochi didn't squint, and was about to walk past him, Tang Muyan had to blush and take the lead in calling him, and moved forward with a shy face, so that he could see himself clearly by the light.

Pei Mochi was thinking about what his father had told him, and he didn't notice that there was anyone under the tree for a while, until he heard Tang Muyan's voice, so he turned around and asked a little strangely: "It's so late, what are you doing here alone?" ”