Zhongqing grew up under the education of his mother Yu, and he has a lot in common with Yu in thought, and he sees a man's career more important than everything, so Bo Ol suddenly returned to China for some reason, and it was really explosive news in Zhong Qing's ears.

If it was Xie Yaxian in the previous life, her thoughts would inevitably be the same as her, but after seeing Lu Jianhao's face of drawing fame and fortune, as well as his cruelty, as a brand new person, Li Wanchun felt very repentant and looking for a marquis, and when she saw that Zhongqing was upset with Bo Alcohol, she smiled and persuaded: "This is the eldest brother's own idea, others may not be able to move him, let's wait and see how things develop." ”

"What if you don't meditate?" Zhong Qing sighed heavily, spread his hands and said, "Look at our family now, I heard my mother say that the old Beijing government has begun to be suspicious of the Li family, and now my grandfather is old, and my father only holds the navy yamen in his hands, I originally expected that my eldest brother could arrange him to a suitable position when he came back, so as to maintain the status of our Li family, but I didn't want my eldest brother to make the decision to open a school without authorization." Ji Yuan is still just blindly stubborn, in case there is some accident, who are our family counting on? ”

Although she is a woman, she travels with her husband in the officialdom, and often communicates with envoys from various countries as an interpreter. Wan Chun listened to her, and invisibly sensed a kind of oppression, as if there was an invisible mountain on the shoulders of everyone in the Li family, which felt as if her grandfather ordered no one to go to the Peace Theater to save her and Ji Yuan that day.

She knew the mountain -- it was called a mission.

Because she was actually very vague about her mission, she couldn't make any guarantees to Zhongqing who was worried, so she had to treat it in silence.

Yu is accompanied by his eldest daughter. can say a few words of confidant, and Zhongqing is very close to her thoughts. Therefore, the irritability and anxiety of the past few days have been mostly dissipated at this moment. For the youngest daughter Wanchun. She didn't want her to know too much, so she leaned sideways and held one of Wanchun's hands and smiled: "Don't talk about your eldest brother, last time your sister gave birth and didn't have time to take you out to visit Shanghai, this time we will stay for two more days, and when the full moon banquet is over, ask your sister to take you around." ”

Wan Chun nodded, Zhong Qing heard that he was going out to play, but he remembered something, and said to Yu Shi with a smile: "Mom doesn't say that I can't remember it." That time, you and your fourth sister came in a hurry, and you left in a hurry, and you had to take care of me to give birth, so you didn't say a word to your aunt and uncle. Later, Jin Li went back and said that she made her aunt angry at that time, and hung up a phone call to our house, and said that I was so bored. ”

Yu also seemed to remember that he had indeed not called Li Lanzao, which was negligent. He belched and said, "It's really a big deal, your aunt naturally blames us." "Anyway, I don't know if I told Li Lanzao when I came to Shanghai this time, and I asked Zhongqing about it." Did you call the Attorney-General's Office? ”

Zhong Qing said: "What call?" I told my aunt about the full moon wine a long time ago. ”

Yu said: "I'm not asking you this, I mean that after we arrive today, do your aunts and uncles know?" ”

Zhong Qing slapped his forehead. Smiled: "Look at me, I'm a busy mess." Or forget about the serious things. I'll call my aunt so that she doesn't say again that we're treating her like water spilled by the Li family. ”

"That's what I said." Yu covered his mouth and smiled helplessly.

Li Lanzao is the youngest daughter of Li Chengji and Li Min. When he was not out of the cabinet in the old year, he was very favored in the Jing'an official residence. She has studied abroad, is deeply influenced by Western culture, and is particularly sensitive to the equality of men and women, although she is married, she always thinks that there is no difference between her daughter and her son, they are all members of the Li family, and she should know everything about the Li family. Yu and Wanchun came to Shanghai, but they didn't let her know first, this was obviously treating her as an outsider, and it was strange that she wasn't angry.

This time, after Yu's reminder, Zhong Qing called the Governor's Office, and it was the servant of the Governor's Office who answered the call, and when he heard that he was looking for Li Lanzao, the servant smiled and said: "Our wife just went out, and said that the silver locks, silver bracelets, and silver anklets for the little prince in the house have been made, she went to take a look at the condition, and she will probably come back in the evening, and when the wife comes, I will tell her to call you back." ”

Zhong Qing held the microphone at this end and said: "No need to call back, please tell my aunt, just say that my mother and eldest brother and sister have arrived in Shanghai, I arrived this morning, say hello to her." ”

The maid agreed with a sigh in his mouth, Zhong Qing hung up the phone, walked back to Yu's side and said with a smile: "It's really unfortunate, my aunt went out, I asked their maid to deliver the message to her, no matter what, we will inform her as soon as possible." ”

Yu nodded, because he hadn't seen Tan Rulin for a while, so he asked Zhong Qingdao: "Uncle, have there been a lot of things in the yamen recently?" I always see how he can't be idle. ”

Zhong cleaned up her forehead hair, she was permed with big wavy curls, her head was combed into a big back mountain, and her black hair was draped back, and there were always a few dishonest ones that would fall off. While she was sorting it out, she said idly: "Who knows what he is busy with, I just heard that there has been some chaos in the French Concession and the British Concession in the past two days, and he, as the town guard of Shanghai, should also make some efforts to take care of it." In addition, Nanjing sent another telegram, saying that the Japanese Xizuo had infiltrated the Jiangnan area, and that the population in and out of the country was being strictly checked, and that two or three thousand soldiers under him had been sent out, and that he was probably also needed to command in the yamen. ”

Yu sighed in her mouth, she likes her children and grandchildren the most, and she is very relieved to see that Tan Rulin is busy with her business. Wan Chun has always been good at observing words and feelings, because she had given Tan Rulin a warning on behalf of Zhong Qing the previous time, so listening to Zhong Qing's perfunctory tone, she didn't feel that she was telling the truth completely. But after all, Zhongqing was already in good health, and she didn't need others to bother with family affairs, so she pretended not to know, and sat there to listen to her mother and sister talk about Suzhou from Shanghai, and from Suzhou to Harbin, Xuhai, and Ningbo Xiaogang. These places are all where the Li family's branches are located, and Wanchun is also very interesting to listen to.

In the evening, the family gathered together for dinner. In fact, it was only six or seven o'clock, Zhong Qing ordered someone to clean up the dining table, and called Lai Bo Alcohol, Wan Chun and others to accompany his mother to play a few rounds of mahjong.

The servant door was instructed to clean up the table, and before everyone could sit down, there was a bang on the glass door, and it opened brightly, and a middle-aged couple walked in with their arms in hand. The messenger who followed behind him also chased to the door and said with a smile: "Madam, the chief and the lady are here." ”

Panicked, Zhong Qing hurriedly got up to meet him and said with a smile: "Auntie, uncle, why are you here?" Please be seated, please be seated. ”

The person who came was He Changyuan and Li Lanzao.

Wan Chun then stood up with her mother, and Li Lanzao smiled and said, "I won't come again, I'm afraid you won't remember that there is still me at home." ”

Yu admired this sister-in-law very much, and after marrying into the Li family, the two also became good friends like sisters, so they also smiled at this time: "Offended, offended, there were too many things last time, and I forgot to go to the house to pay a visit, I will accompany you here." He bowed slightly to the couple.

He Changchang and Li Lanzao were busy saying that they didn't dare to do it, and they all stretched out their hands to help. Li Lanzao looked at Wan Chun standing behind Yu Shi, oops, walked two steps forward and looked at Wan Chun carefully, Fang took her hand and said, "This is Nannan, right?" ”

Wan Chun also secretly glanced at this famous sister-in-law a few times when Li Lanzao looked at her. Her appearance is very similar to Jin Li, both have the same melon seed face, cheeks and cheekbones are slightly high, a pair of eyebrows have to be as thin and curved as the moon in the first two or three months, and her lips are painted with rose-red lipstick, which is bright and dazzling. She was wearing a long cheongsam with purple flowers, a gray tweed wool coat, and the heels under her feet were as high as inches, and the young ones didn't seem to look like a woman of her age. Seeing Li Lanzao asking, Wan Chun smiled a little shyly and said, "How is my aunt doing recently?" ”

Li Lanzao couldn't help but be overjoyed, touched her hand, touched her forehead and face, and said: "What is good or bad about me, but you, I haven't seen you for more than two years, and I don't know each other." It's strange that our Jin Li came back and made a comparison, saying how good her sister Wan was, I only said that she was naughty, and now I think that there is no lie in the child's mouth. With that, she turned to her husband He Chang and smiled, "What about the gifts we bought when we came, let's take them out quickly." ”

He Changchang looked at them with a smile, corresponding to his aunt's fashion, he was much darker, just an ordinary black suit. At this moment, he unbuttoned his clothes, took out a brocade box from his inner pocket, and handed it to Li Lanzao, Li Lanzao took it and opened it, took out a necklace with diamonds from it and said: "This is Cartier's new model this year, we don't know what you like, it just so happened that Jinli bought one, so I bought it for you." ”

Wan Chun thanked with a smile, put the item link in the box as usual, and asked Xiu'er to put it away, and keep it for Ming'er's full moon banquet to put it on.

Li Lanzao still held her hand, turned around and looked at Bo Yu and smiled: "I heard that the maid said that the eldest brother and sister are here, I thought it would be Ji Yuan, I didn't expect you to come, are you really planning to give up your studies in Japan?" ”

Bo Ol smiled lightly, stood straight beside Yu and said: "Auntie's news is really well-informed, has the news of my not going to study in Japan spread to Shanghai?"

He Changchang said: "It's not like that, but your father called our house when he came to Nanjing for inspection, and we learned the news that you dropped out of school." ”

Bernol smiled silently, he had explained too much lately, and the more objections he received, he was going to say less. Because he didn't see his cousin Jin Li, he asked Li Lanzao: "What about Jin Li, why didn't she come with your aunt?" (To be continued.) )