The dusk sunset shone obliquely into the Hu family's study, gilding the side faces of the father and daughter standing next to Bogujia.

Ah Yao raised her hand to pick up a jade Ruyi on the shelf, and the warm touch of her hand made her feel a little at ease. Turning his head and raising his neck to look at Daddy next to him, as she moved, a long sigh came out of his mouth, and the breath was so long that the beard on his lips turned up.

In my heart, the word "positive" is added to the bottom of the horizontal line, and the six are neatly arranged in a row. From entering the study to now, in just one stick of incense, Daddy has sighed thirty times. Even though she did everything possible to explain the startled horses, and the uncontrolled running of the horses into the mulberry forest, he still did not change his worried nature, and sighed for a long time.

"Hey......"

Thirty-first. Putting the jade Ruyi back on the stand, clenching the fist under the sleeve and then loosening it, Ah Yao slowly spoke: "Daddy, if there is not enough top-quality raw silk to complete the tribute, will the Hu family be in danger?" ”

“…… What is Ah Yao talking about, what danger? ”

Hu Jiuling packed up the shop in the south of the city and let his beloved daughter go first, which was completely the result of careful consideration. Although he favors A-Yao, he still has a great deal to do when it comes to inheriting the family business. The production of silk is a complex and boring process, not to mention anything else, it is not easy to extract the fine silk from the cocoon, let alone put the silk into the loom later. Such a boring and heavy labor can easily wear down people's will. Ah Yao grew up under his watch, he has never suffered since he was a child, and he lacks tenacity all over his body. If she is asked to contact her for the first time, it will be more than worth the loss if she resists under the hard work.

After much thought, he decided to cultivate Ah Yao's interest first. In fact, there are pros and cons to everything, although it is boring to do, but it is smooth to do it. The silk is pulled out of the cocoon, and the smoothness of it makes onlookers feel happy. Knowing this, he ordered Hu Gui to find the most skilled subordinates overnight and transfer them to the shop in the south of the city. When Ah Yao went to see it, she saw that the people under No. 100 were neatly drawn, and the smooth feeling would not make her feel disgusted.

In this way, you can mobilize your interest first, and then you will get involved in more difficult things later, and you will not find it difficult to get started.

That's what he thinks, and that's what he commands. But everything was ready, but all his hard work was ruined by the half-cut wolf cub. Not only that, but he also openly took A-Yao to ride together and swagger through the city, and even he, who was a father, did not take his daughter to ride a horse so affectionately.

Can this be endured?

The most unbearable thing is that his stupid daughter still helps the wolf cub speak, which is simply ripping out the heart of a father!

A voice of grief and anger welled up from his chest until he heard A-Yao's voice.

"Daddy!" A-Yao glanced at him unhappily.

"Good A-Yao, don't blame my father for thinking too much, the most difficult thing to guess in this world is the human heart. Knowing people and faces but not knowing their hearts, we must be more vigilant against people who have not known each other for a long time. ”

Ah Yao rolled her eyes helplessly, "I know, that Daddy, I asked you again just now, the best raw silk is not enough silk to hand over, will the royal family blame?" ”

"Delaying the royal business, even the smallest thing, may lead to ruin. However, our Hu family silk has always been of good quality and quantity, and this possibility will not appear, A-Yao asked why is this? ”

A certain thought in her heart became stronger and stronger, and A-Yao pouted: "Daddy only noticed that Brother Jing took his daughter out of the city, and you didn't listen to the words at all." ”

Hu Jiuling touched his nose embarrassedly, "It's not as natural as seeing you, honest as if nothing happened, Daddy's brain buzzed, and he didn't have the heart to listen to the back at all." I seem to vaguely hear Song Qinwen, is something wrong? ”

"Well, Shen Moci was injured yesterday, and she took this opportunity to call Song Qinwen out. The two of them were doing that in the mulberry forest planted by the ancestors of my Hu family...... In short, it was a matter of bad morals, and then Shen Moci said that she begged King Ping and asked Song Qinwen to go to Linzhou to participate in the scientific expedition. ”

"Immoral?" Hu Jiuling was shocked, "How can that stinky boy let you see it." ”

"No," A-Yao's ears were slightly red, and after beating the two of them to the point of running around in the afternoon and exposing Shen Moci's conspiracy, the young man took her out. It was a long detour when she went, and it only took a short distance to come out, and when she noticed that something was wrong, she asked him at that time, but the young man's answer made her blush.

"What they did just now, they looked at the eye of the needle."

Scratching his ears slightly, Ayao in front of Bogu explained: "Brother Jing is strong in martial arts, and he heard from a distance that the two of them were doing things that were immoral, so he took me to spare me in the mulberry forest. By the time we passed, the two of them were just starting to talk. So my daughter just said that Daddy shouldn't suspect Brother Jing, he was obviously helping us. And having said that, although my daughter didn't go to Chengchengnan Shop in the afternoon, she generally saw the Hu family's thousand acres of mulberry forest, and she didn't waste time in vain. ”

So that's the case, Hu Jiuling finally felt more comfortable, but he still didn't let go, "If you have something to say, I will kidnap you in broad daylight." ”

"It was the horse that scared me, and he saved me. Daddy, let's not talk about this for now. As Brother Jing said, Uncle Song has been taking care of the thousands of acres of mulberry forests in the countryside all these years, and when he saw that it was about to fall into the cold spring, the silkworm families in each family did not have enough to eat, so they came to the Hu family to buy mulberry leaves. If you do something in this and give priority to the Shen family's silkworm farmers and mulberry leaves, then my Hu family will suffer heavy losses. ”

Song Guansheng is not that kind of person......

Hu Jiuling instinctively wanted to shake his head, but thinking of Song Qinwen's imperial examination, his firm heart was finally shaken. In the face of the future of his only son and the possible glory of the Song family, can Song Guansheng really stick to his heart?

Don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case. Thinking of the possible consequences of this matter, Hu Jiuling finally emerged from the vinegar vat, and his face became solemn.

Seeing this, A-Yao also understood, "Is this really possible?" ”

"Now that I know, I won't do it."

"But what if you don't know? If it weren't for our daughter's adventure, we wouldn't know about the deep relationship between Song Qinwen and Shen Moci. In his previous life, at this time, Song Qinwen was about to participate in the township test, and he was even more beautiful than now. With such a promising future, my uncle must have paid more attention to his opinion, and it was easier to do something on mulberry leaves. The daughter vaguely remembered that after the spring cold of the Shangshi Festival, Daddy began to get busy. After more than a month, by the time the silk came down, you looked much haggard. Originally, as you get older, you rarely go south and north, most of the time you sit in Qingcheng and watch the shop business, and the important errands are done by your uncle. But that time Daddy uncharacteristically wanted to personally go north to deliver the goods, and within a month of your departure, the bad news came, the Hu family caravan encountered mountain bandits on the way to Beijing, and everyone was thrown off the cliff, and the bones were gone. ”

In the end, Ah Yao's eyes were full of tears, and there was a little crying in her voice. She couldn't forget the empty coffin in the mourning hall. The older generation often said that those who abandon their corpses in the wilderness will become lonely ghosts. For most of the last three years of her previous life, she often dreamed that her father was alone in the world, miserable and desolate, and every time she woke up, tears would always wet her pillow.

At that time, she never understood why the good daddy wanted to go north in person. Even after being reborn, knowing that Shen Moci was the culprit, she didn't understand why the always stable Daddy would fall into the trap. It wasn't until the afternoon in the mulberry forest that after the young man exposed Shen Moci's sinister intentions in a few words, all the abnormalities in his previous life were explained.

The best raw silk is insufficient, and he can't get together to pay tribute to silk, so in desperation, Daddy can only enter Beijing in person.

In her previous life, her daughter had never paid attention to anything in the Hu family's business, so that now she didn't figure it out until the end. The other daughters are not sure, but this spring cold after the Shangsi Festival does exist. Different from the cold spring that passed in a few days in previous years, this time it lasted for nearly ten years, and even the daughter of the Hu family and the earthly fire dragon in the coldest time had to put on winter fur when she went up the mountain to enter the incense. ”

The Hu family's back house is paved with a fire dragon all year round, the four seasons are like spring, especially around the Ayao embroidery building, the fire dragon is burning extraordinarily, and the pool that leads 123 living water in the embroidery building is a perennial constant temperature, you can go down to bathe at any time, and Ayao can't feel the change of the seasons at all. This inverted spring cold, which caused heavy damage to silkworm farmers, has no impression in her memory, and it is impossible to predict in advance.

This will also be after gaining insight into Shen Moci's conspiracy, she thought about it carefully, and only then did she remember the abnormal cold of this season through a clip of going up the mountain with A-Niang to incense.

She was really useless, and Ah Yao's shoulders drooped.

Keenly aware of the loss of his love for his daughter, Hu Jiuling withdrew his mind from the layers of calculations in the mall, and the corners of his eyes narrowed his face full of love: "Daddy only hopes that Ah Yao can be carefree, I have never told you many things before, and I don't know you and don't blame you." Moreover, A-Yao doesn't have to compare with the girl of the Shen family. My Hu family has been in business for so many years, and I have always insisted on one thing: be a person first, and then do things. ”

"Be a man first, then do things?" Ah Yao raised her head, and there was a feeling on her lost little face.

"Yes, in life, if you don't even know how to be a basic person, it's like building a house without laying a good foundation, no matter how high your achievements are, how gorgeous the eaves above are, and it is also a castle in the air. It looks like a splendid flower for a while, but it can't withstand the wind and rain outside; Even if there is no wind and rain outside, it will collapse from the foundation in a few years. ”

It seems that this is really the case, Ah Yao remembered Shen Moci in her previous life. In order to bring down the Hu family, she maneuvered among countless men. But how stupid are those powerful men, how can they let a woman play with applause? Although she hasn't been in contact with too many princesses, Brother Jing, the only one she knows and is familiar with, is not inferior to Daddy in terms of mentality.

She didn't believe that Shen Moci, who was so dissolute, could end up with anything good.

"Daddy, my daughter understands that to be a man, you must first be down-to-earth, look up to the sky, and bow down to the ground. Work hard with a clear conscience, so that every bit of progress can be made steadily. ”

Previously, Hu Jiuling always thought that Ah Yao was more like the Song family, and her heart was too kind. However, in the study at dusk at this moment, the sunset shone in, looking at the firmness written on the little face that was half gilded with gold, he suddenly found that this daughter who had been hurting for thirteen years was still like him in her bones.

Her kindness before may have been just because he had protected her too well since she was a child, so that she was used to seeing too many pure and good things, and the persistence of the Hu family in her bones made her think that being a man should be like this. In fact, in her nature, she is still the conscientiousness and steadfastness of the Hu family.

Maybe he shouldn't have so many concerns, he should believe her and let her get in touch with the most real scene of the silk business.

"That's it." Hu Jiuling nodded with satisfaction.

In his relieved gaze, A-Yao promised: "Since her rebirth, my daughter has thought about her failure in her previous life, and she always wants to compare herself with Shen Moci in everything. It's her daughter who thinks wrong, it's not right to just know that having fun before, but Shen Moci's ruthlessness and long-sleeved dancing are not what her daughter should learn. The daughter just needs to stick to her heart and do her best. ”

After being reborn, Ah Yao has been immersed in the shadow of Shen Moci in her previous life. It wasn't until the past two days that Shen Moci's conspiracy was exposed again and again, and her confidence increased greatly, and with the words of the most convincing father in the two lives, she finally opened up.

She is the only daughter of the imperial merchant Hu family, A-Yao, and she is not the lowly concubine of the Shen family, Shen Moci. She didn't need to learn the dirty methods of framing people, dancing with long sleeves, and even leaning down to seduce men. Shen Moci did that, didn't he just want to get the Hu family. But now the entire Hu family is hers, all she has to learn is how to take over her own business and not lose the reputation of the Hu family.

As long as she is upright, no one can hurt her.

The afterglow of the setting sun shone straight into her heart, illuminating her heart brightly, and even her face stretched a lot.

Looking at Ah Yao, whose eyebrows and eyes suddenly widened a lot, Hu Jiuling's heart was also a lot more comfortable. He originally hoped that A-Yao would always be a flower in the greenhouse, but now reality does not allow it, so all he can do as a father is to guide her to avoid detours and let her transform into a peony blooming in the sun, instead of a gorgeous oleander that is actually highly poisonous and difficult to get into the elegant hall.

"It's good that Ah Yao wants to understand, you don't have too much pressure, there is still Daddy in everything. Dinner is coming soon, so hurry up and go to the back to wash and change clothes. ”

Because of the untying of Ah Yao's heart knot, Hu Jiuling's heart brightened a lot, and he used half a bowl of rice for dinner. Walking around the mulberry forest in the afternoon, Ah Yao also consumed a lot of body, which made her stomach empty and began to bury her head in hard work. Seeing that her husband and daughter were like this, Song, who had been sick in bed for many years, had greatly reduced her appetite, and she also drank half a bowl of soup for the first time.

Huaiyang cuisine is very particular about the original taste, the same black chicken soup, first stew a black chicken out of the soup, retain the original juice, and then stew another chicken essence under the soup. The aroma of the chicken is perfectly preserved, and the chicken broth is also full of aroma. The soup produced in this way is already rich in nutrients, and the family of three who have eaten it is groggy and can't wait to lie down after dinner.

Perhaps seeing Ah Yao slowly change little by little, Hu Jiuling decided to try to believe in the Song family. pinched off the matter of rebirth, and he told Shen Moci and Song Qinwen about the plan in the mulberry forest today. As soon as he finished speaking, he fell asleep quickly, but Song, who heard about it at first glance, stared at the top of the tent and couldn't sleep for a long time.

When I got up the next day, it was colder. A-Yao got up early, and when she went to the main courtyard to ask for peace, Qingshuang had already taken out the thin big coat of the golden rat's skin and put it on her.

"In the two days after the Shangsi Festival, the weather became colder and colder day by day, and the slaves and maids looked like they were cold in spring. Spring covers autumn frost, girls must dress warmly. ”

The memory was confirmed, and after Qingshuang took care of her clothes and simply combed her hair in a bun, Ah Yao walked quickly towards the main courtyard.

As soon as he arrived at the gate of the main courtyard, he saw Hu Gui hurriedly walking in from the outer courtyard.

"Uncle, but what happened?"

Hurriedly stopped, Hu Gui couldn't hide his anger on his face, "The Song family is here again, this time it's to take the blame." ”

How could a family like his Hu family, who accumulates virtue and does good deeds, have such a bad relative. Two days ago, the Yang mother and daughter came to make trouble, and this will be done again early in the morning. The bare-chested man carried a thorn stick through most of the Qingcheng, attracting people to point fingers, and many people gathered in front of the mansion to watch. made such a big fuss, did you want to completely make the Hu family a laughing stock for the people of Qingcheng?

Hu Gui really misunderstood, although the Yang family was treacherous, but Song Guansheng was a rare principled honest man. The reason why the battle was so big was because he had remorse for the Hu family.

People have already come to the door, and they can't be avoided. Hearing Hu Gui's report, he changed his clothes and put on a big coat, Hu Jiuling took Ah Yao to the gate of the mansion, and this time even the Song family followed.

In front of the wide and majestic Hufu Mansion, Song Guansheng only wore a thin layer of middle clothes, and knelt at the front with a thorn on his back. Behind him knelt Yang, Song Qinwen and Song Qinrong in turn, and Song Qinwen also had a thorn tied to his back. Just now, a family of four swaggered through the market, attracting countless onlookers, although the people surrounding the open space in front of the Hu family were not as many as when the Yang mother and daughter made trouble, but it was not much to count carefully. Unlike a few days ago, this time most of the people's disdainful eyes were on the four members of the Song family.

When the father and daughter came out, they saw a scene that was almost similar to that of a few days ago. Hu Jiuling was still able to calm down, and A-Yao couldn't hide her surprise, "Why is this the case?" ”

"Again?" Song, who stepped out of the threshold, was puzzled, and then figured it out.

But after thinking about it, she was even more uncomfortable, listening to the boiling ridicule around her, she could completely imagine what kind of embarrassment A-Yao faced that day. Her daughter is only thirteen years old, and she has not experienced any pressure before, and she has faced such a big storm for the first time. And at that time, she, who was a mother, chose to doubt her because of her trust in her nephew, and even fainted directly after the accident, failing to give her any support when she needed it most.

What did she do!

Covering his face with Pa, the remorse in Song's eyes almost turned into substance. Unable to hold back any longer, she broke free from the maid behind her, she trembled and walked down the steps, stretched out her index finger and pointed at the head of her brother in front of her.

"You still have the face to come here."

"Sister."

"Over the years since I got married, how many benefits has the Hu family given to the Song family? You are in charge of the thousands of acres of mulberry forests under Hu's hometown, and Yang's peace of mind is at home to be a noble wife. Your sons and daughters, Qin Wen and Ah Rong, are studying, and I will give him the best pen, ink, paper, and inkstone. In these imperial examinations, the lord personally arranged for the Hu family's newly built building boat to send him to the state capital. ”

"Sister......" Song Guansheng's voice lowered.

"These are just what you know, in the places you don't know, the old man gave up his face and personally entertained the officials and examiners in charge of the invigilation, please treat them equally, and don't despise Qinwen just because he was born in an ordinary farming family. In the past so many years, the children of the eunuchs have always won the first place, why is it Qin Wende this time? All of you think that he is only good at learning, and he is a Wenqu star, but you don't know that behind this is my master's silver and face! “

And such things?

The onlookers were in an uproar. Why is Song Qinwen famous? Isn't it because he broke out of the encirclement from the imperial examination monopolized by the children of the official eunuchs and won the first place as a poor student! But now the truth is revealed, it turns out that behind this is Master Hu's secret operation.

"Being able to marry a relative of the Hu family is really a blessing that has been cultivated for several lifetimes."

In this way, some people are still busy clearing up their relationships and beating gongs and drums to return other people's jewelry. I wondered, those things were originally given by the Hu family girl, and they just returned them, what is there to show off? ”

"I know this, the Yang family has said more than once that Song Qinwen is a Wenqu star and will be a big official in the future. The people don't fight with the officials, the Hu family is a merchant, shouldn't the Song family be talking to them? ”

"What kind of Wenqu star, that golden reputation, but it is all piled up with gold from Master Hu."

If the words just now came out of Hu Jiuling's mouth, maybe some people would suspect that the words came out of Song's mouth. The girls who marry in this year are not hard-hearted, and they have a lot of time to see their parents' families, so most girls who are daughters-in-law will pay attention to their relationship with their parents' families. One is prosperous and one is lost, and no one will pour dirty water on their parents. These words came out of Song's mouth, and no one doubted them for a while.

In addition to the Yang family, her son has been her pillar over the years, and it is also the biggest reason why she can maintain her self-esteem in the face of the Hu family's "charity". Although Qin Wensheng was robbed of the quota, she always firmly believed that as long as she had talent to learn, one day he would get ahead and take her to raise her eyebrows.

To deny Song Qinwen's talent is to deny her persistence and pride for more than ten years.

"This is impossible, Qin Wende's article has been publicized by Zhang Bang."

"Shut up." Song Guansheng turned his head and scolded her.

Song walked up to Yang, this is the person who killed her daughter that day. It is true that she did not fulfill her duties as a mother, but this white-eyed wolf who took countless benefits from the Hu family and framed her daughter when she turned around is even more hateful.

"The first three articles have all been posted in front of the state capital, do you think there is only one Qinwen? After reading it, most people say that the articles are comparable. There has always been no first and no second, Yang, why do you think that those outstanding official eunuchs with family roots are not as good as Song Qinwen, such a poor student? Originally, the master took such a lot of effort, and I wanted to sue you, but he stopped me, saying that the two families are relatives, so there is no need to be so clear. I didn't expect the old man to be big-hearted, and he actually raised a group of white-eyed wolves like you, taking the benefits of the Hu family to eat and drink spicy food, but he felt that the Hu family was high up in giving you charity and trampling on your self-esteem. Ask these people how many of them are so desperate that they can't be smashed with silver. ”

"Sister, I was wrong."

Song shook off Song Guansheng's hand holding her legs, and said in disgust: "Don't call me, my mother's family doesn't have your group of white-eyed wolf relatives." ”