Maybe it's because he was constantly floating on the sea at the age when he first remembered, so Xiao Jiu always has an adventure factor in his bones that can't be separated.

When he was eleven or twelve years old, he dared to go out with Qu Kuan, and he didn't return home once for a year and a half.

At first, he was still worried, but as soon as he came back, he shushed and asked for warmth, for fear that he would suffer something outside, but then he got used to it and threw it away. When I came back, I asked a few words, and I definitely didn't stay if I wanted to leave.

"I don't know who this kid looks like." She sighed to Yuan Ziqing.

Yuan Ziqing raised his eyebrows, "Naturally, it's like you." ”

That's right, among the two people, it's true that Meibian is more adventurous and prefers to walk around. Xiao Jiu is like this, and she is indeed more like her.

However, among the two people, the one who supports Xiao Jiu more is undoubtedly Yuan Ziqing. A good boy has ambitions in all directions, and when he was young, he may not have had such an impulse, but he was not in good health, so he was trapped in a corner of the capital. Now that his son is healthy and has such a heart, Yuan Ziqing will naturally not stop him.

More importantly, he also knows very well that Qu Kuan's teaching to Xiao Jiu is different from others. He himself has great talents, and he is not constrained to read books every day, but edutainment, and even this kind of walking outside is also a kind of teaching and learning.

Since it is a serious matter, there is naturally no reason to stop it.

Meibian knew that he couldn't stop him, and in the end he could only let him go. A good man has ambitions in all directions, and it is good to have more experience.

However, as Xiao Jiu grew older, this reassurance slowly turned into worry. After all, Xiao Jiu has no fixed place like this, which is really unbearable. Especially when he is sixteen or seventeen years old and has no plans to settle down, let alone any signs of starting a family, this worry on his side of his eyebrows has become more and more intense.

"Why don't we pick a marriage for our son and let him take care of it?" Meibian, like every mother who has lost her proportion, Xiang Yuanzi Qingjian yì.

Yuan Ziqing was a little helpless, "Although the marriage event is the order of the parents, Xiao Jiu, the child, has never been able to settle down, how can he let us arrange it?" ”

"Does that matter?"

"I'll wait until he comes back and ask him what he means." Motoko Qingdao.

As a result, it took several months to wait, and Qu Kuan and Xiao Jiu finally rushed back. It is said that this time they went to the grassland. Although he didn't elaborate, Yuan Ziqing and Meibian knew what kind of place it was. The couple also went out to visit the mountains and rivers of the motherland, but they never approached the grassland. After all, although there has been no big war in the past two years, it is still not peaceful.

Meibian felt that Xiao Jiu's courage was too big.

But over the years, they have been walking outside, and the danger they have encountered is definitely not just like this, and they obviously have their own ways to deal with it, and there is no room for her beak.

In the end, he could only frown, and said angrily to his son, "You are not young, you should always stay at home in the future." Now that you're going to be eighteen next year, your marriage must be decided, right? ”

Xiao Jiu scratched his head, "Uncle and grandfather said the same thing." When I came back this time, I didn't plan to leave! ”

The face on the side of his eyebrows looked much better, and he turned to Qu Kuan, "Uncle Shi has thought it through. Qu Kuan treats Xiao Jiu like an apprentice and a junior, and Xiao Jiu is more willing to listen to him. Meibian's heart is not sour, but after all, it is a family, and then I gradually got used to it.

Qu Kuan stroked his beard and said, "I'm old, I can't compare to before, and I can't go out anymore." From now on, I will stay with you and enjoy your old age. But there's something I want to explain. ”

"What's the matter?"

"The two of you chose each other by yourself, and Xiao Jiu's marriage has to be chosen by himself, and he can't force it." Qu Kuan Yan sù Dao.

"It's nature." Mei said, "No matter what kind of family background or family, as long as the girl is really good and the family style is upright, I will not be dissatisfied." ”

She herself was also considered "Gao Pan" when she married Yuan Ziqing, and she didn't mean to let Xiao Jiu have to marry a noble girl.

As a result, as soon as these words were spoken, Qu Kuan and Xiao Jiu looked at each other and smiled, which made Mei have a very bad premonition in his heart. Sure enough, Xiao Jiu said excitedly the next moment, "Then I'll bring her back to my mother when I turn around." ”

"You've picked the right guys?" He glared at Xiao Jiu with his eyebrows, "I think you really took it in, it turns out that you even hid these things from me and your father, if we don't agree, do you still plan to never come back?" You unfilial son! ”

"Mother, I was wrong!" Xiao Jiu immediately admitted his mistake happily, "I only met her when I went out this time, didn't I bring it back to my mother immediately?" Mother, you're going to love her. ”

"What if you don't like it?" Squinted at him.

Xiao Jiu was a little worried, turned his head to look at his father, looked at his uncle and grandfather, and pretended to be stupid, "My mother hasn't seen anyone yet, how do you know if you don't like it?" She has a hearty and generous temperament, and she is sensible and considerate, and her mother has no reason not to like it. ”

With a straight face on his eyebrows, "Does this mean that I have to like it?" ”

"No, no, no...... I mean, mother, you meet people first! Xiao Jiu came to her side and said flatteringly.

He snorted at the side of his eyebrows, turned Xiao Jiu's words in his mind, and suddenly had a bad premonition, "Wait, you make it clear first, is it a grassland woman who went out to meet this time?" ”

"It's not." Xiao Jiu immediately denied it, but couldn't help but argue, "Mother, there's nothing wrong with a grassland woman, right?" ”

"I didn't say bad, what are you excited about?" stared at him with his eyebrows, "Explain it honestly and clearly, and if you have the slightest concealment, your mother will not let it go lightly." ”

Xiao Jiu immediately straightened up and introduced the situation on the girl's side.

The girl he fancy is surnamed Jun, and her maiden name is Qin. The Jun family is also a big family, but there are no officials, and the whole family is a businessman, and the business is almost all over the entire Dachu. Even among the maritime chambers of commerce, there are people from the Jun family.

Of course, Miss Junqin is not a branch of the main family, but a small branch of this big family. Her mother died early, and her father was in deep love, unwilling to continue the strings, and raised his daughter by himself.

He was a businessman, and he did not sell in a shop, but took the north-south trade route and resold goods. The most important route is to transport goods from Hengzhou to the grassland in the northwest, and then buy the specialties on the grassland at a low price and sell them back to Dachulai. I can go back and forth twice a year, although it is hard, but it is very profitable.

There is no one in the family, so Miss Jun is naturally a businessman who has followed her father since she was a child.

And this time, Xiao Jiu and the others took a ride on the Jun family's caravan and went to the grassland together.

This Jun girl is fifteen years old this year, and she is already able to take charge on her own and is a good helper for her father. is refreshing and neat, and the girl is careful and will take care of people...... All in all, there are advantages everywhere in Xiao Jiukou. And because he has traveled from south to north and has a wide range of knowledge, there are countless topics to talk to Xiao Jiu.

Getting along with such a beautiful woman day and night, even Xiao Jiu's heart, which has been wandering for many years, can't help but be restrained by her.

After listening to it, I felt that this girl was good. Although he was born as a merchant, there was no discrimination on his eyebrows. And going south and north, it is quite similar to Zhou Yingyue at the beginning, which makes Meibian very good.

And he also has enough common language with Xiao Jiu, so that he will not be speechless and indifferent. Even if Xiao Jiu still wants to go out and walk around in the future, she can also go with him. It is more suitable than the right lady.

But these are all one-sided words, and you still have to meet people.

So Xiao Jiu went to arrange and met Jun Qin on the second day. Originally, Xiao Jiu asked Jun Qin to come to the door and was reprimanded by Meibian, how could the girl's family take the initiative to come to the door on such an occasion? Even if they didn't see each other in the past, they should have made an appointment somewhere else.

In the end, I made an appointment on the mountain, and when I went to Shangxiang, I met it by the way, and it was natural.

Fortunately, Xiao Jiu's vision is good, and there is a Qu Kuan check, and the girl who picks it will not be bad no matter what. After seeing her, Meibian was also very satisfied with her, especially liked the confidence and momentum on her body, which could suppress Xiao Jiu.

However, after returning home, Xiao Jiu confided in a difficult matter: it turned out that he and Qu Kuan were incognito at that time, so the Jun family didn't know that they were the famous Fuwang Mansion. At first, he didn't confess, and then he didn't have a chance to say it, so that he had already brought people back, but he still hadn't made his identity clear to the girl.

Meibian had to personally post and invite Jun Qin to come over as a guest.

They now live in the Zhuangzi in Xijing, although it has been expanded later, but looking horizontally and vertically, left and right, it doesn't look like such a noble house, so Jun Qin was stunned when he heard his eyebrows explain their identities clearly.

She has gotten along with Xiao Jiu, and just by looking at the etiquette and behavior of the people, she can slightly deduce that his family background is good. But she didn't expect it to be so good!

Seeing that the girl was already stupid, he had to let Xiao Jiu take the person out and find a way to appease him. Anyway, it's my own iniquity.

Xiao Jiu took the person back to the courtyard where he lived. - Said that it was his yard, but he couldn't live for a few days a year, so it was empty, and there was not even a single person who was waiting, and even Xiao Jiu himself was not familiar with it. After thinking about it, I had to take the person to the study. Reading a book and talking may be a way to divert attention.

As a result, no matter how he spoke, Jun Qin couldn't come back to his senses, Xiao Jiu almost rummaged through the study, and didn't find anything she was interested in. In the end, I turned out a large box, and I don't know what it contained.

When I opened it, I realized that it was all scrolls.

"Huh? When did I have these things here? Xiao Jiu was very surprised, picked up one casually, opened it, and then ...... Then he was in a hurry to close it and put it back.

However, although Jun Qin was absent-minded, standing next to him, he could be regarded as seeing it, and seeing him like this again, he was obviously weak-hearted, and couldn't help but ask curiously, "What is this?" ”

"It's nothing, it's just paintings." Xiao Xiaojiu hurriedly said, "There's nothing to see." ”

Jun Qin didn't listen to him, he reached out and grabbed a painting in his hand, and quickly unfolded it, "I want to see what ...... painted."

She paused in the middle of speaking, and after a moment, she finally burst out laughing, and the whole person leaned forward and backwards, laughing so hard that she could not stop laughing, and her hands were shaking so much that they almost tore the scroll.

Xiao Jiu immediately had a bad premonition in his heart, and reached out to take the scroll, "I'll see what was drawn." ”

Then he froze.

It turned out that Jun Qin picked out a portrait of Xiao Jiu with a casual pull. It's just that this portrait is a little "special". It was painted when he was about ninety-seven or eight-year-old, and his facial features can be clearly seen to be when he was a child, and what he was wearing was a nondescript set of women's clothes.

Xiao Jiu's face immediately turned blue for a while, red for a while, white for a while, and various colors alternated, which was simply wonderful.

He was silent for a long time before he re-rolled the painting, and shouted in his heart: Daddy and mother misunderstood me!

Why put this kind of thing in his study?

Jun Qin laughed so much that tears came out, and the whole person leaned on the desk, unable to make a sound, and could only speculate from the trembling appearance that he couldn't stop for a while.

When she finally laughed enough, she leaned on the table with a soft body, raised her head to look at Xiao Jiu, there was still a residual smile in her eyes, her pretty face was flushed, she looked very moving, and she didn't have the restraint and stiffness after knowing Xiao Jiu's identity before.

Xiao Jiu sighed in his heart. Forget it, even if it is a loss of face, it is worth it to let her relax.