Chapter 24: The Four Great Families

When it is three points today, Ruihua is the strongest in the Three Kingdoms, but if Yaoyun is in the midst of a famine and Daqi in the bitter cold land in the northwest, Ruihua lives in the richest Jiangnan, with bumper harvests year after year, and people have enough food and clothing. However, the superior geographical location also makes Ruihua more and more deformed and prosperous, and the rice is piled up in the warehouse until it is moldy and inedible, which is a luxury to throw away.

This is also related to the joint governance of the four major families of Ruihua, although the Duanmu family is the royal family, but when Ruihua was founded and managed, it is also a situation where the four major families control each other. Not to mention that there are four powerful families, each of which exists for its own interests, and the Duanmu Chamber has no choice but to get rid of the other three major families - the Shang clan is in charge of the army, the Xue clan is in business, and the Duanmu clan, which has finally declined, has also produced a stunning and glamorous national teacher. But in the same way, the upper traceless self-adjustment boundary has not returned for seven years, Xue Candle's Wanguan family wealth has long been coveted by many forces, and after Duanmu Li became the national teacher, it was Duanmu Lei who desperately wanted to marry Duanmu Bin into the palace.

Qin Muyu got up early and took a nap after having breakfast with Duanmu Li, Duanmu Li didn't sleep for three hours for the first time, but kept staring at her in a daze. In fact, it is not a good feeling to be stared at by a peerless face that is expressionless and always cold, Qin Muyu feels that he has not slept well at all, but his eyes and words protest, Duanmu Li is a kind of "you sleep with yours, I look at mine" attitude, and Qin Muyu can't either.

After leaving the bamboo forest, Duanmu Li has been holding her hand, but she is wearing men's clothes, and she is a beautiful young man.

When he arrived at the gate of Duanmu Mansion, he was not surprised to meet the Duanmu brothers and sisters who seemed to have been waiting for a long time, Duanmu Bin also had no good face for her, and his mouth was still the same pungent, but for some reason, Qin Muyu had a feeling that he was more like a world away from life than his life.

"Dead sleeves, don't let go of Brother Li's hand!"

Duanmu Bin is wearing a white skirt, the bottom of the skirt spreads out into petals, with the delicate makeup she painted, if you don't move or open your mouth, you really have a feeling of being a lady. Obviously, Duanmu Lei taught her how many times in private, this time she must be dignified and generous, eat without saying a word, take small steps and behave gently, but it is obvious that she has taken it as a deaf ear, especially when she saw Brother Li, who had not been seen for many days, walked out with this broken sleeve and crowned it magnificently, Duanmu Bin's anger was suddenly expressed, but he was silenced in Duanmu Li's cold eyes, and suddenly his eyes were red aggrieved, and he covered his mouth and jumped into the carriage in one step.

Duanmu Tuo looked at Duanmu Bin and shook his head, but he didn't know how to speak to Duanmu Li and the others. Duanmu Li didn't even want to pay attention to them, and pulled Qin Muyu to get into the car.

"I'm afraid that carriage is too crowded, if Duanmu National Master doesn't dislike it, we can take a carriage over." A lazy and smiling voice suddenly sounded, and Duanmu Bin, who was still scolding in the carriage in front of Duanmu Li, flashed a trace of impatience in his cold eyes and stopped moving.

Qin Muyu looked at the bright yellow carriage behind him that he didn't know when, and the corners of his mouth twitched inadvertently. Xue Candle? Is he on his way? Xue Candle's smile was still the same, but Qin Muyu clearly saw the taste of grief that gave her goosebumps.

Plaintive? When did she provoke this son, this uncle? How can it be like she owes Xue Candle a few hundred taels of silver and hasn't paid it back? Okay, she owes him money, but that's what he took the initiative to give, so Xue Zhu won't be worried about that money, right?

Looking at the clear look in Qin Muyu's eyes, Xue Candle sighed in his heart, got out of the carriage alone, made a gesture of invitation in Qin Muyu's secretly guarded look, and then couldn't help but say that he was going to take Duanmu Li's hand and take them to the carriage.

That's right, pull Duanmu Li's hand.

Duanmu Li frowned and directly shook off Xue Candle's hand, which he felt extremely disgusting, and when he looked up again, he saw Xue Candle's overly bright disgusting smile, and his brows wrinkled unconsciously.

Qin Muyu was amazed, couldn't it be that after a few days, Xue Zhu actually fell in love with a man? Looking at Xue Candle's lazy and wealthy handsome face, and looking at Duanmu Li's slightly cold and stunning appearance at the corner of his eyes, Qin Muyu sighed in his heart. If these two people are together, then there is nothing to say, just don't know who is on top and who is down.

You don't have to look at it to know what is going on in that little head, Xue Zhu leaned lazily on the carriage, looking at Duanmu Li's uncontrollable expression, and he was a little puzzled in his heart. This Duanmu Li clearly doesn't look like a broken sleeve, but it's still a broken sleeve, and it's still a broken sleeve holding the little guy's hand.

It's the same annoyance as that "Brother Yan". He had seen the little one as he wished, but instead of getting better, his mood had gotten worse.

Duanmu brothers and sisters and Qin Muyu watched this god unfold together, Qin Muyu thought that if he sat with Xue Candle, the fox, it would be better to sit with Duanmu Bin, although Duanmu Bin's mouth was a little poisonous, but his heart was not much easier to deal with, and Duanmu Li was in Duanmu Bin's heart, no matter how annoyed he was, it was impossible to say anything again.

Thinking like this, Qin Muyu was about to walk to the Duanmu brother and sister's car, but she saw that the Duanmu brother and sister's horse suddenly raised four hooves and ran on the ground, and the dust raised almost made her face, and she could faintly hear Duanmu Bin's urging and scolding voice and Duanmu Tuo's scolding voice, and the black lines on Qin Muyu's face slid down in rows. She seems to have underestimated how much Duanmu Bin hated her?

"Haha, little one, now you can only take my car."

Xue Candle lazily looked at the crying and laughing expression on Qin Muyu's face, and secretly shouted hello to Duanmu Bin's approach, completely forgetting who was the useless person who damaged Duanmu Bin yesterday.

"Hey, hey...... Duanmu Li ...... "Qin Muyu has long understood Xue Candle's inferior nature, but suddenly found that he was picked up by Duanmu Li, and the general way of holding her into the bamboo forest, Qin Muyu had a bad premonition,

"You're not going to take me to Yingmo Pavilion, are you? Hey......"

Duanmu Li pursed his lips and nodded with a cold face.

"......" "......" Xue Candle narrowed his eyes, and Qin Muyu collapsed.

After some tossing, the three of them finally got on the swaggering Minghuang carriage and slowly walked all the way to Yingmo Pavilion, during which Xue Candle was blocked by Duanmu Li's cold face many times, but Xue Candle also looked like he was tired of it, teasing the white cat next to him, and looking at Duanmu Li with a smile. Qin Muyu had to wonder if Xue Zhu was stimulated by a mysterious power, and suddenly fell in love with a man instead of a beautiful girl.

Duanmu Li's face did not change at all, he could see clearly, the disgusting man who was smiling never left Xiaoyu's gaze, and he clearly did not know the identity of Xiaoyu's daughter, which made Duanmu Li feel good for no reason, as for such a disgusting gaze? Duanmu Li only had Qin Muyu in his eyes, whose expression was constantly changing, where else did he care.

Under the transformation of Xue Candle, Yingmo Pavilion is full of Xue Candle's personal characteristics: bright yellow plaques, bright yellow exterior walls, each floor of the three-story building has exquisite and detailed carvings, and lanterns are hung on the outside, swaggering in the night. When you enter the house, you can see that there is no rouge and vulgar taste of other Qinglou at all, but it is directly divided into many private rooms, and the meaning of Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum is different, and the ink is fragrant. Now there is a table on the first floor, next to the platform is the piano, chess, pen and ink, is the equipment for a competition, outside the table is a neatly arranged seat, there is a gap between each seat, the small table next to the seat is placed with melons and fruits, are some food that is rare in Ruihua. In addition to the four major families, Ruihua also has other relatively small families, such families generally rely on the four major families to exist, and the open and secret battles between them are quite fierce, and the Qin family is one of them.

The seats in front of the stage were obviously for VIPs, and Qin Muyu saw an acquaintance, Qin Chuhan, the eldest son of the Qin family. Qin Chuhan was sitting in the first row, his face was pale, obviously he had not recovered from a serious illness, but he still had to hold on to greeting the sons of other families. How did Qin Muyu know that Qin Chuhan's current appearance was due to her brother Yan, and she was still happy that the wicked would eventually have evil retribution.

On the side, Xue Zhu secretly observed Qin Muyu's expression, and saw her look straight at Qin Chuhan, first unhappy in her heart, and then happy in her heart when she saw her gloating little expression. Secretly noting Qin Chuhan's appearance, Xue Zhu thought that he would find someone to find out which son-in-law this was, and find him some "fun" to make the little guy happy.

Qin Muyu was pulled by Duanmu Li, followed Xue Candle's footsteps without stopping, and went directly to the second floor. On the second floor, there are ten pavilions that can overlook the entire stage directly from top to bottom, although the pavilions are hollowed out like a balcony and blocked by a curtain, the beauty of this curtain is that you can see the outside from the inside, but the outside cannot see the inside. There are tables and chairs in the pavilion, there are eating and drinking, as well as piano, chess, pen and ink painting utensils, it can be said that there are all in the pavilion under the stage. Qin Muyu could see clearly, the pavilion on the second floor was clearly prepared for the four major families, but what was this utensil for? Isn't it that the four major families don't have to go to the stage for the competition, but just dance and ink in this pavilion? I thought it was impossible, but Qin Muyu still secretly doubted it in his heart. Because if she knew well in her previous life, the second prince who surprised the world with a piano sound in this big move is clearly ......

As soon as I sat down, three beauties came slowly with plum blossom cakes, fresh fruits, and wine, and after putting down the plates, they still did not leave, but sat in the middle of the three of them. Xue Zhu hugged the slender waist of a beauty, opened his mouth to hold the grapes peeled by the beauty, and then said,

"The four major families are all on this second floor, and this curtain is woven with cold silkworm silk from the snow-capped mountains in the north of Daqi, I'm afraid that the whole world of cold silkworms is here in Yingmo Pavilion."

What is this, showing off wealth? Who in the world can be richer than Xue Candle Xue Dagongzi? Qin Muyu rolled her eyes and hugged a little beauty who had been leaning towards her, the little beauty looked like her for some reason, her little face was flushed, her eyes flashed and she looked at Qin Muyu, so that Qin Muyu also smiled and opened her mouth to eat the orange petals that the little beauty peeled for her.

"Smack-" The little beauty's outstretched hand was suddenly slapped away mercilessly, Qin Muyu could see that the thin white hand was suddenly red, and before she had time to think about it, she was moved to a position and sat straight next to Duanmu Li's great master, and the beauty next to Duanmu Li was so cold that she couldn't move for a long time, and she didn't dare to step forward at all, seeing the little beauty's tearful eyes, her eyes revealed a bit of schadenfreude.

"Eat mine." Duanmu Li clumsily broke open the orange and looked at Qin Muyu seriously with a small orange petal, Qin Muyu reluctantly opened his mouth to eat it in the stunned eyes of the three women around him.

Xue Zhu didn't know what was wrong with him today, he was so naΓ―ve from the first time he saw the little guy that he couldn't do it, he deliberately went to be intimate with Duanmu Li, inexplicably showing off his wealth, and even hugged the beauty masochistically watching the little guy get close to a beauty. He didn't lose his sense of proportion when he was doing less.

He understands that he has unusual feelings for the little guy, but he can't accept that he likes men. He also tried, except for the little guy, he and other men, even if they were just men who were specially used for fun, let alone sit together, even if they looked at it more, they felt extremely uncomfortable, he felt that he was definitely not a broken sleeve, but he liked the little guy. If the little guy is a man, then he is a broken sleeve...... Xue Candle has been very entangled in the past few days, especially after knowing that the little guy "hooked up" with Duanmu Li again, he couldn't help it, and went to Duanmu Mansion to sit for an afternoon in person, just to see him once, although he didn't see him in the end.

The woman next to Xue Candle saw that he had a smile on the corner of his mouth but anger in his eyes, knowing that he was unhappy, she also wanted to say a few words to ease the atmosphere.

"This time Xue Gongzi is here, Sister Mozhu doesn't know how happy she is. Xue Gongzi Jinwu Zangjiao is envious of others, this time Sister Mozhu is out of the pavilion, what gift does Xue Gongzi want to give? There are too few gifts, but the people of our Yingmo Pavilion don't follow it, but Sister Mozhu is the treasure of our Yingmo Pavilion. ”

"Oh? How about sending another thousand taels of gold? ”

"Xue Gongzi, you listen to Sister Mozhu's music for a thousand taels of gold, is this Sister Mozhu out of the pavilion even less? This Sister Mozhu will be your person in the future, isn't Xue Gongzi not cherishing it when she gets it? ”

"How come, Mozhu is my heart's meat, I will naturally treat her well......"

"Xue Gongzi is really affectionate, Shu Liu can have half of the blessing of Sister Mozhu, I'm afraid I will have to wake up with a smile this night."

Xue Zhu was casually talking with the woman, but he kept glancing at Qin Muyu out of the corner of his eyes, seeing that there was not the slightest reaction in her eyes, but he and that Duan Muli fed each other endlessly, and his heart was even more chaotic.

The beauty with big eyes looked at her red hand, and felt very aggrieved. When she came to Yingmo Pavilion, not everyone followed her, even Xue Zhu Xue Gongzi sometimes asked him to go to the house to chat, watching her in a daze, which made her very happy and glorious. But today she was beaten by two broken sleeves? The beauty glanced at Xue Zhu with tears in her eyes, and found that he was talking to Shu Liu's little slut, and her heart was even more embarrassed.

Suddenly noticed that Xue Zhu looked at Qin Muyu with some dissatisfaction in her eyes, the little beauty suddenly became bold, and she cried loudly, and covered her face with her little red hand, which made her even more pitiful,

"Xiao Huan, what did you do wrong? Childe beat me like this, isn't it because you have broken your sleeves and can't let outsiders touch me? But the weaker little brother clearly likes Xiao Huan......"

"Get out!"

Before the little beauty finished speaking, Xue Candle suddenly shouted, causing Qin Muyu and Duanmu Li to be wrong.

Xue Candle has always been lazy and smiling, he knows everything in his heart, and he hides everything with a smile, when has he ever been so angry? The object of anger is still a weak woman in a green building?

Xue Zhu only felt that his eyes jumped suddenly, and now he realized that he couldn't stand anyone saying disrespectful things to the little guy, couldn't stand anyone looking at the little guy with disrespectful eyes, and couldn't stand the word broken sleeves mentioned by others! How about broken sleeves? He's still a broken sleeve himself! A broken sleeve that only breaks the sleeve of the little one!

As for the woman, how about the woman, he Xue Zhu has never been the master of pity and cherishing the jade, but he is just a good cover-up.

"Childe ......"

"Xue Gongzi ......"

Xiao Huan and Shu Liu knelt down for Xue Candle one after another, obviously they had never seen Xue Candle like this, Shu Liu glared at Xiao Huan fiercely, this thing that can't speak! Originally, Xue Gongzi had a good chat with her, but she made Xue Gongzi suddenly angry. Who in the entire Yingmo Pavilion has ever seen Xue Candle angry? They were all scared and trembling.

"Why don't you get out of here, can you say it a second time?" Xue Candle returned to the smile in the corner of his eyes, and even peeled a grape to eat, and suddenly he was in a good mood again.

The three women all knelt and withdrew step by step, but Xue Zhu didn't give a look, but looked at Qin Muyu with a smile, and suddenly a look of imperative made Qin Muyu secretly say that this Xue Zhu is really not a good look, what kind of smile is completely an illusion, it is simply a moody pervert who eats people and does not spit out bones!

Duanmu Li frowned slightly, peeling the hand of the orange, he could feel that Xue Zhu cared about Xiaoyu unusually, but looking at Xiaoyu's completely out-of-the-box appearance, he was relieved again.

The three of them tossed very much, and it was also very lively outside. There was only half an hour left before the start time, and the people who should come and shouldn't have arrived Qin Muyu was full and drunk and looked out from the curtain, and suddenly looked at him.

He actually came? Or rather, he came.