"The rarest thing about this coral ornament is not that it is made of a single piece of coral, but that it naturally grows into a birthday boy holding a peach, mother, don't you look like it?" Zhu Chengye introduced it to Mrs. Zhu as if he were offering a treasure.

Old Madam Zhu was also helped by Zhu Mingxiu to walk over and take a closer look, and then said with a smile: "You child, your son is about to get married, and you are such a monkey, why don't I see where it looks like a birthday star, and where it looks like a longevity peach?" ”

In fact, Mrs. Zhu said this deliberately, her parents in her previous life were also business elites with successful careers, and she was not uncommon with good things, but such a rare coral is really rare.

When Zhu Chengye heard this, he wanted everyone to comment on whether this ornament looked like a birthday star holding a peach, or Mrs. Zhu stopped him and didn't let him continue to mess around, and instead ordered the maid to set the meal.

Zhu Mingyu didn't expect her father to be such a lively and noisy character, and thought that he would be a stern, stereotyped and unreasonable person, after all, in Zhu Mingyu's memory, there was very little contact with this father, and every time he broke up.

When the maid was setting up the meal, Zhu Chengye had a few cordial conversations with several children and nephews and nieces, but when he went to Zhu Mingyu, he obviously became cold, and said a little stiffly: "Since you are fine, come back and ask your mother to take it to apologize to the uncle of the Qin family." He originally wanted to ask Zhu Mingyu how her head was doing, but he had already heard the conversation between her and Zhu Mingxiu at the door, and felt that there was no need to ask her at all.

Zhu Chengye was secretly angry for a while before adjusting his expression and going in.

When the Qin family heard this, they were almost moved to tears, and their eyes were full of joy and admiration when they looked at Zhu Chengye. I thought that the master hadn't mentioned this matter for the past few days, but he must be preparing to reveal it, but it turned out that he knew it in his heart.

Zhu Mingyu looked at Zhu Chengye's stern appearance, and finally understood who he looked like when he wasn't smiling, no wonder their father-daughter relationship was so bad, it was really not all Zhu Mingyu's personality problems, her father had problems in the first place.

It turned out that her adoptive mother, who advocated adopting her, taught her that if you want to impress someone, you must first put yourself in her shoes and think about what she will think and do, and he will open up to you when he feels that you agree with him. And she did so, so that such an outcast who had been displaced since childhood and had no sense of security gradually accepted them, and respected and loved them from the bottom of her heart.

However, Zhu Mingyu knows that her biggest talisman in the Zhu family is this father, no matter what, she is his daughter, and she has the least conflict of interest, so not only what his attitude is towards her, but she has to slowly reverse his opinion of herself.

So Zhu Mingyu lowered his eyebrows and responded: "Yes, father,"

I thought it would take a lot of effort or even a noisy fight to get things done so quickly, which made Zhu Chengye a little unexpected, and he didn't have a chance to say the cold and hard words he had thought of, so he could only nod and leave.

Although they ate together, they were still divided into two tables for men and women, Zhu Chengye took his son and nephew to a table, and Mrs. Zhu took others to a table.

The so-called longevity noodles are no different from what Zhu Mingyu has eaten, she has always drunk medicine these days, her taste has been affected a little, and her mouth is always a little bitter, but there are a few pickled side dishes that make her feel very appetizing, and she happily eats two bowls of noodles before putting down the bowl.

Zhu Mingyu, who found that he had become the focus again, learned from the other sisters to rinse their mouths and wipe their mouths, and instructed Mu Hibiscus without changing his face: "Go and ask who made today's side dishes, reward." ”

Hibiscus answered and hurried to do it.

Zhu Mingyu's biological mother Meng has only two daughters in the family, and she is a famous wealthy businessman, and Meng's dowry is very rich, so although Zhu Mingyu has a bad temper, the people in her courtyard reward the most money, and the eldest lady may reward when she is in a good mood, so many people want to enter Yuyuan.

After breakfast, Qin's Wei took a few children to give Mrs. Zhu a birthday gift, nothing more than some clothes, shoes, hats, calligraphy and paintings, etc., Zhu Mingyu saw for the first time that she gave Mrs. Zhu a pair of shoes for five blessings and longevity, and the workmanship was really good. However, Mrs. Zhu took a brief look and asked the maid to put it away, but it was a hand-embroidered mink forehead wiped by Zhu Mingxiu that Mrs. Zhu couldn't put down, so she simply changed the one she wore before.

The work on the day of the birthday banquet had already been assigned, and Mrs. Zhu just emphasized mentioning them again, but Zhu Mingyu would not be arranged even if there was no accident, so she was idle, retired early and took the maid to prepare to go back to Yuyuan to make up for a while.

I don't know when it started snowing again, Zhu Mingyu looked at the flying snowflakes and decided to go to the garden.

Kapok was worried that Zhu Mingyu's illness had not recovered, so after putting on the cloak for Zhu Mingyu, he told Mu Hibiscus again, and went back to get the furnace.

The Zhu family's garden is famous in the bustling city, although the artificially opened water has been frozen, but several scenic spots specially designed for the withering of flowers in winter are also very interesting.

Zhu Mingyu stood on the covered bridge and looked at the ancient feet of the three white marbles in the frozen lake, and remembered the story of the West Lake about the catfish essence seized at the bottom of the ding. I don't know if there is a West Lake in the south of the Yangtze River here, and whether there is a Leifeng Pagoda.

"Miss, it's cold outside, let's go to the pavilion over there."

Zhu Mingyu looked at the direction pointed by the hibiscus, there was a five-cornered pavilion, half of which was surrounded by thick felt curtains on four sides, leaving only one side with a gauze curtain.

Seeing that the hibiscus was indeed so cold that her nose was red, and the maid's clothes were still thin no matter how thick they were, Zhu Mingyu took off her cloak and threw it to the hibiscus: "I'm hot, you put on it first." Then he took the hibiscus into the pavilion.

After coming in, Zhu Mingyu found that it was not as dim as she thought, and when she looked up, she found that it was covered with translucent glazed tiles, and the light leaked from it.

Although Zhu Mingyu said so, Mu Hibiscus didn't dare to really put her cloak on her body, just hugged it. Although Zhu Mingyu understood their scruples, she still felt a little helpless, but she could only go.

Zhu Mingyu wanted to find someone to move the stove, but he felt that it was too troublesome to go back, and when he was hesitating, someone came in again.

The leader has delicate and beautiful facial features, snowy skin and black hair, red lips and white teeth, a kind of androgynous beauty, but the gauze wrapped around his head destroys a little beauty, next to him is a slightly older handsome young man, followed by many people, some carrying the stove, some carrying tea sets and cups, and some holding meat wine bottles.

Want to have a barbecue party?

This was Zhu Mingyu's first reaction.

However, when he saw the young man's angry gaze, he remembered that this was Qin Keji, the nineteenth master of the Qin family who was injured by her a few days ago, he was not much older than Zhu Yu, but his generation was a generation higher, needless to say that he was Qin Liyan, the nephew of the Qin family. Qin Keji raised his eyebrows and glared like this, and his excellent appearance was a little more ruthless.

Qin Liyan is two years older than Qin Keji's little uncle, he is already sixteen years old, and his personality is much more stable than Qin Keji. Seeing Zhu Mingyu with the maid in the pavilion from afar, and knowing the conflict they had started a few days ago, he wanted to stop Qin Keji, but it didn't work. Qin Keji is obviously not the kind of character who will listen to persuasion, and when he saw Zhu Mingyu inside, he had to come over to "say hello".

Zhu Mingyu also felt that the road was narrow, and he could meet him when he walked through the garden so early. Can't be provoked and can't hide, can't she go?

Yes, Qin Keji really didn't want to let her go, he Qin Nineteen didn't suffer a loss what he ate.

Mu Hibiscus stood in front of Zhu Mingyu as if facing a great enemy, looking at Qin Keji vigilantly, although nervous, he did not flinch: "Nineteenth Master, please let me go, our young lady is going out." ”

Qin Keji didn't pay attention to Mu Hibiscus, he just stared at Zhu Mingyu, Qin Liyan had no choice but to watch Qin Keji from the sidelines, for fear that he would do it again, although it was Miss Zhu who did it first at that time, but he always felt that it was very ungentlemanly for Uncle Nineteen to do it.

Zhu Mingyu couldn't keep silent anymore, so he stood up and said to Qin Keji: "I'm sorry, please let me go." ”

"I injured my master and grabbed the pavilion with my master, are you sorry and it's over? And do you just call your elders that? "Qin Keji is unrelenting, and the word forgiveness does not exist in his life.

Obviously, you also hurt me, and this is the Zhu family, so you can't come here yet? Zhu Mingyu complained in her heart that this little kid was really difficult, but she didn't want to conflict with him again, after all, she wasn't really a teenage girl.

"I'm sorry." Zhu Mingyu repeated.

Qin Keji still refused.

"What do you want?"

Qin Keji raised his head, squinted at Zhu Mingyu, and said in an arrogant tone: "Kowtow to the young master three times, and this matter should be revealed." ”

I didn't expect the eldest lady of the Zhu family to choose to settle the matter, Qin Liyan spoke: "Uncle Nineteen, Cousin Mingyu has already apologized, forget about this matter." ”

Qin Keji raised his eyebrows in displeasure and looked at Qin Liyan: "You should fart what I said, you can call her uncle in the future!" ”

Qin Liyan was silent, his junior was really not good, this little uncle didn't even dare to provoke his father, what could he say? can only look at Zhu Mingyu with apologetic and pleading, hoping that this eldest lady can continue to maintain a good upbringing and demeanor today, and eliminate the farce that may be repeated invisibly.

Zhu Mingyu felt Qin Liyan's helplessness, and only felt that Qin Keji's behavior was really extremely naïve, but also, a teenager of this age is only a second-year teenager, what else can it look like if he is not like this? But she was reluctant to accommodate him, thinking that his brother had also had such a period back then, and people like them couldn't get used to it.

"Uncle Qin, what did you say?" Zhu Mingyu deliberately didn't bite the words, so that "Uncle Qin" and the two people sounded like "beasts".

When Qin Keji heard this, he immediately burst into flames: "If you have the ability, you can say it again!" It was as if Zhu Mingyu said it again, and he would immediately go up and kill her.

Qin Liyan had an even more headache, thinking that she had relented today, and it seemed that her nature was still difficult to change.

Zhu Mingyu naturally ignored his provocation, there are always some people who like to confirm this kind of boring words over and over again, so when Qin Liyan hugged Qin Keli who was dancing with his teeth and claws, he slipped away from them, and didn't forget to say when he left: "Uncle Qin, I'll go first." ”

Qin Keji was so angry that he shouted: "Zhu Mingyu, I'm going to kill you, I'm inseparable from you!" ”