Qing Shu entered the house, Zhou Boyan put away the sword, threw the sword to the owner of the sword, and then pulled the young man's collar into the house, and did not forget to warn a few words in his mouth, "I don't want to be kicked by me, bear it honestly, who let you have nothing to provoke her." ”

An Rongzhou didn't resist, Ren Zhou Boyan walked away, but his mouth was not idle, "The eldest brother is wrong, the eldest brother can't admit his mistake." ”

Zhou Boyan couldn't help but smile and said seriously, "If it can't be done, I don't count if I say it." ”

An Rongzhou was indignant, "You...... Are you still a man? Ah, how can you let a woman climb to the top ......" Seeing Qing Shu looking over, he immediately smirked with a dog's face, "Hehe...... Sister Shu, the eldest brother is wrong, don't be like the eldest brother? ”

Qing Shu didn't buy his account, "What can't you let a woman do?" Finish talking. She asked, kicking him in the calf. If he had heard the bastard words he had heard from a native girl of this era, he would have died of shame. is not ashamed to die, but also has to have a scene of crying, making trouble and hanging himself to prove his name.

was kicked on the calf, An Rongzhou hissed, with a bitter face, "Sister, sister, let's not be angry, not angry!" As he spoke, he pulled it in his sleeve for a while, and then handed out something, "Come, come, sister take it, this is a New Year's gift from the eldest brother." Come, take it. ”

Without waiting for Qing Shu to see what it was, Zhou Boyan took away the things he handed out, shook them away, looked at them, and put them away, "I took it for her." ”

An Rongzhou couldn't help muttering in his mouth, "If the wolf is a traitor, he knows that bullying the eldest brother is not kind." ”

"What did you say?" Qing Shu glared at him. She didn't understand, was she familiar with him? actually called a sister a kiss, and even said something that there was not.

An Rongzhou made a surrender again, which meant not to say anything.

Qing Shu glanced at him, "Let me ask you, why did you shoot blood on the plaque on the door of the Wu Mansion during a sensitive period?" ”

"How do you know that?" An Rongzhou took it casually, but when he found that someone looked at him with an unkind face, he remembered that someone didn't know about it at all. Isn't that self-defeating! He hated to bite his tongue off.

Someone who had already walked away listened, and walked back, "You have something to hide from me?" ”

An Rongzhou drooped his head, sat on the ground with his stomach in his arms, and was about to play tricks, "Brother Yan, eldest brother is so hungry!" The eldest brother hasn't eaten a decent meal for four days, and the eldest brother's life is so bitter! ”

Qing Shu wanted to kick him again, he jumped up from the ground, hid far away, and said busily, "Don't make trouble, don't make trouble, big brother has something important to tell my sister today." Seeing that Qingshu didn't believe it at all, he added, "Wu Zhenjiang, it's about Wu Zhenjiang." ”

About Wu Zhenjiang and Wu Mansion, there are people from the beggar gang staring at it, and news will come at the slightest disturbance. Qing Shu didn't eat his set, "Don't want to change the topic." ”

"Sister, big brother, what is it to change the topic! Big brother told you," he glanced at Zhou Boyan and pushed Zhou Boyan away, "You are farther away, farther away." Then he spoke to Qing Shu with a straight face, "Wu Zhenjiang is not so easy to defeat, he still has a few available people in his hands." One of them made a matchmaking match between Wu Zhenjiang and your grandmother's maiden family, the Song Mansion. According to reliable sources, Wu Zhenjiang and the Song Mansion have reached some kind of deal, and this deal involves your Ancient Mansion. Wu Zhenjiang gave a mansion in Beijing to the Song Mansion as a thank you gift. And what benefits the Song Mansion promised Wu Zhenjiang has not yet been found out. ”

"Who is currently in charge of the Song Mansion?" Zhou Boyan spoke one step ahead of Qingshu.

Qing Shu didn't speak, about the Song Mansion in Beijing, she only knew that it was her grandmother's maiden family, and the Song family had a general uncle who went to sea and disappeared. She didn't know anything else. She still knew these things in advance by listening to Steward Gu.

"Song Hanlin." An Rongzhou replied.

"The Song Mansion without General Song is nothing more than that." Listening to Zhou Boyan's tone, he obviously didn't take that Song Hanlin in his eyes.

"It's easy to say! The point is that there is news that General Song, who has been missing for many years, is not dead. After the ship sank, he was rescued by a passing ship and taken to a distant overseas destination. He has tried his best to come back for many years, but he has never been able to prove his identity, and he has never been able to do so. Half a year ago, he met an old acquaintance overseas and began to prepare for his return. If nothing happens, when spring blooms, he will return home on the first sea ship of the year. ”

Zhou Boyan's eyes flashed, "Where did you get the news?" ”

An Rongzhou suddenly looked inside and outside the room nervously to make sure that no one was eavesdropping, so he leaned over to Zhou Boyan and whispered, "The imperial case is so thick" He gestured, "Isn't it a punishment for kneeling, hehe...... I'm bored kneeling, and while the emperor is concentrating on criticizing the folding, I'll ......" He made a flipping motion, and then smirked at Qing Shu on the side, "Sister, don't say it!" ”

A big man, a big man who looks good, a big man with a pair of sword eyebrows that fly obliquely into his sideburns, actually makes flattering and obedient actions at others at every turn, and smirks from time to time. Qing Shu wanted to say that he was simply blind to the good looks given by his father. Moreover, peeking at the twists and turns on the emperor's imperial case in front of the emperor, who are you fooling!

Zhou Boyan couldn't see An Rongzhou smirking at Qing Shu, and while An Rongzhou was not paying attention, he raised his foot and kicked him to the ground, and warned him coldly, "Don't do this kind of brainless thing in the future." I don't know if it refers to the matter of peeking at the twists and turns, or the matter of smirking at Qingshu obediently.

An Rongzhou lay on the ground, raised his head, and glared at Zhou Boyan with grinned teeth, "Stinky boy, the news of the eldest brother was obtained at the risk of being beheaded, you kid don't say thank you, forget it, and dare to do it to the eldest brother, do you have a conscience?" ”

Zhou Boyan took out the confiscated paper and shook it open, "This is also what you brought from the imperial case?" ”

An Rongzhou is poor in words.

Qing Shu was curious, but did not move forward. But seeing that they seemed to have something important to say, he got up from his chair, "You talk, I'll tell the kitchen to prepare a few snacks and dishes for you later." Regarding the union of the Song Mansion and the Wu Mansion, she thought about it and asked Zhou Boyan later, it was not easy to inquire about serious matters from the mouth of this surnamed An.

An Rongzhou immediately regained his hippie smiling face, "Sister, my eldest brother's favorite food is the special roasted meatballs of your restaurant, and my favorite drink is the fruit wine brewed by my sister herself." As he spoke, he put on a greedy face.

Qing Shu wanted to say, why are you so thick-skinned. can think about Zhou Boyan, and said, "I know, burnt meatballs, fruit wine, a lot of yours." ”

"Thank you, sister." He actually followed behind Qing Shu and sent Qing Shu out very enthusiastically.

The green tendons on Zhou Boyan's forehead jumped, grabbed his back collar and pulled people back, "Don't talk to her flamboyantly." ”

was unceremoniously thrown into the chair, An Rongzhou was not angry at all, but said seriously, "Brother Yan, why is the eldest brother sacrificing hue so much?" It's all about your life's work. You're too boring to like a girl. Don't worry, rest assured, with the eldest brother on the side to help you please Sister Ashu from time to time, you will one day hug the beauty. ”

Zhou Boyan didn't bother to talk nonsense with him again, and slapped a piece of paper in his hand on the table, "Don't talk nonsense, let's make this matter clear first." ”

"The Gu siblings are young and unscrupulous, and the uncle is unethical, and there is no other elder in the family to manage their livelihood for them, and there is no other elder to raise them. Therefore, the Song family is willing to accept their sisters and brothers and take them back to Beijing to be raised. In the future, the marriage of their sister and brother, and Gu Qingyang's future will be fully controlled by the Song family. The sincerity and determination of the Song family to accept the Gu brothers and sisters can be learned from heaven and earth, and the sun and moon can be expressed. It's clearly written, so why ask? ”

Zhou Boyan's tone revealed a little impatience, "Where did you get it from?" ”

An Rongzhou shrugged, "You guessed it." ”

"Less dumb riddles, make it clear." The face of the person has changed as he spoke.

"Okay, okay, stinky boy, be polite to the eldest brother, you know?" Seeing someone's eyes showing a cold glow, obviously his patience was exhausted, he didn't dare to be sloppy anymore, "The Song Mansion wants to take their sister and brother back to Beijing, and by the way, take over their sister and brother's existing one." But although the Song Mansion and the Ancient Mansion had some in-law relations, they had no contact, so the Song Mansion needed a reasonable reason to do this. ”

"And then ......"

Then, Song Hanlin wrote an article on the matter, copied several copies, and asked his wife to take it around and give it away. Those who have that good deed will send one of them to the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother praised Song Hanlin for his high morality. The flattering man wrote the matter into an excerpt and handed it to the royal case. The day before I left Beijing, the Holy Lord summoned me to the palace and only asked me to kneel under the imperial case. I was bored on my knees, so I took the initiative to ask for an order to recite a fold for the saint, and the saint agreed. He shrugged his shoulders, "This is not in vain, I have two important pieces of news for you." ”

"The last time we met, why didn't you hide it?"

"The eldest brother is going to take this news to please Sister Ashu, why should you sue you?"

Zhou Boyan stared at him coldly for a moment, "Hmph, Dad's vision is really too bad, you should have let someone kill you with one sword, and there would be one less scourge in the world." ”

If you were someone else, you would feel hurt when you heard this. But An Rongzhou was no one else, he said with a look of anger, "Dad saved my life, not for anything else, just for the evil people who can harm the world by nature." Looking back, Dad is really a good eye! I actually know that this scourge of mine is a treasure. Tsk, tsk, tsk, every time I think of my father's good vision, my eldest brother can wake up with a smile in his dreams. ”

It is not easy for the skin to be thickened like this. Zhou Boyan wanted to shake his head, but in the end he sighed lightly, "Big brother, let go of my father's business!" Don't look it up. Now that you're twenty-four, you're not too young, it's time to marry a wife and have children. ”

"How can I let go of my father's and mother's affairs? Check, why not? An Rongzhou's entire demeanor changed, and he said with an angry face.

"If you stop it, you stop it, where did you get so much nonsense." Zhou Boyan lost control and shouted angrily.

According to common sense, there should have been a fierce quarrel next. But they didn't, they just glared at each other, and no one spoke.

I don't know how long it took, Qing Shu brought the maid over to deliver wine and food, and the strange atmosphere between them only dissipated halfway. Qing Shu was setting the dishes and chopsticks while looking at them suspiciously from time to time.

When Xiaoyu came out of the food basket with steaming hot roasted meatballs, An Rongzhou suddenly regained his hippie smiling face and leaned over to the table, "Yes, yes, yes, I want this taste." As he spoke, he had already taken the chopsticks, and he didn't need to be greeted, he ate first.

Qing Shu walked up to Zhou Boyan and asked him what was wrong with his eyes.

Zhou Boyan's face eased at this time, "It's okay." ”

At a glance, you can tell that what he said is not the truth. Qing Shu smiled lightly, "Let's eat first!" People who are hungry will not be in a good mood. ”

Zhou Boyan asked lightly, "Did you bring wine?" ”

Qingshu said, "Xiaojuan went to pick it up, and I will send it immediately." ”

"You go back first, I'll talk to you later." Zhou Boyan said and sat down at the table. Gu Shishi, who followed Qing Shu in, hurriedly handed him a wet cloth towel. He wiped his hands, then picked up his chopsticks and ate unhurriedly.

Xiao Juan came in from outside with two jars of wine and handed them to Gu Shishi.

The two brothers, who sat face to face and ate together, neither looked at the other nor spoke, one was immersed in eating fiercely, and the other was eating without a bite. Qing Shu took a look at it and took Xiaoyu and Xiaojuan away.

On this day, An Rongzhou did not leave and lived in Zhou Boyan's courtyard. Moreover, he stayed for six or seven days, and never said anything about leaving. An Rongzhou, except for the funny person who will have a hippie smile when he meets Qingshu, is okay at other times. In just a few days, he actually got acquainted with Qingyang and Hao, and took Qingyang and Hao to mess around on the practice ground all day long.

Qingshu found that during An Rongzhou's stay, Zhou Boyan always looked preoccupied, and he, who didn't like to talk, became even more silent.

Qing Shu was a little worried. On the afternoon of the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, she learned that Zhou Boyan was reading a book alone in her study, so she called Shang Qingyang and Hao over.

Seeing her coming, Zhou Boyan put down the book in his hand and said lightly, "It's here." ”

Qing Shu snorted and sat down across from him.

He asked Qingyang and Hao to go out to play, and then reached out, "Come here." ”

Qing Shu got up, added two chopping firewood to the furnace, touched the east slowly, and glanced at the west, but he couldn't go over.

He got up and hugged her from behind, "Why are you so disobedient?" ”

"What's wrong with you? Having been in a bad mood lately? Qing Shu grabbed one of his fingers and played with it.

"Well, someone is avoiding me, and I'm getting worse and worse when I'm hiding."

"Don't change the subject."

"This is the truth, where is the change of subject?"

Qing Shu made a gesture to break his fingers, and pretended to threaten him fiercely, "Say yes or not?" If you dare to be honest, this girl will be tortured. ”

He chuckled lowly, "Well, I'll wait." ”

Qing Shu stepped on him lightly, "Don't laugh, tell me honestly, why are you in a bad mood?" ”

"Don't go in." This is Xiaoya's voice.

"Where did this little girl come from? It looks good, but it's a little fierce. Come, let the big brother sue you, the girl's family should speak gently, gentle know? If you are not gentle, you can't get married when you grow up. This is An Rongzhou's voice.

"Bad guys, go away, go away. Don't go in, this is the lady's study, don't go in. "Xiaoya is very brave in blocking people.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, what kind of master raises what girl, the same fierce."

"Don't speak ill of Miss, villain." The little girl got angry and threw the shuttlecock in her hand into the face of the person opposite.

Qingshu pushed open the door of the study and came out, "An Rongzhou, you are really good!" actually bullied the little girl. ”

An Rongzhou, who was about to pick the little girl's comb and the bun, stiffened his hand, pretending to be stupid and smirking, "Hehe...... It's Sister Ashu! Who is Big Brother? The eldest brother is a suave son, how can he bully a little girl! Misunderstanding, this is a misunderstanding. ”

The little girl said very shamelessly, "It's useless, bully the little girl." ”

An Rongzhou shouted wronged, immediately stopped staring at the little girl, and smirked at Qing Shu, "Sister, sister, the eldest brother will return to Beijing the day after tomorrow, what kind of fruit wine are you, the eldest brother drinks well." The eldest brother doesn't want much, just thirty pounds, is it successful? ”

Qing Shu glanced at him, "No." ”

"That, that, twenty-nine pounds. Twenty-nine pounds, there should always be one! He stared at Qing Shu with a look of hope.

"If you want to drink, I'm going to find my uncle. Ashu's uncle ordered all the remaining fruit wine. Zhou Boyan came out and threw out such a sentence.

"What?" An Rongzhou shouted.

Zhou Boyan took out two silver tickets on the spot and put them in Qing Shu's hand, "This is the deposit given by my uncle, take it." ”

Qing Shu grabbed the silver ticket of two thousand taels and swallowed back the words that were about to refute the mouth. It's just that she wondered if this was done by Zhou Boyan for An Rongzhou, or if it was really something, the emperor really wanted to buy her fruit wine.

An Rongzhou stomped his feet, "How much did the saint order?" ”

"Thirty pounds." Zhou Boyan reported the number, and did not forget to ask Qing Shu, "The rest, is it enough for thirty catties?" ”

Qing Shu thought about it for a while, and said with a look of embarrassment, "I don't know if the saint wants fruit wine, and I drank a lot of it in the seven or eight days of the New Year." If I have cut off my drink for you from this day, it will be enough for thirty pounds. ”

"What? Don't have anything to drink today? An Rongzhou choked.

"Well, the rest can't be moved anymore, and all of them must be sealed. After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, I want to go to Beijing for a trip, just to bring it to my uncle. Zhou Boyan will say the plan.

Thinking that he would have to return to Beijing the day after tomorrow, and his brother Yan would not return to Beijing until fifteen, counting the days, he could only reach the capital after the first month of the fruit wine, and he could only go over to drink the fruit wine after the first month. He had a turn of mind and an idea, "Forget it, eldest brother bother, the fruit wine ordered by the saint, the eldest brother will help you transport it back to Beijing." ”

"It's a chore, so I don't bother my big brother. I'll escort you personally! ”

"Is it a brother? If it's a brother, don't say those foreign words, this matter is settled. You prepare the fruit wine, the eldest brother will prepare the people the day after tomorrow, and the things will be delivered steadily, rest assured! ”

"It's still not bothering big brother, it's ...... thing"

An Rongzhou waved his hand, "It's decided." The eldest brother went out and gathered back those who were idle and stumbling. As he spoke, his man was ten paces away.

Qing Shu, who had been unable to interject, asked suspiciously, "Who is he going to summon?" ”

There was no one around, and the little girl had already gone down. Zhou Boyan took her hand and entered the study, closed the door and whispered, "Secret agent." ”

"What?" Qing Shu's eyes widened.

"Don't worry, my uncle's spies escorted the wine that my uncle wanted, and it must be foolproof. It just so happened that I had to go to Beijing on purpose. "He was just putting on a show just now, the purpose was to let An Rongzhou take over this errand.

Qing Shu figured out his intentions and replied, "You did it on purpose." ”

"It's good for him to go back to Beijing, so he won't have to jump up and down under my nose all day long, and my head hurts."

She returned the silver ticket to him, "I don't dare to accept your uncle's silver, just take the fruit wine away." ”

"It's not my uncle's money."

"Your silver? You don't want any money, and your uncle will owe me a favor when he drinks my wine. One day, when we provoke something that we can't provoke, when we can't settle it, it's just time for your uncle to return the favor and help us settle it. She said so politely.

"That's a good idea. But you deserve it. As he spoke, he took Qingshu into his arms and whispered in her ear, "When I asked for compensation from Yeluhu for you, I mentioned it in passing, saying that the saint loves to drink one hundred taels and one pound of fine wine in the world." Yeluhu understood it very well, and forced two thousand taels of silver tickets to me. He was right, he said to Master Li of the Ministry of Rites at the time, the compensation is 5,000 taels, otherwise there is no need to talk about it.

After discussion, Yeluhu promised to give 3,000 taels in compensation, and was not ready to give more. And so he said. Yeluhu shut up at that time and obediently added two thousand taels. At that time, he did not hand over all the five thousand taels to Qing Shu, and he definitely had no intention of swallowing it privately, but was going to give it to Qing Shu when he took the fruit wine.

Qing Shumo shook the silver ticket in his hand, "It means that your uncle doesn't know this silver." ”

"Hmm."

"It means that your uncle still drinks this girl's fruit wine for nothing, and he still owes this girl a favor."

He couldn't help but laugh, "Hmm. ”

With a painful face, she separated the two silver tickets of a thousand taels, and slapped one on his chest, "You have more money." Let's split it evenly! ”

He stared at her painful expression, not daring to laugh out loud, "It's for you, don't give it to me." ”

She was not happy, "Let you take it, this girl is rare to be generous." ”

He couldn't help but laugh, "Okay, I'll take half of it." However, I will give you the money for safekeeping, and I will ask you for it if I want to use it one day. ”

She was stunned for a moment, folded the two silver tickets, put them in her sleeve pocket, and mumbled indistinctly. How did she feel that this matter was like a husband handing over his salary to his wife for safekeeping, and she felt a little weird in her heart. However, it doesn't feel annoying.

There were so many things that went wrong in the middle that she forgot to interrogate him for a moment about the reason for his bad mood.

He suddenly asked, "What are you buying wasteland for?" ”

"Wasteland is cheap! I planned to plant fruit trees on part of the wasteland. If the fruit tree survives, it can bear fruit, and it can be eaten by itself, and if it is not finished, it can be sold. Part of the wasteland has been opened, and I am going to plant a large area of peppers. Chili pepper is a good condiment, I think you all love to eat it, and you will definitely not worry about selling it when the time comes. ”

"What if it doesn't work?"