"This ......, cut, what's the thanks, it's not thanks to my timely arrival, if you want to thank me, you should thank me, and what about Yanmo, where did he die, this is the season of alternating hot and cold, he is bold, dare to let you go out alone?" Mu Jincheng coughed and quietly changed the topic.

"In recent days, there are always scholars who have gone to the yamen to report the case, saying that they lost their money bags in the Yuji calligraphy and painting shop, Cui Fu has no clue for a few days, and my father has not returned from visiting friends, so I designed with him to capture the thief, it is inconvenient to take the ink, and now, the thief is caught, but I don't want to surprise the girl.

Shicai wanted to comfort her a few words, but I only trotted a few steps, and my body was so uncompromising, I was afraid that it scared her even more. Su Duchun said with a little annoyance.

"How can you scare her!" Mu Jincheng thought of Gu Qingzhu's ruthless man who dared to burn his wound on the hot pot, and a chill suddenly appeared on his back, and he blurted out his words in an instant.

"Does the little lady recognize her?" Su Duchun was puzzled by what he said.

"No...... I don't recognize it. Mu Jincheng shook his head, although he had seen her a few times, he didn't even know her name, who knew her?

"Where's Baoying?" Su Duchun found that Mu Jincheng's speech was upside down, and only then did he realize that the person who followed him like a dog on weekdays was not there, no wonder he felt that something was wrong.

"He's at home, and I'm not you, so I can't leave anyone at any time." Mu Jincheng sighed from his nostrils.

In fact, it's not that Bao Ying didn't follow him, but that he had stabbed the money hole before, and was discovered by his shrewd father, although the second brother took a few large sums of money for him, but this was enough to anger Mu Shaotang, the head of the family who upheld small profits and was diligent and thrifty.

Bao Ying secretly asked the eldest girl of Ruihua Courtyard Youyu to invite the ancestor and his wife, Mu Jincheng escaped the beating, but was grounded and locked up at home, as for himself, he was scolded by Mu Shaotang as a slave who would instigate the master to do bad things, and he was beaten by twenty boards, and his buttocks were broken, and he was lying at home to recuperate.

Mu Jincheng sneaked out of the wall today, and went to Dexing to find medicine for Baoying, but it was not easy to find it, and he was about to go back, and happened to meet Su Duchun.

He blinked and said, "You're okay now, go play with my family, the old ancestor is still talking about you this morning." ”

"Grandfather punished the little uncle again?" Su Duchun smiled, his eyebrows flying.

"It's still not a brother, don't you see through it!" was broken by Su Duchun's words, Mu Jincheng was not embarrassed at all, and hugged Su Duchun's shoulders and said.

Mu Jincheng and Su Duchun are of the same age, not a real uncle-nephew relationship, many years ago, Su Duchun's father Su Jin was still a down-and-down scholar, and the Mu family was separated by several generations of old relatives, and later his father passed away, life was unsustainable, and his widowed mother took him to the Mu family to live for three or five years.

Although the Mu family is a family of businessmen, but attaches great importance to the cultivation of the family's children, Mu Shaotang's generation has been counted up to three generations, and there has been a sensational event in Nancang County, that is, the three brothers of the Mu family were admitted to Xiucai at the same time, extremely glorious lintel, the ancestor was happy, and immediately changed the name of Mu Ji grocery store to Sansheng grocery store.

Nowadays, after several generations of honest management of the Mu family, a grocery store has already blossomed everywhere, derived from restaurants and tea shops, grain shops and wineries, embroidery shops and other large and small shops, accounting for most of the industry in Nancang County, the only thing that remains unchanged is the century-old signboard of Sansheng.

Although there has been no more brilliant thing in the Mu family for decades, it has always followed the ancestral teachings and run a private school, Su Jin met Mu Shaotang, who was a few years older than herself, in this private school, and the two have been classmates for several years, although they are inferior to uncles and nephews, they are like-minded.

Later, Su Jin successively took the examination to show talents, Mu Shaotang contributed money and efforts to open up his career, and he became a Beijing official, and then married a wife and had children in Yan'an City.

Three years ago, Su Jin was upright because of his upright temperament, and he did not want to be inflammatory, and was suppressed by others, at that time, his wife's mourning period was over, and his son Su Duchun had a heart disease in his womb, he was disheartened for a while, and refused to bow down and be small, so he asked to be transferred out of the capital, and went to Nancang County, outside the city of Ningjiang, to make a small county order.

As soon as he returned to Nancang County, he went to visit Mu Shaotang, not wanting to meet Mu Jiecheng, the eldest girl of the Mu family, in the depths of the wisteria verandah, and he was shocked for a while.

Speaking of Mu Jiecheng's life experience, it is also pitiful, she was born to Mu Shaotang's personal maid Huanniang, who grew up together, when Huanniang gave birth to her, Mu Shaotang had not officially married his wife Lu, and it was not good to give Huanniang a name.

It's just that Mu Jiecheng is the first of the juniors, although her background is not high, but Mu Shaotang is extremely fond of her, and she has taken a name according to the family generation for the first time.

When Mu Jie grew up to two years old, Mu Shaotang married the daughter of a wealthy merchant in Huizhou, Lu Shi, and entered the door, a woman who had pampered the boudoir for 16 years suddenly had to accept the child born to her husband and the girl in the room, it was really difficult for her, although she didn't dare to dislike it clearly, but in the end she was angry.

has a nominal mother, the old lady will trade Mu Jie to Lu to raise, but the two or three-year-old child is the age of cats and dogs, either crying or sick, in short, it is tormenting, sixteen-year-old Lu is impatient, Mu Jiecheng naturally has to suffer.

Huanniang vaguely knows something, but she is a subordinate, how dare she say anything, she knows that the best protection for her daughter is not to take care of her, let alone cry in front of Mu Shaotang.

Huanniang, who was from a humble background, was born very well, with a thin waist ~ buttocks, a charming face, a gentle personality, one year older than Mu Shaotang, and was specifically pointed out to him by the old lady.

On the wedding night, when Mu Shaotang and Lu were together, he was already like a mighty general who controlled everything, doing everything heartily, her shyness and retreat, her confusion and pandering, all pleased him, but there was no look, an exploration, and just the right tacit understanding.

Mu Shaotang has the affection of a sister and a wife for Huanniang, and is very dependent on her emotionally, but he doesn't dare to give her too much because of the regulations, fortunately, Huanniang is a good child, and it didn't take long for him to have a body again, and he was about the same month as Lu's, but unfortunately he gave birth to a male fetus and unfortunately died.

Mu Shaotang once promised Huanniang when he was warm in bed, if he got a boy this time, he would ask for a name for her in front of the old lady, Huanniang had great hopes for this, however, she suddenly suffered the pain of losing her child, which made Huanniang completely collapse.

She barely got out of the confinement, but she couldn't afford to get sick, and many people extended the doctor to ask for medicine, to no avail, before dying, maybe there were some omens, she ventured to beg the sisters who lived with her to call Mu Jiecheng, the mother and daughter didn't know what to say, and the next day, Huanniang died of her breath.

Mu Shaotang, who went out to do business for a few months, didn't even see Huanniang for the last time, and lost his beloved, which hit him hard, even though the old lady warned him several times, he was still decadent for several days, and then he rebuilt the poor woman's tomb in the name of his aunt, but there were always some regrets in his heart.

Mu Shaotang compensated for these regrets on Mu Jiecheng, he according to the rules of men, he separately divided the gardenia courtyard for Mu Jiecheng to live, and also sent the old and serious grandmother around him to take care of it, however, after the death of Huanniang, Mu Jiecheng suddenly became sensible and precocious, after a long time, the careful servants and girls found that Mu Jiecheng was becoming slim day by day, but rarely smiled, most of the time just read the "Female Commandment", copied Buddhist scriptures, and then served the flowers and plants, made a needle female red, calm and chaste, and followed the beauty of Huanniang.

Su Jin, who was middle-aged, met Mu Jiecheng in the boudoir, and was attracted by her gentle and watery temperament, and her heart that was as silent as a dry well rippled again, and he asked someone to propose marriage to Mu Shaotang the next day.

Although Mu Jiecheng is the eldest daughter in the Mu family, she is not a concubine, and she is very embarrassed when choosing a son-in-law, if she wants to be the wife of a big family, it may be difficult, and if she is an aunt to others, Mu Shaotang, who loves like a pearl in her palm, categorically refuses, therefore, her marriage has been delayed again and again, and her age has increased, but she has not had a good landing.

Now Su Jin is proposing, although he is a little too old, but he has been with the Mu family for many years, he is a person who knows the roots, and he has an official position.

Before Mu Shaotang made a decision, he carefully talked to Mu Jiecheng about Su Jin, who knew that she only said one sentence - relying on her father alone, look, she seemed to be moved that day.

After careful consideration and careful consideration, Mu Shaotang agreed to this family affair, Su Jin was very happy, and soon chose the auspicious day of the zodiac to get married.

Therefore, Mu Jincheng was suddenly promoted to an uncle of a half-sized son, but he is a playful character, and he comes from modern times, and he does not attach so much importance to the dignity and inferiority of ancient generations.

"Little uncle, how do you want me to help you?" Su Duchun was hugged by Mu Jincheng's neck domineeringly, and he couldn't break free for a while, so he had to follow him step by step.

"My dad likes you the most, I can't wait to exchange me for you and let you be his son......" Mu Jincheng looked up and sighed.

"What nonsense are you talking about! Maternal grandfather...... My grandfather loves me, but I just don't want me to embarrass my little mother. Su Duchun was so angry that he grabbed the arm around his neck.

He is a very smart person, three years ago, he understood very well that his father was in the prime of life, and it was only a matter of time before he remarried, and Mu Jiecheng was gentle and demure, kind-hearted, and was a good person.

"Anyway, if you go today, you will say that you want to go to school with me, and as soon as my father is happy, maybe he will lift my ground." Mu Jincheng rubbed his arms and said with a smile.

"Let's say it first, as before, I just have to say, I don't guarantee that my grandfather will agree." Su Duchun glanced at him.

"You just have to go, next to me, I have my own way." Mu Jincheng grinned, revealing a mouthful of snow-white teeth.

The two laughed all the way, and went straight to Mu Mansion, Su Duchun knocked on the door and entered from the main entrance, poor Mu Jincheng had to make a detour over the wall like a thief, and returned to his own Ruihua Courtyard, sitting in danger, just waiting for the entourage Qingfeng next to his father to call.