In less than two moments, when Long Boyuan and Ding Wanjun were sitting and chatting in Yihe Garden, above the West Lake, a painting boat was wandering along the blue waves, moving slowly.

This is a comfortable boat built for swimming in the lake, the boat is one floor, the whole body is exquisite, but it does not appear to be ostentatious, the roof is open, wide and thick, there are about two or three layers of mezzanine, slightly insulated. Although the weather was hot at this time, after the afternoon, the wind on the lake was strong, and the boat was light and ventilated on all sides, and the cabin was just cool.

Afternoon, Painting Boat, West Lake. If the time is only about two o'clock in the afternoon, even if it is not hot in the spacious cabin, the spacious lake with only one or two shadows of the boat can be seen once in a while, which is enough to bring a sleepy atmosphere. If there are other ships passing by, it should also be found that in the cabin at this time, the owner of the painting boat has also fallen asleep on the bamboo bed, the tables and chairs in the cabin are low, and a chess scale with black and white chess pieces rests quietly next to the entrance of the cabin, showing the fact that there are still people playing chess here not long ago, and the chess player is probably two girls dressed as maids next to them, at this time the two are leaning on the wall of the boat and have fallen asleep, one girl hugs the waist of another girl, and rests her head on her shoulder. The girl who was being held held had a fan in her hand, but occasionally she fanned it.

In front of the window on the other side of the cabin, there was also a young girl sitting on a low stool, lying on the small table in front of her, sorting out the things at hand in a daze. She was probably the only one awake in the cabin, holding a brush in her hand, and was doing things in the book that looked like an account book in front of her, occasionally sketching a stroke, which was probably not something very important, sketching for a while, and also yawning on the table and squinting for a while, and then she cheered herself up, raised her head in a daze, supported her chin with one hand, and continued to flip with the other.

In the scorching summer, this leisurely scene of light tulle between the painting boats is enough to enter the painting. Naturally, there are also boatmen and others in charge of the boat, but they basically don't come here to disturb the master's sleep. After a while, the maid who was sorting out the account books by the window finally couldn't support it anymore and fell asleep.

At some point, a figure came over, tied up the thin veil flying by the window, and then took a thin blanket and covered the bodies of the three maids. After all, it was windy on the lake, and since you fell asleep, you had to take a little precautions.

The maid who was sorting out the account books opened her eyes slightly, and in her blurred gaze, the figure of the head was swinging around in the bow of the boat, what was the action called warm-up exercise, and after a while, only to hear a flutter, the figure plunged into the lake.

Maybe it's time to get up. The maid thought in her heart, but soon, on one side of the field of vision, another white figure walked over, it was the figure of the hostess, she went to the bow of the boat, squatted there and sorted out the robe that the man had taken off, and then sat down on the side of the boat, leaning on the railing on the side of the boat, although she had woken up, but her mood still seemed to be a little sad.

The wind blew, and the white skirt fluttered gently, and a few strands of hair that had been stranded from the afternoon nap flew leisurely.

A faint voice came from the front, the hostess held the railing with both hands, shook her head, even if it was just the back, you could see that the hostess was lazy and happy, probably because the uncle let her go into the water to play again.

The relationship between the hostess and the aunt is very enviable, even though as a maid she has seen a lot of things in the big family, but she still has never seen a couple with this kind of affection anywhere else, it is not only harmonious and respectful can be described, under the premise that the aunt is a husband, it is even enough to be called strange. Every time I think of it like this, the maid named Xing'er can't help but think about what her husband may be like in the future, if she can feel like this, then it will be fine, if not, she will not get married, maybe it will be okay, anyway, she will be in the Su family for the rest of her life, and Miss and Uncle are also very good to themselves.

The situation of their own family is relatively special compared to the situation of other large families. She is the eldest maid under the young lady, and under normal circumstances, she will also be a maid in the room, but her uncle is rich, and the possibility that she will be arranged for her aunt is not high. Ordinary people's young ladies will not arrange three maids around them, and their own young ladies are because they later showed up outside to take care of business, so they asked for two more. Miss and her uncle have a good relationship, and now that Xiaochan and her uncle are probably settled, she and Juan'er don't know what will happen after that. In the past, it was quite clear.

Like them, the young lady also has a status in the family, and in the future, she will be nothing more than promised to be married to a powerful subordinate or shopkeeper in the family, and she will continue to be a maid in the Su family. At that time, their husbands are also favored in the Su family, they also have status, they will not be bullied, compared to other maids, they are the easiest to live happily.

Everyone's life trajectory is similar, and they don't think much about it, but in the past two years, after seeing some things that are better and better, my heart is a little empty. The next landing seems to have suddenly become a non-falling.

Miss waited until a very late marriage, but she and Juan'er are old now, I don't know when Lu Dao will be called by Miss to talk about these things, she doesn't know if Lu Dao Juan'er has thought about it, but she has occasionally thought about these things recently.

Since the young lady had already gotten up, she couldn't sleep anymore, but with the atmosphere in front of her, she couldn't get up like this, so she lay down here and squinted her eyes. After a long time, it was about the time of Shen, the afternoon sky became obvious, my uncle came up from the lake, went to the side cabin to change clothes, there were Chan'er and Juan'er who fell asleep together, they had also woken up, the maids went to the rear to prepare white fungus lotus seed soup, and took a box with ice cubes, knocked down ice particles from it, and the cabin became lively.

For the rest of the month, the family often spent an afternoon wandering around the West Lake.

At this time, transportation and information were not developed, and the regionality and exclusivity of a local business community were much stronger than those of later generations. Ning Yi accompanied his wife to visit businesses everywhere, usually in the morning. Starting from the head of the line, Long Boyuan, there will be arrangements basically every day, of course, after the visit, it is relatively free, if there is not something necessary, usually find a place to visit to cool off.

After trying a few places, Su Tan'er spent money to buy a painting boat, and occasionally came out of other people's homes, so she got on the boat directly, had lunch on the boat, and then took a nap, and then spent the afternoon by herself, chatting and playing chess, and discussing decisions in the mall. Now Ning Yi and Su Tan'er have been in contact with similar information, and there are quite a lot of topics, he has always been silent in other people's homes, but when there are only two husband and wife, he will talk about his views after today's visit, what is the attitude of the other party, what kind of gifts should be given, what will be done in the future, etc., so that it has also contributed to a few small cooperative businesses.

It's just that when I first arrived in Hangzhou, it was difficult to do big business for the time being, and in this exclusive market, Ning Yi and Su Tan'er's idea was just to let everyone know "I'm here" and "there is one more merchant in the market, but we are no different from other businesses".

Relatively speaking, the money spent on buying a painting boat, buying a house to live in, and other excursions is already more than the initial commercial investment, but it is only a small amount of money at the beginning, and Su Tan'er doesn't mind.

She and Ning Yi's husband had a good time, and they were quite harmonious in various things, which made everyone who saw them envious. Now Wen Dingwenfang, who has temporarily accepted his temperament to help with things under the pressure of his sister, occasionally comes to spend an afternoon on the painting boat, and Ning Yi asked them to get off the boat and swim.

Speaking of swimming, Su Tan'er herself is actually a little opposed, the times are like this, people with families, jobs and status, doing this kind of thing in public makes people feel bad after all. Su Wending and Su Wenfang also thought so, but Ning Yi heard that they could swim, so he kicked both of them down one by one, Su Tan'er couldn't do anything about it, not to mention that she herself was also tossed by Ning Yi and went into the water once, as long as there were no pleasure boats around, she had to let Ning Yi's hobby of swimming.

That time I went into the water, naturally it would not be voluntary, and of course, it was not kicked by Ning Yi like the two younger brothers. At that time, Ning Yi had already exercised several times, and the water nature in his memory gradually recovered, and he told Su Tan'er a few times to try Su Tan'er in the water, but Su Tan'er refused, even if he bet on things in the mall, the other party would never bet on this matter. At that time, Ning Yi had only been in the water for a while, and when he thought about it, he suddenly made the appearance of sinking down, and fluttered a few times, saying that he had cramps. The boatman and the guy above the painting boat were not in sight, only Su Tan'er was there at the time, and she was stunned for a moment, so she jumped down in her dress like that. , she only swam when she was a child, saying that she could swim, but in fact, the water nature is also limited, in a hurry, she almost drowned herself, choked on several mouthfuls of water, and only after being held by Ning Yi did she realize that she had been deceived. She looked at Ning Yi with a cold face, as if she was already a stern face that could only be found when she rarely got mad in front of her subordinates, Ning Yi held her face and kissed her mouth, she was also struggling desperately.

Su Tan'er was originally a woman with a strong personality and assertiveness, and she was gentle in front of Ning Yi because of her upbringing, at this time, her mood fluctuated, and the general comfort couldn't fool her at all, and then she wanted to get on the boat, but she was still dragged by Ning Yi to swim in the water a few times, struggling a few times at first, and then she accepted it. When she got on the boat, she kept quiet with a straight face, and scared Chan'er and Juan'er and them, so until the evening, after washing up, she dealt with the account books at the table with a straight face, and refused to go to bed, Ning Yi went over, opened one over there, and took one away here, until Su Tan'er glanced coldly at him about to have a seizure, he said, "Sleep." ”

"Don't sleep......" Su Tan'er straightened her neck and spoke word by word, and before she finished speaking, she was thrown on the bed by Ning Yi, and then the two fought.

The three maids were shocked when they heard it outside, Chan'er was so anxious that her hands were already clenched into fists, but fortunately, Su Tan'er didn't yell for others to go in or anything. After a while, the room was quiet, and the three of them didn't know what was going on. On the bed in the room, Su Tan'er was pressed by Ning Yi's wrists with her left hand and pressed under her, but she bit Ning Yi's right arm, this bite was quite heavy, oozing blood, and her eyes stared at Ning Yi directly.

Ning Yi let her bite, and after a while, he said, "Tigress." ”

Su Tan'er hated to shatter the silver teeth, and the blood seeped out again. Ning Yi didn't move his eyebrows, the two stared at each other for a long time, Ning Yi smiled and leaned over: "I know a tiger tamer, his hands are full of bitten and caught marks, it can be seen that you always have to be bitten in this business." Saying that, he kissed Su Tan'er on the eyes, Su Tan'er originally stared at her, and then he leaned down, so he had to close it, feeling humiliated, and originally wanted to bite hard, but he had already tasted the fishy sweetness between his lips, and he was relieved, gritted his teeth and said: "You let go, you go out!" ”

"Don't let go."

"You ...... You're ......."

"Rich?"

"......" Su Tan'er originally hated and didn't know what to scold, but at this time, her face suddenly turned white, she looked at Ning Yi's face, her eyes were full of emotions, and she didn't know what to say to Lu Dao: "I, I don't ......"

The three maids who were listening to the window outside vaguely heard the word "into the house", and their faces turned pale, Su Tan'er and Ning Yi have been married for two years, this is the first time they have quarreled, but the three maids all understand that they can quarrel anything, but if they quarrel with this word, the consequences will be uncontrollable.

Su Tan'er didn't know if her emotions had moved to this, she looked at Ning Yi's smiling face, and her heart cooled. However, even if she had experienced so many shopping mall visits, she couldn't tell what Ning Yi's mood was at this time for a while, Ning Yi smiled, but still didn't let go of her: "It's useless, I still won't let go." He propped his bleeding right hand on Su Tan'er's side.

"I ...... You ......" Su Tan'er pursed her lips, "I...... I didn't say that......"

"It's useless to say, you're marrying me anyway...... It doesn't mean anything to me whether I get rich or not, your family may think that there is, and people outside may also think that there is, but in fact there is not, no matter how I marry you, it is the same thing in the end. If I really want to do something, few people can stop it, those people in Jiangning can't stop it, these people in Hangzhou can't stop it, those people in the Wu family can't stop it, and neither can my father-in-law and grandfather...... There are some things I don't do just because I really don't want to do them. ”

Ning Yi whispered in her ear, without too much emphasis: "I am very moved when you jumped down today...... You are my mother, not because I joined your Su family. ”

Su Tan'er's face changed rapidly, and she said embarrassedly: "You, what are you talking about......

"It's nothing, I just wanted to tell you that I was very moved today because I jumped off without thinking about it. When I was moved, you had to lose your temper, which was very undeserved, and you were happy to swim later, but you kept keeping a straight face......", "I, I didn't...... You let go of me......"

"Oh, and also, I'm going to tell you, manly man, if you don't let it go, you won't let it go......"

While speaking, Su Tan'er was still struggling, and suddenly felt the movement under her, her apricot eyes were round, and her face suddenly turned red.

"You, you...... You can't...... ...... like this"

"But I think it's exciting......"

"You're still bleeding from your hands......" she almost cried.

It took a long time for Su Tan'er to bandage the wound on Ning Yi's arm. When the two of them were lying on the bed and preparing to really sleep, Su Tan'er recalled that she was being taken care of by the other party and talked about him, and she distorted the subject.

"Ning Liheng, I haven't said it yet, I'm very angry today......"

"But it's all showing."

"You didn't apologize ......"

"......" Ning Yi was silent for a long time, reached out to hug his wife, and sighed, "What's that...... A manly man, he won't apologize if he's wrong. ”

“…… You're a bummer. ”

"Actually, next time you can ask me what I'm going to do."

Su Tan'er's body tightened: "What are you doing?" ”

"Forgot, you forgot that I had amnesia?"

"......" the woman was silent, "you let me go." ”

"Huh?"

"I'm going to sleep with my back to you......"

So she slept with her back to him in Ning Yi's arms all night, and the next day when Ning Yi asked her how she felt when she jumped down, she didn't want to say anything, in fact, she couldn't remember her mood at that time, Xu was not in the mood, so she jumped down like that, but it was impossible for her to tell Ning Yi about these things.

In fact, in the past two months, since Qin Siyuan had invited Ning Yi when he went to Beijing, Su Tan'er always felt contradictory and complicated in her heart. In the past month or so, it was Ning Yi who accompanied her family to visit, and after the other party knew that Ning Yi was the husband of the family, it was inevitable that there would always be all kinds of eyes, even if she understood that Ning Yi didn't mind, she couldn't help but have all kinds of thoughts in her heart, especially when the news came that Qin Siyuan had been on the right side in June, and the word "Jinfu" had become more and more sensitive in her heart.

It was only after this quarrel that some emotions in her heart calmed down a little. It's just that after that, Ning Yi wants to get off the boat to swim, and sometimes let her go down, anyway, there is no one left and right, Ning Yi doesn't mind his family doing some exercise, but Su Tan'er is already killed and doesn't go into the water, but she is a little worried about her father-in-law going into the water alone, once Ning Yi goes down, she sits on the side of the boat and watches, sometimes Ning Yi comes over and talks to her in the water on the side of the boat, so she takes off her shoes and socks and dips her feet in the water. In fact, many women in this era were more self-conscious about their feet than their bodies, and if they saw a boat coming from afar, she would immediately put their feet up, cage them in the hem of her skirt, and quietly put on her shoes and socks.

At this time, although they have been in Hangzhou for more than a month, in addition to the routine daily visits, the husband and wife are actually only living in their own world, only occasionally have some contacts with Lou Shuwan, and also meet Lou Shuwan's two elder brothers Lou Shuheng Lou Shuwang a few times, occasionally when he goes home at dusk, Ning Yi will look at the intersection of the Liu family martial arts hall A group of strong men are boxing, at this time the sunset is sprinkled from the gap in the tree, Xiaochan or other family members follow him, the days are leisurely and interesting.

After the middle of June, a stranger came to visit the house, but this person was related to Qian Xiwen, named Shi Changqi, because he heard Ning Yi's name, he came to visit, but after knowing Ning Yi's identity as a son-in-law, it seemed that he had changed from being stunned to going to the mansion to apply......