At this time, Zhuang Yuncheng arrived, and Jin Ni went to the door and shouted: "Jin Yu, open the door, Yun Cheng is here." ”

"Jin Yu, what are you doing?" Zhuang Yuncheng patted the door and asked.

"Yun Cheng, good brother, you wait a while," Xiao Jinyu also shouted outside the door, "Xiao Ni, take Yun Cheng to the front hall and wait for me." ”

"I'm not going! If you let people out, how can she stop you from beating them? ”

"I haven't hit yet."

"I don't care, hurry up, I'm looking for you in a hurry."

"Stained ......" Xiao Jinyu hesitated for a while, looked at Yanqin, and said sharply: "Get up, go out!" I'll clean you up later! ”

Yanqin hurriedly got up, opened the door, and when she saw Jin Ni, she threw herself on top of her and cried: "Sister, I don't dare, I don't dare anymore, please beg the young master for mercy, don't beat me, don't drive me out......"

"I knew why I had to do it today, now go back to the room and clean up, there are guests here!" Jin Ni pushed her away and said, "I'll beg Jin Yu, you go back to the room to wash your face first, he also came out, and he was angry when he saw you like this, so he didn't leave!" ”

Yanqin hurriedly dodged, and a girl followed her back to the room.

And the servants dispersed in haste.

Xiao Jinyu threw away the stick, walked out slowly, and said with a smile: "Yun Cheng, it's really unfortunate that you came here to meet this ugly thing in my family." ”

"Fortunately, it was a coincidence, otherwise you wouldn't have scared the second wife into anything."

"Don't talk about her, she deserves it." Xiao Jinyu saw Jin Ni standing beside him, so he said: "It must be you who told the truth, Yun Cheng is here, you just entertain me well, and cause me to do something bad for me." ”

Jin Ni only blushed and smiled slightly.

"Okay, I'm really in a hurry, and I won't lie to you." Zhuang Yuncheng pulled Xiao Jinyu to the front hall.

"What's the matter?"

"Borrow money." Zhuang Yuncheng was straightforward.

"It's really not a delay," Xiao Jinyu asked with a smile, "How much?" ”

Zhuang Yuncheng stretched out two fingers, Xiao Jinyu raised his eyebrows, turned back to Jin Ni and said, "Ask Lao Yang to pay the money." ”

"Hmm." Jin Ni also understood the amount Zhuang Yuncheng wanted, so he went by himself.

"It may take a while to pay you back."

"It's okay, I'm okay." Xiao Jinyu said, "We are all people in this circle, although you didn't tell me, I didn't ask you, but you can also hear from other places - your match factory is not lucky?" ”

"It's not good, it has just started to make a profit, who knows that it is arson again, poisoning again, and the cash in his hand is tossed away."

"Who did it?"

"Japanese."

"I know," Xiao Jinyu snorted coldly, "these foreigners are just squeezing oil, the workers are fine when they first come in, and after a few months, the body will be able to bear it, and the oil on the body is really squeezed dry by them, my spinning factory, the spinning machine is bought from the British, but they don't want money, as long as part of the management rights in the factory, you can move the machine if you don't agree with it, what can I do, I want to get some food for the workers to eat, these British ** don't agree." ”

"It's like this all over the country, there's no way, my factory is unconventional, but this is the end."

"And what are you going to do?"

"I have no way out, there were more than 100 people in the past, but now there are only 40 left, they are all brothers, they came back to follow me at risk, I can't treat them badly."

"At least you're free, and you have the final say on everything, so ...... Very good. Xiao Jinyu said.

"Huh—aren't you going out today?" Zhuang Yuncheng asked.

"I don't want to go out every day, I look upset, I heard about you a few days ago, I wanted to come to see you, but I met this incident at home again."

"What the hell is going on?"

"The things between them and women are nothing more than jealousy, jealousy and hatred, and then they do some stupid things, what kind of grafting, planting blame...... It's just a fight with the deception in the business field. Xiao Jinyu said, sneered and said, "It's better to marry a wife." ”

Zhuang Yuncheng laughed.

Jin Ni paid the money, came over and heard it, and said with a smile: "I heard you say good things about me again." ”

"Hey, what I said is true, Xiaoni, if you say a word, I will give Yanqin a divorce and never marry another woman from now on."

"Please still have a little conscience, why did people give birth to a son for you, so divorce her, she can't live."

"Fortunately, she gave birth to a son, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to keep her with her character."

"Don't embarrass her," Zhuang Yuncheng persuaded, "I just saw her crying so pitifully, I must know that I was wrong, don't judge her again after I'm gone." ”

"Yun Cheng is right, don't be rude, holding a stick, and it's so fierce that you can scare people to death," Jin Ni said, "I am scared to death just by looking at it." ”

"It's not to beat you, what are you afraid of."

"I can't guarantee that one day you will hit me if you go crazy, I can't stand it, I'm afraid I'll die."

"Jin Ni's sister-in-law is such a good wife, Jin Yu is reluctant to fight." Zhuang Yuncheng said with a smile.

Xiao Jinyu glanced at her and said, "Although I am not a good person, nor am I indistinguishable from good and evil, I haven't said a word to you about a person like Xiaoni, right, Xiaoni?" ”

Jin Ni blushed and said with a smile: "Don't say it, I haven't been praised like this, I can't stand these meaty words...... Oh, Yun Cheng, the money has been withdrawn, and Lao Yang will send it out when he counts it out later. ”

Zhuang Yuncheng nodded.

"Let's eat here, don't be in a hurry." Xiao Jinyu said.

Zhuang Yuncheng thought that it would be fine, so he agreed.

"Huh- why didn't Fluttershy come along?" Jin Ni asked.

"We have our own business, and she has gone to work."

"What about Yun Yun? Is she home alone? ”

"I went to school, I didn't go home."

Xiao Jinyu suddenly thought of her, thinking that he hadn't seen her for a long, long time, I'm afraid it's been a few months, and a few months of time must have changed again......

"What do you want?" Jin Ni saw Xiao Jinyu in a daze, so he asked.

Xiao Jinyu looked at her, still thinking in a daze, Yun Yun and Jin Ni, different types, different feelings, I have Jin Ni, but when I think of Yun Yun and see her, I still have an inexplicable feeling, maybe it's because I have liked her for a few years, since she was fourteen years old, it has been more than five years now, five years is a long time......

"Jin Woo." Zhuang Yuncheng patted him.

"Oh, out of my mind." Xiao Jinyu rubbed his eyes, not letting Zhuang Yuncheng see the strangeness in his eyes, and said with a smile: "I've been too tired lately, and I'm not concentrating." ”

Jin Ni ordered the kitchen to do it, and Zhuang Yuncheng and Xiao Jinyu were still chatting.

"Yun ......" Xiao Jinyu was stunned for a moment and asked: "Yun'er, seeing that it is about to reach twenty, have you found your mother-in-law?" ”

"Don't look for it, she doesn't care about me, especially those who are still studying, advocating freedom of marriage, and no longer believing in the words of the matchmaker ordered by their parents."

"Oh." Xiao Jinyu replied simply.

Then the two of them gossiped and recounted what they had encountered, and time passed quickly.

In the afternoon, Zhuang Yuncheng returns home and sees Fluttershy standing under the cherry blossom tree next to the courtyard in a daze.

Fluttershy's favorite cherry blossom is the tree she bought and planted, and now she's a foot taller than a person, and although it's past the cherry blossom season, everyone knows it'll be in full bloom next year.

"Fluttershy, I'm back."

Fluttershy turns around and asks, "Why is it so late?" ”

"Jin Yu will leave me for lunch, and you will be left alone at home at noon, I'm sorry." Zhuang Yuncheng showed guilt.

"What's this, there's Aunt Qin and Lotus at home," Fluttershy said with a smirk, "but they don't serve the table, and I don't want to eat alone." ”

"I didn't expect that you would stay at Sister Ying's house to eat."

"Sister Ying left me, but I'm back."

"You-I-" Zhuang Yuncheng's heart ached, he couldn't speak, he didn't expect Fluttershy to be worried that he was bored eating alone, so he came back.

"Don't talk about it, let's go inside." Fluttershy asks, "How's it going?" ”

"Jin Yu is very refreshing, I went to watch a play on this trip."

"What play?"

"When I arrived, he was interrogating his second wife in the house, and he scared Yanqin half to death with that stick."

"He still beats people?"

"You don't know, Jin Yu's temper is not like before, I remember when the Qing Dynasty was not dead, his father was still in prison, he was docile and docile, a scholar and weak, and now he is gangster, very tough, but I have never heard of him beating his wife, and it is good for Jin Ni, I am still there today, seeing their affection and love, I have goosebumps."

"Then you still stay there and don't come back, why did I wait for you alone for so long?"

"Don't mention it, I'm going to die of guilt, you think about me, but I don't think about you." Zhuang Yuncheng hurriedly asked, "How is Sister Ying?" ”

"She promised to look for it, I told Sister Ying about Yang Aomin, and she was not moved at all."

"I guessed it, I know her."

"You mean you know her more than you know me?"

Zhuang Yuncheng seemed to feel a little confused, "No," he denied, and said suspiciously: I don't seem to be normal today, but I feel that you are also chattering. ”

"I didn't, I'm still angry." She said as she went upstairs on her own.

"Angry with me?"

"You know it yourself."

Zhuang Yuncheng was stunned for a while, followed upstairs, and asked, "Fluttershy, do you know that you have changed?" ”

"What has changed?" Fluttershy pauses and looks back.

"You're becoming more and more like a 'woman.'"

"Heh, I'm a woman." She continued walking.

As she goes upstairs, Fluttershy walks to the balcony and sees a man approaching her door, then stands still and looks around to see her.

"Excuse me, is this Zhuang Yuncheng's family?" The man shouted.

"Yes, who are you?"

When the man heard that he said yes, he walked in quickly, came to the bottom of the second floor, looked up and asked, "I want to ask Mr. Zhuang a few questions." ”

"Who?" Zhuang Yuncheng asks Fluttershy when he hears the voice.

"Looking for you."

"I just came up," Zhuang Yuncheng handed the money to Fluttershy, "and I will collect the money and pay my salary at the end of this month to subsidize the family." ”

Fluttershy took it, and Zhuang went downstairs again, seeing the man in front of the door—he didn't know.

"You're looking for me?"

"Yes, Mr. Zhuang, I have a few questions to ask."

"Oh, tell me who you are first, how I don't know you." Zhuang Yuncheng looked at him and behaved modestly and politely, and he couldn't be unkind.

"I'm from the government, and I want to ask a few questions about Zeng Lu."

"Zeng Lu?" Zhuang Yuncheng was shocked, thinking that something was wrong with Beiyan, and he was afraid that he was wrong, so he called Fluttershy to come down and supervise: "Fluttershy, you come down." ”

"Oh." Fluttershy puts the money away and comes down.

"You may be seated." Zhuang Yuncheng asked this person to sit, and he also sat across the table.

This person is nowhere to be seen, holding a notebook and resting it on the table, and Fluttershy arrives and sits next to Zhuang Yuncheng.

"Thank you, Mr. Yonglu's translator Zeng Lu is facing a promotion and will officially enter the government, we need to check and improve his information."

"Well, then you ask."

"According to Zeng Lu, Mr. Zhuang is the former Zhenguo General's Mansion?"

"Yes, father**, was formerly the general of Zhenguo."

"Well," Traceless wrote it down, and said slowly, "It's very important, then, when did you meet Zeng Lu?" ”

Zhuang Yuncheng can't remember what Rong Cangsuke told him, so he pushes Fluttershy.

"Uh...... Ten years ago, Zeng Lu had just come to the city. Fluttershy says unhurriedly.

"According to Zeng Lu himself, he was from the countryside, and he couldn't afford tuition and living expenses at that time, so you paid for him?"

"Yes."

"When did he go east to Japan?"

"Ten years ago in November." Zhuang Yuncheng didn't dare to say a word.

"When did you return home?"

"In mid-July last year."

"It's been nine years, have you been in touch?"

"He comes back occasionally, comes back to see me."

"Two, can you tell us about his wife?"

"His wife's name is Chen Qi'er, and she gave birth to a son, who is more than a year old." Zhuang Yuncheng said, "Last year, Zeng Lu's work was stable, and his father and mother in the countryside passed away one after another, so he took Chen Qier to live in the city. ”

"Uh...... How is your relationship? ”

"Of course it's good, but they're all busy, they don't often contact, and they will visit the door during the New Year's holidays."

"Where exactly does his hometown live?"

"Nanling outside the city, in the col of Fengping Mountain, Lijiazhuang."

"Huh?" Without a trace frowned.

"What's wrong?" Zhuang asked Fluttershy quietly, "Did I misremember?" ”

"Nope." Fluttershy says calmly.

"My uncle's daughter seems to have married there," Wu Zhi pondered for a while, and then said: "I remember wrongly, it is Chenjiazhuang, far away." ”

"Oh." Zhuang Yuncheng smiled.

"According to Zeng Lu, he has a younger brother who works in your factory, and I would like to ask him for more details."

Zhuang Yuncheng thought that Zeng Fu was Zeng Lu's own brother, and this person would definitely ask in detail, but Zeng Fu couldn't answer, as long as he answered a little wrong, it would arouse suspicion, and he was resolutely not allowed to ask Zeng Fu, "He works in my factory, but he is not here now." Zhuang Yuncheng said.

"Where did you go?"

This stopped Zhuang Yuncheng, who was a little flustered and didn't know how to answer, so he put his hand down, twisted Fluttershy's thigh, and motioned for her.

Fluttershy thinks for a moment, then smiles apologetically, "Uh, he's going to ...... He went back to his hometown and said there was something, but I didn't know what it was. ”

"Really?"

"Don't lie to you, if you come back another day, he will definitely come back, he said it will only take three or four days."

"Alright then," asked without a trace, "what else do you know who is familiar with Zeng Lu, I'll ask again." ”

"I don't know, I'm only with him, and I don't know any of his friends."

"Oh, that's right, I'm fine."

Zhuang Yuncheng only pursed his lips and nodded.

Without a trace, he then said goodbye and left, but Zhuang Yuncheng was a little worried.

"Fluttershy, you said that Beiyan entered the government as a Chinese, isn't this a spy, we ourselves are Chinese, not only do not report, but also help him hide this?"

"I don't know what to do anymore, why did Beiyan go to the government, I'm worried that this is not going with the flow, but on purpose."

"Do you suspect that Northern Rock is a spy?"

"I didn't say it, but he did something like this." Fluttershy says, "Let's leave it alone, I'm different from the rest of my friends, we can rely on him in Japan for three years, so we'll keep it a secret for him." ”

"That's all there is to it." Zhuang Yuncheng suddenly said, "Also, Zeng Fu is there, let Rong Cangjie explain to him, if that person comes to ask again, Zeng Fu can answer without mistakes." ”

"Then we'll go together tomorrow."

"Okay."

With nothing to do, Fluttershy asks, "Would you like to go to the factory?" ”

"No, they are all veterans, besides, Ju An and Zeng Fu are here, they don't eat dry food, they can handle general things, and I, the factory owner, should also rest." Zhuang Yuncheng fell down as he spoke, and lay on the table.

On a whim, Fluttershy mutters, "I'm going to rest too, huh...... Brother, if you want to sleep for a while, you can hold me. ”

"Isn't it good for you to go to bed on your own? The two of us sat at this table, looking indecent. ”

"I don't want to move." Fluttershy said and fell softly on top of him, and Zhuang Yuncheng hugged her, saying "Fluttershy, Fluttershy, Fluttershy, hey, how about I give you this name?" ”

"Name, uh...... It's my code name, you read it well, and it sounds good when you shout it. ”

"I think so."

"You can say yes." Fluttershy opens her eyes to him, closes them again, and falls asleep.