Just when Lin Du racked his brains to try the password, Zhong Mu appeared quietly, "Qingling, what are you looking for?" ”

"Ahh Lin Du was startled, "I'm just curious, I want to see what's in this safe." ”

"You're helping that kid from the Ming family find a design book for wood carvings, right?" Zhong Mu saw through Lin Dui's purpose.

Seeing this, Lin Du didn't hide it, and nodded generously: "Yes, Mom, he helped me a lot, and I gave him the design album, which can be regarded as a personal favor for him." ”

Zhong Mu snorted coldly: "What kind of favor is so valuable?" ”

She pulled Lin Du out of the calligraphy and asked the maid to prepare two breakfasts.

Sitting at the dining table, after Zhong's mother drank a glass of hot milk, she said: "Qingling, it's not that your mother is stingy, if it's an ordinary design, let alone a design, I just gave him your father's painting." That atlas is a few years old, and it is not your father's design at all, but the design of a master woodcarver in the Qing Dynasty in his later years. He died before he could do it. This atlas has been tossed and turned several times and has flowed into the hands of the Zhong family, and the Zhong family knows its weight, if anyone gets it, it is to get the martial arts cheats that can go straight to the peak. Therefore, the Zhong family passed it down from generation to generation as a family heirloom. ”

"Your father." Zhong Mu paused, "You also know that he has no skills and likes to take shortcuts." He wanted to take the atlas to do wood carving, and he could become famous overnight. The number of designs in there is enough for him to eat for decades. But your grandfather didn't allow it, and he looked down on people who took shortcuts like this. Therefore, he forced your father to paint oil paintings, and he swore that he would never use this woodcarving album. ”

Later, he found Zhong Qingshu to paint on his behalf. Zhong Mu sighed: "It's really a sin, he might as well take the album and copy it as it is." Your grandfather died, and your father had someone to paint on his behalf, so he no longer thought about doing wood carving. But when you get drunk, you still occasionally mention it, and the Ming family child doesn't know how to hear the news, and he always wants to, he tries his best to get close to you, and wants to get the album. He's also a useless one, just like your dad. ”

"And you're going to let me marry him?" Lin Dui saw that the difference in attitude before and after Zhong Mu was really big, obviously he had listed Zhong Qingshu as the first choice for son-in-law before, why didn't he look down on him now.

Mother Zhong smiled and put a sandwich over to Lin Dui: "Eat more breakfast, not to mention the good for your body, and you won't gain weight." In fact, if he gets married, he is indeed one of the best candidates, the family conditions are quite good, and the people are okay, I don't have anything to give him the atlas, and the two of you will definitely be able to continue the glory of the Zhong family. However, if he didn't get married, he got the atlas, and the first thing he wanted to solve was our Zhong family. ”

"You mean...... Lin Du swallowed the sandwich in his mouth, "If we get married, we will be a family, and we will share weal and woe." If he doesn't get married, will he attack us out of fear that others will know that his glory is all copied? ”

"Of course, Qingling, you should look at the reality, the love in it is all deceitful, and the truth is full of holes in reality." Mother Zhong touched Lin Dui's face lovingly.

"I know, Mom, I won't give the album to Ming Anjie easily." Although Lin Du didn't think that Ming Anjie's character would be so amazing, she couldn't bet on men, especially those who were very ambitious.

Seeing that Lin Du agreed, Zhong Mu was in a good mood, and picked up half a sandwich and started eating, "By the way, Qingling, I will discuss one thing with you." "Look at the book house

"You say." Lin Du was still eating, and he was slurred.

"Now that your father has died, Zhong Qingshu is locked up by you again. We can't just rely on your father's savings to eat nothing. If this continues, even a mountain of gold and silver will be eaten up by us. Zhong Mu looked around: "Look at it, where you don't need money here, hire a maid, a driver, buy food, and you and I wear ......."

"Mom, when I'm done with these things, I'll go and paint hard." Lin Du promised: "Don't worry, when Dad is gone, I will definitely take responsibility and I will support the family." ”

"Qingling, we have to maintain the dignity of our Zhong family, it's not enough to rely on you, the paintings you paint now, don't care if your mother says something unpleasant, without your father and Zhong Qingshu, who will look at what you paint." Zhong's mother said her intentions: "I see that you brought a lot of paintings that Zhong Qingshu painted for your father last time, and they haven't had time to publish them yet. It's better to use this as a gimmick to hold an art exhibition for you, and each time we take out a few of your father's unpublished posthumous works to hype up the hype. ”

"Mom, absolutely not!" Lin Du objected: "My father's painting is painted by Zhong Qingshu, this matter is already ridiculously wrong, do you want to be wrong again and again?" Those paintings belong to Zhong Qingshu, that is his hard work and talent, and it is unfair for us to do this. ”

Zhong's mother persuaded Lin Dui: "If Zhong Qingshu's paintings are modernist, I will publish them in his name, isn't it?" Qingling, you can't live in an ivory tower forever, you have to be realistic. We don't have a lot of chips, so we have to make the most of every chip, you know? ”

"I don't understand, and I don't want to." Lin Du hopes that Zhong Qingling will never understand, she hopes that Zhong Qingling will always retain the innocence in her body, "Mom, I will work hard, my paintings are worthy of what they are, I won't hype, if I can't afford to raise such a big villa, then let's change to a smaller house." I live whatever I am capable of. But there is one thing, I am on my own. ”

"Qingling, you are really a yellow croaker brain." Mother Zhong poked Lin Duan's head in hatred, "Forget it, think about it yourself, don't suffer from the polish of society at that time, and then come to me and ask me to help you plan." ”

"Don't worry, it won't." Lin Du and Zhong's mother parted happily for breakfast.

Ming Anjie came to secretly poke and poke the album a few more times, but Lin Duan blocked it back, she was still thinking about what Zhong's mother said, she didn't know what attitude to take towards Ming Anjie.

However, after returning again and again in vain, Ming Anjie finally couldn't hold his breath anymore, went to find Zhong's mother, and was scolded back by Zhong's mother.

He came to Lin Dui again to ask for marriage, but for such a major life event as marriage, Lin Dui would never dare to help Zhong Qingling make a decision, let alone someone like Ming Anjie who had other goals.

At noon that day, Lin Du accompanied Zhong's mother to eat, she returned to Zhong Qingshu's villa, and originally wanted to order a takeout and eat some more, but Zhong's mother ate a weight loss meal, and she was not full.

As a result, Lin Du saw that the Cai family's parents were already waiting for her there, and she touched her stomach, which was really a stomachache.