"Mingxin, your new clothes really suit you." Pinyuan has always had a poor memory, and when he saw Mingxin wearing a dress he had never seen before, he praised it directly, and he didn't know that this dress was worn by himself. Ma Bin on the side was a little surprised, he didn't notice the new clothes on Mingxin's body just now, a light red silk silk pleats lined with red lips and white teeth, and then looked at the embroidery on it, it was clearly the clothes that were sold far away in the past few years.

Ming Xin was ashamed on the side, and Nuo Nuo said, "What Steward Lin found out for me to wear is Brother Yuan's old clothes. This time, it was Pinyuan's turn to be ashamed, and he had to pretend to say, "If you don't dislike it, you can wear it, it's much more suitable than on me." Later, he felt bad, leaned over and said, "When I go to make clothes another day, I will call you along, and recently my father has bought a new sum of silver." Ming Xin was afraid that others would see it indecent, so he nodded hurriedly.

After a while, a few people came from the wing, led by a gray-haired old man, who was the old lady Xia, followed by the second master of the Xia family, Xue Qing, the current big shopkeeper of Tong'an City, and finally Wang Defa. And Xia Zhongda had already been sick and didn't come to eat, and Ma Bin didn't force it, so he asked the kitchen to send the food over, so he didn't ask more.

Ming Xinyin has been in Chashan for the past two days, and he has not seen these people, but Xia Zhongda, the only one he has seen from afar, did not come, and he had to be introduced. During the banquet, a few people on the table just said some polite words, and Mingxin didn't care, but when the uncle occasionally talked about the tea garden, he mentioned that "the tea garden is about to be taken care of for the two children", which made Mingxin care.

When he was seven years old, Mingxin became an orphan, and followed his sixteen-year-old sister to live at his uncle's house temporarily, and he has lived there for more than eight years. When I came, I was not used to it, and I had to sleep with my sister at night, but when I slowly got used to sleeping by myself, my sister went out to live by herself, and in the presence of my brother-in-law, I couldn't take myself to live with me, so I lived in this house even more tremblingly.

Mingxin always felt that he was going out one day, just like his sister, living with other people outside, but now the uncle said that the two children would take care of it, is this counting himself? As if he was affirmed, Mingxin was a little happy in his heart, just like last year, when the uncle always intentionally or unintentionally asked him to go to the tea garden to run errands and do something.

In the process of pushing the cup and changing the lamp, a banquet has ended, and the second master of the Xia family was still restrained when he came, but now it is very different, as if he has changed a person, and his eyes reveal the meaning of bitterness. Although Mingxin noticed such a change, he did not notice why this was so. Like Ma Bin, the old lady also made it clear during the banquet that the second master would do the tea business in the future, although Ma Bin had known it for a long time, but Xia Zhongji only knew.

Because he is the second in the family, Xia Zhongji was not concerned in the early years, and everything around him was used by the uncle before he had his own share, and he developed a tolerant character for a long time. But also because of the second master's forbearance, he lost the last right to speak in the tea business, if it was not for Xue Qing's snowy day to pay the account, I am afraid that the Xia family is now going to withdraw from the tea business, and then it will be another result.

After the meal, Ming Xin was about to go to the study, but the person behind him grabbed him and whispered, "Do you know what your father is going to tell you?" Ming Xin looked at the uncle who was greeting the Xia family and shook his head. Pinyuan was happy, and said mysteriously, "Father took time to go to the ancestral hall in the afternoon, and when he came back, he said that he wanted to find you, and he had something good to tell you." After that, he rubbed Mingxin's face again, "Don't always be bitter like this, good days are still ahead." ”

Ming Xin barely showed a smiling face, but it was even more bitter, to the point that he was amused by Pinyuan, and ran to the study while smiling, Ming Xin had to follow behind, and went to the study in the middle of the dark with the light shining in the room.

When the uncle came back, Mingxin was already sitting in the study waiting for a cup of tea, and because of the good things that Pinyuan said just now, his heart was up and down. And the sales are far away, but he was lying on the Taishi chair on the side to eat, and Ma Bin saw it, and he had to be said again.

"Look at Mingxin, you are becoming more and more unruly now, and you don't sit down." Pinyuan grinned habitually, didn't take it seriously at all, turned over, continued to eat, waved his hand a few times, and said lazily, "At such an early hour, there are mosquitoes." ”

Ma Bin ignored him, and said to Ming Xin in the past, "Don't be so restrained, I am your uncle, and I am not a man-eating tiger." He looked like a tiger again, and then he laughed, as if he had told a joke. Pinyuan on the side laughed unceremoniously, "Dad, Mingxin is not the seven or eight-year-old child anymore, your trick of coaxing children has long been useless, and this can't coax children, it will only scare children." ”

Mingxin has rarely gotten along with his uncle in private in recent years, and he has forgotten that when he first came, the uncle did all the funny things in order to keep him from feeling homesick, and suddenly remembered it, and couldn't help laughing. It's really not funny, but it makes people even more scared, but who would have thought that an uncle with a serious expression in front of people would be the kind of person who wants to make a laugh but is self-defeating.

Ma Bin didn't mind, and lay on the soft couch like Pinyuan, and after a while, Fang said slowly, "Today, I went to the ancestral hall again, and I said something to your third uncle, and I have something to do with you." In the evening, I sent someone to call you, first, to ask you what you think, and secondly, to let you meet people, and I was a little reluctant to leave you alone on the mountain. ”

"I'm used to living in the mountains, so I don't have to worry about it." If this is not true on Pinyuan, but Mingxin is different, he is a person who likes landscapes, when he walks in the mountains every day, he is like a wanton bird, and when he returns to the room at night, he can draw some of what he sees during the day in front of the desk, which is much happier than in the city.

Seeing that the satisfaction on his face was not fake, Ma Bin was a little relieved, and said again, "I want to officially pass you to our house." Although I mentioned it a few times in the past few years, when I thought of you when I was young, many people looked at the family property of your sister and brother, so it was delayed again and again. Now that you've grown up, it's not like the child who had to go to sleep back then, so I'm here to ask your opinion, if you are willing to continue to live in our family, you and Pinyuan are cousins and brothers..."

When Pinyuan on the side heard this, he liked it very much, and shouted loudly, "I have long regarded Mingxin as my own brother, how can I not succeed." ”

Ma Bin glanced at Pinyuan, and continued to say to Mingxin, "Over the years, I have thought about it carefully, the Ma family has done well in the tea industry, but it is always in jeopardy, and there is an important reason, that is, the division of production, which has made the Ma family stumble for many years." Therefore, if you come to our house, I do not intend to share it with you. ”

Pinyuan was anxious again, "Dad, how will you let Mingxin live like this in the future, how can you treat your son like this!" After speaking, he was still very angry, got up from the Taishi's chair, and looked straight at this ruthless father.

After being interrupted, Ma Bin glared at Pin Yuan fiercely, then looked at Ming Xin and said, "Don't listen to him shouting, I don't have anything to do with you in Chashan, and I'm not short of you." But I hope that in the future, this tea mountain will not be divided again, and you two brothers will either advance and retreat together, and continue to do this tea mountain, and discuss and divide the income of this tea mountain. ”

"That's good, it's not a ruthless father." Pinyuan lay down satisfied.

"If you don't want to come to live in our house, I won't force it, although your family's shop is now in your sister's hands, if you want to go out and start a family, she won't shorten you, I will still take a piece of silver here enough for you to buy a good shop, you can choose one from my previous shop." And the yard before your house, I think it's time to repair it, and I'll call Mingyi to discuss it in a few days. I won't say much else, and you don't have to reply to me tonight, just talk to me when you figure it out. ”

Unlike Pinyuan's anxiousness, Mingxin has been silent, which is also very reasonable to him, after all, this is the thing that determines his life, and there is too much difference between going further and taking a step back. I have lived in the uncle's house for more than eight years, one year more than in the original home, and the memory of my childhood is far less clear than now, but this place is more like a home, but Mingxin has an awkward mood in it that can't be dissolved, so he can't say anything, and after giving the uncle, he went back to the Chashan Courtyard overnight.

Pinyuan didn't understand such a delicate mind, and after seeing people leave, he thought that what his father said was too impersonal, and after losing his temper with his father, he also went back to sleep.