Chapter II

"Ting Hao, I knew that my family Kang Ming must have eaten at your place again, and I just happened to have something to discuss," the person who everyone saw was Chen Bin, the father-in-law, Ting Hao walked up and pulled him into the table, "Come, the in-laws sit next to me" The little daughter called her father with a suffocated mouth, and leaned next to her mother, at this time Kang Ming and Shi brought chopsticks, bowls and stools, and everyone sat down again.

"In-laws, what did you do to me?" Ting Hao asked

"Look at the in-laws" I saw him take out two bottles of wine, and then said: "Speaking of which, it's still the disaster brought by the mother-in-law's family" Everyone was shocked when they heard it, and they all looked at the in-laws! Then he said slowly: "Speaking of which, it was the time when Kang Ming and your family Ruolan got engaged, not that Kang Ming had a friend named Wang Qingsheng who had been accompanying Kang Ming to run before and after, born with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a dignified appearance."

"I have a little impression of this person, he is tall and handsome, very measured and polite, what's wrong with him." Ting Hao asked.

"Sick, lovesick!" The in-laws returned

"How can you get lovesickness, then the next life is not engaged, and you are still blowing over there if your future daughter-in-law is good, how about a pair of little feet, today you say that he is sick or lovesick, is it possible? The woman is engaged and anti-marriage, do you want to do it tomorrow! Ting Hao said.

"In-laws, it's not the same thing to stop, I can say it, don't blame me, Wang Qingsheng fell in love with his mother's fifth sister"

"Huo" Ting Hao stood up: "What does this Wang Baochang mean, he has the idea of my little sister-in-law, what does he mean."

"You see that you are in a hurry, sit down and I will tell you slowly" Holding Ting Hao by his hand and sitting down, "Brother-in-law, don't worry, you let your in-laws finish speaking" The people at the table were persuading him, Ting Hao sat down, and said: "You speak, I listen."

"I said you shouldn't be excited," Ting Hao nodded.

"What's going on? It is Wang Baochang's son who sees your little sister, piano, chess, books, and paintings are all fine, and people are so dusty that they are not like mortals, he thinks that he is an immortal in the sky, once he can see it, he has deep roots, and he remembers it every day, and the result is that the tea and rice are thoughtless, Wang Baochang came to me and asked my son to persuade him, after all, he is a peer, but he said that his son has a painting in his hand, the painting is a landscape painting, a row of long pavilions, an ancient road, and the first "farewell" words: outside the long pavilion, by the ancient road, the grass is green.

The sound of the spring breeze and green willow flute is remnant, and the mountains outside Chaoyang Mountain.

The end of the sky, the corner of the earth, the acquaintance is half scattered.

A pillow of boudoir words parting love, don't dream cold tonight.

Outside the long pavilion, by the ancient road, the grass is green.

Ask Yi when he will go, and don't linger when he comes.

The end of the sky, the corner of the earth, the acquaintance is half scattered.

Life is rare for reunions, but there are many separations.

I heard Wang Baochang say it seven or eight times, and I wrote it down. He asked his son not to say anything, he said that the layout of the painting is atmospheric, the font is beautiful, one word is like a woman dancing in the picture scroll, to take off the paper, the distant mountains on the painting are layered, with a fine brush on the paper, the mountains are like Dai, the grass is green, the ancient road is heavy, a girl is blowing a flute in the pavilion, a wave on the ancient road and leaving, a painting of endless parting, but at a glance it is written on the spring of the ninth year of the Republic of China. Every day his son looked at the painting blankly, Wang Baochang went to grab it a few times without success, Wang Baochang knew that you were the brother-in-law who painted this painting, and wanted to ask you to persuade him, his son was not going to do it soon, he didn't eat much for seven or eight days, and he was lying in bed for these two days, once he wanted to take his painting, he was infinitely powerful, and the doctor said that it was hysteria and heart disease. Wang Baochang didn't dare to kick on your door, but begged me to find you to persuade you, what do you see? "This in-law has just finished speaking.

"Chen Kangming, let me ask you, how did the painting that my aunt gave me end up in Wang Qingsheng's hands," Ruolan stood up and pointed at Chen Kangming and asked.

"Yang Ruolan, you sit down for me, and say it well, a girl shouldn't have eaten at the table, because it's all a family, and I recognize it, but can you talk to Kang Ming like this? What kind of system, how do I usually teach you? "

"Mother, I was wrong. But my aunt shouldn't have given me the painting he gave to someone else! "

"Mother-in-law, don't blame Ruo Lanshu, it's my fault, I shouldn't have given the painting to Wang Qingsheng, he lied to me"

"What's going on with Kangming, you can say it well."

"Dad, here's the thing, didn't my aunt come when I got engaged to Ruolan? My aunt painted this painting to Ruolan on the eve of leaving, Ruolan is very happy that you want to frame it, so I handed it over to me to do, that morning after saying goodbye to Ruolan's grandmother and aunts, I took the painting to frame, on the way to the mounting met Wang Qingsheng, we chatted, chatted all the way to the pasting shop, but the shopkeeper closed, Wang Qingsheng's house was in the pasting shop, so he went to his house to drink tea and wait for the store to open, he has been praising the sister-in-law in the chat, saying that the sister-in-law is a rare fairy-like woman in the whole Menghua Mansion, I listened to him praise my sister-in-law for blowing out my sister-in-law's goodness, and opened the painting to show him, and after he saw it, he didn't say a word for half a stick of incense in front of the painting! And then with me he sent too much sister-in-law, just willing to lead the horse with my sister-in-law, I laughed at him My sister-in-law and not go to the battlefield, without him, he didn't say a word, look at the painting, I saw that the time was almost up, the painting was closed, and he went to see the paste of the door open, when I went out and saw that the store was still not open, but there were a lot of things at home, I handed the painting to him to frame on my behalf, and he agreed. I then went back to my hometown in Menghua to worship my ancestors, and I forgot to ask him. I'm looking for him to come back."

"Mother, can I eat when I'm hungry?" The youngest Ruomei asked in a whisper.

"Come on, everyone eats, the children are hungry, I'm a little hungry after walking a few more steps today, I'll clip a big chicken leg for you when I come to my in-laws,". Ting Hao used chopsticks to clip a chicken leg to his in-laws, and gave the chicken head to Brother Nan: "Every time you eat chicken, you have to look at the hexagram, Brother Nan's chicken head will show you the hexagram if!"

"Okay, I'll peel this chicken head well and see what the chicken hexagram says this time."

He gave another chicken leg to his youngest daughter, Ruomei, whose youngest daughter looked overjoyed and said with a smile: "Thank you, Dad!" "Eat fast"

He also served a dish for everyone, ate some food himself, and then said: "Originally, I didn't say anything, but I still want to say that Kang Ming is not to blame for this, you have to go to see Qingsheng tomorrow, persuade him, and get the painting back,"

"Okay father-in-law, I'll go tomorrow!"

"Come to my family, Brother Nan, let's drink this cup full, okay"

A glass of wine goes down.

"Kang Ming, this matter will be done according to what your father-in-law said, Qingsheng is your friend's good persuasion after all,"

"I know daddy, I will."

"The two brothers are on top, and I Wen Nan respects the two brothers with a glass, and the first thing is to respect," just like this, the wine has passed three rounds, and the dishes have five flavors. The young man and the woman had finished eating, and the three of them were the only ones who were pushing their cups and changing their glasses, and talking something that was not nutritious. "Brother-in-law, the chicken hexagram has come out, the hexagram is good, but the hexagram says that someone in the family will get a terminal illness, but they will meet a noble person, and the medicine will cure the disease." "Take me" and "um" The two of them got the chicken hexagram right again, and said in unison: "It's a good hexagram", "Kang Ming will go to make rice for his father again, his mother's craftsmanship is too good, a table of dishes, what's so special about this,"

"In-laws, aren't you just fragrant in the pot when you smile? It's not the shredded chicken of Yunzhou Maolan that I learned, the mixed vegetable soup boiled with Wuliangshan ham, the boiled noodles and melon fish with sour papaya by the Lancang River, the steamed eggs with white ginseng, the beans with the dragon claw vegetables, the cold fight made of Midu curly hooves, wind liver, sausages and rice noodles, the steamed sour pork and basket of Menghua Mansion, the boiled melon with bone ginseng, the three pieces of worms with wine, the fried yellow powder skin of Midu, the Midu sauerkraut and wonderful meat that the old man and children love to eat, and a plate of cold chicken longitudinal mushrooms. My in-laws think the taste is okay, and what I have at home is that my mother brought a lot more today, and I originally planned to let Ruolan bring some over. "

"Okay, I ate delicious food, but the old woman at home doesn't know how to eat it, I am also a Menghua person, it is really rare to be able to make such delicious dishes, you really have a heart, and today you are full of wine and food here, thank you mother."

"In-laws, you can see why for me!".

"In-laws, haha, your figure is worthy of these delicacies"

"In-laws, wait for me to have another bowl of rice, let's go to the living room for tea"

In the living room, three red-faced old men sat on the upper seat, with a young stone on the side, and Kang Ming was busy pouring tea.

"Brother-in-law, in-laws, there are a few things to tell my brother-in-law at home. Mother said let you pay attention, the family's major affairs have to be the brother-in-law's decision, this is what the mother said, the mother said that when the father went, it was the brother-in-law who led the second brother with a big gun, and shot Ba in the face with his own hands, so that the father's revenge was avenged, and then the second brother and people went out to find a way to save the country for more than ten years, and there was no news at all, and the brother-in-law picked up the food, drink and Lazar of this big family, and today the big and small affairs of the family are all decided by the brother-in-law, so my mother asked me to tell you all the things in the family."

"The old mother-in-law is serious, the stone is going to call your aunt"

"Okay aunt!"

After a while, Ruolan's mother walked into the living room: "What's the matter, there are still a lot of housework to do?" You guys just have to talk, what are you doing with me as a woman! "

"Wen Qin Midu has a few things for us to refer to, and you have to worry about the affairs of the family," she sat quietly on the edge of her husband after listening.

"Ting Hao, am I avoiding it with Kang Ming."

"Are you an outsider?"

"Then sit down, Brother Nan, you say,"

"Okay, brother-in-law, I've got it."

"Mom said that there is a big event this year is the marriage of the fifth sister and Xiao Yuan, Mom said when do you think it will be decided, Mom means that it will be done in December this year, and it will not affect Ruolan to get married next year, he wants to hear your opinion, Xiao Yuan may not have seen you, she doesn't know the character, but she has only met the ten five sisters, according to Xiao Yuan, he is the only one in this world, there are no relatives, if he marries the fifth sister, there is only one relative of the fifth sister, and how to get married is up to the fifth sister. Now there is only one Xiao Yuan in the eyes of the fifth sister, and the family rules of the Xu family never interfere with the children's own marriage, this is set by the old man, if the children of the Xu family like it, the family will be Zhang Luo for them! This is the old man's dying words, the fifth sister's marriage was found by himself, so the family was Zhang Luo for him, and his mother invited Xiao Yuan to the house and asked Xiao Yuan if he was sincere. Fifth sister, Xiao Yuan said that he really likes it. What does my brother-in-law think about this, my mother wants to hear from you. "