between siblings

Xintian went all the way into the city, and when he reached the gate and handed over the horse to Liu Fu, he asked Miss Melian if she was at home, and he wanted to see her more than ever. "Miss Bai accompanied Miss Crescent Moon to Young Master He's silk shop early in the morning, saying that the clothes made by our young lady a few days ago were made, and they went to try them, and then Miss Crescent Moon wanted to go shopping and buy something again. ”

"The third is back?"

"Been back for a few days. In the morning, Young Master He specially came to invite them, and the Third Young Master also personally accompanied the young lady and them. ”

"When did the third child have the interest to accompany him shopping, he was very fond of Yueyue, and Yueyue could agree to anything he asked him to do, which was strange. They came back and told me right away. ”

Liu Fu just responded, he didn't want to talk too much. Of course, he knew that the third young master never accompanied his sisters and sisters at home to go shopping, and it was not something that Miss Yue could do if he let him go shopping for a few days in a row. That night, the Third Young Master and the White Girl came back from outside alone, and the Third Young Master took her all the way in, which he saw with his own eyes. He has been here for so many years, of course, he also knows what the eldest young master thinks, in the past two years, he has changed his tricks all year round and asked him to ask people to send things to the white girl in the Zhuangzi, and the precious gold, silver and jewelry are not accepted, and they will become flowers and fruits of the four seasons and a local play. In Liu Fu's opinion, the white girl is a good girl, kind and kind, and has never called him a person, Uncle Fu and Uncle Fu. Of course he hoped that the girl would have a good home. Although the third young master rarely comes to the house, it is because his wife is not pleasing to the eye, but the third young master is a good person, and the one who helps the third young master take care of Lan Xin and live in that small courtyard is his cousin. The eldest young master is not bad, but it is the temper of the eldest young master, and he used to treat the two girls Hongyu and Qi Xia, just like that, plus a mother-in-law like his wife, who is difficult to wait, the white girl will not be much better if he follows him. So he doesn't want to talk too much, so he'll find out for himself.

He had just brought the horse in and let people lead him to the stable, and before he could close the middle door, someone from the Gao family's antique shop delivered the goods, saying that the third young master had just bought the piano in the store.

Xintian had just walked through the middle of the front yard, and when he heard this, he paused, and was very puzzled. He never knew which sister Xinjie was interested in accompanying to go shopping, except today, and he bought the piano and came back. He remembered that day on the Zhuangzi promised Xinyue to give her a guqin. Maybe it's for Yueyue. He didn't want to think about it, but he couldn't let go. Since Mei Lian came, he had seen Xinjie many times in the capital, but he never mentioned it, before he met Mei Lian in Tangzhuang, he had forgotten this person, so naturally he would not mention it in front of Xinjie, and after he was attracted to Mei Lian, he never mentioned her in front of Xinjie.

He went to his father's yard to see him, and went back to his room to deal with some letters, but he was not seen to return for a long time, and he was a little troubled. To be honest, he loves his brothers very much, especially the third and the little nine, and also values their merits. He thinks that girls should be easy to be tempted by them, and the third child actually followed them for most of the day and didn't come back, which made him quite suspicious. He was very distraught and left what he was doing, and was going to go out for a walk, and he really needed to go out and see if there was anything he could give to his grandmother for her birthday. As soon as I walked to the entrance of North Street, I met two small servants in He Liangwei's shop, one of whom was carrying two large delivery drawers in his hand, and greeted him respectfully.

"All of them were bought by the third child of our family?"

"Not all, some of them were bought by the white girl, and some were given to the old lady by our young master, Miss Tang and Miss Bai."

"Are they still in the store?"

"No, I went to the Drunken Immortal Building with our young master at noon, and then Young Master Ding Wen came to the store and invited our young master to go to the courtyard in the south of their house to see the flowers, but I didn't find it in the store, so I went to the Drunken Immortal Building to find it, and it may be all in the Young Master Ding's mansion at this time."

After breaking up with these two guys, he was in a better mood, obviously being invited to Ding Wen's house together, and he felt a little funny. What's wrong with me, the third child will come back for the past few days, and accompany them out for a walk, and it is also worth being suspicious. Does he really regard the third child as an opponent above? But he knows the third child too well, and in this kind of thing, he may be the only opponent he fears around him.

He walked around the street by himself, and he really didn't know what to buy for his grandmother, so he went to his own leather store and picked out a mink to warm his hands for her.

When he went home, he was surprised to find that not only Xinjie and the others had returned, but also Ding Wen and He Liangwei had all come, and they were all gathered in the small living room. It turned out that Xinyue told He Liangwei that they had bought a good piano, and it happened that Ding Wen was also a person who liked music very much, so he came to the house to watch it. Xinjie sat in a corner, not knowing what he was thinking, looking a little listless. Melian wasn't inside, but Crescent saw him and ran out happily to pull him in. After greeting everyone, he sat down on the chair next to Xinjie. Crescent Moon began to tell him how they had bought the piano, and if it weren't for Melina, she wouldn't have seen the benefits of it. Sure enough, in response to the previous words, Merian came into the city to accompany her to choose. He asked, "Why didn't you see the white girl?" ”

"What do you say, as soon as we came back, Mr. Gao in the tent found someone to call Sister Bai away, saying that you ordered her to come back and go to see an account in Baicaotang. "It seems that both Mr. Gao and Mei Lian are loyal to their duties.

In this hall, they are all people who are proficient in or like to mix with Xinjie because of their proficiency in music, and Xintian has had a lot of contacts with them after Qixia was driven away, especially in the past two years. Everyone was eager to hear the guqin played, so they tried it one by one. Only Xinjie sat there silently and did not move.

"Third brother, why don't you try? Here you and Big Brother play the best. ”

"I haven't touched it for a long time, let's come on, big brother." Xinjie seems to be very tired and lazy.

"If only Sister Bai were here, the empty mountain she told me about that day would be better with this than with my original one. It's a pity that I haven't learned it all yet. Big brother, it's all you, why are you in such a hurry to let Sister Bai see what accounts. ”

"I didn't mean to, it's just that the White Maiden let me try a new way of bookkeeping at the crude medicine in Baicaotang. In general, the people in the accounting room are not very familiar with it, and there are some things that do not know what to do. Although she explained it to me, I didn't know much about it, so I had to solve it for her, so that I could get familiar with the bookkeeper. ”

"The White Girl still understands this." He Liangwei was very surprised, he unconsciously looked back at Xinjie.

"Yes, the White Girl is very clever in counting." Xintian didn't continue, because it involved the internal operations of Baicaotang, and it also involved Meilian's true identity, and he didn't want outsiders to know too many details. "Of course, she plays the piano better, isn't it."

"That's, I'm definitely not comparable, only the eldest brother and the third brother can compare with her."

"In a few days, when grandma celebrates her birthday, we will all compare and compare together, Ding Wen, you also bring the piano with you, it's okay if you don't bring it, there are basically all in Zhuangzi. Isn't it better for people to celebrate the New Year and celebrate the festival at home, and invite someone to sing, and we perform for our grandmother ourselves. "Everyone here was invited, and when I said that, I was interested. Usually when they have nothing to do, they still get together to fight the arts, so a bunch of people start planning the repertoire and the competition. Xinjie also had to fight hard to deal with them.

His mood became very depressed because Lian'er went to the bookkeeper, not entirely because she left, but because he found that he still didn't know her very well. He didn't know that she knew actuarial science, and his grandmother asked her to help sort out the accounts of Baicaotang in the past few years. Originally, this girl had a lot of surprises for her, and it wasn't strange to have one more skill, but what he didn't expect was this. Obviously, these things are handled with the eldest brother, and he knows the state of the eldest brother well in the past few years, but why did Xintian see himself in the past two years without mentioning that there is such a person in the family? Baicaotang is one of the foundations of the Tang family's economic resources, so she always checks the accounts of Baicaotang, that is, to help take charge of the Tang family's economic center. The eldest brother is still single, is there any special arrangement here? If so, why did Lian'er accept herself again this morning? These suspicions sent his emotions from peak to bottom. Although he and Xintian were not born to the same mother, they have always had a good relationship, and he can't hurt his brother because of these things, and he can't disobey his grandmother's arrangement. And now his identity is another concern for him. The leisurely life in Xianyang City in the past few days made him temporarily forget the tense and bloody days of the past two years. In the midst of all the chaos that is about to begin, he is not sure if he will have the leisure to take care of the woman or even the family. He only now realized that he had been infatuated with this girl for the past few days, and he was a little carried away, and before he knew it, he had fallen into it. If it weren't for the fact that the eldest brother came back today, he wouldn't have been surprised.

The more lively the room, the more lonely it becomes. The group tossed and turned until after dinner. After the guest left, Xintian said that he was going to the accounting room to have a look, and Xinyue went back to the room by herself, leaving Xinjie alone, and walked to the study alone and looked at the books and some chapters that Lian'er had translated for him yesterday. Those delicate words dangled in front of him, but he couldn't read them. Yesterday the two of them were sitting here together, and today he is alone. For the first time, he experienced the feeling of melancholy. He had not yet sat down when he heard the familiar footsteps, from far and near, and at first there was a man who accompanied her, apparently the eldest brother, and there was a pause in between, and the eldest brother walked towards his own courtyard, and Lian'er walked alone in this direction. His mind paused a little, and he sat there in a daze, not looking at the door, without any expectation, until Lian'er walked in, and he still sat there motionless.

"Don't tell me that the third young master of martial arts didn't hear someone as stupid as me come in, right?" Lian'er walked towards him with a smile, and although she was struggling, he could still tell that she was a little tired. Apparently the account was extremely draining for her. It hurt a little to watch, but he didn't speak. "Third brother, don't you want to talk to me? I was so easy to finish over there, I thought I could let you accompany me to eat, I haven't had dinner yet, I don't want to alarm the kitchen master, let's go out to eat, okay? He knew that Lian'er had already felt the change in his mood, so he patiently came to tell him that this girl was really too smart. But he had to find out what doubts he had in his heart. "Wouldn't it be nice if you just let your eldest brother accompany you?"

"How can there be a reason for the boss to accompany the guy to eat. The eldest young master is also half the head of Baicaotang, and I am at most a helping bookkeeper there. Grandma felt that the accounts over there in the past two years were not clear, and when I just helped my grandmother look at the general ledger, I felt that there was a problem, and my grandmother temporarily decided to let me help check it. Later, it was true that there was a problem with the Luoyang branch, and I suggested that a new bookkeeping method be introduced, which caused me so much trouble. I've already explained it to Lao Gao and them just now, and they can solve it by themselves, and I'm done with this guy, so the eldest young master also let me go. He still didn't speak, and he noticed again that Lian'er always called the eldest brother the eldest young master, but this set of statements still couldn't let him go. Maybe Lian'er doesn't have plans in this regard, but it doesn't mean that grandma and eldest brother don't.

"Third brother," he still didn't react, Lian'er paused for a long time, suddenly took a deep breath, and her tone suddenly became very unfamiliar, "I'm sorry, Third Young Master, it's Lian'er who thinks too much." She turned and walked away, "I'm sorry to disturb you." The last two sentences sounded a little choked, and his heart fluttered, and he called out softly to Lian'er, but she didn't look back.

He heard her go back to her room, close the door softly, sit down in a corner of the room, and never move again. That night, he didn't hear her come out to practice sword dance. He sat in the study for a long time before he returned to his room, and in the courtyard he saw that the light was still dark in Lian'er's room, and he had not heard anything else since he heard her sitting somewhere in the room. When he returned to the house, he saw that the piano he had sent in the morning was still on the table, and he stroked it impatiently for a while, then gently picked it up and brought it to Lian'er's door to put down.

Then he left the old mansion by himself, went to Tianxianglou, and spent the night at Narcissus. He originally wanted to be the third son of the former wandering man, but for a while, he found that he couldn't go back. He was very helpless to find that he was not interested in Narcissus, and Lian'er's shadow was always dangling in front of him, and even Narcissus suspected that something was wrong with him.

When he came back the next day, Lian'er had already gone back to Zhuangzi first. Crescent Moon was still here waiting for him and his eldest brother, and they didn't go back together until Grandma came back from the temple. Because of his absence from breakfast, when he saw his father in the afternoon, he found that he looked at him a little more worriedly. Maybe his father knew him better than he thought.