The banquet went quite smoothly, at least on the surface, especially when Fan Sizhen took the pair of jade lions from the Marquis of Chang'an without smiling.

It's just that Fan Sizhe, as the owner, is always used to looking out of the hall of Baoyue Tower. Today, Baoyue Lou was wrapped up by him, and there were no other guests, Wei Hua, who was sitting next to him, frowned slightly, thinking to himself, who else was coming? Why didn't he receive the news beforehand?

Looking at Fan Sizhe's expression, it is conceivable that the identity of the guest who is about to arrive is not low, otherwise he will not have irrepressible expectations and nervousness, but if the identity of the guest is not low, why not wait for the guest to arrive, and the banquet will already be opened?

Wei Hua subconsciously shook his head, a self-deprecating and bitter smile appeared on the corner of his lips, he knew in his heart that for these two brothers of the Fan family, they could not be judged by common sense. He is now the commander of the Northern Qi Jinyi Wei Zhenfu Division, taking over the heavy position of the year, most of the secret agencies of the Northern Qi are under his control, the little emperor of the Northern Qi has a lot of trust in him, and his power is not small, but once he is facing the Fan brothers from the south, Wei Hua is still a little faintly nervous.

Fan Xian is in charge of the Supervision Yuan, and Wei Hua is a "peer" who is honest and straightforward, but Wei Hua knows that he is not as long as Fan Xian has studied in this industry, and the Jinyi Wei of the Northern Dynasty does not have as much power as the Supervision Yuan of the Southern Dynasty, so if the two of them really want to fight together across the national border, they are not enough for the other party.

As for Fan Sizhe, Wei Hua looked at the chubby young man who was entertaining the guests beside him, frowning slightly, for this character, he admitted that he was indeed a little blind two years ago, thinking that it was just Fan Xian who used the authority in his hand to send his younger brother to Northern Qi to escape, but he never thought that more than a year had passed, Fan Sizhen was hidden behind the scenes, and he actually controlled the line of the old Cui family firmly, and his career in the dark was also booming.

It's not at all the business acumen and ability that a teenager should have.

Wei Hua patted his forehead, smiled and drank a glass with Fan Sizhe, and said a few jokes. Fan Sizhe's purpose of today's invitation is very clear, someone must take over the private goods in the south to the north road, and it is impossible to let a Nanqing person sell them in the north Qiming, in previous years, it was taken over by the Wei family, especially Changning Hou, and now Fan Sizhe's courage is getting bigger and bigger, and naturally some people feel that the Changning Hou family is too slow to spit out goods, so Chang'an Hou is also tied in.

Wei Hua was not disgusted with this arrangement, not because the Marquis of Chang'an was his own uncle, but because he knew that the Wei family was just a puppet placed in front of the stage by His Majesty, and the profits of the majority were constantly filled into His Majesty's inner treasury and treasury.

And Fan Sizhen can toss again, after all, he is on the territory of Northern Qi, Wei Hua has enough ability to monitor him, once things are not harmonious, Jinyi Wei can easily salvage the business house under Fan Sizhe.

It's just that the matter is not until the last step, Wei Hua categorically does not dare to do this kind of thing, and he does not even dare to ask for a decree. Because Northern Qi needed the goods that Fan Xian spit out from Nanqingneku, Wei Hua was afraid of Fan Xian's ruthless methods, and Wei Hua was afraid of Fan Xian's unreasonableness.

The curtain of the door of Baoyuelou moved slightly, and the two girls entered together, and Wei Hua's hand holding the wine glass shook and almost spilled out.

He knew both of them, which was one of the reasons why Wei Hua had always been deeply afraid of Fan Xian.

Begonia and Fan Ruoruo.

Wei Hua stood up to greet him, turned around and pretended to blame Fan Sizhen for a few words, and invited the two noble Tianyi descendants to sit at the upper seat.

The scene was a little awkward for a while.

Because everyone in the Northern Qi Dynasty knows that the queen mother means to let Begonia marry Wei Hua, but Begonia has some inexplicable relationship with Fan Xian.

Wei Hua smiled bitterly and said to Haitang: "Fan Ershao has a treat, you came like this, but you really don't give me face." ”

Haitang smiled, took the jade lion handed over by Fan Sizhen and played with it, and said, "You just like to talk." ”

Wei Hua laughed and said no more. From a long time ago, he knew that this woman was not something he could touch, and after the Queen Mother had that intention, he entered the palace as soon as he could, but it didn't play a role, and the Queen Mother's love for her descendants was always so unreasonable.

The Queen Mother is unreasonable, Fan Xian is unreasonable, Wei Hua doesn't have the guts -- this matter is too offensive to Fan Xian, and besides, if you marry a peerless master on the ninth grade and go home, how can the husband be vibrate? Besides, although this begonia girl is blue and wise, she is really average...... However, last year, Wei Hua's sister went to Jiangnan with Wolf Tao, and when she passed through Wuzhou, she had a dispute with Fan Xian.

Thoughts wandered in the past few years, Wei Hua couldn't help but sigh out of shape, Fan Xian, Fan Xian, you kid is too bad for me, you have pressed yourself for everything, you are a fellow traveler, why are you too anxious?

............ Since Haitang and Fan Ruoruo entered the Baoyue Building, the banquet in the hall has become much quieter. The old and spicy elders of the Wei family put on the appearance of elders, and talked with the two girls' families, but they were thinking in their hearts that they wanted to eat more benefits for His Majesty in this negotiation, and these two came to ...... Especially the begonia girl, where did her elbow go? So the attack on Fan Sizhen slowed down.

Fan Sizhe's face was calm, smiling and talking, and in the casual conversation, he made it clear about the profit sharing and handover rules for the coming year.

Nominally it was his negotiation with the Wei family, but in fact, Fan Xian's affair with the Emperor of Northern Qi, although not everyone at the banquet knew it, but the father and son of Changning Hou, who led the Wei family, were clear.

After three rounds of drinking, the discussion was over, and the two sides dispersed happily, but Wei Hua's face was not very happy, and it was obvious that in this new round of spoils sharing agreement, Fan Sizhen still took the lion's head.

As the night deepened, Begonia took the warm jade lion, looked at Fan Sizhen with a smile and a smile, and then left, leaving the Baoyue Building to their sister and brother.

............ "I don't like begonias. In a room on the Beijing branch upstairs in Baoyue, Fan Sizhen said with a frown.

"You're getting older and older now. Fan Ruoruo habitually patted his brother's head with his hand, smiled and said, "What's wrong with senior sister?

Fan Sizhen shook his head and said, "That's what my brother meant, it's to make me suffer, I understand." ”

Fan Ruoruo looked at her younger brother with some surprise, tilted her head, and said, "It's really getting older and older, it's really not like a child."

Fan Sizhen laughed at himself and said: "In such a place, there is no one who can be trusted, and there is no way to be careful...... By the way, sister, you say old-fashioned...... His jīng god suddenly cheered up and asked, "Does it mean that I am becoming more and more like my brother?"

Fan Sizhen asked excitedly, because in his mind, the eldest brother Fan Xian is the idol of life, if he can get closer to the image of his brother, the more proud he will naturally be.

Fan Ruoruo covered her lips and smiled, and said, "It's more and more like my father, my father beat you like that back then, it seems that it really has some effect." ”

She paused and said, "You said you didn't like Senior Sister Begonia before, why on earth?"

Fan Sizhen quietly looked into his sister's eyes and didn't speak for a long time.

Fan Ruoruo also looked at him calmly.

"Sister, you should understand. Fan Sizhen said seriously: "We already have a sister-in-law." ”

Fan Ruoruo's brows also furrowed, and she sighed, "Yes." ”

Fan Sizhen frowned, thought for a while and said softly: "Actually, my brother doesn't know, in the past year or so, my sister-in-law has written me a lot of letters. ”

Fan Ruoruo was slightly startled and asked, "What did my sister-in-law say in the letter?"

"What can you say? It's not about the family, the father, or the mother. Fan Sizhen sighed: "My little brother-in-law is alone in a foreign country, my sister-in-law must not be at ease, to be honest, I don't want to trouble my brother if there is anything I can't figure out in this year, my sister-in-law helped me come up with ideas." ”

Fan Ruoruo gradually digested the shock in her heart, and it was the first time she learned about it, and after tasting it for a long time, she tasted many flavors, and said gloomily: "Sister-in-law...... is a very poor person, you also know that the eldest princess is now imprisoned in another courtyard by His Majesty, and her brother is in Jiangnan again. ”

"All my brother knows is to kick me to the north. Fan Sizhe was dissatisfied, "Although he knows that he is hammering me, but has he ever thought about how old I am? How did I get such a big stall? ”

Fan Ruoruo frowned and reprimanded: "How difficult it is for my brother to stand in the south, if it weren't for him to stand firm, how could you stand firm in the north? Where did he lose his hand? The shopkeepers of Qingyutang are secretly helping you, and the network of the Supervision Yuan in Northern Qi is also serving you, in order to cultivate you, he has put a lot of effort into cultivating you...... As for tempering, it's not that you don't know what kind of person your brother is, he grew up alone in Lanzhou since he was a child, and he doesn't know how hard it is to have today's status, he believes in this truth, this is how he treats himself, we are his younger brothers and sisters, of course he will choose this way. ”

............ After a series of reprimands, Fan Sizhen seemed to have returned to Kyoto a few years ago, when he was not afraid of heaven and earth, he was afraid of the iron ruler in his sister's hand, and suddenly softened, and muttered after a long time: "Anyway...... I don't like begonias. ”

Fan Ruoruo sighed and said, "You don't know how much Miss Begonia has secretly helped her brother. ”

"It's just an exchange of interests, in addition to the dead Zhuang Mohan, how many of the Northern Qi people are really saints who don't care about foreign things?" Fan Sizhen sneered: "Don't look at you now worshipping under the Kuhe Sect, I am the number one big boss, but if my brother is useless to Northern Qi, we are afraid that we will be trampled under our feet immediately, and at that time, I don't expect Haitang to stand up for us." ”

Fan Ruoruo said seriously: "My opinion is the opposite of yours. ”

Fan Sizhen shook his head, and said quietly after a while: "What's the matter...... There's always one that comes first, right?"

Fan Ruoruo pondered for a long time, nodded slowly, and her heart was also extremely pitiful to the respectable and amiable sister-in-law who was used to silence and hurt, and admitted her brother's opinion. It's just that suddenly, a ridiculous thought surged into her heart, if it comes first, then come...... I should have been the first person to come to my brother's side, right? It's just a trick of fate...... A trace of bitterness rose at the corner of her lips, and she immediately suppressed this undeserved affection, and worried about the fate of her sister-in-law Lin Wan'er with her younger brother.

"My brother is definitely not the kind of person who is unlucky, but now that my sister-in-law is between the eldest princess and my brother, I really don't know how to deal with myself. ”

"Don't think about it so much. Fan Sizhen shrugged, "The key issue now is the situation of my brother in the south. ”

"I saw that you were feasting guests tonight, and I thought you had lost your mind. ”

"The eldest princess has fallen, and I naturally want to use this opportunity to earn more money. Fan Sizhen said: "It's just that the DPRK and China are now only dominated by the big brother's faction, and I always feel that there will be some problems." ”

"Maybe it's too far, but Duda says it's not, but it's standing on the tuyere. Fan Ruoruo smiled and said: "Whether it is family affairs or state affairs, it seems that those of us who are strangers in a foreign land can cāo heart. ”

Fan Sizhen was stunned, thinking that with his sister's usual attitude, he should be very anxious about Fan Xian's safety, why did he appear so indifferent, but he didn't dare to criticize his sister, and subconsciously asked, "Whose poem?"

"Brother. ”

"Isn't he making poetry anymore?"

"It's not done in front of outsiders. ”

"Hmm...... We really don't care?"

"What kind of heart can we have?" Fan Ruoruo's face was calm with a sense of confidence in his brother, "He worked so hard to send us to Northern Qi, he just didn't want us to be involved in these things, if we really want to be good for him, then we must live a good life here, don't let him cāo heart." ”

"How to live well?"

"Are you happy to be a boss?"

"It's okay, although sometimes it's more troublesome. ”

"I'm going to the hospital tomorrow, and I feel happy about this life...... My brother once said that people live in the world to find things they like to do. ”

"Now that we've found it, we have to keep going. The safer we live, the happier we are. Fan Ruoruo made up his mind, "The more determined my brother will be, the more we will contribute to the family." ”