There is still light snow in Beiping, blowing a biting north wind, and the Shanghai market in the south is much better, there have been several sunny days in the past few days, in the front yard of the "Li Mansion", He Qi is lying on a recliner basking in the sun, and Dr. Tang has checked He Qi's neck, packed up the medical equipment and prepared to leave.

"Mr. Yubai, in less than half a month, your bracket can be dismantled, and I guarantee that the marriage will not be delayed."

He Qi's neck couldn't turn yet, so he had to glance and smile: "Doctor Yang from Faguo Hospital said that my neck should be cultivated for at least three months, and it won't take half a month to come to you, it seems that Doctor Yang is not necessarily good, right?" ”

Li Yu came over with a cup of hot tea: "Thank you, Doctor Tang, come and drink a cup of wine when the time comes." ”

Dr. Tang said, "Definitely, definitely." ”

In the Ming Dynasty, Li Chengliang held great power, raised his own respect, and various industries had their own actions, but He Qi's unintentional words inadvertently opened Li Yu's chatterbox.

After Dr. Tang left, Li Yu sat next to He Qi and said, "Yubai! It's been a few days since you and Wanwan came back, and when I asked Wanwan about something, she refused to tell me the truth. Wanwan has grown up, and I am very happy to you, but I am such a daughter, and some things cannot be relieved. I don't want to ask about the rest, but there's one thing I have to know, it's a lot of trouble in the north, you"

Li Yu held the teacup, paused, and slowly put it down: "Is there any connection between you and Wanwan's eldest brother?" ”

He Qi said truthfully: "No." ”

Li Yu breathed a long sigh of relief: "It's good if you don't have it!" He also said: "My son is not small, he is better than me, I hope that he can do something big, but I am worried that he will break the sky and will not be able to clean up." There was a lot of trouble in the north, and you went back to Shanghai with your injuries, and Wanwan told me that you came back from marriage, but how could you not wait for your injuries to heal? I actually understand that you are avoiding trouble, I don't worry about anything else, on the boundary of the Shanghai market, my Li Yu still has a certain effect, what I am worried about is that you are stained, and you will not be able to get rid of it in the future. Yubai, a son-in-law and a half, you are not an outsider, I have told Li Li this before, and I will also tell you today, our family has already produced half of the property, and another person has taken in, it is enough. ”

He Qi wanted to know more: "Big brother, he."

Li Yu shook his hand, obviously unwilling to mention more about Brother Li Juan, looked at the courtyard in front of him and said: "The ancients said that the family is prosperous, the branches are luxuriant, and the growth is green, and there are a lot of flowers planted in this courtyard, and there will be flowers to bloom in another month, until the end of autumn, but in winter, it is gone, I am old, a few years ago, I have been less concerned with a lot of things, and they have been handed over to Li Li, I feel that this yard is too monotonous in winter, so I planted bamboo, but I always feel that something is missing." Last time you came with Deqian, I asked Deqian, he is a scholar, and he is more particular about aspects than me. At that time, he said that there are no flowers in winter, and he should plant plums. ”

Li Yu pointed to a place in the northeast corner and said: "Look over there, I just prepared the land, can plant a few plum blossoms, I asked people, they said that you have to wait until the beginning of spring to plant plum blossoms, the best when the snow melts." After you get married to Wanwan, you just plant plum trees, so you go and buy six plum trees and plant them there. Next winter, it snows, and the fragrance fills the courtyard. ”

Li Juan walked over with a red face and said coquettishly to his father: "Dad, what are you talking about?" ”

He Qi only understood at this time, this is a hidden word in the words, the old man is urging to hug his grandson at the end of the year!

Li Yu drank tea and said with a smile: "Isn't what I said wrong?" How old am I, I raised the three of you, all of you are not angry, your eldest brother is not angry, even if your second brother is not angry, your second brother is not at home all day, he deliberately avoids me. So, this task is up to the two of you. ”

He Qi said: "We must work hard." ”

Li Yu was very satisfied: "Eh, that's right, the matter is there, you can't hide from it, it's better to be bold." I originally felt that cultural people always hide this and that, twist and pinch, and even Deqian has this smell, but Yubai, you don't have it on your body, and you won't have it in the future, this is the temperament of becoming a big thing. ”

Li Wan pursed his mouth: "Dad, you're talking nonsense again." He just wrote an article, it's all like this, how can it become a big thing? You don't know how the two of us got back. When the wind in Beiping has passed, we will go back to Beiping. ”

He Qi frowned, a little incomprehensible.

Li Yu said: "The wind in the north can't blow in the south, and writing an article is not to break the sky. Beiping is not necessarily better than Shanghai, both of you are southerners, one side of the water and soil to raise the other, besides, I'm also old, help you take care of the children, isn't it? ”

Li Juan said: "I am a woman, the daughter who married out spilled the water, if you want to take Huan's knees, you will teach the second brother a lesson, let him marry the woman, if it is really not good, just pull the eldest brother back, why can't it be my turn?" ”

Seeing that her daughter was so resistant, Li Yu's words were not easy to say, and he said: "Yubai, there is a distant uncle in your hometown, I'm afraid that he will be out of three suits, but marriage is a big deal, do you want to invite him to visit?" ”

He Qi was stunned.

Li Yudao: "You are 26 years old this year, your father is 40 years old, you were born in Nanyang, and in this way, your father's generation should have gone to Nanyang during the Guangxu period." At that time, Jiuzi was a rice market in the Wanjiang River, and there were many big ships going to sea, so it was not difficult to inquire. ”

He Qi said: "How old is my distant uncle this year?" ”

Li Yu said: "Six out of seventy." ”

He Qi said: "That's still forget it, I'm afraid it's inconvenient to travel so far." ”

Li Yu said with a smile: "Then I will send someone to inform you and record a family tree, so that I can be regarded as informing you of the He clan." ”

He Qi said: "Hmm! ”

Li Yu continued: "There is another matter, I want to discuss it with you, there are many people who know about your marriage now, I am afraid that you will all come at that time, how do you two plan?" ”

Without waiting for He Qi to speak, Li Juan hurriedly said: "Dad, it's me who is married, not the second brother who is married, so there is no need to let so many people come." Before we came back, we had discussed it, and we just had a meal with the family and the people from Beiping. ”

He Qi felt that something was very wrong, this matter had not been discussed at all, and what was even more wrong was that as long as Li Yu said something from the side, Li Juan would definitely interrupt, and in the past few days, Li Juan rarely even let He Qi and Li Yu be alone.

Li Juan really diverged from the conversation and said to He Qi: "Several gentlemen from Peking have already left for Shanghai today. ”

He Qi frowned, nodded and said, "Okay." ”

At night, Li Juan served He Qi to go to bed, this kind of thing can be done by the servants for the reason, but Li Juan had to do it himself, but the atmosphere at this time was a little strange, Li Juan planned to avoid it, but was stopped by He Qi.

Just like Li Yu said during the day, the matter is there, and it is better to accept it frankly, Li Juan knew that He Qi was finally going to ask, so he slowly returned to the bed and sat down, with a worried face.

are about to get married, but it turned out that this matter is not simple, which makes He Qi very entangled, for fear of piercing this layer of window paper, and seeing something bad, this marriage will be yellow, He Qi stared at the ceiling for a long time, and he didn't know whether to ask or not.

Li Wan pursed her lips, her ten fingers were tangled, and her heart was also very tormented, she was afraid, afraid that He Qi would know about her family, and she was afraid that He Qi, a cultural person, would not be able to accept it.

The lights in the room were yellow, and the two of them were silent, and suddenly He Qi stretched out his hand and grabbed Li Juan's waist, and Li Juan lay in He Qi's arm.

Li Juan whispered: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hide it from you." I just thought, in the future, we will live in Beiping, and it will have nothing to do with these things. ”

It was the first time He Qi was lying with Li Juan, smelling the fragrance of lilies in her hair, and she couldn't say how comfortable she was, but in Li Juan's ear, she whispered: "Deqian, do you know?" ”

Li Qian shushed and said: "Mr. Deqian doesn't know, he only knows that my family is in business." ”

He Qi calmed down and continued, "Is your eldest brother following Mr. Sun?" Are you still in touch with you? ”

Li Juan turned around, faced He Qi, and revealed: "My eldest brother joined the alliance when he was studying in Dongyi, and Mr. Sun, who followed him, has been away from home for four or five years. We can't find him unless he wants to contact us. However, I am very sure that he is in Peking right now. In the third year of junior high school, you haven't woken up yet, I'm in the hospital, he came to me, I wanted to see you, I didn't let me. On the tenth day of the first month, you have been discharged from the hospital, I went to the street to buy grain and oil, and he came to me again, and wanted me to help him hide a few people, but I didn't agree. He also wrote you a letter for me to pass on to you, me. I didn't dare let you know. ”

He Qi said: "What is written in the letter? ”

Li Juan seemed to have made a mistake, and said softly: "I don't know, I burned it when I came back." ”

He Qi hugged him tightly and said, "If you burn it, burn it." He sighed again: "If I read that letter, I'm afraid that Brother Ziguo can't do anything, and the two of us won't be able to come back now." ”

Li Wanyu cried and choked up: "Why are you like this?" I'm just afraid, that's why I don't want him to get close to you. Whether it's the South or the North, can't we just leave it alone? You once said to Mr. Deqian that the root of the country's weakness lies in the people, not in politics, and that it is necessary to popularize the vernacular language, promote new culture, and emancipate the mind. If that's the case, why bother with them? ”

He Qi said: "I didn't care, I just didn't save me when I saw death, and I couldn't get over it on my conscience." ”

Li Juan sobbed: "When I was six years old, my mother died. I saw my mother killed, and my eldest brother hid me in a haystack and jumped into the river to lure those people away. My eldest brother is not rare in this bloody family business, and decided that only Mr. Sun can save Huaxia, so he devoted himself without hesitation, but he didn't want to think about it, how did my mother die in the first place? What he is doing now is not bloody? A few years ago, someone came to kiss, but they were all boiled in a pot, my mother's tragic death is vivid, I don't want to live like that, so I went to Peking to study, I don't want to stay in Shanghai. ”

Li Juan looked at it weakly: "When the injury is healed and the wind in Beiping is over, we will immediately go back to Beiping, run the chess hall, write articles, and we don't care about other things, okay?" ”

A six-year-old girl saw her mother's tragic death with her own eyes, and the trauma of her soul was too great, He Qi was a little distressed, and put the quilt on Li Juan's body, hugged her slender body, and comforted: "Okay! Listen to you. ”

Li Juan smiled knowingly, pecked lightly on He Qi's mouth, and said shyly: "Sir, I told you all the things about our family, you know in advance, and you can deal with it." ”

He Qi said: "Okay, you can say it." ”

Li Wan said: "My father came to Shanghai at the age of 17 to do the business left by the older generation - selling raw paper. My hometown Xuancheng produces paper, and they transport these papers to the Shanghai market to sell, but they are few and often bullied, and most of the money they earn is handed over to various intersections, and there is not much left when they go back. My dad couldn't get angry, so he organized a group of fellow villagers, and then gradually gained a foothold in Shanghai, but he also lived a life of licking blood on the tip of a knife, often fighting and killing. When I was a child, I often saw my dad come home with a cut and covered in blood, and my mom would wipe his wounds while crying, and his back, arms, and legs were all scars. My mom advised my dad not to be like this, and my dad said he was followed by a bunch of fellow villagers and he couldn't stop."

He Qi finally understood, it turned out that his father-in-law was also a person with a story, not an ordinary story, if you think about it carefully, the huge Shanghai market, mixed fish and dragons, swords licking blood, can break through such a big business, there are few brushes really can't play.

At this point, He Qi also fully understood what Li Yu said during the day, but He Qi did not resist, Li Yu and their generation of survival rules are like this, if they don't have the ability to eat people, they will be eaten, and condemning them from the moral high ground is like why not eat minced meat.

"So, I'm married to the daughter of the Black Boss?" He Qi said.

"Do you regret it?" Li Juan asked timidly, unable to hide his worry in his eyes.

"Even if you regret it, it's too late, so-so." He Qi joked.

"Nasty!" Li Wanjiao snorted, leaned closer to her, suddenly felt something, and whispered: "Not yet, the injury is not healed yet." ”

"It's it, I'm me, it's restless, what does it have to do with me?" He Qi is strong.

provoked Li Juan to laugh "poof": "Hmph, when you were in a coma in Beiping, I wiped your body every day, and I watched everything you shouldn't see, so don't fool me." ”

Li Juan's face was close to He Qi's chest, and he became melancholy: "Actually, I understand, just like my father came to Shanghai from his hometown, my eldest brother followed Mr. Sun, and my second brother wanted to be a painter, but he was forced to fight and kill." An era has an ideal of an era, a person has an ideal of a person, an era has the helplessness of an era, and a person has a person's helplessness. Sir, you are the same, just like the fat chrysanthemum who came to our house that night said, you are a restless person, you will go further than my eldest brother in the future, the ending is unpredictable, I can see it now, but I don't regret marrying you. Do you know that when my mother was killed, she was not in pain, but a relief, she was tired of worrying about the days of being afraid, not only worried every day about whether my father would come back alive, but also worried about the safety of our three brothers and sisters. Every time there is a merchant at the door of the house, a walker, or a beggar, as long as it is a stranger, my mother is very scared, and quickly hides the three of us brothers and sisters, in the water tank, in the rice tank, under the bed, she knows that these are useless, but she still does it. ”

Li Juan raised his head, stared at He Qi and said: "I don't ask for anything else, I just hope that I can walk in front of you like my mother, don't let me walk behind you, I'm afraid of being like my father, crying at one of my mother's old clothes, being stunned for a long time at an old photo of my mother, and pretending to be okay in front of the child." ”

He Qi's heart was touched, and he closed his eyes: "Don't think about it, what should come will always come, and what shouldn't come will definitely not come, just like I have lived two lifetimes and finally want to marry you, it's all the arrangement of fate." ”

Li Juan joked: "You knew about this life in your last life?" ”

He Qi said: "I haven't been good yet, right? Isn't it just that he has lived two lives? ”

Li Wan put his head against He Qi's chest, felt the warmth, and pouted: "Just when I am talking nonsense, you are also talking nonsense, and you are not allowed to say unlucky things." ”

He Qi changed his words and said, "Okay! Good! Where did you come from two lives? It's just that I just want to see it. ”

Li Wan laughed "giggles", and said: "In the future, you are not allowed to go out with Mr. Deqian to fool around, don't think I don't know." ”

He Qi shouted wronged: "I didn't have it once, don't believe you asked Yu to go?" ”

Li Wan said: "Hmm! Or Mr. Yucai is trustworthy. ”

"The big chapter, not divided, affects the reading. 》

(End of chapter)