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Zhaoquan got the letter and hurried back to Shanghai.As she walked, she unbuttoned the purple woolen coat, "Shanghai is really hot, I can't wear this woolen coat." She took off the coat and no maid came over to continue, she didn't care, and threw it directly on the back of the sofa in the living room superior.Xiaozhen rushed out to pick her up, helped her hang up her coat, and said with a smile, "Grandma originally said that she would pick you up after Second Master finished school." Zhaoquan said, "I'll come right after I got off the train. Still waiting for him to pick me up at the station? There is no one in my house now, the ice pot is cold, and I don’t even have a mouthful of hot water.” As he spoke, he tilted his head and looked at Xiaozhen: “I’ve grown taller, and I’m getting taller and taller. The water is fresh. It’s not like when I first came here, it looked like it was about to be blown away by the wind. Pour me a cup of tea, I’m so thirsty!” Xiaozhen hastily poured tea for Zhaoquan, holding it with both hands, Zhaoquan asked, "Where is the girl? Why are you here?" Xiaozhen smiled: "All the girls in the family have been dismissed, so I left a little girl to serve Miss Huanzhu. The child is helping in the kitchen now. What can you do?" Just tell me." Zhaoquan clapped his hands and smiled: "My sister-in-law really knows how to live, and even saves the little girl's monthly money. The older generation of aunts and grandmas still order a girl, but she is fine, she can order her aunt herself, Don't be a girl anymore." Xiaozhen blushed: "Grandma was joking, but I think it's good that grandma is like this. The number of people in the family is small, and there are fewer things to do, so it's not so laborious to take care of. Second Master and Master Lianzhou I also take care of myself, and I know it’s not easy for the eldest grandma, so I’m more sensible.” After hearing this, Zhaoquan took a second look at Xiaozhen, who was wearing a moon-white jacket trimmed with azurite borders, and she was covered with soot. The black trousers, if not for the bun, really look like a girl.Zhaoquan smacked his lips: "Look, it's fine that we don't wear silk or satin, and we don't even embroider a single flower. If people know, they might say how our Shen family treated Auntie so harshly." Xiaozhen felt embarrassed : "I blame myself for being lazy. I thought I would stay at home all day and never go out to meet people. I cut it out and put it on. Now my aunt makes fun of me. How can my grandma treat people harshly? She even asked me to make a dress coat for going out during the Chinese New Year." Then I asked my aunt to see if she looks fashionable now?" Zhaoquan looked into Xiaozhen's eyes and said, "Okay, your grandma is Feng Lazi in the Grand View Garden, but there is a Ping'er girl like you, What is inside and outside the words are the benefits of the sister-in-law, and I don’t know what ecstasy drug she gave you. By the way, the Lianzhou you just mentioned is the child of my elder brother’s outer room?" Xiaozhen hurriedly stretched out his hand Shut up Zhaoquan's mouth, "Grandma, don't mention this, now that Lianzhou is kissing the eldest grandma, and don't mention his mother in words, please don't bring up his words, our grandma will ask again after hearing this." Weeping." Zhaoquan waved his hand: "It's all right, I won't mention it. I haven't said a word, and you're so anxious. What about the child?" Xiaozhen pursed her lips: "It's been half a day since you came in , haven’t sat down yet. You sit and drink tea, and I’ll call him in the study.”

After a while, Xiaozhen brought Lianzhou over, pointed to Zhaoquan and said, "That's my aunt, hurry up and pay my respects to my aunt." Hello, aunt." Zhaoquan hurriedly helped him up, "Your mother is very polite, and she kowtows to say hello when it's time. You don't mind the pain on the ground, and I didn't give you a meeting gift." Lianzhou just got serious After a while, I found it interesting to hear my aunt speak crisply and quickly, and said proudly: "It wasn't taught by my mother, it was taught to me by my second uncle last night, who told me to kowtow to say goodbye to my aunt. I remembered it. But the second uncle said that my aunt would bring me a gift, why did you forget to bring it?" Zhaoquan saw that Lianzhou was cute and cute, and he looked very much like his elder brother, so he felt distressed and hugged Lianzhou in his lap On, look carefully.Complaining in her heart that Zhaoshi made a wish for him indiscriminately, while rolling her eyes to think of an idea, she took Lian Zhou's hand and said, "Auntie did not forget, Auntie taught you to read a nursery rhyme, which is a gift. If you read all of them, you Second Uncle bought sugar for you." Then he taught Lian Zhou to read "Tu Tu Tu Tu, selling sugar porridge." Lian Zhou is a child who drove Meng, so he learned such nursery rhymes in a while. I got acquainted, climbed onto Zhaoquan's lap, grabbed his neck and said, "Gun, I don't want second uncle to buy sugar, you buy sugar porridge for me to drink." Zhaoquan put his arms around him and shook, "Okay, aunt buys sugar porridge I'll drink it for you, and put a lot of fried sesame seeds and sweet-scented osmanthus sugar in it. What else can you read, read it to your aunt." Lianzhou sat on his lap and read his three hundred thousand.

Xiaozhen came out of the kitchen and saw him sitting on Zhaoquan's body, so she threatened him: "Come down quickly, the second uncle is coming back soon, he will change his face when he sees you being so rude." Jumping off his body, Zhaoquan smiled: "I didn't know your second uncle is so powerful." Lianzhou said quietly: "Second uncle has two faces, one with squinting eyes and one with frowning eyebrows. If you squint your eyes, your face will be fine. , If you frown, your face will be finished." Zhaoquan held back a smile and asked: "How is it finished?" Lian Zhou pouted, "Well, sometimes I have to stand in a corner, and sometimes I have to slap my palms." Zhaoquan smiled Out of breath, he rubbed Lianzhou's hair and said, "That's your second uncle taking revenge on your mother, hahaha! Your second uncle was beaten by your mother when he was a child. Now it's time to change your fear of second uncle. " Lianzhou didn't think so, lying in Zhaoquan's ear and whispered: "Auntie, what you said is wrong, I am not afraid of second uncle, second uncle hugged Lianzhou after beating, and told two stories. I am afraid of my mother. I am naughty If she is disobedient, she will cry, I am afraid that she will cry, once she cries, I will not know what to do." Zhaoquan stopped smiling, looked at the little face in front of him that resembled his big brother, and gently Said: "Then Lianzhou has to be good, don't make your mother sad, don't make her cry."

Just as he was talking, Zhaoshi brought Zhenghai and Huanzhu into the door, Huanzhu jumped over like a bird and hugged his aunt, Zhenghai secretly looked at Zhaoquan from the side, neither as dignified and demure as her godmother, nor like Her mother is so kind and simple, but she has the arrogance and publicity of a rich lady, so she is a little timid.Zhaoshi pushed him aside: "He's quite a big kid, why doesn't he bark when he sees people." Zheng Hai glanced at him, and then he felt that maybe this kid still needed to be introduced.He hurriedly laughed and said: "Sister, this is Zheng Hai, the youngest son of Steward Sun, and now my sister-in-law has recognized him as his adopted son." Then Zheng Hai bowed and called his aunt.Zhaoquan hugged Huanzhu with one arm and Lianzhou with the other, and smiled at Zhaoshi: "You see, your sister-in-law trains this group of children just like you. Lianzhou kowtows when he sees me." But Zhaoshi said: "Isn't it right for him to kowtow to you?" Zhaoquan smiled: "Our family has been in business for generations, but we only have a little money. How can we get so much courtesy. It's your sister-in-law, some big family in the south of the Yangtze River The family of officials made such a fuss. That is to say, the former Qing emperor fell, otherwise people would look down on our family." Zhaoshi became uneasy on behalf of his sister-in-law: "Sister, what are you talking about in front of the children? " Zhaoquan still ignored it: "It's not a bad word, it's just that our siblings are just chatting their teeth. You don't know, when your sister-in-law's grandfather was robbed of money during the provincial examination, it was your grandfather who helped. Later, I was grateful for this kindness, and when I returned to my hometown to be an official, I also helped our family a lot. Your sister-in-law’s father won the Juren at a young age, but it’s a pity that the emperor came to Taiwan and had nowhere to make a living, so he just helped our family start a business. So we Dad often said that if it wasn't for their help, our family wouldn't be able to do such a big business. Your sister-in-law's natal family has been educated for generations. You see your sister-in-law is strict, and her mother is even more serious than her. The two of us Playing around since childhood, doing nothing, she was taken home by her father in a few years, and she looks like this when she remarries. Sigh!" But Zhaoshi laughed: "Sister, what are you sighing about. Isn’t it a blessing for our family to have someone like a sister-in-law in charge of the house?” Zhaoquan smiled: “You don’t understand, this is your blessing, but not hers.” Zhaoshi suddenly became serious: “Sister, I understand .”

In the evening, when Jingxian returned home, she naturally dragged Zhaoquan to discuss the matter of going back to sell the fields.Zhaoquan said quickly: "This is your style, Jingxian. When you were playing together as a child, you were such a thoughtful person. So, as soon as I heard about it, I asked someone to book a ticket, baba My son is back in a hurry. I have a new idea to tell you. I see that you have started a new life here now, your aunt has also served dinner, and you have made a dress. It can be seen that this is a popular thing In the future, everyone will love to wear western clothes, and they don’t want to go to a tailor’s shop to measure their sizes. It’s better to open a garment factory, just like how foreigners make western clothes, to set the sizes together and process them together. The speed is fast and the quantity is large. As for whether to open a clothing store by myself or rent a counter in a department store, I’m not sure about that, it’s up to you to decide.” Jingxian said: “This idea sounds good, but I’m still wondering what the rules are. I have to think about it again, anyway, this matter is not urgent." Zhaoquan said: "This matter is neither urgent nor urgent, but it is really urgent. Xiang Fan is now in charge of military supplies, and your clothing factory has opened to make military uniforms. Isn’t it a ready-made business? You don’t have to worry about opening a shop.” Jingxian thought for a while: “This is a way, now that there are wars everywhere, you have to keep recruiting soldiers to make military uniforms. But besides my uncle, is there any other way?” Zhaoquan Laughing: "When you talk about business, your appetite will grow. The tens of thousands of military uniforms here are not enough for you to make? You still have to ask other ways. When you look back, you are jealous on both sides of the battlefield, and you are wearing nothing." It's the clothes from your factory, that's funny. But don't tell me, there's more than one way. Don't look at these handsome men who hit me today and I hit you tomorrow, all of them are black-eyed chickens, There are a lot of contacts in private, and everyone has a good relationship with each other." Jing Xian nodded: "This matter, it's settled like this. I'll ask someone to write a charter for you to see later, and I'll leave it to you on my uncle's side." Zhaoquan pouted." Tell me what else to say, please or not."

Jing Xian said with a smile: "Not only this matter, I also have one more thing to ask you and my uncle. My uncle is in the army, see if there are any wives and family members who are good, and tell Xiaozhen. The child is growing up every day, and I can't bear to let her stay with me, and I can't send her back to her natal family. It's always bad to find someone in Shanghai, so I thought that if I could marry in Wuhan It’s a place where the main house is the wife, so I don’t feel wronged.” Zhaoquan raised his eyebrows, “No wonder Xiaozhen said you were a fairy when she said that she was a grandma and grandma. Think about it for her, didn't she meet Guanyin Bodhisattva and show her spirit?" Jingxian sighed: "It's not that we are sorry for the girl first, it is very appropriate for this child to help me take care of the house these few years, who The family picked her up to be the head of the family, that is the one who recited Buddha in the previous life." Zhaoquan curled his lips: "You are the one who is sorry for her, don't get involved with me, and don't get involved with the Shen family, this aunt is your decision to marry. The one who came back, now Miaoxiao can’t let it go, but I have to send it out again.”