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There are three prominent merchant families in Jiangcheng.Zhou Zhilan is the third lady of the Zhou family, and the only daughter of Mr. Tuesday, who is in charge of Wande Commercial Company.

Life to her is nothing more than the alternation of spring, autumn, winter and summer in the back garden.It's been a year since she graduated from the girls' school. She doesn't have to rush to find a job or find someone to marry like her classmates. Her father is dedicated to cultivating her ladylike skills and specially invites a piano teacher to teach piano at home. Therefore, she reads and paints every morning, and practice after a nap in the afternoon. When the sun is slanting from Qin to the west, when you are bored, you can take a walk in the garden or write in your diary. After five o'clock, when Master Zhou and his two brothers return home, they will have dinner together, and live a year as a day.

Today, however, an exception popped up, and a very ordinary exception branched out from the beginning of the story.

It's always a bit chilly at the beginning of spring. People like to hide in warm blankets, and Zhilan is no exception. She reads novels at night and forgets the time.In the morning, I woke up when I heard Yancui's rapid knock on the door, almost missing my breakfast.

After washing up, he opened the door and came out to meet the second young master Zhou Muqing.

"Morning, second brother." Zhilan smiled and blinked.

"Morning!" Mu Qing was infected by her smile, looking at her with a smile in her eyes.

The dishes in the dining room have been laid out, master Zhou, eldest wife and elder brother Zhou Yuehua are all seated, the master is naturally the main seat, the eldest wife and Zhou Yuehua are seated on the right, and Mu Qing and Zhilan are on the left.

"Father, mother, eldest brother, good morning." She and her second brother Mu Qing found their seats and sat down, greeting everyone as usual.Steward Zhou led his servants to accompany him. The old man moved the chopsticks first, and then everyone moved.The Zhou family has always paid attention to eating without talking or sleeping, and there is only the sound of drinking and drinking at the dining table.

After finishing his meal, the old man fixedly looked at Zhi Lan who was sipping porridge and said with a smile: "Girl Lan, haven't you been arguing for a few days to eat the sliced ​​skin duck from Mingji Restaurant? I'm free at noon today. I'll see you at eleven o'clock." Come pick you up."

Zhilan couldn't hide the childish excitement on her face: "Wow, thank you dad!"

The eldest wife and Yuehua glanced at her, Zhilan quickly suppressed her smile and lowered her head to continue scooping, with some uncontrollable joy still flooding her face.

"You dress up well." The old man added.

After the meal, Zhou Muqing went back to her room to change clothes, and went to work in Wande Firm by car with the old man.Zhou Yuehua went to work in another direction, Wande Bank Building.The eldest wife is doing morning class in the Buddhist hall, and only Zhilan is staring at the ticking clock with her chin in a daze, waiting for the hands to spin.Yan Cui put on her make-up and changed her clothes early on. After changing, Zhi Lan spun around in front of the dressing mirror, and asked several times if the makeup on her face had been taken off. Her thoughts had already flown to Ming Kee, and the curved skirt caused a gust of wind. wave.

There was a roar of a car engine outside the door, it was her father who came to pick her up!Unable to restrain her impulse, she hurried downstairs.The old man pulled her to look left and right in the hall, and sighed that this girl has grown up, just at the age when flowers are just about to bloom.He nodded in satisfaction and took her into the car.

When the car arrived at Mingji Restaurant, the old man strode towards the private room, and Zhilan followed suit.

"You're here, brother Zhou!" As soon as Master Zhou and Zhilan entered the private room, an elder greeted the old man with a smile.Unexpectedly, there were other people in the room, and Zhilan was a little ashamed.

"Brother Zhiyuan, you have been kept waiting for so long, you should be punished. The little girl Zhilan has always wanted to come here to taste the sliced ​​skin duck, so I brought her here specially." Master Zhou sat down by himself, and at this time a man on the opposite side got up and left Come pull up the seat for her.

"Thank you." Zhi Lan thanked him softly shyly and sat down.

"This is Shaowen, the eldest of my family. I have already entrusted him with all business matters. After a lifetime of busy work, I should enjoy the blessings." It turned out that this person was the master of the Li family among the three major families in the city.Zhilan only heard her family members chatting, so she was right.

Hearing the name Li Shaowen, Zhilan's heart skipped a beat. Is the young man opposite her cousin Zhou Jingru's heart?Can't help but quietly look at it from the corner of the eye.Li Shaowen has a charm of his own, and his sharp and awe-inspiring facial features are impressive, especially his eyes, he has a pair of sharp eyes.Although he was wearing a faint smile at this time, it still made people feel the ruthlessness in his bones.

Right now he was looking at her with bright eyes, Zhilan hurriedly avoided his gaze, lowered her head and took a sip of jasmine tea.

She remembered what her cousin Zhou Jingru said to herself when she came to visit her home yesterday.Because we will go to Liyuan Pavilion to listen to an opera tomorrow, the two of us talked about listening to an opera yesterday.

"My cousins ​​are also going to the opera this time. You know, my cousin Shaowen, we don't see him a few times a year, but this opportunity is rare." Jingru looked forward to it.

"Isn't it too obvious that you care about your cousin Shaowen? I can almost hear cocoons in my ears." Zhilan laughed, "Speaking of your two cousins, I only heard that they were sent to you when they were very young. Studying in Shanghai made me curious and wanted to meet him.”

Jingru said with a smile: "You can see it the day after tomorrow."

Unexpectedly, before going to the theater, I met Li Shaowen in advance at the restaurant.

"What are you thinking, girl Lan, the sliced ​​duck you've been thinking about is here." Master Zhou reminded Zhi Lan who was in a daze, "Let's take it to Master Li and Young Master Li first."

The waiter brought a large plate of wrapped duck meat rolls: oily duck slices and sliced ​​scallions, rolled up in the dough wrapped in sweet bean sauce, and stacked neatly on the plate.

Zhilan picked up a pair of chopsticks on the chopstick rest, and put one into the bowls of Master Li and Li Shaowen respectively: "Please use it slowly."

Master Li smiled and said, "You're welcome, you're welcome. The Zhou family's niece is so beautiful and sensible, I don't know which family is so lucky."

As she said that, Zhilan's face turned red, and she secretly glanced at Master Zhou who was smiling and remained silent.

Li Shaowen suddenly raised the red wine glass in front of him and said, "Miss Zhou, how about a drink when we meet for the first time!"

When the second elder brother Mu Qing drank, she occasionally tried it twice, the first time she choked on it, and the second time she endured it. When she heard that she wanted to drink by herself, Zhi Lan was very embarrassed and turned to her father for help.

But Mr. Zhou was pushing for a drink with Mr. Li, and Zhilan made up his mind to refuse, not wanting to be seen through by the old man.

"Girl Lan, the Li family is related to us, so you should drink this wine with him." The majestic voice of the old man came from behind, and as soon as the words came out, Lan choked in her throat for any reason to refuse.

She didn't want to have any interaction with this Young Master Li. On the surface, she didn't like his frivolous but determined expression, but deep down, her thoughts for him were always lingering in her mind, becoming her understanding of him. obstacles.

She was unwilling to raise the wine glass in front of her, she raised it carelessly as a signal, took a sip casually and put it down.Why is this wine so spicy?She was frowning in one place.

"Wait! Ms. Zhou, according to the local custom, you have to drink up the toast!" Li Shaowen said slowly.

When Zhilan heard this, she was displeased, and gave him a disgusted look, and made an inch of it!She stared at him angrily: "I don't drink well, so I can't do it."

"Girl Lan, what are you talking about? Nephew Li Jiaxian is right, this is indeed a custom in this city." Master Zhou watched from behind her the whole time, and her father's words must have made her grit her teeth and close her eyes, and gulped it down. .The hotter and more astringent the wine was, the more disgusted she was with Li Shaowen, which made her cough several times.

"Miss Zhou has a good drinker! The Zhou family is so sincere, why worry about Wande and Zhihe not being able to cooperate?" Li Shaowen clapped his hands and smiled, and drank a whole glass of wine himself.

Zhilan pondered these words carefully, and realized that she was just a bargaining chip brought by her father to negotiate business, so she couldn't help but feel aggrieved, and because of the old man's face, she could only bear it secretly.

After finally finishing this indescribable lunch, the two families were about to part after a few words of pleasantries.Li Shaowen copied his trouser pockets, walked up to Zhilan and said, "Miss Zhou, although it's the first time we meet, I think your face is very familiar, as if I've seen it somewhere before."

He made a thoughtful movement, paused and said: "I believe our fate is more than that, we will meet again."

Zhilan showed displeasure, knowing that it was a cliché, but her lack of experience supported her to deal with the man in front of her.She didn't know what to say, she smiled politely, followed Master Zhou into the car and left.

After returning home for a long time, the three-pointed man from the Li family was still running in her mind.She blamed her father for insisting on taking her with her when talking about business, and blamed herself for talking too much about wanting to eat Mingji's duck skin.

Distraught, she got up and drew the curtains.The water surface of the pond in the garden in the distance reveals the sun's golden fragments, and the evergreen leaves on the magnolia tree nearby sway gently in the breeze.The view from her window is excellent, and the whole small garden can be seen at a glance.The spots of light sprinkled on the leaves are so clear and fresh that the eyes are full of green. Such a lively color moved her. She sat down at the desk and took out her notebook to write a diary. The voice "Yan Cui" got no answer, so she opened the door and went downstairs to pour water in the kitchen.

Suddenly, a roar was heard from the direction of the kitchen.