What a beautiful white lotus

In the evening, both Zhou Bohai and Zhou Shujuan came back, and Zhou Hongyu sent someone to invite Ye Rongqiu and the black dog to have dinner together. Ye Rongqiu went, but he didn't know that the black dog hadn't come until he got to the table. Stayed in the room and did not come out.

Seeing Ye Rongqiu, Zhou Bohai was very surprised: "Nephew, I can't believe it when I hear people say you're here. Why did you come all of a sudden, and you didn't send a letter?"

Ye Rongqiu said: "I delivered the letter before I came, but I came out in a hurry. I rushed here before my uncle replied. I didn't expect my uncle to move. I went to Wuhan and rushed. I learned from my neighbors that you moved." Home, just here again."

Zhou Bohai was surprised and said: "You went to Wuhan? I didn't receive your letter! It seems that when you delivered the letter, we had already moved to Yichang, so the letter was not delivered. So, I will send it to tell you the address of your new home. You should not have received the letter!"

Ye Rongqiu smiled wryly: "Yes, the timing of my coming out was not right. I missed it all by mistake."

Zhou Bohai said: "When did you leave home? It took only three to five days to come from Chongqing. It has been almost a month since I sent the letter. Why did you miss it? How did you lose so much weight recently? What happened?"

Zhou Hongyu hurriedly said: "Come on, take a seat first, father, Maoshi has worked hard all the way here, let's talk slowly while eating!"

Zhou Shujuan was the last person who arrived late, and she didn't appear until everyone was seated.She is wearing a school uniform, her hair is cut short, her appearance is pretty, and her dress is very clean. She is completely different from those traditional Chinese women, and also different from the western-style ladies Ye Rongqiu is used to. If I want to describe it, it is probably New female students in new China.Seeing Ye Rongqiu, she smiled awkwardly: "Brother Maoshi."

In front of Zhou Bohai, Zhou Hongyu was embarrassed to take the joke too far, so he just winked at Ye Rongqiu, Ye Rongqiu deliberately pretended not to see, and smiled politely at Zhou Shujuan: "Shujuan, long time no see, how are you doing recently? "

Zhou Shujuan said, "It's pretty good." She also pulled out her chair and sat down.

Zhou Hongyu asked her: "Did you go to the movies with your classmates again today?"

Zhou Shujuan looked embarrassed and responded vaguely.

Zhou Bohai said dissatisfiedly: "What movie is so good, why do you go to the movies with your classmates every week?"

Zhou Shujuan frowned slightly, and complained in a low voice: "Father, I have grown up, so don't worry about me so much, okay?"

Zhou Bohai stared, patted the table vigorously and said, "You have grown up? You know you have grown up? What age are you this year? Aren't you supposed to graduate this year? Why do you ask me every time I ask you?" Pushing and blocking? What the hell are you doing?!"

Zhou Shujuan lowered her head and said nothing.

Zhou Hongyu leaned close to Ye Rongqiu's ear and whispered: "Brother-in-law, tell your father to propose marriage quickly. My father is at home every day urging Shujuan to finish her homework and get married. I can't take it anymore!"

Ye Rongqiu continued to watch his eyes, nose, nose and heart, turning a blind eye and listening but not hearing.

Zhou Bohai trained for a while, and his tone gradually eased a bit: "Don't hang around outside all day! You're a girl, what's the point of showing your face in public!"

Zhou Shujuan seemed to want to say something, but she held back and said nothing.

Zhou Hongyu suppressed a smile and whispered to Ye Rongqiu: "My father is really old-fashioned in this respect. When Shujuan cut her hair short, my father almost beat her up. It was my mother and I who forcibly stopped her. You, hurry up and get me My younger sister is married, help her out of the sea of ​​suffering."

Ye Rongqiu lowered his head and took a sip of his wine.

After Zhou Bohai reprimanded Zhou Shujuan, the dinner finally officially started.At the dining table, Shujuan had been eating with her head down all the time, and she hardly spoke, only a few men were talking.

Zhou Bohai asked Ye Rongqiu: "Why did you come here suddenly?"

Ye Rongqiu said: "It's a long story. First, I offended a villain in Chongqing. My brother asked me to come out to avoid the limelight. But this matter has been resolved now; second, since the government moved its capital to Chongqing, Japan Chongqing was often bombed. My brother felt that the situation in Chongqing was not good, so he asked me to visit Wuhan. Wuhan’s economy was better. I wondered if we could gradually transfer our business to Wuhan, and our two families could take care of each other. "

Zhou Bohai immediately asked nervously: "Did something happen to your family's business?"

Ye Rongqiu hurriedly shook his head: "That's not true. It's just that the situation in Chongqing is really not good, and it has been losing money recently. And my father was injured and hospitalized."

Zhou Bohai hurriedly asked: "Is it hospitalized? What's going on? The Japanese bombed it? I also saw the news that the devils bombed Chongqing from the news."

Ye Rongqiu gave a general account of Ye Xiangmin's injury, omitting anything related to Mr. Huang.

After hearing this, Zhou Bohai sighed: "Nephew, I can understand your difficulties, but you are wrong if you want to move to Wuhan. Look at the situation, I can assure you that it won't be possible this year, the Japanese will definitely They know how to fight Wuhan! As for our Chinese soldiers, as long as the Japanese fight over, the city will be lost in minutes. If you stay in Chongqing, at most you will be dropped by the Japanese from a distance, but if you go to Wuhan, Then the Japanese bayonet is directly under your nose!"

Ye Rongqiu was not reconciled: "However, Wuhan is also the economic and political center of the whole country!"

Zhou Bohai couldn't help shaking his head: "Center? Forget it, think about it, Nanjing is the real capital, and the Japanese copied it as soon as the war started. I'll tell you the truth, I originally planned to move my family back to Chongqing , Hearing what you said, I reckon that Chongqing will not have a few days of good life. Alas, I wanted to go to Shanghai two years ago, but now it seems that I am lucky not to go. But fortunately, it will not be better for a long time. You said we Where else can I go? How many peaceful and peaceful places are there in China? How long can these places be peaceful?"

The whole table was silent.Ye Rongqiu was so sad that he couldn't speak. As soon as he looked up, he saw Zhou Shujuan who was sitting opposite quickly wiped away his tears, put away the handkerchief and still bowed his head silently.

After dinner, Zhou Bohai called Ye Rongqiu to his room, saying that he wanted to talk to him.As the two walked together, Zhou Bohai asked, "Nephew, since your brother intends to move to Wuhan, is he transferring his property out to cash?"

Ye Rongqiu nodded: "Yes."

Zhou Bohai grabbed his hand and patted it: "I'm also doing this now. I understand that in these war-torn years, doing business will cost you nothing. I started working on it a few months ago. I started to think about it. Let’s turn slowly and turn to be a comprador. Look at Chairman Jiang’s wife’s house, isn’t the Song family a comprador? Follow these officials, that’s right! Let’s do it together and rebuild together. Conquering the world, what do you think?"

Ye Rongqiu doesn't care much about business at home, so he can only perfunctoryly say: "What uncle said is, wait for me to go back and discuss it with my elder brother."

The two walked to the door of Zhou Bohai's study, and a servant came up and said, "Master, I have your letter this afternoon, and I put it on your desk."

Zhou Bohai nodded: "I see, you go first."

The two walked into the room, Zhou Bohai scooped up the letter on the table, took a look, couldn't help but let out a sigh, and scooped up the letter to Ye Rongqiu: "It's from your home."

Ye Rongqiu was taken aback, and hurried forward to see, the sender was indeed Ye Huachun.

Zhou Bohai opened it in front of Ye Rongqiu, and the two watched it together.The first half of the letter was full of polite words. Ye Huachun said in his heart what Ye Rongqiu said during the meal, including the matter of Ye Xiangmin's injury. He asked Zhou Bohai if Ye Rongqiu had been to Zhou's house now, because he only received it after Ye Rongqiu left. The news of the Zhou family moving, if Ye Rongqiu arrives, please ask the Zhou family to take care of it.

However, what happened next made Ye Rongqiu's face change.Ye Huachun mentioned the matter of Ye Rongqiu and Zhou Shujuan in the letter, and said that after discussing with his father, he hoped to get them married as soon as possible, and asked the Zhou family's intentions.

Ye Rongqiu can actually understand that now their Ye family is in a difficult time, and it is extremely difficult to work hard to get ahead.His father and elder brother hoped that he and Zhou Shujuan could be married as soon as possible to strengthen the relationship with the Zhou family.Ye Rongqiu knew the truth, but he couldn't agree with it: he was unwilling to marry Zhou Shujuan, and now he was even more unwilling than before!

Zhou Bohai folded the letter and put it aside to see Ye Rongqiu's reaction.Ye Rongqiu's face was not very good-looking, and he looked a little panicked. Zhou Bohai thought that he didn't dare to make decisions about his life's affairs.He pondered for a moment, and said: "I shouldn't have discussed this with you directly, but I believe you have seen it... In fact, if your brother didn't tell you about it, I would have planned it. I should have planned it a few years ago. It’s just that Shujuan is too self-willed and insists on going to some university. What’s the use of studying so many books for a girl? It’s useless to delay her age. I don’t have any objections to the marriage contract between the two of you, but There are some things about the marriage that I still need to discuss with your father, including what I just told you... How about this, you stay here for a few days, and when I am free in a couple of days, I will go back to Chongqing with you, by the way Visit your father in the hospital."

Ye Rongqiu was dumb, but couldn't find any reason to object, but felt that the anxiety in his heart was getting stronger.

After leaving Zhou Bohai's room, Ye Rongqiu went to the yard to enjoy some air, and saw the black dog sitting on the edge of the stone table smoking a cigarette.There was already a pile of cigarette butts under Heigou’s feet. He hadn’t touched cigarettes for so many days. He thought he wasn’t addicted, but now that he scooped up a pack of foreign cigarettes from Zhou Hongyu, he was like a camel that had been dry for many days and saw water. It seemed like he was pumping wildly without restraint.

Seeing Ye Rongqiu come out, the black dog waved to him, beckoning him to go over: "Ah Bai."

Ye Rongqiu walked to Heigou's side, and he was a little worried that he was still angry when he called him like that, but seeing Heigou's expression, he didn't seem to mind anymore, so he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.As for the name A Bai, he himself does not feel offended.

The black dog was already a little dizzy from smoking, tilted his head with a tired face, shook the burning cigarette butt in his hand, and said to Ye Rongqiu with a smile: "I'm really not used to this high-end product. It’s like, after smoking too much, I realized that I’m already dizzy. This is how foreigners’ stuff hurts people, people don’t even have a defense, and it will be miserable if they are taken lightly!”

Ye Rongqiu looked at the smoke continuously overflowing from his mouth when he spoke, and suddenly wanted to try what it was like.So he scooped up the cigarette in the black dog's hand and brought it to his mouth to take a puff, and then he coughed immediately after being choked.

The black dog patted him on the back, and he grabbed the black dog's hand and wiped away his choked tears with his sleeve, complaining: "What a stinky smoke!"

The black dog chuckled and said, "Come on, you can't enjoy the taste. There are so many interesting and good things in this world, Master Ye Er hasn't tried it yet, right?"

Ye Rongqiu glared at him: "Don't call me Second Young Master. Why don't you eat dinner?"

The black dog shrugged: "It's not necessary. I just sent you here, and I won't interfere with the rest." He put out the cigarette butt in his hand, was silent for a while, and joked with a smirk: "Ah Bai, I'll take care of things." It's done, don't you want to thank me? Why don't you hurry up and sleep with me tonight?