Republic of China small businessman

After half a day, the horse team entered Xichuan City and went straight to Xie's house in the upper city.

The number of teams was half as large as when we went, and the Baijia team followed behind in a low-key manner.

Bai Jiuye's car was behind, and the outside looked ordinary, except for the two teams of guards who followed behind, wearing azure clothes, carrying guns on one shoulder, and most of the horses riding under them were military horses. Snow, coupled with the neat array, marched in unison, attracting many people to stand on the side of the road to watch, guess and discuss who came, what a big battle.

The Xie family didn't have so many rules, and opened the main door to welcome the distinguished guests.

The Bai family motorcade stopped outside the door, Master Jiu put on a thin cloak and got out of the car, and walked in through the gate, without any intention of offending.

Xie Siquan received the letter and waited at home for a day, and was very happy to see that Bai Jiu had given him enough face, so he came to greet them in person, and took them to the flower hall to drink tea and talk.

Bai Mingyu and Mr. Huang were also waiting in the flower hall, and there were several plates of exquisitely crafted snacks and crisp candies on the side table. Mr. Huang was drinking tea happily, but Bai Mingyu had no intention of drinking tea and eating, and kept looking at the door , saw them coming from a distance, immediately stood up happily and waited at the door, and greeted Master Jiu with his hands.

Master Jiu nodded, and thanked Xie Siquan: "Thanks to Patriarch Xie's great love these days, the younger generation in the family is reckless and has caused you trouble."

Xie Siquan smiled and said: "No trouble, I see him much more pleasing to the eye these few days, you have taught a good person."

Several elders went in hand in hand and sat down to talk.

Bai Mingyu followed behind, coughed, and winked at Xie Jing.

Xie Jing was two steps behind and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter?"

Bai Mingyu said: "Their adults have a lot of rules in their speech, it's boring, don't move forward, come here and let's talk."

Xie Jing kept walking: "I am also an adult."

Bai Mingyu tugged at his sleeves, obstructing him repeatedly. Xie Jing was just recovering from a serious illness and he hadn't met such a strong person in Xichuan for a long time. One of them didn't pay attention and almost tripped under his feet, so scared that Bai Mingyu hurried to help him : "Don't scare me, I just touched you... Are you really sick?"

Xie Jing rolled up his collar and said, "I've been ill for two days, but I've recovered."

Bai Mingyu looked at him for a long time, with a strange expression on his face, and asked in a low voice: "Did you really pretend that day?"

Hu Da followed behind, and when Xie Jing staggered a step, he wanted to help him, and now he was even more angry when he heard this, and suppressed his anger and said: "Our little master is working hard outside, and the second young master also In Yunmeng, I also saw it with my own eyes, what do you mean by what you are saying now!?"

"No, no, I'm not, I mean..." Bai Mingyu quickly explained, but he couldn't make it clear for a while. He looked up and saw that Jiuye and Xie Siquan also stopped and turned back to look at this side, and immediately closed his mouth He said in a muffled voice, "I was wrong."

Jiuye asked, "What happened?"

Hu Da was so angry that he pointed at Bai Mingyu and said, "He said our little master is pretending to be sick!"

Master Jiu's face turned cold, his eyes fell on Bai Mingyu and he said in a deep voice, "It's a lot of inconvenience to be away, so I will make a note of it for now and go back to receive the punishment."

Bai Mingyu: "...Yes."

Xie Siquan stood aside with his hands in his hands, but he didn't say a word, watching Bai Jiu teach his children a lesson.

Xu Jun wanted to speak, but after seeing so many people around him, he hesitated to speak, so he pressed the button and didn't dare to mention it.

The Xie family held a dinner party for distinguished guests from afar. The Yanbang dishes are authentic and delicate, and people from Sichuan are good at seasoning, especially duck and fish are the best.This time, Xie Siquan specially asked the kitchen to serve a ya fish weighing several catties. It was the time when the meat was at its tenderest, and it tasted delicious.

During the dinner, there was also a mutton stewed fish soup, which is rare in Sichuan, but Mr. Huang liked it very much, and drank two bowls in a row: "This is a dish in Jinzhong. It is rare to eat it outside, and it is so delicious. , it’s no different from eating at home!”

Xie Siquan said with a smile: "This is the cook brought by our second family from his hometown. Naturally, he can cook authentic Shaanxi cuisine. If Mr. Huang likes it, he can eat more." He put a bowl of mutton and fish soup in front of Xu Jun, The action was very natural, "It's also my fault that I didn't think carefully before, and forgot that you are also from Jinzhong."

Huang Mingyou heard it, and started chatting with Xu Jun. Although their hometown is not in the same city, they are not far away, so they can be regarded as fellow villagers, and they chatted happily for a while.

He Dongting also joined the table, but he didn't drink alcohol and coughed slightly.

Xie Jing looked at him a few times, and couldn't help asking in a low voice. He Dongting only pushed that he had caught a cold, and didn't mention anything else.

Xie Jing said: "In the caravan from the North, there is a doctor named Fang Jiwu. He is a good doctor and knows a little about Chinese and Western medicine. Why don't I invite him to show you later and prescribe some medicine. It might be better if you drink it. A little." Now he was a little worried when he heard the coughing sound, and He Dongting had changed a lot, and he seemed to have aged several years in a few months, so he couldn't help but reminded, "Be careful in the future."

"Hey, good." He Dongting looked at him and chuckled, with a gentle expression.

Talking and laughing during the dinner, Xie Jing eats freely, seems to be very used to this kind of life, and is well taken care of in Xichuan.

When Master Jiu was drinking, he glanced at the corner of his eyes a few times, feeling a little relieved.

Bai Mingyu and Xie Jing sat together. He held back for a few days and really wanted to talk to someone. When he saw Xie Jing, he began to complain in a low voice: "Your uncle is so fierce."

Xie Jing buried her head in her food, and said casually, "It's okay."

Bai Mingyu: "It's not good at all, you don't know, what did he take me to do these two days! He took me to the saltworks, and only gave me a pair of pants, a shovel, and asked me to cook salt and work!" Bai Er He was extremely wronged, but he looked at the person sitting in front of him and didn't dare to speak loudly, so he secretly spread his hands on the tablecloth to show Xie Jing, "Look, you haven't come back for three days, I gave you home for nothing. Hei worked for three days!"

Xie Jing glanced at his hand, swallowed the rabbit meat in his mouth, and asked again: "Have you eaten black marinated salt?"

Speaking of this, Bai Mingyu immediately said: "Yes! Your uncle also fed me a mouthful of salt!"

Xie Jing laughed.

Bai Mingyu whimpered and complained: "He invited Mr. Huang to eat all kinds of big meals made of black marinated salt, and then tricked me into eating salt—"

Xie Jing said: "I ate it too."

Bai Mingyu looked at him suspiciously.

Xie Jing said: "Really, the customs here are like this. When an unmarried person enters the salt field, he has to eat a mouthful of salt first, remembering the bitterness and thinking about the sweetness. We must not forget that our ancestors had difficulties in starting a business. This is also my Xie family's ancestral training."

What he said was so serious that Bai Mingyu almost believed it.

He Dongting chuckled and shook his head at the side, watching Xie Jing's eyes full of doting, but did not expose it.Only now did he feel that this child was so similar to Yuan Yuan, not only in appearance, but also in his serious and deceitful appearance.

After the banquet, the host and guest had a good time.

Xie Siquan asked someone to set up tea in the garden outside for everyone to taste while admiring the moon.

After He Dongting got up, he didn't go over, but stopped Xie Jing and said to him: "Jing'er, I have something to tell you, come with me."

Xie Jing heard it, got up and followed.

Bai Mingyu on the side was there alone, always felt that Patriarch Xie's gaze was like a torch, and he was a little uncomfortable being stared at as if he was under a lamp, so he also stood up and said goodbye first.

Xu Jun moved closer and said, "I have something to tell you."

Xie Siquan ignored him, and sat there drinking tea: "If you have something serious to say, just say it here, and I won't go back with you." I haven't seen him for a few days and I miss my nephew, so I don't want to go back home with Xu Er, Xu Jun This man looked serious, but he was tossing hard on the bed. I haven't seen him for a few days, so I'm afraid he won't be able to get out of bed tomorrow morning.

Xu Jun gave him a few winks, but Xie Siquan ignored him as if he didn't see it.

Xu Jun got closer, and Xie Siquan said: "Don't mess around, I have tea here, and Bai Jiu will be here soon, and I want to treat him to a good drink. He only drank the best wine in Xichuan, and he hasn't tasted it yet. What a delicious tea!"

Xu Jun: "Bai Mingyu..."

Xie Siquan waved his hand and said, "Isn't it just a few pulls on Jing'er's sleeves? It's nothing serious, they are just playing around among the children, and you are too careful." He took a sip of tea slowly, waiting for Bei Bei who was a few steps away. A group of people from the ground came over and sighed with a smile: "I have figured it out in the past few days. Let them deal with the children's affairs. They can't be stopped. There is always such a process."

Xu Jun frowned: "If it wasn't for him..."

"What do you mean?"

Before Xie Siquan finished speaking, he suddenly stopped speaking.

Jiuye and his party came over and sat on the stone bench beside him. When he sat down with his cloak lifted slightly, a white jade lion pendant was exposed from the hem of his clothes.

Xie Siquan stood there in a daze, his eyes fixed on the little lion for a long time.

How could Xu Jun not recognize something that Xu Jun recognized? !

Master Jiu sat down for a while and asked, "Patriarch Xie? Patriarch Xie has other arrangements. If you're busy, I'll just drink tea by myself."

Xie Siquan raised his head abruptly, and watched his back molars clenched, "Coincidentally, there are some housework to deal with."

Patriarch Xie walked aggressively, Xu Jun didn't stay long, got up and bid farewell, and followed quickly.

Huang Mingyou ate two glasses of wine, was still in high spirits, and was still wondering: "Why did you leave right after you arrived?"

"I don't know, maybe it's the custom of Xichuan." Sitting there, Master Jiu chuckled, took a sip of tea, and slightly raised his head to look at the bright moon in the sky, but this time the jade pendant was not exposed when the cloak was pulled up.

On the other side, in the room.

He Dongting took a stone dragon and handed it to Xie Jing, and sat there and told him about the past between himself and Xie Yuan, one thing, even though it was many years apart, he still remembered it clearly.

He Dongting spoke slowly, coughing occasionally, Xie Jing served him tea and listened carefully.

He Dongting stroked his hair with his hand, and said: "This thing is not worth anything, but since it was left by your mother, I will pass it on to you as well."

Xie Jing nodded, took it carefully, and put it away.

He Dongting took the document bag on the side again, and took out a few pieces of paper, all of which needed to be signed on the last page, both in Chinese and English.He Dongting had already written his name on the side column, and after handing it to Xie Jing, he pointed to the blank space for his signature.

Xie Jing glanced at it, saw what it was, and refused to write: "Father is still here, I don't want these, and I have money myself..."

He Dongting sighed, and said: "You take it, I have nothing to give you."

Xie Jing still refused.

He Dongting held his hand, and wrote down his name stroke by stroke: "I never hugged you when you were young, and I never had time to teach you to read and write. Let me fulfill my wish today, okay?"

Xie Jing wanted to break free, he was stronger than He Dongting, but He Dongting's hand trembling slightly, what he said made Xie Jing even more unbearable.

It seems that what he wants to break free is not a pair of hands, but this family affection.

The author has something to say: Little Theater:

About waiting outside the home stadium of Grumpy House——

Xie Siquan: He Dongting, are you all right?Chirping Wai Wai, wouldn't it be over with a fingerprint?Let Jing'er come out, I have something to ask him!