Painting Tang

The Zou family’s banquet lasted from noon to sunset. The tunes on the stage were sung from Dajinzhi to Dadengdian, but the dim sum and side dishes were all the same, such as crispy plum, bean and carrot jelly, preserved apricot and candied lotus root. Crab roe cake, Zou Yueyin said that she didn’t like sweets, so she gave it to Yu Tang, but when she saw that Yu Tang couldn’t stand Mu Jingchen’s torture, she immediately regretted it when she handed him the cake .

"Mu, have you brought Xiao Haitang to meet your parents?"

Zou Yueyin braced her face, she didn't like to listen to opera, her mouth was never idle, chatting with Mu Jingchen or Yutang without saying a word.

"not yet,"

Mu Jingchen's gaze was always on Yutang, and he helped Yutang pick out the hard walnuts and almonds in the bowl calmly, and answered Zou Yueyin,

"Free love is up to you. Besides, how much pressure should he have to bring Xiao Haitang to meet his parents, right? I'm the worst at dealing with old people. Every time I chat with you, the old man of the Zou family, it will cost me half my life."

"I mean your parents will definitely like Yu Tang when they see her."

Zou Yueyin affirmed again, wishing she could be the high hall they both wanted to worship.

"Yes, Teacher Xiao Yu is definitely likable, maybe as soon as she enters my house, she will replace me as the most popular baby."

Yu Tang just smiled when he heard Mu Jingchen's words, and he continued to chew the bowl of exquisite and crystal clear almond tofu without any waves, while he was full of resistance to the whole Mu family in his heart.

Old General Mu has never seen him, and he will not recognize him as the blood of a wronged soul who once died under the iron cavalry of the Mu family army. Maybe he will indeed like him as an ordinary child, but he is different. He still remembers it clearly The desolation and pain of family ruin and death, even today, he still breaks out in a cold sweat at night because he dreams of the bloody battlefield when he was a child.

"...Come on, you are the only one who is still the big baby. I think that cousin of your family is the real treasure."

Zou Yueyin snorted coldly, feeling disgusted with Zhou Yuhui's actions today, and felt comfortable whipping her every half an hour.

"It was originally my mother who loved her, but it's just that it's time to send her home after such a fuss today."

"I should have avoided suspicion a long time ago. A girl of seventeen or eighteen lives under the same roof as you every day. If I hadn't known that you were not interested in women, I would have thought that this was the child bride-in-law chosen by your mother for you. I still can't get it." The child bride on the table."

"—thump!"

As soon as Zou Yueyin finished speaking, two or three loud noises suddenly burst into the dizzy mid-air, golden moon and silver flowers, and the dark night sky was covered with a low and brilliant light curtain by fireworks.

Yu Tang, who was eating glutinous rice cakes, choked and coughed from the shock of the fireworks, and even Zou Weiyi, who had just finished toasting a round of wine and came to find them, shivered violently.

"Why didn't I know there was such a link?"

Zou Weiyi looked at Zou Yueyin as he spoke, and as expected, Zou Yueyin shrugged and said:

"This is also one of the birthday presents I gave you from your sister. How is it? Are you particularly touched?"

"Moved, moved... Hey, where are you three going?"

As soon as Zou Weiyi sat down, he saw that Zou Yueyin and Mu Jingchen were running away with Yu Tang who was being led, and almost thought of taking a sip of tea.

"Go to the rooftop to watch the fireworks."

Zou Yueyin pointed to a small three-story building not far away, "Little birthday boy, come together?"

Zou Weiyi struggled for a moment, Zou Yueyin and Mu Jingchen liked to go to the house to Jiewa since they were young, they crawled the roof cellar of Mu Zhai and Zou Zhai, but Zou Weiyi seldom hang out with them , He likes to be quiet, every time he hides in a corner and reads alone.

"Are you coming or not?...Mu Jingchen, don't run away! You don't want to leave us and take Yutang alone!"

Zou Yueyin yelled and followed them. They were so lively that Zou Weiyi also followed them for the first time. When he climbed up the window sill and the drainpipe to the top floor, the first thing that hit his nostrils was the smell of roast chicken.

"Hey, Master Zou is here too? Fortunately, I bought two more."

Zhen Hui had been waiting on the roof with the roast chicken early on, and beside him was Chen Shuya, who was always known for her elegance.

"Why are you all here... Even Shuya has been spoiled by you."

Zou Weiyi laughed helplessly, and regardless of the dust falling on the roof, he lifted up his clothes and sat on the floor. Chen Shuya was squatting next to Zhen Hui, devouring chicken legs, and raised her head and smiled shyly, please,

"But don't let my parents know that I'm crazy here."

"Don't worry, I'll come back to protect you. If anything happens, they will only blame me for bringing you down... Can you just pull a chicken leg for me? Why are you so stingy, who can chew on these little wings?"

Zou Yueyin expressed dissatisfaction with the wingtips he got, and in a blink of an eye, Zhen Hui stuffed three big chicken legs into Yutang's hands.

Well, he co-authored everything for his own sister-in-law.

"There are only a few in total. Will I eat a little too much?"

Yu Tang didn't stop talking all day. He originally wanted to find an excuse to give Mu Jingchen one, but Mu Jingchen took the opportunity to wrap his arms around his waist when he heard the sound.

"Not much, the body is still so thin, you have to eat every meal."

"...Mr. Mu, you have chicken oil on your hand, please don't leave it on me."

Yu Tang was inevitably shy to be taken advantage of by him in front of others, and quietly backed away with red ears.

"……Feel sorry."

Mu Jingchen smiled, and withdrew his hand knowingly. Every movement he made was measured enough, but for some reason, Yu Tang could feel the disappointment implied in it.

Isn't it a bit hurtful to take these two steps back... After all, Mu Jingchen's hands were stained with oil because he helped him pull the chicken legs.

Within two seconds, Yu Tang quietly moved to Mu Jingchen's side again, and bumped Mu Jingchen's shoulder unintentionally like a kitten showing affection to someone.

"Well……!"

Yu Tang didn't expect Mu Jingchen's shoulder blades to be so hard, and he couldn't control the strength well. This bump made him have to cover his nose and inhale in pain.

"Why are you so stupid every time you're full?"

Mu Jingchen was so teased by him that he couldn't help laughing, and scratched Yutang's slightly red nose bridge with his fingers.

"Zhen Hui, how on earth did you put up with the two of them?"

Zou Yueyin got goosebumps when she saw it, so she could only squat in a neat row with Zou Weiyi, Chen Shuya and the others very consciously, staring up at the night sky to watch the fireworks.

"I'm still too slow!"

Zhen Hui hates that iron can't make a steel road,

"Master Zou, do you think so? How long has it been? Why can't I see any progress!"

"Well,"

After thinking seriously, Zou Weiyi replied earnestly, "It's really a little late. I thought that Mu Jingchen's temper... would be able to lure Yutang home in half a month at most."

"Half a month is the speed of your sister and me."

Zou Yueyin snorted coldly with disdain.

"The moon is so round tonight."

Chen Shuya, who couldn't get in the way because she respected Mu Jingchen, finally finished eating the roast chicken in her hand. She slowly took out a handkerchief and carefully wiped her mouth clean before uttering such a sentence.

"Really, the moon on the fifteenth day is extraordinarily round! It's like a plate."

Zhen Hui immediately picked up the conversation, and Yu Tang, who was beside him, also raised his head to find that round moon disk in the gap between the dazzling fireworks like broken stars.

The moonlight on the fifteenth day was as clear as tea jelly squeezed from citrus, and the scattered light and shadow of the fireworks made Yu Tang even think for a moment that he had really merged into them.

He could have integrated into them, if the Mu family's army hadn't stepped into Enyi, if the Yu family hadn't been destroyed, if he could really walk out of the empty hatred like Yu Mian suspected.

"The guests seem to have dispersed."

Zou Yueyin lay on the railing and looked at the crowded gate not far away, and still did not forget to verbally slap Yutang madly, "Is it too far for Yutang to go home? Why don't you stay and live in my house? You Are you also interested in painting? I have an amazing oil painting in my room..."

"Okay, prepare a bigger bed, and I'll stay here too."

Mu Jingchen coldly rejected Zou Yueyin's invitation for Yutang, and Zou Yueyin could only scold him for being stingy with all his sarcasm.

"I think you'd better go home early to deal with your family's bad affairs! Miss Biao is a lady, I think your family will not be safe tonight..."

"Brother Zhen, young master! I finally found you! It's terrible, you go home and have a look...!"

"What do you mean?"

Zhen Hui stood up and realized that the person who came was not someone else, but the driver who drove Old General Mu instead of him today.

"Miss Biao was scratched on the face, and she's making a fuss right now..."

"You won't really let me tell you?"

Zou Yueyin became energetic as soon as she heard the excitement, and she was more active than Mu Jingchen when she slapped her thigh.

"Who did it? Although your cousin hates it, she did it a little too much. What's bad is the heart, not the skin... have you caught anyone?"

"Catch, catch..."

The little driver swallowed, and raised his eyes to look at Mu Jingchen submissively.

"go on."

"It's Yu Mian... Now that she has been brought to the house, Mrs. Mu felt so distressed when she saw Miss Biao's bloody face, she has already said that she will make decisions for her."

"Depend on."

Zou Yueyin felt sorry for her crow's mouth, but now it's over, Mu Zhai really has no peace tonight.

"Make the decision, how does Zhou Yuhui want to make the decision for her?"

Mu Jingchen frowned, and the hand on Yutang's shoulder changed from clasp to embrace,

"I'll go back and deal with it, don't worry."

"me and you together."

Yu Tang also frowned in a rare way. He knew Yu Mian. Although Yu Mian was extreme and hated Zhou Yuhui, she would never be so stupid as to directly attack her... There must be something strange about this matter.

"Will you stay with me?"

Zou Weiyi couldn't help dissuading him, "If Zhou Yuhui knew that it was your younger brother, she would definitely not let it go. Let Mu Jingchen handle this kind of matter."

"I'm with him."

Yu Tang repeated it slowly, and Zou Weiyi wanted to persuade him again, but was stopped by Zou Yueyin, who pouted at Yu Tang,

"If the dead girl is too much, you can tell me, and I will help you clean her up."

Yu Tang smiled gratefully, and was held tightly by Mu Jingchen. The warm and strong knuckles were like the toughest shield to Yu Tang. Mu Jingchen pulled him and promised,

"Don't listen to her, with me here, no one can bully you."