Temperament

In class, Shen Qinglan assigned her homework and announced that school was over. Those children immediately jumped out of the door like a handful of scattered beans, shouting happily, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.Nuo Da's study hall suddenly fell silent.

It was late spring, and the sunlight shining through the window sill cast the shadow of the desk on the blue brick floor, vaguely reminding him that many years ago, he was also like this, sitting on the desk of Mengjia School, looking at the ground. The mottled light and shadow identify which ones are the projections of the trees outside the window, and that one is the figure of the master holding a book and reading.

That master has a straight face, warm eyebrows, and a warm smile. Sometimes, when he sees him distracted, he will stretch out a ruler and tap him lightly on the head, "Where did your thoughts go?"

Every time at this time, Shen Qinglan would withdraw her thoughts of flying like a wild horse, and listen to a passage very carefully, but soon, she would slowly lose her mind in the gentle reading of the master.

When it was time to finish school, Master Meng returned to Senior Brother Meng again, walked up to him, packed his pen and ink for him, and then took his hand, "Come on, Senior Brother will take you to dinner, what do you want to eat..."

"Crystal Elbow!"

"anything else?"

“Crispy Duck!”

"Okay, what else do you want to eat?"

"Hmm...sugar man!"

Vaguely, it seems to see two figures, one tall and one short, passing through time and slowly walking away from the mottled light and shadow reflected on the ground.

Brother...

A slender figure slowly approached from the light and shadow on the ground, Shen Qinglan was in a daze for a while, her blurred vision fell into the shadow that blended with the shadow of the tree on the ground, she forgot to look up, until a pair of feet wearing black boots stopped in front of her the ground.

He woke up suddenly, and when he raised his eyes, a face completely different from the one he remembered came into view.

Zhuo Tianyi reached out and closed the book he put on the lesson plan, hung the pen on the pen holder, and then took his hand, "Let's go."

"What are you doing?" Shen Qinglan stretched out her hand to hold the book in her hand and asked.

"Dinner, don't go back to the East Wing today, just eat in the dining room, and go out with me in the afternoon." Zhuo Tianyi said as he walked.

"I want to prepare lessons..." Shen Qinglan instinctively didn't want to go out.

Zhuo Tianyi glanced at him, "Get ready when you come back." He couldn't help but smile again, "If I knew you were so serious about being a teacher, I would have let you come earlier. However, no matter what, I can't stop me from letting you do it." Something else."

Shen Qinglan gave up her persistence. During this period of time, he also looked away a little bit. The reality that cannot be changed anyway, as long as Zhuo Tianyi is not too much, he will just let it go.

The result of non-cooperation can only be humiliation.

When they entered the dining room, there was still silence.

The difference from the last time was that this time it was lunch, and all the married disciples were there. The dining room was packed together, except for the disciples from the old house in Luoyang and the disciples from other places.

When she sat at the main table under the gaze of more than 200 pairs of eyes, the scene of that day flashed before her eyes. Shen Qinglan frowned, and her mood became depressed without any surprise.

Zhuo Tianyi announced dinner, then patted his hand, "Let's eat."

Shen Qinglan didn't want to let the people below see the joke anymore, so she lowered her head and picked up the chopsticks to eat.

Zhuo Tianyi was still picking up food for him, while Shen Qinglan ate in silence.Perhaps Zhuo Tianyi was satisfied with such a submissive attitude, and the relationship between the two of them during this period of time was no longer the same as before. From time to time, he said to Shen Qinglan, "Eat more", "This is delicious", " The small words of that taste good” caused the disciples who always believed that the head of the family believed in the dogma of not talking when eating or sleeping, to look straight at each other and exchange views with each other.

In Nuo Da's dining room, apart from the sound of hundreds of people eating, there was Zhuo Tianyi's voice talking to Shen Qinglan, every word was heard.

In this situation, Shen Qinglan still had no choice but to eat faster, so as to end this difficult scene earlier.

On the round table next to the door, Shi Qiming poked Zhou Yunlei's arm with his chopsticks, and raised his chin towards the main table, "This Meng family, did they treat themselves as servants, and even climbed onto the bed in the east chamber! Such a mediocre appearance He has no talents and no color, he is worse than that Jiang Moyan, what does the head of the family think of him?"

Zhou Yunlei didn't answer, but just clenched his left hand on his knee under the table.

After lunch, Shen Qinglan was dragged to the gate by Zhuo Tianyi.There was a carriage parked at the door. The spacious carriage and the curtain embroidered with gorgeous patterns looked familiar.

After thinking for a while, I remembered that this car was the one I saw when I went to Luoying Villa last time.

The carriage prepared to pick up Jiang Moyan.

"Get in the car." Zhuo Tianyi patted him on the back, motioning him to step on the pedals prepared by the servant, "Come with me to the shop."

Looking at the car, Shen Qinglan felt an indescribable pain in her heart, her chest seemed to be stuck in a mess of rags, unable to get up and down, tightly stuffing her heart.

The scene at the gate of Luoying Mountain Villa came to mind again, Meng Huaiyuan, who turned his back to him, held the hand of Jiang Moyun who was smiling, and helped him onto the carriage with Su-style embroidery on the door curtain.

That was supposed to be the car Shen Qinglan was riding in, and that hand was supposed to be his, Shen Qinglan's.

For so many years, he has always believed in it.

But now, Jiang Moyan smiled and was helped by Meng Huaiyuan into the carriage that was supposed to be him, and he himself stood in front of the carriage that was supposed to pick up Jiang Moyan.

It seems to be an object, after a simple exchange, the other party's box is used to store it, and there is no such thing as the original box.

But obviously, those memories are all there, how can they be erased in such a simple way?

Shen Qinglan stood in front of the car, habitually reaching for the waist belt beside her.Feeling empty, my heart became even more depressed.

"Get in the car, why are you standing still?" Zhuo Tianyi wondered at his silent look.

Shen Qinglan still didn't move, Zhuo Tianyi became impatient, and simply grabbed his body, picked him up horizontally, got into the car and sat in the compartment.

Shen Qinglan was taken aback by his actions, and when she got into the car, she grabbed the door of the car and broke free from his arms.

Zhuo Tianyi also didn't leave, and sat on the side, obviously he didn't plan to ride any more horses, but rode in the same carriage with him.Shen Qinglan was very uncomfortable, sitting in the same car with him like this gave him the same feeling as sleeping in the same bed every night, and it was difficult to let go of his guard.

Zhuo Tianyi raised the curtain of the carriage and ordered the servants to drive the horses, and then smiled at him, "I plan to formally hand over the accounts to you at the church meeting next month, before that, you go to the shop with me to get acquainted .”

Shen Qinglan was noncommittal, since he went to the Xiwen Hall, he no longer looked at those books as a matter of course. He thought it was just Zhuo Tianyi's means to force him, but he didn't expect that he would really plan to implement it. It seems that he will inevitably Still have to hold up those books again.

However, as the head of the family, entrusting such an important matter of accounting to him, a Meng family, one can imagine how much resistance he will encounter, so Shen Qinglan is not too worried.

Perhaps, there is no need to shirk it, the Zhuo family will rush to stop it.

He didn't speak, and Zhuo Tianyi didn't continue talking, just sat aside, occasionally looking at him carefully, and sometimes showing a look of interest.

For such a long time, no matter how disgusted Shen Qinglan is, she has more or less adapted to his behavior, knowing that the more impatient he is, the more motivated he will be, so she just let him watch, like preparing lessons in the East Chamber It was the same as when it was time, ignore him, and he will be like that.

The carriage stopped and went, and in the afternoon, I only went to the Zhuo family's relatively large money houses, silk shops, porcelain shops and medicine shops in Jinyang City.The shopkeepers of those shops are disciples of the Zhuo family. Although the cashiers belong to the Zhuo family, they don't learn martial arts, and they stay in the shops on weekdays, and they don't go to Zhuo's mansion if they have nothing to do.

Zhuo Tianyi took Shen Qinglan on a tour, and he didn't say anything about handing over the accounts to Shen Qinglan. He just ordered the accountant to take out the account books, and then read them with Shen Qinglan in front of them, and occasionally told him that if there was anything he didn't understand, he could Ask the accountant directly.

Although the disciples of the Zhuo family who served as shopkeepers knew Shen Qinglan's current identity, but because the head of the family skipped them and asked the accountant directly, although they didn't know, they didn't hesitate, but they could only endure it.

Shen Qinglan saw Zhuo Tianyi's meaning, as if it was the same as what he said that day, "slowly infiltrating", and at the same time paving the way for him.He is very serious and strict when talking and questioning, revealing a strong shrewdness, but he will not make unreasonable demands on others, which is very different from the shameless and domineering way he treats himself on weekdays, so he can't help but cheer up and ask some questions carefully.

Several shops walked down, it was almost dusk.

Zhuo Tianyi got into the car with him and ordered his servants to go to West Street. Shen Qinglan was a little surprised that this was not the direction of Zhuo Mansion.

Zhuo Tianyi smiled at him, "I won't go back for dinner today, and my family also runs a restaurant, so go visit it."

This was said very intimately and freely, Shen Qinglan glanced at him and turned away.During this period of time, the relationship between the two of them eased up, and Shen Qinglan gradually became able to cope with Zhuo Tianyi's self-talk.

When we arrived at West Street, several carriages were parked in front of Zhuo's Restaurant, and there were guests coming in and out in twos and threes, it was very lively.

Zhuo Tianyi asked the servant to drive the car straight to a relatively secluded alley behind the restaurant, and dragged Shen Qinglan in through the back door.

The servant said a few words to the waiter, who immediately showed great hospitality and took them to a small private room facing the street on the second floor.

After a while, the accountant came. After seeing Zhuo Tianyi with a smile, he respectfully brought the menu.Zhuo Tianyi didn't look at it, just casually mentioned a few of Shen Qinglan's favorite foods, and told them to make them lighter, after thinking about it, he ordered another pot of wine.

The accountant responded, and withdrew, turned around before leaving, and said to Zhuo Tianyi with a smile: "Master Zhou is delayed by something today, and he hasn't left yet. Would you like to invite Master Zhou to have a few drinks with the master?"

"Okay," Zhuo Tianyi said with a smile, "It's a rare day, so go and ask him to have a drink together."

The accountant hurried away.

"Shopkeeper Zhou, who is it?" Shen Qinglan asked a little strangely.

Shen Qinglan almost never took the initiative to ask him anything, she was either indifferent to him or ignored it on purpose, it is rare to ask a question when reading the account book today, Zhuo Tianyi was a little surprised to ask such a casual question at this time surprise.When he was happy, he let it go, "You will know when you see it."

The author has something to say: Mr. Zhuo took Shen Mi to inspect various branches of the Zhuo Group, preparing for becoming the chief financial officer...