Xu Xuzhi

Chapter 31

The four-day marriage leave that the old man gave Ning Zheng was soon over, and when he woke up early in the morning on the fifth day, it was time for him to resume his normal routine as a senior general of the Ning Army.

The days after Fengjiu's marriage began to move forward like flowing water.

After a period of newlywed life, if Ning Zheng is not on a business trip but in Fengtian, then the daily routine of the newlyweds is arranged like this: Ning Zheng gets up at five o'clock in the morning, strides, and punches for about half an hour. The look of the hour.

In order not to affect Feng Jiu, he would take a shower in the bathroom of the guest room next to the study on the first floor, then change into a new shirt and military uniform, sit at the dining table and read the newspapers of the day, including the previous day's "Declaration" and the day's newspaper. "Fengtian Daily" - "Shenzhen" was one of the most influential newspapers in the period of the Republic of China. It was founded in Shanghai and was published northward until Beiping. Therefore, Ning Zheng could only read the next day brought by the train. newspaper, drink a glass of milk, and wait for Feng Jiu to get up to have breakfast together.

Fengjiu gets up on time at six o'clock every day. In fact, her biological clock is very accurate. The German clock on the bedside table also has an alarm clock. She can wake up completely by herself. There is no need for Ning Zheng to go upstairs to force her to wake her up by kissing her. She was so angry that she was already a little angry when she got up, and beat the bed.

Feng Jiu simply washed up and went downstairs to have breakfast. The usual good and sufficient sleep made her skin as plump and attractive as a freshly peeled hard-boiled egg.Ning Zheng's eyes enjoyed it.

Sitting down to breakfast reveals that the couple's breakfast tastes are quite different.

Ning Zheng’s is fried bacon, fried eggs on both sides to keep the heart running, and toast with butter or strawberry and peach jam, sometimes with a bowl of oatmeal, or muffins with maple syrup, or mushroom cream soup, it can be seen The experience of studying in the United States has turned him into a Western-style stomach.

Fengjiu’s breakfast is purely Chinese: starting with a bowl of thick and moderate porridge—traditional two-rice porridge, red bean porridge, white fungus and red dates porridge in the Northeast, or preserved egg and lean meat porridge and seafood porridge in the south, changing every day , a fixed boiled egg, plus Wu Ma’s crab roe buns, beef and celery buns, mutton and green onion buns or hanging stove cakes, and a few plates of freshly mixed side dishes.Wu Ma's cooking skills are superb, and Feng Jiuzhi praised that she could open a very prosperous breakfast shop.

In fact, this is also why when Ning Zheng asked Fengjiu what requirements he had for the new house, Fengjiu didn't care about how to decorate it at all, but he still asked if there was a small kitchen in the small red building——

Pu Yi, the emperor who retired, was an emperor, but in the Forbidden City, he couldn’t eat a hot meal in winter. It was because the imperial dining room was too far away from his palace. It is often cold, Feng Jiu has a classmate's relatives who once served Puyi in the palace, so it can be seen that the news is very accurate, but Feng Jiu couldn't believe it when he heard it at first - the emperor was too miserable.

When Ning Zheng went out to the military headquarters, Feng Jiu would also take his newspaper to read the current affairs news, then went into the study, and started studying according to the schedule he made, except for the habitual reading of the classics and history subsets from elementary school to adulthood. , she began to increase some readings in history, literary history, political economy and philosophy, and prepared three English-related dictionaries in the study room, one English-Chinese dictionary, one Chinese-English dictionary, and one English-language dictionary; There are almost three books in French.

To learn a foreign language, it is very important to create an immersive environment. Fengjiu concluded that reading novels is not as helpful as newspapers: because the words and sentences in novels are full of personal touches, and often full of slang, which lacks universality. However, the press release is different, the first requirement is to be rigorous, accurate and objective, which is conducive to grammar learning; and for a hot issue, the reporter will continue to track and report for a long time, and there are not many professional terms in a certain field. Days will be remembered firmly because of the high repetition rate.

Feng Jiu insisted on reading the original newspapers every day, but she couldn't get the latest newspapers in Europe and America, because the transportation of materials was very underdeveloped in this era, and the ones she got were often a few months ago. Fortunately, except for the lack of timeliness, Everything else is fine.

The English newspaper she chose was the Christian Science Monitor in the United States. Although it was founded by Christians, its current affairs, reviews and editorials are short and to the point, with sophisticated diction, and cover a wide range of subjects, including literature, art, science, society, The international is all-encompassing, especially the explanatory reports on international issues are relatively objective and fair, which is very rare, and Feng Jiu likes it very much.

In fact, she could still see other original English newspapers, that is, the newspapers run by the Christian priests in Fengtian, but the publication date is not fixed, and the writing level of the articles published on it is also uneven, so you can't count on it.

Since Feng Jiu was exposed to English in middle school at the age of 14, she has been out of control. She seems to have found her own interests and talents. Soon her father invited her to Lin Mo, an American from Xiaoxiguan Church, at her request. The priest was her English teacher. Father Lin Mo graduated from Harvard College of Letters with profound knowledge in European and American literature. In just two years, the priest was surprised to find that her vocabulary had reached almost [-] words, which was much higher than the average An average of almost [-] adult Americans.

Fengjiu's Chinese foundation is deep, and the language is common, coupled with his strong thinking ability, so it is not surprising that he can easily control various styles, even including current affairs comments that girls are usually not interested in or good at. Sexual articles, sophisticated writing, elegant and smooth, with substance, can be called excellent.

When Father Lin Mo heard that she was going to get married at such a young age, he felt extremely regretful. He was Feng Jiu's recommender for applying to Harvard. I made a mistake—if even Feng Jiu is not qualified to enter Harvard, then there should be no Chinese students who can have such qualifications.

But Fengjiu has her own ideas. She has never planned to give up her studies after getting married: Although she is not good at counting things, liberal arts is her strong point, and a lot of knowledge can be made up by extensive reading.

Of course, Feng Jiu's idea is also too wishful thinking - Feng Jiu's talent is extremely high, and understanding can be of great help; as for ordinary talents, if you let him study for three to five years, it doesn't necessarily mean that someone with high talent will improve much in half a year. This is also a manifestation of "life is not equal".

In addition, she always felt that, given time, with Ning Zheng, they should be able to find a way that both of them could accept and allow her to study abroad. intellectuals.

As for French, she has been studying piano for three years by the way. Compared with English, her French is not that proficient, but it is also very good.In addition to practicing oral English with her French piano teacher, Father Lin Mo is also proficient in French. In terms of foreign language learning, she walks on two legs in English and French.

She reads French newspapers Le Figaro, which is aimed at the cultural class in Paris. It has a French elegance and self-righteous sense of superiority in it. The column of "Echo" is full of anecdotes and word games, and the choice of words and sentences is witty and exquisite, which is the most interesting.

She took the newspaper and read it while pointing to it. The ink used for printing the newspaper is not very good, and she often gets a lot of ink after reading it. Every time she sees it, Mama Wu has to nag her. Just eat the fruit next to it.

She often has to read a newspaper for several days, because unlike others, she only reads what she is interested in: she reads the front page first, then the editorial, and then the columns, wedding news, even obituaries and recruitment notices, and the pages between the pages. You have to read the correction statement. Language learning is like this, there is no boundary, and there is no need to draw a prison. Of course, the exactness of this reading also fully expresses Feng Jiu's somewhat obsessive-compulsive disorder.

She has a big hard-shell notebook, which is full of words that are a bit difficult to remember. She will not fail to remember how to write a word, but occasionally the meaning of the word does not match the Chinese.

During this period, there is always a thieves-faced Taishan arching the crack of the door to sneak in, and then tiptoes silently forward, and when he finally gets to the desk, he will find a good place to lie down comfortably, raise his head Looking at Fengjiu's busy study, after a while, he was able to fall asleep again after waking up.

The relationship between Fengjiu and Taishan has become a bit strange now. They are neither close nor distant, nor have any physical contact, but finally Fengjiu is not afraid of it, and it will not blatantly scare Fengjiu. Living in harmony under one roof.

In the end, Feng Jiu asked his elder brother to find a Linqing lion cat for Qiaozhi, and Qiaozhi liked this little female cat who was only two months old and loved like a ball of wool.

Ning Zheng didn't say anything when he heard it, but he felt a little uncomfortable. Unexpectedly, when Qiaozhi mentioned it casually, Feng Jiu took it seriously and didn't say anything.

But seeing his sister and Fengjiu getting closer because of this, and even getting acquainted with each other with a skillful heart similar to their age, he couldn't help but be happy to see it.

After studying for about two hours, she would go out to the courtyard to rest for a while, either skipping rope, or running, or encouraging her sister-in-law, second sister-in-law, and Qiaozhi Qiaoxin to play badminton and tennis at the Shuaifu Stadium, and sometimes make appointments to watch play, watch movies, go shopping.

At least three times a week, she would go to Mrs. Ning's "Rongshou Hall" to pay her respects to the old man, and chat with her about the daily life.

She went back to her natal family about once every two weeks, and she was really afraid that the ungrateful Dalingzi and Xiaobuku would completely forget her.

She still goes to church twice a week to find Father Lin to practice English and French, but her piano lessons have stopped because the French piano teacher happened to return to China, and Melanie, who was learning piano with her, is no longer in Fengtian.

She rarely dealt with concubines, except for the sensible fifth concubine—because of the old handsome's previous explanation, the fifth concubine would control the rhythm and ask her to decide on some really tricky chores every now and then.This is a smart woman.

She could feel the hostility in the eyes of the fourth aunt. This kind of hostility is very familiar, but she doesn't care, and she doesn't want to maintain any relationship. At this point, she subconsciously rejects the creature like the aunt. Maybe her mother The pain left by her depression because of that eloquent second aunt was too deep.

Fengjiu sometimes remembered that it was unusual for Bao Buqu to not be seen at the wedding. According to his relationship with the couples on both sides, he shouldn't have. He only saw Ning Zheng bring it over the next day and asked someone to bring it to him. congratulatory gift.

Fengjiu felt lost. The two-month trip to Guangdong seemed to have a special meaning to both of them. That time was beautiful and pure. The feeling between her and Bao Buqu was very special and worth remembering for the rest of her life. Then, Maybe that's all there is to it.

Melanie would occasionally return to Fengtian from other places, and they would get together. Melanie had already been a teacher at Beipiao Middle School. In the era of the Republic of China when illiteracy was overwhelming, graduating from high school was considered a high degree of education, and her grades had always been very good. , but gave up her studies for the sake of marriage, Fengjiu actually disapproved of it very much: I missed it but couldn't read it, but Melanie is good, she gave it up completely voluntarily.

But Melanie is also capricious, and Master Wu is unprincipled and obedient to his beloved daughter. She and Ji Songling are extremely harmonious and beautiful after marriage. The seemingly indifferent Captain Ji is actually quite romantic, giving little surprises every now and then. , Melanie's whole body was filled with a sense of happiness, which made Feng Jiu happy for her.

However, once Melanie confessed to her best girlfriend with a red face and her mouth covering her mouth. At the beginning, the two got married in a hurry because she designed Ji Songling, and Jiu was the sex matchmaker... Feng Jiu couldn't help but put his hand on his forehead. I didn't expect Melanie, who is as pure as water, to be able to do this trick... Melanie snorted, if it's not that the unyielding Chief Ji really has to wait until the Japanese who are rampant in the Northeast are completely driven back to their hometowns before he can marry her, then I don't know. I have to wait until the Year of the Monkey...

In Melanie's eyes, her husband-in-law is omnipotent. Listening to the advantages of their old Gina, there are too many to count: tactical instructor, strong actual combat ability, never studied but fluent in English, knowledgeable , who does not smoke, whoring or gambling, is also very stable and responsible, good at judging the situation, and can maintain his own point of view; and the biggest advantage is that he has never had a woman, and he is 27 years old.

The advantage is indeed a great advantage. Melanie, who has nothing to say to Feng Jiu, has sold all her husband's privacy to her best friend. The super strong Ji Songling admired him.

Then she couldn't help thinking, if it wasn't for this playful Ning Zheng, she could marry Hutou, and Hutou is also a good boy who keeps himself clean.

In order to reciprocate, Fengjiu also covered her mouth and told Melanie about what happened on the wedding night and Ning Zheng's promise that she would not force her. Feng Jiu said, you don't know, such a young man, "it's hard to bear", after finishing speaking, he nodded meaningfully at Feng Jiu, and pulled Feng Jiu's ear, who seemed disapproving, to tell her to know cherish.

Although Feng Jiu's married life is fairly peaceful, in fact, the current national situation can be called Bo Yun's treacherous.

Lao Shuai, a local warlord in Northeast China, like many other local warlords at that time, had an inexplicable obsession with going to Beijing.

As early as the early years of the Republic of China, the old man went to Beijing to meet Yuan Shikai, the president of the Republic of China government, as a mere division commander, and he never forgot that golden chair.

Six years ago, the "Land-Anhui War" broke out. In essence, it was a battle between local soldiers resisting the central government in order to compete for the ruling power of the Beiping government. war.

Back then, President Xu Shichang of the Republic of China invited the Ning army to enter the pass to mediate the war, and both factions wanted to win over the Ning army for their own use.

Among them, Duan Zhiquan's confidant, Xu Tieshan, a famous Anhui general who graduated from Japan's Army Military Academy, tried his best to win over the old man.

When the fight really broke out, the Anhui Department thought that the Ning Army would help him, but he didn't expect that the old commander had already hidden Chen Cang, turned around and encircled the army, and beat the Anhui Army who was caught off guard.

As a result, the Lu faction and the Ning faction cooperated to defeat the warlords of the Anhui faction, jointly obtained the Beijing regime, and Duan Qirui stepped down.

However, since then, the two factions of Lu and Ning, who were originally cooperating with each other, began to fight openly and secretly for absolute control, until two wars between Lu and Ning broke out. In the two wars, the Ning faction lost one and won the other.

In the second war of this year, the Ning faction relied on the new Third and Fourth Army led by two high-achieving military students, Ji Songling and Ning Zheng, as the main force. At the invitation of Wu Ziyu, the warlord of the Lu faction, the two exchanged blue notes, and the old man entered Beijing with a ceremony of paving the ground with loess to welcome the emperor. The two factions of Lu and Ning cooperated again and took control of the central government.

Young Marshal Ning became famous in the Ning Army, which established his lofty status in the Ning Army, and became famous all over the country. The old commander was very happy.

But Ning Zheng has always disapproved of warlord melee. He is busy with military affairs every day, and his mood is getting more and more worried. He consciously disagrees with his father's political ideas.

It is no exaggeration to say that the only bright spot in Ning Zheng's life now is probably seeing Feng Jiu when he returns home.

It's a pity that Feng Jiu doesn't think so: she has a lot of opinions on a husband who kisses her to death as soon as he comes home, but she doesn't listen to what she says, and she can't beat him again, so she can't help thinking that she must actively save herself.

One day, Ning Zheng came back on time, and as soon as he entered the living room, he saw Feng Jiu grinning at him.

Now, as soon as the servants of the Ning family saw the third young master coming back, they would consciously put down their work and lead the door out, and no one would be so ungrateful.

At this time, it is already a great heat, the middle of the three volts, but Fengtian is already cold in the morning and evening. The thing that can't sleep because of the hot weather in the south does not exist in the northeast. .

At this moment, Feng Jiu was wearing a moon white ramie gown, and was putting his elbows on the coffee table in front of the sofa to do Scrabble in the newspaper with his hair loose. Ning Zheng was suddenly in a daze. He remembered this shirt: During the quarrel because of Xiao Caihong, she was wearing this hemp shirt. At that time, Feng Jiu became angry and even proposed to dissolve the engagement.In fact, before Fengjiu said such unfeeling words, as long as he looked at the deep disgust and determination in her eyes, but such an expression made her beauty appear stronger, his heart began to ache, so painful that it made him feel sick. I was startled.

It's all over.This moment and that moment—seeing her wearing a loose and flowing long gown, with long black crepe-like shiny hair hanging around, peacefully and comfortably staying in her own house, staying within his reach, Ning Zheng's heart swayed, and he quickly After changing his clothes and washing his hands, he walked over quickly after not seeing him all day.

When Feng Jiu heard the movement and looked up to see him, she actually showed an expression of extreme surprise, even with a little eagerness, which was never before, could it be... Ning Zheng burst into ecstasy, and held her face , pressing her thin lips up tenderly, suddenly Feng Jiuchunhua smiled brightly, opened her mouth...

Ning Zheng almost stumbled, let go and stared at Feng Jiu, "You are..." Did you eat shit?
"I just ate 'blue and white' stinky tofu." Feng Jiu smiled, and it was worthwhile for her to walk around the big kitchen, and she found out that Ning Zheng hated the smell of stinky tofu the most.This fake foreign devil is no good, even the essence of such a country is not blessed.

But from this, I know that this person is really picky. A few days ago, why did he have the nerve to brag to himself "the invincible player who eats all over the world", and there are so many people who don't like it.

So it's really possible that he married himself for the sake of eating well, Feng Jiu thought while continuing to puff the stench cheerfully.

On the second day, when Ning Zheng came back, he saw Feng Jiu who was smiling like yesterday, with his lips pursed and smiling. He had some psychological shadows, so he approached cautiously, smelled it first, and Feng Jiu opened his mouth generously for him to smell it. , even the little tongue could be seen clearly, but only the fragrance of nanguoli remained. Ning Zheng was relieved, and couldn't help stretching his fingers in to fiddle with her naughty little tongue.

This Feng Jiu didn't expect it, and couldn't help being furious, Ning Zheng didn't care about this, and immediately hugged her body in an attacking posture tightly, and kissed her tenderly and irresistibly.

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On the fourth day, he was completely relieved, thinking that his wife must have accidentally eaten something so stinky that everyone was angry with him a few days ago, so he returned to the vigor of planning to kiss the world as soon as he came back. Open your mouth, Huizhou stinky fish... Later, Ning Zheng also encountered preserved eggs, stinky bamboo shoots, and even imported canned Swedish herring...it was too ruthless to guard against.

Especially this herring, how smelly is it?It is so smelly that if you divide the smells in the world into a rank, it can be ranked first; if the Swedes who invented this method of fermented herring in salt water have to notify their neighbors in advance, in case some neighbors can't stand it A stink bomb attack—some people can't even smell this stinky "good thing", and they have a huge physiological reaction, and rashes all over their bodies when they smell a little bit of it.

Ning Zheng stood by the sink in the bathroom, supervised with folded arms, and forced Feng Jiu to brush his teeth twice, and took another mouthful of jasmine tea. How light is it.

Feng Jiu said calmly: "This stink lasts for a long time, it should still stay in your nasal cavity, so it's not the stink in my mouth, but what you smell now stinks..."

Ning Zheng finally got angry, and pulled Feng Jiu to negotiate with her. Feng Jiu was also dissatisfied: "Do you know how many things a person's mouth can be used for? Drinking tea, eating, talking, singing, coughing, fighting... Do you realize how important it is? Why do you have to do this kind of indecent thing endlessly? Not to mention the infection of germs."

"How can this not be popular? I want to 'get along with you'."

Before he finished speaking, Feng Jiu looked at him contemptuously up and down, and Ning Zheng lowered his voice a little: "I haven't actually kissed many women, no, in fact, I have never kissed many women, kissing is a thing of the past." There are fewer children, because this kind of thing...is too intimate." Feng Jiu looked at him with arms folded with a sense of superiority, and Ning Zheng had no choice but to continue: "Besides, if you don't let me kiss, I'll even— I'm aggrieved." He pointedly looked up and down Feng Jiu's slim figure.

...All right, for the sake of his own chastity, Fengjiu decided to let this topic go.

Fengjiu then assured Ning Zheng that he would never piss him off again, but he still did not forget to stimulate him, saying that his taste buds had not been fully developed since he was a child, and the recipes he could accept were too narrow, and he missed too many delicacies. He felt sorry.

Ning Zheng was relieved, and treated Feng Jiu very well. When he came back the next day and smelled it, the smell finally returned to normal, so he kissed him like a wolf... This time it was pepper...
In fact, both Feng Jiu and Ning Zheng are authentic northerners, and they cannot eat spicy food by nature.

They were all drinking water quickly, Ning Zheng was so hot that he was pouring water while thinking belatedly, no wonder when I came back today, I found her lips were so bright red, and her eyes were so bright that she almost blushed. Two packs of tears, in order to lure myself into the bait, she was able to endure the hotness and continue to smile. It was really a fight, just a queen bee, it really is "the world's most poisonous woman's heart".

But... Ning Zheng explained to himself, okay, she can let me kiss, and she can open her little mouth for me, so what else can I choose?

Ning Zheng thought about it, and even showed that he never tired of it.Feng Jiu finally gave up this kind of teasing, after all-herring is really stinky, and peppers are really spicy. This kind of thing of "killing eight hundred enemies and hurting oneself one thousand" is too uneconomical, and this is not her consistent style of Tang Fengjiu.

Ever since she got married, Feng Jiu couldn't stop being harassed by Ning Zheng, and she gradually got used to it.

He has a serious bad habit now, that is, he just put his hands up and down on Feng Jiu, but he still keeps grabbing Feng Jiu's white and tender hands and touching his hard body, and there is a tendency to go down more and more , the euphemistic name is "familiar with each other's body", Feng Jiu is not following it, so the two of them are quite noisy in bed every day, rolling around, fighting, Ning Zheng sometimes doesn't notice, and even gets hit on the face Feng Jiu kicked a few times, but he didn't take it seriously, as if he could only rely on this kind of rubbing to offset his restrained lust.

Fengjiu is satisfied with Ning Zheng's ability to restrain himself from touching him. It seems that studying abroad is still beneficial. No matter what, Ning Zheng still knows how to respect women better than his father-in-law, who was first married as a teacher. The second concubine of the husband's daughter was snatched by force. At the beginning, she said that she was "big at both ends", but in fact she was still a concubine after she came in, and she was not on an equal footing with Ning Zheng's biological mother.

He went to work, and Feng Jiu was not idle. The old man sent someone to find her in Daqinglou, and brought a lot of ledgers, and Mr. Wen, an accountant who was considered to be the number one in the various industries of the Ning family. , This is what it means to test her ability to audit accounts, but for the daughter of the Tang family, Fengtian God of Wealth, this is nothing.

Feng Jiu had already expected it, so he unhurriedly pulled out a small golden abacus from his sleeve. It was only one palm long and one palm wide, with a total of twelve steps. The small gold abacus beads were exquisitely made. , there is also a piece of delicate green jadeite Pixiu tied to the abacus frame on the lower left, which is so crystal clear that it means that this mythical beast swallows all wealth, so exquisite and luxurious that it almost blinded Mr. Wen's old eyes.

Whether it is the account of the Jinzhou Silver Mine in the past six months or the account of Ning Jun's quilt this winter, Feng Jiu can quickly and well calculate it. Mr. Wen, who was doing the accounting with Feng Jiu, looked at the young woman in front of him in surprise. , a pair of slender hands quickly typed the small abacus, and she looked like a veteran. In less than an hour, she had found out all the accounts that were intentionally wrong.

The old accountant clasped his fists to show his admiration for the newly appointed third young mistress, and when he reported back to the old man, he couldn't help but praise Feng Jiu severely.

A few days later, it happened that the old man had finished his breakfast, and Shi Shi ran out of the brothel. It was a rare stroll in his own garden, when he suddenly felt a mouthful of phlegm, and was about to spit it out quickly: The old man was born as a bandit, although he casually With a high position and weight, hygiene habits have been greatly improved, but how can they be changed so thoroughly.

Besides, Chinese men have been accustomed to spitting everywhere for a long time. Just as they were about to vomit, they turned their faces away. When they looked up, they saw Feng Jiuzheng, the third daughter-in-law, coming out of the small red building behind, holding a gun in her hand. Xiao Hua scissored, the old handsome Kaba rolled his eyes, his throat unconsciously made a "gudong" sound, and he swallowed.

The guard who witnessed this scene with his own eyes almost suffered from internal injuries - he had never seen his majestic old man so deflated.

Feng Jiu, who was far away, could only pretend to turn around casually to admire the flowers and scenery, and came over after a while, greeting her husband with a smile on his face.

The short old man looked at Feng Jiu kindly with his hands behind his back, he was so amiable that he couldn't help but ask, "Is Feng Jiu going to pick flowers?"

"Yes, father, I want to put some vases of flowers."

The young girl who has just become a bride is holding delicate flower scissors facing the sun, her face is more delicate than flowers, graceful and graceful, infinitely beautiful. Although she only wears a pair of soft-soled embroidered shoes, she is half a head taller than the handsome old man in riding boots. The old man was very relieved to see it, and said graciously: "If it is not enough, let the flower house bring it to you, if you don't have it at home, let them go find it."

Feng Jiu smiled gratefully.

With this smile, the old man who thought he had spent half his life rolling in the flowers was also caught by this dazzling smile like Xia Yang's. He rolled his eyes, and was sincerely worried about his son.

In a few days, it will be the old man’s 52nd birthday on the lunar calendar. The Ning army has been fighting for years and has suffered a lot. In order to show his determination to govern diligently, care about people’s livelihood, and reduce unnecessary expenses, this year’s birthday banquet is extremely simple. All of them are blocked, that is, the family has a meal together in the evening.

However, it is not easy to accommodate the whole family. Only three tables are opened in the huge banquet hall of Daqinglou.

On the second day of the wedding, the bride also visited the elders of the same clan, but the direct blood relatives of Mr. Ning were not complete, because many of Mr. Ning's brothers of the same clan and their families came.

Today is the first time that the direct blood relatives of the old man have gathered so closely together, and Fengjiu's eyes are dizzy - except for Ning Zheng's sister-in-law and nephew Hongsi, second brother and second sister-in-law, son Hongyun, and daughter Yanying, the rest are all... They are Ning Zheng's younger brothers and sisters, the young carrot heads.

In addition to her cleverness, the fourth aunt also gave birth to a son and a daughter, who are 12 years old and seven years old; the fifth aunt gave birth to four sons, the oldest being ten years old, which is one of the reasons why the fifth aunt is so favored; The sixth aunt is only [-] this year, she has only been in the house for two years, and she gave birth to a daughter who is less than two years old; the seventh aunt is the youngest, she is from Xinna, and has no children.

Although there are many children, they didn't make any noise due to excitement. No matter how big or small they were, they all obeyed the rules.

The seven children were dressed plainly, but they were made of cotton shirts with better materials and light colors, and they stood in a row like arithmetic progressions.

The second elder brothers Ning Cheng and Ning Zheng pulled the boys out first to stand in the back row with straight faces, and then Qiaozhi Qiaoxin stood in the front row with the rest of the girls, waiting for the Ning family's dedicated photographer to take pictures of them Well, this is also an old rule in their family - on the old man's birthday, the children stand together and take a picture.

A land of beautiful children, big and small, is quite spectacular, but two of them, Ning Cheng and Ning Zheng, can still be called children?Totally overage.

Mrs. Ning sat aside and watched very happily.Feng Jiu stood by and suffocated laughing to death.

Six-year-old Hong Yun and four-year-old Yan Ying are not of the same generation as them, so naturally they don't need to take pictures. Yan Ying's little hand is held by her cousin Hong Si, who secretly shaves to shame them.

Ning Zheng secretly glanced at Feng Jiu, who was smirking aside, with a look of helplessness on his face, thinking in his heart that he was negligent this year, and that this rule must be abolished next year... His face was so embarrassing in front of his wife. How decent!
After the photo was taken, Ning Zheng was dragged by the old man to the small living room aside to give a lecture. Although the political views became more and more different, Ning Zheng still carried out his father's orders silently.

After closing the door, the old man said earnestly as soon as he was seated: "Chen Zhong'er, your daughter-in-law is really well chosen. Although you are unreliable in other things, you have done a good job in this matter. drop."

Ning Zheng laughed, and suddenly asked: "Father, you know that she is not willing to marry me, how can you let me marry her?" Feng Jiu didn't know the inside story of the matter, and let it go.

"When I was young, I heard a saying, 'If you can't ask for it, you toss and turn'. Although I'm not sure how to write these words, I understand the meaning. Dad doesn't want you to have regrets in such a major event in life. "The old man stood on tiptoe and patted the shoulder of his son, who was taller than himself.

"Besides, Fengjiu has a good character, is smart and beautiful, as long as you don't overdo it, she will manage the backyard for you to make it look beautiful."

"Why, dad also thinks I'm like you, Mrs. Donna?"

"Fart! Can this be the same? In our generation, it's a joke if you don't accept less! This is also a matter of supporting the scene! Look at your generation, there is no one who publicly accepts Mrs. Na, they all stayed abroad. Now Finding a concubine again will become a laughing matter. Oh, it’s always the same.” The old man was full of emotion.

"Then I'm at a loss?" Ning Zheng teased his father.

The old man's face was like that of almost all the men in the Ning family, and he suddenly smiled again: "I won't be fooled, if you have the ability, you can accept it, if you accept a few more, if it can be settled , Dad also admires you."

Ning Zheng: "...you are still my real father, aren't you?"

"Oh, I see you, Xuan! You can't handle it with a nine-girl." Ning Zheng was angry, and looked at his father's gloating eyes.

"Why do I feel that you are intentionally embarrassing me... Are you jealous of me?"

The old man looked up at him, "Don't be jealous. When I was young, how could I have your wealth, how could I have your luck? I don't have a good father! But you should also be careful, 'what the hell is it? Dier', don't get too used to her, the daughter-in-law really can't get too used to it."

This is a different way to praise yourself, without mentioning that you are short and big and can't read a lot. Ning Zheng wanted to reach out and scold his father, but he still didn't dare, "You, you." He said helplessly Sighing, "However, if you don't want to get used to her, it's hard——I'm leaving." With a flick of his head, he opened the door and left.

What do you mean by that?In the words of the people from the Northeast - the old handsome man who is not tall in mind is thinking about it blindly.

After a while, the banquet started, Mrs. Ning, the handsome man, sister-in-law, second brother and sister-in-law sat at a table with Ning Zheng and his wife, and the handsome man understood what it meant.

Feng Jiu used serving chopsticks to give Madam Ning and Lao Shuai each a pair of toon scrambled eggs.

The old lady smiled and said nothing, and ate the dish happily.

Feng Jiu secretly looked at the handsome man, the handsome man smiled, and glanced at the ghostly Feng Jiu. In order to maintain his face in front of his daughter-in-law, he finally ate the food. As expected, I took a few more bites.

The second daughter-in-law at the side looked at the old man in surprise. When did the old man move his chopsticks for this kind of unscrupulous eating in the mouth of the husband?His old man's favorite food is eggplant and potatoes mixed with miso, pancakes rolled with scallions and other farm meals, because most of the ancestors of Northeast people came from Shandong, and their living habits are very similar to Shandong people, and the old man is also He is a different color, and he never touches the food like Chinese toon that has a bit of a bad smell and is not used to it at first.

When Ning Zheng saw it, he immediately stopped eating, put down his chopsticks, and looked at his father opposite with a smile. The old handsome looked back at his son in embarrassment. ... Difficult, really difficult.

(End of this chapter)