Zhou Lijun coughed lightly and said with a smile: "It's our fault. In fact, it's not a confidential matter. It's just that our parents are worried, so we siblings avoid talking here."
She changed her voice and asked with a smile: "When did Brother Xiang come back? Have you eaten? Do you want to share some food with us?"
Xiang Mingxue thought for a while and then nodded and said: "Sorry for bothering you, I just want to go visit your parents."
Not to mention Zhou Lijun, even Zhou Liwei was stunned for a moment. The two siblings were always polite. Why was the always polite eldest brother Xiang suddenly so rude?
Zhou Liwei scratched his head and couldn't help but look at Zhou Lijun. What should I do? They have all eaten it.
Zhou Lijun was just stunned for a moment before nodding and said: "Please invite me to my eldest brother. My fourth uncle is also here. Do you want some wine?"
Xiang Mingxue smiled and nodded.
When they arrived at the main hall, Lao Zhoutou and the others were talking to Mrs. Liu and Mr. Zhuang. Zhou Dalang and his brothers were standing in a group separately, not knowing what they were talking about.
When Zhou Lang raised his head and saw Xiang Mingxue, his eyes immediately lit up. He left his brothers and went to meet him. He laughed and patted him on the shoulder and said: "Brother Xiang, when I came back, I heard someone said that you went to Fengzhou. I thought
It will take several days before I can see you, but I didn't expect you to be back now."
Xiang Mingxue smiled and said: "I came back early this morning and arranged for my men to come over. I didn't expect such a coincidence that you would come to Beijing at this time."
Zhou Lang asked, "Have you reached an agreement with Fengzhou?"
Xiang Mingxue nodded with a smile, "Yes, so the time to enter the grassland this year will be delayed, at least until the summer harvest is over."
Xiang Mingxue does not intend to compete with Zhou Lang for the tea business. The goods they import from the grassland include medicinal materials, furs, pearls and gems, etc. Because they each have their own sales channels, there is no conflict at the moment.
So it's a mutually beneficial relationship.
Originally, Xiang Mingxue also had a tea business, but it was not a big one, but his hometown was also in Jiannan Road, so it was not difficult to find tea.
But after thinking about it, he still gave up this business and left it all to Zhou Lang. He went to Fengzhou to find food. He planned to mainly do food business when he entered the grassland, and he could also bring some porcelain and cloth.
Make a lot of money.
Zhou Lang naturally knew that this was Xiang Mingxue's good intention, and he was a little anxious and moved. After a pause, he wanted to pull Xiang Mingxue to talk about it in detail later, but he finally opened his mouth to Mingxue.
Xue looked over there and said, "That's..."
"Oh, that's my second brother and second sister-in-law." Zhou Lang then remembered that he hadn't met his second brother and second sister-in-law yet. Xiang Mingxue lived in Zhou Zhai. Although he lived on the other side, he didn't even go out.
He walked through the east side door, but they would always meet each other under the same roof, so he dragged Xiang Mingxue to meet Zhou Erlang and his wife first.
"Second brother, this is Brother Xiang that I told you. Brother Xiang, this is my second brother and second sister-in-law."
Zhou Zhoulang raised his smile and was about to say hello, but Xiang Mingxue was silent for a while and then called out, "Uncle Zhou Zhou, Aunt Zhou..."
Zhou Lang's smile froze slightly, and he couldn't help but look at Zhou Lang, what's going on? Why is he just one generation older than the fourth child?
Zhou Lang also froze, turning his head to look at Xiang Mingxue.
There was a suspicious red color on Xiang Mingxue's face. Although it was not obvious, Zhou Lang could still see his good brother's embarrassment...
Why be embarrassed?
Zhou Lang's head turned slowly. It was obvious that the brothers were all brothers. Even the older Zhou Dalang and Xiang Mingxue were called Brother Zhou. Why did the second brother call him Uncle when it was his turn?
A firework exploded in Zhou Lang's mind, and he suddenly thought of the worries that his second sister-in-law had just talked about, saying that Li Jun was so old but he hadn't said goodbye yet...
Wu Lang and Liu Lang also fell silent and looked at Xiang Mingxue silently.
Zhou Liwei stiffly turned his head to look at his sister. Zhou Lijun met his gaze with a puzzled expression, and it took him a while to realize what he meant...and what Xiang Mingxue meant.
Zhou Lijun was surprised for a moment and couldn't help but raise his head to look at Xiang Mingxue.
Zhou Dalang rolled up his rolled-up sleeves and walked over from the other side. Seeing them standing together but hearing no sound, he asked: "What are you talking about? Mr. Xiang is back? Can we have dinner? Do you want to eat some food?"
"
Xiang Mingxue quietly took a deep breath and tried not to notice much change before saying: "I've already eaten, thank you... Brother, it's late, I'll go back to the house to rest first, I came here to think about
I haven’t met Uncle Zhou yet, so I came over to say hello.”
So he bowed to Mingxue and left.
Zhou Dalang looked confused and turned to ask Zhou Lang, "Who is Uncle Zhou? Our uncle?"
Zhoulang just stared at Zhoulang, with a look of confusion on his face.
Zhou Erlang was not stupid. At first he thought Xiang Mingxue had called him by mistake, but later he specifically called him eldest brother. Obviously, it was either an accidental mistake or a deliberate one.
But I don’t know if I called it wrong or right.
Zhou Zuorang looked at Zhou Lijun, and the father and daughter looked at each other silently. In the end, Zuorang still didn't have the nerve to ask his daughter these things.
Mothers should still ask this kind of thing.
But he knew that his wife and daughter actually had some conflicts, especially now that his daughter was becoming more and more aggressive and her temper was even tougher. It would be good if the two of them got together without quarreling, let alone asking questions.
So he looked at Zhou Lang and simply stretched out his hand to drag him away.
Feng wanted to pull Zhou Lijun to ask, but Zhou Lang felt something was going wrong, so he immediately pulled Feng's hand and said, "Second sister-in-law, let's talk together."
Feng came in early, and Zhou Lang was still a little kid at that time, so she reached out and patted his paw unceremoniously. She didn't object and just followed their brothers away. She also wanted to ask questions.
what is going on.
However, Zhou Lijun was heartbroken. She made a mistake, it was too bad. She wanted to divert trouble to the east, but why did she end up with a flood of trouble on her head?
She looked at Zhou Liwei suspiciously, "It's you..."
"No," Zhou Liwei said without thinking, "Second sister, this is about your reputation. Am I the kind of person who would make fun of my sisters' reputation?"
Only then did Zhou Lijun think about another possibility, "So..."
Zhou Liwei lowered his voice and said: "So Brother Xiang likes you. No wonder he specifically asked us to call him Brother Xiang, and he said that everyone has their own opinions..."
Zhou Lang was also explaining to Zhou Lang and Feng, "People on the grassland are informal, and our two families are either relatives or friends, and they are just some favors, so on the grassland he talked to Li Zhong and the others
He didn't want to be called old for nothing, so he asked them to call him Brother Xiang. Then, when I do business with him, we naturally have different opinions, so we call him that."
"What a bullshit? Then why did he call eldest brother eldest brother, but when it was my turn, he called second uncle? He can tell clearly who is following who," Zhou Lang stared at Zhou Lang and asked, "Tell me honestly, are you establishing the throne?"