Different from sitting on the wall while drinking with Hu Ti and Yingzi in the past, Geng Yibiao first brought up a set of low tables and stools from downstairs and put them in place, and then brought up several Hangzhou side dishes that he had made, one by one.
After setting it up, he asked Mu Tian to sit down and poured him some wine. He stood beside him and said, "Young Master, please use it. I haven't cooked for a long time and I don't know what's going on. Please enjoy it and have a taste." He said humbly.
Mu Tian looked at Geng Yibiao and smiled, "Go and ask for dinner below, and ask Hu Ti to come up and eat together."
Geng Yibiao responded and went downstairs to ask Hu Ti to come up.
Geng Yibiao waited for Hu Ti to sit down and poured wine for him. He did not sit down until Mu Tian asked him to sit down again.
Mu Tian said, "You can pour me a drink too. I have been busy all night. Drink more to relieve your fatigue."
Geng Yibiao thanked the young master and poured wine for himself. Then he picked up the wine glass for Mu Tian and handed it to him with both hands, "Young master, I respect you."
Mu Tian took the wine glass, and then Geng Yibiao picked up his own glass and drank it.
Mu Tian also toasted, took a bite of the braised lion's head, put down his chopsticks, and looked directly at Geng Yibiao, "Uncle Geng, I won't be polite. Hu Ti is my brother, so I'll just say it straight."
"Hey, there are only brothers, no sisters?" Yingzi shouted from the stairs and came over.
"Hey, why don't you eat with Aunt Wan and Ouyang?" Mu Tian scolded.
"Mother and daughter have a private chat, and I'll be the lightbulb there." When she spoke, she glanced at Hu Ti. Hu Ti knew what she meant, and hurried to the pavilion and took out a pair of bowls and chopsticks and placed them in front of Yingzi.
, whispered: "Don't talk nonsense, otherwise I won't help you in the future."
Geng Yibiao greeted her politely as "Miss Yingzi" and poured her a glass of wine.
"Okay," Mu Tian said to Yingzi politely, "come and listen too, so as not to ruin my business in the future."
"Then it depends on what happened. Who knows whether it's bad or not?" Yingzi said coquettishly.
Geng Yibiao couldn't help but laugh, but he still suppressed his smile, "Young master, you just spoke frankly. What do you want to say? Do you need me to do something?"
"No, Uncle Geng, what do you think of Qiao Shiyou?" Mu Tian actually wanted to ask Qiao Shiyou what he did at Qiao's house, but he was afraid of scaring Geng Yibiao, so he started asking questions in general and then in detail.
Already.
"Young master, do you mean the second master?" Geng Yibiao asked tentatively, in order to buy himself time to think about Mu Tian's true intention.
"Yes, you have been following Qiao Shikuan all over the world, but what I want to know today is who Qiao Shiyou is and what happened to him in the past." Mu Tian picked up the wine glass and motioned to Geng Yibiao and Hu Ti, and Yingzi also picked it up, "
Speaking of which, you helped my mother with Aunt Wan, and even injured a leg to save her and me. I respect you for this cup."
"I don't dare to do it, young master. I definitely don't dare to do it as a tribute. If you ask me to drink it, I will never refuse to drink it. I will do it first as a tribute. If there is anything you want to know, I will definitely tell you everything." Geng Yibiao finished.
, drank the wine in one gulp, and tilted the glass to show Mutian, Hu Ti and Yingzi.
Mu Tian said "Okay" and drank the wine in his glass.
"Thank you, young master." Geng Yibiao poured another glass of wine for Mu Tian and wiped his mouth, "Let's talk about the second master. He is definitely good at doing business. In terms of courage, vision and means, he should be no less than the second master.
, but this man is a bit small-minded and cares about everything. He also doesn’t know how to be grateful. You see, the master gave him such a big industry as Guangde Pharmaceutical, but he feels that it is what he deserves. And
I still feel that I got less. Fortunately, the master was generous and gave it to me without saying anything." At this point, he suddenly stopped, as if he regretted saying this.
Mu Tian signaled Hu Ti and Yingzi to toast.
Hu Ti understood and found a reason to toast Geng Yibiao.
When Yingzi saw Hu Ti's toast, he said that he was going to live in Qiao Mansion and asked Uncle Geng to take care of him, so he also toasted.
Geng Yibiao was not very good at drinking, and he didn't drink much. Aunt Wan was very strict and there was no wine in the house. At this time, he was almost done with a few glasses of wine, and he started to feel a little dizzy.
"Where's Hao Mingzhen?" Mu Tian asked, seemingly casually.
"Third Wife?" Geng Yibiao was not drunk at first. When he heard this, he immediately sobered up a lot. He thought to himself that this young master would not have heard some rumors. It would be better to tell the young master everything he knew, so as not to Will be blamed later.
"You know that I was making medicinal materials back then and made my fortune from medicinal materials. From Changbai Mountain to Shenyang, Dalian and Peiping, then to Tianjin, Qingdao, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and all the way to Nanyang. I developed all the way. By the time I got to Singapore, I was already an upstart in the business world. In Nanyang, He must be as majestic and dignified as he is, and he is the target of local wealthy businessmen competing to fawn over him.
"The second master was still young at that time. As soon as he arrived in Nanyang, he sent him to Nanyang Public School, where he happened to be in the same class as the third wife. The third wife's family was also a wealthy family in the local area. They were engaged in the export trade of porcelain and tea, and their family was extremely wealthy. Unfortunately, my family had just bought two large ships and planned to expand their business. Unexpectedly, one of their cargo ships was hijacked by an island in Malacca.
"The pirates called and demanded ransom. When the money came, they would release the goods. If the money was not available, more than a hundred crew members would be sold to the coal mines as coolies, not to mention the goods. The Hao family had just bought a big ship, and they didn't have that much cash. , I borrowed money from various places, but I couldn't get the 70% that the pirates demanded. In desperation, I found the master. The goods didn't matter, but I wanted to redeem the crew first.
"The master was young and full of pride, and he was moved by the Hao family's righteousness to save people, so he paid the ransom in full, redeemed the crew members, and abandoned the goods.
"The Hao family was grateful to the master for resolving the crisis, so they betrothed their youngest daughter, Hao Mingzhen, to the master. You have all heard that the eldest wife has been unable to have children. At that time, the second wife had also been in the family for three years, but she had not been able to have children. The Hao family It was also a good intention, thinking that marrying the daughter of the Hao family might give the Qiao family a boy and a half girl, which would be considered a repayment to the Qiao family.
"But, who would have thought, we haven't seen him yet. What's even worse is that this Hao Mingzhen was in love with the second master when he was in school. It was free love.
"But the master doesn't know. The Hao family over there is under the orders of the parents. Free love is very popular in Nanyang, but it is still not feasible in overseas Chinese families. The third wife probably didn't dare to tell her parents. Even if she did, she would definitely You can't disobey your parents' orders. This happened by mistake.
"After all these years, I don't know how they got here?"
As she talked all the way, Yingzi had tears in her eyes and even had tears in her throat.
Hu Ti also remained silent, as if lost in thought.
Mu Tian sighed, stood up slowly, and looked at the street scene under the night, feeling uneasy.
At that moment, he should have found the line for himself.
However, because of this, he suddenly felt a little self-pity. He boasted that he had cracked a major case of exposing the traitor, but a traitor who exposed the traitor was beside him, and he kept hurting his mother. Oh, how sad!
the phone is ringing.
Aunt Wan shouted from downstairs: "Mr. Mu, I'm looking for you."
Hu Ti ran into the pavilion, dragged the phone out, and handed it to Mu Tian.
It was Pique who called, saying that he could not be found at the Huatai Hotel in western Shanghai and asked where and when the meeting would take place tomorrow.