Chapter five hundred and forty third empty valley orchid
Under Liu Mingzhi's guidance, the brother and sister Liu Mingzhi cleverly avoided the topic they had just talked about. They chatted about some more interesting experiences and walked into the study together, talking and laughing.
Young Master Liu looked at his younger sister Liu Xuan curiously trying to flip through the decorations in his study, and reached out to hold Liu Xuan's wrist.
"Little sister, wait a moment."
Liu Xuan paused and turned to look at Young Master Liu in confusion, not knowing why he stopped her.
In the past, when I came to my eldest brother's study, I would do whatever I wanted to do, but my eldest brother would never ask.
Liu Mingzhi let go of Liu Xuan's wrist and wandered around the study with a calm expression. After a while, Young Master Liu walked to the chair with a dozen hair strands in his hand and sat down, clamping the hair aside.
Only in the book did Liu Xuan smile twice.
"You can read it now. Don't make it a mess for me. I have to clean it up again."
Liu Xuan's beautiful eyes looked at the hair stuck in the book in astonishment, and she couldn't help but swallow her saliva twice.
"Brother, you are a little too careful in our own home. As for leaving so many hair strands?"
"You don't understand this. As the saying goes, you never go wrong with caution. Sometimes it's the most inconspicuous things that can be the most deadly.
There’s a saying in particular that’s so good!”
Liu Xuan looked at her elder brother's pointed eyes and asked curiously: "What common saying?"
"It's hard to guard against house thieves day and night, so even in our own home, sometimes we can't guarantee that the secrets that big brother wants to hide will be foolproof.
I don’t know what you think of this sentence, Xuan’er?”
Liu Xuan looked at Mr. Liu's somewhat thoughtful gaze, her delicate and pretty face stiffened slightly and then returned to normal.
"Brother, you are just too cautious. Our father seems to be extremely kind, but he has never been merciful to those who dare to have evil intentions towards the master's family.
There were quite a few of those sacks in the warehouse that year.
In such a well-guarded place, what kind of thieves could be plotting evil!"
Liu Mingzhi lowered his eyebrows and chuckled twice, then picked up a piece of paper and silently read it again.
"You are right, maybe the eldest brother is really too suspicious.
I hope so, brother, just be careful and don’t make any big mistakes.
You can take a look at it at will. Once the elder brother has finished processing this information, we will go to meet the old man and your second brother together."
Liu Xuan raised her eyes and glanced at the thick stack of information in front of Young Master Liu, and walked over slowly.
"Brother, the things in your study haven't been changed over the years. Little sister still looks the same. You and second brother haven't seen each other for so long. Little sister is afraid that second brother can't wait any longer. How about I help you sort out this information?
Bar.
You can't even trust my little sister, are you afraid that I will leak the secret about you?"
Liu Mingzhi looked at Liu Xuan, who was sitting at the table with a slightly coquettish expression, and smiled without hesitation and shook his head.
"How could it be, how could the elder brother not even believe you? If you want to help the elder brother, just help the elder brother for a while. Just pick out the information that you think is not important and put it aside. After meeting your second brother, the elder brother can come back and do whatever you want.
It will be fine if you review it.”
"Yeah, yeah, Xuaner, listen to big brother."
Liu Xuan stood up and picked up the kettle on the stove nearby. She poured a basin of water alternately between hot and cold. She washed her hands slightly and sat back down again. She picked up a small pile of paper and read it carefully.
After a while of tea, there was still only the faint sound of turning paper in the study.
The brother and sister carried out their actions in silence.
I don't know how much time passed, but when Liu Xuan was halfway through the rice paper in front of her, Liu Xuan's delicate body, which was reviewing the newspaper strips, trembled slightly.
She raised her eyes and glanced at the elder brother opposite who was concentrating on the paper. Liu Xuan'e's eyebrows twitched twice and she rubbed the top piece of paper in front of her with subtle movements.
Liu Xuan looked at the few words written on the note with surprise and uneasiness, her movements seemed slightly unnatural.
As for why Liu Xuan was surprised and why she seemed uneasy, only the person involved, Liu Xuan, knew it best.
He glanced at the other side again, who was engrossed in checking the information and didn't notice his elder brother at all. Liu Xuan fiddled with a piece of paper a few times, flicked it with his fingers, and then it went into the sleeve that wrapped his white wrist.
The slight movement was fleeting, and Liu Xuan let out a silent breath and then immersed herself in helping her elder brother read the information on the note.
Liu Xuan, who was lucky, didn't notice that her elder brother, who had been staring at the love newspaper with all his concentration, had a slight smile on his lips after her sneaky little move.
But Liu Mingzhi didn't expose anything, and still silently looked through the information in his hand.
After a long time.
After about one or two sticks of incense, or maybe half an hour, the sound of boiling tea could be heard in the room.
Liu Mingzhi stood up and moved the copper kettle on the stove aside. Looking at the only three or five pieces of information left on the desk, he raised his hands and stretched.
"Xuan'er, the remaining contents are all insignificant matters. It doesn't matter if I wait until brother to read them at night. Let's take a rest. We will go to the inner courtyard to meet dad later."
Liu Xuan, who was sorting the slips of paper, stopped and pushed the few slips of paper to the front. Like her elder brother, she raised her arms to stretch her aching waist, and a sweet sound came from her lips.
Groaning, Liu Xuan slowly stood up.
"Xuan'er is really exhausted. I don't know how you, brother, could endure being bored in the study for two days in a row.
If it were Xuan'er, let alone a day, Xuan'er wouldn't be able to bear it, and would go crazy."
Liu Mingzhi flicked Liu Xuan's white forehead with his finger: "Brother, I don't want to work so hard, but as the saying goes, those who are able work hard.
The eldest brother can only work tirelessly.
Unlike you who have not yet left the government, the eldest brother also has a big business after establishing his own business. For the sake of the whole family, the eldest brother has no choice.
When you get married in the future, you will understand your sister-in-law's hard work.
How can it be so easy to take care of a big family?"
"Well, well, you're preaching again. Xuan'er's head is about to explode."
"Haha...Okay, okay, if you don't want to hear what I'm saying, let's just wash the ink stains on your hands. Let's go to the old man's place."
"good."
Liu Mingzhi watched Liu Xuan go to the stove to prepare warm water for washing her hands. He slightly closed his abdomen and opened the drawer. He took out a handkerchief from a brocade box in the drawer and rubbed it in his hands for a while.
Glancing slightly at Liu Xuan who was looking at Liu Yao and starting to wash her hands, Liu Mingzhi looked at the dry and black corner of the handkerchief, raised his hand and put it under the tip of his nose and sniffed it gently.
Smelling the almost imperceptible fragrance on the handkerchief, Liu Mingzhi frowned twice subconsciously.
The faint fragrance is so familiar.
Liu Mingzhi put down his handkerchief, squatted on a chair and fell into silence with deep eyes.
"Brother?"
"Brother!"
"Huh? It's washed so quickly? Have you washed it yet?"
Liu Xuan raised her ten green-white and tender slender jade fingers and waved them twice in front of Young Master Liu.
"It must have been cleaned. Xuan'er is not someone who hates cleanliness! Brother, why are you so dazed when you are so well behaved!"
"Just wash it off. Just wait a moment and let me clean it too."
"Okay, but you have to hurry up. Don't be as tidy as a big girl like me. Otherwise, you won't be able to call a stinky man."
"Stinky girl, I know, I'll be fine soon."
Liu Mingzhi turned his back to Liu Xuan and began to adjust the water temperature. Looking at the burning stove, Liu Mingzhi took out the exquisite and perfect silk handkerchief from his cuff and pondered for a moment, then threw the handkerchief into the fire and then started to clean his fingers.
Ink marks on it.
"Well! Brother, what did you burn?"
"It's nothing. Some things that shouldn't exist in this world will be a disaster if they are kept. It's better to let them disappear as soon as possible."
Liu Mingzhi bent down to adjust the air outlet on the stove, then turned and walked towards Liu Xuan, who was waiting at the door.
"Let's go and see the old man first!"
Liu Xuan nodded with a strange look: "Okay, listen to me, brother. Why does Xuaner think he is weird?"
Liu Mingzhi locked the door and walked slowly toward the inner courtyard.
"Is there any? To say it's strange, I think there's a sentence that's quite strange."
"What words?"
"The spirit like an orchid will never change, and the heart like an orchid will never change."
Liu Xuan, who was following Liu Mingzhi, suddenly trembled and smiled unnaturally.
"This sentence that big brother read is so beautiful, I wonder what it is describing?"