"I understand, but at that time it was because my little girl didn't know who your uncle was.
That's why I call you big brother.
Now that the little girl knows your identity, how can she dare to continue to call you that?"
Young Master Liu turned his head and spit out the tea leaves on his tongue. He stood up and walked to the edge of the pavilion. He stopped and sighed with a sad expression.
"Tong girl."
"Uncle, tell me."
"You know what? My uncle suddenly regretted it."
Zhou Tong'er's pretty face was stunned, and she asked instinctively: "Huh? Do you regret it? What do you regret?"
"Hahaha, of course I regret meeting you, Tong Yatou.
Compared to now, when you are in front of me, you always look nervous and respectful, fearing to make me angry.
Uncle, I still prefer the old one, the outgoing and carefree drinking girl.
The drinking girl who dared to hold a wine bowl in one hand and stand on a stool with one foot to brag and drink with me and all the guests in the hall.
The drunken girl who dared to instruct me to invite me to drink with such carelessness, who dared to put her arm around me at the wine table, drink heavily, and eat meat.
At that time, although you were young, you were quite generous.
Not only me, there is no regular customer in the Qianli Scenery Restaurant who doesn’t like you, this girl.
Now that you have grown up, your personality has also changed.
You are no longer like you before."
Hearing Mr. Liu talk about the past when the two of them were drinking together, Zhou Tong'er's pretty face turned unnaturally rosy.
"Uncle, my daughter was too young and ignorant at that time.
Besides, people always grow up.
If my little girl is still the same as she was a few years ago, my parents will be pissed to death when they see her."
Zhou Tong'er gently blinked her eyes a few times and made a small joke to Young Master Liu.
"Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha……"
Young Master Liu was stunned for a moment, and then he couldn't help but burst out laughing.
After the laughter subsided, Mr. Liu continued: "What you said sounds good at first glance.
However, what he said is not entirely correct."
Zhou Tong'er's eyebrows narrowed slightly and she said softly, "Huh? If uncle has any different opinions, I'm all ears."
"If you were still the same as before, your idiot father would definitely not be angry.
As for your mother, most likely she will be so angry that she won't be able to eat.
I don’t need to tell you what your father’s character is like, but you, as a daughter, should know it very well, right?”
Zhou Tong'er looked embarrassed and laughed bitterly.
"Hehehe, uncle, my father, he is actually very good."
Young Master Liu paused slightly while flapping the jade fan, and turned his head to look at Zhuo Zhou Tong'er, who had a pretty and embarrassed face, with a half-smile.
"Yes! Girl Tong, you are absolutely right, your father is indeed a very good person.
Especially, it is better for your daughter.
If your father didn't love you so much and pamper you.
When you, Tong Yatou, were in your teens, you would not have had that carefree and forthright character that was not inferior to that of a man.
Otherwise, how could we have cultivated a heroine like you who chases other people’s young masters with an ax in other people’s homes?”
Zhou Tong'er's pretty face, which was originally a little embarrassed and shy, suddenly became nervous after hearing what Liu Dashao said.
Young Master Liu looked at Zhou Tong'er's pretty face that suddenly became nervous, with a half-smile still hanging on the corner of his mouth. He closed the folding fan and tapped it gently with the fan bone in his hand.
"Tong girl, is uncle right?"
Zhou Tong'er's delicate body trembled, she lifted up the hem of her fringed skirt, and knelt in front of Young Master Liu with a look of fear on her face.
"Uncle, my little girl knows her crime. My little girl knows her sin.
My little girl has committed a treasonable crime and begs my uncle to punish me."
Young Master Liu lowered his eyes and glanced at Zhou Tong'er, who knelt in front of him after a disagreement, with a look of helplessness on his face.
"Yaoyao."
"Daddy?"
Young Master Liu looked up at Liu Yaoyao's puzzled expression, chuckled and winked at her, and then pointed at Zhou Tong'er who was kneeling in front of him while holding the jade fan.
"Um."
Liu Yaoyao understood what her father meant and quickly took a few steps forward. She bent down and put her hand on Zhou Tong'er's arm.
"Sister Tong'er, what are you doing? Daddy doesn't blame you at all.
Get up quickly, get up quickly."
Liu Yaoyao said words of comfort to Zhou Tong while holding Zhou Tong'er's arm, trying to help her up.
However, Liu Yaoyao helped her hard several times, but Zhou Tong'er still knelt on the ground obediently and never stood up.
"Oh, sister Tong'er, what are you doing?"
Zhou Tong'er turned to look at Liu Yaoyao, her pretty eyes full of pitiful uneasiness.
"Sister Yaoyao, I...I...I'm scared.
Don’t dare, don’t dare to get up.”
Liu Yaoyao saw the embarrassment on Zhou Tong'er's pretty face, chuckled and shook her head, then raised her head and looked at her father.
"Dad, sister Tong'er is worried that you will punish her."
Zhou Tong'er had absolutely no intention of it, but Liu Yaoyao told Young Master Liu what she said without hesitation.
Her delicate body trembled involuntarily, and she quickly pulled Liu Yaoyao's sleeve with her hand.
"Sister Yaoyao, you."
"It's okay, trust me sister."
Liu Mingzhi should be afraid of him after knowing Zhou Tong'er's identity.
However, he never thought that she would be so afraid of him.
"Tong girl."
"My little girl is here."
"Get up."
"My uncle hasn't punished my daughter yet, so she doesn't dare to get up."
Young Master Liu leaned over and hit Zhou Tong'er on the shoulder with the bone of his fan, and said angrily: "Get up if my uncle tells you to get up. If you keep kneeling like this, I will be really angry."
When Zhou Tong'er heard Young Master Liu's pretending to be angry, she put her hands on the ground and stood up quickly.
"Yes, yes, little girl, get up right now, get up right now."
After Zhou Tong'er stood up, she looked at Young Master Liu with aggrieved face, her fingers tightly hooked together, not knowing what she should do at this time.
"uncle."
Young Master Liu glanced at Zhou Tong'er who looked aggrieved, walked to the stone table, reached out and picked up his tea cup, took off the lid and took a sip.
Gently chewing the tea leaves in his mouth, he turned around and sat down on the stone bench.
"Tong girl."
"My little girl is here."
"Do you think that uncle, I brought up the story of you holding an ax and chasing after this bastard boy again because I wanted to accuse you?"
"Little girl, me!"
"Don't be a little girl, it's mine.
Smelly girl, if I really want to accuse you, uncle, do you think you can still stand here unharmed now?"
Zhou Tong'er's pretty face was stunned. After thinking silently for a while, she stretched out her hand to scratch her white and tender neck with a happy expression.
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"Uncle, my daughter knows that she was wrong. It was her Taihu who painted it."
"I get it now?"
Zhou Tong'er put down her palm, looked at Young Master Liu with a smile, and nodded with a charming expression.
"I understand, I understand."
"Just understand. If uncle really wanted to punish you, he would have punished you as early as when you and Cheng Qian just walked to the pavilion.
You stinky girl have already been punished."
"Yes, yes, uncle said, little girl Hutu, little girl Hutu."
"Then do you know, uncle, why did I mention again that you were holding a firewood ax and chasing you all the way through the garden to do this bastard thing?"
Zhou Tong'er's pretty face was slightly startled, her eyebrows furrowed and she pondered for a moment, then she gently shook her head at Young Master Liu a few times.
"My little girl is stupid. She really can't guess what her uncle is thinking. I hope my uncle will tell her clearly."
Young Master Liu pinched a melon seed scattered on the stone table and threw it into his mouth casually.
"Uncle, the reason why I say this is to let you understand one thing.
That is, Tong Yatou, your character has never changed.
What you were like before, you are still like now.
What you call young and ignorant is what you call now that you have grown up and know how to behave.
In my opinion, it’s all lies.”
"Uncle, I..."
Seeing what Zhou Tong'er wanted to explain, Young Master Liu raised his hand to interrupt him.
"Tong girl, my uncle knows very well.
The reason why you reacted like this is simply because you know my uncle's true identity.
It is precisely because of my identity that the distance between us has been widened.
Tong girl, I wonder if what I said is right, uncle?"
Zhou Tong'er bit her thin lips lightly with her teeth, glanced at Young Master Liu silently, and lowered her head with complicated eyes.
"Uncle, me!"
"Tong girl, do you know why uncle sighed just now?"
"My little girl understands, my little girl understands."
Liu Dashao nodded with a smile, raised his brows and spat out the melon seed shells in his mouth into the bamboo basket under the stone table.
"Just understand, that's fine. Just understand.
So, when you get along with your uncle in the future, don't be cautious.
The more reserved and respectful you are, the more unhappy your uncle will be.
Because that would make my uncle and me feel that there is an invisible and intangible chasm between us.
You have become like this because of your status as an uncle.
My uncle's former good friends and brothers are all just like you.
In that case, what's the point of my uncle living in this world?
People often say that emperors are lonely people.
However, a lonely person is also a human being.
In life, if you have no confidants, no friends, you won’t even have a true friend.
Wouldn't that mean life is too boring?
Uncle, I don’t want to live a boring life.
I don’t want to become a lonely person with nothing but rights.
Tong girl, do you understand?"
After listening to Mr. Liu's meaningful words, Zhou Tong'er nodded eagerly.
"If you reply to uncle, my little girl will understand."
Young Master Liu nodded slightly, looked at Zhou Tong'er with a slightly raised corner of his mouth, and placed the teacup on the stone table.
"Really understand?"
Zhou Tong'er nodded vigorously again, her face filled with a sense of relief that she had never felt since meeting Young Master Liu.
"Uncle, my little girl really understands!"
"Come on, call me brother and listen."
Liu Yaoyao was sitting aside drinking tea. When she heard her father's words, she immediately spit out the tea in her mouth.
"Pfft... bangchi... bangchi..."
Zhou Tong'er's pretty face froze, her eyes were tangled and she was silent for a while, then she took a few deep breaths.
"Brother!"
As if she had exhausted all her strength, Zhou Tong'er called Young Master Liu "big brother" in a sweet tone.
Young Master Liu raised his eyebrows and responded without hesitation: "Hey! Drinking girl, when brother is free in a few days, I will make up for the drinks I owe you."
"Brother, it's a deal."
"a man of his words."
When Liu Yaoyao saw that Zhou Tong'er actually called her father "big brother", the corners of her mouth twitched a few times, and she slapped her fair forehead directly.
It’s not that I don’t understand how fast the world is changing.
Good guys, one really dares to speak, and the other really dares to scream.
Dad is not serious, he just met Tong'er sister, and she may be her future sister-in-law.
Under the leadership of his father, he actually became so unruly.
Liu Yaoyao suddenly understood where to buy it.
Why did my father and sister Tonger, they used to call each other brothers and sisters, drink and brag together?
Co-authoring, this is obviously a mutual compatibility!
Young Master Liu glanced at Liu Yaoyao, who had a crimson face and strange eyes, then turned to look at Zhou Tong'er and coughed lightly.
"Tong girl."
"Brother, uh huh, uncle."
"Just call me in private, but in front of your aunts, you must not call me like that."
Zhou Tong'er's pretty face instantly became serious when she heard Young Master Liu's explanation.
"Yes, I understand. I know what's appropriate."
Looking at the serious Zhou Tong'er, the corner of his mouth twitched and he rolled his eyes.
Do you have sense of propriety? You have a sense of propriety!
In broad daylight, under the bright sky, facing a man who may be his future father-in-law as his eldest brother.
Sister Tong'er, sister Tong'er.
How do you have the nerve to say it? Do you have the sense of propriety?
"Since you are sensible, uncle will not nag you too much.
Before something becomes a fact, when the two of us get along privately, we can call you whatever you want.
Rules are dead, people are alive."
Zhou Tong'er looked at Liu Dashao's smiling face and nodded with a smile.
"Hehehe, my little girl must keep my uncle's words of instruction in mind and think about them all the time."
Young Master Liu nodded slightly, smacked his lips lightly a few times, and glanced out of the pavilion intentionally or unintentionally.
"Tong girl."
"uncle?"
"You should sit down first. Your aunts, Cheng Gan, and the others should be back soon."
"Yes, thank you uncle."
As soon as Zhou Tong'er finished speaking, Qi Yun, her sisters and others, as well as Liu Chengqian, walked toward the pavilion with strange expressions on their faces.
"Sisters I have met my husband."
"Dad, the child is polite."
"Well, no gift required."
"Thank you, husband."
"Thank you dad."
Qi Yun walked to the stone bench and sat down, stretched out her hand to pick up her tea, and rolled her eyes at Young Master Liu with her beautiful eyes.
"Husband, my sisters have already given your orders. It won't be long before we can have lunch."
"Well, my husband knows."
"You all should stop standing and take a seat."
"Thank you, husband."
"Thank you daddy."
Young Master Liu glanced at Zhou Tong'er, who had become quiet, well-behaved and silent since his youngest son entered the pavilion, and looked at Liu Chengqian with slightly narrowed eyes.
"Chengqian."
Liu Chengqian, who had not yet sat down, immediately raised his head and looked over when he heard his father's greeting.