Lu Xiaofan stood in front of a high-end apartment with a briefcase under his arm. He hesitated a little, but after a while, he boldly stepped forward and rang the doorbell.

"Who?" The videophone in front of the door rang, and a man inside asked coldly.

Lu Xiaofan quickly answered: "It's me!"

He didn't dare to care that the property management had already called the man, and it was clearly a videophone...

"Come in!" The person on the other end of the phone said indifferently. The host who hadn't seen him for a long time didn't seem to be happy to meet Lu Xiaofan again, but Lu Xiaofan had nowhere to retreat when he arrived at the door, so he had to bite the bullet and walk into the elevator.

The door was ajar, and Lu Xiaofan took off his shoes at the door and said, "Brother, have you eaten yet!"

A handsome man was sitting on the sofa flipping through a newspaper. Although it was a little embarrassing, Lu Xiaofan still had to admire him in his heart.

When he first met Bei Lvqing, he already thought he was extremely good-looking, but compared to now, four or five years later, Bei Lvqing seemed to gradually show his charm, not only the handsomeness of his facial features, but also the sense of stability of a mature man who controls everything.

Lu Xiaofan once thought that he could stand shoulder to shoulder with this man, but reality told him that it was a delusion. People are distributed in a ladder. Some people are born to sit at the top, while he, Lu Xiaofan, is at the bottom. People at the bottom must have a way of life and desires that match those of people at the bottom, otherwise they will become a joke.

Bei Lvqing turned a page of the newspaper and said, "I haven't eaten yet!"

Lu Xiaofan hurriedly said, "Brother, I'll treat you to a meal!

" Bei Lvqing looked at the newspaper for a while before saying, "No need!" He folded the newspaper. Lu Xiaofan didn't know which nerve he had offended Bei Lvqing again. In short, he instinctively felt that Bei Lvqing was unhappy. This instinct was like the survival talent of animals. Perhaps his awe of Bei Lvqing had already been rooted in his DNA.

"What are you doing here today?" Bei Luqing put down the newspaper and looked at Lu Xiaofan, saying, "Does your family need money again, or is your eldest brother dissatisfied with his work again, or is there something else?"

Lu Xiaofan lowered his head. Indeed, since he married into the Bei family, the Lu family has never stopped having problems, and most of them were solved by the brother-in-law in front of him.

He stood there like a primary school student and answered Bei Luqing's questions, whispering, "My mother said she wanted to come to Beijing to see me..."

Bei Luqing said lightly, "Didn't you just go back last year? Lu's mother really misses you, so you should go back again!"

Lu Xiaofan hesitated for a long time before saying, "She... wants to come to Beijing again!"

Bei Luqing still had no expression, and said, "Then you can entertain her when she comes!"

Lu Xiaofan lowered his head even more and said, "She also wants to come and see Lv Xin..."

Mr. Bei Mosha is now one of the best in the country! Lu Xiaofan, a senior official in the economic field, who was poor and lived in a rural area of ​​Shaanxi Province thousands of miles away, never dreamed that a piece of pie would fall from the sky. The Bei family betrothed their only daughter to him, although it was a way of marrying a son-in-law.

But the real situation of this marriage was that Bei Luxin was pregnant before marriage and urgently needed a husband to avoid ruin, while Lu's parents, who lived in a poor village, urgently needed to get a connection with the Bei family to change their poor fate. Only at the end did Lu Xiaofan find out that his pie was not free.

Bei Lvxin married unwillingly. The person she really loved was actually her brother Bei Lvqing. In front of Bei Lvqing, many excellent men would feel ashamed, not to mention Lu Xiaofan.

This marriage was naturally not in name only. To let the proud Bei Lvxin treat Lu's mother like she treated her mother-in-law was like a toad blowing bubbles - her mouth was too wide, and only Bei Lvqing could change all this.

Bei Lvqing was silent for a while. Seeing that he didn't speak, Lu Xiaofan said with a stiff face: "You know... she only listens to you!"

Bei Lvqing was not very willing to see Bei Lvxin. After all, as a brother, there was probably no other good way to deal with his sister who had a crush on him except hiding.

Lu Xiaofan seemed to realize that he had gone too far, and said hesitantly: "How about you give her a call?"

"Okay! I know." Bei Lvqing picked up the newspaper again.

Lu Xiaofan stood there for a while, and seeing that Bei Luqing had no intention of keeping him, he said, "Brother... are you really not going to eat?"

"I'm not hungry!"

"Then I'll leave..." Lu Xiaofan asked tentatively. Bei Luqing still had no intention of keeping him, so he walked to the door quietly and put on his leather shoes. His movements were so gentle that it seemed as if Bei Luqing was sitting and sleeping instead of flipping through the newspaper with his eyes wide open.

Lu Xiaofan took a deep breath after leaving the door. He didn't know whether he felt relieved or uneasy that Bei Luqing had no intention of keeping him overnight. After all, he was only of little use to Bei Luqing.

Of course, Lu Xiaofan didn't think that Bei Luqing had slept with him, and that the eldest son of the Bei family had any special feelings for him. He remembered clearly that Bei Luqing had said that he was just a novelty to him, and now he didn't want to sleep with him, probably because he felt it was no longer novelty.

Lu Xiaofan was sitting at the door, and before he could get the bus, he saw a light grey Crown stop in front of him. The window rolled down, revealing a thin-faced man inside. He smiled and said, "Oh, isn't this Xiaofan? Do you want to go eat abalone with us? Your brother is going too!"

Lu Xiaofan quickly glanced at the back seat and vaguely saw the side profile of a man. It was Bei Luqing. He smiled and said, "No, Brother Lin, I have something to ask Lu Xin when I go back!"

"Then we're leaving!" Lin Ziyang closed the window and drove away in a very cool manner.

Lu Xiaofan looked at the car that was leaving in a cloud of dust. No wonder Bei Luqing refused to have dinner with him. Come to think of it, he had just returned from abroad, and he didn't know how many children of high-ranking officials like Lin Ziyang were waiting to have dinner with him.

Bei Luqing graduated from the Department of Diplomacy of R University. In recent years, he has often worked as a diplomat in foreign embassies. However, this diplomat who has been abroad for many years has very frequent interactions with this group of princes in Beijing. Lin Ziyang is one of Bei Luqing's closest personal friends.

Of course, Lu Xiaofan also believed that Bei Luqing's relationship with these high-ranking officials' children was definitely not just a personal relationship. This circle represented money and power to a large extent. Unfortunately, Bei Luqing did not seem to have thought of letting Lu Xiaofan get some benefits.

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Lu Xiaofan worked for two years as a deputy section chief in the sales department of a tertiary industry company of a chemical unit. There were only two people in the sales department, the section chief and him. (Note: In the mid-1990s, a very popular business model between private and state-owned in the mainland, that is, a trading company under a state-owned unit, most of which was reselling the unit's products, but not limited to this. This was a workaround for state-owned companies to have a flexible private profit model. The tertiary industry was gradually abolished due to the breeding of a large amount of corruption in the transfer of state-owned assets. It was also the prototype of the popular shell companies in the later period.)

However, Lu Xiaofan was not dissatisfied with this job. His unit made some basic chemicals, such as benzene and xylene. When the international situation was tense, they were in short supply. The units of the factory were stuck, and the downstream units had to run to their tertiary industry company to ask them for some goods.

At this time, the section chief always put on a show, as if he had enough of the friendship, so he let Lu Xiaofan go to the factory director to get a note. The factory sold for 2,000 yuan a ton, and they sold for 2,300, making 300 yuan a ton. The director was also grateful, treated him to food and drinks, and at the end

gave him some local specialties as gifts. The factory director usually listed the tertiary industry company as the legal person. When the tertiary industry company developed to its peak, almost every factory-level leader had a tertiary industry company under his name. The legal person was of course a shareholder. At the end of the year, when the dividends were full, the factory director was like giving money to his own company. How could he not be happy when he wrote the note!

Such a lucrative job was not arranged by Bei Luqing, but by Lin Ziyang.

Bei Luqing just asked him calmly as usual whether he wanted to continue to study at university. Lu Xiaofan whispered that he didn't want to study anymore, so he didn't force him.

In fact, Lu Xiaofan felt that Bei Luqing hoped that he would continue to study for a bachelor's degree at R University from his junior college. However, no matter how much he studied, he would not become a person like Bei Luqing. It would be more economical for him to start working earlier and make more money.

And the biggest advantage of the Bei family is that you don't have to ask for anything you want, and there will be people rushing to serve you.

Although Lu Xiaofan is a cheap son-in-law in name only, he is still a son-in-law of the Bei family. He received a call to go to work before he even got his diploma from school.

When Lu's mother knew that Lu Xiaofan was going to work in a factory, she was a little unhappy and said, "Why can Bei Luqing, who graduated from R University, become a high-ranking official (in my opinion, diplomats are naturally high-ranking officials), aren't you classmates, why do you go to work in a factory!"

Lu Xiaofan knew that he was only studying in a technical college affiliated with R University. He didn't dare to call Bei Luqing a classmate, so he quickly said, "Mom, it's not easy to get into this unit!" After much persuasion, Lu's mother finally gave up the idea of ​​looking for Bei Mosha.

Lu Xiaofan took the bus and swayed all the way home. When he got off the bus, he could see the guards standing upright outside the iron gate from a distance, and the ordinary people who passed by with awe and curiosity, just like himself back then.

Maybe because Bei Mosha's connections were more related to the military, the Bei family was not set up in the government compound, but was arranged in the military compound. At the beginning, Lu Xiaofan also held his baggage and looked at the houses inside the big iron gate with awe. The deepest part of the compound has very high houses. There are many officials in the capital, and the director of the seventh administrative level can only be assigned a three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment. The Bei family lived in the small building in the front row. There were two-story buildings next to each other, and the Bei family lived in one of them.

The courtyard of the small building was not big, and there were five-color brocades climbing on the outer wall. When Lu Xiaofan first arrived, it was autumn. The leaves were red in the evening. The white walls and red leaves were very beautiful. In fact, the style of the whole courtyard was clean and unique everywhere.

As soon as they pushed open the gate, a smart woman ran out and took their luggage, saying, "Oh, why didn't you call so I can ask Old Wu to pick it up! (Note: Shanghai dialect)"

Bei Mosha said, "There's nothing to give. Don't bother Old Wu!" He turned to Lu Xiaofan and said, "This is Aunt Lin from our family!" He then said to Aunt Lin, "This is Xiaofan, my son-in-law!"

Lu Xiaofan immediately called Aunt Lin, and the woman said, "Don't be polite, don't be polite!" Seeing Lu Xiaofan's confused face, she bit her tongue and said word by word, "Don't be polite! Oh, it looks like you'll have to speak Mandarin in the future!"

Bei Luxin took her arm and said coquettishly, "Aunt Lin, we have some roasted rice!" (Note: roasted rice is a kind of bean product that Shanghai people love to eat)

Aunt Lin carried the luggage and said with a smile, "It's ready a long time ago!"

"Come in, come in, Luqing, you greet Xiaofan!" Bei Mosha said.

Bei Luqing called out, "Come in!" Lu Xiaofan hurriedly followed Bei Luqing into the house. As soon as he entered the house, he felt that the white walls made him unable to open his eyes. The vermilion tables and chairs, the beautiful sofas, and especially the oversized TV opposite the sofa made Lu Xiaofan, who was used to seeing mud walls and tiles, stunned for a moment.

This was the first time Lu Xiaofan stepped into the door of the Bei family. As a small figure, the moment he stepped into the door of a Beijing official, Lu Xiaofan felt like a countryman entering the city. This place was just for admiration and not his home.

Perhaps this feeling has never changed for Lu Xiaofan.

Lu Xiaofan pushed open the door. Aunt Lin was busy in the kitchen. When she saw Lu Xiaofan coming back, she said without hesitation, "Fanfan, hurry up and help me pick up the vegetables!" "

I'll change my clothes!" Lu Xiaofan replied, went into his room, put down his briefcase, and took off his jacket.

The Bei family had four rooms. Bei Mosha and the Bei brothers and sisters lived in the three upper rooms respectively, and the lower room temporarily belonged to Lu Xiaofan. Lu Xiaofan felt more relieved than regretful about not being able to share a room with Bei Lvxin. After all, if he really shared a room with Bei Lvxin, he would probably only be able to sleep on the floor.

When Lu Xiaofan slept on the warm and soft bed for the first time, he felt that although this bedroom was not too big, with a distance of five or six steps in length and width, in addition to a bed, it could only squeeze in a single-door cabinet and a desk, but compared to his own home where cockroaches crawled everywhere at night, it was drafty in winter and mosquitoes came in in summer, Lu Xiaofan felt that the conditions here were a little too good to be true, which still made him feel uneasy.

He tossed and turned in bed but couldn't fall asleep. Finally, he got up and opened the handkerchief given by Lu Ma. Inside was a large stack of ten-yuan bills neatly placed. Lu Xiaofan counted and counted, and there were actually as many as five hundred yuan. Thinking of Lu Ma, who had been stingy all her life, Lu Xiaofan's nose was sour, and he felt ashamed for having complained about Lu Ma in his heart.

That night, he flattened every corner of the bills with his hands, and then hid them in the cloth bag in his single cabinet. He lay back on the bed and hugged the quilt.

He seemed to feel more at ease because of the stack of fifty ten-yuan bills. Lu Xiaofan changed his clothes and came out. Except for him, no one in the Bei family went home on time for dinner. Bei Mosha rarely appeared at home. He was in charge of economic work and had to go south frequently. Even if he had some free time, he would go to the senior cadres club in Fengjiadao to play bridge with others. It seemed that he only cared about finding a husband for Bei Luxin to prevent her from getting involved in a lawsuit and being ruined. He didn't care about what happened to Bei Luxin afterwards.

Therefore, Bei Luxin still stayed out every night as usual, drinking and having fun. After the miscarriage of the unknown child, she played wildly. For Bei Luxin, pure love is like a flower in the water. How could she not fall? Her fall was resentful, fair and square, and others owed her.

Aunt Lin saw Lu Xiaofan grabbing the vegetables and putting them in the water, and hurriedly shouted: "Oh, how can you wash the vegetables clean like this? Put them in the basin little by little. How can you still not be able to teach after so many times!"

Lu Xiaofan lowered his head and took out the vegetables from the basin, and put them into the basin little by little according to Aunt Lin's requirements.

This Aunt Lin is not really a relative of Bei Mosha, but a nanny hired by the Bei family. She is also the lover of Bei Mosha's driver Lao Wu, who specializes in cooking and cleaning for them. Bei Mosha's ancestral home is Shanghai, and she prefers Shanghai cuisine, so she specially invited Aunt Lin to come and do housework for them.

Aunt Lin had been in the Bei family for quite a while. Bei Lvxin had grown up under her care, so they had a good relationship. Naturally, she felt sorry for Bei Lvxin marrying a country boy, not to mention that Lu Xiaofan didn't suit her taste at all. She often talked to Bei Lvxin in Shanghainese in front of Lu Xiaofan, sighing that Lu Xiaofan looked stupid!

Old Shanghainese people have a common problem. They prefer to use local dialect to communicate with others. When they want you to understand, they will think that Shanghainese is like an international buzzword. When they don't want you to understand, they will think that Shanghainese is incomprehensible to country people. Aunt Lin is such a typical old Shanghainese.

Sometimes Lu Xiaofan had to listen to Aunt Lin's comments on him while eating.

Bei Lvxin was already full of grievances about marrying Lu Xiaofan. Aunt Lin sighed every other day, and the more she looked at Lu Xiaofan, the angrier she felt. Especially when she went out, those disco girls would laugh as if they had taken medicine every time they mentioned their country bumpkin husbands. And I don't know if it was psychological factors, Bei Lvxin felt that she was not as popular as before in the circle among young men. Bei Lvxin, who was used to being the center of attention, attributed all the setbacks to Lu Xiaofan. In the past five years, there were not many opportunities to look Lu Xiaofan in the eye.

Halfway through washing the dishes, the doorbell rang. Lu Xiaofan got up and opened the door. Unexpectedly, she saw Bei Lvxin standing outside the door in a bright outfit.

"Why are you back?!" Bei Lvxin usually stays out all night and comes back at dawn. Lu Xiaofan is always surprised to see his wife before dark.

Bei Lvxin brushed past Lu Xiaofan with her head raised, grabbed her small backpack and walked upstairs briskly.

"Hurry up, Fanfan, Lvqing is coming back for dinner!" Aunt Lin urged from behind.

This shocked Lu Xiaofan. Didn't she go out to eat seafood with Lin Ziyang? Why did she go home for dinner again? But Bei Lvqing was never someone he could guess. Less than

a quarter of an hour later, the door lock rang again, and a slender man in a black woolen coat appeared at the door. It was Bei Lvqing. As

soon as he entered the door, Bei Lvxin rushed down from upstairs. Lu Xiaofan saw that Bei Lvxin, who was still dressed up as a seductress with heavy makeup a moment ago, changed into a white sweater and light indigo jeans in just a few minutes, just like a pretty girl next door.

"Brother, you're back!"

Bei Lvqing took off his coat and the scarf around his neck, saying, "Yes!"

Aunt Lin put the dishes on the table and said, "Eat quickly, eat quickly, it won't taste good if it gets cold!"

Lu Xiaofan and Bei Lvxin always sat at the two ends of the table, and after Bei Lvqing hung up his clothes, he casually pulled a chair next to Lu Xiaofan and sat down. Lu Xiaofan could feel Bei Lvxin glaring at him fiercely.

In addition to meat, rice, oil and vegetables, the Bei family was all specially supplied by the army. In that era, when food safety had not yet become a crisis, special supplies were just a symbol of status and did not have much practical significance.

"No soup!" Bei Lvqing asked casually.

"Yes, yes, tomato egg drop soup!" Aunt Lin replied with a smile.

Bei Lvqing asked, but it seemed that he had no intention of touching the soup. For southerners, the soup that needs to be boiled for three or four hours is considered soup. The boiling soup made by Aunt Lin cannot be called soup.

And this kind of soup is only made by Lu Xiaofan in the Bei family.

In the past, Lu Xiaofan heard that people in Guangdong and Hong Kong loved to drink this kind of soup, so he guessed that Bei Luqing also liked it, so he bought a book to learn how to make it. Therefore, he was the only one in the Bei family who knew how to

make it, and he was the only one who had the leisure and time to make this soup that took three or four hours. It had been a long time since he had made this kind of soup, and even Lu Xiaofan himself couldn't remember it clearly. He glanced at Bei Luqing and said tentatively, "I'll make some soup for you tomorrow!"

"Well, is it too much trouble?" Bei Luqing's slender fingers picked a yellow leaf out of the green vegetables in the bowl. Aunt Lin saw it immediately and said quickly: "Oh, Fanfan picks vegetables but they are not clean!"

"No trouble, no trouble!" Lu Xiaofan said quickly. He was asking Bei Luqing for something and was worried that he could not please him.

After dinner, Aunt Lin naturally knew that Bei Luqing would not go home for dinner for no reason, and she also specially notified Bei Luxin, so she said early that she had something to do at home and left early.

Bei Mosha was a rich young master who grew up in old Shanghai. He liked the kind of furniture with a bit of Western style very much, so the sofa of the Bei family was a set of Western-style sofa chairs. The style was elegant and revealed a low-key luxury. There was a three-person chair and two single chairs. There was also an old-fashioned phonograph on the tea machine next to it. As soon as you came in, you would know that the foundation of the Bei family was a little different from that of other high-ranking officials.

Seeing that the route of economic opening was becoming clearer and clearer, Bei Mosha was also a typical person who forgot the pain after the scar healed. In the past two years, he simply renovated his home. Since the houses of high-ranking officials in Beijing are owned by the state, naturally, there will be various state-owned units rushing to pay for their decoration. The common feature of the decoration of these houses is that they do not care about the cost, and the work must be done perfectly

. If there is a slight error, they will be dismantled and rebuilt. For example, the decoration of Bei Mosha's house dragged in a large truck of boards used as auxiliary materials. Therefore, the simplicity of the high-ranking officials' homes is just a style.

The home decoration was changed to Western style, and the previous set of Western-style sofa chairs was retained. Bei Luqing sat on a single chair with his long legs crossed, and Bei Luxin sat obediently on the three-person sofa next to Bei Luqing. This made Lu Xiaofan feel like he was holding a salon in the past.

R University, where Bei Luqing studied, was famous for gathering children of high-ranking officials. In those days, children of high-ranking officials liked to hold salons. The difference between salons and parties is that parties are mainly for entertainment, while salons are mainly for expressing opinions. The Bei family often held English salons, where these top students from the Department of Diplomacy and the Department of Political Science expressed their opinions in English. Bei Luqing, who had studied in Hong Kong, could speak fluent English and was often the focus of the salons.

In those days, the children of high-ranking officials usually had power but were not so rich. At that time, these children of high-ranking officials who often held salons together had not yet developed into a community of interests. However, due to their different perspectives, they could already feel that the economy was undergoing earth-shaking changes, but the stage suitable for them would not come until the end of 1990 when the first gong of the Shanghai Securities Exchange sounded.

The early 1990s was the peak period of Hong Kong's investment in the mainland. Bei Luqing, who had a dual background, undoubtedly became the leader of this salon group. As a battle-hardened politician, Bei Mosha obviously attached great importance to this salon organized by the children of high-ranking officials. Bei Mosha, who rarely ate at home, would patronize this student salon from time to time. Aunt Lin prepared the pastries in full, and even Bei Luxin, who spent her nights and days in reverse, would dress appropriately and sit aside obediently.

Whenever Bei Lvqing held this kind of salon at home, Lu Xiaofan became the most unwelcome person in the family. From Bei Mosha to Bei Lvxin, they didn't want him to appear in front of the guests. Aunt Lin naturally sided with the Bei family. Every weekend, she would ask Lu Xiaofan to come and help me with this and that. She would order Lu Xiaofan around in the kitchen while she would pour tea and serve water. She would never give Lu Xiaofan a chance to show up.

Once, when Lu Xiaofan went out to buy wine for Aunt Lin, he accidentally didn't take a detour. A young, tall, thin, and handsome man in the salon saw him and waved his hand, saying, "Oh, Lvqing, there is a new member in your family. I've never seen him before!"

The first person to greet him in Bei Lvqing's circle was Lin Ziyang.

Lu Xiaofan's face immediately turned red, and he could not speak. When Bei Lvxin saw that Lu Xiaofan's face was as red as if someone had poured a basin of dog blood on it, Aunt Lin, who was pouring tea, quickly raised her head and winked at Lu Xiaofan, asking him to go into the kitchen quickly.

Lu Xiaofan wanted to leave, but he felt that the eyes of the people in the room had nailed him there, and he could not move his feet. Aunt Lin was so anxious that she stared at him, and Bei Lvxin's eyes looked like she was spitting fire. Lu Xiaofan instinctively felt that he had caused a huge disaster, and cold sweat broke out on his back. Suddenly, he heard Bei Lvqing interrupt a sentence. He said it in English, but Lu Xiaofan still understood one word in it: Brother.

He suddenly felt energetic because of this word. He clenched his fists and looked at Bei Lvqing with burning eyes. If he had a good impression and admiration for Bei Lvqing before, then after Bei Lvqing said this word, it became his belief.

Bei Luqing turned around and said to him, "Xiaofan, come and sit down!"

Lu Xiaofan walked over with all his might. Although everyone in the salon was sitting in a circle, it was still possible to see that Bei Luqing, who was in the middle, was sitting alone on a western-style sofa chair. Compared to the seats crowded with stools around him, his space was not unwelcome, but rather a symbol of status. Lu Xiaofan glanced at the seat next to Bei Luqing, but he didn't dare to sit over there. He picked up a stool and put it beside him and sat upright on it.

It was Lin Ziyang who took the lead in greeting enthusiastically, "My name is Lin Ziyang. It's our first meeting. Please take care of me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone else in the room laughed. Someone laughed and scolded, "Ziyang is a jack of all trades. He wants to get involved in everything!"

Lin Ziyang smiled and said, "What you said is not right. I still have my pursuits. Isn't this Brother Bei's family? Which of Brother Bei's family members is not worth making friends with? Even Aunt Lin, who is closer to them, is deep enough for me to think deeply. If I am more enthusiastic, then... Yes, it's targeted!"

His words made Aunt Lin laugh so hard that she couldn't stop, and she said, "You're so sweet..." She turned around and said, "Fanfan, go back to the kitchen quickly and see how the sweet and sour pork ribs I cooked are?"

Lu Xiaofan was also full of awe for Aunt Lin. When the people from the Bei family were not around, he was Aunt Lin's helper, carrying vegetables and doing odd jobs, and living under Aunt Lin's words. But today, a word from Bei Luqing made Lu Xiaofan, who was bent over like a man, straighten up all of a sudden.

He stood up, his face quite solemn, he held Lin Ziyang's hands with both hands, shook them, and said seriously: "Please take care of me, please take care of me!"

When he said this, the people in the room were suddenly silent. Bei Luqing turned his head to look at him. Bei Luxin was embarrassed and her face was red. Aunt Lin also looked like her forehead was sweating. But Lin Ziyang reacted the fastest. He laughed and said: "Luqing, I didn't expect everyone in your family is so humorous!"

After this salon, Bei Luxin stayed in bed for two days claiming to be sick. Aunt Lin kept saying: "How can I not care about Qing, I gave you so many looks, just to tell you to go away, you stupid guy, Luqing was being polite, but you really went over there, you lost all your face!"

Yes, Lu Xiaofan later realized that city people have a kind of intimacy that is not intimacy, it is just politeness.

Bei Lvqing sat in the chair for a while before speaking: "Lvxin, what have you been busy with recently?"

Bei Lvxin was a little flustered when she heard Bei Lvqing ask her what she was doing. She was not afraid of anything, but she was most afraid of Bei Lvqing being disappointed in her. She mumbled: "Let's see if there is any business to do with my sister!"

Lu Xiaofan also woke up from the messy memories when he heard the brother and sister talking. He swallowed his saliva and waited for Bei Lvqing to get to the point.

"If you like doing business, you can help your mother!" Bei Lvqing said lightly.

After the promotion of commercial housing, Shen Wubi, who was in the jewelry business, crossed over to high-end residential properties. Speaking of this woman, almost few people don't know her now. She is much more famous than Bei Mosha.

Lu Xiaofan has never heard that Shen Wubi and Bei Mosha have divorced. From Aunt Lin's tone, it seems that she is still Bei Mosha's wife, but this mistress of the Bei family never enters her own home. Every time she comes to Beijing, she summons her children in a five-star hotel.

After Lu Xiaofan married Bei Lvxin, Shen Wubishi met her son-in-law once, and the location was also set in a five-star hotel. Lu Xiaofan went to see Shen Wubishi as if he was meeting the queen. At that time, Lu Xiaofan thought that if it weren't for Bei Lvqing, he didn't know if he would slide off the chair in front of Shen Wubishi's cold and sharp smile.

A rich girl like Shen Wubishi who grew up in luxury should have a kind of disdain for worldly elegance. For some reason, after she received proletarian re-education, her elegant disdain was only disdain.

"Mom wants your help, not me!" Bei Lvxin muttered softly.

Bei Luqing said calmly: "How do you know if you haven't tried it!"

Bei Luxin didn't answer, but obviously didn't agree with his brother's words. Bei Luqing didn't force him, and changed the subject: "You need money to do business with your sisters!"

Bei Luxin's eyes lit up all of a sudden. It was no wonder that the Bei family provided her with food and clothing, but not for her to eat, drink and have fun. Shen Wubi seemed to care more about her son, and although she was rich, she was also a woman who kept money very tight. The

first time Lu Xiaofan met her, she gave him a red envelope with only ten ten-dollar bills, and she had only given him this once in five years. Frankly speaking, she was not as generous as Bei Mosha, so Lu Xiaofan believed that Bei Luxin couldn't get a lot of money from Shen Wubi.

Bei Lvqing stood up, walked to the door where clothes were hung, took out an envelope from his black coat, and then walked over to hand the envelope to his sister and said, "Take it first, it's always good to do something serious."

"Thank you, brother!" Bei Lvxin said crisply.

Bei Lvqing then sat down and said, "You can think of doing things, which proves that you have grown up. Xiaofan's mother will come to Beijing in a few days. This is also her first time to come to Beijing. You have to entertain her well for your brother, understand!"

Lu Xiaofan realized that Bei Lvqing went through so much trouble just to give money to Bei Lvxin so that she could entertain Lu's mother well. He couldn't help but look up at this man with gratitude. Of course, now he is just grateful and knows that he should not have other improper thoughts. He and him are as far apart as heaven and earth. Bai Man will accidentally fall into the coal slag, but Bei Lvqing and Lu Xiaofan will never be together.

Bei Lvxin was a smart woman, how could she not guess her brother's intention? It turned out that her brother came back for a rare meal for Lu Xiaofan. If she calculated carefully, it seemed that every time Lu Xiaofan had something, her brother would help, which was completely different from ignoring her.

Bei Lvxin wanted to throw the envelope in her hand to the ground, and said stubbornly that I don't want this money, and I won't treat Lu Ma.

However, it seems that no one living under the eaves of the Bei family has the ability to be presumptuous in front of Bei Lvqing, but the people of the Bei family are slightly different in that Bei Lvxin's joy, anger, sorrow and happiness are almost all on her face.

Bei Lvqing said lightly: "Lu Ma is your mother-in-law, and I haven't seen her for five years. If you can treat her well, then I will take a closer look at your business plan and give you some advice." Bei

Lvxin seemed to turn from anger to joy immediately. Lu Xiaofan believed that Bei Lvxin didn't care whether to do any business or not, but discussing a business plan was not a short-term thing, which almost gave Bei Lvxin a reason to go to Bei Lvqing frequently.

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Bei Luqing stood up, dressed, put on a scarf and went out. Lu Xiaofan saw him out the door.

"Shall I ask Lao Wu to take you home?" Lu Xiaofan knew that Bei Luqing must have asked Lin Ziyang to take you home.

"No need!" Bei Luqing glanced at Lu Xiaofan and said, "It's so cold, wear more clothes when you go out."

"Okay." Lu Xiaofan responded quickly. He raised his eyes and looked at Bei Luqing, who was raising his hand to hail a taxi on the street. Bei Luqing was the kind of person who was very suitable for wearing a black coat and a scarf. He was very tall, and the slightly longer coat just highlighted his slender figure and made his temperament more elegant. Such a man is the focus of everyone's attention almost wherever he goes, and he is Bei Luqing.

Bei Luqing seemed to be concentrating on hailing a taxi, so Lu Xiaofan took a few more glances. He found that there seemed to be something missing on Bei Luqing's white middle finger, an iron ring, a ring that Bei Luqing never took off. Lu Xiaofan couldn't help but think that it might not have fallen off, or broken. Anyway, Lu Xiaofan didn't think that Bei Luqing had lost it, because even if it was a ring of that person, in Lu Xiaofan's opinion, it was much more important to Bei Luqing than him, Lu Xiaofan.

"How have you been recently?" Bei Luqing's tone was quite gentle.

Lu Xiaofan quickly retracted his gaze and said, "Very good."

Lu Xiaofan's life might be good or bad, but whether it was good or bad, there was nothing worth telling Bei Luqing about his own affairs, because he knew that he had to understand that sometimes when someone asks you a question, it is not really out of concern, but just a casual question.

Bei Luqing really hummed lightly, and then said, "Do you still like to climb Xiangshan Mountain? I have time recently."

"Why waste your time." Lu Xiaofan smiled and said, "Brother, you keep busy. I haven't climbed for a long time."

Bei Luqing said after a while, "Lin Ziyang is holding an international social gathering in the evening. There are many foreign students. Do you want to go and watch the fun?"

"No..."