Chapter 89

In the 48th year of Yuanhe reign, Xiaobao became the youngest tanhualang in the history of emperor Daxi, and was granted the editing of Hanlin Academy.

In addition to the number one ranking, Xiaobao, a 15-year-old tanhualang, is also concerned by the court.

Although he was just the editor of the Imperial Academy of zhengqipin, many people in the Court saw the potential of the young explorer and handed him olive branches one after another. Many officials even wanted to give Xiaobao their unmarried daughters, but Xiaobao refused one by one.

Li Mo and song Dashan respect Xiaobao's decision. In marriage, they hope Xiaobao can choose a girl that they like. Anyway, Xiaobao is still young now, so marriage can take its time.

Xiao Bao has never talked about marriage with Li Mo and his wife. He goes to the Hanlin academy every day and takes a rest every ten days. On that day, he takes fu'er out to play, for fear that she will be suffocated at home.

Li Mo can't accompany Fu Er all the time. The new shop has been renovated and the business has officially started. The family is busy again.

Like the old shops in the town, the new shops are divided into dressing rooms, beauty salons, leisure rooms and recreation rooms. However, the present shops are more spacious, and the decoration is very high-grade. All kinds of appliances are the most expensive. Of course, the price of charge is also getting more and more expensive. Make up costs 50 Wen at a time, beauty costs 60 Wen at a time, and the price of snacks and tea drinks has doubled.

Unlike the old shops that used to take the route of common people's low price, Li Mo positioned the shops here in the capital as high-end routes, and basically received the rich, with an average consumption of about 80 Wen per person.

This price is not expensive in the capital, but it is not cheap. At the beginning, many people didn't know Li Mo's craft and business was not very good. However, Fu Yueran often came to visit us and praised us intentionally or unconsciously at banquets, which made more and more ladies have a curious attitude to try it in the shop. After the first try, Ji Yueran came to visit us Ben has become a regular customer in the shop.

With Fu Yueran's help, a month after the new shop opened, its business broke the depression and became better and better. It was more than twice as good as the previous shop's business. Correspondingly, the shop was short of manpower.

Knowing that Li Mo is short of people, Fu Yueran brings some people to Li Mo for her to choose from. Li Mo selects two women to do chores and two boys to run errands. In addition, she also selects four beautiful women with clean family background and dexterous hands as apprentices. She plans to teach them beauty and make-up in the future. When they leave school, they will take their place I'm going to beautify her guests.

Since choosing the apprentices, Li Mo takes these four people with her every time she looks and makes up. She asks them to observe and learn. After the shop closes, she explains to them in detail so that they can practice with each other to improve their skills.

In addition to these four people, Li Mo also has a little apprentice, that is Xiao fu'er.

Yes, Li Mo plans to teach Fu Er all the skills.

Fu'er is ten years old. She is half a girl. From now on, she can teach everything she needs to teach. In addition to her cultural knowledge, she should also teach her her her make-up and beauty skills one by one. Even if she doesn't use this skill to make money in the future, it's not a bad thing to master the make-up and beauty skills that women look forward to most.

Xiao fu'er is also a sensible child. When Li Mo asks her to learn, she obediently follows her. She is more serious than the four elder martial sisters. What she doesn't understand is always the first one to ask and the one who takes the initiative to try. Probably inherited the talent of Li Mo, Xiao fu'er also has a lot of talent in this aspect, which is not inferior to Li mo.

She can master everything that Li Mo teaches quickly, and the effect of practice is so good that she can make up well at a young age, which is beyond the reach of the other four gifted elder martial sisters. Even Li Mo has to admit that fu'er is no worse than her after a few years of practice.

In fact, it doesn't take a few years. In only two years, fu'er's skill can be compared with Li mo ' It's very lively.

With the four apprentices gradually able to graduate, Li Mo gives them the task of making up and beauty, while she retreats to the second line and starts collecting money from the front desk, commonly known as the shopkeeper.

Song Dashan is responsible for the management of the flower garden and the production of various balms and beauty products in Chuang Tzu Li, which is located in the suburbs. Every day, he drives his carriage to Chuang Tzu just at dawn and comes back in the evening.

That day, song Dashan came back from Chuang Tzu, but his eyes looked out of the gate from time to time.

Li Mo is strange, "Dashan, what are you looking at?"

Song Dashan frowned slightly and said in a low voice, "there's always a little girl outside our shop these days. She seems to be looking at something, but she doesn't come in. It's very strange."

Li Mo looks out the door with her head outstretched. She really sees a girl about sixteen or seventeen years old in linen looking inside the shop. When she sees Li Mo looking at her, she immediately looks away."Is that the girl?" Li Mo asked.

Song Dashan nodded, "it's her. I've been looking outside for several days."

After thinking for a moment, Li Mo went out of the shop, walked up to the girl and asked, "girl, who are you looking for? What can we do for you? "

The little girl didn't expect that the people inside would come out to talk to her. She was embarrassed for a moment, and her face turned red slightly. She hesitated for a long time and didn't say anything.

Li Mo saw that she seemed to have something to say and encouraged her with a smile, "girl, if you have something to say directly, don't be afraid. If I can help you, I will help you."

Maybe Li Mo's attitude is too kind, the little girl gradually put down the formality, pursed her lips, seemed to think about something, finally, gently said, "I want to find someone, his home seems to be here."

"Oh? Who is it? As long as I know, I will tell you that I know almost all the people around here. "

The little girl bit her lower lip and loosened it. She said bravely, "I want to find a man named song Yifan. Do you know him?"

Song Yifan? Isn't this Xiaobao? Is this girl looking for her little treasure?

Li Mo looked at the girl calmly, but could not see anything. He simply asked, "can I ask, what do you want to do with him?"

Instead of answering, the little girl asked, "do you know him?"

See the little girl don't want to say, Li Mo is not forced, just the truth: "I know ah, I am his mother."

Hearing this, the little girl turned red. She seemed very embarrassed, but she said politely, "Hello, aunt."

Looking at the little girl's reaction, Li Mo decides that she must know Xiao Bao, and it's not malicious to come to him.

Seeing the little girl's dusty appearance, Li Mo simply said, "girl, my family Yifan is still on duty outside. I won't come back until evening. Come in with me and have a rest." He took her by the hand to take her into the house.

The little girl seems to be a little unaccustomed, but still did not break away from Li Mo's hand, followed her in.

Li Mo asks fu'er to take the girl to the backyard and serve some tea and fruit snacks.

Fu'er was very curious about the girl who looked good and wanted to find her brother. She couldn't help asking, "little sister, what's your name?"

Girl smile, "my name is Qixi."

Fu'er tilted his head. "Your name is the same as Qixi Festival."

Qixi nodded, "yes, because I was picked up by my master on that day, so it's called Qixi."

Fu Er's smile closed, "I'm sorry, talking about this bad topic."

Tanabata shook his head, "nothing, my master is very good to me."

Fu Er changed the topic, "can you tell me why you want to find my brother? Do you know my brother? "

Asked by fu'er's question, Qixi's face turned red again. She pursed her lips and nodded slightly. "Well, I know your brother. This time I came to see him, I had something important to ask him."

Seeing that she was embarrassed to say this, fu'er nodded. She didn't ask any more. She just treated her more attentively and went to clean up a guest room for her to stay.

In the evening, Xiao Bao came back from the Imperial Academy. As soon as he came in, he was caught by fu'er.

Xiaobao patted her sister's head with a smile, "what's the matter? How can I greet my brother so warmly today? "

Fu Er wrinkled his little nose and said with a playful smile, "brother, I want to tell you something. Today, a beautiful lady came to see you."

Xiaobao was slightly surprised when he heard the words, "looking for me? Who is it? " As he spoke, he entered the hall.

As a result, when I saw the figure on the dinner table, my steps suddenly stopped, and a look of surprise appeared uncontrollably on my face, which had always been happy and angry but not too good at color

Tanabata immediately stood up, the corner of the mouth can not help but see Xiaobao up, the voice is also very light, "Song Yifan."

Li Mo and song Dashan look at each other with doubts in their eyes.

Li Mo waved to Xiao Bao, "Yifan, come in, this girl has been waiting for you all day."

Xiaobao recovered from his surprise just now. He suddenly turned back and walked into the house slowly. Looking at Qixi, he looked like a stranger. He asked in a voice that could not recognize his emotion: "what's the matter with you?"

Looking at Xiaobao's face suddenly become indifferent, Tanabata's smile froze, pulled the skirt, voice low a lot, "I... I come to you."

Xiaobao gathered his eyes, sat down at the table, picked up chopsticks to eat, and asked: "Oh? What can I do for you? "

Tanabata's eyes can not control the red, to say before the words can no longer be said, for a time do not know is to stand or sit well.

Li Mo saw this and frowned. He didn't understand why Xiaobao, who was always gentle and polite, was suddenly so sharp. But now it's hard to say anything, so he had to stretch out his hand and pull the little girl to sit down. "Tanabata, please sit down and have a meal. After dinner, OK?"

Tanabata wiped his eyes, nodded, "OK, thank you." With that, he picked up chopsticks and dug rice into his mouth, without clamping vegetables.Li Mo couldn't look down, and put the dishes in the bowl of Qixi, "Qixi, don't mention it. You can't just eat rice."

Tanabata quickly thanks to the Li Mo folder dishes are eaten.

After dinner, Li Mo and song Dashan go back to the house and drive fu'er back to the house. Only Xiao Bao and Qixi are left. Let them solve something by themselves.

Xiaobao didn't say anything about his family's avoidance behavior. After sitting for a while, he got up and prepared to go back to his room. Before leaving, he said, "it's not early. Have a rest early." It's like talking to a stranger.

Tanabata's face turned white, a little rough, see Xiaobao to leave, can't help but seize his skirt, "Yifan."

Xiaobao pulled out his sleeves, his eyebrows and eyes were cold, and his voice was not warm. "Please respect yourself."

Three words, let Qixi's face the last bit of blood also disappeared, teeth tightly bite the lower lip, almost bite blood.

After waiting for a long time, Xiao Bao didn't see any words from the other party. He turned around and left.

Walking out of the two steps, the sleeve was grabbed again, and the voice behind him came with uneasiness and uneasiness, "Yifan, do you... Remember what you said to me at the beginning?"

Xiaobao's hands in her sleeves clenched and her knuckles turned white. She wanted to ask why she could ask such a question even though she had disappeared for so long in silence, but she couldn't say it. She just pulled out her sleeves again and said, "I don't remember."

With this sentence finished, the hand that grasped his sleeve gradually loosened, and the people behind him no longer had a voice.

The air suddenly fell silent.

Xiao Bao regretted what he had just blurted out and wanted to look back. But he thought of his hard search in the past two years, but he couldn't go back. He just went back to his room.

But when she came back to her room, she couldn't sleep. For a moment, she thought about where she came from, whether she had returned to her room to have a rest, and whether her attitude would make her sad. In a word, Xiaobao kept her eyes open until dawn.

The next day, Xiao Bao stayed up until he got up. Then he put on his clothes, opened the door and went to the dining room for breakfast as usual.

But I didn't see that figure on the table.

Haven't you got up yet?

Xiao Bao sat down and said hello to song Dashan, Li Mo and fu'er. Then he took the bowl and began to eat.

But I didn't see that person until I was about to finish eating.

I can't bear it. Xiaobao pretends to be casual and asks, "where's the girl who came to our house yesterday? Not up yet? "

Li Mo raised her eyelids and closed her eyes. She picked up a piece of pickle and said, "Oh, that girl came to say goodbye to me early in the morning and left with her luggage."

"What! Let's go Xiaobao's chopsticks fell to the ground and stood up, causing the chair to rub back for a long distance, making a harsh sound.

Xiaobao would not have been like this if she had been normal, but now she can't take care of it. The only thing left in her mind is the fact that she has gone.

She's gone? Really gone? Why did you leave again? Did you let her go last night?

"Mother, when did she leave? "Where are you going?" Xiaobao's voice was unprecedented.

Li Mo drank a mouthful of porridge again, and after swallowing it, he said, "I left a quarter of an hour ago, as if I had gone to the West."

Xiao Bao didn't have time to say more, so he rushed out of the door and disappeared.

Fu'er was stunned. "Niang, I've never seen my brother so panicked before. Since I saw my sister last night, my brother has changed completely from peacetime."

Li Mo gives Fu Er a fried dumpling, "you are still young, don't understand, he will deal with your brother's affairs."

Fu'er said, "Oh, eat well.".

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