The Republic of China. A Dream of Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies

When Pu Ying and Xi'er were playing with the toy steam train in the room, they heard movement outside.

"You play first, the prince is back." He said to his younger brother.

"Is that the prince pulling the cart? I also want to get to know him." Xi'er hadn't seen Yanlin before, so she felt very curious and quickly put down the little train in her hand.

"Hehe, he's become a famous person, let's go, I'll take you to meet him." Pu Ying led him out of the house after speaking, and came to the yard.

Seeing the two, Yan Lin hurried forward and asked, "Is this your younger brother Xi'er?" He heard the elder brother talk about his half-brother. Although they are not the same father, they still look alike .

"Yes, my younger brother Xi'er, Xi'er, this is the prince. Just call him Big Brother Yanlin, call him Uncle, and he's not that old." He introduced his lover to his younger brother, not to mention He often talks about the fact that his lover is his cousin.

Xi'er looked at him and asked happily, "Are you still pulling the rickshaw?"

Yanlin smiled flatly: "I won't pull the cart anymore."

"Then what are you going to do in the future?" Shi'er asked again, do you want to do business with your elder brother?

Yanlin was a little embarrassed, so he paused and replied: "I haven't figured it out yet, I have to go to the ancestral grave to keep an eye on it during this time, and we can talk about it after the matter of the spirit is over."

"I won't accompany you these few days, call me when there is something to do, there is still a lot of work waiting for me to do in the foreign company." Pu Ying said, although he is not a hardworking person, but he also understands that it is good to be lazy. The reason for the end, in order to honor the lintel, in order to stand out, he has to work hard, he can't lie under the big tree of his parents to enjoy the shade.What's more, he is also a generation that has experienced dynastic changes, and has a deep sense of crisis. This sense of crisis forces him not to sit back and enjoy the benefits.

Yanlin nodded: "Well, there's nothing else to do. I've finished counting the belongings in the opened tomb, and I'll do other things tomorrow. I'll come back and get some clothes for a change. I'm going there tomorrow morning." , felt ashamed in his heart, but thinking of what Er Niang said, he felt that it was a last resort to do so. Even if he went to Huangquan to kowtow to his ancestors to confess his mistakes a hundred years later, he would have to bear the guilt alone. They have nothing to do with Er Niang!

"Come over to my room to chat at night." Pu Ying was simply panicked from below, and wanted to have a chat with this person to relieve boredom, but her face was very calm.

But the prince understood, and hurriedly replied: "Well, I'll go back to the house first."

Only then did the elder brother lead his younger brother back to his house, and the two continued to lie on the wooden floor and play with the little train like children. The train was laid with tracks and shuttled back and forth between tunnels and stations. Just like real trains, these high-end toys are all made in Britain, and most of the buyers are children from rich families.

"You want to let my mother buy it for you. I can't give you this set. It's out of print." The elder brother loves collecting, not only toys, but also antiques and various works of art, which are valuable for collection. Never let go of things easily.

Xi'er smiled and shook her head: "No, my father won't let me play." Speaking of this, I really have a runny nose and tears!

"He still cares about you?" Pu Ying was very surprised, how did Jin Kai teach his younger brother and younger sister?

"Since I went to school, he doesn't let me play with toys very much. He said that men should not think about these useless things. They should study hard and learn more skills. When I want to play, I will also secretly. Never let me play with toys." Father sees, otherwise it will be a lecture, which is more uncomfortable than scolding me!" Wang Shi just chattered with his elder brother, and could only be the obedient eldest son at home, but he was fully aware of his tortuous life experience, and every time he met Lord Belle was both kind and ashamed.

Pu Ying frowned and asked again: "Er Niang just let him discipline you like this?"

"He said it a few times at the beginning, but he didn't mention it later, because Dad can always tell a lot of great truths, saying that playing with things and losing one's ambitions, you can't let me be like a boy from the Eight Banners, only eating, drinking and having fun." Shi'er said more The voice became quieter, and he was still observing the expression on the elder brother's face, but he felt uncomfortable if he didn't say it, because there was really no one else who could tell the truth except the elder brother.

Pu Ying snorted coldly: "Your father means Sang scolding Huai, don't you like our bannermen?"

"No matter what he thinks, he was also raised by the banner people. Our little sister is lucky. Because she is a girl, my father dotes on her very much. He almost gives her whatever he wants... Hey, why didn't you make me into a child?" It’s easier to live like a girl.” Wang Shi was under the pressure that his peers couldn’t bear, and besides telling him to study every day, his father also asked him to learn painting and carpentry, which left him almost no time to play.

The eldest brother shook his head quickly: "Don't think so, you think being a woman is easy, being a woman has to bear children, raising children is also very hard, of course, our mother is an exception, she is both a man and a woman, er The mother is the hardest one, so in the future you have to be more filial to him, and don't make him angry."

Xi'er patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, big brother, I will take good care of Erniang, but recently Erniang and my father seem to be having trouble with each other." As a son, he couldn't help worrying about the two of them. .

"What's wrong with it?" Pu Ying was naturally concerned about this matter, if Jin Kai made Er Niang feel wronged, he would be the first to refuse, and he would definitely find this person to settle the score.

Wang Shi scratched his head, pondered and said, "They don't talk much, unlike before, they always discuss business matters together, and they go about their own business every day when they come back."

"Sleeping together?" Pu Ying asked straightforwardly.

Xi'er answered casually: "I didn't always sleep together in the past. I didn't pay much attention to it. It's just that my father comes back very late recently, and sometimes he smells like alcohol. If he drank too much, he would just hang out in the study Sleeping, but in the morning, he went to work vigorously. My mother always said that my father is like a machine in a factory. Like a vocation."

"I really admire him for that!" The elder brother straightened up and looked at the calendar. In a few days, his sister will be getting married, and his gift is not ready yet. Feelings, but they are compatriots after all, for the sake of his father, he will reluctantly bleed!

Xi'er saw what the eldest brother was thinking, and asked jokingly, "Brother, are you thinking of giving your sister some congratulatory gift?"

"Yes, it's inappropriate not to send it off. After all, she is my sister, although she doesn't regard me as a younger brother." Pu Ying sat on the sofa and sighed. .

"Have you met brother-in-law? I heard that he is a gangster." Shi'er also heard Zhou Ping's story. He didn't quite believe it at first, but Zhou Ping's tone of speech didn't seem like a joke.

"No, I'm just waiting to see the fun, she needs to find a man to clean up, heck, but in this family, brother-in-law probably won't cause any trouble, so he always has to take care of Ama's face." Probably in his fantasy The "big drama" in the past is not going to be staged.

"Haha, if you are really cured by your brother-in-law, you must tell me, and I will be happy too!" When Xi'er was an elder brother in the Baylor Mansion, she often received Qingzhu's eyes, and she had long been resentful towards this elder sister. It's been a long time.

At this moment, Zai Yu's house, who lives in the west, became a hot kiln. Wu Hai brought two entourages to Zai Yu's house to make a big fuss, insisting on letting his adult daughter Fang Lian go home with him, without any scruples. face.

"Father, can you stop making trouble? The matter of our marriage has already been published in the newspaper, and we can't change it." On this matter, the actress was very resolute and would not compromise at all.

Wu Hai, the father, was so angry that he blushed and had a thick neck, pointed at Zai Yu's nose and cursed: "I usually think you are gentle and talkative, but I didn't expect you to be the scum of kidnapping a girl!"

Standing in the yard, Zai Yu was extremely embarrassed. He didn't explain it, and he couldn't do without an explanation, so he could only bite the bullet and said: "Don't be angry, we have something to talk about."

Zaiyan hid in the house and did not dare to come out. He was afraid that his appearance would become the capital of Wu Hai's curse, saying that there was a big smoker in the family who was eating for nothing, and his brother would lose face even more.

"I have nothing to say to you, Fang Lian, come home with me, can you have a good life with such a worthless man?" Wu Hai's illusions were not shattered, and he still believed that his daughter would go back with him.

Fang Lian gritted her teeth, and said firmly: "I will not go back with you, Zai Yu is already my husband, even if you don't like it, it's a done deal, no one can change it."

Wu Hai automatically filtered the word "a done deal", and quickly persuaded his daughter earnestly: "Fang Lian, you just listen to what your father says, you have to find a man of the same family and age as your husband, he is not worthy of you at all, and eventually you will be married." One day you will regret it." He felt that his daughter was young and ignorant and had too little experience, so she was deceived by this bastard.

"Whether they are a good match or not is not up to others. You should go back first." Fang Lian felt that it would not help the matter to continue talking, so she might as well issue an order to evict guests. After all, this is Beijing and Wang Fa.

The father was very chilling. Seeing the raised daughter run away with other men, he was extremely disappointed. He gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, don't go home again from now on, I don't think I don't have your daughter!" After finishing speaking, he left in a huff with two followers, but the sadness was self-evident. From the first time he hugged Fanglian and saw her cute little face, he felt so sad. He was firmly grasped by his daughter, no matter how hard or tired he was outside, as long as he could see his daughter's smile, his fatigue and troubles would be wiped away.But what he couldn't accept was that the daughter actually abandoned herself and her family for a poor literati, and would rather eat chaff and swallow vegetables with the down-and-out Manchu nobles.

Watching her father leave, Fu Rong's hanging heart fell to the ground. She turned to Zai Yu and said, "Hurry up and prepare for the wedding banquet. The banquet still needs to be arranged. We can't get married secretly."

"Well, yes, the eldest brother said that he would help Zhang Luo." Zai Yu broke out in a hot sweat, but fortunately Wu Hai (father-in-law) still saved some face for them. If he really tried to rob people, he would do nothing No, probably because I was afraid that outsiders would know the joke.But calling this person father-in-law is really a little bit hard!