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

Wang Shi heard that his mother was recuperating at home, so he insisted on following them back to Beijing.

Arriving at the apartment in Dongjiaomin Lane, Kelso dragged his still recovering body and ordered the servants to prepare a Western-style dinner. He was very happy to see the third child, but it was a pity that Jasmine did not come.

In the evening, Lord Belle didn't stay and went back to his own house. Pu Xie and Xi'er stayed with their emaciated mother.

The moon was shining brightly, and the three of them sat and chatted on the spacious terrace, drinking the black tea that the British love most.

"I'll go back to Tianjin in two days, so I have to explain it to your father and don't contradict him." Kelso said, he planned to call the other party early tomorrow morning to inform Xi'er that he was here.

Hearing this, Wang Shi could only say, "I'll take care of it, you don't have to worry about it." In fact, he was still a little scared. Every time his father finished drinking, he would get angry with them. Yelling is unbearable enough.

When Kelso heard him say this, he changed the subject: "Is Molly okay?"

"She's pretty good. She's in a women's school, and she's taught by a lady from the United States." But he only said good things, and didn't say bad things. Although my sister hasn't cried much recently, she still doesn't feel used to it and always complains. I don't have any close friends at school.

Hearing what the third child said, the mother was relieved.

Pu Xie interjected: "Emiang, you should go back and rest, it's windy outside." He knew that his mother had just had a miscarriage, so she couldn't catch a cold, and according to the Chinese saying, mother should stay at home for two months.

Kelso smiled at the second child and said, "Well, then I'm going back to bed, and you guys should go to bed early too." I don't care too much about it. After all, it is still a long way from a seminary student to a priest, and it is impossible in five or six years.

After taking a bath, Wang Shi knocked on the door of the second brother's room, and stood at the door awkwardly in his pajamas and said, "Can I sleep with the second brother?"

Pu Xi originally wanted to refuse, but when he saw him staring at him emotionally with a pair of big eyes, he couldn't say anything, and could only let his brother into the house.

The two were lying on the bed chatting, and neither of them felt sleepy.

"I'll take you back to Tianjin tomorrow, we don't worry about you going back alone." After finishing speaking, Pu Xie turned off the desk lamp and lay down. The bed was wide enough for three people to sleep, so he didn't feel crowded, just subconsciously. It's just that my younger brother drew a line, and he habitually sleeps on the right side.

"Let's not talk about this. Are you going to study in a seminary in the fall? If you still live in a church, we don't have much time to meet each other. I will miss you." Wang Shi rubbed over and hugged the fragrant British beauty.

Pu Xie turned his face and said to him softly: "Don't act like a child who is too young to look for Er Niang." He vaguely smelled the sweat on his younger brother's body, and this smell made him a little nervous. Although this person is still a teenager, he already has the posture of a man, and it will definitely not be particularly comfortable to be surrounded by a strange thing.

Xi'er happily leaned into his ear and said, "I'm expressing that I like you!"

Pu Xi pushed him away, and said coldly: "You have found the wrong person, go find a girl who is about your age and show love to him, you see clearly, I am both a man and your elder brother."

"If you weren't my second brother, I wouldn't have to worry so much. I would marry you when I became an adult, and I would be a good husband." He still didn't know the responsibilities and obligations of a husband, but he already understood How to please the beloved by "everything and rhetoric".

Pu Xi, who didn't have a lot of experience in life, was very happy when he heard this, but he asked calmly: "Our Er Niang has never been able to get married in a serious way in this life, so it is impossible for me, let alone my wife. I will be a priest in the future."

"Emiang was also a priest, didn't she give birth to us as usual, I want you to give birth to several children... But we are brothers, I'm afraid it will be impossible in this life." Speaking of this, he said He sighed.

Pu Xie pinched his face, raised his eyebrows: "You talk nonsense all day long, let my elder brother take you to Bada Hutong to see it in two years, so as not to make you panic."

Xi'er quickly grabbed the second brother's jade arm, and shook her head infatuatedly: "I just want to sleep with you, not anyone else."

"Stop talking silly, go to sleep, I have to abstinence, I can't sleep with anyone." After saying that, Pu Xie turned over, ready to go to bed, but his younger brother was still holding his waist persistently.

"I can't do it... If you really become a priest, then I will become a monk." Wang Shi said innocently. As the only son of the Wang family, if he became a monk, his father would definitely not agree.

Pu Xi didn't say anything, but pretended to be asleep. ． ． ． ． ．

The next afternoon, Zhou Ping drove the two sons to Tianjin.

Pu Xie took his younger brother upstairs to the terrace on the third floor, where Jin Kai was sitting on the roof drinking.

"Father, I'm back." Wang Shi said tremblingly. His father was sitting at the small table with his head down drinking, and he didn't look at them.

Seeing this situation, Pu Xie felt something was wrong, so he reluctantly said: "Emiang is not in good health and has been bedridden for a long time, so I took Xi'er back to live for a day, I hope you don't blame him." He and Jin Kai They are peers, so no honorific title is required.

Only then did Jin Kai put down his wine glass, looked at the two drunkenly, and said angrily, "Why are you still coming back? You might as well just stay in Beijing."

Wang Shi felt very sad, so she could only say in a low voice, "I'm just worried about my mother, so I went over to have a look. Of course I will come back. I'm your son."

"My son, I'm afraid you are willing to be Lord Baylor's son?" Jin Kai glanced at Pu Xie. He had never seriously looked at this young man. When he was the second elder brother, the relationship between them was not good. , it is even worse now, but Pu Xie does look the most like a Viscount.

Wang Shi quickly shook his head: "I've never thought about it that way." But what's ridiculous is that he really fantasized about it, but the reality is cruel.

"You shouldn't say that to Xi'er, it's an insult to yourself!" the sharp-tongued British couldn't help but shouted loudly, he didn't want his younger brother to be bullied, and instinctively wanted to protect Xi'er.

Jin Kai stood up unsteadily, and asked with a sneer, "Even you look down on me now, your father finally got his wish and broke us up!"

"You were the one who broke up my mother-in-law and Ama in the first place, but now you are here to bite back, you really have a thick skin." The person he hates the most is Jin Kai in front of him, and today he has a chance to take revenge!

Jin Kai laughed wildly: "Haha... If your ama was nice to your mother back then, how could he be with me? I blame you ama for being too conceited."

Having said that, Pu Xi didn't know how to answer, he was a little poor, frowned and said: "Ama is not conceited, it's because he loves Er Niang too much, and you, now because of Er Niang and Er Niang I am reconciled, and I will not let Jasmine, Xi'er, and Er Niang meet, you are really an ungrateful, narrow-minded villain, and if you say that villains have exalted you, you are a scumbag!"

Seeing the quarrel, Wang Shi quickly blocked his father's way and begged, "Father, don't quarrel with the second brother!"

"Second brother? You are just half-brothers. He is not your brother at all." Jin Kai only had resentment in his heart. What he was afraid of was that one day Kelso would snatch all the children away, and he would be left alone.

Hearing this, Pu Xi was not convinced at first, he pointed to Jin Kai's nose and said: "Although the third brother's father is you, he is also Er Niang's son, we will always be brothers, don't stir up trouble between us." relation."

The young man standing next to his elder brother was a little moved when he heard this. The second elder brother still liked him, cared about him, and would defend his younger brother at critical moments.

Jin Kai smiled complacently: "Ji'er and Moli are my children legally, and have nothing to do with your mother-in-law. Even if this matter goes to court, I have a reason to follow... If you want to calm me down, You can replace your mother-in-law, but I can consider it." After speaking, she looked obscenely at the British beauty.

Hearing this, Wang Shi became anxious, and quickly shouted: "Father, how can you say that, even if you are drunk... you can't insult the second brother!"

"Do you still think I'm a father anymore...You can't turn your elbows out, you bastard!" Jin Kai roared angrily, and threw himself at his son...