The identity of the direct son - Xu I's prosperous world

Mrs. Xu took Brother Heng and Xu Qilang to Xishan Biezhuang, and took away the frail fifth aunt and a few daughters. The mansion let the fourth aunt take care of the house and the sixth aunt assisted.

Xishan Biezhuang is not very big on the mountain. There are pear trees in the village. This season is when the pears are ripe. Xu Qilang is addicted to climbing trees, and often picks pears from the tree to eat.

Mrs. Xu also asked to pick a lot and send them back to the capital, some of them stayed in the mansion to eat, and some of them were sent to a few good friends' homes as local products.

It is true that it is much cooler in Biezhuang, and Brother Heng's illness healed very quickly. In August, the weather in the capital became cooler, and Master Ji also sent someone to pick them up, so they packed up and returned to Beijing. .

When entering the city gate, because there were many people waiting to enter the city, we had to queue up.

Brother Heng and Xu Shi's Xu Qilang were sitting in a carriage. Xu Qilang had a restless temperament. After staying in the capital for a year, he didn't learn to be steady. He lay on the window of the car and kept looking outside. Holding Xu's round fan in his hand, Brother Heng fanned himself, Xu and Xu Qilang, listening to the bustling sounds of people outside.

It was their turn to enter the city, but suddenly they heard the neighing of a horse, and someone shouted, "Get out of the way, get out of the way."

There are many Ji family members, including people and things, and there are five carriages. Suddenly someone jumps into the city, and their carriages have to give way to the side. Even if the carriage drivers are skilled, the horses are not so timely. After being pulled and shaken for a few times before stopping, the irregular and messy sound of the horse's hooves could still be heard.

Xu Qilang stared straight at the outside, Xu opened the curtain a little, and asked the coachman sitting outside, "What's the matter?"

In fact, this kind of thing is very common in the capital, and no one is unfamiliar with it. There are many high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the capital, and there must be many people who use their privileges to make things convenient.

Ordinary civilians have become accustomed to it.

It's not that Mrs. Xu really didn't know what was going on. He asked the coachman, but he wanted to ask who the other party was.

The coachman stared at the horse convoy winding into the city, turned his head and said to Xu, "Ma'am, let them go first, look at the emblem on the car, it belongs to the Zhao family of the uncle of the country. The Zhao family has a queen mother in the palace, and she always acts Just so arrogant, before there was the matter of robbing pregnant wives to become concubines in the mansion, it was at this time last year, and at that time, Ma'am, you hadn't even entered Beijing, so their family couldn't do anything."

He said, with disdain.

The Zhao family has always acted arrogantly in the capital, and it can be said that there are many complaints. The folks have compiled many versions of scripts and dramas to insinuate their actions, but their family has not restrained themselves. They probably think that the emperor is in their hands. , the uncle of the Zhao family inherited the title of Marquis of Dingguo, and the second master was granted the title of Marquis of Yongchang. There is a phenomenon that "sisters and brothers are all exiled, poor and glorious families". These were not obvious when the Zhao family's aunt was the queen. Well, after the empress was promoted to empress dowager, the Zhao family has completely improved.

Even Li Ge's hometown, the first assistant, did not dare to touch his edge at all.

The descendants of Dayong's royal family will all become kings and vassals, and they are not allowed to stay in the capital. Most of the princesses will marry far away, and few of them are in the capital. At the founding of the country, the families of the fathers were appointed dukes and were hereditary, and no dukes were allowed after that. After more than a hundred years, there are only four duke houses that have not committed crimes and maintained their glory. They have been low-key in their affairs. It is the newly-promoted Hou Mansion that is more active.

As soon as the coachman finished speaking, the horse of their carriage was whipped, and it hit the horse's head. The horse felt the pain, so it raised its head and neighed, and ran to the side. There were a lot of things, and there were also a lot of people. For a while, the horse-drawn carriages ran wildly, the stalls panicked and avoided, and the other carriages also rushed to the side to avoid it, and they were in a mess. Naturally, the few people sitting in the carriage also Very uncomfortable.

Xu exclaimed, he had already put his arms around Brother Heng with one hand, and grabbed Xu Qilang with the other, and the three of them huddled together.

Xu yelled loudly, "Stop the horse, stop the horse."

Fortunately, the coachman was skilled and quickly restrained the horse. The horse was pacing irritably, and the carriage was pulled and moved again. Xu calmed down from his panic, let go of Brother Heng and Xu Qilang, and said, " Go and sit in the girls' carriage."

Brother Heng was very calm, "It should be fine."

Xu Qilang had seen the situation outside from the window of the car just now, and he frowned in displeasure and said, "It was a man from the back of the carriage just now, who rode on a horse and whipped our horse on purpose."

Mrs. Xu lifted the curtain just now, so she also saw it, she was very angry, and said again, "You go to the girls' carriage first." She said, and asked the young man next to her to put on the carriage stool, Pick up the two young masters and go down to change cars.

She put on her bonnet herself, and she got out of the carriage after the two children.

The head steward, Jianxue, had already come from the car behind, and two women also came to ask about the situation, Fifth Yiniang also kept asking, and the girls were also very worried, so they asked the maid to ask about the situation.

The person who smoked the Xu family's horse was sitting high on a big Wanliang horse, and there were two young servants riding horses beside him, looking at the embarrassed Xu family with sneering eyes.

Brother Heng got out of the carriage, looked up at the person on the horse, and saw a very imposing boy with a tall figure but an immature face. He didn't speak, but secretly remembered it in his heart.

Xu Qilang is a man with a temper, and he was about to go over to argue with the person on horseback, but Brother Heng stopped him.

Mrs. Xu is a safe person. He has sent someone to negotiate with the owner of the stall that was knocked over by their horse just now, offering compensation, and asked the drawn horse to be unloaded from the carriage and replaced with the one that followed. horse.

There were quite a few people watching the excitement nearby, and the officers and soldiers at the gate of the city also saw this situation, but no one stepped forward to speak up for the Xu family.

The carriage of the Xu family did not bear the hall name of Ji Fu, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment. When people look at them, they just think that they are the family members of ordinary wealthy merchants. They had been whipped and could only endure it.

Besides, other people heard what the coachman said about the Zhao family just now, so if he said such bad things before the Zhao family had gone far, there was no guarantee that he would not cause trouble and ask for guilt.

Although everyone sighed for a while on the face, they were probably still watching a good show in their hearts.

Zhao Zhili thought that the people he whipped would start a quarrel with him, and he just took this opportunity to teach them a lesson, but he didn't expect the other family to ignore him at all.

After Mrs. Xu let Brother Heng and Xu Qilang get into the girls' carriage, she went to Wu Yiniang's carriage, and then let the carriage that had an accident just stop at the end, completely ignoring Zhao Zhili.

Brother Heng Xu Qilang squeezed together with the third and fourth sisters, the carriage started again, and entered the gate opening of the city gate that was more than ten meters long. Fan Feng took his hand and asked him, "What happened just now?"

Before Brother Heng could answer, Xu Qilang said angrily, "It was the coachman who said something bad about Zhao's family who jumped into the city. His family heard about it, and a member of his family whipped the horses of our carriage. After suffering the pain, I trampled around for a while. Fortunately, my aunt can bear it. If it were me, I wouldn’t be named Xu if I didn’t take their horse back.”

Brother Heng said to him, "What kind of family is the Zhao family? How can we provoke it? Mother can't bear it. Look at you, you are not young, you haven't even learned the art of endurance."

Xu Qilang was still not angry, "Forbearance, forbearance, forbearance, what's the use of forbearance."

Brother Heng sighed and said, "You are not even one-tenth of Uncle's."

Xu Qilang snorted, gritted his teeth and turned his head, and stopped talking.

The fourth sister, who has always been taciturn, said softly, "Last time Mrs. Lin brought some of her sisters to our house as guests. It was said that Mrs. Ge, Mrs. Li Ge, took her daughter-in-law to Zhenguo Temple to offer incense. Madam bumped into each other, and she was the one who went first. When our family met the Zhao family, we had no choice but to let it go."

The third sister curled her lips and said, "The Zhao family's behavior will definitely not last long. Now the emperor is not the empress dowager's biological son. When the emperor grows up and governs himself, will the Zhao family still be like this?"

Brother Heng didn't expect the third sister to have such remarks, Xu Qilang echoed her and said, "The emperor should be in charge in a few years."

Brother Heng said, "It's better not to say that. The emperor doesn't have to rely on the queen mother in the palace. Otherwise, something unexpected happens, and when the time comes to bring another child from the vassal king to the capital, everything will be the same." It is the Queen Mother who has the final say."

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone was very angry.

Brother Heng didn't expect that the entire Ji family belonged to the little emperor's faction, from Mrs. Ji to the fourth sister, everyone was upset about the little emperor.

Several people were silent for a while, and the third sister said, "In a few years, the emperor will choose the queen and concubine."

There was a little melancholy in the voice, and there was hope in the melancholy.

Xu Qilang said without hesitation, "Does Third Cousin want to enter the palace?"

As soon as his words came out, the third sister rebounded, hit him twice with a fan, and said blushingly, "You don't know what you want to say with this mouth."

Xu Qilang smiled a few times and hid behind Brother Heng, who was sitting upright, and continued to tease Third Sister, saying, "Third Cousin is so beautiful, she is more than enough to be selected into the palace as a concubine."

"You! You!" The third sister was so angry that she had nothing to do with Xu Qilang, so she had to say to Brother Heng, "Brother Heng, you tear his mouth off for my sister."

Brother Heng glanced back at Xu Qilang, and said solemnly, "Can you stop saying what everyone thinks so unscrupulously?"

When the third sister heard this, she let out an oops, and glared at Brother Heng blushingly, "You two have a litter of snakes and rats, and neither one is good."

The fourth sister also covered her mouth with a fan, giggling, and the third sister blushed, she was already broken, "I really want to enter the palace, but it's not easy, let alone Others, let’s say I’m not a direct descendant, and I’m not even qualified for the draft. If I want to enter the palace, there’s nothing wrong with it. If I marry someone, I’ll go to the richest place.”

When she said that, everyone couldn't laugh anymore and became solemn.

Brother Heng looked at Third Sister, the carriage had already come out of the city gate, and the light shone into the carriage, Third Sister's face was stained with a layer of crimson, and her whole body seemed to be shining with a layer of light, very bright.

Brother Heng didn't know what to say for a moment, but Xu Qilang said, "Sister San has such an ambition, which I admire."

I don't know if he meant it as a joke or if he said it sincerely.

The third sister frowned, and said, "I'm just saying this here, you don't want to say it, or I will lose my face, and I won't be able to marry if I don't enter the palace."

Everyone hastened to say save it, and suddenly, the atmosphere in the carriage became dull.

Brother Heng lowered his head and thought about his affairs, Xu Qilang looked out from the curtain of the car again, the third sister told him not to look at him and refused to listen, after that the third sister had no choice but to ignore him, and held hands with the fourth sister. A purse studied the embroidery on it.

It was lunch time when we returned to Ji Mansion, after lunch, Brother Heng went to take a nap, just woke up, Fufeng took care of him to wash up, and was about to read a book, when the young servant on duty in the front yard came to play the piano Spread the word that Mr. Ji has returned to the mansion and let him talk.

It's almost August [-]th, the Mid-Autumn Festival. Mid-Autumn Festival is a big festival, and Mrs. Xu is very busy as soon as she returns home. Brother Heng followed Mingqin to the front yard. He was thinking that his father would be on vacation during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and maybe he would take him with him again. Go out to socialize.

Entering the study, Mr. Ji sat behind the desk, and on the chair next to him was Mr. Zhang Heting, a Qing guest and in-law.

Brother Heng met Master Ji first, and then saluted Mr. Zhang, Master Ji let Brother Heng sit on the other chair, and said, "You look much better, I heard you go After arriving at Xishan Biezhuang, your illness will soon be cured, and your bones really can't bear the heat."

Brother Heng looked a little ashamed and said, "I made my father worry."

Mr. Zhang also said, "It really looks like he has been raised. I heard that some people practice Taijiquan, which is very good for health. Brother Heng is weak. Go and ask a master to come back and teach you how to improve your body. Some use."

Master Ji pondered for a moment, looked at Brother Heng, and said, "It can be done like this."

Mr. Zhang said, "I'll go and ask about this master."

Brother Heng quickly got up and thanked him.

After returning to the topic, Lord Ji asked Brother Heng, "Do you know that the emperor has appointed three new emperor masters?"

When Brother Heng lived in Xishan Biezhuang, he was not completely isolated from the world. In a few days, someone would send various news to Mrs. Xu, and he already knew about it, so he nodded and said he already knew.

Saying this, he was thinking about Master Ji's intention of asking this matter.

Master Ji continued, "What the emperor means is that I hope to have two companions by my side. This matter has not been directly stated, but it should be done in the end."

Brother Heng was stunned for a moment, the emperor has been in the palace all the time, except for the emperor teacher, the eunuchs and maids around him, but the eunuchs and maids around him may not necessarily be facing him, he wants to contact more people, Or if there are more forces, it is very understandable to hope to have a companion, but it is not an easy task to be the emperor's companion. When Mr. Ji said this to him, Brother Heng had to think, is he Want to do this companion reading yourself?

Being the emperor's accompanying reader, the risk factor is not small at all.

Brother Heng didn't pretend to be stupid, and said, "Did father support the emperor in choosing two companions?"

Mr. Ji and Mr. Zhang looked at each other, and then said, "From the Han Dynasty to the present, every time there is a suspicion of the young country, it is a harbinger of chaos in the world. Now the emperor is not a dou who cannot be supported. If something happens to the emperor, we will never give up. If someone from the vassal kings is elected to the capital, the court will only become more chaotic."

Master Ji, as a minister of the imperial court, said at home that he was suspicious of the young country, and that the vassal king wanted to send people to Beijing in case of an accident. We all know this, it's no longer a secret.

Brother Heng made a respectful hearing, but didn't answer.

Lord Ji then said, "The emperor has set up the Mid-Autumn Festival, set up a palace banquet, and invited some ministers. I am a courtier, and I am among them. I will also bring princes who are about the same age or not much different from the emperor into the palace. At that time, I will take you into the palace."

Brother Heng already knew it in his heart, so he got up to answer, and Lord Ji said, "You have always been calm. Although you are still young, I am very relieved of you. If you enter the palace this time, you may not be able to be favored by the emperor." It is designated as a companion, but if you can be designated as a companion, I am also happy for you. Protecting the emperor is also the duty of my courtiers."

Brother Heng gritted his teeth and saluted again.

Master Ji said, "In the past few days, you will come to serve in my study every day, and I will tell you some rules."

"Yes." Brother Heng has always been very submissive, Master Ji nodded in satisfaction.

Mr. Zhang said, "You don't need to live in the palace to be a companion student. The place where the emperor goes to school is in the side hall of the Qinzheng Palace. The Qinzheng Palace is located in the former court. You don't need to touch the harem. There won't be too many uncontrollable problems." trouble."

It seems that both Mr. Zhang and Mr. Ji have considered the safety of going to accompany the emperor as a reading companion. Even so, Brother Heng doesn't think it is a safe thing at all.

As the little emperor grew up, he first asked for the emperor's teacher, and then asked for a companion. It seemed that he had his own ideas. Under such circumstances, the queen mother must be more afraid of him. I'm afraid his life will not be easy.

Brother Heng thought about it for a while, and thought that it would be a good idea to go to the palace to receive a banquet during the Mid-Autumn Festival, just to see if this little emperor is worthy of the Ji family's all.