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

Brother Heng knew that when they went home, Master Ji and Mrs. Xu would ask him about Baoqin and his situation in the palace, so he gave Baoqin some instructions, telling him what to say and what not to say, Baoqin was hesitating After a while, he agreed to him, probably thinking that he will be Brother Heng's bookboy in the future, if he doesn't listen to Brother Heng, life may be difficult, and even though Brother Heng is still young, whether at home or at home In the palace, they are all safe, calm and thoughtful, not like a child at all, neither mischievous nor immature, worthy of his convincing, what's more, Brother Heng is so thoughtful now, and he can't wait to grow up. Come on, and he holds the piano, and he will still rely more on Brother Heng to live in the future. It is only good to be loyal to him and be his confidant from now on.

When the two arrived home, Xu Qilang had already come to meet Brother Heng at the door. The carriage entered the mansion from the driveway. When the coachman saw him standing at the door, he stopped the car and said hello, "Master Biao, what are you doing?" Stand here. It's windy here, aren't you cold?"

Xu Qilang smiled, "It's not cold, it's not cold." As he said that, the man had already held the shaft of the car, and jumped on it at once, startling the coachman. Just as he was about to say something about him, he opened the thick curtain of the car and got in. Went into the compartment.

Xu Qilang usually likes to run and jump. Climbing trees and walls are his strengths. Climbing a car like this is not easy.

Because it is a small car, the space in the compartment is not very large. There is not much space left if there is a brother Heng and a piano.

As soon as he squeezed in, the inside seemed cramped.

Brother Heng was mentally weak and had already closed his eyes, so he had to open them at this moment, and looked at Xu Qilang angrily, "Qilang, what are you doing here by jumping into the car?"

When he is in a good mood, he calls Xu Qilang his cousin, and when he is in a bad mood, he calls him Qilang directly.

And Xu Qilang didn't care no matter what he called him.

He chuckled twice, and said, "It's still a few steps from here to the sedan chair yard, I'll just sit in the car."

After speaking, he stretched out his hand to lift the cloak that Brother Heng used to cover his hands, and grabbed Brother Heng's hand, he couldn't help being surprised, "Why are your hands so cold, there is no hand warmer in this carriage. "

Baoqin replied, "In the morning, the young master and the master are in the same car, there is no hand warmer."

Xu Qilang said quickly, "How did you, a bookboy, don't forget to ask the servant girl to prepare a hand warmer tomorrow."

Baoqin quickly responded.

Brother Heng had already pulled his hand out of Xu Qilang's palm immediately, and said, "You know, my hands just like to be cold, and other places are not cold."

Xu Qilang frowned and looked at him, "It's no wonder you're not cold, you think I don't know you, you like to be brave in everything."

Saying so, his eyes changed again, "This cloak of yours is not the one you wore this morning, whose is it?"

Before Brother Heng could say anything, Baoqin had already said, "This is the emperor's old cloak, which was given to the young master by the emperor to wear. There is a golden dragon embroidered with dark thread on it."

Xu Qilang's face sank, and he became sullen, "Oh, on the first day he entered the palace, the emperor rewarded him with his old cloak."

Speaking of it, if you think about it carefully, maybe rewarding you with a new cloak just makes people think that it is someone who is valued by the emperor. What does it mean to reward an old cloak that he himself wore, it will make people think more.

Brother Heng knew that Xu Qilang was jealous. This kid, perhaps because he didn't have a younger brother in his family, was indescribably possessive of himself, which sometimes made Brother Heng feel strange.

Brother Heng said, "Don't think about it, I accidentally spilled tea on my cloak and it got wet. In order to show his kindness and love for his subjects, the emperor randomly asked someone to bring a cloak. Just put it on for me. He is the emperor, so don't be fooled."

Brother Heng explained a few words, Xu Qilang's complexion looked better, the carriage had already arrived at the sedan chair yard, and the coachman put the carriage bench for them to get out of the carriage.

Xu Qilang jumped out of the car first, then reached out to help Brother Heng get out of the car, and finally got out of the car holding the piano.

Xu Qilang picked up Brother Heng at the gate, and Mrs. Xu was waiting to pick him up in the courtyard of the sedan chair. When she saw Brother Heng get off the carriage, she walked over from the verandah and caught him, "Brother Heng, today It's good to be in the palace."

As he said that, he also saw that the cloak that Brother Heng was wearing was not the one he wore in the morning.

Brother Heng had no choice but to say that everything was okay and why he changed his cloak.

Mrs. Xu couldn't help thinking about the cloak, but she was still more worried about Brother Heng's body. Brother Heng sneezed two more times against the wind, and she became nervous, and quickly took him with him. After entering the inner courtyard, someone prepared hot water for him to take a bath, and made ginger soup for him to drink.

Brother Heng entered the west room of the main room, the hot water had already been poured into the bathtub, Mrs. Xu asked everyone to go out, but he didn't leave, and rolled up his sleeves to undress Brother Heng.

Brother Heng felt a little uncomfortable, and said, "Mother, you go and rest, it will be fine for the son to come by himself."

Xu said with a smile, "You're not very old, and you know how shy you are. You were born from my stomach, so you're shy now."

Brother Heng didn't know what to say, Xu took off his clothes for him, there were several heaters burning in the room, but it wasn't cold at all.

Brother Heng stepped on the stool and went into the bathtub by himself. After sitting down, the warm water in it made him sigh with satisfaction.

Mrs. Xu just sat on the stool by the tub and wiped his back, saying, "Why are you sweating all over, it's so greasy."

Brother Heng had no choice but to talk about his study schedule in the palace. When Xu heard that he was going to take riding and archery lessons, he frowned again, "Your father told me that he is going to hire you a boxing and kicking master. But it’s not about teaching boxing and kicking, it’s just about cultivating your body, I think it’s good. But in this palace, you just learn to ride and shoot as soon as you enter, how can you bear it.”

As he said that, he had already grabbed Brother Heng's hand, and when he looked at it, he saw that Brother Heng's palm was red, with several blisters on the palm, and some places where blood had been rubbed out. Brother Heng had been covering it up before. , not only Xu Qilang, but even she didn't notice.

Seeing it now, Mrs. Xu let out a groan, and said distressedly, "I knew it would happen. You child, why didn't you say it. You need to take medicine for it."

Brother Heng said, "Mother, it's not a big problem. After I finish washing, just put some gold sore medicine on my hand. I know you have good medicine there."

Mrs. Xu said, "I knew that going to the palace to do accompaniment reading is just a matter of suffering. I prepared the medicine, and when I went to the palace, I asked Baoqin to take it with me. When you get hurt, apply the medicine immediately. That's good."

Brother Heng agreed, and Xu's hands were soft and gentle. He rubbed soap on his body, then rubbed and pushed him, and the hot water soaked him. This is more comfortable to enjoy.

Brother Heng looked sideways at Xu, feeling safe and happy in his heart. In this world, there is no one who loves him more and treats him better than his mother, so he will not let her down.

Seeing Brother Heng's dark eyes staring at her, Xu smiled and said, "What are you looking at me for?"

Brother Heng turned his head away a little embarrassed, "It's the mother who is too kind to my son."

Xu said with a smile, "You are mother's heart and soul. If I don't treat you well, who should I treat well?"

Brother Heng lowered his head and smiled.

Mrs. Xu kneaded his body for him, undid his hair and washed it for him. Brother Heng closed his eyes and almost fell asleep under Mrs. Xu's gentle strength.

After that, Mrs. Xu scooped clean hot water from the bucket next to him to rinse him. Brother Heng stood up and rinsed him clean. Mrs. Xu helped him out of the bucket and took the fleece from the shelf beside him. She wiped him dry from head to toe with a towel, took the coat and put it on him.

Xu naturally noticed that Brother Heng's lower body was different from ordinary people, her eyes were a little dim at that moment, but soon she smiled and said, "My good son has grown up so much, I remember just being born At that time, it was only as big as a mouse."

Brother Heng put on the underpants by himself, and spread out his hands to ask Mrs. Xu to put on the middle coat for him, adding clothes layer by layer. He lowered his head and said, "When my son grows up, he will be able to honor you well." .”

Brother Heng, with his black hair loose, sat in Mrs. Xu's warm bedroom, and Mrs. Xu applied medicine to his hands and wrapped them with gauze.

There is not only a kang in the room, but because Xu is not used to sleeping on a kang, he prefers to sleep on a bed. There is also a bed of rosewood and mother-of-pearl in the room. The heat emitted by the three burning stoves makes the room Very warm.

The kang was hot, so Mrs. Xu asked Brother Heng to sit on it, and covered him with a quilt, and served ginger soup for him to drink. Xu Qilang sat on the other side of the kang, and Mrs. Xu asked him to drink too. He drank a bowl of ginger soup and said, "Look at the gate, you are cold too. Next time you are disobedient, my aunt will ignore you and let you eat some hand-made dumplings."

Xu Qilang drank ginger soup and said coquettishly with a smile, "My nephew knows that my aunt loves me the most, so he is not willing to beat me."

Xu was amused by him, "You see, I don't want to part with it."

As he spoke, he touched his hair and ears again, and asked the big maid who was serving beside him to get some face cream, put a layer on Xu Qilang's face, and another layer on Brother Heng, and even sat on the side Baoqin, who was waiting on the chair to listen to the training, was also rewarded with a box of this precious face cream, and then she rewarded Baoqin silver and a pair of hand and ear protectors, saying to him, "You follow the young master into the palace. You have to be careful everywhere, and you have to know how to cherish yourself."

After Baoqin thanked him and expressed his loyalty, Xu said, "You were selected by the master, and the master's choice is naturally not wrong. However, you will follow the young master in the future, and the young master is the serious master you should care about the most. , you know what to do."

Baoqin said, "All slaves understand that slaves belong to the young master."

Only then did Xu nodded.

Before Lord Ji came home from the yamen, Brother Heng had already reported to Mrs. Xu about his day in the palace. How do you teach? Song Taifu, as a erudite and great scholar, is indeed genuine, not just a vain name, which has benefited him a lot. And Master Lin is really handsome and handsome like the rumors in Beijing, but he doesn’t like to laugh. He kept a straight face during the process, as if everyone owed him money, and Master Lin didn't perform the horse archery skill of the hundred-step piercing Yang, and he had never seen the double-sword magic skill, let alone the sword.

Brother Heng spoke lively, deliberately making Mrs. Xu happy, and Mrs. Xu really laughed, but Mrs. Xu is not easy to fool, and then said directly, "Song Taifu needless to say, he is well-known in the world. Naturally, it will not be a fake trick. Commander Lin, I have heard his name in this inner courtyard, and he is said to be extremely upright. The emperor can reward you with a cloak to keep you warm. I think it is to let us know. I value you very much and will not treat you badly, but my mother is just worried that studying with the emperor's other two companions, both of whom are sons of high-ranking families, will treat you badly."

Brother Heng sighed in his heart, but still had a smile on his face, and said, "It's only the first day I went, and I haven't gotten to know them well, but the eldest son of the Zhao family is a very arrogant and clean-looking person, I'm afraid It's not easy to make friends with, and the son doesn't want to make friends with him, the eldest son of the Xu family should be restrained, but also arrogant, they didn't talk to the son much today, so the son didn't have fun telling mother about them."

Xu Shi was amused by him again, and twisted his tender face, "You."

Xu Qilang, who was sitting next to him, was happier when he learned that Brother Heng was not familiar with the eldest son of the Xu family. .

Look at the chiming clock, it's not too early, all the houses have come to invite Ann, everyone is very curious about Brother Heng going to the palace on the first day, Brother Heng doesn't hide his secrets, and will see what he saw in the palace He told everyone what he had heard, and he spoke cheerfully, and everyone was also happy to hear it. After listening to it for a while, they expressed concern for Brother Heng, and they went back to their respective residences.

Xu Qilang and Brother Heng have always had meals at Xu's place, and a few of them were eating when Mr. Ji returned home at this time and entered the main landlord's room.

Mrs. Xu hurriedly got up and took off the cloak for him, and led him into the clean room to wait for him to wash his face and wipe his hands, and then changed a pair of cotton shoes for him...

Brother Heng and Xu Qilang naturally couldn't eat any more at this time, so they had to sit there and wait, and then asked the maid to serve two more dishes in the kitchen, that is, to serve Master Ji alone.

Mrs. Ji packed up and sat down at the dinner table, Mrs. Xu sat down next to him, the maids had already arranged his bowls, chopsticks and spoons, and served the dishes again.

Master Ji first drank the soup that Mrs. Xu scooped up for him, and didn't ask Brother Heng much, but said, "Let's eat first, and tell me about your stay in the palace later."

Brother Heng agreed, so he started eating again.

But with Mr. Ji present, the dinner table is not as relaxed as before.

Brother Heng rinsed his mouth after the meal, and after a while the servant girl brought him the medicine for nourishing his body. After Brother Heng drank the medicine, he and Master Ji went to the front yard to talk. Let's talk about it in Brother Heng's room. Brother Heng is not in good health, and he is tired and cold in the palace today. Didn't you see that he is already tired, and he is about to go out to face the wind again? Not good."

Master Ji heard what she said, and then looked at Brother Heng, he was indeed not in good spirits, and he also felt sorry for his son, so he said, "That's fine."

Brother Heng and Master Ji were sitting in their own bedroom, which had the same setting as Xu's room, so he got on the kang, and it was indeed very warm. Master Ji sat opposite him across the kang table before asking About his affairs in the palace.

Brother Heng said what he said to Mrs. Xu, but he used very stable words.

Lord Ji nodded, and then said, "I heard that the emperor punished a young eunuch this morning because the little eunuch stained your cloak. What's going on?"

Brother Heng didn't expect Mr. Ji's news to come so quickly. It is said that it is not easy to get these gossip from the palace.

Brother Heng had no choice but to not hide anything, and told the whole story, including the shoe prints on the cloak.

Master Ji pondered for a while, and then said, "Duke Pingguo has always supported the emperor. This time he sent his grandson to the palace as a companion, which is also reasonable, and it is said that the relationship between the emperor and the sons of the Duke of Pingguo has always been good. If It was his bookboy who deliberately soiled your cloak, probably because he was upset that you were valued by the emperor. It is good that you did not make a fuss, otherwise such a small incident would make a big deal, and the relationship with the prince of the Pingguo government would become tense. Not good."

Brother Heng has been studying hard before, and he is still a child. Naturally, he is not clear about many things in court. Now, after listening to Master Ji's words, he understands something in his heart.

"Father, who does Commander Lin belong to?"

Mr. Ji didn't expect him to ask this question. He was taken aback for a while, then thought for a while, and then said, "This is hard to say. Although the Lin family is not a marquis, the Lin family is now in the army and has the highest prestige. Compared with the old mansions of the Marquis who relied on military merits, it is more like a Marquis mansion. It is said that General Lin and Li Gelao have a secret relationship. Li Gelao also wants to marry his daughter to Lin Yi, but the Lin family I'm not happy yet. I haven't had much contact with Lin Yi, but as far as I can see, he is an upright and prudent person. When the time comes, he will still stand by the emperor's side. Of course, in the face of power, these are uncertain."

Brother Heng now has the bottom line in his heart. He understands that although the emperor must be in a difficult situation in the palace, it is not difficult. There are still many ministers standing by his side, whether it is for future power, or to maintain orthodoxy, or For the kindness of the late emperor.

Master Ji said a few more words to Brother Heng, and Brother Heng still had homework to do, so he went out first.

Brother Heng has practiced archery all afternoon, his arms are so soft that it is very difficult for him to write.

But Song Taifu assigned a lot of homework, he was busy until the second watch, and barely finished the homework, Xu Qilang wanted to play with him, but was sent away.

Mrs. Xu felt sorry for him, so she asked someone to make a supper, let him eat something, and took medicated oil to rub Brother Heng's sore arms before letting him go to bed.