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

Uncle Xu was sent away, and someone came to the embroidery workshop to make summer clothes for him.

His wife, Mrs. Xu, pulled her son, and heard the seamstress praise repeatedly, "Young master has grown in stature in the past few months, and he is as beautiful as the fairy dolls on New Year pictures."

Brother Heng's eyes are as dark as black jade, and his eyelashes are thick and black as crow's wings. His expression when looking at people is always deep and indifferent, not like the eyes of a child. He glanced at the seamstress a few times, The seamstress' heart skipped a beat, and she felt embarrassed.

Mrs. Xu said happily, "Seven or eight years old is the time when he is growing up. He can't wear last year's clothes this year. He has to make new clothes. The old clothes from before have to be taken away." Give it away."

Xu Qilang sat on the other side of Mrs. Xu, Mrs. Xu asked the tailor to make clothes for him too, but Xu Qilang quickly refused, "Auntie, nephew doesn't need it. My mother asked me to make new summer clothes when I came home. I can wear it. If you help make it here, there will be more summer clothes this year, and I am also growing tall, so I won’t be able to wear them next year, which is a waste.”

Xu smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "Is Qilang still saving these for your aunt?"

But Xu Qilang said solemnly, "I can save a little bit. I went out with my father and saw orphans begging along the street. They were scantily clad, sallow and emaciated. Although it is already March, it is still cold at night." Yes, I don’t know how they spend the night, hey, the wine and meat of the rich family stinks, and the road is frozen to death, this sentence, my father often said it in front of us.”

Before Mrs. Xu could speak, the tailor had already praised, "Seventh Young Master, at such a young age, his compassion for the poor is touching. My uncle is also a good teacher. He has always accumulated good deeds, and good people will be rewarded."

Mrs. Xu also said, "One should have a heart of compassion, and it is really beneficial for people to accumulate virtue." Having said this, she stopped talking and looked at her son. Nothing came out, but she felt a pain in her heart, her son had such a body, Xu couldn't blame her for not accumulating enough evil in her previous life.

Brother Heng looked sideways at Xu Qilang. He didn't expect Xu Qilang to have such thoughts at such a young age and was born in a rich family. It seems that Xu's family taught him well.

Although Xu Qilang really wanted to share a room with Brother Heng, and besides, both of them are boys, and they are still young, so it’s okay to sleep on the same bed, but Xu did not agree, but arranged for Xu Qilang. She lived in the west side courtyard, and arranged for two servant girls and her mother to take care of her.

Brother Heng is a very quiet person. He greeted Mrs. Xu early the next morning after finishing writing, and then had breakfast. At this time, Xu Qilang got up, greeted Mrs. Xu and sat at the dining table, slowly Had breakfast.

After the meal, Xu Qilang thought that he could play like the day before, and happily told Brother Heng that the weather was fine and it was time to go fishing. Unexpectedly, Brother Heng would go to study in the study. After sighing, Xu Qilang had to follow him to the study. Mrs. Xu asked someone to arrange a desk for him, and the two occupied one side of the study. Mr. Zhu came after Brother Heng reviewed his homework for a while, and started his day's schoolwork.

Mr. Zhu knew Uncle Xu, and Xu Qilang had met him a few times, so he didn't care too much about the addition of him as a student.

Xu Qilang stayed at Ji's Peach Blossom Manor, and he couldn't sit still every day besides studying. After dinner that day, he proposed to Xu that he wanted to go home.

"Auntie, you said you were going to visit my house in the city. When did you go?"

Mrs. Xu didn't answer for a while, and kindly asked the maid to bring tea, and the maid woman cleaned up the dining table, so she took Xu Qilang and brother Heng to the next room to sit.

Mrs. Xu sat down on the Luohan couch, touched Brother Heng's hand again, and felt a little cold, so she said to Fufeng, "Go to Brother Heng's room and bring some of his clothes, or it will be cold again." arrive."

Brother Heng was very moved by Xu's thoughtfulness, "Mother, I'm not cold."

Mrs. Xu scolded him, "Then you're going to be sick, and you'll know it's cold."

Xu Qilang also said, "Brother Heng is just weak. I'm fine."

Xu beckoned him to sit down beside her, and touched his hand, "If you're cold, you need to add another coat."

Xu Qilang smiled at Brother Heng who was sitting upright, "I'm not Brother Heng, I'm not cold."

After some words, Xu talked about Xu Qilang's going home again, "Your father sent a letter, asking you to stay here for a few more days. I won't go to the city in the near future."

Xu Qilang felt strange, and after thinking about it, he asked, "Is there something wrong at home?" Although he was still young, he came from a wealthy family. He grew up in an inner house with hundreds of people, so his mind was still sharp.

Mrs. Xu thought about the internal affairs of Uncle Xu's family, and sighed softly, "My child, it's better not to ask about this."

Xu Qilang became even more curious, Brother Heng also looked at Mrs. Xu, Mrs. Xu thought for a while, and then said, "Your family's Jiu Yiniang, the one surnamed Lin, had a difficult delivery a few days ago, and neither the adults nor the children were saved. When something happened to your family, your father told you to stay longer before going back."

When Xu Qilang heard this, he fell silent. Brother Heng seldom went out, but he still had a little impression of this Jiu Yiniang from the uncle's house, so he said, "I went to my uncle's house last year, and I remember that the crispy mountain she made is very beautiful."

Mrs. Xu also sighed, "Yes, she is only eighteen. She just disappeared. This woman gave birth to a child, and it was the King of Hades who walked in front of her once."

Brother Heng was also very touched. He knew the dangers of giving birth in ancient times, so he held his mother's hand.

Mrs. Xu couldn't understand Brother Heng's thoughts, so she smiled and said to him, "As long as Brother Heng can have face in front of the master and shine on the lintel, no matter how much mother suffers, it will be worth it."

Brother Heng looked at her deeply, then lowered his head again, "Mother, I will fight for you." Because of his physical disability, his father wanted to throw him to death, but his mother saved him, and Therefore, he had a conflict with his father and brought him back to Yangzhou alone. He knew all this, so how could he not feel sorry for this woman.

Xu Qilang was very puzzled that Brother Heng and Mrs. Xu came back to live in the south of the Yangtze River instead of living in the capital with his uncle. He thought that Master Ji and Mrs. Xu were at odds, and Mrs. Xu came back, but these years, he has been vague. I understand vaguely, but I know Master Ji doesn't even love Brother Heng, so it's no wonder Brother Heng studies very hard.

In April, the Xu family took Brother Heng and Xu Qilang into the city.

It took more than an hour to arrive at Xu's mansion by boat and carriage.

The Xu family's house is not small. The carriage entered the gate, walked for a while, got off the carriage in the sedan chair yard, and changed into a sedan chair to enter the inner courtyard. When Xu got on the sedan chair, he stretched out his hand to Brother Heng, " Brother Heng, stay with mother."

Brother Heng was stunned for a moment, Xu Qilang was a lively boy, and he was going back to his own home, so he didn't take the sedan chair, he had already started talking to Xu's mother, and hurriedly walked to the inner courtyard by himself, Brother Heng So Er said to Mrs. Xu, "Mother, I will go with my seventh cousin, just go by myself."

Mrs. Xu frowned. Although she wanted to raise Brother Heng to be the eldest son of Guang Yao's lintel, after all, Brother Heng had a different body, and she would still treat him as a delicate daughter in some details.

So she said, "You are weak, the sun is shining, be careful of heatstroke, come up."

This is a guest at someone else's house, Brother Heng didn't want to argue with Mrs. Xu, so he had to get on the sedan chair.

The sedan chair didn't go too far, and it reached the main courtyard in the garden. Mrs. Xu let Brother Heng get off the sedan chair first, and then she herself got off the sedan chair.

As the only aunt of the Xu family, the sister-in-law treats her very dearly every time she comes back to her mother's house. Knowing that she will come back, not only the eldest wife will meet at the door, but even the daughters-in-law of several concubine brothers will also be very close to her. They all came to the boss's house and waited to meet her.

As soon as Brother Heng got off the sedan chair, the eldest wife of the Xu family had already hugged him, and said very affectionately, "Brother Heng has grown taller, hey, this is so beautiful, if it is a female doll, even if it is made in the palace The middle palace can also hold it down."

When she said this, the sisters-in-law wanted to follow the lead of the elders, so naturally they echoed her words.

It's just that Brother Heng felt very embarrassed, so he just kept silent.In the eyes of adults, they thought he was shy.

Mrs. Xu also got out of the sedan chair, the eldest lady put down Brother Heng, and took Xu's hand again, "My family's old seven, the devil king of the world, went to Taohuazhuang to disturb you for a while, Ming Xiao, I'm sorry for your trouble."

The big family of the Xu family only supported three sons, the eldest, the fourth, and the seventh, but the eldest and fourth were both descendants of the aunt's concubine, and the seventh was the son of the eldest wife, and he was an old son, so he was naturally very precious.Talking to Xu's like this is naturally extremely affectionate.

Ming Xiao is Xu's boudoir name, and she and the eldest wife have a very good relationship on the surface. Even though the eldest wife sometimes feels that her husband has sent a little more money to Mrs. Ji in Beijing, she never has a relationship with her sister-in-law. Xu showed some discord.

Mrs. Xu and the eldest wife entered the room arm in arm, and said, "Qilang is obedient. He went to school with Brother Heng, but he worked hard."

The eldest lady smiled very kindly, "It's not that you teach well. He is at home, but he can't sit still in the school."

After entering the main room, the eldest lady invited Mrs. Xu to sit down in the upper armchair, Mrs. Xu met with several brothers and daughters-in-law, and asked Brother Heng to salute everyone, and everyone praised Brother Heng again. For a while.

After all, the Xu family is a big family. In the first few years when the eldest wife married Uncle Xu, she had only one daughter and had nothing to do, so she promoted some aunts. Later, the eldest wife gave birth to Qilang, but Uncle Xu also had There is no loss of the beautiful lady. Yangzhou has been prosperous since ancient times, and it is a place of romance. Yangzhou's thin horses are famous all over the country. Xu's family has trained a lot of them, and they are specially used to give them away. You will enjoy it unceremoniously, and Jiu Yiniang, who died of dystocia before, was from such a background.

Because there are many aunts in the family, unless they are very respectable, otherwise, the eldest wife will never let these people come in front of guests, even in front of the aunts.

So there were not many people sitting with Xu in the main room.

There are also many girls in the Xu family. The four brothers, the concubine and the concubines together, have raised more than [-] daughters, many of them married, and there are quite a few left, all of them are delicate and fat. Yanshou is beautiful.

The girls greeted Mrs. Xu, and Mrs. Xu gave gifts one by one, except for the few girls who were born on the same day, they were very good-looking, so she remembered them, otherwise, she would recognize so many nieces everywhere.

Among them, the concubine daughter of the sixth aunt of Dafang, named Xu Xiaoxin, is about the same age as Brother Heng. After blessing her aunt, Xu's eyes lit up, and she said with a smile, "Sister Xin used to look like Brother Heng." They look alike, but now they look more like two points."

Everyone agreed for a while, and the eldest wife also smiled lovingly, "Why not?"

As he said that, he beckoned Sister Xin to come in front of her, took her hand and looked at Brother Heng who was standing beside Xu, "It does look very similar. But Sister Xin is a little girl born to an aunt. , how can it be compared with Brother Heng, this kind of bearing is incomparable."

Although Sister Xin looks like Brother Heng, she is a concubine born to her aunt, and her mother, Aunt Liu, was also born as a singer, so her status is very low. She has been timid and cowardly since she was a child, with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes. Compared with Brother Heng, who has always been calm and calm, he is naturally inferior in comparison.

Speaking of which, Brother Heng doesn't look much like his parents. Sister Xin and Brother Heng look alike, probably because they are extremely beautiful, and they always have something in common.

Brother Heng could see Sister Xin's cautiousness and timidity. He looked at Sister Xin twice more, but he looked at Sister Xin even more shyly and lowered her head even more.

After the girls had all saluted, the eldest lady let them all go down, and asked Qilang, whose eyes were rolling back and forth, to take Brother Heng down to play, and said, "Brother Heng is not a fool like you. Monkey, don't play around with him, just take a look in the garden, he will have lunch in a while."

Qilang quickly agreed, and came over to take Brother Heng out.

As soon as he walked out of the main room, Qilang laughed loudly like a bird out of the cage, "Father gave me two horses, which were bred by Maxima from the Western Regions. I'll show you to see them."

Saying that, he grabbed Brother Heng's hand and went to the stables, followed by several maidservants who were the eldest wife's confidantes.

For Qilang, the eldest wife is not a little more relaxed than Xu's view of Brother Heng.