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

On New Year's Eve, when offering sacrifices to the ancestors, Master Ji knelt on the futon for a long time, muttering words, while Ji Heng knelt beside him holding his not yet one-year-old brother Ying.

After the first three months, Brother Ying has indeed been taken care of well. The nurse Pu's milk is good, and his body and bones have improved a lot. He doesn't cry as much as before, he has become lethargic, and he has grown chubby again. , is a little doll carved in powder and jade.

Now being hugged by Ji Heng, he pouted and yawned, and opened his big black eyes after yawning. His eyes were like the brightest black gemstones, able to reflect everything.

His nimble eyes looked at Ji Heng, then reached out to grab Ji Heng's clothes, pulled his collar again and again, Ji Heng had to stare at him, and stopped him in a low voice, "Don't talk nonsense."

But Brother Ying became more cheerful and smiled at him. Ji Heng was attracted by his innocent smile, smiled at him too, and teased him, "I want to watch the year tonight, do you want to watch it?"

Brother Ying just laughed, and was able to gurgle a little, "Giggle..."

Ji Heng's heart melted when he called him, thinking that children are really lovable creatures.Although Liu Yiniang is not likable, Brother Ying is.

On the night of New Year's Eve, Liu Yiniang started to have a fever because she caught a cold. Because she was sick, she was afraid that the sickness would pass on to the child. I took my son to live in the main courtyard.

Of course Liu Yiniang was not happy, she lived with Fifth Yiniang in the east side courtyard, and asked Fifth Yiniang to help take care of them first, anyway, Fifth Yiniang didn't have children, she was very gentle, and usually helped take care of the children, at this time she It's good to help take care of it. Besides, during the Chinese New Year, many people come and go in Mrs. Xu's room, which is not good for Brother Ying.

But Fifth Yiniang would not offend Brother Heng, she said that she has not been feeling well these few days, and that she was not able to take care of Brother Ying because of sunflower water, so Brother Ying was still carried to the main room.

Ji Heng vacated the house on his side and let Brother Ying live in his bedroom, while he himself moved to sleep with Xu Qilang.

Although he was going to sleep with Xu Qilang, he was sleeping on the kang instead of sharing the same bed with Xu Qilang.

Seeing how troubled he was, Mrs. Xu called him into her room and said, "Brother Heng, Mother knows you have always had ideas, but why bring Brother Ying into this main room."

Ji Heng said, "Bringing brother Ying to your mother to raise him is justified, who can say anything. Besides, Liu Yiniang is petty, and when brother Ying grows up, he will learn many things by ear. In front of Liu Yiniang, do you also want to learn those habits of Liu Yiniang?"

But Mrs. Xu didn't take it seriously, and said, "Let him learn what he wants to learn. The master didn't say anything, but you are planning something for him."

Ji Heng was silent for a while, looked at Xu Shi and said, "Mother, don't you want to raise Brother Ying?"

Of course Mrs. Xu didn't want to raise her, and she felt uncomfortable seeing Brother Ying. It's not that she looked down on this concubine, but when she saw him, she would think of Master Ji's treatment of her after she gave birth to Ji Heng. All kinds of inattentiveness and viciousness towards Ji Heng. Although they could not be said to be harmonious after they got married, she still understood Mr. Ji from various aspects at that time. It was Ji Heng's birth that aggravated Xu's love. The estrangement from Master Ji in my heart has since closed my heart to Master Ji.

She can be a good housewife, because this is her duty, and, as a woman, she can only live a good life by relying on her husband, and can use her means; however, she is required to be a good Wife, she can't do it, she no longer has that kind of affection and energy for Mr. Ji, and she even resents Mr. Ji in her heart.

She wants to watch Brother Ying, whom Master Ji expects and likes, grow up day by day, and grow into a playboy with no merits in front of him, and Ji Heng's excellence is obvious to all. She wants to see how Master Ji will be at that time. what mood.

So Mrs. Xu didn't mean to bring brother Ying up to her to raise her, and to make Liu Yiniang useless.

A woman's ruthlessness is nothing if she is ruthless for a while.

Although Xu thought so in her heart, she would not show it in front of her son. She knew how Ji Heng said that she and Brother Ying were also brothers and had brotherhood towards Brother Ying. Men always have their benevolence and righteousness. I don't like the narrow mindedness of women.

She said, "Mother really doesn't want to raise Brother Ying. Brother Ying's body was not good when he came down. He came out of Liu Yiniang's belly. It's okay for Liu Yiniang to raise him. If he is with me What happened to me and what happened to me, I can't get rid of the responsibility here, just let the master think about me, and it's in vain to get into trouble, even you can't please the master. Let's not talk about Brother Ying For the matter of my son's bones, I brought him here to raise him. Sixth aunt will surely blow the pillow breeze in front of the master every day. I can't stand her enthusiasm. There is a saying that you can guard against thieves for a while, but not forever. Although my aunt is not a thief, it is really a laborious thing to guard against a person every day. Women are easy to get old if they work hard. I don't want to go to such troubles for such a child; What does your father think about raising Brother Ying? Your father is in front of our mother, and you are already sensible, so I said this. When he married me, although he was not considered down and out, he was suffering He was very proud when he received the favor from the Xu family. After receiving the favor, he naturally knew to repay the favor, but he was also unhappy in his heart. He felt that the Xu family had held him hostage. You are a boy, so you must understand him better than your mother. Happily, on the one hand, he wants to be a master, and he wants to make progress every day. He doesn't care about women's sex in the backyard. On the other hand, he is afraid that women are too strong, but he can't do anything about me. I can only stay away. Anyway, the knot between me and him, I am afraid that we will not be able to untie it in this life, and we don't want to do it. It is thankless. It is better to have fewer entanglements. You have a lot It's not easy, so I won't disturb him at home anymore, and when Aunt Liu recovers from her illness, you can send brother Ying back."

Ji Heng silently listened to her words, and suddenly felt very sad.

Mr. Ji and Mrs. Xu, Mr. Ji is resolute and talented; Mrs. Xu is beautiful and understanding, but so strong, how could the two be separated to this point.

He already fully understood what Xu meant. Xu felt that Mrs. Ji was not worthy of her thinking for him. When a person didn't even have any intentions to compete for his attention, how could Ji Heng not understand? I don't have any feelings for Master Ji anymore.

The sadness on Ji Heng's face was so obvious that Xu Shi also sighed. She pulled her son, hugged him, and said in a low voice, "Okay, dear son, mother knows that you are thinking of me. But for me Said, as long as you can be fine, I will be fine, and I don't care about anything else."

Ji Heng hummed in a low voice.

He thought that in the future, if he wasn't a person who loves each other, he would definitely not marry a wife. The idea of ​​marrying an understanding wife for the rest of his life, after seeing Mr. Xu's Tongji After his failure, he never wanted to harm a woman like this again.

If it wasn't for mutual understanding, mutual tolerance, and a loving husband and wife relationship, he thought, he still doesn't want it, otherwise, it would be so cruel to a woman.

Liu Yiniang's illness recovered quickly, and she was cured before the ninth day of ascending the mountain.

Probably not, but she didn't want his wife, Mrs. Xu, to take her son as her own, so he had to rush to get it done.

Now that she recovered from her illness, Xu Shi no longer kept Brother Ying in the main courtyard, and sent Brother Ying back to the east side courtyard. It happened that Ji Heng also moved back to his own room.

In fact, Ji Heng really liked Brother Ying. When Brother Ying lived in his room, he even spent less time reading books every day, and always played with Brother Ying in his own room.

Brother Ying was crawling on the bed, so he sat on the edge of the bed, teased him with a rattle, and taught him how to speak. Xu Qilang was very jealous of this, but Ji Heng slept in his room at night, which finally made him feel a little better. .

Brother Ying has a close nature to Ji Heng, and the first word he learned was not "mother" or "father", but "giggle".

Maybe it's just because giggles are the easiest to pronounce for him, because he loves to laugh.

But this will always stir up different ripples in Ji Heng's heart.

On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, Xu Qilang accompanied his wife, Mrs. Xu, to visit relatives in the morning, while Ji Heng followed Master Ji to visit relatives.

In the seventh year of Zhaoyuan, which was the year of Renchen, there was a spring examination in March that attracted the attention of the whole country.

Two of the Ji family members came to Beijing to take part in the examination, and they came to Beijing years ago.

The Ji family is a big family, although Mr. Ji has no brothers and sisters, there are still many other relatives in the family.It's just that there are not many in Beijing.

The ones who will take the exam in Beijing are Ji Mingwei, the 27-year-old eldest son of the authentic eldest son of the Ji family, whose name is Chaozong; and the 35-year-old Ji Daohuai, whose name is Zhenhui, is the younger brother of Mr. Ji.

When the two came to Beijing, Mr. Ji had already entertained them, and also helped to introduce some talented scholars in Beijing to them, and kept them to live in Ji's mansion, but they did not agree. I feel that the Ji Mansion is not very big, and it is not good for them to bother, and there are always many things in the Ji Mansion, which is not conducive to the two of them preparing for the spring.

But Master Ji would not let them live in the guild hall, so he arranged another courtyard in the south of the city for the two of them to live in, and arranged for servants to serve them. The servants in Jingli are familiar with the terrain of Jingli.So they accepted Master Ji's kindness.

On this day, Lord Ji took Ji Heng to visit the uncles and elder brothers of these two clans.

Mr. Ji is a busy person, and he will not let himself come to visit but no one is there, so he posted a post a few days ago to make an appointment.

Lord Ji brought Ji Heng down from the carriage, and Ji Chaozong was already waiting at the door. He saluted Lord Ji politely and reservedly, exchanged a few words of greeting, and invited them in, "Uncle Wu, please come inside."

Lord Ji is the fifth eldest in their branch of the clan.

After sitting down, Ji Chaozong asked people to serve tea and water, and said, "Uncle Thirteen had something to do and went out, saying that he would try to come back as soon as possible, and dare not keep you waiting for Uncle Fifth. According to it, my nephew We went to visit Uncle Fifth with Thirteenth Uncle, but asked you to come to visit, we lost our manners."

Mr. Ji smiled and said, "Family, why are you so polite? My house is messy. If you pass by, you will not be well received. Today I brought Ji Heng over to give you New Year's greetings. I don't know if you are still used to living here , if there is any inconvenience, please tell me."

Ji Chaozong thanked him again. He is a calm and a bit dull person. His face is not expressive, but his eyes are bright. Such a person is also a person who can do great things.

Ji Heng stepped forward to pay New Year greetings to Ji Chaozong, and Ji Chaozong even gave him a red envelope, which Ji Heng accepted politely and said, "Thank you, brother."

Ji Chaozong smiled at him, "In our Ji family, you are the most promising Junqing. Everyone in the family knows your name. When you go back to the family, let everyone see you."

Ji Heng hurriedly said a few words modestly, and shyly agreed, saying that he would definitely go back.

Master Ji talked about the examination with Ji Chaozong again, and Ji Chaozong invited Master Ji into the study, and Ji Heng followed Master Ji's instructions.

Ji Chaozong said, "It was supposed to be the main exam last year, but there is no news so far. The previous two times, I didn't order the Minister of Rites as the main exam. I don't know what will happen this time. Today, Uncle Thirteen went out and went to Visiting the scholars who will take the examination together this year, I wonder if there will be any news. You, Uncle Wu, are in the court, so you probably know better than us."

Master Ji said, "Last year in the Jiangnan provincial examination, I heard that there was a lot of chaos. The emperor was still young, so naturally he didn't say anything, but this also affected this year's examination. Although I am in the court, I can't say for sure who will be the examiner. .This year's exam, you and Zhenhui are just trying to be safe, don't think too much."

Ji Chaozong nodded in agreement.

As a result, when Mr. Ji wanted to go back later, Mr. Ji Daohuai did not come back either. Mr. Ji didn't think much of this brother. On the carriage back, Mr. Ji said, "You thirteenth uncle, I don't have much contact with you. But judging from the few times of contact, he is not a down-to-earth person. Chaozong is available, but Zhenhui should not be contacted too much."

Ji Heng only met this Ji Zhenhui once, and at that time he thought he was a slippery person, so he nodded in front of Mr. Ji at this time.

The year of the examination has always been an eventful year.

Ji Heng looked out from the gap in the curtains of the carriage, and saw the bustling market outside, the crowds were like a cloud, the carriage was moving very slowly, and sedan chairs would pass by their carriage from time to time.

In this prosperous world, it is time to change the person in power.