As a good brother of Zheng Chuan, Xu Zifan was the most natural at this time. I saw him holding down Zheng Chuan's wine glass and said earnestly: "Zheng Chuan, I know how long you have been preparing for the army, you can't change your mind. What you are good at can only be highlighted in the army. If you can't make it tomorrow, it will be delayed. It's your whole life. Even if you stay to take care of your sister, how much can you give her? It's better that you join the army and work hard, and come back in a few years to give your sister a glory. Then you can take good care of her, right? "
These words are reasonable and reasonable, and several people nodded in agreement. Liu Yang also persuaded: "Brother Zheng, just listen to Yizhi. You have your ambitions, and you can't be a hunter all your life. If you get a half-official position in the army, you will be able to support your sister in the future."
Zheng Chuan held the wine glass and did not speak, and his brows were slightly wrinkled, showing that he was thinking seriously. A classmate asked, "Brother Zheng just said that your sister and you are siblings, so she is married? If she has a good life, Brother Zheng can completely ignore each other first, and make a difference after a few years. Find her again."
Zheng Chuan's brows furrowed even tighter and he shook his head, "I have inquired before that my sister was filial to the mother-in-law who adopted her, which delayed the marriage. Later, when she got older, her family wealth was spent when she saw her mother-in-law. Orphan, no one cares about marriage."
"Is that so? It's a bit difficult to handle. It's better for girls of this age to rely on elders to help."
Xu Zifan thought for a while, then said with consideration, "Brother Zheng, you are leaving tomorrow, why don't you entrust your sister to me. I will take her back to town and let my mother and Xiaolian take care of her, what do you think?"
After hearing the words, several people agreed, "This idea is good, the best of both worlds. Brother Zheng, although our town is not as good as Fucheng, but Yizhi's life in the town is very good, his mother and sister are also kind, and they will definitely take good care of your sister, you You can go to the army with confidence!"
Zheng Chuan's eyes lit up, he looked at Xu Zifan and asked, "Will it be too much trouble? I may not return for a few years, I..."
Xu Zifan raised his hand to interrupt her, and smiled: "Why do we need to talk about this? You go and meet your sister, and you can spend a day with her before you leave. Just don't worry tomorrow, I will will take care of her."
Zheng Chuan was silent for a moment, drank the wine in the glass, got up to look at Xu Zifan, clasped his fists at everyone, whispered "Thank you all" and walked away quickly. This is more in line with his character, a person who is not good at words and is very excited. In this situation, everything is silent.
Liu Yang patted Xu Zifan's shoulder and said with a smile, "Yizhi, you really value love and righteousness, come, I respect you!"
The others joined in the fun and raised their wine glasses. Xu Zifan clinked them with them and smiled, "I hope everything goes well with Zheng Chuan." Then he exchanged glasses with them and drank a lot of wine for various reasons.
At this table, Zheng Chuan just has a good relationship with Xu Zifan, and he has only had a few meals with other people. How he and his sister met, where they met, and more details of course do not need to tell them, let alone Need to bring sister to them. At the end of the banquet, everyone was very drunk, and they weren't too curious about Zheng Chuan's recognition of his sister. When he returned to the inn, he fell asleep, as if he wanted to make up for the lack of sleep that he had been studying hard during this time.
After everyone drank so much, they naturally couldn't get up the next day, so when Zheng Chuan set out to join the army, only his good brother Xu Zifan went to see him off. When they got up and drank the hangover soup, Xu Zifan had already sent Zheng Chuan away and brought his sister Zheng Zixuan to the inn.
It was the first time that Zheng Zixuan appeared in front of outsiders in women's clothes. She was somewhat nervous, but only she knew how tight her body was. For this day, she had practiced in private for half a year, whether it was the way she walked, the tone of her speech, or the way she saw her. On the surface, people's responses are extremely normal, with no flaws. As Zheng Chuan's younger sister, she lived directly in the room before Zheng Chuan, next to Xu Zifan's room.
Liu Yang and the others returned to their room after eating and saw Zheng Chuan's room door was open, Xu Zifan was talking to Zheng Zixuan inside, and the younger brother was helping to clean the room and change the bedding. Liu Yang was surprised: "Brother Yi, this, this is Brother Zheng's younger sister? Where is Brother Zheng?"
Others also looked over curiously. Xu Zifan took Zheng Zixuan out of the door and nodded, "Zheng Chuan and his friends set off when they made an appointment, and the Zheng family sister and I just saw him off. Let me introduce to you. It takes a few days to get along, and there is more or less to take care of.”
They were all here, Xu Zifan introduced them one by one, Zheng Zixuan greeted each other with salute, but Zheng Zixuan behaved very cautiously, bowed her head slightly and didn't speak much. She was a girl, and just after she met her brother, her brother left and entrusted her to a strange friend, who brought her to meet several other strange friends. Being cautious to the point of being vigilant is the normal reaction of a girl.
Seeing this, Liu Yang and the others said a few words to Xu Zifan and then left. What should we do? First, it doesn't add tension to the girl's family. Second, it's someone else's business. In fact, it has nothing to do with them. At most, I think it's amazing that brothers and sisters who have been separated for many years can still encounter this matter. You can talk about it when you go back. .
After they left, Xu Zifan entered Zheng Zixuan's room and quickly locked the door while no one was in the corridor, then smiled at Zheng Zixuan, "Okay, everything is going well."
Zheng Zixuan was obviously relieved and smiled. She looked down at the long skirt she had meticulously sewed, touched the sleeves, and said happily, "Really! It really worked!"
Xu Zifan stepped forward and took her hand, lowered his head to look at her face carefully, picked up the strands of hair around her ears and ran them behind her ears, his eyes were gentle, "Success, you will no longer have to be afraid of your secrets being discovered in the future. , you can appear in front of everyone in your truest identity; you no longer have to blacken your skin and put on twenty pounds of armor every day; you no longer have to put such thick pads in your shoes, you don’t have to be silent, and you don’t have to avoid others. , Don't be uncomfortable and don't dare to see the doctor... Zi Xuan, you can do whatever you want in the future, with me here, even if you recover as a daughter, you don't need to be bound by those constraints."
Zheng Zixuan had no padded boots, so she had to raise her head to see his eyes. She unconsciously clenched Xu Zifan's hand and recalled everything in the past 18 years. She did not regret it, but she had some regrets. There was a lot of hard work brought by many girls pretending to be men. For example, carrying 20 pounds of armor on her body every day, smearing ointment all over her skin every day without revealing her true face, and having to carry it by herself every time she gets sick, etc. She didn’t care much before, but now she is just herself, and then think about it But there are a lot of sadness and grievances.
She looked at Xu Zifan moved, and said softly: "Fortunately, I met you, otherwise, I might not be free when I recover as a daughter." She said softly, "Thank you."
Xu Zifan lowered his head and kissed her on the forehead lightly, reaching out to hold her in his arms. But at the moment when the plan was successful, Xu Zifan's hug gave Zheng Zixuan great safety. She closed her eyes in his arms, raised her lips, and truly felt that Xu Zifan was her safest harbor. Her confidence in him is above all, she believes that he can bring her everything, and what the master worries about will not happen. They will be full of children and grandchildren, and have a happiest family.
Zheng Chuan's younger sister lives in the inn and never travels with a large group of men. She always sends Xiao Er to her room for meals, which is in line with her feelings about the important events in her life just now. Because Xu Zifan has to take care of his friend's sister, he often stays in his room, reading a text book or reading a medical book, instead of going out with other students.
When the list was released, they spent some money to invite the second brother to watch the list, and the second brother quickly came back to announce the good news to them. There were eight of them, and only two of them were admitted as scholars, namely Xu Zifan and Liu Yang. Xu Zifan is still the first name, and once again made a small limelight. Others are downcast and in a bad mood, but they are still young, and some people are still taking the test when they are in their tens of years.
It's just that Xu Zifan, a person who didn't like to read in the academy, actually got the first place in the exam. It really made them admire him. He put Xu Zifan in a higher position from the bottom of his heart, subconsciously thinking that he couldn't compare to him. Xu Zifan dropped out of school and went home, and was separated by his brother when he was seriously ill. Not only did he not feel depressed, but he worked hard and used various methods to earn money and carry the burden of supporting the family.
He loves medicine and taught himself to become a doctor. In just half a year, he became one of the doctors in Ji Shitang. Compared with others, he was already outstanding, and he was considered a very good family in their town. Xu Zifan still insists on reading, Tongsheng and Xiucai have won the first place! It's only been more than half a year, and Xu Zifan has turned into a completely different person from the past. Who would have thought that this country boy who didn't study could be so outstanding? !
Not only students think so, but everyone who knows Xu Zifan thinks so. There is a scholar in the village. This is the only one in the past ten years. Li Zheng specially set off firecrackers to celebrate. Before Xu Zifan arrived home, the village was full of joy and excitement, and he once again became the talk of the whole village. Even all his family members were looked at highly, the relatives of Xiucai, that is naturally different from the mud legs, everyone thought so.
Father Xu and Mother Xu also received the news and went to the city gate every day to wait for Xu Zifan to come back. A few days later, the group of them finally returned to the town. Xu Zifan rented a carriage from his own house and put the carriage directly to the door of the house. Father Xu, Mother Xu, Xiao Lian and Fang Mingda hurried to the door. Father Xu stepped forward and grabbed Xu Zifan's arm excitedly, "Okay! Good! Honor the ancestors! Our family has become a talented person, it is really honoring the ancestors!"
Mother Xu wept with joy, clasped Xu Zifan's hands tightly, looked at him as if she couldn't see enough, and said, "That's great! My son passed the exam as a scholar, it's really great!"
Xiaolian and Fang Mingda both stood beside them and called people with smiles. Xu Zifan reassured them a few words and then hurriedly said: "Father, mother, I came back this time with a girl, she is Zheng Chuan's younger sister. Let's go ahead and say, I'll introduce you to her, it's the first time she comes to our house, you guys Don't scare her."
"What? Zheng Chuan's sister?"