Xu Zijing waited for a long time, then gritted his teeth and said: "Your character is really not like the Sheng family! I won't mention how glorious Mr. Sheng is. Even Brother Xinzhang, although he is good at all things, is not difficult. How accommodating you are!”
"Uncle Shi said this because you haven't seen my father in person for decades." Sheng Suihe listened, his smile unchanged, and said, "I guarantee that if my father knew that Wei Qiao was being raped by your daughter, Regarding the expulsion, I would simply break off all relations with your Xu family, and I will only be more decisive than my nephew. Uncle Shi, Uncle Shi, although Mr. Xu and Mrs. Xiahou, many of us came to Chang'an to write family letters to you. , but obviously, you still don’t understand what it means for Wei Qiao to be the apple of the eye of the entire Sheng family!”
He sneered in his heart. For the sake of this daughter, Sheng Lanci had done such things as confusing bloodlines and interfering with outsiders who were not related by blood. For Sheng Weiqiao, what else could this twenty-four filial father not do? !
If Xu Caikui was the one who issued the eviction order to Sheng Lanci, Sheng Lanci might be able to forgive her; but now it is Sheng Lanci's heart who is being evicted. Sheng Lanci couldn't kill Xu Caikui because she cared about the friendship between the two families. !
So not to mention that Sheng Suihe was also reluctant to let Sheng Weiqiao suffer any injustice. Even if he still had a normal brother-sister relationship with this girl, he would not be able to agree to reconcile with the Xu family because of Sheng Lanci's inevitable attitude on this matter. !
The reason why I came here today is ultimately because of An Sheng Wei Qiao's heart.
After all, his sowing discord and brainwashing yesterday were so effective that Sheng Weiqiao not only had little affection for the Xu family now, but was even full of defensiveness and suspicion - in this case, if Sheng Suihe didn't follow Ning Weihou If the Ning Weihou Mansion remained polite and friendly on the surface, Sheng Weiqiao would be worried that the Ningwei Hou Mansion would secretly be detrimental to them!
Although Sheng Suihe had a trump card in his hand to reassure her, it was not the right time to bring it out now. Since he was afraid that the girl would be frightened, of course he could only fight with Xu Jiaxu.
Of course, he would never tell the Xu family about this consideration.
At this moment, Sheng Sleeping Crane smiled and said: "Although our current grandmother is not our direct grandmother, she is our grandfather's step-in-law. To be honest, she has spent more time with our grandfather than our direct grandmother! However, this grandmother, I'm always careful when talking to Wei Qiao, and I don't even dare to scold him!"
He stared at Xu Zijing, there was no sarcasm in his tone, it was just a very plain description, but it made Xu Zijing feel embarrassed for no reason, "So Uncle Shi doesn't have to work hard on my nephew. To tell you the truth, it's us." Grandfather doesn’t dare to make the decision!”
"It must be reported to my parents, who will make the decision themselves!"
"Uncle Shi, whether he's playing rogue or taking out his heart and soul, all kinds of tricks should be reserved for dealing with my parents!"
"As for my nephew, when I go back later, I will concentrate on studying and prepare for the spring of next year. I guess the Xu family is not so sinister that they will continue to entangle and mess up my nephew's mood before spring, right?"
Xu Zijing's face was ashen, but he had nothing to say. After a long while, he asked in an almost pleading tone: "After all, our two families have known each other for many years. Do we really want to stop communicating with each other because of the ignorance and rudeness of an evildoer?!"
"As the saying goes, one's debts are wiped out after death." Sheng Suihe smiled brightly, "What do you think, Uncle Shi?"
Seeing Xu Zijing's horrified expression, he suddenly suppressed his smile and said in a calm tone, "Since Uncle Shi is reluctant to let go, if we continue to have a few children in the Xu family, your daughter will have to hang around Wei Qiao all the time! And after passing by, there are only a few children in the Xu family. After what happened yesterday, Uncle Shi felt that even if Wei Qiao was generous, how could he treat your daughter as a close friend again?"
"Why do you, the daughter of the Xu family, who has not taught you well, ask me, the sweetheart of the Sheng family, to endure this?!"
"Do you really think that since you have been granted the title of Marquis, your daughter will be nobler than the palm jewel of my Sheng family?!"
Sheng Suihe sneered, stood up, dusted his sleeves, and Shi Shiran walked away, "If you still have time to pester us, you should discipline your wife well! Otherwise, no matter whether you send her out of the palace early, she will be at her husband's house , and you may not be able to live well!"
"How's it going?" Not long after he left, Nan stepped over the threshold anxiously and asked urgently, "The boy is coming over today, how much can you persuade him to do? Why did he leave alone?"
Xu Zijing's expression changed for a long time before he let out a long sigh, but did not mention Sheng Suihe's rejection and beating. He only said thoughtfully: "The future generations are to be feared!"
Nan said angrily: "Do you need to talk about the boy's difficulty? Otherwise, why would I be avoiding him today?! How was your conversation just now? You should say something!"
"How can we still talk about it?" Xu Zijing smiled bitterly, "You said he left alone, so of course he told me that I didn't even have the face to go out to see him off!"
Hearing this, Nan couldn't help but feel depressed: "Then what should we do now?"
"Call Bao Mo over first!" Xu Zijing thought for a while and said, "Let me ask about that boy's background... How did the Sheng family teach such a boy to be slippery at such a young age?"
After a while, Xu Baomo went to court to meet his parents reluctantly. In view of the beating he received last night, he finally understood that although he had no status when he was with his grandparents in Cangwu County, when he arrived at Ningweihou Mansion in Chang'an , he has no status next to his biological father and mother!
In comparison, it is safer to be around grandparents. At least Mr. Xu will not beat him for coaxing Mrs. Xiahou to stop crying; and Mrs. Xiahou is too old to beat her grandson. If the old Marquis came up with an idea to deliver something, he would not join forces with the old Marquis Xu to beat him up!
So after Xu Baomo learned from the pain, he deeply felt that his parents were too cruel and he had to be cautious in fulfilling his filial piety!
He then decided not to appear in front of Xu Zijing and his wife except on necessary occasions, in order to reduce the chance of being angered as much as possible.
As a result, this idea was made. At this moment, the housekeeper who had been converted from the personal guard leader and a group of servants who had been converted from personal guards searched them out again and again and carried them to the back hall like chickens. Xu Zijing was thinking about it at this moment. Sheng Suihe didn't bother to deal with his son's behavior just now. He watched him come over after a long time, with a look of resentment on his face. He didn't scold him. He just dismissed the people around him and asked: "Your eldest son of the Shengshi uncle's family." , how much do you know?"
"Brother Heng Shu?" Xu Baomo thought he was here to make a punch bag again this time. Seeing his father asking questions properly, he breathed a sigh of relief. However, Xu Zijing just asked this question, and he couldn't understand his intention. After thinking for a while, he said , "The year before last, the child was ordered by his grandfather to stay in Sheng Mansion, Nanfeng County for a few months. At that time, Heng Shu's brother had not long since recognized his ancestor and returned to the clan. The Sheng family was very troubled, so they didn't spend much time together. ... As far as the child knows about him, Brother Hengshu is extremely talented and talented, and he is also very good at martial arts, um, fists and kicks... "
He originally wanted to say that Sheng Suihe was very good at boxing and kicking, but then he thought that the reason why he knew this was because when he was forced by Mr. Xu to go to Sheng Mansion to plead guilty, Sheng Suihe beat him with his bare hands. Rolling on the ground - such an embarrassing thing must be kept secret, even the biological father and mother cannot talk about it!
So Shengsheng changed his mind and said, "The art of controlling strings is particularly outstanding, I am ashamed of myself!"
Xu Zijing knew that Sheng Suihe must have practiced martial arts. After all, people who have practiced martial arts are different from ordinary people in terms of their demeanor and body details. This could not be hidden from Xu Zijing, who was a military general.
So he didn't think much after hearing this. Just as he was about to speak, Nan interrupted: "Did you compete with him in archery? Did you lose?"
When Xu Baomo heard this, he immediately shuddered. He thought of what Nan said yesterday that he was not as good as Sheng Suihe in everything, and said hurriedly: "No, no! He and Hengshu have always made friends through literature, and they have never competed." —I saw Brother Heng Shu shoot the head of a thief at sea before, and he was very good at archery, so I said this!"
"At sea?" Xu Zijing and his wife were surprised, "Has he ever gone out to sea to kill thieves? When did this happen? Sister-in-law Feng's pregnancy was reported again this year. She still doesn't know the gender. Brother Xinzhang has only given birth to her child now. Such a male heir is actually willing to let him take an arrow himself?!"
If there are three advantages and two disadvantages, wouldn't you be afraid of losing the heir
When Xu Baomo heard this, he was even more surprised: "Brother Heng Shu lived on the sea in his early years and went astray. It was only after he met Sheng Shibo by chance that he corrected his evil ways and returned to the Sheng family! You two don't know this. ?”
Xu Zijing and his wife looked at each other: "What do we know?! In the letter written by your grandfather, it was said that because he was born by chance, he had been raised outside, and he had not planned to recognize him. Later, your Aunt Feng had been childless and took the initiative to persuade him. The family took him back - we thought he grew up in some other courtyard or annex of the Sheng family!"
"..." Xu Baomo immediately regretted it, because although he didn't know what reasons Mr. Xu had for not telling his son and wife the details about Sheng Suihe, he instinctively felt that something was wrong with him doing so
But the topic had already been discussed, and Xu Zijing and his wife would not let him go. They forced him to tell the whole story of their trip to Tortoiseshell Island twice, and they discussed it in whispers for a while. Xu Zijingfang coughed dryly, raised his head and said, "The reason why my father did not explain this matter in detail in the letter is probably because he was afraid that Cangwu County and Chang'an are thousands of miles apart. If the news leaked out, it would be detrimental to He'er's child."
He looked at Xu Baomo and Nan Shi and said, "Don't mention this matter again in the future. Caikui Caifu can't reveal even a word - otherwise it will ruin He'er's life. How can we work together in this way?" Brother Xinzhang explains?"
Seeing both mother and son nodding solemnly, Xu Zijing rubbed his eyebrows and said worriedly, "How come this kid has such a past! It's strange that he looked so weird just now!"
It's a pity that he thought that the rogue master passed down from his family could come in handy, but it turned out that he came from a gangster den, and he was the kind who did well!
In this way, Hun is not stingy with hob meat, let alone seeing it before, I am afraid that there is a lot of food under his hands, how can he be afraid of his hand
Moreover, in a place like Hawksbill Island, there must be many girls who have been tortured. Sheng Suihe grew up in such an environment. Even if he has not participated in such torture, he must be used to seeing what happens to such people. How could Xu Caikui, who only received a measured beating, impress him!
Xu Zijing couldn't help but sigh, thinking that the Sheng brothers and sisters were so difficult to deal with here. It seemed that they really had to go directly to Nanfeng County to plead guilty - but as an official of the imperial court, he couldn't leave, and his only son Xu Baomo had to attend the Spring Festival next year. , we can’t let Nan, the mistress of the house, abandon all her affairs and lead Xu Caikui all the way to the Sheng family to confess her crime, right
Normally, you might be able to grit your teeth and do this, but as the New Year approaches, where can Nan go
Calculating the time, if Nan wants to take time off to travel far away, he will have to wait until the spring of next year is completely over at the earliest, which will be the end of March or April.
The couple had not returned to their hometown for many years. Cangwu County was so close to Nanfeng County. Since they were going to the Sheng family to plead guilty, it was impossible not to go back to the ancestral home in Cangwu County to pay homage to the two elders.
Although the Xu family is not a wealthy family, they have not seen each other in many years, so how can they not express their gratitude when they return to their hometown
I don’t know how much energy I have to spend preparing just to show my kindness to my two elders and fellow villagers...
Xu Zijing only felt a headache. He even thought about Sheng Suihe's words that "the debt will be settled after death." When he got angry, he really wanted to beat that cheating daughter to death, okay? !
At this time, Nan frowned and said: "This boy seemed to be polite yesterday, but in fact he didn't care about the elders at all - I thought that since he is willing to come to see you today, there is still some room for mediation! But I didn't expect that he Are you still not going to give us a chance to apologize?"
"..." Xu Zijing did not speak immediately after hearing this, but after thinking for a while, he suddenly said, "Man Luo, what you said is right. That guy is a thoughtful man. He promised yesterday to come and say goodbye to me today. It's nothing to have this kind of visit, but just now he turned around and left without saying a word outside the door. Instead, he came into the house with me, and we had another heart-to-heart fight in the study room before he said anything... "
He stroked his short beard under his chin, his eyes twinkling, "I just thought it was because he was afraid of leaving outside the house and being pestered by me! But since he was born on Tortoiseshell Island, he has obviously seen the world. , not afraid of such means. In this case... you think... is it possible that he is hinting? "
"Hint?" Nan and Xu Baomo looked at each other, a little unable to keep up with Xu Zijing's thoughts, "What is he hinting at?"