Hu Shanwei comforted Mu Chun and also gave him inspiration. Mu Chun thought, I have to grow out of my shell, I don't care about the title of Marquis of Xiping anymore, if I have the ability, I will earn a title of Marquis myself, if I don't have the ability... Bah, bah, bah, impossible.
In view of the heavy pressure from the Feng family and the Mu family, my shell must be thicker than Sister Shanwei's. If Sister Shanwei wants to grow a snail shell, then I will... grow a tortoise shell, which is sturdy.
Mu Chun made up his mind, but ignored the fact that if this man grew a turtle shell, he would become a living turtle.
While Mu Chun was setting his ambition to be a cuckold, at the other side, at the Yingguo Mansion, his uncle Feng Cheng held a celebration banquet for his nephew and invited his great-uncle, the Songguo Duke Feng Sheng, to attend the banquet.
Feng Cheng didn't like his nephew Mu Chun at first, and didn't come to see him off before the battle, but just ordered his confidant to give him his father's longbow. But unexpectedly, Mu Chun fought ten people alone and won a great victory at Strange Rock Ridge. Feng Cheng felt that this nephew was not arrogant and did not disgrace half of the Feng family's bloodline. This celebration banquet was meant to reconcile with the Mu family.
However, the dishes at the celebration banquet had gone cold and had to be reheated three times, but there was no sign of the host and his son, Mu Ying and Mu Chun!
Feng Cheng's face turned ugly, and Song Guogong Feng Sheng comforted him, "Don't worry, nephew, I will send someone to ask what's going on. It's impossible that the Xiping Marquis's Mansion is so rude."
As soon as he finished speaking, a servant came running over and said, "Someone from the Mu family is here."
The man who came was Mu Ying's second son, Mu Sheng, who was two years younger than Mu Chun and just turned fifteen this year. He was born to his second wife, Geng, and was the second son of the legitimate wife. His grandfather was Geng Bingwen, the Marquis of Changxing.
Different from Mu Chun's lively personality, Mu Sheng is taciturn. Both in appearance and personality, he is very similar to Mu Ying in his youth. At the age of fifteen, he is as silent as a fifty-year-old.
They are simply cut from the same cloth. No wonder Mu Ying favors his second son.
The real people Mu Ying and Mu Chun didn't come, but Mu Sheng, who was disliked by all the Feng family members, came.
Now, even the Duke of Song, Feng Sheng, looked unhappy. "Why is it you? Where are your father and elder brother?"
Mu Sheng took off his shirt, bare-chested, and handed over a cane. "My eldest brother is missing, and my father is leading people to look for him everywhere. I am here to take the blame on behalf of my father and eldest brother, and I ask my uncle and great-uncle to punish me."
According to etiquette, Mu Sheng can also call the Feng family uncle.
If Mu Chun came to ask for forgiveness, Feng Cheng might have beaten him. But Mu Sheng had no blood relationship with the Feng family, and he was only fifteen years old. Although Feng Cheng was very angry, he couldn't bring himself to do it.
Feng Sheng raised his hand and said, "You stand up and talk first. Why is your elder brother missing? He was given a banquet in the palace last night and the emperor was very pleased."
Mu Sheng said, "My eldest brother drank too much. He went home and had a quarrel with my father. My father wanted to beat my eldest brother, but my mother and we stopped him. My eldest brother ran out of the house. We searched all the inns, casinos and restaurants in the capital, but we couldn't find him."
Feng Cheng asked: "Have you looked for his friends at their homes?"
Mu Sheng said, "I'm sorry to disturb others so late at night. I went to the Xu family of Duke Wei's Mansion, the Chang family of Duke E's Mansion, the Li family of Duke Cao's Mansion and other friends that my brother usually interacts with. They all said that they had never seen my brother."
Muchun was born into a noble family and had no common people to associate with, but he was not a decent person either. His friends were either prodigals or idiots, and birds of a feather flock together.
For example, Xu Da, the founding general and Duke of Wei, had two sons, the eldest son Xu Zuhui and the second son Xu Zengshou. Xu Huizu was a general who became famous at a young age, while Xu Erlang Xu Zengshou was a famous prodigal son in the capital, who often went to casinos with Mu Chun.
For example, Duke of E, Chang Yuchun, had three sons. The eldest son, Chang Mao, and the second son, Chang Sheng, were both brave and good at fighting. Chang Mao even married the eldest daughter of Duke of Song, Feng Sheng, and was related to the Feng family by marriage. He was Mu Chun's legitimate cousin-in-law. But Mu Chun only played with the prodigal son, Chang Sanlang, Chang Sen...
In short, Mu Chun's standards for making friends have not changed. They are all playboys in Beijing, enough to form a prodigal alliance.
Muchun is like a magnet, attracting only the prodigals who are worth "junk metal" and has no reaction to the outstanding people who have gold and silver.
Those outstanding young talents only like to date his younger brother Mu Sheng.
Duke of Song Feng Sheng asked, "Mu Chun is working for the Jinyiwei. Have you gone to the Jinyiwei Yamen to look for him?"
Mu Sheng replied politely, "I just asked Lord Mao, the commander of the Imperial Guard, and he said he didn't know."
Mao Xiang certainly knew that the Jinyiwei had spies all over the world, and there were secret agents of the Jinyiwei at Taoye Ferry. He immediately secretly reported the whereabouts of Mu Chun to Emperor Hongwu and Empress Ma.
The emperor and empress favored Mu Chun. They knew that if the Feng family and the Mu family quarreled, Mu Chun would be caught in the middle, so they hinted to Mao Xiang to conceal the news.
Mu Ying continued to search for his son all over the capital, and this time he even went to brothels and painted boats to look for him! He thought that his son was seventeen years old and might start to seek comfort from women.
Mu Sheng had no choice but to come to the Feng family to apologize. Neither the Mu family nor the Feng family expected that Mu Chun would sleep on the street like a homeless person, bitten by mosquitoes like a pig's head.
They didn't understand Muchun. Muchun was a person who would rather squat on the street and slurp a bowl of noodles than go home for dinner.
The main person at the celebration banquet was nowhere to be seen. The host, Feng Cheng, was completely humiliated. He threw his clothes to Mu Sheng and said coldly, "Put them on and call your father."
Mu Sheng said honestly, "But my father is looking for my eldest brother. Once he finds him, he will bring him to the banquet immediately."
Feng Cheng looked at the table full of cold dishes, and his heart sank. "Don't look for it anymore. We haven't found it for most of the day. It must have run out of the city. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack. Forget it. It's the same even if your father comes. Come on, prepare a new banquet!"
Add more wine, turn on the lights and resume the banquet.
Duke of Song Feng Sheng smiled and said, "That's right. We are all family. Let's give in to each other and sit down to drink a little peacefully. Everything can be resolved."
Seeing that Feng Cheng seemed very sincere, Mu Sheng put on his clothes and rode out to find his father.
About half an hour later, Mu Ying arrived at the Duke of Ying's Mansion with generous gifts.
There were elders at the table, and Mu Sheng stood up obediently to pour wine for everyone.
After drinking three cups, Feng Cheng asked Mu Ying, "Why did you and your son quarrel last night? Mu Chun ran away and has not been seen since then."
Mu Ying told the father and son about their quarrel. "I am not deliberately belittling his achievements. It's just that he was so bold as to use fire attack on his first expedition. You, me, and Duke Song are all veterans who have experienced hundreds of battles. Fire attack is dangerous, and the wind direction changes rapidly and cannot be controlled. We must be extremely cautious, not to mention that we have to use rain to put out the fire. If a war requires both wind direction and rain to go smoothly at the same time, the risk is too great. It is very likely that all of our troops will be lost. We must not let Mu Chun develop the habit of using this kind of gambler's tactics of risking everything."
Mu Ying felt that he was just being concerned. "While he is still young, I should give him a good wake-up call and make him change his bad habit of relying on luck. Otherwise, he will definitely make big mistakes in the future."
After this was said, even Song Guogong Feng Sheng felt that it made sense. "Well, on the battlefield, don't be arrogant or impatient, be fully prepared, and don't just rely on the luck given by God. Luck will soon run out, and strength is the real ability."
After all, he was his uncle, so Feng Cheng didn't believe Mu Ying so easily. "It's only natural for a father to teach his son. Everything you said made sense. Why did you end up fighting?"
Mu Ying never had a good face or nice words to his eldest son. Mu Chun had developed the ability to be thick-skinned and swallow insults. It was impossible for him to run away in anger just because he was taught a few lessons.
Mu Ying said: "I said something and he contradicted me. He didn't listen at all. I had no choice but to take action."
Feng Cheng raised his eyebrows. "Yesterday I sent the invitation to the celebration banquet to the Marquis of Xiping's mansion. You knew there was a banquet today, so why did you hit him? If you really want to fight, you can wait until the celebration banquet is over and lock him in the room to teach him a lesson. You clearly drove him away on purpose to make my celebration banquet impossible and embarrass me. You don't take our Feng family seriously!"
Mu Ying refused to accept the accusations after being accused three times in a row. "I am a general of the Ming Dynasty. How can my heart be narrower than a needle's eye? He is my son and also the nephew of the Feng family. Why should I stop the nephew from visiting his uncle? If this gets out, I will be laughed at!"
Feng Cheng snorted coldly, "Mu Chun ran away from today's celebration banquet and didn't come to the banquet. Our Feng family has become a joke! Mu Chun was naughty and mischievous. You beat and scolded him before, but as his uncle, have you ever said no? Now that he has survived a life-and-death struggle and won a victory, and finally did a good thing, you still beat and scold him. You scolded Mu Chun for taking credit for himself, but have you ever reflected on your own poor parenting?"
Mu Ying was provoked and asked, "You are also a father, and you have a son. If your son also took the risk of using fire attack like Mu Chun, would you praise him for his good burning and would you do the same next time you go to war?"
Feng Cheng slammed the table, and all the ten plates and bowls on it trembled. "You still say you didn't drive Mu Chun away on purpose! Are you coming to my Feng family today to attend the banquet, or to help me teach my son a lesson?"
Seeing that things were not going well, Duke of Song Feng Sheng hurriedly advised: "We sat down to discuss how to train Mu Chun to be a talented child. Why did the topic turn to someone else? For Mu Chun's sake, everyone should calm down."
Feng Cheng said, "Okay, since this is for Mu Chun, let's talk about his future. When does Xiping Hou plan to ask for him to be crowned as the Crown Prince?"
There was a silence at the table. This was a most sensitive question. The Duke of Song, Feng Sheng, who was sitting with the table, could not help but look forward to it.
Mu Ying said: "Based on his current achievements, he is not qualified to be the heir of Xiping Marquis."
Feng Cheng smiled, "He is only seventeen years old, but he can fight such a beautiful battle of defeating the enemy with fewer troops. When you and I were seventeen, we were not as good as him."
Mu Ying tried to find an excuse again, saying, "As you said, he is still young, has an unstable temperament, and is not very sensible."
Feng Cheng said, "But when you were seventeen, you already had beautiful concubines serving you. How come Mu Chun is not sensible? I think he is a good person. Although he is naughty, he knows his limits and does not cause trouble or act recklessly."
It is said that you should not hit someone in the face, but Feng Cheng wanted to hit him in the face. When Mu Ying was seventeen years old, Feng Cheng's elder sister Feng married him. When the young couple was newlywed and in love, Feng discovered that one of Mu Ying's personal maids was pregnant.
It is obvious that the pregnancy took place before Feng got married.
Feng was furious as if she had eaten a fly. She ordered the maid to hold the basin and make her kneel down.
The maid had a miscarriage and died that night.
Mu Ying was furious and almost divorced his wife on the grounds that she would harm his offspring, but because it was a marriage bestowed upon him, he had no choice but to endure it. From then on, he ignored Feng. Feng, who came from a prominent family, was unwilling to please a philandering husband, but she found out that she was pregnant, and the tragedy began from then on...
When his scar was revealed, Mu Ying turned pale with anger. "If it weren't for Feng's jealousy, my son would have died before his birth."
Feng Sheng felt something was wrong!
Sure enough, Feng Chengfei jumped to the wine table, pushed his long legs, poured Mu Ying from his seat to the ground, punching with Mu Ying's face, and a fat meal, "My child and my son? , Purassing Beauty "" "
Feng Sheng and Mu Sheng hurried over to pull Feng Cheng away, but Feng Cheng was a military general and his blows were too heavy. Mu Ying's face was hit more than a dozen times and was swollen like a pig's head!
The last time Mu Ying was beaten into a pig's head by his brother-in-law was seventeen years ago. When Feng was buried, Mu Chun was just one month old and was waving his little fists and crying loudly in his cradle.
The author has something to say: In fact, the Mu family has laid the "main theme" of this family since the generation of their ancestor Mu Ying - the bloody feuds among wealthy families.
Mu Ying's descendants would have bloody infighting almost every other generation, or simply fight each other from generation to generation. The stories were so bloody and exciting that even novels dare not write about them. Zhou started to sort out the Mu family genealogy in 2013. I will write "Mu Mansion Storm" later.
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№2 Netizen: Cat Comment: "Hu Shanwei" Score: 2 Published: 2018-11-24 19:40:03 Reviewed chapter: 33
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