Cui Xie didn't even attend the after-school cram school, and was hurriedly called home.
On the way into the house, Cui Liangdong briefly explained that the eldest wife of the Liu family brought the young master Biao over, and the old lady brought the two concubines and young masters to entertain guests in the main courtyard.
But Cui Xie didn't expect them to come so quickly, and he never asked someone to send a letter in advance to prepare a place to live, so he quickly ordered Cui Liangdong to arrange a yard. Cui Liangdong said: "The guest house in our inner courtyard has arranged for Mr. Song to live in, and the outer courtyard has Xiao Qi, so is it inconvenient to ask the in-laws to live in?"
Of course it's not convenient.
The Liu family is Cui Xie's foreign family. When such relatives come, they have to arrange two serious courtyards, and they cannot be asked to live with guests.
Cui Xie changed his mind and instructed: "Have someone bring Brother Xiao Qi's things into my yard, squeeze as much as Brother Xiao Liang was here, and arrange for my cousin to go to his yard. The inner courtyard. I'll just grieve Sister Yun for two days, and let their mother and daughter move to the yard with my brother's mother and son, and vacate the house."
Cui Liangdong hurriedly called someone to inform Cui Qi to come back and pack up, and arranged for someone to help Sister Yun's biological mother move the yard. Cui Xie heard that Qin Shi was talking to the old lady in the hall, and he didn't bother to go back to the room to change his clothes. He wore a green shirt and a square scarf, so he entered the hall to entertain guests.
The Liu and Cui families had a very good relationship at the beginning, but after these years, Liu passed away due to dystocia, and the Qin family came to fight again, and the relationship became extremely cold. The two in-laws were sitting in the hall talking about Cui Xie, but when he was only talking about his studies, he was kind. If he accidentally touched his parents or Xu's family, it was like pouring a handful of dry ice into warm water, and it would be good when he was sick. Freeze the atmosphere of the whole room.
This warm and cold, the Cui family accompany guests up and down without knowing how uncomfortable they are, eagerly looking forward to Cui Xie's return.
Before he entered the courtyard, a maid rushed in anxiously to report back, and the three grandparents of the Liu family breathed a sigh of relief. Mrs. Qin didn't even have to say anything, and asked someone to take a mirror to look at her whole body, and arranged her nephew's clothes and hair, so as to make a good impression on Cui Xie.
The old lady of the Cui family was also relieved and said with a smile, "Brother Xie came back early today. The gentlemen of the Imperial College love him, and they usually leave him to talk more."
Before he finished speaking, the blue cloth curtain at the door of the house was pulled open, revealing a brightly lit courtyard with Cui Xie dressed in the uniform of a student of the Imperial Child Supervisor.
As soon as he entered, the whole living room seemed to be illuminated by the light that he had brought in. The two younger brothers and sisters raised their faces and looked at him, their eyes gleaming, as if they had seen a savior.
Mrs. Qin stood up abruptly, stepped forward and grabbed him, looked and looked, and smiled with tears: "Grow up! Brother Xie has grown up so fast, why is he so tall?" I thought that Cui Xie was just a child, but I didn't think he had grown into a handsome and tall boy.
As soon as Cui Xie entered the door, he asked a luxuriously-dressed lady to rush over and hug her. She almost had to avoid her before moving her footsteps. Realizing her identity, she restrained her body's reaction abruptly, and said in a warm voice, "Auntie."
This is little Cui Xie and Mrs. Liu's relatives, and will be his relatives in the future.
He wanted to kneel and salute, but Mrs. Qin hugged him tightly, her hand strength was not inferior to that of a man, and he couldn't move without exerting some strength.
While crying, Mrs. Qin pulled him to sit beside her, took out a few pieces of fine mutton fat jade pendant and tied him around her waist, and said clearly, "Don't bow, don't be an outsider, you were still with me back then. I urinated on my body once, but unfortunately you were young, I'm afraid you can't remember it. Our mothers and daughters have not seen each other for many years. Don't be restrained by vulgarity. Come and sit down with your aunt and ask your cousin to give it to you. Say hello."
Cousin Liu stood aside early and waited, and when he heard the aunt greeted him, he immediately bent down and saluted.
When Cui Xie saw a handsome young man come to salute, he quickly turned around and returned the salute. After getting up, he heard him ask: "The cousin I saw in the painting seemed to be about the same size as me, how come it only took a month for my cousin to grow up? so much?"
Uh... Because the person in the painting is a little younger than him, he has grown a few centimeters in the past two years.
But this cousin is really a lot shorter than him, and he has a round head and a round head, so cute.
Cui Xie looked at his tangled face and replied with a smile, "Is it because I often drink milk and snacks these days, my cousin will try it when I look back. The things I make at home don't taste bad."
Liu Yunshou shook his head: "I often eat buttermilk at home, so that's how I look. The two cousins of my uncle's house are tall, and they said they didn't eat anything. I simply waited for the Mongols to come back one day, and then went into battle to kill a few."
This ambition is high, but it is too early. Can he go to the battlefield at his age? Cui Xie looked at his short arms and legs with some worry, and then turned back to look at Aunt Qin quietly, only to see that she looked at her nephew with kindness and pride, as if she was looking at the future general and marshal.
Well, "men's self-respect is rampant", even more so for warriors. Xie Ying is such a brocade guard who guards the imperial power, doesn't he also have a heroic dream of fighting in the battlefield in his heart
Even he himself would have been drafted into the army if he hadn't had to go to college. If you really become a soldier, maybe you will learn to repair tanks at this time, and you will not wear it until the Ming Dynasty just because you pour water...
Cui Xie sighed slightly in his heart, patted his cousin on the shoulder, and encouraged: "My cousin has a heroic spirit, and in the future, he will be as heroic as his uncles."
He just said a few words to the aunt and cousin of the Liu family, and asked about the current situation of the grandfather's family. The girl at the door suddenly came in and said, "Grandma, Steward Liu is here with the second brother."
Mrs. Qin knew that the second brother Cui Heng was born by the Xu family, her face changed slightly, she stood up and said, "Our Liu family has a nephew, I didn't bring my nephew to see the Xu family's children, the old lady doesn't need to call him in. That's it. Even if the child becomes a god, it has nothing to do with our Liu family."
The old lady sighed: "I didn't mean that. It was Brother Heng and his biological mother who had been sorry to Brother Xie, so he was punished by his father and sent back to the old house in the village. I didn't know about this before, but I only heard about it now, so Ask him to come over and apologize to Brother Xie in person."
Excuse me bro
Mrs. Qin's face changed on the spot: "I just said that Brother Xie is so good, why didn't he take the imperial examinations in Beijing, and he went to the countryside to take the exam? It turned out to be the trouble... The old lady told him to follow Xie in front of us. Brother apologize, this is to force Brother Xie to be a good brother and forgive him generously? What about the hardships my nephew has suffered in the countryside for the past two years?"
She really thought about it too much, because Cui Heng didn't plan to play the prodigal son at all, knowing that he could correct his mistakes, forcing his brother to forgive him in public. He only knew that his grandmother asked him to come to apologize to his eldest brother. At that time, in order to leave the small courtyard, he asked his grandmother to complain, and they agreed with everything they said.
As soon as he entered the door, he shouted "Grandma", shouting that Cui Xie locked him in the room, forcing him to do questions every day, asking her to do justice to him.
Madam Cui's face turned blue, and she pointed at him "you" anxiously for a long time before she said something: "This bastard! You didn't tell Mama Zhang that you knew you were wrong, you shouldn't have listened to your mother at that time. If you pretend to be sick, will your father attack your brother and send him back to his hometown?"
Mrs. Qin sneered angrily, took Cui Xie into her arms, looked at Cui Heng and said, "You still keep such a person at home? Why don't you ask him to study? According to our border rules, the boss should cut him off with a stick. Legs, beat him so much that he won't dare to straighten up when he sees you in this life!"
Cui Heng scratched his neck and said, "That was my father who beat him, not me. I also fell down at the time, and knocked the youngest big bag! If he has the ability to beat my father, he will take my anger out. what!"
Cousin Liu was furious when he heard it, raised his hand and punched him in the chin first, scolding: "Wait! I hit you first, then tell my dad to hit your dad!"
Cui Xie was coaxing his aunt, but he didn't expect his cousin to start the Quan Wuxing.
Liu Yunshou looked small, but his strength was enormous, which was really different from what he had trained halfway through. If he hadn't felt his hand stop there in the middle of the journey, and had withdrawn his strength in time, I was afraid that it would have landed on Cui Heng's face together with his hand.
Cui Xie didn't care about his hand, he held his fist to prevent him from making another move, and said anxiously, "Cousin, be merciful!"
Liu Yunshou looked at him in shock: "This bastard seed bullied you with his mother, I vented my anger for you, but you actually stopped me for him?"
... I'm not for him, it's for you.
Ming Xianzong is watching us.
The nephew of the eunuch in the palace personally greeted him and called him to take care of his younger brother. Maybe there are factory guards in this family watching, everyone should be calm, so as not to leave bad records in the royal archives.
Cui Xie shook his head at him: "My cousin will be a general who will protect the family and the country in the future, so why bother with an ignorant child. Brother Heng was only twelve years old at the time, so what did he know? It's just what the adults told him to do. Just do it. Now that the Xu family has been exiled, no one will lead him on the evil road in the future.
Mrs. Qin looked at him and sighed: "how can you be as honest as your mother? If your mother couldn't bear the anger of this family, why would she have gone early? Now you are like this, even a woman dares to bully you. …”
Cui Heng called the fist blow in front of his face, but he was really frightened. He sat on the ground crying and called "Mother", as if he wanted to cry out the grievances he suffered on the way to exile and when he got home.
Cousin Liu clenched his fists and said, "He still has the face to cry? His mother made you live in the country, and you haven't told me to teach him a lesson... Brother, you stopped me just now with good timing and strength, as if you had practiced it before. ?"
He didn't want to ask where Cui Xie practiced, he just wanted to know that he was also a martial artist, why didn't he beat this bastard for three meals
Cui Xie was reluctant to hit him easily, but the old lady made up her mind, slammed the table heavily, and instructed the foster mother: "His eldest brother won't hit him, I will! This child really made his mother's mind crooked, and they all followed suit. I've had a trip, but I still don't know what's wrong! I asked people to come in and tie him up. When his father beat Brother Xie, he told him to beat him up, and told him to follow his mother to make up lies and deceive people, and Xie was innocent. Brother beaten!"
Cui Heng stopped crying all of a sudden, and stared aggrievedly and said, "You also asked people to beat me? You all come to bully me because I have no mother to protect me?"
Mrs. Cui's eyes were full of reluctance, but she still shook her head with gritted teeth: "It stands to reason that family scandals should not be publicized. But our Cui family is sorry for Liu's family. I'm even more sorry for this child if I hide it from people outside his family.
She asked the foster mother to lead the two grandchildren to stay in the inner room, and then called the servant to come in, press Cui Heng onto the spring stool, and knock forty times with the big bamboo board.
"Brother Xie back then, although it's not clear whether Brother Heng was real or not, but his father shouldn't punish him so severely. This is all behind your mother's back. I'll just punish you for venting your anger at him!"
At this moment, Cui Heng finally realized the pain of his eldest brother who had no one to rely on and looked around in panic. He dragged Cui Heng's clothes and confessed his mistake, crying bitterly and saying that he should not have listened to his mother's words, pretended to fall and frame him, and only asked him to forgive himself and intercede with his grandma.
The old lady Cui was afraid that her eldest grandson would be soft-hearted, she waved her hand and said, "Pull your eldest brother away and beat him!"
The sound of the bamboo board rang out, and several foster mothers rushed up to hold Cui Xie, and Liu's cousin also stopped in front of him, for fear that he would be beaten for Cui Heng again. Mrs. Qin didn't care about anything else. Seeing that the bear child who caused their nephew Liu's suffering was punished, she first cheered for her sister-in-law and nephew, and took Cui Xie's hand and told him to watch beside her.
Cui Xie watched for a while, struggling from side to side. After all, he didn't step forward to stop him. He only ordered, "Tell someone to fry the tonic medicine that was prescribed a few days ago, and then go and get a doctor who treats bruises. Pick it up. Please, don't be afraid to spend money."
If he hit him for something else, Cui Xie would definitely save him for the sake of Emperor Chenghua, but this...
It was the board that killed little Cui Xie at the beginning, so he let him wear it. The board was beaten by Cui Ju, but it was Mr. Xu and this younger brother who pretended to be sick together, blowing the pillow wind to provoke Senator Cui's anger, and it was so hard and so hard that it cost a life.
Little Cui Xie was only fourteen years old at the time, so Cui Heng is a few months older than he was back then, right
At that time, Cui Heng was still a person with limited capacity for civil conduct. According to his years of education, if he did it himself, he would not take revenge on such a child. But today is the old lady of the Cui family who wants to beat him. According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, it is absolutely right and proper, no reason is needed, even if he is young and not the mastermind, he can still beat him.
Comparing the situation of Xiao Cui Xie at that time, it is like... the reincarnation of heaven.
He touched his beating heart and opened his eyes to see the end.