Dahan first prince

Chapter 269 My son is too young...

"Your Highness, Your Majesty has a call."

Just when Liu Ying was busy with her feet on the ground and worried about the drinks in the second half of the night, a familiar figure appeared beside her, finally making Liu Ying raise her head in time.

Seeing the person's face clearly, Liu Ying only smiled bitterly, and greeted Lu Lu and Lu Tai's cousins ​​to borrow the matter in their hands before stepping forward and kindly pulling the person's arm.

"Don't be too weird."

"It's really Peiyi, the population is quite prosperous, and the emperor wants to hold a big banquet, and I have never known about the banquet. For a while, I have no time for him..."

Seeing that Liu Ying still wanted to be courteous to him, Xia Houying frowned slightly, looked around unobtrusively, and then pulled Liu Ying aside.

"Your Highness."

"At this moment, there are three or two elder thieves from Peiyi who are slandering the power in His Majesty's ears and talking about sacred things!"

"If His Highness doesn't go there quickly, I'm afraid..."

Cut off the conversation meaningfully, and seeing Liu Ying's face finally showing a little seriousness, Xia Houying took two steps back, seemingly casually, but in fact gave Liu Ying a deep bow with deep meaning.

"Your Highness can go and face His Majesty."

"The minister should go to find the king of Qi, so that we can meet His Majesty face to face."

After saying that, Xia Houying took a deep look at Liu Ying again, then deliberately slowed down and walked towards the middle of the banquet.

And behind Xia Houying, appreciating the deep meaning implied in Xia Houying's words just now, there was only a wry smile on Liu Ying's face.

"Co-authoring this world, it's not just my father who feels that I'm not suitable to be a prince..."

"Hey!"

"If it's the little thing like Ruyi, it's fine. After all, there's nothing that can be done about something like 'father-like'."

"Brother Qi, why did you get involved in this matter?"

Seeing Xia Houying walking towards Liu Fei extremely slowly, not even forgetting to look back at every step, and secretly urging Liu Ying to hurry over, Liu Ying just shook her head with a helpless smile.

"If the queen mother knows about this..."

"Do not."

"Xia Houying knows about it, so the queen mother will definitely know about it!"

"Ah~"

"Brother Qi Wang, I'm afraid I'm going to suffer a bit~~~"

Thinking of this, a very interesting guess suddenly appeared in Liu Ying's mind.

"In the previous life, the cups of poisoned wine that the queen mother gave to Brother Qi..."

"Um······"

"Is that so..."

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"Father."

After tidying up her messy clothes and putting on a very respectful smile, Liu Ying came to her father Liu Bang under the eyes of dozens of little old men around her.

There is no too complicated etiquette, and there is no overly serious singing like "my son Liu Ying pays homage to the father", just a well-behaved "father", which makes Liu Bang turn around.

"Oh, the prince is here~"

"Come on, sit down."

Turning his head back a little, he greeted Liu Ying carelessly, and Liu Bang ignored everyone's suspicious eyes, and pulled Liu Ying to sit by his side with his arms.

After a short while, Qi Wang Liu Fei's figure also appeared beside him, but Liu Bang just waved his hand casually, letting Liu Fei sit next to Liu Ying's other side.

And the attitude of Liu Ying and Liu Fei, Liu Bang's brothers, was also seen by the little old men on the table.

"Eh?"

"King Qi is clearly the eldest son of the emperor, and the crown prince is no more than the second son."

"Your Majesty is already a little drunk, why are you still close to the prince and far away from the King of Qi?"

Looking at the old emperor's cheeks that were obviously flushed, and then looking at Liu Ying, who was sitting beside Liu Bang, and even Liu Bang seemed to be embracing his shoulders casually, all the old men suddenly felt a little confused.

Although in today's Han Dynasty, "born rich" is the most valuable identity label in the whole world, but in the Qin Dynasty more than ten years ago, or the earlier Warring States Period, the two counties of Feng and Pei were also in harmony with the world. Like the other thousands of counties, they are all just ordinary county towns.

All the people present were all over half a century old, or even sixty years old. Although they had been in the "privileged class" for more than ten years, they naturally had an extremely clear understanding of the long-standing universal value of "di-chang". Know.

Although among the folks, the distinction between 'Concubine-Concubine' and 'Elder-Young' is not as strict as that of Gaomen or even the emperor's family, but some of the most basic things are still common.

Just like the situation of brothers Liu Fei and Liu Ying, one is the eldest son of a concubine and the other is the second son of a concubine. It is a very common situation among the people, especially in recent decades.

It's not that in today's world, there are many people like Liu Bang, who can complete the "before marrying a wife and giving birth to a son-in-law, first give birth to an eldest son with an outsider", but the wars in recent decades have led to civil weddings and funerals. It saves a lot of complicated steps.

For example, when the emperor of Zhou was still majestic and majestic, when ordinary people got married, even if there were no three matchmakers and six hires, various procedures had to be completed.

Such as proposing marriage, discussing, choosing a date, inviting relatives and calling friends, etc.

But since decades ago, especially since Yingzheng ruled the world, the procedure of civil marriage has become extremely simple.

——It’s like a certain father who felt that his son was about to get married and that the old man’s family was good, so he came to talk to the old man, and the two old men settled the matter, and within a few days, the two The younger generation of the family can have a wedding wine and send it to the bridal chamber.

As for the reasons for this situation, it is not difficult to understand: the turbulent current situation and the complicated labor labor that can drain most of the young and old in an area at any time, so that the people have no time to go through the previous marriage procedures.

Taking advantage of the hard labor and not being able to get him, quickly marrying a relative and having a child, leaving blood for the family is the top priority.

And it is against this background that the situation of "the eldest son of concubine" and "second son of concubine" appeared.

For example, in a farmer's family, the eldest married a wife and had children, and was transferred to labor, or went to Guanzhong to build the Mausoleum of the First Emperor on Lishan Mountain, or went to the north to build the Great Wall, but unfortunately died in these places.

At this time, for the orphans and widows left behind by the elder brother, the younger brother can only stand up and take care of them.

How to take care of it?
—— Support the daily life of the sister-in-law until the sister-in-law remarries;
As for the child, out of the intention of 'continuing the family bloodline' and incidentally 'to make it easier for the sister-in-law to remarry', he adopted the nephew into his own name and raised him as his own child.

And this child, if you want to say that he has no blood relationship with the 'new father', in fact there is; but if you want to say how close he is, he is not his own after all.

In addition, the elder brother's children are generally older than their own children. Naturally, this adopted nephew will often be given the title of "Eldest Son", while his own nephew is called "Eldest Son". or second son.

In this way, the child left by the elder brother will be the "eldest son", and his own child will be the "first son", and no one will be wronged.

In daily life, out of respect and remembrance for the deceased brother/uncle, whether it is the 'new father' or the legitimate son, they will also treat the eldest son kindly.

Especially the younger brother who was born as a direct descendant would treat this brother-in-law as a brother from the same mother.

As for the situation of Liu Fei and Liu Ying brothers, although it is not the same as the common situation in the folk, according to the views of these little old men, the difference between "concubine concubine" and "elderly" is obviously more important. Some.

It's just that this time, Liu Bang didn't give the little old men another chance to speak. He just smiled and patted Liu Ying on the shoulder, and started his seemingly casual declaration.

"Here, look."

"This is the longest among my sons: King Fei of Qi and Prince Ying."

Man Man proudly introduced Liu Fei and Liu Ying, Liu Bang poured another bowl of wine, then supported his head with his left hand, and turned his face to the brothers Liu Fei and Liu Ying on the right.

A moment later, Liu Bang's slowly extended index finger was the first to falsely point to Liu Fei who was a little further away.

"Fortunately, I was protected by my ancestors. I lived a lifetime and had eight sons. Among the eight sons, the eldest son is fat and warmest."

"A few years ago, when I was in the hidden residence, this son lived with his mother."

"After the second generation was established, it was the mother Cao who died under the sword of the rebellious soldiers. This son went into exile and went to Fengyi, where he was taken in by the queen..."

Listening to Liu Bang talking about Liu Fei's somewhat tragic life experience, all the old men unanimously cast complicated gazes on Liu Fei's fat face that kept smiling.

Being watched by so many eyes, Liu Fei couldn't sit still. After several struggles, he finally stood up under the encouragement of Liu Ying's eyes, and smiled and bowed his hands to everyone.

"Boy, I have seen all the old men..."

With different expressions, they bowed their hands to Liu Fei in return, but the hearts of all the old men quietly flew thousands of miles away.

"Birth mother Cao..."

At this moment, a distant legend that had been circulated in Feng Pei reappeared in the minds of all the old men.

——At the time of King Chuyou, Peiyi got a widowed woman who made a living by drinking freely, her family Cao; it is rumored that Liu Ji, the head of the Pavilion of Surabaya, privately appointed her for life with the widow of Cao family and gave birth to a son...

"Oh······"

"Son born outside..."

Realizing Liu Fei's background, all the elders finally shook their heads secretly with thoughts on their faces.

There may still be room for discussion on the priority between the concubine and the eldest son; the status of the eldest son of the concubine and the second son of the concubine can barely be regarded as the same.

But the "bastard son", that is, the son who was born in the concubine's room who was brought in by the eight scriptures and served by the mistress of the main wife, was eligible to be called a "bastard son".

As for those born in the outer room, it is basically the same as that born by the maidservant and concubine Teng at home-outsiders take care of the face of the master's family, and they can even praise "a son of a concubine", but in fact...
They are slaves at all!
As for the status between the sons of slaves and the sons of the illegitimate sons, even if it is "the eldest son of a slave" and "the youngest son of a harem", there is no comparison at all. !

Whether you can take your father's surname or not depends on whether the mistress nods and whether the master is willing!
In most cases, the sons of slaves are the same as Wei Qing, the marquis of Changping in history and the great general Wei Qing, who can only bear their mother's surname.

I don't even have the right to 'take my father's surname', let alone fight for family property, or even fight for the throne...
All the old men had their own thoughts, but Liu Bang's introduction did not end there.

Seeing Liu Bang staring at Liu Fei with a perfunctory look on his face, he turned his gaze back and patted Liu Ying's shoulder proudly.

"This is the second son Ying, who is the current crown prince!"

"Among my sons, Youying is the wisest and the most benevolent among brothers and sisters!"

In a tone obviously different from when he introduced Liu Fei, he said the phrase "Liu Ying is the smartest among my sons, and the friendliest to relatives", Liu Bang couldn't help showing a touch of pride on his face!
"Since the empress gave birth to this son, there has been little trouble in my affairs!"

"This son is only a few days old, and the king of Qin will die; the second generation will be established, and the world will be in chaos!"

"Wait for me to raise righteous soldiers and attack the violent Qin Dynasty. This son will be raised by my side. He will teach the scriptures and allusions for the great sages, and let the heroes of the heroes guide the way of battle!"

"Even this summer, Wang Yingbu of Huainan conspired to rebel, and I felt cold occasionally, and when I couldn't conquer Yiping myself, this son told the public in front of the Changxin Palace: Father is sick and the country is in trouble. As a son, you can live in peace. reason?"

Without changing his face, he talked about this "past event" that could not have happened at all, and Liu Bang slapped Liu Ying on the shoulder again, but his eyes turned to the far south, and he even stretched out his hand to point away.

"Only half a day after Yingbu raised his troops, King Jing Liu Jia died on the battlefield, and the land of Jing was lost!"

"Now, Yingbo is only two months old, how about it?"

"how?!"

As he said that, Liu Bang cheered up without warning, stood up from the bench, picked up the wine bowl and drank it vigorously, and then smashed it on the ground!
"Yingbu's return is only more than two months old!"

"Zhen! You can drink and eat meat here!"

"Wait for the head of this thief, and send it here for the brave relatives of Saner Township!!!"

He shouted several times full of pride, which immediately aroused the applause of the people in Pei County who were drinking around.

However, Liu Bang grabbed the wine jar as if he still didn't want to finish it, poured it again, and then sat back on the bench unsteadily, and patted Liu Ying's chest.

"This is the ability of the prince..."

"Here, the ability of my son-in-law and the queen's only son~"

"Hey hey hey~"

"Hey, hey..."

Talking and laughing, Liu Bang was finally "overwhelmed by alcohol", and fell headfirst onto the high table in front of him.

Fortunately, Liu Ying had quick eyes and quick hands, and quickly stretched out her arms, so that her father's forehead covered with ditches did not have an intimate contact with the wooden table.

Liu Bang didn't seem to notice the softness coming from his forehead, and only had a few wine hiccups, and said something vaguely.

"Well······"

"I, my eighth son..."

"Fat...Fat Wen...Fat is the warmest..."

"The most profitable...the most intelligent...the most benevolent..."

"Ruyi...Ruyi..."

"Hey... hey hey... hey hey hey hey..."

"Like me~"

Speaking of this, Liu Bang slowly raised his head and looked at the dishes in front of him with a silly smile.

"Hmm~ Heng... the most... the best!"

"Recover...the most trustworthy!"

"Friends, long-term, Jian..."

"Hiccup~"

"Too young..."

"Too young..."

"They're all too young..."

After a few more murmurs of unknown reasons, and a few more belches, Liu Bang finally couldn't support his upper body, and fell lightly into Liu Ying's arms.

When Liu Ying was busy apologizing to the elders, and beckoning the soldiers to take Liu Bang to rest, Liu Bang's raving still showed no signs of stopping.

"Like me..."

"It's useless to class me..."

"Too young..."

"All...too young..."

"Hi~~~~~~~"

"Too young..."

"Too young..."

(End of this chapter)