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Chapter 335 Two Ancestors
Chunying's heart was in a mess, and she didn't know how to deal with this matter for a while.

This young man looks a bit like Hu Peng, and it is very likely that he is the legitimate son born to Hu Peng's divorced wife!I remember it seems to be Zong Geer.When she first met Hu Fei at the Lantern Festival, the lantern that Hu Fei "snatched" away from her was meant to be given to her little nephew.It has been more than ten years, the child back then should be very young, and now he should look like a teenager.

Before Hu Fei returned to Daming, she met Hu Peng's family outside Liushuzhuang. At that time, this boy was not among the people, and she didn't know where he went.After Hu Fei knew about it, she didn't mention it. She thought the child was being looked after.But if she is really meeting him now, what happened in the past few years?

Seeing that Chunying had been staring at him, the young man was at a loss for what to do.The coachman didn't wait for the hostess to speak, and he didn't dare to scold him. He just frowned and asked him: "You didn't even look at the situation on the road, so you rushed out. What if you bump into it?! It's a copper coin, and it won't be caught. The car was flattened, so can’t you wait for our car to pass by before running over to pick it up?! Now you are almost injured, and our grandma is so frightened that she almost fell! If anything happens, our uncle I can't spare you!"

The young man shrank his neck in fear, as if he had made up his mind, he suddenly fell to his knees with a plop, and said in fear, "I didn't see your car come out! I didn't hit you on purpose! Young Mistress, your lord has a lot, please forgive me!" Let me go! In my next life, I will be a cow and a horse to repay you! You are a living Bodhisattva! You are a noble person! You are the most kind-hearted! You are a fairy in the nine heavens, the Avalokitesvara who saves the suffering, please forgive me..." A long string of compliments and pleas came out of his mouth without even taking a breath, but his eyes were still dull, and his speech was very slippery, as if he had gotten used to it.Chunying's complexion gradually turned ugly—this child... how did he become like this?Hu Fei struggled to make a living in the marketplace after being kicked out of the house, and he was still polite, but he didn't learn these words!
Passers-by were attracted by this scene and gathered one after another.Seeing that the situation was not going well, Chunying hurriedly said to the coachman, "Put the car on the side of the road and ask that child to come and talk."

The coachman did as he said, but the young man hesitated and refused to approach, his eyes were full of vigilance and hesitation, and he kept saying: "You are a nobleman, a nobleman who is high above you, and I am that little stone in the mud. Don't be as knowledgeable as me..." The corners of his eyes glanced to both sides, as if he was planning a way to escape.

"Who taught you to say this?!" Chunying interrupted him, only staring at him, "I never said anything, you just kneel down and throw this long string of words over, you think I will What are you doing?! Why don’t you get up quickly?! Don’t you know the saying ‘a man has gold under his knees’?!”

The young man froze for a moment, stopped talking, lowered his head and did not speak.

A woman squeezed out from the crowd, and when she saw the young man kneeling on the ground, she cursed loudly: "I just asked you to pick up some money, but when you turn around, you caused me trouble! Can't you calm down for a while?! Aside from eating rice all day long, I still see Tian'er causing me trouble!" After hitting the boy twice, she apologized to Chunying with a shy face: "He scared you? I will apologize to you, you want to beat me You can scold him as much as you want, but if he hurts someone or breaks something, we really can't afford to pay for it..."

Xiaoxiang couldn't bear it anymore, and asked her with a sneer: "You mean, as long as you don't ask you to pay money, we can beat and scold him anyway? Who is he to you?!"

The woman rubbed her hands uncomfortably: "He is me...my natal nephew..."

The boy quickly looked up at her, his eyes were red, he held back, and lowered his head again.

Chun Ying has already recognized the woman, she is clearly the girl A Fan who served Hu Fei back then!It's just that the other party obviously didn't recognize her.At this moment, she was [-]% sure of the boy's identity, and she felt a little angry at Ah Fan's attitude.Although Ah Fan has married outside, but speaking of which, this young man was once her old master, right?Now they are beating and scolding, what is it? !That's still a child!

However, thinking of Hu Peng's attitude towards their servants back then, with Ah Fan's character, he would naturally not feel pity for his son, so Chun Ying didn't say much, but said: "I think this child speaks very frankly. , The mouth is also sweet, my family is short of a messenger boy, tell him to follow me back."

The boy looked up at her in surprise, recalling what she said just now, thoughtfully.

But Ah Fan hesitated. She glanced at the young man and said hesitantly, "This is my nephew, I... I have no intention of selling him into slavery..."

When Chunying heard this, her expression softened a bit: "I don't intend to buy him, I just want to hire him to do some work. If you want, the salary is easy to negotiate. But don't be too greedy, there are many smart boys in the capital. I don't necessarily want him!"

Before Ah Fan made up his mind, the young man said first, "I am willing! As long as grandma is willing to give me a bite of food, I can do any job!" Ah Fan was surprised: "You..." lowered his voice , "Young master, are you crazy?! This is to be someone's servant!" The young man lowered his head, not looking at her: "This grandma is a kind person, I am willing to go with her!" A Fan stomped her feet anxiously. "No! You can't go!" He stretched out his hand and was about to hit him, but the young man hurriedly dodged, ran to Chunying's carriage, knelt down and said, "Grandma, take me!" The sky is over?! The wings are stiff, right?! You had nowhere to go, but I kindly took you in!"

Passers-by whispered: "No wonder this kid would rather be a servant..."

"Isn't it? Beating and scolding..."

"Just now, I seem to have heard her calling that young young master? What a wonder! Could it be that a wicked slave bullied the master?"

"Oh, even if it's really his aunt, wouldn't it be a good thing if someone would hire that child to work without having to sell himself..."

"This woman also said that her nephew eats free rice, but now that he is going to earn money, she still refuses. There must be something tricky..."

Cold sweat broke out on Ah Fan's forehead, and he shyly approached the boy and pulled his sleeve: "Come back with me! I won't hit you in the future!" The boy just stared at Chun Ying eagerly.

Chunying didn't want to stay and let people watch, so she asked the coachman to pick him up, put down the curtain, and didn't want to see A Fan anxiously coming up to talk but didn't know what to say.The driver cheerfully said: "Boy, you are blessed, our uncle and grandma are the most lenient!" After finishing speaking, he grabbed him by the collar and grabbed him onto the carriage, shook the whip, and walked away. Only Ah Fan was left yelling angrily on the spot.

When they got home, Chunying called a servant who was on duty in the front yard, and pointed to the boy: "Take him to wash up, and then change him into a set of clean clothes, so that he can speak softly." Then he said to Xiaoxiang: " Go and tell the kitchen to get him some food, not too greasy, but light." Then he turned to the young man and said, "Go and tidy up, we will make up our minds about the future." The young man wanted to kneel again, and she was busy Stopped him, frowned and said: "When you are not asked to kneel, don't always kneel back and forth, and let people look down on you first! Our family doesn't pay attention to these rules, if you want to salute, just bow!" The young man After hesitating for a moment, he bent down and made a bow, then followed the male servant down.

Chunying hurried to the main room, asked Mo Han to come, told him about the young man, and said: "I don't know if he recognizes you, but you'd better not meet him face to face, wait for Brother Xiaofei to come back." Say it again."

Mo Han sighed in surprise: "I heard that Young Master Hu gave him to the fourth old man to raise him. That old man has a good personality. I didn't expect him to end up in this field. It's right for grandma not to recognize him." He has a father like that, and he doesn't know what kind of temperament he has developed over the years. If he is as bad-tempered as his father, he will cause trouble for the upper body! But what does the uncle say?"

"He hasn't come back yet?" Chun Ying thought for a while, "It stands to reason that he should have finished his work long ago, and now it's almost sunset, if there is a delay until then, there may be some accidents, you go to the place where the Hu family lives to see See, if there is anything that can help, tell him this matter quietly, and ask him to find out what happened to the Hu family? No matter how poor his family is, there are still a lot of uncles and brothers. Let the children live on the streets, and let the former servants bully and beat them!"

Mo Han responded and went, Chun Ying sat down and frowned for a while, then put the matter aside for the time being, changed her clothes, and went to see her son.

Brother Dai hasn't seen his parents all day, and he is angry, twisting his body and ignoring her, just playing with his small wooden ball, wooden horse, and the baby bear and baby tiger dolls that Chunying made for him.Chunying coaxed him for a long time before he showed his smiling face again. He carried the wooden horse in one hand and the baby tiger in the other. , then struggled to stand up and run again.In the small grinning mouth, a few newly grown teeth are particularly conspicuous.

Chunying's heart softened when she saw her son's cute appearance.Thinking of Brother Zong, he couldn't help but sigh secretly.No matter what the reason is for him to get to where he is today, in the final analysis it was caused by his father.If Hu Peng hadn't given up his wife and sent away his relatives in order to cling to the powerful, why would Brother Zong be living in exile?And Hu Peng tried his best, but he just gave all his family property to the powerful, and in the end he was so implicated that he lost his status as an imperial merchant for generations, and was completely reduced to a bum.The wife he married later only gave birth to a daughter. Once his natal family fell, he was left out in the cold, and now he took the child back to his natal family. Hu Peng only had concubines and two concubine children before him. The former was still a wandering Hooked up shabby goods!I don't know if he will have a trace of regret when he recalls the past?If he hadn't divorced his wife and remarried back then, at most he wouldn't be as good as his father when he was alive, but as long as he manages well, he can be a rich man without being an imperial merchant!

Therefore, it is better to accumulate virtue as a human being. If you go too far, you will also cut off your own way out.

Chunying thought and thought, and made a silent decision in her heart.

She put aside her worries and happily played with her son for more than half an hour. Seeing that he seemed a little hungry, she ordered someone to make porridge with minced meat, and added a small bowl of stewed vegetables.There was a commotion in the front yard, and Xiao Xiang came to report: "Master is back!" Chun Ying rushed out to greet Hu Fei, seeing Hu Fei's brows slightly frowned, and hurriedly asked: "What's the matter?"

Hu Fei tore off his belt, and Chunying hurried up to untie his coat, and changed into a home robe made of fine cotton, brought him fragrant tea, handed his son to the nanny, and waved to the girl After we went down, we sat opposite Hu Fei and asked, "Is things not going well?"

Hu Fei gritted his teeth and said: "There are a few old men who are stubborn, and they refuse to take Hu Pengge out of the clan! They say that father is the direct descendant, and Hu Peng is the only direct son of his old man. There is no evidence to prove that he really committed the murder. My father’s serious crime, so I can’t be dismissed! If the new patriarch was not on my side, they wouldn’t even agree to let me go back to the clan! Damn, they thought I was easy to bully?! Annoyed me, so that they couldn’t afford it Let's go!"

Chunying thought for a while, and said: "They made the decision to get you out back then, and it's really not easy to ask them to change their minds. Even if you put all the responsibility on the head of the former patriarch, it's useless if they don't cooperate. Then Do you have any conditions? Knowing that you are well-off now, you want to take advantage of this opportunity?"

Hu Fei sneered: "What are the conditions? They just want people to see, even if I am developed, I still have to listen to them! If they don't nod, I will still be a lonely ghost!"

Chunying frowned, and suddenly smiled: "Did you tell them that you just went to Wen County Prince's Mansion to talk to the prince for a day?"

Hu Fei was stunned for a moment, thoughtfully: "They already knew that I have something to do with foster father..."

"Perhaps a clan prince is not too important. There are few clans in power nowadays." Chun Ying licked her temples, "Then let me tell you, the relationship with the palace is good. The Hu family used to be an imperial merchant, and they also You should know how important the backer in the palace is, right?"

Hu Fei's heart moved: "That's right, I haven't seen Neijian Hu since I returned to Beijing! I just went to the Supervisor of Rituals to say hello."

Chunying glanced at him: "You are also stupid! Why should you be too kind when dealing with that kind of people? Even if they are still unmoved by the powerful and powerful, I will be convinced. If they are the kind of people who want to cling, You can also take this opportunity to intimidate, lest they will step on your head when you return to the clan in the future!"

Hu Fei smiled, and stretched his hand across the table to hold Chunying's hand: "Good lady, you are really my good wife!"

Chunying patted his hand lightly, retracted it, and said angrily: "I think you are so angry that you can't even think of such a simple method! Those people in the Hu clan, although they have heard about you for a long time, You are well-developed, but they don't have an intuitive understanding of how majestic you are. After all, you are an elder, so you should show some filial piety and let them understand."

Hu Fei smiled and nodded: "That's right. Since I am not what I used to be, why do I have to go out at night in brocade clothes?! Do they think I am still the little bastard who can only be mermaid?!"

Chunying bowed her head and said: "If they still don't take hard and soft, mighty and unyielding, and rich and honorable, that's also admirable. Our purpose is to allow mother to enter the Hu family's ancestral grave. As long as we can convince the patriarch, it shouldn't be a problem. .As for other things..." After a pause, "Did you hear what Mo Han said about Brother Zong's child?"

Hu Fei's expression suddenly became a little subtle: "I really don't know how to treat this child... I hate his father deeply, and I blame his mother for not saying a word of love for my mother and me back then, but I feel sorry for them... I can't be cruel, really..." He sighed in embarrassment, raised his head and said, "Three years ago, when I went to Beijing with the envoy, I heard from people in the clan that he was in the fourth old man's place. To live, when Hu Peng left Beijing, he didn't even know him at all. In addition, the fourth old master was entangled by Hu Peng's creditors and lost a lot of money, so his life was a bit sad, but generally speaking, it was still a good time I don't have to worry about wearing clothes, so I didn't pay much attention to it. I was also surprised when I heard Mo Han's report just now, and I asked the patriarch privately, only to find out that after the fourth old man passed away the year before last, the people in the fourth room regarded Brother Zong as It was a slave-like humiliation. The child couldn't bear it and escaped. The people in the fourth room were afraid that others would gossip about them, so they reported that they had sent the child to other places to study. No one in the Hu clan asked more questions. Unexpectedly, he It turned out that he went to Ah Fan's place."

Chunying said: "I saw that Ah Fan beat and scolded him, but it's not too much to insist on not letting him sell himself as a slave, so I didn't bother with her. It's just how to deal with this child's matter, Do you have an idea?"

Hu Fei frowned, Chun Ying persuaded: "I have an idea, but I don't know what you think?" Hu Fei hurriedly asked: "Say it quickly!"

"Didn't those old men of the Hu family say that your father's bloodline cannot be broken, so you can't make Hu Peng a genealogy?"

Hu Fei seemed to understand a little: "You mean..."

"Brother Zong is your father's eldest grandson! Let him inherit your father's line! As for people like Hu Peng, they deserve to be kicked out of the Hu clan! They said that there is no evidence to prove that he made a mistake back then, so then Bring out the fact that he colluded with the rebellious party! With such a crime, do the Hu clan still want to hang on to him, and would rather take the risk of implicating the whole clan?!"

Hu Fei smiled and said: "But he was not convicted back then..." He clapped his hands violently, "But this kind of person is the most hated in the world today!"

Chunying nodded with satisfaction: "I don't believe it. Among the Hu clan, there is no one who wants to study and pass the imperial examination! With a rebel clan member, it will be difficult for the children of the Hu family to marry a good family? Just tell them these words !" Then he changed his tone again, "It's about your re-entering the Hu family's genealogy...you can enter it, but do you have to listen to the patriarchs and elders from now on? Can't we open another one ourselves? We usually live in the south of the Yangtze River, and we don’t deal with the Hu clan in the capital. Your ancestors also started their own family, right? Can’t you be filial to your ancestors and start your own clan?”

Hu Fei frowned, gritted his teeth, and slapped his thigh fiercely: "Forget it! Who is patient to listen to them dictating?! Could it be that I live too comfortably and find a group of ancestors for myself?! Wait until the business of parents is done. , My name is back in the genealogy, and if Zong Geer corrects his name, I will never look at their faces!" Turning to look at Chunying, she suddenly smiled: "Speaking of it, if I become an ancestor, you Is it the grandma of the ancestors?! Grandma of the ancestors, come, let's go to see my little nephew!"

Chunying's face became embarrassing, and when she lost her mind for a moment, she was grabbed by his hand and dragged to the front yard.

(Go out of the door, come back late...)
(End of this chapter)