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Chapter 32

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    Zhao Hao chatted with his uncle from time to time.  Zhao Xian sat aside silently, saying nothing.

    In Zhao Hao¡¯s impression, he became taciturn after his family suffered a disaster.  But it¡¯s not like I can¡¯t say more than three sentences in an afternoon.

    Looking at Zhao Shouye again, he had clearly told him that his father was in prison in the Imperial College and would not get home until dark, but he insisted on waiting for Zhao Shouzheng to come back.

    If it is a deep brotherly love, then why is he always absent-minded?

    Zhao Hao watched Zhao Shouye twisting his butt irritably, and was really worried that he would break the bench.

    He felt that the atmosphere was a little strange, so he simply asked directly: "Uncle, it's the same thing if you tell me something."

    Zhao Shouye looked at him, moved his lips a few times, shook his head and said, "It's better to wait for your father to come back."

    "Okay, let's make dinner here." Zhao Hao looked at the dim sky and said that he would go get some food and escape from the extremely tormenting environment.

    After leaving home, he went to Blacksmith Gao's place first, chatted for a while, and fried pumpkin seeds for a while.  Yue felt that Zhao Shouzheng was coming back soon, so he walked slowly to the tavern on the street, bought a few meat dishes, and two kilograms of soju, not forgetting to send a portion to Gao Tiejian's house.

    While he was negotiating with Blacksmith Gao, he saw Zhao Shouzheng carrying a cloth book bag and hurriedly walking into the alley before it was dark.

    "Father." Zhao Hao took advantage of the situation to get rid of Gao Tiejian and followed Zhao Shouzheng.

    "Hey, son." Zhao Shouzheng was overjoyed when he saw the wine and meat he was holding. He put his book bag under his arm and reached out to tear up a chicken leg to satisfy his hunger.  "I'm starving to death as a father!"

    "No, uncle is here." Zhao Hao hurriedly stepped aside.

    "Really? Even if he still has a conscience, he has not forgotten my younger brother." Zhao Shouzheng was overjoyed when he heard this, and ran into the courtyard happily regardless of being hungry.

    How can I put it this way, the two brothers were born in the same mother's womb and have lived in the same home for more than thirty years. Their relationship is thicker than water and cannot be faked.

    ??~~

    Zhao Shouye and Zhao Xian were in the courtyard, waiting for Zhao Hao to come back.

    "Father, I'm afraid my brother has escaped." Zhao Xian said with a sad expression, "Why don't we go back."

    "How to go back? Is there any good fruit to eat when we go back?" Zhao Shouye exhaled gloomily, stood up and rubbed his sore butt.

    "Brother, why didn't you tell me in advance so that I could wait for you at home!"

    At this time, Zhao Shouzheng happily walked into the yard quickly.

    Zhao Shouye breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "I was passing by, I just thought of it and came here empty-handed"

    "Brother, why are you so polite? Come on, Zhao Xian helps Zhao Hao set the table. Your father and I want to have a good drink."

    Zhao Shou was in high spirits and didn't notice anything strange about his elder brother.  Of course, even if he wasn't in the mood, he probably wouldn't be able to tell what his features were.

    Candles were lit in the room and dishes were placed on the table. The four members of the Zhao family sat down to eat and drink.

    ¡°Come on, this is our first reunion, let¡¯s have a drink together, you two!¡±

    Seeing that this guy was breaking the rules and wanted to drag him down, Zhao Hao rolled his eyes secretly, but didn't say anything.

    Zhao Shouzheng poured wine for his brother, picked up the glass and smiled brightly.

    The more he behaved like this, the more gloomy Zhao Shouye became. He reluctantly drank a few drinks with Zhao Shouzheng, but stopped talking several times.

    Zhao Hao could not bear to see his uncle being so sloppy and careless, so he took the lead and said: "Father, uncle has been waiting for you all afternoon. When you ask him what is going on, he doesn't tell me anything."

    "Brother is having an affair now. Zhao Hao is now the head of my family. If you have anything to do, just tell him. I don't make the decision." Zhao Shouzheng drank so hard that his face turned pink, and he didn't understand the situation clearly.

    "Really?" Zhao Shouye glanced at Zhao Hao in surprise, and then looked at his brother with envy.  Before, he always thought that Zhao Shouzheng was heartless and just knew how to sit back and eat what was ready, which was very ridiculous, but now he envied him.

    ¡°Oh, brother, I¡¯ll just tell you the truth¡±

    After a while, Zhao Shouye regained his composure and sighed: "Now I have to bow my head under the roof. If you say something, don't blame me."

    "Brother, didn't you just tell the truth? Why did you get wrapped up again?" Zhao Shouzheng finally felt the weight of his eldest brother and looked at him with a frown.

    "Oh, it's really unspeakable. It's such a disgrace to my grandma's house." Zhao Shouye didn't dare to look at his brother, and said in a voice as loud as a gnat: "You also know what your sister-in-law is. She actually wants me to tell her ex-partner.  I want to ask for the money I gave you back. I refused, and she has been arguing for several times, saying that if she doesn't get the money back today, she will go to her father-in-law for judgment."

     "Brother, I can't stand upright when I'm living under someone else's roof. I can't embarrass the old Zhao family in front of my father-in-law, right?" Zhao Shouye looked at his brother with a shy face and said, "I know you are better than me.  It¡¯s still difficult. I really don¡¯t want to talk to you unless I have to, but I can ask grandpa and grandma to borrow a lot, and I only got a dozen or so taels of silver.¡±

    "Huh?" Zhao Hao couldn't help but sigh.

    "Father secretly stuffed twenty taels into grandpa." Zhao Xian, who was standing by, had tears in his eyes and choked up: "My mother wants to get it back too."

    "It's unreasonable, how can it be?!" Zhao Shouzheng was furious when he heard this, threw the wine glass on the ground, and spat fiercely: "How can my sister-in-law make it difficult for my brother like this? She just asked me for money, but she didn't even give it to the old man.  Don¡¯t let the money go either?!¡±

    "The Qian family is extremely rich. Does she really care about these ten or twenty taels?" Zhao Shouye took a bitter sip of wine and said, "Isn't it the bad things back then that made her always hold a grudge? The old man has done a lot in these years.  Excuse her, now she has a chance to vent her anger"

    "It was her Qian family who was the first to cheat back then. Not only did her brother get cheated, but her father's career was also ruined!" Zhao Shou had a red face and a thick neck, and he was very ready to argue with the Qian family.

    Of course, he won¡¯t really go.  When a scholar encounters a soldier, it is hard to explain why.  Not to mention meeting a shrew

    "Alas" Zhao Shouye sighed and said, "It's been so many years and I almost forgot. I didn't expect that she still holds grudges."

    "Sure enough, the heart of a woman is the most poisonous. I can't marry this woman!" Zhao Shouzheng slammed the table and said to Zhao Hao: "Son, give me another wine glass for my father."

    Zhao Hao rolled his eyes secretly, there are only these four wine glasses, where can I find another one for you?

    Then he pushed his glass of wine, which he had not drank a drop of, in front of his father.

    Zhao Shouzheng drank a few more glasses of wine with his brother, and then he felt the same way and said, "I also had a lot of rejections a while ago. I didn't expect that my eldest brother would be just like me."

    Hearing this, Zhao Hao couldn't help but curl his lips and secretly said that Mr. Zhao is not bringing it upon himself

    "But even he didn't expect that his uncle, a sixth-grade official, even though he was a low-status official, would be so miserable.

    "When his father and son moved away from Nancheng, they were far away from the right and wrong circles of Nanjing City, and they could no longer feel the impact of the old man's dismissal from office.

    "But Zhao Shouye is still an official and is in a whirlpool. He has been suffering from the cold eyes of his superiors and colleagues these days, which is a personal pain.

    "Alas, our old Zhao family is like a fallen phoenix, not as good as a chicken. The people who were once trampled on now hold grievances and seek revenge." Zhao Shouye raised his neck and drank a sip of wine, wiping the bitterness on his face.  Tearfully: "The people I helped before all avoided me and left."

    "Brother, don't be discouraged!" Zhao Shouzheng took the jug from his brother's hand and said angrily: "You are the hope of our old Zhao family! I thought my father was also a poor scholar back then? Now you are still a sixth-rank official.  Why are you so hopeless?"

    Zhao Shouye kept shaking his head.

    "A man is poor but his ambition is short, while a horse is skinny and has long hair. I don't have the ambition you have. Now I'm just shamelessly dawdling"

    Seeing that his brother was as wilted as an eggplant, Zhao Shouzheng's eyes turned red and he burst into tears.

    Zhao Hao couldn't see Zhao Shouzheng being like this. He sighed secretly in his heart, stood up and gave his father a wink.

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