Xu Bangning took a long circuit around Taihu Lake, hurriedly and slowly before returning to Jinling City, and did not miss tonight's Mid-Autumn Festival reunion dinner.
This made Mrs. Zheng, the duke's wife, extremely happy. She called her son, who was tired of traveling, to sit down at the table, and held his hand to ask questions.
The young master¡¯s success was all due to the concubine¡¯s superior mother. He took out a string of white and brown clam bracelets from his sleeve, which made Mrs. Zheng very happy.
The Duke of Wei, Xu Pengju, will be seventy next year, and he dotes on his youngest son. He pretended to be angry and said with a straight face, "I thought you were so happy in Huating that you forgot about Shu. You even forgot about the Mid-Autumn Festival."
"The father has wronged his son." Xu Bangning got rid of his mother and clapped his hands again, then saw two servants carrying a blood coral more than four feet high in.
¡°I was delayed until today just to wait for this thing to arrive.¡±
"Hey, it's rare to see such a big coral." Xu Pengju stepped forward and looked at the coral with well-proportioned branches and bright red color. He immediately praised it and said, "I don't have to choose the appearance."
"Can my father be better than Lingbihou now?" Xu Bangning said with a smile.
Before going out, his mother told him that his father was in a bad mood these days.
Because when Xu Pengju was a guest at Lingbihou's home, he saw a coral more than three feet high. After he returned home, he asked people to search the warehouse, but he couldn't find a comparable plant.
The dignified ¡®Xu Bancheng¡¯ was actually suppressed. How could the old man endure this?
"But corals are all produced overseas. Nowadays, even if you have money, you can't buy them. You can only wait for the opportunity to try your luck. Who knows when and what month you will encounter them?"
As a person approaching seventy, his lust for money has subsided, but his greed for treasure has become more intense. If he wants something but cannot get it, he will not think about food or tea, just like he is sick.
"Haha, you are so thoughtful." Xu Pengju couldn't help but smile. This gift from his youngest son was a gift to his heart.
¡°And my husband also has a bad habit. After praising his younger son, he must step on his older son.
He glanced at Xu Bangrui, who was sitting silently beside him, and snorted: "I can't even tell that I'm unhappy, so I don't take my father seriously."
"That's what father taught me." Xu Bangrui lowered his eyebrows and looked resigned.
Xu Bangrui¡¯s wife, Mrs. Li, could not suppress her anger, saying to herself that the last time you saw your eldest son was during the Dragon Boat Festival. He can't even see you, so why does he take you seriously?
¡°Besides, you only thought about your younger son, but didn¡¯t realize that your eldest grandson was also absent from the reunion dinner. Are you such a grandfather? !
Just as she was about to open her mouth to refute, Xu Bangrui stepped on her foot quietly, and then she turned away without saying a word.
After reprimanding his eldest son, Xu Pengju gave way to the feast, and the family happily celebrated the Reunion Festival.
Of course, excluding Xu Bangrui and his wife.
Naturally, the couple was scolded by their father-in-law again, because he thought they were affecting the mood of the family during the festival.
The more Zheng saw that these two couples were depressed, the more she wanted to stimulate them.
When she was half drunk, she deliberately made a serious face and reprimanded Xu Bangning loudly: "You have to calm down this time and don't go out again. Otherwise, Jiang Jijiu will beat you up, so don't cry to your father!"
Xu Bangning looked bitter at first, but then he was overjoyed. He stood up and said: "Father, the matter of imprisonment is settled!"
"It was originally a very simple matter, but I made you go through all the trouble last year, so you spent all this time." Xu Peng's eyes couldn't be separated from the coral.
"It's not all the fault of the boy named Zhao!" Xu Bangning snorted, as if he was running away from Huating, frightened and shaking along the way.
After returning to Jinling City, the young master is no longer afraid of the boy named Zhao!
"Don't mess with that kid." Xu Pengju said leisurely: "If you let him ruin your business again, give me as many corals as you can, and my father will stop wiping your ass."
"Hehe, then I will find a better baby for my father." Xu Bangning's heart trembled when he heard this, and he said with a smile.
"Hahaha!" The old man laughed loudly. Obviously, this warning was just talk.
Xu Bangrui on the side finally couldn't hold himself any longer and lowered his head slumped.
Mrs. Li couldn¡¯t help it anymore, stood up and said, ¡®My daughter-in-law is unwell. ¡¯ and left the table directly.
"What a loser." The old man snorted and said coldly to Xu Bangrui: "You useless loser, is this how you teach your wife? Get out and teach her a lesson!"
"Yes, father." Xu Bangrui lowered his head and stood up, stepping on cotton and leaving the hall.
After Xu Bangrui got married, he moved out of the Duke's Mansion and lived in the Xu family's small villa next to Fenghuang Terrace.
He followed Mrs. Li back to the house, entered the bedroom, and saw his wife lying on the bed crying without taking off her makeup.
Xu Bangrui felt sad, went over and patted his wife on the back, sighing: "Follow me, I will make you suffer."
"Are you his biological son? How come they are both sons, but one is treated as a treasure and the other is treated as grass?!" Mrs. Li sobbed.
"My father has been looking down on me for more than a day or two." Xu Bangrui sighed and said, "After the man named Zheng got his imperial edict, Xu Bangning became his legitimate son. How can I argue with him?"
"Is this settled like this?" In fact, this is where Li collapsed the most.
"Actually, it has been decided a long time ago that Xu Bangning will be imprisoned in the Imperial College just to change his name." Xu Bangrui stood up, looked at the bright moon outside the window with his hands behind his back, and shed two lines of tears in his eyes:
"How could the title of Duke be passed on to my unpopular son?"
"Then why did you send Xiaozhi to Kunshan? Why don't you stay with us, and our family will live behind closed doors." Li complained: "I haven't seen my son in almost two months."
"Don't let anyone call your son back." Xu Bangrui took a deep breath, calmed down and said, "I found a different path for him. If Zhao Hao can protect his disciples, his son doesn't have to be like me, and he will be in fear all his life. , Cowardly, life is worse than death."
"You can't protect your son, how can Zhao Hao protect him?" Ms. Li sat up and looked at her husband with red and swollen eyes.
"He can." Xu Bangrui nodded without hesitation: "I have been observing him for a long time since he asked Xu Bangning to come to apologize last year."
As he spoke, he lowered his voice and said with flashing eyes: "I have never seen such an amazing young genius. He contains endless energy and can easily do many seemingly impossible things."
"Ah" Ms. Li was dumbfounded. She didn't expect her husband to speak so highly of the boy named Zhao.
"He just likes to hide behind the scenes, and he is young, so he is always ignored by people intentionally or unintentionally." A look of hope appeared on Xu Bangrui's face, and he said word by word:
"I have a hunch that letting Xiaozhi go to Kunshan will be the most correct decision in my life."
??????????? In fact, he still has half a sentence left - ¡®If Xiaozhi can persuade Zhao Hao to help, I might have a chance to make a comeback¡¯.
¡°But after thinking about it carefully for a while, Zhao Hao had no reason to wade into this muddy water. Given Mr. Zhao's extraordinary intelligence, it's better not to daydream like this
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