Foster son and husband

Chapter 177 Drunk
On the evening of March [-]th, Meimei brought Heng'er back to the Cen's house from the palace. After leaving Heng'er, Meimei felt a lightness in her hands and breathed a sigh of relief. The kid was getting heavier and heavier, and her arms were numb from hugging.

The day before yesterday, the Empress asked Meimei to bring Heng Er into the palace to show her. As a result, both the Emperor and Empress fell in love with the lively and smiling Heng Er, especially the Empress. arm, said enviously:
"I wish our First Prince could be as strong as this in the future!"

The emperor was full of confidence: "How could my son lose to Xu Junying's son? Let's raise him to be fatter and stronger than Heng'er!"

All the concubines in the palace are sycophants. They came to Kunning Palace to pay their respects. Seeing that the emperor and empress liked Heng Er, they flocked to flatter him. The empress was very defensive. My son went to play, and when he came back, Heng'er was covered with pendants of one kind or another, gold, silver, jadeite, gemstones, all of which were exquisitely crafted and valuable, Meimei was in a daze, and immediately wanted to take them off and return them to others, but Heng'er Er is a treasure protector, those beautifully carved, lifelike golden cicadas, silver butterflies and jade dragonflies are hung on him as his own, the mother and wife want to pick one off and pull the other back, they are in a hurry, the queen is on the side Laughing badly, the emperor said with a smile:
"Forget it, who doesn't love such an interesting little thing? Since they gave it voluntarily, let Heng'er play with it! This kid is just like Xu Junying, as long as he likes it, he won't let it go if he grabs it !"

After the emperor spoke, she couldn't be arrogant, so Meimei had no choice but to hold Heng'er in her arms and follow the nanny appointed by the queen to thank the concubines who had given things one by one. However, Heng'er smiled at her, and her naughty and cute appearance made her laugh again, so she had to kiss him hard.

The prince always sleeps during the confinement period. When Heng Er comes, he shouts and laughs when he is having fun. There seems to be a special feeling between the children. The prince doesn’t sleep so much anymore. When Heng Er yells, he walks around with his eyes open. Looking for, there are all kinds of naughty and funny expressions on the face, the queen is very happy, the emperor said to Meimei:

"From now on, I will bring Heng'er with me when I enter the palace. The two of them seem to get along very well!"

Meimei is absolutely unwilling: Isn't that going the same way as Xu Junying?Playing with the prince since she was a child, the scenery on the surface is infinite, but it is not sure how dark it is behind the scenes. She does not believe that Xu Junying and the current emperor have been on good terms since childhood. When conflicts arise, the prince has the final say. Xu Junying There is no distinction at all!

She didn't want Heng'er to be like that, but she had no choice but to agree now. A soul who demanded fairness and longed for freedom fell into the monarchy. It's so aggrieved and tragic!Dare to refuse?If you offend those in power, you will not be allowed to live, go to the underworld to find fairness and freedom!
Fortunately, the children are still young, who knows what will happen when they grow up, maybe the prince doesn't like having Heng'er to accompany him at that time.

Meimei sat at the table thinking wildly, while watching the nanny and Cui Si scrub Heng'er and change into soft fine silk cotton pajamas, Cui Xi helped put him on the bed, Cui Lian prepared hot water and a change of clothes Clothes, just came to ask her to take a bath, suddenly saw Mother Zou came in, leaned over and said: "Return to Madam: There is a Mr. Qin outside the gate, who said he is Madam's brother, he insists on seeing Madam!"

Cui Xi and Cui Si both stopped what they were doing, and turned their heads to look at Meimei. Cui Lian, who was nearby, even had a slightly happy expression on her face. Running after her, I still hope that she has something to rely on in my heart. The people in the Qin residence have not come out for so long, the girls are more anxious than her, the husband's family can leave, at least the mother's family will support it, the woman's family is helpless and lonely, No one will make decisions for her when she remarries in the future!

Meimei lowered her eyes and said to Mother Zou: "What Mr. Qin, I don't know him, let him go!"

Mother Zou walked out quickly, Cuixi and the three girls looked at each other, and rushed over together, admonishing:

"Madam! That's the uncle! The uncle is here, let's meet Madam!"

"Master loves Madam the most!"

"Yes, that day when I went back to deliver a message, the uncle chased him out and told us to take care of Madam Gu and Brother Heng!"

"Madam, hurry up and ask the uncle to come in!"

Meimei lazily said: "Who is the uncle? You know him and go to see him. I have lived here for many days, and I have never heard of any uncle looking for me!"

The three girls fell silent, but there was a commotion outside the door, women and servants yelled and shouted, and Bao Ju's voice was heard again: "Get out of the way, get out of the way if you don't want to be beaten!"

Then came Qin Boqing's voice: "Let me see what she has become now! Didn't she even recognize her brother?"

While Meimei was startled, Qin Boqing was sweating, her face was flushed, and she rushed in with a stick in her hand, raising the curtain. The siblings looked at each other, and Meimei's eyes suddenly became foggy.

Seeing the tears dripping from Meimei's eyes, Qin Boqing threw away the stick in his hand, hurried over, and shouted:

"younger sister!"

Unexpectedly, the call of her sister caused Meimei to cry bitterly. She didn't know what was wrong with her. She was obviously not her own flesh and blood, but she just relied on others as relatives. She said she didn't care about the Qin family. After so many days, she was sure about them I really don't want myself anymore, and my heart is as sad as a knife.

It is best for a person not to be emotional. If emotional, he will definitely be hurt, even if it is a family relationship!
Qin Boqing took Meimei into his arms and let her cry without saying a word, just weeping with her in silence.

Meimei cried for a while, and when she had vented enough, she smelled a strong smell of alcohol on Qin Boqing's body, so she pushed him away, staring at him with red eyes:
"You actually drink alcohol! You're still taking Mr. Zhang's pills, which must prevent you from drinking alcohol!"

Qin Boqing fumbled in his sleeve, but couldn't find the handkerchief, so he wiped his eyes with his sleeve, raised his head and smiled at her, "Sister, brother got a tribute! Are you happy?"

Meimei looked at him, smiled and nodded, Qin Boqing pulled her to sit down, and said: "Today, a young brother invited me to celebrate the birthday of his old lady. The birthday wine I drank, my brother remembers to avoid alcohol. , the hospitality is hard to come by, I just want to have a drink with the birthday star, who knows that the beginning of a glass will not be pushed away... But my brother does not regret it, if I don’t drink this wine, I didn’t have the strength to call in just now, so I won’t be able to see you! "

Meimei froze: "Did you call in just now?"

"Didn't you call in? I finally took this opportunity to see you, and I stood honestly waiting at the door, but what did they say: Our wife doesn't know Mr. Qin, so let's go! In a rage, I robbed you." The stick of the person next to him came in!"

Meimei chuckled, Baoju and Baizhan were standing guard in the front yard, they recognized him as the Qin family's uncle, otherwise it would be no wonder he was able to get in because he was a white-faced scholar!
A few girls nearby also covered their mouths with their sleeves and smiled, Qin Boqing said to Cuisi:

"What are you laughing at? See if your uncle can't beat people, can you? Bring me a cup of tea!"

The three maids pushed each other and competed to go out. When the uncle came, everyone was so happy that they forgot to pour tea.

Meimei hurriedly said: "Give uncle a glass of warm water to drink first, and Cui Si asked the cook to cook a bowl of hangover soup!"

"I'm a little drunk!"

Qin Boqing watched the girls go out, leaned on the table and put his hands on his forehead, and said with a long breath:

"Your sister-in-law said something to me, and I can also feel the bitterness in your heart. Such a noble family is indeed not something that people like us can afford! My parents only had us as brothers and sisters, and we have been inseparable since childhood. I understand Your thoughts... When Xu Hou proposed to marry, my mother and clansmen couldn't help being overjoyed. I only thought that riches and honor forced people to come. You have changed, no matter how you change, you will always be my sister, Qin Boqing! You are not afraid of anything, you have an elder brother—although you are a scholar with no strength and no use, but your elder brother is your elder brother , stand by your side!"

Cui Lian came in with a glass of water, Meimei took it with tears in her eyes, handed it to Qin Boqing, and signaled Cui Lian to go down.

Qin Boqing drank the water, breathed out the alcohol, and continued: "This time you made a fuss in Xu's mansion. The second master of Xu's mansion visited our house and said that you disobeyed the old lady while the marquis was not in the house, and sent the old lady to the house. The wife was furious, and then she took Heng'er out of the mansion without permission, and no one in the mansion could stop her, so she went to live in someone else's house! Second master Xu asked his mother to come quickly to advise and teach you, and send you back to the Xu mansion, lest the waiter come back , it was difficult to deal with it... My mother fell ill on the spot and is still lying on the bed. Her old man strictly ordered: No one in the family is allowed to look for you, not even Mama Wang and your two little girls! That's why you The reason why I haven’t been able to come to see you these days. I see that my mother cried every day and was in a daze, but she didn’t think about eating like she used to when she was sad. Got it, she is eating too, I guess her old man has two ideas: one is that she wants me to pretend to be deaf and dumb to avoid this matter, and wait until the palace exam at the beginning of April; Make up your mind, don't pick you up, don't look at you - she already knew from your sister-in-law that you bought Cen's house, and during the time you are outside, she won't give you any support, and you should think about it carefully. Your mother is gone, go back to Xu’s mansion or go out alone, it’s up to you! After the matter is over, your mother will still be your mother, and the door of your mother’s house will still be open for you! Sister, this is just my brother’s guess, mother may not think so, Brother, I hope so!"

After hearing Qin Boqing's words, Meimei's mood suddenly became brighter, and she cried and laughed. Seeing how Qin Boqing thought he was cute, she wiped her tears and asked, "Since my mother strictly forbids me to see me, why is my brother disobedient? coming?"

Qin Boqing finally couldn't take it anymore, and put his head on the table and threw his hands on the table: "I came out to eat birthday wine. I said that I would come back later in the evening. I discussed it with your sister-in-law. I was afraid that you would be sad, so I secretly came to see... a while ago The days have come, come in the daytime, the gatekeeper said that the wife went to the palace to see the queen, why do you go into the palace every day? You can’t come out at night, your nieces and nephews sleep during the day and cry at night... as long as your parents hug you, they are very annoying!"

Meimei leaned over to look at him: "Brother, you're really drunk right now!"

"I'm not drunk... I'm sober, just dizzy!"

"Then I'll tell my brother the truth?"

Qin Boqing sat up straight and looked at Meimei: "Say it!"

　One more. . . . . .Twelve o'clock.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)