bookcurios Chapter 221 Brothers talk
Chapter 221 Brothers talk
Ten days later, the Mu Mansion held a banquet and invited everyone to come and play.
Mu Sheng is a bachelor, and all the invitations he sent out said "Celebration Banquet by the Emperor's Order." It's not that the Mu family wants to show off, but the emperor asked them to do it, and they have no choice, so it doesn't count as a loss of their image.
Everyone who received the invitation curled their lips. Not showing off is more annoying than showing off.
Then quickly prepare the gifts.
Although the Mu family had never been granted a title before, the title of a first-rank general who protects the country was like welded to the lintel of his family, and no one would underestimate it.
Now, we will not underestimate it even more.
His family had too many titles, and Mu Sheng was lucky. His first wife was the daughter of a marquis, and his second wife was even more outrageous, being the only daughter of a marquis. After a hundred years of Yiminhou, given the emperor's love for Yiminhou and Princess Yongning, wouldn't the title fall to Princess Yongning's son? Both of his sons were able to inherit the title, who could compare?
For a time, even the older single man Mu Xuan became a popular commodity.
The banquet hadn't even started yet, but the old lady had already received wave after wave of people who came to ask for advice.
They all came to ask her what she thought about Mu Xuan's wife.
The old lady was very happy.
Very angry again.
Of course she was happy because the long-standing problem in her family was no longer a problem and she no longer had to worry about no one wanting her son.
I was angry because Mu Xuan refused to understand.
No matter how you ask, I just have no idea.
A forced melon is not sweet. She can't just match him up randomly, right?
Mu Xuan was also very upset and ran to Mu Sheng and Yun Xi's courtyard to complain.
Yun Xi did not interfere at all in her brother-in-law's marriage, she just watched the show.
As soon as Mu Xuan arrived, she took her son to play with sand in the yard. She made a sand pit for Lezi in the yard, which was filled with river sand.
Although river sand cannot be used to build castles, there are many other fun ways to play with it, such as looking for small shells and snail shells, picking out smooth and pretty pebbles, and using a magnet to suck on the sand to get a handful of black iron filings.
When playing for the first time, Yun Xi sucked up the iron filings through the cardboard so that Lezai couldn't see them. At first glance, it looked as if the iron filings were running away by themselves. Lezai's always lively big eyes watched without blinking.
After watching for a while, he began to wonder why the small black crumbs moved. The child looked left and right, and finally lay on the ground and looked up, and found that it was his mother's hand operating from below. He immediately held Yun Xi's hand to prevent her from moving, and then blew with his mouth, trying to blow away the debris, but found that with his excellent lung capacity, those things did not move at all.
The child was very curious and played with the magnet by himself, sucking things back and forth.
This sand pit is currently his favorite, and he plays in it for half a day every day.
Now, Yun Xi was playing with him while peeking at the screen together with the system.
Mu Xuan asked his brother: "What did you think when you got married? Did you get married when the time came?"
Mu Sheng glanced at Yun Xi quietly.
When he found that she was concentrating on accompanying her son and not listening to their conversation, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I didn't think too much before getting married. Men should get married when they are old enough and women should get married when they are old enough. This has been the case since ancient times and no one can escape it. I was of marriageable age at that time, so I got married at the behest of my parents and the matchmaker. As the eldest son, it is my responsibility to start a family and continue the family line. As for after marriage, since we are already husband and wife, we should live a good life."
Mu Xuan also realized that he had asked a sensitive question. He leaned forward and looked outside. He found that his sister-in-law was having fun with her nephew and didn't look into the house at all. He breathed a sigh of relief and asked curiously, "What happened next?"
"Later? Xie Qing and I didn't have much contact, and our relationship wasn't close, but we were respectful to each other. As for Xixi, although our marriage was also arranged by our parents, we developed a deep relationship after marriage. Since I had her, I feel that my whole life has been very different. It's a kind of happiness that I have never experienced before."
Life suddenly becomes colorful.
Mu Xuan: "...Marry first, fall in love later. This is risky. What if you can't fall in love after marriage?"
Mu Sheng's forehead veins jumped: "...Where did you learn this phrase from?"
"I learned it from my eldest sister-in-law. Last time, after my mother held a blind date party for me at the Princess's residence, I chatted with my eldest sister-in-law and she said, 'Love at first sight is good, and marriage first and love later is also good, but both are risky. Relationships in this world must be maintained through efforts from both parties. So, it depends on whether the person has the ability to maintain a relationship, whether he has the quality to live a down-to-earth life, and whether the person's personality is interesting.'"
Mu Sheng blushed slightly and asked, "She said that we 'marry first and fall in love later'?"
Mu Xuan felt like he had eaten a mouthful of dog food. He looked at his elder brother, who had a lingering face and eyes full of expectation, and finally nodded and said, "... Yeah, that should be what sister-in-law meant."
He looked at his elder brother and his eyes suddenly lit up brightly. He quickly stood up and left.
This is off topic!
As a single guy, he can't bear to see these sticky things.
It was a wrong decision to come to his elder brother to complain.
There are very few people in this world who can know each other and fall in love before marriage. Most of them get married directly after being introduced by someone, a small number of them can get married first and then fall in love, and most of them respect each other for their entire lives.
From this point of view, it is not unreasonable for his brother to be happy.
Yun Xi, who was peeking at the screen, was amused by the two brothers.
Seeing how happy she was, Lezi stopped searching in the sandpit and threw himself on her with sand all over his body, behaving affectionately with her. As long as his mother was happy, he was happy too.
Yun Xi grabbed his little hand and said to him, "Look, kid, which kid has turned himself into a mud monkey? Look at me again, which little bad boy has made me covered in sand?"
Lezai smiled and shook his head: "It wasn't me. The sand went up there by itself."
Yun Xi: "..."
The child is starting to rebel and deserves a beating.
She patted her son's little butt gently, but unfortunately Lezi didn't think he was being spanked. He twisted his butt and seemed quite happy.
The mother and son were having fun when Mu Sheng came out of the house, picked up his son and threw him into the air. Lezi laughed happily.
Yun Xi always felt that this way of playing was a bit dangerous, even if Mu Sheng was a martial arts expert. She had been standing by and watching nervously, even if the system told her that he would protect the child.
Mu Sheng threw it twice and then stopped, holding Lezi with one hand and Yunxi with the other.
"Don't worry, I promise nothing will happen. If Lele gets hurt, you can hurt me too."
Yun Xi rolled her eyes. Doesn’t that mean she would have to face two injured people at once? How terrible would that be?
She said, "Next time you throw it, don't let it go. Just throw it higher."
Mu Sheng smiled and agreed.
He was just too happy just now, so he threw his son to express his joy.
Cotton socks from the Wei and Jin Dynasties, collected by the Capital Museum. I am actually curious about how to put on these socks, is it difficult?