009. Birthday

When Qing'er returned to Hufu, it was already dusk, and when she walked into the warm pavilion, she saw several elder brothers and elder brothers waiting for her.

Seeing Hu Qing come in, several elder brothers stood up to greet him.

Hu Qing was wearing a black muslin cotton robe with sable fur turned out of the collar and cuffs, black trousers, a black leather belt, a black hat, and black deerskin leather boots. Everyone didn't expect him to wear such an unpleasant black on his birthday.

"Qing'er, it's really rare to wear a black robe as handsome and neat as you." Yinxiang looked Qing'er up and down with a smile and appreciation, and he had already seen the lonely look on Qing'er's face.

"Thirteenth elder brother, it's rare to be able to wear a cyan robe like you!" Hu Qing replied with a smile. Yinxiang glanced at the cyan robe on his body, raised his head and smiled at Qing'er and said, "How can I be as handsome as you!" Hu Qing couldn't help but say it, knowing that he was making himself happy, and his mood was much better.

Since the disaster relief in Henan, the two people have developed a tacit understanding and understanding.

"Qing'er, I'm here to celebrate your birthday today, I won't blame us for disturbing you." Yin's Russian smiled and greeted Hu Qing.

"How could it be! This person in the capital can let several elder brothers come to celebrate their birthdays at the same time, probably not much! It's too late for Hu Qing to be happy, how dare you blame your elder brothers! Thank you, Hu Qing! Hu Qing smiled as he took the handkerchief from the maidservant to wipe his hands, and then reached out to let everyone into the restaurant.

"It's us who came suddenly!" Yinyu deliberately fell last, and when Qing'er approached, his eyes stayed on Hu Qing's face, although Hu Qing had tried his best to hide his sad look, but he still noticed that Hu Qing's slightly swollen eyes were bloodshot, and if he looked closely, it was not like he had just cried.

The crowd sat down again. Hu Qing sat next to Rong Yu, next to the ninth elder brother and the tenth elder brother, and next to Rong Yu were the thirteenth and fourteenth elder brothers.

"Happy birthday to Qing'er!" Rong Yu's sincere blessing, only he knows Hu Qing's heart knot.

"Happy birthday to Qing'er!" Yinzhen, Yinru, Yinxiang, Yinzhen raised the wine glass and attached it together.

Hu Qing also raised the tea bowl and smiled reluctantly. "Happy to everyone!"

"Qing'er, why don't you drink?" Yinzhen looked at one of the five wine glasses, only feeling awkward, and the rest of the people all stretched out their arms to look at him.

"I don't drink!" Hu Qing withdrew his arm, put the tea bowl in his left palm and held it, and stroked the bowl with his right hand, the cold porcelain surface, the delicate touch, and the impatience in his heart was slightly reduced, but the cold words had already been said first, and Yinzhen's face was unnaturally hung with a thin layer of crimson.

"How can there be a man who doesn't drink, even women in our people can drink, and today is your birthday, if you don't drink, you can't drink!" Yin Russia broke the deadlock and took the tea bowl from Hu Qing's hand and put it aside.

"Qing'er, let's have a drink." Rong Yu looked at Hu Qing, today the brothers came to celebrate his birthday, although the motive is not pure, but in the end, it is a guest, and the host does not drink to accompany the guest, which seems to be a little unreasonable.

Hu Qing looked at his brother in embarrassment, Yinyu beside him had already taken the first step to pick up the cup on the table next to him and poured a glass of wine into Hu Qing's hand, Hu Qing glanced at the wine glass in his hand, smiled bitterly, and then raised it up and said: "Then I will give up my life to accompany the gentleman!" After saying that, he drank it all, and the elder brothers also raised their glasses and drank the wine in the glass.

The hot sensation went down the throat to the stomach, and after the stomach cramped uncomfortably, the heat surged up to the cheeks and reached the brain, and there was a moment of numbness in the brain, stroking the hot cheeks, Hu Qing looked at Rong Yu helplessly and said with a smile: "Brother, I'm drunk!" ”

Yin Olang laughed and said loudly: "Listen to you to know that you are not drunk!" People who say they are not drunk are really drunk, and people who say they are drunk are actually pretending to be drunk! Drink again! ”

Yinxiang also smiled and said, "Qing'er, you have lied to me once!" He remembered the two of them in Henan.

A few elder brothers wanted to say more, but they saw Hu Qing slumped softly on Rong Yu's body, and the elder brothers were stunned and drunk? Really drunk? Rong Yu hurriedly stood up, leaned over and carried Hu Qing into the soft couch and lay down.

A few elder brothers are still inexplicable: is there really a man who is drunk with a drink?

Because the birthday boy was drunk, several elder brothers did not continue to stay.

Rong Yu stood in front of Hu Qing's soft couch: "Cough, cough, don't pretend, everyone is gone, get up!" ”

Hu Qing stood up with a smile and looked at his brother, "All gone?" ”

Rong Yu smiled and said, "It's all gone, let's go!" Grandpa is still waiting for you to eat. He took Hu Qing and walked out.

In the restaurant, Hu Zhongzheng and Qin Heming were waiting for Hu Qing, and the two of them pulled Qing'er to grow up with their own hands, and regarded him as more important than their own lives. Since Hu Qing knew that his birthday was the death day of his mother when he was three years old, he refused to celebrate his birthday again.

Although Hu Qing doesn't have a birthday every year, Hu Zhongzheng and Qin Heming are on this day, as long as Hu Qing is not in the temple to cultivate, no matter how busy they are, they will come back to accompany Hu Qing to dinner.

Hu Qing took the soup bowl from the maid's hand, turned around and handed it to his brother beside him, and then asked, "Brother, do you plan to pursue a career or business in the future?" ”

Rong Yu retracted the ivory chopsticks wrapped in silver that had been stretched out, looked up at his grandfather quickly, turned his head and glared at Hu Qing dissatisfiedly: You can't ask me in private!

Hu Zhongzheng smiled at the corner of his mouth, looked at Rong Yu, and said, "Don't be embarrassed, just do what you like!" If you're not interested in business, your grandfather won't force you. ”

Rong Yu had a big smile on his face, "Grandpa, I really don't have much interest in business, and I don't have the talent to do business, unlike Qing'er." ”

Hu Qing raised his face and said with a serious face: "Brother, since you want to take the career of officialdom, then you must understand that this world belongs to the emperor, and don't participate in factional disputes." It's best if you can leave the capital and release it. "Reach out and make a gesture of nine" Don't be close to him, no matter what the future holds, never stand beside him. ”

Rong Yu nodded happily and replied, "Yes." He looked sideways again, "Blame them for calculating you?" ”

Qing'er shook her head, the nobles in the capital, for the sake of the Hu family's wealth, who hasn't calculated themselves? He didn't want his brother to be close to Brother Jiu, not for this.

The information in his hand shows that in addition to his bad temper, Brother Nine Yinyu is also a righteous person, and he is extremely partial to the people standing next to him, but whenever anyone asks for him, he will try his best to help. He is now standing beside the Eighth Elder Brother, and most of the Eighth Elder Brother's gang is going for him. Such a person who can call on everyone to work together must have something special about him. Hu Qing was convinced of this.

As for the negative means he used to hit his opponents, they were just for self-preservation.

Hu Qing disagrees with some of Brother Jiu's practices, but he can understand them, because he has been standing alone in the leading position in the business world for many years, and he has already learned those deceptions.

Rong Yu and Yinyu's personalities are completely different, he can't agree with Brother Jiu's approach at the moment, and the two of them are destined to break up unhappily in the future. What's more, it's irrational for ordinary people to get together in this heavenly matter......

"What's that for?" Rong Yu looked at it fixedly, waiting for the answer.

"Because we are just ordinary people, no matter how much the brothers fight, it is all the business of the heavenly family, if we get involved, we are afraid that it will not be good, and finally put our lives on the line. People, always kiss outsiders to their sons, don't you say? Brother! Hu Qing said and pouted and sneered.

"Are you saying that this fight between the elder brothers will eventually bring disaster to others?" Rong Yu looked at Hu Qing with some surprise.

"Brother, how can it not harm others, history is in the books, this kind of thing has long been common. Nowadays, those people in the court are not at ease with the court affairs and only blindly cling to the princes, and the emperor is still up to them, because they have not yet touched the emperor's bottom line, and they are still within the emperor's tolerance range. If one day, the brothers fight too obviously, I don't know who the emperor will take to cut him. His own son is reluctant to kill, is he reluctant to those who participated? Since ancient times, there have been many things about killing chickens and police monkeys! Hu Qing sneered at the corner of his mouth, as if he had already foreseen the end.

"You're thinking so much, huh?" Rong Yu never thought about this, he just wanted to do his errand well, and he didn't think about the things next to him. He is not attached to Brother Jiu, but it is not all for Brother Jiu's temper and means of doing things, his own personality likes to be lively, likes to be upright, and hates to exclude each other. He has always belonged to the Thirteenth Elder Brother, the two have similar personalities, and they are closer than others, and the Thirteenth did not participate in the faction between the elder brothers, so he did not participate either.

"If you think a lot, you can see far. By the way, brother, let's go to the suburbs one day to practice guns, it's also dangerous to be a secret agent, I'm just a brother like you. Hu Qing said lightly, turned around and took a box from the maid's hand and handed it to Rong Yu: "This is a firearm and forty rounds of ammunition, you use it first." ”

"You?!" Rong Yu was taken aback, and then turned his head to look at his grandfather and Grandpa Qin, and saw that both of them were looking at him with a clear look.

Rong Yu was so frightened that he looked back at Qing'er again, and then at the maid behind Hu Qing, speechless.