Concubine Shu was pregnant again, gave birth to Qi Yao, the princess of Zhaoyang, who was three years younger than her son Qi Jing, the emperor favored the little princess, and visited from time to time, which happened to see Qin Huai who was taking care of his younger brother here, and was surprised to ask how the good-looking Qin family son was nine years old and had not yet entered the Imperial Library, Qin Huai was ignored by the family, only that his father and ancestor took pity on his introverted nature and was afraid of delaying his contacts with people for several years.

Three years later, at the Chinese New Year's Eve family banquet, Qin Xun, who was already five years old, was said to have returned to the Lin family with his mother Lin Chu to attend the banquet, and ironically, Qin Huai, as the son of the Qin family, was qualified to enter the Anguo Mansion where his grandfather lived for the first time in twelve years to have a New Year banquet, but he encountered an embarrassing situation that he did not know whether intentionally or unintentionally.

The seating order at the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet has a strict distinction between the elder and the younger, and the top two seats among their grandchildren, one for the elder and the other for the chief, should have been for the eldest son's seat because Qin Huai had never been present Qin Xiao sat down, this time Qin Huai was present, Qin Xiao was not good at sitting in the eldest son's seat, but Qin Huai was not arrogant, this time his grandfather ordered his father to bring him here, he wanted to see what his grandfather planned, at least wait for his grandfather to let him sit in the eldest son seat in front of everyone.

The eldest brother didn't move, and Qin Xiao shouldn't move first, the two brothers stood side by side, but the grandfather on the throne was silent, and he lowered his eyes and sandwiched the crispy peanuts on the plate into his mouth, and occasionally drank a sip of wine.

"Big brother, don't be at a stalemate with your grandfather, take a seat." The ten-year-old second brother next to him whispered to persuade him.

He didn't move, silently staring at the stiff-eyed old man, unwilling to give in first.

"Brother! Let's go sit and sit here, what are we doing standing here? Qin Miao, the daughter of Mrs. Gu, pulled Qin Xiao's arm and was about to tear him off the eldest son's position.

Qin Xiao stopped her sister: "No, that's the position of the eldest brother, and when the eldest brother takes a seat, you and I will sit in the lower seat." ”

"Why? Usually my brother sits there, so why can't he sit this time? I don't! And since that Qin Xun didn't come, why did he have to prepare a vacant seat for him, what a trouble! Big deal, I'm going to sit! Qin Miao pouted and was unhappy, what eldest brother, my mother said that person was born from a lowly dancing girl.

"Ah Miao, don't make trouble!"

"For a seat, noisy pulling, what does it look like?" Grandfather finally spoke, his tone displeased, but he still didn't say how the seats were to be allocated.

Qin Miao kept her mouth shut and didn't dare to say much, although her mother and half-brother had always doted on her, she still didn't dare to make more mistakes in front of her stern grandfather.

As soon as the shouting of the children here stopped, the cheerful children's voices over there approached from outside the door with the sound of dada footsteps.

"Big brother!" Qin Xun, who was like a glutinous ball, entered the door and threw himself into Qin Huai's arms.

Qin Huai was surprised: "Brother Xun? You're not in the Dingguo Mansion? ”

Qin Xun wrinkled his little nose: "My uncle's new little brother is crying so noisy, I'm here to play, children are so annoying!" ”

Qin Huai said in his heart You cried when you were a baby, but it shook the sky, where did you come from to say that people.

Qin Xun still kept some rules, and greeted Qin Ao, who was silent on the throne: "Grandson to meet grandfather." After speaking, he took Qin Huai's arm and went to the sister-in-law and eldest son position side by side, "Sit down, sit down!" I'm so hungry! ”

Qin Miao stomped his feet and said hurriedly: "That's me and my brother, what are you doing!" ”

"What are you sitting on? Sit down. After the two brothers finished sitting down, Qin Xun blinked innocently with his hands on both cheeks, "I am the concubine, he is the elder, and the two of us can't sit here?" Who are you born to dare to shout at me? ”

"You-"

"That's it! One or two, it's not easy to eat, Zhenhai, you teach good sons and daughters! Qin Ao was obviously angry, and the masters and servants were silent.

But he didn't stop Qin Xun from doing it.

Qin Xun shook his head and smiled indifferently, what the old man wanted to train was actually him, and he couldn't see that he was arrogant in front of his old man.

"The son is derelict in his duty, and the father is angry." Qin Zhenhai hurriedly comforted his father.

Qin Huai glanced at the smiling third brother beside him, and said in a low voice, "Thank you, Brother Xun." He knew that he had come to relieve the siege, and that his return from the Dingguo Mansion was probably at the behest of Lin Chu, and the mother and son were as keen and clear at some times.

The third brother looked at him with an innocent smile: "Huh? What did the big brother say? ”

And the son is obviously good at pretending garlic.

"Nothing." He said, turning his head to accept the tea ceremony from his second brother Qin Xiao on behalf of his sister.

A few days after the first month of the first month, Lin Chu stayed in the mansion, and the general's mansion stewed hot and nourishing chicken soup in the bitter winter, and sent a whole chicken to Lin Chu, and it happened that during the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet of Qin Huai's Anguo Mansion, Lin Chu instructed Qin Xun to relieve the siege, and Lin Chu left him together.

"The general is polite, I have it in my accommodation." Although it won't be a good part to send to him.

"Let's have a drink here first, it's okay." Lin Chu always gave people a cold feeling when she spoke, but after getting along for a long time, Qin Huai knew that she was actually quite kind to others.

He thanked him and sat down beside Qin Xun according to his words.

Qin Xun held the bowl in both hands and raised it in front of his mother, Lin Chu took his bowl and served him soup, and he hugged his little face full of expectation.

"Mother, let me tell you, my aunt's cousin is good to return to the city! Zhaoyang grabbed things from me, and he spoke for me. ”

"Don't you always bully Zhaoyang, a boy, what to fight with a girl younger than you?" Lin Chu taught him a lesson.

Qin Xun was unconvinced: "It's Zhaoyang who always likes to bully me, you ask the eldest brother!" ”

Qin Huai pondered for a moment: "Princess Zhaoyang is indeed lively. ”

"Look." Qin Xun shook his little head proudly.

"Brother Ran Xun is also very different." He was stunned for a moment when he spoke, as if he didn't expect that he would blurt out such a joke.

"Did you hear that?" Lin Chu put a bowl of soup in front of his son, knocked a chestnut on the door of his head, and took the bowl in front of Qin Huai and served him the same bowl.

Qin Huai looked at a steaming fat chicken leg in the bowl in a slight daze.

"One of the two of you, don't fight or grab, you both have a share." Lin Chu said.

Qin Huai scooped a mouthful of hot soup, swallowed it for a long time before swallowing it, and suddenly felt that his nose was a little sour.

Can't be obscure, not willing to be obscure, Qin Huai was already talented in poetry and calligraphy, many years of precipitation, at the age of fifteen years with a beautiful "Chang'an Fu" shot Lu, stunning four, even the emperor heard the wind to denounce a read, look at its description of the palace city at the rhetoric, copy the scenery carved fog and cut the wind, and a hand of calligraphy and ink painting sand print mud and water, can not help but be amazed, praise this son is amazing, it is really a big hand, bury a pity, immediately issued an order to be able to be fifteen-year-old Qin Huai worship as the Ministry of Rites.

Qin Huai received the order, Qin Zhenhai was ordered to take him into the palace to meet once, the emperor asked about his cousin, Qin Zhenhai was stunned, only then did he remember that the eldest son, who had been neglected for a long time, did not seem to have a cousin, and was thinking about whether to immediately think of one to come out with the emperor, but when he heard that the eldest son calmly responded to the Taoist word to call the son, he frowned.

Out of the Xuanshu Palace, he asked his eldest son: "Are you complaining that the government has treated you coldly all these years?" ”

The fifteen-year-old boy smiled at his father with a smile on his face: "The eldest does not blame others for not treating me as a general, but for the first time in fifteen years, my father is looking at my son." He ignored his father and left alone.

The first time he was looking at him, his grandfather Qin Ao, the Duke of Anguo, heard that the general's eldest son, Qin Zichang, was worshiped as the Langzhong of the Ministry of Rites, and he immediately sent someone to call Qin Huai to the mansion without delay.

The old man looked at him coldly: "Qin Zichang? ”

He also smiled back without showing weakness: "The beans of the same tree, Shefeng chases firewood, and the eldest son is placed at the end, which is for the eldest son." ”

Because he pronounced the last word "Zi Chang" as the length of "long and short", people who were not interested in it would not react to the idea that this was the opposite of the word "eldest son".

His grandfather angrily threw the teacup in his hand, and hit him in the forehead, with such force that the teacup shattered and the fragments were scattered all over the ground.

"You're amazing!" He heard the anger in the old man's deep voice.

He smiled, ignoring the blood flowing down his forehead, calmly straightened his clothes, bowed to his grandfather and left.