Lin Zhen muttered, "You live more delicately than me...... Well, the carriage has long been ready, and we are leaving. ”

Zhu Xiang took the child into his arms again, turned back to Xue and said, "Don't worry, I will definitely scold her when I see her!" ”

Xue pursed her lips and bowed to Lin Zhen and said, "The beloved will be entrusted to Mr. Lin." ”

Lin Zhen joked: "Zhu Xiang, your wife doesn't believe you!" ”

"Hmph." Zhu Xiang glared at Lin Zhen and walked out of the door angrily.

Lin Zhen smiled and followed.

After watching the two leave, Xue let out a long sigh and told the servant to clean up the table.

Zhu Xiang boarded the carriage with the child in his arms, and asked the child what his surname was on the way.

Perhaps still young, the child just closed his mouth and shook his head, without answering.

Zhu Xiang introduced himself, and Lin Zhen laughed at Zhu Xiang's tragic situation when he was sick and knocked on his door.

Zhu Xiang didn't want to tell the young child about his entanglement with his mother. But Lin Zhen was quick to talk, and he didn't stop it.

Later, he thought that although he pitied this child very much, with his entanglement with the eldest sister, if the eldest sister refused to have this child, he would definitely only give this child to others to raise.

Confucius was right, how can you repay virtue with virtue? What's more, his belly is full of inopportune times, and reluctantly raising this child may bring disaster to this child in the future.

Healthy and young boys, there is no shortage of well-wishers to adopt at any time. This cheap nephew is more suitable for the Lin family to find another reliable rich family.

Therefore, whether the child can understand Lin Zhen's words or not, he should always inform him of the reason why he cannot adopt.

The child's expression was very wooden, and he couldn't understand whether he understood Lin Zhen's words.

The carriage soon fell into an awkward silence, and even the lively Lin Zhen couldn't help but shut his mouth. Soon, apart from the sound of the carriage shaking and the clatter of horses' hooves, only the breathing of the three people remained.

Lin Zhen closed his eyes and pretended to sleep, and the child also closed his eyes, only Zhu Xiang looked out the car window and was distracted.

The Zhao State has experienced the hard work of two Ming monarchs, and Handan City has already become a city of thousands of feet, and it is very prosperous.

It's just that when Zhu Xiang first entered Handan City, it happened to be in the last two years of the reign of King Zhao Huiwen, the father of the current King Zhao. At that time, although Handan was prosperous, there were many people on the street who wore swords and horses, and few people who wore jewels.

King Zhao Huiwen died, and during the period when Zhao Weihou was in power, Handan did not change much. After the collapse of Zhao Weihou, the changes in Handan City became faster day by day, and the wind of extravagance gradually rose. Every time Zhu Xiang went into the city to deliver the goods of the Grange and the Lin family, he could see these changes visibly with the naked eye.

The carriage shook violently as if it had been crushed over a stone in the road, and the curtain of the window was half swayed.

Zhu Xiang didn't lift the curtain, and began to close his eyes and recuperate.

About an hour later, the carriage stopped next to a mansion.

The doors of the mansion are wide open, and people are coming and going to deliver goods. Lin Zhen gave the guard a look, and the guard stepped forward to ask about the family.

"This one? I moved out a few days ago, and now the house has been bought by my owner. The old servant who had commanded the people to carry the things replied, "You want to find the former family?" My master doesn't know, we bought the house from your son, maybe you know. ”

When Zhu Xiang got out of the carriage with the child in his arms, he happened to hear the old servant's answer.

The child's thin hand grabbed Zhu Xiang's shirt and turned his head to look at the old servant.

His bright eyes were instantly filled with tears, and tears overflowed from his sockets in large chunks. With every tear shed, his eyes darkened.

Before the child cried hysterically at Zhu Xiang's house, Zhu Xiang thought he was going to cry again. Who would have thought that the child just stared at the empty eyes and quietly shed tears, and did not even make a sound of crying and choking.

Zhu Xiang's heart jumped, and he quickly pressed the child's crying face gently into his arms, and took a few steps forward to find the family next door who was probing his brain to see the excitement: "Uncle, do you know that family?" ”

Zhu Xiang asked, while taking out a few knife coins from his sleeve pocket and stuffing them into his father-in-law's hand.

The old man who watched the excitement put the knife coin into his cuff and said, "I understand, the family can be lively when they are there, why don't you understand?" Let me tell you, the merchant who used to live there was always doing a loss-making business, and he was so worried that he was about to sell his house, but suddenly he married a rich widow, and all of a sudden he began to make a big deal. ”

Zhu Xiang: "? "A rich widow? Could it be that the rich businessman my sister married before died, and my sister inherited the rich businessman's inheritance and raised a little fresh meat?

The old man couldn't hide his words, and after getting the money, he didn't have a psychological burden to gossip about other people's families, so he immediately chattered a lot of things.

When he spoke, other neighbors also came up to talk together, and they didn't need Zhu Xiang to give money, so they told the family about the situation.

"The family doesn't know what good luck they had, the newly married widow is beautiful and rich, but unfortunately she has a stupid son."

"Yes, the boy was making a fuss every day, and threatened to kill the merchant. Is the kid two or three years old? I can't even walk steadily, so violent! ”

"What can such a young child understand? Someone must have chewed on the root of his tongue in his ear. ”

"Maybe it's the clan of the rich merchant that the glamorous widow married before? She took away so much money, and her late husband's clan was definitely not happy. ”

"You always say that the child is not good, and I think the child is quite pitiful. When I first moved here, he was quite stocky, and when I saw him the other day, he was thin and dirty, like a wild child on the side of the road. I heard that his aunt no longer cares about him, and even the servants in the family dislike him. ”

"Of course I dislike it, who doesn't dislike it?"

"But it's still quite pitiful. What do children know? He's only so big, teach him well. How can any child be born obedient? ”

"That's just as well. To put it bluntly, it was also because the widow neglected her young son when she married her new husband. ”……

The neighbors said one by one, and finally turned into a crowd chat, completely ignoring Zhu Xiang.

Zhu Xiang left the crowd gathered together and chattered with the child in his arms and returned to the carriage.

He already understood the general situation, and how to find spring flowers next, he could only ask Lin Yi.

Zhu Xiang looked down at the child in his arms. The child in his arms didn't know if he understood the words of the group, and the tears didn't flow anymore, but his expression was very dull.

During the Warring States period, there was no bad custom that widows could not marry. On the contrary, because of the extremely high maternal mortality rate, widows who have given birth to one child are very popular among the people.

Chunhua may have married a newcomer with her ex-husband's inheritance after her ex-husband's death. She was rich and beautiful, and she had a son, and the neighbors around her envied the merchant for marrying a bride well.

As for the little boy who resisted his stepfather, a bear child who was full of shouting and shouting and killing, even if he felt a little pity for him for his young sake, after his mother cried a few times outside, the people around him did not have much pity for him.

Zhu Xiang didn't know the whole story, but he was skeptical of the neighbors' words.

How could the neighbors know about the mansion? How loud can the kid be so loud that everyone outside the door can hear it?

The child's bad comments must have come from the family themselves. How much is true and what is false...... Anyway, he has a deep dislike and prejudice against Haruka, and he doesn't believe in Haruka's pure and flawless victim status in this matter.

Chunhua can discard the child to herself who was once abandoned by her and almost killed, and the letter also has a commanding tone, without seeing the slightest guilt for herself. This style proves that Zhu Xiang's prejudice is probably not prejudice.

"I'm really discarded, am I?" The child rubbed his swollen eyes, and finally made a choked voice, "She thinks I'm troublesome and doesn't want me anymore." ”

Zhu Xiang patted the child's head and said, "It's not you who is in trouble, it's her who is in trouble." Your grandmother is not a good person, don't suspect yourself for the bad things she has done. I was also lost by her, and it wasn't the first time she had done such a thing. ”

The child did not speak.

Zhu Xiang originally wanted to use his own experience to comfort this child who finally realized that he had been abandoned. But maybe the child was too young to understand Zhu Xiang's comfort, and his expression couldn't show that he was comforted by Zhu Xiang.

Zhu Xiang had a headache. He didn't know how to comfort the child, who was much younger than when he was discarded.

Fortunately, after a while, Lin Zhen returned to the carriage, breaking the awkward atmosphere in the carriage.

"They've been gone for three or four days, and I've sent someone to find the man." Lin Zhen said, "It took three or four days to throw the child at your door, she really felt sorry for the child." We'll go back first, and I'll tell you when we have further news. ”

Zhu Xiang hung his head and said, "Thank you, it's troublesome." ”

Lin Zhen patted Zhu Xiang's shoulder: "What are you polite to me?" You're really welcome, next time I come to your house to eat meat. ”

Zhu Xiang barely squeezed out a smile: "Okay, you don't have to bring meat, eat my family." ”

Lin Yi said happily: "It's decided." ”

He looked at the child in Zhu Xiang's arms: "Do you want to adopt him?" ”

Zhu Xiang sighed: "When I saw him, I always remembered me at that time." I asked Yuki, and if Yuki agreed to adopt, I would adopt it, and it was based on Yuki's feelings. ”

Lin Zhen smiled: "Other families focus on the inheritance of their offspring, you are so strange." ”

Zhu Xiang said: "I've always been very strange, have you only found out now?" ”

Lin Zhen said: "I found it a long time ago." It's just a little weird, so let's change it. "For example, I value other people's lives too much, and I don't even want to go to the battlefield.

Zhu Xiang smiled bitterly: "Change, must change, is changing." ”

Lin Zhen laughed again.

Zhu Xiang sighed.

After Lin Zhen finished laughing, he comforted: "Although you can only become an official if you change those strange places, but it's okay if you don't change, my father and I can protect you, and it's not bad for you to be like this now." ”

Zhu Xiang only smiled bitterly and said thank you, but didn't say much.

He adjusted his position of holding the child in his arms. The child closed his eyes again, as if he was tired of crying.

Lin Zhen looked at the child in Zhu Xiang's arms, his eyes were full of pity: "If Xue doesn't want to raise him, I will take him home today to raise him temporarily, and slowly find him an adoptive family, so as not to quarrel between your husband and wife." ”

Zhu Xiang muttered: "Xue and I never quarrel." ”

Lin Zhen sneered: "Yes, Xue's voice is a little higher, and you start to apologize only to your promises, and you don't have any courage at all." ”

Zhu Xiang shut up and pretended not to hear.

When returning to the city, there are not many vehicles on the road, so the speed is faster.

Snow had been waiting at the door, dressed and shoe-soling, and when she heard the sound of the carriage, she threw away her needlework and stepped forward to greet her.

Seeing Zhu Xiang coming down with the child in her arms, her face immediately turned dark.

"When we arrived, the spring flowers had been gone for several days." After Zhu Xiang entered the door, he briefly informed Xue of the matter.

Lin Zhen knew that Zhu Xiang was probably about to lose face in front of Xue again, so in order not to embarrass his friends, he deliberately avoided it, and waited in the carriage outside the door for Zhu Xiang and Xue to discuss before calling him.

Xue frowned: "Then?" ”

"Then, then ......" Zhu Xiang said with a smile, "I think this child is quite pitiful, can we ......?"

Before Zhu Xiang finished speaking, he was interrupted by Xue in a loud voice: "Love! Do you remember what Chunhua used to do? Father and mother died of exhaustion, you also fell ill with grief, she actually took away all the belongings of the family and left, and the father and mother were not filial to you. is so unfilial and unfilial, you still have to raise her son?! ”

Zang Shu is a cheap term for slaves and maids, and it is a very vulgar swear word in this era.

Xue was so angry that he cursed, and Zhu Xiang, who was covering the ears of the child in his arms, immediately nodded and apologized: "It's my fault, it's my fault, don't be angry." Ordinary people say that my nephew Uncle Xiao, he looks too much like me, and he is discarded like me, so I can't help but empathize...... If we don't raise it, we don't raise the children of Chunhua, so I'll let Lin Li take him away......"

Before Zhu Xiang finished speaking, Xue grabbed Zhu Xiang's arm: "Wait, what nephew Uncle Xiao?" Is there such a statement? ”

"Ah, there is." Zhu Xiang was stunned and explained, "The child is a piece of meat that fell from the biological mother's body, and it should look similar to the biological mother." It's just that there is a difference between men and women, and unless a boy or a girl looks, the child must look more like his biological mother's half-brother. ”

"Let me take a closer look." Xue snatched the child from Zhu Xiang's arms, and carefully examined the child's face for the first time.

Before she learned that the child was born to Chunhua, she had always been disgruntled, and she didn't take a good look at the child's appearance.

The child was forced to look directly at the snow and looked frightened.

"Like, indeed." Snow's expression softened.

She put the child on the ground, squatted on the ground and looked up and down carefully again, and turned the child around a few times.

The child looked at Zhu Xiang for help.