Foster son and husband

Chapter 301 The Xia Family (End)

After getting along for more than a month, Xia Lin became more and more reluctant to part with this accompanying little brother. The two always had endless conversations. Sometimes they sat on the bed facing each other across the wooden screen, chatting until midnight.Qin Li obviously read a lot of books, but he couldn't practice it. It was a good time to meet Xia Lin, who had traveled all over the place since he was a child, and he could ask endless questions.Sometimes it is lively and cheerful, sometimes it is quiet and well-behaved, when it gets mischievous, it makes Wangcai go round and round. When it is in a good mood, it can squat in the stern of the boat for a long time, teach the boy who boils water to practice writing, and write his first and last name correctly...

Hearing Wangcai and his fellows talking about Qin Li being like a woman by chance, Xia Lin sighed secretly, remembering that she was often treated that way, even her mother would sigh and say: You are the eldest son, can you act like a real man?
Xia Lin was very helpless. Could it be that he was not born by his mother, was it a boy whose mother didn't know?In addition to being more feminine, where did you lose your responsibility?He asked himself that he had not insulted his eldest son status.

From childhood to adulthood, he also practiced martial arts and Qi with his father. In the end, due to his weak body and weak foundation, he was no better than his younger brother who was two years younger. But he has been working hard. Let's go, at the age of 15, he has already achieved quite a lot in medical skills. This time his father went out and did not return. He took over the medicinal materials in Mao County to replace his naughty younger brother who broke his leg.That's right, it's because he is not good at learning martial arts and lacks strength, if his younger brother came, he wouldn't be injured like this, but no one is perfect, right?
Qin Li is young, quick-witted but innocent, he will not come out for committing crimes, no matter what the reason he fell out with his family, since he is out, he should take the opportunity to travel around, this is for a boy Very important.Xia Lin liked Qin Li for no reason, felt that he was a bit like herself, and was willing to help him in this favor, to help him navigate the rivers and lakes, and believed that one day he would think of going home.

When the fleet docked at the shore, Steward Wang came to Xia Lin with a smile and said, "Young Master, the master and wife are here to greet you in person!"

Xia Lin hurriedly said: "Help me off the boat quickly—you are meddlesome, and you all said not to write about encountering bandits, so your parents have been worrying about it for a long time!"

"Hey, the old slave also asked them to write a book to save the day. The master and wife just miss the young master!"

Xia Lin turned back to look for Qin Li: "Brother, come, I will take you to meet my parents!"

Kindly backed away: "No need, brother Xia? I'll get off the boat and leave later..."

Retreating to Wangcai, Wangcai pulled her over and handed her over to Xia Lin: "How can I do that? Take our boat to Jinling, at least say a word of thanks to the Patriarch?"

Xia Lin held Meiyi's hand, and Gordon's heart skipped a beat: Qin Li also helped him after being together for more than a month, but it was through the clothes, the two had never had such intimate contact, Qin Li's hand was soft and moist , a very comfortable feeling - he couldn't help but glared at Wangcai, he was just a rough man, he would pull people at will, regardless of whether they wanted it or not.

Without showing any signs of expression, Meiyi pulled her hand away, and instead helped Xia Lin to sit on the sedan chair, and said with a smile: "Wangcai is right, I am not polite. Then I will pay my respects, I really should treat your father Say thank you!"

"You are welcome, you are my friend, just to meet my parents!"

Qin Li is going to Lingnan, Xia Lin's father has been there in the early years, Xia Lin wants Qin Li to meet his father, his father will tell Qin Li some local customs, if Qin Li is willing to live in Xia's house for a while, wait Xia Lin recovered from his injury, so he can take a walk with him.

No one expected that when they met on the pier, Father Xia didn't even look at his son, he just stared at Meiyi's face, and only after a while did he ask quietly:
"Is it kindness? How are your parents?"

Meiyi stared at the elegant and kind middle-aged man in front of her with wide eyes, and suddenly guessed who he was, she was struck by lightning and collapsed instantly: Xia Lin's surname is Xia, and the fleet is going to Jiangnan, she thought of what her parents said , The uncle of the Xia family who came here to guard their sisters' birth, also heard something about Lingxuzi from Uncle Jingyun, and seriously asked Ming Xialin's family to live in Jinling City, but Lingxuzi's home is in Changzhou, Jiangnan Ah, why did he come to Jinling?

Xia Lin's explanation to Meiyi is: Xia's family has a wide range of industries, and most of the medicine halls and shops are in Jinling City. Changzhou is where the Xia family's old house and family ancestral hall are located. Xia Lin's four brothers and sisters were all born in Jinling City.

Without any explanation, Meiyi couldn't get away and was taken back to Xia's house. News from the capital had already spread to Jinling. Xia Lin saw Meiyi take off the mask and reveal another gorgeous face, which made him almost faint in shock: he didn't know that someone used a mask, But this mask is too good to be seen at all. Although they live in the same room, he never goes to see how Meiyi washes up, so...

Meiyi knelt in front of the hall and saluted Lingxuzi and his wife Wu again: "Meiyi sends greetings to Uncle Xia and Aunt Xia!"

Xia Wu received her obeisance, then stood up to help her up, stroked her face with her hand, looked left and right, full of liking, she is a slightly plump woman with good fortune, with a gentle smile, soft-spoken, and kind words Listening to it, it takes a while to digest it before I understand:

"Good boy, the more I look at it, the more I like it. Well done, I'm home now!"

Looking back at Lingxuzi, he said in the local dialect: "Master, I haven't forgotten that when you came back from Beijing, you mentioned to me: The Xu family gave birth to two girls. At that time, our Xia Lin was more than two years old, and Xia Jiang was born not long ago. Xu Houye beat his in-laws, Xu Houye said: The child is still young. You are still angry when you get home, saying that he looks down on us country people... Why are you angry? Didn’t you come by yourself? Go back to the capital?"

"Look at you, in front of the children, you're talking nonsense about disappearing!"

Lingxuzi scolded his wife lightly, but brought kindness into the study, asked his wife for a while before he came out, asked his wife to take kindness to change clothes, glanced at the eldest son who was standing outside the study door despite his leg injury, and waved Calling him into the house, Xia Jiang, Xia Jiang, daughters Xia Ke and Xia Rui behind Xia Lin also wanted to follow, but he waved them away.

The father and son sat in the study and had a conversation:
"Why did you take her on board? You know she's a girl and you like her?"

"From her demeanor and the horse she was riding on, the child guessed that she was a son of your family. She just wanted to be friends with her, but she didn't realize that she was a woman! But the child really liked her, because she... the child just liked her! If the mother said The words are true, I beg my father to fulfill my promise, and don't send her back!"

"Xia Lin, it is right for you to come back with kindness, lest she fall into the wrong hands. It is not so easy to marry the Xu family! Weiyuanhou, now is Rong Guogong, an important minister of the court, kindness is A noble lady, how could she easily agree to a family like us! Do you know why she ran away from home? She was a childhood sweetheart with the prince, and everyone thought she would be the princess, but the prince got married, and she was not married. She was welcomed into the palace as the concubine of the crown prince, and she ran away with a very tragic method - throwing herself into the river! Many people thought that she was bound to die, but her parents and family believed that she was not dead, and Rong Guogong's men were still looking for her Your Uncle Zhang also believed that she would not die, so he sent me a letter, and after I received the letter, I immediately arranged for people to search everywhere, but I didn’t expect that it would take no effort at all, and I let you bring it back.”

Xia Lin lowered his head and remained silent for a while, then raised his eyes to look at Lingxuzi: "Father, my child has been able to read and read since childhood, mostly medical books. You said that being an official is boring, and my child doesn't want to be an official, so I don't ask more about court affairs, no I understand how powerful families get along, but Haier doesn’t think that Meiyi has to marry the right family to live well. She doesn’t necessarily like that, otherwise she won’t run away from home! It’s the flood season, but Meiyi risked throwing herself into the river The child guessed that she and the prince might be really good, and there should be an oath between them, but the prince betrayed her, and he was kind and arrogant and refused to be a side concubine. The past is donated to a river of water... The original kindness is dead! The current kindness has nothing to do with the prince, or even the Xu family. She is just an ordinary woman who lives outside and does not know who her parents are. Picked it up on the forest road! Father, I don't want to let her go!"

Lingxuzi looked at his son: "Just say this in front of my father! Our Xia family has been prosperous for generations, and we live in peace. In fact, we have to rely on the officials to maintain it. But in the past, there were housekeepers to take care of it. You don't know much... ...You can say that, think about it this way, you should really like Meiyi, and you should be the master for yourself. My father knew her parents when she was young, and Meiyi looks like her mother. Mrs. Xu is a strange woman with a gentle temperament on the surface. She is very strong in her bones, and she is not easy to convince others. As a father, she does not know what kind of girl she is, but like a mother, like a daughter, there is usually no mistake. Do you think you can subdue her? What if she doesn't like you? ?”

Xia Lin recalled the scene of getting along with Meiyi day and night on the boat for more than a month, with a faint blush on her face, Meiyi, she is actually a very reasonable girl, especially when he used his knowledge to solve her doubts, she was full of admiration and did not hide it The admiration in his eyes made his heart warm. Fortunately, he didn't know she was a girl at the time...

"Father, the child will accompany her patiently. Wherever she goes, the child will go with her. I believe she will also like the child. On the boat, the child will share the same room with her, and she will listen to the child very much!"

Lingxuzi took a sip of tea: "What? You, you actually live in the same room?"

Xia Lin was very calm: "It's nothing, we share the same interests, and we have a lot to say, so we live together... Our beds are separated!"

"You, you are really ignorant! Who cares how you separate them? Living in the same room, this one is enough to destroy her innocence, let alone you have lived together for so long!"

"Yes! We'll live together! As long as the child has good intentions, good intentions can only marry the child!"

Lingxuzi stared blankly at the eldest son who was growing up day by day. His face and posture resembled his own when he was young. He thought of Zhang Jingyun for no reason, and couldn't help sighing:

"Sure enough, you will be fearsome in life, but you are braver than a certain person, and much luckier than him!"

One month later, the Xu family in the capital city received a letter from the Xia family in the south of the Yangtze River. The content was as follows: Meiyi fell into the river and was rescued by a merchant ship. He took care of him and brought him back to Jinling. His brain was damaged because of good intentions, and he didn't remember who he was at all. He only recognized Xia Lin as one person. As the daughter of the Xu family, she received a letter from Jingyun again, so she hurriedly wrote to report her safety.Xia's medical hall is doing its best to treat Meiyi, and she is no longer in danger of life, but to cure her, her master Wei Zhenren needs to take her to the south immediately to find medicine. Xia Lin is willing to accompany her. After Xu's daughter, today she still does not change her original intention, hoping to agree to the marriage of her children.

Meimei was really relieved when she received the letter. She discussed with Xu Junying about going to Jiangnan to see her daughter, but seeing Lingxuzi's letter saying that Meiyi had gone to Lingnan with Wei Zhenren and Xia Lin to find medicine, she had no choice but to give up. Because of the matter of Meijuan, she couldn't get away for a while, so she hurriedly wrote back and asked the housekeeper of Xu's mansion to personally send it to Xia's house in Jiangnan. As for the marriage of the two children, Meimei was willing. I heard Zhang Jingyun said that Xia's family The children are all excellent, especially the eldest son Xia Lin, who is smart, wise, gentle and honest, which is very good. With a father like Lingxuzi, his son will not be so bad.But she deliberately left Xu Junying to make the decision. Her daughter is dependent on other people's children and has moved to other people's homes. What else is there to say?Although Xu Junying was reluctant, she had no choice but to agree. Lingxuzi knew a long time ago that everything was handled by the Jiangnan Xia family. When the kindness came back from the south, the Xu family would bring the dowry and go to Jiangnan to visit his in-laws and daughter-in-law .

The Xia family and his wife were afraid that the Xu family would come to Jiangnan to see their daughter immediately. In order to create opportunities for Xia Lin and let him spend more time getting to know Meiyi, they did not wait for Xia Lin to recover from his injury or to reply to the letter from the capital. Under the arrangement, his master Wei Zhenzhen really came, brought Xia Lin and Meiyi, and traveled southward in the name of seeking medicine, and went to Liuzhou in Lingnan to satisfy Meiyi's wish, and really found Cen Guiquan for her. As her own niece, she left a group of people living in Lingnan for nearly half a year, and traveled to various places within a radius of a hundred miles, and then reluctantly let her go.Then Lao Dao took his two children to Yelang, Yundian and other places, looking for medicine and visiting friends, sometimes in deep mountains and dense forests, sometimes living in cities and towns, and wandering back in all directions. It took a year and a half, and Lingxuzi was amazed when he saw the beauty again , just like Qin Meiniang back then!And his son Xia Lin has also grown taller, much stronger.

For a year and a half, Xia Lin accompanied Mei Yi, and they were inseparable. The two gradually transitioned from the congenial love when they first met to a tacit understanding. They knew each other and fell in love. When she was the first choice for comfort and protection, she silently acquiesced in a fact: she was no longer sad for the prince, and Xia Lin was the most real and precious in her mind.

Taking advantage of the fact that Wei Zhenren was still willing to live in Xia's house in the countryside of Changzhou, Lingxuzi and Xia Wu took out the marriage certificates they had prepared, and started to hold a wedding banquet for the two children.It was half a year later when Xu Junying and Meimei learned that their daughter had returned to Xia's house in Jiangnan from Lingnan, and brought the children by boat.

At this time, Meiyi has grown into an adult, like a blooming lotus flower, bright and beautiful, becoming the bride of the Xia family, leaning happily and sweetly on the side of her husband Xia Lin to welcome her parents, brothers and sisters, Xia Lin supported Meiyi, overlooking the river Getting on the big boat that came slowly, I was a little impatient. I stood there for a long time. Is my wife tired?Unable to help stretching out their hands to caress Meiyi's lower abdomen, the couple looked at each other and smiled: They were just diagnosed, and there is a little life that needs to be cherished forever is quietly conceived...

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