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Chapter Eighteen

"Be serious!" He Zhenwei shouted softly and continued: "We, the Third Young Master of Qiantang, think you are a nice person and we hit it off, so we wanted to ask if you would like to join us."

"Join you? Change your name to Qiantang Fourth Young Master?" Xiao Fan teased.

"Yes!" the three of them said in unison.

"What good will it do me to call myself a brother to you, the Three Idiots of Qiantang, ah, the Third Young Master of Qiantang?"

"You can gain our friendship!" This is Ning Liheng.

Chai Zongliang, who was standing in the middle of the three, glanced at the two on the left and right, nodded, turned to Xiao Fan and said: "We can also let you be the eldest brother!"

"You want to recognize me as your eldest brother?"

"Yes!" The three of them nodded in unison, their voices firm.

"Hey..." Xiao Fan crossed his arms and stroked his chin with one hand, thinking: Why do these three weirdos want to recognize me as their eldest brother? Do I have the aura of a king?

Seeing that Xiao Fan didn't speak, the three of them looked at each other and assumed that he had acquiesced. They clasped their fists together and said, "Brother!"

"Don't worry yet," Xiao Fan organized: "First tell me why you want to recognize me as your eldest brother?"

He Zhenhua hurriedly said: "Of course it's because, eldest brother, you are so talented and handsome, so talented in literature, so wise and powerful, and so wise and brave!"

Although I don’t know how to tell other things about the other party besides being talented and beautiful, Xiao Fan likes to listen, and what he says is true, right?

Xiao Fan cleared his throat and said seriously: "That's good, is there anything else?"

"What we admire most is brother, your ability to attract young ladies. Doesn't Mrs. Song fall in love with you at first sight?" Seeing that the other two were speechless, Chai Zongliang said hurriedly, and after speaking, he gestured to the two beside him:

"You think so?"

The two people on the side nodded quickly and said, "Ah, yes, yes!"

"Okay! Since you want to recognize me as your eldest brother so much, then I will recognize you brothers, but..."

"But what?" The three of them stared at Xiao Fan and said in unison.

"But this name needs to be changed. The Four Young Masters of Qiantang are too vulgar. If people spread it, they think we are some dandies! We have to change it!"

When the three of them saw that Xiao Fan didn't like the name Qiantang Fourth Young Master, they looked at each other and asked, "Brother, what do you want your name to be?"

Upon seeing this, Xiao Fan looked at the three of them and asked, "Are you all afraid of your own wife?"

"Yeah, yeah!" The three of them nodded in agreement, but immediately denied it: "We are not afraid of Madam, we love her, and it's not just the three of us. Brother Xiao, you are the same as us!"

"Are you dreaming of reviving your husband?"

"Hmm!" After sensing something was wrong, the three of them looked at Xiao Fan with disdain: "Huh?"

Xiao Fan felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by the three men. He coughed lightly and said, "So we must revive our husband!"

"Yeah, yeah!" The three of them crossed their arms in front of their chests and nodded in agreement.

"So we have to choose a louder name. We want to be the wife's god and let them know what it means to respect your husband! It doesn't matter if others look down on us, we have to think highly of ourselves!"

The three people's eyes lit up when they heard Xiao Fan's words. They knew that this was what they had always wanted.

"So," Xiao Fan looked at each other and shouted: "From now on, the names of the four of us will be - the four self-respecting brothers! How about it? Isn't it very impressive?"

"Supreme? Isn't that good? If you break a taboo, don't get slapped with a lawsuit!" He Zhenhua, who comes from a family of officials, is quite sensitive to this.

"It's the self-respect of self-respect and self-love, not the 'supreme' official!" Xiao Fan said indifferently.

"That's too vulgar, worse than the Fourth Young Master of Qiantang!" He Zhenhua curled his lips and said.

"What is vulgar? Just tell me if it has momentum!" After Xiao Fan finished speaking, he looked at the three of them expressionlessly and said, "I've finished speaking. Who agrees and who opposes?"

Ning Liheng: "I agree!"

Chai Zongliang: “I agree too!”

"I object!" He Zhenwei said loudly.

"Um?"

Looking at Xiao Fan's scrutinizing eyes, He Zhenwei immediately said: "Okay, I agree."

After the unanimous vote passed, Xiao Fan was very happy and immediately said: "Okay, I declare that from now on, the four of us will be the 'four self-respecting brothers'!"

"From now on, we will call each other," the four people looked at each other and shouted in unison: "Four self-respecting brothers!"

Other pedestrians on the road turned their heads curiously after hearing this, and then suddenly realized that it was these people! That's not surprising.

"What are they looking at?" Xiao Fan asked the three of them strangely.

All three of them shook their heads to indicate that it was nothing, and told Xiao Fan not to think nonsense.

Xiao Fan didn't think much about it. He and the three of them left each other the address of the residence and left.

After Xiao Fan left, the remaining three people gathered together again.

"Are we really going to call these the 'Four Self-Respecting Brothers' from now on?" He Zhenhua asked the two of them.

Ning Liheng saw that He Zhenhua was not happy, so he said, "Didn't we say everything is fine? I tell you, you are not allowed to go back on your word!"

"I'm not going back on my word," He Zhenhua denied, "And isn't it a bit embarrassing to do this to Brother Xiao?"

"There is nothing wrong with us. Since he has become our eldest brother, he has to shoulder this responsibility, right?" Chai Zongliang said directly: "And 'a dead Taoist friend will never die a poor Taoist', right? And didn't he tell us about his sister-in-law before?

Aren’t you going to live with him now?”

After making eye contact, the three of them encouraged each other firmly and decisively: "Yes!"

"What are these three weirdos planning?" After the three of them left, Xiao Fan jumped down from the wall where the three of them were standing and muttered to himself.

In the end, Xiao Fan, who really couldn't figure it out, just didn't bother to think about it anymore. Forget it, he wanted to see what tricks these three weird flowers could do. At worst, the soldiers would come to cover up the water and the earth!

On the way home, Xiao Fan recalled what Song Yinzhang had said.

"I am a pipa player from Hangzhou Leying."

"Sister Pan'er and I grew up together."

"Sister Pan'er is very kind to me and always protects me."

Xiao Fan combined these words and remembered something that he had never noticed before.

Xiao Fan slapped himself when he thought of this. He was so stupid. He secretly hated himself for not thinking of it before.

Previously, Xiao Fan thought that Zhao Pan'er rejected her because she did not believe Xiao Fan's amnesia and felt that he would not tell the truth to her.

Or maybe it's because she thinks Xiao Fan won't like her woman doing business in public.

She even felt that the time the two of them were together was too short and didn't want things to progress so quickly.

But there is one thing that he has never thought of, or it is something that as a modern person, he will subconsciously ignore it. That is the distinction between high and low, the distinction between high and low at the legal level.

In modern times, no matter how rich and powerful you are, no matter how superior you think you are, it cannot change the fact that everyone is a citizen, at least legally everyone is equal.

In modern society, even if people have different statuses, they are at least equal in terms of personality and social status.

But this is not a modern society, it is the Song Dynasty, a feudal society, where people are strictly divided into three or nine classes at the legal level.

To be humble is to be humble, to be inferior to others, and to be looked down upon by everyone.

Just like Song Yinzhang, when he admires you, you are a Jiangnan pipa master. When he belittles you, he only needs to say that you are a bitch and a bitch. No matter how capable you are, you will be crushed into the mud by this sentence.

Moreover, they have to be strictly controlled by the music camp. If they return late, they will be scolded at the least, and slapped at the worst.

Even if a person with a low status renounces his status and becomes a good person, he still has to be criticized by others. Although he is freer than before he had not left his country, the stain of his former low status is a stain that can never be washed away.

That's why Zhao Pan'er didn't dare to accept Xiao Fan, because sooner or later he would regain his memory or be found by his family. And it was impossible for a son of a powerful person to marry a businesswoman who had left her country and became a good businesswoman as his wife.

But with Zhao Pan'er's temperament, she could not accept being a concubine who could be abandoned at any time.

After all, among the scholar-bureaucrats, many people used concubines to receive guests, or even gave them away directly. After all, concubines were nothing more than goods in the eyes of some people.

Among them, the most famous one that Xiao Fan knew was Su Dabeard, who was not yet born. Although the authenticity of Su Dabeard's story needs to be verified, it was indeed popular among scholar-bureaucrats to give away concubines.

After thinking about all this, I ran home happily. I didn't bother to say hello to other people and ran into the room alone to plan what I should say to Zhao Pan'er tomorrow.

Outside the door, Jia Quan was thinking about his official who would grin to the back of his head when he came back. When he was about to go up to say hello, he was coaxed aside, and then he saw his official locking him in the room.

"What's going on, officer?" Jia Quan asked Xiao Zhao.

"I don't know, but looking at the master's happy look, it should be a good thing."

"Forget it, it's getting late, let's go and rest."
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