Come Back to Gusu

60. Wang ShuChang Interrupts: Gege... I'm hungry.

Three years later, Jin ZiXuan asked his brothers-in-law to meet with him. "A'Yu is not cooperating."

"Of course he isn't," Jiang WanYin smirked.

Wei WuXian simply unplugged a jar of wine and elected to drink straight from the jar instead of dirtying a cup.

"It's past time he came home," the Jin sect leader declared and followed Wie WuXian's actions and drank from his own jar of wine. "He's a Jin. He has responsibilities."

"Jin?" Jiang WanYin scoffed. "His name is Mo XuanYu. Surname Mo. Is his courtesy name ZiYu? Agree with me, Wei WuXian."

"Agree with you about what?"

"Agree that Mo XuanYu should be allowed to stay at Lotus Pier as my disciple."

Wei WuXian looked sideways at his sect brother. "Stay at Lotus Pier? Since when? He's been teaching at Dreamland for at least two years now. He's the best disciple I have for taking juniors out on their first night hunts."

"He's not either of yours disciple," Jin ZiXuan stated and burped loudly. "That was embarrassing. He was loaned out to YunmengJiang to avoid bullying. Loaned. He needs to come home."

"A'Yu is not a book," Wei WuXian scolded. "You can't loan a person out."

"Fine." Jin ZiXuan upended his jar into his mouth simultaneously grabbing a second."

"Is everything alright with you?" Wei WuXian was not normally impressed with the other's ability to drink; this was unusual.

"A'Li is pregnant again. I thought we were done having children. Then one of her maids had a baby and A'Li just started crying. What can a good husband do, but make his wife happy and give her another baby? Except," he sloshed his wine jar in emphasis. "Except this one is making her miserable. She can't keep food down before wei shi. Everything hurts and it's all my fault for giving into her demands. Anyway," he took another swig. "Send my brother home."

"Wei WuXian," the Jiang sect leader whined. "Give my disciple back to me."

Wei WuXian looked at his brother's hands and noticed they were empty? "Why aren't you drinking? Are you trying to get us drunk so you can out logic us? Drink." His eyes narrowed until the other unstoppered a jar and drank the whole thing.

"Make the decision," Jiang WanYin demanded.

Wei WuXian grabbed a new jar. "Mo XuanYu is old enough to make his own decisions. Ask him where he wants to go."

Unsurprisingly, that was not a popular answer. The young man thought about it for a while. "My mother's sister is quite ill and likely to die in a few months. Her son married up and lives with his wife on her family's property. I was thinking I could persuade my aunt to leave the Mo estate to me and I could start my own clan."

Wei WuXian rubbed his eyes in a fruitless attempt to stop his head from pounding. "You want to what?"

"What the fuck are you thinking?" Jiang WanYin roared.

"You're not coming home?" Jin ZiXuan sounded lost and lonely.

"I've found a man I'm going to marry and we're going to start our own clan in my mother's house," Mo XuanYu affirmed.

~*~

The following year, Wei WuXian found himself sitting in his Great Hall listening to two minor clan leaders argue over a goat. A goat! The goat in question was part of a dowry from one to the other, but it was eaten along the way. The one was saying he shouldn't have to replace something eaten when it was no longer in his control, and the other was insisting that a new goat be replaced. "Why are you asking me about this?" He could feel a headache coming on. "You don't even live in Yunmeng."