The black-bellied peasant girl is reborn, and her weird relatives are mad
Chapter 360 Cao's Death
The front yard was a scene of joy and happiness. After Tang Zhongbai and his brother greeted the officials present, they changed their serious and solemn attitude, came to a table in the corner with a relaxed smile on their faces, and sat down calmly.
He refilled his glass, raised both hands, and said loudly: "Brother Cao, Brother Lu, Brother Jiang, and Brother Yin, I toast to you. You can do whatever you want, I'll drink it." After that, he raised his head and drank it all in one gulp.
Everyone present followed suit and drank a glass.
Cao Jun'an stood up and filled the glasses of everyone present, then stood up and said, "I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Brother Tang and Brother Jiang for pleading for me last night. Qinghuanju was spared from being closed down. I'll drink it." Without waiting for others to react, he tilted his head back and drank the whole glass, then turned the glass upside down and placed it on the table.
Tang Zhongbai and Jiang Pizi took a sip and put down their cups.
At this time, Tang San came in from outside and went straight to Tang Zhongbai. He walked to his side and whispered in his ear.
Tang Zhongbai nodded, a smile in his eyes, and invited everyone to drink and eat.
"Why? Brother Tang is worried about Miss Jiang, afraid that she will be wronged!" Cao Jun'an teased him, "Tang Lao Er, Tang Lao Er, I can see it. Ever since you got Miss Jiang, we brothers are no longer in your eyes."
"Alas, I am sad that I value women over friends!" Cao Jun'an poured himself a drink and in a blink of an eye, he had finished three cups.
The others exchanged glances and understood what he was worried about.
"Brother Cao, have you ever considered letting Miss Liu be your concubine?" Tang Zhongbai asked him cautiously.
Cao Jun'an's cheeks flushed, his eyes were a little blurry, and he pointed at Tang Zhongbai and said dissatisfiedly, "Nonsense, I waited for so many years just to make her my concubine? I met her when I was fifteen, and it's been five years. She has been with me for five years, without any name or status, but without any complaints. Just because she came from a brothel, those old stubborn people looked down on her and tried their best to stop her. Why? I am the one who is marrying a wife, not them."
He seemed to be drunk, and his speech was a little incoherent. He used the alcohol to vent his emotions and vent out his frustration in front of his brothers.
He refused to marry for many years because he was fighting against his family. He couldn't marry the one he liked, but his family would force the one they liked into his house. This was also the reason why he lived in the county town for many years, guarding these two properties of his own, being self-reliant, not having to look at the attitude of his family, and being able to be with the girl he liked all the time.
"Then why are you still hesitating? You have your own property, so you don't have to worry about your livelihood. You can bypass your hometown and get married here. What can they do to you? I think it's either you don't want to marry someone else's girl, or you don't want to give up your family's property. You're afraid that your hometown will be angry and you'll be kicked out, and you won't be able to live a life of luxury and debauchery anymore."
"You're talking nonsense again." Cao Jun'an stood up shakily, pointed his finger at Tang Zhongbai, and cursed: "You don't understand those people in my hometown. If I really did this, they wouldn't just kick me out, they would cut Xu'er into pieces. They are cruel and ruthless, and they can do it. I'm not like you. My parents are sensible and support all your choices."
"Bah, you are just being pretentious." Tang Zhongbai didn't want to pay attention to him anymore. In his heart, he still looked down on him. He couldn't even protect his own woman and was just a good-for-nothing.
"Tang Si, come here." Tang Zhongbai waved towards the courtyard gate.
Drinking to drown his sorrows only made him more sorrowful. He was really drunk.
"Second son."
"Lord Cao is drunk. Take him to my yard to sober him up."
"Yes."
Cao Jun'an was mumbling something and holding onto the corner of the table, refusing to leave. Tang Si forcibly pulled him away and helped him walk out.
Tang Zhongbai suddenly remembered something and hurriedly got up and chased after him.
He looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to them. He lowered his voice and asked in Cao Jun'an's ear: "I know you are not drunk. I just want to ask you one question. Lou is from your Cao family. Do you want to deal with it or should I?"
Cao Jun'an rolled his eyes at him and deliberately said, "What did you say? What does it have to do with me? Just do whatever you want and don't tell me anything."
Tang Zhongbai understood, nodded, and let Tang Si support him and slowly walked towards Qingsong Courtyard.
After Cao Junan left, the atmosphere at the table became much more relaxed.
The moon was at its zenith and the wine was half drunk. The men had work to do the next day and just wanted to finish early and go home to rest.
Therefore, after eating and drinking, they all got up and said goodbye.
Tang Zhongbai sent someone to the backyard to ask his mother, saying that it was almost time and they could disperse.
At this time, there was a lot of bustle in front of the mansion, with people coming and going.
Some officials who came with their families would wait for their wives at the door and return home together.
At this moment, a sharp scream came from the direction of the waterside pavilion in the side yard of the mansion. Someone at the gate of the mansion heard the sound and thought that he had drunk too much and fell asleep. He held his breath and listened carefully, but there was no more movement.
He immediately smiled bitterly and shook his head, wondering who would dare to cause trouble in the prefect's mansion.
Tang Shiyan heard it all clearly, his heart skipped a beat, and he called for people to go to the backyard to check.
Before the servant he sent had run far, he saw Qinghong running to the gate of the mansion, panting.
"What happened?" Tang Shiyan asked loudly with a serious face.
"Master, please go and take a look. Madam Lou has died of the poison."
Qinghong's face turned pale, and her voice was trembling. She couldn't figure it out. It was clearly Cao who pushed her into the river. After finally pulling her out, the lady was about to scold Cao for her domineering behavior.
Cao fell to the ground in pain, pinching her neck. She trembled for a moment, closed her eyes, and died.
The ladies present were so frightened that they screamed and retreated away.
It was Jiang Muxia who reacted quickly and kept the ladies behind, waiting for the executioner to arrive and make a judgment before letting them go.
"What?" The officials followed Tang Shiyan and quickly went to the waterside pavilion to check the situation.
Tang Zhongbai ran to the waterside pavilion before them, and what he was worried about happened. Their guess was right, the remnants of King Ling had already reached into their house. They had framed someone for murder.
The death of a man at the Tang family's Mid-Autumn Festival banquet was in any case related to their family. The key point was that Tang Shiyan and Lou Xiaofeng were in harmony on the surface, but they were fighting openly and secretly behind the scenes. The Lou family was a big family in Chenliu County and had occupied the county town for hundreds of years. Before Tang Shiyan was transferred here, the Lou family was the one in power in the government office.
When he came, the Lou family had to retreat to the second line. Therefore, Tang Shiyan, who had just arrived in Chenliu, encountered endless obstacles in political affairs. All the capable people he brought with him were arranged to serve in various counties to disperse the power of the Lou family. Otherwise, how could he let a villain like Feng Nian serve in Suanzao County for more than ten years, knowing that he had done many evil things but not being able to remove him.
Now that Lou Xiaofeng's wife has died in the mansion, he will definitely take the opportunity to make a big deal out of it and throw dirty water on him.
The waterside pavilion was in sight, and I saw a group of women gathered at the entrance of the pavilion. A woman in red was lying on a small table at the end of the pavilion, motionless. She was indeed dead.
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