Yangcheng

Seeing the elder sister and the fourth younger sister enjoying themselves here, Tong Shaoqian, who was not yet married, was a little bit speechless.

Not long after she came back, she heard that Abai had moved out of Tong's Mansion for a while.

A Bai found a house in another workshop and temporarily rented it out. On weekdays, he often helped the women of various aristocratic families choose accessories and dress up.

The grand gathering in the first month of next year and the various spring feasts will be important days for noble ladies to compete for beauty.

They must start preparations now, and only then will they have the possibility to overwhelm the crowd.

This is a very traditional and extremely important way to show one's identity among women in Da Cang.

So in Boling, a makeup artist who can lead the fashion and make the women of the family stand out is very hot.

Undoubtedly, the most famous makeup artist in Boling Mansion this year is the former Bai Erniang and now Bai Zhaochu.

Ah Bai is so busy that he never touches the ground, and his reputation has risen.

Her name has already reached Tong Shaoqian's ears.

very nice.

Tong Shaoqian is very happy for Abai, after all, this is Abai's dream all along.

She finally found what she wanted to do, and moved forward smoothly on the road to fame and fortune.

And after Tong Shaoqian returned to Beijing, he also received many invitations to family banquets from wealthy families, and he couldn't even attend Maominglou when he was busy.

Tang Jianwei asked the third sister to concentrate on her own business, and she can completely handle Maominglou.

Not only the Maoming Building, but also the territory of Xianlai Pavilion is gradually expanding.

After Tang Jianwei came back from Zu County, it was the time when he was in full swing.

The death of her grandmother made her regretful, and she also understood that no matter whether it is an emperor or a sage throughout the ages, it is inevitable to die.

Life is short, don't waste your time, you have to do what you want to do immediately, half a point is a debt to yourself.

She took care of the Maoming Building in an orderly manner, and she really started to do the task that Wei Ci left for her before going to Zhu County - to collect the gambling house from the Wu family.

In just half a month's time, all the gambling houses in the three adjacent to Juntianfang were in her pocket.

And Shen Huiyu and Tang Fuzai continued to help her recruit elite generals.

Tang Jianwei was originally a ruthless one. After subduing the old gangs other than Cao Long who had been in decline for many years in Boling, Tang Jianwei, who held the Taiping Mansion Talisman, officially replaced Cao Long and became the Boling folk who were both black and white. new generation of overlords.

The Wu family's gambling shop business is one of the most important businesses of the Wu family. It was chased and intercepted by Tang Jianwei and dismantled. Coupled with the rise of the Tang's gambling house in Tang Jianwei's hands, a lot of business was robbed, causing the Wu family to suffer heavy losses for a while. .

What made the Wu family even worse was that the most prestigious of the Boling Wu family's direct line, Mr. Wu, who had worshiped the prime minister when the late emperor, died suddenly of a sudden illness.

The death of Mr. Wu caused the Wu family to lose their backbone.

There were some undercurrents hidden under the bright side among the direct lineages, but with the departure of Mr. Wu, they were gradually placed on the bright side without any scruples, reaching the verge of contention and division.

……

The mourning hall of the old man of the Wu family was full of people. Before Wu Xianrong entered the gate of the Wu family, he smelled a strong scent of incense and couldn't help coughing twice.

Li Zhou stood beside her and reached out to help her. She shook her head, indicating that she was fine.

She was dressed in mourning and stood at the outermost edge of the crowd.

This mansion, which she hadn't been to for a long time, once had a tall and solemn courtyard wall in her memory, but now it is crowded with people, the vegetation is withered, the pond is muddy, old, messy and dirty.

The Wu family is old.

Although Wu Xianrong didn't like what the Wu family did, but during the seven years from the age of five to 12, Yeniang was busy with political affairs and couldn't take care of the family, so she put Wu Xianyi and Wu Xianrong in Ah Weng's house to raise them.

It can be said that Wu Xianrong was raised by Ah Weng, and when Ah Weng passed away, she would naturally come to see him off for the last time.

Wu Xianrong saw Wu Xianyi standing in the middle of the crowd, surrounded by the clan's uncles, brothers and sisters, whispering something.

Wu Xianrong didn't want to go in, so he sat on the stone bench in the corner with Li Zhou, watching the bustle of the Wu family.

Wu Xianyi's Ye Niang has been busy with funerals these days, and she hasn't slept peacefully for many days. After falling asleep for less than an hour, her uncle and elders surrounded Wu Xianyi and asked her to hand over Mr. Wu's clan talisman .

"Now that the old man has passed away, your family is only a member of the third rank, so you shouldn't be in charge of the talisman of the Wu family's patriarch."

Wu Xianyi's uncle spoke sincerely to her.

The brothers and sisters on one side also echoed: "Exactly. Ah Su, you are only twenty years old, how do you know anything about clan affairs? Give the patriarchal amulet to the uncle, and he will take over the affairs of the Wu clan. Reassuring."

"Besides, you are a supervisory censor, and you have to travel to other places all year round. If something happens to your family, you will not be found."

"That is, the old man asked you to do something before, so he gave you the talisman. As a result, your third family has occupied the clan talisman for a long time. How is this in compliance with the rules?"

……

Wu Xianrong was outside the crowd, and these buzzing chatter made her laugh.

For the past 20 years or so, Wu Xianyi has only followed the principle of working for the Wu family.

For the Wu family, she gave up countless important people and things in her life, and married the Lan family like a puppet.

A person like Wu Xianyi can support the Wu family with one hand, handle so many trivial matters, marry the Lan family, and fight against the Tian family in secret. Wu Xianrong understands that even if he doesn't want to admit it, Wu Xianyi is a very powerful person. , and thoughtful people.

But, so what?

She has no spirit or soul of her own, she is just a puppet in Ye Niang's hands.

She sacrificed everything to protect the Wu family, but in the end, this puppet was still captured by the Wu family, and the old man began to ask her to hand over power before his bones were cold.

Wu Xianrong giggled.

Looking at the Wu family like this, she was right to leave at the beginning.

Now that she came back, apart from appeasing the slight warmth in her heart with Ah Weng, she just came to watch the excitement.

Let's see how far the Wu family can lose face.

A group of people surrounded the silent Wu Xianyi with one word at a time, their mouths were dry and Wu Xianyi couldn't respond.

Wu Xianyi dressed in sackcloth and filial piety, offered incense to Ah Weng in a proper manner, and then quietly burned the paper money, as if all the words around her didn't exist, and these people didn't even catch her eyes.

All she had in her eyes was the handful of ashes in front of her.

"Ah, don't you have to pretend you didn't hear me?"

The uncle walked to her side: "We have seen everything you did for the Wu family in the past, but you have lost several gambling houses in a row, and you can't hide it. In the end, you are still lacking in ability. With a sharp decrease, how can we consolidate the power of the clan?"

Wu Xianyi continued to throw a piece of paper money into the brazier.

"Hey, uncle, don't mention the gambling house." Wu Xianyi's cousin, Wu Jian, said eccentrically beside the uncle, "It's not unusual for this gambling house to be swallowed up. That's what the third lady of the Tang family did. You are here to blame me It's useless to sue, she, it's impossible to take the gambling house back from Tang Sanniang's hands."

The uncle asked, "Why?"

Wu Jian said, "Why don't you know? The third lady of the Tang family is... ahem."

He deliberately lowered his voice and continued to "answer questions" for the uncle: "This Tang Sanniang once had a marriage contract with her cousin, but unfortunately she was later married by the emperor to the southeast. As for the cousin, she must have been thinking about Tang Sanniang all the time." Well. Now Mrs. Tang San has even given birth to a child, and now she has robbed our Wu family's gambling house, the cousin must still be thinking about the little love back then, and refuses to see the truth."

After being told by Wu Jian, the uncle seemed to straighten out the relationship, and raised his voice and said, "Miss Tang San, isn't that Tang Shizhan's second daughter? That's how it is. Ah Su, you really married for a long time ago I don’t even care about the Wu family’s property, so I’ll hand it over to others?”

These two people sang and sang a very similar thing, even a blind person can hear that these two reeds are just to let everyone present know that Wu Xianyi and his opponent's remaining love is unfinished.

It is precisely to prove that her ability is not enough to master the main card of the Wu family.

As soon as their words came out, there was a lot of discussion in the mourning hall.

Wu Jian looked at Wu Xianyi who was still unmoved, with a calm side face, as if he didn't pay attention to his hard-working sarcasm just now.

Wu Jian has been living in Wu Xianyi's shadow since he was a child, and his Ye Niang would use Wu Xianyi to run on him in everything.

It is said that Wu Xianyi is so capable, outstanding in Guozijian, proficient in all aspects of poetry, prose and theory, and unparalleled in intelligence. One of the youngest supervisory censors.

Wu Jian was not a smart person in the first place, no matter what he did, he was a mess, and Wu Xianyi's light naturally overwhelmed him so much that he couldn't lift his head up.

Whenever he relaxes a little bit, he will be scolded by Ye Niang.

Wu Xianyi's outstanding life experience has made the Wu family's peers feel a lot of pressure.

This pressure gradually fermented into resentment and hatred.

Now that the old man died, all those who had always disliked the old three joined together, and what they wanted was to pull Wu Xianyi down.

Seeing that Wu Xianyi was still unmoved, Wu Jian's eyelids twitched and said:

"So Ah Su has been married for so long, and my sister-in-law's stomach hasn't moved. Could it be because of Tang Sanniang? No, Ah Su's intelligence won't make a small mistake. Huh? Could it be that you have already thought of a plan? Then the child born by Tang Sanniang will not be yours, right? That would make sense! If that child is yours, no matter how many gambling houses Tang Sanniang robs, it will belong to our Wu family in the end. No wonder Ah Fu you are so calm, hahaha, wonderful, really wonderful!"

Wu Jian's laughter was particularly abrupt in the solemn mourning hall.

The old friends and old officials who came here to mourn Mr. Wu frowned and showed displeasure when they heard his disrespectful words and laughter.

But this person is from the Wu family, and what he is talking about is the internal affairs of the Wu family. People with foreign surnames are not easy to get involved with, so they can only blame with their eyes.

But just condemning with eyes, it doesn't hurt or itch.

Wu Xianrong sat outside the crowd and heard Wu Jian's fart clearly.

With a sullen face, she stood up, pulled out the whip she carried with her from her waist, and pushed away the crowd to walk in.

Long Zhou immediately chased after him.

Wu Jian was still standing beside Wu Xianyi talking nonsense, with a mocking and complacent smile on his face, he said a few more words, and was attracted by the woman walking towards him.

He looked up and saw that the woman in white looked familiar.

When he recognized that this person was Wu Xianyi's younger sister Wu Xianrong, Wu Xianrong raised his arm and lashed him hard with a whip.

The whip came suddenly, with a whistling sound like a black snake, coming through the air!

The sound is terrifying, and it is also too fast to be caught off guard.

With a "slap", Wu Jian was slapped hard on Wu Jian's arm. Wu Jian screamed and almost jumped up on the spot.

"you!"

Wu Jian hugged his arm that was bleeding suddenly, and glared at Wu Xianrong, unbelievable that someone dared to do something here.

"Isn't that enough?" Wu Xianrong hit another whip with his backhand, lashing at the other side of his waist.

Wu Jian wanted to escape, but he couldn't. His waist was slapped, and he almost fell to the ground.

Wu Xianrong's second whip not only hit Wu Jian, but also implicated the uncle who was standing next to his cousin just now. There was a red mark on the back of his hand, which quickly swelled up high.

"What are you doing!" The uncle covered his hands, blowing his beard and staring.

"Teach Wu Jian how to speak human language." Wu Xianrong gave the elder a cold look, "If you want to be whipped together, just stand there."

Wu Xianrong is a junior of the Wu family, even younger than Wu Xianyi. Her sudden appearance and impudent words and deeds made the Wu family immediately surround her with people who had long regarded their family as disliked.

"Look! Wu San's family is attacking Wu Da!"

"It's wrong! It's really wrong! If this matter is reported to Jing Zhaoyin, you Wu San's family will be punished!"

"Hurry up and put down the whip!"

Wu Xianrong said: "I left the Wu family a long time ago, and what I did has nothing to do with the Wu family. I came back today just to see Mr. Wu for the last time. I didn't expect to hear such foul language, which made me dirty. ears. If you have the ability, come at me alone, I am here, who will strike first?"

The whip in Wu Xianrong's hand moved, but before it was actually drawn towards Wu Jian, Wu Jian was so frightened that he closed his eyes, hugged his head and shrank into a ball and screamed.

Wu Xianrong took a sip: "Trash, just smoke people with one mouth."

Uncle's eldest son Wu Jingzong walked up to Wu Xianrong.

He is a general of the imperial army, with a broad forehead, long eyes and beard two feet long, and a thunderous voice, he looks like a master from outsiders.

He was a full head taller than Wu Xianrong, and he was looking down at the woman in front of him whose skin and tender flesh seemed to snap off.

"Sister Ah Zi, this is Ah Weng's mourning hall. If you make trouble here, don't blame me, a big brother, for being rude!"

Wu Xianyi, who had been kneeling in front of the silver basin burning paper, heard this, put his hands up, and the thick handful of paper money fell into the fire.

After the fire was suppressed by the paper money for a while, it quickly broke through the layers of shackles and jumped a foot high.

The flames stirred in her eyes, making Wu Xianyi's frosty face red.

Wu Jingzong stood in front of Wu Xianrong like an unshakable mountain, but Wu Xianrong looked up at him without any timidity.

"You're welcome?" Wu Xianrong pointed him in the direction, "Just now that foul-mouthed cousin foul-mouthed Mr. Wu's mourning hall, you don't care, I taught you a lesson before you come here to be rude to me? Are you really A very nice man."

Wu Jingzong's eyes widened, and he was about to reach out to grab Wu Xianrong's shoulder.

His grabbing action was extremely fast, but Li Zhou was already prepared, and pulled out the dagger that had been hidden in his hand all this time, and cut off his fingers.

Just before Chuzhou's dagger was drawn out, a fair hand grabbed Wu Jingzong's thumb.

Wu Jingzong's thumb was so painful that it was almost broken on the spot.

He let out a cry of surprise, and uncontrollably leaned back in the direction of the suppressed force.

Wu Xianrong and Chu Zhou glanced sideways, and it was Wu Xianyi who made the move.

Wu Xianyi pressed his thumb down with one hand, Wu Jingzong was pressed down almost to the waist by her, his face turned dark brown, and he couldn't help breaking out in cold sweat.

"Break it! Break it—!" Wu Jingzong shouted, and the heirs of the uncle's family around him also made a gesture to rush forward seeing the situation.

Not far away, Lan Yiwei, who was wearing filial piety clothes, was kneeling in front of the mourning hall together with Wu San's relatives.

Seeing that Wu Xianyi finally made a move, Wu San's family stood up one after another, standing behind Wu Xianyi.

When the swords were on edge, Wu Xianyi let go of Wu Jingzong.

Wu Jingzong staggered two steps and stood firm, angrily retaliated and punched Wu Xianyi in the face.

Amidst the exclamation of the crowd, Wu Xianyi took a step faster than him, and kicked him out directly in the chest, rolling up the white paper ashes on the ground.

"You! You are too presumptuous!" The uncle trembled with anger.

"The talisman of the clan is a waste for you." Wu Xianyi looked at the uncle, but there was no sound in his words, he stretched out his hand to the side, and took the sword from the hand of the entourage.

Seeing her holding the sword, the uncle's family trembled somewhat, and did not dare to act recklessly.

Everyone knows Wu Xianyi's kung fu. What she thought earlier was that she is a junior in the Wu family, and she would definitely not attack the elders. Otherwise, it would be a crime of disrespect and disfilial piety. You can directly report her to the yamen, and impeachment is also possible. .

Unexpectedly, even so, she dared to do it.

"A Weng gave me the talisman before he died, and I will handle clan affairs in the future. Here is the suicide note."

Wu Xianyi shook out a roll of yellow paper, and a sword flashed in his hand: "Those who violate the order will be dealt with according to the family law."