To The Land of Nevernight

Before leaving relatives, Tang Shen had asked Yao San to find out the situation of Tang Ju's family.

The Tang family is a big family in Gusu Mansion. Tang Juren married a girl from another scholarly family in Gusu Mansion more than 20 years ago, who is now Mrs. Tang.The husband and wife have a harmonious relationship and have a pair of children.Tang Juren took in a room of concubines, and the second son from a concubine was as old as Tang Shen.

Tang Juren's mother went there two years ago, and it is said that they sent someone to Zhaojia Village to ask Tang Xiucai to come back to guard the spirit, but Tang Xiucai did not respond.Since then, the Tang family has never set foot in Zhaojia Village again, and the two families have completely lost contact.

Don Juan was curious and nervous about visiting relatives.Almost at the door, looking at the rich door, the little girl said: "Brother, why don't we go back."

Tang Shen: "I've bought all the presents, why not go back? Come in with me."

Don Juan gritted his teeth: "It's fine if you go alone. Besides, we can live a good life by ourselves, so why do we have to go to them."

"You are also from the Tang family. You don't have any enmity in the first place. You would rather form a family than have a family enmity. Do you understand?"

Don Juan followed behind his brother aggrievedly, and came to the gate of the Tang family.

Tang Shen stepped forward and knocked on the door, there was a sound of footsteps inside the door, and a small door was quickly opened from the side.A servant who looked like a concierge came out of the small door, and looked up and down at the two brothers and sisters: "What's the matter, little brother? This is Tangju's family in Gusu. Do you have a name card?"

Tang Juren is a scholar, and the Tang family is a scholarly family. Most outsiders who want to visit will post a name post a day in advance to inform the host.Or just give Tang Shen his name card directly like Liang Daru did, and just hand it over when he visits.

Tang Shen smiled and said, "There is no name card. My surname is Tang and my name is Tang Shen. This is my younger sister, named Tang Juan. We are from Zhao Village. Please inform me."

As soon as Tang Shen finished speaking, the porter's expression changed.

Visiting relatives today, both Tang Shen and Tang Juan were wearing newly bought clothes, not silky or satin, but clean and elegant, plus the siblings are handsome and cute, the concierge has a good attitude towards the two children.Now when they heard that they came from Zhaojia Village, the porter showed disgust and snorted coldly: "Wait." After saying that, he entered the small door, slammed the door, and left Tang Shen and Tang Juan outside.

Don Juan had never been treated like this.People in Zhaojia Village are simple and honest, with good neighbor relations.The little girl was angry and annoyed, Tang Shen showed a meaningful expression, and said nothing.

After a long time, a man who looked like a butler opened the small door and took the two siblings in.

The Tang family is a standard garden in the south of the Yangtze River. At the beginning, there is a huge Taishan stone screen with eight characters inscribed on it: "Learning and earnestly, earnestly asking and thinking deeply", which comes from "The Analects of Confucius Zizhang".The housekeeper led Tang Shen from the west corridor, passed the west corner ear room, made a few turns, and came to a deserted and remote courtyard.After the two brothers and sisters were settled down, the housekeeper left first.

A servant served two cups of tea to the siblings. Don Juan took a sip and said, "Bah, it's cold."

Tang Shen didn't drink tea at all, he put the gift he brought on the table, closed his eyes and rested his mind, he didn't know what was going on in his mind.

After a while, footsteps were heard in the courtyard outside the house.Tang Shen turned his head and saw a middle-aged man wearing a Confucian hat and a gold silk gown with a round neck came in.He was a little fat, and his steps were frivolous. When he entered the room and saw Tang Shen and Tang Juan, he paused, and then continued to move forward.

Tang Juren sat in the upper seat, and the servant served him a cup of tea.He took a sip and looked at the siblings: "From Zhaojia Village?"

Tang Shen: "Well, uncle, my name is Tang Shen, and this is my sister Tang Juan."

Tang Juren looked at Tang Shen with strange eyes, as if recalling the past, he said coldly: "So they are the children of my concubine brother. Why did you come to Gusu Mansion, what's the matter?"

Tang Shen was about to speak when the butler quickly entered the room and whispered a few words in Tang Juren's ear.Tang Juren stood up and said, "Something happened at home, I'll deal with it first. Wait a little longer, housekeeper, serve two plates of dim sum." After speaking, he left in a hurry without giving the siblings a chance to speak.

Soon, the housekeeper served a few plates of dim sum, which tasted good and were no longer cold like the two cups of tea.

Tang Juan ate a few mouthfuls, and said, "Brother, how long has it been, why hasn't Tang Ju come here yet?"

"Do you really think he will come back?"

"what?"

Tang Shen looked at the cold refreshments on the table, and stood up: "Are you full?"

Don Juan: "I'm not hungry."

"Okay, let's go then."

In the beginning, Tang Juan kept saying that he wanted to leave, but now that Tang Shen really wanted to leave, the little girl was stunned: "Didn't you say that you wanted to visit relatives? Tang Shen, if we just leave like this, wouldn't today be in vain?"

"Didn't this leave relatives?"

"Is this also called leaving relatives? We didn't talk to that Tang Juren at all." After a pause, the little girl was young but sensitive: "Although he doesn't want to talk to us either."

"After this procedure, it's enough. People don't want to talk to you anymore, and you know their attitude. You can do important things next time you come. What do you think we are here for? It's really visiting relatives." of?"

"It's not visiting relatives, so what are we here for?" Tang Juan trotted after Tang Shen and left the other courtyard.

Tang Shen's hands were empty, he put the gift in the room, and he said calmly, "Separate."

After the brothers and sisters of the Tang family left the Tang mansion, the news spread to the main house within a cup of tea time.At this time, Tang Juren was sitting at the table eating, and did not go to work at all.Hearing the steward's notification that Tang Shen and Tang Juan had left, Tang Juren snorted coldly and asked the servant girl to serve him a bowl of soup.

"Two little guys who came to fight the autumn wind."

Mrs. Tang took the soup from the maid and handed it to Tang Juren: "Tang Shen, Tang Juan? Are they the children of your concubine brother? Don't they live in Zhaojia Village? When did you come to Gusu Mansion? Why didn't you Talk to me."

Tang Juren finished drinking the soup: "I'm telling you, what are you doing? They are two relatives who are poor and need money. When their father was still alive, my mother was so kind to him, and she didn't treat him a little bit badly, even if he went After leaving Zhaojia Village, he sent people to give him things during the holidays, and treated him as his own. My mother passed away, and he didn’t even look at him. Isn’t he just a white-eyed wolf? The white-eyed wolf gave birth to two little white-eyed wolves , this kind of relative, as soon as they came to Gusu Mansion, they found the Tang family, so they naturally asked for money."

Mrs. Tang frowned and said, "Don't say that, what do children know? Their father's affairs have nothing to do with children. I remember that my nephew should only be twelve or thirteen years old this year." She waved her hand and called the housekeeper: "You tell me Say, what happened after they came today."

The housekeeper told the truth about the behavior of the brothers and sisters of the Tang family after they entered the mansion.

Mrs. Tang said: "So, they also brought presents? They're interested."

Butler: "They're all cheap things."

Tang Juren: "The autumn wind is coming."

Mrs. Tang glanced at Tang Juren, and said to the butler, "You said just now, before Tang Shen left, he said that he had to visit someone, so he couldn't wait any longer?"

"Yes."

After thinking for a moment, Mrs. Tang called her personal servant girl: "Go to the warehouse to get 20 taels of silver, and now go after them, and you should be able to catch up with the brothers and sisters. After you catch up, don't disturb them, just watch from behind, look at them Are you really going to visit someone? After they go home, you go to their house and give the silver to them."

Tang Juren: "What are you doing!"

Mrs. Tang: "What did I do? Those are your nephew and niece, who are only twelve or thirteen years old. The two children came to Gusu Mansion, but the Tang family didn't take care of them, but drove them away. It spreads out that it hurts You, Tang Daju, have a great reputation, others are scolding your Tang family."

"This, this... It's not because the people in Gusu Mansion knew what their father did back then."

"You didn't bully your father less when you were young, didn't you?"

"Who are you speaking for!"

Mrs. Tang: "That's fine, just treat it as my aunt's pocket money for my nephew. Go ahead."

The servant girl took her order and left. Tang Juren was very disdainful, but Mrs. Tang was thoughtful.She asked: "The two children just came to Gusu Mansion, where do their relatives want to visit? Aren't their relatives in Gusu Mansion just our family?"

Tang Juren: "Why do you care so much?"

Mrs. Tang opened her mouth, but said nothing.

On the other hand, as soon as Tang Shen left the Tang residence, Tang Juan pestered him to explain clearly.

"What kind of division, what are you talking about?"

Tang Shen was so entangled that his head hurt, he stopped, looked at his sister seriously, and said sincerely, "Sometimes I really wonder whether I am an ancient person or you are an ancient person."

"What?"

Tang Shen: "Pretend I didn't say anything."

As the brothers and sisters walked, Tang Juan said, "Tang Shen, just tell me why you want to separate."

Tang Shen: "Call me brother."

"elder brother!"

"beg me."

"Brother, please, you are the best brother in the world."

Tang Shen wiped away the goosebumps that appeared on his arms, and said, "Do you still remember how my father told you about the Tang family since I was a child?"

Don Juan thought for a while: "Father said that his elder brother had no ambitions and was extremely stupid. He didn't know what kind of shit luck he had, but he won the exam. It's not fair. Brother, I think what Dad said is right. Today Let's see that Tang Juren doesn't look like a scholar at all, he has such a big belly." The little girl drew a big circle around her slender waist.

"It's not as big as you said. Yes, Dad said so, but have you ever heard Dad say something bad about the old lady?"

Don Juan recalled earnestly: "No."

"Just with our father's temper..."

Tang Shen added silently in his heart: When he wakes up in the morning, he scolds Tang Juren first when he opens his eyes, then he scolds Tang Juren after lunch, and at night he has to write a doggerel before going to sleep.

"Hey, with our father's temper, he couldn't even say a bad word about the old lady. It can be seen that the old lady treats our father very well, and our father has nothing to say."

Don Juan: "So?"

Tang Shen: "So, the Tang family is also a well-known family in Gusu Mansion. Even Liang Daru, the governor of Gusu Mansion, has heard of Tang Juren's name. The Tang family is so famous, you said that our father didn't come back to guard the old lady's spirit. Does the entire Gusu Mansion know about this?"

Don Juan clapped his hands: "Of course I know!"

"To put it mildly, it's unfilial, but to put it bluntly, it's inhumane and unrighteous. It's true that our father got into a dead end and didn't do the right thing. Now that my father is gone, no one can blame our father. Who do you think they should blame?"

"... accuse us?"

Tang Shen smiled and said: "You can teach a child. So we went to the Tang family today to show our attitude. Since the Tang family doesn't want to resolve the entanglement, then next time we go, we will directly separate the family. Otherwise, if something happens to Tang Juren in the future, we must Help, or else we are just white-eyed wolves. And Tang Juren doesn't help us when we have an accident, but he can say that our father is unkind first, and he is unrighteous. He takes reason in everything, do you think we are at a loss?" What a blood loss!

Tang Juan opened his eyes wide: "Tang Shen, you are so smart!"

"Call me brother."

The little girl shouted sweetly: "Brother!"

Coming to Tongde Lane, Tang Shen searched for two families, and soon found the Liang Mansion.

The Liang Mansion is different from the Tang Mansion in that they are both big families. In front of the Tang Mansion are two statues of round stone bottles, while the Liang Mansion has two majestic stone lions.In the Song Dynasty, not everyone could put stone lions.Two guards with spears stood on both sides of the gate of the Liang Mansion. Tang Shen stepped forward, and one of them went down the steps, and first took a look at him.

This soldier is not as arrogant as some soldier ruffians, but he is not vulgar either.He asked: "Who is this, this is the mansion of Master Yin Liang of the Gusu Mansion, do you have a greeting card?"