Chentan's Memories

Second round

A few days ago, the "Return of the God of Wealth" had caused an uproar in Chentan Town.In order to get rid of his identity as the "God of Wealth", Tang Yushu refuted the rumor for a long time dumbfounded before turning the matter over.

Today, a new "God of Wealth" suddenly appeared, claiming that the house was his.

The two Gods of Wealth fight and rob the house—such an incident is like a stormy sea in Chentan, which is as plain as water and lacks much to report.

Although the crescent moon is hanging high at this moment, the gate of Chentan Yamen is still crowded with people.

In the shabby courtroom.

I saw the young man in the red brocade gown self-reporting his family name: "Little man Lin Lang, named Tingzhi, Jinling family. He inherited a gift from his grandfather, Chen. This courtyard is located in Chentan Township. There are 72 households in Chentan. When I found it today, I found that there was an unexpected guest inside, and it was this one—he kept saying that the house was awarded to him by the imperial court!"

After the statement was finished, Lin Lang took out an envelope from his arms, and when he threw away the steps to present the evidence, he deliberately lifted his hem and slammed it heavily on the head of Tang Yushu who was beside him with a blank face: "The house deed and the land deed are here. , please be clear, my lord!"

After the county magistrate looked over the house deed and land deed, he turned to Tang Yushu: "What about you?"

Tang Yushu rubbed his forehead, bowed upright, and awkwardly imitated Lin Lang's rhetoric and reported his family: "Little Tang Yushu, the name... seems to be nothing... a native of Chengdu. He used to be in the southwest He served in the Jinyang Army during the anti-rebellion period in Shu. After the war, the imperial court granted him a real estate, located in Chentan Household 72. It has been about [-] days since he moved here, and this little brother broke in rashly just now, not talking about the house. It's his grandma's..."

Lin Lang scolded: "Your grandma's!"

Tang Yushu quickly shook his head and explained, "It's not my grandma's..."

Lin Lang felt powerless: "...my grandfather's!"

"Oh, yes..." The confused Tang Yushu nodded to Lin Lang repeatedly as if begging for mercy, and took out a piece of paper from his sleeve, and presented it to the county magistrate: "This is the paper with the seal of the Ministry of War. Please take a look at the dispatch order..."

After the county magistrate looked at the dispatch order, he didn't know how to make a decision for a while.He could only curse silently in his heart—this case of Chen Tan would be fine if it was not revealed, it would be so difficult once it was revealed.

Besides, the title deed of this house is true when viewed horizontally and vertically, and it cannot be faked; but the seal of the Ministry of War on the dispatch order is also very clear and powerful.

——If you forge a real estate title deed and seize other people's property, you will be sentenced to life according to the law.

——But if you forge the official seal of the yamen, according to the law, you should be executed...

Then look at the two people below: one person is dressed in a luxurious and elegant manner, as long as he wears a suit, he can buy the second half of a house in Chentan, he must be a son of a rich family, and he has no motive or need to commit crimes; the other Let’s be honest and frank. Besides, the Southwest rebellion has just been put down, and even the imperial court is busy rewarding the soldiers. If a mistaken judgment cut off the head of the retired soldier at this time, it would be like killing a donkey, and it will inevitably hurt The hearts of these bloody soldiers...

After hesitating for a long time, the magistrate looked at the crowd at the gate of the yamen: "Yuan Fang, what do you think?"

Following the gaze of the magistrate, Lin Lang and Tang Yushu turned their heads one after another.Among the crowd, Fat Gu stood at the front: "Father, let me see—"

——It turns out that Fat Gu is the daughter of the county magistrate, and her name is Yuan Fang... Judging from the age of the county magistrate, Fat Gu is only in her early twenties, but she looks so old...I always use "" If she knew the meaning of the word "lady", she would have cut it into pieces and stewed them in the frying pan together with the river fish.

Tang Yushu rubbed his swollen temples.

I only heard the fat girl say with certainty: "—that Lin Lang is definitely lying—have you all seen the portraits of the God of Wealth?...Right, they are all black and red faces! Much like Tang Xiaoguan Man! Who has ever seen that the God of Wealth is white and clean? What's more, Tang Xiaoguan has thick eyebrows, big eyes, heroic masculinity, such a handsome and lovely person, he will never lie!"

As soon as the fat girl's well-founded analysis came to an end, a burst of "Yo!"All I saw was a scrawny woman squeezed out from the crowd: "I don't think that Mr. Lin is a liar—"

The magistrate said: "Bianfang, what do you think?"

——It turned out to be the thin lady.Tang Yushu knew this woman: just like Fat Gu, she usually set up a stall to sell roasted fish at the God of Wealth Mansion; the reason was that the two were in a competitive relationship, and they bickered almost every day.Now it seems that there is not only a nickname between the two, but even the name has a meaning of incompatibility.However, judging from the subtle connection between the two names "Yuanfang" and "Bianfang", it is not certain that Shouniang is also the daughter of the county magistrate...

Tang Yushu rubbed his swollen temples again.

As expected, the thin mother opened her thin voice and analyzed: "Father, look - Mr. Lin's outfit is full of jewels. The people of the fairy family are naturally rich and leisurely, pampered, unlike us who work hard, With his face facing the loess and his back facing the sky every day, after all, it would be reasonable for the God of Wealth to be fairer!"

From the corner of his eye, he seemed to catch a glimpse of Lin Lang rubbing his temples.

"Sao Hoof, I think you like Lin Lang."

"Fat girl, you secretly love Tang Yushu, the whole town of Chen Tan has known about it for a long time!"

So the two sisters fought together.

It took about a quarter of an hour to calm down the sudden incident that had nothing to do with the original case. The county magistrate paced back and forth in the yamen for a long time, until Lin Lang yawned deeply and Tang Yushu had already fallen asleep. He punched his right fist on his left palm, sat back in his chair, and slapped the gavel.

In the end, the county magistrate decided to temporarily put away the evidence from both parties and send it to the capital to check its authenticity.

But to go to the capital, one needs to go to Jinling first, and then take a boat to go north along the canal.There are so many things, it is expected to take two months.

—— "During this period, both of you will live in this house for the time being!"

Obviously Lin Lang was very dissatisfied with the decision to "live together temporarily", and when he returned to the house, he slammed the door and beat bowls to express his dislike for Tang Yushu with various noises.

Tang Yushu on the other side took the other party's actions seriously, but because of his mild temper and unwillingness to make trouble, he was too lazy to pester her.Just under the moonlight, I sat in front of the west wing and silently washed my thin shirt.

I saw that Lin Lang got a box of lime from nowhere, and sprinkled it along the gate of the house to the front of the main hall.

——“Is it fair?”

Lin Lang pointed to the white line that was almost crooked to the eaves of the west wing where Tang Yushu lived.

"Yeah." Tang Yushu didn't want to care about it.

"Use this white line as the boundary - the east half of the courtyard and the east wing belong to me, the west half of the yard and the west wing belong to you; as for the main house, I hate climbing stairs, so the first floor belongs to me, and the second floor belongs to you; all marked Already the line, you can’t cross half a step, do you understand?”

"Yeah." Tang Yushu didn't want to care about it.

"It's a 'temporary return', understand? When the verdict comes down, I will hire someone to clean the half where you lived."

"Yeah." Tang Yushu didn't want to care about it.

"In these two months: don't strike up casual conversations, let alone become friends with me, live their own lives without interfering with each other. Do you understand?"

"I want what I want." Tang Yushu was a little impatient, but he still didn't want to care about it.

"What do you want?" Lin Lang didn't understand.

"..."

After tossing around for nearly two hours, the sky in the east could almost be seen turning gray. Lin Lang was about to clear out a corner of the East Wing to live in, biting the bullet and preparing to fall asleep.The bed board was wiped over and over again more than ten times, but when I was about to lie on it, it still felt dirty.So Lin Lang took off the red brocade gown carefully and put it aside.

The day before yesterday he ran away from the mansion in a hurry, without any thought of bringing a soft bedding, so at this moment he could only lie on the hard bed.Without a warm blanket, without good-smelling incense, and without Shun'er pouring him a cup of hot water, Lin Lang tossed and turned in extreme discomfort.

Before leaving the Lin Mansion, Lin Lang had already made a complete set of plans.

——Come to Chen Tan first, and sell the house gifted by your grandfather as a start-up capital for your own business.Then go to Suzhou or Hangzhou, set up a storefront and make a deal.Based on his experience of walking the Silk Road and his talent that is superior to those of ordinary people, he will definitely make a lot of money in the future, and when he returns to his hometown and embroiders clothes in the daytime, he will stand in front of his father and bring out thousands of dollars. Two gold, with an understated attitude, said to him: "My son is not filial, this is for you to buy wine."

Thinking of this, Lin Lang laughed out loud.

But as soon as he laughed, he was pinched to the shoulder blade by the hard bed board, which made Lin Lang's mood sink down quickly again.

——Thinking and thinking, but I didn't calculate that I would run into such a shitty thing as "the house was taken by someone".

However, I am helpless, and I have to wait two months before there will be a verdict.But how will I spend these two months... If I go to my uncle, I will definitely be taken back to the Lin Mansion by him; , but the facts are unpredictable-if the house is really awarded to that poor samurai, wouldn't he leave nothing behind?So in the final analysis, this money should not be spent indiscriminately.

His eyelids were already sore and swollen, but thousands of thoughts kept wandering in his mind.Thinking over and over like this, until the window was completely white, Lin Lang still couldn't fall asleep smoothly.

When the cock crowed for the first time outside the window, Lin Lang finally sat up with his messy hair, frantically fumbled for his boots from under the bed and put them on his feet: "I can't take it anymore!—Go back to Jinling!"

When I opened the door of the east wing with a pair of dark circles under my eyes, I was dazzled by the morning sun.

What was even more eye-catching was Tang Yushu who was walking over from the west wing directly opposite while putting on the clothes over his head.

"You crossed the line!" Lin Lang roared angrily.

This roar startled Tang Yushu, who was in a full suit, and he quickly pulled his head out from the neckline, and opened a pair of bewildered eyes: "You...what are you doing!"

Lin Lang, who was half ignorant of this foreign accent, had no choice but to point to Tang Yushu and repeat word by word: "You, you, crossed the border!"

Tang Yushu: "...but the toilet is on the east side."

Lin Lang insisted: "You just can't come over!"

Tang Yushu: "...But I want to pee."

Lin Lang continued to insist: "I don't care!"

Tang Yushu: "Then I'll pee anywhere."

Lin Lang still insisted: "Okay!"

Tang Yushu yawned as he loosened his belt, pulled down his trousers and reached out to take them out.

Surprised, Lin Lang finally stopped insisting: "Stop, stop - the toilet is for you!"

Tang Yushu put it away obediently again, and continued to yawn and walk to the toilet.

"It's really unlucky..." Lin Lang felt that it was difficult to breathe: "What a brute!"

Tang Yushu became inexplicably ashamed: "Thank you."

"I'm not praising you!" Lin Lang couldn't breathe at all.

After slamming the door of the east wing heavily, Lin Lang sat back on the bed dejectedly.

"Forget it...let's wait. I can't go back to Jinling..."

While lying down, I felt my eye sockets were a little hot.

He could only close his eyes tightly, clench his fists to hold back his rapid breathing, and comfort himself slowly: "What is the suffering in front of me? Do you really think I am a squeamish young man? ——I am a person who has walked the Silk Road ! Don’t wait until a few years later when I’m successful in my career, I’ll be embattled and blinded with a pile of gold! Let you know that I can create a world without relying on you..."

Some murmurs to himself can be regarded as making himself happy, the exhaustion of running around for days finally has a place to rest, and Lin Lang is so tired that he falls asleep.