Seeing his son leave with a sullen face, Wang Shi only felt extremely uncomfortable.
How can she understand her embarrassment and the pain in her heart? She has a successor, and in front of her is the son-in-law from Yuan Pei, and Yuan Pei's family is watching. The aunt of Chen's family is not a fuel-efficient lamp, but if she neglects Tang Bainian in the slightest, those unpleasant words will be ignored. It pierced her heart like a knife.
How could she not love the son she gave birth to in October, if she could, she would even be willing to sacrifice her life in exchange for his!
But there is no way, only one stepchild and parent-child can be saved. Besides choosing a stepson, can she have another choice
She lowered her head and wiped away tears silently.
In the Tang Mansion, Mrs. Li was restless, getting up from time to time to look straight at the door, until she saw the figure of her husband Tang Bainian appeared, and couldn't wait to meet him: "Are you all ready?"
"That's all!" Tang Bainian gave her the more than 2,000 taels of silver notes he had taken from the Wang family with a gloomy face.
"This, this is not enough at all!" Mrs. Li counted and frowned, "Didn't you already check the account earlier, how could Mrs. Wang only have such a small amount!"
Tang Bainian said bitterly: "If it wasn't for Tang Songnian's trouble, I would have gotten it."
Then I will tell you what happened just now at Wang's place.
After hearing this, Mrs. Li sneered and said, "Auntie used to say that she was uneasy and kind to mother and son, and I even defended her a few words. Now, it seems that what my aunt said was all true. , mother and son, one sings the white face, the other sings the red face, and also joined the second room to run against you."
Tang Bainian grew more and more hated, clenching his fists: "Sooner or later, one day, sooner or later..."
Li took a deep breath: "Tang Songnian really figured out the industry in front of you? Didn't you hide the fraud?"
Tang Bainian's face was a little ugly again: "I personally went to various stores to check it out a few days ago."
Although he can't interfere in those industries, he will always pay attention to avoid being taken advantage of. Therefore, if Tang Songnian faked the total number, he would not be able to deceive him at all.
The total number is not wrong, and the proportion allocated to the three brothers is indeed determined by the father before his death, but no one has mentioned it again in these years. He has the advantage of being the first-in-law, and he wants to give the other two rooms as much as he wants every month. How many points, no one has ever questioned.
So it's not that he doesn't want to pick on the thorns, but he understands that he can't pick it out at all.
"Will those shopkeepers join forces with the mother and son..." Mrs Li didn't give up.
"Those people are all stones in the dungeon. They are stinky and hard. They can't turn their minds. They can't understand the situation. .
I don't know where my father got these stubborn minds. They are all stinky and hard-hearted. They don't give face to anyone, and they only do things according to their father's will.
Mrs. Li also thought about the temperaments of those people, and she tightened the veil in annoyance. After a while, she said, "We have to think of other ways until now. Fortunately, there is still a sum of money in the public. , there are still a lot of valuable antiques, take them as pawns and collect them, I guess you can collect the money."
"It's the only thing that has happened so far." Tang Bainian replied with suppressed anger.
For Mrs. Lin, what happened to Tang Zhangnian at the second room, she sighed at the end: "In recent years, the eldest brother has taken advantage of his status. If it weren't for his wise father, he would have given some of the family wealth to our brothers before he died. It's clear and clear, and I have arranged for Uncle De to help him, so I'm afraid that everything in the family will fall into the hands of the big house."
"I watched coldly for many years, and the third brother kept silent. His biological mother was obviously partial to the big house, and he endured it silently. I thought he would give in like this in this life.
"In the end, being the county magistrate, how can you be in the official circles without any means!"
"Since the third brother is so clear, does that mean that the family can be separated?" This is the only thing Lin cared about.
Only when the family is divided can she truly be the head of her own family.
Tang Zhangnian shook his head: "Father said it back then that the separation of the family would be a hundred years after mother. But this time, the third brother has sorted out the confusion and informed Uncle De. The monthly income from the future will be deducted. Those who are handed over to the public school, the rest will naturally be assigned to each room in proportion, and will no longer be randomly distributed by the big room."
After a pause, he instructed his wife again: "If you have time, you will often take Brother Mian and the third younger brother and sister to walk around more often. The elder brother and the two are unreliable, but the third brother and his family, we can't say we have to rely on them in the future. They help a lot."
Lin Shi nodded in response: "I understand."
He said that although Tang Songnian had achieved his goal, he seemed to be holding back his breath, unable to swallow or spit it out.
He returned to the back office from the study, looked at the lanterns lit in the main courtyard not far ahead, took a deep breath, and managed to swallow the suffocation in his heart, and then he quickened his pace and walked forward.
When he entered the room, he saw his daughter sitting on the couch with her back to everyone. Bi Wen reached out to hug her, but she twisted her chubby little body and broke away from Bi Wen's touch.
Nguyen Si, on the other hand, was sitting on the side, slowly sorting out the mess of cotton threads, and occasionally glanced at the little girl who was obviously making a fuss.
"Where's Brother Zhou?" he asked casually.
"Go to the old lady's house." Bi Wen replied.
Tang Songnian hummed, waved her hand to let Bi Wen retreat, and regardless of Xu Yunyao's struggle, he just hugged her into his arms, and smiled and tapped the tip of her nose: "Baoya, what's the matter?"
Xu Yunyao gave up when she saw that she was struggling, she just stared at him angrily, her big round eyes full of accusations.
What's the matter with you old man? How did you marry such a stupid woman? Marry and marry, why don't you spend any effort to teach people to be smarter
Tang Songnian poked her cheek and said with a smile, "Let daddy poke to see if it will leak."
Xu Yunyao unceremoniously slapped his evil hand away.
Seeing this, Nguyen shook her head and said, "During the day, I overturned my basket for fun and messed up the cotton threads in it. I said a few words to her and hit her again, and she got angry until now. She was angry at a young age. Sex is so big, I don't know who it is?"
Xu Yunyao was so angry, she screamed at her, "No... ah puff puff..."
After saying the word 'no', she spat out a few saliva bubbles, but she couldn't say the two words she really wanted to say, which made her feel ashamed, annoyed and aggrieved.
"Look, you see, that's how she replied, so she won't be naughty in the future." Ruan shi wiped her mouth for her and said helplessly.
Xu Yunyao was about to die of anger, she patted Tang Songnian's big hand around her waist, and shouted angrily, "No, no, no..."
Tang Songnian saw that the little girl was so angry that her face turned red, and her black and white eyes seemed to sparkle with a little flame called 'anger', and his mind suddenly moved: "No? Wasn't it made by Baoya?"
Xu Yunyao's screams stopped abruptly, and her grievance seemed to have found a place to vent, she hurriedly turned around in his arms, grabbed his sleeve with her small hand, whimpered and said, "No, no no… "
Tang Songnian completely understood now, pinched the little girl's face, rubbed the seeds on her head, and said with a smile, "Daddy knows, it wasn't Baoya who overturned her mother's basket, it was her mother who wronged Baoya."
That's right, that's right, that's right! That's right!
Xu Yunyao nodded frantically, her big eyes flickering, and for the first time in her life, she thought, how could this old man look so pleasing to the eye!
Looking at the little girl's slightly pursed mouth, the dazzling little pear vortex that flickered out of her cheeks, her eyes staring at herself, Tang Songnian's heart became soft, and she could not wait to discuss this. The happy little girl kneaded for a while in her arms.
Nguyen naturally also heard the conversation between the father and daughter, and asked a little hesitantly, "Is it true that I misunderstood?"
"It seems that's true." Tang Songnian walked to his wife with his daughter in his arms, looked at the little girl pouting and turned away from her mother, rubbing the top of her head with a smile.
Ruan Shi was dumbfounded, stopped the movement in her hands, and looked at her awkward daughter again, unable to hold back her laughter, she lightly held the little girl's hand with a smile on her lips: "Since you have wronged Baoya, that mother kisses Baoya dearly. Isn't it good to pay?"
Xu Yunyao glanced at her secretly, then quickly turned her face away, hiding in Tang Songnian's arms and humming.
Forget it, for the sake of your sincerity, I don't care about the villains, and I don't care about you!
It was rare that the baby girl took the initiative to stick to him. Tang Songnian was very happy. He couldn't help but love the dumpling. In the end, he couldn't hold back and kissed the little girl fiercely on the cheek.
Xu Junyao's body froze, and his hair immediately exploded, and he slapped the handsome face in front of him with a slap, and the whole person threw himself into Ruan's arms.
It's really annoying for the old man to have to make an inch!
Master Tang, who was disliked by his daughter, sighed with a smile: "Little villain, it's really really crossing the river and demolishing the bridge!"
Xu Yunyao put her arms around Ruan's neck and pressed her face against her neck, pretending not to hear him.
Knowing that this time it was a loss of being 'hard to say', Xu Yunyao vowed to work harder to learn how to speak. As for the culprit who blamed her, Concubine Shu said that Ben Gong has already kept a small book in her heart. Remember, sooner or later there will be time for revenge to go back.
She yawned, smacked her lips, and turned over with her little ass pouted.
Ruan tucked the thin quilt for her, patted her back, and then softly asked the somewhat absent-minded husband: "What is the reason for the eldest brother and the second brother to come to the mansion today? ?"
Tang Songnian smiled reluctantly: "I can't hide anything from you."
After a pause, he briefly told her what happened today, and finally said bitterly: "Back then, the Emperor Abolished forcibly recruited men who had reached the age of 18 to join the army to resist the surging all over the place. In the rebel army, there was only one eldest brother among the eighteen-year-old adult men in the family, but my mother... finally pushed me out when I was fourteen."
The insurgents from all over the country are coming fiercely, the army of the imperial court has been defeated repeatedly, and there are countless deserters. Everyone knows that at this time, the imperial court has conscripted them, and nine out of ten they have gone and never returned.