In Pingyang, in a wooden house on a small hill inside the back gate of Nangong Mansion, a man with half-white hair was sitting in a wheelchair and trembling with righteousness.

"Nangong Dingkang! For so many years, so many years, I believe in you every time! What about you! The man pointed at the air and scolded, as if Nangong Dingkang was right in front of him.

"You kill all the people in Chenzhou, I don't care! But you lied to me! You yourself say it's just borrowing, borrowing? Borrowed to have such a root removal ?! I'll help you, again and again! You've done this again and again! The man paused and scolded, "You won't change at all!" From the moment you killed the fourth brother, just because he was arguing that you were sleeping, you killed him! The fourth brother is only two years old! Do you really think we don't know?! Nangong Dingkang, you will kill people at the age of five! Because you're not human at all! I don't care, I don't care! I hate you for lying to me! ”

The man's face was flushed, and he couldn't move a little scolding. A woman who was over half a hundred years old on the side stepped forward, gently smoothed him down, and whispered: "Don't be angry, master, you yourself said that now that the third brother is in charge, the Nangong family is better than before...... ”

The woman didn't say that it was okay, but when she said this, the man was even more angry, "Okay! That's nice! This is all for me Nangong Ding'an to let him! ”

The woman lowered her head and probably felt that she had said the wrong thing, and stood beside Nangong Ding'an and didn't dare to say anything more.

After a while, Nangong Ding'an sneered, "The second room is a bit unpleasant, after so many years, the more Nangong Dingkang is involved, the more powerful it becomes, who else in the whole clan can influence his thoughts now?!" ”

The woman poured a glass of water for Nangong Ding'an and whispered, "Master, everyone is ...... older." ”

Nangong Ding'an didn't answer, just stared out the window, his expression became more and more ruthless, "Nangong Pu." When he suddenly said the name, he burst out laughing, "I want to see if this son of his, he has the courage to do so." Hahaha, Nangong Dingkang, it doesn't matter if you ruin me, the mountain village in Chenzhou, or the Luyang Sanxian, I can ruin the Nangong clan and Pingyang! Come on, let's try! ”

After speaking, Nangong Ding'an's laughter echoed in the night sky through the wooden house and through the small hills.

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In Pingyang Nangong Mansion, these days are indeed quite busy. At the end of the quarter, Nangong Pu set the day of the various meetings. But when Nangong Pu was still in the South China Sea, Nangong Dingkang, who did not interfere in this matter, met with the hall masters for him in the outer study. Seeing Nangong Jin coming back, he just asked about Chenzhou hastily, so he asked him to rest first.

This made Nangong Jin, who returned to Pingyang, have nothing to do. However, there are many guests at home, and even the female relatives are busy preparing various affairs.

If it weren't for Zhou Tang's complaint, 'If there was a second young lady to help, everyone wouldn't be so busy.' Nangong Jin never thought of secretly going to make an appointment with Miss Zhang's family, and what she didn't expect was that Miss Zhang actually secretly went to the appointment, wearing a coral hairpin sent by Nangong Jin on her head.

Although the two didn't have an appointment for long, they didn't have much to say when they met. But it was still known by the family, and Zhou Tang took the time to talk to Nangong Jin seriously, asking him not to ruin people's reputation. At this time, Nangong Jin was really bored, and she wanted to trick the children who were still studying in the school back to play. Fortunately, Li Songran came back, full of spring breeze.

However, when he came back, he was busy in his own courtyard, and Nangong Jin rubbed beside him for a long time before he knew that he was going to make glass. Several times I wanted to ask about Nomin, and even tried to help him a few times, but I was kicked out. Seeing that he was busy and happy, not at all as depressed as before, Nangong Jin could only let him go and go to Du Ling.

Du Ling's hands and feet have not healed yet, but they are much better than before, Baxi followed and took care of him, and also helped him with medicine and medical treatment. In Baxi's heart, Du Ling is already a miracle doctor, and his greatness is only a little worse than his young master.

Nangong Jin was still hanging out, but Nangong Pu hurried back to Pingyang from the South China Sea.

As soon as he came back, Nangong Dingkang suspended everything. In the outer study, the husband and wife listened to Nangong Pu talk about the situation in the South China Sea.

"I went to Quanzhou first, Xiangji has belonged to Nangongmen, and the original shareholders have not been retired. Wu Xin's deputy hall master is already recruiting people to go to Nanyang to farm in the spring, according to the price of buying out the sailor. There are people in ten miles and eight towns near Quanzhou to sign up, and Deputy Hall Master Wu said that he wants to recruit people from the mainland, but there are not many mainlanders who are willing to go to sea, unlike the coastal area. ”

Nangong Pu wanted to continue, but was interrupted by Zhou Tang, "You will tell your father about these things slowly in a while, just call Ah Jin here, he is idle and wants to cause trouble." What do you say about the South China Sea? Agreed? ”

"The matter of the South China Sea, well...... it should be said that there is hope." Nangong Pu couldn't think of how to say it in order for Zhou Tang to accept it.

Zhou Tang was really anxious, "If you agree, you agree, if you don't agree, you won't agree." What you say is hopeful, isn't it just that it has to be delayed? ”

Nangong Dingkang patted Zhou Tang and told her not to worry, and asked Nangong Pu to continue.

"The Nanhai faction has been in turmoil recently, in fact, I didn't see Xu Baoshen this time. Xu Baoshen was impeached by the other two, saying that he was a loss in the public school. Among the three elders of the South China Sea, the Han family to Mrs. Han are already withered, so except for the direct disciples of the Han family, almost no one helps Xu Zhangmen. Although he is still in charge, the Nanhai faction is now the joint head of the three elders. Therefore, it was Elder Zhang Muzhang who received me. What he meant was that Miss Yao was from the Yao clan after all, and she was only taught by the South China Sea, and if the Yao family agreed, the South China Sea faction would never stop her. ”

"Then, you went to find the Yao family, didn't you?" Zhou Tang was anxious again.

Nangong Pu smiled and nodded, "Yes, mother." The ancestors of the Yao family also had some estate, but after being sacked by pirates a few times in this generation, they were defeated. I heard that Miss Yao's father also went to sea to fight pirates with the army because of this, but he didn't come back. ”

Zhou Tang didn't care about these at all, "What did the Yao family say?" ”

Nangong Pu groaned and said, "What they mean is that if Master Xu agrees, they will have no opinion......." ”

"Master Xu? How did you pull it back on him? What is the relationship between the Yao family and him? Why should he agree? Zhou Tang interrupted anxiously.

Nangong Dingkang brought her a cup of tea and whispered, "Don't worry, let Ah Pu finish." Motioned for Nangong Pu to continue.

"Because I haven't been able to see Master Xu recently, the Yao family said that if we pay 30,000 taels, they will also agree to dissolve the marriage contract." Nangong Pu finally finished speaking.

"Thirty thousand taels?!" Zhou Tang was angry, "What do they mean?" We only respect them and have a marriage contract by default. At that time, the registration was only carried out, and it was not completed to say that the registration stage was not completed, and it was not at all to the extent of signing a marriage contract. It's just that considering the reputation of both sides, let's just take a step back, what do they mean?! ”

Nangong Dingkang looked at Nangong Pu, "So, now Nanhai means that it doesn't matter, and the Yao family means to let us pay 30,000 taels?" ”

Nangong Pu nodded, "Yes." ”

"Why! The Yao family is too much, we can ignore it completely! Zhou Tang said.

Nangong Dingkang smiled, seeing that he was calm and relaxed, he should have an idea, so he asked Nangong Pu: "What do you want to do?" ”

"It stands to reason that the Yao family is not qualified to negotiate conditions with us. I think what my mother said is good, the Yao family's attitude may be Xu Baoshen's encouragement. Nangong Pu paused and said, "This time I saw Dong Run, a disciple of Xu Baoshen, who was also Miss Yao's junior brother in Quanzhou. Now the Dong family and Xiang Ji cooperate in shipping, and this little son of the Dong family told me something interesting in private. ”

"First, Xu Baoshen lost 30,000 taels of public middle school. It is said that at that time, it was Xu Zhangmen who used the sea ships of the South China Sea faction to benefit himself. Originally, this matter was nothing, it was nothing more than that the head of Xu planned to pay the boat fare after the business was over. ”

As a result, the ship hit the reef in a typhoon, and the sailors on board were rescued by the sailors. At that time, the sailor asked Nanhai to ransom the ship and redeem the people, but Xu Zhangmen completely denied the matter. As a result, there is one less ship in the South China Sea Pie. Some time ago, Ying and Zhang checked the accounts, and Xu Zhangmen admitted 30,000 taels. ”

"Second, before that ship goes to sea. The staff of the Nanhai prefect had the daughter of a concubine, who was eleven years old and was said to be outstanding, and accused Xu of misbehaving against her. ”

"Originally, the Nanhai faction would not pay attention to her at all, because of the relationship between the head of Xu, many enemies used this kind of rumor to slander the head of Xu, so there are many similar statements in the South China Sea."

"However, that time it was the prefect of the South China Sea who stepped in. Let Xu Baoshen either admit this matter and marry as a concubine; Or, pay 10,000 taels to settle the matter. It is said that Xu Baoshen chose the latter. But shortly after the shipwreck in the South China Sea, the woman suddenly eloped with someone and never appeared again. As for the ten thousand taels, he didn't talk about it again. ”

"Third, Miss Yao's sister was buried in a small garden outside the main hall of the Nanhai faction. This time, when Elder Ying proposed to move the tomb, Mrs. Han disagreed, and said that if she wanted to move, she would also have to agree to it, but Miss Yao's whereabouts are now unknown. ”

After Nangong Pu finished speaking, he took a sip of tea, and there was silence in the room.

After a long time, Zhou Tang spoke, but this time it was not in an angry tone, "The second thing is the reason for the first thing?" ”

"I didn't say that, but that's what the Dong family meant." Nangong Pu replied.

Zhou Tang continued to ask: "In the second matter, is there any evidence in the hands of the prefect of the South China Sea?" If there is evidence, why not directly detain Xu Baoshen, but smuggle the relationship? Also, this matter is so secretive, how does the Dong family know? Also, why didn't you let this woman go missing in the first place? In this way, there will be no shipwreck. ”

Nangong Pu replied: "I also asked a similar question. What the Dong family means is that these are not secrets in the South China Sea, and the staff member once said it when he was drunk. It is said that because of this, the other two elders of the Nanhai faction have the heart to check the accounts. ”

Zhou Tang nodded and asked, "Do you want to get rid of Xu Baoshen's position as the head of the family, and then force the Yao family to withdraw from the marriage?" ”

"Now, it is the elders of the other two patriarchs who are forcing the palace, but the head of Xu is holding on to the end and refuses to hand over the position of head of the house. At present, it seems that it should be stalemate, and no one can help anyone. After all, I haven't seen the disciples of the Han clan, and I haven't heard Xu Baoshen's words. Nangong Pu said.