Chapter 7: The Crisis of the Tang Family

It was raining heavily!

It is worthy of the symbol of the four points of [灬].

Hiding in the mountain temple, the silly girl and the dilapidated mountain god statue stand together, which is a good match.

Tang Can was playing with the magical little frog at the door, and kept knocking and knocking......

Then, I looked at the symbol on the frog's belly, which went from four dots to three dots, then two dots, and then ...... There is only one point left.

Correspondingly, the rain outside has also slowly decreased.

Finally, when the symbol on the frog's belly changed to [〇], Tang Can saw the shy moon hiding behind the dark clouds show its face.

Today, it's really fifteen moons and sixteen rounds.

Now that the rain has stopped, let's keep going!

Tang Can's proposal, before he could say it, was once again "sandwiched" out of the house.

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There is a curfew in Jinling City, and after about 8 p.m., free movement is no longer allowed in the city, and the four gates are closed.

On the castle tower, there are guards sent by the city lord's mansion, as well as a supervisor under the command of the prefect.

Unless there are special circumstances, the city gate is never allowed to be opened at night.

Tang Jin and the six servants of the Tang family rode out of Jinling City in the afternoon, and fled back in the evening.

Especially the six servants of the Tang family, who were completely frightened, shouted as soon as they ran into the city.

"The eldest prince has cheated the corpse!"

"Headless ghosts are going to eat people......"

"Run, the eldest prince has become a headless demon. ”

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A simple slave shouts like this, and others are at most curious.

When two or three of the servants came back and shouted, more people gathered together to see the excitement.

It wasn't until later that even the third son of the Tang family, Tang Jin, who was cultivated in the middle of the martial arts, lost his soul and quickly went all the way from the city gate to get back to the Tang Mansion, and he also shouted "Big brother spares his life" and the like.

This time......

The entire Jinling City exploded even more.

In the evening market before the curfew, the news of Tang Can's corpse fraud spread far and wide, and it was spread by ten or ten, and Tang Can was originally considered half a "celebrity" in Jinling City, but this time it was even more popular.

Originally, it was nothing, rumors and rumors and the like, all of which were spread like this at first.

Everyone is also listening to the excitement, talking about strangeness, appearing to be more gregarious, keeping up with the rhythm of everyone's chatter, and having fun with each other.

But on the contrary, I don't know which bastard it is, after hearing the rumors, this sentence suddenly came: "We people usually laugh at Tang Dagong Tang Can is a big fool, he has now become a headless ghost, should he come to take revenge and eat us, right?"

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In an instant, everyone who was talking about this strange incident was like someone poured a basin of cold water on their heads in the winter, and the whole heart was cold!

In addition, people in this world have never watched TV or movies, and simply rely on some text dictation or calligraphy and painting, and their brain replenishment ability is super strong.

Gradually, such a terrifying picture seemed to appear in everyone's minds.

Tang Can, the big fool who was laughed at by them on weekdays, twisted his headless body, and pounced on them with his teeth and claws.

"It is said that the eldest prince of the Tang Mansion seems to have been killed. Otherwise, how could he become an evil ghost and ask for his life?"

"It's over! I ...... I once said behind my back that the eldest prince of the Tang Mansion was a fool. Isn't he going to come to me for revenge?"

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These ordinary people in the city are all false, and the three of them have become tigers, and they have been blindly spread for a while, and the whole city is even more panicked, and every household has closed their doors before the curfew, and they are optimistic about their old people and children.

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In the Tang Mansion, in the council hall, sitting on it were three elders of the clan with high morality.

The eldest elder Tang Xiao, the second elder Tang Yi, and the third elder Tang Li, these three elders do not care about family affairs on weekdays, and all of them are in charge of the head of the family, Tang Xun.

However, for some major matters involving ancestor worship and disputes within the clan, the head of the family still needs to obey the arrangements of the three elders.

For example, this time, when the Shunyi town was waiting for the sixtieth birthday, the Tang family made a mistake in providing it with the high-quality yellow sorghum wine needed for the big birthday, which alarmed the three elders.

Because, the Tang family has always relied on some shelter provided by Zhenhaihou to be able to gain a firm foothold in the southwest of the Great Liang Kingdom.

Therefore, this time Zhenhaihou's 60th birthday is also a crucial opportunity for the Tang family to perform.

In addition to preparing a rich birthday gift, the Tang family also took over the 100,000 jars of sorghum wine needed for the Zhenhai Waiting Birthday Banquet.

Because the Huangliang wine brewed by the Tang family has a mellow aroma, it is at least three or four grades better than the wine brewed by other merchants on the market.

On the ninth day of the next month, it is the 60th birthday of Zhenhaihou, but when the Tang family prepared for a year of 100,000 jars of sorghum wine was ready to be loaded and transported for sampling, they found that these 100,000 jars of sorghum wine were all light and tasteless, not only did not have the mellowness of the original Tang family's sorghum wine, but even the mellow of ordinary wine on the market was far inferior.

This time, the disaster will be great.

Fortunately, this batch of sorghum wine was found to have a problem before it was transported and loaded, otherwise, it would have been transported to Shunyi City, and the problem would have been exposed when it was used to entertain distinguished guests from various counties and counties of the Great Liang Kingdom at the banquet in Zhenhaihou, and the Tang family would really be doomed.

This incident immediately alarmed the three elders of the Tang family's ancestral ancestral hall.

Tang Xun, the head of the family, immediately took the blame in the ancestral ancestral hall, and immediately ordered a strict investigation into what went wrong in the winemaking process.

However, disaster has already happened.

There are less than 20 days left before Zhenhaihou's 60th birthday, where can the Tang family find 100,000 jars of mellow yellow sorghum wine!

If the wine can't be handed over by then, Zhenhaihou's anger will be blamed, and the Tang family will lose all the trade routes and lose the umbrella of Zhenhaihou, or they may be directly ordered by Zhenhaihou to exterminate their families.

It was precisely because of this catastrophe of the Tang family that the three elders were also anxious to the ants on the hot pot, racking their brains to make amends.

Among them, the great elder Tang Xiao has an old friend with Chen Yonglian, the prefect of Jinling City, and knows that Ye Boya, the first think tank under the prefect of Chen and Zhenhaihou, is a classmate and a jinshi in the first list.

The Great Elder specially came to the door to ask for help, and Governor Chen simply gave the conditions.

As long as Tang Can, the eldest son of the Tang family, is allowed to join the Chen family, and the Tang family will provide him with the necessary money and materials in the future, he can ask his classmate Ye Boya to lobby Zhenhaihou to cancel drinking on the 60th birthday in the name of paying tribute to the old concubine, and use tea instead of wine to show filial piety.

In this way, the crisis of the Tang family can be easily resolved.

It's just that the price that the Tang family has to pay is not light, Tang Can, a demented child, entered the Chen Mansion, at most, the Tang family's reputation was slightly damaged and ridiculed, which is irrelevant.

However, the political implication of this is that the Tang family will not be able to maintain neutrality in Jinling City from now on, and it will completely fall to the side of the Chen Governor's Mansion.

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