Wen Tang smiled as he led Xu Huaisheng to sit down at the table, and then poured him wine and food.

Xu Huaisheng looked at the wine and food on this table, and said: "Tang'er, in fact, you can go to my house, the chef in my house is from Beijing, and it is a hundred times better than this." ”

Wen Tang said: "Godfather, how can anyone thank you for the gift but want the guest to be the east." Besides, I am blatantly going to my godfather's house now, and when Wen Changzhi sees it, he may want to cut me with a knife on the street. ”

Xu Huaisheng smiled after hearing this, and said: "That kid I also grew up watching, and he was lawless and pampered by the Xie family. If you hadn't come to the house to beg me that day, I might not have gotten married. ”

Wen Tang said with a smile: "Tang'er knows that she has wronged you, so I specially prepared a good dish for you today, thank you very much." ”

In fact, Wen Tang had already come to Jiangcheng three days before Wen Changzhi got married, and he also took the opportunity to go to Xu's Mansion to visit his godfather Xu Huaisheng.

And Xu Huaisheng also received the Wen family's wedding card half a month ago, but he didn't plan to drink this wedding wine in the first place.

Wen Changzhi's reputation in Jiangcheng over the years is not very good, although he is not a bandit who kills people and robs goods, but he has done all kinds of bad things.

Relying on his identity as the son of the Wen family, he swaggered through the market, bullied others, molested women from good families, and often took Wen Changping to eat, drink and have fun, which made Xu Huaisheng very dissatisfied.

Xu Huaisheng didn't mention it to Xie Shi, so that Wen Changzhi could restrain himself.

However, the final result was that Wen Changzhi not only did not converge, but intensified.

Once, Wen Changzhi was drunk and actually molested his concubine.

Although Wen Mengting later apologized for drinking, Xu Huaisheng's breath couldn't be extinguished.

Xu Huaisheng originally wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to avoid talking about business under the pretext of talking about business. I didn't expect Wen Tang to come to the door quietly.

After learning the news of Lin's death, Xu Huaisheng fell into deep self-blame.

If he hadn't let the Lin family and Wen Mengting get acquainted at the beginning, maybe what would have happened later. He felt he owed the mother and daughter too much.

So when Wen Tang proposed to let Xu Huaisheng go to Wen's house to drink wedding wine and help her, he agreed without much hesitation.

Xu Huaisheng said: "Actually, I also know that if you didn't force your father once in front of everyone, he would definitely not let your mother enter the ancestral hall." And even if your father has intentions, then the Xie family may be able to obstruct it in every way. ”

"yes." Wen Tang said and poured some wine into his cup, and said, "Dad's reputation and face are the most vain in his life. This time, he not only promised to let his mother's ashes enter the ancestral hall, but also let the whole house keep filial piety for a year, in order to block the mouths of those leisurely people. ”

The more she spoke, the darker her eyes dimmed. A chill suddenly felt in my heart.

It is said that a hundred years of repair can be crossed in the same boat, and a thousand years of repair can be slept together. The marriage that has been cultivated for thousands of years is as thin as paper and as cold as ice.

At the end, she sneered again.

After taking a sip of the wine in the cup, he looked at Xu Huaisheng again and said, "It's just that this time I can't stand the young lady of the Liu family." By the way, godfather, do you know what kind of cooperation the son of the Liu family said when he left? ”

Xu Huaisheng drank a glass of wine, ate a mouthful of food, and said, "That is, your father wants to take the opportunity of marriage to participate in the rice industry of the Liu family." ”

"What? Daddy doesn't want to trade salt now? Wen Tang asked curiously.

Xu Huaisheng dropped his chopsticks at this time, sighed and said, "It's not." It's just that your dad wants to make more money. ”

Wen Tang was even more curious: "If you talk about profits, selling salt can make more money than selling rice." The rice also depends on the seasonal climate, and the price rises every year, but the salt is different, it can be dried by seawater, and it can be taken from gypsum, which is inexhaustible, and it can be said that there is no profit. ”

Xu Huaisheng shook his head and said, "But no matter how big the profit is, it can't withstand several taxes from the imperial court." Our salt merchants originally paid heavier taxes than other property taxes, but now the imperial court wants to levy taxes and raise troops to garrison the border passes, and the taxes are twice as much as usual, and we really can't resist them, so we have to find a few more roads.

Life is not better now than before, and your father's illness is also much more worried. ”

Hearing Xu Huaisheng say this, Wen Tang probably understood something in his heart.

She smiled and didn't ask any more, but hurriedly talked to Xu Huaisheng about some homely things......

In the evening, Jiangcheng.

For the sake of prudence, after eating, Wen Tang left the private room first, so as not to be bumped into her and Xu Huaisheng together.

After leaving the tavern, she immediately went back to the house, went to her room to close the porter, secretly wrote a letter, and then handed it to He's mother, asking her to let Xiang Sheng deliver the letter to the place she said no matter what.

It wasn't until five days later that Xiang Sheng brought back a reply letter and handed it to her, and she smiled happily.

In the evening, Wen Tang and He Ma walked through the garden together and were about to go to the hall for dinner.

happened to bump into Wen Changxiu and a strange man walking towards him.

Wen Tang saw that the man was tall and noble, so he couldn't help but look at it a few more times with curiosity.

She didn't look away until the man realized that her gaze was meeting hers.

So much so that the man became curious about her.

After approaching, Wen Tang looked at Wen Changxiu affectionately and called out to the eldest brother, and Wen Changxiu smiled and introduced the man next to him.

"Tang'er, this is the fourth master, please be safe."

Wen Tang thought that this was an elder relative in the eldest brother's room, so he called out respectfully: "Tang'er has seen the fourth master." ”

But when I looked up and saw the fourth master smiling brightly, I was curious that this elder seemed to be old and young.

What kind of relatives do you have to respect a master?

However, it was inconvenient to ask at the moment, Wen Tang could only hide his curiosity in his heart.

Wen Changxiu and the fourth master seemed to be in a hurry to go out, and they hurried forward without saying anything.

Just after the two of them walked farther away, curiosity drove Wen Tang to take a few steps and stop and look back, coincidentally, the fourth master also looked back at her at this time without warning.

The two were far apart, but their eyes were as tightly sucked together as two magnets.

And the fourth master also looked at her with a meaningful smile, which aroused a layer of goosebumps on Wen Tang's arm.

A strange feeling arose.

Wen Tang didn't like this feeling, so he quickly turned around and walked forward.

In the hall, Wen Tang and He Ma had just entered the hall and saw that Xie and Xue and several children were already sitting at the table.

In the past, Wen Changxiu sat next to Wen Changzhi when he ate, and Wen Tang was beside Wen Changxiu.

But Wen Changxiu is not here today, she wants to sit with Wen Changzhi, this is really an enemy meeting, and she is very red-eyed.

Wen Tang was just about to sit down, Wen Changzhi had already kicked away the stool on his side, looked at her with malicious intentions and said, "I'm sorry, the stool is down, eldest sister bend down and help it." ”

The direction of this stool is exactly facing Wen Changzhi, if you bend down, it is equivalent to bowing to Wen Changzhi.

I don't know how he will tease me.

Mother He walked over at this time and wanted to help Wen Tang up the stool, but before she could get closer, she was swept away by Wen Changzhi's legs.

"Fuck off, you old thing. I'm asking my eldest sister to help me, not your old thing that has to cover the coffin. ”