Gao Yantang

It is one of the four old houses in the village of Promoting Hall. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although it is not like the other three large mansions, it is the kind of mansion with three to five entrances. However, it is built by the mountains and rivers, the houses are high and orderly, and from a distance it looks like a big castle, which is the easiest place to defend and difficult to attack.

Gao Yantang was built just a few years before the change of dynasty, and it not only retains the essence of traditional architecture, but also has some modern atmosphere. The name of the person who built this house was Tang Dazi, and he was a famous grain predator in the promotion hall. With a shrewd mind and the opportunity to make a living in the disordered world at that time, he resold grain and became a well-known monopoly in the neighborhood.

Because of the three major mansions that existed in the hall, he returned to his hometown and built this magnificent building. Of course, Tang Dazi, who was in full swing back then, has passed away, and Tang Daxing, an old man who now lives in Gao Yantang, wants to call him his brother. However, Tang Dazi is the eldest son of the Tang family, and he is more than thirty years older than Tang Daxing, who is at the bottom of the brothers. When Tang Dazi later died, Tang Daxing was still in his infancy.

No matter who the former owner of Gao Yantang was, the deceased is gone. The one who lives quietly in it now is the owner of this house. The villagers are simple, obviously easy to forget the things of the past, with the loss of time, the people and things of the year have been left on the stone square in the threshold, or on the moss on the green bricks under the eaves. After tea and dinner, other people's lives have become stories between words.

However, the people of the promotion hall know that the prosperity and decline experienced by Gao Yantang are the epitome of social changes in recent decades.

At that time, although the young Tang Province did not really see its scenery, it witnessed its decline, and even watched the property belonging to the family eventually become the property shared by everyone. Although I don't know what Tang Daxing's family thinks, the sadness and helplessness at the beginning must have gradually dissipated with the passage of time.

Now that we have entered a new era, young people are naturally reluctant to live in this old house anymore, and are trying to move out and build a brick house. Tang Dazi is now a surviving grandchild, and they rely on their hard-working hands to set up another door at the foot of the mountain next to the ancestral house. It is the children of Tang Province who want to move out and live, and they are ready to find a foundation on the side to build a new house, leaving the two old people in Tang Province to live in the ancestral house.

Tang Province still has a special affection for this house, since there was no change of dynasty, as the elders of the Tang family in this house, Tang Province has shouldered the heavy responsibility of keeping the business. His father and brother went to Guangxi for a long time to do business, and the family was left with old and weak women and children. As the youngest male in this generation, Tang Daxing became the head of the family. Even if the family business later fell into the hands of Tang Zuyou, the son of the eldest brother Tang Dazi, Tang Daxing still guarded the family business for his nephew without regrets.

Tang Zuyou followed his father to Guangxi to work hard, and he could be regarded as having seen a big scene, but later he was contaminated with Fushou ointment and gambling addiction, and was finally deprived of his rights by his father and sent back to the promotion hall. Even so, Tang Province was still in charge of Tang Zuyou's family business, but then a series of things happened in the family, and in the end, only Tang Province was left, so that when it came time to change the dynasty, their family did not suffer a major purge because there were no adult men.

To say that Tang Daxing is more respected, because since he was a child, he has read poetry and books, is proficient in the Four Books and Five Classics, Qin, Chess, Calligraphy and Painting, and has a deep study of Qimen Dunjia and Kanyu. As for the current affairs and politics, it has never been touched. And he has always given people the impression that he is polite and knowledgeable, and he is a rare and knowledgeable person in the promotion hall.

Among these villagers in the promotion hall, several people who are more literate, such as Tang Jinji and Tang Zhijie, have suffered more or less persecution and tribulation in the great movement after the change of dynasty, and Tang Province is rare that it has basically not been affected. Even though many people don't necessarily know his son, Tang Zurao, the youth officer of the Carrying Forward Hall, they must know that Tang Zurao's father is Tang Daxing.

Tang Batian has always respected Tang Province very much, not only because Tang Province has no criticism for his personality, but also because his father's grave was found by Tang Province. When there was no change of dynasty, his father unfortunately passed away. Not to mention finding someone to find a good yin house, it is a troublesome thing to want to be buried. Later, Tang Da Province not only found a good feng shui homestead, but also called on the villagers to bury his father.

The gratitude of the orphans and widows to Tang Da Province can be imagined, but Tang Da Province never asks for credit in front of others, even if he gradually becomes famous. Although many people say that because of feng shui, they can gradually become brilliant, and their children can also step out of the countryside early and become employees of state-owned enterprises in the city. But Tang Batian believes that his efforts are only a little, and a lot of so-called luck may be what they call feng shui!

But Tang Batian preferred to believe that Tang Daxing must be a wise person, otherwise even if he experienced the luck of changing the dynasty and maintained the stability and safety of his family house and clan, it would be difficult to withstand the major events. After all, not only have many mansions in the Hongyangtang been wiped out, but even these big properties in Shili and Eight Townships have not been spared. Because later, it experienced the division of real estate and family business, and there was a big leap and a big movement, but Gao Yantang is still intact.

If it weren't for the extraordinary means of Tang Province, Tang Batian believed that Gao Yantang would not be the father and son of Tang Province living today. Although they only lived in half of the houses in Gao Yantang, and the rest were distributed to the rest of the villagers, compared to the mansions of Hongyangtang and Hongzhengtang, this place was already an outlier.

The grievances and grievances of the past, as well as the complicated inside story, seem to be difficult to find answers today. But there is a simple truth, but Tang Batian has always firmly believed, that is, Tang Daxing is not an ordinary person. As the children of Tang Province gradually grew up, Tang Batian took the initiative to cultivate and promote Tang Zurao, no matter what the purpose, in Tang Batian's opinion, he was somewhat at ease.

After saving the inexplicable Tang Jiadao, Tang Batian did not continue to stay on the side of the Hongyang Hall. Although because of Tang Jiadao's nonsense, the villagers had discussions in private, but Tang Batian believed that even if the police from the police station came, he would also believe that he did not have many suspicions. Although there were some things that could not be said to people at that time, if it really came to that point, Tang Batian knew that he would be safe and sound.

Because there was an inexplicable fire on Gao Yantang's side, everyone rushed here because of the matter of Tang Jiadao, and watched the fire, even if they had the heart to put out the fire, they were still some distance away. Tang Batian asked Tang Zurao to take some people back quickly, after all, Gao Yantang is a big house, although it may not all be burned out after the heavy snow, but it is not good if it hurts people because of the fire.

Tang Zurao was worried about his parents and children, so he naturally didn't stop at all, and quickly rushed back with a group of young people. Before leaving, the Ninth Master gave a few words to him, although in the eyes of the young people there was some chatter, but in the eyes of the villagers, it was indeed necessary. Tang Batian naturally didn't want anyone to have an accident, whether it was because of the relationship with Tang Da Province or not, or ordinary villagers, in Tang Batian's opinion, it should be.

Seeing Tang Zurao leaving, the villagers here gradually stabilized, everyone was checking Tang Jiadao's injuries, and seeing his answer and reaction, people should have gradually sobered up. After exchanging a few words with Tang Yihai, he asked the Ninth Master in person what he thought. Unexpectedly, the Ninth Master actually said that the Hongyang Hall is now gray, and there may be something big going to happen here.

Knowing that Luo Ran was carrying forward the hall, the Ninth Master said this, Tang Batian didn't think that the Ninth Master was alarmist and won the attention of these people. Instead, I think that the Ninth Master is a good reminder, even if most people don't believe it. Because when he communicated with Luo Ran before, he naturally saw that Luo Ran's situation was wrong. With Luo Ran's methods, it has become this picture, which shows that he must have encountered a huge problem.

Although Tang Batian vaguely guessed some reasons, he was not sure in his heart. After all, these things are too mysterious, and as a primary party member of the Carrying Forward Hall, he naturally has to take the overall stability as his responsibility. No matter what the final facts are, at least in the always calm and calm promotion hall, do not cause any major accidents. Because even in winter, a few old people died, and it was not a strange thing in the eyes of the villagers.

But thinking of the fire in Gao Yantang, as well as the people who died and died unexpectedly these days, Tang Batian faintly felt a huge pressure. Of course, he would rather believe that this was an accident, but in Tang Batian's heart, this really wasn't an accident.

Tang Batian decided to come over to Gao Yantang to take a look, after all, there was no point in staying on Tangjiadao's side. After comforting Tang Jinqi for a few words, he secretly asked the Ninth Master what he thought. There was no affirmation in the words of the Ninth Master, but he still hoped that Tang Batian would come to Gao Yantang to take a look, because he thought that the evil qi on the side of Tang Jiadao's home had been transferred, and now it looked a little bleak, but in fact, the problem was not a big deal.

So after saying a few words to the villagers about paying attention to safety, Tang Batian also brought a few people over to Gao Yantang.

There is not much snow on the stone road along the way, presumably Tang Zurao and others often go in and out, and they are relatively clean along the way. Seeing the smoke billowing from the wing room on the left side of Gao Yantang from a distance, Tang Batian knew that it was not Tang Da Province's side of residence. Standing by the small reservoir in front of Gao Yantang's house, Tang Batian felt that the sky above Gao Yantang, which was built on the mountain, seemed to be much darker than other places.

"Eight barbarians, how do I feel cold?" Shen Yuanqiao, who was on the side, saw Tang Batian's brows furrowed, stood in the back position, and whispered with some apprehension.

"You're wearing less clothes!" Looking at Shen Yuanqiao, who was shrinking, Tang Batian replied angrily. It seemed that he suddenly thought of something, even though he could clearly hear Gao Yantang's shouts in his ears, Tang Batian did not pass over immediately, but glanced at Shen Yuanqiao intentionally or unintentionally.