"Tang'er, when did you set off to check Tianpu Zhuangzi?" Not wanting Gan Tang to fall into sadness all the time, Lu Xun changed to a topic that he was very concerned about.

Gan Tang thought of the purse that Lu Shangyin gave her, "Thank you for arranging it for me so thoroughly, when I get to the place, if there is anything difficult, I will go to the person you recommended to me for help." ”

Lu Xun smiled, "Then do I also want to thank Tang'er for your willingness to believe me?" ”

After getting along several times during this time, Lu Xun found that Gan Tang was too polite to him.

It is true that she is willing to accept any of his moves, which makes him feel that he is needed by her, but because of this politeness, he always feels that there is a distance between them.

"I ...... I...... Don't you like that? He stammered for a long time, and finally Gan Tang carefully asked what he didn't like.

Seeing Gan Tang's pair of bright eyes dyed with hesitation, Lu Xun shook his head helplessly, "No, as long as it's Tang'er's business, I will take whatever I want, I just hope you don't be polite to me because you are worried about troublesome me." ”

Gan Tang was confused, "You have helped me a lot, it's enough." ”

Lu Xun couldn't hold back, and patted Gan Tang's head twice, "Tang'er's requirements for her husband are too low. But I can't, I'm greedy, I want my wife to have my place in her heart is the most important and irreplaceable. ”

Lu Xun's eyes were scorching, and his tone was deep, "Tang'er, in fact, I have always been haunted by the fact that you were in Xichuan, listening to your grandfather's words and marrying other families, if the marriage decree is half a month late, you will be another family's wife." ”

Gan Tang's marriage that time, Bian Fu did not look like a married woman at all, and the other party did not look like a married woman, everything happened in a hurry because Gan Tang was not given marriage, so the six ceremonies went very fast.

On the day when the holy decree arrived in Xichuan, it was indeed only necessary to welcome this ceremony in person.

Gan Tang's eyes were clouded with confusion again, "When I was a child, I lived with my parents and eldest brother in my father's land, at that time, the second uncle's family would go to my father's land every year to celebrate the New Year's Festival, the second uncle was the great Confucian of Ganquan Academy, and his temperament was gentle and elegant, and he was better to me and my eldest brother than to his own children.

Later, there was an accident at home, he was also the first person to rush to the house to comfort me, during that time, I trusted him with all my body and mind, but he turned his face to persecute me, when I heard my grandmother say that the second master of the Gan family wanted to harm me, I didn't think it was him, I just thought it was the grandmother in a desperate situation, but he betrayed my trust.

It's not that I don't want to believe you, but I don't seem to have the full capacity to trust someone. ”

Gan Tang felt a shadow in his heart because he died suddenly of his loved ones, and then he was persecuted by his trusted second uncle.

In the years when she was in Xichuan, everyone felt sorry for her childhood, and she would feel sorry and pity when she mentioned her, but she didn't want to be pitied all the time, which would make her keep being reminded of the nightmare that happened in June four years ago.

She is very useless, her self-healing ability is not strong, and the only way to save herself at the moment is not to think about those things, which still seem absurd and weird.

"I ...... I will treat you with sincerity, be a good wife of your Lu family, respect your mother-in-law, and be a clan woman, but don't have too many imaginations and requirements for me, otherwise, I'm afraid I will disappoint you. ”

What happens after disappointment? Ordinary bad - the friendship between husband and wife is getting weaker and weaker, but you can still look at the children and give each other enough respect; It's a bit bad - the friendship between husband and wife has disappeared, and I watched the flowers around Lang Jun, whom I once loved, and I withered day by day, and finally died of exhaustion; It's very bad - the husband and wife immediately broke off, and the family behind the two also turned against each other.

In these cases, Gan Tang didn't want it to happen.

"Silly girl, we still have a long life." Lu Xun is now distressed.

He didn't regret telling Gan Tang that he wanted her to be very heartfelt, if not, he didn't know the crux of the problem, at least now Gan Tang trusted him and was willing to tell him his knot.

As their days go on, he will slowly untie her heart knot, so that she can rely on her without worries.

……

Day 2.

Gan Tang got up early in the morning.

Because yesterday I told my fourth uncle and mother that I would go to Qimang Mountain today to worship Gantang's deceased husband and mother, Qi Mangshan is outside Yanlong City, if you want to return to the city that day, you have to set off from the city early in the morning.

At that time, Gan Sui was still sleepy.

After getting into the car, she confessed her sins and fell asleep in the car.

The fourth uncle smiled helplessly, "If my Sui'er had Tang'er, you would be as virtuous and elegant as you, I would burn high incense." ”

Gan Tang was modest, "Fourth uncle, you praised it falsely." Sister Sui'er is lively and cute, and she is also excellent. ”

"Tang'er, it's not a matter for you to live alone, you came to Yanlong this time to prepare for marriage, and to marry into a family like the Yanguo Mansion, then you should live in the old mansion of the Gan family, a bunch of gossip outside the province is not good for you." The fourth uncle's mother tongue is serious and persuasive.

"Fourth uncle, I will go back to Gan's house, although it is not my home anymore, but my father and eldest brother are still there, but I can't go back now. Yesterday I told you that I had something to do during this time, but it was not a prevarication, and I still need the help of my fourth uncle and my fourth uncle. Gan Tang smiled lightly and said softly,

"At that time, my grandmother came forward and made a deed with my second uncle, and the two parties agreed that the private property that my parents and brother had managed for many years would belong to me, but because I was young at the time, I could not independently manage those properties, so several elders of the clan took charge for me. I am leaving Yan Long alone now, just because I want to investigate secretly. ”

"For example, in Pizhou, Yuzhou, Jingzhou and other places, my grandparents will send someone to take over, and in the prefectures and counties near Yanlong, I will personally go there."

The fourth uncle and aunt nodded in admiration, Gan Tang's current property, if you calculate it carefully, it is also extremely rich, but because when the family was separated, Gan Tang was still young and did not get the right to take charge, how much is the settlement on the Gan family's side every year, it is how much, is there any cat in it, the fourth uncle and aunt are not afraid of offending people, there is.

"Tang'er, do you want your fourth uncle to help you check the output of that field in Linxian County?"

Gan Tang winked playfully, "I know that if I am the fourth uncle, I want to return to Yanlong before November, and I carefully planned to use the time on the road, but no matter how I calculate it, I can't go to Linxian before November, so I want to ask the fourth uncle and the fourth uncle to help." ”

The fourth uncle suddenly smiled, "Tang'er, do you want to believe that we will not be greedy for your family wealth, ask your fourth uncle for help, we should go all out." However, this matter involves your third uncle and eighth uncle's family, and I am afraid that there will be a disturbance at that time. ”

"The fourth uncle, the third uncle and the eighth uncle are compatriots of the same mother, what happened between them, why is the eighth uncle and mother arrogant to the third uncle? is now separated, and the second grandfather's family should also be ruled by the third uncle and mother. ”

From the entrance of Weiyangfang Street yesterday, Gan Tang saw that there was a discord between the third uncle and the eighth uncle.

Gansui was still asking her for help at that time.

The fourth uncle sighed, "You also know that our Gan family is the home of Confucianism, and a well-known Ganquan Academy allows the sons of the family to be appointed by His Majesty as officials even if they do not participate in the scientific examination." ”

This benefit is true, but generally only the descendants of the large clan can have this benefit, and the descendants of the small clan of the Gan family, unless they can be brilliant enough to make people look sideways, otherwise they have to take the road of the imperial examination to enter the court as officials.

"Two years ago, your second uncle told your third uncle and eighth uncle that he would choose one of the descendants of his family to go to the debate platform as an official, do you remember that your third uncle's family has not had a son-in-law for many years, and now it is easy to have one, and the health is not very good, so they say that they are afraid that they will not grow up, and the males born to your eighth uncle's family are all sons-in-law......"

Gan Tang nodded, signaling that he remembered, but did not speak to interrupt the fourth uncle's words.

"Our family respects the eldest son first, the original title given by your second uncle should fall on the head of your third uncle, but your third uncle's only son-in-law is only one year old, this official position can not wait for the young son to grow up to be awarded, and several cousins of your eighth uncle's family are mediocre in their studies, if there is no opportunity, and the family will not get much property in the future, when your group of cousins want to marry a daughter-in-law, I am afraid that they will not even be able to afford the bride price, so your third uncle and eighth uncle are fighting hard to prevent this opportunity."

As long as the famous elders in the clan supervise the patriarch well, urge him to take it out every year to provide for the family's children to study, and maintain the wealth of poor women and children.

The disadvantage is that the large sect inherits most of the Gan's property, and the rest of the small sects inherit a small part of the property.

"I remember that the first sons of several uncles of my second grandfather's family are about the same age as me, why don't my fifth uncle's family and my seventh uncle's family compete for this place?"

"Your third uncle and your fifth uncle's first son-in-law, are all concubines, your eighth uncle and mother have always been spicy, relying on giving birth to a child is a boy is a son-in-law, giving birth to a child is a boy is a son-in-law, the oppression of your other three uncles can't lift their heads, your fifth uncle is a soft ear, your fifth uncle can't afford to provoke so you can only hide, your seventh uncle's family sent a daughter to Shun Wangfu to be a little wife to Shun Wangzi, and now his family has other high branches, naturally he doesn't need the official position given by your second uncle."

Gan Tang felt very strange, she remembered that among the girls in her seventh uncle's family, there was only one girl as old as her, and only this girl had reached the age of marriage, but she was the daughter of the seventh uncle's family.

If the concubine goes to be a concubine, how will the sisters after her get married?

Second Uncle Gan is the head of the family, will he actually allow it? It's also too inaction.

As a Confucian family, the Gan family enjoys some preferential treatment, but also has constraints.