Chapter 14: Declaration of War

Gu Shi was shocked when he heard this, and looked sideways at Tao Jiang, but saw that she was still an innocent girl, but he couldn't think of why he could say such vicious words.

What does that mean? Could it be that she saw through her hypocrisy and wanted to declare war on herself?

That's right, that's exactly what Tao Jiang meant.

I don't care about any emotion to scold you, so that I can reap the luck value!

Tao Jiang saw that his various values were growing upward, and he couldn't wait to give birth to a few more tongues, like Stephen Chow in "Jiupin Sesame Official", he straightened it and scolded the four of them alive.

And Gu Shi and Tao Luo, who are darkening in color on the top of their heads, are two silly leeks swaying in the wind in Tao Jiang's eyes.

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The Ruiyun Courtyard where the long house is located is located in the southeast corner of the Tao family's mansion, which is a two-entry courtyard, with nine deep frames and five wide rooms, which is also a very bright place.

It's just that since Tao Changqing, the uncle of the long house, went for no reason, Zeng, the mother of the long house, cried day and night, and the medicine was changed countless but still not good.

Recently, I have been coughing and wheezing, and it is difficult to even get out of the inner room.

Ben also pointed to Tao Jiang, the daughter of the long house, who could hold up the façade of this room, but somehow was persuaded by the Gu family to move into the Xiyao courtyard in the second room.

This Ruiyun Courtyard was completely desolate.

Everyone is preaching, and the Zeng family, who does not rely on him and is also sick, will not live long.

Tao Jiang walked all the way, and saw that the glazed tiles on the top of the palace had been broken, and the vermilion lacquer on the eaves pillar was also a little mottled.

The courtyard in front of the hall should be full of flowers, but now there is only one paulownia tree with hideous branches, and the lush branches and leaves cover most of the sunlight in the backyard, and it seems that the entire Ruiyun Courtyard is desolate.

Tao Jiang, step by step is sad.

It wasn't until she walked into the inner courtyard that the little girl who sprinkled the sweep didn't recognize Tao Jianglai, but her eyes widened and she stopped what she was doing, and when she walked into the main room, she exclaimed:

"Miss! Am I right? Why is the eldest lady here! ”

The corners of Tao Jiang's mouth overflowed with a wry smile, the original body was originally a girl who was a relative in this courtyard, but now the girls were dumbfounded when they saw her, as if they saw some monster!

She didn't have time to think about it, she took three steps and two steps into the inner room, and a strong smell of medicine rushed towards her nose unscrupulously.

"Mother!" In the blue gauze curtain of the inner room, a thin figure stopped drinking medicine, like a willow shining water being projected on the wall by a candle flame, and the shape was erect.

"Who? Is it Jiang'er! The woman in the tent had a hoarse voice, and handed the bowl to the maid in front of the bed, and the curtain was about to be lifted and the woman got out of bed.

"Mother, it's me!" Tao Jiang hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Zeng's arm.

Tsang's overhead...... Tsk tsk, and Tao Jiang can form a dark cloudy, mountain rain is about to come to the sky.

Her mother, Zeng, was the only daughter of the Zeng family, a jeweler in Nanling Mansion, and she was also a good match with the Tao family.

When Tao Changqing was alive, he often traveled back and forth to Nanling Dongyi, and the old lady of the Zeng family appreciated this gentle and elegant Xiangxi medicine merchant very much, so he often stayed in Zeng's mansion.

After going back and forth, Tao Changqing and the Zeng family fell in love, and the old lady of the Zeng family was also happy with this marriage, so he married the pearl of Zeng's mansion to Tao Changqing.

It's just that as soon as he entered the Tao Mansion, the Zeng family seemed to have been rewritten and fell into a hell from which he could never recover.

First of all, the Zeng family was happy in the first year, and at this time, the second and third rooms had just married their wives, and the Tao family could be described as happy events.

It was only ten months pregnant, seeing that the child was about to land, Zeng's sudden abdominal pain was unbearable one day, and the doctor came overnight but only led to a stillbirth.

It's a baby boy that's already formed.

Because he was the first person of his grandchildren, Tao Yongjin entered this stillborn into the family tree with tears in his eyes.

At the end of the second year, Zeng became pregnant again. This time, the maid was very careful, and finally gave birth to a big fat boy.

For a time, the Tao Mansion was lit up and down.

It's just that the red lantern of this happy event is still hanging high under the eaves, and the Tao family has an accident.

This little master didn't know when he suffered from hay fever, and one day the catkins entered his nose and choked to death.

Poor Zeng's confinement was almost blinded by crying before he could sit down.

Fortunately, Tao Changqing took pity on her and stayed by her side day and night, which made her think of suicide.

When it was time for Zeng's third child, the three doctors lived in the outer courtyard in shifts every day, for fear that the mother and the baby would have another mistake.

Fortunately, the newborn has a ruddy complexion and a loud cry, which is very healthy.

The only pity is that it is a girl - it is the third mother of the Tao family, Tao Jiang.

However, Tao Jiang is really competitive, and since he was a child, he has followed his father around the shops, and he has been smoother than the big shopkeepers for decades, and soon has the reputation of "the first businesswoman in Xiangxi".

Therefore, although she is not a boy, her grandfather Tao Yongjin is also blue-eyed and loves her for ten minutes.

Zeng also thought that if he had a husband and a daughter, life would be bitter and sweet, and God would open his eyes and not torture himself anymore.

But he didn't think that when Tao Jiang was ten years old, Tao Changqing died in the northwest city of Nanling.

It is said that Tao Changqing spent all the money of the merchants brought out from the Tao Mansion and contracted the Oiran of the Chunfeng Building that night.

It's a thirteen-year-old chick, so it's worth 5,000 taels of silver.

All those who knew about it had a very good word about that night--

It is said that Tao Changqing specializes in young children and young girls, and selects some delicate children with red lips and white teeth who don't know what to do, and raises them in the house for his leisure to play.

And Tao Changqing that night is said to have died of a shameless "horse stroke".

This matter was reported back to the Tao family, and Tao Yongjin felt sorry for his 5,000 taels of silver on the one hand, and hated his eldest son for insulting the Tao family's style and making himself a joke in the Xiangxi trading house.

But it doesn't matter what kind of person his biological son is, and whether the cause of death is true.

He was also angry and wanted to remove Tao Changqing from the family tree, but the Zeng family took Tao Jiang, who was still ignorant, to kneel in the courtyard for three days and three nights before the matter was stopped.

But the cause of Tao Changqing's death was ambiguous, and no one could find out, so he was nailed to the pillar of shame.

Zeng's daughter, who had been hollowed out because of the loss of two children in a row, suffered this catastrophe again, and fell on the sickbed all of a sudden, and never got up again.

And the original body was supposed to take care of her mother, but she was instigated by the second aunt that she was now in front of Zeng's eyes, which would only make her mother feel sad and think of her father, so it was better to move to the Xiyao Courtyard in the second room, which happened to be able to prepare for marrying into the Gu family.

In this way, the original body moved into the second room with the Gu family in a fog, leaving her mother, who was already loveless, and left her in the long room alone.

Looking back now, there is indeed something hateful about the original body, and the Gu family did take this point from her, killing people!

Zeng Xu saw Tao Jiang, his pale face was covered with a layer of crimson, and his eyes were full of tears.

I felt that my daughter's skinny arm was a little embarrassed to see, so he pulled it out of Tao Jiang's hand without a trace:

"I'm afraid it's going to be winter, and it's always normal to be thinner."

Mama Wang on the side just came over with a hot medicine, stirred the hot air with a silver spoon, tried a mouthful of the decoction and said:

"Everyone else has a lot of fat in winter, but Miss is thin, and everything is the opposite of others!"

After speaking, regardless of Tao Jiang, he sat on the edge of the bed with his butt and complained a little:

"But there are some diseases, which can be cured by decoction, and some diseases, even if there are Daluo immortals, they can't be cured!"

After speaking, he paused, and then looked at Tao Jiang:

"For example, if you have a daughter, if you don't have a daughter, am I right, little miss?"

A pair of eyes glared at Tao Jiang like a sword.