Chapter 842: The Man Who Didn't Speak in the Ancestral Hall
When facing Old Man Lin in the National Education Academy, even when facing his master Shang Xingzhou, or in Xueling, elsewhere, until last night when he faced the second master of the Tang family in the Dao Palace, whenever he met those depressed big people and elders, Chen Changsheng would always think of that friend.
It was the first friend he met after coming to Kyoto from the town of Xining, and it can be said that the first friend in his life.
His acquaintance with that friend was actually a little inexplicable. It was when the Heavenly Dao Academy was enrolled, and many candidates who had successfully washed the marrow and even sat in the Zhaojing realm were waiting in line to be tested, and he didn't know what cultivation was at all, he saw a young man in green clothes, and then the young man who was obviously a genius of cultivation said that he was also a genius. The young man went to the Plum Garden Inn, found Chen Changsheng, had a meal, and then the two became friends, it's that simple.
That friend's name is Tang Tang.
He was ranked thirty-six on the Qingyun List at that time, so he changed his name to Tang Thirty-six.
From then to now, I don't know how many times the Qingyun List and the Star List have changed, and his ranking is naturally changing, but he has never changed his name, or because he has always lived under the name of Tang Thirty-six in his favorite youth.
The reason why Chen Changsheng thinks of Tang Thirty-six and misses Tang Thirty-six many times is not only because he is his friend, but also because Tang Thirty-six has always played a very important role for him and the National Education Academy, what he and Su Moyu, Folding Sleeves, and Xuanyuan Po are not good at, Tang Thirty-six is very good at it, what they can't say, Tang Thirty-six can easily say it, what they are embarrassed to do, Tang Thirty-six never knows what it means to be ashamed.
In other words, it was precisely because of the existence of Tang Thirty-six that he and the National Education Academy were able to live so easily and smoothly during the years they spent in Kyoto.
Tang Thirty-six is the person who can make his opponent feel the most painful.
Because he is the only grandson of the Tang family, he is very rich and has no taboos, especially after joining the National Education Academy, he has never played the role of a noble son, extremely high, arrogant, unparalleled, scolded and cried a little girl in Shinto, and kicked the cripple in Baihua Lane, there is nothing he dare not do.
He had the things that Chen Changsheng lacked the most.
That is the real blood, youth, and self hidden under the flying arrogance.
At the time of the change of Tianshuling, Tang Thirty-six was forcibly taken out of Kyoto and returned to Wenshui, and it has been three years since then.
Except for the two and a half years in the old mansion, he has been imprisoned in the ancestral hall for half a year.
Those high-flying arrogance seem to be gone.
Those hot-blooded youthful selves are even more nowhere to be found.
He was unkempt, unkempt, his clothes dirty, his eyes were blank, like a dead man, and he was silent, as if he were dumb.
All you can see in him is numbness and lifelessness, which means giving up and despair.
Anyone who sees him now will probably think that he is a beggar or an ascetic.
No one can associate him with the noble son who stood among the flowers and received the admiration of countless Kyoto girls.
But Chen Changsheng won't, because he knows this friend of his better than anyone else, and believes in this friend of his more than anyone else.
He believed that even if he found that the sun had fallen into the abyss and could no longer get up and the world was about to be destroyed, Tang Thirty-six would not hide in the bed and cry, but would call all the red people in Kyoto to have an uncovered meeting, and then take the young people he felt qualified to fight with him, with an unimaginable amount of gold and silver treasures and a few carts of blue lobsters, and chase the fastest horse towards the place where the sun set, and keep cursing the dirtiest words to the sky and singing the stupidest songs.
If Chen Changsheng saw the picture in the ancestral hall, he would know that his thoughts were correct, and his worries were also superfluous - last night in the Taoist hall, he told the second master of the Tang family that he was very worried about whether Tang Thirty-six had a good futon in the ancestral hall, and whether he would hurt his knee because he knelt for too long.
Tang Thirty-six didn't kneel at all.
No matter how lonely his figure is, no matter how unkempt he is, no matter how lifeless he is, he didn't kneel anyway.
Instead of kneeling on the futon, he sat on it.
And it is Keiza.
It's the most indecent way to sit.
His legs were spread wide and he was facing the ...... in front of him with his crotch Countless tablets.
Those tablets are the ancestors of the Tang family, and they are his ancestors.
So what?
If you want to lock me up, then don't expect me to honor you.
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Tang Thirty-six, of course, is still the previous Tang Thirty-six.
Yes, after being imprisoned in the ancestral hall, he was completely cut off from the outside world, not to mention that he could no longer write letters to Chen Changsheng, or there was no one to talk to him.
According to Old Lady Tang's orders, no one was allowed to talk to him, and there was no one in the ancestral hall except for a dumb servant who was responsible for sprinkling and sweeping the courtyard.
That is, from that day on, Tang Thirty-six stopped talking.
The so-called silent resistance, no one can do it more thoroughly than him.
Not being able to know the news of the outside world, not knowing what is the illness of the father, and what is the condition of the mother, of course, is a very anxious thing.
But it also gave Tang Thirty-six enough time to think and practice.
Either because the ancestral hall was too quiet and no one disturbed him, or because his father's illness was getting worse and he was about to die, it only took him half a day to think clearly about what he hadn't figured out two years ago - the reason why the old lady did this.
In the hundreds of years that Old Lady Tang has been in charge, what is the most famous thing?
It's his vision.
Whether it was Su Li back then or Wang Po later, it has been proved that Old Lady Tang has a pair of discerning eyes that can recognize people.
Later, Mrs. Tang gave the yellow paper umbrella to Chen Changsheng, who was about to enter the Zhou Garden, naturally not just because of the friendship between Chen Changsheng and Tang Thirty-six, but because Mrs. Tang valued Chen Changsheng as much as Su Li and Wang Po, and this investment had great benefits in strengthening the relationship between the Tang family and the state religion.
Why did he suddenly change his mind?
First of all, Mrs. Tang and Shang Xingzhou are true like-minded people, and there is a secret friendship between them that has lasted for hundreds of years.
At first, he acquiesced to Tang Thirty-six befriending Chen Changsheng and secretly helping the National Education Academy, largely because Chen Changsheng was a student of Shang Xingzhou.
Now that Chen Changsheng is at odds with the master and apprentice of the merchant boat, Old Lady Tang naturally has to consider which side he should support.
From the internal point of view of the Tang family, the problem that Mrs. Tang wants to solve is the ownership of inheritance.
Shang Xingzhou and the imperial court supported the second room.
Chen Changsheng and the state religion undoubtedly supported Changfang.
In the change of Tianshuling, the performance of the second master of the Tang family was very outstanding, and Tang Thirty-six knew better that the second uncle's ruthlessness and toughness were far more appreciated by the old lady than his father's gentle way at the beginning, and more importantly, his father was already seriously ill and had no disease to treat.
How to choose a son who is young and powerful, and a grandson who has a lot of potential but is not fledgling?
If you look at the past history and glance at the old paper books, you will know how to choose.