Chapter 17: The Tang Family's Martial Arts

Aunt Xia Mei rarely sees people, and she always speaks coldly when she sees people, always simply conveying the meaning of the old lady, and has never been so enthusiastic and considerate as today.

Everyone is surprised by what Fluttershy did today.

Aunt Xia Mei is an orphan, she has been following Lao Taijun since she was a child, she is Lao Taijun's dowry maid, she has never heard of any relatives and friends, and Fluttershy is also here for the first time, today Aunt Xia Mei is so polite to see Fluttershy, everyone really doesn't understand, and they don't dare to interject, everyone just looks and listens silently.

The only voices in the lobby are Aunt Summer and Fluttershy.

The old lady broke the ice first: "Fluttershy, my hard-working girl, tell me, what do you want to do in our Tang family?"

Fluttershy: "Back to the old lady, I am willing to stay in the Tang family and make cows and horses for the second young master for the rest of my life." ”

The old lady: "Be a slave, forget it, the old lady wants to blame me for being ignorant, you just stay by Wen Ting's side, she has a maid core, and Wen Ting is a companion." ”

Wen Ting: "Thank you, thank you, grandmother." ”

Fluttershy's face flushes and she tries to say something, but she is too embarrassed to say anything.

Wen Ting saw it in her eyes, remembering the scene when she met Tianyou in front of the teahouse just now, and wanted to say something, seeing how ugly she looked, the words came to her mouth and took them back.

Wen Ting took Fluttershy's hand again and said, "Good sister, stay with me, be a companion, God bless your brother, you can go over and help if there is anything wrong with your brother." ”

Aunt Xia Mei clapped her hands and said with a smile: "This is the best, the family should love each other." After speaking, Aunt Xia Mei took out a box of tea leaves from her sleeve and said, "Oh, I forgot." The old lady was very happy to learn that the second young master was born different, and ordered me to send a box of good Mingcui tea, and asked the master to taste it with the second son and the young lady. ”

Shen: "Thank you, auntie, thank you, old lady, I will accompany you to meet my uncompetitive master." ”

At this time, someone outside the door reported: "Old lady, madam, the old king next door knelt outside the door and begged to see him, saying that his godson had no way to ask for punishment." ”

Old lady: "No, let him get out early, as far as he goes." ”

Aunt Xia Mei: "Slow! Tang Fu, you go to spread the word, don't meet you, just say what the old lady said, everything the ancestors of the Wang family did for my old lady The Tang family remembers, and the hard work of the Wang family in the past few years The old lady also sees it in his eyes and remembers it in his heart." The old lady said, my wife, God bless what his mother said to the old king, if you can continue to live in the other garden, just discipline your children well, don't make any more mistakes, don't do anything sorry for the Tang family. ”

Tang Fu listened to Aunt Xia Mei and turned around and left, and when he got to the door, he saw Lao Wang kneeling and directly said what Aunt Xia Mei had just said.

When the old Wang next door heard this, he cried excitedly, and said: "It's all my godson, I can't forget the kindness of the Tang family, I will discipline my children well in the future, I have no face to live in the other garden, and I will move out tomorrow." After speaking, the old Wang next door knocked his head three times again, and then stood up and walked back.

The night was already very deep, in the study, an oil lamp was shining, Tang Qianzhi was wearing a gray Taoist robe and sat on the futon with his eyes closed, and when he heard someone push the door in, he wanted to get angry, and when he saw that it was Aunt Xia Mei, he said politely: "Auntie is coming so late, what does the old lady command?"

Aunt Xia Mei: "The old lady ordered me to send a box of good Mingcui tea, please taste it with the second son and the young lady." ”

When Tang Qianzhi heard this, he immediately stood up and bowed down and said, "Thank you, old lady! Thank you, aunt!"

Aunt Xia Mei smiled and pulled Shen Shi to turn around and leave, and said, "You cultivate well, I won't bother." Tomorrow morning, I will arrange for the second son and the young lady to have a good taste with the old man and chat about family life. ”

What a great honor this is, the old lady sent Mingcui tea.

Mingcui tea is a special family tea of the Tang family in Maoshan, and it is said that drinking this tea has the effect of picking yin and replenishing yang, and only the old lady can drink it in the Tang family.

The Tang family has three hills in Maoshan Mountain, and three catties of such tea are fried every year. Every year before the Qingming Festival, the Maoshan Tang family will gather eighteen fifteen-year-old virgin girls to pick fresh leaves, mainly bud buds, requiring the buds to grow below one inch, pay attention to tenderness, freshness, evenness, and net, and then choose a virgin body of the hand-fried tea master for pure manual frying. Its tea leaves are delicate and even, soaked in water with green color, the aroma is high and lasting, the tea leaves are quite beautiful like a bird's tongue, in the cup with the wave to turn such as a bird singing cui, the old lady likes it very much and calls it Mingcui tea.

Drinking Mingcui tea, even a cup, is the supreme honor in the Tang family. It is a kind of happiness to brew a pot of good Mingcui tea and taste it with your son and daughter.

In the study, Tang Qianzhi retreated left and right, leaving Tang Wenting to brew a pot of fine Mingcui tea on the side, pulling Tianyou to sit down quietly, and the father and son quietly looked at the rusty iron gun on the wall.

Drinking the best Mingcui tea, Tang Qianzhi seemed to be a different person, very talkative and excited.

However, Tianyou drank Mingcui tea, felt a cool breath from his belly, and felt that the study was very strange, everything was so blurry, as if it was far away, he had to stare quietly at the rusty iron spear on the wall.

Tang Wenting drank Mingcui tea, she was also very excited, and she had a lot of words, there were many things she didn't know, and she had always been curious, he wanted to ask.

Tang Wenting wanted to ask about that thing the most, the last time she asked Fan Changgui: What is the martial arts of the Tang family.

Tang Wenting asked: "Father, there are rumors on the rivers and lakes that the Tang family is commonplace, but is it true that the Tang family has passed down the ancestors' martial arts from generation to generation?"

Tang Qianzhi took a sip of the teacup, smiled and replied: "Silly girl, if it's fake, how can Qianguo Lane still have the surname Tang until now?"

"Your grandfather and the old lady's martial arts are unique in Jiangnan, otherwise how could Jiangnan Wulin surrender to the Tang family?"

Tang Wenting listened to her father's words and smiled happily.

However, Tang Wenting couldn't help but ask: "Then why is our martial arts very average now? Is it because the martial arts cheats have been lost? Or do we not understand and can't practice?"

Tang Qianzhi: "When I was a child, I heard my father say that our ancestors read a book "Notes on Self-cultivation" to practice peerless martial arts, but I don't know why the ancestors destroyed it?"

Tang Wenting: "Why did you ruin such a good book?".

Tang Qianzhi: "I don't know the specifics, we only know that our ancestors have made a rule that they are never allowed to mention it!"

Tang Wenting: "Father, Tianyou has been looking for a book when he was a child, a book that can speak, could it be the ancestor's "Self-cultivation Notes"?"

Tang Qianzhi: "No, definitely not!"

Tang Wenting: "So sure?"

Tang Qianzhi: "Yes, because I have seen it, it is the method of self-cultivation and qi cultivation!"

Tang Wenting: "Have you seen it?"

Tang Qianzhi: "Yes, right here, on this desk." I've heard my father say that your grandfather and old lady have also read that book, and they are here, on that desk. But the old lady didn't allow me to say it, and he didn't allow me to mention it. ”

As he spoke, Tang Qianzhi pointed to the desk.

The desk was complete, clean and nothing.