"Tangtang, can you take your brother and sister to find your father and mother?" Liu Ying said to Tang. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Okay, does my sister want to take Tangtang as an apprentice and teach Tangtang martial arts?" Tang Yi tilted his little head, took Liu Ying's hand, and walked home.

"I didn't expect Tangtang to know that my sister was going to take you as an apprentice. Xie Xun also quipped, but Tang Yi couldn't fully understand what he said.

"Sister, what did this brother say. Liu Ying explained Xie Xun's words.

Tang Yi's little face was a little proud, and he smiled happily: "Of course, I know a lot, and Master Wang in the village praises me for being smart." ”

"Who is Master Wang?" Liu Ying wondered.

"Master Wang is Master Wang, everyone calls him Master Wang, and he often tells us stories. ”

After passing through a few twisting alleys, you will arrive at Tang Yi's house.

It was a low thatched hut with a small courtyard fenced off by a bamboo fence, and in the yard there was a white hen hanging around with a flock of tender yellow chicks, but even so, the yard was fairly clean.

At this time, it was almost noon, and wisps of cooking smoke were rising from the roof, obviously Tang Yi's mother was cooking.

"Mother, I'm back. Tang Yi shouted before he could walk in the door.

"Why did you come back so early today?" Tang's mother's puzzled voice came out.

"Because I brought my brother and sister. Tang Yi said happily, full of innocence.

When Tang's mother heard this, she poked her head out and looked, and there was a little boy of five or six years old next to her, who was holding her waist and learning her to look out.

At this time, several people had already arrived at the door, and Liu Ying answered with her hand: "Sister-in-law, in Xia Liu Ying, this is my brother Liu Xu, this is Xie Xun, the twelfth son of the Xie family in Jiangling, who came to visit suddenly, and I hope to forgive me for taking the liberty of others, we are here this time to accept Tang Yi as an apprentice." ”

Liu Ying went straight to the point and stated her intentions directly.

Tang's mother was a young woman in her twenties, with very ordinary appearance, her hair was coiled, a wooden hairpin was inserted, she wore a coarse blue cloth, and a gray apron tied around her waist.

It may be because she gave birth to two children, or it may be because of the poor living conditions, and she does not have the spirit and vitality of the average woman in her twenties that Xie Xun has seen.

When she saw Liu Ying and her party, a trace of envy flashed in her eyes, and when she heard Liu Ying's words, she smiled with a smile on her face: "This girl and two sons are also invited to sit in the back room, the house is a little simple, please don't dislike it, I'll come back in a while, and wait for him to come back and see what he says." ”

Xie Xun and the others naturally didn't want to refuse, and followed her into the hall, which was an adobe house, and it looked like it was some years old, not to mention the potholes on the walls, and even the bamboo strips in the walls were exposed.

However, like the courtyard, this hall was cleaned, and in the middle of the room was a table of eight immortals, which had obviously been used for many years, and the paint on it had fallen off a lot, showing a speckled effect.

There was also a portrait on the wall in the middle, Xie Xun didn't see who it was after looking at it for a long time, and he carefully looked at a few big characters of the dragon flying and phoenix dancing next to him, and guessed from the barely recognizable beginning of the word Taishang that it was probably Daozun.

Tang's mother invited a few people to sit down, brought a few stoneware bowls, and invited a few people to drink water, Xie Xun took it over and took a look, it turned out to be thin rice soup.

Mother Tang is not embarrassed, it is already good luck to be able to drink hot water for the distinguished guests, if they don't come at this point, they don't even have rice soup, I'm afraid they can only give a few sips of water to moisten their throats.

She instructed Tang Yi to compensate Xie Xun and the others here to chat for a while, and she took the little boy, that is, Tang Yi's younger brother Tang Er, to work in the kitchen again, and said that Tang Yi's father would come back soon, so let Xie Xun and the others stay for a while.

Sure enough, with just a cup of tea, Tang Yi's father Tang Ming came back.

Tang Ming is a tall and sturdy man, about thirty-five or sixteen, his appearance is still middle-to-upper, and he walks with great momentum.

The voice is also quite loud, making people can't believe that this is a farmer living in a dilapidated thatched hut in Baijia Village.

In fact, after some conversation, Xie Xun and the others knew that the man in front of him was indeed not a farmer, in addition to his own one-third of an acre of land, he also had his own cargo ship and did some small business.

It's just that he has been accumulating money and plans to buy a bigger house in Yangzhou City, but it happened that he encountered some problems in his business recently, so the family lived a more frugal life.

Tang Ming is different from Tang Yi's mother, he has seen some of the world, and knows that although the martial arts high-rollers look freshly dressed and angry, they spend a lot of money, and they are very majestic, but their life is quite unstable, and they may bleed five steps at any time.

What's more, as long as his family's life survives this difficult time, it will definitely get better and better, so from the bottom of his heart, he doesn't want Tang Yi to step into the troubled waters of the rivers and lakes, even if the three people in front of him have no malice.

But it was precisely because he was an ambitious person, not just a simple farmer, that he hesitated when he knew that Xie Xun was a descendant of the Xie family in Jiangling, and that they were here to help Wang Mao this time.

He naturally knows what kind of power the Jiangling Xie clan is, and if the people who are begging for a living on the river and water don't know that the Jiangling Xie clan and the Yunmengze Nujiao gang have direct or indirect connections with them, then his business will definitely not last long.

And the Xie Yang Wang clan is a business name all over Kyushu, ordinary people may not know their names, but they must have dealt with their shops.

For a small trader like Tang Ming, if he can get in touch with one of these two families, his business will be much better, and he will not be unable to find a way to go further in the future.

"Although it is the woman who wants to accept Xiaoyi as an apprentice, not the son of the Xie family, but if the son of the Xie family can accompany her, then their relationship is obviously not ordinary, maybe they are a couple. Tang Ming said secretly.

Liu Ying is so beautiful, looking at her dress, it is obvious that her family background is not ordinary, sitting with Xie Xun, isn't it just a talented woman? It is normal for Tang Ming to have this thought.

Therefore, Tang Ming said: "Miss Liu is willing to accept the little girl as an apprentice, it is really the luck of my Tang family, the little girl has liked to listen to these chivalrous legends since she was a child, and she is also very yearning for learning martial arts." ”

"It's just that she is a daughter's family after all, so it's not easy for me to send her to the martial arts hall for apprenticeship, and the family used to have a hard time and couldn't afford it, but now that a master like Niang can afford her, I naturally won't object. ”

What he said was not nonsense, Tang Yi liked to listen to these stories since he was a child, and he loved to dance with guns and sticks, even if the children in the neighborhood were slightly older than her, they couldn't beat her in ordinary fights.

Two years ago, he also thought about sending her to the martial arts hall in Yangzhou as an apprentice, but due to family conditions and gender reasons, this idea was dispelled by him as soon as it appeared.