Indeed, at this moment, the Tang family was in deathly silence.

Tang Shijin knelt on the ground, his face full of tears, and kept saying, "I might as well die..."

The palms and backs of the hands are all made of flesh. - Mrs. Sun felt as if her heart was being cut by a knife when she heard this. She finally made up her mind: "I will go find your uncle! I will go find your uncle tomorrow morning!"

At noon the next day, Tang Shiyue and his two siblings had agreed to have dinner at Uncle Tang's house. When they arrived at the door of the brewery, they saw a carriage coming from a distance.

There was a copper bell hanging on the horse's neck, which jingled all the way. It stopped at the gate of the Tang family mansion, and then Tang Yongming jumped off first. He was tall and slender, dressed in a robe and a robe, and looked handsome and elegant.

Tang Yongming is better looking than his stepfather Tang Yongli, and he looks even more elegant in this outfit.

He first turned around and helped the old woman down, then turned back and helped down a fat black man wearing gold and silver jewelry, who was not tall, but from the back, he must have weighed more than 200 pounds, and was very strong. There were servants and maids following behind him, carrying things down.

Tang Shiyue looked at it from a distance.

Tang Yongming was a talented person. He was not ignorant of good and evil. He simply chose the one with greater benefits. He was open-minded. He stepped on his own face first, so others would naturally have no face to step on.

In a sense, he was returning home in glory, and he was obviously living a good life in the Cui family. Sure enough, in the evening, I heard that Mrs. Sun went to pay back the wages owed to the Chen family.

...

...

Cui Furong really liked Tang Yongming. She was always gentle and virtuous towards him, and was very humble. She did not regard him as her son-in-law.

This time, she did not put on airs at all and gave him enough face. In order to support him, she generously gave Mrs. Sun a full 100 taels of silver and gave her many gifts.

In this way, Tang Shijin's wages and tuition were all paid.

Later, Tang Yongming heard about the fact that the clan school had an extra two taels of silver every month. He patted Tang Shijin on the shoulder and said, "It's okay. Leave it to me. I will visit you tomorrow! I will never let you suffer any loss!"

As a result, Tang Yongming's status in the family instantly rose. Not only was Mrs. Sun so happy that she couldn't stop smiling and kept praising Cui Furong, even Tang Yongfu, who had lost his temper and blamed him before, now had to put on a smile, and the whole family served the couple with fear and trepidation.

The Cui family's carriage did not leave until dusk, with a lantern that lit up in front of the carriage, and it made a clanging sound all the way.

But this time Tang Yongming miscalculated.

The villagers naturally envied the rich and powerful, but they were extremely contemptuous of marrying into the family. Although there was no law in this dynasty that required a son-in-law to be exiled, the custom of looking down on son-in-law was increasing.

So even though Tang Yongming showed off his wealth, no one said anything nice about it. Wherever he went, he could hear people talking about him:

"If you call me, I will be too embarrassed to go out for the rest of my life. He is even shaking now."

"With the physique of the Cui family's wife, she might roll over and crush someone to death at night."

"When a man marries a new person, there's always a two-day feeling of freshness. I don't know how he or she will grow up."

"Can you still divorce after you've fallen out of favor?"

"Why not? A son-in-law is worse than a concubine. It's not surprising that he got divorced."

I'm not just jealous, I just look down on you.

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Early the next morning, Qi Jing sent Tang Shirong and Tang Junchen back to the clan school.

Tang Junchen walked in, still chattering to Tang Shirong: "Your house is really cool, it probably isn't even hot during the dog days of summer. I'll add a couch to your bedroom later, and I'll sleep at your house every day when I have a day off."

Tang Shirong said: "I wonder if it will be cold in winter."

"No," Tang Junchen said, "Such stone houses are warm in winter and cool in summer..."

As he was speaking, he suddenly heard footsteps behind him. Tang Junchen habitually stepped aside and turned back to say hello, only to see that it was Tang Shijin behind him.

Tang Junchen swallowed back the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

Tang Shijin glanced at him coldly, said nothing more, and quickly went to the cell.

Tang Junchen laughed softly and said, "The whole family is using the money of a son-in-law. I don't know what's so good about it."

"Hush," Tang Shirong made a gesture to silence him, "Don't provoke villains, it will only cause trouble."

Tang Junchen agreed with it and nodded, and the two of them packed up and went to the lecture hall.

Halfway through the class, they heard that the boss had arrived. The next moment, they saw the steward come in with two people, one of whom was Tang Yongming.

Tang Yongming looked around the room with a smile, and said with a smile: "Brother, this school is well run. Look at these young men, each of them has good character and will definitely achieve great things in the future."

The host smiled and said, "Yongming, you are too kind."

The owner of Tang Family Academy was named Tang Weishan, who was about forty years old, of the same generation as Tang Yongming, and came from a wealthy family.

But no matter how rich he was, he could not compare to the Cui family. So when Cui Furong showed up, he had no choice but to give her face. No matter what he thought in his heart, he always had a smile on his face.

Tang Yongming said: "I took the liberty to come here today because of the troublesome children at home."

He looked at her and said, "Rong'er has always been willful. Our family is very poor now, and it's hard for us to even pay the tuition. But he still wants to pretend to be rich and give an extra two taels of silver... Not to mention, he even dragged Jin'er along with him. This means he has to pay four taels of silver. This is too ridiculous."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone couldn't help but talk about it.

When Tang Shijin was in the clan school, he spent countless taels of silver, and nothing happened. But now, Tang Shirong just spent money once and did some important work, and his family came to visit him.

The treatment these two brothers received is really like heaven and hell.

Tang Shirong felt something was wrong when he came in, and when he heard him say this, he stood up and said calmly: "Master Dong is polite, and Uncle Yao is polite."

He stood up and bowed, being very polite and proper.

Tang Weishan said: "No need to be polite!"

Tang Shirong stood up straight and said in a loud voice: "I would like to let you know that I gave you two taels of silver not for showing off, but because I lived a hard life before, and my body was in great trouble, so I fell seriously ill."

"My younger brother at home generously gave me two taels of silver because I was thinking of you all. He did this so that poor students like me would not be delayed by hunger, cold, illness or pain while studying hard."

He paused and said, "Young brother also knows that our family is in financial difficulty, so the two taels of silver were earned from hunting and collecting herbs, and I did not use the money at home."

"This is out of kindness. I am not doing you a favor, nor am I asking for anything in return. I am just trying to make myself feel at ease... I understand your intentions and know your hardship, so I can't bear to refuse you. As the saying goes, 'Act according to your virtue and do what you can.' I don't think this is a mistake."

His words were full of ulterior motives. He said all that needed to be said, and then glanced at Tang Shijin: "As for the two taels of silver, you promised it yourself. I wonder why you promised it in the first place? Why are you going back on your word now?"

Tang Yongming frowned.

In fact, he took part in this matter not because he had any friendship with Tang Shijin, but purely for his own pleasure.

Being a son-in-law is bound to make people look down on him, but he followed his boss here at this time. Who knows who he is? Who dares to give him a cold shoulder? To put it bluntly, he just wants to find a place to show off.

Of course, he didn't know that his act of selling his own niece at a low price was already known to everyone in the clan school, and the act of being a son-in-law would be confirmed once it was discussed... Even what Tang Shijin had done in the past, of course Tang Shijin didn't say, so he had no way of knowing.

He just felt that Tang Shirong had always been quiet and taciturn, extremely filial, never talkative, never meddling, and very easy to deal with.

He came over for a walk, showed off his power, and then spread the news back to the village, so that those people who were blind enough to laugh at him would see that no matter how embarrassing he was, he was still a distinguished guest!

Unexpectedly, he hit a wall right away. Tang Shirong actually dared to refute him and his arguments were very convincing.