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Xu Yuhua was not a rigid person. On the contrary, he was a very smart man, otherwise he would not have gone to Taihu Lake to be the chief military advisor of the pirates. Tang Tong's words made him understand several things. First, he understood that Tang Tong was not a person who was content with what he had, and he would not care about how others viewed him. Second, he understood that Lord Tang did not want to accept Xu Yuhua as his subordinate, but wanted to gain Xu Yuhua's gratitude and loyalty when the time was right. The third point was the meaning of those words themselves: beauty is not the root of trouble, but one's own incompetence is the root of trouble. This was both reasonable and domineering.
Xu Yehua himself was not an ambitious or domineering person, but he understood that the lord he wanted to serve must be an ambitious and domineering person. After figuring this out, Xu Yehua's depression was swept away and he laughed loudly towards the sky: "Your Excellency is right. I have learned a lesson from this. I now understand what to do in the future."
"Do you really understand?" Tang Tong asked with a smile.
"I really understand." Xu Yuhua nodded, drank the wine in the glass, and then turned the glass upside down on the table.
"Well, let's go. I've lived for so many years, and this is my first marriage. You have to help me arrange it." Tang Tong stood up, but poured out the wine in the glass and said, "This wine is terrible. It tastes like horse urine."
"What do you mean by the first marriage, sir? Are you planning to get married for the first or third time?" Xu Yehua threw a small piece of silver on the table and asked curiously.
"You know, this ancient time was actually a good time for men. There was no need to worry about committing bigamy." Tang Tong smiled and did not answer Xu Yuhua's question. Instead, he said something else that Xu Yuhua could not understand.
"Bigamy? What kind of crime is this?" Xu Yuhua followed Tang Tong and really couldn't understand what Tang Tong meant by this. How could he understand that Tang Tong was just speaking out of his feelings?
"It's the crime of bigamy. If a man marries multiple wives, even God will decide that he is not a good man and think it is a sin." Tang Tong naturally couldn't say that this was a law in later generations, so he made a joke with Xu Hua.
"Your Excellency is right. That man must have snatched too many women, and even God couldn't stand it anymore." Xu Yuhua saw Tang Tong's serious explanation and didn't know whether Tang Tong was joking. He was also a smart person. He thought that Tang Tong's words were a wake-up call for him. Evildoers will be punished by God. In this era, the theory of ghosts and gods still has a market.
Tang Tong saw that Xu Yuhua had misunderstood his words, so he naturally did not correct him. They returned to the Tang family one after another. Although the people in the tavern did not know Xu Yuhua, most of them knew Tang Tong. Naturally, many people heard Tang Tong's words clearly. After Tang Tong and his friends left, they all started talking about it.
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Chen Shulin was a scholar. He took the exam for more than ten years and was still a scholar, but he made his family poor.
Chen Shulin is a bit old-fashioned, or perhaps he has become dull because of reading too much. Not only can he not do anything to make a living, but he also speaks a lot of nonsense and believes that other than studying, all other livelihoods are inferior.
But in fact, no matter what era, a person's poverty is the lowest thing. Chen Xiucai could only lament in his heart that people's hearts have changed and the world is fickle. He also had a lot of complaints about his daughter remarrying after being a widow. If this was not his daughter, if it were not for the fact that his daughter would leave forty or fifty taels of silver to Chen Xiucai and his wife every time she returned to her parents' home in the past few months, Chen Xiucai would not be able to say anything, because the food Chen Xiucai eats and the clothes he wears now are all given by his daughter.
Chen Xiucai understood his daughter's suffering, but he always believed that starving to death was a small matter while losing chastity was a big matter. After all, he was a scholar and could not afford to lose face. So when Tang Tong came to his house for the first time, Chen Xiucai did not give him a good look. No matter how high the official position of the son-in-law is, the father-in-law always has to put on airs at this time.
Chen Xiucai did not look at Tang Tong well, which made his daughter Chen Yuxian feel very embarrassed. After all, Chen Yuxian's mother was very satisfied with Tang Tong. No matter what, Tang Tong was a high-ranking official, and a wealthy official at that. It was the blessing of Buddha that he could marry her daughter. After Chen Yuxian cried in front of her and told her all the grievances, the old lady looked at Tang Tong with not only satisfaction, but also a hint of respect.
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