Chapter 181 Wealthy and Powerful Relatives

Anshun smiled and said, "Master Tang, would you like me to arrange a carriage for you? Or would you like to bring some servants to help you?"

"You're welcome," Tang Qingshan said, "and you don't have to call me that, just call me Qingshan. I'm just going to the market to take a walk, there's no need to make any arrangements."

An Shun smiled and said, "My master instructed me yesterday to prepare a few pots of flowers for Master Tang. There are wintersweets, camellias, orchids and the like. They are all hardy and easy to grow, and not expensive. Master Tang can pick a few pots when he is free. It will be convenient to display them at home or give them away."

Tang Qingshan paused.

That’s why it is said that Mr. Shen is actually a very shrewd person and he thinks very carefully.

Because no matter whether Tang Qingshan is a victim or not, in the eyes of everyone, he and people like Tang Sanshui and Xiao Liu are all family.

So he avoided the matter of Xiao Liu. The clan leader and the village head had no choice but he must have been unhappy in his heart, so he did think about buying some things on the street and giving them to them when he got back.

But buying things for yourself, no matter what you buy, is certainly not as good as sending flowers!

Firstly, this makes it look more like a real visit to relatives, "a gift given by chance", and secondly, it just means that I have someone in the city to support me.

Having such a good relationship with the wealthy and powerful relatives in the city... This means a lot to the villagers and the clan leader.

It's just that he took advantage of the Shen family again.

Tang Qingshan was a little hesitant.

An Shun smiled and said, "My master said that we are now formal relatives. In the future, my master will do business with Xinbao and make money together. We still have a long time to get along. When the time comes, my master will not be polite when he goes to live in Master Tang's house."

Tang Qingshan finally said in a deep voice: "Thank you very much, and thank your master for me too."

He didn't really follow Anshun to pick flowers. After agreeing to this, Anshun smiled and walked away.

The second brother glanced at his father without saying anything, then walked slowly towards his sister.

Xinbao was still wearing a small robe and a scarf. It was a different color from yesterday, but the same as what Yan Shenjue was wearing.

One was big and the other small, one was tall and the other was short. Especially since Yan Shen Jue was walking backwards, their faces were facing each other, and both of them were very beautiful. They were surrounded by flowers, and the situation was really lovely and beautiful.

The second elder brother went over and followed Xinbao for a while. He found that Xinbao's short legs were moving quite fast and he could hardly catch up.

The second brother casually asked Yan Shenjue: "Can you draw?"

"I know a little bit," Yan Shenjue asked, "Why?"

The second brother pointed at the two of them and said, "I think you two are really beautiful like this. It would be great if I could draw you."

Yan Shenjue's mouth corners curved slightly.

But he still said very straightforwardly: "You should concentrate on taking the imperial examination first."

Second brother: “…”

After walking for three quarters of an hour, Xinbao's face was flushed and he was out of breath, but it was much better than before when he would sweat all over after every workout.

Seeing her father standing not far away, she immediately rushed over with her hands raised: "Daddy!"

"Well," Tang Qingshan took Tuanzi, looked at her little face, and said to her, "Xinbao, Daddy will be back in the afternoon. Xinbao, do you want to go back with Daddy?"

Tuanzi tilted his head and thought for a moment: "Xinbao can't leave yet, Xinbao still has to go to work to earn money, and he also has to plant medicine for Si De!"

She reacted immediately and hugged her dad with both hands and feet like a koala hugging a tree: "Daddy won't leave, Daddy won't leave! Daddy will stay with Xinbao."

Tang Qingshan said gently: "Daddy, go home and build a house. When the house is built, Xinbao can go home and live there."

Tuanzi said: "Xinbao can live in the old house! Xinbao wants his father to accompany him!"

Tang Qingshan said gently: "The old house is not ours. We borrowed it from the village and we have to pay it back..."

The father and daughter walked away while talking. The second brother followed behind them and said with a smile: "See, what's the benefit of raising a daughter? It's like having a rope tied to your leg. She'll nag you wherever you go."

Yan Shenjue replied irrelevantly: "Uncle Qingshan, you are indeed a wise man."

Tang Qingshan looks like an ordinary country uncle, but in fact, in many subtle details, people feel that he is different from others.

Just like when he is coaxing his treasure, he would never say that this is someone else's garden and we can't stay there for long, nor would he say how rich and powerful others are and you must not offend them, etc., which are the things every countryman would say.

He was obviously just a country boy, but he stood tall and the children he taught also stood tall. He said that being poor was not a problem, but being poor in heart was. After several years of hard times, none of the Tang brothers and sisters were poor in heart. This old father played an indispensable role in this.

No matter how Xinbao acted coquettishly, Tang Qingshan still went back after lunch.

Third Brother Tang and Xinbao did not leave, and neither did Fourth Brother Tang. Instead, he took the twins back with him.

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The Shen family sent them back in a horse-drawn carriage, and there was another carriage carrying six pots of flowers. After returning, Tang Qingshan gave two pots each to the clan leader, the village head, and the Yuan family.

Each flowerpot was about two feet high, and the pots alone were worth one or two taels of silver. Two pots of flowers could cost dozens of taels of silver. When these valuable gifts were given, the clan leader, the head of the village, and their two families felt relieved.

But even though I feel bad, I still have to say what I need to say.

The old clan leader came over and told him about Tang Zhaodi. Tang Qingshan also said directly: "Tang Zhaodi is just a child, but she has grown up. My Erlang is weak and Xinbao is even more delicate. I dare not let them live together."

He only mentioned his second brother and Xinbao, referring to that incident. The old clan leader smiled awkwardly. Tang Qingshan continued, "But after all, she has lost her relatives, and I will not ignore her. Therefore, I thought, I will pay one or two taels of silver a month, and ask the clan leader to find me a woman in the village, to provide Tang Zhaodi with food, lodging and clothes, and to stay with her at night, and not treat her harshly."

When the old patriarch heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, leave it to me."

Tang Qingshan said: "In short, as her uncle, I will raise her until she gets married, and I will give her a little dowry when she gets married. Other than that, I will not care about anything else."

"That's enough," the old patriarch said, "I have done my best."

As soon as he came out, he spread the word.

You know, at this time, a family may not be able to earn two taels of silver a year, one tael of silver a month, which is a lot. Even if Tang Zhaodi is well fed and clothed, it can't even spend half of it! Even the wife of the clan leader was jealous, but no matter how jealous she was, she trembled in her heart when she thought about what Tang Zhaodi did. She really didn't dare to take this job. It was so scary.

But except for the clan leader, no one in the village knew about this and they almost fought over it.

In the end, it was the old patriarch who made the decision and gave the matter to Mrs. Hu.

After all, the two families are neighbors, so it is convenient to take care of each other. Moreover, Tang Qingshan clearly said that someone must accompany her at night, so it would be more convenient if someone lives nearby. Otherwise, it would not be safe for an old woman to take care of an orphan girl.

But Tang Zhaodi was extremely disappointed.

She fully believed that once Xiao Liu died, she would be able to live in the small building of her uncle's family. She had even thought about it. She and Xinbao could split it and live on each side.

Anyway, didn't Mrs. Lin say that the second floor is called the Daughter Embroidery Building? She is also a daughter! She has always been looking forward to being the daughter of the eldest wife, and now she can finally fulfill her wish.

But she didn't expect that even after all this, Tang Qingshan wouldn't take her back! !

Tang Zhaodi was angry and resentful, and she cried and wanted to go find Madam Lin to ask something.

(End of this chapter)