Life experience is rising and falling

After packing up the courtyard under the waterfall, Zuo Lingquan and Wu Qingwan said goodbye and left the bamboo forest.

It was just noon, and Zuo Lingquan finally arrived at Qihuang Valley and was not in a hurry to return to the capital. On the grounds of being familiar with the environment, he asked Senior Sister Xiaohua to lead the way and walk around Qihuang Valley.

Qihuang Valley is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and only the valley entrance is for people to enter and exit. The interior area is not small, about five miles in radius.

According to the senior sister Xiaohua, the largest person in Qihuang Valley is the head of the sect, which is the national teacher Yue Pingyang. There are five rooms under the sword holding room, precepts room, alchemy room, classic room, and living room. Five uncles are the master room, and Wu Qingwan is the master room of the alchemy room.

There are nearly 3,000 disciples from Qihuang Valley, and the five masters must not be able to teach them. Therefore, there are several deacons under the five bedrooms, responsible for teaching the management disciples and teaching the teachings.

After visiting the places where Qihuang Valley can go, the sky gradually darkened. A spring thunder sounded through the sea of ​​clouds, and the fine spring rain fell again.

Zuo Lingquan has to go to Yuntai to run for the prince-consort tomorrow. He needs to prepare in advance and did not stay for a long time. After thanking Xiaohua, he rode back to Donghua City.

The spring rain in February is as soft as the White Deer River, thousands of sails gather in the water gate of Linhefang. The small streets by the river are also very lively. Traversing barons sheltering from the rain can be seen everywhere under the eaves on the street.

After Zuo Lingquan entered the city gate, he happened to pass by Linhefang. Before he had dinner on the way back, he entered the gate directly and came outside the Tang family’s tavern.

In the evening, it was light raining, and the light on Linhe Street was slightly dim. Yellow wine banners swayed in the wind and rain. Guests were sitting on the four tables in the winery, and Lao Zhang, whom I met yesterday, was among them.

When Zuo Lingquan saw that the guests were full, he stopped in front of the window. From the window, he could see Tang Jingyan dressed in a woman, sitting by the small stove to warm up the wine.

Tang Jingwen slept on the table all night last night. I don’t know if he didn’t sleep well. He looked a little wilted and his hands were holding his chin listless.

Although I don’t know the specific age of Tang Jingyan, from the perspective of the 25 or 26, the market dress with pearl hairpins and cloth skirts did not hide the softness in my bones. The listless appearance at this time also added a bit of lazy beauty like "I get too late to get sick and have a lazy thrush". It is completely different from the stingy and talkative image of yesterday, but it is also attractive.

The restaurant was full of guests, and Zuo Lingquan wanted to leave silently, but he wanted to say hello before leaving.

During a little hesitation, Tang Jingwen didn't see him. The detective Lao Zhang, who was sitting at the wine table inside, noticed him first:

"Oh, Mr. Zuo is here, come in quickly, be quiet, don't doze off, the distinguished guest is here..."

Tang Jingyun turned his eyes when he heard the sound. After seeing Zuo Lingquan at the window, his eyes lit up slightly and stood up:

"Xiao Zuo, why are you here again? No, what wind blows you..."

He was incoherent and obviously did not wake up.

Zuo Lingquan shook his head and smiled, put away his umbrella and leaned against the door, and entered the small winery:

"When you have nothing to do, come and sit down."

I helped to watch the night last night, and I left without saying goodbye in the morning, and I didn't forget to give the wine money. Tang Jingyan didn't even say goodbye to thank him. I felt embarrassed and hurried into the back room and greeted:

"Young Master sit down first, haven't eaten yet, right? I'll prepare wine and food for you."

There was no empty space in the winery. Zuo Lingquan came to the table of the detective Lao Zhang with his sword, sat down, and chatted for a while. Tang Jingyan walked out with two plates of hot side dishes and placed them on the table.

The detective Lao Zhang knew that the wine and food were prepared for Zuo Lingquan, and he had no intention of free meals. He picked up his sword and said goodbye:

"Young Master drinks first, I'll go out to patrol the streets."

After Zuo Lingquan said goodbye, he sat back at the wine table, looked at the side dishes in front of him with a full range of flavor and taste, and said with a smile:

"I'm here to find Sister Tang."

Tang Jingwen took the warm wine from the small stove, sat down next to Zuo Lingquan, and filled him with wine bowls:

"What's the point of doing? You have to pay money for your meal, and you don't want to eat for nothing."

Zuo Lingquan took the wine bowl and put it in front of Tang Jingwen, and poured her a bowl of wine:

"I thought my friendship with Sister Tang could be a waste of time."

Tang Jingwen looked at the wine bowl in front of him, hesitated for a moment before he picked it up and touched Zuo Lingquan, took a sip, and said softly:

"What kind of friendship, don't talk nonsense. Some tongue-in-law on the street hate the most. They stare at other people's doors all day long and are afraid that something will happen to other people's house..."

As Tang Jingyan spoke, Qingli's eyebrows showed annoyance, and her eyes were still aiming at the end of the street. It was obvious that she had some meaning, not just complaining casually.

Zuo Lingquan held the wine bowl and thought about it for a moment, and suddenly remembered that when he left in the morning, a woman was watching him with a bun shop at the end of the street.

He put away the teasing on his face and asked:

"Can someone tell Sister Tang's gossip? When I left in the morning, it was already dawn, and in the bun shop at the end of the street..."

"It's her."

When Tang Jingyan heard this, she became angry after rubbing it. She actually raised her hand and patted Zuo Lingquan's arm:

"You know that I am a woman living alone, drinking all night and leaving in the morning, so you can sneak away, and you still go out openly. You don't know, as soon as I opened the door this morning, I saw the woman gossiping with someone, and even came to ask me if I had found a friend..."

When Zuo Lingquan left in the morning, he didn't think so much. He said with a clear conscience:

"This is a restaurant. I came over to drink and was innocent with Sister Tang. If you want to walk, you will naturally walk through the main entrance. How can you make it secretly? Isn't it because you are guilty?"

“…”

Tang Jingyan thought about it and it seemed that too, and then he found the resentment on the woman again:

"That dead woman is my fourth uncle's mistress. She was originally a kiln girl. If nothing else can do, she likes to harm others behind her back."

Zuo Lingquan didn't expect that the woman was still related to Tang Jingxian and was difficult to respond for a while.

Tang Jingwen and Zuo Lingquan complained, and naturally wanted Zuo Lingquan to criticize the other party for his lack of morality. Seeing this, he explained again:

"My mother's surname is Chen. The Chen family is also a wealthy family in the capital. Chen Maode, the Censor of the Censorate, is considered my second grandfather."

"oh?"

Zuo Lingquan was a little surprised. He thought Tang Jingyan was a lonely and helpless little girl. Unexpectedly, there were still people in the family who were officials in the court.

However, Tang Jingyan did not feel at all satisfied with these relatives, and even disgusted:

"At that time, my grandfather was the eldest son of the Chen family and was in charge of the family business. There were more than a dozen shops in Linhefang belonging to my grandfather. Unfortunately, my grandfather only had one daughter and no son. Later, my father went to Beijing to take the exam and met my mother. The two became relatives.

When I was born, a fire broke out inexplicably, almost burning half of Linhefang.

My name is "Jingyan", because "Yan" is wood bent by fire. It was originally "forbidden to be" but it was changed to this now for the sake of good sound.

After that fire, my mother was frightened again when she gave birth to me and left soon after. My father got a heartache for this and left before I learned to walk. I was taken by my grandparents, and it was fine at first, but everything has changed since my grandparents drove away.

My second grandfather, Chen Maode, has several sons, but he is not very successful. As soon as my grandfather left, the Chen family naturally fell in love with my family's property and said that my mother was a married man and wanted to take back all the property.

I was unhappy and went to sue the official, but the government was not easy to manage because the industry was indeed the ancestral property of the Chen family. Later, Lao Zhang couldn't stand it and ran to find the chief officer of the arrest department to come forward and talk.

The chief official said, "My mother is a member of the Chen family. Even if I don't have a surname, I have the blood of the Chen family. I have not gotten married and have no elders, and I have no foundation for establishing myself. As a relative, the Chen family must fulfill their responsibilities of raising them and cannot take back their property, otherwise it will violate public order and good customs."

The chief of the arrest department was bigger than the Chen family. The Chen family dared not to force it, but they were shameless behind their backs. They had arranged marriages everywhere for me since they were fourteen years old, wanting me to get married, so it was natural that they occupied the industry.

These industries are all from my grandfather and my mother, why should I give them? So I won’t get married, and I will keep these industries even if I die..."

I don’t know how many years Tang Jingyun has been holding these grievances in his heart, and he is talking with a small wine bowl, and his eyes turn red at the end.

Zuo Lingquan listened carefully and gradually understood Tang Jingyan's situation, and felt shame and contempt for the Chen family:

"This Chen family is really not a thing. They are blatantly robbing the enemy and are not afraid of retribution."

"I am my granddaughter, so I don't stand on my side. What can I do? Anyway, I'm consuming it with them, so I won't get married. Anyway, I'm young, and they will die first..."

...

At dusk, the small streets by the river are full of pedestrians.

Tang Jingyan expressed his thoughts in the winery, and Zuo Lingquan sat next to him and listened carefully.

Neither of them noticed that a black-sailed boat floated through the river channel outside the door, and two pairs of eyes popped out of the boat's canopy.

"It's that boy. I saw him coming out of Tang Jingying's house in the morning..."

In the boat tent, the woman who sold buns in the morning was careful to hide her bloated figure and was talking to the middle-aged man next to her:

"Tang Jingyan must have a man. Let's call the Chen brothers over and catch them now. I think she has any reason not to repay the deeds and land deeds..."

The middle-aged man is the fourth child of the Chen family. He has been living in the capital for many years. No matter how ignorant he is, he has some eyesight and has not listened to the woman's instigation. He narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Zuo Lingquan in the winery carefully:

"This kid looks like he is wearing a robe from Yun Zhongjin. Judging from the texture, his family must be either rich or noble. Do you know his identity?"

The ferocious beast was so serious yesterday that the middle-aged woman was on the street. Naturally, she knew it, so she hurriedly said:

"I heard that it seems to be a relative of the Minister of Rites' family, whose name is Zuo Lingquan..."

Chen Laosi's eyes twitched, and his thoughts of running to the door to catch the current situation disappeared and he cursed:

"You stupid woman, the third-rank minister of the Ministry of Rites, is older than my father's official. How dare you make trouble?"

"You can't be unreasonable even if you are a senior official. This is my Chen family's property. She has made her be kind-hearted after getting married. She still doesn't repay the deeds and land deeds when she has a man. Isn't this shameless..."

Chen Laosi waved his hand and told the woman not to be noisy. He thought about it carefully:

"The Zuo Shigong is an important minister in the court, and I heard that his family is very well-off. The house in the capital is bigger than that of the prime minister's family. In this family, the young man will marry and take concubines. I think the bride price will not be stingy..."

"It means not to make trouble, come to the door and say that the matchmaker will match them together?"

"As long as Jingxian gets married, the property will naturally be taken back. My Chen family can still take over a bride price. Why do you want to break up if you kill two birds with one stone?"

Chen Laosi thought about it for a while and thought that this idea was good, so he stopped and let the ship dock and get off the boat:

"I'll go and say to my father. Tomorrow, all officials will have to go to Yuntai. Just this opportunity is to talk to the Left Minister about this matter privately... Are you sure they slept all night last night?"

"It's true. I saw that boy came out in the morning and even lifted my pants..."
Chapter completed!