3. Tang House
Chen Guangming glanced at the cat, sat up from the ground and wiped his face, staring at the young man who was already standing in front of him.
The young man looked down at him: "You are not hurt? What is this?"
Shen Guangming: "Minned Persimmon Meat Soup."
He said it and deeply regretted: Chen Qing shouldn't have added minced meat when she borrowed someone else's kitchen to make this soup. Although this thing tasted good in taste, it greatly ruined his good things.
"Try it?" Chen Guangming took out a half-filled bottle from his arms and put it on the ground, "Please eat, don't be polite."
He saw the young man's expression suddenly sinking, and he felt very happy.
The Tang family couldn't get in, so he went to find the Liu family, Zhang family, Sima family. There were many wealthy families in Qing'an City. When he entered the city that day, the brother and sister heard it clearly at the tea stall. This trick had no effect on the Tang family, and it was impossible for all the rich families to have no effect on the female family.
He jumped up from the ground, bent down deeply to salute the young man, and saluted to Mrs. Tang who was looking here.
"A little trick, no big deal, please forgive me, ma'am."
The cat licked it for a while and stopped eating it. He looked up at Chen Guangming.
Chen Guangming thought to leave quickly, although Mrs. Tang looked like a good man, and Wan had a bad intention to send herself to the official position, it would be no fun.
So he raised his legs and ran away.
But before he could reach the corner, the young man caught up from behind and quickly clamped his wrist pulse.
"My mother asked you," the young man said amid Shen Guangming's screams, "Do you want to work and make money? Our mansion lacks a flower planting."
Chen Guangming was ecstatic and nodded wildly: "Aoah... think about it!"
Chen Guangming called himself Chen Zhengyi. After getting the clothes, he quickly changed and immediately changed his body. The clothes had a big "Tang" character on the back, and the fabric was not very good, which was much worse than the one he wore when he went to the Wang family cloth shop. Chen Guangming was quite disgusted, but fortunately there was no odor on the clothes and it was considered clean.
He decided to establish a good relationship with the butler first.
So he said to the butler who sent him clothes, "Your wife is truly kind."
The housekeeper looked at him: "There are more people than you, and our wife didn't let you in because of this."
Chen Guangming said, "Why is that?"
The housekeeper: "You look pretty after all. Our wife likes good-looking people, they are beautiful and pitiful, so she becomes kind."
Shen Guangming: "..."
Housekeeper: "You don't have to be afraid. The lady won't do anything to you, but she just likes that everyone in the family is neat and beautiful. If we look good, she will be in a good mood, and if we are in a good mood, she will be in a good mood."
Chen Guangming suddenly felt that Mrs. Tang was terrible.
The housekeeper told him some simple rules. After Chen Guangming wrote down, the housekeeper asked him to go to the garden to loosen the soil and water it first.
The garden of the Tang family is not small, and Mrs. Tang named it Chunhuiyuan. Chen Guangming walked around the yard for a while and found a presbyterian.
Chen Guangming has no interest in flowers and plants, but Chen Qing and Shen Zhengyi like it very much. On weekdays, he either helps his sister's peony catch insects or prunes his younger brother's magnolia tree, so he does his job well.
But after working like this for a few days, he didn't know the owner of the Tang Mansion. That day he only saw Mrs. Tang, and even the young man who looked very brave did not see him. When Chen Guangming and the maids gathered together to tease melon seeds, they heard them mention the young man in a very admirable tone.
The young man is the only son of the Tang family, named Tang Ou. He is a martial arts man who has been practicing martial arts since childhood and has traveled outside for quite a long time.
Chen Guangming thought he couldn't see it. But the man was indeed running fast and was really strong.
The spring rain is greasy, and the plants and trees in the yard are becoming more and more prosperous.
On that day, Tang Ou walked into Chunhuiyuan and saw Shen Guangming kneeling in the grass with his butt sticking out.
"Little liar." Tang Ou said, "What are you doing?"
When Chen Guangming heard his voice, he threw a big red-footed centipede that he had grabbed over.
Tang Ou bounced the centipede away with a snap and landed in front of Chen Guangming. He looked down and saw that the centipede had been blown to death by Tang Ou's strength and was soft on the ground and stopped moving.
Chen Guangming quickly raised his head and smiled with a dog-legged smile: "Young Master is good at kung fu! This centipede is so hateful. He bites the little one a few times, but he can't beat him to death. He is still very powerful."
Tang Ou snorted and waved to him: "Stop pretending. Come here and ask you something."
Chen Guangming hurriedly wiped his hands and followed.
Tang Ou took him to the pavilion and asked him to sit down and talk.
Chen Guangming squatted for a day, his waist and legs were sore, so he sat down without saying a word. There were cold tea and simple snacks on the stone table in the pavilion. Chen Guangming ate while waiting for Tang Ou to speak.
He knew Tang Ou knew what he was, and he was too lazy to pretend. He crossed his legs and said, "What's the matter to ask me?"
Tang Ou: "Do you know the Wang cloth shop in the city?"
Shen Guangming: "…know."
After searching for Wang's cloth shop for a few days, he could not find any clues about Feitianjin, so he had to ask around with the drawn figures. Although several people answered that they had seen a young man like this, no one knew where he went. Seeing that Mr. Tang's birthday was getting closer and the cloth shop could not hold on anymore, he quietly came to the mansion to find Mrs. Tang.
Mrs. Tang was very surprised and called Tang Ou over and asked him to find a way to find him.
Tang Ou thought about it all night but had no breakthrough, so she came to find Chen Guangming, a ready-made liar, to learn from the scriptures.
Chen Guangming nodded while listening, his eyes looked left and right, pretending to think.
"Master, what do you think?" he asked.
"The liar is very cunning. He knows that the Wang family cloth shop is my mother's property, so he deliberately calls it our family and confuses the guys." Tang Ou said, "There has not been such an incident in Qing'an City in recent years. Anyone who has it was destroyed by the government. The thief should not be the people in Qing'an City. But he is so familiar with the relationship between my family and the Wang family cloth shop, so he has been in the city for a long time, or has accomplices in the city."
"Oh..." Chen Guangming said, "Maybe the thief just entered the city and was not familiar with the relationship between you two families. He just heard that the Tang family is the richest, and he happened to see that the Wang family was very prosperous, so he decided to use the name of the rich family in the city to deceive people?"
Tang Ou: "This... is too coincidental. Besides, the thief actually knew what is the most expensive thing in the shop, so he must have been inquiring for a long time. The shopkeeper said that a girl had dressed up as a maid to ask, but I think it should be more than one or two, maybe it was a gang."
Chen Guangming: "It may be that the girl has unique vision and the thief is extremely intelligent. She has only once investigated and understood the situation in the shop?"
Tang Ou sighed and looked at him: "What you said is too coincidental, no, right. The thief also claimed to be Shen Guangming and deliberately left a pseudonym to confuse the public. He is so cunning and meticulous, how could he just inquire once?"
The last piece of mung bean paste on the plate was also eaten by Chen Guangming. He wiped his mouth and said seriously: "It is true that it is false, and it is false that it is true. This is very reasonable. The liar might have deliberately left his real name just to disturb your thinking."
"…It makes sense." Tang Ou said suddenly.
Chen Guangming was shocked and realized that he had said too much. At this time, Tang Ou continued: "This guy seems to be an elegant thief. He stole the glass box and the flying brocade, but left the glass box behind."
"Fei Tian Jin?" Chen Guangming grabbed another plate of walnut crisps and ate it, "What is Fei Tian Jin?"
Tang Ou explained to him: Feitian brocade is extremely difficult to weave. Not only is the number of warp and weft far exceeding ordinary brocade, but there is also another mystery - the whole Feitian brocade will present different patterns under light and different angles, but its appearance is no different from common precious fabrics.
"This time, the entire "Tao Te Ching" was embroidered on the Feitian brocade. It was written by the calligraphy master Lu Qingchuan for my father." Tang Ou said, "The cost and production of the pen alone is nearly 1,000 taels of silver."
Half-bitten walnut crisps fell on the table from Shen Guangming's mouth.
"…How many?" Chen Guangming asked in shock, "One thousand taels?"
"At least one thousand taels." Tang Ou said calmly, "Although the glass box is also exquisite, it is at most only a hundred taels, and cannot be compared with Feitianjin. The liar could see the preciousness of Feitianjin. It really surprised me with such accurate eyes... What's wrong with you? Why is your face full of sarcasm?"
"It's okay..." Chen Guangming struggled to struggle from his resentment for his own eyes. "So, the liar Chen Guangming should be a little older, otherwise he would not be able to see the preciousness of this Feitianjin. There are not many people who can have such eyes. Older people have come to Qing'an City and have knowledge, so it should not be difficult to find."
Tang Ou tapped his fingers on the stone table a few times. Shen Guangming's eyes, which had originally landed on the walnut crisps, were involuntarily pulled over. He felt that this person's fingers were very beautiful, and he was a little envious.
"Is there any possibility?" Tang Ou said, "The liar actually doesn't know how to look at Feitianjin. He took away the glass box and Feitianjin together, but he threw it away because the glass box was too heavy on the way. Maybe he thought the box was more valuable than cloth, and he regretted it for a long time."
Shen Guangming: "..."
Tang Ou: "Is it possible?"
The nervous Shen Guangming: "What do you think?"
There was a silence in the pavilion. Tang Ou frowned and thought, then nodded slowly: "It's unlikely."
Chen Guangming quickly consolidated his thoughts: "That's that's that."
Tang Ou seemed to have put aside his doubts and pulled the two walnuts left in the plate to him and ate them seriously. Chen Guangming didn't know whether he was really here to ask him about these things or to test them, and a thin layer of sweat came silently behind him.
After sitting for a while, the cold tea was at the bottom, and only some debris were left in the snacks. Tang Ou said he would take him to see the peony that Mrs. Tang loved the most and let him take care of him carefully. As soon as he got off the pavilion, someone came over to report: "The Lord Xinbao is here and is waiting for the young master."
Tang Ou had to say goodbye to Chen Guangming. Before leaving, he suddenly stopped and turned around and asked, "Do you know Master Xinbao?"
"Who doesn't know in the world?" Chen Guangming said, "Ten years ago, the Xinjiabao fire was released by him. Killing his father and seizing the fort was a villain."
"These rumors cannot be true. Do you want to see them?" Tang Ou said, "He is skilled in medical skills and may be able to help you see your meridians."
Chen Guangming was stunned.
Chapter completed!