After eating and drinking outside for several days, Tang Mo felt a little uncomfortable. He leaned on Xin An's beauty couch and closed his eyes to rest. Chun Yang brought him a bowl of sobering soup and vegetable porridge. Tang Mo looked up and said, "So kind?"
"Why, are you afraid that I'll drink myself to death and no one will work for you?"
Chunyang wanted to confront him, but Xin An raised her hand and asked her to go down and rest. Chunyang did not forget to give Tang Mo a glare, thinking that this man was so heartless.
"Why does your girl always have such a bad temper?"
After drinking the sobering soup, he felt a lot better. Then he drank the vegetable porridge and felt relaxed all over. He looked even more awkward lying on the beauty couch. Xin An smiled and didn't answer his question. He just asked him if his day went well.
"It's OK, waiting for the results."
Tang Mo propped up his head with one hand, "I didn't have much contact with my second uncle before, and I didn't have much contact with my cousins. Today I stayed for half a day and had a meal. I felt that my second uncle was a very down-to-earth person, not a fancy person."
Xin An sat down at the side. "I didn't know it before, but I saw it after something happened in the Marquis' Mansion. At that time, everyone avoided it. He was sent out early and was not implicated. He also did not receive any benefits from the Marquis' Mansion. He could have watched the joke. But he was the one who worked the hardest."
"I regretted it at that time. If I had given him some support and convenience on a daily basis, it would have been great if I had been a little closer to him. Firstly, it would have made me feel better, and secondly, when he got better, he would have more strength to rescue us."
Tang Mo stared into her eyes, "Can you tell me what happened in the Marquis' Mansion? Now we can make preparations to avoid it, right?"
Xin An looked at him unkindly again, "That kind of thing will never happen in this lifetime."
Seeing that she didn't say anything, Tang Mo scratched his head and said, "My aunt, tell me, how can I sleep at night if you are like this?"
Xin An's face became increasingly ugly. She snorted and was about to get up and leave. Tang Mo grabbed her and said, "Say it, please."
"I'm begging you for the first time in my two lives. Just tell me."
Xin An sat down again. "Your son was involved in corruption and abuse of power, and was also involved in party disputes. After the incident, my son was framed and died in prison. My second uncle collected the body."
Tang Mo
had wanted to ask about his son Tang Hui for a long time, but he never asked.
He was not favored by his father, so his son was naturally not valued. After he was gone, how did his son frame Tang Xuan?
Thinking of the only possibility, his brows were furrowed. When he looked at Xin An again, a trace of pity flashed in his eyes, and he gritted his teeth, "Tang Rong, that pig-dog-worse thing, how could he do such a thing!"
Xin An wiped his eyes and said, "I thought you would be happy."
"Happy?"
Tang Mo laughed at himself, "Tao Yiran looked down on me. Influenced by her, Tang Hui only had his uncle in his heart and thought that I, as a father, would only bring shame to him. How old was he at that time?"
"About four."
Thinking of the past, Tang Mo closed his eyes, "He was disrespectful to me, and I scolded him, and he yelled that he didn't want me to be his father, saying that it would be better if my uncle was his father."
The words of a little child can hurt a father's heart the most. Even now, when he thinks about it, he still feels uncomfortable.
Both of them were in a bad mood. Xin An became more and more angry and punched him. "It's all your fault. Why are you asking?"
"I don't care. Go find Tang Rong and make him feel uncomfortable tomorrow and make me happy."
Tang Mo stroked his forehead, "How about I send someone to tie him up, lock him up in a secret room, and then you can whip him a few times when you're unhappy?"
Xin An raised his eyebrows, "Find someone to put a sack on him and beat him up to vent your anger."
Tang Mo's eyes rolled and he had an idea. He hadn't intended to use any dirty tricks, but now he was angry, so he could only beat him up to vent his anger. "I'll make the arrangements, you just wait for the news."
Xin An nodded. He felt better before the fight even started. Tang Mo changed the subject and said that he had asked Yan Shimao to help him. When he learned that he had spent 1,000 taels, Xin An expressed his thoughts, "No one can predict what will happen in the future. It's not certain that you and I will succeed in the end. We have to leave a way out."
"But no matter how you leave a way out, you still need money."
Tang Mo agreed deeply, saying that he actually had two shops, and he also opened a teahouse with Yan Shimao and others, and he could make some money every month, "Each person can get a few dozen taels."
Xin An said: "I want to do some business, but I can't let outsiders know that this business has something to do with the Marquis' Mansion. To put it bluntly, even if the Marquis' Mansion is raided one day, these businesses won't be found."
Tang Mo sat up, thinking that he should indeed prepare for a rainy day, "Do you have a suitable candidate?"
Xin An nodded. The Xin family was a salt merchant with many managers under their control, so it wouldn't be a big problem to transfer him here. "But I have to use your name, or the name of the Marquis' Mansion. Do you understand what I mean?"
Tang Mo understood, "You want to use the name of the Marquis' Mansion to protect your business, but you don't want people to know that this business originally belonged to you."
"Okay, the old man won't care about this kind of thing. At most he'll scold me a few times, but I want half of your business."
"Why?"
Xin An reacted strongly, and Tang Mo spoke as a matter of course, "Because you need me, I can provide more than just shelter, okay? You see, you still order me around at any time, and I have to beat up the guy next door to please you, and I have to be filial to your father-in-law and mother-in-law on your behalf. I am a son-in-law who is very popular with them, shouldn't you give me something as a reward?"
Xin An smiled, "Didn't I show filial piety to your mother?"
Tang Mo said, "Think about how much you have gained from my grandmother and mother in the past few days. Don't be stingy. You will need me a lot in the future. I am the most willing to give it my all. Believe me, my mother will urge you to get pregnant in half a year at most. By then, I will say that I have a hidden illness and will never embarrass you. Am I not worth half of it?"
Xin An's expression was quite complicated. Compared with Tang Rong and the other kind of shamelessness, she had no reason to refuse.
"make a deal."
Tang Mo smiled complacently, got off the beauty couch, bowed to Xin An, and said seriously, "I'll ask Boss Xin to take care of me in the future. I will make a fortune with you. If you need me to do anything, I will do my best to help Boss Xin."
Xin An was so amused that he couldn't stop laughing. "Okay, okay. I'll ask the Second Young Master to take good care of me in the future."
The two who were angry and frustrated just now were now in a very happy mood and their relationship became much closer. Tang Mo returned to his room late at night. Lai Lai, who was guarding outside the courtyard, hurried forward to serve him, "I thought you were going to stay today, why are you back again?"
Although he didn't know what was said in the room, he could hear the laughter coming from the room. Tang Mo smiled and tapped his forehead, "Your young master is a gentleman, stop imagining nonsense."
Lai Lai was not convinced and grumbled, "They are married people, what does it have to do with whether you are a gentleman or not?"