Chapter 3 · Relatives

Because of Bai Rongxuan's sudden and strange 'illness', even the Tang family was having trouble spending this New Year.

According to the practice of the Tang family, every Spring Festival, Tang Songzhou and Tang Xuexuan, their father and son, would go to the ancestral hall of the Tang family's house to worship their ancestors in the morning. Since business has not been doing well in recent years, Tang Chongzhou, the eldest son of the family, has been out of town these days. He came back specially during the Chinese New Year. He hadn't seen his brother and nephew for a long time, so he left the two of them to eat. Because it was the New Year, Tang Songzhou was not as strict with himself as in the past. He drank until night before returning to the Tang residence with the help of Tang Xuexin.

The Tang family has a small foundation in Hangzhou, but they split up in the early years. Tang Songzhou's family only had two families, and the family relied on a tea garden they got when they split up and two tea shops on the edge of the West Lake. In the early years, the business It's pretty good, but in recent years it's getting worse year by year.

Tang Songzhou came home drunk and heard about Bai Rongxuan's illness at the concierge, which scared him to the point of losing his drunkenness. Bai Rongxuan had been living with the Tang family in the Tang family since she was a child. Tang Songzhou watched her grow up, and she and him His own daughter was no different. When he heard that something was wrong with her, he didn't care about anything else and stumbled to the backyard. At that time, Bai Rongxuan was sleeping under the comfort of Mrs. Tang. Seeing her husband's look of panic, Mr. Huang hurriedly I comforted him a few words.

Tang Songzhou entered the house anyway and breathed a long sigh of relief when he saw his sleeping niece.

When Mrs. Tang on the side saw this, Lao Huai laughed happily.

When the kitchen steward trotted over to report that the New Year's Eve dinner was ready, Mrs. Tang went out with Mrs. Huang's help. Mrs. Tang was worried and suggested to stay and take care of her daughter. Since Mrs. Tang returned to the Tang family from the Bai family After that, she had been depressed and rarely interacted with people. Compared with before she got married, she was a completely different person, with an old-fashioned look. If there was anything colorful in her gray life, it must have been the hard work she had raised. Two children.

Mrs. Tang felt sorry for her daughter and nodded in agreement.

But after all, because of Bai Rongxuan, the Tang family's New Year's Eve dinner this year was mediocre and joyless. Mrs. Tang strictly ordered not to set off the firecrackers that were originally going to be set off, for fear of shocking Bai Rongxuan. Tang Xueru pouted, The boss is unhappy.

After the New Year's Eve dinner was over, Tang Songzhou went back to his room to rest under the service of Mr. Huang. He would go to visit his old business customers tomorrow morning. He had never participated in keeping up the New Year's Eve since he became the head of the family. Tang Xuexuan also found an opportunity to say goodbye. He also I want to follow my father to see the world tomorrow, but I can't do it if I don't have the energy.

Mrs. Tang knew it well and agreed with a smile.

In the end, only Tang Xueping and Tang Xueru stayed with Mrs. Tang while eating melon seeds and peanuts. This was probably Tang Xueping’s last New Year as a daughter in the Tang family. Mrs. Tang was particularly reluctant to part with her and talked to her granddaughter about the principles of life. Tang Xueru Listening on the sidelines, I was bored and yawned again and again. I just felt that this year was extremely boring, and I fell asleep soon.

Tang Xueping persisted until midnight, and she and Tang Xueru fell asleep in Mrs. Tang's room.

After both granddaughters fell asleep, Mrs. Tang called her personal attendant, Nanny Li, and whispered, "I see that Rongxuan's child is not normal. She seems to have collided with something. Please take a few knives of yellow paper in a moment." Go to the crossroads and burn it, and talk about it."

Aunt Li quickly agreed and then suggested, "Old madam, I think tomorrow I will take Miss Xuan's birth date and go to Lingyin Temple to break the everlasting lantern."

"Yes, yes!" Mrs. Tang nodded repeatedly, "I don't trust leaving this matter to others. You can go there in person tomorrow."

"Yes!" Nanny Li responded, took the paper from the warehouse and went to the crossroads to burn it. She muttered a lot about Amitabha and the like.

No shop was open on the first day of the new year, but Ms. Huang still asked Cui’s mother to invite a doctor. Ms. Tang barely slept a wink that night, and when she saw the doctor coming, she hurriedly made way. The doctor took his pulse for a long time and said:

It's because I'm frightened and worried, so I need to take good care of myself. I've prescribed two sets of decoctions and take them alternately.

Bai Rongxuan lay on the hospital bed like this for three days. She slept most of the time. In her sleep, she often saw herself in the previous life. She dreamed of the humiliation she suffered in the Bai family, dreamed of being helpless in Tianjin, and dreamed of the humiliation she suffered in the Bai family. She dreamed of being helpless in Tianjin.

During the last lonely and helpless days in Peking... she often woke up in a cold sweat from her sleep, and fell asleep again every time with Tang's comfort. This almost made her unable to distinguish between reality and dreams, and her brain felt like mush.

Seemingly drowsy.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the eldest brother, Tang Chongzhou, and his family came to pay New Year greetings. There are no elders in the eldest house. Mrs. Tang is now the most senior person in the Tang family. Tang Chongzhou comes to kowtow to her every year on this day.

When the maid Cuiping came to report that Miss Li was also here, Tang Xueru was sitting by Bai Rongxuan's bed muttering about how boring the Chinese New Year was. I don't know if the decoction worked or if Grandma Li went to Lingyin Temple to worship Buddha and offer lamps.

, on the morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year, Bai Rongxuan’s spirit

It was much better than the previous two days. For breakfast, she not only ate two small buns but also drank a bowl of porridge. Tang, who was standing by the bed, finally breathed a sigh of relief. After that, Huang said, "You don't take good care of yourself."

"Wait, wait until Rongxuan recovers, you will fall ill again", so he went back to the room to rest.

Tang Xueru came under the guise of visiting a doctor, but actually she came to complain. Bai Rongxuan looked at her innocent look and couldn't help but feel a little dazed when she recalled her previous life.

Wasn't she already dead? Why did she come back to life?

Could it be that God took pity on her and gave her another chance? Or is it true now and everything before was just a dream?

Bai Rongxuan felt very distressed. She racked her brains to think about what happened this year in her previous life, and wanted to compare it to see if anything in her memory had happened. But what happened this year? She remembered that Sister Xueping got married, and her brother-in-law

He is a talented person and treats her well. After marriage, the two of them are very affectionate...

Then next year, something that changes her life will happen. On the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival next year, her brother who is studying in Nanjing will suddenly die of illness. In her previous life, her mother fell ill immediately after receiving the news, and she passed away not long after. She couldn't be angry.

, think for

The mother and brother sought an explanation, and despite the dissuasion of her uncle and aunt, they resolutely took Wu's mother to Shanghai to find the Bai family. But what awaited them was one ups and downs and tribulations after another. In the end, she was pushed by fate and never returned.

To Hangzhou.

If she really lives again, can she change history? If her brother does not die and her mother does not die, will everything change?

Thinking of this, Bai Rongxuan's eyes instantly seemed to be lit up with torches, and she seemed to understand why God asked her to do it again!

She wanted to save her brother and not let anything happen to him again.

In Tang Xueru's eyes, her appearance showed that her illness was getting more serious. She looked at Bai Rongxuan with some worry, "Sister, are you okay?"

Bai Rongxuan came to her senses and was about to explain that she was fine when Cuiping opened the door and walked in, "Miss Li is here and is kowtowing in the old lady's room. I heard that Miss Xuan is ill and will come to see you soon.

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There are many daughters in the Tang family, so there is no hierarchy and they are all called by their first names. There is only one person who can be called "Miss Li" by Cuiping, and that is Tang Xueli, the youngest daughter of the eldest uncle.

In Bai Rongxuan's memories, she did not have a deep impression of this uncle. In her memory, he was not a business material. Logically speaking, Changfang occupied the best orchards and shops when the family was separated, so the business should be getting more prosperous.

But since the business was handed over to the uncle Tang Chongzhou, the business has been going from bad to worse. When Bai Rongxuan left Hangzhou for Shanghai in her previous life, she heard from the steward that her uncle's business was about to fail, and she wanted to convert the orchard into cash.

go out.

Land is the foundation of a family. It can be passed down to future generations and will not be sold easily.

Later, Bai Rongxuan talked about her uncle with Wu's mother, but Wu's mother disagreed. According to her, Tang Chongzhou had no children, only four daughters. She felt that no one would inherit the huge family property, so she had no fighting spirit and was not interested in business.

After having a son, I tried to revitalize the family karma, but it was beyond my power.

Bai Rongxuan suddenly trembled when she thought of this.

How could she forget that person!

The ex-wife of the eldest uncle Tang Chongzhou, whose surname is Zhang, is a native of Hangzhou. In Bai Rongxuan's childhood memories, Zhang was beautiful in appearance and gentle in character. She was gentle in dealing with others and was very easy to get along with. She was especially good with Huang. She gave birth to her eldest uncle.

They had four daughters. The eldest daughter Tang Xueying later married to Quzhou, the second daughter Tang Xuefen married to Jiaxing, and the third daughter Tang Xuelian married to Shaoxing. The three in-laws all had business dealings with the Tang family and helped each other. The youngest daughter Tang Xueli has never been married.

When it came to getting married, it was just because her eldest uncle wanted to recruit someone for her to inherit the family business, so she was delayed after many choices. Zhang had never given birth to an eldest son for her eldest son, and she felt guilty. She also knew that her husband valued incense, so she desperately wanted to give birth to a son for the Tang family.

A son. However, she gave birth to four daughters in succession, which caused great damage to her body. When she was pregnant with the fifth child, even though she took medicine to nurse her back to health, she could not save her. She herself passed away not long after.

Mrs. Huang had a close relationship with Mrs. Zhang during her lifetime. Since her death, she has taken great care of the four daughters she left behind. Because of this, when Tang Chongzhou chose a husband for his daughter, Mrs. Huang was very unhappy and secretly complained to Tang Songzhou.

"Brother, why are you choosing a son-in-law? You are clearly choosing a business partner?"

However, the eldest brother and his second wife had been separated for a long time, and even if Tang Songzhou was dissatisfied with the marriages of his nieces, it was hard for him to intervene.

Tang Chongzhou had to raise four daughters and take care of business at the same time, so he never renewed his relationship. However, when he was doing business outside, he fell in love with the daughter of a businessman named Xiang in Ningbo, and they often used it under the guise of doing business.

He ran to Ningbo and stayed there for ten days and a half. Not long after, Xiang gave birth to a son for him. Xiang told Tang Chongzhou that he wanted to have a child out of wedlock regardless of his reputation because he liked Tang Chongzhou and had no other intentions.

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This moved the eldest uncle so much that he insisted on marrying the Xiang family. Logically speaking, there were no elders in the eldest house, so the eldest uncle could make his own decision on who he wanted to marry. But in order to let the Xiang family marry him, he actually begged his grandmother.

Mrs. Tang is here. Mrs. Zhang died young, her three daughters were all married, and Tang Chongzhou looked like he would not marry someone other than the Xiang family. Mrs. Tang naturally couldn't stop her, so she reluctantly nodded and agreed. But she still reminded Tang Chongzhou.

You should carefully inquire about the Xiang family's situation and proceed with caution.

How could Tang Chongzhou, whose ears were filled with honey, think of anything else? When he got home, he started planning the marriage.

Although Mrs. Huang was not worthy of Mrs. Zhang, she could only express her feelings to Mother Cui secretly.

After Xiang entered the house, he probably knew that his status was low and that he had a son out of wedlock with an unjust name, so he was extremely respectful to Mrs. Tang and Mr. Huang. He was also cautious at home and was very dedicated to Tang Xueli's affairs.

However, Bai Rongxuan knew clearly that all this was faked by the Xiang family. She remembered that before she left Hangzhou in her last life, the Xiang family relied on the fact that Tang Xuerong, the son of Tang Chongzhou, had grown up and firmly controlled the eldest family.

From that time on, she revealed her true colors and treated her second wife again and again.

Not only was he respectful, but he also privately decided to marry Tang Xueli to a widower's home in Hangzhou whose wife had died. After hearing the news, Huang sent Mother Cui to inquire, only to find out that the widower was already in his fifties and could be Tang Xueli's father.

Xiangshi was greedy for the betrothal gift he gave and agreed without saying a word.

Mrs. Huang went to the eldest room to reason with her, and was ridiculed and insulted by Mr. Xiang. After returning, she was ill for half a month before she could barely get out of bed.

It was then that Bai Rongxuan knew what it meant to lure a wolf into a house.

Counting the days, Xiangshi has been in the house for three or four years now, and there is nothing Bai Rongxuan can do to stop her. But it would be nice if she could show her fox tail earlier...
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