Do you know the long song of laughter?

Chapter 62 Gu Tingye appears

As Sheng Hong told the officials of Yangzhou, the whole Yangzhou was in chaos.

Although military generals have a lower status than civilian officials, the situation is different for military generals with noble titles.

Although it is not on par with civil servants of the same level, it is not much worse.

What's more, Marquis Ningyuan is highly valued by today's officials.

If something happens to Ning Yuanhou's son in Yangzhou, he might even go straight to Tianting.

At that time, the entire Yangzhou officialdom will be held accountable.

Yangzhou officials, large and small, cursed Sheng Hong in their hearts and sent out all the manpower they could mobilize to search for him.

The governor of Yangzhou even found the commander of the Yangzhou Xiang Army and asked him to send troops to search for him.

For a time, the entire area around the guarantee lake was illuminated with bright lights.

Li An also led a team of people to search around. Seeing such a big movement, he finally figured out the purpose of Gu Tingye's doing this.

After such a commotion, the Bai family did not dare to take action against Gu Tingye again.

Li An knew that Gu Tingye hid on purpose and would appear when the old man of the Bai family went to the funeral tomorrow.

But you know, you know, you still have to do it.

After struggling all night, until it was dark the next day, except for fishing out a few corpses from the lake and catching the remaining three assassins, they could not find the whereabouts of Gu Tingye.

Yangzhou officials felt that Gu Tingye was in serious danger. Although they did not give up the search, they all went back.

For them, even if Gu Tingye died, catching the murderer would be an explanation.

Although Sheng Changbai was unwilling to give up, Sheng Hong was forced to take him back.

Li An also went home. When he was approaching the pier, he saw a few figures in the distance.

"Dad? Master?"

When he got closer, Li An saw clearly that it was his father Li Nan, his eldest brother Li Ping, as well as his master and Shi Zhu.

"Aniu!"

Li Nan and the others saw Li An and ran to meet him.

"Where did you go last night? There was so much commotion at the Baoan Lake, we were all worried."

There was such a big commotion last night and the whole night, Li Nan and Liu naturally knew about it.

Li An ate there and never came back, which made them worried.

Last night, the family of three and Shi Lin and his son went to Baobao Lake to find Li An.

But that side was blocked by the Xiang army, and there was no way to get in.

In desperation, they could only go home and wait. Even so, the two families were worried that they were pregnant and stayed up all night.

At dawn, Mrs. Liu urged Li Nan and his son to find Li An. Shi Lin was worried and followed him with Shi Zhu.

"I'm fine. There is a young master from Hou Men over there from Bianjing who was assassinated and jumped into the lake. Officials of all sizes in Yangzhou are sending people to look for him, and I'm helping to look for him."

In order not to worry his parents, Li An did not say that the person who was assassinated was eating at the same table with him.

It was said that it was really dangerous at that time. Li An was sitting next to Gu Tingye. When the assassin slashed at Gu Tingye, Gu Tingye ducked and the knife almost brushed Gu Tingye's back and slashed at him with unabated force.

If he hadn't practiced martial arts for a while, his reaction would have been quick and he would have died.

Even now, Li An feels a little scared.

Fortunately, the target of those assassins was Gu Tingye. After fighting for a while, Gu Tingye found an opportunity to jump into the lake, and the assassins also jumped in to chase him.

Li Nan and the others don't care about this, as long as Li An is fine.

As expected, Mrs. Liu scolded me when I returned home.

Li An lowered his head and let Mrs. Liu scold him, not daring to speak at all. When Mr. Liu was tired of scolding, he stopped and then said: "Mom, the old man of the Bai family has a funeral today. The teacher said he would take me with him. It's getting late. I have to leave first."

The Bai family is the richest man in Yangzhou. When Mr. Bai was alive, any natural disasters in Yangzhou would open porridge sheds to provide relief to the victims. On weekdays, money would be spent to build roads and bridges. Even Mingde Academy was built by Mr. Bai, who called on wealthy businessmen from Yangzhou to jointly fund the construction.

The old man of the Bai family is also called Bai Dashanren by the people of Yangzhou.

After the death of Mr. Bai, all officials from Yangzhou, big and small, went to express their condolences, and they would naturally go there on the day of the funeral.

Liu Xuewen had told him about this before.

When Mrs. Liu heard that her son had something serious to do, she stopped scolding him and said, "Go back home quickly and change your clothes. I'll get you hot water to wash up."

"I know, mother!"

Li An said that he went into the house and changed into plain clothes, then washed up and set off.

Because he was worried about Li An, Li Nan didn't go to the city to buy pigs for water early in the morning. Li An didn't need to walk.

Li Nan drove the donkey cart to the door of Liu Xuewen's house and dropped Li An off. He told him to go back to bed early after finishing his work, and then drove away.

Li An knocked on the door and entered Liu's house. After waiting for a while, he and Pan Shan followed Liu Xuewen to Bai's house.

As soon as he arrived at the Bai family, he was led into the mourning hall by the Bai family to express their condolences.

After expressing condolences, the filial son saluted and thanked them.

Generally speaking, those who thank the filial piety are the eldest sons, simply speaking, they are the ones who inherit the family business.

The old man of the Bai family had no sons, and his only daughter was married and passed away.

In this case, the family property will be inherited by the clan, and the person who inherits the family property will also act as a filial son and guard his funeral.

However, the Bai family was very strange. In front of Mr. Bai's coffin, two middle-aged men wearing sackcloth and mourning were kneeling. People came to express their condolences, and two of them expressed their gratitude.

The most bizarre thing is that during the funeral, one of the two filial sons broke a basin and the other made a sail.

"Why are there two filial sons?"

"Haha, I heard that after Mr. Bai's death, the second and third bedrooms of the Bai family almost started fighting over the family property. Later, we just agreed that the second and third bedrooms would be half of the family. Wouldn't these filial sons become two persons?"

"I'm telling you, but since we've agreed that one half of the family is a family, why do we have two filial sons?"

"You don't understand. It's a rule that the person who breaks the pot and sails inherits the family business. If the second-bedroom owner is allowed to do it, it won't be given to the third-bedroom owner. There's nothing the third-bedroom owner can do about it. It'll be the same if it's the other way around. So, Let’s just break the basin one by one and hoist the sail.”

Listening to everyone's whispers, Li An finally understood why it was so weird.

Liu Xuewen shook his head and sighed: "The world is really in decline."

For people like Liu Xuewen, such unruly people are the most despised.

Liu Xuewen told An Li that he didn't like false etiquette, referring to the red tape.

But he was very disciplined in this matter.

If Mr. Bai hadn't had a good reputation in Yangzhou, he would probably have left now.

However, just when the filial son in the third room of the Bai family was about to break the pot, someone suddenly said: "Wait a minute!"

When Li An heard this voice, a smile appeared on his lips, and the show was about to begin.

On the other side, Sheng Changbai, who was looking sad behind Sheng Hong, looked happy when he heard the voice.

The sudden sound made the scene quiet, and everyone looked around to see who was speaking.

A man in a boy's uniform squeezed through the crowd, holding a letter in his hand and saying: "I am the grandson of Mr. Bai. This is the suicide note my grandfather gave me, saying that I will inherit the Bai family business."

"Zhong Huai!"

When Sheng Changbai saw Gu Tingye, he shouted and wanted to step forward, but was held back by Sheng Hong.

Gu Tingye nodded slightly at him, looked at the middle-aged man holding the basin, and said, "I should throw this basin."

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