Xuanxia

Chapter 460 Tang Min
"Oh, so that's what it is."

Fu Qingzhou suddenly realized, "You didn't recognize that this was your niece at all. When you saw that the person coming was not Mr. Nan, you thought that Mr. Nan had revealed your whereabouts and wanted to follow her to find out the truth?"

At this time, everyone in the courtyard was sitting at the dining table, including Tang Jiao's... uncle.

Since it's a misunderstanding, of course it can be explained.

"Yes."

The middle-aged man said helplessly: "After all, I only gave that address to Nan Mu."

Tang Jiao sat beside him, with tears in her eyes and a smile on her face, and was bandaging her uncle's wound skillfully.

Hmm...the wound that Fu Qingzhou just cut.

"Hehe, Uncle Tang, I really offended you just now."

Fu Qingzhou smiled awkwardly, stood up and saluted: "Junior almost made a big mistake."

"I don't blame you." The middle-aged man's expression did not change much, and he said lightly: "It's just that your swordsmanship... It seems that Jiaojiao has made some powerful friends over the years."

Tang Jiao blushed slightly and smiled.

Yue Heng, Zhu Mei and others were sitting at the table. When someone broke into the yard, they naturally woke up... After confirming that it was Tang Jiao's uncle who came here, they naturally had to entertain him.

Since we are going to entertain you, the people in the courtyard... have to show up even if it is the middle of the night.

Yuan Ziping was a man of excellent character. Even though it was late at night, he quickly set a table with wine and food. Yue Heng obviously didn't seem to be awake. He sat at the table, yawning with his eyes forced open. Zhu Mei didn't seem to be awake either, but she became interested when she saw the food and buried her head in eating.

"Congratulations, sister Tang Jiao." Qiu Chan smiled tiredly at the side and said, "You have gained another relative."

"Ok!"

Tang Jiao nodded vigorously.

"you……"

At this time, the middle-aged man looked at her hesitantly: "Why did you return to the capital? And how did you find me?"

"Uncle... it's like this." Tang Jiao explained softly: "We want to overturn my father's verdict..."

She quickly explained the whole story. The middle-aged man looked a little shocked when he first heard it, but he calmed down after listening to the rest.

"give up."

He suddenly said in a deep voice: "You can't do it."

Tang Jiao was stunned and her pupils shrank.

"Hey, uncle." Qiu Chan held her chin with her hand tiredly, and said lazily, "You are wrong. Sister Tang Jiao's father is also your brother... Even if this matter is difficult, you can't just say it can't be done, right?"

"Is it?"

The middle-aged man said calmly: "What do you think I have been doing all these years?"

Seeing some dissatisfaction in his tone, Tang Jiao quickly said softly: "Uncle, let's not talk about this for now... Let's talk about you, you, you..."

She lowered her voice halfway through her speech: "Can you tell me, what is your name?"

Fu Qingzhou sighed.

Qiu Chan shook her head.

Yuan Ziping, who was standing aside, lowered his head with a somewhat sad look on his face.

Even Yue Heng, who might fall asleep at any time, poured a glass of wine and handed it to the middle-aged man.

Only Zhu Mei ignored everything and continued to eat hard.

A teenage girl finally met her only blood relative in the world, and the first question she asked was his name...

The middle-aged man also sighed deeply, took the wine handed to him by Yue Heng, and drank it all in one gulp.

"My name is Tang Min."

He said softly: "Min is as high as the sky, with lofty aspirations; Zhun is as solid as the earth, with steady steps and far-reaching goals. This is what our father hoped for when he named us."

Tang Jiao smiled: "Uncle Nan said that you and my father once lived together and supported him in his studies, but later you..."

"Later, we parted ways." Tang Min raised his head and looked at the sky with a deep gaze: "Because he felt that what I did was...too dirty."

"You may not know that your grandfather was also a scholar."

He said slowly, "We are originally from northern Hebei. Your grandfather was also a scholar, but before he could go to Beijing to take the imperial examination, he encountered a rare disaster more than 40 years ago... It was a thousand miles of barren land and scorched gold and flowing stones."

"In order to keep my brother and me alive, my parents left all the food they could to us. In the end, they couldn't survive the disaster and passed away one after another."

"That year, I decided to flee my hometown with Ah Zhun and find a place where we could have food to eat... We headed south to Jiangnan. Although we were starving, we survived."

Tang Min told the story as if he was telling someone else's story.

After he and Tang Zhun arrived in Jiangnan, they were soon sold to a wealthy family because they were young and could read and write, and became servants and bookboys respectively.

However, Tang Zhun was not content to be a servant.

In this regard, his idea might be similar to that of Gu Jinchen, both of whom wanted to obtain honors and bring glory to their family. However, on the one hand, he wanted to fulfill his father's unfulfilled wish, and on the other hand, he had witnessed terrible famines and had the desire to govern the country and ensure the safety of the people.

But with the meager salary they had, they could not do anything.

So, Tang Min began to work hard to make money for his younger brother.

Of course, how much money can an ordinary servant earn?
So…he started doing the dirty work on the outside.

At the beginning, this so-called dirty work was not that dirty. In fact, it was just underground boxing.

Jiangnan is a prosperous area with many wealthy businessmen. These people are bored and always like to have fun, so they secretly organize underground boxing.

Moreover, what they want to see is not the masters with profound cultivation and fierce moves, but ordinary people who have not practiced cultivation.

Although these people don't have any fancy moves or earth-shattering collisions when fighting, it's the most real punches to the flesh and blood!

Most importantly, ordinary people...are particularly easy to control.

It was in this black boxing ring that Tang Min made his first fortune.

Afterwards, he also met a "noble man" - the leader of a killer organization. This man took a fancy to Tang Min's ruthlessness and forbearance in the boxing ring, and taught him how to open his martial arts... but also led him down a path of no return.

At the beginning, Tang Zhun was not clear about these things.

He only knew that his eldest brother seemed to be able to make a lot of money, which could not only help them buy their freedom, but also buy them a small courtyard and many books of sages, so that he could study without distraction.

Even the money for his future travel to the capital to take the imperial examination, the money for settling down in the capital, and even the money for marrying and starting a family in the future, had been saved in advance by the eldest brother.

"But paper can never cover fire."

Tang Min laughed at himself: "One day he will find out what I did. It turns out that the capable elder brother he admired picked up pieces of silver from other people's corpses with his bloody hands."

Needless to say, what happened next.

The two brothers had a big fight. Tang Zhun didn't want to use the silver stained with human blood, so he ran away and went to Beijing alone. Tang Min also tried to repair the relationship with him, but Tang Zhun was somewhat pedantic, and never forgave his elder brother until his death.

"It's a pity that his pedantry eventually ruined him."

Tang Min sighed deeply and looked at Tang Jiao: "I took too many risks in my early years, and I was born and died many times. I didn't practice any top-level skills. I have too many hidden injuries in my body. I have no ability to deal with the people of Mingjian Pavilion. When your family was in trouble, I was just a little closer and was seriously injured by the secret envoys."

Tang Jiao looked down at the deep and shallow old scars on Tang Min's face and neck, her eyes full of sadness.

"Uncle Tang."

Fu Qingzhou said softly: "But you still went to find Mr. Nan and took away the case information he collected."

"You don't have to provoke me." Tang Min glanced at him calmly: "I have investigated this case based on the clues collected by Nan Muzhi..."

As he spoke, he reached out and pulled down his collar, exposing his chest.

I saw a very scary big scar on the chest. It was like a hideous centipede lying on Tang Min's chest, extending to his heart.

The most terrifying thing is that the scar is deeply sunken in the heart, and below the bright red scar, you can clearly see the outline of a heart beating. It seems that if you tear off the skin on the scar, you can directly see the heart.

"This……"

Tang Min pointed at the wound on his chest and said slowly, "It was just a casual attack by an ordinary clerk at the outermost edge of the group."

"If I hadn't learned the skills of concealment over the past few decades, if I hadn't had countless means of hiding myself, I would have been a nameless and rotting corpse that year."

(End of this chapter)