My Childhood Sweetheart Is a Crazy Beauty
Chapter 152 Partial Truth

Chapter 152: Chapter 152 Partial Truth

Tang Chuxia twirled in place with her hands clasped, and after a long while suddenly said, "Oh right, I remember now!"

She pulled her two brothers aside and whispered, "Second Brother, Little Brother, do you remember I mentioned before about an old man who claimed to be our grand-uncle?"

The two brothers nodded. Back then, they intended to investigate this matter a bit, and their return this time was also to clear this up.

"The hem of that old man’s clothes also had bamboo embroidered on it, and the embroidery technique is the same as on the clothes of the man inside."

After Tang Chuxia finished speaking, Tang Jianjun didn’t doubt her and immediately believed it.

Tang Jianjun rubbed his chin, "When we send him off later, I’ll go with him to have a look."

Tang Chuxia was uneasy and wanted to persuade him, but Second Brother waved it off, "Don’t worry, they wouldn’t dare to do anything openly!"

Tang Chuxia had nothing else to say on this matter, as the two people in the house had chatted for a while. Seeing that time was almost up, the matchmaker called, and the man came out of the house, followed by Xiuxiu, whose face was all red.

"What? You fancy him?"

Tang Chuxia nudged Xiuxiu’s shoulder, teasing her a bit.

Xiuxiu’s face was crimson, unsure of how to express herself, Tang Chuxia sighed in her heart.

If that man was really related to her grand-uncle, it’s better for the marriage not to proceed.

Tang Jianjun, taking the place of Xiuxiu’s family elder brother, along with several other Tang family members, escorted the man back, while Tang Chuxia went inside to discuss the matter about the grand-uncle with her great-grandma.

Great-grandma was stunned for a moment, it was Clan Leader Uncle who explained.

"Your grandpa indeed had such a brother."

Clan Leader Uncle took a drag on his dry tobacco, falling into memories.

"Your grand-uncle hasn’t appeared for many years, everyone thought he had died outside, never expected he was still alive!"

Great-grandma sighed and continued his sentence, "Indeed, back then I thought that guy couldn’t possibly survive, never thought he’d live just fine."

There wasn’t much information about the grand-uncle from great-grandma, only that he disappeared after Grandpa Tang got married, and hadn’t appeared all these years.

But Tang Chuxia clearly remembered the grand-uncle saying he had met Tang Wanqiu.

If that’s the case, what’s going on?

Clan Leader The Elderly rarely spoke, but now he suddenly chimed in, "That boy didn’t do any proper work when he was young, ran around with a bunch of stinky Taoists shouting day and night about catching ghosts and monsters, acting crazily like he wasn’t a normal person."

Tang Chuxia looked at Tang Jianbing, who shook his head slightly at her.

Madam Tang was puzzled, "Why are you asking about such a person? Has something happened?"

Tang Chuxia waved her hand repeatedly, "Just heard someone mention the grand-uncle out of the blue, and got curious. Are we going to pay our respects and visit the graves tomorrow morning?"

She changed the subject, and Madam Tang couldn’t press further. Great-grandma nodded, "Tonight, we’ll work a bit hard to prepare everything needed, and let your Second Brother come back to make paper money, we’ll fold gold ingots, and your mother and the others will make paper offerings!"

It was arranged clearly.

Tang Chuxia had never experienced such things, so she asked why Little Brother couldn’t make the paper money and it had to be Second Brother?

Great-grandma laughed, "This child truly doesn’t know!"

Clan Leader Uncle pulled out a Copper Coin mold and a stack of joss paper, "Your Second Brother has strong Yang energy, he’s righteous, and making paper money requires someone with ample masculine energy, originally your Eldest Brother would be best, but he’s not here!"

Mentioning a few nephews, Clan Leader Uncle laughed, "If your Third Brother were here, that lad would be best at making paper money!"

Tang Chuxia understood, and realized that there were quite a lot of rules to this paper money making.

She gave Little Brother a sympathetic look, and he glared back at her.

With so many brothers in the family, it wouldn’t come down to him, why would making paper money be considered a good thing?

In recent years, practicing superstitious beliefs wasn’t allowed, so ancestral worship and such things weren’t openly displayed, but this year the restrictions were gone, and with the approach of the New Year, there were lots of people offering respects and burning paper for tomb visits.

Joss paper was hard to buy, and preparing for worship was quite troublesome.

Tang Village had an ancestral hall and the Clan Leader was still healthy, following customs from more than a decade ago, which was quite bothersome.

In addition to the chores the women needed to do, there were also labor-intensive tasks for the men, like slaughtering the New Year pig, using the pig’s head for the tomb visits, things where women couldn’t get involved.

In the afternoon, they tied up a big fat pig and slaughtered it on site.

Tang Chuxia got a firsthand look at what slaughtering a New Year pig was like in the countryside, to be honest, it was truly a shocking spectacle.

The pig’s blood was made into blood sausage on site, all five viscera and six bowels were utilized to the maximum, only the big pig’s head was cleaned and saved for use the next day, available for consumption only after the ancestral worship was over.

Tang Chuxia was so entertained that even when Tang Jianjun returned, she didn’t immediately ask about the result.

"Are you addicted to this?" Tang Jianjun pulled Tang Chuxia away from the wheat field, handing her a handful of roasted peanuts.

Tang Chuxia nibbled on the peanuts, blinking her big eyes expectantly at Tang Jianjun.

"No abnormalities were found; either they’re disguising too well, or they genuinely know nothing!"

Tang Chuxia sighed. It’s always this kind of scenario that’s the most vexing.

"Should we stop Xiuxiu from getting involved with this person?"

As they say, better to tear down ten temples than break up one marriage! She’s really afraid of committing a sin.

Though she doesn’t quite know how this counts as sinning.

Tang Jianjun blew the peanut skins from his palm and calmly said, "That’s not something we can meddle in, that Meng Wenshu is quite interesting!"

Had he not mentioned it, Tang Chuxia almost forgot about the slick-haired guy.

"Guess why he’s so interested in Tang Wanqiu?"

Tang Jianjun chuckled twice, not with joy, but with sarcasm.

Tang Chuxia thought for a moment, "Are they dating?"

Tang Jianjun shook his head.

"Then are they... a thing?"

Tang Chuxia blurted out thoughtlessly, earning a tap on the head from Tang Jianjun.

"Think carefully!"

Tang Chuxia felt quite wronged, most annoyed by guessing games like this; how is she supposed to guess?

And then she said, "Surely it’s not about unpaid debts?"

Tang Jianjun snapped his fingers, "You finally got it!"

Tang Chuxia: ...

The way he said it, what do you mean ’finally got it’?

Did she accidentally say the right thing?

The peanuts in her hand were crushed, "Who owes whom money?" Tang Chuxia covered her mouth, "Surely it’s not Tang Wanqiu who borrowed money and then vanished?"

Tang Jianjun nodded, "That’s exactly it, you’re almost spot-on!"

Tang Chuxia: ...

She had to admire Tang Wanqiu, indeed capable of creating a business empire in the book, scheming from a young age.

She just couldn’t understand why Tang Wanqiu didn’t tell the family after borrowing money, what’s the purpose of being tracked down now?

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