In the lobby, Tang Yi was sitting on a soft sofa and sipping a cup of Longjing tea. At his side, an elegant noblewoman was sizing up Tang Yi with a smile. However, this smile couldn't hide the worry and panic that leaked out of her eyes from time to time...
"Tang Yi…can I call you that?”
After Tang Yi gently placed the teacup in his hand on the coffee table, the lady opened her mouth and said to Tang Yi with a smile,"I've seen a picture of you when you were young. If it weren't for the picture of you that Immortal Yu Chao sent me a few days ago, I really wouldn't have thought that the ghost horse spirit from back then would have grown into such an elegant youth!”
Chen Juan spoke with unusual enthusiasm, but she was extremely conflicted in her heart. She originally thought that her husband and the other party's elders were just joking after eating and drinking. She did not expect that the other party's main character would really come knocking on her door now!
Eighteen years ago, Jiang Wanan wasn't the Jiang Wanan who could shake the world with a stomp of his foot. Chen Juan wasn't the Mrs. Jiang who was now in the limelight! Eighteen years ago, Jiang Wan'an was still a junior clerk who had worked in the government after being discharged from the army, while Chen Juan was just a primary school teacher. The two of them, together with Jiang Tingting, who was only four years old at the time, lived in a short house of less than 30 square meters, just like ordinary people in that era.
Chen Juan remembered very clearly that it was a rainy night. Jiang Wanan, who was working outside, made an exception and did not return home on time. Just as Chen Juan was anxious to go to Jiang Wanan's office to look for him, Jiang Wanan returned home with a middle-aged man in a sloppy Taoist robe.
In the era where Chen Juan was born, the belief was to defeat all monsters and demons. Moreover, she was a teacher of the people. Therefore, she was naturally disgusted by people like Taoist priests and monks. However, since she was a VIP invited by her husband, she could not show it too clearly. She only followed her husband's instructions and made a home-cooked meal. She boiled two pots of Tangshanlaoshao and brought Jiang Tingting, who was still ignorant at that time, back to the inner room.
That night, she didn't know what Jiang Wanan had said to the Taoist priest. All she knew was that one day, her husband quit his job and took the few thousand yuan that the family needed urgently. He took the train to the south. A few months later, the few thousand yuan he had with him turned into tens of thousands. With these tens of thousands of yuan, the couple started a quicksand business. Coincidentally, at that time, the tide of reform swept through China. Including the traditional heavy industrial metropolis of Tang Shan, countless capital poured into this thousand-year-old city. Jiang Wanan also made a fortune from the quicksand business and founded Wanan Real Estate. He became the first person to eat crabs in the real estate industry of Tang Shan at that time. Then, Wanan Real Estate expanded step by step until it became the current Wanan Group that was involved in the fields of film and television, restaurants, and real estate!
At first, Chen Juan did not know what Jiang Wanan had said to the sloppy Taoist priest with a long beard. However, Chen Juan also vaguely knew that her husband was able to rise to fame because of the guidance of that sloppy Taoist priest. Therefore, although she did not say anything, she still kept an eye out in her heart. It was not until the third year after that day that Jiang Wanan suddenly received a letter from Pingbei that Chen Juan found out that her husband... She actually betrothed her daughter to the disciple of that Taoist priest behind her back. What made Chen Juan even more difficult to accept was that her daughter was actually marrying an abandoned baby who was only three years old at that time!
Perhaps the seed of disgust had already been planted at that time. However, Jiang Wanan was a soldier after all. He would never change his promise. No matter how much Chen Juan argued, Jiang Wanan would never relent…
Just like that, another 15 years passed. During these 15 years, Jiang Wanan did not mention this matter again, and Chen Juan gradually forgot about it. Unexpectedly, a month ago, another letter from Pingbei was sent to Jiang Wanan. The letter said that a child named Tang Yi would come to the Jiang family in a month's time and marry the Jiang family's daughter.
Chen Juan only had one daughter, Jiang Tingting. She did not expect her daughter to live to a hundred years old in the future, but she hoped that her daughter would be happy and healthy. Therefore, she was destined not to let her daughter's happiness in this life be buried in the hands of her parents so hastily. Although the child in front of her was dignified and had a suitable temperament, it might be because the seed of disgust from back then had already taken root in her heart. Therefore, no matter how she looked at it, she did not like Tang Yi. How could he let his daughter marry such a young Taoist priest!
"Tang Yi, it must be tough being a Taoist priest. You eat vegetarian food and recite scriptures every day. How can you stand it at such a young age?”
Chen Juan's words were of a high standard. She was implying to Tang Yi that a young Taoist priest like him had to suffer every day and eat vegetarian food and drink water. Tingting was such a precious girl. You were not worthy. You could not give her the happiness she wanted, so stop having those useless thoughts!
"Auntie, not all Taoist priests eat vegetarian food and recite scriptures. At least I'm not!”
Tang Yi acted as if he didn't understand Chen Juan's words. He chuckled at Chen Juan and then said with a smile,"Our Righteous Sect is made up of Huoju Daoists. We can eat meat and drink wine, and we can also marry and have children.”
"Oh, hehe, so that's how it is!”
When Chen Juan heard this, she was stunned at first, then she smiled awkwardly... This sentence blocked all the words that Chen Juan wanted to say. Was this little Daoist really smart, or... did he not know how to chat?
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