Siheyuan: I am Banggeng's uncle

Chapter 902 The Tang brothers are relieved!

In order to curry favor with Banggeng, the brothers Tang Guobin and Tang Guoping did not wait for Tang Jianzhong's consent to their return to Tang Jiansheng's house, and turned around and walked into the alley.

Tang Jianzhong's wife watched as her son and daughter-in-law abandoned them and hurried into the alley. With a resentful look on her face, she complained to Tang Jianzhong, "Husband! What's wrong with you today? At this crucial moment when Yanni is getting married, you actually invited Yanni's husband and left Yanni's salary at her parents' house?"

Hearing his wife's complaints and thinking about his motives, Tang Jianzhong replied with a frustrated expression, "Why would I do this? It's all to swindle money from Lao San to buy Guoping a job."

Hearing Tang Jianzhong's answer, Tang Jianzhong's wife was even more confused. She asked him with a puzzled look, "Honey! If you want to ask Lao San for money, just ask him directly. After all these years, Lao San has never refused you when you asked him for money."

When Tang Jianzhong heard his wife's question, he thought of the information he had learned from Tang Jiansheng and replied with a depressed look, "Wife! Do you really think I haven't thought about it? This morning when I arrived at Lao San's house, I asked Lao San how much money Yanling's in-laws gave him as a wedding gift."

"The third brother told me that they didn't accept a single penny of the dowry from Yanling's in-laws. Instead, they put it directly into Yanling's dowry so she could take it back to her in-laws. The third brother also told me that he had already found a craftsman to renovate the house after Yanling got married, so that his second son could have his own wedding room."

“The third brother needs to repair the house, which means that he doesn’t have any extra money to lend us. So I set my sights on Yanling’s salary. After all, the third brother told me a long time ago that since Yanling started working, she only keeps five yuan a month from her salary and gives the rest to the third brother’s wife.”

"So I thought I would take advantage of Yanling's wedding to bring up the matter of Yanling handing over her salary to her family with Yanling's husband. I wanted to use this method to make Lao San grateful for what I did, so that I could ask Lao San for money. If I had known in advance that Yanling's husband came from a cadre family, I would never have done such a stupid thing."

When Tang Guobin and his brothers arrived at the courtyard house where Tang Yanling lived, Banggeng was carrying Tang Yanling out of the house. Tang Jiansheng and his wife, who were following behind, saw the group return and Tang Jiansheng asked curiously, "Guobin! Guoping! Didn't you go back? Why are you back again?"

Upon hearing Tang Jiansheng's question, Tang Guobin immediately smiled and apologized to Tang Jiansheng, saying, "Uncle! My dad's head is a little muddled from the fever today, which is why he said those things. Please don't take it to heart, Aunt and I."

Tang Guoping watched as Banggeng walked with Tang Yanling out of the courtyard and immediately smiled and said to Tang Jiansheng, "Uncle! Yanling is our sister. As her cousins, it's only natural that we should personally see her off on her wedding."

Tang Jiansheng was momentarily puzzled by his two nephews' reactions, but now that his son-in-law had already left with his daughter, he had no time to think about such things at this crucial moment. He said to his two nephews, "Guobin! Guoping! Since you didn't go back with your father, come with me to see Yanling off!"

Soon everyone arrived outside the alley. Er Mao saw the jeep parked by the roadside and immediately walked to the jeep driven by Bang Geng. He reached out and opened the passenger door, then helped Bang Geng put Tang Yanling into the passenger seat.

After carrying Tang Yanling into the car, Bang Geng smiled and said to Tang Jiansheng and his wife, "Dad! Mom! Aunt Zhang! You ride in my car. Eldest brother and sister-in-law, and second brother and the others can ride in the back car. The rest of you can ride in the two cars behind."

As a burst of firecrackers went off, the convoy headed toward Tongluoguxiang, watched by many neighbors.

As the convoy drove away amidst the sound of firecrackers, the surrounding neighbors all wore expressions of shock. One of them, a resident living in the courtyard next to the Tang family's, heard the neighbors' discussions and immediately asked the middle-aged man next to him curiously, "Old Chen! Was that wedding procession picking up the daughter of Old Tang from your courtyard?" Hearing the middle-aged man's question, Old Chen thought of what had just happened, smiled and nodded, replying, "Old Liang! You guessed right, the bride who was just picked up is indeed the daughter of Old Tang from our courtyard."

Upon hearing Lao Chen's answer, Lao Liang, recalling the wedding procession with four cars, asked Lao Chen with a face full of curiosity, "Lao Chen! What do Lao Tang's daughter's in-laws do? Judging from this, Lao Tang's in-laws must be quite a prominent family, right?"

When Lao Chen heard Lao Liang's question, he remembered some rumors he had heard from the neighbors and said with a smile, "Lao Liang! I heard that Lao Tang's in-laws are a cadre family, and their family conditions are incredibly good. They give a dowry of 1,001 yuan directly, and they say it's one in a thousand!"

When Lao Liang and his neighbors heard Lao Chen's description, they all showed envy on their faces and began to chat among themselves about the topic.

Tang Guobin, along with his wife and children, sat in the back of the truck with Tang Guoping. Looking at Er Mao and the others sitting opposite him, he took out cigarettes from his pocket and said with a smile, "Comrades! Do you smoke? Want one?"

Er Mao and the others had witnessed everything that had happened at the Tang family's house, so they knew that the people sitting opposite them were Tang Yanling's uncle's children.

Although Er Mao and the others found Tang Yanling's uncle's behavior extremely distasteful, they couldn't bring themselves to hit someone who was smiling. Er Mao took out the Peony cigarettes that Bang Geng had given him from his pocket, handed one to each of the Tang brothers, and said with a smile, "You must be the bride's cousins! These are the groom's celebratory cigarettes, let's share in the groom's joy!"

When Tang Guobin saw the Peony cigarettes that Er Mao handed him, his eyes lit up. He took the cigarettes from Er Mao, lit them with a match, took a deep drag, and said with a look of admiration, "These Peony cigarettes are truly worthy of being cigarettes that only cadres can afford. The taste is pure, and they don't burn your throat at all."

Hearing Tang Guobin's remark and seeing the look of enjoyment on his face, Er Mao remembered the Zhonghua cigarettes Bang Geng had given him yesterday. So he showed off in front of Tang Guobin, saying, "Brother-in-law! What are these Peony cigarettes? Bang Geng has several packs of Zhonghua cigarettes that only high-ranking leaders are qualified to smoke. Bang Geng gave me one yesterday, and the taste of Peony cigarettes is nothing compared to the taste of Zhonghua cigarettes."

When Tang Guobin heard Er Mao's explanation and saw Er Mao mention Zhonghua cigarettes with a wistful expression on his face, he pressed his advantage and asked Er Mao, "Comrade! Isn't my brother-in-law a driver? How come he has Zhonghua cigarettes?"

Er Mao, upon hearing Tang Guobin's words, did not realize that Tang Guobin was trying to trick him into revealing information. So he introduced, "Although Bang Geng is a driver, Bang Geng's uncle is a leader with real power. I heard that many leaders will be attending the banquet at noon today."

When Tang Guoping heard Er Mao's introduction, he learned that many leaders would be attending the banquet at noon today. This made him secretly feel fortunate. He was glad that he hadn't stood up for his old man when he was causing trouble, and he was even more glad that when his old man was about to leave, he shamelessly followed the wedding procession to the groom's house.

When Tang Guobin heard Er Mao's introduction and learned that many leaders would be attending the banquet, he was secretly delighted. He even started thinking about how to take advantage of Tang Yanling's wedding to get in touch with Bang Geng.

(End of this chapter)