Chapter 240: Brother

"... Alas, heaven and earth have their constants, and the order of young and old is divided—"

Wang Yi sat in a loose posture, laughing drunkenly, holding chopsticks, hitting the wine barrel horizontally, and then stretched out his arm, pointing his chopsticks at Wang Yang.

Wang Tai looked anxious and looked at Wang Yi: "Fifth Uncle—"

Wang Yang leaned sideways, his treasure-blue clothes fluttering, the corners of his eyes containing a slight intoxication, his white face stained with flying clouds, his fingers like brushes, drawing in the air, smiling:

"Thinking of the clan's long distance, the uncle and nephew's feelings are deep!"

Wang Tai had to look at Wang Yang: "Zhiyan—"

Wang Yi laughed loudly, raising his hand to guide:

"Watching the Tangdi flowers shine together, the Jing branches flourish together!"

Wang Tai held back his temper and turned his head again: "Fifth Uncle, why don't we first—"

Wang Yang straightened his clothes and sat up straight, waving his sleeves:

"Bathing in the fragrance of orchids and osmanthus, the jade trees bloom together in spring!"

Wang Tai also caught the rhythm, didn't call Wang Yang, and quickly looked at Wang Yi and called: "Fifth Uncle, let's—"

Clap, clap, clap!

Wang Yi clapped his hands and called out: "What a 'jade trees bloom together in spring'! This rhyme is well coordinated! Nephew, pay attention, I am going to enter the classics (using allusions in the couplet)."

Wang Yi thought for a moment, Wang Tai hurriedly interjected: "Fifth Uncle, just said—"

"Got it!" Wang Yi's chopsticks slanted, his voice long: "Thinking of the Zhou Gong holding his hair, King Cheng bathed in his deep grace."

Wang Yang pondered slightly, Wang Tai immediately opened his mouth: "Zhiyan—"

Wang Yang poured his own wine, his attitude deep: "Thinking of Jizi yielding the country, the descendants look up to this high soul."

"Well continued!"

Wang Tai suddenly slapped the table and praised loudly, startling both Wang Yi and Wang Yang.

"This continuation is wonderful! Fifth Uncle, you used the allusion of the Zhou Gong assisting King Cheng, and Zhiyan continued with the beautiful story of Jizi yielding the country. This assistance and yielding are both models of clan righteousness! What's more wonderful is that the Zhou Gong and King Cheng are uncle and nephew, and Jizi yielding the country for the third time was also yielding the throne to his nephew, which also involves uncle-nephew allusions, which can be said to be a perfect match..."

Wang Tai smiled brightly.

Can't get a word in?

Then I can join in!

"Fifth Uncle, just now—"

Wang Tai finished praising Wang Yang and was about to introduce the main topic, but Wang Yi pointed his chopsticks at Wang Tai and said excitedly:

"Zhongtong, you compose the next line!"

Wang Tai: (⊙o⊙)

Although Wang Tai himself is not good at composing rhapsodies, if he had a feeling, he could barely go into battle. But first, his mind was not on this, and he didn't feel anything at all. Second, he didn't listen carefully at the beginning, so the literary context couldn't be connected. If he didn't understand the rhapsody style very well, he would really dare to rush out two sentences. The key is that he understood, and once he understood, he really couldn't continue.

He was very speechless now. He was eating, drinking, and talking about business, and then these two suddenly started composing rhapsodies! And they were composing Chu-style rhapsodies! He was now trying to recall how this couplet started, but he couldn't think of it at all, because it started without any warning!

The key is that his words hadn't been made clear yet! If he just let it slide like this, wouldn't it confirm that he recognized the little beast after checking the genealogy?

Wang Tai smiled:

"Your nephew is clumsy, if I force myself to continue, it will inevitably ruin the clear rhyme, so I won't show my ugliness." He looked at Wang Yang: "Zhiyan has a quick mind, which is truly admirable. Speaking of which, I am ashamed. Our Langya Wang family has lasted for a hundred generations, and the branches are complex—"

Wang Yang interjected:

"The branches are indeed complex, but Brother is good at narrating the ethics and using his heart to check and visit! If it weren't for Brother's hard work, distinguishing the genealogy, clarifying the clan, and narrating relatives with me, I would still be like a lonely duckweed drifting, with no relatives in sight. Come, Brother, I will toast you again!"

Wang Tai was accurately predicted by Wang Yang and cut off. He cursed Wang Yang for being cunning in his heart, and pushed back with his mouth:

"Actually, I didn't distinguish it very clearly—"

"Brother, don't be humble!" Wang Yang looked at Wang Yi and sighed: "This brother of mine is good at everything, except being too humble."

Wang Yi laughed: "Zhongtong has always been like this."

Wang Tai:???

"Fifth Uncle, I am not being humble, I really don't understand it very well. How about Fifth Uncle, you check it yourself?"

Wang Yi smiled: "You have already checked it, what else should I check? Can I not trust you?"

Wang Tai wanted to vomit blood.

Wang Yi looked at Wang Tai and said seriously:

"Zhongtong, you don't have to be overly humble in this matter. The so-called 'clearly display the virtuous, to be close to the nine clans.' 'The righteousness of being close to relatives is solid.' You are close to your relatives, narrating the same clan, so that the drifting duckweed can rely on its roots, and the scattered can gather again in their clan. This is both your virtue and benevolence, and a good deed to glorify our Wang family's lintel—"

Wang Tai sweated: "Fifth Uncle, actually it's not—"

Wang Yi's voice rose: "Besides, you also discovered the thousand-mile horse of my Wang family! You are a hero! Come, nephew, I will also toast you!"

Wang Tai sweated even more, his face turned red (anxious), and he hurriedly explained: "It's really not—"

Wang Yi frowned: "It's really not what? Could it be that Zhiyan is not a thousand-mile horse?"

Wang Yang bowed to Wang Tai: "I really can't be counted as a thousand-mile horse, but Brother is indeed my Bole."

Wang Tai waved his hands repeatedly:

"Your brother is not Bole, your uncle is Bole!"

Wang Yi laughed loudly:

"Even if I am Bole, I am far away in the capital and don't have this thousand-mile eye!"

He reached out and pointed at Wang Tai:

"It is you who saw it first, gained it first, and can see the subtle and know the obvious, with a unique eye..."

Wang Tai's mouth twitched slightly:

"What seeing the subtle and knowing the obvious... Fifth Uncle, don't make fun of me. I also asked someone to check it, and there were many omissions, which is really hard to be comprehensive! Like the branch division you mentioned, the new and old genealogy, I don't know. Actually, which room and which branch Zhiyan is from, I still don't understand very well..."

Wang Yi waved his hand:

"This is a small detail, it doesn't matter! The piece of jade from Kunshan is enough to be precious. As long as it is the Langya bloodline, why bother to investigate which room and which branch it comes from? You found out that he is a member of the Wang family and has the same clan relationship with us, that is enough."

Wang Tai didn't know how to answer this, his face was embarrassed.

Wang Yi's eyes were surprised, and he pointed at Wang Yang:

"Could it be that you mean he is a fake Langya Wang family?"

Wang Tai didn't expect Wang Yi to say this, his face stiffened instantly, and he stammered:

"Actually, it's not... it's just that the person who checked it at the time was a bit confused... this... um..."

Wang Yi turned to look at Wang Yang, his expression serious:

"Zhiyan, are you a fake Langya Wang family?"

There was no panic on Wang Yang's face, and he asked with a smile:

"Are there fake Langya Wang families? Besides, if I were fake, my brother checked the genealogy and the household registration, could he not know?"

Wang Yi was surprised: "You even checked the household registration?"

Wang Yang opened his eyes wide: "Yes!"

The two looked at Wang Tai together, their expressions surprisingly consistent.

Wang Tai wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and smiled forcefully:

"I... I also checked it casually..."

Wang Yang slapped the table: "I said my brother was humble, it is indeed so. He checked it, but he had to add the word 'casually.' Is the household registration checked casually?"

Wang Yi tapped the table: "Of course not casually, can you check the household registration casually?"

Wang Yang's expression was heroic: "Just take a step back, what if I checked and found out I was fake—"

Wang Yi didn't believe it: "How is that possible?"

Wang Yang said: "Assume, assume."

"Oh, assumption is fine."

Wang Tai:...

"Assume I checked and found out I was fake. Ah, could it be that my brother deliberately didn't say it, and still narrated relatives with me, and still walked around with me—"

Wang Yi was surprised again: "You still walked around often?"

"Yes! Relatives should walk around often. Of course, I am a junior, so I always visit, which is as it should be."

Wang Yi nodded: "Should be, should be."

Wang Tai:...

He pulled at the clothes stuck to his back, feeling extremely hot: "Actually, it doesn't count..."

"Not only walked around often, but also gave me gifts!"

Wang Yi was surprised again: "Still gave gifts?"

"Yes, Brother pitied that my family business was too thin, and specially sent them, a full twenty-two boxes!"

Wang Yi looked at Wang Tai: "Zhongtong, you are truly a big spender!"

Wang Tai's face was white and red, his Adam's apple rolled up and down a few times, but he couldn't say a word. Just as he was thinking about how to deal with it, Wang Yang's voice sounded, and it suddenly became deep:

"My brother is not a big spender, he is a good person."

Wang Yang, with a hazy drunkenness, exuded an atmosphere of being about to reveal his heart, and pointed at his chest hard:

"I, Wang Yang, am a distant branch. Although the ancestors' virtue is prosperous, the family has withered early; although the family status is high, my body is as small as a mustard seed. Since I came to Jingzhou, although I heard that my clansmen were here, I didn't dare to climb up. Every festival, I faced the residual lamp alone!

I thought I would only be a rootless duckweed in this life, but I didn't expect to get Brother's blue eyes, checking the genealogy and narrating relatives, examining the records and clarifying the clan, not abandoning me because I am distant, and not staying away because I am poor! I have sealed up those twenty-two boxes of gifts and placed them properly. Because to me, they are by no means ordinary goods! They are the warm credentials of Brother accepting me! They are the best proof of me bathing in the clan's shade again!"

Wang Yang's voice choked at the end, and there seemed to be tears in his eyes.

Brother here was already stunned.

He never thought that Wang Yang had this layer of meaning in wanting gifts. This little beast is not an ordinary beast, he is a real beast! This is the meaning of having both human and physical evidence!

Wang Yi was also stunned, looking at Wang Yang, his eyes changed, and for a time he didn't know how to answer. This emotion was too full! It gave people a feeling that it would be bad not to shed tears.

"So—" Wang Yang didn't use Wang Yi to answer, he answered himself, "Assume someone said I was a fake Langya Wang family, I couldn't allow it. Not only for myself, but even more for my brother! Could it be that my brother knew I was fake, yet helped me hide it, and acted with me, isn't this saying that my brother and I joined hands to deceive the entire Jingzhou city? Isn't this saying that my brother is the shelter for me to impersonate the Langya surname and commit fraud?"

Wang Yang took a deep breath, his eyes like iron, word by word:

"Say what you want about me! Say what you want about my brother, I won't agree!"

Wang Tai looked at this scene, feeling the world spinning, so angry he almost fainted.

Wang Yi was in a state of amazement, watching the show and eating melons, and was just about to comment a few more words when he heard Wang Yang say:

"Of course, there was only my brother in Jingzhou city before, but now it's different, there is another uncle—"

Wang Yi was startled by this, and immediately covered his chest:

"Zhiyan, don't mention the uncle yet, the uncle's heart is palpitating, and he cannot bear sudden shocks..." ===== CHAPTER 241 =====