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When Tang Longzhen came, Xiao Ran couldn't stay in the store any longer, so he left with Tang Longzhen after entrusting the matter to Mr. Liu.

Tang Long really didn't bring any luggage, only a horse and a package.

Shi Er led Tang Longzhen's horse and walked in the front, Huxie carried Tang Longzhen's package and followed Xiao Ran and Tang Longzhen. After walking in silence for a while, Tang Longzhen suddenly laughed. "Brother Xiao, I remember that when I first met you, I just spent a little more money for accommodation and you laughed at me and you as being out of the way, but now it's better, it's all reversed, and it's your turn to go out and take a couple of people with you." .As expected, once you become the boss, you will have a different style?"

Xiao Ran laughed out loud when he heard it. "The joke at that time, Brother Tang, that you still use it to run on me now is really not kind. Xiao Ran is still Xiao Ran, and has never changed. These two children were sent by my brother-in-law to help me take care of the business. How can Xiao Ran have you? It's such a good thing to say."

Tang Longzhen just laughed and said nothing, until Xiao Ran arranged for him to stay in the White Mansion, and Tang Longzhen allowed himself to show his surprise when he packed his luggage in the room alone.

If you come here without doing any investigation, it is really not in line with Tang Long's cautious nature.He knew that Bai Ye, the evil star of Jianghu, did not run around recently but stayed in Wuzhou City for a long time. He also knew that Bai Ye, as Xiao Ran's brother-in-law, had always taken care of Xiao Ran, including the preparations before the store opened and the help after the store opened. I also know that Bai Ye and Xiao Ran, a scholar who doesn't know martial arts, is honest and even has some pedantic attitudes, get close, but before coming here, I thought they were just good relatives, but now it seems that this is not the case at all?

If it was just an ordinary brother-in-law, would he arrange for Xiao Ran to live in the best courtyard in the entire mansion?If it was just an ordinary brother-in-law, would the two boys guard him like a wolf?If it was an ordinary brother-in-law, would Xiao Ran have the ability to mobilize everyone in the White House?

Tang Long really shook his head. At least, no matter how much he valued appearances, he would never take such good care of his brother-in-law.

What's more, Xiao Ran's daughter-in-law died a long time ago, if he hates it a bit and says that the two of them are no longer related, it's not impossible...

Tang Longzhen scratched his chin and frowned, alas, I hope this Bai Ye will not cause any trouble for his plan!

For Tang Long's real arrival, this is a trouble for the whole White House, especially Shi Er and Kui Xi who serve Xiao Ran.

What did the second master order before he left?Take good care of Mr. Xiao, take good care of him, but don't let anyone get close to Mr. Xiao.The young master is a good-tempered person, he can agree to anyone who says anything, but you all have to grow your brains, what you can promise and what you have to refuse for the young master, everyone should be smarter!

Huanxi is a smart person, since Bai Ye met Xiao Ran in Jiankang City, he has been serving him all the way. In fact, he also understands in his heart that to the second master, this Young Master Xiao is a different person.So now seeing the intimacy between Tang Longzhen and the young master, the corners of his eyes couldn't help twitching.

Uncle Tang, you are really thinking about waiting for the second master to come back and scold the villain, right?

You said you talk as soon as you talk, why are you so close?Your mouth is almost on Mr. Xiao's ear, why don't you let it go?Why are you so close?Isn't it hot?Why do you know Mr. Xiao's hobbies so well?

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Anyway, Tang Longzhen almost became a thorn in the side of the lovable, no matter how you look at it, it is not pleasing to the eye.

Tang Long was really very kind to Xiao Ran, and he wanted something from him, not to mention the fact that the two met each other and brought some fate.

Tang Long is really not a playboy, on the contrary, in order to take on the important task of prospering the Tang family, he started to venture into the world very early.He also likes someone alone, but unlike Bai Ye, he has an elder brother who loves his younger brother to the bone and will take care of him silently behind his back, so he chooses to pack lightly. A few simple clothes and a horse are all his luggage. .

I remember the first time I saw Xiao Ran, it was winter, and the north wind howling under the Longgu Mountain in the northwest was bitingly cold.Tang Long really found a dilapidated ruined temple with uncollapsed walls for shelter from the wind, and when he entered the door, he saw that there were already people inside, huddled in a pile of people wearing white-washed academic robes under the faint bonfire. The young man on the firewood got up and looked at him with somewhat startled eyes.

That man was Xiao Ran. When he first saw him, Tang Long really thought, this man doesn't look old, but he looks like an old man who has gone through vicissitudes. It's not his body that's tired, but his heart. Those empty eyes make people want to wonder about his story.

Such Xiao Ran didn't ask his background, but immediately asked him to sit down on the pile of firewood he had laid out, lit the bonfire again, and poured a cup of warm broth for him to rest his stomach.

Tang Long has been traveling all over the world for so many years, it's not that he has never met kind-hearted people, but there are not many people who care as much as Xiao Ran but are not curious about anything, indeed not many, naturally he has a good impression of this young man in his heart.

It has been snowing heavily for two days, and the two of them can't go anywhere for these two days, they can only nest in this dilapidated temple.Fortunately, the food is well prepared, but it seems a little boring.

People are like this, if there was really only one person in this ruined temple at that time, maybe they wouldn’t feel that much, but, just because there are other people around, it would be extra lonely to be silent alone, and I can’t remember who opened the mouth first, Gradually they chatted.

Tang Long really had a good impression of this polite, humble and knowledgeable young man. When he knew that he was traveling alone, he said that he was too, so the two went together.

The two traveled together for about half a year, because the Tang Sect suddenly had something urgent to call Tang Longzhen back.It wasn't until later that Xiao Ran met Tang Longzhen again in the middle of Shu that he realized that this companion who had spent more than half a year with him was actually the eldest son of the Tang Sect.

It's not that he wasn't surprised, but Xiao Ran handled it well... At least Tang Long really felt that Xiao Ran handled it well, he didn't take his prominent life experience seriously at all, and still got along with him as before.

In fact, he didn't know at that time that Xiao Ran had a more prominent brother-in-law, Bai Ye.

You think that Xiao Ran can live in harmony with Bai Ye for so many years, but Tang Longzhen can't do more than that.

Tang Longzhen's life in the White Mansion was very carefree, even as if he was on vacation.

Xiao Ran arranged him in a side courtyard, which was originally the place where Master Jia's concubine lived, the concubine who is being favored, the scenery is naturally elegant.

Every day he sleeps until he wakes up naturally, and then goes to the kitchen to have some breakfast.Xiao Ran got up early and went to the shop early. When Tang Long really got up, he could not see Xiao Ran, but it was all right. After breakfast, Mr. Tang leisurely strolled all the way to Qingfengzhai, and accompanied Xiao Ran to look at the shop.

At noon, someone from the White Mansion will bring meals over, and there are always two dishes and one soup, but the dishes change a little every day, which shows that the cook also put his heart into not daring to neglect Xiao Ran.Of course, Tang Longzhen now has this good fortune, he has tasted several famous home-cooked dishes in the south of the Yangtze River within a few days.

In the afternoon, sometimes Tang Longzhen would take a nap on the bamboo couch, and if people came to the shop, he would chat with those literati for a while.

Xiao Ran was originally a well-known scholar in Wuzhou City. Apart from the properties of Xuantianmen and Deyilou, the most people who came to take care of the business were the literati and scholars of Wuzhou City who Xiao Ran knew well before and some former disciples.

Xiao Ran's innocent appearance makes people feel refreshed physically and mentally. It can be said that just putting it in the store is to greet customers.In fact, Bai Ye is also extremely beautiful, but he has a bit of evil spirit and a bit of murderous look all over his body. Every time those nerds see him, they will instinctively sense the danger and don't want to stay longer.But Tang Long is really different. He is gentle and elegant like a noble son, and he is amiable and well-educated. Now that he is here, those scholars spend significantly longer time in the shop, and the efficiency of using the tables and chairs is much higher.

For Xiao Ran, it is better to be popular than to have no one, not to mention having more people to talk to is also a time to gain knowledge.

Huanxi usually would not leave Li Ran's side, but Shier would go in and out several times a day, such as to prepare some sour plum soup, delicious refreshments, run errands to deliver letters and so on.

As the sun was setting, Mr. Liu began to sort out the day's accounts, and by the way, intentionally or unintentionally, he asked Xiao Ran to return home earlier.

If nothing happened, Xiao Ran would walk home slowly with Tang Longzhen, and maybe buy some cheap food along the way.

The price at the end of the market will be much cheaper than when it is fresh in the morning, and vendors like live fish, river prawns, and pork are often reluctant to take it home overnight because they require freshness, so Xiao Ran has been used to buying vegetables in the evening since before.Although he is not the chef now, but getting used to this kind of thing is deeply ingrained after all.

Every time Tang Longzhen watched with some curiosity, Xiao Ran squatted over there earnestly picking and haggling, and then paid with a sense of accomplishment.

Once Tang Longzhen asked Xiao Ran, who was holding a crucian carp that was still flicking its tail in one hand, and a handful of vegetables in the other, and a bamboo basket of river prawns in his hand. Can't cook?

Xiao Ran smiled indifferently.Yes, once a person gets used to it, he has to do everything by himself.

Well, Mr. Tang is still curious, and really wants to taste how the dishes cooked by Xiao Ran taste.However, I don't know whether it's because Li Ran is too tired every day or because there is a full-time cook in the White Mansion now, Xiao Ran has never cooked before, and this cannot be said to be a great regret in Mr. Tang's heart.

The small days were so peaceful for too long, for nearly half a month, the harmony was so pleasing that sometimes one even wondered whether this was the Tang Mansion or not the White Mansion.

I can't blame Xiao Ran for anything. For Xiao Ran, the friendship between gentlemen is like this. Maybe they are separated from each other on weekdays, but when they meet again one day, they can talk heart-to-heart, chant poems, paint pictures, and play the piano without any barriers, just like him and Tang Longzhen. , playing the flute.

Deyi Building has also been visited by people, the first time I came, it was empty talk, so I wanted to invite Xiao Ran to sit down, and saw Tang Longzhen poked his head out to ask what was going on, empty talk is also a clever person, I always feel that this person is unfamiliar Knowing many things, he abruptly changed to Deyilou to ask about the goods.

Two days later, empty words came again, seeing that Tang Long was really still there, he only asked Xiao Ran how he was, and went back without saying anything.

When he came over for the third time, Kong Yan obeyed Leng Fengyin's order, not only invited Xiao Ran, but also invited his friend Xiao Ran.