Happiness Consist in Contentment - v16 Chapter 17

On the outskirts of Kyoto six years ago

The Six Buddhas Temple in Kyoto is a place where more devout Buddhists come here to offer incense. In the early autumn, there are even fewer pilgrims here.

This thousand-year-old temple is full of solemnity and solemnity. Under normal circumstances, Kyoto people do not like to come here because the atmosphere is too serious.

In the current Wei Dynasty, it is more advocating freedom and a natural atmosphere. To put it bluntly, it is a place where people can play freely and enjoy freely.

Liu Fang took Mo He up the mountain, first went to the main hall to worship and offer incense, and then turned to the Zhien Pavilion in the back mountain.

Yuan Wei was sitting in the pavilion waiting, setting up the chessboard, and brewing tea. When he saw Liu Fang coming, he stood up and bowed, saying, “Yuan Wei, the eldest son of the Yuan family’s eldest son, is polite.”

Liu Fang replied with a salute, “Young Master Yuan is polite.”

The two sat opposite each other, Yuan Wei poured a cup of hot tea for Liu Fang, put it in front of her, and smiled slightly, “Thank you, the three girls, for coming to meet you. I don’t know, would you like to play a game?”

Liu Fang smiled and nodded, “It’s an honor.”

The two played chess and drank tea, as if there was nothing special, just like friends who have known each other for a long time, and spent a long time.

Before leaving, Yuan Weicai said to Liu Fang, “I can provide the three girls with all the evidence related to Yuan and Liang’s family.”

Liu Fang looked at him with a smile, and said lightly, “I don’t know what Young Master Yuan wants?”

Yuan Wei said coldly and indifferently, “I want the Yuan family to pay the price! Completely disappear into the Great Wei.”

Liu Fang was stunned for a moment, then nodded solemnly, “Okay, yes.”

As for whether he is sincere, and whether he has other plans?

Liu Fang doesn’t care, what she cares about is whether the other party can give her something useful.

Shortly after, Liu Zhi’s incident broke out, and Liu Fang sent a letter to Yuan Wei for the first time, and Yuan Wei lived up to her expectations and sent over the collected evidence.

In this way, the two took their interests as an alliance and temporarily cooperated until today, six years later.

…

Liu Fang fixedly looked at Yuan Wei and couldn’t help sighing, “Why are you doing this?”

Yuan Wei smiled and said, “Life is alive, it’s just my heart, I don’t regret it.”

Liu Fang was silent.

Forget it, if he wants to be stubborn, he can be stubborn, she can’t control it.

“Are you going to see Liang Sheng?”

Yuan Wei nodded, turned his head to look at the scenery outside the window, and said faintly: “He is my only best friend, I always have to visit

Look at him. “

Liu Fang nodded slightly and said, “Don’t worry, I will arrange it.”

Now that the Yuan family has collapsed, and Yuan Wei’s manpower is also very limited, Liu Fang simply arranged for him to save him from running into a wall.

Yuan Wei turned back, looked at her, and said slowly, “Thank you.”

Liu Fang smiled slightly, “There is no need to thank you and me.”

It is true.

Yuan Wei smiled indifferently and didn’t say more.

…

In the evening of the second day, Yuan Weicai entered the sky prison to see Liang Sheng.

In order to make it easier for them to speak, the yamen in the prison specially took Liang Sheng to a quiet empty cell.

Liang Sheng looked at Yuan Wei in plain clothes, and the two were speechless for a long time.

It was Yuan Wei who opened his mouth and said slowly, “Are you okay?”

Liang Sheng raised his eyebrows sarcastically, and said, “Okay? What do you think? I’ve fallen into the situation I’m in now, how can I be better?”

Yuan Wei was silent.

Liang Sheng looked at him like this, and suddenly felt that it was meaningless. He relaxed lazily and said, “When did it start?”

Yuan Wei looked at him and replied, “Six years ago.”

Liang Sheng understood in a blink of an eye, “After what happened to Liu Zhi?”

Yuan Wei nodded.

Liang Sheng laughed, a little gaffe, leaning forward and backward, as if crazy.

“Okay, okay, really good!” He slowed down and looked at Yuan Wei with a cold face, “I really didn’t see it, you are such a ruthless and cold-hearted person, you can actually take your own Father, all the clan members are included in the game, are you particularly proud now?”

Yuan Wei looked at him and said slowly, “Do you still remember my mother?”

Liang Sheng was startled.

Yuan Wei’s eyes were distant and he said softly, “Back then, you and I were still children, your family background and mine are so similar, but your life and mine are completely different. “

He paused, swallowed the choked sob in his throat, and continued, “Your father, treat your mother as always, with no doubt of love, but my father, when I was ignorant, directly tortured and killed my mother. Become a child without a mother.”

Liang Sheng looked at Yuan Wei, and remembered the long-term memory. In that year, he was seven years old, and Yuan Wei was only six years old.

Yuan Wei had just had a wonderful birthday, and his mother made him a new dress, but that night, his mother died suddenly and inexplicably.

When they were young, they naturally didn’t understand why this was happening, but when they were young, they understood that this matter was not simple.

Since then, Yuan Wei’s sexuality

Zi became silent a lot, and Liang Sheng quickly forgot about these things.

Three years later, Yuan Wei’s father married his successor, and in the second year, Yuan Wei’s younger brother was born. Liang Sheng only remembered that after Yuan Wei’s younger brother was born, he started to seldom return to Yuan’s house, basically. They all stay in the garden of his mother’s dowry, which is Wenxianju.

It wasn’t until that year that his father offended Yuan Wei’s grandfather and was almost taken away from the head of the family. Only then did Yuan Wei return to the Yuan family and become the new heir to the family.

Since then, the Yuan family has actually been in Yuan Wei’s hands.

It’s just that Liang Sheng knew that Yuan Wei didn’t make a lot of changes in the Yuan family, he still followed the old rules, and even indulged the Yuan family’s actions many times. At the beginning, he had persuaded him, but Yuan Wei had never been moved. Now it seems that he is watching the Yuan family want to kill himself!

Liang Sheng said lightly, “So, in order to avenge your father who killed your mother, you dragged me into the water too?”

Yuan Wei looked at him and said, “Are you going to be okay?”

Liang Sheng choked, not to mention that as the heir of the Liang family, he has enjoyed the best since he was a child. Minimal.

But what makes Liang Sheng upset is that he lost to Liu Fang, a woman so much younger than him!

Seeing that he had nothing to say, Yuan Wei smiled slightly, “I actually just wanted to see how you came in and went to jail. It’s really unpleasant to watch that you have been going smoothly all your life!”

Liang Sheng’s eyes widened, he raised his finger and pointed at Yuan Wei’s nose and began to scold, “Your own life is rough, just look at me being jealous? How can you be so narrow-minded? Are you worthy of your own knowledge and talent?”

Yuan Wei said lightly, “I am narrow-minded.”

Liang Sheng: …

It was the first time he saw Yuan Wei look like this. He sighed and said, “Why do you blame yourself for all this? You have destroyed the Yuan family now. Are you okay?”

Yuan Wei smiled and said, “I think it’s good.”

Liang Sheng looked at him, shocked and couldn’t believe it, “What kind of fan/drug did Liu Sanniang give you?”

Yuan Wei looked at him and said, “Can’t you see it? You can’t see what the people outside the capital are like? You can’t see the scene of the Great Wei declining year by year?”

Liang Sheng was silent.

Yuan Wei smiled coldly, “I saw it, I can’t tell myself blindfolded, I can’t see! So many people

Why should he sacrifice his life for no reason? Just because they are of humble origin? Just because they are commoners? Oh, does this kind of mind match your knowledge and talent? “

Liang Sheng said sternly, “But the family is our root.”

Yuan Wei said indifferently, “No, the Great Wei is our root! How can we come to home without a country? If the country is gone, where is our home?”

Liang Sheng frowned and said, “No matter who is the emperor, your family and mine can still stand tall. This is a noble family, don’t you know?”

Yuan Wei nodded, “Of course I know. But what I know even more is that in a country, people who need to run the country and people who also need to work, where do the food come from? Where do the clothes come from? Are these all you? I planted it myself, made it myself? Liang Sheng, you can continue to think about your family’s glory and plan for the continuation of your family, but I can’t. I hate the Yuan family!

If it weren’t for the so-called family continuation, my mother would not have been tortured and killed by my father because of the fall of the family! If it weren’t for the continuation of the family, my eldest son would not have returned to the Yuan family until he was eighteen years old and crowned… All of this was brought to me by the Yuan family, I hate it! I’d rather I wasn’t born into the Yuan family, I’d rather be just a commoner than that disgusting person in the Yuan family! “

At the end of the day, Yuan Wei still couldn’t stabilize his emotions, and roared out almost hoarsely.

Listening to his words, Liang Sheng had mixed feelings in his heart.

An eleven-year-old child was completely exiled by his father, and since then he has lived alone in the lonely home of Wen Xian. It was not until seven years later that the so-called father, due to lack of greed, was almost found out by the late emperor, so that his son, who had just reached the crown, returned to the Yuan family to clean up the mess for him.

In the following years, he had to deal with the conspiracy and calculations outside, and at the same time, he also had to deal with the calculations from his father, stepmother, and younger brother at home.

It can be said that the first half of Yuan Wei’s life has been living in calculations, and he can’t even sleep peacefully.

Liang Sheng understands such pain.

However, he could not accept that the other party would turn to Liu Fang.

“Do you think Liu Sanniang can make your wish come true?”

Yuan Wei nodded, “Yes, she can.”

Liang Sheng sneered, “What about the Liu family? Isn’t the Liu family an aristocratic family?”

Yuan Wei shook his head and said, “That’s different.”

Liang Sheng said coldly, “What’s the difference? They have the same servants of the world, they are the same clothes and food, they enjoy the offerings of the common people, and they are clean.

Yet? No, they will never be clean if they exist for a day! “

Yuan Wei said, “The tenants of the Liu family’s farmhouse only need 20% of the annual rent, plus 20% of the tax, and the tenants can keep the remaining 60% in their own hands. I can’t say that I have enough food and clothing, but at least they can eat and wear warmly.

Can the tenants of your Liang family have 50% remaining in a year? All I know is that the tenants of the Yuan family had to sell their sons and daughters in order to survive in a famine year. The annual rent is 40%, plus 20% of the tax, and occasional corvée. Do you know how many people starved to death in the Yuan family’s farmhouse tenants in a year? “

Liang Sheng was silent.

Grange tenants, 40% of the rent per year, is not a black heart, nor is it high, but as Yuan Wei said, in the position of the tenants, they pay the rent and then pay the tax. Corrupt labor, or a disaster year, it is really over.

Even if the weather is good and the rain is good, and the food is harvested, they only have enough food and clothing.

But the Liu family can only charge 20% of the rent, which is almost just a title. More than half of the food produced every year is owned by the tenants. As Yuan Wei said, even if the harvest is not so good, the tenants’ life is not too difficult, at least enough to eat and clothe.

Only now did Liang Sheng understand that the Liu family was really different from other aristocratic families.

He looked at Yuan Weidao, “That’s why you joined her, didn’t you?”

Yuan Wei nodded, “Yes. I want to be an upright person and do what I can for the world and the people.”

Liang Sheng smiled bitterly, “Do you think she can really do it?”

Yuan Wei said firmly, “I believe she can do it.”