C1746 Hu Nius Secret (1/2)
After drinking another three cups of sake, the extremely excited Itou Hirobumi held onto the high quality ginseng bestowed to him by the Tiger Lady, and slowly walked down the Spring Mountain as if she was holding onto her life. Hu Niu and Xiao Letian silently watched his back for a long time.
”You want to kill him?” Hu Niu said without turning her head back.
Xiao Letian was stunned for a moment before nodding his head, ”There's a reason behind killing him!”
Hu Niu waved her hand to signal the maids by her side to retreat, ”Bring the young master back to rest, I'll stay for a while longer …”
”Le Tian …” If I didn't come just now, would you have attacked me? ”
Xiao Letian was silent for a moment, then asked, ”You came to protect him, right?”
The two of them stopped talking, and after a long while, Hu Niu and Xiao Letian suddenly sat side by side, ”Hug me, the wind is so cold!” She snuck into Xiao Letian's embrace, his back pressed tightly against the man's warm chest.
Xiao Letian hugged him and whispered, ”What do you want? Are you afraid that I won't be able to protect you two? ”I do not discriminate against women. I just feel that this pool of water is really muddled enough. I hope that all of you can live cleanly …”
Hu Niu gave a wry smile, ”I know … I know what you're thinking... You have to take all the dirty work and give us a clean world... ”I know all of this …”
After a pause, Hu Niu suddenly changed the topic. You once asked me a question about why I don't have a big name... ”Now, I can tell you that I actually had a great reputation!”
Xiao Letian stared blankly. He did not expect Hu Niu to change the topic and touch upon this extremely difficult problem. This problem had really troubled Xiao Letian for a long time.
Hu Niu's surname was Fan, which was known to the world, but no one knew Hu Niu's full name. It was as if from the very beginning, people had always been Hu Niu's name.
Those with a low status would address her as Miss before she got married, and those who got married would address her as Madam and Second Madam, as well as the current Fu Sang. Everyone would address her as Tiger Lady.
They were all titles, and these were not names, but just titles. Hu Niu was actually just a name, also known as a nickname.
Xiao Letian had asked Hu Niu before what her real name was and what her real name was, but Hu Niu had said that she didn't have it and she didn't want to have it either.
She spoke as if her name was Fan Hu Niu, and it was still a bit strange for her to mutter it more or less in detail.
After that, when all the military and civil affairs were busy, Xiao Letian would not pester too much on this matter. This question had actually surfaced in his mind, even as a husband, Xiao Letian did not put much thought into it, and no one else would care too much about it.
But today, Hu Niu admitted to having a name.
”You never know what kind of atmosphere a family like ours can have... ”This is clearly a merchant's home, but under my uncle's overbearing management, the rules are even greater than those of the fourth generation and third generation families …”
”The ancestral hall is the first place. Those old people shouldn't just look at the sky and shake their heads, but they still have strict control over the clan. For example, the right to name one's family name has always been decided by the ancestral hall …”
”My uncle wholeheartedly studied the Book of Virtue and relied on my grandfather and my father to support his production. After that, my father was responsible for supporting my family. ”However, in the eyes of those people in the ancestral hall, even if my father were to earn a million silver taels, he would still not be able to match up to a High Scholar!”
”The ancestral hall is my uncle's word for it. It doesn't matter what he says …” From a little mischievous brat, I was even more mischievous than a boy. When I was young, my family's woman had given me a name of Hu Niu, and it was because of my mischievousness that my uncle didn't like me … ”