After drinking three more glasses of sake, the extremely excited Ito Hirobumi held the Korean ginseng given by Mrs. Tiger and slowly walked down the Kasuga Mountain as if holding his lifeblood. Huniu and Xiao Letian looked at his back and were speechless for a long time.
"You want to kill him?" Huniu asked without looking back.
Xiao Letian was stunned for a moment and then nodded, "There is a reason to kill him!"
Huniu waved her hand and asked the maid beside her to step away, "Take the young master back to rest, I will stay for a while..."
"Lotte...if I hadn't come just now, would you have taken action?"
Xiao Letian was silent for a moment: "You are here to protect him, right?"
The two stopped talking again. After a long time, Huniu suddenly sat side by side with Xiao Letian. "Hug me, the wind is so cold!" She got into Xiao Letian's arms, her back pressed against the man's warm chest.
Xiao Letian hugged him and whispered, "What do you want? Are you still afraid that I can't protect you two? I don't discriminate against women. I just think this water is really messy. I hope you can do it." Live a clean life..."
Hu Niu smiled sadly, "I know... I know what you are thinking... You have to do all the dirty work and give us a clean world... I know this..."
After a pause, Hu Niu suddenly changed the topic, "Lotte! You once asked me a question before, why I don't have a famous name... Now I can tell you, I actually have a famous name!"
Xiao Letian was stunned. He didn't expect Huniu to change the subject and talk about this unattainable issue, and this issue really bothered Xiao Letian for a long time.
Everyone in the world knows that Huniu’s surname is Fan, but no one in the world knows what Huniu’s nickname is. It seems that people have called her Huniu Huniu from the beginning.
Those with high status directly call him Hu Niu, while those with low status call her Miss before marriage and Madam and Second Madam after marriage, including the current Fusang. People also respect her as Mrs. Tiger.
They are all titles. These are not names, they are just titles. Huniu is actually a nickname, also a nickname.
Xiao Letian once asked Huniu what her name was and what her official name was, but Huniu said she didn't have one and didn't want to have one. She asked Fan Qian's father-in-law and sighed and shook his head without saying anything.
It was as if her name was Fan Huniu when she was playing around with it, and it still sounded a bit exotic when she repeated it carefully.
Later, the military and civil affairs were busy, so Xiao Letian would not get too entangled in this matter. The issue actually came up. Xiao Letian, the husband, didn't pay much attention to it, and the others didn't care either.
But today, Huniu admitted that she once had a name.
"You will never understand what the atmosphere is like in a family like ours... It is obviously a businessman's family, but under my uncle's high-pressure management, it has even greater rules than a big family with four generations and three fathers..."
"The clan ancestral hall comes first. Those old people don't know how to study despite shaking their heads all day long. However, the control over the family is still very strict. For example, regarding the right of name, the ancestral hall has always made the final decision..."
"My uncle devoted himself to studying books by sages. He relied on my grandfather and my father to support him when he was not engaged in childbirth. Later, my grandfather passed away and the burden of supporting the family and making money fell entirely on my father... But in the eyes of those in the clan ancestral hall, even if my father earns Millions of silver can't compare to the fame of a person!"
"The ancestral hall is my uncle's hall of speech, and he can do whatever he says... I have been naughty since I was a child, even naughtier than boys. When I was a child, the woman at home gave me a nickname of Huniu. Because I was naughty, my uncle was very dissatisfied. like me……"
"In addition, my father cares about me and won't let me bind my feet, which annoys him even more. As a result, he didn't give me any name until I met you. And when my father thinks of a name, he can't get past the name in the ancestral hall. close……"
Xiao Letian was stunned, "You...your name still needs to be nodded by the ancestral hall? What's the point..."
"Haha... This is their principle! A name that has not been approved by the clan ancestral hall cannot be written on the family tree, and it has no meaning. That's why I have been a Huniu all my life..."
"But...but your appearance changed everything!" Huniu looked up at Xiao Letian, "Because you want me, because you are a master of Western learning that all scholars admire, and even the imperial court has to reuse you...so I follow your identity. It also becomes noble!”
"Before I married you, my uncle met me once and said he wanted to give me a good name. I can't enter your Xiao family with a nickname!"
At this moment, Huniu's face suddenly changed. She looked at the void fiercely, as if she was looking at the uncle who killed her mother with hatred. "The name he gave me is Fan Siyuan... It means missing Zuyuan, to a girl." By giving such a name, he wanted to warn me not to forget my roots..."
"You...are you thinking too much? Siyuan is also a neutral word, not just for men..." Xiao Letian persuaded carefully.
"Haha...Am I overthinking? He has already spoken out what is on his mind, and he even said that I am overthinking!" Huniu's voice rose an octave higher.
"My uncle said it clearly. Siyuan just told me to remember my ancestral family traditions and not forget my roots...and at that time he had already received a promise from the Imperial Merchant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Empress Dowager Cixi already had a single line of contact with him..."
"Do you know that he asked me to be a spy by your side? He ordered me to report everything about you at any time and tell him everything! Do you know that he is going to use your secrets to buy credit from the imperial court?"
"You'll never guess how despicable those people are!"
Xiao Letian was stunned. He never thought that Hu Niu would encounter such a thing before getting married. No wonder his father-in-law sighed and said nothing when this topic was mentioned.
"So you lost the name given by your family?" Xiao Letian asked tremblingly.
"Yes! I am in control of my own happiness. Why should I sacrifice my man and my family for them! Isn't that just not included in the family tree? I don't care about my aunt, so I married under my nickname! What can you do? !”
"In the end, my uncle was the one who made me angry. He scolded me in person, and I said that it's okay for me to do it in detail. Transform my mother back to me and bring her back to life. I will listen to you! "
Huniu's eyes filled with tears, and tears rolled down her face. "He scolded me for being unfilial. I told him directly that now that the two families have separated, I can't be filial to anyone who I am filial to!"
"As long as the Xiao family's ancestral grave still wants me, I won't be afraid of anything..." After saying this, Huniu threw herself into Xiao Letian's arms and cried loudly.
"Enemies! Do you know how scared I am? I say I don't care about those people in my hometown, but can I really let go? What if one day the court attacks them, what do you want me to do? Where? After all, I have my relatives and my memories!"
"Do you know? Before he died, my uncle forced my father to help those incompetent eldest brothers to sell their jobs and get titles. He didn't care if he didn't want to. A dying man is forcing you with his life and suppressing you with a big hat of morality... Even if you separate the family. No, you can’t escape their control!”
"My father has already spent three million silver dollars buying offices for those wimps in Sijiu City! Do you know this?"
"Eating people! That's a place that eats people without spitting out their bones..."
