The front main gate and the side corner gates on both sides were blocked by government people. Tang Yuan could only change into a servant's clothes, disguising himself to leave through the back door, but was stopped by his other brothers.
"Second brother, where are you planning to go?"
The speaker came from the third family, named Tang Jing. His father was illegitimate and originally had no status in this estate. It was only with great difficulty that he got a place at the Imperial College, now utterly ruined because of the disgraceful scandals from the main household.
Half an hour ago, he was still in the lecture hall at the Imperial College, when news came from who-knows-where, saying the second master of the Tang House had taken his own sister-in-law, Mrs. Jiang, as a concubine, and she was accused of attempting to murder the eldest master, Tang Xiao, years ago.
In that instant, all eyes looking at Tang Jing turned mockingly.
