Tang Dingguo and his brother cried as if to shake heaven and earth.
Anning, however, was unmoved: "How old are you to still be crying? Aren't you ashamed?"
Only when the brothers had nearly cried themselves out did Anning continue: "Originally, the court should have granted our family two Marquis Mansions, but as you both know, your father was a bit too conservative and wanted us, husband and wife, not to live separately, but to be together. So, he only asked for one Marquis Mansion. Over the years, many people in the Capital have forgotten that I, too, have a title. Now the time has come for me to claim back what rightfully belongs to our family. The court granted us the Duke Zhongyi Mansion, can it be that nobody from our family would go live there? That would certainly be inappropriate."
Tang Dingguo and Tang Baoguo fell silent.
What Anning said was quite reasonable.
They clearly had entitlement to two Marquis titles, so why not claim them?
