The Gao family was passed down for several generations, until Gao Wenyuan's generation began to prosper. Gao Wenyuan's younger brothers and sisters have seven, big and small, which is a happy thing for the Gao family for the second half of their lives. Having many children is a blessing, this is the idea that everyone in that era had. Perhaps because it has been passed down for several generations, the Gao family does not attach much importance to the distinction between concubines and concubines, which is not very common among the nobles of the Zhao Kingdom.

Gao Wenyuan is the eldest son of his father Gao Xiuyi, and is the oldest of the Gao family's grandchildren. Compared with his grandfather Gao Jinxia, his father Gao Xiuyi is ordinary. Whether in politics or in terms of strategy, Gao Xiuyi is not an outstanding person. In order to maintain the status of the Gao family, Gao Jinxia exerted all his strength and found a good official position for Gao Xiuyi.

Gao Xiuyi has no merits during his tenure, and correspondingly, there doesn't seem to be any big mess. This is not a very bad thing, but it is very difficult for an official without merit to get promoted. Although he gave full play to the influence of the Gao family and invested everything in Gao Xiuyi, he could still help him, but at this time, the old man gradually lost Jackie Chan's confidence in this son, and began to focus on his grandchildren.

Fortunately, the grandchildren of the Gao family are full of talents, the three noble sons are all talented, and the eldest ladies are also good-looking. Gao Jinxia was very pleased, and his heart was promising for the prosperity of the Gao family. In order to make plans as soon as possible, the son of the Gao family was not only studying and practicing martial arts, but also being dragged by his grandfather to make friends with powerful people from all walks of life. Gao Jinxia originally wanted to pave the way for their future, and when they stepped into officialdom in the future, they would have a friendship in all directions. Because of this, the son of the Gao family's literary generation has been a little sophisticated since he was a child.

Gao Wenyuan is naturally not exempt from vulgarity, as the eldest grandson, he is the first sensible, and he is also the first to be taken around by his grandfather to "socialize". When he was a child, he was also a little snobbish, although he was strictly disciplined by his grandfather, so that he would not be shy, but he was also very good at observing people's faces and tending to be inflammatory.

Fortunately, Gao Wenyuan aspired to be a general, and since he aspired to be a military attaché, his grandfather did not "arrange" his connections too much. His two younger brothers both want to become civil officials who play tricks and pen sticks, and Gao Jinxia has also changed his care.

Gao Wenyuan has always felt that this is normal, all aristocratic families may have to pull connections like this since childhood, everyone has to be sophisticated, all life has to cater to the powerful, and everything has to be upper-class. He decided it was right, and was complacent about his philistine.

Until he was nine years old.

When he was nine years old, he and his grandfather attended the 100-day banquet of the fourth son of the Tang Mansion in the Tang Dynasty. The morning ceremony has been completed, and the fourth prince grabbed a jade pendant when he drew lots, which is not a shame, and there is nothing too much to talk about. Before the banquet, Gao Jinxia called Gao Wenyuan to the front and told him that the eldest young master of the Tang family happened to be the same age as Gao Wenyuan, and he and Gao Wenyuan did not know each other because he had no chance. It's better to take today's opportunity to communicate with him a little more and build a good relationship.

The eldest young master? Remember that the eldest young master of the Tang family seems to be called Tang Su? Gao Wenyuan didn't ask his grandfather what this Tang Su looked like and where he was, he believed that he could see it and find it.

The eldest young master of the Tang family is the lord of this place, and he is the same age as himself. Not to mention that there will be fundamental differences between the host and the guest in their behavior, just by virtue of his identity as the eldest young master and thinking of his own situation, Gao Wenyuan naturally thinks that this Tang Su should be next to the master of the Tang family to "get acquainted" with the distinguished guests.

Gao Wenyuan looked at the side of the Tang family's master, and sure enough, there was a young master of the same age as him. With a sword eyebrow on his face, his demeanor is serious, clean and neat, and he looks very heroic. Gao Wenyuan said in his heart: This is Tang Su. So they went up and talked.

But the result can make him blush, this person is not Tang Su, but the second son Tang Ze, who is one year younger than Tang Su and Gao Wenyuan, and is also a descendant.

Tang Ze seems to be well-informed, although his demeanor is in the direction of the military attaché, but his conversation is also quite Confucian. After correcting Gao Wenyuan's mistitle, normal people should have been a little unhappy, but as a result, Tang Ze didn't have any annoyance on his face. still talked with Gao Wenyuan enthusiastically, starting with his fourth brother and continuing to the history and humanities, and even the advance strategy of the ancient war, which shocked Gao Wenyuan. I can't help but praise again and again.

Approaching the banquet, Tang Ze bowed his hand to Gao Wenyuan, "Although the junior brother has ambitions here, he is still young and does not have enough accumulation. My brother is one year older than me, and I think he is going to be a step higher than my younger brother, and when my younger brother enters the court in the future, I am afraid that my brother will need to take care of him. ”

"Where is it, the foolish brother is only a shallow learner, and he still needs a lot of advice from the virtuous brother."

It is probably difficult for people who are not aristocratic to imagine such a conversation between an eight-year-old and a nine-year-old child. However, in precipitated families, such things have long been commonplace, and children at the age of eight or nine are enough to represent some things in the family.

After the banquet began, Tang Ze, as the lord, naturally wanted to enter the inner hall. And Gao Wenyuan is in the outer hall, with the sons of several other families, all of whom are fourteen or fifteen years old. Although Gao Wenyuan is mature, he doesn't get along well with these sons. After all, the age gap is there, even among the nobles, there is a situation where they can't talk about it, and most of their families can't catch up with the Gao family, so it doesn't matter if they can't talk.

After listening to it with a smile on his face for a long time, Gao Wen suddenly remembered that he had not seen Tang Su yet. After returning home, my grandfather would inevitably ask him what he thought of Tang Su, and if he couldn't answer that he hadn't seen it at all, he was afraid that a stick would be indispensable. Thinking of this, Gao Wenyuan hurriedly quit the dinner table and went elsewhere to find Tang Su.

The grandchild who accompanied the guests in the inner hall was Tang Ze, if Tang Su was also a little unruly in the inner hall, he should be somewhere else. Gao Wenyuan called a subordinate of the Tang Mansion to ask, and the subordinate told Gao Wenyuan that the eldest prince was now in the back garden. So Gao Wenyuan hurriedly rushed to the back garden of the Tang Mansion. The corridor had been walked several times, and the shadow wall had been rounded several times, and finally he saw the eight-year-old child he was going to meet.

But then again, the Tang family's garden is really big enough, and the point is that this is a garden in Liangjing City, not a suburb. It is said that this garden was the mansion of the Tang family before Zhao was beaten to the south of the Yangtze River, and the history is really long enough.

Tang Su was leaning under a tree, and there was a small wooden table with a tea set on it, but it was not a set. The tea set had only one pot, no cups. He had a book in his hand and seemed to be very engaged.

Tang Su was wearing a short white coat, not a formal suit. But it is not quite right to say that it is white, for first of all, the filth he stained on the trunk and the muddy floor, the garment was not made of satin, but of white cotton. And it is not that the newly woven cotton cloth itself cannot be called white.

Seeing this, Gao Wenyuan was very suspicious that he had found the wrong person. Maybe it's just a book boy or something. However, at a glance, you can see that the wooden table is not simple, and it is not qualified for a subordinate. In addition, he had already recognized the person once before the meal, and Gao Wenyuan seemed more "cautious" at this time.

"Dare to ask if it's Tang Su Tang Gongzi?" He asked, leaning forward, bending down.

"Ah, well, that's right, I'm Tang Su." The man gently closed the book, slowly laid it flat on the wooden table, and picked up the teapot with his left hand, and then slowly raised his head to look at Gao Wenyuan.

Gao Wenyuan was a little irritated by the unhurriedness revealed in this series of actions. But he quickly admonished himself not to show it.

"Ah, I wonder what Brother Tang was reading just now?" Gao Wenyuan casually pulled a topic, ready to start from this topic to close the distance.

Tang Su still looked unhurried and had no one in his eyes, and put the mouth of the teapot into his mouth and took a sip. Gao Wenyuan had never seen this way of drinking tea, but what he cared more about than this was whether Tang Su was willing to answer his question now.

"You're just here to ask this?" Tang Su took the teapot away from his mouth, exhaled, and said such a sentence that answered the question.

But this sentence really made Gao Wenyuan a little choked, of course he didn't ask this, of course his purpose was to get to know Tang Su and make good connections in the Tang Mansion, but can you say this? Gao Wenyuan was greatly furious, after all, even if a nine-year-old child has patience, there is a limit.

"Your Excellency is the eldest son of the Tang family, and the contemptible person is the eldest young master of the Gao family, what is your intention by despising me so many times!" Gao Wenyuan felt that the roots of his teeth were a little itchy.

Unexpectedly, Tang Su didn't hurry up and laughed, "Your words are too elegant, I see that you also have two nostrils and a mouth, why do you have to fart in a circle to speak." Hey, I don't feel like you're really angry. ”

"You ......"

"I'm just asking what you're here for, is that a difficult question to answer?"

"I think this garden is good, come in and watch! Isn't it okay? Gao Wenyuan didn't want to have anything to do with this person at all, he originally thought that Tang Su was similar to Tang Ze and was also an aspiring talent, but it turned out that he looked like a bear, not only did he not treat the eldest young master of the Gao family with dignity, but he himself had no personal appearance and was rude.

"Okay, I didn't say no, but I don't think that's what you intended." Tang Su poured another sip of tea, "You want to get to know me and win support." You don't have to hide it, everyone is like this, it's very fake. Pretending, you're tired, I'm tired. And then at the end, you say we're friends. I also said that we are friends, is it useful? Just you, when did you think of them as real friends? ”

"Nonsense, we are all friends who are determined to serve the country and encourage each other!"

"If it's so noble, then why are you still here to get acquainted with me? Come on, you don't believe this, I don't believe it, and everyone doesn't believe it. Tang Su sighed, "Sometimes it's strange why some things, everyone knows that they are fake, and everyone is tired of it, but they still have to pretend to maintain it." ”

"That's just your fallacy!"

"Perhaps, I still find it easier to sit on the dirt floor in old clothes than to bow down at the dinner table in formal clothes." Tang Su waved his hand, "You go back, I 'got acquainted' with the eldest son of the Gao family, uh...... What's it called? ”

"The surname is Gao, and the name is Wenyuan. I think your second brother is much more promising than you. ”

"Then don't bother me drinking tea and reading."

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