Like at this moment, Xing'er and the others heard about it, and when they thought about it, they knew that Gu Changning was still in the dark, and they didn't realize it at all.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have been so calm.

So as soon as the three of them heard about it, they rushed over to tell her.

"It is rumored that in order to be able to go to the school for himself, your brother disregarded your aunt's body, took all the money in the family to hand over and buy pen, ink, paper and inkstone, so that your aunt can't even drink medicine!"

After Chen Shuang finished speaking, he saw Gu Changning's face sank, and his face was full of anger.

"This is just nonsense!"

Gu Changning's face darkened, and his disgust for Li Niangzi in his heart added another layer.

As soon as you hear such rumors, you will know who made it up.

In addition to Dr. Li's family, who has been repeatedly rejected, who else can there be?

Gu Changning's chest was full of depression, his fists were clenched tightly, and he was full of anger and couldn't wait to go to Li Niangzi's family to settle accounts and question them!

Where did their own family provoke them, and asked them to calculate their family in every possible way!

It's no wonder that Gu Changning is so annoyed, it's really Mrs. Li's trick that is too ruthless.

Although there is no son of any family in Xinghua Village, all the villagers know that all dynasties have always governed the country with filial piety, and it is a serious crime to be unfilial to their parents!

This rumor clearly means that the elder brother disregards filial piety and is only dedicated to himself.

And once a scholar is named unfilial, even if he passes the imperial examination, he still can't be an official.

After all, the reputation of the reader is very important.

In this way, it is equivalent to cutting off his brother's road to the imperial examination.

It's ruthless!

Gu Changning exuded coldness all over his body, and a trace of gloom appeared in his eyes.

"So, what should I do now?" Chen Shuang had never seen Gu Changning's cold face before, and he asked at the moment.

Gu Changning came back to his senses and saw that they were all looking at her with a cautious face, and he didn't dare to come out of the air, knowing that her expression just now scared everyone.

So she steadied herself and tried to make a casual appearance and said to them, "This is just some rumors, what kind of person my brother is, the uncles and uncles in the village know it, I believe it will pass soon, you don't have to worry." ”

However, after listening to this explanation, Chen Shuang and Xing'er glanced at each other, and Yang Jin also stood aside, no one spoke, with a little uneasiness on his face.

How do you feel that since Uncle Gu Shan's death, Ning Ning's family has been doing things constantly?

After this incident, Gu Changning acted like no one should do anything, and there was nothing abnormal on his face, as if he had never heard what Xing'er and the others relayed.

She doesn't want her mother and brother to be upset about this matter, and she is trying to think of a solution to solve it.

However, Yang Huiyun still felt that her performance looked a little wrong, she looked at her daughter suspiciously, frowning and looking up and down without speaking, her eyes were full of inquiry and doubt.

"Why is A-Niang staring at me like this?" Gu Changning noticed that there was a gaze on her, she raised her head to look, and when she found that the person staring at her was her own aunt, she was a little confused.

"You've been ...... lately Is there something to hide from me? Yang Huiyun asked with a serious face.

“…… No, why did A-Niang suddenly ask me like this, did something happen? Hearing this, Gu Changning's little heart beat suddenly, and he still said with an unchanged face.

"You really didn't lie to me?" Yang Huiyun frowned, no matter how she stared at Gu Changning's expression, she couldn't tell the truth of her words, so she couldn't help but confirm it again and again.

"Auntie's words are strange, obviously you came first to ask if someone is hiding something from you, I said no, why don't you believe it!" Gu Changning deliberately pouted, and muttered with a dissatisfied look.

The voice was not deliberately lowered, of course Yang Huiyun heard it clearly.

She paused, thinking that it was indeed her own first talk, and seeing her daughter's straightforward face, not like a weak heart, thinking that maybe she was too careful, so she softened her tone and said: "It's A-Niang who thinks too much, A-Niang just sees that you are often shaking your mind recently, as if you have something on your mind, so I asked two more words." ”

"Constantly shaking? Got something on your mind? How is it possible, how can I have something on my mind......" Gu Changning laughed dryly twice and denied.

"It's okay if it's not, A-Niang is afraid that you have something in your heart, so if you don't say it in your heart, it's not good to suffocate your body."

"A-Niang, don't worry, a person like me who can't hide things, if he really has something on his mind, he would have told A-Niang a long time ago, where would he hold it in his heart." Gu Changning bent his eyes and smiled, and said in a sweet voice.

"Well, that's true." Thinking of this, Yang Huiyun also felt that she was too nervous, so she stopped talking about it and lowered her head and was busy with her own business.

Gu Changning saw that A-Niang's suspicions were dispelled, so he let out a breath of relief, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back.

A-Niang didn't feel wrong, she did often wander away during this time, and she was a little absent-minded in doing things, but it was actually because of the rumors about her brother.

It's been five days since Xing'er and the others came to tell her about this rumor, and she thought that this gossip would slowly disappear by herself like before.

However, what she didn't expect was that the gossip became more and more powerful, and it was said with a nose and eyes, just like the real thing, Gu Changning couldn't help but suspect that someone was fanning the flames, and refused to let this rumor stop.

As for this person who is behind the ghost, she already has a candidate in her heart, which is nothing more than her stepgrandmother's family, with Mrs. Li's family, or two families.

Didn't it mean that Mrs. Li was good friends with her second aunt, maybe the two of them acted together!

It was not for nothing that she would think so.

As we all know, their family and stepgrandmother's family have already torn their faces, but Gu Changning's family still has a filial piety on their heads, so they can't really cut off the relationship with that side.

Otherwise, it will be difficult to guarantee my brother's career in the future.

Even if you can successfully get an official position, but there are so many villains in the world, this matter is a ready-made handle, and if you can't keep it, you will be poked out.

So for the sake of future consideration, nothing can really break the relationship between the two families, leaving the handle of unfilial piety!

In such a situation, of course, the people over there are unscrupulously destroying their reputation, and they can't do anything with them anyway, so Gu Changning will suspect them for the first time.

However, what troubled her was that although she was suspicious, she could not do anything.

Don't say that they don't have evidence now, even if they have evidence, Gu Changning, as a junior, can't go over there to question.

Otherwise, if you deduct a charge of "contradicting the elders and being disobedient and unfilial", it will also belong to the column of unfilial piety.

As long as it is recognized as "unfilial", don't think about my brother's career.

In this way, after studying hard for more than ten years, the family also provided a lot of money, which is equivalent to being in vain.

And if my brother's future is gone, the most devastating person in the family is A-Niang.

Now A-Niang is putting all her efforts on a few children to hold on, if her brother really loses the qualification to gain fame because of this incident, A-Niang is afraid that she will collapse.

But if you don't care, let them spread rumors outside, and the brother who bears the same infamy will not be able to gain fame, and the result is not the same.

Anyway, it's just a dead loop.

Gu Changning also couldn't say anything, so he could only think of countermeasures in his heart.

As for Mrs. Li...... Gu Changning's brows furrowed even tighter when he thought of this.

Mrs. Li's grudge with their family is nothing more than a matter of money.

Dr. Li's family loves money like life, and their family looks like a fragrant bun in the eyes of Dr. Li and his wife, so they are naturally trying to get money from them.

But then Li Niangzi was rejected by A-Niang, and the resentment in her heart grew, coupled with her nature/love to hold grudges, it is not surprising that she would do this.

Thinking about this, Gu Changning felt for the first time how winter came so late.

She couldn't wait to see what would happen to Butcher Zhang's daughter when she married into the Li family.

Dr. Li's family, all need to be educated well!

***

Gu Huai'an came back from school that day and walked alone on the village road.

It was just the right time of the afternoon sun, and the women of the village were sitting under the big tree in front of the door, carrying the beans in their hands with their baskets, and gossiping as they picked up the bad beans.

When Gu Huai'an appeared in their sight, these village women suddenly stopped what they were doing, as if time had been stopped, and looked at Gu Huai'an approaching with straight eyes, and then someone called out to him and took the opportunity to speak.

"Yo, isn't that Brother An of the Gu Shan family? Is this just coming back from school? The woman who spoke had a brown turban around her head and called out to him in a very loud voice.

Gu Huai'an didn't expect them to talk to him suddenly, so he was stunned for a moment before nodding politely at them, and was about to pass them in the direction of his house.

"Eh, don't go, Brother An, we haven't told you yet, what are you doing in such a hurry, is this deliberately avoiding us?" Seeing this, the second woman hurriedly called at him again, her tone was a little cold and hard, and she obviously heard her unfriendliness to Gu Huai'an.

When Gu Huai'an heard these unkind words, his delicate and elegant face frowned slightly, and a trace of doubt appeared, and he stopped.

He couldn't think of where he had offended the aunt and made her treat him this way.

Gu Huai'an turned around, looked at them with a bit of solemnity on his face, his face that had always been gentle and smiled was slightly restrained, and he asked them politely: "All kinds of aunts, Huai'an didn't mean to avoid a few aunts, but the aunts also know that my family is not as good as in the past, and there is still a lot of work waiting for me to solve. ”