Chapter 54: The Marriage Contract
Jixian Hall is located in the middle of nowhere, and there are few crowds.
But on this day, Xingyuan for the first time has a similar bustle to the Beijing Division, on the right side of the gate, in front of the ordinary gray wall, there is no shortage of brocade robes and wide robes, flocking in, and there are also merchants carrying burdens, coming and going to sell some snacks and tea.
Thousands of pairs of eyes stared at the posted list, and for a while, the dark tide surged.
Jixian Hall recruited 139 people, a total of 2,751 people took the entrance examination, although it can't be said that one in a hundred, but it is definitely more than one out of ten, besides, to be able to get the recommendation of the mountain chief of the academy in various places, it shows that the reference is the best people from all over the world, one by one is arrogant, those who are on the list, their eyes are naturally aimed at the people who are in front of themselves, and those who are not on the list will not necessarily be blessed in their hearts......
Especially for the top ten, some people are resentful and jealous of it, and some people are envious, it is reported that Gu Yiqing Gu Shi is to select his disciples from these ten people, as for how many people there are, it depends on the cultivation of these students.
However, in any case, these ten people, even if they are not famous in the world, at least in the hearts of everyone, they are considered carp jumping over the dragon gate, which is very different from before.
In red and black, Gu Anran ranked second.
Gu Anran sat quietly in the tea shed, and the tea on the table was naturally not rough tea soup, but the fragrant tea prepared for him by Aunt Qian, there was no need for him to squeeze into the crowd at all, and there was a good thing to report early - Gu Jialang was on the list, and he was still in the top ten.
Although there is another one above, because the first place is unknown, he has never appeared in the scholarly circle from the beginning, and Gu Anran is still more eye-catching.
The person who ranked first was surnamed Han, Mingluo, the word Wentao, a person from Qu County, but he was unknown before, before the assessment of the Jixian Hall, there was no such person in the circle of celebrities and scholars, that is, after the end of this assessment, people still don't know where he is sacred.
Gu Anran is not so curious, there are many people who are able to hide dragons and crouching tigers in the world, and there are more capable people, who are more knowledgeable than him Gu Anran, and he also has the same amount of volume, and this time he can be ranked in the top ten, in addition to strength and preparation, luck is also as important.
His good attitude made Gu Wan happy - in fact, there was no difference between the first and tenth places in the Jixian Pavilion, anyway, if you want to become Gu Yiqing Gu's disciple, there must be other tests, that Gu Shi has always been cautious in accepting disciples, but it is not so easy to do, and it is not enough to just look at knowledge.
Anyway, in Gu Wan's memory, although the Jixian Pavilion began to recruit new students once every three years, and later, it developed to enroll students once a year, but although Gu Yiqing Gu Shi's registered disciples were many, there were still only twenty-eight disciples who entered the room, and only six of these twenty-eight were selected from the top students in the Jixian Pavilion.
It turned out that among the twenty-eight disciples of Master Gu, there was no eldest brother of his own...... I just don't know if fate will change, and the current big brother is not without a chance.
Anyway, the process of catching up with the competition is the process of progress...... Gu Wan picked up the teacup, took a sip of herbal tea, glanced at Gu Anran, who seemed to be full of confidence, and said with a smile: "Big brother, you are now enrolled in the Jixian Pavilion, I believe that the future is promising, should you consider it and welcome my good sister-in-law as soon as possible?" ”
Gu Anran raised his head, there seemed to be a touch of melancholy between his eyebrows, but he smiled and said: "Girl, how old are you, you dare to say this kind of thing, you are not ashamed?" ”
Gu Wanwan, she knew that Gu Anran at this moment, in fact, did not have much good impression of the other party, when her father was seriously ill, her mother came to the door to ask for medicine, the Fang family and the Gu family were good friends, but they never lent a hand, only sent a little bit of antiquated medicinal materials that were not right, and then sent the incident, and later the father died of illness, and the Fang family was even more cynical and contemptuous of their orphans and widows.
If it weren't for the fact that the two families got married, it was the father's last wish, and the mother couldn't bear to disobey it, and in addition, the eldest son of the Fang family was preparing to go out and refused to let the family bear the reputation of repentance of marriage, maybe this marriage would have been yellow a long time ago.
I remember that in that life, not only Gu Anran didn't want to get married, but even Gu Wan was against her own family and the Fang family, a hundred opposed, after all, marrying is a good thing for two surnames, the Fang family is not happy about this marriage, even if the Fang family girl marries, it can only make the Fang and Gu families become enemies! It's just that because of their father's death, their brother and sister can't open this mouth.
At the beginning, the Fang family used the excuse that Gu Anran couldn't get the engagement jade pendant, and wanted to regret the marriage, to be honest, the two brothers and sisters were not strange, but because they were despised by the Fang family, they were very aggrieved, Gu Anran was even more angry, and he was not willing to let the old fox of the Fang family achieve his wish too easily, even if he wanted to withdraw from the marriage in the future, he would have to disgust and disgust the old man of the Fang family, if it weren't for Fang Su's insistence, and even in order not to regret the marriage, he almost committed suicide by hanging the beam, this family affair would inevitably come to pass.
Even in this life, Gu Wan was a little unhappy when she thought that she might get into big trouble if she wanted to marry the Fang family.
But no matter how bad the Fang family is, her future sister-in-law Fang Su is a good girl, considerate and gentle, stoic, and keeps her promises, back then, when the Gu family was poor, she had a lot of money, laundry, cooking, farming, taking care of the eldest brother, and her sister-in-law, who was not very sensible, the eldest brother was terminally ill, and she did not give up, regardless of Fang's father's opposition, she refused to leave.
After only a few years of work, then a gentle and generous boudoir daughter has become not much different from ordinary peasant women, who can run a family and can work, but because of too much work, she hurt her body, and after a miscarriage of pregnancy, she can no longer give birth.
Gu Wan often thinks that a woman like Fang Su is really stupid, but her stupidity makes people feel distressed and pitiful, and she also meets a man who is willing to feel sorry for her, so this is not a tragedy, if Fang Su's man is not like her eldest brother, I am afraid that after her appearance is not there and she can't have children, her life will become a mess.
Therefore, this stupid woman is better to marry into the Gu family obediently, don't let it out, in case she meets someone unladylike, not only will she be miserable, but she may also have to let others head her and label her with infamys such as 'spoiling concubines and killing wives' and 'disgusting dregs'.