Volume 1: When the Wind Rises Chapter 24: The Dust Settles (I)
After breakfast, the two went straight to the Imperial Prison.
With the Lu family's uncles and nephews taking care of them, those troublemakers were not treated harshly, but many people were already dead.
There is no greater mourning than death.
Gu Yuan sighed softly, he was very sympathetic to the plight of these poor disciples.
After ten years of hard study, once the future is exhausted, who can be willing to endure such humiliation?
From Huang Huai, Gu Yuan learned that there was another person who copied Cui Fangqi's scroll and took it out of the Tribute Academy, and he was also the one who instigated the trouble.
Gu Yuanping retired from the jailer, and then asked Huang Huai: "Can you tell me what this person's surname is?" ”
"The list of this year's palace examination is from the philosophy, and the words are meaningful."
Fang Congzhe's Gu Yuan has also heard of it, he was famous when he was young, and his writing was brilliant, but when he was about to go to Beijing to take the exam three years ago, he unexpectedly had to return to his hometown to guard filial piety due to changes in his family.
What's even more intriguing is that he is also the son of an official eunuch.
In the previous life, Fang Congzheyin endured for several years and overthrew Tang Xiujin to sit in the position of first assistant, this person may be able to fight for it.
It's just that what is the purpose of Fang Congzhe's own hands stirring up the bloody storm?
These things will probably only be known when we meet him.
In the private room on the second floor of the Yishi Residence, a scholar in Tsing Yi looked at the young man in Xuanyi opposite and asked, "What does Brother Linxi want to know?" Or rather, what does Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess want to know? ”
Gu Yuan said in a resounding voice: "I want to know what you want. ”
Fang Congzhe chuckled: "What, Brother Linxi doesn't know the grievances between our family and the Qinghe Cui family?" ”
"How can I, an outsider, know about the affairs of your two families?" Gu Yuan asked with a smile.
"It's all old." Fang Congzhe sighed faintly, "But this matter is very involved, if Brother Linxi says that you don't know the grievances between our two families, you can't say anything." ”
Gu Yuan heard that Fang Congzhe was suspicious of him, so he no longer concealed it, "In the spring of the twenty-seventh year of Zhenyuan, the Dongying Japanese invaded the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang, and Fang Yixiao, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, sacrificed his life for the country in this battle. ”
Fang Congzhe stared at him with his eyes, and said word by word: "At that time, the person who was ordered to supervise the teacher was Cui Xianchun, who was the squire of the military department and the governor of Jiangnan at that time. It was he who was stubborn and delayed the fighter plane, which led to the defeat of our army, and it was he who killed my father! ”
Gu Yuan said coldly: "For the sake of the personal feud between the two of you, so many innocent people are implicated, what Brother Zhonghan did can't be justified, right?" ”
Fang Congzhe smiled, "They have already suffered injustice, I just helped them get the justice they deserve." ”
"But if Brother Linxi is willing, I can work with you to bring down Cui Xianchun, a minister, and return them to their innocence."
Gu Yuan raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh? Could it be that Brother Zhonghan has the evidence I want? ”
Fang Congzhe nodded and said: "I will help you find the person who leaked the exam questions, you avenged my father's murder for me, is this deal Brother Linxi still satisfied?" ”
After a moment of silence, Gu Yuan said softly: "Deal." ”
At night, Gu Yuan went to see Shen Zhixi.
"Is Fang Congzhe credible?" Shen Zhixi listened to his words and was a little skeptical.
In her previous life, she and Fang Congzhe were not familiar with each other, and in this situation, she couldn't hand over such an important matter to someone who was just a nodding friend.
Gu Yuan thought for a moment and said slowly: "Half and half." ”
"Huh?" Shen Zhixi suddenly opened her eyes and looked at him, "What do you mean?" ”
"At least half of his words are credible, Cui Xianchun and him have a grudge against his father." Gu Yuan explained, "But we can't disbelieve his words, nor can we believe them all, and we need to judge the truth and fiction for ourselves." ”
Shen Zhixi's voice was dyed with a smile: "Yes, our little fox has grown up." ”
Gu Yuan: "......"
Why is the two of us messed up again?
At the same time, the Marquis of Huaiqing.
Lu Ran didn't alarm anyone, and directly climbed into Gu Nianqiu's Flowing Frost Courtyard from the courtyard wall.
Gu Nianqiu was on the job, and when she saw Lu Ran coming, she put down her pen and trotted over with her skirt.
Lu Ran didn't react for a while, and almost knocked her down.
"Brother Shi Duan!" Gu Nianqiu's smile was quiet, and his eyes were sparkling, as if the stars in the sky were as beautiful as the stars.
Lu Ran rubbed the little girl's head and said with a smile: "Little girl, what are you doing running so fast." ”
Gu Nianqiu smiled: "Because you're here." ”
As soon as the words fell, she suddenly remembered a question: "Brother Shi Duan, why don't you come in through the main door?" If I knew that you came in over the wall in the middle of the night, my father and his old man would not have beaten you to death. ”
Lu Ran smiled: "I didn't want to surprise Nian'er, so I flipped in directly." ”
After that, he handed her the osmanthus cake wrapped in oil paper in his hand: "I know that you like to eat the pastries of the old Xu family, so I bought some from him." ”
Gu Nianqiu smiled lightly: "Brother Shi Du still understands me." ”
Lu Ran's lips moved, and finally she couldn't bear to tell her that she would never be able to eat the pastries made by Lao Xu himself in the future.
He blinked his eyes and pretended to be relaxed: "Today, I followed my uncle and Gu Yuan, a black-hearted guy, and I almost didn't tire me to death." ”
Gu Nianqiu's mouth was stuffed with osmanthus cakes, and he said vaguely: "Brother, why don't you go back and rest?" ”
Lu Ran smiled, "Why don't I spend the night here at Miss Gu San tonight?" ”
Gu Nianqiu was almost choked by the osmanthus cake in his mouth, "Huh? ”
"Anyway, when I go home, I have to stare at my uncle, so I might as well spend the night with you." Lu Ran's face was solemn, and he didn't look like a joke.
"This ...... Lonely men and widows are in the same room in the middle of the night, and it's not good to spread the word......"
Before she finished speaking, Lu Ran picked her up horizontally and entered the house.
"Put me down! Did you drink? ”
She was answered with a deep kiss.
There is some paranoia in the affection.
Nian'er, you are mine.
You can only be mine.
Gu Nianqiu's cheeks were slightly red, and he pulled at the placket of his clothes with some embarrassment, and looked at the young man in front of him like this, and he was speechless for a while.
She was still stunned, so Lu Ran hugged her to the bed and said in a low voice, "Lie down." ”
With that, he got up and left.
"What are you going to do?" Gu Nianqiu suddenly became a little nervous.
"Find the futon and lay the floor."
Lu Ran secretly kissed her while he was drunk, but it was limited to that.
Further, he was truly sorry for her.
A quarter of an hour later.
"Brother Shi Duan, I can't sleep, can you tell me a story?" Gu Nianqiu looked at him with burning eyes and smiled.
This laugh almost hooked Lu Ran's soul, and he had to seriously think about what story to tell.
"Once upon a time there was a mountain, and there was a temple on the mountain, and there was an old monk in the temple......"
"One for another!"
"......" Lu Ran said that he would only tell this very hypnotic story.
"Let's change it!"
Lu Ran said with a sincere face: "I don't have to change." ”
Gu Nianqiu: "......"