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That night, Gao Wenyan climbed into Chu Xu's window again.

Chu Xu was no longer surprised and sighed slightly: "The girl really climbed from Daning to Qi."

She grinned, taking it as a compliment.

"It seems that Wen Zishu has already told you."

"Only part of it."

"That's all."

"Is that little boy Zhiyan?"

Chu Xu was confused when asked: "What?"

So she described it again, and Chu Xu nodded: "It is indeed him. How did you guess it?"

At first, Chu Xu did not want to cause trouble and did not allow Zhiyan to tell Wen Zishu about his situation.

Zhiyan has been good-looking since he was a child, and has suffered a lot because of it.

When he grew up, he learned some disguise techniques from people in the world. When he went out, he would put a layer of powder on his face to make his skin color look darker. He also made his eyebrows thicker and the corners of his eyes droopier.

After Chu Xu became prime minister, although no one dared to bully him anymore, Zhiyan was still used to it.

Gao Wenyan thought back and said: "The only ones who have followed you since childhood are those who know what they say and what they do. Knowing and doing is obviously not that style."

He knows how to practice martial arts, and his appearance is also sharp and angular, which has nothing to do with femininity.

Gao Wenyan only knew that Chu Xu had become a very popular minister at the age of twenty-three and was admired by thousands of people. He was the youngest prime minister since the founding of the Daning Dynasty.

Gao Wenyan, like everyone else, thought he must have a prominent family background.

However, from Wen Zishu's words, she heard about another Chu Xu, a seventeen-year-old boy who took care of three children alone.

She couldn't help but want to know more, so she asked: "How did Zhiyan and Zhixing follow you?"

He said that at that time, there was a severe drought and rogue bandits were rampant, so many families sold their children.

Zhiyan is the one who is going to be sold because he is weak and not as capable as Zhixing.

Zhixing didn't want his brother to be sold, so he escaped with his brother.

When Chu Xu saw them, they were being beaten by a group of beggars. Zhixing protected Zhiyan and let all the fists fall on him.

Later, Chu Xu could always see them begging on the streets.

A month passed like this, and suddenly one day, they stopped coming.

Chu Xu thought they were just begging elsewhere, but when he passed by Liu Yuanwai's mansion, he saw the brothers and their parents dragging them along.

They were found by their parents and wanted to sell them to this member of the Communist Party of China.

Liu Yuan saw that although Zhiyan was a man, he was handsome. Evil thoughts suddenly arose in his heart and he promised a lot of money just to buy Zhiyan.

Seeing Zhixing's fierce resistance, he thought it was because the two brothers refused to separate, so he paid more money to buy Zhixing as well.

Their parents' eyes were wide open. Being able to sell Zhiyan was enough to make them happy, let alone being able to sell another one.

However, human greed is unlimited.

"No! This is our eldest son, and our family still expects him to do farm work for us!"

The staff member was also very happy and said he would like more money.

The couple were overjoyed.

The woman was still hesitant at first, but her husband comforted her that she was still young and they could just go back and have another child.

Chu Xu knew that he shouldn't help them, but he still spent all his money, stepped in, and bought the two of them.

"Make money on your own, pay me back, and you will be free."

Gao Wenyan didn't believe that he could be so kind.

Chu Xu smiled and said, "After all, I was young and ignorant at the time."

"Then if it happens again, will you save me or not?"

He smiled slightly and didn't answer.

But Gao Wenyan knew that he would still save him.

"What happened next? Did they pay back the money?"

Zhixing and Zhiyan went to work in a shop outside. Zhixing was in good health and could do the work of two people. The combined income they earned was enough to support their family.

But Liu Yuan was not willing to give in. At that time, Zhiyan was working in his teahouse without knowing it.

He hired someone to put on a play, insisting that Zhiyan had burned the guest and deliberately broke the tea bowl during the argument.

Liu Yuan Waifei said that it was an ancestral bowl and was extremely valuable. He also asked one of his own people to be witnesses and demanded compensation.

He had no choice but to admit that he was unlucky. He was illiterate and was deceived into signing a huge IOU.

He didn't dare to tell Chu Xu about it. It wasn't until Liu Yuan and others came to find him and asked him to sign a deed of betrayal that Chu Xu learned about it.

"Then how did you convince the officer to let you go?"

Chu Xu smiled and said, "Of course it's a threat."

Gao Wenyan was speechless. Sure enough, this was Chu Xu.

Chu Xu said that he had already found out what the official had to do, and he was waiting for the day when he could take advantage of him.

"What handle?"

"He was having an affair with the county magistrate's wife."

Gao Wenyan agreed: "It is indeed a problem. But is that member just giving in?"

"of course not."

He then smiled: "So I threatened him again."

Chu Xu told Liu Yuanwai that he had told a beggar in the city about the matter and gave him a deposit. If Chu Xu had something wrong with him, then all the beggars in the city would know about it.

There were so many beggars in the city, and Yuan Liu had no way of knowing which one they were.

"What happened to the beggar?"

"No. I lied to him. I don't know any beggars."

Gao Wenyan was stunned.

"You are indeed a liar."

With a faint smile in his eyes, he looked over and said, "It's just a means of survival."

Gao Wenyan remembered that Chu Xu was from Yangzhou, but the place Wen Zishu mentioned was Longnan.

"Why did you go to Longnan?"

As soon as he finished speaking, his smile turned cold, and his eyes were half lowered, showing no emotion.

Reaching out to pick out the wick, his face was hidden behind the candlelight, flickering in and out of light.

Gao Wenyan suddenly remembered the half-faced Guanyin on the jade pendant, which was also like this.

"Girl wants to know?"

"Ah."

He smiled and said, "I thought I would never talk about this to others in this life."

"In this case, the girl can just be the only one."

Chu Xu turned his head to look at the bright moon outside the window, his voice was calm, as if he was telling someone else's story.

In that story, Chu Xu also lived in exile, was bullied, endured the cold, and didn't have enough to eat.

He said that his family was backward, so his parents took him and Chu Ying to move out of the capital.

However, the world is plagued by disasters one after another, the people are in dire straits, and there is no good place to go.

Although their family situation is not as good as before, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse. They should have moved to a better village, but their parents had a moment of kindness and used their remaining wealth to help the refugees, and eventually died as refugees.

The villagers wanted to rob their wealth, but were afraid that they were dignitaries, so they simply killed them.

They decided to chop each person with a knife, because there were many people and no one knew who killed him.

Chu Xu was pestered by Chu Ying to go pick fruits in the back mountain, and the two of them luckily escaped.

When the two returned home, the house was full of blood and was almost empty.

The villagers didn't know the goods and threw away some things they thought were worthless.

Gao Wenyan's eyes twitched slightly and he choked for a long time before he asked dryly: "What happened next?"

"I slaughtered that village."

Just when he was twenty-three years old.

His tone was calm, as if he was saying something ordinary.

"My parents were hastily buried, and I took Xiaowan and escaped."

"Later, I pawned my parents' belongings and bought a thatched house in Longnan, where Xiaowan and I settled down."

So, he met Zhiyan and Zhixing there.

Later, Han Chuang studied hard and paid homage to officials.