Rebirth of the Merchant Woman's Revenge

"Mother, how is this possible? If I really did this, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would look down on me. How could he still use his son?" Xie Cheng'an did not agree with Qian's idea.

How could this be possible? He would never do such a thing. Although he had such an idea before, he quickly rejected it.

"Well, then, how about..." Qian was still thinking over and over, trying to give her son some advice, but Xie Cheng'an was not willing to listen.

He waved his hand and said, "Mother, you should have a good rest. I'll go out for a walk, maybe meet my mentor. Maybe I'll get some new ideas."

Qian nodded repeatedly after hearing this, and asked Li Ma to go to the inner room to take out a few taels of silver and put them in her son's hands. Then she said, "Now that An Ge'er has something to do, don't be as conservative with your spending as before. You must spend where it's necessary."

Xie Cheng'an held the heavy silver ingot in his hand, feeling mixed emotions. He had finally waited for the opportunity to meet His Royal Highness Prince An, but he did not expect to feel even more regretful.

He took Shuangrui for a walk on the shopping street and originally wanted to go directly to Wenyuan Academy to find his mentor, but he felt that it was not appropriate to go there rashly, so he bought some gifts on the street.

Only then did he arrive at Wenyuan Academy in the north of the capital city with a normal look on his face.

Xie Cheng'an studied here the year before he took the imperial examination. Mr. Chen Yuan highly respected him and especially liked the poems he wrote.

Of course, many of those poems came from Gu Qiongsi's mouth.

When he arrived at the gatehouse, the doorman naturally knew him. As soon as he saw what he was holding in his hand, he knew that he was here to see Mr. Chen Yuan.

However, unlike the smiling greeting in the past, the servant stretched out his hand stiffly and stopped them.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Xie, Mr. Chen doesn't want to see you."

"What are you talking about? Don't you know the relationship between me and the master? Get out of the way!" Xie Cheng'an was angry and shouted at the servant.

The servant was not angry, but smiled a little, but mostly with a mocking tone, "Mr. Xie, you may not know, but since you were dismissed from the Hanlin Academy, the teacher has told us that you have also been removed from the list of students at Wenyuan Academy."

"What? How is this possible? Don't talk nonsense." Xie Cheng'an was shocked and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. If this was true, then he really didn't have anyone he was familiar with in the literary circle in the capital.

The servant snorted coldly, but stopped answering him. He only muttered, "He looks like a decent person, but he is not a decent person behind the scenes. If I were you, I would do the same."

Shuang Rui looked at Xie Cheng'an for a long time without any response, and couldn't help but feel a little worried. He quickly touched his arm and said, "Master, how about we go to the incense shop and discuss it with Aunt Gu?"

Xie Cheng'an came back to his senses, but before he could say anything, someone had heard that he was coming and walked out of the academy.

From a distance, he shouted to Xie Chengan, "Hey, isn't this Xie Zhuangyuan?"

Without even turning around, Xie Cheng'an could guess that the people coming were the two classmates who had sabotaged him at Mr. Nanshan's poetry gathering - Zhang Yuanming and Wu Yi.

He looked up and saw the two of them looking at him with interest, with gloating expressions on their faces.

He was so angry that he said, "You two, we have been classmates for more than a year. I believe I have never done anything to let you down. Why are you targeting me so much?"

Xie Chengan's words were questioning in tone, and he was indeed very angry.

Whether it was Gu Qiongsi's affairs in Tongluo Lane or Mr. Nanshan's poetry meeting, both of them had the intention of deliberately causing trouble for themselves.

Zhang Yuanming put away the folding fan in his hand with a "swish", and the teasing expression on his face was also put away. He said in a very unfriendly tone, "What Mr. Xie did is despised by our generation. Whether it is moral or moral, Mr. Xie can't understand this point?"

"Yes, of all the things you did, including what you did to Madam Xie and her father, none of them is worthy of your title of Xie Zhuangyuan. You deserve to be given an extra name."

Wu Yi also continued with Zhang Yuanming's words. Their words were not polite at all, and Xie Chengan's face turned pale and blue.

"Xie Zhuangyuan, you have read the books of sages for so many years, don't you still understand that justice lies in the hearts of the people?"

Xie Cheng'an was unable to respond, let alone say anything to refute. Moreover, even if he did, it would be meaningless for him to argue with these two classmates.

So, with a cold face, he threw his sleeves and was about to leave.

However, the two of them still shouted loudly behind him, "Xie Zhuangyuan, please don't come to the academy again. The master has been regretting for so long because of teaching a disciple like you. He can't even raise his head in front of other masters. Don't come to annoy him..."

Xie Chengan felt as if his heart was pierced by needles as he listened to their words. Although he knew that his affairs had been widely spread during this period, he did not expect that even his mentor and the academy had decided to distance themselves from him.

My current situation is really the worst among all the top scholars in history.

He and Shuangrui didn't even take the carriage, but walked all the way to Yipinxiang.

When the shopkeeper Jinzi saw him coming, he immediately took him into Gu Qiongsi's study.

In the study, Gu Qiongsi was opening the lid of the incense burner and adding spices to it. When she saw Xie Chengan coming over, her eyes flickered slightly, and she didn't stop adding spices. "Where did Sanlang go? Why did he bring so many things?"

As she asked, she put down the incense spoon and closed the lid of the incense burner. Immediately, thick smoke came out from the gap in the lid.

Xie Chengan asked Shuangrui to put all the things he had brought on the table, and then he said angrily, "I just went to Wenyuan Academy, and my teacher didn't even want to see me. They are simply going too far."

"Sanlang should have been prepared. Those pedantic scholars care most about these trivial things. Especially your mentor, who cares most about fame and fortune, but packages himself like a great man."

Gu Qiongsi had long disliked Mr. Chen Yuan, and when he heard Xie Chengan say this, he spoke out what was in his mind.

"Besides, Sanlang has now decided to work for Prince An and become a guest of Prince An's Mansion. Does he still need to deal with them and hang out with them?" Gu Qiongsi asked with some confusion.