After being mistaken for a fellow by Long Aotian

The excitement of the three people here has long attracted many officials, large and small, from the Ministry of Punishment.They saw Yan Shangshu, Deputy Commander Lu and others standing here. Although they didn't know the young man who had clashed with Yan Shangshu, they all surrounded him.

Zhou Xun was not surprised that Mr. Yan would say such words.Anyone who has something to do with Zhou Cai, without exception, is something who holds rumors as a standard.He only glanced at him lightly, and said: "I heard that Mr. Yan is full of economics, and usually spends time outside giving lectures to other people's children, but I don't know if the time you spend on your children at home, is there any time for you to give lectures to others?" More than half? Or is it—Master Yan prefers to teach by example rather than by words?"

Yan Shangshu frowned. He didn't know what Zhou Xun meant by this, but he didn't mean to ask. He felt that it was worthless to say a word with Zhou Xun.

But before he turned around and took two steps, he heard Zhou Xun say: "By the way, Mr. Yan happened to be here. Please ask Mr. Yan to deliver this letter to Yan Jia."

In front of everyone, a few spectators watched Zhou Xun take out a letter from his arms—the envelope was specially made by the Yan family, and the family crest of the Yan family was printed on it.

The Yan family likes to do these very stylistic things, and regards it as "strength of character". They even use special envelopes to send letters at home.Yan Shangshu originally thought that Zhou Xun was in a hurry and was talking nonsense, and was about to turn around and make a good mockery.

However, when he looked back and saw the familiar family crest on the envelope, even his expression froze.

"Yan Jia sent me a letter a few days ago, asking me how to interpret 'In the fluffy hemp, it is straight without support; the white sand is in Nirvana, and it is black with it'. He often came to my house to explore the classics, but it is a pity these few days The day seems to have offended my father, so I can't go out." Zhou Xun said, "Today I was supposed to ask the boy to take the letter to Yan's mansion as usual, but I happened to meet Mr. Yan, so I saved this effort. Mr. Yan is full of knowledge, and he must be more experienced than me. I know how to explain this truth, but..."

He blinked slightly, as if he was very embarrassed: "Brother Yan will have Chunxi next year, and Shangshu Yan is a father. Instead of educating others here, maybe he should take some time to go back and take care of his children. Yes ?"

When Yan Shangshu saw the familiar handwriting on the envelope, he was struck by lightning.But besides the envelope, Zhou Xun also handed him another box: "Brother Yan also sent a box of sword tassels as a thank-you gift last time, but unfortunately I don't dance swords, so I don't need this thing. I also trouble Lord Yan to take it back with me."

The onlookers saw the commotion and started discussing in low voices.

"Isn't the family style of the Yan family famous? Master Yan just reprimanded that young man, why didn't he even know that his own child was on good terms with him?"

"The father of the family is a great Confucian, who spends all day discussing Taoism outside, but his own children have to ask others for homework..."

"Closer to vermilion is red, and close to ink is black. In fluffy hemp, straight without support... Is it really interesting to match these two sentences?"

"I see that sword tassel is expensive!"

"However, Yan Shangshu's only son would ask him for advice, make friends with him, and even give him a thank you gift... This person should not be something in the pool? Why haven't you heard his name?"

"Zhou Xun... is Zhou Zhuangyuan's younger brother?"

Yan Shangshu took the things, he heard the discussion next to him, and when someone called him, he walked away in shame.Zhou Xun just stood there quietly with a relaxed expression.

When the bystanders saw that there was no excitement to watch, they dispersed.Zhou Xun turned to go upstairs, but a male voice came from behind: "That was just a coincidence."

Lu Xian said.

Zhou Xun's expression remained unchanged, his eyes were still cold and indifferent, and the corners of his mouth were still calm: "What a coincidence?"

"It just so happens that you have a reply letter to Yan Jia with you, and it just so happens that the reply letter was sealed in the Yan family's envelope. It just so happens that there is also a sword tassel that can be verified as a gift from Yan Jia..." Lu Xiandao said slowly, "It just so happens..."

Zhou Xun tapped his fingers on the railing.

"In the fluffy hemp, straight without support. Hmm..." He actually smiled, "It's not a strange thing for a student of the same year to talk about "Xunzi", right?"

——As for the conflict between Yan Jiahui and Yan Shangshu, you can only write to him. Yan Shangshu will come here today, and the kind of self-proclaimed high-minded person will say in front of him that "the one who is close to Zhu is red, and the one who is close to ink is black" It's not strange to use words to persuade those who hang out with him, or to judge him, right?

Lu Xiandao said nothing.

Zhou Xun smiled at him shyly and went upstairs.

Walking in the corridor, he thought, how could there be so many perfect coincidences in the world.

Coincidence only belongs to the lucky ones, while ordinary people want to be happy, but they have to pay thousands of times and hundreds of times of effort.The lucky one who is favored by heaven can get it at his fingertips, but others want to get it, but they have to exhaust all schemes with bruises and blood.

Stepping on the corridor, Zhou Xun made a crisp sound, and Zhou Xun walked towards the reserved box under the guidance of his cronies.

Zhou Xun smiled when he saw the black skirt inside.

The only luck he can get without relying on bruises is already here.

……

The voice downstairs was clear, it was the officials reading Zhou Hong's crimes.Zhou Xun sat beside the emperor, squinting at the dusty figure kneeling in the middle.

Half a month had passed since the last meeting in prison, and he almost couldn't recognize Zhou Honglai at all.

His gaze swept across the seats behind the first floor, Zhou Cai was there, and Zhou Cai was also looking at Zhou Hong.Sitting next to him was Zhou's father, and his face seemed to be sinking like water, as if he was very anxious.

Zhou Hong was being tried today, so Zhou Cai, as the elder brother, naturally wanted to come.His expression is also in line with Zhou Cai's preference for Zhou Hong as his elder brother.But Zhou Xun always felt that something was weird.

He couldn't tell what this feeling was, but he became more and more vigilant in his heart.Downstairs, Jiang Wei, who was reciting the confession, said in a calm manner: "...After Lu Bin was seriously injured, the Zhou family did not send anyone to visit and make compensation..."

After hearing about the incident, the Zhou family turned their backs on Lu Bin and the others, and never even had a visit. Afterwards, there was a commotion among the crowd.

"Unexpectedly, the Zhou family looks glamorous on the surface, but they are so domineering in private!"

"Having broken a person's leg, he didn't even visit him? That's too much!"

During the whole process, Zhou Cai just sat in his seat.He drooped his eyelashes, and his eyelashes trembled slightly, not knowing what he was thinking.

Zhou Xun frowned.

Jiang Wei finished reading the confession.The Mighty Hall was silent.Zhou Hong just knelt on the ground and trembled, as if he was completely scared out of his wits, not even daring to say a word.In the distance, Zhou Cai just closed his eyes and clenched his fists as if sighing.

"Since the confession is so, then..."

"broken."

Zhou Xun said in a low voice, almost instantly, he thought of the source of the sense of disobedience just now!

"What's wrong?" Old man Shen turned to look at his students.

"According to human nature, it is impossible for the Zhou family not to defend Zhou Hong—especially the visit. I remember Miss Shangguan once said that after the incident happened, the Zhou family visited the Lu family many times and tried to force the Lu family to forgive him on the street. The Lu family moved away after being harassed unbearably." Zhou Xun spoke extremely fast, "Now they are here without saying a word, not at all because of their 'not visiting'. Justify, if there is no countermeasure, with the personality of the Zhou family, they will definitely push the reason for not being able to visit to Jiang Wei's obstruction on the spot, and then turn this incident from an entanglement between the two into a dispute between Jiang Wei and the Zhou family. Factional entanglement...it means..."

"It means...they know me..."

Zhou Xun grabbed the handle and bit his lip.

After thousands of calculations, he actually missed this point... He helped Lu Bin out of good intentions.But he never expected that the Zhou family would be so shameless that they would count the help of a bastard who was kicked out of the Zhou family on the Zhou family's head.

But Zhou Xun couldn't go down by himself, so he stood up on the stage and said, "I have severed ties with the Zhou family, and my helping the Zhou family is definitely not out of brotherly affection."Now Zhou Hong's case is because of Zhou Cai, many dignitaries themselves, or their eyeliner are staring here.In this era of filial piety, if he ran up and said it at this time, someone would definitely question "Why did you sever ties with the Zhou family?"

He really couldn't tell the inside story.But even so, it is inevitable that he will leave his reputation of being unfilial and disrespectful.No matter how famous Zhou Hong's case was, and how famous Zhou Cai was, his bad reputation would become so famous!

But if he were to sit back and watch the Zhou family steal his achievements again, he would never be reconciled.

The Zhou family's empty glove white wolf's abacus is really well done!

Be calm now, Zhou Xun thought, don't think about the worst outcome, there is always a way, there is always a way to turn the tide...

His forehead was hit hard.

"Tell you not to be a bad person." Old man Shen knocked him, "Look, you've caused trouble now, right?"

Zhou Xun pursed his lips.Old man Shen was angry at him for refusing to listen to him before, so this time he said sharply: "Don't think about going down to the court for a while, this time you will eat this boring loss for me, and learn a lot of wisdom!"

Zhou Xun: ...

Old man Shen: "Hey, why are you staring at me? Anyway, you didn't suffer from this matter on the surface, so just take it as a lesson."

Zhou Xun: "But I will be very upset."

Zhou Xun lowered his head, he thought of a thousand times, and wanted to go downstairs immediately.But before he got up, the emperor held down the back of his hand.

"I'll be very upset too." The emperor patted the back of his hand carelessly and said, "It's okay, let's go down together later!"

Zhou Xun:? ?

Emperor: "I have arranged everything for you!"

Zhou Xun glanced at the emperor, then turned his head and glanced at the gray-bearded old man next to him, and both of them smiled at him at the same time.

Zhou Xun: ...

He sat down, looked at the scene outside, and blinked hard.The emperor leaned over, saw his face turned sideways, and whispered to him: "Hey, that, are you angry?

I didn't have time to tell you..."

"No." Zhou Xun said.

He only hated that he couldn't blink his eyes any faster and harder, so as to blink away the soreness in his eyes just now.

This is indeed what he can pick up without being bruised and bruised, lucky.

Seeing that the process had been completed, the officer in charge of the trial cleared his throat and was about to issue a verdict.But a voice came from the crowd: "Wait a minute!"

The one who made the sound was Aunt Lu who was sitting next to Lu Bin. She seemed to have gone through a long period of psychological struggle before she finally pursed her lips and said, "Actually... actually the Zhou family... after that, the Zhou family came to see pass us."

One stone set off a thousand layers of waves, Jiang Wei scolded, and was quickly suppressed by the presiding officer.The official looked at Aunt Lu and said kindly, "Madam, what do you say?"

"actually……"

Aunt Lu quickly stuttered and talked about the fact that the Zhou family invited the imperial doctor for them.But she didn't mention the pseudonym "Xun Gongzi", but only said that the man was Zhou Hong's elder brother.After hearing what she said, the official immediately asked Zhou Hongdao: "Is there really such a thing?"

Zhou Hong was also at a loss: "I..."

He looked at the crowd asking for help: "Brother..."

Zhou Cai sighed at this moment and made his debut.

"After the accident in the Lu family, we were very disturbed, but Jiang Wei moved them to another place in the name of 'don't disturb the Lu family'. They are under the eaves of Jiang Wei. The deputy commander of Jiang Wei also There is some misunderstanding between me and someone in Zhou, and we don't want to disturb it in the open, so we have to..."

He hesitated to speak, but in his expression, he clearly told all the stories that he had never mentioned.

"Actually, after thinking about it, Zhou Hong is still a child after all." Aunt Lu on the other side murmured, "Now Bin'er is almost healed, so I just ask them to pay more money, that's just..."

The words of these two people agreed, and Huang Shilang, who was in charge of the trial, felt relieved.He looked in the direction of his mentor Yan Shangshu without any trace, cleared his throat and said, "In this case..."

As soon as he finished speaking, a voice came from the box upstairs.

"This is a bit ridiculous. When did the special envoy I sent to take care of the Lu family become a member of the Zhou family? Auntie, you should look carefully."

When that familiar voice sounded, it was like a stone stirring up a thousand waves!

"Go, go down." The emperor grabbed Zhou Xun's hand and whispered to him, "I'll take you to show your face in front of these people."

"Show face?"

"Be open and prove your identity." The emperor patted him on the shoulder, "You are not from the Zhou family, but you are..."

"A member of the Tian Family?" Zhou Xun asked after him.

"People from my family." The emperor grabbed his palm, "How can I let others bully me?"