After being mistaken for a fellow by Long Aotian

Huge silence swept the entire Xitang.The bright red silk satin was flying in the air, as if seeing off the two red shadows who left here heroically, and also as a merciless mockery of those present.

This difficult happy event finally ended with the spontaneous farewell of many guests.The first one to stand up was Minister of the Ministry of War. He coughed in embarrassment, pretended to be unwell, and left the Zhou residence.

Then came the second, and the third... The marriage between a gifted scholar and a beautiful woman has changed from the biggest event in Beijing to the most absurd joke.Everyone who left the wedding banquet was full of pain, and they refused to show any expression or say a word, but everyone knew that the only quietest place in the entire capital at this moment was the Zhou Mansion—or maybe the Yan Mansion.And other than this place, it is an ocean that boils against the sky.

And everyone knows that these numb guests, whose faces are dressed in sackcloth and filial piety like dead relatives, will change their appearance after leaving the Zhou mansion, and send people to inquire about today's news more actively than anyone else. For things, inquire about the story of the civet cat changing the prince among Miss Yan, the eldest princess, and Zhou Cai.Of course, in the years to come, when they met Zhou Cai or other parties involved, they would still pretend to be calm and calm.But when the parties turned around, they would start whispering again, using this miracle as a topic of conversation: being robbed of their bride by a woman, and that man originally robbed that woman of her merits, It is so absurd and such a villain to accomplish this miracle of a hero saving the beauty.

——This is almost predictable in Zhou Cai's life in the future.

Most of the people were still sitting on chairs, looking at each other.The only one who didn't leave the Zhou mansion after standing up was Gu Dashi.He stroked his pale beard and went to the "Smoke Wave Picture", looking at that "Smoke Wave Picture", wondering what he was thinking.At this time, the Taifu, who was sitting on pins and needles on the chair, also looked anxiously at the sky many times, and finally couldn't help standing up.He walked towards Yan Shangshu, who was sitting on the chair next to him with a pale face, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Zhenfeng, I was too angry to hurt my body, something unexpected... Cough, the time is coming, I have to……"

Taifu is famous for collecting famous paintings.Today he was supposed to go to Duobao Pavilion to participate in the auction after the wedding banquet, but now that the time is approaching, he really can't wait.

And Yan Shangshu just sat on the chair, his face was pale, the man who always talked eloquently lost the ability to control everything at this moment.It was only then that the Taifu realized that this colleague, who had always been known for his uprightness, now sat here like a slumped old man.

He still wanted to say something, but saw a strange servant running towards him.Although unfamiliar, the servant was still wearing the clothes of the Taifu's residence.He was just about to frown and ask him why he came here, but the servant said out of breath: "Master, the auction has started, and the painting has been revealed! The slave just went to see it!"

His voice was so clear in the silent wedding hall.Surrounded by awkward silence, everyone looked at him, longing for him to say something to break everything that was stagnant.It seemed that just a few words could break the current quagmire-like atmosphere, make the whole place hot again, and the guests could drink and drink with false smiles again.

"It's "Smoke Wave Picture", it's "Smoke Wave Picture", certified by the reclusive great Confucian Yun Zhongshan, "Smoke Wave Picture" is authentic!" The slave shouted joyfully, still a little out of breath, "Mmm... ah ? Why does this picture here look so similar to that picture just now?"

……

All the people left, including Yan Shangshu who was helped into the carriage by Yan Jia and sent to the hospital.After arguing with others, Gu Dashi pointed out that the top of the fake painting was painted with non-special paint, he also knew that Yan Shangshu's face was offended, covered his face with his sleeve, and walked away embarrassedly.But now everyone knows that this so-called heirloom treasured by the Yan family and recovered from outside is a fake.

"Yan Shangshu is not good at this. It's normal for him not to be able to recognize it. If he doesn't believe in his ability to appreciate calligraphy and painting so much, and asks other people to help identify it, he may be able to see that it is just a fake."

"Yan Shangshu is just too impatient, and he wants to show it at this time. Maybe he wants to use it for himself, or his son-in-law, to win back a city."

"After all, it is a gift from a benefactor, and it is so precious that even the auction house has invited people from Yunzhongshan. Yan Shangshu just lacked some thought, so he went to someone else to confirm..."

"It's not necessarily because he doesn't care. Maybe he just believes too much in his ability to read paintings. That painting is indeed very similar."

In the end, all sound is lost.Even Yan Jia left.When he left, his face was so calm, not the almost numb calm before, but with a bit of relief like the sea and the sky.He was the one who helped his father up with a gentle voice and put him into the carriage.

"Sister is free, let's go back too, father." He said.

Zhou Mansion just disappeared from their field of vision.In the carriage, Yan Shangshu leaned on the carriage, his face was as old as a dry mountain.Yan Jia looked at him, looking at his father for the first time, and he found that his father was old.

"Father, I don't need my sister's sacrifice. I can revitalize the Yan family and abide by the way of a gentleman. You said that one must walk the right way." He whispered, "But I am walking on this way, but I am surrounded by relatives If this is the case, what is the right way? Father, I will abide by your teachings and live for the country and the people. If you don’t sweep a house, why sweep the world. But..."

He didn't speak any more.

He hoped that when he fell asleep again in the future, there would not be any crying faces in the room belonging to Yan's family.

Zhou Cai stepped on the shredded paper of the firecrackers, and the bottom of his boots rubbed against the shredded paper, making a dull creaking sound.

The landscape painting still lay across the wedding hall, like an indelible wound.He touched it with his hands, and after that, started laughing.

"Hahaha...hahaha..."

Absurd laughter echoed in the Xitang.In fact, he didn't have to laugh, and he didn't have to play like this, because in the empty wedding hall, there was only a bleak moonlight, and only one audience.

The spectator, dressed in an apricot-colored suit, sat in a chair with no expression on his face.Everyone is gone, only him is left.

There is only one him left.

"...All of this today." Zhou Cai said softly, "How much of it was arranged by you? My clever brother?"

"From this painting..." He poked the painting with his finger.

"To the eldest princess." He pointed to the high platform, where Miss Yan jumped down from the stairs and landed on the eldest princess's horse.

"Go to that boy." He pointed to the direction where the boy who exposed the truth of the painting came.

"To Grand Master Gu, to those who are talking a lot, to everyone..." Zhou Cai counted the names of all the people who had caused him such an embarrassing situation today, and finally turned to look at Zhou Xun, "How many people are there?" Did you arrange it?"

Zhou Xun looked at him, his dark eyes were still cold: "Is there any point in asking these now?"

"It's meaningful, of course it's meaningful." Zhou Cai looked at the sky and laughed loudly, "The whole world is trying to embarrass me. What I want to ask, what I want to know is—are you plotting against me? Can't I get through? It used to treat me like a pet, but now, it lets you take everything from me..."

"Heaven has never punished you. If he was willing to punish you, you would not have lived to this day with your evil body full. The sky does not favor anyone, and it has never had mercy on me. But, it is not me who is plotting against you. Zhou Cai, during the whole process, I never dirty my hands. If you get the right way, you can help, but if you don’t, you can’t help much. All the consequences that happened today are all caused by you. No one forced you to pretend to be the Yan family’s marriage, No one is forcing you to send me to the palace, no one is forcing you to pass off my poems. Zhou Cai, you are the sad, vain, quick success fake." Zhou Xun looked at him without blinking, "And now it's just taking away something that doesn't belong to you, and it makes you so annoyed?"

Zhou Cai was really furious.He heard his teeth chattering.He thought, Zhou Xun found out, he actually found out everything.

"I've known for a long time that you are not a good person. I have known since I was seven years old. Let you live, and one day, you will take everything from me." Zhou Cai gritted his teeth, "You are obviously just a bastard, But why do you overwhelm me? Why didn't you die in the lake? If you died when you were seven years old, everything would have changed...everything would have been better..."

"But have you ever thought about it?" Zhou Xun said suddenly, "If you hadn't pushed the seven-year-old me into the lake and made things difficult for me, maybe I would just be your ordinary bastard brother. A respectful brother, Ann The bastard brother who is in the status quo."

Zhou Cai was taken aback.His mind went blank.

"You are always so eager for quick success, Zhou Cai. If you are not as talented as others, you will kill that person. But there are many people in this world who are more talented than me. Do you want to kill them one by one? Rong Fen is here, So I want to pretend to be my poem, and I don’t hesitate to pretend to be downcast and sad. I pretended to be in front of him for many years, and I didn’t even dare to reveal my true temperament. But you who are good at making friends and pleasing people, don’t you Is there any other way to approach him to please him? Seeing that the daughter of the Shangshu family has admitted to the wrong person, you can obviously find a real hero for her, and you can also gain the favor of Yan Shangshu. There are countless noble girls in the capital, and there are countless noble girls who admire you , you may not find a better partner than Miss Yan, but you have to take this shortcut."

"do not talk."

"Zhou Cai, you don't want to bear the benefits in front of you, even the slightest benefits in front of you. You are so short-sighted and vain. As the son of the Zhou family, as the young master of the Zhou family, you can obviously have a group of people who are determined, no matter how talented you are. A younger brother who can stand up for you. If I were you, I would train my younger brother to be a businessman and give him small favors to let him be grateful to you. Because his status as a businessman will never be as good as yours, but he still has to rely on you Asylum, and send you ten thousand taels of snowflake silver every year. You could have entered the capital innocently, promoted step by step innocently, possessed the friendship of the prince innocently, and became the benefactor of the Yan family, the benefactor of the eldest princess, and the emperor innocently. Lu Xiandao can't say anything about your character, and no one can ignore your existence... But what about you now? Standing here, you are like a stray dog, a dog that has been beaten back to its original shape Stray dog. You want to say that you were originally the young master of the Zhou family, and you are very talented, right? Yes, with your talent, even if you don’t try your best, you can still be an upright fourth-rank official now. But you see What about you now? Because of your short-sightedness, you have lost more than what you could have originally..."

"do not talk."

"Who do you think ruined you? Is it God? Is it fate? Is it me who has calculated everything?"

"do not talk!"

Zhou Cai yelled angrily, and he finally began to tremble, fear, pain and regret from the bottom of his heart.But this is definitely not because of the shame he found in his conscience, nor is it just because of the embarrassment and humiliation that his whole person was taken out for analysis when the conspiracy was revealed, but because of...

What Zhou Xun described to him was the unreachable future that he could have lived in a dignified manner.

Zhou Xun heard Zhou Cai almost vomit.He saw him lying on the ground in pain, which was good, he completely broke his heart.And he finally hit Zhou Cai's seven inches.

This is his seven inches.

He looked at him intently.

"...No." After a long time, Zhou Cai got up from the ground. He looked at Zhou Xun with bloodshot eyes, "I will not admit defeat. I am the number one scholar. My young master! The Zhou family in Jiangzhou, and the entire Jiangzhou, have no talent better than me. Everyone has high hopes for me, and I will definitely be the best one. Everything I have should be the best ...I will never admit defeat!"

He hissed, with all his superficial arrogance and vain ambition, the real Zhou Cai was finally stripped out by Zhou Xun: "I will not admit defeat! I am the proud son of heaven, I should be the one in everyone's eyes First!"

"Do you want to kill me? Are you strangling me here?" Zhou Xun looked at Zhou Cai who seemed to be insane, but he didn't even change his tone, "You want to destroy everyone in this world who is better than you ...but that's a long list. You could kill me here, but you'll kill a lot of people. And after those people die, there will be more people born than you...you can kill are you coming?"

"you……"

Zhou Cai tasted fishy and sweet.But Zhou Xun laughed.

"Brother, you're vomiting blood." He clapped his hands lightly, smiling as if watching a good show.

When he heard the light "brother", the blood from Zhou Cai's throat finally gushed out along the corners of his lips!

It turns out that people do vomit blood when they are angry.Zhou Xun took out a handkerchief from his sleeve, and wiped the blood-stained table around him, as well as his blood-stained fingernails and fingertips.He wiped it so slowly and carefully, as if it was something very dirty.Finally, he put the handkerchief on the candle next to him, and burned it with the flickering candle.

He turned around and Shi Shiran left Xitang.The smile on his face that appeared to anger Zhou Cai disappeared, leaving only boundless indifference and indifference. He didn't even look back at Zhou Cai.

At this moment, another team of crimson men stepped into the wedding hall at this moment.The leader was wearing a crimson uniform, his face under the sword eyebrows was cold, without a trace of warmth.

The last wave of guests finally arrived at the Zhou Mansion on April [-]th.They were wearing crimson uniforms, which matched the wedding hall so well, but they were not announcing the good news, but sending off the funeral.

"Zhou Cai?" Lu Xiandao, the leader, said coldly, "We suspect that you colluded with the people of the Northern Wei Dynasty and leaked military secrets when you were in Yunzhou. Come with us."

The last bell ringing today finally ended, and this was the final ending of April [-]th, a day of great joy.

Zhou Xun walked step by step, and he heard Zhou's mother crying behind him—the comatose woman finally woke up, holding her son and began to howl disregarding her appearance.He heard the sound of the bell tower in the capital, but the death knell of the Zhou Mansion sounded like the chirping of a magpie.He also heard the sound of the guards performing official duties, and the overturning of tables, chairs and benches.The new moon was behind him, and he, amidst all the voices, stepped on the red paper and left without taking a step back.

There was a falling "囍" at the gate of the Zhou Mansion, he stepped on it and walked over.

On the way, everyone was discussing intensely.They discussed that today there are two extremely beautiful women, one woman is like a fairy, leaning on the back of the previous woman.The woman holding the reins looked like a beautiful ancient god who met and killed gods.Their horses galloped through the streets and alleys of the capital, and everyone only saw their bright red clothes.The Royal Forest Army guarding the city chased after them, but they rode the dust away, and just before the city gate closed, they crossed the gap in the city gate and jumped into the sunset.

He also heard that there was a wealthy customer who used ten thousand taels of gold to take a picture of the "Smoke Wave Picture".

He also heard many people talking about the affairs of the Zhou Mansion and the Yan family... but no one knew that the young man walking beside him, who was as calm as ice and snow, was the source of all the bustle and bustle that ignited the entire capital today. the instigator.

On the contrary, when some girls saw this young man, they let out a low "Aiyo".But he was too cold, and they were too embarrassed to strike up a conversation.

When Zhou Xun returned to his mansion, he saw the painting again.

The painting hangs in his mansion, the mist is sparkling, and the landscape is picturesque.

"The emperor bought it back." Lianrong said, "He wishes you a happy birthday tomorrow."

Zhou Xun was stunned.

"So tomorrow is my birthday." He whispered, "Happy birthday."