rebirth first official

Gao Zhanming wandered out until night before returning home. As soon as he returned home, Yinhe came up to him: "Master, Miss Biao came to your room to call you during dinner, stayed for a while, and she left without you."

"Oh?" Gao Zhanming nodded, "Continue to send someone to spy on her."

Yinhe took the order and withdrew.

Gao Zhanming returned to the house, took a shower and fell asleep.

A few days later, Gao Zhanming went to find Gao Tianwen for a drink.

Gao Tianwen asked Gao Zhanming: "Jun Liang, in a few days, you will go to Yushitai to take up a formal post, right?"

Gao Zhanming smiled and said, "There are still two more days."

Gao Tianwen sighed: "Your happy days are coming to an end soon. The days of intrigue and submissiveness in the officialdom are really tiresome."

Gao Zhanming poured Gao Tianwen a glass of wine: "Brother, what's going on in the palace recently?"

Gao Tianwen thought for a while, and said, "There is one incident, and it has something to do with you."

"Oh?" Gao Zhanming asked, "What's the matter?"

Gao Tianwen said with a smile: "The Queen Mother seems to be checking Jiazhou Mansion recently. I also heard people say that it seems that the Queen Mother suspects that the taxes of Jiazhou Mansion have been deducted by local officials, so she specially sent a censor to Jiazhou. This is all Few people know about the secret actions, and I only found out when I was chatting with Zihui. If the news gets out, I’m afraid it will startle the snake. Didn’t you just come back from Jiazhou? You told the Queen Mother the secret?”

"No." Gao Zhanming was surprised. "I'm just suspicious. I haven't told the Queen Mother yet. Why did the Queen Mother start the investigation?"

Gao Tianwen shrugged: "Who knows. Since this is the case, it has nothing to do with you."

After the two had finished drinking, Gao Zhanming returned to the mansion and met Tang Yun in the yard.When Tang Yun saw Gao Zhanming, he rushed up to greet him: "Cousin, you are back."

Gao Zhanming hummed: "What are you doing here?"

Tang Yun smiled and said, "Where did my cousin go? The weather has turned cold. I personally bought a pair of thick-soled shoes for my cousin. I came to your room to look for you in the afternoon, but you were not there."

Gao Zhanming turned his eyes around her face, and said with a smile, "Thank you very much, where are those shoes now?"

Tang Yun said: "It's still in my room, I'll get it for you later."

Gao Zhanming said: "Oh? Since you have already been to my place, why didn't you just put down the shoes and take them back again? Why don't you make another trip?"

Tang Yun was stunned, lowered his eyes, and looked a bit like a daughter: "I...I want to hand it over to my cousin."

Gao Zhanming raised his eyebrows, said calmly, "That's fine, then I'll go back to my room first, you can come and find me later."

Tang Yun hurriedly said: "Okay."

Gao Zhanming returned to the room, took a sip of tea, sat for a while, and then Tang Yun came with his shoes.After she entered the room, she put the new shoes at Gao Zhanming's feet, and said, "Cousin, take a look at the size. I asked my aunt for your shoe samples as a reference, and I don't know if they fit."

Seeing her squatting at his feet, Gao Zhanming said, "Are you going to wait for me to put on my shoes?"

Tang Yun smiled and said, "Try it."

Gao Zhanming helped Tang Xue up, and motioned her to sit aside: "I don't need to bother you about these matters."

Tang Yun said: "This is me..."

Gao Zhanming raised his hand to stop her words, and picked up a shoe.The soles of Tang Yunna's shoes were indeed much thicker, and the uppers were made of three layers of satin cloth. Gao Zhanming squeezed them carefully, and the insides were probably padded with velvet, so they were really warm enough.He compared it with the soles of his own shoes, and the size was also suitable.

Gao Zhanming put the shoes aside, and said: "You are a virtuous and good girl, and you have a beautiful heart. You help my mother with the family business, and you can spare time to cook soup and shoes for me. Like you For ordinary girls, if you don’t betroth you to a good family, it’s really treating you badly.”

Tang Yun was startled: "Cousin, what do you mean?"

Gao Zhanming was very calm: "It's nothing interesting. My mother is probably trying to point you to me as a concubine, do you know?"

Tang Yun lowered his head shyly: "I... this..."

Gao Zhanming said: "Based on your background, if you didn't have a poor family, even if you promised to be the wife of a prince's son, it would not be considered high-profile, but now you want to be my concubine, don't you feel wronged?"

Tang Yun didn't expect Gao Zhanming to say it so bluntly, and there was no one else in the room, she couldn't figure out what Gao Zhanming was thinking, so she lowered her head and bit her lips without saying a word.

Gao Zhanming looked at her expression and smiled slightly: "In your heart, are you really not unwilling?"

Tang Yun whispered: "The words of the matchmaker, the orders of the parents, how dare Tang Yun make his own claims. Cousin is a dragon and a phoenix among people..."

Gao Zhanming interrupted her: "You don't need to say these things against your will, that's not what I asked you to come here." He opened the drawer, took out the letter addressed to Li Jingruo, and put it on the table.

Tang Yun raised his head, and when he saw the letter, his face changed slightly.But she quickly calmed down and looked at Gao Zhanming pretending to be puzzled.

Gao Zhanming didn't speak, took a sip from the teacup at hand, and looked at Tang Xue without opening his mouth.

He has always suspected that there are other forces behind Tang Yun, so he deliberately left this letter for Tang Yun to read, and he tried it to be sure.He pretended to write this letter to Li Jingruo. The content of the letter was that he suspected that Liu Rukang, the prefect of Jiazhou Prefecture, had concealed his taxes. , he will speak to the emperor as a censor and ask for a thorough investigation.The queen mother always wanted to cure Liu Rukang, but she had no evidence. She asked Gao Zhanming to help her collect evidence, but Gao Zhanming didn't provide her with anything.The content of the letter is of course false. Gao Zhanming is very sure that even if the Queen Mother checks the tax situation of Jiazhou Prefecture, there will be no clues.But as soon as his letter was written, the queen mother impatiently took the censor to go to Jiazhou, obviously because of his letter.

Gao Zhanming felt that his luck was not bad. If the person behind Tang Yun was not the Queen Mother but someone else, he might have to think of more ways to try slowly, but now, he already knew it in his heart.

After a while, Tang Yun couldn't sit still anymore: "Cousin?"

Only then did Gao Zhanming speak unhurriedly: "You are right, what your parents ordered and what your matchmaker said. But as far as I know, both of your parents have already died, right?"

Tang Yun frowned, already a little displeased.

Gao Zhanming said: "Are you really not unwilling?"

Tang Yun finally couldn't help standing up: "Cousin, what do you mean by saying this today?"

Compared with Tang Yun's anxiety, Gao Zhanming was still so calm: "Don't worry, sit down and talk."

Tang Yun took a deep breath and slowly sat down on the chair.

Gao Zhanming said: "You hate our Gao family very much." This time, he did not use a questioning tone, but an affirmative tone.Even so, he still observed Tang Yun's expression carefully, not missing any changes on her face.

Tang Yun almost jumped up, a look of shock flashed in his eyes: "What, what? Cousin, why do you say that?"

Such a reaction, of course, did not escape Gao Zhanming's eyes.So his tone became a little more determined, and he repeated: "You hate our Gao family."

Tang Yun stared at him and kept denying, but Gao Zhanming saw her denial as so pale and powerless.

Gao Zhanming said: "The case ten years ago, in fact, your father was not involved at all, and even the entire Tang family was innocently implicated. It was only because Marquis Wu'an got too close to that rebellious minister. The evidence shows that Marquis Wu'an also participated in the treason, but he was still deprived of his title, along with his brothers, your father Menxia Province Zuo Suiyi lost his official position and his family property was confiscated. Your father can't bear such a situation Stricken, seriously ill, your mother went to Beijing to avenge your father, and found the in-laws of the Tang family. I went to the mansion of Duke Anguo next door to intercede, and was beaten out at the door. Not long after you went back, your mother died, and your father’s illness has not recovered, and one after another dragged on until the year before last, and he also went."

Listening to Gao Zhanming's words, Tang Yun frowned more and more, but he never spoke.

Gao Zhanming took a deep breath, and continued: "Actually, the rebellious minister in charge didn't want to overthrow the emperor, but our Gao family. In order to eradicate dissidents, the queen mother and An Guogong fabricated evidence of the man's treason. Dismiss all the officials who are close to him. Speaking of which, the matter of your father is probably decided by the queen mother and An Guogong himself. But the Gao family is willing to take into account the friendship of the in-laws. Ten years ago, the Tang family would not have collapsed , you are still a wealthy young lady, your parents probably won't die either. If I were you, even if I don't bear the grudge against the Gao family, why would you eagerly want to be Gao Zhanming's concubine?"

Tang Yun said indifferently: "Cousin, you grew up with rich clothes and fine food. You don't understand how hard the life outside is. Even if I have resentment in my heart about what happened ten years ago, I can't get it in exchange for it." As I live, I can go to my cousin and aunt, so that I can suffer less."

Gao Zhanming smiled: "This is what you said to the Queen Mother. That's why the Queen Mother put you by my side as her eyes and ears?"

Tang Yun frowned, but did not immediately deny it.

Gao Zhanming shook the letter he had just taken out: "I wrote this letter deliberately to test you. Fortunately, it is the Queen Mother. If it is someone else who wants to test you out, I'm afraid it will take me a long time." time."

Tang Yun's lips parted slightly, but without saying anything, he bit his lower lip again.

Gao Zhanming said: "You are the queen mother's eyeliner, to gain the trust of the queen mother, and then what do you want to do?"

Tang Yundao: "Cousin is joking, what can I do as a mere weak girl?"

Gao Zhanming said: "If your purpose is to take revenge on the Gao family, there must be someone else behind you, right? Your majesty? The Zhao family?"

Tang Yun said: "I don't understand what my cousin is talking about."

Gao Zhanming said with a smile: "We are smart people who don't speak dark words. Ten years ago, I was only a ten-year-old child, and there was a grievance and a debt. Even if you have grievances in your heart, you can't blame me, can you? I am a sensible person, otherwise, I would not have said these things to you today. Now the queen mother wants you to monitor me and report to her every move I do. It's not that ... they don't trust them, and I don't trust them either."

Tang Yun's expression was rather complicated.

Gao Zhanming waited patiently for a while, not in a hurry, and said: "You also need to rely on others, so why not take me as your reliance. And I also need you. There is only one thing I want to tell you today, Gao Zhan and I Those people at home are different, you have time to understand what kind of person I am and what I have done. You can go back and think about whether to cooperate with me, and I will give me an answer after you think it through."

Tang Yun was still silent, but after hearing what Gao Zhanming said, she didn't sit still, got up, saluted Gao Zhanming, and left the room.

After Tang Yun left, Gao Zhanming sighed and rubbed his temples with a headache.He can be said to have made a dangerous move today.Based on his inference, Tang Yun was not actually a member of the Empress Dowager. Perhaps there was someone behind her instructing her to gradually gain the Empress Dowager's trust.If the person behind this was the emperor or someone else, it would be easy to deal with, but if it was someone from the Zhao family, then Gao Zhanming would have a big headache.

But he really needs Tang Yun.It would be easy for him to kick Tang Yun's pawn away, but if one is gone, the next one will soon be picked up, and the Queen Mother will not let him be quiet so easily.The way to do it once and for all is to win over the Queen Mother's eyeliner for his own use.What's rare now is that he saw a breakthrough in Tang Yun's body, but if he changed to another one, it would be even more difficult to close him.

I hope Tang Yun can be persuaded by him.