Lucky's Rebirth

The Gu family is a family of officials. Like all the families of officials, the Gu family is not a natural family of officials. Unlike all the families of officials, the Gu family did not find a "said" ancestor for themselves like other big families.

The family tree of the Gu family is very short. Counting from Gu Changhua's generation, it is the sixth generation. According to the family tree records, the first generation of ancestors was an orphan who was abandoned. The surname "Gu" was chosen by himself. He named himself Gu Zhong. Gu Da's ancestor was a wandering young man, but he was a genius in business. In the troubled times, he accumulated wealth that could rival a country. After the founding of the Zhao family, the ancestors of the Gu family trained their descendants to study for the imperial examination.

After the Gu family broke away from the ranks of "businessmen", they did not deliberately obliterate this point.

The ancestor of the Gu family was a businessman, and the Gu family never shied away from this point. To put it disrespectfully, the founding emperor of the Zhao family used to be a bandit.

——Princes and generals, would you rather be kind?

After several generations of hard work, the Gu family got rid of the vulgarity of "not knowing a single character". Four generations of officials, the population of the Gu family is not prosperous, but the members of the Gu family are not lacking in the character of scholars.

The strength of character of a scholar can be interpreted as being upright, not afraid of power, and daring to speak out. This is inside and out. In the perception of oneself and the world, a scholar must at least be gentle and elegant.

Thinness and paleness fit the world's interpretation of scholars, especially in the century-old Gu family, a scholarly family. Regarding this point, even the servants have critical eyes.

Under such circumstances, one can imagine the shocking scene of the second master of the Gu family turning into a big fat man and walking out of Qingyuan.

Walking from Qingyuan to the study room of Gu Changhua's father Gu Tai in the outer courtyard, during this cup of tea time, the servant girl who saw the second master of the Gu family opened her mouth wide and her eyes widened because of being frightened. Seeing the servant following behind, the servants of Man Gu's family couldn't believe it, it was their second master in front of him.

More strange than rare, Tsing Yi behind muttered something, then closed his mouth again.

Fortunately, the servants of the Gu family have very good rules, they will slowly lower their heads after a moment of surprise, which relieves Gu Changhua from a lot of trouble.

Gu Tai, who entered the official career at the age of 25, served as the magistrate of Xuzhou at a young age. Although he was a middle-rank official of the fifth rank, although he was not as expensive as his elder brother who was the household servant of the third rank, he could be regarded as a prosperous official.

Gu Tai is quite self-aware. He knows that his ability is limited. One state is his limit. This is also part of the reason why he was born in the Gu family. Fortunately, he pinned all his hopes on his son.

Gu Tai has four sons so far, the eldest son Gu Changting from the concubine, the second son Gu Changhua from the concubine, the third son Gu Changhui from the concubine, and the fourth son Gu Changsu from the concubine. For the time being, there is no hope.

Only his eldest son and second son, whom he placed high hopes on, did not disappoint him. This year, one is 21 years old and the other is 19 years old.

At this time, in Zhizhou Mansion's study, Gu Tai carefully instructed his eldest son.

"Although you didn't pass the exam, your luck is bad. As long as your talent and learning are better on the spot, you will be ranked among the top two." Gu Tai sat at the desk and wrote a letter with his pen and ink, " You don’t have to worry about your talent and learning as a father. What worries you as a father is your body. A wind and cold in the last exam caused you to lose your name. You must take care of your health this Enke. Just review your homework before the exam. Don’t study hard day and night. Eat well, pay attention to adding clothes, and close the doors and windows before nightfall."

Gu Changting was shy and unbearable when he heard that last time Enke obviously didn't have enough knowledge. After he failed, he couldn't tell his father who was eagerly looking forward to his high school. How did he know that his biological mother told his father that she played with an illness, so she failed.

It has been half a year since I returned home from the capital, and the matter is a foregone conclusion, and any further explanations are just to cause trouble, so Gu Changting had to acquiesce, but hearing Gu Tai's words at this time, he felt extremely ashamed.

Gu Changting bowed to the ground: "Don't worry, my son will definitely act cautiously this time, and be careful in everything."

"Bring this letter to the capital and give it to your grandfather. I have already written clearly in the letter. You are [-] years old this year, and the marriage cannot be delayed any longer. Regardless of your high school or not, please ask your grandfather to make decisions for you. Find a well-educated and reasonable man." As a wife, I just hope that you will be in high school." Gu Tai said quietly.

"I understand. I only hope that my future wife will be gentle and virtuous, and educate my children to be filial to the elders. I don't ask for anything else." Gu Changting's words are nice, but he understands the relationship between the noble daughter and the humble daughter. The difference is that the weight and support of the Yue family is clear in his heart, otherwise he wouldn't have dragged on until now and hasn't gotten married. You must know that there are few men in aristocratic families who haven't married at the age of 20.

When a man is 20 years old, the crowning ceremony is about to be held, which means that the man has grown up. Since Gu Changting was crowned, he has been reluctant to get married. There have been rumors in the outside world that Gu Tai doted on his concubine and killed his wife. He delayed the marriage of the eldest son. Regarding the marriage of the legitimate son Gu Changhua, even the grandfather in Beijing sent several letters. From the initial inquiry to the final verbal reprimand, Gu Changting knew how much pressure his father was under, and the patience of delaying and delaying his grandfather had reached its limit.

It's just because they are far away in Dengzhou, and grandfather can't reach them. When they come to Beijing this time, even if father doesn't write this letter asking grandfather to arrange a marriage for him, grandfather will make the decision for him. Gu Changting knows this well. It is clear that his age is not young is one reason, and the other most important reason is that his younger brother, Gu Changhua, the only grandson of the Gu family, has turned 19 this year and is about to be crowned.

Of course the concubine is not as good as the concubine, let alone delaying the marriage of the concubine for the concubine, even if he is no different from the concubine in the eyes of his father, his treatment is also comparable to that of the concubine, but the concubine is a concubine, from his marriage. Let him see clearly.

This is the fate of the bastard.

Gu Changting was born out of Gu Tai's concubine Yang Shi, Yang Shi is not an ordinary concubine, she is the niece of the old lady Liu Shi of the Gu family, that is, Gu Tai's direct cousin, the two grew up together as childhood sweethearts Originally, the two were supposed to be husband and wife, but Yang's family was in decline. Yang's father committed suicide because of embezzlement of disaster relief funds, and the whole Yang family was demoted to low status.

The daughter of a sinful official cannot be married as a regular wife. As a lowly family, it is impossible for her to accept her as a noble concubine. Gu Tai can only marry Gu Changhua's mother as his wife. It is only due to his youthful affection that Gu Tai favors the Yang family. Abnormally, the first concubine was lifted to the position of the second wife.

It's just that Gu Changting is a concubine, even if his father is a fifth-rank magistrate, Aiwujiwu treats him the same as a concubine. Gu Changting is always a concubine, and no one's concubine is willing to betroth him to him. Gu Tai couldn't bear to wrong Gu Changting and put him Her marriage has been postponed again and again, regardless of the rumors and gossip, against the old father's wishes, it can only be delayed until now, and there is only so much he can do for him.

Now he can look forward to his high school, and then flourish.

"Changting, don't let your father down." Gu Tai's tone was full of expectation.

Gu Changting's eyes were so hot that he almost burst into tears, "Father, Changting won't let you down again."