In March of this year, the city of Chang'an was destined to be uneasy.Just after the imperial examination, almost everyone in the city is rejoicing for the top three in this year's imperial examination. The number one scholar and the second place in this year's imperial examination are two candidates who have passed their destiny. Naturally, there is nothing to talk about. , among the top three in the imperial examination this year, there is also a literary, handsome, and personable Tanhualang, who is also in power in the dynasty. He is the favorite student of the popular general Lin in front of the Holy One. Naturally, there will be more talk.

In March of this year, the storyteller in the restaurant talked about other things that were new or no longer fresh, but I was afraid that he would count the true and false romantic affairs of this young Tanhua Lang, which were usually spread among the people. There was a lot of uproar, however, within those few days alone, the news about the young Tanhualang who had been so uproarious in the past half a month seemed to be completely scattered in the public...

At this time, an even more shocking news spread quickly.

Xinke Tanhualang of the current dynasty is the son of Gu Paner, the top courtesan in Yihonglou 20 years ago.

When this rumor was first released, most people in the market did not take it seriously. However, soon, the news began to spread more and more widely in the market. What a moment of glory, among the rich and powerful in Chang'an City, there are not a few people who spend a lot of money on Gu Pan'er in Yihonglou, it's just strange, Gu Pan'er is so famous, what a famous Yihonglou in Chang'an at that time 20 years ago The leading courtesan.

Rumors began to spread in Chang'an City. Gu Pan'er 20 years ago was indeed accompanied by a child of one, three or four years old. The son of Gu Pan'er, the top courtesan in Yihonglou, was indeed of the same age.

Furthermore, Gu Xichao and Gu Pan'er, who was famous in Chang'an at that time, are so similar, there are seven or eight points of similarity. Gu Pan'er from Chang'an came, but once someone poked Gu Pan'er out, I couldn't help being startled when I thought about it carefully, Gu Xichao was too similar to Gu Pan'er from previous years. One is a woman and the other is a man, but Gu Xichao's almost handsome and glamorous appearance is almost the same as that of Gu Pan'er.The son of a prostitute, he will always be a lowly family, and he will not be allowed to become a scholar for life. No matter how glamorous Gu Pan'er is, he can fascinate all living beings, but the fact is that Gu Pan'er is really just a prostitute.

and……

——The son of a prostitute, who is of low status, is a lowly citizen, and will not be admitted to the imperial examination for life.

This is a rule passed down by the ancestors from the previous court for hundreds of years. If Gu Xichao is indeed Gu Pan'er's son, the name of Tanhua is probably worthy of careful consideration.How could a son of a prostitute with a lowly background be worthy of the name of being a prostitute in the court? No matter how elegant, beautiful, and extraordinary this person is, a pariah will always be a pariah.

The rumors in the public have finally reached the point where they started to intensify. However, the Ministry of Rites or the Imperial Academy ignored this matter and let it go. This attitude should be worth deliberating. Officials from the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Academy Since he let this matter go, the higher-ups must have other plans.

What's more, this Gu Xichao was the new favorite student of Lin Canzheng, General Lin of the current dynasty.For those who have never shown any good intentions to Mr. Lin, they are more or less interested in watching the show at this time. No matter how high the vision of Mr. Lin is, the stricter the selection of students will be.As for another student of Mr. Lin's family, Shen Tan Zaizhong, although he was a little bit soft-spoken in the court, he was actually a son of a merchant family, but he was considered a decent family anyway, not particularly eye-catching. In the end, it turned out to be the son of a whore. After thousands of choices, he actually chose a son of a whore. For this reason, there must not be only a few people in the court who wanted to see Mr. Lin's jokes.

Is Gu Xichao the son of Gu Paner?Whether this matter is true or not seems to be undecided. However, for the people above, this is actually not a difficult matter to find out. I don't know whether Gu Xichao is too conceited or too stupid. Really majesticly bearing the name of Gu Xichao all the way up, participated in Qiu Wei, Chun Wei, and finally won the title of the top three in the palace in one fell swoop.Tanhualang, this may be a height that ordinary people may not be able to reach in their entire lives. It is clear that a bright road has almost opened up in front of him, but in the end...

The only thing that deserves some subtlety is that the famous post that Gu Xichao put in the Imperial Academy that day disappeared. Since the famous post is gone, it is impossible to prove that Gu Xichao had changed his hometown and applied for the imperial examination with a fake name post. However, it is only a matter of time for the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Academy to confirm Gu Xichao's identity.

As long as the time comes...

As for now,

Dismissal to be done, just four words.

Gu Xichao already knew that he was almost finished.

Gu Xichao sat in the front hall of the general's mansion, clasped his hands on his knees tightly, and the tightly pressed slender white jade five-finger nails pierced deeply into his palm, seeping into a few drops of blood. , bright red like fire, but he seems to have no idea.

One step to heaven, one step to hell.

... Only one step away, he thought he was only one step away from success.

however……

He once thought that with his talent and learning, his full of poetic theories, and the beautiful world in his heart, he would be able to rise steadily in the court and win his own place, but... just when he thought he had already The moment he was closest to heaven, he had already stepped into the gate of hell with one step.

That's right, Gu Xichao is the son of Gu Pan'er, the famous prostitute in Yihonglou who was famous in Chang'an 20 years ago, the son of a prostitute.However, he is not reconciled. If God considers him to be more mediocre, Gu Xichao always feels that the way of heaven is unfair. Since the way of heaven has bestowed extraordinary talents on people, it has not been able to give him a person who can display his talents. opportunity good position.

In terms of martial arts, he is very talented and has excellent bones. Others often need to practice for half a year or a year, but he can master it in half a month.He often only needs to take a look at the martial arts mentality of other people's hard work, and he can remember them clearly, and he can understand them thoroughly in half a day.

On Wen Yi Dao, he was able to read a thousand characters at the age of three, recite poems and books at the age of five, and read a collection of classics and history at the age of seven. At the age of twenty-four, he was able to write a military strategy for the world, "Seven Strategies". "Three Secrets and Six Strategies", he wrote "Seven Strategies".

When Gu Xichao was just a reckless scholar, he had already submitted "Seven Strategies" several times. The world only regarded him as a real lunatic. However, many people still had to admit that Gu Xichao was a genius lunatic!

If Gu Xichao wasn't born with such amazing talent, if Gu Xichao wasn't for being arrogant and arrogant, he knows astronomy from the top, geography from the bottom, the five elements and gossip, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry, books, rituals and music. Gu Xichao, who is amazingly talented, or Gu Xichao is no longer so amazingly talented, maybe Gu Xichao will live a hundred times more stable and content than he is now.Of course, he was no longer Gu Xichao.

But God Dudu let such a Gu Xichao, who came from a humble background and possessed shocking talents, let him go!

All because...he is Gu Xichao.

Since God has created such an amazingly talented and beautiful Gu Xichao, but he has not given him a sufficient status to display all his talents, the son of a whore, just because he is a son of a whore, he just How could Gu Xichao be willing to become a pariah?

Gu Xichao chose to give it a go, he almost thought he was going to succeed.

It's a pity... he was too conceited after all.He believed that Gu Pan'er's reputation should have disappeared 20 years ago, and he learned to become an important bargaining chip in his career because he was full of his own.He is conceited that as long as he is given even the slightest chance, he will be able to seize it and then steadily rise to the top. He is conceited that... he still underestimated the people in this world after all.

Gu Pan'er has been silent in Chang'an City for nearly 20 years. No matter how famous Chang'an was at that time, it has become a thing of the past. When Gu Pan'er's news was dug out, someone must be targeting him behind him, and someone is looking forward to him. He was expelled from his career, hoping that he would recognize his identity as the son of Gu Pan'er, a famous brothel prostitute.Gu Xichao knew that someone was targeting him, but he couldn't do anything. How could he hope that he could use his own power to persuade a fact that he had to admit.

Not reconciled... He, Gu Xichao, has never been really reconciled?

On the market, in the rivers and lakes, people are warm and cold, and Gu Xichao has seen many of them in the past few years.However, some people in the officialdom who used to have a few drinks with him are now avoiding him for a long time.Gu Xichao thought of the contemptuous look of the old Hanlin who had always respected him in Hanlin Academy recently when he saw him recently. The old Hanlin had been generously talking to him about the future of Hanlin Academy, and it was the time of spring. The supervisor examiner with blue eyes, and now...

The son of a whore, huh, the son of a whore... This identity is so important that he can't tolerate Gu Xichao at all?

"Young Master, Young Master Gu, Young Master Gu..." A maid in the general's mansion brought up a cup of tea in her hand. After the maid's eyes were dazed for a moment, she finally couldn't bear to call out slowly, "Master, the court has not yet When you come back, Mr. Gu might as well drink a cup of green tea first, presumably someone as elegant and transparent as you, Mr. Gu, must also be a tea lover."

Gu Xichao took a few glances at the slick-talking little girl, seeing that she was speaking eloquently, her delicate and delicate face was full of sincerity, Gu Xichao pursed her lips, and carefully lightened the cup of tea in her hand. After taking a sip, Gu Xichao suppressed the complex look in his eyes that was sharp and almost fierce a moment ago, and when he looked back suddenly, he had changed into a gentle, clear and handsome young man, "Please trouble me, girl." gone."

The servant girl blinked her eyes, then said slowly with a smile: "My lord is serious, this is a trivial matter that people should take care of at present, if the greeting is not thoughtful, the general will punish us when he turns around. "

Although the servant girl spoke seriously, she had a smile on her face, there were few servants in the general's mansion who were punished, so what the servant girl said was more of a joke than a joke.

Seeing Gu Xichao, who had become silent at this moment, the servant girl turned her eyes up suddenly, and said: "Could it be otherwise, Mr. Gu should go to the wing room to rest for a while, after the general returns, someone will come to inform Mr. Gu your."

Gu Xichao frowned involuntarily, and suddenly said: "My wing?"

The little maid immediately said neither humble nor overbearing: "The master ordered earlier, if you come, Mr. Gu, if you can't wait for the master, you can rest in the mansion for a while, and some things that Mr. Gu left in the Imperial Academy have also been helped. Take it back, young master, can you go and have a look now?"

Gu Xichao's current official position is already pending, and sooner or later he should move out of the mansion in the Hanlin Academy. When he was struggling with his future residence, someone had come to tell him that there was no need to worry about it anymore, everything had already been moved, and it was just waiting for you to move in, come and live with me.

Anyway, the general is also a mansion bestowed by the Holy Majesty himself, even if there are a few hundred more people living in the mansion, I am afraid it will be ample, not to mention, but there is only one more Gu Xichao.

"Teacher, he..." Gu Xichao's face was a bit stunned after hearing the words, and then he finally opened his mouth to ask hesitantly.Gu Xichao's background and his experience have already determined his suspicious nature. Gu Xichao is conceited of himself, but it is difficult to entrust his complete trust to one person. He only believes in the interests of this world. The relationship will feel stronger.Lin Ziqing was going to keep him, was going to keep him as a disciple, but he hadn't given up on him yet?However, the next moment, he has habitually started to analyze the benefits he can bring to Lin Ziqing. What exactly is Lin Ziqing planning?

Although Gu Xichao has always been conceited, he is far from being blind.When it comes to political planning, this talent is definitely not inferior to himself. What's more, although Lin Ziqing spent six years wasted on the battlefield, he has spent several years in the officialdom anyway. Compared with myself, a junior who has just entered the officialdom, I am afraid that he is still a bit more sophisticated.If it is because of the "Seven Strategies", although he thinks that "Seven Strategies" is a good book of military strategy, but for a man who has retreated from the Rongdi army in three years, he is even more famous on the battlefield. For everyone, the scheme of elegant name is a bit embarrassing for Guan Gong to play big swords in front of him. Even if he cherishes his talents, it is far from what Gu Xichao thinks is profitable.

After thinking about it, it was because he was tired of Lin Ziqing, but for Lin Ziqing, not only half of the benefits may be lost, but also some of his own reputation, is it really not worth the candle?

Gu Xichao's words stuck in his throat for a while, but in the end he still didn't ask openly.On the one hand, he wasn't sure how much this little maid knew about this matter, and on the other hand, no matter what Lin Ziqing was planning now, he still helped him after all, and he owed Lin Ziqing almost everything. Great kindness.

"Master still asked me to tell Mr. Gu a word." The little maid finally smiled and said slowly: "Maybe this matter is not as bad as you think, Mr. Gu."

——There is still room for improvement in this matter.

Gu Xichao wanted to ask the little maid even more, even if he himself didn't have that confidence, where did this little maid have the courage to be so sure.

Of course, if Gu Xichao asked seriously, the answer he got would be "That's what the master said." It sounds nice, but in reality it doesn't make any sense at all.

Therefore, Gu Xichao was not ready to say a word in the end.

After a while, Gu Xichao saw a slightly thin figure walking towards here from a distance.Gu Xichao immediately stood up subconsciously to meet him, but when the man got closer, he realized that it was not Lin Ziqing, but a young man with a long knife on his waist.

Although the young man's face was handsome and he never smiled, but looking at the man's brows, there seemed to be a feminine evilness for no reason. It looked good, but it was not very righteous after all.

The young man casually pressed the long knife in his hand on the table, and sat down at the seat next to Gu Xichao.

"Master Yu, you are back." The little girl's eyes seemed to light up, and then she poured a cup of tea with the young man with a smile on her face.

Yu Huang responded vaguely for a few times, then said "En" indiscriminately, took the cup of tea, raised his head and drank it all in one gulp.

——After finishing the work, it is natural to come back.

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