In the teahouse, Old Master Qin ordered some snacks and tea, then looked at Gu Shouxin with a smile.
Gu Shouxin looked back at Old Master Qin with a relaxed demeanor.
Lu Zheng was speechless. This old man from the Qin family was something else. He had made it clear when he went to the village that it might have made it easier to recognize relatives. But now, it was difficult.
The waiter brought tea, breaking their eye contact.
Old Master Qin took a sip of tea, put it down, and looked at Gu Shouxin, saying, "May I call you Second Master Gu?"
Gu Shouxin slowly took a sip of tea, then put it down: "Whatever makes you happy!"
Old Master Qin raised an eyebrow: "Is Cai Dacheng your brother-in-law?"
Gu Shouxin shook his head: "He did grow up at my father-in-law and mother-in-law's house, but according to my wife, he wasn't their biological son. He's already reunited with his family! I wonder why you're asking this, sir? Do you know him?"
Old Master Qin smirked: "Have you and your wife ever considered that Cai Dacheng might have impersonated someone else?"
Gu Shouxin: "Our family never thinks about people who are not important. My father-in-law and mother-in-law have already made mistakes, and for my wife, she has no family to rely on anymore. My parents raised her like their own daughter, so she doesn't care about this family that isn't her direct brother."
Looking at Gu Shouxin's smiling face, Old Master Qin felt somewhat uncomfortable.
Lu Zheng held his teacup and silently drank his tea.
Gu Shouxin wasn't in a hurry and slowly ate a piece of pastry.
Old Master Qin pursed his lips: "You're thirty-three this year?"
Gu Shouxin: "Why is the old man investigating me? I heard from my mother that I am just like my father when he was young. Besides, no one can take a child away from my mother, and my mother would never be stupid enough to lose her own child."
Lu Zheng almost couldn't help but spit out his tea.
Second Uncle, really, how can you slap someone in the face like that?
Old Master Qin coughed awkwardly twice: "That's not what I meant. What I meant was that you're thirty-three, just starting out in the imperial examinations, and you have a long road ahead of you. I believe you'll have no problem with the provincial examinations, but the metropolitan examinations, which gather scholars from all over the Great Zhou, aren't so easy. As for the title of Juren (a successful candidate in the provincial examinations), with connections you can still buy an official position. Have you considered that your in-laws might have that ability?"
Gu Shouxin looked at Old Master Qin with a surprised expression: "Old Master, you're wrong about that. My father-in-law and mother-in-law have both passed away. Do you think they have the ability to do this? Aren't you cursing me to go to the countryside so they can give me an official position? I'm only thirty-three, and I have a wife and daughter. I don't want to go to the countryside so soon!"
"You!" Old Master Qin almost cursed.
This kid, he says he doesn't want to die, but isn't he actually cursing him to die?
Lu Zheng coughed twice: "Cough cough, Grandpa Qin, have some snacks, have some snacks."
Old Master Qin refused to eat. He glared at Gu Shouxin and said, "After investigation, it was found that Cai Dacheng had fraudulently claimed Cai Xiaolian's keepsake to claim kinship. Cai Dacheng is the biological child of the Cai family, and Cai Xiaolian is the child of someone else."
Gu Shouxin slowly picked up his teacup, took a sip, and laughed, "Heh, old man, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. Don't think that just because you're old and an old acquaintance of Uncle Zhou you can talk nonsense! Saying my wife was adopted? Let me tell you, if it weren't for your age, I could punch you out the window."
Old Master Qin was furious: "You scoundrel! I'm your father-in-law! My own flesh and blood! If you don't believe me, ask Zhou Yuan."
Lu Zheng, whose name was mentioned, put on an innocent face and blinked: "Huh? What? I didn't know?"
Gu Shouxin gave Lu Zheng a satisfied look.
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