Chapter 56: Fake Daughter, Real Sickly Girl (Forty) More Updates, Please Give Me a Monthly Ticket
"Madam, I specially sent my son to the countryside. Gu Yi was quite sensible and took the initiative to go to Jingzhao Prefecture to change his household registration."
Nanny Su asked her son to investigate the matter thoroughly and then ran to report to Li.
"He also sold all the property given to him by the Marquis's Mansion and returned to his hometown with the silver."
"After returning home, he studied hard, saying that he wanted to take the exam to become a scholar so that he could be a private school teacher in the countryside in the future."
Nanny Su curled her lips, with obvious disdain in her eyes.
Scholar? Humph, what's a scholar? As expected, as soon as this person left the Marquis' Mansion, he became an inferior person.
Even if one passed the imperial examination and became a juren or jinshi, one still had to start as a minor official of the seventh rank.
And their Zhou family is a dignified marquisate.
The Marquis was promoted in the Ministry of Works and is now a fourth-rank assistant minister of the Ministry of Works.
A fourth-rank official in Beijing is a height that scholars may not be able to achieve in their entire lives!
"It's good to be a private school teacher!"
Li was very satisfied with Gu Yi's approach. He was indeed a sensible man and did not aim too high.
As a farmer's son who had received education but was not very smart, it was a great idea to pass the examination to become a scholar and become a private school teacher.
If Gu Yi said that he wanted to take the imperial examination and become an official, Li might have been secretly wary while mocking him.
What she wanted was for Gu Yi to stay in the countryside peacefully instead of running to the capital and being an eyesore!
The things that happened back then have been dealt with long ago.
However, as the saying goes, even the most careful plan may still have omissions.
The position of the Heir to the Marquis's Mansion had successfully fallen into the hands of his own son Zhou Ren.
Everything in the Zhou family will also belong to them and their son.
Li doesn't want any twists and turns.
"After all, he has been raised in the Marquis' Mansion for more than ten years and has been my son for so many years. It can be considered a certain fate."
Li was thinking about it in her heart but didn't show it on her face.
She deliberately pretended to be kind and gentle, and said slowly, "Send more people to look after it in the future. If anyone needs help, just help them!"
Nanny Su was not stupid, so she naturally understood the implication of her master's words.
Although she felt that Gu Yi was not a concern, as a qualified servant, the first and foremost rule was to be obedient! "Yes! I've made a note of it! Madam, don't worry, I'll let the boy at home go to the countryside more often!"
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Gu Yi returned to the countryside and picked up his textbooks again.
Fortunately, he was not too "aloof" when he left the Zhou family.
He took away all the things he had used in the Zhou family, filling three or four large boxes.
Among them are clothes, some purses, fan pendants, headbands, jade pendants and other small items.
But there are more books.
The Four Books and Five Classics, as well as classics by various saints, are all available.
The reason why Gu Yi chose to take the things away shamelessly was also thanks to the "precognitive dream".
In the dream, his books were worth a lot of money.
When he really left the Zhou family and began to experience the suffering of the people, Gu Yi realized that even a penny is extremely important to ordinary people.
And those books cost several taels of silver, which ordinary farmers simply couldn’t afford!
There are also some unique and rare copies, which are even more valuable.
"Haha, I thought the properties given by the Marquis' Mansion were valuable, but I didn't know that the most valuable ones were these books!"
It is true that “books are the golden house”.
Gu Yi was secretly happy: Does this count as collecting the "interest" from the Marquis' Mansion in advance? But this debt——
"Excuse me, is Prince Zhou here?"
Just as Gu Yi collected his thoughts and began to study hard, a voice was heard outside the door.
Prince Zhou? What a distant title.
Gu Yi put down the book and walked out.
His biological parents are both very honest people who have never seen the world. Don't be scared by the visitor.
“I’m Gu Yi!”
Gu Yi came out to greet him in a neither humble nor arrogant manner, and happened to see a weak and frail young man.
This person looks so familiar.
It seems like——
"Han, Prince Han?"
Gu Yi remembered, wasn't this person Han Ding, the prince of Duke Cheng'en's Mansion?
Is he also the good son-in-law that Mrs. Li is most proud of?
When Gu Yi left the capital, nothing had happened to the Han family yet.
However, the countryside was isolated from the outside world, so Gu Yi did not know that a major change had occurred in the Han family.
He looked at Han Ding with some caution, wondering what this man's intention was.
"Gu Yi? Are you returning to your roots so soon?"
Han Ding looked at the young man in front of him with some amusement.
When accompanying Zhou to her parents' home, Han Ding met Zhou Yi, oh no, it was Gu Yi.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
But at that time, Gu Yi looked hunched over, with a sense of uneasiness and inferiority in his bones.
He seemed out of place in the Marquis's Mansion.
It has only been a short time since we last met. At this moment, Gu Yi held his head high and chest out, looking much more energetic.
Well, this should be a kind of confidence! Gu Yi found his "belonging", even if he is no longer rich, he is still proud and self-respecting.
This Gu Yi is quite interesting.
“…”
Gu Yi couldn't tell whether Han Ding's words were kind or malicious.
To be exact, he simply couldn't see through the person in front of him.
The dignitaries in the capital all said that the second young master of the Han family was cowardly and weak, and was not good at either literature or martial arts, and was simply not as good as his half-brother Han Nai.
However, Gu Yi met Han Ding twice. Each time, he felt that this man was very contradictory.
It gives people a more dangerous feeling.
Moreover, in his dream, he seemed to have dreamt about what happened in Duke Cheng'en's Mansion.
etc!
Cheng'en Mansion?
Gu Yi hurriedly calculated the time in his mind. It seemed that it was during this recent period that Han Nai had an accident. Duke Cheng'en Han Yan could not bear the pain of losing his son. His hair turned white overnight and he also suffered a stroke.
The Cheng'en Mansion fell into decline overnight.
Fortunately, there is Queen Han in the palace, and the Han family can barely maintain a minimum of dignity.
Later, Han Yan died and Han Ding became the new Duke Cheng'en.
Later, it seemed that the seventh prince, who was the least prominent among all the princes, ascended the throne.
Queen Han became the queen mother.
In order to demonstrate filial piety, the new emperor conferred the title of Duke of Jingguo on Han Ding, a hereditary title!
Wait a minute! This doesn't make sense.
Traditionally, the father and brother of the empress or empress dowager were given the title of Duke Cheng'en, which was already a grace.
How did Han Ding change from Duke Cheng'en to Duke Jingguo? Was there something wrong with his dream?
Or does Han Ding have something——
Suddenly, Gu Yi felt a chill on his back.
He seemed to have discovered something great.
Gu Yi swallowed nervously and followed Han Ding's question, saying unnaturally, "Yes, I am not a descendant of the Zhou family, and my biological parents have come to me, so I should recognize my ancestors and return to my roots."
Han Ding's eyes flickered.
Han Ding naturally did not miss Gu Yi's sudden "fear".
What is this person afraid of? Has he also discovered something and is secretly investigating it?
And Han Ding's question of "returning to one's ancestry" hit the nail on the head for Gu Yi. No matter how smart Han Ding was, he could not have imagined that there were still people who could dream about the future.
He could not have imagined that his "true face" had been seen through by Gu Yi! He just thought that Gu Yi and he were "fellow travelers" who were both investigating the incident at Baiyun Temple.
"What did you find out? Did you also know about the ten taels of silver? And did you find Aunt Feng?"
Since they were all investigating, Han Ding didn't hide anything and just asked directly.
Gu Yi: ⊙▽⊙ PS: Well, this story is almost over!
(End of this chapter)
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