Chapter 320 He Made Me Lose You
Gu Fuju lifted the curtain.
Yu Tingwan looked over and saw a college.
She looked up and saw powerful words written on the plaque on the door.
——Huaqing Academy.
The handwriting was not unfamiliar.
Yu Tingwan had seen it in Wei Zhao's study.
Huaqing Academy was founded by Gu Taifu after he returned to Beijing to take office.
The tuition was cheap, and the Gu family would spend a lot of money every year to improve the students' meals. Only poor students were accepted.
Yu Tingwan heard people mention that their daughter was weak, and Gu Taifu did all this to support the poor children and to bring blessings to his daughter and ensure a smooth life.
She didn't have too many waves in her heart and followed Gu Fuju out of the carriage.
Seeing that she was looking at the words on the plaque, Gu Fuju said.
"It was written by Shunguogong." It's
hard for poor families to have noble sons. First, it costs money, and too few people persist. Second, there is a lack of resources, so there are very few who can make the list in the imperial examinations.
Poor people know that everything is inferior except for reading. However, because there are so few people, not many families are willing to risk losing all their money and tighten their belts to support a scholar. In
such a vicious cycle, there are even fewer people from poor families who study.
Gu Fuju knows how difficult it is.
He had not yet become a tutor, and Huaqing Academy was not as big as it is now. It was just a small school. Many officials poured cold water on him, saying that he was young and arrogant, and married Princess Jiashan with some talent, so he didn't know how high the sky was and how deep the earth was. How many scholars could a small school cultivate?
Until the plaque written by Shunguo Duke Wei Fengxing was sent to show support, everyone was completely shut up.
"His father is of high character and has a good relationship with me. His son..."
Gu Fuju didn't want to say anything more and led her inside.
Huaqing Academy is very large.
There are towering green trees inside, and strange grass and fairy vines penetrate the stones and wrap around the eaves, which is very elegant.
The students coming and going were all wearing blue shirts, holding books in their hands. When they saw this from afar, they did not come over to greet them, but bowed respectfully and solemnly.
Following the winding corridor, walking a few more steps along the corridor, gradually heading north is the study, and Gu Fuju pushed the door open and entered. He asked Yu Tingwan to sit down at the coffee table in front of the window.
On the coffee table was a family tree.
It was open.
As soon as Yu Tingwan sat down, her sharp eyes caught a familiar name.
Gu Fuju and Jiashan.
Below their names.
It was Gu Wu, and below Gu Wu was a string of slightly smaller characters, "adopted daughter. "
Yu Tingwan's gaze froze for a moment, and she looked to the side of her seat, where there was a name she didn't recognize.
The small characters below were "legitimate daughter.
" "Gu Qingying, this is the name your mother and I decided on before you were born. Huaqing Academy is named after you."
Gu Fuju sat down, looked outside, and slowly spoke.
"That year, the new emperor ascended the throne, and the Yanwang Mansion was exiled. The aristocratic officials who supported the Yanwang Mansion were headed by Old Master Lu. Old Master Lu was beaten to death as a warning to consolidate the emperor's prestige. All officials in Shangjing City wanted to protect themselves, and your grandfather had supported the Yanwang. In order to avoid the limelight, and because I had been sitting on the bench in the Censorate and offended many people, it was better to retreat than to persist. Sometimes retreat is also a kind of attack. He discussed with me for many days."
"Later, I went to Dingdu to take up my post. Your mother was pregnant with you at that time. It is a desolate place. It will pass through Ze County, but it will take another half a month to walk. I couldn't bear to let her suffer with her. Your uncle was sent elsewhere by your grandfather, and your mother was sent to Xianyang, the hometown of the He family."
Although Dingdu is desolate, there is a lot of work to be done. After he settles down and the Yanwang incident is over, he can go back if he makes achievements in time.
Yu Tingwan was confused.
"Why did the He family support the Prince of Yan?
Why not the current emperor?" Didn't the Queen Mother marry into the He family?
Gu Fuju said in a gentle voice: "The Prince of Yan is more suitable to sit on the throne, and he is also the prince that the late emperor values the most. "
The He family discussed the matter at hand and did not have big ambitions.
"Besides, the emperor is not the Queen Mother's biological son."
"His biological mother died early, and the late emperor saw that he was too young, so he sent him to be raised under the name of the Queen Mother."
The prince in the palace is not young anymore, and he is not a simple child outside.
He already knew who his biological mother was.
Yu Tingwan: ...
Oh no.
Gu Fuju said solemnly, "Among the people I offended, there was Duke Zhou." He
said he offended, but it was just that when the previous emperor was in power, he followed the law and reported to the court that Duke Zhou's brother was cruel and had killed six people.
But Duke Zhou covered up the matter with one hand, and the victim's family came to the door, and he waved his hand and dragged them to the mass grave and buried them alive.
The people in the Censorate got benefits and pretended to be deaf and dumb, and dared not to report.
He reported.
But the result was not life for life.
The lives of the sons of noble families are precious, and the lives of the common people are cheap.
When the previous emperor learned about this, he took it lightly. He gave the Zhou family twenty boards to set an example.
Only then did Gu Fuju know that the court he worked so hard to get into was nothing more than this.
"I was far away in Dingdu at the time, and I was protected by your grandfather's confidants who were sent to the martial arts competition, but I was still seriously injured by the conspiracy, and the news was sent to your mother in Xianyang by someone with ulterior motives."
How could Jiashan not be anxious? Not going? There was no one around who could make decisions for her.
But she was seven months pregnant and it was very inconvenient. In the end, she was thoughtful and brought a group of slaves, and many servants who were good at martial arts followed her.
"But the news was blocked. The famine in the four cities near Ze County was kept secret from everyone for a long time and broke out completely. The victims made trouble."
It would be fine if they were all real victims, but there happened to be people from Duke Zhou among them.
Duke Zhou supported Emperor Ying Qian, and his daughter was the current queen. At that time, the He family showed weakness to the new emperor, and Duke Zhou was very proud.
This was a warning to Gu Fuju and the He family.
"Your mother was hit and bled on the spot. She gave birth to you prematurely in a dilapidated temple."
"But she was weak and fainted after giving birth to you. She didn't see you. The temple was broken into by the victims and there was chaos. When she woke up, you were gone."
There were also people from Gu Fuju in Xianyang. When they learned that Jiashan had left Xianyang, they secretly thought it was not good. How could they not see the tricks that were linked together?
He rushed there without caring about his injuries. He was in Ze County, but the child was lost. Jiashan almost went crazy.
Gu Fuju said in a difficult tone: "It was a chaotic situation at that time. I had limited ability and could not find you anyway."
"Finally, I found a bloody corner of clothes in the forest where wild wolves were roaming."
The newborn child was delicate, and the corner of the clothes was torn from Jiashan's petticoat to wrap the child.
The corner of the clothes was still stained with mud.
Gu Fuju recognized it at that time and his eyes went dark. He was already seriously injured and spit out blood.
"But for some reason, I don't want to believe that you are dead."
So, he went to Ze County every year.
Year after year, his skills became stronger.
He was like a rising star, sitting on the throne of the current Taifu, enough to compete with Duke Zhou, and even step on him.
But Gu Fuju didn't.
"He made me lose you."
"I destroyed the person he valued most."
Gu Fuju also wanted Duke Zhou to taste the taste of loss and let the Zhou family survive step by step.
"The late Duke Zhou's son Zhou Xuan fell from a tall building due to excessive drinking and broke half of his leg."
None of the descendants of the Zhou family were outstanding. Need I say who Duke Zhou cared about the most?
He cared about power, and his grandson, the queen's son, the crown prince who had died.
But the crown prince was not dead at that time.
"The crown prince is weak, and it is a problem he has had since his mother's womb. If he is well taken care of, he will not get worse."
Gu Fuju: "It was me."
In fact, he was not so upright.
It was okay to bully him, but not his wife and daughter.
"Later, the queen became pregnant again, and she miscarried just five days after the pulse was checked. It was also my fault."
Yu Tingwan heard him forbearing.
"But Daddy, I still couldn't find my Qingying."
The truth will be revealed tomorrow
(end of this chapter)
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