Chapter 377 Stupid Unlucky Guy
The noble ladies were busy trying to find out Gu Xixi's identity and background.
He didn't even have time to drink the appetizer tea on the table.
Dou Rongsan sat in an inconspicuous corner, biting a piece of basil peach preserves in her mouth, and snorted coldly from time to time.
These idiots!
They guessed that she was some county lady from Jiangnan or a princess who had returned from her fiefdom.
When they find out Gu Xixi's true background, they will be shocked!
(Dou Rongshan seems to have forgotten that she was once one of the fools)
He Jinglan glanced around and said in a raised voice, "Thank you all for coming to the banquet."
"Before we drink together, I would like to introduce this good friend of mine."
She wanted to introduce Gu Xixi, and there was no need to wait for others to come and ask, she had to do it openly.
The women's seats suddenly became quiet, and everyone stared upwards.
Gu Xixi looked at He Jinglan with a smile and said, "Let me say it myself. It's just a few words."
He Jinglan said yes with a smile.
So Gu Xixi gave a brief self-introduction, including where she came from, what her family did, and what she did.
She finished her three sentences quickly.
The hall was dead silent.
It was like she needed time to make sure she was not joking.
Although there was no way of knowing what everyone was thinking, several ladies had already expressed their undisguised contempt.
"A peasant girl? Or a peasant girl from the northwest countryside?"
"Your livelihood is... farming?"
The woman's laughter was particularly shrill.
Someone glanced at Gu Xixi, as if he saw something dirty, and covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief.
"Oh, Miss He said she was a good friend, isn't she just teasing us?"
"The popular female prostitutes nowadays are those who go to various banquets to make jokes and join in the fun."
"I wonder how much money Miss He spent on this girl? She is pretty young."
Several noble ladies smiled softly with their hands covering their lips.
Of course, apart from them, most people present remained polite.
Dou Rongsan frowned, shook her head and sighed sympathetically.
These people are really...
Isn’t it good to be alive?
They choose to provoke people they can't afford to offend, and one move brings down a group of them.
At this time, the smile on today's hostess He Jinglan's face no longer existed.
At the men's table, An Qinghe was playing with a dagger with his head half lowered, his eyes looking like he was looking at the corpse of a wild wolf that had just been killed in the desert.
The new top scholar had an unhappy look and a gloomy expression.
The rest of the people still didn't know what was going on.
But suddenly I saw the Regent put down his teacup, and the sudden overwhelming pressure made me dare not look directly at him.
Back to the screen.
Gu Xixi gently pressed the back of He Jinglan's hand. She thought that they were just a few superficial girls and she could handle them by herself.
"Excuse me, do you look down on farmers?"
The first few ladies who started the trouble looked at each other.
A woman in pink said, "I just look down on you, so what?"
"Do you know what mismatched social status means? What kind of place is this? Who here doesn't have parents of high status? At least they are from an official family."
"Unlike you, your father is just a landowner in the village."
"No matter how gorgeously you dress today, a hen wearing phoenix feathers can never turn into a phoenix!"
He Jinglan leaned close to Gu Xixi's ear and said, "This is the daughter of Censor Zhao."
"Her father was born into a commoner family and lived in the capital for some years. He really thinks he is of noble descent and from a prominent family."
Gu Xixi smiled and looked at the pink-dressed woman, "It seems that the Lord has let you eat too much."
The pink-dressed woman frowned, "What did you say? How dare you mention His Majesty!"
Gu Xixi stared at her with a slightly cold look in her eyes, "Your Majesty values farming so much that he personally came to the city gate to guide the people in exterminating the locusts."
"After receiving orders from His Majesty, the officials of the Ministry of Revenue, led by the Minister of Revenue, have been working in the fields for half a month, working together with the farmers to eradicate the locust plague and preserve the food supply for the capital this summer."
The pink-dressed woman was stunned. "How dare a commoner like you comment on these important government affairs?!"
Gu Xixi sneered. This woman had to jump out and be the first to speak out.
Then she would not hesitate to kill the chicken to scare the monkey.
"People like you who are empty-headed, only know how to pretend to be cultured, and have nothing to do all day long, certainly don't understand the importance of farmers and food to a country."
"But I didn't expect that you were so stupid that you couldn't even understand my kind reminder."
The pink-dressed lady blushed and her eyes widened in anger. "You! How dare you speak so rudely and vulgarly!"
Gu Xixi interrupted and said coldly, "Judging by your family background, you were the first to be rude and disrespectful!"
She glanced down with a half-smile, "Now the court values farmers, but Miss Zhao hates us in every way. It seems that she is dissatisfied with the actions of His Majesty and the Ministry of Revenue."
The pink-dressed woman was horrified and speechless, "You! Don't spit blood on me."
"I...I only said you, not anyone else!"
Gu Xixi said calmly, "The Censor is a censor, and he should be honest and fair. The Censor supervises the country and speaks for the people. Could it be that Miss Zhao's ideas all come from your father's teachings?"
The several noble ladies who had been looking for trouble lowered their heads and avoided Gu Xixi's sight.
Having been influenced by it since childhood, no matter how dumb one is, one should be able to hear the hidden meaning now.
The emperor values farmers, and his followers follow his example.
Anyone who openly slanders farmers at this time would be tantamount to opposing the national policy set by Your Majesty, wouldn't that be a disguised act?
Furthermore, there are rumors that the person who proposed to kill the locusts was not someone from the court.
He Jinghui was the new Minister of Revenue appointed by the emperor.
The Ministry of Household Affairs is in charge of all agricultural affairs in the country. He Jinghui and other people in the Ministry of Household Affairs have been busy killing locusts recently.
Gu Xixi was able to live in his house and was treated as a guest of honor.
Who knows if it is not related to this matter?
The pink-dressed lady looked around and saw that no one was helping her. She became furious:
"You want to slander my father with just a few words!"
"A lowly person like you..."
At this moment, the screen in the middle fell to the ground with a loud bang.
Everyone was shocked.
I saw a bronze flying crane incense burner rolling on the ground.
He Jinghui leaned towards Mu Nanzhao and said, "This is a gift from someone else. If it breaks, you have to compensate me."
Two people stood up almost at the same time.
An Qinghe: "Open your dog eyes and see clearly. Just because you are a useless parasite, do you think you are worthy of looking down on Gu Xixi?"
Jiang Mingyuan: "He went to the He Mansion for a banquet, but he insulted the distinguished guest. Such a vulgar and stupid person came out of a family of scholars. Censor Zhao must have had good upbringing."
After they finished speaking, they looked at each other and expressed approval for each other.
When the screen fell down, the men and women could see each other.
Under everyone's gaze, Miss Zhao's face turned red as blood.
She supported herself on her maid, her body staggering.
He was judged by the new number one scholar as a "vulgar and stupid person", and the Zhao family's upbringing was also ridiculed.
From today on, she will inevitably become a laughing stock among the noble ladies in the capital, and there will be no way out.
Dou Rongsan ate the red bean pastry roll while shaking her head and sighing, this unlucky guy really deserved it!
She was the one jumping around the most happily, and the fact that Gu Xixi didn't drug her was enough to show that she was restrained.
There is also Gu Xixi's blue-eyed follower, and her cousin who just passed the imperial examination and became the top scorer.
Which one is easy to mess with!
But there is still one most... difficult to deal with character who hasn't said a word yet.
Dou Rongsan half covered her face with her sleeves and glanced at the male guests sitting opposite.
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