Chapter 425: The City is Humiliated
Gu Ruinian lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling in a daze.
The experience in Fucheng was like a dream.
He didn't understand why things were completely different from what he had imagined, and what went wrong.
Didn't God let him travel here so that he could become a troublemaker of this era?
I thought that this time when I went to the capital, I would not only be able to win the favor of the top prostitute in the brothel with my "talent", but also catch the eye of the dean of Wanliu Academy and become a student of Wanliu Academy.
I didn't expect to get nothing in return except a bruised face.
That Third Young Master Xie was really cruel. He came here with the intention of destroying his face.
He endured great pain and took the exam for three days. His mind was confused and out of control, and he couldn't even understand some of the questions.
He only knew that he had finished writing the questions, but he didn't know whether he could pass the examination and become a scholar.
He no longer had any hope of getting the top spot and only hoped that he could pass the exam.
He lay in bed for a day and a night.
The whole family was worried.
The door creaked open and Grandpa Gu and others rushed in.
Gu Ruinian wanted to hide his head in the quilt, but Jia hugged him and started crying loudly.
Gu Ruinian felt upset for a while.
"My son, my son, what happened to your face?" Jia asked crying.
Gu Ruinian returned home yesterday and took off his veil. When Mr. Gu and others saw the wounds on his face, they were shocked. No matter how they questioned him, he refused to answer. Finally, he simply went into the house, lay on the bed and fell asleep.
"Your brother has already invited a doctor for you." Jia cried.
Gu Ruinian shouted, "Don't call the doctor. Don't call the doctor."
Aren’t you ashamed?
Old Mrs. Gu came to Gu Ruinian's bedside tremblingly, tears streaming down her face, "Ruinian, what happened to your face? Is it Jingzhe's doing?"
Gu Ruinian gritted his teeth. He really wished that it was Gu Jingzhe who did it.
This time, he was greatly embarrassed in front of Gu Jingzhe, his reputation in the city was ruined, he performed poorly in the exam, and was forced to accept help from Gu Dashu and Gu Jingzhe.
Gu Ruinian felt extremely humiliated when he thought of Third Master Xie saying to Gu Dashu, "I didn't do anything to him just for your sake."
I'm afraid everyone in the big house already knows about it and is laughing at him.
Seeing that Gu Ruinian didn't say anything, Old Man Gu took action personally.
"Ruinian, what happened to you in the city? You have to tell me. Our whole family has been worried and hasn't slept all night. Can you bear to let your grandparents worry about you at their age?" Old Man Gu said with a serious face.
Gu Ruinian's eyelids moved, and he finally spoke, saying lightly: "Grandpa, my face was scarred when the hired carriage hit a pedestrian on the way to the exam that day. The carriage flipped over and I fell out..."
What's the point of telling his family about the humiliation in the capital? They can't make the decision for him.
What's more, he didn't want his family to laugh at him.
You can only swallow it and take revenge later.
"Which damn carriage... made my son suffer so much." Jia cried.
"They must have known that my son could take the first place in the case, and since they couldn't win the fight openly, they attacked him secretly."
Jia expressed everyone’s thoughts.
Mr. Gu and Mrs. Gu looked distressed.
Wei stood at the door with an indifferent look on his face.
"Did it delay the exam?" Gu Youtian asked with a gloomy face.
Gu Ruinian felt extremely disappointed after hearing this. This cheap father didn't care about his injury at all, but only cared about his test scores.
Gu Ruinian didn't even look at Gu Youtian, and said calmly: "There was no delay."
Jia cried bitterly, "My son, you have suffered so much."
Old Mrs. Gu and Gu Xiaoxue also started crying.
Old Man Gu had a mixed feeling on his face.
Gu Youtian breathed a sigh of relief, as he thought his son had missed the exam.
He had already planned to hold a banquet for Gu Ruinian to be a scholar and use the money collected to do business. If his son failed the exam, his plan would fail.
Jia and Old Lady Gu cried for a while, then touched Gu Ruinian's body and found no injuries, and started crying again.
Although Gu Ruinian's face is not as good-looking as Gu Jingzhe, he is also a handsome young man. How can he talk about his wife if his face is ruined?
Even if you become an official in the future, you will not be able to catch the emperor's eye if you are too ugly.
"Grandma, Mom, stop crying, my face is fine." Gu Jingzhe was upset, but the two old women kept crying.
Old Mrs. Gu and Mrs. Jia just kept crying.
"I'm hungry." Gu Ruinian used his trump card.
Sure enough, when Jia heard that her son was hungry, she quickly stood up and went to cook for him.
The chicken, fish, meat and eggs I bought yesterday are still left for Gu Ruinian.
Old Mrs. Gu gradually stopped crying.
"Ruinian, how did you do in the exam? Are you confident you can pass this time?" Gu Youtian asked.
Old Man Gu and Old Lady Gu Honglian all stared at him, their eyes full of hope.
Gu Ruinian felt like he couldn't breathe.
Can't tell the truth.
Gu Ruinian continued calmly, "The test was OK."
Gu Youtian nodded and said, "That's good! Let your mother take good care of you."
There was joy in the eyes and brows of Mr. Gu and Mrs. Gu.
This grandson has always been steady.
He had this attitude and expression when he took the examination for the title of Tongsheng. There is no doubt that Ruinian would not have said this if he was not sure.
Maybe I can get the first place in the case.
"Ruinian, you should have a good rest. You still need to see a doctor for your face." said Mr. Gu.
Old Man Gu stood up and planned to borrow five taels of silver from the clan leader.
This time, Gu Ruinian spent all the family's money on his trip to the provincial capital to take the exam.
When the time comes, the people who come to announce the good news from the county will have to give out wedding money, and they will have to buy candies and melon seeds to give out to the people who are congratulating them. They will also have to set up a banquet to entertain guests, and when the time comes, the people from the clan, the head of Qinghewan Village, the head of Yanguan Town, and other prominent people will have to be invited... All of these will require money.
Mr. Gu is not afraid of borrowing money, but he is afraid that his descendants will have no future.
Once Ruinian becomes famous as a scholar, I'm afraid everyone in the clan will rush to lend him money.
"You take a rest, I'm going to the clan leader." Grandpa Gu said before leaving.
Gu Ruinian clenched his fingers.
He could also guess that Grandpa Gu was going to the tribe to report his test results to the tribe leader.
He knew that his grandfather and the clan leader hoped that he would win the fight with Gu Jingzhe so that he could become the leader of his generation in the Gu family.
Gu Jingzhe, you are such a good Gu Jingzhe.
Gu Ruinian thought of Gu Jingzhe.
When Gu Jingzhe learned the reason why he was beaten, he severely reprimanded him, saying that he was not worthy of being a descendant of the Gu family, that he had failed to live up to the expectations of the clan, and that he had brought shame to the students of Yanguan Town...
He held his breath and begged Gu Jingzhe not to tell his family about what happened in the capital, or at least to keep it secret from Grandpa Gu and others.
The humiliation of Qiu Gu Jingzhe was far greater than the humiliation of being beaten by the third master Xie.
What made him even more indignant was that a girl as beautiful as a fairy came to visit Gu Jingzhe. The girl looked at Gu Jingzhe with eyes that were not those of a lover. He was so angry that he ate shit on the live broadcast.
Later he found out that the girl was Lu Zhaozhao, the daughter of the imperial merchant Lu family in the city, and her brother was a talented scholar from Wanliu Academy, who had just gone to Beijing to take the imperial examination this spring.
How lucky was Gu Jingzhe to catch the eye of the daughter of the Lu family.
He hated Gu Jingzhe to death.
Only a modern man like him who is knowledgeable and tactful can be worthy of a fairy like Lu Zhaozhao.
How could an old man like Gu Jingzhe, who was old-fashioned, boring and only knew how to read, be worthy of Lu Zhaozhao.
Gu Jingzhe, Tianxianglou, Xianxian, and Third Master Xie, he will take revenge on these people sooner or later.