Chapter 520 Who will be the next emperor?

Chapter 520 Who will be the next emperor?

Gu Youtian was stunned by Gu Ruinian's cold eyes.

He asked with interest: "What can you do to help the Zheng family?"

Old Master Gu added, "Ruinian, tell us why the Zheng family values ​​you. Otherwise, our whole family will always be worried about you and the Zheng family's revenge."

Is it because Gu Ruinian will study hard and be protected so that he can become the Zheng family's official helper?

If that's the case, they have no reason to hurt Ruinian.

Old Master Gu really couldn't think of anything his grandson could do to help the Zheng family.

Gu Ruinian said: "I can write poems and articles. The second son of the Zheng family valued my talent and wanted me to help him with the imperial examination in the future."

In fact, this is not the case at all, but Gu Ruinian has to say this.

If he told the truth, Gu Youtian would probably kill him first, and Jia would then follow up by asking him to return their biological son.

Old Master Gu was stunned for a moment and said, "Helping him take the imperial examination, how dare the Zheng family do that?"

To go to Shengjing to take part in the imperial examination, one must prove one's identity. If one is found to have faked the identity, both the Zheng family and the Gu family will be implicated.

Gu Ruinian explained: "Grandpa, don't worry, it's not what you think. I know how to take exams and predict the test questions. I help predict the test questions for Mr. Zheng Er when he is studying."

"You know how to predict the topic, so why didn't you pass the exam?"

Gu Youtian sneered. He had long given up hope that his son would be able to study, but he decided not to care about Gu Ruinian's affairs anymore. He told Gu Ruinian viciously that as long as he didn't bring trouble to the family, he could do whatever he wanted.

If he brings trouble to the family, he will immediately go back to Qinghewan and open an ancestral temple to sever the father-son relationship.

Gu Ruinian said calmly: "I said that I was delayed when I was taking the exam for the scholar because I was hit by a carriage."

Mr. Gu thought about it over and over again, and felt that something was wrong.

When I wanted to ask Gu Ruinian again, he just kept silent.

Old Man Gu decided to take Ruinian back to Qinghe Bay when he felt better, as they could no longer stay in Pingchuan County.

Jia did not agree with Gu Ruinian helping the second young master Zheng. She cried and said that the Zheng family ruined Gu Ruinian and that Gu Ruinian should not help the second young master Zheng.

"Xu Zaohua is such a whore, why doesn't the thunder strike her?"

Old Mrs. Gu joined in scolding Xu Zaohua.

Gu Ruinian listened coldly. He and Xu Zaohua were innocent. The Zheng family didn't believe it, his own family didn't believe it, and no one in the whole city believed it.

He didn't intend to explain to his family.

explain what?

Explain that he coveted the Second Miss Lian and was tricked by her?

The explanation is that he was too stupid and fell for Miss Lian Er’s trick?

Whenever he thought about what happened that day, the humiliation kept crushing him like a wheel.

Of course Xu Zaohua was not innocent either. It was Xu Zaohua who took the initiative to deceive him. If Xu Zaohua had not been so stupid as to plot against Gu Taohua, he might not have been able to fall into the trap of the Second Miss Lian so easily.

Gu Ruinian said coldly to Jia: "Mom, I want to rest."

The only person Gu Ruinian has feelings for in this family is Jia, because only Jia loves him wholeheartedly.

Today he was also disappointed with Jia. When Jia learned that his leg was broken, she was more concerned than whether he had suffered serious injuries, but that he had lost the qualifications to be an official.

It turns out that in Jia's heart, only a healthy son who can study and win an imperial edict for her is a good son.

So, from now on, this home is just a place for him to live, and he will not have any feelings or expectations for anyone in this home.

Gu Youtian, along with Old Man Gu and the rest of the family, lived in the Wu family's warehouse. The warehouse had three rooms, two of which were filled with goods, so the entire Gu family squeezed into one.

There was only one bed, and usually, Old Lady Gu and Gu Honglian slept on it, while everyone else slept on the floor.

Now that Gu Ruinian's leg is injured, it is difficult for him to move in bed, so everyone else has to sleep on the floor.

Old Mrs. Gu, together with Wei and Gu Xiaoxue, spread the rolled up bedding on the ground, unrolled the quilt, and then turned off the lights.

Sighs were heard one after another, and Grandpa Gu and others tossed and turned when they thought of Gu Ruinian.

Gu Ruinian opened a pair of eyes full of hatred in the darkness.

These days he has been living a life worse than death in the Zheng family's cellar.

The Zheng family did not torture him physically, but only used water torture and kept a light on him to prevent him from sleeping.

At the beginning, he repeatedly emphasized that he had no affair with Xu Zaohua, and revealed his desire for Miss Lian Er, and the plans of Xu Zaohua and Mr. Lian Er.

The second son of Zheng asked him with a sneer, now the whole city is talking about him and Xu Zaohua having an affair, who would care about the truth?

The second young master Zheng said that he was originally going to marry the second young lady Lian, but he and Xu Zaohua ruined his marriage, so from his point of view, Gu Ruinian had to die both publicly and privately.

Gu Ruinian endured two days in the cellar, but finally couldn't bear it anymore and shouted that he was a person from later times who traveled through time and space and he knew everything about the future.

At first, Mr. Zheng thought it was too absurd. No matter how they gave him water, injections and sleep deprivation, he insisted that he was a time traveler from the future and knew many things that people of this era did not know.

Only then did the second master Zheng become interested in him.

In order to prove that he was indeed from later times, he described the currency, shopping malls, computers, mobile phones, cars, airplanes, high-speed trains, etc. from later times to Mr. Zheng Er, and even drew them.

After reading it, the second son of Zheng had a gloomy look in his eyes, and turned to ask him, since you came from the future, do you know who the next emperor will be?

People in later generations had to study history in school just like they do in this era. They needed to know in advance who the next emperor would be.

Gu Ruinian was confused.

The Dasheng of this era never appeared in history books, and he had never heard of the current emperor of Dasheng. From the moment he arrived in this era, he knew that he had traveled to a fictional era.

He was initially delighted by this realization, for it meant that he could plagiarize the writings of the ancients, who shone with the brilliance of human thought, and use them for his own purposes.

But now the second master Zheng asked him who would be the next emperor?

How could he know the next emperor? He doesn't even know how the current emperor ascended to the throne.

A light bulb suddenly lit up in his mind. When he was studying in the south, his teacher mentioned indignantly that the emperor favored the third prince born to his childhood sweetheart, the imperial concubine, and had always wanted to make the third prince the crown prince. Since the eldest prince was the eldest and the eldest son, in the end, at the collective request of court officials, the eldest prince was made the crown prince and the third prince was made Prince of Ning.

After the emperor compromised and made the eldest prince the crown prince, he was always dissatisfied with the crown prince. It was not until the crown prince was twelve years old that he left home to study after repeated persuasion from his ministers.

Last year, the crown prince was executed for treason.

According to Gu Ruinian, the second and fourth princes died shortly after birth. Now the emperor only has the third prince, Prince Ning, and the fifth prince. Since the fifth prince was born to a palace maid, he is fifteen years old this year and has not yet been crowned king.

He didn't know the rest of the inside story.

His teacher also read about the crown prince's execution in the newspaper and got the information second-hand from other people's gossip.

So Gu Ruinian thought about it, took a gamble and said, "It's the fifth prince."

This answer was beyond the expectations of Mr. Zheng Er.

When they were discussing Shengjing affairs at Wanliu Academy, no one took the Fifth Prince seriously.

The second son of Zheng asked people to continue to feed Gu Ruinian water, and asked as he did so: "If you dare to lie, you will never get out alive. Tell me, is what you said true?"