Han Du felt that he owed his wife too much in his previous life. He originally thought that since he came here, he had been separated by time for hundreds of years and had no chance to repay his wife. Unexpectedly, An Qing and the others looked exactly the same. How could Han Du give up so easily?
And ever since he learned that Anqing was given a marriage to Ouyang Lun, Han Du began to pay attention to Ouyang Lun. Apart from being good-looking and passing the Jinshi examination, Ouyang Lun was absolutely useless. With a little money at home, he spent all day eating, drinking, having fun, and looking for flowers with a few sour scholars. He was simply a complete lothario. Even Lao Zhu couldn't stand it and sent someone to warn him. But this Ouyang Lun was only hot for three minutes. After warning him, he was able to calm down for a few days, but as time went by, he still went his own way.
How did Lao Zhu fall in love with this guy in the first place? Could it be that he is blind?
With such a thing, how could Han Du watch An Qing marry him? Wouldn’t that mean falling into a pit of fire, suffering endless suffering, suffering endless sins, and weeping in tears for the rest of our lives?
"Isn't Ouyang Lun's family engaged in business? How did he obtain his fame?" Han Du suddenly asked. The status of merchants in Hongwu years was not high. Peasants could wear silk, yarn, silk, and cloth. However, merchants could only wear silk and cloth. They were not even allowed to participate in imperial examinations or serve as officials. of. He was a businessman in Ouyang Lun's family, so how did he obtain the title of Jinshi?
"This Gu knows," Zhu Biao patiently explained to Han Du: "Although Ouyang Lun's family is engaged in business, he has been dismissed a long time ago. His identity is not a businessman, so he can naturally participate in the imperial examination."
Han Du was speechless after hearing this. Sure enough, egoists will exist everywhere. The ancients were not fools, and they knew how to make camp. Didn't the emperor decree that businessmen should not take part in the imperial examinations or serve as officials? Then they will try their best to erase the merchant brand from their descendants. As for the service, it is only in name. His son is still his son.
Sure enough, there are policies from above and countermeasures from below.
No longer entangled in Ouyang Lun, Han Du raised his eyes and looked at Zhu Biao seriously and asked: "Can't His Highness help me in this matter?"
"Do you think Gu didn't help?" Zhu Biao shook his head and sighed, and said: "On the day you asked your father to confer marriage, just after you left, your father went to find An Qing. If Gu hadn't arrived in time, An Qing said I might be punished by my father."
Then, Zhu Biao told Han Du everything that happened that day. At the end, he looked at Han Du jokingly and said: "You are smart, you can think of such a way of sending messages. I didn't expect that the two of you secretly sent letters for so long under Gu's nose. Gu. You don’t even know yet, you are really awesome.”
Hearing An Qing explain the method of delivering letters, Han Du didn't blame him at all. Instead, Han Du breathed a sigh of relief when he learned that An Qing had not been punished, but was only banned. As for the method of delivering letters, which was highly valued by Lao Zhu and Zhu Biao, Han Du thought it was not worth it. As long as Han Du wants to, Han Du can come up with another method at any time. Morse code, find out.
"I thanked His Highness for helping An Qing. Is it true that His Highness had nothing to do?" Han Du asked Zhu Biao unwillingly. There are only two people in the world who can persuade Lao Zhu, one is Queen Ma and the other is Zhu Biao. Queen Ma and Han Du are naturally unable to talk to each other now, and the only one they can rely on is Zhu Biao.
After Zhu Biao heard this, he pondered for a while, looked at Han Du and shook his head and said: "Anqing is Gu's biological sister. You don't need to thank Gu and he will do his best to protect her. But now that the father is angry, even if Gu goes to speak for you, I'm afraid Not only will it not have any effect, but it will be self-defeating. If my father makes up his mind in a fit of anger, then there will really be no room for maneuver in the matter between you and Anqing."
Taking a deep breath, Zhu Biao patted Han Du on the shoulder and advised: "This matter must not be rushed. It must be done slowly."
Han Du listened silently, and finally nodded helplessly in agreement.
Han Du returned home and locked himself in the room. After this incident, Han Du deeply felt that he was weak and weak. If he had enough strength, how could Lao Zhu reject it the first time he heard about it? At the very least, it should be seriously considered.
Sure enough, if you are poor, don't join the crowd, and don't persuade others with gentle words. If you speak softly, no one will listen. If a person without strength speaks, no matter how loud you shout, no one will listen, and they may even think you are making noise. And for a powerful person, even if he mumbles something casually, everyone will listen carefully, for fear of missing a word.
Good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles. In just two days, the news that Han Du proposed to marry Princess Anqing spread quickly throughout the capital like a huge stone hitting the water.
People who had good intentions towards Han Du just said things like, "The gentle lady is a good gentleman," "I dare to love, I dare to hate" and so on, and they treated it as a topic for after-dinner conversation.
And those who complained about Han Du naturally sneered at Han Du. Han Du was suspended, which made them elated, and they couldn't help complaining to the emperor, why didn't Han Du be thrown into prison directly?
The most depressed person was Ouyang Lun. When he heard Han Du requesting the emperor to marry Princess Anqing, he was drinking with a few friends in a restaurant. When I heard the news, I was immediately livid with anger. He wanted to call Princess Anqing a "whore", but after all, Princess Anqing was a golden girl, and he didn't dare to really call her out. He could only hold it in his heart, which made him furious. Naturally, he vented all his anger on Han Du.
After hearing this, a scholar sitting opposite Ouyang Lun looked at Ouyang Lun in surprise and asked: "Brother Ouyang, isn't it Princess Anqing who the emperor gave you to marry? Why..."
Before the scholar could finish his sentence, the person next to him gave him a secret elbow, interrupting the rest of his words.
The man turned back, looked at the livid Ouyang Lun with a smile, and said persuadingly: "Brother Ouyang is the person whom the emperor promised to marry. Now it's just a villain's wishful thinking. Why should brother Ouyang take it to heart?"
The people next to him also came to their senses and quickly echoed: "Yes, he is just a villain. How can brother Ouyang's gentlemanly demeanor be compared to that of a mere villain?"
