The high-ranking disciples who had close contact with Xie Lanan were all shocked, thinking that this boy had made a huge joke on them.
Others who were not close to Xie Lanan in the past, after being shocked, looked at these children of the aristocratic family with gloating, as if asking them if they had known the clues.
Among them, the one who was looked at the most was the young master of the Xi family who claimed to be the most virtuous.
Xi Fu dug his nails into his palms and said nothing, his eyes coldly locked on Xie Lanan's face.
After the girls were stunned, their hearts were even more broken. God knows that they had dressed up carefully that day, and not even half but three of them were here for the husband of the Xie family. Who would have thought that once the other party changed her appearance, she would take over all the beautiful scenery of Xuanwu Lake.
The person more beautiful than them is the person they once loved with all their heart. Is there anything more heartbreaking than this in the world?
"Mr. Xie." In the chaos, the head of the Wang family was the first to break the silence and asked Xie Zhiqiu with a stern face, "Shouldn't I explain?"
Xie Zhiqiu's surprise was not lost on everyone. He turned his gaze stiffly, and Xie Lan'an had already responded: "The Lord has asked about it. Even my second uncle and the elder of the clan don't know about it. Ask him, how could he know?"
A flash of light flashed in Xie Yan's eyes. He couldn't care less about the disrespect this neither man nor woman showed to his father, and thought to himself: Here's the chance to feel proud!
His cousin Xie Lanan, who always overwhelms him, is actually a woman, haha, it’s really his own fault! In this way, the Dafang lineage is considered useless, and the second uncle is not in Beijing. Will the power of the Xie family fall into the hands of his father?
He expressed his joy, but was held down by Mr. Xie, who knew his son as his father.
Wang Xie is the leader of the Jinling family, and the heads of the powerful families in front of them are all smiling like tigers. Maybe they secretly want to take the opportunity to drag the Xie family into trouble.
It is one thing that Xie Zhiqiu wants to suppress Dafang, but if he adds insult to injury to Xie Lanan at this time and allows other aristocratic families to take advantage of the opportunity to criticize the Xie family, it will be tantamount to digging for their own foundation.
Xie Zhiqiu was so angry that he had nowhere to vent his anger. He had to maintain his dignity on his face and almost broke his molars: "Xie Lan'an, come back with me -"
Xie Lan'an didn't even look at him. He looked around with his cold eyes, locked eyes on one person, and walked towards a peach tree in the distance.
Wherever she passed, people whispering on both sides involuntarily stepped back to make way.
Some people discovered belatedly that the unapproachable aura of Xie Lan'an, a person who had a great reputation before today, did not disappear because she changed her dress, but seemed to become stronger.
The celestial fairy spirit in her movements was clearly that of a man, falling on the muscles and bones of the phoenix hairpin in a rosy skirt, like a spark falling into the glacier.
The fire has not been extinguished and the ice has not yet melted, but they blend into a heroic look of strength and softness.
An elegant scholar who lived in the mountains and was famous for being a painting enthusiast couldn't help but stare at it, but he saw that the young girl's eyebrows had not been trimmed at all, and her temples were still a neat stroke. His eyes were clear and cold, and his unintentional glances were like the cool stones at the bottom of a small stone pond.
No one knew what Xie Lanan was going to do.
Under the peach tree, Chu Qingyuan, who was wearing a green shirt, was also stunned until Xie Lanan stopped in front of him.
Xie Lanan raised his head and looked at him.
Youthful, clean-cut, with a hint of well-hidden confusion - this kind of Chu Qingyuan was different from the ruthless guy she saw before her death. It had been a long time coming.
She glanced casually, and Chu Qingyuan's heartbeat stopped for a beat.
A voice as low and smooth as sand sounded in his ears, as if it was twitching his heart: "What's your name and how old are you this year?"
There was low discussion behind the two people:
"Has Xie Lan'an lost his mind and gone crazy?"
"What does this mean? After her identity was exposed, she immediately went to find this humble boy. Could it be that they..."
"A noble girl who has deceived the world, and a shabby scholar. Oh, there is something strange about the Xie family in Chen County."
Xie Lanan turned a deaf ear to this, staring at Chu Qingyuan with a pair of glass-like eyes, clear and casual.
The elegant young man in plain clothes seemed unable to bear the gaze of his eyes. He took half a step back hastily, hesitantly announced his name, and whispered: "Twenty-five years old."
Xie Lanan narrowed his eyes: "Twenty-five is a good age. Many people do not live to be twenty-five."
Chu Qingyuan couldn't understand her words and tightened her palms slightly.
He had recited the poems of the head of the Xie family, and was also fortunate enough to listen to his music from afar. Chu Qingyuan prides himself on his talent and refuses to live in a well for the rest of his life. He only lacks an opportunity, but he is unwilling to throw himself into the master casually and risk his life.
The official position of a county official was a good job for his unambitious classmates, but it was nothing short of an insult to him. The person Chu Qingyuan wants to follow must have real talent and virtue, and be able to convince him verbally and emotionally.
Xie Lanan is such a person.
It doesn't matter if he is younger than him. Only a person with such a graceful appearance and a bright and beautiful appearance is worthy of him being willing to bow down.
For today's opportunity, Chu Qingyuan had been preparing for a long time, hoping to win Xie Langjun's favor with his talents... Before he came, he had imagined all the consequences, but he did not expect that he would get the favor under the most wrong circumstances. got the best result.
Because he knew that it was definitely not a good thing for Xie Lanan to reveal her identity. She was a woman, and she was a woman who had committed a huge taboo. After today, her status in Jinling would plummet.
But she didn't answer anyone and only asked herself. Then her career in this life was over.
Chu Qingyuan's face turned pale, and she felt panic after realizing it.
He didn't even understand why.
Xie Lanan was slightly aware of Chu Qingyuan's calculation of gains and losses, and sneered secretly. As expected of the person she had chosen, he was smart and perceptive.
Just like in the previous life, she never revealed her identity as a woman to Chu Qingyuan. It was him who found out the clues from every moment they got along.
But ask yourself, during the six years of getting along day and night, those spring mornings when they played the violin, the moonlight nights when they held candles and held candles, or the dizziness on their cheeks when they drank with him, and the occasional loose collar... was she inadvertently condoning it? Was he discovered by this exquisite husband? because.
She is so lonely.
Facts have proved that her loneliness is foolish and her trust is worthless. I still remember that before Chu Qingyuan revealed her identity to Xie, she had already taken advantage of the young emperor's trust to transfer her friends who might help her out of the capital, leaving her isolated and helpless.
Otherwise, no matter how bad her behavior is, she will never be able to make a close friend.
At that time, the capital was vigorously searching for the remnants of the relatives. She, a fake woman disguised as a man, was in the same line as Empress Dowager Yu's hen Si Chen. Therefore, as soon as Empress Dowager Yu died, those Qingliu people who were not satisfied with scolding seized her as the next Crusade target.
No one dares to have anything to do with her when it brings disaster to the family.
In the end, Xie Lanan, still wrapped in the cold rain-wet clothes, returned to Chu Qingyuan's outer house, carrying a jar of wine in his hand.
She paid for him to buy this expensive mansion in Qingxi.
The lights in Chu's house were full of lights, and it seemed that Chu Qingyuan knew that she had nowhere to go but here, and was already waiting for her.
Xie Lanan's face was as pale as snow and his expression was dull. He walked into the room and poured out two glasses of wine.
"You were taught by me. I fell into your hands. I have to admit it even if I don't admit it. After drinking this glass of wine, all grudges will be gone. You give me a way out."
Chu Qingyuan was a few tables away from her, with a calm look on her face. She carefully admired the woman's face under the lamp without glancing at the wine glass from beginning to end.
After seeing enough, he said with a smile: "Alan, you also said that you taught Qingyuan, how could you drink it knowingly that it was poisonous wine?"
Xie Lanan's eyes changed, and the light in his eyes gradually went out. "That's right, that's right... We're just one move away, and we're cornered. What's the point of not dying?"
After that, she grabbed the two glasses of wine and poured them down her throat.
Chu Qingyuan didn't expect her to be so strong, and lost her mind for a moment. He rushed over and hugged her body, "Alan, I didn't want you to die, why bother-"
A pool of blood spurted out from his neck.
What pierced his throat was the hairpin hidden in Xie Lanan's sleeve. She only had one chance, and the woman who had never killed anyone in her life took action.
She is as smart as Chu Qingyuan, but she doesn't want to think about it. There is no one in the city who dares to help her. Where can she get the poison?
"The real poison is not in the wine, but in the human heart. If you betray me, how can I make it easier for you even if I die?"
After doing this, Xie Lanan slowly wiped away the greasy blood on his hands, knowing that he had nowhere to escape and was determined to die. But at this moment, a group of people suddenly broke into Chu's house with weapons, but it was He Xian, a descendant of the He family.
The He family and the Yu family of the Empress Dowager's mother's family have been related by marriage for generations, and their interests are intertwined. This is the focus of this purge of foreign relatives and gang members.
Xie Lan'an didn't have a close relationship with He Xian. The few impressions she had of him was that he once asked her for a painting after being introduced by someone else, and he was still nervous when talking to her.
The former shy man's body was no less bloody than Xie Lan'an's. He wiped his face, pulled her away and ran away, hissing with tears: "My father and my son have spent their lives studying and keeping to themselves. They have never touched the glory of our family, but they have suffered from those people." We are going to ransack our home. What have we done wrong? Why did we kill my father when he asked me to kill him? I will help you escape. No matter you are a man or a woman, you are an extraordinary person. You may go to Xifu to join the army, or you may go into the mountains. As long as the fallen bandits are still breathing, they will eventually come back to take revenge!"
But before the two of them could break out of the city gate, the Yulin Guards quickly pursued them. He Xian took her and barely escaped to the outskirts of the city, but all the servants he brought out were killed or injured in the fight.
In the end, He Xian used his body to block Xie Lanan from the blade of a lieutenant general. His mouth was filled with blood, and he still said: "Run quickly..."
His family was ruined, and hers was also ruined.
He did not die for Xie Lanan, but because he wanted someone as capable as her to one day avenge his innocent father.
Xie Lanan fled to a cliff in Falling Star Ruins, but was still caught up by the Yulin Guards. There was a cold moon and cold stars above her head, and the road under her feet was cut off. She was finally unable to turn around.
Instead of being taken back to jail and put on trial, where he might even become a plaything of the rich and powerful, Xie Lanan closed his eyes and jumped down, shattering into pieces.
Unexpectedly, her soul lingered after her death and actually turned into a ray of spirit, wandering in the netherworld where there is neither yin nor yang.
At the beginning, Xie Lanan was full of resentment and unwillingness... Then year after year, she witnessed the young emperor without the Queen Mother's control. She thought she could flex her muscles, but in the end, she was quickly counterattacked by the snobbery of the family and became a puppet again. The vassal king took the opportunity to raise troops; and Daxuan's change in Empress Dowager Yu led to a large-scale invasion of the south by the barbarians from the north.
Kyushu has since fallen into war.
The people in the south of the Yangtze River have been reduced to two-legged sheep, selling their wives and daughters for porridge, exchanging their children to eat each other, their pillows and bones scattered across the fields, and their bones thousands of miles apart.
She is not in hell, it is hell in front of her, but she can only watch the country in devastation and can do nothing.
Have you been wandering like this in confusion for decades, or hundreds of years?
"Liar! You are a big liar! Don't you have any shame!"
"Are you really a girl?"
Two questioning voices from a man and a woman rang out from Youyuan at the same time, interrupting Xie Lanan's trance.
She blinked her eyelashes and walked out with her back to Chu Qingyuan, never giving him another look.
Revenge is very simple, a matter of one knife. In the previous life, she stabbed him to death with a hairpin because she didn't have enough time and it was too cheap for him. This time, she had enough time to make this wolf cub's life worse than death.
Chu Qingyuan looked at the back with a feeling of loss.
Xie Lanan took a few glances into the crowd, but found no trace of He Xian, thinking that he had never come that day. She didn't explain anything to Xi Fu who questioned her, but turned to look at Princess Ancheng who was about to cry.
Facing those red eyes, Xie Lan paused and said, "I'm sorry."
A woman loves someone with all her heart and soul, and her love is so precious. In the past, she was admired by these girls, and she always felt guilty. She owed this apology to them.
But shameless?
Xie Lanan recalled that when the Beihu came to invade, those celebrities and gentlemen who usually talked a lot ran around with their families. They did not want to defend the enemy, but they still wanted to take refuge further south in Lingnan, causing the loss of great rivers and mountains. He sneered and glanced at these illustrious and brilliant people. The minister:
"If the way of the world allows a woman to run a house and be the same as a man, why should I do this? Since the people who make such rules are not ashamed, why should I be ashamed?"
Wang Dao really couldn't bear it anymore. His previous appreciation for this son was gone. "You are an arrogant boy who goes against the yin and yang. How dare you make such arrogant remarks!"
In the past, everyone was willing to support Xie Lan'an because "he" was the proud son of heaven. They, the famous elders, were listed as the head of a powerful family with a weak and talented man. It was a beautiful talk of magnanimity and tolerance for future generations.
But Xie Lan'an has become a prostitute, and if he is to be as famous as a woman, wouldn't it be a shame to lose his face!
The head of the Wang family made the first move, and those who were jealous of Xie Lanan in the past took advantage of the opportunity and started to echo:
"That's right, you deceived the world and caused chaos in Jiangzuo. It's a crime that cannot be punished!"
There is also someone who has a sudden change of heart and is eager to cut ties with Xie Lan'an to protect his reputation: "I didn't know people well in the past, so I was deceived by you. You have occupied the title of Yaguan for many years, and you want to be judged. You are the master of both piano and calligraphy. You How to match it?"
There were also people who hesitated to say something for Xie Lanan, but could not open their mouths in the face of public outrage.
Xuan Bai and Yunshuang couldn't help but glare at these people, but Xie Lanan didn't show any anger on his face.
Today there are flowers in bloom, tomorrow there will be ruins; the higher you hold it, the harder it will be stepped on. She had already experienced the hypocrisy of these people in her previous life.
"Demon chaos, Jiangzuo..." She smacked her tongue slowly for a while, finding the word interesting. "Which law do I state that women are not allowed to be in charge of a house? You put on makeup and powder, and I wear a robe, and we stand equally between heaven and earth. Why did I become a monster?"
An irrepressible look of cruelty came out of Xie Lanan's still smiling eyes. She looked around with a cold expression, "As for Yaguan's name, I never care about it. You want to strip me of the criticism, simply , I, Xie Hanling, am here, whoever is dissatisfied comes forward to compete, as long as you beat me, the number one person in Jinling tomorrow will be Your Excellency, who comes first?"
The prince's disciples who had spoken out earlier choked and looked around, looking embarrassed.
Who dares to come first... Her identity is fake, but her talent and knowledge are real.
Not to mention the clichés that Xie Lan'an learned books at the age of five and was recited at the age of six, let's just say that when she was young, the debate between Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism was prevalent in Beijing, and there were many arguments that "famous religions are not as good as nature." The second master of the Xie family joined in the fun and led his young nephew to the debate stage.
Xie Lan'an was seven years old at that time. He was a man carved in pink and jade. He listened attentively for a long time and only asked: "How many cups of water does the monk drink in a day?"
Others elevated Laozhuang Shishi to a transcendental height and highly praised him. However, this seven-year-old child only used one sentence to tell everyone that Taoist ancestors and Buddhas also had to eat, drink, and defecate, and he suddenly equated the three with daily food.
From this, the praise of "Yi Yu Xuan" spread.
And her calligraphy was even praised by Xun Jijiu himself, and she was awarded Linchi Samadhi.
In the past, the children of Jinling were all proud of losing to Xie Lanan, which meant that they were qualified to be compared with the number one husband in Jinling. But if they lose today, they don't have to wait until tomorrow, and they will become the laughing stock of the whole capital.
The reputation of Jiangzuo scholars is more important than anything else. Who dares to compare with her?
People of the same generation as Wang Daozhen and Xie Zhiqiu are even less likely to compete with this girl. Winning is not very honorable. Besides, they are sure to win. It is not necessarily true.
Xie Lanan waited for a full moment, only to see an awkward silence. No one dared to speak up.
She didn't know whether it was ridicule or disappointment in her eyes, but her whole body became colder and colder. She called Xie Yaochi: "Wu Niang, let's go back."
"spit!"
Just when Xie Lan'an was about to board the bus, a young man stood out from the crowd and laughed twice in a strange voice:
"The Xie family also has a person like you who deceives the world and steals the reputation. It is really insulting to the gentlemen. If I were you, I would hide my face and dare not go out to see others."
He thought in his heart: No one else dared to stand up, it was just when they saw my courage, it all depends on whether I can become famous in Jinling!
Xie Lanan glanced back and recalled for a moment that he was a boy from the Yixing Yuan family.
Coincidentally, in my previous life, on rainy days in Wuyi Alley, this guy was the one who scolded me the most.
She looked at Xuan Bai, and the young guard immediately understood. Everyone heard a dragon roar, and the man named Yuan suddenly screamed and fell to the ground.
The three-foot sword is unsheathed, reflecting the cold sun.
The Yuan family member covered his open mouth, blood flowed between his fingers, and he rolled on the ground in pain, whimpering miserably.
Xie Lanan's eyes didn't even raise any eyebrows, "If you don't speak human language, don't do it again in the future."
This is the most elegant spring banquet in the Southern Dynasties. I have never seen blood! The ladies retreated in panic, looking at Xie Lanan with eyes filled with fear and shock, thinking that she was crazy.
