Nie Qianqian's clothes were all patched. After running all day, the hair on her forehead was wet with sweat and stuck to her face. She was holding three bamboo baskets, dusty and out of place with her surroundings. Scholars coming and going could not help but look at her sideways. she.
"Who is this peasant woman? Why did she come to our Tiande Academy?"
"Looking at her outfit, it's really disgraceful."
"But this woman is really beautiful."
"Brother Wang, maybe you have fallen in love with a peasant woman. This is how you are truly degrading and polite, hahaha."
Nie Qianqian was indifferent to the looks and whispers coming and going, and walked towards Tiande Bookstore to look for Gu Xiao.
As soon as she entered the bookstore, Nie Qianqian saw Gu Xiao sitting in the corner quietly copying books. Just as she was about to walk over, she saw two students from Tiande Academy walking towards Gu Xiao ahead of him.
One of them, a fat scholar, opened the folding fan with his right hand and pretended to fan it twice. He flipped through the bookshelf with his left hand, seemingly picking out books, but in fact his eyes were always on Gu Xiao.
The fat scholar said leisurely: "Brother Fengyang, I suddenly had a thought today. Do you think the gap between people is destined by nature?"
The scholar next to him answered in a strange tone: "Of course, some people are born with a silver spoon in their mouths and are destined to have a bright career in the future, but some people are unlucky and have to work hard for five buckets of rice and make a living by copying books."
The fat scholar sneered, "Ha, the most ridiculous thing is that the latter thinks that he can change his destiny with just a little talent. It's really ridiculous, hahahaha."
The two laughed loudly, and the smile was particularly harsh in Nie Qianqian's ears.
She heard the conversation between the two people clearly. These two people were not looking for books at all. They clearly had a problem with Gu Xiao and came here deliberately to humiliate him!
She observed Gu Xiao's reaction. Most people would not be indifferent when hearing these humiliating words, but Gu Xiao seemed to have not heard their words at all. He was still sitting there quietly copying books, as if there were no waves in an ancient well. The speed and strength of writing are not affected at all.
It was as if none of this had anything to do with him.
Although Nie Qianqian and Gu Xiao didn't have a deep friendship, she was her husband-in-law, so how could she tolerate being humiliated by outsiders.
She walked over, threw the three bamboo baskets on her body to the ground, patted the dust on her hands, and said to the two of them with a certain amount of contempt and a certain amount of unruliness, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, what nonsense is this."
The two of them, who were feeling triumphant, were stunned. They looked at the ragged, gray-faced peasant woman in front of them. What was going on with those contemptuous eyes? How dare this woman from a poor farmer's family look at them like this?
Who gave her the confidence, who gave her the courage?
It's true that my uncle can bear it, but my aunt can't bear it anymore.
The fat scholar was furious on the spot. He pointed his fan at Nie Qianqian and said angrily, "Who are you, this woman? Why are you talking nonsense?"
Nie Qianqian got up high in drama, opened her mouth wide, looked at the two of them in disbelief, and said in an exaggerated tone: "Am I talking nonsense? Aren't you two?"
The fat scholar was angry and waved his paper fan at Nie Qianqian, "What do you, a woman, know?"
Nie Qianqian was most annoyed by people pointing at her in her previous life. She narrowed her eyes and moved forward with her right hand to push. The fat scholar didn't even see her movements clearly. The folding fan in her hand was already in Nie Qianqian's hand.
Nie Qianqian opened the folding fan, fanned herself, closed the fan again, turned it in her hand, and said: "It's already the beginning of autumn, and the weather is so cool. I don't know what some people are doing with fans all day long. It's really a pig's nose." Adding garlic is just pretending to be an elephant."
The fat scholar was born in heaven, but he had never had such a quarrel with anyone. His face turned red with anger, "You, you, you are a shrew, don't talk nonsense."
"I'm just a woman, so I'm just talking nonsense. But you, as students of Tiande Academy and familiar with the books of sages, why are you talking nonsense? According to what you just said, isn't it true that the imperial court selects talents not based on talent and moral character but on family background? Origin, isn't this completely different from the original intention of the imperial examination system established by the Holy One? Are you questioning..."
Before Nie Qianqian finished speaking, Gu Xiao interrupted, "Qianqian."
Nie Qianqian looked at his stern expression and knew that he would not let her speak ill of His Majesty, so she didn't say any more.
The first time I heard him call my name, I was muttering to myself, why did the word "Qianqian" come out of his mouth so well?
The scholar named Feng Yang heard her unfinished words and looked around with a guilty conscience.
"Of course that's not what we meant. Don't blame us."
Fat scholar: "What are you talking about? What is your relationship with Gu Xiao? Are you talking to him like this?"
Fengyang spoke in a longer tone, "Hey, Brother Gu usually looks at the clear wind and bright moon, but he didn't expect that he would be so confused with this country woman."
Nie Qianqian snorted, "My eyes are really dirty. Everything I see is dirty. We have a very clear relationship. I am his wife. Why, can't my wife say a few words for my husband-in-law?"
The two of them were stunned. Madam? None of them knew that Gu Xiao was married.
Nie Qianqian: "But you, what is your relationship with my husband-in-law? You come here in broad daylight to talk about people's rights and wrongs, and you have nothing to do? Is it possible that you are jealous of my husband's appearance and talent? You know that you can't even catch up with him, so you can only talk about your family background. Find a balance in this way?"
Both of their faces were a little red, and Nie Qianqian's words really hit their lungs.
"Don't be embarrassed, your appearance is determined from birth. You and I are really different, especially, ahem."
Nie Qianqian did not say any more, but looked at the fat scholar with a look of disgust and pity.
Not to mention the appearance of this fat scholar, he was so fat that Nie Qianqian looked more and more like his second senior brother.
The fat scholar was furious. He raised his eyebrows and clenched his fists tighter and tighter. He felt as if someone had kicked him hard in the chest. He was so out of breath, "What do you mean by that?!"
Nie Qianqian spread her hands: "That's what you understand."
"Since your appearance is destined to be incompetent, your talent can still catch up. If you have time to trouble my husband, you might as well use it to read more and maybe shorten the distance."
After saying this, a very light laugh came from Gu Xiao behind Nie Qianqian, and you would miss it if you didn't listen carefully.
Nie Qianqian turned around. The smile on Gu Xiao's face had faded, but the smile was still there in his eyes. Nie Qianqian blinked at him, meaning don't worry, as long as I am here, no one will dare to bully you.
Gu Xiao was slightly startled when he saw her playful blinking. After Nie Qianqian turned around, the corners of her mouth turned up slightly.
Fengyang's hands were shaking with anger: "That's nonsense! Gu Xiao, why don't you stop your wife and let her talk nonsense like this? Is this the tradition of your family?"
Gu Xiao put down the writing pen in his hand and said slowly: "Everything my wife said must be the truth. How can I stop it? Gu's family is a farmer, and the family tradition is to tell the truth."
This time it was Nie Qianqian who laughed, but she didn't care too much and laughed directly.
"It's so vulgar! It's so vulgar! It's unbecoming of a lady to be in public!"
After all, they are from a family of scholars, unlike a farming family like the Nie family. If they were Old Mrs. Nie, Nie Daqiang and others, they would have been bitches, cheap hoofs, shameless things, etc., and they would have used dirty words.
Nie Qianqian sighed in her heart, quarrels must be cured by the country, and their words are really not painful to her.
The two of them wanted to say something else when they heard a roaring voice behind them.
"Yu Fengyang and Wang Zhiwen, you two are here to cause trouble to Brother Gu Xiao again. If you have anything to do with me, don't always harass Brother Gu!!"
Nie Qianqian looked back and saw a scholar who was also wearing the uniform of Tiande Academy walking over angrily. This man was different from other ordinary scholars in his elegant dress. He actually wore a gold hairpin in his bun and a gold hairpin embroidered on his body. Silky bulging purse.
Yu Fengyang and Wang Zhiwen wanted to come here today to buy books and humiliate Gu Xiao, but they didn't expect the humiliation to be successful. Instead, they were disappointed. Now that Jiang Wenxuan is here, they feel even more boring.
Wang Zhiwen touched his nose and said, "Jiang Wenxuan, what are you talking about? Brother Fengyang and I are here to buy books. We have already selected the books. If we hadn't met this shrew, we would have left."
After speaking, the two of them turned around and left in despair, unwilling to stay any longer.
Nie Qianqian stopped the fat scholar, played with the folding fan and asked, "Don't you want your folding fan?"
The fat scholar rolled his sleeves and snorted coldly, "Humph, no more."
Nie Qianqian shrugged. If you don't want it, don't want it. You can just take it back and give it to Tuan Tuan to play with.
She turned around and her eyes fell into Gu Xiao's surprised eyes. Gu Xiao slowly said: "Where did you learn these principles?"
Nie Qianqian was a peasant woman who had never read a book and could not read a word of Chinese characters. How could she be as confident as before and give a well-founded rebuttal?
Qianqian felt a little guilty, "I heard it from my elder brother at home."
Nie Wenye came from a farming family, and his background was completely different from that of the son of a prominent official in the town. It was not surprising that he had this idea.
But···
"Brother Gu, who is this little lady?" Jiang Wenxuan interrupted his thoughts.
The scene where Qianqian defended Gu Xiao just now had fallen into Jiang Wenxuan's eyes, and he was curious about the relationship between the two.
Upon hearing his question, Gu Xiao's expression was unnatural, and he seemed to be a little nervous. He cleared his throat and said, "Ahem, this is, this is my wife, her name is Nie Qianqian."
"ah?"
Jiang Wenxuan was a little surprised. He had known that Gu Xiao was married and had a wife and children at home, but Gu Xiao rarely mentioned her. Looking at Gu Xiao's situation, he knew that he and his wife had a low status in the family and their lives were not satisfactory.
He thought her wife was an ignorant little woman who was bullied by her family, but he didn't expect her to be a powerful character.
Moreover, Jiang Wenxuan looked at Nie Qianqian's face, and his ears turned a little red unconsciously. This peasant woman's appearance was really first-rate, even prettier than those daughters from rich families his father introduced to him.
Jiang Wenxuan did not look down upon Nie Qianqian because of her clothes. Instead, she bowed and said, "It turns out she is sister-in-law. Wenxuan has met sister-in-law."
Nie Qianqian raised her eyebrows. Although she said that in this era, talent was valued rather than family background, in fact she knew that the class system was difficult to overcome. She did not expect Jiang Wenxuan to be so polite.
After Jiang Wenxuan saluted, he thought of something and frowned, "Sister-in-law Qianqian, although this is our first meeting, there are things Wenxuan has wanted to say for a long time."
Before Nie Qianqian opened his mouth, he couldn't wait to pour beans and said with heartache: "Sister-in-law Qianqian, Brother Gu is a unique talent. The person I met in the academy is unparalleled in knowledge and knowledge. Why don't you heal Gu quickly?" Because of my hand disease, I sent Brother Gu to study in the academy and asked him to copy books all day long, which really hid his talent!!!"
Nie Qianqian tilted her little head and looked at Gu Xiao in surprise. She originally thought that her cheap husband could only read a little, but was he actually a genius in reading?
