"You must have fallen in love with some unreliable man again, right?" When Zhou heard this, she was shocked and asked hurriedly, thinking that Gu Shiyao had been deceived by an uneasy and kind-hearted man again.
"No, no! Mom, don't worry. The person I'm interested in is a talented candidate. He is about to participate in the Spring Festival next year. He will definitely be on the list by then." Gu Shiyao said with confidence. The future Prime Minister will take the exam. Isn't it easy to get a Jinshi?
Zhou, however, couldn't believe her words. After all, no student could be sure that he would be on the gold list. Anyone who dared to say so was either someone who stole the exam questions and wanted to cheat, or a liar who wanted to deceive others.
Zhou ruled out the first possibility. After all, if you want to cheat in the imperial examination, you are seeking death, so she is more inclined to think that her daughter was deceived by a liar with a bright tongue.
Therefore, she said to Gu Shi Yao with hatred: "Yao'er, when did you get to know some bad people again? Haven't you learned your lesson from the previous scandal? Even if you are a bachelor or a tutor at that time, It is impossible for any of my direct disciples to guarantee that Chunwei will be on the list, so Yaoer, any student who dares to guarantee you this must be a liar."
"Impossible! He is not that kind of person, he is really talented. Mom, I am very sure that I have not been deceived." Gu Shiyao promised with a serious face, "That person did not promise me that he would pass the exam. , I saw that he was talented, knowledgeable, and generous, so I knew that he would definitely have a bright future."
Zhou didn't believe her vision at all, but Gu Shi Yao had taken a fancy to that Juren when he said she was dead. Zhou couldn't resist her, so she had to ask who that person was.
In ancient times, Yao said shyly: "That man's name is Tang Buqing. He is a student from the south of the Yangtze River. There is no one in his family except an old mother. Although his family is a little poorer, he is very motivated and capable. In the future, I will definitely be able to seal my wife as my wife..."
Gu Shi Yao praised Tang Buqing like a flower. Thinking of Tang Buqing and Gu Shichu's scenery in her previous life, she couldn't wait to take this rich son-in-law as her own.
Seeing her expression when talking about Tang Buqing, Zhou felt a sudden change in her heart, knowing that her daughter really fell in love with that person, and the joy and yearning on her face could not be concealed.
"Okay, Mom knows about this. Don't mention it to your dad yet. Mom needs to have someone investigate him first to make sure he is really as valuable and talented as you said. If he is really , that mother will list him as your husband-in-law." Mrs. Zhou did not reject Gu Shiyao immediately, but planned to find a reason for Tang Buqing to expose his true face in front of her daughter.
Yes, Zhou didn't believe that Tang Buqing was really as good as Gu Shi Yao said. She had already preconceived the idea that Tang Buqing was a scumbag who only deceived innocent and innocent girls.
Gu Shi Yao didn't know what Zhou thought like this. In order to increase the bargaining chip for her sweetheart to be valued by her mother, she also told the story that she had saved Tang Buqing:
"Mom, I also saved Tang Buqing. Last time when my third sister and I went to Wanfo Temple to offer incense, we met him who was unconscious on the road. I rescued him and sent him back to Wanfo Temple to take good care of him, so I have a kindness to him. If I really marry him in the future, he will treat me well even if it is to repay my kindness. Mom, don’t worry, he is a person who knows how to repay kindness... "
However, her words not only failed to dispel Zhou's suspicion of Tang Buqing, but made her more suspicious of Tang Buqing. Why fainted on the road? Didn't he deliberately fall in front of his daughter's carriage so that he could get acquainted with his noble daughter, capture her heart, climb into the palace of our father-in-law, and follow his father-in-law's career?
Those students who come from humble backgrounds and claim to be talented but have no family background like to do this kind of thing the most. If they hook up with a lady from a wealthy family, they can save twenty or thirty years of hard work. Even if this kind of thing happens thousands of years later, They are all very popular methods for Phoenix men to jump across social classes through marriage.
After Zhou sent her unconscious daughter away, she hurriedly ordered people to investigate Tang Buqing, who had "bad intentions".
Poor Tang Buqing is really sitting at home, and the pot is coming from the sky. He has no intention of clinging to the daughter of the Duke's mansion. Even the bag of silver that Gu Shi Yao insisted on leaving him, for the pride in his heart and innocent reputation, were not used at all, but were directly given to Wanfo Temple as incense money.
As Mrs. An Guogong, the Zhou family has many capable people, and Tang Buqing is still just a student who went to Beijing to take the exam and came from a very simple family background. His short life of more than 20 years has traces to follow, so the Zhou family It didn't take long for the people sent to find out everything about three generations of Tang Buqing's ancestors. They even found out that his grandfather had an affair with a neighbor's widow when he was young.
Zhou read and reread Tang Buqing's investigative information and found that he was really a student who only cared about studying and did not care about anything else. His life was simple to the point of being boring. He did not study at home or in school. I just go to a familiar bookstore to copy books and sell paintings to make money, and occasionally attend gatherings among classmates, but there is nothing else to do.
Zhou failed to see any trace of Tang Buqing's bad character from this information, but instead saw that he was a quite pure student.
"Is Yao'er's vision really better this time?" Zhou was dubious, but she believed in the abilities of her subordinates, so she asked Gu Shi Yao again if she really fell in love with Tang Buqing, and got her confirmation After answering, Zhou found her husband An Guogong.
"Sir, it seems that Tang Juren is indeed a motivated scholar at present. Although his family is poor, as long as he passes the Jinshi examination next year and has your help, his future future will not be much different. So why not Master, please ask Tang Juren to come to your house to take the exam. If you are really a talented person, why not make your daughter a child?"
Gu Tao What should I do if I wrong my wife while patronizing my filial mother? Can Yaoer, who has always been willful and delicate, endure this? "
"How can a widowed mother be so tyrannical? Moreover, our family is the Duke's palace. Even for the sake of her son's future, she would not dare to show her face to our daughter. Master, it is not bad to have only one mother-in-law in the family, and it is also With us holding her down, she won't be able to make any trouble. But if Yao'er is allowed to marry into a large family with a complicated population, it would be uncomfortable to have a mother-in-law and a great-grandmother on her head." Mrs. Zhou said with lingering fear. She said that she had suffered such a crime before.
Gu Taoxing obviously also remembered the days when he was caught between his mother, his grandmother and his wife, and he suddenly fell silent.
