It was not until the end of the Luming Banquet, when Yao Anhong took office and entered the Hanlin Academy, that he learned the "truth" before Zeng Jiazhi left Beijing.
This time, Zeng Jiazhi invited Yao Anhong out alone and thanked him again and again.
He said: "If it hadn't been for Brother Yao's reminder, I would have almost stumbled at the Luming Banquet. The efforts of several generations of my Zeng family were almost destroyed in my hands..."
Zeng Jiazhi gritted his teeth and said that before this, he really didn't expect his classmate to be such a person.
They were studying in a book school and were worshiped by a teacher.
He thinks he has a good relationship because the other person is younger than him and usually takes good care of him.
But……
But that person had not passed the general examination, and under the guise of "accompanying the examination", he said he was afraid that Zeng Jiazhi would have no one to take care of him in the capital. However, he did not expect that the other party would dig such a big hole for him when he inquired about the taboos of various officials in the capital.
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Yao Anhong was also surprised, he didn't expect to encounter such a thing so soon.
The elders in the family "reminded" him before because they were afraid that he would be plotted against, but as a result...
He didn't meet him, but the people he met met him.
"Alas..." Zeng Jiazhi sighed, "People's hearts are fickle. I think about how good my relationship with him was at the beginning. He was short of money for his studies, and I helped to advance it. Unexpectedly, I helped him and helped him a lot.
A white-eyed wolf."
"Then...did you let him pay back the money?"
"I asked him to write an IOU and gave him five years to pay it off. From then on, bridges return to bridges, roads return to roads, and there is no longer any relationship between us." Zeng Jiazhi said, "I am not saying this to win over Brother Yao.
I sympathize, but I just want to remind Brother Yao not to make the same mistake as me. I have already learned a lesson, but fortunately Brother Yao saved me, otherwise it would have been tragic."
Before they entered the officialdom, if they offended someone, they would only be revoked from their official positions, and they would not be able to take the imperial examination in this life. But if they are plotted like this again after they become officials, it will be okay if they are small, but if it is serious, they may even lose their lives.
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Zeng Jiazhi said this again.
Yao Anhong felt sad and comforted him for a long time.
After asking Zeng Jiazhi where he had been, the two left their contact information so that they could keep in touch in the future.
Coming out of the teahouse, Yao Anhong met Wang Gu who was passing by.
Zeng Jiazhi didn't have enough background, so it was almost difficult to find a good position. He was sent to a local official; but Wang Gu was different.
Li Wenchong's previous background check on Yao Anhong showed that Wang Gu had relatives who were officials in the court, and he came from a scholarly family. The elders in the family did not say that they were famous, but there were students who had made it through and were in the court.
Therefore, Wang Gutong may have grabbed some good positions, but he was still a minor official in the capital.
However, compared to Yao Anhong, who entered the Hanlin Academy and might study under Mr. Yao, the editor-in-chief of "Da Ming Daily" in the future, Wang Gu entered the 13th Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs and studied under a certain chief executive.
"Hey, Brother Yao?"
"Brother Wang?"
They bowed their hands to each other in greeting.
When Wang Gu heard that he wanted to practice for Zeng Jiazhi a few days ago and asked him if he wanted to go together, Wang Gu had a strange expression: "Brother Yao... you seem to have a very good relationship with this... brother Zeng. You are old friends.
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Wang Gu naturally knew that they were not there, he just asked.
"We are all colleagues and we are filial and loyal to His Majesty. Isn't it normal for us to have contact with each other?" Yao Anhong said with a smile, "Aren't I also talking to Brother Wang now?"
Wang Gu looked helpless and asked Yao Anhong to go to the teahouse to talk.
Yao Anhong, who had just come out, had to go back to the teahouse again.
Wang Gu looked mysterious and told Yao Anhong what he had asked about Zeng Jiazhi before, reminding him to be careful. This second-place finisher was not an ordinary person.
Zeng Jiazhi is not the only scholar in the Zeng family. Originally, according to the rules of the Zeng family, a man could give up if there was no good news at his thirties. But this one was different. He seemed to be particularly ambitious.
I don’t know how he persuaded the head of the Zeng family to pass the examination as a boy student and then a scholar until he was thirty years old.
It took a few years before he was promoted to son.
When I was in my forties, I just entered high school with them and became a Jinshi.
He had three daughters, even his biological daughters, but he stuffed them into an official's backyard as concubines.
"However, his daughter failed to live up to expectations. She died of illness two years after entering the hospital. His only relative was also gone." Wang Gu said in a low voice, "I asked people to inquire and heard that the reason why his daughter was gone was
, because his daughter was not comfortable in the backyard and wanted to step on his wife, but the wife dug a hole and stepped on her..."
"Brother Zeng got married three times. The first time his wife was the daughter of a scholar. He also studied with this scholar. Unfortunately... he studied for many years without getting the result. Later, his father-in-law, a scholar, passed away.
Not long after his death, his wife also died of illness."
"Later, he married the daughter of a wealthy businessman. It seemed to be a marriage arranged by the family. The rest is not clear. Anyway, after this wife married in, some of the downward trend of the Zeng family was alleviated, and he also had the opportunity to enter the society.
Well...the academy, that is, the classmate he met later, also met here."
"The second wife died in childbirth, leaving behind a posthumous son, his only legitimate daughter."
"The third wife is the current one, the daughter of a certain gentleman in the academy... Originally, this gentleman wanted to marry his daughter to his classmate, but somehow, she married him..."
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In short, Zeng Jiazhi's "emotional history" is not very glorious.
On the surface it looks like nothing, but Wang Gu believes that there is no such thing as a coincidence.
The first wife gave gifts to her husband, the second wife gave gifts to her husband, the third wife gave gifts to her husband again...
All three daughters were concubines, even the biological daughter was not spared.
As for Zeng Jiazhi's sons, although they were both studying in academies, it was said that their grades were not very good, and the eldest son was even forced to commit suicide.
Compared with the background check that Li Wenchong handed to Yao Anhong, many of the "gossips" Wang Gu talked about were gossip.
Yao Anhong was a little dumbfounded: "Why do you inquire so carefully? You are the number one scholar, is it really okay to gossip about other people's private affairs like this?"
Wang Gu blinked his eyes and said: "Why can't you gossip? The number one scholar is tired from studying, so why can't I listen to some gossip and relax? My father doesn't let me do this or that, and I can't do anything else.
I can only let the boy inquire about the family affairs of the east and west, and come back to please me. Hey, don't tell me that you have no other pastime except reading and studying all day long?"
He only mentioned the matter of "stoking discord" on his own.
Obviously, Wang Gu came to "gossip" about Yao Anhong. These things cannot be separate "gossip", but he wants to sell Yao Anhong a "favor".
Let Yao Anhong know clearly that Zeng Jiazhi was probably not simply "thanking" Yao Anhong. He talked about being plotted by his classmates, and he might also be trying to "win sympathy" and want to get close to Yao Anhong.
If you think about it, you will know. Originally, my husband wanted to marry his daughter to his classmate. If Zeng Jiazhi hadn't done something, how could the marriage have fallen to Zeng Jiazhi again?
You know, his classmate is younger than him and has never been married.
Unlike Zeng Jiazhi, who is several years older than his third wife, and whose ex-wife left behind a daughter. Apart from better family conditions than his classmates, and similar grades in school, why should people choose him over his classmates?
Let’s make it clear, there is something fishy here.
