In the Hanlin Academy, Yuan Langxian silently arranged the papers on the table.
Since that day, even though the Pingnan Hou Mansion had given an explanation, everyone still isolated him intentionally or unintentionally.
He didn't mind very much either.
He actually wanted to follow Tang Shijin. The person he envied most in his life was Xu Tianlu, who was obviously doing business but still had an official status.
But the imperial examination was his late mother's long-cherished wish, so he still took this path. He did it and won the first prize, but she could never see it again.
Moreover, he didn't expect that those people still refused to let him go.
The person who came to complain was really his mother in name, and the woman beside him was indeed his wife in name. It was indeed his fault that they became what they are now.
Even he himself couldn't tell who was at fault for this bad debt.
Therefore, when they came to complain, he was in fear for several days, until the Pingnan Marquis Mansion came forward, and until today.
It seemed that it was over and settled. While he was relieved, he also felt a little...sad. He always felt that the god standing on the head of the stone lion with the python robe and jade belt should not look like this.
He glanced at Luo Ji, stood up and went out. Everyone avoided him, and someone whispered: "...If you have a clear conscience, how could it be like this?"
"Knowing people, knowing faces, but not knowing hearts..."
"With his talent and appearance, he can't climb any high branches. It's not surprising that his wife abandoned him."
Who says scholars don’t gossip?
If a scholar really starts gossiping, then every word will be as sharp as a knife.
Yuan Langxian turned a deaf ear and stood for a long time, waiting for the crowd to thin out before going out. However, he heard someone calling him from behind: "Langxian!"
Yuan Langxian paused for a moment, then saw Tang Liansheng coming quickly and said with a smile: "Why don't you wait for me to come with you?"
Tang Liansheng shamelessly took two days off because his fourth brother had a baby. He just arrived today. Yuan Langxian hesitated for a moment, then whispered: "I wonder how the case is going?"
Tang Liansheng said: "I'll ask you when I get back. Hey, do you eat red eggs?"
Yuan Langxian smiled bitterly and said, "I won't eat it."
The two came out while talking, and the people next to them exchanged glances.
There was a man surnamed Chen who turned into a suitable customer on the spot: "I must be trying to recruit him. A champion man, compared to a poor mother and daughter, his weight is naturally..."
A man surnamed Liu immediately sneered: "Oh? How can the number one scholar be as good as Momo Rokuro? Prince Qing already has Momo Rokuro in his house, so he still needs to recruit the number one scholar?"
Chen Sheng was choked: "Then why do you think it is?"
"Your Majesty said that the crime was beyond suspicion! He has not been found guilty by the General Police Department, so he is innocent! It was me who tricked him!" Liu Sheng ran after them.
Chen Sheng curled his lips in disdain: "I just want to cling to you, how can I pretend to be righteous..."
The people next to him all had similar thoughts to him and agreed. As soon as these people came out, they saw several people wearing black police uniforms, stopped in front of Yuan Langxian and others, and said a few words.
, Yuan Langxian followed them into the carriage.
This is when the General Investigation Factory finally took action to arrest someone!
Chen Sheng couldn't help but said: "It's so satisfying! These people with human faces and animal hearts should be brought to justice as soon as possible!"
Tang Liansheng turned around and glanced at him.
In fact, the man surnamed Chen really didn't have any deep grudge against Yuan Langxian. To put it bluntly, it was just a little bit of jealousy... as if he could get up by pulling down the No. 1 scholar.
But Tang Liansheng didn't say much and just got on the carriage.
At this moment, Tang Shijin was sitting in the prison cell, looking at a pile of papers in his hand.
The confessions of the two people who complained were matched one by one with the large pile of confessions, witnesses and evidence they brought back from Qingzhou, and the matter became very clear.
Yuan Langxian was born into a poor family.
When he was four years old, he went to private school and was considered a very top-notch child.
But two years later, his father accidentally fell off a cliff and died.
It is not easy for country people to provide a scholar, and he is not the only male in the family, so the family does not want him to study.
How could Yuan's mother be willing to do so, she went to find the clan leader behind her family's back. However, although the clan leader felt that the child had potential, he could only mediate. In the end, he angered his grandfather and had to divorce her mother.
Then Yuan Langxian's life at home became even more difficult. A six-year-old child was almost killed several times in the hands of two aunts.
Yuan's mother was cruel and found a wealthy businessman named Xie to be his outside concubine without a name or status. The only condition was that Yuan Langxian would be taken over.
The wealthy businessman didn't care about having another mouth to talk about, so he just took the person over. He was rich and powerful, and the Yuan family couldn't rob them, and besides, they might not really want to rob him.
So Yuan Langxian studied in this environment.
But later, troubles happened one after another among this wealthy businessman, and the family business gradually declined. Mother Yuan also fell out of favor, and the wealthy merchants stopped coming. Fortunately, Mother Yuan kept selling embroidery to make money, and still supported Yuan Langxian to study.
No one expected that Yuan Langxian was so good at reading that he passed the imperial examination in the first time and then became a scholar along the way.
It wasn't until he returned home after passing the exam that the wealthy businessman discovered that the young scholar who was admired by everyone was actually his wife's son.
The wealthy merchants were defeated, and although Yuan Langxian was only a scholar, he was young and had a bright future, so it was the wealthy merchant's turn to fawn over him.
So the wealthy businessman named Xie immediately took Yuan's mother back by force, and then wanted to adopt Yuan Langxian as his adopted son and record it in the family tree. Yuan Langxian refused and asked the county magistrate to help negotiate an agreement, so he gave up.
This thought.
Then Yuan Langxian continued the imperial examination and passed the examination in one fell swoop.
Now that he had become an official and a true young hero, the wealthy businessman and his wife had the evil idea of wanting their legitimate daughter to marry him.
Yuan Langxian has ambitions and has never had a good impression of this family, so of course he couldn't agree.
So the rich businessman's family drugged him and used all kinds of methods to seduce him. However, Yuan Langxian, who had already noticed it, escaped time and time again, and later he simply couldn't get over it.
Seeing that he was about to go to Beijing and could no longer be caught, the wealthy businessman simply arrested her mother, hid her, and threatened him. Yuan Langxian had no choice but to agree.
So the wealthy merchants quickly organized a happy event.
It was originally agreed that he would be allowed to see his mother after they got married, but the wealthy businessman kept pushing back.
Yuan Langxian became suspicious, so he asked the county magistrate to arrest him for a trial. Only then did he find out that his mother had been tortured to death because she refused to write to him when she was first arrested. These days,
They were all lying to him.
In anger, Yuan Langxian killed his wife for no reason and reported it to the official, and sent the wealthy businessman to prison.
Things will be simple after that. He has a bright future, so the county magistrate and prefect are naturally happy to give him a favor, including wealthy merchants, who will naturally step on him as well.
The wealthy merchants were already in decline. How could they withstand such a turmoil? The wealthy merchants sentenced Qiuhou to be executed and their families were separated. But whether it was deception or coercion, the marriage certificate between Yuan Langxian and Na Xie was genuine.
, the two of them were nominally husband and wife, so that family was barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes, so they got involved.
Yuan Langxian had been brought there. When he saw Jiang Bi'an and Tang Shijin were there, he hurriedly stepped forward to salute.
Tang Shijin opened his mouth and asked him: "You are a top scholar, but you don't know the law??"