After the meal, the Gu Yunqiao sisters followed Mrs. Wang and were busy socializing with the ladies of wealthy families. They accidentally bumped into a male guest who was walking crookedly.

"Who didn't have a good eye to hit me?" The man looked about twenty years old. He was so drunk that he couldn't walk steadily. He almost fell to the ground. His eyebrows were raised and he was about to have a seizure when he saw Gu Yunqiao's pretty face.

His face immediately brightened up with a playful smile.

"Oh - what a beautiful girl, what's her name? How old is she?"

When Gu Yunqiao smelled the smell of alcohol all over his body, he frowned and took a step back in disgust.

"What are you hiding from? I have taken a liking to you! This is your blessing!" Seeing Gu Yunqiao's reaction, the man said dissatisfiedly.

Seeing this, Mrs. Wang pulled Gu Yunqiao behind her and said nonchalantly: "I'm afraid this young master is drunk. Why did he end up in the backyard? Someone, please send him back to the front yard."

Others quickly picked him up and said with a smile, "Mr. Sun, you are drunk. This is our old man's granddaughter, the young lady of the Gu family."

With an impatient look on his face, Sun Tianyang turned around and shook off the other person's hand, saying shamelessly: "I don't care whose granddaughter she is, it doesn't matter what the lady is. I have fallen in love with the woman who is mine. Who dares to disobey her!"

, he squinted his drunken eyes and looked up and down Gu Yunqiao unscrupulously, "Girl, follow me, you will be popular and drink spicy food from now on, I will let you be my concubine, how about it?"

After saying that, he stretched out his big greasy palm to pull her, but as soon as he reached out, he was tightly clamped by a strong hand from nowhere, unable to move.

"Let go of your dirty hands." Gu Yunji said with a sullen face, and pressed Sun Tianyang's hand down hard. After lunch, he was thinking of coming to the backyard to see his sister, but he didn't expect to see this scene.

Although he was not taller than himself, his strength was astonishing. Sun Tianyang tried several times to break away his hand but failed. He couldn't help but said angrily: "Where did you come from, a wild boy? How dare you act so arrogantly in front of me?"

Gu Yunji was worried that today was his grandfather's birthday banquet and he didn't want to make it too ugly. He tried hard to suppress the anger in his heart and warned: "My name is Gu Yunji, I am her brother. I tell you, stay away from my sister!" After that, he raised his hand.

The strength on him relaxed.

Sun Tianyang didn't expect it. He was trying hard to pull his hand out. He almost fell into the pool behind him without paying attention. Fortunately, he was caught by someone.

Hearing this, he smacked the name, then sneered and said disdainfully: "Who do I think I am? She's just a concubine, speaking in such a loud tone. Your sister is also a concubine. Now it seems that she is a concubine."

As my uncle’s bitch concubine, I think highly of her!”

"What did you say!" Gu Yunji stepped forward angrily and grabbed him by the collar. He was full of rage and was about to start a fight.

"Misunderstanding! Misunderstanding!" At this time, Gu Kaili rushed over from nowhere and pulled the two people apart, with a peacemaker's smile on his face, "I drank two more glasses of wine, and I was too drunk to speak more seriously.

Don't take it to heart." After that, people took Sun Tianyang away without any explanation.

Then, he leaned into Gu Yunji's ear and said, half comforting and half warning: "His father, Sun Jin, is the magistrate of Songjiang Prefecture and is my colleague. He usually doesn't see you when you look up. Don't make too much trouble."

Gu Yunji glanced at him, held back his anger, and said no more.

"Ji'er." After a while, Gu Kaizhen came from the main hall and looked at Gu Yunji with a complicated expression, "Your grandfather is looking for you."

Gu Yunji looked at his hesitant expression and said, "Father, what's wrong? But your grandfather scolded you?"

Gu Kaizhen opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but in the end he swallowed the words, patted him on the shoulder and said: "No. You will know when you go." Gu Yunji didn't know why, and felt that his father was weird, but

Still didn't say anything and went straight to the main hall.

In the main hall, Gu Zhengde was sitting amiably at the top, and Gu Kaiqi next to him was also smiling and smiling. When he saw him walking in, Gu Kaizhen said: "Close the door, and everyone else can go out."

Gu Yunji had some doubts in his heart, but he still said respectfully: "Yunji has met his grandfather and his fourth uncle."

Gu Zhengde nodded, picked up a letter on the table, and said: "Ji'er, my grandfather read your article and thought that you wrote very well and that you are a promising talent. It coincides with the enrollment of Luxi Academy this year, and we are preparing to

I will give you the only place in my family, and this will be your recommendation letter for admission."

Luxi Academy? That Luxi Academy where there are many famous people, and it is said that enrolling in the academy is equivalent to stepping into officialdom with one foot? If you can study there, wouldn't you be able to improve yourself faster and pass the imperial examination as soon as possible?

Gu Yunji was overjoyed and quickly knelt down to thank him: "Thank you very much, grandfather! My grandson will definitely live up to your high expectations!"

"Wait a minute." Gu Zhengde waved his hand, "I have conditions."

"As long as you adopt the name of your fourth uncle, this letter of recommendation will be yours."

"What?" Gu Yunji was stunned.

Gu Zhengde continued: "We want to adopt you into your fourth uncle's name and become his son. Your fourth uncle has no children yet. When you come here, you will be the eldest son of his family. You only need to serve them and their husbands."

Until the end of your life, everything will be yours in the future, how about it?"

Gu Yunji was caught off guard by the news. After a while, he calmed down and asked: "Why me? Generally speaking, adoptive heirs are chosen younger. I will be fifteen soon, so I am not the best.

choice.”

Gu Kaiqi said: "I am not in good health. Although younger children will be closer in the future, raising them will be particularly labor-intensive. Older people may not be willing to treat me wholeheartedly even if they have good ideas. The most appropriate thing is to find a younger child.

He is not a young boy, it is not very difficult to raise, and he will be able to stand up in the family in a few years."

"In this context, you are my nephew, and you are closer to me by blood than others. On the other hand, you have a good talent for reading. You just passed the county examination and came back. Your grandfather also said that you are good at writing articles."

If you are good, you will definitely become a talented person in the future, and you will be more valuable to cultivate than others. This is why I chose you."

Gu Kaiqi brushed the tea foam in the cup, glanced at Gu Yunji, and continued: "I know that as a concubine, you have not been loved and respected since childhood. But as long as you adopt and become the eldest son, everything will be different, the family property,

Resources..." He paused and pointed to the recommendation letter, "And the opportunity to study at Luxi Academy is yours. Just like Sun Tianyang just now, if you were my son, he would dare to do this

Bullying your sister?"

But if I were your son, I would have no sister. Gu Yunji thought like this.

When he first crossed over, he was not used to everything here, but after spending more than half a year together, he has long been accustomed to the lively life of the family. There is no intrigue or intrigue in this family, but only the love and help between family members.

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Gu Kaizhen's pleased and appreciative eyes by the county school river, Gu Yunxiao's persistent and lonely look on the hospital bed, Aunt Zhao's expectant eyes in the backyard and Gu Yunqiao's red and swollen palms... Scenes from the past flashed through Gu Yunji's mind.

His sister, his parents, his brothers... these are all his relatives, how could he abandon them in pursuit of wealth?

"I don't want to."

Gu Zhengde's expression froze, feeling as if he had heard wrongly: "What did you say?"

"I said, I don't want to." Gu Yunji repeated it again with a firm expression, "Yunji's body, hair, skin, and all the bones and blood all were given by his parents. They have never owed me anything. I can't do anything in my life.

Complaining about one's own background and abandoning parents and brothers for wealth is what animals do. Besides, even if I agree today, can my fourth uncle really feel safe leaving the family property to such a person?"

Gu Zhengde's tone was serious: "You have to think about it carefully. This is the only opportunity. If you don't agree, this letter of recommendation from Luxi Academy will have nothing to do with you."

Gu Yunji's throat rolled and he said with certainty: "I have thought clearly. Even if I cannot enter Luxi Academy, I believe that with my own efforts, I will be able to pass the Juren Examination and the Jinshi Examination in the future. It is only a matter of time at most."

"Hahahahahaha..." Suddenly, Gu Kaiqi clapped his hands and laughed loudly, "Okay, he is indeed the boy I like, he is ambitious!" After saying that, he walked forward and said to Gu Zhengde: "Look, father

, I said, he won’t agree.”

Afterwards, Gu Kaiqi picked up the letter of recommendation and stuffed it into Gu Yunji's hand and said, "That's all, take it and study hard when you go to Luxi Academy."

Gu Yunji looked stunned: "Fourth uncle...grandfather...I..."

Gu Zhengde showed a helpless smile: "Just take it as your fourth uncle said. Don't worry, you don't need to adopt me. I didn't believe it when your fourth uncle said you wouldn't agree. I didn't expect that you are really a heavyweight."

A person who values ​​​​love and justice.”

The depression in Gu Yunji's heart was instantly swept away, and the joy in his eyes could not be concealed. He knelt down and kowtowed to Gu Kaiqi, and said sincerely: "Thank you so much, uncle! If uncle is in need, Yunji is willing to help him in the future."

Retirement!”

Gu Kaiqi didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Okay, your fourth uncle and my family have a big business. There are so many people who want to support me in my old age. Is it your turn? As long as you have the heart, it's okay. Get up quickly."

Gu Yunji's cheeks turned red and he quickly stood up. Then the two of them said some words of encouragement to him and waved him out.
Chapter completed!