Father can be an enemy to the country

That night, Zeng Tai moved into Wu Zhuangyuan's house.

Wu Bozong is forty-five years old this year and is born with a handsome appearance.

Legend has it that during the palace examination, there was supposed to be someone else who was number one.

However, after Boss Zhu saw the appearance of the proposed number one scholar, Guo Chong, he felt that he was too shabby and unworthy of being the number one number one scholar in the Ming Dynasty.

At this moment, a handsome guy in the crowd caught Boss Zhu's attention. This man was Wu Bozong.

Then, the emperor personally made policy inquiries, and found that his literary talent was as high as Guo Chong's. Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed and designated Wu Bozong, who was both talented and beautiful, as the number one scholar on the spot. It also helped him achieve the achievement of "winning three yuan in a row".

Guo Chong, who was supposed to be the top pick, had no choice but to be ranked second.

Of course, Wu Bozong absolutely disagrees with this statement. He will be anxious to anyone who mentions it to him. How could someone who has won the top prize rely on his ability to win the exam based on his looks?

~~

The relationship between Wu Bozong and Zeng Tai was much closer than that of Luo Guanzhong. The two have been in the East Palace together for many years. The latter was able to be released to Jiangxi Province, and the former also worked hard.

Zeng Tai's status was not what it used to be. To show his solemnity, Wu Bozong called two other East Palace lecturers - Song Lian's eldest son Song Zan and Zhang Yi's third son Zhang Cunhou to accompany him and hold a banquet for him.

"Come on, let's toast Brother An Ding together." Wu Bozong warmly greeted the two of them and toasted Zeng Tai.

Song Zan and Zhang Cunhou also raised their glasses together. After the four of them had a drink together, Song Zan said with a smile: "Among our group of officials in the East Palace, Brother Anding is the most promising right now. It can be said that he got there first."

"Yes, yes." Zhang Cunhou also smiled and said: "Brother An Ding is now a second-rank official. If we meet outside, we have to kowtow."

"Don't do this." Zeng Tai laughed and scolded: "I don't know what happened to you. You guys couldn't stand me at the beginning, so they worked together to push me out."

"Hahaha." The three people couldn't help but laugh: "So you know."

"On the one hand, I couldn't stand you being such a tough guy at that time," Wu Bozong said seriously: "But on the other hand, we recommended you to go to Jiangxi because you had been a local official and were very capable, unlike us scholars who have high ambitions and low abilities. .”

"Yes." Song Zan also smiled approvingly and said: "It turns out that we were right. You have made outstanding achievements in Jiangxi and are already a world-famous official."

"I praise you so much, so I can't argue with you, right?" Zhang Cunhou said with a teasing smile.

"Why can't you?" Zeng Tai smiled sheepishly and said, "I didn't mean to make a point, I just couldn't help it - Brother Yu actually didn't do much in Jiangxi. It's all the credit of the two highnesses."

"Haha, there are no outsiders here, so Brother Anding doesn't need to sing praises." Seeing that the smile on Wu Bozong's face was a little unnatural, Song Zan hurriedly smiled and said.

"I'm really not trying to be arrogant - you are not in Jiangxi and don't know how difficult the situation was at that time. Without King Yan's decision to kill, without King Chu's strategizing and clever tricks, it would be sheer fantasy to try out the Yellow Book successfully!" Zeng Tai said seriously.

Gangsters are usually very serious. Especially for someone who is cheating without knowing it, there simply cannot be anything against his will.

Zhang Cunhou couldn't help but cough lightly and reminded him in a low voice: "Brother Bo Zong's family is from Jiangxi."

"Oh?" Zeng Tai suddenly slapped his forehead and said, "Yeah, how could I forget about this? Why didn't Brother Bo Zong remind me?"

"Ah, well... we don't have many acres of thin farmland at home," Wu Bozong forced a smile and said, "There's no need to cause trouble to Brother Anding."

"That's it..." Zeng Tai nodded, then frowned and said, "That's not right. Isn't your family a scholarly family with hairpins for generations? Your great-grandfather was a minister of the Song Dynasty, Mr. Soochow was a Jinshi of the Yuan Dynasty, and your family has been prosperous for hundreds of years. How can we only have a few acres of thin farmland?"

"Ahem." Zhang Cunhou and Song Zan coughed hard, trying to get Zeng Tai to stop.

Unfortunately, he was the kind of person who would choke to death if he didn't say anything, and there was nothing he could do about it. He couldn't help it in front of Lao Liu, let alone in front of Wu Zhuangyuan.

"Brother Bo Zong, don't get me wrong. I'm not questioning you. I just feel a little abnormal and I'm unhappy if I don't complain." Zeng Tai apologized.

"It doesn't matter." Wu Bozong smiled bitterly and shook his head:

"Well, Zeng Gangtou. Now that you have returned to Beijing to serve as an official, we will have to suffer a lot in the future... Well, to be honest, my family does have a lot of land, but most of it is under my family's name. Yes. As a result, you cleared the land and compiled a yellow book, and our family was in dire straits - we would have to pay taxes according to the yellow book from now on, and my father was so worried at home that his head turned gray."

"Then why didn't you tell me?" Zeng Tai said sincerely, "I can also ask His Highness to be accommodating."

"At that time, I thought Brother Anding was in a difficult situation, so I didn't cause any more trouble for you." Wu Bozong sighed and said, "Oh, I should have begged you if I had known that you were the popular person in front of His Highness King Chu."

"Haha, actually it's not much use if you beg me." Zeng Tai almost choked Wu Bozong to death.

"With two His Highnesses watching, who dares to play tricks? For the sake of fairness, Your Highness will not say anything. The most I can do is provide some convenience within reasonable limits, and I won't dare to open the back door."

"Haha..." Wu Bozong felt disgusted in his heart. What the hell are you talking about?

In fact, he thought that Zeng Tai would protect his family without saying hello himself. Unexpectedly, this guy actually pretended to be confused, saying that he had forgotten that his family was also from Jiangxi. As a result, their group had tricked his family quite a lot last year.

Not only was the hidden land owned by the Wu family discovered, but dozens of families and hundreds of other families were forced to leave their homes and immigrate to Huguang to become husbands. Can the family not blame the champion behind his back? Why can't you cover even this little thing? Still number one...

Wu Bozong felt extremely uncomfortable, and he hated the fourth and sixth laos in his heart. Of course, the one he hated most was Zeng Tai who refused to save him.

It's just that Zeng Tai rose to the top and became a second-rank official in the border areas. Now that he is in the capital, the crown prince will definitely re-employ him, so Wu Bozong had to "knock out his teeth and swallow the blood in his belly." Not only cannot we blame Zeng Tai, we must also find ways to win him over...

Isn't this a kind of tauren?

~~

"I know you have to be selfless. We have been brothers for many years, but we can still give you problems at this time?" Wu Bozong clinked glasses with him with a smile. "How about it, is it interesting?"

"Enough, absolutely enough!" Zeng Tai nodded hurriedly. The other two people also talked about their old friendship together. Only then did the embarrassment disappear.

As Zeng Tai went out for a spin and became more and more skillful in arguing, the three people behind the banquet only dared to talk about romance and did not dare to say anything useful, lest they be slapped in the face again and lose face.

When the two guests left and only he and Zeng Tai were left, Wu Bozong invited Zeng Tai to move to the study to have tea.

There was no third person in the study, so Wu Bozong asked quietly:

"Do you know anything about Guozixue?"

ps. The next chapter is coming very soon, maybe an hour.