Women Wearing Men: The Growth Path of the Bastards of the Aristocratic Family

Chapter 462 Xu’s Ancestral Hall
When Xu Chengyu was mentioned, Xu Shuchang seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and said quickly: "...By the way, there is also uncle. Even if Gu Yunji doesn't listen to you, he can't disobey his teacher, right? I am also uncle's nephew, so I will If you don’t believe that he refused to save me, let’s write a letter now to call uncle back!”

Seeing that Xu Shuchang was ill and rushed to the doctor, Xu Ziqi almost laughed angrily: "Write a letter now? It's too late! Xu Chengyu is in Hangzhou, and it takes several days at best to come back and forth. Don't say you are writing a letter, even if you hurry up and do it in person It’s too late to rush over, I’m afraid you’ll be caught by the officers before you even get out of the city gate!”

As soon as Xu Ziqi finished speaking, a boy walked in from outside: "Master, it's not good! Aunt Gu came to the door with official servants and asked us to hand over Master Shuchang!"

When Xu Shuchang heard this, he was so frightened that he burst into tears. He hugged Xu Ziqi's legs tightly and refused to let go. He shouted in panic: "Gu Yunji is here! Uncle, you have to save me! You have to save me!"

Xu Ziqi became furious when he saw Xu Shuchang's useless and useless look. However, as he was a descendant of the Xu family, he couldn't let Gu Yunji take Xu Shuchang away like that.

The last time he paid the fine, Gu Yunji came to talk to him and discuss it.This time, he didn't even say hello, but came to arrest a direct descendant of his Xu family, let alone his wife's cousin, which was too unkind.

Xu Ziqi was also simmering with anger toward Gu Yunji, and snorted coldly: "Does Gu Yunji think that since he became the prefect of Shaoxing Prefecture, he can come to my Xu family to run wild? He doesn't even look at where this place is, and wants to kill people easily. Take it away, he’s dreaming!”

"Let's go! Let's go to the ancestral hall and wait. There are incense tablets for the ancestors of my Xu family. I don't believe that Gu Yunji, a son-in-law with a foreign surname, dares to act wild in my Xu family's ancestral hall!"

Gu Yunji was determined to escort Xu Shuchang back to the government office today. He held up his sword to scare off everyone in the Xu family who wanted to stop him. He chased him all the way outside the ancestral hall, but was stopped by a group of servants who came up to him.

Gu Yunji narrowed his eyes when he saw this, and his fierce aura spread out: "Bold! I am the prefect of Shaoxing. This trip is to capture Xu Shuchang, a Japanese criminal. How dare you stop the government from handling the case?"

The servants received the order and were not deterred by his words at all. They still stood in front of him without saying a word, like a cold wall.

Gu Yunji's heart suddenly became angry, and he ordered the official behind him: "Come here! Take them down for me!"

"Gu Yunji, you are so presumptuous!"

Just as the officials were about to take action, an angry shout came. Xu Ziqi walked out of the ancestral hall and said angrily: "This is my Xu family's ancestral hall, a place of purity and solemnity. Who are you to lead a group of warriors?" Come here to run wild?"

Gu Yunji took a deep breath, his eyes were cold: "What about the Xu clan's ancestral hall? I am an official of the imperial court. You are harboring Japanese invaders Xu Shuchang, so I can't go in and search it?"

"What happened to the imperial officials? Do you think you are qualified to enter the ancestral hall of my Xu family?" Xu Ziqi raised his chin with a stern attitude, "The ancestral hall enshrines the first founder of this dynasty who was praised by Emperor Taizu as a model of literati. Outsiders are not allowed to enter the memorial tablet of Xu Wenzhenggong Xu Xiaocheng, the emperor's master, without the permission of my Xu family."

"Even when the late Emperor Huizong traveled to the south of the Yangtze River and passed through Shaoxing Prefecture, he came to our Xu Ancestral Hall to pay homage to Duke Wen Zheng. He also burned his hands and burned incense to show his solemnity. Zhou Minqing, a cabinet minister who was traveling with him at that time, wanted to accompany the late emperor into the ancestral hall, but was rejected by the first emperor. The emperor rebuked."

"'How can a minister with a foreign surname, who is neither a relative nor an acquaintance, enter the ancestral hall of Xu Wenzhenggong without permission?' - These are the exact words of Emperor Huizong." Speaking of this matter, Xu Ziqi couldn't hide his pride and looked at Gu Yunji. He became more and more disdainful: "Even the cabinet minister Zhou Minqing can't enter my Xu family ancestral hall, so what does the Shaoxing magistrate mean? If you dare to force your way in today, it will be disrespectful to Wen Zhenggong, and even more contempt for the late emperor's golden words!"

Xu Xiaocheng was one of the first civil servants who founded the country. Emperor Taizu established the country with force, but he could not rule the country with force. When the country was first established and the government was in ruins, it was Xu Xiaocheng who stepped forward and led a group of civil servants to help Emperor Taizu stabilize the government. , re-education of literature and education, and the introduction of imperial examinations to select scholars, which truly established the rule of Daxia on the ideological and cultural level.

Xu Xiaocheng himself was very influential. It can be said that in this era, any scholar who wanted to take the imperial examination and become an official would know about him.Even now, more than 100 years have passed, and descendants of the Xu family are still living in Ze, so that the Xu family has gradually become a prestigious Jiangnan family with high prestige.

Including things related to the late emperor Huizong, they were not made up by Xu Ziqi, but were indeed true. Gu Yunji had seen this narrative with his own eyes when he was compiling "Records of Huizong" in the Hanlin Academy.

No wonder Xu Ziqi wanted to hide Xu Shuchang in the ancestral hall. It turned out that they were confident.

It is true that the Xu family ancestral hall cannot be forced into. After listening to Xu Ziqi's words, Gu Yunji gradually calmed down. He waved away the tense officials behind him, dropped the long sword in his hand, then adjusted his appearance, crown and belt, and walked towards Xu Ziqi calmly.

"Huh?" At the gate, two servants stepped forward and stopped his movement.

Gu Yunji's expression remained unchanged and he said calmly: "As far as the Xu family is concerned, the prefect of Shaoxing is indeed a foreign minister and cannot enter the ancestral hall. But regardless of my status as the prefect of Shaoxing, I, Gu Yunji, can always enter, right?"

"Although my surname is Gu rather than Xu, I am the son-in-law of the Xu family, and I am related to the Xu family. Today I want to come to the Xu ancestral hall to worship the ancestors of my in-law family and fulfill my filial piety as a younger generation. Is this right? Isn’t it also possible?”

The servants looked at each other, wondering whether they should let Gu Yunji in. Xu Ziqi's eyes flashed and he said in a deep voice: "Let him in."

Gu Yunji strode into the Xu family's ancestral hall, first bowed to the ancestors of the Xu family solemnly, and offered the incense respectfully, then he calmed down, looked at Xu Ziqi and said, "I don't want to beat around the bush anymore, uncle. Xu Shuchang colluded with the Japanese pirates and committed a serious crime, and the national law cannot tolerate him. I also asked my uncle to take care of the general justice and hand over the prisoner Xu Shuchang."

Seeing Gu Yunji's thorough etiquette, Xu Ziqi's face looked better, but his tone was still bad: "I don't know what Xu Shuchang committed. But you, the prisoner who opened his mouth and kept silent even before the evidence was produced, how do you know it's not a process? There was a misunderstanding and I, a member of the Xu family, was wronged?"

Gu Yunji's eyes turned cold and he said in a more serious tone: "Xu Shuchang colluded with the Japanese pirates and sold grain to Gao Shishu, giving him a chance to breathe when he was at the end of his rope. As a result, the imperial court fell into a passive position in the anti-Japanese situation, and they were all captured by Shaoxing. The government found out that the situation was true and the evidence was clear and complete, so there could be no misunderstanding."

"At this moment, even the cargo ship transporting grain is still being detained by the Yamen people, and the clerks have personally identified Xu Shuchang as the mastermind. How can he be wronged?"

(End of this chapter)