Minglan is reborn, this time with no regrets!

In late spring, when the green is dark and the red is sparse, the garden party by the Jinming Lake is about to begin.

Liang Han personally went to the gate of Duke Qi's Mansion to pick up the young master early in the morning, and the two agreed to post the last post together.

Qi Heng had been waiting for this garden party for a long time. Since the end of Zhuang Xuejiu's school, he had no legitimate reason to see Minglan, and he could not see her even when he went to Sheng's house several times. This party was only organized by Madam Wu after he urged her several times. In order not to appear abrupt, he also took Liang Han to participate in poetry and wine parties everywhere. Everyone thought that Qi Heng and Liang Liulang had become the best of buddies. When the preparations were almost done, he specially sent a letter to Zhong Qinbo's house, and "tipped" Hualan that she could bring her brothers and sisters to play together. He did so much just to see Minglan.

The two of them set off in the Liang family's carriage. Qi Heng carefully counted the remaining invitations in his hand and suddenly asked, "Did you invite Gu Tingye this time?"

He was worried that if Gu Tingye met Minglan at the party, wouldn't he be making trouble for him?

Liang Han: "No, if he comes, why would anyone else play?"

Gu Tingye is known as the best polo player in Bianjing. No one can beat him when he makes a move.

Qi Heng smiled and nodded.

Liang Han continued, "Besides, his family has lost their titles and is spurned by the government. Wouldn't it be a nuisance for everyone if we invited him here?"

Qi Heng was unhappy: "No matter what, his family is still a founding hero. Although the emperor has stripped his title, he has not demoted his official position. The Gu family may still be able to make a comeback."

It’s strange that Qi Heng can be angry with Gu Tingye, but he feels uncomfortable when he hears others talking about Gu Tingye.

Liang Han was very good at observing people's expressions. When he saw Qi Heng like this, he immediately knew that he had said something wrong, so he changed his words and said, "I am just following the crowd... After all, I have no fame now, and the title of nobility in my family will not be passed on to me. I always have to be careful when doing things. Others don't understand me, don't you understand me too?"

Qi Heng realized that he had spoken too hastily just now, and said, "Ah, I'm not blaming you, but I'm just sighing. People in this world are too snobbish. When Ningyuan Marquis's Mansion was at its peak, everyone rushed to curry favor with him. Now that the building has collapsed, everyone avoids his house like the plague."

[Will Minglan also distance herself from Gu Tingye from now on? ]

He felt a little conflicted. He wanted Minglan to distance herself from him, but he also wanted Minglan not to distance herself from him.

"Let's go see Gu Tingye first." Qi Heng said.

Liang Han couldn't understand what he was thinking, so he asked carefully: "Will this... delay sending invitations to the remaining companies?"

"Just take a look and go. It's no trouble."

Liang Han couldn't disobey, so he ordered the carriage to go to Gu's house. Qi Heng stopped him and said to the coachman, "Go to Tianshui Lane."

Liang Han raised his eyebrows: "Didn't you say you were going to see Second Brother?"

"He lives on Sweetwater Lane."

Liang Han was even more curious: "Why does he want to live there? How did the young master know?"

"It's all Gu family's business, just go." Qi Heng didn't want to say more.

In fact, it was Sheng Changbai who told him.

Qi Heng was sulking with Gu Tingye because of Minglan, and they hardly spoke to each other. It was only when something big happened to the Gu family that he realized how difficult Gu Tingye was doing. However, he was too embarrassed to ask in person, so he asked Changbai indirectly about Gu Tingye's recent situation.

Changbai was considerate of Gu Tingye and didn't tell him much about the inside story. He only told him that Gu Tingye now lived alone in Tianshui Lane and asked Qi Heng to visit him when he had time.

The carriage could not go in when it reached the entrance of Tianshui Lane, so the two men got off to see that a group of people were making a fuss at the door of a house.

"Gu Tingye! You are such a disrespectful thing. You have swallowed up the family property and are going to starve us four and five families to death!"

"It's not enough for you to take the Bai family's wealth, and you want to take our Gu family's wealth. You are so greedy!"

Two middle-aged women stood in the middle of the alley and cursed.

"Isn't this the eldest lady of the fourth and fifth rooms of the Gu family?" Liang Han frowned. "She is a noble family member after all. Why did she come to such a run-down place and act wildly?"

Qi Heng heard from Princess Pingning that these two aunts were not good people, so he usually did not get close to them or give them respectful titles.

He took a few steps forward and asked, "What happened?"

When the fourth and fifth branches of the Gu family saw him, they immediately put away their evil looks and put on smiling faces: "Oh, it's the young master of the Duke of Qi! Why are you here?"

"I'm here to see my second uncle Gu." Qi Heng said respectfully.

The fourth lady thought that this respect was directed at the Gu family, and said with a smile: "What do you mean by second uncle or not? We are both five generations apart. How can your aunt feel comfortable calling him that?"

"I only know that there is Uncle Gu, but I don't know about any aunt. My mother never mentioned her to me." Qi Heng continued to be respectful and polite.

The fourth roommate was so embarrassed that she wanted to make amends, so she said flatteringly: "You call him Second Uncle Gu, and I am his aunt, so doesn't that mean I am your aunt?"

Qi Heng laughed: "You are his aunt? I have always known that family members love each other and that elders love their younger generations. I have never seen an aunt come to her nephew's house and curse him. Madam, are you joking?"

"You!" The fourth room's expression changed immediately.

Liang Han stepped in front of Qi Heng, and several guards surrounded the people from the fourth and fifth rooms. Gu Tingye and Shitou in the room also opened the door and walked out.

Gu Tingye said to Qi Heng with a smile: "You are here."

Qi Heng nodded and pointed at a few Gu family wives: "What's going on?"

"They are blind and deaf, unable to understand my grandfather's will and the elders' teachings. We separated from our family more than ten years ago, yet they still refuse to leave our big house. My father raised them for so many years out of the love we had as brothers, but instead they became enemies. They say they also have a share of our big house's property, and they even want a share of my mother's dowry. Don't you think it's ridiculous?" Gu Tingye told the family scandal to everyone in the street, and there was an uproar all around.

The people from the fourth and fifth rooms did not expect Gu Tingye to do this. Their faces turned purple and they cursed, "Nonsense! You and your son caused us to lose the ancestral title of the Gu family. Shouldn't you compensate us?"

Gu Tingye was about to retort when Qi Heng suddenly asked, "Hey, Second Uncle, I remember your family was punished because of a dispute between your son and nephew, right?"

Gu Tingye immediately understood and answered, "Yes! It's because of the fight over the family property."

Qi Heng: "I didn't believe it at first, but today I saw what these two ladies did and realized what the government said was true. It is said that if a son is not well educated, it is the fault of the father, but the children and nephews of the Gu family are not all the blood of the old uncle. It is fair to punish the whole generation of the old uncle."

Gu Tingye: "Yes, even if the uncles and aunts have no official positions and no means of livelihood, it is okay to capture them and exile them a few hundred miles away."

Qi Heng: "That's right. It's my uncle who is so righteous and took on everything by himself."

Gu Tingye: "But some people are so ungrateful. Not only do they save our lives, they also want to blackmail us."

Liang Han had already heard the direction of the wind at this time, and also said: "I will ask my father to submit a memorial to the emperor and explain what I saw today. I also want to seek justice for Lord Gu and let those who really deserve punishment be punished."

When the fourth and fifth rooms heard this, they shouted anxiously, "Young Master! If you have something to say, just talk it over! This... this is all a misunderstanding, all a misunderstanding!"

Liang Han was not familiar with them and did not want to give them face, so he stood in front and shouted angrily: "Get out of here!"

The two Gu family mothers ran away in shame with a group of people.

The onlookers ate their fill and learned two important things today! One was that the young man living in Tianshui Lane was actually from a marquis family; the second was that the incident of seizing the title that had caused a great uproar a few days ago was actually from this marquis family; the third was that this marquis family had such shameless uncles and aunts. From then on, the people of Bianjing shifted their criticism from Gu Tingye to these uncles and aunts.

Gu Tingye invited Qi and Liang into the courtyard. Qi Heng stepped in, and Liang Han followed him in with a frown.

"Why are you here at this time?" Gu Tingye didn't ask Qi Heng about his well-being from beginning to end.

Qi Heng: "I heard that you live here, so I came to see you. Those two were making such a big fuss just now, why didn't you come out to stop them?" This is very different from Gu Tingye's usual style.

"I was just waiting for them to bring everyone here so that I could embarrass them all at once." Gu Tingye took out three wine glasses from the cabinet, "but I didn't expect to bring you here as well. Now, my two aunts probably won't dare to come again for half a year."

"I see," Qi Heng couldn't help but laugh. Gu Tingye was still the same Gu Tingye. "But why... why do you live in such a shabby place?"

"Don't listen to the sound of leaves being blown by wind in the forest. Why not sing and walk slowly?" Gu Tingye didn't answer him. He poured wine from the pot on the table and recited while shaking his head.

Qi Heng loved Gu Tingye's unrestrained character the most. Seeing that he did not answer but recited poetry, he shook his head and laughed, took the wine, and said, "A bamboo stick and straw sandals are lighter than a horse..." and glanced at Liang Han.

Liang Han also took the wine handed over by Gu Tingye, closed his eyes and yelled: "Who's afraid!?"

"A raincoat and a straw hat allow me to face the wind and rain all my life! Hahahaha!" The three of them chanted together and drank it in one gulp.