Minglan is reborn, this time with no regrets!

"The emperor is right. You really understand his thoughts and temperament very well." Gu Yankai looked at his beloved eldest son with a complicated expression. "Yu'er, I just realized today that you are such a person."

Gu Tingyu lowered his eyes, not daring to look his father in the eye.

"I used to think that you and Xiao Qin were both simple and weak people like your biological mother. I was afraid that you would be blown by the wind and rain, and I always wanted to protect you. But I never thought that you stabbed me from behind."

Gu Tingyu and his family of three knelt down again.

Gu Yankai didn't look at them, and said to Gu Tingye: "What your elder brother said is not wrong, but not entirely. The emperor did intend to give me some time. He was sure that I had misjudged my family, and wanted me to tell you the news myself, so that you can see with your own eyes the sincerity of a family when disaster strikes. I thought your uncles and aunts would be furious, but I didn't think that your mother... Xiao Qinshi turned out to be the cruelest one."

He shook his head in self-mockery: "I am unworthy of being the descendant of a military general, but I even committed the taboo of unstable rear and disunited army. Ha, it is not unfair that the Gu family lost to me."

Gu Tingye agreed with him, but he still comforted him: "It's up to us, father, don't blame yourself. Why do you say that what my brother said is not entirely right?"

Gu Yankai said: "The government will not let us off easily. He will punish us with great fanfare. I said that the government would deprive us of our titles for the crime of immoral behavior. I was not lying. As a father, I have immoral behavior and fail to manage my family strictly, which has led to the fighting between my nephews and nieces and the fight for the family property. I must bear this crime."

Both brothers frowned in thought.

Gu Tingye asked tentatively: "Is it... for the purpose of establishing a crown prince?"

Gu Yankai nodded, "Recently, the fight between the Prince of Yan and the Prince of Yong has intensified. The emperor has lost his appetite and sleepless nights because of this. Both of them are outstanding members of the royal family. They are both very old, so we cannot scold them like we would a child. But if we don't punish them, the fight between the two princes will probably cause chaos in the world."

Gu Tingye: "So, the emperor plans to use the Gu family... use my father to reason with the two princes."

Gu Yankai sighed, "It is the fault of the father if he fails to educate his child. It is definitely unfair for the parents to have two sons fighting for their child. This is true for my family and for the whole world. The emperor is taking all the blame on himself."

Gu Tingye: "But this is a struggle for imperial power. Even if the emperor is fair, there is only one throne. The winner will rule the world, and the loser will lose his head. How can this be compared to a fight for family property in a small family?"

Gu Yankai said, "The emperor knows this, but if he attacks any one of them, people will think the other party has gained power, and the oppression will become more rampant. The emperor has no other choice."

Gu Tingye: "So, father said that the title will be taken away for sure, but the property may not be confiscated?"

Gu Yankai said, "That's right. The purpose of taking away the title was to make this matter bigger. The purpose of not confiscating the property was to make this matter bigger and to leave a glimmer of hope for the Gu family."

Gu Tingye: "It's really hard to be an emperor."

Gu Yankai glanced at him and said, "This is called loving your son as much as others love theirs. The emperor has really cared about the Gu family. Don't take advantage of me."

Gu Tingye bowed and said, "My son will learn from you."

Gu Yankai stared at him for a while, and seeing that he didn't ask any other questions, he couldn't help but ask, "Don't you feel bad about your own ranking? The government wants to revoke your title, but not confiscating your property is already a mercy outside the law. He has no reason to take back what he said in anger. You can't enter the imperial examination hall before you are fifty years old."

Gu Tingye sighed: "Son has already thought of it."

Gu Yankai: "Tell me about it."

"Since the government wants to use the Gu family as an example, there is absolutely no reason for him to let me off the hook. If he revokes his order and allows me to take the imperial examination, it will allow others to figure out what's going on. If the fact that my elder brother disrupted the imperial examination spreads, the situation will become distorted, and the government's purpose of making a warning will not be achieved, right?"

"Then what are you going to do?" Gu Yankai asked in a testing tone, no longer full of doubts like before.

"Although the government has forbidden me to take the imperial examination, it has never forbidden me to become an official. If I cannot become a civil servant, then I will join the army. I have the skills my father taught me, and if I join the army, I will definitely not fall behind others."

Gu Tingye's heart knot was no longer there, his eyes and eyebrows regained the youthful spirit, and his conversation was full of energy, leaving the only remaining members of the Gu family in the room stunned.

……

Xiao Qin's mother and son sat in the carriage and hurried to Dongchang Marquis' Mansion.

Gu Tingwei: "Mother, what is the current situation of my uncle's family? There are so many concubines and aunts. If we go back like this, won't we be ostracized by all the people in the house?"

Xiao Qinshi: "What do you know? If we go back, at least we can still survive. If we stay at Gu's house, I'm afraid we will even lose our lives."

Gu Tingwei: "Maybe not. If the government really treated my elder brother cruelly, how could they have left so much time for our family? They should have come to confiscate our home last night. They also sent the imperial physician to carefully treat my father. It was obviously just to scare our family."

Little Qin: "The emperor is doing this for the sake of the Qin family's reputation. He doesn't want the queen to lose face, so he gave us time to get out of this quickly. Have you really studied hard these years?"

Gu Tingwei: "Humph, I want to study hard, but what kind of people did you ask Xiang Ma to put in my room? They push me to do this and that every day. If it weren't for my second brother's kind reminder, I would have been scolded by my father."

"What?!" Xiao Qin's eyes widened, "What did Gu Tingye tell you?"

"My second brother told me to concentrate on my studies and not to fool around with the girls in the room all day," Gu Tingwei said proudly, "My second brother is the most clear-headed person."

"Gu Tingye, he's the one who ruined my plans!" Xiao Qin slapped her thigh in anger, "I said I stuffed so many people into your place, but there's still no movement."

Gu Tingwei said disdainfully: "Mother, what are you expecting? What kind of backgrounds are those people? Do you want me to give birth to a bunch of illegitimate children to piss off father to death?"

Xiao Qin spat at him, "You know nothing! If you could have given birth to a boy, this family wouldn't have ended up like this. I planned so much for you, but you listened to Gu Tingye's nonsense and ruined my plans. How could I have raised such a stupid thing like you!"

Xiang Mama's voice came from outside: "Miss, Third Brother, the person coming in front seems to be the eunuch who is announcing the imperial decree from the palace."

Xiao Qin hurriedly lifted a corner of the curtain to look, and sure enough, there was a eunuch sitting on a horse, followed by a line of soldiers, marching towards the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion in a mighty manner.

"Look for yourself!" Xiao Qin grabbed Gu Tingwei's ears, "With such a big scene, do you still have the guts to stay in the Gu family?"