The Multiverse Starting from White Deer Plain

If you have a future, others will make friends with you.

Bai Gui understands this deeply.

He was from a poor family, and when he first entered school, he made friends with very few people. But as his talent for reading emerged, his status became higher and higher step by step. In addition, he was good at handling interpersonal relationships, so he gradually made more and more friends on his own initiative.

When it was his turn, he did the same.

After reaching a certain status, you will not deliberately make friends with people whose status is much lower than yourself. It sounds inhumane and cruel. But it is what it is.

When you are poor in the busy city, no one cares about you; when you are rich in the mountains, you have distant relatives.

Therefore, he believes that it is normal to follow the crowd before making friends.

The important thing is to have feelings after making friends. If a friend is unfortunately in trouble and is not cold-hearted in dealing with things and is willing to lend a helping hand, he is considered a close friend.

This is crucial!

"My husband is right."

"Wu Huaixian's tendency to follow others' influence has little to do with us. Now... let's see how he handles the relationship between Miss Chen and his wife. If... he divorces his wife and supports the Zhangtai man..."

Bai Xiuzhu first agreed with what Bai Gui said, then said with a cold expression.

"That makes sense."

"If there is nothing wrong with the wife and she is divorced... then Wu Huaixian will definitely not last long."

Bai Gui nodded and said seriously.

Never mind that Wu Huai's decision to divorce his wife had something to do with him, and there was no room for outsiders to interfere. But on a moral level, if the wife makes no big mistake and divorces her, this is a flaw in her own morality.

If Wu Huaixian was not willing to treat the person next to him kindly, how could there be any brotherhood for his classmate?

As expected, the banquet ended not long after.

Within a few days, about three or four days, news came from the Wu Mansion that Wu Huaixian wanted to divorce his wife, causing an uproar in the whole city of Chang'an.

If things go according to normal time, it will take quite some time for Miss Chen and Wu Huaixian to get into trouble before they reach the point of divorcing their wife. But obviously, this banquet undoubtedly intensified the conflict between the two.

At this time, Bai Gui learned that the name of the Zhangtai person was Su Lin.

This is not because he deliberately inquired.

But... this Zhangtai person named Su Lin blocked him once at the door of Bai Zhai.

"Now is the new era after the Qing Dynasty. Everyone pays attention to monogamy and free love. Mr. Bai, you are a great writer and progressive scholar..."

"Now Master Wu and the slave family truly love each other. According to the laws of this dynasty, it is natural to divorce Mrs. Wu Chen, a shrew. You see, this is a sign that Mrs. Wu Chen is teasing the slave family."

Su Lin forced her way into Bai's house, took off her sleeves, pointed at the scabbed and bleeding scars, and cried, asking Bai Gui to give her justice.

In the house, there were also a lot of melon-eating people.

"Hi! This Wu Chen family is really ruthless. I heard that she spent a lot of money and wanted to find the brothel madam to buy this daughter-in-law and then beat Shen Tang to death."

"But this is an internal matter of the Wu family. What does it mean to go to Mr. Bai's residence?"

"You don't know this, right? Mr. Bai and Mr. Wu have a close friendship. They are both classmates who studied abroad. Furthermore, Mr. Bai is a progressive scholar and a pioneer in breaking down old ideas. If Mr. Bai publishes an article in a newspaper, Mr. Bai With my support, even if I divorce my wife, it won’t cause much trouble..."

"It will have the least impact on Wu Mansion."

The onlookers exchanged words in low voices.

No one is stupid.

Su Lin's move to rush into Bai's house and ask Bai Gui to administer "justice" seemed like a foolish move.

After all, according to common sense, as friends, they usually don't help each other. Even if they help, they are helping their wives, and they will never help a concubine.

But who makes us now in an era of most intense ideological changes.

Su Lin has no place for old ideas. But the new ideas will encourage Su Lin and Wu Huai to pursue so-called love first, and then divorce their wives.

At this time, many progressive scholars divorced their wives after studying abroad and returning to China.

"Miss Su, I am not an official presiding over justice, I am just an idle person who occasionally writes a few articles."

"You ask me to administer justice, but I cannot administer justice."

"If Miss Su wants to go to court to file a lawsuit, this complaint... I may be able to help you write it, Miss Su, but my price is higher, one silver dollar per word. This is a fair price. If it's less, I won't do it."

Bai Gui sat on the main seat in the living room, looked down at Su Lin who was kneeling in the hall, and said slowly.

He doesn't like to cause trouble.

"this……"

Su Lin was stunned for a moment.

This was different from the progressive scholars she saw in the newspapers. After studying abroad and returning to China, these progressive scholars basically have to give advice on all aspects of government affairs. When encountering the conflict between new ideas and old ideas, even if something is wrong in secular morality, they can use the new ideas as the reason. , held in pairs.

Of course, the actions of these progressive scholars are suspected of being judgmental. But those who seek the best will get it. This is Brother Xun's theory of opening a skylight. When it comes to opening a skylight, no one will allow it, because the Chinese people's temperament is conciliatory and compromise. But if they advocate demolishing the roof, they will come to conciliate. , willing to open the sunroof.

It's just that... the skylight theory has endless benefits for national affairs. But for an individual, a grain of ashes from the times is like a big mountain when it falls on his head.

There is no such thing as a perfect thing!

Just like this moment.

If a progressive scholar were to judge this matter, wouldn't they know that Su Lin was wrong? But free love and embracing freedom are major events that tear down the feudal roof. To deny it is to deny the general direction. Su Lin's "wrong" is actually correct, which is in line with the trend of the times at this time.

"Mr. Bai..."

"The slave family had a poor life. He sold his body to bury his father at the age of five. He entered a brothel at an early age and did hard work. He didn't have enough to eat or wear warm clothes every day. He finally met a good family and secretly agreed to it for the rest of his life. Little did he know that this was a dangerous thing. It became the reason for the death of the slave family..."

"The slave family's life is miserable!"

Su Lin fell to the ground, crying like pear blossoms and rain.

Many people felt a little soft-hearted when they saw this scene, and spoke up for Su Lin, hoping that Bai Gui would help this miserable brothel girl.

"Before agreeing for life, did Miss Su know that Brother Huai had a wife?"

Bai Gui frowned slightly, thought for a while, and asked.

He originally planned to just say nothing and just let the matter go. After all, this was an internal matter of the Wu family and it was not easy for him to get involved. But now that these idle people are helping him and Su Lin deliberately created a miserable persona, if he continues to ignore it, he will It is inevitable that some things cannot be justified.

Once you turn around and leave, the good guys will make arrangements. There will be some damage to his reputation. If he were elsewhere, that would be fine with him, but now he was in his hometown, and it was necessary to maintain his reputation.

"The slave family doesn't know."

Su Lin sobbed.

In the brothel business, one gets to know three religions and nine schools of thought. Wu Mansion is a local gentry. How could she not know the eldest son of Wu Mansion? She was just trying to hide it at this moment.

"What happens after you agree?"

Bai Gui asked again.

"The Nu family... The Nu family knew about Master Wu's identity about a month ago, yes, a month ago."

Su Lin affirmed.

"I just heard someone next to me say that Miss Chen wanted to buy your deed of prostitution and beat you to death in Shen Tang. I don't know if this is true. She has been gone for seven years. If Miss Chen is jealous and has such a vicious heart, she really deserves it. Divorce your wife..."

Bai Gui pretended to be deep in thought and looked at Su Lin, seeming to encourage her to continue speaking.

"Mr. Bai is right. Wu Chen really wants to buy the slave family and sink the slave family into the pond... If Master Wu hadn't been kind-hearted and bought the sale deed earlier, now the slave family... the slave family might have sunk to the bottom of the river and become a That's a lonely ghost."

Su Lin was secretly happy and hurriedly followed Bai Gui's words.

She was not lying when she said this. There is no smoke without fire. When Wu Huaixian and Wu Chen were at odds, Wu Chen had indeed said such harsh words.

"When I was taking the imperial examination, Chen Xuezheng was my tutor, and we had a master-student relationship. It was he and Governor Fang Zhu Yi who counted my foreheads and ranked me at the top of the list, and I became Xiao Sanyuan. Wu Chen is the daughter of Chen Xuezheng... ..., I couldn’t just ignore it, so I wrote to Chen Xuezheng and asked him to take more care of him and impose strict family discipline..."

"By the way, I have already written a petition for you, accusing Wu Chen, Wu Huaixian's wife, of being jealous and intending to kill someone. Come over and sign, and I will submit it to the government right now."

"Don't worry, although you were born with a poor life and are as humble as an ant, I will help you..."

Bai Gui picked up the pen and wrote with smooth movements. While writing, he muttered a few words.

He dried the ink on the paper and prepared to hand it to Su Lin.

"The slave family..., the slave family..."

Su Lin turned pale with fright and did not dare to accept the letter.

At this time, the punishment for the crime of false accusation was basically to sit down. "Everyone who makes a false accusation will stand up, that is, the official who corrects the accusation will use his own power to accuse the matter. The same goes for those who make false accusations."

In the early years of the Republic of China, the laws of the former Qing Dynasty were also used, but some places were deleted, deleted, and modified.

She heard clearly just now that Chen Xuezheng, Wu Chen's biological father, was Bai Gui's original examiner for the imperial examination, and he had a teacher-teacher relationship. Although the relationship was not very strong, with this relationship, Bai Gui could not possibly seduce Miss Chen. To death.

Even if there is no such relationship, Miss Chen is just talking fast and saying harsh words, so killing someone out of jealousy is not justified. On the contrary, if she is making a false accusation and it is true..., sitting back is a capital crime.

In order to fight for the position of the main wife, it is okay to risk your life, but if you only risk her life, it is not worth it just thinking about it.

The jealous wife paid for the murder. Even if the evidence was conclusive, the crime was not attempted and execution could not be discussed. Furthermore, with Miss Chen's family background to help, there will basically be no major punishment.

All she wanted was for Bai Gui to publish an article in the newspaper in support of Wu Huai's divorce.

As for face, brothel girls are more shameless than ordinary people when they are exposed to the public.

"Miss Su, I have already written the petition for you."

Bai Gui frowned and asked.

His actions seemed a bit unkind, inhumane, and insulting to those above him, but he was not an official, just a socialite.

To be fair, it's not his turn to deal with it.

If Qin Province is full of corrupt officials, then there is no need. There are still a few honest officials in the entire officialdom. There are not many but not few officials who are willing to stand up for Su Lin, as long as what she says is indeed true.

In addition, Su Lin broke into Bai Zhai and forced him to express his position in both words and deeds.

With Bai Gui's knowledge, he had already judged that this person was not a kind person.

Even if he took a step back and said that what Su Lin said was not lies, she was just a kind-hearted woman with a little bit of scheming, then he had already written this letter of petition for Su Lin. She only needed to sign it and post it, and then she could go to court and file a lawsuit. .

As for the threats, he just told the truth about his relationship with Chen Xuezheng, which was better than letting Su Lin know about it afterwards.

"The slave family came in a hurry this time..."

"I never knew that Mr. Bai had such a relationship with Miss Chen's biological father, which made Mr. Bai laugh."

Su Lin covered her face with her sleeves and cried.

After saying that, she bowed to Bai Gui Yingying and left straight away.

After Su Lin left, the pedestrians who broke into the white house dispersed.

It didn't take long.

The Wu Mansion learned about this.

Wu Huaixian came to apologize with Miss Chen.

"Brother Meihe, I was confused and mistakenly believed in the brothel girl."

"Ashamed to say it!"

"Su Lin has always wanted me to divorce my wife. I once made a mistake while drunk and agreed. Of course, this matter does not count. How can I really marry my wife."

"She had a bad temper yesterday. I didn't pay much attention to it. I didn't expect that she would actually come to brother Meihe's mansion to cause trouble."

Wu Huaixian looked apologetic and apologized.

If he said he wanted to divorce Miss Chen, he really had this idea. It's just that he has many fears and has never dared to take action. After all, it is not easy to divorce a wife. Not to mention Zhou Ying's test, he also couldn't pass the test of secular public opinion and morality.

It was only because Su Lin kept being arrogant and Miss Chen refused to admit defeat that the rumors about this useless wife became more and more widespread.

"I would also like to thank Mr. Bai for speaking up."

Miss Chen expressed her gratitude to Bai Gui.

Although Bai Gui did not contribute much in this matter, Bai Gui's status is there, and one sentence may change the current situation.

If Bai Gui supports Su Lin as a progressive person, the outcome may be uncertain.

Now Bai Gui asked Su Lin to retreat before the difficulties, which was a great help to her.

"This is a trivial matter. Brother Huai and Miss Chen don't need to say thank you."

Bai Gui nodded and said.

Although this matter delayed him for some time, which made him feel a little unhappy. But now that this incident is over, the Wu family owes him a favor, and they will do their best to treat the Bai family in the future.

That being said, it's polite to be polite.

The Wu Mansion came to send a lot of apology gifts this time, including treasures, antiques and other items, at least a thousand silver dollars.

afterwards.

After Wu Huaixian experienced this battle, he restrained his temper.

And Miss Chen also turned a blind eye to Wu Huaixian. As long as it did not threaten her position as the head wife, it would be a good thing.

In addition, during this period, Bai Gui not only made friends with classmates such as Wu Huaixian and Liu Mingda, but also made friends with some local gentry in Qin Province, asking them to take care of the Bai family, so as to relieve him of worries about his death.

Similarly, he also asked Bai Youde and Aunt Wang to do more good deeds, accumulate more merit, and not to be evil gentry or powerful people.

No matter how much, he wouldn't be able to help much.

And during this period.

Baigui received a reply from Satomi Naoko again.

She was suffering from consumption.

He said that he wanted to see the scenery of the world, because the scenery of various countries written by Bai Gui in "The Rise of Great Powers" was very beautiful.

She wanted to see it for the rest of her life.

"Pity……"

Bai Gui thought of the girl eating chestnuts on the train and sighed.