After eavesdropping on my thoughts, my whole family changed their fate

The man in front of me was pale and thin, his hair was like dead grass, his clothes were tattered, one of his shoes was missing, and his face was covered with mud.

He was very puzzled, "How...how do you know that I am a scholar?"

He looked so miserable, like a beggar, but it was amazing that this little guy could tell that he was a scholar.

Jin Yuanyuan pointed at his hand holding the steamed bun.

"Although you have a lot of chilblains on your fingers, your skin is delicate and smooth. You can tell at a glance that you have never done heavy work. In addition, there is a thick layer of calluses on the middle finger of your right hand, which are obviously calluses from writing."

Although he looked disheveled and his clothes were ragged, she could see the pride of a scholar at a glance and she would not be wrong.

After hearing what his daughter said, Jin Ruoyun began to pay attention to this person and observe his every move.

Seeing that he was limping and really looked like a scholar as her daughter said, she guessed that he was the person Sang Xiaowan wanted to bring to her.

After taking the steamed bread, the man came over to Jin Ruoyun to get the porridge.

After she served him a bowl of porridge, Jin Ruoyun asked tentatively:

"Tong Qi? Are you Tong Qi?"

The man looked up at her in surprise, "Madam, do you know me?"

It was strange that she could say her name accurately when he obviously didn't know her.

Seeing his reaction, it was undoubtedly Tong Qi. Jin Ruoyun asked Dingxiang to take him downstairs to wash up.

By the evening, all the food had been distributed and Jin Ruoyun dragged his tired body back to his courtyard.

Jin Yuanyuan, who heard the whole story on the way, was trying hard to recall who Tong Qi was. After thinking for a long time, she finally figured it out from a corner.

[Tong Qi... that Tong Qi! It seems that after Gu Boqing won the third place, someone said that Gu Boqing stole someone else's place and said that he was not the first place. The name of the troublemaker was Tong Qi! But it was not a big deal at the time and it was soon forgotten. I thought it was a trivial matter.]

[If Tong Qi was really replaced by someone else, then everything makes sense. Sang Xiaowan knew Gu Boqing the best and insisted on bringing Tong Qi to her mother. Gu Boqing's third place might have been replaced by someone else! ]

[That's great, that's great! If it's true, his head will definitely fall to the ground! ]

Hearing Jin Yuanyuan's inner voice, Jin Ruoyun's eyelashes trembled slightly, and she was so excited that she wanted to run back immediately to ask Tong Qi if it was just as Yuanyuan said, that Gu Boqing replaced his place.

Gu An also heard Yuanyuan's thoughts. He was deeply shaken and anxious to know the truth.

Only Cheng Che could not hear what was in his mind. When he saw the mother and her two children suddenly quicken their pace and look impatient, he was filled with question marks.

When he returned to the yard, Tong Qi had already washed and changed into servant's clothes.

Although the fabric was the roughest linen, his face made the clothes look more upscale.

This man has sharp eyebrows, sharp eyes, a nose like a hanging gall bladder, and smooth yet strong facial lines.

He has a pair of phoenix eyes that can see into people's hearts with just one glance. It's a pity that there is a long scar on the side of his face, which looks shocking and scary.

The few people who had just come in were stunned, and Gu An swallowed.

Cursing in my heart.

Sure enough, this Tanhualang is not for ordinary people. He is really handsome! I am almost as handsome as him~

Jin Yuanyuan was also stunned. She used to think that her scumbag father was just good-looking enough, but now after seeing Tong Qi's appearance and thinking about Gu Boqing, he is nothing.

Jin Ruoyun was also stunned for a moment, but quickly regained her composure and extended her hand to invite him to sit down.

"Please sit down first, don't stand."

Tong Qi hadn't worn such clean clothes for a long time, and felt a little awkward.

He was alert and a little timid, not knowing what they were going to do to him.

He kept his head down, silent as a sullen person.

Jin Ruoyun felt that he was on guard and on guard. At this time, it was most taboo to beat around the bush, so she stated her identity directly.

"You don't live in Kyoto, so you may not know me. I am Gu Boqing's ex-wife, Jin Ruoyun. I have divorced him now. You can call me Madam Jin."

Hearing Gu Boqing's name, Tong Qi looked up suddenly, and saw fear and resistance in her eyes.

"What are you going to do? You want to lock me up again? It's been so many years, and the matter has been settled. I can't do anything. Please let me go!"

Judging from what he said, Gu Boqing must have done something even more outrageous to him before, which is why he is so timid and afraid.

Jin Ruoyun slowed down her voice for fear of scaring him.

"Gu Boqing and I are not in the same group, and I am not here to cause you any trouble. I just want to ask, what exactly happened between you and him in the first place?"

"I hate him as much as you do. He kept a concubine behind my back, and her child is older than mine. That's why I divorced him. We have a common enemy, and only by joining forces can we find out the truth and bring justice."

Her voice was gentle and non-aggressive.

Tong Qi gradually relaxed his body and began to look at them. He saw that their eyes were clear and they did not seem to be in the same group as Gu Boqing.

He hesitated for a while and sneered at himself.

"Oh, fairness? There are many things in this world, but there is no fairness. When I went to Beijing to take the imperial examination, I met Gu Boqing who was also here to take the imperial examination. I was with him..."

Gu Boqing and he hit it off right away and they got along very well.

They all came from poor families, and he felt that he could empathize with how difficult their path to the imperial examination was.

But unexpectedly, when the list was announced, he was not on the list.

It was as if his name had never appeared in the Imperial Examination Hall.

After knowing that it was Gu Boqing who replaced him, he turned to nowhere for help. He was about to beat the drum to complain, but he was suddenly taken away and locked up in a small village, where he stayed for more than 20 years.

There was one thing Cheng Che was puzzled about, "You were imprisoned by Gu Boqing? Then how did you escape?"

When talking about this, Tong Qi shed tears, feeling extremely heartbroken.

"Gu Boqing had someone watch me and scratch my face. He also had someone lame my foot. Some time ago, there was a war at the border."

"Everyone in the small village where I was imprisoned was massacred."

"I was locked up in the mountains and only managed to escape. After I escaped, I traveled all the way back to my hometown and found... I found that my wife, children and mother were all killed by bandits during the time I was locked up!"

"The neighbors all said they were bandits, but I know they weren't. Our people are very simple and honest, and there haven't been any bandits in over a hundred years. It was clearly Gu Boqing's people who killed them! Later, I followed them all the way to Kyoto to escape the famine."

After he escaped, he also wanted to seek revenge. Those were his wife and children, his mother. Gu Boqing was so vicious that he even spared no effort on the elderly, the weak, women and children.

But after what he had experienced, he could no longer trust anyone.

The reason why I believe them is that if they were Gu Boqing's men, they would not talk so much nonsense to him and would directly lock him up but not kill him.

Because Gu Boqing suspected that he had evidence that had not been handed over, he originally planned to kill him after killing his wife and children.

However, Gu Boqing's men accidentally overheard the poem Tong Qi was reciting, which was related to the essay that won first place that year. That's why they didn't take any action against him, but just locked him up and tortured him.

I just heard that they also have a grudge against Gu Boqing, maybe they can help him clear his name.

His eyes were filled with hatred for Gu Boqing, and he wished he could rush over and stab him dozens of times.

"You came to me not just to listen to my story, right? What do you want me to do? Tell me."