After Gu Yanfei entered, the shopkeeper closed the door again with a "squeak".

Only Gu Yanfei and Chu Yi were left in the lounge, and the noise outside the street made the place especially quiet.

"Please." Chu Yi gracefully raised his arms to invite Gu Yanfei to sit down, his delicate eyebrows as if they were carefully outlined stroke by stroke.

Gu Yanfei sat down opposite him and subconsciously glanced at his left cuff, remembering the time when Qingguang was sharpening her claws on his cuff.

His brand-new snow-white cuffs were embroidered with delicate cloud patterns with silver silk thread. There was no trace of cat's paw hooks. It was obviously not the same clothes as before.

She laughed out loud, and then glanced covertly at the torrewood chessboard next to her. On the chessboard, the black and white chess pieces scattered around were equally matched, and they were divided into two parts.

Gu Yanfei was just taking a casual glance at it, but when he saw it, he couldn't help but be stunned.

The chess game in front of her looked really familiar. It was clearly the unfinished game she had played with him in Danyang City.

Last time it was White who made the last move.

Gu Yanfei raised his eyebrows, picked up a black stone from the chess box, and simply dropped one.

Chu Yi smiled softly and poured her a glass of wine himself: "Try this Tusu wine."

The aroma of wine in the air became stronger, mixed with a hint of medicinal aroma.

Gu Yanfei picked up the white porcelain wine glass and took a sip of the wine, savoring the sweet and medicinal aroma of the wine in his mouth. He squinted his eyes with satisfaction, and saw Chu Yi opposite him casually lifting the glass hanging from the window.

The bamboo curtain above silently motioned her to look outside.

The street outside was noisy and lively. A luxurious black lacquered flat-top carriage parked in front of another restaurant across the street. Two young men with different appearances and temperaments walked out of the restaurant side by side. One was in his 27s and 27s.

One year old, another year will be the weakest.

The weak-headed young man is wearing a dark purple brocade robe carved with Eight Immortals. He is heroic, proud and dignified. He is none other than Kang Wang Chuyou.

Gu Yanfei glanced from Kang and Wang to the black carriage at the door of the restaurant, and found a gold orchid mark engraved on the roof.

Gu Yanfei thought for a while, recognized the orchid mark, raised an eyebrow and asked: "The Yuan family?"

This orchid mark is the family emblem of the Yuan family in Jizhou, the natal family of the current Queen Mother.

Gu Yanfei actually didn't know much about those aristocratic families. He only knew that the four major families of Wang, Xie, Yuan, and Xiao were the heads of the high aristocratic families.

"Yes." Chu Yi held up the white porcelain wine glass, twirled the glass casually with his slender fingers, and sighed meaningfully, "There is no humble family in the top class, and there is no aristocratic family in the bottom class."

What he said was the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System.

Before the establishment of the Jing Dynasty, the Han, Jin, Wei and other dynasties implemented a recommendation system based on the "nine-grade Zhongzheng system". For the sake of profit and salary, officials joined each other and gradually formed some families with many generations of officials.

These aristocratic families occupy a large amount of land in the local area and have held high positions for generations. Their status has risen again and again over hundreds of years. They even raise troops privately, which means they rule the states and counties where they are located. Even the government of the court is almost controlled by these aristocratic families.

Control.

After the establishment of the Da Jing Dynasty, Emperor Taizu also intended to weaken these high-ranking families and tried to implement the imperial examination system in the court to show the court's determination to merit only merit. Unfortunately, the country was just established at that time and its foundation was not stable. The Yue Kingdom in the south also

As he was about to make a move, Emperor Taizu couldn't make a move for the time being, so he could only put it aside for the time being.

Chu Yi looked down through the window, and his eyes fell on the man next to King Kang. He was a man in brocade robes with a medium build and elegant appearance.

"This is Yuan Zhe, the next head of the Yuan family, Prince Kang's cousin." Chu Yi introduced.

Queen Mother Yuan is the biological sister of the current head of the Yuan family, and is also the direct aunt of Yuan Zhe.

Back then, when Emperor Taizu selected the empress Yuan for his late emperor, he did not choose a girl from an aristocratic family, but chose the Liu family from a poor family, because he deliberately suppressed the aristocratic family.

However, after Liu's death, the late emperor still married Yuan, a daughter of an aristocratic family, as his heir.

This is undoubtedly a signal that the late emperor showed his goodwill to the high-class family.

"Now a quarter of the courtiers in the court are elected by aristocratic families, including the direct descendants of the Yuan family." Chu Yi raised the corners of his lips with a half-smile, his eyes clear and cold.

These high-ranking families who have been ministers for many years are united in the court for their own interests, and even the emperor must be restricted by them.

After he returned to Beijing this time, his father wanted to let him go to court, but the courtiers from these families jointly opposed it...

Chu Yi stopped clicking and said nothing more. The white piece in his hand fell lightly on the chessboard, and the sound of the falling piece was clear and crisp.

The astute Gu Yanfei understood Chu Yi's current situation from these few words. The words "dire straits" are not enough to describe it.

but……

Thinking of all the things happening in Danyang City, Gu Yanfei smiled slightly, it was obvious that Chu Yi didn't have much to do with him.

Gu Yanfei stared at Chu Yi's face with interest.

The golden light outside the window gently dyed his eyebrows, and his facial features were softer and more beautiful than usual. The bright red tear mole made his skin gleaming like jade, like a finely carved jade.

picture.

Chu Yi: "..."

Chu Yi also looked back at her quietly, with a pair of clear, almost straight eyes, like a clear spring, which seemed to reflect everything in the world, and as if even his soul had been seen through.

Under this gaze, Chu Yi's expression remained unchanged, and he didn't even move the corners of his eyes or eyebrows.

It was quiet in the lounge.

Gu Yanfei stared at him for a while, then suddenly smiled with interest and whispered silently: Sure enough.

Chu Yi raised his right eyebrow slightly and looked at her doubtfully.

Gu Yanfei didn't say anything, he picked up a sunspot and dropped it with his usual decisive approach.

Sure enough, he was not well received by Heaven either.

Just like myself!

Gu Yanfei couldn't help but think of herself.

In her life in the Yaoling Realm, she had no father or mother, and was picked up by her master when she was eight years old.

The master once calculated her fortune and said that she was destined to commit the Seven Kills and was not treated favorably by Heaven and was abandoned by Heaven.

It only takes one year for ordinary people, but it would take her ten years and a hundred times the effort to make up for the flaws in her destiny. It is even more incomparable to those children of luck and the darlings of heaven.

Therefore, even if she has Tianlinggen, her cultivation is not going smoothly.

Even if he tried his best, it took him nearly two hundred years to get a chance to break through the golden elixir. However, he was once again burdened by the inner demons of his previous life, fell into a catastrophe, and returned to this small world.

Everything starts again...

Thinking about it, Gu Yanfei's face showed an expression of joy, a bit of sympathy, and a sigh of relief.

To put it bluntly, they really feel the same pain!

I think about it, when Gu Yanfei was playing chess, he showed no mercy at all, and every black stone aggressively killed all the white stones.

－－－－－－Digression－－－－－

Qingguang: "Meow meow meow..."
Chapter completed!