It was almost noon, at the Imperial College, when the school was over, the students left the reading room and walked on the way to the canteen. They were talking about topics of interest to them. Although it was summer vacation now, some students stayed on campus, so the campus was still very popular.

On the tree-lined avenue, there were teachers walking among the crowd.

One of them was over 50 years old and was thin and looked unsatisfied. He shrugged his shoulders and headed like the word "mountain". From a distance, he looked like a monkey. When a student saw it, he couldn't help but be curious and started to talk in a low voice.

Ouyang Xun felt someone pointing at him and looking up, but those people returned to "normal" and acted as if nothing had happened.

Ouyang Xun could guess what these people wanted to say and what they were saying. He was unhappy. However, he had no evidence and was not easy to attack. He could only treat it as if he had not seen it, and slowly walked forward and walked out of the door.

Next to the gate of the Imperial College, there were many carriages waiting, one of which was the carriage in Ouyang Xun's mansion. When the servant saw him coming out, he quickly came forward.

Ouyang Xun asked while boarding the bus, "Are you ready for your luggage?"

"Master Huilang, you are all ready and you will be able to set off in a while."

Seeing that Ouyang Xun was not very happy, the servant didn't dare to say anything. After he sat down, he signaled the driver to drive away quickly.

Ouyang Xun sat in the car, looking at the street view outside the window, and thinking about official business.

The provincial examination is imminent, and he is a doctor of the Imperial College. He is ordered by the Ministry of Rites to invigilate the examination. He should have set out a few days ago, but because of the busy academic affairs of the Imperial College, he had to explain a lot of things, so he was delayed until today to leave.

The examination room where Ouyang Xun was to invigilate the examination was Chengdu, the Yizhou General Administration. The road was not short, but fortunately, the road to Shu has been widened and leveled, so the time required on the road was nearly one-third shorter than before. Otherwise, he would easily be "late" when he set out now.

As he thought about it, Ouyang Xun thought of the fact that some students pointed at him and whispered to him just now, and couldn't help but feel annoyed.

He looks a bit special. He was despised as "如" when he was young. Unexpectedly, after decades later, the Chen State was destroyed for nearly twenty years, and this kind of rumor remains.

Normal people who are so despised, they will most likely turn against each other on the spot, but the situation back then was special, so he could only remain silent, so the rumors became more and more exaggerated. In the end, he directly said that he was born of a monkey.

Ouyang Xun knew that his appearance was indeed something, but what else could he do if his parents were given their bodies and hair?

Thinking of this, Ouyang Xun sighed helplessly.

His life experience was somewhat tortuous. He was from Linxiang, Xiangzhou, and his family was a powerful local family. His grandfather Ouyang Fu was promoted to a general of Liang State for his military achievements, and attacked the barbarians of the ridges and opposed them. During the Hou Jing Rebellion, he suppressed the barbarians of the ridges until the establishment of the Chen State.

His father, Ouyang Hezi, inherited his father's business and guarded Lingbiao. He served as the governor of Guangzhou for many years. Later, he became suspicious of Emperor Chen Xu and appointed him as the General of the Left Guard and entered the capital to take office.

Ouyang He believed that this was transferring the tiger away from the mountain, so he rebelled. He was defeated and died the following year. The Ouyang family was escorted to Jiankang by the same age, and the whole family was killed. Ouyang Xun, who was in his teenage years old, escaped by chance.

A few months later, the Empress Dowager passed away and Emperor Chen was pardoned by the world. Ouyang Xun escaped the disaster and was adopted by his father's friend, Mr. Jiang.

Because he was a descendant of a traitor, Ouyang Xun could only remain silent in the face of malicious ridicule, so that those people became more and more unscrupulous and the rumors became increasingly unpleasant, saying that his mother was kidnapped by the ape spirit in the mountains and when Ouyang He was rescued, she had already had a secret marriage.

This kind of life attack is a great humiliation, but Ouyang Xun could only tolerate it. Fortunately, his adoptive father, General Jiang, has a high position and no one dares to ridicule him in person. These rumors are spread privately.

Later, when the Chen State was destroyed, Ouyang Xun thought that such boring rumors would gradually disappear, but he did not expect that they would spread in Chang'an City recently.

After the demise of Chen State, Ouyang Xun was appointed in Zhou State. He always acted cautiously and would not provoke people on his own initiative. However, there were still people spreading rumors so randomly. He could guess the reason, that was jealousy.

Ouyang Xun is good at writing, but he dares not say that he is the best in the world. But except for Yu Shinan, who is also good at writing, no one dares to compare with him, so some villains are unable to compare with him in public and secretly spread rumors and slandering him, saying that he was "born by ape". This move is extremely bad.

Fortunately, when Zi did not judge people by his appearance today, Ouyang Xun was appointed as a Ph.D. in the Imperial College. Not only did he teach, but he also had to participate in academic affairs. He had to be sent out to work many times, and he accumulated his resume faster than many colleagues, so it was natural to be jealous of others.

But even so, slandering others is abusive and ape is too dirty!

......

In the afternoon, the sun was shining, but Yuwen Wen's face was covered with dark clouds. As the emperor, he rarely had such an expression. Once this expression appeared, it meant that someone was in trouble.

The eunuchs serving the palace maids beside each other were careful, for fear that they would provoke the unmoved emperor inadvertently. Even the white parrot in the semi-open bird cage by the window "a tuft of hair" was shut up and did not dare to say anything.

Xiao Jiuniang, who was the "secretary" on the side, also noticed that her husband was in a very bad mood and waited carefully, for fear that Yuwen Wen would get angry and beat him.

She was not afraid that Yuwen Wen would beat her, but that Yuwen Wen would take his anger into his anger at the palace maids and eunuchs. If someone took advantage of the situation and asked someone to drag a certain palace maid or eunuch to beat her, she would be afraid that she would be beaten to death.

Although Yuwen Wen has never had many palace maids in the palace since he ascended the throne, and the eunuch was beaten to death, Yuwen Wen is obviously in a very bad mood now, and Xiao Jiuniang doesn't know what will happen if the other party is really angry.

There was a voice outside the hall, and then someone appeared at the door. Xiao Jiuniang saw that it was the observation that Li Sanjiu had arrived, and she felt a little relieved.

"You all retreat."

Hearing Yuwen Wen's words suddenly popped up, Xiao Jiuniang signaled the palace maids, and the eunuchs retreated, and then he also retreated.

Only Li Sanjiu, who was standing in front of him, stayed in the hall. Yuwen Wen rubbed his temples and asked, "Has he found out? Who spread the rumors?"

Li Sanjiu knelt down with a pounce: "Your Majesty! I am incompetent, and the source of the rumors cannot be found for the time being."

"Is that right?" Yuwen Wen touched his beard under his jaw, grinned, revealing his white teeth: "It's cunning, interesting, really interesting."

"Your Majesty! I will continue to investigate, I will definitely find it..." Li Sanjiu stopped halfway because he saw Yuwen Wen make a gesture.

"It's okay, your mouth grows on someone's face. If you want to say strange things, you can't control it." Yuwen Wen sneered and looked at Li Sanjiu: "You are prepared for both hands, and you will continue to send people to investigate on the other side... You know how public opinion should affect it."

"Yes, I understand!"

"You have to write the promotional manuscript with your heart. After you finish writing, I will read it!"

"Yes, I understand!"

Yuwen Wen, who was full of anger, began to explain carefully to Li Sanjiu.

The reason for the incident was that rumors suddenly emerged in Chang'an City, saying that Ouyang Xun, a doctor of the Imperial College, was not the "seed" of his father Ouyang He.

This rumor was found in Jiankang, the capital of Chen State. It was said that Ouyang He's wife was young and beautiful, and was kidnapped by a monkey. She was forcibly possessed by him, and she was secretly married to the beads. After being rescued, she gave birth to Ouyang Xun, who looked like a monkey.

Such boring rumors of personal attacks have troubled Ouyang Xun, who is indeed a bit ugly. Yuwen Wen, who should have watched the fun, has to report it to the secretly, saying that the rumors have begun to change, or that rumors with similar content have spread in Chang'an City, with the target pointing directly to the queen, prince and imperial concubine.

This rumor is based on the assassination of Emperor Tianyuan in the palace (early the second year of Daxiang), and it is implied that the wife of the Duke of Xiyang County, Yuchi, who had disappeared for several months, was kidnapped by the monkey spirit in Shu.

Just like Ouyang Xun's mother's experience, Yuchi was abducted by the monkey spirit, raped her for several months and became pregnant. After being rescued, she gave birth to a son.

It is the current prince.

Not only that, the monkey spirit from Shu was recorded in the novel "Soushen Ji" of the Jin Dynasty. It was called "monkey spirit". It specifically plundered the common women to "transmit their family lineage". When the woman was conceived, she was put home. The offspring of the woman was actually the species of monkey spirit.

Therefore, many people in Shu with the surname Yang are actually "monkey species".

This statement in the rumors also cursed the current imperial concubine Yang and the King of Yan, whom Yuwen Wen has always claimed to the public that imperial concubine Yang was a woman from Shu (widow).

Therefore, the rumor that "Ouyang Xun was born by ape" appeared in Chang'an, which was actually another "introduction" of the rumor. The envoy behind the scenes tried to elicit this rumor, and at the same time slandered the two mothers and sons of the queen and prince, the imperial concubine and the king of Yan.

This is a serious political incident. Yu Wenwen almost burst out after he knew it, so he had to take countermeasures immediately and stifle the rumors before they had formed effective effects.

But he cannot publicly deny the rumors about such a thing, otherwise he will only get the opposite effect.

As the saying goes, a team that Yuwen Wen has been spending money to support is timely. It is time for him to play a role.
Chapter completed!