Chapter 447 - 45 The Sixth Son of the Gu Family
Because of his fiancée’s matter, Gu Wen was called to the main hall by his father. He walked through the quiet corridor, the maids and servants along the way made way, bowing their heads and bending their waists.
Gu Wen found nothing strange about this; If the building were made of reinforced concrete, then he would have felt such ceremoniousness odd.
At this moment, his heart was as still as water, no longer a ripple to disturb it.
As if all emotions and desires had vanished, all yearnings had turned into nothingness.
This sensation was quite comfortable; he no longer worried about anything in particular and could just quietly gaze into the distance.
Fragments of memory began to emerge in his mind unbidden.
The Gu family, a clan of Nanshui, had served as officials generation after generation, governing a territory, far from the turmoil of Central Plains, enduring through four dynasties, fifty-six emperors, for a thousand years.
It could be said that dynasties flow like water, but the Gu family is as solid as iron.
Yet the Gu family was not a colossus; at most, they were a local powerful family. Their eight-hundred-year legacy was mostly holding a position halfway up the mountain, where even if they fell, they would roll only a couple of times.
As long as they did not stand at the peak, it was hard to fall to their death.