Chapter 2793
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Regarding the ascension of the family head, the current head of the Gu family, Gu Liancheng, once again gathered all the ministers, elders, and hall masters of the four halls for a cabinet meeting.
At the mention of Gu Liancheng, people said that the Mu and Gu families had different surnames but the same name.
Although the Gu and Mu families did not have any feud, the two families had a sense of tit-for-tat!
When Mu Sheng was happy to have a son and named Mu Liancheng, it was during Mu Liancheng's 100th birthday celebration, which coincided with Gu Liancheng's birth.
At that time, Old Master Gu invited a famous feng shui master to test the name. The feng shui master said that Gu Liancheng was unlucky and had an ominous fate. His life was full of misfortune, and he was incompatible with Old Master Gu.
Naming was a great art. It defied the heavens and changed one's fate. The feng shui master received a large sum of money and named the newborn child Gu Liancheng. This way, the ominous aura of this child's fate would be transferred to Mu Liancheng.
Hence, Old Master Gu decided to give Gu Liancheng the same name.
Sure enough, Mu Liancheng died young, which fulfilled the feng shui master's words.
The Gu family was the head of the four major families. It was once an all-powerful family with an illustrious reputation.
At that time, the Gu family could be said to be an existence that owned half of the country. The other families were wary of them and had once enjoyed a period of glory.
However, since the young head of the Gu family, Gu Liancheng, was bedridden for a long time three years ago, it had declined even further.
When Gu Liancheng's illness was critical, Gu Jinglian was only twenty years old.
At that time, if Gu Liancheng passed away, Gu Jinglian would naturally be the one to inherit the Gu family's ruling power.
There were only two conditions to inherit the Gu family's head. One of them was to be a legitimate son.
At that time, Gu Liancheng only had two sons.
One was Gu Jinglian, and the other was a concubine's son, Gu Xingze.
Gu Xingze was born and raised abroad because of his concubine's identity. When he was very young, he was summoned back to the Gu family by Gu Liancheng. However, not long after, Gu Liancheng was bedridden. Gu Xingze had no power to compete at all.
Gu Jinglian did not take Gu Xingze seriously at all.
Even if Gu Liancheng wanted to help him ascend the throne, everyone in the Hall of Elders would probably oppose it.
In the Gu family's hundred years of history, there had never been a precedent of a concubine becoming the head of the family.
Gu Xingze would never have had the opportunity to create such a precedent.
In order to ensure the prosperity of the Gu family, Gu Liancheng originally wanted to use a marriage alliance.
At that time, Gu Jinglian was young and impetuous. He was willful and self-willed. No matter how Gu Liancheng coerced him, Gu Jinglian suddenly left a letter the day before the engagement and left without saying goodbye. He left for a year.
During this year, Gu Jinglian's condition deteriorated rapidly. Soon, he was beyond cure. An urgent email summoned Gu Jinglian back.
Gu Jinglian did not arrive on the boat at ten o 'clock in the evening. However, at that moment, dozens of men in black suits stood neatly on both sides of the hall, which was hundreds of square meters in size.
The Gu family's retainers and elders, as well as the four Hall Masters, sat upright and still. Their gazes were focused on Gu Liancheng, who was sitting at the head of the table.
Gu Liancheng even had a hard time sitting down.
He sat awkwardly on the Imperial Dragon carved wooden chair with a gloomy expression.
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