Chapter 90: "I will report what happened today, and hope...
After Shi Qing and Yun Zhi completed the task, they went directly back to the palace to meet.
The waiter beside the emperor was waiting for the two of them at the gate of the palace, for fear that they would not be able to enter after giving the key.
Seeing the little husband and wife come back, the waiter heaved a sigh of relief, knowing that everything was going well, "Master Hou."
The night in the palace is not much different from the daytime, and the palace lanterns are as bright as day.
The emperor sat in the imperial study to correct the book, without any intention of falling asleep.
Shi Qing and Yun Zhi came in.
"How?"
The emperor put down the red pen when he saw the two of them, and leaned back on the back of the chair, a relaxed posture ready to rest.
The servant took a few steps forward and handed the tea cup to the emperor. She picked it up and took a sip.
Shi Qing took out the paper from the bag that was opened and sealed by Shen Yuan, and handed it over with both hands, "As the emperor said, the fish has already taken the bait."
The emperor motioned to his servant to take the paper and lowered his eyes.
The paper that has been unpacked and then sealed can always be seen to be unpacked.
Shen Yuan only dared to do this because she was the chief examiner.
"The fish on the bright side has been hooked, but the ones in the back are not yet exposed." The emperor put down the teacup, took out the paper and glanced at it. He happened to see the policy theory, and the question was about flood relief and disaster relief. view.
This question involves politics, economy, administration of officials and criminal law, which is actually very comprehensive and practical.
Too bad.
The emperor threw the test paper on the table, frowned slightly, "The real big fish will not come out in a few days."
It was about the battle between the princesses, Shi Qing pretended not to hear.
As far as the emperor is concerned, the eldest prince and Shen Yuan are not the people she wants to test at all, what she is looking for is who is standing behind the eldest prince.
Actually, she knew at the time that this matter was provoked by the fifth princess, but she couldn't jump out and say to the emperor:
Your weak and unable to take care of herself, the fifth princess, is actually a werewolf in the guise of a villager!
This is a step by step.
Shi Qing and Yun Zhi did not go back tonight, but stayed in the palace.
Shi Qing means, it's almost midnight, it's better to stay overnight.
She smiled, "Look, all the ministers are here, and now I have to open the palace gate when I leave the palace, mainly because I have to get up early tomorrow..."
The last sentence is the key.
The emperor heard a lot of people say that in private, Shi Qing is stepping on the hour to order Mao every day, and there has never been a phenomenon that is too early to half an hour.
Seeing that the emperor nodded helplessly, the chamberlain arranged for the palace servants to take the two to rest, and indicated that Shi Qing could sleep until he woke up naturally tomorrow.
The waiter smiled and said softly to the emperor, "Young Master is really a child, you always have to ask for candy after finishing things."
"She's not begging for candy," the emperor waved his hand and refuted the inner attendant's words, "She has a good schedule, and she does things in her own heart."
The emperor picked up the red pen again, ready to go to sleep after reading the book.
Yu Guang saw that the waiter didn't quite understand what he meant, so he said slowly: "Look, she naturally wakes up and sleeps until tomorrow afternoon when the Gongyuan locks up, and all the candidates are admitted to the hospital. "
This is about Enke, a candidate from all over the world, Shi Qing knows it.
She and Yun Zhi were the last two people who came into contact with the paper before the exam. Even if the emperor trusted her not to cheat, Shi Qing would stay with Yun Zhi in everyone's sight, and not in the palace. Anyone, lest there be an emergency.
"Shi Qing, I will definitely be better than Shi Ju in the future."
The emperor sighed, "Unfortunately, my royal family has no such fate and missed such a good child."
Shi Qing, the current situation is clear, is a good name and a good minister.
However, Changning's heart is higher than the sky, and he always wants the highest, not the best.
Since the emperor said so, the servants have to pay attention.
Who knew that the next day, I really waited until around Shen Shi in the afternoon, when the Gong Courtyard was locked, and Shi Qing and Yun Zhi said they were going to leave the palace.
The emperor appreciates Shi Qing purely because of her, and it has nothing to do with who her mother is.
Students all over the world know that candidates will be admitted to the hospital one day earlier.
Check-in starts from dawn in the morning and ends around the afternoon of admission.
The gate of the Gongyuan is locked, and all personnel in the Gongyuan are only allowed in and not out. There are officers and soldiers patrolling around the Gongyuan to ensure that not even a bird can fly out of the walls of the Gongyuan.
In this case, whether you want to send news in or out, it is more difficult than reaching the sky.
And all day long, Shi Qing played chess with Yun Zhi in the resting palace, from Go to Gobang, playing all kinds of tricks.
It wasn't until I heard the horn of the Gongyuan lock that I put down my chess piece and slumped back on the back of the Taishi chair, "It's possible to go back."
Today I spent a day in the palace, and Shi Qing understood that it is good to be free outside.
Shi Qing suddenly understood why Yun Zhi wanted to go to Jianghu.
Who doesn't like the sky and the sea to let me roam.
She tilted her head to look at Yun Zhi and called him softly, "Baby."
Yun Zhi was stunned for a moment, the movement of collecting the pieces paused for a moment, and looked up at her.
The person sitting opposite wears a light blue crew-neck tunic with white lapels lined with long hair **** by a headband.
He is different from most men in Beijing. He doesn't like to put a hairpin on his head, just a simple hairband.
It looks fresh and clean, and extremely simple and pure.
When Shi Qing looked over, Yun Zhi's slender fingers just picked up a white chess piece.
At a glance, he felt that his hands were even more beautiful than the chess pieces made of white jade.
She wanted to laugh and tried her best to restrain herself, looking a little silly.
He pretended to be reserved, "Huh?", but under the table, his legs were shaking proudly.
This person likes sticky love words.
Shi Qing smiled, "Yun Zhi, why haven't I heard you say you want to go to Jianghu for a long time."
Shi Qing leaned forward on the table, stretched out his forefinger and gently stroked the back of the cloud handle, very curious, "Because of me?"
Why give up her dreams and freedom for the beloved, and willingly accompany her to be bound in this Gyeonggi.
I just think about it.
Shi Qing almost moved herself for Yun Zhi.
In the end, Yun Zhi calmly spit out two words, "No."
“…”
White was moved.
Shi Qing rolled his eyes, his fingers changed from swiping to pinching.
Love's tender and sweet boat, when it comes to wind and waves, wind and waves.
“…”
Yun Zhi smiled and shrank away.
He didn't expect Shi Qing to ask this, he even stretched out his hand, pasted Shi Qing's forehead with the back of his other hand, and pinched her pulse again, making sure that Shi Qing was just free After that, he said, "At least not all of them."
More likely because of his own heart.
Yun Zhi had always wanted to go to Jianghu before, because he longed for the atmosphere of the rivers and lakes of happiness and hatred.
But these longings gradually became dull compared with expectations and Shiqing.
It seems that without her, the rivers and lakes are just rivers and lakes, only with Shi Qing, the days will become colorful and vivid.
Yun Zhi was wondering if it was because of Shi Qing that he didn't leave the capital.
It turned out not to be all.
He is like a sword, from the initial rampage to the mature and stereotyped.
Yun Zhi didn't quite understand the reason why his father returned to the mountains before, but now he understands a little.
Because of the restless heart in the chest, it can only take root and be stable by someone's side.
Yun Zhi threw up the chess piece in his hand, caught it again, and said softly, "The reason for not going to Jianghu may be because—"
He looked at Shi Qing, his lips were red and his teeth were white, his eyes were clear and clean, and his smile was heartwarming, "You are my Jianghu."
I'm already in it, why go out and search again?
Shi Qing lifted his eyes and fell into Yun Zhi's serious and clear eyes, his heart seemed to have been lightly hit by something, causing ripples.
Especially with his normal face, he said this as a matter of course, which is more moving than the love words that have been deliberately practiced for a long time.
Shi Qing reached out and grabbed Yun Zhi's wrist, leaned over and kissed his lips, "I like this"
Yun Zhi also likes it.
He looked out from the corner of his eye, and when he saw no one, he whispered to Shi Qing in a vague voice, "Call the one you just called again."
In response to Shang Shiqing's suspicious gaze, Yun Zhi rubbed his nose uncomfortably, "That's it, it sounds good."
Shi Qing pretended to be stupid and blinked, "What? What are you calling? Yun Shaoxia?"
"No." Yun Zhi frantically hinted, "The one with two words."
Every time I hear it, the top of my heart is numb, like being crawled by a small ant.
Shi Qing went back and looked out at the sky, "Oh, I have to go back."
“…”
Yun Zhi pursed her lips and stared at her.
Seeing Shiqing unmoved, he said, "I will show you a sword dance at night?"
Shi Qing shook his head.
Yun Zhi thought for a while, "I stand on the stone table and dance a sword for you to see?"
“…”
Can you change some fresh coaxing tricks?
Shi Qing walked out, "Go back."
Yun Zhi sat on the chair motionless.
I waited until I stepped out of the threshold, and then slowly got up and followed behind her.
Shi Qing stretched his hand back and pulled Yun Zhi's belt. Yun Zhi held his arms in his arms, with a stubborn expression that would not hold hands with her.
Shi Qing smiled, "Stingy."
Yun Zhi snorted, "I learned from you."
"Then why don't you learn something better?" Shi Qing asked sideways.
Yun Zhi looked up at the sky, "What's so good?"
Teach her how to pick a lock in two seconds?
Shi Qing is proud, "For example, I will call you baby."
Yun Zhi paused for a while, and when he reacted, the auricle slowly turned red.
He urged, "Go home quickly, we haven't gone back all day and night, Dad must be worried."
“…”
Shi Qing looked at him.
Oh, you weren't so positive just now.
This rumor seems to be flying very fast on the wings of the east wind, and in just half a day, it has spread all over the capital.
"I heard that the papers came from the palace."
"In the palace?"
"Yes, say yes..." The scholar who spoke stretched out his finger to compare the number of six, "The one that came out is only for those disciples who are close friends with the Zhen family."
"It's not fair! We study hard, and others have surpassed us for ten years in just one day! It's not fair!"
"Yes, not fair!"
The scholar said again: "I have a relative who is from the Ministry of Punishment. I heard about this, and I have beaten Mr. Li Yunqing before.
That's why she treated Enke, who is very important to you and me, as a child's play, and openly spread the paper to cheat. This kind of person is not worthy of being a queen! "
With her inciting emotions, many scholars followed suit.
Before entering the Tribute Academy, many students had already shouted the slogan "Enke is unfair, someone cheated".
The four princesses led people to suppress it, but these students still couldn't calm their anger.
The scholar who started at the beginning even shouted in front of the tribute courtyard: "Someone has passed the test paper, saying that this time Enke's policy test is about how to effectively fight floods and disaster relief."
She said: "If you go in and see that the exam questions are not what I said, I am willing, willing to eat my bamboo basket!"
The scholar pointed his hand down, and there was a calf-high bamboo basket on the ground, which contained stationery and dry food for the scientific expedition these days.
This summer's flood season has just passed. Compared with previous years, this year's flood is the lightest. There are almost no casualties among the people, and all the losses of farmland and livestock are within the budget.
If you test this, it is really possible. After all, scholars can't just keep their heads in their studies, but also care about the country's affairs.
So after the scholar who wanted to eat bamboo baskets finished speaking, everyone believed it nine times out of ten.
I thought that the gate of Gongyuan was the Dragon Gate, and the future was bright. Looking at it now, I feel that it is dark inside, and I can't find the direction of the future.
Does it mean that if you study honestly, you will lose to those who are opportunistic?
Injustice, injustice!
Facing these scholars who were about to roll on the spot, the Fourth Princess was very troubled.
For some reason, the Fourth Princess suddenly thought of someone.
Although she has never been in contact with her, the fourth princess felt inexplicably that if she was there, the scene would be much easier to control.
That's Shi Qing.
If she stood here, I guess all the scholars would not be able to quarrel with her...
The fourth princess sighed and finally had to say: "Before I saw the paper, everything was a rumor. If someone stirs up people's hearts again, don't blame me for taking her down on the spot!"
Incitement to the heart before the exam is punishable.
The four princesses twisted their fingers behind her back, always feeling that something was wrong.
The head of the spear was directed at the sixth, just because she made a premise to herself and the fifth that she wanted to steal the exam paper.
The fourth princess was uneasy. Although she comforted everyone that this was just a rumor, she actually believed it six or seven percent in her heart.
If the topic of the policy theory is as the scholar just said, the matter will be much more serious.
After all, the sixth is trapped, and it seems that the biggest beneficiary is her, the fourth princess.
Without the sixth, among all the princesses, she is the only one with the most hope.
Without the sixth child, she would not have to worry about her birth and relatives.
The fourth princess looked at the scholar just now. The person who was standing in the middle of the team with a bamboo basket was gone in the blink of an eye.
Not good!
The four princesses were heartbroken and immediately sent someone to look for them.
There must be something wrong with that scholar who incites public opinion and people's hearts.
The scholar took the bamboo basket and slowly stepped back, and when the officers and soldiers were not paying attention, he ran into the alley under the pretext of Xiaoxie.
When the four princesses brought someone over, the scholar was waiting for her at the entrance of the alley, the bamboo basket was placed beside her leg, and there was no fear on her face, "His Royal Highness, let's chat?"
The scholar gestured towards the alley, and it was obvious that someone was waiting for her there.
The four princesses stood still and looked into the alley.
Years of experience in the battlefield made her calm and calm and could not see excess emotions, making it impossible to guess what she was thinking.
Compared with the six princesses whose emotions are expressed on their faces, the fourth princess is not the best choice for the eldest prince.
The eldest prince sat in the soft sedan chair in the alley, looking down at his newly trimmed nails.
It's okay, it doesn't matter whether you control it well or not, as long as the interests are the same.
The perpetrator was a palace attendant in the imperial study. This person was too frightened to hear that the candidates outside the palace were making trouble, so he committed suicide.
Before he died, he insisted that this matter was instigated by the fourth princess and had nothing to do with the sixth princess.
But the rumors in Beijing are saying that the exam papers were leaked from the Zhen family.
It was a disciple of the Zhen family who was drunk and bragging to others.
Huang Guijun and the sixth princess were temporarily banned from the palace waiting for investigation. Lord Zhen has been called into the palace.
This is obviously someone who wanted to frame the fourth princess, but was implicated by their own disciples.
The originally stalemate situation instantly tilted towards one point.
The fingers of the four princesses behind her back could not help clenching, and the eyes looking at the entrance of the alley were dark and gloomy.
The road has been paved for her.
Like this alley, the mouth is there, as long as she steps on it and lifts her foot over, she can get what she wants.
We are all smart people, and we only need three or two clues to know the purpose of the other party.
The eldest prince is not afraid that the four princesses will not cooperate. Compared with the Huangguijun and the Zhen family behind the sixth princess, the fourth prince can only have the strength to stand on the same line with him. Fight for the throne.
Even if you don't fight for that position, you have to fight for your own life.
The palace is a place where you live and die, and family love always comes after power and interests.
The eldest prince held his forehead with one hand, quietly waiting for the fourth princess to make up her mind.
She won't lose.
In order to quell the anger of the literati, the emperor will severely punish the Zhen family, and even severely punish the sixth princess.
As long as the four princesses do nothing during this period, it will be fine.
The less she moves, the less the emperor will doubt her.
I did nothing but received great benefits, how could the fourth princess disagree?
The eldest prince is sure, she will be moved.
"Have you figured it out?"
The scholar at the entrance of the alley asked.
The Fourth Princess lowered her eyes, her tone was as cold as ever, "Think clearly."
The scholar had a smile on his face, and even gave way to the side, signaling the Fourth Princess to enter.
The eldest prince in the soft sedan chuckled lightly, his tone and attitude very disdainful.
Look, people who come out of the palace are all the same.
Just as the eldest prince stretched out his hand to lift the sedan curtain, the four princesses outside the alley raised their eyes and opened their eyes, and their eyes fell on the scholar.
She raised her hand decisively, without hesitation in her voice, "Someone, take her down!"
What did she say?
How is that possible?
Such a temptation and benefit. The fourth is stupid!
The scholar was even more unprepared, and the original joy turned into a puzzled face, "You dare!"
She kept turning her head to look into the alley, "Do you know who it is? Did you really think about it?"
The Four Queens had the scholars **** and carried away with the bamboo basket at their feet, "Naturally."
Naturally know, naturally know.
But she still chooses.
The emperor interrogates and decides."
The four princesses stood at the entrance of the alley, looking at the low-key and luxurious soft sedan chair inside, and said, "Uncle."
The eldest prince's jaw tightened, his eyes seemed to burn through the heart of the fourth princess through the sedan chair.
"Good." The eldest prince said slowly: "It's really a good child of my Xiao family."
The anger that was suppressed in her soft and indifferent tone.
He and Shen Yuan paved the road, and everything was calculated.
It is equivalent to exhausting a table of dishes.
In the end, she said, "The meal is ready, but I'm not hungry."
The eldest prince put his hand on the window of the soft sedan chair, his fingertips pinched the edge of the window, the newly trimmed nails were broken, and the knuckles were white.
He breathed heavily, his silver teeth clenched, and he slowly said: "If you don't want to, forget it, in the future, when you are trampled under your feet by the sixth, not to mention that your uncle has not helped you. you."
The eldest prince retracted his finger, and his mood has stabilized:
"I believe that Huang Guijun, the Zhen family and the sixth princess would be happy to see you in prison."
The fourth princess listened quietly, waiting for the eldest prince to finish before saying: "How uncle chooses is uncle's business, but I should do what I should do in this position."
"In addition, uncle, no matter how the fight between me and the sixth is in the future, it is a private matter between our sisters. You really stretch your hands too far."
The four princesses raised their eyes and looked at the soft sedan chair, and bowed respectfully, "I will report what happened today, and I hope my uncle will forgive me."
No matter who wins or loses between her and the sixth, the new emperor should not be controlled by others, and they should be manipulated between the palms of their hands.
Especially the other side is willing to set up such a big game, at the cost of the future and destiny of scholars all over the world, just to achieve their own goals.
If this person controls the court in the future, the new emperor will be a puppet.
As for the future, if she can't compete, whether it's because of her background or something else, she deserves to lose, she just needs to do what she should do.
The origin can't be changed, but what kind of person you become is your choice.
The fourth princess straightened her back, "Uncle is precious."
She left.
Listening to the distant footsteps, the eldest prince almost clenched his silver teeth.
He held back his anger and smashed the contents of the soft sedan to the outside.
It is very rare for a servant to see the eldest prince so mad and dignified.
The eldest prince was relieved after venting enough.
He can't panic, he can't be chaotic, after all, he hasn't lost yet.
Now that all the candidates have entered the venue, and Shen Yuan did not send any news last night, it means that there is no problem with the exam papers, and everything is going according to plan.
The failure of the four princesses is just one of the small twists and turns, nothing to be afraid of.
When the exam is officially held in the early autumn tomorrow, the students will make trouble.
At that time, he backhanded the fourth princess into the net, saying that she intended to cheat and frame her, and instead helped the sixth princess, the effect was the same.
As for the inspiring scholar who was captured...
When the Gongyuan is in chaos, the emperor may not care about a scholar.
The eldest prince returned to his graceful and dignified appearance.
He just needs to get up tomorrow morning and wait for the good news from Shen Yuan.