Poisonous Peasant ‘Concubine’

"Haha... That's not bad, Yan Yi, give me your leave today and help me bring the gift I prepared."

Ling Jingxuan couldn't help chuckling, it's a good thing to be admitted to the exam, whether he is the first or the last, it's better than the famous one, right? "And our gifts, take them with you."

Seeing this, Sikong Jue took advantage of the situation and gave Qin Mummy a look. At the same time, Concubine Yun also asked their grandma or entourage to go down to get the gifts that had been prepared a long time ago. Ling Wen held two elegant boxes. Dong Dong ran to Yan Yi: "Uncle Yi, this is something I bought with my eldest and younger brothers. Can you give it to my second uncle and uncle?"

Obviously did not expect that he would be willing to spend money to buy things, not only Yan Yi, Ling Jingxuan and others couldn't help but raise their eyebrows, has their stingy son changed his temper?

"Can you take a look at what's wrong?"

He took the box with a half-hearted response, and Yan Yi secretly weighed the weight of the box. My dear, it's not too light. What is inside?

"No, this is for the second uncle and the younger uncle. Uncle Yi is not allowed to see it."

Ling Wen blushed, looked up at him domineeringly, and the little bun ran to his side to support him: "Uncle Yi is not allowed to peek on the way, or I will let you take me with you. Fly for three days and three nights."

"Forehead"

As soon as these words came out, Yan Yi decisively evoked a fear that Yan Yi hadn't had in a long time. He shook his head hastily in fright. He didn't dare to peek casually if they were killed. Taking them to fly would kill people, okay? He wants to live another two years.

"Guess what our son bought?"

Ling Jingxuan leaned against Yan Shengrui quietly, whispered in his ear, there is no way, besides the small dumplings, there are a few people who are honored to receive the gift of their stingy buns, and he is also very curious.

"Don't you know if you quietly ask Jinghan later? Since it's something they bought together, it's definitely not a bargain."

Glancing at the direction where the sons confronted Yan Yi, Yan Shengrui also deliberately lowered his voice, the steamed buns will become more rich after a new year, shouldn't they be stingy with a gift?

"That's not necessarily the case. Regarding money, there is nothing that our big bun can't come out."

Compared with him, Ling Jingxuan obviously has a less optimistic attitude. Of course, the weight of the gift doesn't mean anything. The biggest surprise is that the big buns are willing to give them away. However, he is just curious, who made their buns come out? The famous one.

Chapter 469 The emperor and his son, the queen sends a letter

The imperial study in the imperial palace, Yan Xiaoming, who was officially established as the crown prince as early as the third day after Sikong Tam and the others left, followed the emperor back to the imperial study. He is busy with agricultural reform and inland sea governance alone, and most of the time he will not appear in the imperial study room again.

In the early days, the chief examiner of the imperial examination, the senior scholar of the Cabinet, reported the names and sources of the top three, and the rest of the jinshi were listed in the table above. Yan Shengzhi resolutely noticed Ling Jinghan as Ling Jingxuan expected. Similar to him, after returning to the imperial study, Zhang Dezi not only asked Zhang Dezi to find all the records about Ling Jinghan, but also took out his answer sheet for this scientific examination. Seeing the article, Yan Shengzhi had no choice but to. Admire his ability, just? ?

"Prince, this Ling Jinghan is from Qingyang County, Cangzhou, like your Nine Emperor Aunt. What is their relationship?"

In such a short period of time, all he could know was that Ling Jinghan was from Qingyang County, Cangzhou. He had successively passed the examinations for Yisheng, Xie Yuan, and this time Huiyuan, he had won two yuan in a row, which was enough to rival Sun Liang, the left minister of the dynasty. , No, he is more talented than Sun Liang. Back then, when Sun Liang was in the third place in the exam, he was the champion only after he was named the champion. Just reading Ling Jinghan's article, he was undoubtedly the champion, but as long as he thought of him Because of his relationship with Ling Jingxuan, he was a little reluctant to give him the champion.

Prince Yan Xiaoming is his own son, how could he not see through his thoughts? Taking the time to put down the brush to think for a moment, Yan Xiaoming said slowly: "He is the second younger brother of Aunt Jiuhuang, and his father and queen once praised him for his ability to survive in the world, but he was suffering from poor health and has never been able to. He had the opportunity to participate in the imperial examination, and it was not until the previous year when Aunt Jiuhuang cured his chronic illness for many years that he began to take the Tongsheng examination at the end of the year, and the subsequent township examination, including this general examination, he passed the examination as the first place."

Balanced again and again, he still decided to tell the truth. He could just send someone to Lingjia Village to find out about this kind of thing. There was really no need to lie.

"Second brother? Why haven't I heard about Jing Xuan before? If I knew that he had a younger brother studying in the Imperial College, I could take care of him for one or two. Does the prince know why?"

It would be a lie to say that he was not shocked, but he had already guessed this possibility, and there was not much emotional change, but it was inevitable that he would be a little uncomfortable when he spoke.

You better be able to take care of it!

If possible, Yan Xiaoming immediately wanted to yell at him back, but he held back and said coldly with his eyes closed, "Aunt Jiuhuang probably doesn't want others to talk about his family relying on Uncle Jiuhuang's nepotism, two. Uncle?? Uncle Ling is really capable, even without the help of Uncle Jiuhuang and us, he can pass the exam with his own abilities."

Others say that Uncle Ling is so arrogant and arrogant, and it all depends on Uncle Jiuhuang to support him. In fact, he knows better than anyone else, not only Uncle Ling, Uncle Ling and Uncle Third, they all rely on themselves, Uncle Jiuhuang gives him Theirs is nothing but silent support.

"The prince seems to be very close to the Ling family?"

When the conversation changed, Yan Shengzhi squinted his eyes slightly, Yan Xiaoming's heart froze, and he raised his head to meet his gaze: "My son is close to talented people, anyone who cares about the country is not interested.

The useful talents of the Sheji will be close to the sons and ministers. I remember that Aunt Jiuhuang once said that there is no need to be close to those who are good! This is what he said to his family when he was managing his own property. Erchen felt that it was also feasible to use these words in the management of the country. Relatives are not necessarily useful to the country and society. Now, to be an emperor, you don’t have to be able to fight like Jiuhuangshu, and you don’t have to be as talented as Sun Liang, but you must learn to use talents like Jiuhuangshu and Sun Liang. Let's govern our country together. "

Yan Xiaoming deftly avoided his question, Yan Shengzhi was suspicious, and if he answered yes or no, it would arouse his suspicion, and this answer might be the best.

"The prince is right to think so."

Yan Shengzhi's expression really softened, Yan Xiaoming breathed a sigh of relief, but then Yan Shengzhi picked up Ling Jinghan's test paper and said, "This test paper is indeed very perfect, but the pen is a little sharp, after all, it is too young and needs to be answered. A few more years of practice"

No one but himself knew what this meant. Yan Xiaoming couldn't help sinking in his heart. Wouldn't the father be planning to order other people to be the champion?

Some people are happy and some worry about the announcement of the results of the imperial examination. Most of the students who fell out of the list had to pack their bags and prepare to go back to their hometowns. A small number of financially active people stayed. On the one hand, I want to stay in the capital to manage relationships and prepare for the rematch in three years. In this case, the happiest thing is the large and small inns in the capital, even if most of them are famous The students have all left, and the part left behind is enough for them to make a lot of money.

The next day, the capital was plunged into unprecedented excitement again early in the morning. Not long after the Prince of the West left, the Prince of the South, the Fourth Prince of the East, the Sixth Princess and the Eighth Princess came again. Sun Liang, who had become the Minister of the Left, personally brought people from the Ministry of Rites there Dongchengmen welcomes them into the palace. According to the usual practice, after the routine reception, there will be a state banquet the next day. All the royal clansmen, civil and military officials must attend, and because the Prince of the Southern Kingdom and the Sixth Princess and the Eighth Princess are all for the sake of relatives Come here, the emperor issued an decree before noon, ordering all the royal clans and civil and military officials to bring their family members, especially the sons and daughters of the right age at home. At the same time, because the palace exam was also held on the same day, the top three produced on the same day should also be together. banquet.

When he heard the news, Ling Jingxuan only felt a headache. Every time he entered the palace, there was nothing good, especially when he met the emperor. If he could, he really didn't want to go, but because Ling Jinghan might also go, he had to go. However, on the first day of the state banquet, he received the news that the queen asked the dead man to come out in person.

"What did the queen say?"

In the hall of Prince Sheng's Mansion, the Prince of the Southern Kingdom and the Fourth Prince of the Eastern Kingdom came. Yan Shengrui and Yan Xiaohua both went to the palace, leaving only Ling Jingxuan, who came back from the city after receiving the imperial decree, and Sikong Jue, who also came back from the hospital. To help them preside over the interior of the palace, just bring a small group of people, and basically don't care about their troubles.

"Ye Guifei went to Yunhan. She said that she knew who poisoned His Majesty. On this condition, she asked Yunhan to prevent the marriage between the Prince of the Southern Kingdom and Princess Lingrui."