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On April 20, the imperial city palace examination, the emperor and the queen mother came to invigilate the examination.

Before the time came, all the tribute students who won the examination list gathered outside the Xihua Gate. At the end of the day, the Xihua Gate was opened, and the tributes and raw fish entered the imperial city, and they had breakfast in a side room, and then continued to wait.

At the end of the hour, the sky has changed from the beginning of the bright light, gradually turned into a bright light, and the candidates, who had already stood numb, finally heard a few clear bells from the front hall. Led by the eunuch of the foreman and the official of the Ministry of Rites, all the candidates lined up, bypassed the Internal Affairs Office, and entered the Taihe Hall through the right wing gate.

In the palace, the newly ascended emperor has sat high and waited. Behind the throne, a translucent curtain hangs, and it can be vaguely seen that behind the curtain sits a woman in palace clothes. The candidates don't have to think much to know that the woman in the palace behind the curtain is the queen mother who is actually in power in the new dynasty today.

On the left and right sides of the hall, according to the number of candidates, half-person-high desks and small chairs have been neatly arranged.

Under the guidance of the officials of the Ministry of Rites, the candidates lined up and walked slowly to the middle, knelt on the ground, and shouted Long live the emperor and the queen mother.

A male voice with a vague childlike voice came from above: "Flat." ”

The candidates thanked themselves and got up, and then listened to the male voice with a child's voice: "Please take a seat." ”

Several officials of the Ministry of Rites kowtowed in response, and stepped forward to guide the candidates to sit down on the chairs in front of the desk in turn.

All the candidates sat down, but the young emperor on the throne turned his head to look behind the curtain at this time, and the queen mother behind the curtain nodded, and the emperor said to the eunuch beside him: "Let's start the exam." ”

The eunuch standing next to the throne shouted: "The hour has come, the examination begins." ”

Outside the hall, a bright copper chime sounded, and the eunuchs and officials of the Ministry of Rites shouted: "Start the exam." ”

Only then did the candidates pick up the brush on the case and start answering the questions.

The examination of the Taihe Palace opened, the hall was very quiet, and the eunuchs and the officials of the Ministry of Rites who stood under the hall did not dare to exhale.

Time passed very slowly, and after waiting for a long time, it was only half an hour after that.

In the Taihe Treasure Palace, the candidates were still working hard to answer the questions, and the eunuchs and officials of the Ministry of Rites standing in the lower four were also motionless, and the Queen Mother behind the curtain could not see any movement. Everything was normal and peaceful, and everyone was very peaceful, except for one person.

But no one cares about the restless man who guards himself, because he is the emperor who stands on the highest throne.

Before half an hour had passed, the emperor on the throne had become impatient. And they saw him moving here and looking there, and he was very restless on the throne.

Qin Siyang got up early this morning, as usual, before the hour arrived, and after freshening up, he went to the Heart Cultivation Hall to listen to the teacher's lecture, and then after the cabinet minister arrived, he listened to the cabinet minister's report. Of course, he couldn't make a decision on how to deal with the things on the fold, but after a brief listen, he asked someone to take it and move it back to the Qianqing Palace to put it, and then it would be decided by the Queen Mother. I simply ate breakfast at the end of the hour. In the past, he would still have to continue to listen to the lectures in the Heart Cultivation Palace, and continue to wait for the minister to come and talk about state affairs, so that he could not have personal time to rest by himself until after noon. But today is different, after Chenshi ate early, he was brought to the Taihe Palace, waiting for the arrival of the candidates for the palace examination.

Therefore, in fact, every morning, Qin Siyang looks very sleepy and tired. Today is even worse, because in the past, when I listened to lectures and listened to the recitals, the Queen Mother was mostly absent, and he was the largest in the Heart Cultivation Palace, and he could still move around and talk freely. Unlike today, when he arrived at the Taihe Palace, he was commanded to sit on the throne above it, and he was not allowed to move it. The Queen Mother looked behind him again, and it was inconvenient to do anything.

Therefore, after enduring it for half an hour, Qin Siyang didn't want to endure it anymore. He moved up and down on the throne, looking from place to place. After a while, he looked left and right, and the two eunuchs who were standing beside the throne and were in charge of guarding him were still standing straight and not squinting, motionless. After cautiously looking back at the curtain, the Queen Mother sitting behind her did not react.

After a while, his movements became bigger and bigger, and the people on both sides and behind him still didn't react at all.

Qin Siyang looked at his heart and secretly thought, it seems that they won't care too much about him today. His heart also relaxed a little, and when he saw that it was okay to move, he simply stood up and stepped off the throne.

Seeing this, Su Fang, the eunuch standing on both sides of the throne, and another eunuch glanced at each other, Su Fang looked carefully behind the curtain, and saw that the queen mother was slightly closed as if she was recuperating her spirits, and did not react. He looked at Zhao Sheng and Gao Yueming who were standing behind the Queen Mother, and when he saw that both of them shook their heads at him, he also nodded and continued to stand still, as if he hadn't seen anything.

Anyway, everyone knows that the emperor is the invigilator of the palace examination, and the invigilator walks around in the examination room to invigilate, which is a matter of common sense. In previous years, every palace examination, as long as the emperor came to the examination room, there would be people who came down and walked around to observe the candidates' answers. Today, this little emperor, although everyone thinks he can't understand anything, but if he wants to come down, who can control it.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Qin Siyang became more bold, and walked straight to the middle of the candidates, take a look at that one here. And as soon as each candidate saw him approaching, he would stop writing and bow his head to salute him.

In this way, after more than half an hour, seeing that the candidates have answered half of the questions, those who have fast thinking are even about to finish answering the questions.

Qin Siyang walked to the edge of the hall gate, looked out, and after clearing his thoughts, he turned around and swept the public examination. Then, they approached one by one, and finally in a short time, they went around to Li Chaochen, who was on the left side.

Li Chaochen didn't think much about it, at this time he basically finished answering the question, just doing the final check. Seeing that the emperor was approaching, he also put down his pen and bowed his head like other candidates.

Qin Siyang approached and looked at him carefully, he couldn't help but be surprised in his heart, and secretly praised: Han Tianming's gang really didn't tell a lie, this person is really beautiful. It's the kind of beauty he's never seen, such a beauty, not to mention men, even women, I'm afraid it's hard to find one or two points like him in the world. It is not an exaggeration to give him the title of the most beautiful man in the world for such a character.

So as soon as he came close and saw Li Chaochen clearly, Qin Siyang immediately looked very amazing. Before Li Chaochen bowed his head and saluted, before he could raise his head, he hurriedly asked, "What's your name?"

Li Chaochen had already been informed by Wei Hua that something would happen today, so when he heard the emperor suddenly ask him, he replied calmly: "Li Chaochen, the grass people, is determined to be a fan." ”

"Li Chaochen, you raise your head. Qin Siyang continued.

"Yes. Li Chaochen agreed, raised his head and looked at Qin Siyang.

The two looked at each other, and Qin Siyang pretended to be surprised and stared at him. Li Chaochen was trembling in his heart, but he had to pretend to be calm.

In fact, when Li Chaochen received a letter from his eldest brother and said that he would be entrusted with such a task, his heart was extremely repulsed. But no matter how much he didn't like it, he couldn't refuse the task. Because the people of their Li family have one heart, as long as the Han Mansion proposes to save them, even if they go up to the sword mountain and go down to the sea of fire, they will need to repay it. This is what their Li family owes to the Han Mansion.

Thinking that the three of them were in distress back then, if it weren't for the help of the Han government, the three of them would have been sold into the theater that year, and now most of them are prostitutes of wealthy and high-ranking officials, and they will be able to sell themselves to make people laugh and survive forever. How can there be his eldest brother's superb martial arts now, how can his seriously ill second brother be able to marry a wife and live an ordinary life, let alone that he himself can study and get ahead now.

Therefore, Han Fu gave a task, he couldn't and couldn't refuse, he was destined to fall into Han Fu's plan, ostensibly cater to the emperor, and be his favor of Longyang before the emperor became an event.

"Who is it, who else is in the family?" Qin Siyang asked again.

"Caomin Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, his parents died early, and he had two elder brothers, but he was separated in a family flight many years ago, and he has not been contacted, and I don't know if the two brothers are well. ”

Well, half-truths, this lie has been made up a long time ago, Qin Siyang also knew that it would be this answer, nodded, and asked in surprise: "Flee, what is the difficulty?" A beauty like you, who doesn't pity her, should be well raised, why do you have to flee?"

"This-" Li Chaochen didn't fake it at all, "the grass people are poor, and the family suffered from a lot of water that year, so there was no way to do it, so they could only flee." ”

"Oh," Qin Siyang nodded, "Then what do you do for a living now?"

"Fortunately, the grass people were rescued by a private school teacher on the way to escape, and later they have been teaching and learning at the private school teacher's house until now. Li Chaochen continued to reply according to the prepared rhetoric.

Qin Siyang nodded again, took the file on Li Chaochen's case, took a cursory look at it, and said happily as if he was shooting the case: "It's good, it's good." Saying that, Qin Siyang grabbed Li Chaochen's hand and shouted: "You are very good, I like you, I want to be the champion of you, the champion of this department." ”

As soon as these words came out, the Taihe Hall was silent for a while, and all the candidates stopped the pens in their hands at the same time, and looked over here with a brush.

Li Chaochen thought that he would be shocked, but he didn't expect it to be so shocking. His eyes widened, he couldn't react for a while, and froze in place.

No one answered the question anymore, and everyone froze in place like Li Chaochen. Even the eunuchs and officials of the Ministry of Rites who were in charge of maintaining the examination room couldn't react for a while, and watched the emperor holding the hand of the beautiful young man in a daze, screaming in a daze.

A good imperial examination for the whole country to watch, and suddenly the emperor who was newly ascended to the throne of the great treasure was disturbed and made it difficult to ride a tiger. Everyone in the field froze for a moment, and no one knew what to do.

Suddenly, there was a sound of 'swish', which broke the deadlocked atmosphere in the hall.

Everyone looked up and saw that it was the Queen Mother, who had been sitting behind the curtain, who pulled up the curtain and walked out from behind with the support of a personal eunuch.

Seeing the Queen Mother walk out, the two eunuchs standing next to the emperor's throne were the first to react, bowing their heads and bowing: "The Queen Mother is a thousand years old." ”

Seeing this, everyone in the hall, except for the emperor, also knelt down and chanted Chitose.

Qin Siyang let go of Li Chaochen's hand and looked at the Queen Mother with some trepidation. And the queen mother was also ordinary, ignoring the people who knelt down, and looked at him with an iron face. (To be continued.) )