Ye Qingchuan left, even if Ding Yan was curious, he was helpless. However, he rushed to the Feather Palace as soon as Ye Qingchuan left, and told the empress everything he saw and heard.

Empress Xueyue couldn't help but praise after hearing this: "It's really a genius!"

Originally, according to the empress's bottom of her heart, this matter of dividing the roots and treetops could keep Ye Qingchuan busy for a while, plus the follow-up transportation, construction, etc., it would take two or three months to be completed. By then, Qiguo had already started a war with Yasukuni, and Yuguo would take advantage of this to make a judgment.

didn't want to distinguish between the roots, the treetops and the transportation, Ye Qingchuan actually completed it all in just one day, and the empress couldn't help but admire even if she didn't want to.

"Prime Minister Ding, how long did you say it would take for Ye Envoy to build this pavilion?"

Ding Yan thought for a while and said, "The minister estimates that twenty days is enough. ”

"Oh?"

Empress Xueyue sighed lightly and asked, "What other tricks do you have behind the envoys?"

Ding Yan said frankly: "The minister doesn't know, but the minister saw that Ye Envoy ordered the Qi army to transport a lot of sand and stones. ”

"Sandstone?"

Empress Yuexue suddenly looked forward to Ye Qingchuan's next move.

The next day, Ding Yan came to the attic early to choose a site according to the empress's order, but he didn't want Ye Qingchuan to come earlier than him.

In the early morning, there was still the chill of winter, but Ye Qingchuan was already commanding the work of Qi Bing and the feather soldiers sent by Ding Yan before.

Under the command of Ye Qingchuan, from the east and south directions, the soldiers and the feather soldiers began to lay sand and gravel.

Ding Yan couldn't see anything famous for the time being, and he didn't think about it anymore, and walked straight to Ye Qingchuan's side.

"Don't come unharmed, Prime Minister Ding. Ye Qingchuan took the lead in saluting.

Ding Yan returned the salute and asked, "What is Ye Envoy doing?"

Ye Qingchuan replied bluntly: "Repair the attic." ”

Ding Yan laughed dryly, and didn't ask more questions so as not to be bored. But if he didn't ask, it didn't mean that Ye Qingchuan would let him go.

I saw Ye Qingchuan say: "Actually, Qingchuan is still grateful to the prime minister for his kindness." ”

"What do you mean?" Ding Yan asked.

Ye Qingchuan said: "The terrain here is open in front and has a back, which is really good." The key is to be watery, otherwise wouldn't I have to work harder?"

Ding Yanpi smiled and said: "It is common sense to be surrounded by mountains and rivers, and it is Ye Envoy's wisdom and resourcefulness. ”

Ye Qingchuan ignored his praise and continued: "What's more important is that you have already laid a solid foundation, which is missing a lot of my processes. It turns out that you still want Her Royal Highness the princess to marry into Qiguo as soon as possible. ”

Ding Yan laughed dryly, and he couldn't say anything in his heart.

Seeing Ding Yan's reluctant smile, Ye Qingchuan knew that he was not comfortable in his heart. He felt uncomfortable in his heart, but Ye Qingchuan felt much more comfortable in his heart, and his resentment in the past few days also dissipated a little, and he couldn't help humming a small tune.

Ding Yan wanted to leave, but in the end he stayed by Ye Qingchuan's side, but listening to his tune, it was not a good feeling in his heart.

Ye Qingchuan also added fuel to the fire and said: "Isn't Prime Minister Ding not like to listen to Qingchuan's tune?"

Ding Yan had no choice but to smile and say: "Where, Ye Yuanchen is happy, just happy." ”

On this day, Ye Qingchuan did not build an attic, but let the soldiers start and lay sand and stones.

Gradually, Ding Yan also saw the fame, knowing that Ye Qingchuan was paving the ramp, but he really couldn't see why he had to pave two arched ramps, and why one arch ramp was ten feet higher than the other.

And one day, when Ding Yan went to look again, Ye Qingchuan had already begun to erect wooden stakes. However, in half a day, after the erection of more than 30 main piles was completed, Ye Qingchuan started work at both ends, using the lower arched soil slope to transport the design mortise and tenon on the second floor, and at the same time began to improve the rest of the work on the first floor.

After five days, the attic was roughly in shape, and Ye Qingchuan used two arched mounds at the same time, one to complete the rest of the second floor, and the other to start building the roof.

In this way, in just fifteen days, the general framework of the pavilion has been basically completed, and it is only waiting for the princess to get married.

When Ding Yan told the Empress Yuexue about this, the Empress was quite surprised and couldn't help but come to check it out in person. And when she arrived, Ye Qingchuan was ordering Qibing and Yubing to do the aftermath work such as removing the mound.

Empress Yuexue couldn't help but admire when she saw that the pavilion was really formed. Seeing Ye Qingchuan coming, he took the initiative to say, "Has the Ye envoy ever thought of finding another master?"

Ye Qingchuan was stunned for a moment, and said casually: "Although the foreign minister has served in Jingqi and the two countries, but the two countries of Jingqi are still one family in the final analysis, just like the Yu Guo general and the Qiguo family, even so, why should the foreign minister move around in his own home." ”

Hearing Ye Qingchuan say this, Empress Yuexue realized that what she just said was too reckless, but she really admired Ye Qingchuan's talent so she couldn't help but solicit it. Since the other party has no intention, she no longer insists on it.

Ye Qingchuan also felt a little embarrassed to face the empress later, so he took the initiative to change the topic and said, "Her Royal Highness the princess is ready?"

The empress said lightly: "Tomorrow, invite the Ye envoy to come to the Fengtian Palace." Then he turned and left.

When the empress walked away, Ye Qingchuan finally breathed a sigh of relief, quite a bit of bitterness, but he still felt faintly uneasy in his heart, and always felt that marriage was not so simple.

The next day, Ye Qingchuan re-entered the Fengtian Hall of the Feather Palace as a welcoming envoy.

Empress Xueyue first praised Ye Qingchuan, and then changed her words, but said: "My daughter is a thin-skinned person, and if Ye Envoy wants to bring it back, she still needs a little courage and eyes." ”

Although Ye Qingchuan didn't understand what he meant when he heard it, he already knew in his heart that the test was not over yet.

As Empress Yuexue's words fell, there were several women wearing phoenix crowns, red hijabs, red silk shirts on their upper bodies, embroidered red robes on their coats, collars around their necks, demon mirrors on their chests, and xia veils on their shoulders, and women wearing red skirts, red pants, and red satin embroidered shoes slowly entered the hall.

After all the women entered the palace and stood up, the maid beside the empress walked to Ye Qingchuan's side and said, "Lord Ye, Her Royal Highness the princess is among them, if Lord Ye can find out, he can welcome the princess." ”

Ye Qingchuan glanced around and asked with a smile: "If you don't make things difficult for the groom official, why are you making things difficult for me?"

The maid smiled and said, "The bridegroom is far away, and we can't make it difficult, so it falls on the adults." ”

Ye Qingchuan smiled bitterly and said, "It's not that I married the princess, how do I know who the princess is?"

The maid pursed her lips and chuckled, but said no more.

Ye Qingchuan saw that this maid was clever, and he couldn't talk about it, so he also gave up his idea and began to seriously look at the brides.

It's a pity that the red cloth covers their faces, but they can't see their faces, which is really embarrassing.

After looking around, Ye Qingchuan couldn't make it clear, and asked the maids beside him, "Can I ask them questions?"

The maid replied, "Naturally, but whether they will answer or not, the slave and maid do not know." ”

Ye Qingchuan smiled: "Enough." ”

He had heard that the princess of Yuguo was not allowed to shave her eyebrows, so he thought it was right

Each bride asks a question to see how she reacts.

And what he asked was military strategy and the like, and he thought that this kind of ordinary woman should not be involved.

But when he faced the first bride and asked: "The art of war is cloudy: what does Xu Rulin mean by being as fast as the wind?"

The bride replied in a gushing voice: "Therefore it is as swift as the wind, as swift as a forest, as swift as a forest, as a fire as a fire, as immobile as a mountain, as unknowable as a yin, and as moving as a thunderstorm." Meaning: when the troops move quickly, like a whirlwind whirlwind; When you march calmly, it is like a forest slowly unfolding; When attacking cities and plundering land, they are like fierce fires; When stationed in defense, it is like a mountain; When the military situation is hidden, it is like a dark cloud covering the sun; When the army is dispatched, it is like a thunderbolt. ”

After hearing this, Ye Qingchuan said in his heart: "Isn't she the princess of Yuguo?"

With a cautious attitude, Ye Qingchuan asked the next bride again, not wanting the bride to talk endlessly.

Ye Qingchuan asked dozens of brides in a row, and they may or may not answer, but they are also the majority.

Ye Qingchuan asked all the brides in one go, but only ten brides did not answer. This result surprised Ye Qingchuan, could it be that only ten people were excluded?

When Ye Qingchuan was thinking about what skills to use to screen, he suddenly thought that Her Royal Highness the princess might not speak even if he knew.

In this way, he couldn't help but turn his gaze to the remaining ten brides who had not spoken.

With the attitude of giving it a try, Ye Qingchuan asked the ten brides questions related to their daughters' families, and this time the ten brides all answered.

In this regard, Ye Qingchuan concluded that Her Royal Highness the princess was among the ten brides. The reason is very simple, because Yu Guo's plan must be approved by Her Royal Highness the Princess, and if Her Royal Highness the Princess does not agree, the Empress will not be able to take into account her ideas. And Her Royal Highness the princess agreed, so she would naturally cooperate.

In this way, when Ye Qingchuan asked about the military and politics at the beginning, the princess must have guessed his thoughts, so she kept silent, while the other nine brides may really not know. Later, Ye Qingchuan suddenly found a problem, and when she asked the ten brides again, the first one actually spoke, which showed that she really didn't know about military politics, but when there were questions she could answer, she would speak, so she couldn't be a princess. And after the real princess saw that Ye Qingchuan was asking about her daughter's family, she also answered his question.

While excluding this first bride, Ye Qingchuan also discovered a loophole, that is, Yu Guo did not tell them not to answer the questions.

Ye Qingchuan seized this loophole and wanted to continue to ask questions related to qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, but in the end, he made a mistake in terms of books.

After asking questions about qin and chess, among the seven people left, three of them couldn't answer Ye Qingchuan's questions about painting.

If it was excluded by one person, Ye Qingchuan was sure that it was not Her Royal Highness the Princess who was excluded, because she would not dare to take risks when she was alone. But at this time, there are actually three people who can't answer, so it is possible that Her Royal Highness the princess is on either side.

Whether the princess was among the four who could answer, or among the three who couldn't answer, Ye Qingchuan was in a difficult situation.

In desperation, he asked seven people about painting, and at this time, one of the three people who couldn't answer the book before answered Ye Qingchuan's question about painting.

There is no way out of the mountains and rivers, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village. At the last moment, Ye Qingchuan finally found Her Royal Highness the princess.

Ye Qingchuan invited the bride who couldn't answer the book but could draw it, and saluted the empress: "Fortunately, I am not dishonored!"