Sikong Lan folded his arms on his right abdomen and bowed towards Emperor Liang.

The voice said delicately: "Father, today is a banquet for talented people, and the sons and daughters should also have a scene, can you let the female dependents also chant poems against each other, so as to show the talent of my daughter's family in the Great Liang Kingdom, which is actually not inferior to men." ”

Liang Huang raised his head and laughed, "Okay, this is a wonderful idea, since you proposed it, then it's up to you to come up with the question!"

Sikong Lan hurriedly shook his head, "The father is unfair, and the sons and daughters can't participate in the questions! The sons think that the grandfather of the Five Emperors has the questions, and it is most fair for you to judge the victory or defeat!"

Seeing that his daughter was about to summon King Qian, Emperor Liang of course had no opinion, so he just killed the arrogance of King Qian.

Reading the beard, he replied quickly, "Of course you can, then you can bother the Fifth Emperor Uncle and work hard!"

Today, the smile on Sikong Qian's face did not dissipate, looking at the father and daughter on the steps singing and harmonizing, he knew that this was Emperor Liang's powerless struggle, a puppet emperor with no real power, why should he care, just play with him.

"The old minister obeys the order! I just don't know if the thirteenth princess's so-called female dependents refers to all female dependents, or only unmarried female dependents?"

Sikong Lan tilted his head, "Except for the ladies, all the ladies and daughters of the various mansions present are tired of the Fifth Emperor Grandfather!"

Sikong Qian turned around and glanced at the people in the main hall, "In this case, the waiter sent pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and the time for a cup of tea is limited to a poem, and the title is 'autumn'!"

Ladies and gentlemen, please write your name in the upper right corner of the paper for unified review. ”

All the chamberlains hurriedly sent pen, ink, paper and inkstones to each table, looking at such a fast speed, Zi Yao knew that this Sikong Lan had already premeditated, fortunately, the folk customs of the Great Liang Country were relatively open, and many academies and private schools in the clan opened women's schools.

It's not difficult to write a poem today, but it's not easy to write a good poem in a short time, which shows that this Sikong Lan wants to make a fool of himself and those eunuchs, so as to show his talents.

Chu Xingyuan glanced sideways at Zi Yao, as if asking if he was participating, Zi Yao blinked his eyes and took over all kinds of utensils.

As soon as you look at the paper, you can see that it took a lot of effort, and the top part of the paper is clamped with cardboard, and the sides are clasped with buttons, so that after the name is written, no one knows whose work it is, unless the person's handwriting is extremely familiar.

Zi Yao didn't think about it, filled in the white flocculation of the Lin Mansion with a thin gold font, covered the position of the name with the cardboard and fastened the button, and quickly wrote a poem, raised his hand to call the waiter to deliver the poem.

Sikong Qian saw that Lin Xing's cousin was the first to hand in the poem, and he waved very curiously, and the waiter walked over with the manuscript in his hand, Sikong Qian opened it and looked at it, and after putting it down, he glanced at Chu Xingyuan meaningfully.

When the time came, all the poems were collected, but when I saw the appearance of staring and pursing my lips, I knew that it was difficult to give the best play in such a short time.

Emperor Liang ordered people to send all the poems to the front, and found five examiners from the Hanlin Academy to screen, only ten poems were left in the nearly 100 poems, and everyone retreated from Emperor Liang to stand on the ten poems hanging on the main hall.

"Today is a banquet for talented people, let the twenty winning talents and the five emperor uncles who participated in the palace examination decide, it is really difficult for me to choose!"

Sikong sneered in his heart, this is to make everyone think that Liang Huang is a person who does not hide his selfishness, after all, there are poems of the thirteen princesses shortlisted.

Sikong Lan frowned, she understood what her father meant, and wanted to take this opportunity to envelop these talents, although she didn't know much, but the consistent behavior of the grandfather of the Five Emperors made her clear that her father's power was not stable, but she was still a little uneasy when she thought of Lin Xing.

The twenty people received the order and followed Sikong Qian to begin to evaluate the ten works, and soon everyone sent the ten works numbered to Emperor Liang.

Sikong Qian arched his hands and clenched his fists, "Your Majesty, this is the top three selected by the judges, please take a look!"

The emperor looked at them one by one, and with a wave of his pen, he marked the order of the top three on it, "Very good, let's announce it according to the results of your judgment!"

Sikong Qian waved his hand, and the chamberlain removed the cardboard from the three works and sent them to Sikong Qian's hand, and he glanced at him for a moment.

"Third place, Thirteenth Princess Sikong Lan, second place, Sixth Miss Wen Fanfei of Taifu Mansion, first place, Xinke champion Lin Mansion Bai Xu, you can come forward to evaluate.

This king only reads one poem here, "Autumn Moon"!

The clear stream flows through the top of the blue mountain, and the empty water is clear and fresh in autumn. Thirty miles of red dust are separated, and the white clouds and red leaves are two long. ”

The chamberlains were in pairs, holding poems and displaying them back and forth in the hall for a week, and the magnificent poems and handwriting that were not inferior to men made many ministers give a thumbs up.

The minister beside Taifu bowed his hand to Taifu, and Bi Hanlin, who was beside Chu Xingyuan, also bowed his hand to Chu Xingyuan and Zi Yao to congratulate, and the two of them bowed their heads slightly without saying a word.

And although the thirteenth princess on the high platform kept a smile, the nails in the sleeves had been buried deep in the flesh of the palms.

Such a face-sweeping thing was brought up by herself, which made the proud Sikong Lan almost go crazy, but as a child who grew up in the deep palace, she had been holding back, and Concubine Shu on her side patted her hand.

"My son really has a royal demeanor, like your father, your father doesn't want to judge, but he can recognize your handwriting at a glance, and licking the calf will disturb the judging criteria, and he doesn't respect your father with a glass of wine?"

Sikong is too lazy to look at it, Concubine Shu Guifei is here to put gold on her daughter's face, no matter how good a princess is, she is an outsider, and being able to entrap an important minister is already the greatest use.

He has been observing Zi Yao on Lin Xing's side, the poem was rated first, and it did not move this woman, her indifferent demeanor is by no means pretended, not to mention that she is really a good match with Lin Xing, especially Sikong Lan just mentioned that she likes him, so let's be a favor.

"Lin Langzhong, I don't know if this Miss Bai Xu is your ......"

Chu Xingyuan knew that this was an olive branch stretched out by Sikong Qian, so he quickly got up and bowed to Sikong Qian.

"Back to the prince's words, Bai Xu is Weichen's cousin, and he has a marriage contract with Weichen since he was a child, but unfortunately his uncle and aunt died of the epidemic last year, and the matter of the two of us was delayed. ”

Although the latter sentence is not loud, anyone who is close can hear it clearly, Liang Huanghe and the thirteenth princess can hear it even more clearly, the thirteenth princess's eyes are brighter, so there is no need to care if the eldest relatives are not lost in Gengti.

Sikong Lan anxiously looked back at Emperor Liang, but Emperor Liang didn't look at her.