What does it mean that Wang Shaoyan has not spoken? Do you want him to pay a solemn tribute to Wang Shizi and compete with a girl? Nangong Yufeng's heart was full of fire, but now he has a request for others and can't be angry with Wang Shaoyan, this is a noble porcelain man who can break it with a rub, if he accidentally makes some movement, the Wang family can't clean him up, and the queen has enough for him to drink a pot. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Xi Cui saw that this prince was a little unbearable now, and his heart was really much more comfortable, thinking about how angry he was last time, relying on his noble status to look at us slaves, right? So she didn't hide the smile on her face and exposed the joy in her heart. Nangong Yufeng happened to look at it, and the green tendons on his forehead immediately skyrocketed, but he still had to endure it on his face, so he gritted his teeth and said, "You girl is really a loyal protector, since this is the case, this son will go to find a carriage for your young lady now, and then send you back to the Wang family, I wonder if you can let your aunt go to the Gongyuan first?" ”

Xi Cui looked at his face and knew that it was time to stop, and said with a smile, "It's good that the prince can understand the slave and the maid and protect the master, but don't misunderstand the slave and maid." Since things are really in such a hurry, we naturally can't delay, we might as well find a teahouse and find a private room, and first place the young lady in it, and Mama Wu waits for the slave to find a carriage to go back to the house. As he spoke, he was about to get into the car and talk to Yun Ting, but he didn't want to make a little noise and screamed that the brocade box in his arms fell down. With a snap, the brocade box opened, and a gold-inlaid jade butterfly and flower bead hairpin with exquisite workmanship appeared in front of everyone. Xi Cui hurriedly went to pick it up, but Nangong Yufeng took the lead in his hand. This was clearly specially picked by Xi Yunjian that day! How did it get into the hands of this girl? Could it be that the person in Xi Yunjian's heart is actually this girl? Thinking of this, Nangong Yufeng looked at Xi Cui again, this was not the first time he had looked at her like this, but she was just a yellow-haired girl, how could it be? "Xi Yunjian gave it to you?"

Xi Cui wanted to snatch the brocade box over, but she always remembered her identity, so she could only respectfully lean over and stand aside, and said in a low voice, "Yes." ”

"What a vision he has!" Nangong Yufeng threw the brocade box back, and didn't even look at Xi Cui again. But how did he know at this moment that he had unintentionally said these few sarcastic words before and after, and he would suffer a lot for a long time afterward.

Wang Shaoyan didn't feel any different about this matter, Mrs. Hou had already told him that Xi Yunjian liked Xi Cui, since she didn't have any thoughts about this girl, then her own affairs seemed irrelevant in his eyes.

followed Nangong Yufeng to the Tribute Courtyard, and the lights had already risen inside. The test is approaching, and it is naturally more lively here, and there is only one person in this place who can labor Nangong Yufeng personally ran to find him Wang Shaoyan came forward, and that is the two of them have a common teacher, Zhang Yuanjing.

Zhang Yuanjing was once the prince of the former dynasty, knowledgeable astronomy and geography involved in everything, Wang Shaoyan and Nangong Yufeng in the early years of Zhang Fuzi under the door, the two of them are famous in the capital. It's a pity that his body is not angry, and he can't even go out of the door these years, although the master and apprentice are in the same capital, they haven't seen each other for two years. Earlier, I heard my father say that the emperor reopened Enke a few years ago and wanted to recruit talents, but looking at the court, there was no one available, those civil servants and strategists died and retreated, and now Jiang Taishi is left alone, and he can be regarded as a real civil minister, Wang Shangshu is wearing the official uniform of Shang Shuling, if he does not have his son to make plans, he is also a military general in his bones. Wang Shaoyan recommended Zhang Fuzi at that time, and repaired a letter saying that Zhang Fuzi was moved out of the mountain. But in the end, Master Zhang is a person from the previous dynasty, and there are always people with a heart to tell right and wrong in this position. These things have long been expected, how could he not be prepared, and only a person like Nangong Yufeng would be in a hurry.

When I entered the lobby, I saw Master Zhang wearing a dark purple official robe, wearing a three-grade squire and a black yarn, sitting on the main seat, and several officials of the ministry were arguing. There were still a few old people who looked like Confucian students kneeling in the middle, and behind the old people stood several young people with various scholarly appearances, who seemed to be some students who had passed the township examination. In the end, it is the first time that the imperial examination has been held in the opening of the dynasty, and the autumn has only passed, and there is still half a year before the spring of next year, and it seems that some people can't sit still.

After Nangong Yufeng and Wang Shaoyan entered the door together, Zhang Fuzi's originally calm face finally had an expression, he stood up eagerly and walked to Wang Shaoyan's side in three or two steps, with a look of concern, "Is your body okay?" Saying that, he glanced at Nangong Yufeng coldly, "A little thing just ran to harm Shaoyan, you can know how important his life is!" Nangong Yufeng bowed his head, not daring to be disrespectful.

Wang Shaoyan said with a smile, "The teacher is still so partial, and Yu Feng's heart is wide-hearted, wouldn't he be jealous if he changes someone else?" ”

Zhang Fuzi smiled and dragged him to sit down, no more words.

Although there are few people who have seen Wang Shaoyan, everyone with a brain can guess who Wang Shaoyan is when the teacher shouts out. Not to mention whether this person has a grade or not, but even if he sits in the first place with his identity and talent on the surface, everyone dare not say a word. The queen's own nephew, her father Wang Shangshu is in charge of the six departments alone, and people can let them go to heaven and earth at will.

After listening to the arguments of these people, it turned out that the problem was in the autumn that had just ended. This matter has always been the sole responsibility of Zhang Fuzi, and he set the threshold of the township test very low, and as soon as the results came out, the problems were found inside. Some of the students who passed were actually "remnants of the previous dynasty"! And these people are not a few, on the contrary, some descendants of the relatives of the heroes who have contributed to the founding of the country have been ruthlessly brushed down. This made some of the so-called founding ministers really chilling, and under the banner of not being able to let the foundation they had worked hard lay be ruthlessly subverted by the villain, they asked the officials to start over this autumn again, and it was best to take the identity background as the most important selection condition. However, Zhang Fuzi said that the selection of materials for the country should be eclectic, and the most taboo thing to stabilize the situation is to change the order of the dynasty, and this matter cannot be backed down in any case. So some of the so-called loyal ministers and old slaves brought their masters and descendants to the tribute courtyard to gather, and the few kneeling in front of them also said that they were going to threaten each other with death.

After listening to the ins and outs of the matter, Wang Shaoyan was a smiling face from beginning to end, but his smiling face was actually more terrifying in the eyes of these people than the anger on Nangong Yufeng's face standing beside him. I saw that his voice was gentle, like a spring breeze, and he smiled lightly at the old slave at the front, "This old man asked you lightly which house you are from?" Who is it to protect? What about ancestral merits? You might as well start by writing down all this, signing and drawing it, and recording it in the record, so that the officials and masters of the Ministry can check it clearly, and then consider how much face you should give your master according to these? Otherwise, the officials they choose will not listen to your master's words, and will guard the country for your master, but how can it be good? ”

Before the words fell, the few who were originally standing almost all knelt down with a few pops, and the old ones in front of them had already begun to sweat like rain. Since ancient times, emperors have been suspicious, you have a great contribution to the royal family, and you can't keep talking about it, they just want to scare Zhang Yuanjing, and force him to take a few steps back and insert his own people in. Originally, this was a trivial matter, but I didn't know that this Yuanjing was a stubborn donkey who didn't eat oil and salt, and a few old slaves felt that they had lost face and said that what they said was actually a bluff, but it didn't taste like that when it came out of this mouth.

"Bullshit credit! The real heroes are dead and retreating, leaving a few of them to be our fathers and uncles, but they are busy all day long, where do they have the kung fu to drum up these indiscriminate things! Nangong Yufeng couldn't wait to kick one and kick out all these unsuccessful things.

It had just quieted down here, and it began to be noisy outside, and after a while, a cool breeze blew in, and then a bright yellow figure appeared at the door, with a golden crown and a golden hair, smiling eyes, a slightly fat face, and the raised corners of the mouth made the neat and good-looking mustache more prominent. Although the figure is a little fat, he is wrapped in a bright yellow prince dragon robe and turned over to look more extravagant. The person who came was the current prince Zhou Qitai.

There are not many heirs under the emperor's knees today, Zhou Qitai is the eldest who grew up next to his aunt Princess Yong'an, and his mother was posthumously named the imperial concubine after his mother's early death, the second prince Zhou Qiwen's mother is Liang Guifei, the third prince Zhou Qiyu and Princess Chaoyang were born to Concubine An, these are all adults, and there is a fourth prince Zhou Qikang who is only twelve years old and his mother is Concubine Li. Among these four princes, the most powerful to compete for the throne are the crown prince and the second prince, and the third prince has long been well-known in the capital for not learning all day long. Although the four princes have some talents, it is a pity that their background is too low, and their age is too young to become a climate, so over the years, as the emperor's health has become worse and worse, two factions have gradually formed among the courtiers: the princeling party and the second prince's party. The emperor seems to be very clear, but he has been watching from the sidelines, and even the queen looks like she is out of the way.

The prince suddenly appeared, and everyone saluted, and Wang Shaoyan was no exception. The prince hurriedly came over and helped Wang Shaoyan up with his own hands, "Shaoyan, what are you doing?" Why should you and my cousins be so polite? Everyone got up and found that there were some young people who looked like scholars behind the prince. Looking at the clothes on these people's bodies, and then looking at the people who were in the main hall before, the identity gap is clear at a glance. The people standing inside just now were all the children of the eunuchs with some backgrounds, all of them were wearing silk, and the bodies that came in with the prince were all coarse linen clothes, and at first glance they were scholars from poor families.

The prince saw that everyone saw some eyebrows from each other, and he didn't make much introductions, but said that he met these scholars on the road, saying that he had just become a show and was about to get together to celebrate.

Where is there nothing to do, although most of these people are really poor scholars, there must be a few princes. Wang Shaoyan could see that the others were not fools, obviously the prince wanted to use the place of Gongyuan to perform a play, and they could only accompany him.

Sure enough, as soon as the two groups of scholars met, there was an argument related to their background. The prince sat on the top seat and sipped tea leisurely, listening carefully to the arguments of the people below from time to time, nodding and shaking his head suddenly. Wang Shaoyan closed his eyes and showed some sleepiness on his face, the prince's intentions were too obvious, what the emperor needed most at the moment was Wenchen, and Master Zhang bore the brunt of it, and it would be more than a tiger for him to be able to pull him over? Today it was Nangong Yufeng who found him, if he didn't come or came late, the only one who could help Master Zhang relieve the siege was the prince, so how could Master Zhang not miss his kindness. The plan is very good, but unfortunately it is a step late, he has stabilized the situation, he came with the intention of sending charcoal in the snow, but what he got was only the icing on the cake. But since he has already come, he has to continue the play, otherwise how can he deal with the group of scholars he brought, and he can only find another opportunity on Master Zhang's side. At least this time, I want to leave a bit of a virtuous image for myself among these literati, after all, future officials are selected from among them, and people are preconceived, and there is no harm in being virtuous.

The prince seemed to be listening to their arguments, but he was actually pondering, and the only mistake in this plan was Wang Shaoyan. I didn't expect this sick tuberculosis to have the strength to sit here and meddle in his affairs, otherwise Zhang Yuanjing wouldn't have been caught? However, through this incident, he at least knew that this Yuanjing had a lot to do with Wang Shaoyan, and it seemed that as long as Wang Shaoyan lived, the status of the Wang family in the imperial court would be crucial, and it was time to put some effort into the Wang family.

Zhang Yuanjing can teach a disciple like Wang Shaoyan, who is also a fox-like person, even if he can't see Wang Shaoyan so thoroughly, but the Tao in it can still be found out, but the person in front of him is the crown prince, Wang Shaoyan can only accompany him, let alone himself? I can only patiently watch the group of people below stage a monkey show.

Finally, the climax came, and the words of the two parties became more and more sharp, and some people even looked like they couldn't help but shoot, and the three people in the hall were already impatient, and finally waited for the prelude to the end. Wang Shaoyan looked at Master Zhang and shook his head, the prince ran down with an anxious face, but no one stopped him. The prince rushed straight into the chaotic crowd, and a young man with a red face didn't look at it and swung his fist out, and he was about to hit another person in the face, but he was picked up by the prince. I don't know who was pushed next to him, and one person almost fell to the ground, and the prince didn't care about the pain of being beaten on his body and quickly helped the person up, and then the prince's guards rushed in and pulled the two people apart.

The few who beat people saw that the prince quickly knelt down and asked for guilt, and the prince did not blame, but persuaded him with good words, "At the beginning of the founding of the country, the foundation was undecided, and all kinds of waste were waiting to be revived, and you were all the pillars of the country, and the slightest injury was unbearable. Well, what you're arguing about is nothing more than some family identity and background issues, and I can tell you for sure here that this time I only look at real talents, regardless of background. If you eunuch children have real skills, you can compete openly, and you poor children will not be allowed to sow discord by anyone, although you can use what you have learned, as long as you can live and work in peace and contentment for the people of Daxia, you will be safe and prosperous, so why be afraid of any remnants of the previous dynasty! ”

I have to say that many people who said these words of the prince were really enthusiastic, and Wang Shaoyan even saw that some people's faces were flushed. The royal people are really good at acting!

It's almost over here, the prince appeased everyone, showed the determination of the imperial court to recruit talents, and also opened a bright avenue for the imperial examination of the officials, and made the prince famous among scholars, modest and generous, and had the demeanor of a benevolent monarch. For a time, the strength of the crown prince was much higher than that of the second prince. That's all for later.

Solved the matter of the tribute courtyard, Nangong Yufeng personally sent Wang Shaoyan back to Wang's house, and as soon as he arrived at the door, he saw Mrs. Wang raising her neck and looking left and right, and knew that she was waiting for them. Seeing Nangong Yufeng, Mrs. Wang swept over coldly, if it weren't for King Li's face, he was afraid that he would be cleaned up on the spot.

When Wang Shaoyan got out of the car, he saw his mother's angry face, and he could only look at Nangong Yufeng apologetically. Fortunately, this person doesn't have so much thought and doesn't care too much. When he was about to enter the door, Wang Shaoyan found that Xi Yunting and Xi Cui had been kneeling on the bluestone steps inside the gate, and they were still wearing the same clothes as when they went out, and it seemed that they had been punished for kneeling as soon as they entered the door.

Wang Shaoyan was just about to walk over when his mother stopped him, "Don't worry about this matter, as a wife, you can actually let your sick husband go out alone and not teach her a lesson, maybe it will be even more serious in the future!" ”

"Mother, this matter is a son's own decision, how can you do this to Yun Ting? And you don't know what her situation is, you are clearly ......" Wang Shaoyan was so angry that he couldn't help coughing, and Mrs. Wang hurriedly helped him. was pushed away by Wang Shaoyan, walked quickly to Yun Ting's side, and pulled her up. Yun Ting had never suffered such a big grievance, kneeling at the door and crying all the time, now seeing Wang Shaoyan was even more sad, crying even more, Wang Shaoyan with red and swollen eyes was worried for a while, and hurriedly hugged him in his arms and coaxed.

Seeing her son's attitude like this, Mrs. Wang couldn't tell Yun Ting to kneel down anymore, so she could only snort coldly and order someone to take the young master and young grandmother into the door, while Xi Cui could only get up slowly after everyone had walked away. The place where she knelt was deliberately put a few stones by the small ring next to Mrs., originally Mrs. wanted to ask Yun Ting to kneel here, Yun Ting's temperament once she knelt on the stones, how could she be punished obediently, but what Mrs. Wang wanted was for her to make trouble. Xi Cui could only take the first step to kneel here, and then quickly pulled Yun Ting to kneel beside her, fortunately, Mama Wu heard the movement and hid in the carriage before she came out, otherwise her old bone would be difficult to stand up if she knelt for so many hours.

Xi Cui struggled to stand up but found that her knee was already bleeding, which should have hurt her muscles and bones, but it was okay to move without moving, and the piercing pain would hit her, and soon the sweat soaked her back.

Nangong Yufeng saw that they were punished, and he felt a little guilty in his heart, after all, it was he who forcibly took Wang Shaoyan away that caused them to be guilty of this crime. Fortunately, Wang Shaoyan had already solved this matter, but he saw that Xi Cui didn't get up for a long time. Curious, I walked over.