A few days later, in front of the bookcase on the second floor of Yujing Pavilion, Cai Ling was holding a wolf pen to copy "The Female Rule", one stroke at a time, the handwriting was beautiful, until the end of the ink to dip in, but accidentally knocked over a bowl of tea at hand, and the tea was quickly soaked in rice paper.

Manyun hurriedly took the cloth to wipe it, "It's all because I didn't put the tea bowl properly." ”

"It's none of your business." Cai Ling put down the pen and crumpled the woman who was soaked in water, "It's not too late to copy it in the afternoon." I don't know why I've been restless lately? ”

"Do you want to send the Imperial Doctor to take a look?" Manyun hurriedly asked.

"Not really." Cai Ling smiled, thought about it and asked, "I wonder how the prince is doing?" "I heard that since the water incident, there has been a rift between the prince and the emperor's father and son, and the emperor treats the prince as kindly as before, but often takes the eighth-year-old eighth prince who is only thirteen years old with him to raise him, and there is also a lot of discussion in the court and the opposition.

"I heard that the prince has been out of the palace for a while to prepare for the spring hunt." Manyun frowned and sighed, "It is said that the Spring Hunt is the responsibility of the Ministry of Menxia, where does His Highness need to personally ask, maybe it is because today's honor guards and arrangements are very different." ”

"It should be." Cai Ling asked again, "How is Liang Mingchen doing?" ”

"Champion?" Manyun turned from worry to joy, "I heard that I have passed the selection examination of the Ministry of Officials and will be appointed to the Hanlin Academy in the near future, although it is only from the sixth grade, but it is the foundation for the future to rise and fall." The good girl should be very happy these days. ”

"Good news indeed." Cai Ling smiled faintly, but there was a gloom between her eyebrows, which did not dissipate.

Speechless, they heard the sound of someone going up the stairs, and after a while, the eunuch in front of the emperor had already walked to him, shook the dust and said, "At the behest of Your Majesty, please invite Miss Jiang to see you in the arch hall." ”

Cai Ling put down her pen, and nodded with her father-in-law, but Manyun said urgently: "Girl......"

Cai Ling patted the hands she helped up and said with a smile, "It's okay." He said so, but his heart was still beating a drum. Although she is well-informed, not afraid of cunning profiteers and disdainful of entangled with people in the market, she is afraid of the emperor in her heart, and although she has guessed the reason for this trip for eight points, she still has to hold back the panic in her heart.

The front hall of the arch, the familiar tiles and trees, the big pillars that reached the sky, she stood there that day and kept saying that the prince was injured because of her, although it was not a lie, but the good mansion was kept clean. Now when you look up, although it is majestic, it is even more depressed.

The people standing in the main hall are the chief and deputy ministers of the three provinces and six ministries, and the eighth prince is standing on the side of the dragon chair, and he also looks at her, obviously he is childish, but he is desperately pretending to be a high-spirited king. Cai Ling smiled slightly, and moved her gaze to the lower left of the main seat, the prince in the ink-colored official robe was standing with his hands in his hands, his eyes were far-reaching, but he didn't look at her.

"The people see Your Majesty." Cai Ling is like a ritual.

"Jiang, do you know what I told you to come to?" The Emperor asked aloud.

"The folk girl doesn't know. Your Majesty, please make it clear. "Although I am afraid, I can't help but talk back. She is not a worm in his stomach, speculating that Jun Xin is guilty of the following crimes, and she is not stupid!

"Do you know the new champion Liang Mingchen?" The Emperor asked again.

"One side." Cai Ling said, "But the third sister-in-law of the folk girl is her sister, and she is a relative." ”

"Hmm. Do you know what wish the champion of the Jiying Palace made to me? The Emperor asked again.

At this point, Cai Ling already knew it, and only said: "Add an official to a knight?" Marrying the county lord? "There is an unwritten rule in this dynasty, the champion can ask the emperor for a wish, although it is not easy to be promoted to the rank of official, but there is a precedent for marrying the county lord.

The ministers whispered in an uproar, and the emperor rebuked: "Superficial! ”

Cai Ling was already laughing to herself, and in a blink of an eye, she met the prince's eyes, and there was a gentle smile in his serious expression, but she quickly turned her eyes away and hid the faint smile.

The emperor gave a look, and the Ministry of Rites said: "Champion Lang only has one request." His parents were old, and they felt that their grandchildren were outcast, and they had trouble sleeping and eating all day long, and they were getting thinner and thinner. Zhuang Yuanlang asked to take his nephew surnamed Jiang back and raise him under his mother's knees. His Majesty will allow His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to say that Jiang Moyuan had been treated by the girl when he was dying, but fortunately, the girl did not abandon and took care of her wholeheartedly, so she only walked once before the ghost gate, and the girl's grace was like her reborn parents, and she could not be taken away. ”

"Your Highness is right." Cai Ling nodded.

"But now that you are in the palace, how can you raise children carefully? How can a child who grows up in a mixed land be promising? The person who suddenly shouted the accusation was none other than the Eighth Emperor next to the dragon chair, and the noise of the voice made the emperor frown slightly and glanced at him.

Cailing's hanging heart suddenly landed, and it was very happy. She hasn't seen these eight princes a few times, she only knows that the dragon heir is thin, and the mother of the eighth prince was originally just a beauty, and after giving birth to the prince, her mother was named Jieyu by virtue of her son Guijin. At first, I thought that he would become a stumbling block on Shen Muchi's open road, but after a battle, I realized that this person was not as good as the abolished prince, and how could he be compared with Shen Muchi.

"Dare to ask Your Highness, where does the place of 'mixed fish and dragons' begin?" Cai Ling asked with a smile.

The crown prince coughed lightly, stared at the eighth prince tightly, and motioned for him to stop.

The young and vigorous Eighth Prince hurriedly said: "Dongxi Lou is just an inn and wine shop, and the people who come and go are mixed, isn't it a 'mixed fish'?" ”

"According to His Highness's words, 'mixed fish and dragons' is a metaphor for the guests who come and go. I have seen a lot of 'big fish and small fish' of eunuchs, wealthy businessmen and ordinary people, but Your Majesty has never been to a small shop, so I dare to ask who else in this world can afford this 'dragon' word! "Cai Ling is aggressive.

"You!" The Eighth Prince was anxious to choose his words, "You are so bold, you dare to be the prince!" ”

"The people don't dare!" Lowering his eyes and his head, it is already difficult to hide his smile. In the past, I felt that the waste prince was not outstanding, but I had never seen Jinghe and Lao Ba.

"Father, she designed to harm her sons." The thirteen-year-old prince complained that he was still childish, and the courtiers in the palace shook their heads again and again.

The Emperor said angrily, "Stand down." ”

He pouted and walked down the palace reluctantly, passing by Cai Ling's side, and glancing at her viciously, just like Jing and the princess.

Cai Ling didn't care, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, Jiang Moyuan is the grandson of the father of the people's daughter, and the people's daughter should shoulder the responsibility of educating her nephews after her father's sin, and dare not bother the foreigners." Moreover, Yuan'er and the people's daughter's blood is thicker than water, and they are like mother and son, and they are reluctant to leave the people's daughter. ”

"Han'er has a point." The name of the eighth prince is Shen Haohan, and the emperor continued, "You are now in the palace, I don't know how long the queen mother will keep you, how can you take care of the young children herself?" What good will a man who is a fool of the market do to that child? ”

"Father." The prince had just stood up halfway through.

Cai Ling interrupted his words, knelt down, kowtowed to the emperor and begged: "The people's girl has the courage to marry His Royal Highness the King of Dian as soon as possible, and she will definitely take Jiang Moyuan to Yunnan at that time. But I beg Your Majesty to do it. ”

"My thirteenth brother is a good teacher for raising children." The emperor stroked his beard, and couldn't help but rejoice when he talked about the king of Dian, and he thought about pointing out a prince to the old thirteen to be the princess of the Xiang family, but he couldn't look down on anyone, and finally wrote in person a month ago, and he actually wanted this inconspicuous girl in front of him, "That is the case, I will give you two more months to serve the queen mother." Two months later, take your nephew to live in Yunnan. ”

"Father." The prince's eyes were deep, and he looked at her for a moment, and then said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Long." Cai Ling deliberately interrupted him again.