Regarding the strength of Tang Yaoyao and Li Tianlan, Tang Ning still has some bottom in his heart.

Tang Fairy dared to cross in front of her, there should still be a gap between Li Tianlan, otherwise, she would not dare to challenge Li Tianlan only when she was drunk.

Li Tianlan glanced at her, saw her blushing face and misty eyes, shook his head and said, "Don't fight." ”

Tang Yaoyao glanced at her and asked, "If you don't fight, then you admit defeat?" ”

Li Tianlan looked at her and said, "You are not my opponent. ”

"You, you, you ......" Tang Yaoyao stretched out his hand and pointed at her, and said: "Don't think that you are great because you have big breasts, whether I am your opponent or not, I will only know after fighting." ”

Tang Ning walked over, looked at her, and said helplessly: "You are drunk, hurry up and go back to your room to rest." ”

"I'm not drunk!" She walked past Tang Ning, walked in front of Li Tianlan, straightened her chest, and asked again: "It's just a competition, do you dare?" ”

She actually stood up in front of Li Tianlan, Tang Ning covered her eyes, and she couldn't bear to look at it directly.

Wine strengthens people's courage, this sentence is true, that small half jar of wine is how much courage she has strengthened and how much courage she has given her.

Li Tianlan looked at her, then nodded, "Okay." ”

Tang Ning came to his small courtyard and closed the courtyard door.

I didn't expect the situation in his dream to appear so soon, but in reality, they didn't tear their hair and clothes, and there were only the two of them, not Su Mei.

As soon as the fight started, Tang Ning could see that even though Tang Yaoyao had practiced hard these days and made a lot of progress, he was not Li Tianlan's opponent.

After all, when she was improving, Li Tianlan was not standing still.

The old beggar once said that Li Tianlan seemed to have broken through a certain bottleneck during this time, and she did not say this about Tang Xiaoxiao, which shows that she is purely humiliating herself today.

Li Tianlan was originally just defensive, but the drunken Tang goblin made a move to grab her chest, as if he had some deep hatred with her chest, Li Tianlan's face showed a trace of shame, and at a certain moment, he put out two deep fingers and pointed at her shoulder.

So the Tang goblin maintained a posture of one hand stretched forward and did not move.

Tang Yaoyao said angrily: "You quickly untie it for me!" ”

Li Tianlan picked her up by the waist, walked to the room, and threw her on the bed.

"It will be automatically untied in two hours, and in this time, you can wait quietly."

After saying that, he ignored her shouting, walked out of the room, and closed the door by the way.

She sat down in the pavilion in the courtyard and asked Tang Ning, "When will the palace examination start?" ”

Tang Ning thought for a moment and said, "It should be late April." ”

The provincial examination is followed by the palace examination, and the time will probably only be less than half a month apart, and the palace examination shall be no later than May, and the time will be in late April at the latest.

She looked away and said: "The palace examination is only a test of strategy, among the more than two hundred jinshi, there must be someone who is good at this way, if it is just written in a decent way, it is difficult to get ahead, and at most it will be ranked second." ”

"Do your best."

Tang Ning didn't care, he decided to take the top prize, not really wanted to stand out from thousands of students and enjoy that high-profile moment, but just for the reward he could get after becoming the champion.

Now he doesn't have to be the champion in the exam to get the previous reward, and if the champion is not the champion, it is not so important, do his best, and then resign himself to fate.

He looked at Li Tianlan and asked, "How is your matter, haven't you negotiated with the imperial court yet?" ”

Li Tianlan shook his head and said: "Su Shen people are the henchmen of the Chu State, but they are not the Chen State's, and the thankless task, the Chen State court is naturally unwilling to send troops to help." ”

Tang Ning had thought about this issue carefully, and he could understand the practices of the imperial court to a large extent.

Although the enemy on the grassland is strong, the sky has fallen and there is a tall one, and the Chu State is the one who is tall.

And although Su Shen people are not easy to mess with, Chu State is not a vegetarian, and he does it with real knives and guns, and he doesn't know who loses and who wins.

What Chen Guo hopes for the most is, of course, that the tribes on the grassland and the Chu State fight to the death, and Chen Guo will reap the benefits of the fisherman, annex the forces of the two countries, and become the absolute overlord of this land.

As long as the enemies on the grassland were not strong enough to destroy the Chu State without much effort, the court of the Chen State would pretend not to know the truth of the cold lips and teeth.

Tang Ning looked at Li Tianlan and asked, "If you were the Emperor of the Chen State, how would you choose?" ”

Li Tianlan thought for a while and said: "If I am the emperor of the Chen State, I naturally want to see the Chu State and the grassland contend, unless I can get huge benefits, there is no reason for the Chen State to send troops." ”

Tang Ning poured her a cup of tea and said, "It may be that the benefits you gave are not enough to make the Manchu monarchs change their minds." ”

Li Tianlan looked at him and asked, "What if those barbarians on the grassland are so strong that the Chu State can't resist them?" ”

Tang Ning thought for a moment, looked at her and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

"The prudent people on the grassland, composed of dozens of large and small tribes, live nomadic and have no fixed residence, these tribes are large and small, in addition to plundering the people and merchants on the border of Chen and Chu, there are often frictions and wars between tribes, small tribes will be swallowed up by large tribes, and large tribes will also break up into small tribes......"

Li Tianlan looked at him and said: "The reason why the Sushen people have not become strong is because they have been in internal friction for a long time, but just a year ago, a certain department of Sushen suddenly rose, annexed more than ten small tribes, and defeated the largest tribe in one fell swoop, annexing and encroaching on it, and now it has become the largest part of Sushen, and it is still constantly annexing and growing, if they are allowed to sit big, when the time comes, even if Chen and Chu form an alliance, it will be too late." ”

Tang Ning couldn't help but ask, "Why didn't you tell them the news?" ”

Li Tianlan shook his head and said, "If you don't see it with your own eyes, they won't believe it." ”

Tang Ning has not yet stepped into the imperial court, and he does not know much about this kind of game between high-level officials, it seems that if the purpose of forming an alliance cannot be achieved, the envoys of Chu State plan to stay in Beijing for a long time.

He sent Li Tianlan out of the county office, and then turned back to his room.

Tang Yaoyao, who was still screaming to fight with Li Tianlan just now, didn't know when she fell asleep, and there was still a trace of crystal at the corner of her mouth, Tang Ning took out a handkerchief from her arms and wiped it, so as not to stain her sheets.

After Tang Fairy woke up, as if she had forgotten what happened before, Tang Ning brought a bowl of porridge and put it beside her.

She took a sip of porridge, picked up a wet handkerchief on the side, looked at Tang Ning, and asked, "What are you doing with my handkerchief?" ”

"I didn't do anything." Tang Ning shook his head and said, "It's just that someone always drools when he sleeps, and I'm afraid of soiling my sheets, so I have to help her wipe her ......."

Tang Fairy picked up the bowl, walked outside, coughed a few times, and said, "I don't know who it is......"

……

Two days after the end of the provincial examination, the imperial court released the news that the time of the palace examination was set for April 23.

There are still ten days left before the palace test, and the major gambling houses in Jingshi are already extremely popular.

The palace examination is the last game of the imperial examination gambling game, everyone can only bet on the champion, or bet on the top three, if you can bet on the top three in order, you will not have to worry about eating and drinking in this life.

"I'm betting on Bai!"

"I'm betting on Cui Lang!"

"One thousand taels, one thousand taels bet on Tang Ning to be the champion!"

"Crazy you, didn't look at this year's top three predictions, several examiners personally revealed that the reason why Tang Ning was able to take the first place in the provincial test was to win the first two games, and strategy is not his strong point, this palace test, I'm afraid it will be difficult to even enter the second class......"

"What, then I'll not bet on it for now, this brother, where can I see the top three predictions?"

"I don't know this, all major bookstores sell it, one or two pieces of silver, but there is information revealed by the provincial examiner himself, I haven't even read this, do you dare to bet?"

"Thank you brother Tai for reminding me, I'm going to buy it!"

……

In the small courtyard, Tang Ning looked at Gu Bai, then at Cui Lang, and asked, "You two think it's better for me to bet on the two of you?" ”