After half a cup of tea, the hall was full of show girls just now, and half of them had already been screened.

Gonggong Jia looked at the old emperor, and when he saw the old emperor nodding, he raised the dust again, and said loudly: "Let's start the second show, talent show!" ”

"The first, Pei Zhixia, the daughter of the prefect of Shaozhou!"

Lin Sheng watched the woman whose name was shouted come out of the crowd, lowered her eyebrows and blessed her body, and then began to open her lips lightly, singing a little song that was not good or bad.

Father-in-law Jia is good at observing words and feelings, while looking at the face of the old emperor, he also pays attention to the expressions of several other princes, and the brush in his hand also circles and sketches on the name booklet from time to time.

After the first performance, several more women came up one after another.

Poetry and songs, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, really show everyone's beautiful demeanor.

"Fifth place, Fang Family Fang Ziwei!"

As soon as Fang Ziwei's name was exploded by Father-in-law Jia, the eyes of everyone in the hall were firmly fixed on the woman in purple clothes and light gauze who slowly walked over with lotus steps.

The old emperor sat up straight and said in a deep voice, "Raise your head." ”

"Yes." Fang Ziwei responded softly, and then raised her little face.

Clear and bright pupils, curved willow eyebrows, and long eyelashes are very thick.

The fair and flawless skin reveals a faint red powder, and the thin lips are delicate like rose petals.

In short, dignified and beautiful, it is indeed a good seedling who can enter the palace.

"Little woman Fang Ziwei, please say hello to the emperor, the queen mother and the queen." Fang Ziwei stepped forward and saluted generously.

Since Fang Xu's death, the old emperor has openly and secretly begun to reduce the power of the Fang family.

The Fang family's officials in the court, except for a few relatives of the side branches, no one in the Fang family's own family has held an important position in just two years.

However, soon Fang Jinyang will enter the Ministry of Rites, take over the position of Liang Kuan before, and serve as the waiter of the Ministry of Rites.

The old emperor said a rare "good", but there was no trace of surprise in his eyes, it was just a symbolic compliment.

How can it be said that Fang Ziwei is from the Fang family, and on the left and right sides of the old emperor are the queen mother and the queen, two women from the Fang family, how can he not give some face?

The Queen Mother nodded, very satisfied.

The queen's phoenix eyes darkened, and a sneer appeared at the corner of her mouth.

The Queen Mother is the queen's aunt, and the queen is Fang Ziwei's aunt.

The back waves of the Yangtze River pushed the front waves, looking at the young and delicate Fang Ziwei, the queen felt a little uncomfortable.

After all, women are like flowers.

Especially for women in the palace, the flowering period is even shorter, and it can't be red for a hundred days.

Fang Ziwei's appearance is so marked, she can't help but think of herself who entered the palace for the benefit of the family.

Now, the Fang family has sent Fang Ziwei to the palace again, doesn't this mean that the queen has no use value?

Indeed, the Fang family had long known that the old emperor had no affection for the empress, and the empress could not blow the wind in front of the old emperor, and could not solve the Fang family's predicament.

Therefore, the Fang family can only find another way to find a new candidate.

The purpose of the Fang family is very clear, if the old emperor really insists on not accepting the woman of the Fang family, then he will retreat and try to let Fang Ziwei marry Qi Hao.

Therefore, the people of the Fang family had secretly communicated with the Queen Mother last night.

It's just that all this is hidden from the queen.

It can be seen that the queen's position is really precarious.

The others heard the old emperor say "yes", so they looked at Fang Ziwei's eyes changed, and some people began to whisper boldly.

"Ouch, looking at the emperor like this, this Fang girl should be nine out of ten."

"Well, the girl of the Fang family is good-looking, and she is the queen's niece, so she must be ten years old."

……

Lin Sheng listened to everyone's whispered discussions, and his heart was disdainful.

Because she is the daughter of the Fang family, she must be the first person to be abandoned by the old emperor.

How can it be said that the cancer of the queen has not been eradicated, how can the old emperor recruit another person by his side?

After Fang Ziwei explained a few words to the little palace maid on the side, the little palace maid soon laid out the paper for Fang Ziwei on the table and studied the ink.

Seeing Fang Ziwei pick up the brush, everyone guessed that she might be writing and painting.

Sure enough, under her pen, a picture of a peony with a national color and fragrance appeared on the paper in a short time.

Everyone looked at the lifelike peony and couldn't help but applaud.

"Please take a look at the emperor." Fang Ziwei blew on the ink that had not dried, carefully held the scroll with both hands, and handed it to Father-in-law Jia.

However, as soon as Father-in-law Jia took it, he suddenly screamed for no reason, and the piercing and sharp high decibel frightened Father-in-law Jia's old hand shook, and the painting fell directly to the ground.

Before everyone came to their senses, Fang Ziwei's face turned blue and foamed at the mouth.

Lin Sheng saw Fang Ziwei fall to the ground and screamed, "Oops, she's having an epileptic seizure!" ”

"What are you still doing? Save people! When the Queen Mother saw this, she remembered that she couldn't wait to stomp her feet and glared at Lin Shengdao.

"Yes, yes." Lin Sheng responded again and again and rushed over.

At the same time, Fang Jinyang in the men's seat also ran to Fang Ziwei's side, worried: "Ziwei, Ziwei?" ”

"Oh, Miss Fang, what's wrong?"

"Tsk, this is sick!"

"I really didn't expect that this young lady of the Fang family turned out to be sick!"

"Alas, it's a pity!"

……

The Queen Mother listened to everyone's discussions, and her old face turned red.

Her hopes seemed to be dashed.

On the contrary, the curvature of the corners of the queen's mouth rose a few points.

"Quick, crack her jaw, don't let her bite her tongue!" Seeing that Fang Ziwei's pupils were dilated and her limbs were twitching, Lin Sheng hurriedly instructed Fang Jinyang to take out the silver needle from the medicine box handed over by the palace maid.

Although Fang Jinyang looks like a scholar, he feels that he is capable of doing things, and without saying a word, he followed Lin Sheng's instructions and unceremoniously directly broke Fang Ziwei's mouth.

After Lin Sheng quickly pricked Fang Ziwei with a few stitches, Fang Ziwei finally stopped convulsing, but fainted.

"What's going on?" Although the old emperor's eyes were looking at Fang Ziwei, his words were questioning Fang Jinyang.

The elders of the Fang family didn't come today, only Fang Jinyang, the eldest son, so he let go of Fang Ziwei and said boldly: "Back to the emperor, Ziwei has always been in good health and has never suffered from any disease, just now...... Why did you suddenly ...... just now? Jinyang didn't know. ”

What he said was telling the truth, Fang Ziwei was the daughter of the Fang family, naturally like the dead Gu Jinxiu, she was pampered by the whole house as precious as an eyeball, who dared to disobey the rules and serve her like a bodhisattva?

The degree of food and clothing is naturally the best, so Fang Ziwei really hasn't had any serious illness.

The old emperor snorted coldly and said unhappily: "Father-in-law Jia, carry the person down." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Father-in-law Jia answered, and quickly raised his chin to the two little palace maids.

The little palace maid immediately trotted to Fang Ziwei and Fang Jinyang, and then planned to help Fang Ziwei down one left and one right.

Lin Sheng took back the hand that gave Fang Ziwei to probe the pulse in a timely manner, and she suddenly remembered what the man in black said that night, and immediately knew it in her heart.

Because Fang Ziwei was drugged in her body, she showed an intermittent symptom.

It's just that she couldn't figure out for a while when the man in black was the other party's Ziwei move.

Fang Jinyang didn't expect that at the draft ceremony, Fang Ziwei would suddenly have such a situation, and his heart was a little chaotic at this time.

Originally, he was about to follow subconsciously, but after taking two steps, he suddenly turned back, and he called out to Lin Sheng: "This son, I want to ask some questions, my sister is ...... her"

Lin Sheng was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and said, "Miss Fang has an epileptic seizure, fortunately, it's okay, don't have too much mood swings in the future, and can't be stimulated." ”

This means that Fang Ziwei was stimulated to commit epilepsy.

However, in the past ten years, Fang Ziwei has never suffered from epilepsy at all!

Fang Jinyang moved his lips, but still pressed back the words.

Even if he had questions in his heart, everyone's eyes were very strange when they looked at him and Fang Ziwei, but he knew that this situation was not the time for him to ask for answers.

Arching his hand to Lin Sheng, Fang Jinyang left quickly.

Qi Hao picked up his wine glass and took a sip of wine, thinking that the Fang family's wishful thinking was probably wrong, and his mood brightened.

The Eighth Prince didn't drink alcohol, only tea, and he sat quietly in his seat, like an outsider who didn't fit in and didn't care about himself.

"Sixth!" Father-in-law Jia coughed lightly twice, so that everyone's eyes returned to him, so he shouted.

An hour later, finally all the show girls in the hall ended the second talent written test.

There are extremely talented people, and Father-in-law Jia ticked out their names.

After showing the old emperor, in order to ease the mood of the girls and warm the atmosphere, Father-in-law Jia put on a song and dance.

After the singing and dancing, Father-in-law Jia began to read out the selected women.

Ten women were listed in the booklet, and only two of them could barely get into the eyes of the old emperor.

Those two were the candidates that the old emperor had asked Gonggong Jia to prepare in advance.

A small family, a woman whose mother's family has no power in the court, will not disturb the harem and interfere in the political history of the previous dynasty like a queen.

As for the other women, they are all the daughters of important ministers of the court with doors and faces.

The old emperor left them behind, the purpose of which was to choose an extraordinary net worth to point out to Qi Hao as the princess.

"Zhao Qingqing, the daughter of Zhao Yun, the salt transport envoy of Jiangzhou, and Li Meier, the daughter of Li Mingqi, the prefect of Cao County, are knowledgeable and reasonable, talented and beautiful, and they were respectively named Qing Concubine and Mei Fei, and they will enter the palace to accompany them from now on!"

As soon as Jia's father-in-law's words fell, the audience was in an uproar.

Because these two people are probably the most humble of all women, and it is really incredible that they can stand out from such adults.

However, the officials who knew the old emperor's mind very well rolled their eyes, and they instantly understood the reason why these two women were selected.

Zhao Qingqing and Li Mei'er were stunned, and then hurriedly stepped forward happily to bless their bodies and salute.

Lin Sheng looked at Li Mei'er a little familiar, and after thinking about it for a while, she remembered that she seemed to have seen her in the 'Ten Thousand Dry Building'.

Gasping, she couldn't help but admire that the man in black was coming.

Li Meier is a martial arts master, and the man in black can change her identity, but how did she escape the "physical examination"?

After all, the people who crawled out of the "Ten Thousand Dry Building" must be scarred on their bodies.

Moreover, in addition to the "physical examination" of the old lady in the palace, there will also be special masters to test whether the woman has martial arts.

Otherwise, if he is accidentally negligent, the old emperor's pillow will not be the person who warms the bed, but the killer who wants his life......

Her eyes fell on Li Mei'er's exposed slender jade hand, Lin Sheng twisted her fingers, feeling the layers of obvious calluses, and a bold idea arose in her mind.

Could it be that the man in black gave her a potion?

Or did you cruelly change Li Meier's skin?

Although the potion is enough to cover up the scars on Li Mei'er's body, it will always leave a deep or shallow mark.

And any woman who can enter the palace to serve the old emperor must have skin like clotted fat and white skin like jade, just like a high-grade jade, which cannot tolerate the slightest flaw.

So...... Perhaps the latter is more likely.

Lin Sheng couldn't help but shudder when he thought that Li Mei'er would have to endure the pain of peeling her skin for life.

After the other women heard that they had lost the election, some felt that they had failed the expectations of their families and cried on the spot, while others were depressed and depressed, in short, the atmosphere was very depressing.

Who knows, the old emperor took a sip of tea and said in a deep voice: "King Qing, King Xuan, King Ning, the three of you have already reached the age when you should be a concubine." ”

"All the young ladies are all beautiful, virtuous and virtuous, you can choose a few people who are suitable for your eyes to be the princess and side concubine."

The Eighth Prince is too young to marry a wife, otherwise the women will have more chances to be selected.

However, the old emperor's words also gave the women a glimmer of hope, and they all looked at the prince on the three male seats with expectant eyes.

King Xuan put down the wine glass in his hand and quickly browsed through the women one by one, looking for a famous family who could become his help in public.

At the same time, the Qing king is also looking for his prey.

Lin Sheng blinked, guessing whether there was a woman arranged by the man in black.

Looking at Qi Hao again, he looked careless, holding a wine glass compared to the other two princes, it looked a little abnormal.

The old emperor said that, after Gonggong Jia left a short time for several princes to think, and then passed the roster over and asked them to sketch on the list.

Qi Hao didn't look at the list, and said with a smile: "King Xuan and King Qing are the emperor's brothers, let them choose the two of them first, this king is not in a hurry." ”

Some women who liked Qi Hao were very disappointed when they heard it.

King Xuan listened to Qi Hao's words, although he felt uncomfortable, but this was not the time to be angry with him.

After all, whoever chooses first has the initiative.

After pondering for a moment, King Xuan chose Peng Qian, the daughter of Peng Juhuai, who was also a bachelor of Hanlin with Mo Zhiyan's father, Mo Dongsheng.

The old emperor was far away, and he couldn't see clearly whose name King Xuan circled, so he could only stare at Qi Hao fiercely, as if he was complaining about him.

Qi Hao turned a blind eye, still looking leisurely and casual, as if this concubine was just going to the vegetable market to sell vegetables, and it didn't matter if she chose radishes and cabbage.

King Qing also had a plan in his heart, he saw that Peng Qian's name had been outlined with a cinnabar pen, and there was a shallow coldness in his eyebrows.

There was no way, so he had to settle for the next best thing and chose Yao Qianyu, the daughter of Yao Yuan, the head of the household.

However, just as he was about to pick up the pen to outline Yao Qianyu's name, suddenly a little eunuch ran in urgently: "The emperor...... Your Majesty, it's not good, something happened! ”

The old emperor frowned, slapped the table hard, and scolded: "What happened? Such a panic? What a system this becomes! ”

"The Emperor...... The emperor ......" The little eunuch stroked his chest while swallowing his saliva, and continued: "The embankment collapsed, and Lord Qu and his entourage who went to inspect were swept into the rapids on the spot, and their lives and deaths were uncertain. ”

"The houses of the people in the surrounding villages were also washed down, and many people were crushed to death and injured."

"What ??!" When the old emperor heard this, the old eyes widened, and his eyes almost fell out of his sockets.

With a "click", the pen in King Qing's hand fell to the ground.

His face was pale and he looked incredulous, "You...... What did you say? ”

The little eunuch saw that the Qing King was looking at him directly, so he repeated in a low voice: "Lord Huiqing, you are in charge of supervising the construction of the river embankment this time, and something happened. ”

Hitting the nail on the head, the little eunuch directly put the responsibility on the head of King Qing, and then ran out of the hall with a "whoosh".

King Qing's body trembled, and he hurriedly turned his head to the old emperor and said: "Father, although Liu Lei, who is under Erchen's subordinate to the Jiangdi this time, is fully responsible, but Erchen will go to inspect every once in a while, and it is impossible for something to happen!" ”

"Do you mean that Lord Qu's life and death are uncertain, and the people's houses have been washed down by the water, these are all fake?" After hearing this, the old emperor said angrily: "Liu Lei is your person, you can have an accident every once in a while, if you don't inspect, wouldn't this Hades Palace be full of people?!" ”

Everyone also heard that the king of Qing was shirking his responsibility, and the people in the party of King Xuan began to fall into the well and said: "Lord Qing, Lord Qu has worked hard and made a lot of contributions to the court, and now because of your loss, our country has lost a conscientious and loyal minister, it is really ...... Alas! ”

In the mouth of the little eunuch who reported the news just now, Lord Qu's life and death were unknown, but this Xuanwang Party actually beat Lord Qu to death with a stick, so that King Qing couldn't turn over at all.

"Father......" noticed that the old emperor was really angry, and the king of Qing quickly knelt on the ground with a "poof", looked at the old emperor nervously, and his tone was full of uneasiness: "Father, building the river embankment is the task you gave to your son, and your son naturally does not dare to have the slightest slackness." ”

"And Liu Lei is stable and reliable, every time he supervises the construction, Erchen always follows Liu Lei on the side, for fear of negligence."

"However, I still didn't expect the river embankment to suddenly go out of danger."

"Father, my son." After kowtowing to the old emperor, King Qing said: "Someone framed his sons." ”

King Xuan sighed lightly, and looked at King Qing's eyes with some disappointment: "The project that benefits the country and the people is the most taboo to cut corners." ”

"When it is built, it will be beneficial to the people; If it is not built well, it will cost people's lives. ”

"Bastard thing! How dare you quibble?? King Xuan's fire added fuel to the fire, and successfully ignited the old emperor's anger, he gritted his teeth and said: "Come on, the king of Qing has betrayed my trust and trust, careless of human life, supervision is unfavorable, and from today he will abolish his position as the prince, and from now on he will be demoted to a commoner and exiled to Lingnan!" ”

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and in an instant, the hall became boiling.

"Oh my God, the emperor is going to abolish the Qing prince?? Did I hear me right? ”

"No, you heard it right, the prince is going to be exiled to Lingnan."

……

"Father!" Everyone's discussion made the Qing King more and more frightened, "Bang Bang", he kowtowed heavily, and begged in a panic: "Erchen dares to guarantee that there is really no cutting corners!" ”

"Father." At this time, the eighth prince, who had been in the future, finally spoke after a long absence: "Although the third brother is occasionally reckless, Xiao Ba believes that the third brother definitely did not deliberately let the river embankment collapse." ”

"Besides, the third brother has no experience before, so Xiaoba begged his father to forgive the third brother this time."

"Come on, pull out! Even that Liu Lei was cut in half! The old emperor waved his hand, looked like he didn't say much, and coughed angrily again.

Naturally, the Qing king supervised the embankment construction project for the first time, but this was not a reason to exonerate himself!

Let's just say Qi Hao, when he was thirteen years old, he also went to the battlefield with the army for the first time, wasn't it just like the old generals, charging into battle and killing tens of thousands of enemy troops?

Moreover, Qi Hao was still in danger of being surrounded and killed at that time, but what about the Qing King?

It's just such a small task that is not completed, it is really a thing that is not enough to achieve and more to lose!

The words of the eighth prince made the old emperor hear it, and his heart was even more angry.

Of course, in addition to being really angry, the old emperor wanted to take the opportunity of driving the Qing king out of the capital to concentrate power for Qi Hao in order to prepare for his accession to the throne.

"Boom", as soon as the old emperor gave an order, three guards immediately rushed forward and made a gesture to take the Qing king down.

All this came too suddenly for King Qing, and he couldn't understand how something could happen to the good river embankment?

Before he could say anything, he had already been dragged to the gate......

"Father, father!" King Qing struggled vigorously and shouted with all his might.

It's just that the old emperor is determined to expel him from the capital, so he has no nostalgia at all.

After King Qing was dragged down, the atmosphere became very strange.

If it weren't for King Xuan's need to act on the spot now, he might have slapped the table and applauded loudly.

Father-in-law Jia was helpless, so he had to shout singing and dancing to warm up again.

After that, he held the pamphlet, cautiously walked to Qi Hao's side, and said without authorization: "Lord, it's time for you to choose." ”

Qi Haojia's father-in-law pushed his wrist to the side, and said lukewarmly: "This king, don't choose any of them." ”

"Huh?" After hearing this, Gonggong Jia looked at the old emperor at a loss.

The old emperor's face became even more difficult to look at, he clenched his fists, and couldn't help but pound the table hard.

Seeing that Qi Hao did not give the old emperor a face, everyone secretly sighed that Prince Ning was still as willful and reckless as he was back then.

The person who can make the old emperor unable to come down the steps must be the only one in the court.

Lin Sheng looked at Qi Hao doing his own thing, thinking that the old emperor could tolerate him for so many years, who couldn't see that he was the preferred candidate for the throne?

Who knows, as soon as she finished thinking about it, she saw Qi Hao's eyes glancing at her coldly.

She couldn't say why, but she "chuckled" in her heart.

Sure enough, Qi Hao's slender fingers pointed at her, his thin lips opened lightly, and he said word by word: "This king, I want her." ”()

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