In the imperial garden, two actors appeared on the stage with flower hubs, reading Zhang Sheng here, and falling in love with Qiu Niang there, one was affectionate, one was intentional, one was beautiful, and one was handsome.

However, Qiu Niang's father is a bad heart, greedy for glory, trying to be rich, beating the mandarin duck with a stick, and sending Qiu Niang into the palace.

The babbling lyrics made people dizzy and upset, Su Qinglang picked up the tea cup on the table, took a sip, and sighed again.

A little chamberlain, sneaking around the path, ran to Su Qinglang's face, and whispered for a while, causing Su Qinglang to sneer and almost spew saliva.

The concubine Niangniang was lazy, leaning sideways on the beauty couch, lowering her eyes to see the absent-minded appearance of Lord Shangshu, and smiled slightly: "Why, Lord Shangshu feels that my imperial garden is not as good as the emperor's Jinluan Palace, and I don't want to listen to music here in the palace, could it be that I want to share the emperor's worries?" ”

This noble concubine's surname is Wan, her name is Yuzhen, she is over forty years old, and she still looks like a little girl in her twenties because of her excellent maintenance.

Since entering the palace, she has been very favored by the emperor, and then the queen died, she was raised as a concubine, and since then she has become the first person in the harem beauties.

Su Qinglang said with a smile: "Where is it, it's just that Wei Chen looked at this opera, and suddenly thought of something, and he was just emotional." ”

Wan Yuzhen sat up straight when she heard this, picked her phoenix eyes, and sighed with interest.

I heard Su Qinglang say again: "In the past, Weichen traveled to the south of the Yangtze River, and saw a thrush on the riverside, small and exquisite, delicate and cute, but it was a pity that he didn't eat the good fruit on the tree, but he went to peck the shadow that fell into the water, Niangniang, do you say it's interesting?" ”

He paused, and said: "In fact, this person is the same, here and now, should live in the present, looking forward to the future, but being confused by illusions, he has to chase the mirror and the moon, the illusory things, since he knows that it is wrong, why should he be persistent, it is not beneficial to himself, it is not beneficial to others, it can only cause trouble, and only increase troubles." ”

Wan Yuzhen was silent for a moment, glanced at the drama on the stage, and finally sighed: "Master Su, have you ever missed a person, and there will be no future in this life?" ”

Su Qinglang's hand trembled, smiled, and replied: "Weichen only knows, there is wine today and drunk today, hugging beauties, counting silver, living a chic and comfortable life, what does it matter about the past and future?" ”

Wan Yuzhen snorted lightly when she heard this, raised her hand to pick up a lychee on the table, and threw it at him: "You kid, you should be put at the border to suffer more." ”

Seeing that lychee attacking, Su Qinglang did not dodge or dodge, but raised his hand to take it, peeled it off and held it in his mouth.

A sly smile appeared between his eyebrows, and he got up and saluted Wan Yuzhen: "Thank you, thank you, Niangniang, for the reward." ”

Wan Yuzhen snorted, glared at him angrily, and raised her eyes to see a group of people coming under the willow tree not far away, and hurriedly dismissed the drama and got up to greet him.

The emperor came from the Jinluan Palace, followed by Xue Qishan, the head of the Hanlin Academy, Xu Jin, a cabinet scholar, and Su Zheshan, Su Qinglang's father.

Pei Yan was so angry with his nephew that he said that his head hurt and he wanted to go home to rest, and after getting the emperor's permission, he carried his nephew out of the palace.

And Jia Siqi and Mei Liusheng, because the emperor said that he wanted to visit the Imperial Garden, he didn't say that they should go back first, so they also pulled their faces and followed behind stupidly.

The emperor's royal driver came to him, looked at Wan Yuzhen who was kneeling and bowing, and said condescendingly: "What is Concubine Ai doing?" ”

Wan Yuzhen bowed her head and replied: "Back to the emperor, the concubine knows that the emperor is busy today, so she didn't dare to disturb her, so she called Lord Shangshu to drink tea and listen to music!" ”

The emperor glanced sideways at Su Qinglang, stretched out his hand to help the concubine up, and said, "Oh, but I don't know what kind of song it is, let them sing it to me another day." ”

Wan Yuzhen was speechless for a while, and froze for a moment before replying: "It's just a song in the countryside and villages, and the emperor can't look down on it......

raised his head, but saw that the emperor's face was not good, and the Yin Hall was black, like black charcoal, so he asked tentatively: "Your Majesty, I don't know if the palace is trying today...... The result? ”

The emperor looked very sad and sighed: "Among the twenty-seven tribute students, three are selected, and the title of Tanhua has been decided, isn't this ...... There are only one champion and one eye left, and I don't know who to choose. ”

Wan Yuzhen followed his gesture and looked back, only to see that behind the emperor, in addition to the three adults, there were also two unfamiliar faces.

One is twenty-six or seventeen years old, one looks inferior to the weak crown, one is handsome, the other is elegant, both are talented, but they have a different demeanor.

Looking closely, the scholar in ink clothes, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, is tall, like a dragon, and his expression is neither humble nor arrogant, which makes people unforgettable at a glance.

In addition, the scholar in brocade, although he was also handsome, was like a lewd thief, always shrinking his head and brain, so in comparison, it seems much more cold.

She smiled and said, "Both of them are talents who are one in a million, and their appearance and talent are also comparable, so it is indeed a little difficult to choose." ”

The emperor put his arms around the concubine with one hand, but lowered his eyes and saw Su Qinglang kneeling on the ground, squeezing his eyebrows behind him, and turned around to see that it was the tribute named Mei Liusheng.

He coughed lightly and asked strangely: "Su Qing, you talk the most on weekdays, how can you learn to see a gourd today?" ”

Su Qinglang retracted at this time, arched his hands, lowered his body, and replied vaguely: "The emperor forgives the sin, Weichen is holding a lychee core in his mouth, and it is inconvenient to speak......"

As soon as these words came out, the two elders behind the emperor, plus Su Qinglang's father, all turned black.

To say that the emperor loves Su Qinglang today, except for the two highnesses and the concubine, no one can compare, and no one dares to compare.

Up and down the court, civil and military officials, who want to meet the concubine Niangniang, even if the concubine's father comes, they have to go to the excerpt to ask the emperor.

Only Su Qinglang, come when he wants, leave when he wants, take the emperor's harem as his own back garden, and even a few times, he was seen sleeping on the jade couch of the concubine Niangniang.

Thinking back to how absurd this noble concubine has been in front of the emperor since she entered the palace, and then thinking of Su Qinglang, how dirty and shameless her behavior is on weekdays.

So various versions of the rumors came out, saying that the noble concubine Niangniang had an affair with Su Qinglang, which was the etiquette of the monarch and the minister on the surface, but in fact it was an unsightly nepotism.

There are also some people who think of how beautiful Su Qinglang's face is and how slender his posture is, especially the pair of fox eyes that are seductive, which are a little more amorous than some ladies in the palace.

So it was rumored that Lord Shangshu could not only serve the concubine on the phoenix bed, but also coax the emperor to be happy on the dragon couch.

However, no matter how fragrant the rumors outside were, how many ministers took into account the majesty of the royal family, cried and shouted in a letter to give direct advice, asking for Su Qinglang's guilt to be turned on like a snowflake to the emperor's dragon case, but all of them were muddy cows into the sea, and the disposal of Su Qinglang was never seen at all.

It is because the faces of some ministers are very ugly, and every time they see Su Qinglang, they seem to see Su Daji, who has brought disaster to the country and the people, and abducted their former fair and wise emperor into a mediocre and unscrupulous king of business.

Now seeing Su Qinglang so outspoken, and the emperor who despised their majesty with a hippie smile, they were naturally unhappy.

Especially in the imperial history, Su Zheshan almost knelt down and shouted, the sky has no eyes, and the ancestral tomb of the Su family emitted black smoke, so that he gave birth to a bastard like Su Qinglang.

However, the emperor was not very displeased, but just sighed and deliberately threatened: "Su Qing can know that based on what you just said, I can ask you to be guilty and killed?" ”

Su Qinglang kowtowed again and replied, "Weichen understands. ”

The emperor snorted, waved his sleeves and said, "Then let's talk about it, if you don't explain what you want to say, I will ask for the guilt and never forgive!" ”

Su Qinglang was very aggrieved, looked at Wan Yuzhen and pouted, and said: "If you go back to the emperor, just because that lychee is a reward from the concubine, Wechen doesn't dare to make a time, if you don't eat it, wouldn't you live up to the kindness of the mother, and I kept it in my mouth, but I didn't expect the emperor to ask Wechen at this time......

The emperor laughed when he heard this, pointed at Su Qinglang and said helplessly: "You, you, this mouth is the most annoying, but it's still mine, isn't it?" ”

Su Qinglang hurriedly said no, knelt down in front of the emperor, licked his face and said a lot of good things.

The emperor was coaxed by him to be happy, and he kept smiling from ear to ear, and it would be good if he didn't have a reward, so naturally he wouldn't be held accountable.

However, some people couldn't help it, Xu Jin, a cabinet scholar, was over the age of old, his hair was gray, and his great-grandchildren were almost running away, but his temperament was still the same as it was back then.

Like Brother Lu Xun, he has always been an upright master, the bamboo in the back mountain, a intestine leads to the end, plus a hot temper, a loud voice, and an action cannon battle that is alive.

stood up and said: "Your Majesty, this Su Qinglang is clearly bullying the king, and he must be punished!" ”

The emperor hadn't spoken yet, but he heard Su Qinglang snort very exaggeratedly, he raised his head, intercepted Lord Xu's words, and said in a weird voice: "What Lord Xu means is that we must obey the emperor's will, and we can dispose of this concubine's reward without gratitude?" ”

Xu Jin was in a hurry, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Weichen didn't mean that......"

The emperor restrained his smile slightly, sighed and said, "Okay, Xu Qing, if you can talk about him, the position of this Ministry of Rites should not be for him to sit......"

A smile bloomed on Su Qinglang's face, bright, like a sun flower, he just wanted to kowtow to thank him, but he heard the emperor's words and said-

"It's just that this capital crime can be avoided, but the living crime is inescapable, and I am worried about the imperial examination, and this champion and the candidate for the top spot...... It's up to you to decide. ”