This situation surprised everyone, even the crown princess was slightly stunned, and the moment the bookshelf fell, she instinctively took a few steps forward to avoid the flying disaster.

But this room was already narrow, and if he took a few steps forward, he almost collided with Xiao Liulang.

Xiao Liulang heard the sound first and knew that someone had come in, and then the bookshelf fell down and hit the door, there was no oil lamp in the room, and there were no windows, and as soon as the door was closed, the house fell into endless darkness.

He didn't see who it was, but he took a step back from his instinct to keep the living from entering, and almost stuck himself against the wall.

It's not been a day or two since Xiao Liulang was born, and since Feng Lin met him, he found that he had a serious social cleanliness habit, but Feng Lin was thick-skinned and always came to Xiao Liulang.

The crown princess was a little embarrassed by the other party's action to avoid suspicion, wouldn't ordinary men be heroes to save beauty when they encounter this kind of thing?

Of course, as the high-ranking crown princess, she will not allow herself to have any physical contact with a foreign man, but it is one thing for her not to allow it, and it is another thing for others not to do it.

There was a woman's aroma of fat powder floating in the room, not the cheap fat powder aroma on the market, but the best incense of the palace.

Xiao Liulang took the hand of the ink ingot.

Although there was no light in the room, after the eyes adjusted to the darkness, they could vaguely open up a little vision by the faint light that penetrated through the crack in the door.

The other party was wearing a pearl-white gauze skirt, the silk yarn was blowing off, and the embellished gold and silver threads were looming in the faint light.

This is an inch and a gold shark yarn, it is said that a hundred fishermen can not weave half a horse in a month, this is a bit exaggerated, but the shark yarn is indeed a rare treasure in the palace.

Every time the palace maid is qualified to wear it, the general concubines are not qualified, and the internal affairs office usually only gives it to the hostess of the harem - the queen mother or queen.

The Queen Mother is no longer in the palace, and it is impossible for the Queen to leave the palace.

The woman's posture is graceful, like a beautiful mermaid who breaks through the water on a moonlit night.

It's a young woman.

The room was so quiet that even breathing could be heard clearly.

Xiao Liulang didn't speak, and he didn't mean to take a step forward to talk to someone or salute.

"Who are you?"

After the crown princess hesitated, she finally opened her mouth first.

Hearing this, Xiao Liulang clenched the ink ingot in his hand, but he still didn't speak.

The crown princess said secretly, is it really not Ah Heng? If it was Ah Heng, he wouldn't be unable to hear his own voice......

She paused and tentatively walked towards the other party, but whether intentionally or unintentionally, another row of bookshelves suddenly collapsed, and happened to be between the two.

can't ask, can't get over, the princess is completely dead now.

The two of them didn't stay in the house for too long, and the shopkeeper noticed something strange here, and hurriedly called the guy to come and pry the door.

It's a pity that the door is blocked, and it's not so easy to pry open for a while.

The shopkeeper felt sorry for his door and floor, and he didn't dare to go too far, and the progress of opening the door was unconsciously delayed.

But he said that the prince waited upstairs for a long time and didn't see the princess come back, he and the princess had come out of the two-person world, and they didn't bring any entourage, just a coachman and two secret guards who were secretly protecting him.

He thought about it and decided to find it himself.

The crown princess said that she went to buy sesame cakes, but she was not seen at the door of the sesame shop.

He then asked the coachman: "Have you seen the crown princess?" ”

The coachman said: "If you go back to the master, the princess has gone to the study." ”

The prince frowned, what was she doing in the study?

Doubts are doubts, and the prince still strode into the study.

When he went in, he found that there had been an accident in the study, and his mind moved, and he stepped forward and asked without anger, "Who is locked up inside?" ”

The shopkeeper saw that the other party had a strong aura and was dressed extraordinarily, and said respectfully: "I didn't see it clearly, it's a lady......"

"Get out of the way." The prince said in a deep voice.

Everyone was taken by his momentum and pushed aside, and the prince knocked lightly on the door and said, "Linlang, are you inside?" ”

In the dark, the crown princess turned around, looked at the bookshelf in front of her, and then looked at the door that was being held against her, and said, "I'm here." ”

The prince pushed the door, but there was no response.

The shopkeeper said, "It's useless, the bookshelf inside has fallen over, and the door is against it." ”

The prince frowned and said, "Why don't you pry it open quickly?" ”

"Isn't this something you can't pry?" The shopkeeper wanted to smash it with an axe, but he was worried that he would accidentally hurt the people inside.

The prince will not dispatch the secret guards around him unless he has to, but he can't take care of it so much at the moment, he is worried that the crown princess will be in trouble.

He let the Dark Guard appear.

The two secret guards were both masters of Ouchi, and a single door could not overwhelm them, so the two quickly dismantled the door and removed the first shelf blocking the door.

The crown prince hurriedly stretched out his hand to the crown princess.

The crown princess took his hand and walked out of the shattered ink ingots.

The prince looked her up and down and asked worriedly, "Are you okay?" ”

The crown princess shook her head slightly: "I'm fine, I have to wait for the sesame cake just now, so I'll come over and choose a few ink ingots for Xiao Qi first." ”

Qin Chuyu can't use the ink ingots of the palace, and his identity is easily exposed.

The prince did not doubt him, and said to her: "You can leave this kind of thing to your subordinates to do, don't do it yourself, if something happens to you, I will be sad." ”

The crown princess smiled guiltily: "I'm worried about you, it's mine." ”

The prince said, "It's okay if you're okay, let's go." ”

The prince didn't know that there was another person inside, so the princess glanced at it and didn't say anything.

The prince took the princess's hand, threw an ingot to the shopkeeper, and walked out of the study.

The shopkeeper got the ingots, and he didn't feel sorry for the door and the broken bookshelves and ink ingots in the room, so he thanked him with a smile: "Son, go slowly!" Madame go slowly! ”

After saying that, he turned around and scratched his head, looked at the messy room, and said, "Huh? I remember that another scholar had just entered...... Hey? Why did this bookshelf fall too? It shouldn't be......"

He had fixed this bookshelf for a long time, and he didn't put any heavy objects, why did it fall down?

As he pondered, Xiao Liulang stooped out from under another toppled bookshelf.

The shopkeeper was stunned: "Really, really someone ......"

Xiao Liulang didn't say anything, settled the account of the ink ingot, and gave a little more silver, and the shopkeeper was about to ask, he said, "Loss." ”

The loss of the second shelf.

The shopkeeper was stunned.

After Xiao Jingkong and Xu Zhouzhou met his little relatives, they returned to the sesame cake shop to meet Xiao Liulang in the company of Xu Zhouzhou and the Xu family.

Xiao Jingkong is a careful child, and he soon notices that his brother-in-law's hand is not quite right.

He stopped and looked solemnly at Xiao Liulang's right hand hanging down his wide sleeves: "What's wrong with your hand?" ”

"Nothing." Xiao Liulang said lightly.

Xiao Jingkong didn't believe it, he grabbed Xiao Liulang's sleeve, and saw a red and swollen hand, his eyes instantly widened: "It's all swollen!" How did you get it? Does it hurt? ”

Xiao Liulang suddenly smiled and pinched his little face: "Care about me so much? ”

Xiao Jingkong slapped away his messy hand on his face, and said, "Aren't I afraid that you won't be able to take the test?" Jiaojiao bet on you to take the top prize! All the net worth is bet! ”

Xiao Liulang: "......"

As soon as he went to the medical hall, Xiao Jingkong found Gu Jiao, who was drying medicinal herbs in the backyard, and told the bad brother-in-law: "...... I didn't look at him all of a sudden, and he hurt himself! ”

Gu Jiao put down the medicinal herbs in her hand and looked at Xiao Liulang who came over: "Where is the injury?" Let me see. "Say to Xiao Jingkong again, "Go and play with Sister Jiang Li." ”

"Okay." Xiao Qingkong obediently went to find Xiao Jiangli.

Gu Jiao took Xiao Liulang back to her yard.

The hospital has a consultation room, but that's external, he's different.

Xiao Liulang has been to the hospital a few times, but he has never entered Gu Jiao's room, it is not like a study, there is simple furniture, and there is a small bed behind the screen for her to rest.

The two sat outside the screen.

The screen is not a landscape or flower and bird screen that ordinary girls love, it is a plain light blue without any color.

Her preferences are always a little different.

Obviously, the two of them lived under one roof, but for some reason, this room that belonged to Gu Jiao alone gave Xiao Liulang a feeling that he had broken into her boudoir.

Xiao Liulang's expression was slightly heed.

Gu Jiao rolled up his sleeves, and instead of using a pulse pillow to cushion his wrists, she directly supported his wrists with her hands.

His wrist was so swollen that she gently touched the bone, and the bone was fine.

She pinched the back of his hand again, which was also slightly swollen, presumably from the bruise on his wrist.

"Does it hurt?" She asked.

"It doesn't hurt." He said.

Gu Jiao even checked his fingers.

His hands were beautiful, thin, with slender fingers and well-defined joints, and his nails were cleanly repaired, even the uninjured wrist bone was as delicate as jade.

If this had been placed in a previous life, it would have been either the hand of a surgeon or the hand of a pianist.

Why did you get hurt?

Gu Jiao was a little angry.

Usually at home, she is reluctant to let him do heavy work, for fear that he will hurt her hand.

"How?" She asked.

In fact, they rarely ask about this, Gu Jiao didn't ask him how he was injured when he treated his leg earlier, Gu Jiao was whipped unconscious, and he didn't ask Gu Jiao who he was friends with.

Although they both learned the truth in the end, they didn't learn it from each other's mouths.

"The bookshelf is smashed." Xiao Liulang said, "I didn't pay much attention to it at the time. ”

Gu Jiao looked at his red and swollen wrists, and frowned: "Be careful in the future." ”

Xiao Liulang nodded: "Okay." ”

Ice should be applied on the first day to prevent the blood from spreading.

Gu Jiao took an ice pack from the small medicine box and put it on his wrist, this kind of ice pack does not need to be frozen, it is crushed into ice, and the disadvantage is that it cannot be reused.

Xiao Liulang had long been accustomed to strange things appearing in her small medicine box from time to time, and he didn't ask her where the ice came from.

She held his wrist with one hand, and held an ice pack on his wrist with the other, changing places from time to time, looking very serious and careful.

Xiao Liulang's eyes moved slightly, and he stretched out his hand and said, "I'll come by myself." ”

Gu Jiao picked up the ice pack to avoid his hand: "Don't, it's very icy." ”

Aren't your hands ice?

Xiao Liulang looked at her steadily, his wrist was cold and painful, but his heart didn't seem to feel it, he opened his mouth, and suddenly asked, "Do you give it to other patients...... Is it the same for the disease? ”

"Nope." Gu Jiao shook his head and seriously applied an ice pack to his hand, "It's only for you." ”

Xiao Liulang's heart suddenly rose, and a strange and strong emotion filled in, in fact, she didn't say anything specific about him, but it just made people not even breathe calmly.

The ice pack was probably too cold, her left hand was completely numb from the ice, and she took the ice pack in her right hand, and used her ice-like left hand to support his hand bones.

After changing it several times like this, Xiao Liulang's wrist was swollen a lot, and it didn't hurt at all, and her hands were so cold that she almost lost consciousness.

She went to clean up her things, and Xiao Liulang could feel that her movements were sluggish.

She closed the medicine box as if she was fine, she didn't really care about it, she just froze her hands, and it was not for nothing that her whole body was frozen to stiffness in her previous life.

However, what she didn't care about, this time, someone cared for her.

The moment she got up to dispose of medical supplies, a slender jade hand reached over and grabbed her cold hand.

The hand was slender and white, with a force that could not be refused, and wrapped her hand tightly.

The fingertips, which were so cold that they were painful, suddenly warmed up.

Gu Jiao looked at him stunned.

He didn't go to Gu Jiao, but silently held her other hand in his palm.

……

In a blink of an eye, on April 15, the small examination before the palace examination began.

Xiao Liulang went out before dawn and arrived outside the main gate of the palace in Liu Quan's carriage.

There are three main gates at the main entrance of the palace, the middle one is the main gate, which is tall and open, full twenty feet high, and there is a side door on each side of the main gate.

The left door is mostly for the royal family to enter and exit, and the right door is mostly for ministers.

Today's candidates are taking the right side door.

Candidates lined up early outside the door on the right side of the line according to their test quotes.

Xiao Liulang and Du Ruohan's exam numbers are together, Xiao Liulang is seventy-five, Du Ruohan is seventy-six, Du Ruohan arrived earlier than Xiao Liulang, greeted Feng Lin and Lin Chengye, and waited for Xiao Liulang after half a day.

"Why are you here so late? I thought you were too cowardly! Du Ruohan was jealous that Xiao Liulang had squeezed out his status in Feng Lin's mind, and he always choked him twice when he met.

Xiao Liulang didn't bother to talk to him, and silently lined up in front of him.

Du Ruohan pursed his lips: "Hey, are you nervous?" Feng Lin and Lin Chengye were nervous to death. ”

Their exam numbers are relatively high, one is twenty-one and the other is thirty-seven, I heard that they are more advanced than Xiao Liulang and Du Ruohan, and the two of them are trembling.

Fortunately, the rest of the people are also shaking, and there are really not many who don't.

One is that everyone has never entered the palace, so they are a little nervous, and the other is that it is very cold today!

It's April, and the weather should be fine, but last night there was a sudden rain, the temperature plummeted, and there was a strong wind blowing at this time.

Xiao Liulang glanced at him: "Are you nervous?" ”

Du Ruohan snorted: "What do I have to be nervous about?" ”

Xiao Liulang's gaze swept around him, if you don't shake your legs, it will be more convincing.

When the hour comes, the door on the right side opens, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites begin to check the candidates' examination and matching cards, after which a palace eunuch and a Ministry of Rites official will lead the candidates into the palace Taihe Hall.

This time, there was no one to search for the small test, after all, everyone is no longer an ordinary meritorious person, everyone is a tribute, and the worst person who goes out from here is also a fellow jinshi.

What is Tong Jinshi? That's the reserve officer of the imperial court.

"Alas, Little Liuzi, do you know who that one is?" Halfway through, Du Ruohan suddenly pulled Xiao Liulang's sleeve and motioned with his eyes to look at a Gongsheng with a national character face not far away.

Xiao Liulang said lightly: "Why are you more than Feng Lin's words?" ”

The two of them talk a lot, which is called smelling like each other.

Du Ruohan cut off: "If you don't want to listen to it, forget it." ”

Xiao Liulang actually knew who Du Ruohan was referring to, it was Yuan Yu, Yuan Shoufu's youngest grandson, and when he was queuing, the officials of the Listening Department specially greeted Yuan Yu and called Yuan Xiaogongzi.

The Ministry of Rites Shangshu is Yuan Shoufu's protégé, so it is not surprising that he will take care of Yuan Yu.

As for Honglu Siqing, he is a protégé of Zhuang Taifu, and eighty percent will favor King Anjun.

King Anjun's exam number was behind Xiao Liulang and Du Ruohan, and Xiao Liulang didn't see him.

All candidates take the exam in the main hall of the Taihe Palace, a mat, a bookcase, pen, ink, paper and inkstone are provided by the imperial court, and the candidates must sit down and answer the questions.

The invigilators are officials from the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple.

After listening to the instructions and singing of the Ministry of Rites, the candidates bowed and began to take their seats.

The small exam only tests one eight-strand essay, but this time there is no truncation question, the topic is - "The road is not far away." People are far away from the Tao, not the Tao. ”

This sentence is from "The Mean, Chapter 13", which means that the Tao is not far from people. If someone pretends to be advanced and keeps the Tao away from people, then the Tao cannot be practiced.

There are many starting points for this question, which can explore the nature and form of the Tao, and can also delve into the degree and method of practicing the Tao.

After going through rounds of cruel children's exams, township exams and conference exams, the candidates were not used to getting such simple questions suddenly.

So there was a strange scene in the examination room, all the candidates looked at the test papers on the table with a confused face, and seriously suspected that the examiner had made a mistake.

"Exams begin." The Ministry of Rites reminded the examinees, and the candidates woke up like a dream, took the scratch paper and began to solve the question.

If it weren't for the difficulty of this exam, it would probably be time, only two hours.

However, for the sake of the exam questions that are really not difficult, this amount of time is enough, and even Feng Lin and Lin Chengye did not feel too much pressure.

The small test is not included in the total score, and its main purpose is not to select talents, but to warm up for the palace test in advance, and then to learn the etiquette and rules of the examination room.

The Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple jointly invigilated.

Xiao Liulang sat in the penultimate seat of the first column, this son was not easy to attract the attention of the examiner, but he put a cane beside him.

Honglu Siqing suddenly noticed the crutch, and he whispered to the eunuch beside him, "Who is that?" ”

The eunuch counted Xiao Liulang's exam number, looked at the pair of cards in his hand, and said, "It's a prisoner of the Guozijian." ”

"What a ......?"

Honglu Siqing wanted to say, why is he a cripple?

When the words came to my lips, I felt that this was inappropriate.

Since the imperial examination conditions have been relaxed in this dynasty, then as an official of the imperial court, he should accept it well.

It's just that Honglu Siqing still couldn't help but be sucked away by Xiao Liulang, this is not to blame him, it is really that there is really no lame person who has come to the scientific examination since the beginning of this dynasty.

Especially those who have passed the palace examination.

There are quite a few people with scars on their faces.

Wouldn't this kid also have a scar on his face? Wouldn't that scare Your Majesty?

Honglu Siqing decided to take a look, if he was really ugly, then he would have to be left behind, at least he couldn't present his test paper in front of the emperor, and he couldn't afford to frighten the emperor.

Honglu Siqing then walked up to Xiao Liulang to take a look.

With just one glance, he was completely stunned.

Xiao Liulang finished the test paper very calmly and did not hand in the paper in advance, because he couldn't leave if he handed it in.

In the afternoon, I learned the rules and etiquette of the emperor, and to be honest, among the two hundred and ten tributes, there were not many poor students. It's not that poor students are not hard enough, but that their educational resources and education system are far inferior to those of aristocratic children.

For example, the children of the Yuan family and the children of the Zhuang family have great Confucians like Yuan Shoufu and Zhuang Taifu as teachers, and they can benefit the children of the family a lot with a word or two.

No matter how bad it is, he is a Jiangnan genius like Wang Yuan, who was born in a scholarly family, and there are two jinshi in the family, and he can also give him good guidance.

It is difficult for a poor child to get ahead.

Most of the candidates in this tribute student have a little family background, and they have invited someone to teach some etiquette rules at home, so everyone learns the etiquette of the imperial front, and the overall progress is very fast.

At the time of unitary, the candidates finished their studies and took their test citations and pairs out of the palace.

Feng Lin didn't learn too much, he asked Lin Chengye, Lin Chengye originally knew it, but when Feng Lin asked, he was suddenly unsure.

"Rokuro." Feng Lin looked at Xiao Liulang pleadingly.

Xiao Liulang demonstrated it to the two in the carriage.

Du Ruohan patted the folding fan and said, "Hey? Little Liuzi, why are you so polite? ”

At first glance, he really doesn't look like a poor boy from the countryside.

It's not that he blows it, Xiao Liulang's etiquette is not worse than that of the king of the county, where did this kid learn the temperament of a noble son in the capital?

Xiao Liulang said lightly: "It's okay to take a look at it." ”

"You kid...... Never mind. Du Ruohan shook the folding fan, and didn't say what he was going to ask, "It's not early, I'm leaving!" Do you want to send you back? ”

Feng Lin said: "No need, we have a carriage." ”

Feng Lin and Lin Chengye have a carriage, and Xiao Liulang himself has a carriage from Liu Quan's side.

"Okay, then let's not meet for the next two days, and wait for the exam at home." Du Ruohan said, turned around and got out of the carriage.

Feng Lin said to Xiao Liulang: "Liulang, let's go too." ”

Xiao Liulang could see that he was a little nervous, and said to him: "Don't think about anything, Your Majesty is not a poisonous snake and beast, even if something goes wrong, you won't do anything to people, just take the test well." You too. ”

He looked at Lin Chengye, "The palace exam does not test the eight strands, only the policy question, your policy question has made great progress this year, just let go and do the question." ”

Lin Chengye has been studying by Xiao Liulang's side for so long, Xiao Liulang has always been a strict teacher, and he has never praised him. It seems that no matter how hard he tries, he can't satisfy Xiao Liulang......

But just now, Xiao Liulang said that he had made great progress?

Lin Chengye is more efficient than being praised by the master of the Guozijian!

His back straightened all of a sudden, and Zhengse said, "I, I, I will, good, good test!" ”

"Hmm." Xiao Liulang nodded, "Don't read for the next two days, and wait for the exam with peace of mind." ”

"Hmm!"

Lin Chengye, who was praised, got out of the carriage full of fighting spirit and got into his own carriage with Feng Lin.

In the past two days, several people have not gone out at home.

On the seventeenth, the palace examination officially began.

On this day, all the academies in the capital are closed, including Guozijian.

More than 200 candidates came to wait outside the palace gate before dawn, and one candidate left the test guide at home, so anxious that he almost fainted, but fortunately, the innkeeper of the inn where he lived found the test guide and personally sent him over.

Although the palace exam is generally not brushed candidates, if you don't take the test, you will still be brushed.

The inspection of the temple examination has been stricter.

Some candidates and parents who live in the capital also came, but they were not allowed to approach the palace, and they were stopped hundreds of meters away.

Imperial court ministers like Zhuang Taifu and Yuan Shoufu were naturally exceptions.

The two of them came to the court, and by the way, they told their children a few words.

The rest of the candidates saw it and instantly felt a huge pressure.

"Take the test well, you don't have to think about anything." Mrs. Zhuang said to King Anjun, who was at the end of the line, that the exam number he drew was the second-to-last, but because of the appearance of Mrs. Zhuang, it caused a lot of commotion, and almost all the candidates looked at him.

King Anjun smiled: "Grandfather, please rest assured. ”

Mrs. Zhuang straightened the wide sleeves of King Anjun, which was telling him that you only need to take the test, and I will take the rest.

With the strength of King Anjun and the power of Zhuang Taifu, why worry about him not winning the first place?

As for the potential threat, he has a hundred ways to fall on the other side's test papers!

At this moment, the candidates were simply envious, envious of King Anjun's talent and learning, and also envious of King Anjun's family background.

Mrs. Zhuang couldn't stay too long, turned around and was about to leave, when suddenly, a tall and majestic figure leaned over.

"Yo? Isn't this Mrs. Zhuang? Such a coincidence. ”

Who is this under-pumping voice, who is it not Xuanping Hou?

Mrs. Zhuang has a headache when she sees him now, and the most disgusted person in the whole court is none other than Xuanping Hou!

Mrs. Zhuang took the wat board in his hand and said lightly: "This sentence should be said by the old man, this is not the third pole of the day, why did Xuanping Hou come to the court?" ”

Who doesn't know, Xuanping Hou never reigned early.

There are a lot of people here, but Xuanping Hou is still holding it, and he said elegantly and calmly: "Ben Hou is the same as you." ”

Mrs. Zhuang snorted, the same as him? And what is the same with him? Is it possible to send the children at home to the palace test? Oh, by whom? Are the two concubines in his family who can't make it big?

Xuanpinghou ignored Mrs. Zhuang's disdain, he hooked the corners of his lips and strode forward.

Xuanping Hou had his own aura, and he attracted all eyes at once.

The candidates wanted to see it but didn't dare, and they were so nervous that they didn't dare to come out.

Xuanping Hou stopped beside Xiao Liulang, raised his hand, and seriously and solemnly straightened Xiao Liulang's clothes.

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