In May, Zhang Yan participated in the written examination held by the female officials hired by the palace. She has been there once and is very experienced. However, due to her status as the daughter of Zheng Guogong's Mansion, the probability of winning the election is not high.

Lin Qiantan did not make this exam. To participate in this written test, the consent of the father and brother in the family is required.

And Lin Quan is unlikely to agree.

Lin Qiantan didn't care, Lin Quan didn't agree, she just tried to persuade Chu Jiang to support her.

The weather was hot, and every family used ice cubes to cool down the house, but the Lin family was short of ice cubes in the cellar because they came back from Yunzhou. It was okay at the beginning of the summer in April, but the inventory was quickly used up after a month.

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, this is not something that Shen Ning, a family member, can change in a short time. Although it has also been evenly distributed from other houses, it is still a drop in the bucket.

Lin Qiantan is heat-resistant. This also stems from the lack of care she received from an early age. Lin Quan despised her, and of course the subordinates in the house went up and down. It's getting used to being so hot every year.

But this year, it's also a little too hot. Even Lin Qiantan is a little too hot to stand it, and she always has to take a shower more than once a day.

There was some fruit in the well to eat, and since the end of April, Lin Qiantan has often been lying in the shade of the tree to enjoy the shade. She calculated the days, Wang Yuanzhao and the vanguard of escorting grain and grass to the north should have arrived in the north.

Emperor Tianlong personally marched, and the men outside were busy in the scorching heat. Lin Quan came back every day with a sweat, but the ice at home was not enough.

That is, it can be cooler in the evening. The men of the house all went out with all their might, and went to the upper river by the moat.

When Lin Ziye came back, he told his family as if he was joking that there was a protective fence on the moat that was in disrepair, and someone leaned there, falling into the river like an upside-down onion, making a joke.

Lin Qiantan listened to it, but didn't take it as a joke.

Chu Jiang sometimes came over to invite Lin Qiantan to go out to enjoy the cool together. Lin Qiantan did not refuse, it was indeed a little hot to stay at home.

The summer evening in the capital is quite cool, walking on the street, the evening wind blows in gusts, and Lin Qiantan's hair dances in the wind.

She always bathes after the sun sets, and the girl's fresh and sweet body fragrance is carried by the wind to Chu Jiang's face, which makes Chu Jiang addicted. The light clothes and thin clothes loomed, outlining the delicate curves of the wearer.

Lin Qiantan grew up a little more.

"The Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, does my cousin have any plans to watch the dragon boat race?" Chu Jiang endured the throbbing in his chest, trying his best to be calm, but his eyes swayed from side to side, as if he was hiding from something.

Lin Qiantan gently stroked the hair that was blown away on her sideburns, she was afraid of the wind, and when she heard Chu Jiang's words, she smiled and said, "I didn't go when I came back last year, so why should I go this year." Naturally, she wants to go, and the days of festivals are all opportunities for her to make a lot of money.

But what Chu Jiang meant should be to invite her to do something together, right?

Lin Qiantan thought about it and was about to agree, but suddenly she was hit by a child who rushed recklessly out of nowhere, and without defense, her whole body slammed into Chu Jiang's body, and Chu Jiang who subconsciously hugged her was embraced.

In this way, Chu Jiang's heart is like a drum.

The girl's green silk seems to have been scrubbed with jasmine balm, and the taste is fresh and elegant. The girl's body was warm and soft, and he didn't know where to put it in his hands.

Chu Jiang is not a person who has no experience in that area. Jiang Ningniang had already forced him to teach him men and women, and he had experience.

It is precisely because of my experience that I know the marrow more and understand how attractive the girl's clothes and skirts are.

But after all, he knew that he restrained his blood and qi, and his self-righteousness was just a momentary swaying of his heart, so he helped Lin Qiantan to stand firm.

He can't offend his cousin, there are some things that he can't think about until he is newly married.

He then went to see Lin Qiantan.

Just now when he hugged the person, Lin Qiantan hit him straight into his chest, and the soft touch on his chest at that moment made him ashamed.

He was also afraid that he would be misunderstood as a disciple, and he subconsciously felt weak. Who knew that the girl didn't stand firmly, and the expression on her face was light and calm, so that people couldn't see even a little twisting.

Chu Jiang couldn't tell what he was thinking for a while.

Maybe my cousin didn't notice.

But what about the facts?

Lin Qiantan naturally didn't notice it because Chu Jiang did it, but noticed it, but didn't take it seriously at all.

It's not that she hasn't been eaten and wiped clean by men, and it's normal for her to bump her body unintentionally while walking, what is it? I can't make it like a chaste martyr.

However, Chu Jiang may not think that he actually holds people for a long time.

Fortunately, it was a hazy night in the evening, and if it wasn't someone who knew each other, even if he saw the couple on the street, he wouldn't be nosy.

Lin Qiantan saw Chu Jiang's embarrassment in her eyes and smiled.

Her cousin, is still simple-minded, I heard that although he had a relationship with the girl in the room according to her aunt's request, he only touched the other party once, and he left others aside as if he had completed a task.

He was bent on her moon.

The heart is precious, Lin Qiantan is grateful, but in this gratitude, Lin Qiantan feels more family affection.

Under the verdant walls of the ancient imperial capital with a long history, the "girl" was the first to break the silence: "The child is naughty, but fortunately, my cousin helped me." Otherwise, you're going to fall.

Chu Jiang said "nothing", thinking that last year, it was the same way, and Lin Qiantan almost bumped into him at that time.

As the color grows, the lights on the side of the street come on one by one, and people come out to set up stalls at night, and adults and children walk around the streets. In the distance is the drunken dew of the Shan Shan, and in the near distance is the fragrance of the beautiful wine.

Chu Jiang hesitated and struggled for a while before he seemed to muster up his courage and tried to reach out and touch Lin Qiantan's hand.

Lin Qiantan avoided it by herself, and the public was public, Chu Jiang was a little out of proportion.

Chu Jiang was also a little embarrassed, withdrew his hand, took a step back, and continued to lead the person to the front with a view of the left and right.

Above their heads, a group of scholars talked about current political news. In the small restaurant with rough decoration, all the children of the poor family have studied well and are about to enter the court as officials.

Young students are full of ambition and have the world in mind, Emperor Tianlong inherited the previous generations of emperors, continued to weaken the power of the family, and supported the Shu family.

Although there are many monks and few porridges, and thousands of troops cross the single-plank bridge, as long as they can jump over the dragon gate, just like these scholars at this moment, they will soar into the sky.

Gu Ping, the right-hand minister who is in power today, can be regarded as the first group of people to eat crabs. Lin Qiantan heard the teacher say that when he was young, he advocated the use of the Xia Dynasty Emperor of those people, including him, but he was under great pressure.

Don't look at the good name of the Shang Dynasty's destruction of Xia, in fact, the fuse of the fall of the Xia Dynasty was largely because the reigning Xia Emperor sharply touched the pancake of vested interest groups.

It's like the brain wants to do things, and the hands and feet are not only disobedient, but add chaos to the brain, even if the emperor of the Xia Dynasty has done nothing wrong, something will happen, not to mention ...... When the throne is passed to the head of Emperor Xia, Emperor Xia Mo really can't say that he is a virtuous monarch.

Lin Qiantan looked at her cousin and thought to herself, is this also a contradiction between her and Chu Jiang.

It is true that she is the granddaughter of the Chu family, but she is also the daughter of the rising star Lin family. Lin Yangde, the head of the Lin family, was also a poor hairy boy when he was young. It's just that after following the first emperor Yan Jian for a few years, making contributions, and encountering the depreciation of the daughter of the family, he had the opportunity to be favored by the Shen family and recruited as a son-in-law.

Lin Qiantan persuaded her uncle to rein in her edge. Although the Chu clan avoided the ending of his previous life, he was still the object that the emperor was eager to get rid of.

Chu Yan is not confused, as long as it does not involve the abolished prince Yan Yong, he has some great wisdom, so he listens to persuasion.

The two walked all the way and also ran into a few acquaintances. Chu Jiang finally took Lin Qiantan to a teahouse in the city.

In the middle of summer, the teahouses and restaurants in the evening are the best business. They arrive late and may not have a place to sit.

There are also scholars chatting there. Lin Qiantan and Chu Jiang sat down in the hall casually.

The two went by chance and just in time for the incident. When they entered, there were two groups of people arguing.

A family with a large number of talents and a collection of books, with a long family lineage, will not look down on those who come from poor backgrounds. In a place like a teahouse, there are many people talking about it, and sometimes they quarrel without saying a word, which is normal.

It's quite a coincidence, both sides of the argument have been seen by Lin Qiantan.

On the left, with "there is a distinction between high and low, people have three outlines and five constants" as the core thesis, the one who talks about it is Wei Jiabin, the son of the Wei family, whom she has met once or twice.

On the right, "Heroes don't ask where they come from, ambitions are not old" to refute it is a well-known local old man that Lin Qiantan saw when he was in Yunzhou.

Emperor Tianlong opened the imperial examination, and it turned out that this person also packed up his belongings and came from Yunzhou to take the exam. However, in the eyes of the children of the family like Wei Jiabin, the official positions in the DPRK and China have always been hereditary monopolies within these famous families, and they are unwilling to give a piece of the pie to these inferior people one after another.

Wei's century-old wine is fragrant and intoxicating, and it is indeed a rare treasure. But at this time, in Lin Qiantan's opinion, it was the rough tea in this small teahouse that tasted better.

"It seems that Your Majesty is going out on the expedition this time, and the DPRK and the Central Committee are in power, and there are still some things to mess up." They just went out for a walk, and after seeing enough of the excitement, Lin Qiantan went home, found an excuse to separate from Chu Jiang, and Lin Qiantan went to Tian Xiaoxiang's residence.

*

Tian Xiaoxiang coaxed her son to sleep, poured a glass of wine for Lin Qiantan, and the two ate snacks and chatted for a while.

Tian Xiaoxiang said with great certainty: "The family will not win." The emperors of the Xia Dynasty were so weakened from generation to generation, and the family was far less powerful than the puppeteers who controlled the imperial power in their hands.

The trend is there.

Whether it is Emperor Xia or Emperor Shang, it has been passed down from generation to generation, and what is lacking is only an opportunity to completely strip the family from the stage of history.

A few girls outside were sitting in the courtyard of Tian Xiaoxiang's house, chattering, watching Lin Qiantan's movements from time to time, but Jinhe was the only one doing some strange "weight loss exercises" that Tian Xiaoxiang taught her under the big tree.

Lin Qingsong was caught by Lin Qiantan again, and he had already walked out of Tian Xiaoxiang's house and went outside to guard the door.

Before Lin Qiantan came, Tian Xiaoxiang was inviting Lin Qingsong to dinner, if it weren't for this, Lin Qiantan wouldn't have been able to catch him.

Tian Xiaoxiang is also very generous, she likes Lin Qingsong, and it is not an unsightly thing.

*

The next day, it was the day when Lin Qiantan took Lin Bixiang and Lin Shuchen to the Zhongyi County Palace.

In the entire Hou Mansion, Lin Qiantan alone enjoyed the invitation, which was also full of hatred.

The Zhongyi County Royal Mansion held such a show, which was really selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, and it seemed to provide a suitable opportunity for young men and women in Beijing to get to know each other. In fact, he was instructed by the emperor in the palace to select women for several princes who had reached the age of marriage and had not yet started a family.

Among them, the three princes and the seven princes are basically within the scope of the concubine selection.

In the crowd, a few married women such as the second princess and other married women present were presiding over the on-site activities there.

Of course, Lin Qiantan doesn't need to worry about being favored by anyone who doesn't have a long eye, but she is worried that Lin Bixiang will not be favored by the four princes at this blind date conference.

In the previous life, the fourth prince Hengzhu was a person who died of sylace sores, and Lin Qiantan was of course willing to push Lin Bixiang to the four princes.

And the four princes are indeed not too disappointed by Lin Qiantan.

Lin Bixiang was still veiled, following behind Lin Qiantan, she was ashamed to see people, but she also wanted to take this opportunity to find a good family. How could Lin Qiantan take the initiative to introduce her?

After entering the venue for a while, Lin Qiantan deliberately searched around the window in the attic around the venue, and sure enough, he saw that there seemed to be a few figures there.

Although it is difficult to see, most of them are those people.

Concubine Xiao's reminder helped a lot, if she hadn't known in advance, Lin Qiantan wouldn't have paid attention.

Lin Qiantan has nothing to do with the theme of the party, so naturally she only needs to sit on the field for a lap and go back. But Lin Bixiang and Lin Shuchen are different. The young lady in the house was originally of marriageable age, and just because Lin Bixiang was alone, the marriage was affected.

Lin Qiantan looked from the bottom and couldn't see clearly. The people above looked at her, but they could see it very clearly.

Her glance was exposed to the eyes of all the people in the attic, and caused a lot of discussion in the attic.

Above the attic, several princes rarely get together, and the Zhongyi County Royal Mansion provides enough food and beautiful maids to serve. During the banquet, most of the princes were surrounded by beauties on the left and right, that is, the second prince, and while looking at the second princess below, they hugged and hugged a maidservant.

In this group of people, there is probably only one Yin Ren who no one dares to approach.

The tenacity will come, and everyone is surprised. This group of handmaidens was also temporarily arranged by the Zhongyi County Palace, which was a little unexpected, and it turned out to be a few cheaper princes.

Lin Qiantan no longer looked upstairs, turned to leave, and smiled with her yin tenacity, seeing that everyone present was cold behind her back. Yin tenacity is famous, even a few princes saw him, and they also subconsciously felt stunned.

About half a year ago, there were always a few sneaky people who were inquiring near the Yin family's mansion, and Yin Ren couldn't catch people and told them to run away. Only once did he pull a silver ticket from a few people.

Silver tickets were all over the street, nothing special, but the smell on the silver tickets made him feel a little familiar.

Later, he noticed that there were some unusual traces on the surface of the secret room where Yan Shao's body was kept, which made him even more alarmed. After a cleansing of the underworld, he still didn't find out the suspicious people he suspected, but by the way, he cleaned up a few eyeliners sent by the emperor in the palace.

Originally, he couldn't imagine for a moment who was capable of being good, and he could actually fight with him for a long time without missing the slightest trace, or Lin Qiantan himself accidentally made him smell a familiar smell when he encountered Yin tenacity on the palace road a few days ago.

Yin Ren was walking out on the palace road at that time, and at the same time he said to the personal steward that Lin Qiantan was very interesting, and he was bold enough to target him.

At this time, the steward standing behind his master, of course, still remembers what his master said to himself:

"My sister is probably still facing a great enemy, I don't know how I can't count this girl, but I also know that she has a new force in her hands."

In the past two days, the steward has been investigating which force Lin Qiantan is colluding with in accordance with Yin Ren's orders. Lin Qiantan has never been favored in the house, there will be masters in her hands, and she can't think of any other possibilities for the time being.

The seventh lady of the Lin family is a person that his master is very interested in, and he attaches great importance to it.

But it's a pity that so far they only know that Lin Qiantan has a very close relationship with the second son of the Wang family who has just come back every night.

*

Lin Qiantan will not deny that she was taught by Yin tenacity.

Whether intentionally or unintentionally, it is also a fact that the tenacity preaches and teaches.

It is precisely because of being close to him that Lin Qiantan knows a little bit about herself as a teacher.

Since returning to the capital, Lin Qiantan began to carefully arrange and pay attention to the news from him. This is especially true when you have someone available at hand.

Yan Shao disappeared, and the whereabouts of the body became a mystery, but Lin Qiantan remembered that the Yin family had a secret room that was once used to hide the corpse.

The tenacity of the heart is incomprehensible to ordinary people, when Lin Qiantan followed him, he was taken to the secret room and saw it, and was frozen after death...... The corpses of political enemies.

Yin Ren admired the body of the adult enough, and then asked someone to pull it out and bury it.

Originally, Ma Lao Liu and others have always been careful in doing things, but unfortunately Ma Lao Liu is a color embryo. Although he didn't think about the daughter of his benefactor, he smelled the fragrance of the other party on the silver ticket, and he was reluctant to use it for flowers.

The fragrance will of course dissipate over time, but the delicate sense of smell is sensitive and can distinguish the residual smell.

Yin tenacity stared at Lin Qiantan and smiled, Lin Qiantan on the lower floor seemed to feel something in his heart, and intuitively felt that there was a chill, but he didn't know why.

Lin Qiantan went to sit in the corner for a while, Chen Jingrou walked over with a helpless face, Lin Qiantan talked to her, and she didn't bother to care about her two younger sisters.

Lin Shuchen is still honest, Lin Bixiang is dog can't change eating, and after a while, his mind moved, and he slowly moved towards the crowd, but it was not a clean room.

Ji Yue reacted quickly, and after receiving Lin Qiantan's eye instructions, she cautiously followed, and the scenery and the screen accompanied Lin Qiantan together.

Ji Yue came back and told Lin Qiantan that Lin Bixiang was found by the people of the Four Princes.

"No matter what the four princes say, they are also noble, and they look talented, and it is also a blessing to be favored by the four princes." Lin Qiantan did not hide Chen Jingrou.

Chen Jingrou is coarse and fine, and he also knows the means of struggle in the inner house, and he doesn't mind.

Of course, the reputation of the fourth prince is outside, and his biological mother is not from a high background, but for Lin Bixiang, who is in a state of despair, it can also be regarded as a good choice.

No matter how you say it, the other party is also a prince.

Lin Bixiang's expression was obviously more smug when she came back than when she went out. Although she thinks about Chu Jiang, if there is a prince who is willing to hook up with her, it at least proves that she is attractive.

Lin Qiantan only pretended not to know, ignored her provocation, and just talked to Chen Jingrou.

*

After a few people went back, Lin Bixiang naturally told Yin Wei such a thing.

Yin Wei also realized after realizing that what kind of drama was sung in the Zhongyi County Palace.

Lin Bixiang was chattering in front of Lin Qiantan, but in front of her mother, she had a completely different face. The biological mother of the fourth prince is just a lowly person, and she looks down on her heart. If it weren't for what she is now, she wouldn't have to pay attention to the four princes.

But Yin Wei's idea was very different.

The fourth prince is mediocre, although anyone with a discerning eye can see that he has the throne in mind, but his strength also does not allow him to sit in that position.

In the future, he should only be a prince. In the past, Yin Wei had only thought about the second prince and the fifth prince, but their brothers didn't look down on Lin Bixiang and refused politely.

If you can marry your daughter to the Four Princes' Mansion, it would be good.

Lin Bixiang has become a hot potato that is not easy to throw out. But after all, it was the meat that fell from her body, of course she was worried, but Lin Bixiang might not appreciate it.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, it is the Dragon Boat Festival.

Everyone in the Lin family has to go out, and the people in the third room are also out of the nest. There is an annual dragon boat race on the river, but it is lively.

Chu Jiang had already made an appointment with Lin Qiantan one step in advance, and on the day of departure, he came over to greet the Lin family.

Lin Bixiang was affectionate, Chu Jiang just didn't see it, took Lin Qiantan, and walked towards the place where the Chu family was.

*

On such a day, even Xia Sanniang is not exempt from vulgarity, she can't grind Wang Dagou, and she is dragged out of the house.

Early in the morning, in the courtyard of the Wang family, Wang Dagou got a carriage and personally served Xia Sanniang, came out of the house and walked out.

Xia Sanniang also rarely moved the mind to have fun.

Wang Dagou happily took her and walked out.

The people in the small alley where the mansion is located rarely see this neighbor, who has hardly shown up since he moved here, and they have gathered onlookers.

Even the Song family, who happened to be passing by, heard the call, and couldn't help but come over and take a look.

Xia Sanniang's eyes flashed with contempt, although she was wearing ordinary clothes, there was a faint sense of deliberately suppressed extravagance. Song had also heard Mei mention it, and knew that the boat family had moved to her neighborhood that day, but she had never had the heart to pay a visit. Right now, Xia Sanniang came out by herself, but she ran into the Song family at the intersection of the road.