There are only two people in the dormitory of Xianzhuo Palace. Those eunuchs and palace maids are afraid that they have heard something a long time ago, and they will avoid what they can, and they will stand outside the door if they can't avoid it, as long as the master doesn't call, they will definitely not enter the door, and Xie Yao, who is everywhere all the time, doesn't know where to go.

Bai Jinyu put the food box on the table and watched it for a while. The material of the food box is the top grade in sandalwood, and the lid is carved with mica to inlay a beautiful picture of the full moon of flowers. She reached out and touched it, and the finely carved lines were excellent to the touch. She hadn't seen such a delicate and elaborate object for many years.

Suddenly, the pattern in front of him lit up, Bai Jinyu raised his head, and it was Feng Chen who moved a silk lantern over. She hurriedly sat down, smiled and retracted her hand under the desk.

Feng Chen set the lamp, straightened the hem of his clothes, and sat down opposite Bai Jinyu.

The warm yellow candlelight made a circle of ripples, the atmosphere was a little complicated, and there was some weird harmony in the jerky embarrassment.

"Your Highness, you're hungry too, aren't you?"

Feng Chen didn't answer, but raised his hand to open the food box, and unhurriedly took out the wine and dishes in it.

"A match made in heaven?" Bai Jinyu blurted out, looking at the food in front of her in surprise, it happened that it was also her favorite food.

The match made in heaven is a set of famous spots in the palace, which is the general name of five kinds of pastries and soups: three-color glutinous rice, jujube paste crisp, lotus paste cake, Baiguo cold cake, and sea cucumber porridge.

Bai Jinyu looked around and muttered, "So...... Did the Holy One agree to give you five days? ”

Feng Chen paused and raised his eyes to look at her.

"I ...... I heard it. Bai Jinyu explained in a low voice.

Five kinds of dim sum, a match made in heaven, "five" and "heaven" correspond to Fengchen's daytime request, although it is not a clear will, but this hint is really obvious.

Feng Chen looked away, did not investigate, and said nothing.

"Your Highness, are you still angry with me?"

Feng Chen placed the plate step by step, and said calmly: "How can you see it?" ”

"Your Highness has very few words now."

"When is 'now' compared to?"

“……”

Feng Chen put the last plate away, turned around and sat down, and then said lightly: "It's just something on your mind." ”

Bai Jinyu was almost about to ask, "What is on your mind", but when the words came to her mouth, she suddenly felt a little inappropriate, so she held back and only said: "Oh." ”

Feng Chen shook his head lightly and said, "Why doesn't the princess care about what's going on?" ”

Bai Jinyu touched his nose.

"Is it that cold?" Feng Chen added, and some unexplained charm appeared on Junji's face.

After asking two questions in a row, Bai Jinyu was really a little overwhelmed, coughed lightly twice, and said, "Your Highness knows that I don't mean this...... If His Highness wants to tell me, he will naturally tell me, and if he doesn't want to tell me, I'm afraid that it's useless to ask. ”

Bai Jinyu said sincerely, but this answer didn't seem to be quite satisfactory to Feng Chen, he turned sideways as if he hadn't heard it, and took the second layer of food box.

Bai Jinyu was shocked to realize that Fengchen had been serving all the time, which seemed to be a bit incompatible and deserved, and hurriedly helped him. Seeing this, Fengchen also withdrew his hand.

In the second layer of food boxes are two sets of white jade porcelain tableware, Bai Jinyu took out the dishes and chopsticks one by one, and then distributed them like one person.

Bai Jinyu said in the courtyard that she was hungry just as an excuse, but now that these fragrant supper snacks were really spread out in front of her, she really felt hungry.

However, even though he was hungry, he couldn't move his chopsticks to Feng Chen, who was sitting, and Bai Jinyu didn't dare to stretch out his hand. After waiting for a long time, she finally couldn't stand it anymore, she decided to find a way to start the banquet, so she first sandwiched a piece of jujube paste cake in Fengchen's bowl by retreating.

Sure enough, the humble gentleman Ru Fengchen immediately treated her politely, and also sandwiched a piece of cold cake for her, and said, "Eat!" ”

Bai Jinyu, who succeeded in the plan, was full of joy, put up chopsticks and ate this piece of cold cake into his stomach.

However, after that, there was still a long silence. Fortunately, eating and talking are all with the mouth, and eating without saying a word is also an ancient precept, Bai Jinyu simply concentrated on eating, and every plate was sandwiched again, and it seemed that he didn't care about talking.

"Your Highness, why don't you eat it?" When she came back to her senses after eating, she found that Feng Chen didn't move, staring at the piece of jujube paste in the bowl.

"I'm not hungry."

"Oh......" Bai Jinyu said in his heart: It seems that this Fengchen's heart is indeed not small. At the same time, she realized that there was something wrong with her way of eating, so she couldn't help but slowly put down her chopsticks and smiled embarrassedly.

Seeing this, Feng Chen lowered his head slightly, and silently took the jujube paste in the bowl and put it in his mouth.

In this situation, Bai Jinyu suddenly sighed: I didn't expect her to have a day when she sat down to eat with Fengchen, if Yuhe was also there......

Thinking of Yu He, Bai Jinyu's heart tightened, and he opened his mouth to ask about the situation. But after hesitating, she restrained this thought, picked up the dishes and chopsticks and took a big bite, and decided to ask Su Lihua about this topic in the future.

"Don't you like lotus pastry?"

Cold, there was a puzzle in his head.

The white brocade jade tiger body that was eating lotus paste cake was shocked.

She doesn't like lotus pastry?!

No, she Bai Jinyu has always had a good appetite and has never been a picky eater, and there should be no food in this world that she doesn't like to eat.

But...... Bai Jinyu suddenly thought: Feng Chen should be asking Su Lihua at this time, right?

Thinking of this, she instantly felt like a man's back, and her heart was empty, thinking that she had to answer this question carefully, and she was afraid that she would be exposed if she was perfunctory.

Bai Jinyu stiffened his neck, and while slowly swallowing the lotus paste cake that was already in his mouth, he thought about it in his mind, and was about to say, "Look at the lotus paste cake in the palace is chic, so taste it", Feng Chen suddenly said "ah".

Bai Jinyu's heart was hanging again, and he didn't know what had changed, but he heard Feng Chen say: "I remember wrong, you don't seem to like pumpkin crisp." ”

Bai Jinyu's shoulders fell, and he only felt that with his two words before and after, his heart was like a sieve, and he passed a few peaks and deep valleys at once.

She laughed sweatingly, neither daring to deny nor admit it, for fear of a reversal in a while, so she had to pretend to be thirsty and drink the tea on the side.

The jade porcelain tea cup completely covered Bai Jinyu's eyebrows and eyes, and also covered the corners of Feng Chen's gently hooked mouth.

"Huh?" Before Bai Jinyu could put down the teacup, he caught a glimpse of Feng Chen uncovering a layer of brocade silk spread at the bottom of the box, and pulled out an envelope of yellow paper from the bottom.

Bai Jinyu subconsciously glanced up at Feng Chen, only to see that his eyes did not fluctuate at all, as if he had expected it.

The letterhead was in Feng Chen's hand, Bai Jinyu could only chase it with his eyes, this was a letter with no name and no signature, and the envelope was not glued.

After staring at the letter for a while, Feng Chen opened it, and his slender two fingers pulled out a folded letterhead from it. With the light and candle, Feng Chen unfurled the letter paper out of thin air.

The silk lantern made of fine wood emitted a hazy halo like topaz, giving Fengchen's powder-like face a light luster. In the blend of light and dark, his clear silhouette, undulating eyebrows and eyes are like spring mountains and autumn waters, like a dream, and it is incomprehensible.

Fengchen's elegance is both dazzling and quiet. At first sight, it can make people's hearts sway and be swoon, but the people who see it will never jump up and shout in admiration, on the contrary, they will often tighten their bodies and look up in silence.

This is a bit like looking at the gods. Bai Jinyu was breathing at this time, exactly like that.

Feeling that there are eyes that have been watching, Feng Chen, who is reading the letter, suddenly raised his eyes.

It's like staring at a painting, and the person in the painting suddenly comes to life, Bai Jinyu was so shocked that the whole person shrank back and almost sat down.

She smiled awkwardly, first held the desk to prop up, and then when she straightened up, Feng Chen was already looking at her specifically.

Bai Jinyu's scalp was numb for a while, and he didn't dare to look at each other, so he missed his gaze casually, looked at the letter and asked, "Is this an anonymous letter?" ”

Feng Chen nodded silently.

"Is this a complaint? However, shouldn't there be a prescribed form for the sacred? How could you ...... so casually" Halfway through the words, Bai Jinyu stopped, realizing that it seemed that it was not her turn to discuss this matter, so she broke off the conversation and smiled: "Hmm...... Eat Eat, Eat! ”

Feng Chen laid the letter paper aside, coincidentally, just enough for Bai Jinyu to catch a glimpse.

Bai Jinyu pinned his neck, and saw that the beginning of the letter was: "Be able to speak directly and be virtuous and square." Reading through it silently, she was shocked to see that the questions lying on this table were clearly the exam questions for this year's provincial entrance examination!

But the problem is that this year's provincial exam has not yet begun!

"Two days ago, someone threw it in the crack of the door of Li Zhiping, the secretary of the ministry." Feng Chen said slowly, as if recounting an extremely bland matter.

Bai Jinyu retracted her gaze and pursed her lips apologetically, but seeing that Feng Chen took the initiative to talk to her about it, she thought that Feng Chen probably didn't mind that she knew about it.

Although Feng Chen deliberately said it plainly, she knew that this matter was by no means a trivial matter.

Since the beginning of Gaozu, the triennial Jinshi Department is an important channel for the imperial court to take the office, and it has always implemented the principle of selecting officials from the Ministry of Rites and using officials from the Ministry of Rites, so the Ministry of Rites is responsible for the task of asking questions once every three years. Because of the fairness and appropriateness of the practice, for more than 100 years, the scientific examination system has been regarded by the world's protégés as the right way to serve the country.

Now that the big exam has not been carried out and the exam questions have been leaked, this matter is by no means trivial, and it is naturally reminiscent of a problem with the Ministry of Rites.

"According to the system of our dynasty, the officials of the Ministry of Rites should have been locked up in the hospital as early as a month ago, even if their parents, wives and children cannot be contacted, it should be impossible to contact the outside world." Bai Jinyu thought so, so he said it.

"Nothing is impossible." Feng Chen folded the letterhead back and put it in the envelope.

"Your Highness and the Holy One have asked for five days, are they...... Are you going to check it out? ”

Feng Chen didn't speak, which was a tacit acquiescence.

Thinking of the conversation that Bai Ri heard, Bai Jinyu carefully guessed: "Your Highness won't want to check it yourself, right?" ”

She couldn't figure out why Feng Chen wanted to do it herself.

As if expecting what Bai Jinyu thought, Feng Chen said: "The forces behind this matter are probably not simple, and those who are not high-ranking and powerful people can't suppress it." If you let the functional officials investigate, their way of doing things will be a storm in the city, and the consequences will be at least the cancellation of this scientific expedition by the saints, and the most important will be the mutiny of the people and the shaking of the national foundation. ”

"So," Feng Chen looked at Bai Jinyu, paused, and said solemnly: "I have to." ”

Suddenly, this scene is a little familiar, and this word is also a little familiar. The last time I heard someone say this, it was in the face of thousands of iron-armored cold blades, in order to save an emperor who had just ascended to the throne and his precarious court. At the moment, although it is not such a big battle, this consistent style is really quite evocative.

"Your Highness is very worried, then you have to be careful!"

This remark shows concern, as if it should not be said by a discordant couple, nor is it like something that Su Lihua can say. Therefore, as soon as he said it, Bai Jinyu himself felt that it was inappropriate, and showed a cramped look of inappropriate words, which made the atmosphere a little subtle.

In order to sweep away this subtlety, Bai Jinyu hurriedly asked another question: "Your Highness, who are you going to send to investigate?" ”