Cheng Qing didn't have time to complain that the third prince was possessed by the male protagonist of the stallion Wen, and Dong Jinqiu, who was standing at the window and watching, turned around with a smile:

"I saw Master Meng!"

Zhou Heng also nodded in confirmation.

Cheng Qing and Cui Yan couldn't whisper anymore, so they both went to the door to greet Meng Huaijin.

The spring of March was just right, Meng Huaijin wore a moon-white robe, and the young men who led the way were extremely attentive.

"Senior Brother Meng!"

"Hello senior brother."

"I've seen Master Meng."

Cheng Qing and the four of them greeted each other, Meng Huaijin smiled, "It's all so polite, sit down quickly, everyone is not an outsider." ”

Isn't it, Cheng Qing, Cui Yan and Zhou Heng are all considered Meng Huaijin's junior brothers, Dong Jinqiu did not study in Nanyi Academy, but he is also a member of Xuandu, and Meng Huaijin is a fellow villager.

However, except for Cheng Qing, the other three were a little constrained in front of Meng Huaijin.

Senior Brother Meng has changed a lot as an official!

Zhou Heng and Cheng Qing went to Beijing together, and saw Meng Huaijin more often, but Cui Yan only entered Beijing in early February before the examination, and Meng Huaijin changed so much that it had a great impact on Cui Yan.

When he was in the academy, Meng Huaijin was a fair and strict 'Senior Brother Meng', but now he appears in front of Cui Yan, but he has been a Master Meng who has been mixed in the officialdom of the capital for three years.

Cui Yan felt very strange.

As everyone knows, Meng Huaijin also felt that Cui Yan had changed a lot.

It's not just the body shape that has changed, but also the spirit.

Young Lang Jun will always be a big boy and not a man without tempering.

Seeing Cui Yan, Meng Huaijin thought of Cheng Qing's acceptance of Cui Yan's silver and asked him to help Cui Yan make up for his class - the silver did not fall into Cheng Qing's hands, Meng Huaijin thought that he had taken it all, but now that he thinks about it, with Cheng Qing's temperament, how can he not be left behind at all, I don't know how much silver Cheng Qing asked Cui Yan for afterwards.

At that time, Cui Yan was still a big little fat man.

The pouring of officialdom made Meng Huaijin miss the simple days when he was studying at Nanyi Academy, and couldn't help patting Cui Yan on the shoulder:

"Yes, people have become stronger and more energetic."

As soon as he said this, Cui Yan felt that the alienation of Meng Huaijin, who had not seen Meng Huaijin for three years, had at least dissipated most of it, he smiled at Meng Huaijin, and had the excitement when he opened a small stove to make up the class at that time, "Senior brother, I'm going to trouble you again today!" ”

"What is this, you can get the Gongshi all by your own talent and hard work, I will tell you about the things to pay attention to in the temple examination, but it is just the icing on the cake. It's all my family's words, and you have to think about whether it's suitable for you after listening to it. ”

Meng Huaijin's words made Cheng Qing and the four of them nod.

Cheng Qing thought to himself that the emperor appointed Meng Huaijin to be the champion, mainly because Meng Huaijin was talented and learned, and Meng Huaijin's appearance and bearing were also blessed.

If it is a person who describes obscenity standing on the Jinluan Palace, the emperor will be disgusted when he sees it, obviously he has first-class talent, but it is difficult to be favored by the emperor at a glance.

And among the four of them, Cheng Qing is already the most ordinary-looking.

Alas, it's not that her facial features are ugly, it's that her face is not good, the whole person is like a layer of dust, and she is not tall enough, so she can't compare to others.

She is not the shortest of her peers, but she is not as tall as Dong Jinqiu, Cui Yan and Zhou Heng.

Among the three people, Zhou Heng is slightly shorter, and Cheng Qing estimates that Zhou Heng is about 172cm. Dong Jinqiu is about the same height as Cui Yan, with a height between 176-178cm.

Cheng Qing made a longitudinal comparison, and comforted herself in her heart, although she did not have a tall height and handsome appearance, she had a score of five yuan and the first grade, and the emperor would not pay special attention to her appearance during the palace examination!

“…… If you can't get the emperor's preferences, it's better to insist on being yourself, and there is always a risk that the political ambitions you pretend to be exposed. Even if you play the worst, you are all a fellow jinshi, and the release is a seven-grade county order, a parent official, and it takes a lot of time to be promoted from a local official to Beijing, but it is another experience. ”

In addition to Cheng Qing, Cui Yan and the eldest of the three of them are only crowned, some of them are still old children when they are white-haired, they are only in their twenties and will be officials, even if they start from Qipinzhi County, they will have twenty or thirty years to slowly move up - hey, thinking about it this way, being a fellow jinshi is not the worst result.

Meng Huaijin not only came to teach the experience of the palace examination, but even gave psychological counseling to Cui Yan and the three of them.

Cheng Qing couldn't help but add:

"There's really no need to be nervous, after the palace examination, at least the seventh-grade official, my father entered the official with the fame of raising people, and he had to slowly boil from below the seventh-grade level, and he had been stumbling for too many years, and we had a reputation for being a jinshi, and the starting point was much higher. Look at my second uncle again, he was also a local official who was released from the outside, and he was promoted every three years, jumping from the prefect to the prefect, and from the prefect to being a servant of the ministry, isn't this also climbing very fast? ”

That's right, but are these two examples really encouraging them?

Cui Yan and the three of them were very sympathetic to her.

Everyone knows that the relationship between Cheng Qing and the second room is not harmonious, and now Cheng Zhixu in the second room has been promoted to be a servant of the ministry, which is not a good thing for Cheng Qing!

Thanks to Cheng Qing's lack of heart and lungs, Meng Huaijin pierced the sympathy of the three: "If Cheng Qing wins the champion again, the servants of the ministry can't control whether she is promoted or not, you should worry more about yourself." ”

is also ha, if Cheng Qing becomes the champion, the emperor will definitely reuse it.

They should worry more about their future!

The more they chatted, the happier they became, and they gradually lost their restraints in front of Meng Huaijin.

Cheng Qing poured tea for everyone with a smile, in order not to affect the palace test two days later, everyone replaced the wine with tea.

At the beginning of March, the earth rejuvenated, the willow trees sprouted, the birds outside the window chirped and chirped, and the party between Cheng Qing and Meng Huaijin was happy.

Cheng Qing and a few people drank tea in the restaurant, but some people drank in the tea shop.

Opposite this restaurant is a tea shop, and in a certain box sits the four princes with gloomy expressions.

The fourth prince has been smooth sailing since he was a child, and he rarely has this kind of expression.

At the same table with him were the silent Five Princes.

The four princes drank all the wine in their hands and sneered:

"The Great Mercy Temple is within a radius of a hundred miles, and I have asked people to check every mountain and village, and there is no group of bandits who robbed the real cousin, as if that group of people came and went without a trace, just to make things difficult for a little lady in the boudoir, how can there be such a strange thing in the world. Thinking about it, this matter is like my aunt's handiwork, she wants to ruin my cousin, and I can't make Cousin Roujia feel better - fifth brother, I have something to entrust to you, can you help me? ”

What the four princes want to say is definitely not a good thing.

The five princes couldn't wait to shrink their shoulders under the table, and in the face of the aggressive gaze of the four princes, the five princes mustered up the courage to shake their heads:

"Fourth brother, I don't dare to offend my aunt!"