The Empress was much younger than she thought.

The empress, who is already seventy-six years old, should have dyed her hair, her thick black hair is meticulously combed, and she wears a crown with twelve white beads hanging down on the crown, but she can still see the majestic and graceful dragon face behind the beads.

Time is such a preferential treatment for the empress, and the goddess of immortality advocated in modern times is nothing more than that.

Well-maintained, the empress looks nearly twenty years younger, with fair skin, long eyebrows and sideburns, a pair of phoenix eyes that are sharp and frightening, and the deep nasolabial folds seem to confirm her perseverance and unyielding.

Probably only with such a temperament can he rise and fall in the harem for decades, all the way to the top, and at the age of sixty-seven, he still has the ambition and energy not to lose to the prime of life, and he abolished two sons in a row and ascended the throne as the emperor.

Liu Chenxing quietly looked at the empress's dragon face, but she didn't know that her every move also fell into the eyes of the empress and civil and military officials.

It's not that Liu Chenxing's movements are too big, it's that the three women in their first row are too calm and calm.

Especially with the comparison of several flustered male lifters in the back, everyone turned their attention to them.

It seems that this year's imperial examination is really a big showman, and the officials secretly shook their heads.

The Empress is condescending, and everything is in view.

Her phoenix eyes were slightly bright, and she sat on the dragon chair majestically, waiting for all the twenty-eight lifters to calm down, and said: "You are an excellent tribute selected from the world by the imperial court for a year. “

For the twenty-eight people who had only half a foot in the officialdom, the empress did not have many words of encouragement, she said a few words, and then called out separately: "King Wei." ”

In addition to being the prince of Yipin, the King of Wei also served as the middle supervisor of the Sanpin Palace, and was in charge of the ceremonial affairs of the dynasty.

It was also an independent branch of the Yulin Army, an armed force that had a closer personal relationship with the emperor.

The king of Wei is not only a high-ranking official of the civil court, but also in charge of the left and right ten thousand cavalry battalions, which can be described as a high power, and he is standing at the top of the three columns of officials on the left side of the court.

Hearing the empress call him, King Wei immediately took a step to the right, crossed his hands and saluted: "The minister is here." ”

Seeing the King of Wei wearing a purple high-ranking official robe, walking out, his face was like a crown of jade, his phoenix eyes were powerful, and he was a dragon and a phoenix, standing in front of the group of people behind him, Zhuo Zhuo was like a wild crane in a flock of chickens, and his appearance was even more extraordinary.

The empress was pleasing to the eye, and her sharp phoenix eyes showed a faint look of pride, and she hadn't seen Ah Yi for a few days, and it seemed to be getting more and more colorful.

The empress commanded: "You are my eldest grandson, you can act on my behalf, and you will be invigilated in the palace." ”

A few words fell, and the Hanyuan Hall was still as quiet as ever, but the eyes of the hundred officials looking at King Wei had changed slightly.

The story of Liu Chenxing, the king of Wei's daughter-in-law, favoritism and fraud, has been rumored, and now although the case has been revealed, it is true that the two of them know each other.

Not to mention his examination in Chang'an, Liu Chenxing, a small farmhouse girl, won Xie Yuan in a large imperial examination state like Beizhou before the scientific examination was not right, and even suppressed the eldest son and grandson of the Qinghe Cui clan, if there was no handwriting of King Wei, no matter how talented Liu Chenxing was, it would be impossible!

Therefore, although Wang Yushi made false accusations with bad intentions, it was not all false.

In this case, the empress still asked King Wei to invigilate the exam on her behalf, clearly telling everyone that she believed that King Wei did not cheat for the sake of a female child.

The empress really still values King Wei very much.

The hearts of the courtiers moved slightly, and the words "you can replace me" lingered in their hearts for a long time.

Some of them are happy, some are frowning, and some are not reacting......

All living beings.

King Wei, as the person concerned, didn't seem to understand any hints from the empress, his expression remained unchanged at all, and he only received the order: "Minister, obey the order." ”

Condescendingly, the empress's phoenix eyes coldly swept over a group of courtiers and landed on King Wei, and the phoenix eyes finally had a little warmth, but all the changes in expression were finally hidden behind the twelve white beads hanging from the crown, making people unable to see any changes in joy and anger.

The empress looked at the twenty-eight people in the hall again, and saw that most of them were either sweating profusely or trembling slightly, she smiled and said with a pleasant face: "If I am present, you and others will be nervous, which will affect the performance of the exam. After a pause, his voice was solemn, "But I will also come to see it from time to time, so don't let up." ”

After that, the empress glanced at Ouyang Zijin, who was standing in the robe on the upper left side of the dragon chair, and then opened her arms, her bright yellow wide sleeves hung down, and the palace maids who were serving on the left and right immediately supported her respectfully.

"Congratulations to Your Majesty."

Seeing the empress leave the dragon chair surrounded by a group of palace people and Praetorian Guards standing around the dragon chair, the courtiers in the hall all bowed their hands and sent the empress away.

As soon as the empress left, the air in Hanyuan Hall seemed to be a little less nervous and suppressive, and the officials standing around the court began to leave in twos and threes.

Today is not the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year.

And this kind of regular day, which is held every day, is only attended by civil officials of the fifth rank and above, as well as the officials of the two provinces under the sect, the superintendent of the imperial history, the member of the outer lang, and the doctor Taichang.

Therefore, there are not many officials in Chang Chaori, but in a moment, more than twenty officials left the Hanyuan Palace, and only the King of Wei and the five examiners in charge of the provincial examination were left.

At this time, Ouyang Zijin picked up a wooden box painted black with gold in front of the imperial case, slowly walked down the high platform where the dragon chair was located, bowed slightly to King Wei, and said, "This is the topic of the sage's essay. Saying that, she glanced at Zheng Wanqing on the right hand in the first row, and said: "There is my niece in the lift, I should avoid suspicion, and then I will hand it over to King Wei." ”

King Wei took the wooden box without saying a word, and responded to Ouyang Zijin with a slight bow.

In this way, the exam questions fell into the hands of King Wei.

According to the sage's announcement three days ago, the title was established by the empress herself, and the box was covered by the empress herself, and she looked at the seal on the palace people.

In other words, only the empress knows what the exam questions are, so there is no leakage of questions.

Then the final ranking will also be determined by the empress herself, so it should have nothing to do with the invigilator King Wei.

Liu Chenxing glanced at King Wei standing in front of him, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

King Wei grew up in the Daming Palace since he was a child, and now he is the palace supervisor in charge of the etiquette of the court.

The table of five examiners was set up on the right side of the crowd of lifters, and the king of Wei, as the person who invigilated the examination on behalf of the empress, was unusual, and it was in front of the crowd.

Suddenly, everything is ready.

Liu Chenxing and the others finally took their seats in front of the examination desk in the hall one by one according to the ranking of the provincial examination.

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