Before the fifteenth, Xie Ze had been very busy, and after the fifteenth, the affairs of the south side of the army seemed to be without a letter, but Xie Ze was even busier.

An Xiaoshen and An Xiaowen set off for Huo Shuai's army on the fourth day.

On the morning of the sixteenth, Zhou E accompanied the three brothers An Xiaoming to the camp in Gyeonggi, and Wang Cui and Shen Mai gave Li Ran and followed.

Zhou E went for more than a month before returning to the Rong'an Palace.

Early the next morning, Li Ran was busy in the reception hall for more than an hour, and when she returned to the main courtyard, Zhou E, Wang Cui, and Shen Mai sat in the pantry between the seats at the entrance of the courtyard, talking and waiting for Li Ran.

The three of them followed Li Ran into the upper room, Li Ran motioned for the three of them to sit down, looked at them one by one, looked at Zhou E and smiled and asked, "Are you okay?" ”

"Very good!"

Zhou E happily patted the arm of the chair.

"The three centurions were all put under Lao Zhang's command, this is the prince's order.

Lao Zhang has followed me since he was a soldier and ate food, and he has no other strengths, he is honest and reliable, and he has nothing to say.

Please let the prince show me and tell Lao Zhang is Ming, which makes Lao Zhang very happy! ”

Zhou E laughed.

"I'm so happy that I have to send a son to me, he's really ...... Ahem, in short, you can rest assured. ”

"Why didn't you two stay over there?" Li Ran looked at Wang Cui and Shen Mai and asked.

"Amai and I are the princess's maidservants, so naturally we have to wait by the princess's side."

Wang Cui bowed and replied.

"Sister Cui and I have been out of the army for decades, and this trip is to go over and see.

That is, take a look, it has been abandoned for decades, and besides, when I first chose Sister Cui and I to Mrs. An's side, it was because we were able to wait for people, and when it came to fighting, we were just mediocre. ”

Shen Mai replied

Li Ran heard her say that because they would wait for people, she wanted to laugh and stopped.

She really didn't see that the two of them would wait for people, and compared with Zhou E, they were probably a little better tempered.

"There will be a trial release today, will you go and see it?" Zhou E looked at Li Ran and asked.

"Didn't you say that when the list was released, the whole city cheered, it was very lively, and I didn't hear any movement?" Li Ran is a little weird.

"What you said was the palace test list, and the sound of gongs and drums all over the capital was announcing the good news.

Will try not to be so lively.

I want to go and see if the Shanxi scholar who spent 10,000 silver on Tao Nong has been admitted, Tao Nong has to say how talented he is, saying that I don't know a few big words, and I don't know anything about learning, ha! ”

Zhou E snorted with disdain.

It was as if she could read more than I did! I've got to check it out! ”

Li Ran was a little hesitant.

Since she got married, to be precise, since she got married, she has never been able to go out whenever she wants, and she can go wherever she wants.

She's too much to go out now.

"There is a list of people who will try, there is also a list outside Donghua Gate, you can see it on the second floor of the Gaojia Teahouse, there are not many people who see the list of the test, and there will be no reservations in the teahouse, do you want to go?"

Zhou E understood Li Ran's hesitation very well, and hurriedly suggested.

"Okay." Li Ran agreed, looking at Wang Cui and Shen Mai.

Wang Cui and Shen Mai understood what she meant, and hurriedly shook their heads and said: "I haven't been in the house for more than a month, the garden behind has already started, and there are several construction sites on the eastern front, Ah Mai and I have to look around, last night, Mama Huang explained a lot of things." ”

Li Ran responded with a smile, put on an inconspicuous plain silk silver fox cloak, came out with Zhou E, got into the car, and went to the Gaojia teahouse outside Donghua Gate.

The Gao family teahouse is still a lot more lively than usual, there are many scholars gathered in the teahouse, but it soon dispersed, the first body is dark, three or five groups are looking for a place to drink and relieve boredom, the list is famous, suppressed the elation, and dare not delay more, hurry back to prepare for the palace test in a few days.

The teahouse is full of people coming and going, and it is a lively flow.

Li Ran wore a hat, went up to the second floor with Zhou E, picked a private room with a good location, asked for tea and snacks, Li Ran pushed open the window and looked at the direction of Donghua Gate.

I had already trotted all the way with the mother-in-law who went out and went to Donghuamen to copy the list.

Not long after, the mother-in-law came back and gave the copied names to Li Ran.

Li Ran spread the list on the table, and Zhou E stretched her neck and looked at them one by one.

"Sure enough, these masters have all been hit."

Zhou E's fingers swiped from Wang Hang, the third master of the Wang family, all the way to Li Qingning, who was very behind.

Li Ran followed Zhou E's fingers and looked at a few names.

Wang Hang ranked third, Cao Ming was in the dozens, Huo Wencan was one section behind, and Li Qingning was in the last three or two rows.

According to the ranking order of the four people, it is really according to learning.

"These are all children of the Xie family, right?" Zhou E pointed to the four or five Xie surnames scattered from the first few lines to the last few lines.

"This isn't." Li Ran pointed to the middle one surnamed Xie, "The rest are." ”

Li Ran picked the surname Xie and looked at it, and Xie Ai was in the middle.

"What about Momono? What is your name? ”

Li Ran couldn't help but ask when she saw that Zhou E never mentioned the Shanxi scholar funded by Taonong.

"This." Zhou E reluctantly pointed a name with her finger.

"Qiao Mingshu." Li Ran glanced in front of Qiao Mingshu, "More than twenty, extremely talented people, Tao Nong has a good eye." ”

Zhou E snorted and diverted the topic: "The second master of the Cao family has fallen off the list." ”

Li Ran snorted, "There are too many powerful children in the capital. It seems that a lot of people have been recorded. ”

"There are more than three hundred and eighty, and the last subject seems to be only in their early two hundreds, but I heard that there are many more people who came to take the spring exam this year than the previous subject, and I heard that the Gongyuan has built a lot of small pigeon cages to be enough."

As Zhou E spoke, she took a plate and put it on Qiao Mingshu's name.

"You made a bet with Momono?" Li Ran looked at the plate pressed on the three words of Qiao Mingshu, raised her eyebrows and asked.

Zhou E hummed plausibly.

Li Ran smiled, and was about to ask her again how much she had bet, when Tao Nong's voice came from outside the private room: "Is it General Zhou inside?" ”

Zhou E snorted, Li Ran laughed, and motioned to the mother-in-law standing at the door.

The mother-in-law lifted the curtain, Tao Nong entered the house, and when she saw Li Ran, she greeted her with a smile.

"I haven't seen the princess for a while, and the princess looks so good. General Zhou is good, thanks to General Zhou's blessing, I can rest for another month or two. ”

Zhou E snorted.

Li Ran returned the salute with a smile, "General Zhou said that you are very busy. ”

"During the year, I went to Yangzhou, and I had a sister who married in Yangzhou, and I went to see it.

Yangzhou is really worthy of its reputation, I was seven or eight years old, maybe six or seven years old, I stayed in Yangzhou for half a year, and now Yangzhou is much more lively than then. ”

Momino seemed to be in a good mood.

"Take a break for a month or two?"

Zhou E hugged her arms to her chest and glanced at Tao Nong, she was not in a good mood.

"In a few days, the palace will be tested, and the next day the list will be released, and the list will be released, you must not be wildly scattered with silver? The little money you won from me isn't enough for you to scatter, right? How much more are you going to borrow? Five thousand? Ten thousand? ”

"Look at what you're saying."

Momino glanced back.

"Ever since I saw the person on the list, this person has nothing to do with me.

From now on, even if you are a serious two-rank jinshi, you will have a bright future in the future, and you will be involved in a notorious ninth-rate person like me, what is it?

People, you have to be self-aware. ”

Momono's tone is still pleasant.

"Then you can rest for another month or two."

Zhou E glanced at Tao Nong, looked at it for a while, and sighed.

(End of chapter)