Cheng Laosan stood at the entrance of Guava Village, bending down and looking north, as if waiting for his granddaughter to come home. Suddenly, gray and black smoke came out of the village behind him, and the sudden fire swallowed everything, and the emaciated old man was covered by the fire in horror, struggling in pain. When the fire dissipated, there was no one standing in the place where Cheng Laosan was standing, and only a handful of loess remained.

"Grandpa......"

Cheng Xiuyi opened her eyes crying, only to realize that it was just a nightmare, and the smell of smoke from the fire in the dream seemed to linger on the tip of her nose and could not be dissipated for a long time.

At this time, the rooster had not yet crowed, and the sky showed a glimmer of light, and the hour should be early. Cheng Xiuyi wanted to open the window to breathe, but she heard someone chattering outside the yard, so she rubbed her red eyes and walked out of the house.

"Search for me! This boy stole my money! "A group of people surrounded the corner.

The sound of punching and kicking made a lot of noise, and it didn't take long for a lot of people to surround it. Seeing that there were more people, at first the leader was even louder to talk around.

"This kid lives next door to me, and he's always seen him sneaky, and guess what? I found out today that the silver bag hidden under the pillow was missing! I hurriedly went out to look for him, and I ran into him! You said it wasn't dawn yet, and he was wandering outside alone? Definitely a thief! ”

Everyone looked at it together, and the thin man with short brown hair was half-kneeling, the terrifying scar across his face, and a pair of black eyes burst out with endless hatred. - Who is this man? I don't seem to have noticed.

Cheng Xiuyi stepped forward, stopped a few people who were about to add punches and kicks, and said lazily: "It doesn't have to be him, right?" ”

Cheng Xiuyi's temper is not easy to provoke, everyone knows it. When she meddled in her affairs, the few people gathered around subconsciously took a few steps back. Only the scholar who had been stolen blushed did he raise his neck and shout: "Cheng Xiuyi, don't think I'm afraid of you!" Then you say, he is not a thief, why is he wandering around late at night? ”

The young man who was half-kneeling on the ground stood up and said coldly: "I don't want to waste the lamp, I read in the moonlight every night. ”

"Hahahaha, you say all this!" Everyone laughed, and one of them pointed to the scar on his face and said, "Ugly people are so weird! It's not a lie, just like you, you don't pee to take care of yourself, and you come out for scientific research! ”

"That is, the four treasures of the study room and the oil lamp in the Three Holy Pavilion are all at public expense, and you don't need to pay for it, this kind of excuse can be said."

Gu Chen lowered his head, as if he was irritated by the mocking words, his shoulders trembled with anger, but then he calmed down and said, "The scar on my face is a burn, and since then, I don't dare to be close to the fire, so I come out to study every night." ”

The others didn't believe it, and shouted that they wanted to strip and search, and the more Cheng Xiuyi pounced on Gu Chen.

"He does come out every night to study, and I've seen him several times before." Cheng Xiuyi scolded loudly, frowned and pushed the people in front away, and said: "The fight in the Three Holy Pavilion is a violation of discipline, and the exam is coming soon, do you want to be disqualified?" ”

These words obviously poked at the weakness of the noisy people, and they didn't come forward after muttering a few words.

Cheng Xiuyi chuckled lightly and took turns walking around from the few people present. Only then did he say, "Your money bag is on your good brother!" Don't wronged the good guys. ”

The scholar who was stolen was shocked, and looked vigilantly at the good buddy standing beside him. A probe snatched the purple purse from his arms, and shouted incredulously, "How did you do this?" If I treat you sincerely, I will go to Mr. Liu Meng to denounce you! Cheng Xiuyi, how do you know? ”

"You often burn Zen incense in your house, and your clothes and money bags have the smell of Zen wood. It just so happens that my nose is so good, I smell the same smell from your 'brother', and his room is next door to yours, so I must be right. ”

The scholar who took back the money bag lowered his head in shame, said sorry to Gu Chen, and took the real thief to Liu Meng in extreme disbelief.

After the excitement was over, the crowd dispersed naturally, only Gu Chen silently followed behind Cheng Xiuyi and asked in a low voice, "Why did you help me?" ”

His vocal cords may have also been burned, and his voice was hoarse and muffled.

Cheng Xiuyi paused, only looked at the sun behind the clouds, and said, "I didn't help you, I just had a nightmare." I dreamed that my loved ones also died in the fire. ”

Gu Chen raised his head for the first time and stared at the woman in front of him with wide eyes, he was telling whether her words were true or false, it was just a nightmare, why did she look so sad......

"Then why do you remember my name?"

Cheng Xiuyi seemed to hear a joke, and looked back, "I will remember the name once I heard it, how do you think so much!" ”

Gu Chen didn't keep up anymore, he had tried his best to reduce his sense of existence since he entered the Three Holy Pavilions, so as not to be seen by others and say that he was a monster, after all, this title had been with him since he was a child, so harsh.

Cheng Xiuyi left straight away, returned to the house, and said before closing the door: "How dare Shimmer fight against the sun?" Where does a lion bark with a dog? A few days ago, a woman scolded me, and she has been punished these days. So, it's up to you to decide what kind of person you are. If you want to win, rush forward. ”

Gu Chen stood in place, inexplicably feeling his eyes moist. He is an orphan of the suburban village, a survivor of a place that everyone believes was abandoned by the gods and the new emperor. From childhood to adulthood, everyone warned him that he couldn't even have the qualifications to grieve for his deceased relatives, and it was already God's favor to have his life in that sinful place, probably because he was not convinced, Gu Chen had been saving this breath to participate in the scientific examination, but he always overestimated himself, from the township test to the meeting test, he didn't even dare to have excellent qualifications, some questions were obviously done, but because he didn't want to be watched by others, he chose to give up answering.

Can someone who is used to a dark corner stand in the sun and look up and smile? Gu Chen looked at the sky in confusion, and the first glimmer of light in the morning finally pierced the clouds and shone on his face full of scars.

On the second day of the exam, only forty people remained. In addition to the students who voluntarily gave up the exams, the student who stole the purse was also dismissed. Every time there is one less, it is a kind of grinding for the rest of the people, and the pressure is even worse.

Cheng Xiuyi, who got the exam papers, felt a tight heart. Gong Jingyu's mind is really not so easy to speculate, and the direction of the exam on the first day has changed! Cheng Xiuyi painstakingly pondered 12 sets of questions, and only about 20% of them were selected.

Cheng Xiuyi, who was a little devastated, couldn't help but think of the kiss that night, such a thoughtful and elusive person, will there be times when it is difficult to control his emotions......

Gong Jingyu did not come to participate in the supervision today, he was riding the imperial horse back to the palace. Because during the time of the examination, there were two things that bombed the entire Dayun, and he had to come forward immediately.

The first is that the governor of the Song Dynasty insisted on withdrawing from the marriage, which caused the emperor to be furious, and the ten princesses jumped into the river to seek death.

The second thing is that the palace sedum did not observe the mourning period and insisted on marrying another concubine, but the emperor did not allow it, and happened to bump into his sister on the way to jump into the river.

So, inside and outside the palace, there was such a news that the tenth princess and His Royal Highness the prince jumped into the river together, it seems that it was because of Song Xingyuan!

Gong Jingyu rubbed his swollen and aching temples, and rushed to the front of the palace in a hurry, how could he have such a stupid brother and sister. But that's fine, it's not bad for him to push the boat down the river and stir up the whole thing.

"The eighth prince has arrived, pass on the eighth prince!" The eunuch shouted in a sharp voice, and a slender palace maid led the way to the study in the imperial garden.

The flowers bloom just right in July, crape myrtle and water lilies compete in the altar, and they have always loved flowers such as Gong Jingyu and have no intention of watching, but feel that the bees and butterflies buzzing and noisy caused by the fragrance of flowers.

Gong Jingyu hung her head, leaned over and knelt in front of the door of the study, and it took a long time to hear a dull voice inside, "Jingyu, come in." ”

The emperor is forty-two this year, and the former elegance is long gone, leaving only deep Sichuan character lines and two furrows on the lips. Although he is old, he sits on the dragon chair with a straight back, and it is not difficult to see that he is strict with himself, and the momentum of the superior is like a natural success.

Gong Jingyu entered the room with a strict set of salutes, and then he looked up and looked around, and the three people who had been making trouble for a long time all had a calm face, and they did not welcome his arrival.

The emperor coughed several times before he slowly asked, "Old Ba, what are you doing in such a hurry?" ”

Gong Jingyu lowered his expression and said with a smile: "Erchen really has an urgent matter, so he has to tell his father immediately." ”

"You say."

"Erchen, I want to marry a woman, born in Dalicheng Guava Village, named Cheng Xiuyi."

"You're looking for death!"

"Dreaming!"

"Why is it her again?"

The ones who spoke in turn were Gong Jingtian, Song Xingyuan, and Gong Wan'er, and Gong Jingyu's words were like thunder, so shocked that they didn't even care about interjecting in front of the emperor.

Obviously, the emperor was not harsh, and he was very surprised. The name 'Cheng Xiuyi' has been thunderous these days. At first, Song Xingyuan rushed to the front of the palace in a hurry, and bluntly wanted to withdraw from the marriage, and asked why, only saying that he already had a favorite woman and only loved one person in his life.

Soon Gong Wan'er cried, made trouble and hung herself, Huang Ama is the fox spirit named Cheng Xiuyi. It didn't take long to see the princess Sedum coming in a hurry, begging to marry Cheng Xiuyi regardless of the mourning period.

Isn't that embarrassing? As soon as the three of them confronted each other, his useless sons and daughters wanted to jump into the river in search of death, and staged a drama of pulling left and right in front of the Yudai River to calm down.

It didn't take long to be quiet, and the eighth child, who has always been smart and thoughtful, came to ask for a meeting, thinking that he could come up with some good idea to solve the mess of these people, but he obviously came to find trouble on purpose, so angry that Miyagi Han almost didn't mention it in one breath.

It's not easy to be an emperor, how many ups and downs Miyagi Han has experienced before he sits in the position of Emperor Dayun. But what he saw in front of him was not his children, but the young courtiers he valued, and they made a fuss about the matter of Chen sesame seeds and rotten grains.

So what kind of ability does Cheng Xiuyi have to make the pride of these days fascinating? Miyagi Han coughed tiredly a few times, and when he opened his palm, he saw scarlet.

"Doctor Chuan!!"