Time slipped towards the palace test day on March 15 day by day, and Zhiwei's mood became tense day by day.

Even if she knew that she didn't need to worry intellectually, even if she was the last one among the three hundred jinshi, Song Zhige would probably be able to get a petty official from outside. But when it comes to her closest relatives and her siblings who have been in her mother's womb for ten months, Zhiwei is really hard to rest assured.

A lot of ridiculous and ridiculous ideas also came up, for example, in case something went wrong on the day of Song Zhige's palace test, offended an official or even the emperor, and in case he suddenly became ill and was not in good shape......

The only thing that made her happy was that after the queen's strange reward that day, Yuxue did not continue to exclude her as before, but just stared at her a little longer.

It's not because Yuxue is worried about her, but His Majesty's favorite pot of Wan Nianqing suddenly fell ill a while ago, and he was slowly cured by Zhiwei in the past few days.

To be honest, Yuxue has never understood His Majesty's aesthetics. The pot of golden pine that has recently moved into the Qinzheng Hall is forgotten, and there is still a little eye-catching, but the pot of Wan Nianqing she doesn't think it looks good when she looks left and right, His Majesty just likes it, and he also changed his previous style, and let people get a hanging shelf in the inner hall to hang, and also told people to wipe its leaves clean every day......

If you don't understand, you don't understand, and this doesn't prevent Yuxue from loving the house and Wu, and she regards the ugly bonsai that His Majesty values as extremely important.

Therefore, when a strange spot suddenly appeared on the evergreen leaves, she immediately panicked.

It just so happened that this problem was a few days after Zhiwei copied the palace rules, Yuxue looked for the second-class palace person who used to serve the flowers and plants, and the latter shook his head and said that there was no way, she could only run to the Siyuan Bureau for help. But the palace man named Lianzhu assigned to her by Steward Li didn't seem to be a big deal, and after taking care of it for a few days, the spots not only did not disappear, but there was a tendency to increase, turning from red to brown to black.

Yuxue had thought about whether to secretly change a pot of similar Wannian Qing to fool her, however, His Majesty's attention to this matter was far beyond her imagination, so she could only rest her heart and honestly look for someone everywhere to put out the fire.

Later, she nodded and let Zhiwei enter the hall, firstly, to test her, and secondly, to see if Zhiwei had that ability.

Unexpectedly, after Zhiwei accepted this trouble, she ran forward and backward without saying a word, and really made a strange medicinal powder, which was used to spray the leaves with water, and the spread of the spot was actually curbed in a few days, and there was a tendency to gradually fade.

“…… Horse bones, aconite grinding, and a small amount of mugwort leaves, plant ash, ......"

Seeing that Si Tian and Lianzhu were talking in a straightforward and attentive manner, Yuxue finally breathed a sigh of relief.

People who are specialized in art and have a skill in a certain aspect are always easier to gain the respect of others' favor, especially, Yuxue carefully recalled that since Zhiwei entered the Qiande Palace, except for the so-called "adultery" that was caught by Concubine Shu, she really hasn't done anything out of the ordinary, and even her eyes are clean and calm from beginning to end.

Coincidentally, Wan Nianqing's apparent recovery began on March 14, so on the 15th, after the emperor went to the Baohe Hall as the chief examiner, Zhi Wei finally entered the Qinzheng Hall alone without avoiding the eyes of Yuxue and everyone else.

This is also the fixed time for her to enter the temple to work every day, after all, there is no reason for a slave to work in front of his master. In order to let the masters enjoy everything clean and comfortable as much as possible, Zhiwei and other palace people and eunuchs were desperately cleaning while the emperor was attending court meetings or other outings.

The busyness of everyone today has slackened a lot, and the reason is very simple, because His Majesty is likely to be back in a long time.

The temple test is an upgraded version of the test, as the name suggests,

It means to test people in front of the temple. The Emperor and other examiners, and possibly the cabinet ministers, would sit down and announce the questions on the spot, and the three hundred would-be scholars would complete their answers in full view of the public, and it would take at least an hour or two to write quickly, but the custom was to hand in the papers before dusk at the latest.

Of course, the emperor may not be able to hold out until the end of the day, but in order to show his respect for the students, the emperors will still want to stay until the middle of the field before leaving, and some will go down to patrol to see how the articles written by these students are and whether their psychological quality is good. If you see a dragon and a phoenix in the middle of the way, and the literary talent is outstanding, you will inevitably stay for a while, let the ministers make a mark, and save face for Your Majesty when ranking.

Since Huo Yanzhi had set the goal of cultivating henchmen, he naturally wanted to work hard to Corporal Lixian, so he stayed in the Baohe Hall for most of the day before leaving unsatisfied.

The elders were calm on the surface, but in fact, they had their own guesses in their hearts, and they were frightened by the questions that Huo Yanzhi took out as early as the beginning of the exam. At this time, Huo Yanzhi waited until dusk before leaving, and he couldn't arouse more surging emotions from them.

Jisuke and Shousuke exchanged a look of mutual defensiveness and mutual understanding, and only after the roll was closed did he leave the scene and return to the house, and then he told his confidant the truth.

"Your Majesty changed the subject on the spot today, and this move cannot but be amazing. It's just that compared to the title itself......"

The henchman nodded slightly: "Yes, Your Majesty asked Gongsheng about the heart of the emperor and the government of the emperor, and his heart was clearly revealed." Not only us, but there must be many smart people among those tribute students......"

Jifu snorted: "What about smart people? Your Majesty wants to be in power alone, but he doesn't want to think about how long it will take for those young people to climb above the third grade, how can it take a decade or two? Hey, Guo Shoufu, this old guy, is getting stronger, and he has recruited a new eighteen beauties this year, maybe he will still be sitting in the cabinet ten years later. His Majesty wants to move him and the cabinet, but I'm afraid it's too naïve! ”

The confidant said: "The teacher can see it thoroughly. Then this Jinshi, are we ......?"

The second assistant said unhurriedly: "It's okay, just wait and see what happens......"

Not to mention how the old ministers guessed in their hearts, at least, the master in the Qiande Palace was still in a happy mood at this moment.

Before today, Huo Yanzhi was most worried about seeing a group of gray-bearded old jinshi in the Baohe Palace, what he needed now was a lot of talented young people who were willing to devote themselves to him and had no intention of participating in the party struggle.

What reassured him was that most of the people he saw today were still in their prime, the oldest was about forty or fifty, but there were only a few people of this age.

In the few circles he went around, he also found a number of remarkable views, among which two or three people were even too young, Huo Yanzhi estimated that he was a little younger than him, and there was even a student with a feminine appearance and a thin body, but the views in his pen were extraordinary, and the handwriting was also strong and powerful, like a silver hook, which made him particularly impressed.

Huo Yanzhi secretly wrote down these names, and when he returned to the palace, he was in a beautiful mood, and he had already begun to imagine the picture of the monarch and the ministers working together in the future to defeat all evil and corrupt old courtiers.

However, he soon remembered that today was the fifteenth day, and he had to go to Kunxu Palace for the night.

Huo Yanzhi's good mood was greatly discounted, so he could only paralyze himself by watching the excerpts, and he didn't need to work too hard to create a scene of busy government affairs, and Zhao Jiufu naturally couldn't take the initiative to ask him if he wanted to go to Kunxu Palace to have dinner with the queen.

When it was late at night, Huo Yanzhi slowly and reluctantly moved to Kunxu Palace.

It's strange to say, I don't know if the queen has recently changed her makeup style, after Huo Yanzhi freshened up, he actually felt that today's queen looked particularly charming and moving, and it was logical that the queen was turned red.

Lu Tao and the others were overjoyed, but when they got up the next morning, they didn't have the opportunity to see any clues of the harmony between the emperor and the queen, but instead saw a strange situation in which one was angry and the other was in a trance and relatively speechless.

Green Peach was suspicious, but she didn't dare to say a word, and lightly asked to go over to serve Huo Yanzhi to change clothes.

This is also a common practice, basically Huo Yanzhi stays here, and in the morning, she and Lu Shao serve the two masters to wash up, and the little palace maid helps. But today, as soon as Lu Tao's hand touched Huo Yanzhi, the latter frowned and waved her away, and raised his voice to call Zhao Jiufu in.

Green Peach looked at the queen uneasily, not knowing what she had done wrong.

But what's even more strange is that the queen seems to have something on her mind, the whole person is a little wooden, she washes and dresses up very mechanically, and she doesn't receive any hints from her eyes at all, let alone give herself any reply.

Seeing that the emperor didn't seem to blame herself, Lu Tao could only retreat to the side, just watching the emperor and queen groom without saying a word. In the end, the emperor finished dressing, and finally gave the queen a look, but still didn't say a word, only snorted and walked away.

The queen respectfully blessed the emperor and left, and her tone sounded no different from the past, but Lu Tao vaguely felt that Niangniang's voice seemed to tremble a little?

When the emperor and his party were gone, the queen waved away everyone except Aunt Lin, including Green Peach.

Green Peach retreated in confusion and muttered a few words to Green Peony, but there was no result of the discussion, but it was even more foggy.

What she didn't know was that the inner hall was not as harmonious as they imagined at the moment, for example, the queen was discussing with Aunt Lin or something.

The queen's eyes were wide open, and her beautiful facial features were distorted, which was very different from the appearance in front of Fang Cai.

She clutched the armrest of the Huanghuali chair and glared viciously at Aunt Lin who was kneeling on the ground, her voice was hoarse and terrifying.

"Did you do it? You said! ”

Aunt Lin quickly raised her head, couldn't bear to look at the queen, and lowered her head again.

"Yes."

The queen was angry from her heart, and casually grabbed something from the case on the side and threw it at Aunt Lin. It's a pity that it was missed, and it happened to rub Aunt Lin's smooth and old-fashioned bun on top.

The queen fell into her chair in a rare and unfigurative way, and murmured, "You, how dare you do such a thing? This is a big taboo in the palace! Are you trying to force this palace to kill itself? Aunt Lin, this palace treats you well, why do you want to hurt me like this......"

She wept as she spoke, but her eyes were terribly dim, like ashes from a burned furnace.