Wang Dexi went to King An's Mansion to announce the reward, he didn't notice the existence of Yuan Chengtai, and his mind still echoed Zhiwei's request a few days ago.

"Princess, there is something I want to ask you for help, the apricot list outside the gate of the Gongyuan should be able to be posted safely for a few days, right?"

Zhiwei is not a dead-eyed girl, she couldn't get news from the emperor, and found that the emperor was a little strange recently, so she adjusted the battle plan lively, chose to show favor to Wang Dexi, and was very willing to take out the new monthly example to ask him to help inquire about the news.

Wang Dexi is quite important, and he can go out of the palace from time to time, run errands for the emperor or something, and sometimes go out to run errands for Mr. Zhao. As for what to do, it is not up to her, the palace people.

A few days ago, Wang Dexi was a little surprised at the beginning, and his smile was a little scrutiny.

"I really can't imagine that my sister has such a promising brother, and she actually passed the Jinshi examination! It seems that my sister will be able to leave the palace to be an official lady in a few days! The little one congratulates Miss first, if there is a day of soaring......"

In the past month, Zhi Wei has become a little familiar with him, and hurriedly interrupted him angrily.

"What do you say! I haven't corresponded with my family for years, and I don't know what their situation is now. It's just that my brother has been talented since he was a child, when I entered the palace, he was young, and he had memorized the four books and five classics well, if it weren't for the serious illness, Mr. said that he could go to the show, and I heard you mention the matter of spring and the spring again, so I just had this thought......"

Wang Dexi saw that her eyes were slightly wet when she talked about her brother, and he also felt a little touched in his heart.

Although their backgrounds are not very different, their fates are similar, and they were separated from their families when they were young. Naturally, a person like him can't get out of the palace, but Zhiwei still has hope.

His tone was also a little more steady, not as frivolous as Fang Cai: "Sister, don't worry, if I go out these days, I will definitely inquire about my sister's good life." Even if you can't find it on the apricot list, there are always other ways. ”

Wang Dexi felt that Zhiwei's request was a very small matter, after all, it was just piggybacking, and it couldn't involve any forces, and it didn't pose a threat to his master, so he didn't tell anyone else, and he didn't even say anything about the master, but planned to go out first to listen to the news, and then come back to brag a few words after he was confirmed.

It's a pity that this time Zhiwei was not very lucky, Wang Dexi, who had been running errands outside for the first two or three days of the past ten days, waited for a full ten days before he met King An's birthday.

King An is His Majesty's eldest nephew, the only brother of the same mother as His Majesty, the heir of the late King An, and the pearl of Empress Dowager He.

Wang Dexi was young, and when he entered the palace, Lao An Wang had already died, and Xiao An Wang at that time was just a small meat dumpling, so he had no impression. However, after His Majesty ascended the throne, Empress Dowager He of Cining Palace began to show her extraordinary favor for King Xiao'an.

First of all, he inherited the title of the late King An at a young age, and Princess An's mother's father and brother were also crowned or promoted for various reasons, large and small, which can be described as full of dignitaries. Among the dignitaries and dignitaries in the capital, if you talk about honor, I am afraid that the Luo family is second only to the He family and the Qin family behind the queen mother and queen.

It's not that no one has had an opinion, but His Majesty has always behaved as a brother and a friend, and he still misses his brother King Chang who died young. Over time, no one dared to challenge the status of the Luo family.

With Her Majesty's extraordinarily generous circumstances, the officials who are interested in drilling the camp are also extremely flattering to King An's Mansion, and this kind of red and white happy event should not be missed. Even though Xiao An Wang is only a seven-year-old child this year, his birthday has attracted a lot of long gift lists.

When Wang Dexi took the emperor's reward to King An's mansion, what he saw was a lively scene of busy traffic.

However, he found very sharply that most of the people who came were women, after all, King Xiao An was too young to entertain guests as a male host, and Princess Lao An could only take care of these contacts for him, and changed to the path of "lady diplomacy".

Wang Dexi sighed twice in his heart, turned his head and went to the Tribute Academy, and looked at a long list, but he didn't see the name of "Song Zhige".

He couldn't help sighing, and he didn't go back to the palace directly, but turned into an alley, and when he came out again, he was no longer a swaggering eunuch suit, but changed into an ordinary green clothes, looking like a handsome young man.

Wang Dexi entered a Qingya teahouse closest to the Tribute Academy, looked around, and unexpectedly found that most of the people sitting inside were students in Confucian shirts, and there were some middle-aged people with graceful bearing, who looked like officials, but Wang Dexi couldn't recognize the faces, and guessed that most of them were petty officials who had no chance to enter the palace and face the saint alone.

He quickly walked to the shopkeeper and asked him in a worried tone about "Song Zhige, the young master of his family who went to Beijing alone to catch the exam", and without spending too much energy, he got the news he wanted from the shopkeeper's mouth.

"So, Zhiwei's brother is indeed here to catch the exam, and he also won the exam, why did he lose the ranking in the palace exam later?"

Although Wang Dexi is just a little eunuch, he is ordered by Zhao Jiufu every day, and he always keeps a very close distance from the government affairs news of the DPRK and China.

He immediately made up a bizarre story of "Song Zhige may have offended someone, this person may still be the chief examiner, so he was cruelly and ruthlessly brushed off the palace exam".

After tracking down Sun Cainu, coupled with the work together during this time, Wang Dexi also got a lot closer to Zhiwei, and felt that the other party was a good girl with a pure heart and hard work, and would agree to help her inquire about the news because of this good feeling. After "discovering" this bad news, he suddenly lost his mind, and went back to the palace worried.

Not long after, two more young people came into the lobby of Qingyun Teahouse, one with a smile on his eyebrows, and the other asked the shopkeeper with a cold face.

"Fang Cai, it seems that someone is inquiring about Brother Song?"

Qingyun Teahouse can be opened near the Gongyuan, and there is naturally a bit of power behind it, and the Tang shopkeeper who invited him to sit in the town is a capable person with eight faces.

Shopkeeper Tang recognized the two of them at a glance, and said with a smile on his face: "Isn't this our champion Lang and Tanhualang?" The two of them are here, but it's really brilliant, haha~"

Coming into contact with Xiao Huang's cold eyes, he was dumbfounded, and explained embarrassedly: "Ahem, the one just now is a servant in Song Gongzi's family, and he said that he went to Beijing with his wife to find Song Gongzi." I didn't expect to pounce on the air, so I came here to inquire about the news. Speaking of which, do you two also know Song Gongzi? The little one remembers that the results of the test will come out, Song Gongzi's ranking seems to be quite high, why didn't he get on the apricot list this time? ”

After receiving this explanation, Xiao Huang's face did not improve, but became even more gloomy.

Lu Zhongwei, the champion next to him, looked at him with some curiosity, hesitating whether he should care about this new colleague.

Originally, the two of them made an appointment to come to Qingyun Teahouse and get together with a few of the same department, but they were tripped up here in the lobby, but the two of them were very good-looking, plus a while ago, they were in the limelight on the streets, and they had already become famous in the capital.

But Xiao Huang suddenly said: "Brother Lu, I suddenly have something urgent to do, so I can only miss the appointment today." Please ask Brother Lu to confess my sins on my behalf, and I will be the boss another day. Without waiting for him to react, he hurried away.

Lu Zhongwei felt strange in his heart, and after meeting with everyone, he couldn't help mentioning the matter, and asked if anyone knew that Song Gongzi, it seemed that Xiao Huang had a good relationship with him.

Lu Zhongwei was born in a Jiangzhou family, and Xiao Huang, who was born in a wealthy businessman, is completely different, so the two did not have much contact before Dengke, and they did not know much about their social circle.

A blue-shirted man said, "Brother Xiao's friend Song Gongzi? What Zhuang Yuanlang said must be the Jiangnan genius Song?? Finish. The two of them are confidants and brothers who share life and death together, and they are both from the south, and they are always anxious about Meng on weekdays. Brother Xiao is outstanding, but Brother Song is stable and has a lot of bearing, and I also said that they can go to the department together this time. I didn't expect such a thing to happen before the palace exam......"

The man shook his head and sighed, which made Lu Zhongwei and the others very curious.

Another gray-shirted man patted his head and said in surprise: "Could it be, the robbers that night were in the small courtyard rented by Song Gongzi, right?" ”

The blue-shirted nodded, with a sad and regretful expression.

Lu Zhongwei is the kind of person who reads books and doesn't listen to things outside the window, and he doesn't like to listen to these rumors, so he is even more confused. Seeing the thoughtful faces of several other future colleagues, I felt even more ashamed, and secretly decided to pay more attention to the world in the future, otherwise I would be embarrassed if I couldn't talk to others when socializing in the future.

After the explanation of the blue shirt, he learned that there was a group of bandits in the capital, specifically targeting those students from other places who came from other places and had rich families, and Song Zhige was unlucky two days before the palace test, and got up in the middle of the night to drink water and take a look at the thief, the other party was so vicious that he wanted to kill people, and the thief was stabbed by Song Zhige and fled during the struggle, but Song Zhige himself was seriously injured.

Hearing this, Lu Zhongwei sighed: "This is really a flying disaster, it's a pity that I didn't have the opportunity to meet that Song Gongzi." However, he has the talent of the world, and he will directly participate in the palace examination three years later, and he will definitely accumulate more ......"

"Alas, Brother Lu didn't know that Song Gongzi was stabbed in the face by the thief. Listening to Brother Xiao's words, the knife marks are deep, even if the best medicine is used, it will be difficult to completely recover in the future. In the future, Brother Song is only afraid of ......"

Although Lu Zhongwei is a little unsophisticated, it is still very clear that those who enter the court as officials must not have obvious flaws in their faces, and he regrets the Song Gongzi who has never met.

At the same time, Huo Yanzhi in the Qiande Palace also received the same news.

"I encountered bandits in the middle of the night, accidentally disfigured and injured, so I couldn't participate in the palace exam?"

Zhao Jiufu nodded yes, and took the opportunity to present a transcription of Song Zhige's paper in the exam.

Huo Yanzhi glanced at it casually, his originally crooked body straightened up, his expression became more serious, and he sat down and finished reading the next part.

He didn't comment, and was silent for a while before he said unhappily: "Jing Zhaoyin is really useless, most of the people who live on the other side of Lane 45 are students of this class, and they are all the pillars of Daqi in the future, and they are so negligent in security!" ”

Zhao Jiufu echoed a sentence, but Huo Yanzhi didn't mean to play on the topic, and after scolding Jing Zhaoyin, he sighed twice, and said that it was a pity.

After a while, Zhao Jiufu wiped his cold sweat and retreated.

Although I don't know why His Majesty suddenly inquired on a whim about a tribute student who "missed the appointment" palace test, he heard some rumors when he inquired, and now he is not sure whether he should report to His Majesty.

If that news is accurate, I am afraid that Song Gongsheng's injury is not an accident, but man-made!

But if it is really artificial, the "person" behind it is not easy to move, can Your Majesty go to the Luo family and Princess An for such a young man who has not yet entered the court and only has one article?