Soon, Xun Qi spread the will of the saint to the academy, and all the students of the academy became excited. After all, the top three in this civil and military competition can not only come to the hospitality banquet and the Beirong delegation five days later, and become the protégé of the Son of Heaven, but also enter the palace to participate in the Queen Mother's birthday banquet on the Holy Birthday Day of the Queen Mother in June. The royal family also has two unmarried eldest princesses and a county lord. This is a great opportunity to leap into the gate! Although Dayan Guo does not allow horses to participate in politics, it does not restrict horses from leading military attache positions, so this holy decree is also good news for those who originally wanted to take the martial arts championship.

"County Lord, you have to take advantage of this opportunity!" Lin Chaoying said excitedly, "As long as you enter the top three in the literary examination, what else can those people say?!" ”

"Why is that?" When Nan Lingmo heard the news, she was looking for books related to the seventy-two techniques of Guiguzi in the library building, so that she could complete the homework left by Ye Shanchang after today's class. She wasn't as excited as the others, and she didn't even lift her eyelids when she returned to the school building, and the old god continued to read.

"What! This is your chance to make a name for yourself! Lin Chaoying said anxiously, "Now people outside say that you are a closed disciple of the mountain chief in vain, and you are selling your reputation and reputation!" ”

"What does it have to do with me when my mouth grows on someone's body." Nan Lingmo said indifferently, "It's better to spend more energy on schoolwork, you don't know how difficult it is for the mountain chief to stay in the strategy!" ”

"Don't you want to fight with the people of Beirong?" Lin Chaoying said.

Nan Lingmo chuckled: "You and I are both daughters of important ministers of the imperial court, this kind of banquet is naturally invited, are you still afraid that you won't see it?" ”

Lin Chaoying immediately retorted: "That's different, at that time, we could only sit in the back and watch, not officially go up to compete!" What I want is the opportunity to compete with the people of Beirong. ”

Nanling Mo sighed and said, "Miss Lin, this banquet is not a flower viewing banquet, a birthday banquet, or a poetry party, this is a major event related to the national body. ”

"It's because it's about the national body that you can't be ashamed!" Lin Chaoying continued, "Anyway, I'm going to take the martial arts test!" ”

"Okay, you go, I won't stop you. But you're done with today's red? Nanling Mo smiled evilly: "It's not me staring at you now, it's An Zhai who stares at you and asks you to show her twice a day." ”

"......" Lin Chaoying's heart was like being poured a basin of cold water on her head, so she had to resign herself to picking up the red post and practicing calligraphy.

At two o'clock, Nanling Mo was studying his grandfather's codex and "Poison Sutra" in the house, when he heard a knock on the door, Lin Chaoying stepped forward to open the door, saw a stranger standing outside, and asked, "Who are you?" ”

The person saluted and said: "I am Liu Yong, the assistant next to the mountain chief, and I want to see the county lord of Ren'an." I don't know if the county lord is available? ”

"Yes, wait a minute."

Nan Lingmo had already come to the door when he heard the voice, and when he saw that the person was indeed the assistant beside the mountain chief, he hurriedly saluted and said: "Liu Zhangshu, I don't know what is the matter with you coming to the mountain chief?" ”

Liu Yong replied: "The mountain chief, please go to the bottle water Zhai immediately, there is something important to discuss." ”

"Yes, I'll be here." Nan Lingmo immediately went back to the room to get the books, and followed Liu Yong to the bottle of water where Ye Baozhen lived.

Bottle of water is the residence of the mountain chief Ye Baozhen, and the plaque on the door is written with three vigorous and powerful characters. Bottle water means that the knowledge is vast as the sea, and the limited learning of people is like a bottle of water in the sea, and the word "bottle of water" is enough to see the self-encouragement of the owner of the residence.

"Mountain Chief, the Lord of Ren'an has arrived." Liu Yong reported outside the door of the bottle of water, and Ye Baozhen heard it in the house and said, "Ah, okay, let the county lord come in." Liu Yong, you go and read the strategy they wrote last time again, and tomorrow when the two deputy mountain chiefs come, they will work together to draw up the exam questions for the day after tomorrow. ”

"Yes," Liu Yong retreated.

"The students meet the mountain chief." Nan Lingmo made a big salute after entering the house, "I wonder what the teacher has to do when he asks the students to come?" ”

"Ren'an, what do you think of the literary exam in two days?" Ye Baozhen touched his goatee and asked.

"Teacher, can the student tell the truth?" Nanling Mo thought twice and replied.

"It's natural, you can tell the teacher what you think."

"Master, I heard that the well-educated people in the Beirong mission this time are all people in the opposition, so the academy will select the top three civil and military to enter the palace to participate in the palace banquet." Nanling Mo saw that Ye Baozhen did not object, so she knew that the news that Yun Tianhong asked Mei Xue to pass was true. "I wonder if the teacher has an approximate candidate for the top three?"

Ye Baozhen still didn't answer, just stared at her. Nan Lingmo pretended not to know and smiled: "Teacher, don't look at the students." I am a shallow student, and my writing is a mess, and I must not be able to take on this important task. ”

"You girl," Ye Baozhen chuckled and shook his head and said, "You really think that the old man is so dizzy that you can't see that you are clumsy?" ”

"Hehe, I really can't hide anything from the teacher's eyes." Nan Lingmo suddenly gaged, "Since the teacher knows my mind, I don't know who else is the candidate?" ”

Ye Baozhen knew that she was telling the truth, so she couldn't be reluctant, so she said: "The best of your senior brothers is the son of the deputy mountain chief, named Zhao Yuanjia. ”

"Zhao Yuanjia?" Nan Lingmo didn't react for a while, and after a while, he suddenly realized: "You mean Senior Brother Zicheng, the child of my second aunt's second brother, right?" ”

"It's him," Ye Baozhen said, "Zicheng is a good boy, brilliant, respectful and humble, this year he stopped the spring school, I'm afraid it's no problem to take the autumn school entrance examination." In fact, speaking of which, your brother is also a good boy with excellent literary talents, how can he not have a good body, otherwise he will ......" The mountain chief sighed slightly, "and Zhou Tao, who entered school this year, is also good." Although he studied at Lushan Academy in Ganzhou before, he was also successful, and I am afraid that he is also waiting for the opportunity of Qiuqiu. ”

Ye Baozhen's words changed, "There is only one person left, and you are the candidate in the heart of the teacher, but you want to hide your clumsiness and shirk it, and you don't want to participate in ......the literary examination."

Nanling Mo replied with a shy smile: "Teacher, there are always people in the senior Xuanban who are better than the students, and besides, the students are not unable to participate in this palace banquet, since ancient times, "the gun shoots the first bird", and the students come to the academy to study, not to be in the limelight, so as not to let my father know about it, and I have to be disciplined again." ”

When Ye Baozhen heard her talk about this, he stopped thinking about persuasion and persuasion, and sighed: "That's it, if you don't want to, don't you want to." What are your thoughts on this topic? ”

Nanling Mo was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect the mountain chief to ask himself the question of the competition, and he was about to vaguely go over, but he saw the old man staring at him with a serious face, so he had to say honestly: "A few days ago, when the students were studying, there was a saying in the book that 'the big husband is poor and lowly and cannot be moved, the rich and noble cannot be lewd, and the mighty cannot be bent', and the students thought so; ”

Ye Baozhen stroked his goatee with one hand, and paced back and forth in the house with the other behind his back, and only heard more leaky sounds in the room. Ye Baozhen suddenly laughed and nodded: "Hahaha, this is really a good topic!" Alright, it's getting late, you go back! ”

Nanling Mo looked at it when she left, and actually stayed in the bottle of water for nearly an hour.

As soon as Nanling Mo returned to his school building, he found a person sitting in the room, and looked at the person who turned out to be Yun Tianhong. She looked around, closed the door and asked softly, "Ji Yuan, why are you here?" What about Chaoying? ”

The man smiled and said, "I haven't seen you for a long time, come and see you." As for the one in your house, I let Zhen'er trick her over, but she can't stay here for too long. ”

"You've traveled all this way here, but you have something important?" Nan Lingmo didn't believe that he just came to see her for no reason.

"Heh, I'm telling the truth, why doesn't Mo'er believe me?" Someone pretended to be aggrieved, and saw that Nan Lingmo was not moved at all, so he had to laugh at himself and smiled: "There are a few things I want to trouble you this time." I heard that at the banquet of the Beirong mission, the new crown prince wanted to marry the princess as the crown princess, and also wanted to marry Princess Helian into the royal family. I came here to beg you for my fourth brother and little sister, to see if there is a way to get them to shirk? ”

Nanling Mo thought for a moment, and said hesitantly: "Dayan Kingdom has been founded for hundreds of years, and it is normal for Princess Shang to marry each other, and I heard that Princess Helian is also the sister of the prince, and she is beautiful. ”

"If she had been a gentle person, I would not have made such a request. But when I fought against them in the north, I knew that this prince was ruthless, and the deposed prince had nothing to do with him. This princess is brutal and vicious, and many palace maids have died at her hands. Later today, the grandmother beside the imperial aunt sent a message to Sister Zhaohui for the imperial aunt, wanting to meet tomorrow, but seeing Princess Zhaohui's eyes red, she asked again and again to know that Princess Helian was in the post house, and she scolded Sister Zhaohui in public. ”

Nanling Mo's face suddenly turned cold, and he insulted the princess and the concubine in the Dayan country, and this princess is still the eighth princess of her own country, this foreign princess is really bold, but I don't know if she is really domineering or extremely stupid! She suddenly saw the former prince of Beirong at the banquet of the Four Kingdoms when she was Li Yunqing in her previous life, although she looked quite tall and tall in Beirong, but she revealed an elegant wind from the inside. I also heard my father and brother say that this former prince of Beirong is a rare benevolent prince, and if he ascends the throne in the future, Beirong and Dayan may not have to fight again. Unexpectedly, this prince was deposed and died.

Nanling Mo thought of His Royal Highness King Li's immortal person and Rong Zhen's innocent smile, she didn't hear what Yun Tianhong said next, and it wasn't until Yun Tianhong gently touched her arm that she came to her senses.

"Uh-oh, I see." Nan Lingmo said, "This eldest princess of Rongzhen is easy to say, but His Royal Highness King Li, I, I will think about it again and see if there is any other way!" ”

Yun Tianhong also knew that this matter was a bit difficult for her, he didn't think of other ways, as early as when he knew that the Beirong mission had entered Beijing, he had already persuaded the fourth brother to leave the capital and travel as usual. But His Royal Highness King Li said: "The whole world is not the king's land, and since you enjoy this honor, you should take responsibility." "Shut his next words tightly.

When Yun Tianhong wanted to say something more, a soft voice came from outside the door, he knew the secret signal issued by Wu Yin, and said that he handed Nan Lingmo a brocade box and said, "I'm leaving, by the way, I sold this to you." After speaking, he left Nanlingmo's school building.

Nan Lingmo opened the brocade box and found that it was a set of Seiko knives, and she was overjoyed to see this set of knives. The set was based entirely on the knives drawn on her grandfather's codex, and the seven-piece set was more accurate than the three her grandfather's drawings.

"County Lord," Lin Chaoying's voice came from outside, Nan Lingmo hurriedly put away the brocade box, took out her grandfather's codex and put it on the table, looked up at Lin Chaoying, only to see her wave her hand and say with a smile: "Look, the palace maid of the eldest princess Rong Zhen secretly brought out the big five blessing cakes from the palace, let's eat them together!" ”

"Well, I'm a little hungry too." Nanling Mo said with a smile, but she was thinking about the banquet in five days.