On the day of the second test, the examination room was overcrowded, and Chu Nian stood beside Chen Lao and silently watched a group of bookish young people walking around in the examination room.

Ye Yuan was in the middle of the crowd, at this moment he was looking down at the book in his hand, a seat in white clothes was shengxue, but his indifferent temperament became more and more obvious, and the scholars on the side were in company, perhaps because of his temperament that seemed to ascend to heaven at any time, everyone did not dare to approach him.

But for a moment, Chu Nian turned his eyes to look at another figure in the crowd, it was Tao Jinyan who was "stuffed" in by her, and at this moment he was very improperly teasing the guard transferred by Liu Qi, and the guard only looked at him strangely with a pair of eyes, but he didn't pay attention to this strange person. Everyone is reading tirelessly, for fear that they will miss any details and affect their performance in the exam later, only Tao Jinyan's appearance is a hanger, and even makes people think that he came in to tease the guards.

Today is only the second test, the royal family will naturally not be present, and the host is only Chen Lao, Chu Nian was pulled over by the old man to help, she is also very worried, if Tao Jinyan's information is true, then those martial arts people who have mixed into the examination room today will definitely do it, she doesn't believe that the stubborn temper of the martial arts people will wait for tomorrow.

The dark four were left in Tingchuan, and the remaining three secret guards had long been hiding in the corner waiting for those people in the martial arts to come out, and Chu Nian didn't believe it, they would attack Chen Lao so blatantly, not to mention, no matter how much he didn't care about this exam, Liu Qi still arranged no less than a hundred Imperial Forest Army here, and the strength of the Royal Forest Army could still support reinforcements, no matter how temperamental those people in the martial arts were, they were not fools.

In any case, today she will protect her grandfather.

At the beginning of the exam, Chu Nian was left by Chen Lao to watch the examination room, and he ran out under the pretext that he needed to go out, Chu Nian had to smile helplessly, and when Chen Lao went out, he signaled a few secret guards in the dark to follow.

The time limit for this exam is two hours, Chen Lao slipped out at the beginning of the exam, and it was a full hour before he walked back while holding the tea cup, and when he saw Chu Nian, he whispered uncomfortably in Chu Nian's ear: "Your aunt sent some snacks, and now she is outside, you go eat quickly, come back quickly." ”

Chu Nian couldn't cry or laugh, but he still walked out of the door, and sure enough, Mrs. Chen was waiting at the door with a food box, and when she saw Chu Nian, she greeted her, "Come, Nian'er, help your grandfather look at the hard work in the examination room, and often freshly baked dim sum." ”

Chu Nian took the food box handed over by Mrs. Chen, and then whispered, "Uncle, has Grandpa Fang been with you all along?" ”

Mrs. Chen looked at Chu Nian inexplicably and said, "No, I just arrived, I just arrived at the door, and I happened to meet your grandfather coming back, and I wondered what he was doing when he watched the examination room go out, and then I heard him say that you are there." ”

Hearing this, Chu Nian frowned without being critical, and said with a sweet smile: "Thank you aunt for the snacks, Nian'er is hungry, but aunt should go back earlier, now there are many people in Kyoto, there are many dangers, and my aunt is alone and doesn't like to bring people out, so I should pay attention to safety." ”

Hearing this, Mrs. Chen touched Chu Nian's head with a light smile, "Nian'er is sensible, my aunt will go back, don't worry, this is not far from the house." ”

The two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and Mrs. Chen also felt that it was not good to delay the work of the ancestors and grandchildren, so she left, and when there was no one around, the dark three fell beside Chu Nian, and said with a smile: "The fish has been hooked, and it has been retracted and entered the cage." ”

Chu Nian glared at him, "You speak well." ”

Dark San pursed his lips, "I caught a mouse, and now he is locked up in the cellar of Vanilla House, and his subordinates are about to go back for interrogation, but it looks like he is more like he is ambushed outside the field." ”

Hearing this, Chu Nian lowered his eyes and pondered for a while, then raised his head and said, "Don't be in a hurry to interrogate first, you guys have been by your grandfather's side for a few days, and protecting his safety is the most important thing." ”

Dark nodded his head, "Understood." "Disappeared without a trace.

At this time, a brown carriage came from far and near, Chu Nian recognized that the person driving the carriage was one of Ming Xiu's subordinates, and the corners of his mouth were unconsciously dyed with a smile, at this time, the carriage stopped beside Chu Nian, and seeing that there was no one around, Ming Xiu walked down slowly, and said with a smile: "How is it, does it feel comfortable to be an examiner?" ”

Chu Nian shook his head, "If there were no assassins, the little girl would still be a little more comfortable, but now she is very comfortable." ”

Ming Xiu smiled and stood in front of Chu Nian's palm, when the lotus fragrance approached, Chu Nian's body stiffened for a moment, and then his brows relaxed, and he saw Ming Xiu smile and said: "Take Gu to have a look, Gu also wants to see and see, what is the so-called examination room like, and, I heard that you stuffed two people?" ”

Seeing Ming Xiu's meaningful eyes, Chu Nian raised his eyebrows: "Your Highness, you won't be a taste, right?" ”

Ming Xiu squinted at her: "Yes, loneliness is taste, loneliness is vinegar jar, and you knocked it over." ”

This kind of behavior, which is very different from the cold image on weekdays, made Chu Nian couldn't help but hide her face and chuckle, she shook her head and said: "Tao Jinyan is known to His Highness, and he also said that he wants to make friends with His Highness, but I am afraid that His Highness is busy with business and has no time to pay attention to him; Ye Yuan is a credible person, I have also told His Highness about this, and His Highness has anything else to taste. ”

Hearing this, Ming Xiu hooked the corners of his lips slightly and said, "Lone just doesn't like you to get too close to other men." ”

In the end, he didn't wait for Chu Nian to reply, he turned around and walked towards the examination room, Chu Nian shook his head helplessly, and had to follow.

At this moment, there was silence in the examination room, and the questions that Chen Lao came out were according to the exam questions of previous years, if it was a turn, it would be a little more difficult, although he knew that Tingchuan Changshi had already been secretly arranged by Chu Nian, but he still felt that he should not send a talented and virtuous person to corrupt the territory left by King Muhai.

In the examination room, the scholars were working hard to write, and the old man Chen had nothing to do, so he saw the prince who walked in with Chu Nian, and the wisdom in the prince's eyes at this moment did not hide it at all, which made him a little surprised, but in this way, it also explained why his grandson liked to be with a "fool" prince.

People are not stupid in the first place, and only really smart people know how to pretend to be stupid.

At this time, Chu Nian didn't mean to hide the matter from Chen Lao, Chen Lao was just a little more stubborn, but more wise, if she didn't say it, after a while, Chen Lao would naturally guess Ming Xiu's secret.

Seeing the fleeting stunned in Old Chen's eyes, Ming Xiu nodded with a smile, at this moment, everyone in the examination room was working hard, but no one noticed Chu Nian and Ming Xiu in the corner of the examination room.

Ming Xiu's eyes fell on Tao Jinyan, the only one in the examination room who was biting the pen and looking around, Chu Nian was about to whisper an introduction, when he saw him preemptively say: "That must be the shopkeeper of the Walnut Tavern, but with such a temperament, I really can't imagine that he will be the descendant of the famous Tao family?" ”

Chu Nian smiled helplessly, Tao Jinyan This person, when I first met him, I might think that this person was unfathomable and a wise man, but after getting along for a long time, you will understand that although this person does have some skills, he is definitely not a wise man, at most, he has read more books and understands more truths.

"That's Ye Yuan." Chu Nian's gaze motioned to Ming Xiu, and at this moment Ye Yuan was sitting in the corner, his eyes fell on the exam papers on the table, and his subordinates worked hard to write, his face was calm.

Ming Xiu stared at him for a while, then turned his gaze to Chu Nian again, "Did you see the person next to him?" ”

Chu Nian frowned and looked at Ming Xiu's gaze, and saw a man with a bit of Western Chu's face sitting stiffly in place, motionless.

"What's wrong with that man?"

Rao is Chu Nian has seen a lot of things, and he has never seen anyone who can stay in place for a whole hour without even blinking his eyes.

Ming Xiu smiled meaningfully, "Illusion." ”

Seeing Chu Nian's inquiring gaze, he smiled lightly and motioned for Chu Nian to look at the table legs at the man's feet.

"Look, what's under his feet?" Chu Nian followed his finger and looked over, and saw that the table foot under the man's feet was trembling slightly without being careful, and not far from the table foot, there seemed to be a trace of shallow footprints, which were looming.

That footprint walked almost all the examination rooms, as if a person had read all the candidates' examination papers.

"He used illusions to cover people's eyes and ears in order to cheat."

"King Huainan's people?"

Ming Xiu shook his head and said: "In my opinion, King Huainan will not be so stupid, he should understand that Qinghe is not close to him for no reason, maybe he will rely on Qinghe in major matters, but in this kind of power dispute, he will not arrange Qinghe's people to share a piece of the soup." ”

He may not care about the token that can command the martial arts, and the arrest of Chen Lao before was just to use the martial arts token to order the martial arts, so as to give the queen mother and the Wang family some deterrent, and then usurp the throne, but now that there is an organization of Qinghe, illusion can do more things than people in the martial arts, and there is no need for the king of Huainan to spend this effort to find the token that is missing.

"That's ......," Chu Nian's eyes sank. It seems that Qinghe's ambition is much more than a token. ”

This made Ming Xiu chuckle: "Ambition, how can there be a leader." ”

Qinghe wants to control the Daliang Imperial Court after all, and he will definitely not easily let go of this opportunity to obtain a large piece of territory, and it is estimated that the King of Huainan will not know about it, but Chu Nian wants to know more, now that the martial arts assassin is eyeing Chen Laohu, Qinghe has been found to be interested in Tingchuan, I don't know if there is any connection between them, if there is really such a connection, they want to take advantage of the civil strife in Daliang to control the situation in Daliang, but they are afraid that things will be troublesome.

How could an organization that could be active for a hundred years under the noses of the empresses of the Western Chu dynasties be allowed to be peeped at.

Chu Nian frowned, walked to the wooden table beside Chen Lao, there was a piece of paper on the wooden table, the paper was according to the number of the candidate's seat, and their registered name, Chu Nian followed the table number to find the name of the person who used illusion, and whispered: "Grandpa, who sent this Mo Wen in?" ”

Chen Lao glanced at her sideways before saying, "Didn't you say that the Wang family can also secretly stuff people into the examination room?" Yesterday, Wang Zixuan entrusted the secretary and the attendant to send it in. ”

Chu Nian pursed his lips and walked back to Ming Xiu's side, and Ming Xiu asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Hearing this, Chu Nian looked at Ming Xiu's eyes fixedly: "That person was sent in by the Wang family, although I don't know if it is from Qinghe, but now it is certain that Wang Zixuan and Xi Chu must have dealings." ”

Ming Xiu glanced thoughtfully at the figure that had never moved, and then rubbed his eyebrows and said, "Let's go to Western Chu after a while, if the tentacles of this Qinghe River have spread all over the court of Western Chu, we can only cooperate with the barbarians." ”

"There's no hurry." Chu Nian shook his head, "Wang Zixuan is greedy but not cautious, the Queen Mother is not, Wang Zixuan did not send people in with great fanfare, it seems that the Queen Mother does not know about this, I will go to the palace to visit the Queen Mother tomorrow, if she knows, let's make another plan, if she doesn't know......"

The corners of Chu Nian's mouth raised a meaningful smile, "If she didn't know, then Wang Zixuan's good days would almost come to an end." ”

Ming Xiu raised his eyebrows to look at her, and after a moment, he hooked the corners of his lips without a trace. "Lone just likes your naughty appearance."