"Not only that, if Brother wins the champion, you will definitely have to return to your hometown when the time comes." Zheng Yi said, "It will take at least a month to come and go this time, sister-in-law, are you calculating when to open the restaurant, right?" I think it's better to wait until you return to your hometown before thinking about the restaurant. ”

"Returning home?" Cai Xiaoxiao was stunned and looked at Zhao Kangcheng, "I almost forgot about this." ”

Zhao Kangcheng was accustomed to the two of them discussing the situation after he won the champion, so he calmly changed the topic and asked Cai Xiaoxiao: "Xiaoxiao, will this store continue to close tomorrow?" ”

Cai Xiaoxiao shook his head: "If you continue to open, you will always have to prepare for the restaurant in the future." ”

"Sister-in-law, are you ready for tomorrow's ingredients?" Zheng Yi asked.

"No, it's not too late to prepare after eating later." Cai Xiaoxiao said.

After that, within ten days before the start of the palace examination, Cai Xiaoxiao concentrated on selling breakfast, while Zhao Kangcheng looked at the book intently to prepare for the upcoming palace examination, as for Zheng Yi, who decided not to participate in the palace examination, he began to wander leisurely around the capital, occasionally he would help to see if there was a five-story restaurant that Cai Xiaoxiao needed, but after looking at it for a long time, he did not find a restaurant that satisfied him, although there were also five-story restaurants, but the geographical location was not very good, so Zheng Yi excluded them from the selection.

Soon, on the day of the palace test, Cai Xiaoxiao and Zheng Yi sent Zhao Kangcheng to the gate of the palace.

Cai Xiaoxiao has been to the Forbidden City in Beijing and visited the Forbidden City, so although she was a little shocked when she saw the palace at first sight, Cai Xiaoxiao didn't feel much after that. And Zheng Yi, because he had already visited the capital several times, naturally he had also been near the palace, so he also looked calm at the moment.

At this moment, in front of the palace gate, the top three hundred candidates have gathered one after another.

Because the palace will prepare food, clothing, housing and transportation for the candidates, and the candidates are not allowed to bring a piece of luggage into the palace, so Cai Xiaoxiao did not prepare luggage for Zhao Kangcheng.

Soon, the palace door was opened, and out of it came the guards guarding the door, as well as several eunuchs, who were followed by several guards. The guards stood solemnly in two groups.

One of the eunuchs, led by the eunuchs, shook the dust on his hand and said sharply: "The palace test begins!" The top 300 candidates on the list will pay their name cards and line up to enter the palace! ”

The candidates began to consciously line up in two lines, and Zhao Kangcheng said to Cai Xiaoxiao and the two: "I'm over." ”

Cai Xiaoxiao nodded, then clenched his hands into fists, cheered for Zhao Kangcheng and said, "Come on, Xianggong!" ”

Zhao Kangcheng rubbed Cai Xiaoxiao's head, smiled gently, and then walked towards the team.

Cai Xiaoxiao and Zheng Yi stood in place and watched him hand over the name card to a eunuch for review, and then followed the people in front of him into the palace until there were three hundred candidates, no, it should be said that when all the two hundred and ninety-nine candidates entered the palace, suddenly a eunuch asked in a sharp voice: "Zheng Yi, the seventeenth place on the list!" What about Zheng Yi? ”

Cai Xiaoxiao heard this shout, and looked at Zheng Yi beside him with a narrow face, Zheng Yi turned around silently and whispered to Cai Xiaoxiao: "Sister-in-law, don't say I'm here!" ”

Cai Xiaoxiao spread her hands helplessly, but she still didn't betray Zheng Yi's existence in the end.

Until the time came, Zheng Yi didn't appear, and several eunuchs glanced at each other, then shook their heads and walked into the palace - they probably thought that this person named Zheng Yi had overslept over.

As everyone entered the palace, the palace door was closed - it was said that the palace door would not be opened for three days.

After Cai Xiaoxiao and Zheng Yi watched the palace door close, Cai Xiaoxiao said, "Let's go back." ”

"Hmm."

The two turned around and prepared to go back, but the moment they turned around, they saw Sun Lulu's carriage parked on the side, but they didn't see Sun Lulu's person, and the carriage also turned around at the moment, as if it was preparing to go back.

Cai Xiaoxiao saw it, retracted his gaze, and continued to walk in the direction of going back, Zheng Yi kept watching the carriage leave, and only then did he retract his gaze, and suddenly said, "Does my sister-in-law already know?" ”

"What?" Cai Xiaoxiao, who listened to these brainless words, was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Zheng Yi with a puzzled expression.

"Does the daughter of the left minister have a good impression of her brother?" Zheng Yi's words were astonishing.

"Huh?" Cai Xiaoxiao was a little surprised, she didn't expect Zheng Yi to find out too, "How do you know?" ”

"So, sister-in-law, do you know about this?" Zheng Yi asked rhetorically.

Cai Xiaoxiao nodded: "Yes." But how do you know? She asked again.

"Feeling." Zheng Yi said, "Didn't my sister-in-law say it before, I think that this Sun Lulu approached us for another purpose, but in fact, we don't have anything on us that she can get, so since it's not an object or a person." ”

"That said, she might like you." Cai Xiaoxiao said.

Zheng Yi smiled, waved his hand and said, "Don't, but don't, I feel that it will be a terrible thing to be liked by that woman." ”

What does it feel like? "The other party is a big beauty......" Cai Xiaoxiao said helplessly.

"It could also be a femme fatale." Zheng Yi said.

"Huh?" Cai Xiaoxiao was convinced, "Where did you come up with this strange conclusion?" Could it be that you don't want to like Sun Lulu, so you came to the conclusion that she has a good impression of my father-in-law? ”

"You can say that......" Zheng Yi scratched his cheek and said with an embarrassed smile.

Cai Xiaoxiao: "......"

Zheng Yi: "But the facts show that my instincts are correct, right? Moreover, although the woman is not necessarily a femme fatale, judging from her various behaviors and the scheming behind it, it can be shown that this woman is not simple. ”

Cai Xiaoxiao: "After all, she is the daughter of the left minister." ”

"So how did my sister-in-law know?" Zheng Yi asked.

So Cai Xiaoxiao told Zheng Yi about the process of her previous discovery that Sun Lulu liked Zhao Kangcheng, and after Zheng Yi listened, he praised Cai Xiaoxiao: "I feel that sister-in-law, you have a lot of potential to catch fast!" You can actually infer the other party's intentions from their behavior. ”

"Well, it's a woman's intuition." Cai Xiaoxiao smiled.

"But in this way, sister-in-law, you have to work hard, although I believe that my brother is not interested in that woman, but I also said just now, that woman is not simple, although she has no radical behavior now, but it will be difficult to say after my brother enters the court as an official." Zheng Yi said.

"What do you mean?" Cai Xiaoxiao asked a little incomprehensibly, although she also felt that Sun Lulu should take action later, but she didn't understand what this had to do with Zhao Kangcheng's entry into the court as an official?