The proprietress was busy preparing food for Wang Xiaolai and others in the back kitchen, and when she was panting tired and felt that her hands were not enough, the shopkeeper came in from outside, holding a tray in her hand, and looked depressed.

The proprietress didn't raise her head: "Hurry up, take a hand, don't be stunned." ”

The shout fell, and there was no movement, and the proprietress was stunned for a moment, so she turned her head to look.

I saw that the shopkeeper was grief-stricken, and tears were about to flow out.

"Dumbfounded, what's wrong with you?" The proprietress couldn't help but ask.

The little two cried and cried, and howled in a loud voice: "Shopkeeper, I'm out of love." ”

Hostess: "??? ”

Putting down the spatula in her hand, the proprietress walked towards the little two, came to the front, comforted the fifteen or sixteen-year-old child, and said, "Don't cry, don't cry, what's wrong." ”

Xiao Er pointed to the outside and said, "The female guest on the second floor is known to the new group of officers and soldiers, and she also calls the leader of the officers and soldiers." ”

Hostess: "···"

"What else should I do, you kid, go and work, the food for so many people is enough for us to be busy." The proprietress said.

The shopkeeper was reluctant.

The proprietress sneered: "Come on, the guest on the second floor looks so fierce, it's not something you kid can live in at all, you hurry up and get busy, and when I save enough money for you, I'll go to Cuihua to propose, what's the matter?" ”

The shopkeeper's eyes lit up suddenly when he heard this: "Really? ”

The proprietress said, "When did I lie to you, hurry up." ”

"Alas, Howler." agreed, the child's mood, came quickly, went quickly, hurriedly rolled up his sleeves, and was busy in the back kitchen.

···

In the front hall of the inn, Wang Xiaolai found a place for Shu Jiuchai to sit next to him, and asked her, "Jiuchai, has the paper mill been completed, why are you here?" ”

Shu Jiuchai, who has always been straight and has a big grin, showed an unprecedentedly shy smile and said: "Master, the paper mill was completed a month ago, and His Majesty has already sent someone to prepare the necessary equipment, I can't help much, so I want to wait on this official road, so that I can receive the master as soon as possible." ”

Shen Xiping next to him sighed, and said to the side of him: "Look, if this adult doesn't come back, can he do it?" ”

When he heard this, he laughed.

Immediately after, he hurriedly dodged, and then Shen Xiping's face had an extra plate.

“···”

Speechless for a while, Wang Xiaolai pursed his lips: "Yes, let you talk more." ”

There was a burst of laughter.

Everyone chatted about the interesting things that had happened in the past few days, and Wang Xiaolai even asked if anything had happened in Daxing City during his absence.

Although Shu Jiuchai stayed in the refugee resettlement center, she had also heard some news from the mouths of Daxingcheng businessmen who came to the refugee resettlement place to do business.

"It's not a big deal, it's just that the past few months have been a matter of Enke's ceremony, and one of them came to participate in Enke's call Feng Qingyun's lift, do you still know your lord?" Shu Jiuchai said.

Wang Xiaolai thought for a while, then nodded, and then asked uncertainly: "You mean the wind and clouds at the foot of Feilong Mountain?" ”

Shu Jiuchai said: "Well, it's him." ”

"What's wrong with him, he can't be a high school champion, right?"

"No, it's not, this Enke ceremony, the winners are all northern students, especially more in Qingzhou, although Feng Qingyun is also among the northern students, but he seems to have committed something and was locked up in prison, and he will be beheaded in a few days." Shu Jiuchai said while thinking.

"My lord, who is Feng Qingyun?" Shen Xiping asked.

"A friend." Wang Xiaolai said lightly.

Saying that, he lowered his head and pondered, it stands to reason that Feng Qingyun is a talent, and the empress should notice him, but why is the empress, who is now in urgent need of talents to fill the strength of her subordinates, watch Feng Qingyun about to ask for beheading?

Moreover, in the Enke Ceremony, all the winners are students from the north, what is this? Mocking Sui Yang is only half of the country in the north?

It is not difficult for Wang Xiaolai to imagine how impatient and angry the empress was at this time.

Yes, it's really not the right time for me to come back, why did I pick on the current point.

Shaking his head and throwing out all the thoughts in his heart, Wang Xiaolai lifted the chopsticks and said, "Come on, come on, eat all, eat all." ”

When everyone saw this, they all moved their mouths.

Eating and drinking aside, let's turn the camera to Daxing City.

···

On the steps in front of the door of the imperial study, the empress sat on it, resting her arms on her knees, and looked straight ahead in a daze.

Narcissus came over with the food and said softly, "Your Majesty, you can eat something." ”

The empress shook her head: "I'm not hungry." ”

"But you can't stop eating." Narcissus is helpless.

The empress pointed to the open space in front of her with her chin: "Put it there first, and I'll eat it later." ”

Narcissus looked at the blank ground, and the food delivered at noon had already cooled.

With a sigh, he took the cold food away, put the new food in his hand on the ground, and turned to walk down.

She was about a hundred and ten paces away, looking back behind her as she went.

Suddenly, I accidentally bumped into someone.

"Narcissus, what's wrong with you?"

Zhao Liwen's voice fell into Narcissus's ears, and she hurriedly saluted in a panic: "I've seen Zhao Weng." ”

"Girl, get up, let's not do this."

As Zhao Liwen spoke, he helped Narcissus up, glanced at the cold food in her hand, hissed, and said, "Your Majesty hasn't eaten yet?" ”

Narcissus nodded: "It's been a day." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Liwen frowned: "I'll go and talk to Your Majesty." ”

As he spoke, he walked towards the door of the imperial study.

When I arrived, I saw the empress sitting on the steps as if she had lost her soul, and she didn't have the appearance of the emperor in the past, and she couldn't help but sigh and feel love.

He Zhao Liwen has watched the empress grow up from childhood to adulthood, in the past 19 years, she has always been an empress who is in danger of dealing with major things, how can she have such an appearance?

"Your Majesty..."

Zhao Liwen let out a long shout.

The empress looked up dumbfoundedly when she heard the voice, and let out a blank sound.

"Zhao Weng, it's you."

Whether it was Emperor Xuan, the first emperor, or the empress, they were all very polite to Zhao Liwen, and when they saw Zhao Liwen, the empress was about to get up with her hands on her knees.

However, she was hungry for a day, and sat for a long time, and when she got up, her body shook, and she almost didn't stand still.

Fortunately, Zhao Liwen was quick and caught up with the empress.

"Your Majesty, you're all like this, eat something."

The empress smiled and waved her hand: "Forget Zhao Weng, I don't have much appetite now." ”

"Is Your Majesty worried about the matter of the Enko Ceremony?"

The empress snorted: "The day after tomorrow is the day when the Enke ceremony will be opened, and I will also announce this Enke champion in front of all the students, but Zhao Weng, in this situation, how can I announce it?" ”

When Zhao Liwen heard the empress's words, he also sighed.

The expression on the empress's face was very unkind: "In the huge Suiyang Imperial Court, there are only northern students on the list, what, is this mocking me for only deserving of half of the country?" If I really dare to announce it the day after tomorrow, Zhao Weng, when the time comes, not to mention those southern students, how will the people of the world view me? What do the people of the south think of me? ”

Zhao Liwen pondered for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, the old slave thinks that this matter, could it be that someone is deliberately making it bad?" ”

The empress put her hand behind her back: "Yes, there must be, I have specially checked, on the day of Enke, there were several high-profile southern students who encountered problems to a greater or lesser extent, either their heads were unconscious after a hangover, or they ate the wrong food and made a stomach, and there were even women who missed the exam time with their belly pillows at night, this kind of problem, in the northern students, has not happened at all." ”

"Who would dare to be so bold and have the audacity to meddle in the affairs of the Enko Ceremony?"

The empress shook her head: "I don't know, but I think it should be the group of people from the Qingzhou Party, but there is no evidence, so it's not good to move them, after all, the matter of the Enke Ceremony is right in front of me, and I should focus on this." ”

Zhao Liwen said: "Didn't Your Majesty interrogate those examiners?" ”

"I asked Narcissus to investigate, including Liu Xiangguo, all of them acted according to the rules, and there was no mistake, but those who were capable among the southern students were all solved by others, and the remaining batch of stinky fish and rotten shrimp were useless at all, and there was no one who could be included in the list."

The more the empress spoke, the more angry she became, and in the end, she kicked over the food on the ground, but after kicking it over, she was distressed.