"Mother...... Mother Concubine ......" Sima Rong looked at Fang Guifei's increasingly cruel expression, and couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive in his heart.

Concubine Fang knew that she had frightened the emperor, and hurriedly restored her usual motherly face.

"What a sister-in-law, it's just that he took the shit luck and was recorded in the queen's name." Seeing that Sima Rong was still a little worried, Fang Guifei said again: "Even if you have the confidence of your sister-in-law, you have been in business for many years, which is Sima Jin's chase." ”

When Sima Rong heard this, he instantly relieved his heart. He arched his hand towards Concubine Fang, "What the concubine said is that it is the son of the demon who is stunned." ”

Fang Guifei hurriedly helped him up and let him sit beside her.

She patted Sima Rong's hand and said, "Besides, the heir is not only about the prince's ability, but also about the power of the prince's mother. No matter how noble the queen is, the Mansion of Zheng Guo is declining, where can it be compared with the Marquis of Dingyuan? ”

Speaking of the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion, Sima Rong frowned again, "Mother, uncle...... Do you have any opinions on your sons? ”

Concubine Fang Guifei has been in the deep palace all the year round, so she naturally doesn't know what is happening outside the palace. But since Sima Rong has already said so, it means that there is indeed a problem on his brother's side.

She thought for a while and said, "Broken bones and tendons, everyone is blood relative, how can your uncle have any opinion on you." ”

"But ......"

"Xu is a matter of Brother Huan'er recently, brother, he is sad in his heart, and he neglected you for a while. Don't take it to heart. Speaking of this, Concubine Fang paused for a moment, and then proposed: "That's it, another day, I will invite my sister-in-law to sit in the palace and ask about the situation, which can be regarded as calming your heart." ”

Sima Rong was overjoyed, and hurriedly saluted: "Then thank you concubine!" ”

Fang Guifei smiled, and pulled Sima Rong back to her side. While clapping his hands, he spoke earnestly.

"Emperor, the second half of the concubine's life is pointing at you."

Sima Rong held Fang Guifei's hand, "Don't worry, your son-in-law will live up to your mother's expectations!" ”

……

In the palace on the outskirts of the city, Chu Ye and Sima Jin naturally had no way of knowing the multi-party game in the palace. The two of them put the gadgets they had collected from all over the country on the ground and let Chu Shan pick them up.

"Xiao Yezi, this time when I return to Beijing, my father will have a heavy reward, but I'm afraid this is not enough to compete with my two imperial brothers."

Chu Shan picked the Luban lock and handed it to Chu Ye's hand, and Chu Ye replied while breaking it: "That's nature." His Royal Highness's reputation is very poor, and if he wants to ask for the allegiance of the family as soon as possible, it is simply a fantasy. It's better to think of more ways to make those families who were originally attached to the eldest prince and the fifth prince feel that these two people are not worth their dedication to come quickly. ”

With a "click", the Luban lock was divided into several wooden pieces and lay quietly in Chu Ye's hands.

Chu Shan looked at Chu Ye with a look of adoration, Chu Ye was proud to be stared at by her, and skillfully put the Luban lock back. It attracted a burst of worship from Chu Shan.

"What you said is a solution," Sima Jin was unwilling, picked up a nine-link from the ground, and then fiddled with it, "It's just easy to say, but it's not easy to do." Those families have already chosen their lords to serve, and they must have thought about how you can make them lose faith in their lords. ”

As soon as Sima Jin's words fell, the nine rings in his hand opened in response. It attracted Chu Shan's adoring eyes again.

"Pull a hair and move the whole body," Chu Ye put the Luban lock in his hand on the table, "Most of these families are interlocking, maybe whoever is with whom is the in-law who can't be found, as long as one moves, it will inevitably cause a backlash from other families." But the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, which is also the truth......"

Sima Jin put the nine links back again, and couldn't help but light up after listening to Chu Ye's words. "You mean ......"

"Yes, the exam is coming, and the candidates who are rushing to take the exam in this course should almost arrive in the imperial capital."

"The imperial examination has been around for a long time, and the corruption paralysis during the examination period is also a chronic disease." Sima Jin snorted coldly, "There are a few families in the imperial capital that are clean. ”

Chu Ye looked to the west—that was the direction of the imperial capital—and the huge sun was slowly setting, and the sun was sinking in the west, which was an unchangeable fact.

"If the news is correct, I'm afraid that the chief examiner of this subject is Song Guolao."

This old man of the Song Kingdom is not a small imperial history like Song Hanfei. The two just happened to have the same surname and had nothing to do with each other. This old man was highly used when the first emperor was in power, and after succeeding to the throne today, several admonitions of the old man of Song also played a big role. Therefore, Jinshang specially gave him to live in the palace, and also set aside a palace for him and gave him the name Ink Garden. This old man does not take sides, does not choose the lord, and only serves the emperor. This also made Imajo trust him very much.

In today's court, two powerful princes are taking the throne, and using this old man of the two dynasties as the main test is probably also the result of the emperor's considerations.

However, it is a pity that there is only one Song Guolao, and he is the chief examiner, but there are still ten deputy examiners left?

With a person like Song Guolao, it is already difficult to find one, let alone find ten?!

"What are you going to do?" Sima Jin couldn't help asking. It's not that he doesn't have no arrangements, it's just that he's really curious about how Chu Ye will lay out this game.

Chu Ye glanced at him and said disdainfully: "Didn't you already find Jiang Shangshu, Chen Shilang and Shen Ge Lao?" ”

Sima Jin tugged at the corners of his mouth a little embarrassed, "You know this?" ”

Chu Ye glanced at him, "You have to have your own people, but you can't be too obvious." Whether it is the Jiang family, the Chen family or the Shen family. Their relationship on the surface is either closer to the eldest prince or closer to the fifth prince. But in fact, they all have an in-law relationship with the Zheng Guo Mansion. The Zheng Guo Mansion is not as good as in the past, but as long as the surname Zheng in the middle palace is one day, the Zheng Guo Mansion will definitely stand! ”

Sima Jinle smirked.

"Little leaf, little leaf, I really picked up the baby! Still a big baby! ”

Alas!

Chu Ye looked at him like this, and sighed in his heart. She sometimes wonders if Sima Jin is Sima Jin or not. How is it that sometimes she is ashamed of herself, and sometimes she is naïve and terrible?

She glanced at the nine-link in Sima Jin's hand, and felt that she was actually on a thief ship all the time.

On the third day of the second lunar month, a group of people who had stayed in the palace on the outskirts of the city for two days finally entered the imperial city. The emperor personally went up to the city tower to seam for a group of people and horses, and then Sun Tingyu read out the holy decree.

Sima Jin was officially promoted from a little prince to the king of Xiangjun, and his fief was Xiangzhou. Chu Ye also became the secretary of the Ministry of Rites from the Ministry of Rites, and officially entered the center of the Six Ministries. As for the two unlucky deputy envoys, they also won the title of Jin Feng, but they didn't suffer a loss.

The first thing he did when he returned to the imperial capital was to take Chu Shan's little girl into the palace to meet the queen.

The queen wore a royal blue embroidered crane skirt today, with a red circle and a golden horse face underneath. Wearing a nine-feather phoenix hairpin, even the makeup is a little more exquisite. She rarely wears such a bright color, but if her longing son returns to Beijing today, it is naturally impossible for her to wear plain clothes to meet her on such a happy day.

It's just that when she saw Chu Shan, a little girl who was less than five years old, Rao was used to seeing many big scenes, and the queen couldn't help but be stunned.

She pulled Sima Jin to her side, frowned, and asked in a low voice, "What are you...... Kids outside? ”

Although Sima Jin has always claimed that Chu Shan is his illegitimate daughter, he was still a little embarrassed when the queen mother asked like this.

"Queen Mother, is this the image of Erchen in your eyes?"

In this case, this child is not his illegitimate daughter!

The queen was also relieved. For the queen, it is not difficult to understand that Sima Jin has a child. Sima Jin was close to the end of the day, but there was still no one in the room. You must know that the eldest prince has even the eldest son at his age! She was just afraid that her emperor would be deceived by a thoughtful woman, so she left a handle for nothing.

If Sima Jin knew what the queen was thinking, he might be happy. After all, the "thoughtful woman" in the queen's heart is Chu Ye, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites above the court, Lord Chu!

Others don't know, but when he was in Fenghua City, when he helped Chu Ye take medicine, he saw it clearly.

The white one wrapped around his chest is not deliberately concealing the fact that he is a woman!

Sima Jin couldn't help but recall the way Chu Ye was talking in front of him.

"What Your Highness needs is a lonely minister. No matter how many staff members His Highness has, they will have a selfish heart while helping His Highness, they all have parents to be filial to, and wives and children to support. No matter how loyal a strategist is, he can't escape the family's favors. But Chu Ye is different, Chu Ye has no parents, no wife and children, no home and no room, alone, without any worries. Isn't His Highness more handy to use such a person? She said this with a confident smile on her face. It was as if when he said the first word, he knew that he would definitely agree to her conditions.

And he did. Not because of her "worry-free tone", but because he simply wanted to see if Chu Ye was really as useful as he said.

He didn't expect that Chu Ye was really a useful advisor, and for her, he felt a little different from his subordinates - even though he said that he regarded Chu Ye as a friend from the beginning, they both understood that these two words represented nothing more than the lord's polite words to the strategist.

Thinking of Chu Ye, Sima Jin's cheeks couldn't help but turn red.

The queen looked at her royal son's blushing appearance, and a smile gradually appeared on her face. It seems that their Xiaoqi already has a heart, and they don't know that it is the girl. Outsiders have rumored that her little seven are unbearable. But in her eyes, her Xiaoqi is very filial to her, but she is still young and simple-minded. But after all, she has a noble status and is the royal concubine, she is worried that this stupid boy in her family has been sold, and she has to help others count the money!

Thinking of this, the queen patted Sima Jin's hand again seriously, "Look at your Sichun look, tell the queen mother which girl it is!" "The queen mother can also help you check the gates. Of course, the queen did not say the second half of the sentence.

Sima Jin's face was embarrassed, Chu Ye was now showing people in men's clothes, so naturally he couldn't really bring her into the palace to show the queen, let alone expose her identity as a daughter. If Chu Ye's men's dress is just for casual fun, it is okay, but now she is a second-class member of the imperial court, if it is revealed that she is actually a daughter, the best end will be to be punished for the crime of bullying the king!

Sima Jin was about to make up a random reason and vaguely passed, but suddenly heard the sharp voice of the small yellow door outside-

"The emperor has arrived—"