Chapter 18 Red Powder

Ningci Palace

Lan Ruoxuan followed Concubine Qiong to accompany the inventory of the objects in the Queen Mother's palace. The status of the Queen Mother is precious, if there are fakes in the Ningci Palace, it will be a big joke in the world, for this up and down, all the things in the Queen Mother's Palace must be counted, it is not a difficult thing to do, there is a maid and a grandmother to do it, but Lan Ruoxuan kept an eye on it and pulled Concubine Qiong to Ningci Palace together.

"Lan girl, why are you here-" Seeing Concubine Qiong on the side, the smile in the Queen Mother's eyes faded a little.

Lan Ruoxuan saluted and said, "Sister Qiong said that she misunderstood the queen a few days ago, which made everyone unhappy, and she wanted to make amends to the queen mother." ”

The Queen Mother glanced at Concubine Qiong: "There is no need to make amends, just be vigilant in the future." ”

Lan Ruoxuan was slightly stunned, and then said: "Sister Qiong is timid, don't scare her, Queen Mother." ”

The Queen Mother was slightly stunned: "Girl Lan, are you talking to her so cleanly today?" ”

Concubine Qiong frowned slightly, why did Lan Ruoxuan help herself so much today?

Lan Ruoxuan said: "Queen Mother, you don't know, Senior Sister is the queen, Sister Qiong dared to question Senior Sister that day, so there will be today's situation, otherwise the royal utensils will fall, and I don't know how much face to lose, although Sister Qiong misunderstood the senior sister, but I admire Sister Qiong's courage to dare to reveal." I hit her off at first sight. After speaking, she took Concubine Qiong's hand, which seemed to be a deep sisterhood, but a sly dark light flashed in her eyes.

The Queen Mother also made some sense when she heard it, although this Qiong Concubine made herself faceless in front of Kou Shu, but in the end, it was also out of sincerity, and she looked a little better on Qiong Concubine's face. Concubine Qiong was in the fog of this cloud, cooperated with Lan Ruoxuan and the Queen Mother to eat and talk, and pondered carefully on the way back to the palace.

Today's appearance is very strange, and Concubine Qiong has only reacted now. Lan Ruoxuan saw herself and Kou Shu getting close before, and suspected that she was the grass on the wall from the left and right, so she deliberately dragged herself to play such and such a play in front of the Queen Mother.

What I did today is clearly on Lan Ruoxuan's side, and it is impossible to turn my back on her in the future. Thinking of this, Concubine Qiong couldn't help but smile bitterly, who is Kou Shu's biggest enemy, and who is her biggest friend. Except for Lan Ruoxuan, she had no other choice.

Thinking of Kou Shu, Concubine Qiong couldn't help but grit her teeth, her originally soft and gentle facial features revealed a different hideous and terrifying face.

Song Jinyan has been busy investigating the replaced fakes in the palace for the past few days, and he has been busy until late at night.

Until today, there have been more than 100 palace artifacts that have been reported by various palaces that are suspected of being replaced. This matter is not trivial, and Song Jinyan is anxious about it.

Originally, I thought that someone had stolen the drawings and made a fake to circulate among the people, but I didn't think that someone was indeed Li Dai Taozhuang, and exchanged the fake for the real thing, and changed all the utensils in the palace.

As a son of heaven, it is a great shame for such a thing to happen. But Song Jinyan didn't understand what kind of person was going to work hard to do such a thing.

"Your Majesty, Dali Siqing asks to see you." Father-in-law Su came to report in a timely manner.

"Xuan."

"I've seen the emperor."

Song Jinyan waved his hand to show that there was no need to be polite, and went straight to the point: "Yanqing, how is the investigation going?" ”

Yan Xu raised his face and replied: "Your Majesty, Dali Temple has investigated all the calcination workshops and venues in the capital and its surroundings along the craftsmanship and forging skills of all the utensils, and there is only one place, which is very suspicious. ”

A light flashed in Song Jinyan's eyes: "Go on." ”

"Ordinary calcination field, calcination because it is very hot, calcination occasions are arranged in the open air ventilation place to facilitate cooling, and in the process of searching, we found this calcination place, and all the calciners are all placed indoors, indoor air is dirty, difficult to circulate, more importantly, there are more than ten calcined yuan tablets found in the place, it is very puzzling."

Ordinary calcination workshops, because most of the calcination is the same shaped utensil, such as a workshop specializing in calcining cups, plates and dishes, will only leave the calcination pieces of cups, plates and dishes, and the general calcination workshop will only keep one or two calcined pieces, and the larger calcination bureau will have four or five types of calcined pieces. And there are more than a dozen workshops for calcining yuan pieces, which is indeed unheard of.

Song Jinyan asked, "What have you found?" ”

Yan Xu's face flashed with a hint of emptiness: "When the ministers arrived, the building was already empty, but there was some red powder left on the table." There is something peculiar about it. Wechen has already brought it back. ”

When Gonggong Su heard this, he immediately understood, and stepped forward and handed over a tray.

Gently lifting the bright yellow silk on the tray, Song Jinyan's eyes were obviously frozen for a while, and then he waved his hand: "Continue to investigate, report anything at any time." ”

When Yan Xu heard this, he immediately knelt down.

Father-in-law Su just wanted to step forward and remove the tea on the table, but Song Jinyan waved his hand and motioned for him to step back as well.

When the room was empty, Song Jinyan lifted the silk on the tray again. Looking at what was up there was a bit of a distraction. After a long time, he suddenly said, "It's this, right?" ”

In the room that was originally empty, there was a ghostly figure standing in black clothes.

He glanced at the things on the tray, bowed his head and said, "Back to the master, this is it." ”

"Before Kou Yunwu died, the red powder found in the prison, is this it?" Song Jinyan asked in a low voice.

"That's right, the subordinates went to the prison to explore for the first time that day, but they found nothing, but they saw an abnormal red powder in the corner of the wall, the powder has a special color, and the subordinates can distinguish it at a glance."

Originally, Zuo was just someone who was motivated by the desire for profit to change the sky and change a large number of treasures in his palace, so it seems that what the people behind this want is definitely not as simple as money.

Song Jinyan frowned: "You let Yan Yi and you investigate this matter together." Don't act rashly. ”

The black figure trembled: "Master, are you going to activate the Tianyan Pavilion?" ”

Song Jinyan nodded slightly: "This matter should not be underestimated." ”

The figure froze, and replied neatly: "Yes!" ”

Outside the Imperial City

A man in a purple robe stood with his hands behind his back, and he could still feel the breath of the superior through his back.

"Song Jinyan should be anxious by now, right?" The purple-robed man sneered.

The man in red on the side smiled slightly: "This is also expected." ”

"What's next?" The purple-robed man's voice was unwavering.

"I heard that Song Jinyan's harem is not peaceful now. It's better to start with the harem. There was a hint of playfulness in the red-clothed man's voice, "Don't you have a younger sister in the palace?" ”

"Well, it's about the same time." The purple-robed man said.

The man in red smiled: "I'm afraid that your sister will be so shocked that she can't speak when she sees you." ”

"Hmph-" The purple-robed man snorted coldly, and immediately performed a light skill, disappearing from the red-robed man's field of vision in a moment.

Chapter 19 Diziyanyuan

A gust of wind blew along the palace wall, disturbing a piece of grass, it was a warm spring day, and people couldn't help but feel a little chilly. The man in red stood for a moment and muttered, "This day is about to change. ”

Day 2.

Sui Yuanzhou took the letter of recommendation given to him by Kou Shu, hesitated outside the Hanlin Academy, and a swift sound of horses' hooves came from not far away. Sui Yuanzhou couldn't help but be taken aback, and when he looked back, several fast horses kicked up dust in the sky, causing the surrounding people to cough again and again. The men on horseback looked arrogant, with arrogant smiles in their eyes.

Before Sui Yuanzhou could react, one of the horses raised his hooves, rampaged, and galloped towards him very fast, and was almost about to trample his distance, and was strangled by the man on the horse. The man glanced at Sui Yuanzhou with interest, and said sarcastically: "It's the poor ghost collected by the Hanlin Academy again?" ”

In order to ensure fairness and accommodate different points of view, the Academy admits a certain percentage of children from poor families every year.

Sui Yuanzhou dressed casually, and Xue Zheng subconsciously felt that Sui Yuanzhou was also an annoying scholar.

"Xue Shao, don't worry about this kind of miscellaneous fish, such a miscellaneous fish is at best entering the Huangziyan Academy. At most, I will enter the Xuanzi Academy. We, Xue Shao, are the ones who want to enter the Tianziyan Academy and point out major national affairs. We're going to deal with people like that. ”

Xue Zheng heard the people behind him slapping the horse, his heart suddenly felt a lot more comfortable, he snorted coldly, and walked past Sui Yuanzhou towards the Hanlin Courtyard.

Sui Yuanzhou sighed secretly in his heart and walked in.

"Good, goodβ€”I see what the queen mean. You can enter the Diziyan Temple. Yu Daishan, the dean of the Hanlin Academy, swept the letter brought by Sui Yuanzhou at a glance and spoke.

Hanlin Yuan under the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Four Yan Yuan, the Tianzi is the best, the earth word is second, and finally the Huangzi Yan Yuan, when entering the hospital, everyone will write a speech according to the requirements, and then the officials will judge the Yan Yuan according to their literary style, intentions, etc. Having said that, most people are in the Huangzi or Xuanzi Yanyuan when they first enter, and only through the annual essay examination can they be promoted to the Tianzi or Dizi Yanyuan.

Sui Yuanzhou was shocked in his heart, and bowed respectfully: "With more love from the dean, Yuanzhou will definitely study and think hard in the future and live up to the dean's trust." ”

Yu Daishan smiled slightly, the please, of his old friend's daughter, how could he not obey, he just wanted to say something, but he heard a noise outside the door, "Let me in, let me in-"

Yu Daishan couldn't help frowning, and called the scholar: "What happened?" ”

The little scholar wore his hair in a short bun, and his voice was crisp: "It's the young master of the Xue family, who is new to report today, and he is very dissatisfied with the Yan Yuan you arranged for him, and he is shouting outside the door to see you." ”

Without waiting for Yu Daishan's words to fall, the door was slammed open with a "bang-" sound, and I saw Xue Zheng break into the door with an angry face: "Dean, you give me an explanation, why can't I enter the Tianziyan Academy?" I don't want to go to such a literal courtyard! ”

Yu Daishan frowned slightly: "Xue Xue, the Tianzi Yan Academy is the highest Yan Academy of the Hanlin Academy, since its establishment, they have all entered the Yan Academy through the annual essay examination, and there has never been an exceptional admission, besides, you have just been admitted to the hospital and have not submitted any opinion articles, how can I put you in the Tianzi Yan Academy!" ”

"I don't care about anything else - I'm here to negotiate with people of insight who are full of wealth and sweat, and talk about the world's major events related to the national economy and people's livelihood, only the people of Tianziyan Academy are worthy of me, I must go to Tianziyan Academy today." As soon as the words changed, Xue Zheng sneered and said, "Do you know who my sister is?" My sister is the concubine in the palace, and she is even closer to Concubine Lan like a sister. If you offend me, you will offend Concubine Lan, how dare you! ”

Xue Zheng's eyebrows raised sharply, and his tone exuded a burst of fierceness.

But he didn't expect Yu Daishan to be a soft persimmon, so he took out the letter of recommendation brought by Sui Yuanzhou, his face sank, and his tone was not good: "You see clearly, this Sui Xue is recommended by the queen's mother, there is a letter as evidence, and I also placed him in the Diziyan Academy," glancing at Xue Zheng, whose face changed slightly, Yu Daishan continued: "Putting you in the Diziyan Courtyard has already given you enough face, if you don't know how to lift it again, the Hanlin Academy is afraid that the temple will be small and will not be able to accommodate your big Buddha!" After that, Yu Daishan waved his sleeves vigorously, and there was an indescribable momentum. He has been the dean of the Hanlin Academy for so many years, and no one has ever been so arrogant, let alone such a yellow-haired boy.

Seeing the queen's mother's recommendation, Xue Zheng couldn't help but tremble suddenly, he had always been domineering outside, but he didn't expect to encounter such an iron plate today, if he really couldn't enter the Hanlin Academy, I am afraid there would be no good fruit to eat. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but soften, but he still said stubbornly: "Since you say that, I'll reluctantly stay in the ground for a while." ”

After speaking, Xue Zheng seemed to remember something, looked Sui Yuanzhou on the side up and down, and showed an unbelievable look: "Who are you?" There is actually a letter of recommendation written by the queen's mother. ”

Sui Yuanzhou turned his head away, as if he hadn't heard anything. Straight out the door.

Before Sui Yuanzhou had gone far, he heard a commotion behind him, and couldn't help frowning-I don't know how many times I had heard this voice today.

"Liu Sheng, what kind of thing are you, you dare to hit Uncle Ben!" Xue Zheng raised his voice, raised his eyebrows, and said sharply.

Sui Yuanzhou turned around, only to see the student named Liu Sheng huddled aside and trembled: "Xue Xue, I didn't mean to-"

Xue Zheng was assigned to the ground character class on the first day of class today. was ridiculed by the dean again, and there was already a lot of anger hidden in his heart, and when he heard Liu Sheng say this, he was even more angry, and raised his foot and kicked straight at Liu Sheng's stomach: "Xue Xue is also your name?" β€”"

"Xue Zheng, what are you crazy about!" Sui Yuanzhou was dissatisfied, turned his head and shouted.

Seeing Sui Yuanzhou, Xue Zheng remembered that there seemed to be a queen mother behind the other party, and he couldn't help but feel a little afraid, and his arrogance suddenly became a lot smaller: "I don't need you to care what I do." ”

Sui Yuanzhou stepped forward, helped Liu Sheng up, and said softly: "Today is about to start class, you can go quickly." ”

That Liu Sheng couldn't help but tremble when he saw the nobles helping, and secretly glanced at Xue Zheng again, seeing Xue Zheng snorting coldly, knowing that he had escaped, after throwing a grateful look at Sui Yuanzhou, he ran away without looking back.

Students can express their opinions and discuss with each other, and at the end of the day, everyone has to express their opinions. Students with unique insights will be rewarded in a different way. The rules of the Yan Yuan are strict, as soon as the time comes, the door will be closed and no one will be allowed to enter, as soon as he heard that the time is almost up, Xue Zheng is not entangled, and he will run to the Dizi Yan Yuan as soon as he slips away.

"Hmphβ€”it's just a straw bale."

Sui Yuanzhou tilted his head and saw a man wearing a dark brocade robe that was a little old, with a serpentine bow-shaped jade pendant around his waist, but the color of the jade was average: "But there is a sister who is a concubine in the palace, and the dog's tail is up to the sky." ”