Hu Hua watched the old gentleman leave for a moment, and then hurriedly ran towards Chengwang's mansion.

King Cheng was looking at the secret letter reported by the spies, and suddenly heard that Hu Hua had come back again, so he asked someone to let him in.

The sound of thumping footsteps fell on the ground very heavy, enough to let people know that this person had been running for a long time before coming, King Cheng bent the corners of his mouth, put the letter in his hand on the fire and burned it, and then said slowly: "When you left in the morning, you said that you were going to rest recently, why did you come back in such a short time?"

Hu Hua didn't care about etiquette anymore, sat next to King Cheng and hurriedly took a sip of tea, and then said helplessly: "I found a strange scholar in the teahouse today, Xu is related to the elk case, only to find out that the scholar has Gu worms on his body, His Royal Highness has to make plans early, after all, Gu worms are something that cannot be prevented." ”

King Cheng clenched the cup in his hand tightly, and his face instantly became very ugly, "He Sifeng still can't do things?"

Hu Hua was directly stunned by this sentence, and reacted for a while before he said cautiously: "It's not that it's not completely impossible, it's just that his luck has always been bad, I'm afraid it will cause trouble." ”

King Cheng really didn't expect that there would be such a troublesome thing when Han Xiaoxiao, who was useless, left, so he sighed and rubbed his forehead and said: "Now the top priority is the opening of the imperial examination, as for the scholar and the Gu worm, let it go first, and ask the people in the patrol camp to work hard in the near future, as long as there is no major incident in the capital, the rest is naturally to wait for my father to come back." ”

Hu Hua also knew that King Cheng had made a lot of big moves recently, and if he dared to do something again, the emperor might be unhappy, so even if he didn't know the bottom of his heart, he still nodded and didn't say anything.

King Cheng looked at his back and knocked on the table silently, and a man in an ink-colored suit jumped in from the window with agility, knelt on the ground and arched his hand silently.

King Cheng looked at him and his eyes softened a lot, as if he had some confidence in his heart, and asked lightly while drinking tea: "I remember that my father's body is no longer good, how did Concubine Cheng conceive a child?"

The man kneeling on the ground glanced up at King Cheng, and said in a hoarse voice: "The slave doesn't know, it's just that most of this child is not the emperor, Concubine Cheng has already bought the imperial doctor to lie about the month, and now the emperor hasn't noticed it." ”

King Cheng actually still has some feelings for this adoptive mother, and even if he had already guessed it, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

"That's it, you arrange some reliable people to help her secretly, whether this child is the guard or the minister's, you must protect it first, and you must not let your father notice anything wrong. ”

The man in black nodded, arched his hand again, and left through the window.

King Cheng was silent for a long time and didn't make a sound, and a person slowly turned out from behind the screen of jasper and gold wire, and shook his head helplessly at King Cheng's depressed appearance.

"Why bother, Lord Wang, it's not your own brother left and right, just kill it, and you have to take the risk if you make trouble in the palace. ”

King Cheng looked at his delicate wife, his eyes were a little dazed, and he soon returned to his original cold appearance.

"After all, she is my adoptive mother, and she saved me from many crises when I was young, as long as this child can survive, I should take some responsibility, and I can be regarded as repaying her for many years of upbringing. ”

Princess Cheng always felt that something was wrong with this matter, but she had no evidence, and she could only secretly remind when she heard the words: "This palace is heavily guarded, and it is really not certain whose child it is, in case this child is the prince's, or the prime minister's, Your Highness, you are in danger now." ”

King Cheng glanced at her with a frown and a warning look, then turned around and pushed open the window that was hidden on one side.

"I don't want to hear these words in the future, she is my mother now, even if you don't like it, you have to be respectful, otherwise you don't have to do this position. ”

Princess Cheng was kind enough to remind her husband to be careful of this adoptive mother with wrong intentions, but she didn't expect to get such a sentence, and she was a little chilled for a while, so she didn't want to say anything more, nodded and made tea honestly on the side.

The two of them were silent for a while, and King Cheng listened impatiently to the sound and shadow of the tea cup collision, and was just about to say something, when he heard the voice of the guard outside the door whispering: "The Prime Minister asked to see him, saying that the imperial examination list has come out, and he invited His Highness to post it together." ”

If it is usual that King Cheng is not interested in such a thing, after all, most of the people under King Cheng are military generals, and he can't get involved with these civil officials at all, but this year is different, not to mention that Zhang Lang, who is expected to become the champion, is his own person, and many students are interested in being loyal to him, if he doesn't go, it will chill the hearts of these people.

Thinking of this, King Cheng held Concubine Cheng's hand and said lightly to the door: "This king knows, you go and tell the prime minister to wait for a while, and this king will be there in a while." ”

Princess Cheng is rarely so close to King Cheng even if she is ordinary, let alone in the study, so she is very uncomfortable and wants to break free.

King Cheng actually didn't mean anything else, but he just wanted Princess Cheng not to make a sound first, so he didn't think much about it, and comforted himself: "You have been paying attention to this mansion recently, I heard that there are more Gu worms in the capital, you pay attention to your own safety." ”

Princess Cheng was a pampered eldest lady in the capital, and she had never seen any foreign men, so King Cheng softened a little, she forgot all the unhappiness of Fang Cai, nodded again and again, and said happily: "You can rest assured, I learned a lot of ways to prevent Gu poison in the original time, and it is not difficult to use it in the house now." ”

King Cheng nodded, and hurriedly walked outside, leaving Princess Cheng with a happy expression in the same place and didn't know what to think.

The prime minister looked at King Cheng who was getting closer and closer with an ugly face, and sighed silently before he greeted him: "Weichen doesn't dare to make his own opinions, and asks His Royal Highness to post the list in person." ”

Because today is the day of the list, there were many people waiting anxiously in the nearby teahouse tavern early, and they all looked at King Cheng with burning eyes when they heard the words.

When King Cheng turned out, he disdained these readers the most, because he always felt that it was useless for these readers to be unable to lift their shoulders and not resist at all, and at this time, being stared at by so many people at the same time, Rao was that he couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable after seeing too many big scenes.

Even if the prime minister was unwilling, he had to hand this good opportunity to win over the students to King Cheng.