Hearing this, the crowd who were about to leave looked out.

I saw that the sky, which had been clear just now, suddenly had a few more dark clouds.

Those dark clouds surged over the capital as if they were rushing to gather.

And the dark clouds are getting thicker and thicker, and gradually turning into a black oppressive patch.

Darkness envelops the entire capital!

"Boom!"

A deafening roar of thunder rang out in the sky.

Then a brilliant bolt of lightning pierced the sky, casting a layer of brilliance on the black and oppressive sky.

"Dah."

"Smack."

"Whoa."

At first, it was a small rain, then a bean-sized string of rain, and finally a torrential rain connected into a rain curtain in the air, moistening this long-drought land.

Seeing this scene, Emperor Jianyuan couldn't sit still.

He walked directly to His Highness and stood at the door looking at the entire imperial city.

The princes and ministers also stood behind Emperor Jianyuan, and some ministers also knelt on the ground and bowed: "It's raining, God is finally raining......"

"I didn't expect Lord Jiang to really be able to ask for rain, this is simply amazing!"

"Master Jiang is really a master......"

King Kang looked at the pouring rain outside, his face was not very good-looking, this Jiang Chongjin was still a little capable, and he really succeeded in asking for rain.

Compared with King Kang, King Huai's face is not much better, his father has asked for immortals in recent years, and he believes in metaphysics very much, and this Jiang Chongjin Xuanfa is profound, but I am afraid that the future is limitless.

Jiang Shishi stood in the crowd and looked at the rain curtain outside the hall.

This is the wisdom of the ancients, and it is the artificial rain that the ancients pondered.

She had read the ancient book "Notes on the Book of Water".

It records in detail the people's prayer for rain, which is roughly the same as Jiang Chongjin's prayer for rain.

Precipitation requires condensation nuclei and sufficient saturated water vapor, and the cliffs are locally more enclosed.

Jiang Chongjin had wood burned on the cliff of the palace, causing the air to rise to form an updraft, the temperature dropped, and the water vapor easily reached a saturated state, thus forming precipitation.

Although this ritual of praying for rain has a certain occult nature, it also contains a certain scientific truth.

The ancients may not have known the principle of the formation of precipitation, but they understood the principle that "clouds cause rain, and dew turns into frost".

Later generations still speculated that in the ritual of praying for rain, the practitioner held a sword and a gossip mirror and made various strange movements in a certain direction of the sky, which was actually a practice that stimulated the friction of the "watery clouds".

And when asking for rain, the strong man is invited to beat the gong and drum, but also to let the sound wave stimulate the clouds to produce friction, light waves and sound waves to stimulate the clouds, so that the clouds produce electricity, positive and negative charges produce water......

If this is the case, it is no wonder that Jiang Chongjin said before that the sword and the gossip mirror were in trouble, and the rain was unsuccessful.

It rained heavily, and Emperor Jianyuan was ecstatic on his face.

When Jiang Chongjin returned to the main hall again, Emperor Jianyuan directly rewarded Jiang Chongjin with a set of three mansions in Beijing.

After rewarding Jiang Chongjin, Emperor Jianyuan announced the successful conclusion of the subject examination, dismissed everyone, and took the lead in leaving the Baohe Palace.

As for the results of the examination, it will be determined by the results of the preliminary examination, the cabinet examination and the palace examination, and the results will be available after three days.

After Emperor Jianyuan left, the princes and ministers also left the palace in the rain.

After the exam, Jiang Shishi greeted the prince and went to find Jiang Chongjin, "Big brother, the emperor rewarded you with a house, will you move to a new house?" ”

"I'll pick a good day these days, and I'll move over." Jiang Chongjin bought an ordinary courtyard before, and originally only planned to live with his wife and children.

But recently, Jiang's father and stepmother's family also came to the capital, and the whole family was crammed into a small courtyard, which was really compact.

Now that the emperor has rewarded him with a three-entry house, the family can live more comfortably.

Jiang Shishi: "By the way, you have been in the capital for so long, have your sister-in-law and nephews and nieces come to the capital?" ”

Jiang Chongjin nodded, "Well, they arrived last month." ”

Jiang Shishi: "After the auspicious selection of this housewarming, I asked Huang Dechang, who was next to the prince, to tell me that if I can, I want to go to see my sister-in-law when the time comes." ”

However, the prince's consent was required.

If the prince doesn't agree, he can only ask someone to help her send the housewarming gift out of the palace.

"......" Jiang Chongjin paused slightly, and then said, "Father and the Feng family also came to the capital. ”

Xiao Shi didn't know that the Feng family was also here, if she knew, she was afraid that she wouldn't go.

"......" reminded Jiang Shishi that the Seventh Prince had said this in a letter.

It's just that I didn't expect that King Kang and the Jiang family moved so quickly, and the Jiang family and the whole family had already arrived in the capital.

According to this, before the Seventh Prince's secret was leaked, King Kang's party had already arranged for the Jiang family to leave for the capital.

Jiang Shishi said indifferently: "I went to see my sister-in-law and nephews and nieces, and I can't even lose my relatives because of them." ”

At the same time, Jiang Shishi sympathized with Jiang Chongjin in her heart.

As the daughter of the Jiang family, although she is not used to seeing Jiang's father and the Feng family, she lives in the East Palace and can see out of sight.

But Jiang Chongjin is different, as a son, he can't ignore Jiang's father.

Because the Eastern Liang Kingdom pays attention to filial piety, if there are officials who are not filial, it will seriously affect the official career.

The brother and sister chatted for a while, and Jiang Chongjin was about to leave the palace.

On the side, Xue Liangdi and Xue Youcai also reluctantly said goodbye.

It rained heavily, so the prince didn't go to the summer resort, and went directly to the East Palace.

Jiang Shishi and Xue Liangdi had no trouble, so they only walked back to the East Palace together, and the palace maid helped them hold an umbrella.

Pei Xuanling sat on the chariot, looked at the rain curtain in front of him, and asked lightly: "At first, when Jiang Chongjin begged for rain, he said that there was a problem with the sword and the gossip mirror, but someone did something?" ”

Huang Dechang: "According to Jiang Chongjin, the sword and the gossip mirror should have been made of metal, but they were replaced with pure wood. ”

Pei Xuanling: "Do you know who did it?" ”

"It was a palace maid who said she accidentally made a mistake." Huang Dechang whispered: "But the slave checked, and the palace maid was originally the maid next to Concubine Li. ”

Pei Xuanling: "......" Concubine Li is the biological mother of King Huai, and it seems that this matter is inseparable from the Mu Wang Party.

**

In the next few days, it rained in the capital, including several surrounding areas.

The originally hot weather has gradually cooled.

The crown prince returned to the East Palace with the concubines of the East Palace.

Three days later, the admission results of the "Xuanjing Yin and Yang Section" have been released.

The selection of the subject examination was very strict, and only eight of the more than 90 people were admitted.

These eight people were employed in the Ministry of Rites, Si Tianjian and other yamen.

Jiang Chongjin was also admitted, and he was also a young eunuch of the fourth grade.

Among this batch of admitted, his position is relatively high.

At the end of July, Jiang Chongjin found Huang Dechang in the Ministry of Rites and asked him to help tell Jiang Shishi that the Jiang family moved on the sixth day of August.

After Pei Xuanling learned about this, he planned to go to Shiyue Pavilion at night.

However, after returning to the East Palace, he did not go directly to Shiyue Pavilion.

Instead, they went to the front yard to bathe, eat, and review official documents.

That night, Jiang Shishi had dinner and went to take a bath after exercising.

After bathing, she sat in front of the dresser, and Chunxing stood behind her, drying her hair with a towel.

Jiang Shishi cleaned up the dresser by the way, and tidied up the rouge gouache on the table a little neatly.

Because the things on the table were too full, one accidentally dropped a box of rouge on the ground.

"Bang!"

Suddenly, the rouge box made of ceramic was broken in half.

The rouge powder in it was also cracked, and a lot of powder fell from the ground.

Chunxing: "The slave maid asked someone to come in and clean up, right?" ”

"Wait a minute..."Jiang Shishi stared at the bottom of the rouge box, and actually vaguely saw the picture.

Bending down to pick up the powder box on the ground, Jiang Shishi stared at the bottom of the box carefully, it was really a picture, it seemed to be a figure painting.

But the set of powder cartridge artwork she designed didn't have these.

This reminded her of what the Seventh Prince had said that he would make slight changes to the rouge box, could it be this?

Thinking of this, Jiang Shishi found a silver hairpin from the jewelry box, and planned to use the silver hairpin to pry out all the rouge powder inside to see what pattern was underneath.

The rouge box was broken in two, and the first thing she pried was the one on top, revealing a green tree.

Under the tree was a woman's face, and then a man's.

The other piece is a mess, with arms and legs.

When Jiang Shishi put the two pieces together, she found that she was painting a pair of handsome men and beautiful women, and there was no trace of fabric on them, and the key was that the two were still hugging each other.

"Oh my God, how can this rouge box still have these pictures, these... Aren't they all paintings that press the bottom of the box when a woman gets married? Chun Xing turned her back in shame and wiped Jiang Shishi's hair.

Immediately afterwards, Jiang Shishi opened all the rouge boxes sent by the Seventh Prince, and dug out all the rouge gouache inside.

Sure enough, there were drawings of people at the bottom of each box, and they were all different.

At this moment, Jiang Shishi was very angry with the Seventh Prince.

She said that why she never found the traces of the Seventh Prince's alteration of the rouge box, it turned out that the bottom of the box was hidden!

If it hadn't been for the rouge box accidentally falling to the ground, she wouldn't have noticed.

This Seventh Prince, he really played the trick of making money from ancient capital clearly.

She's been cautious enough, but she can't prevent it!

No, she has to find a time for the Seventh Lord to remove these patterns.

"What are you looking at, you can see it so intriguedly, you don't even know that you are lonely?"

Just when Jiang Shishi was thinking about removing these patterns, the prince came in at some point.

Jiang Shishi was already startled by the pictures in the rouge box, but now that the prince suddenly appeared, it was a double fright for her.

She didn't even have time to salute, so she hurriedly put the rouge boxes into a drawer.

Then, she barely squeezed out a trace of an unnatural smile and saluted the prince, "Your Highness, why are you here?" ”

At first, when the prince came to her, he would sing the newspaper.

Later, I don't know what happened, and every time I was elusive.

Not only did Huang Dechang not let him sing the newspaper, but even the few new minions in her yard, the prince did not let them sing the newspaper every time he came back.

"......" Pei Xuanling helped the woman up, and his eyes fell on the woman's slightly nervous face.

In his impression, Jiang Liangdi has always been calm and rarely so nervous.

He felt that something was wrong when he thought of the woman staring at the dresser when he entered the room, and the woman hiding her things in a drawer in a panic.

Pei Xuanling lowered his head and his gaze fell on the drawer, "What did you hide in the drawer?" ”

"It's nothing, it's just some broken rouge boxes, and the concubine is a little distressed for a while......" Jiang Shishi explained weakly and palely, and finally made a coquettish voice.

The woman's voice was glutinous and a little squeamish, which she usually didn't have.

Pei Xuanling felt that the woman was a little abnormal tonight, so he didn't listen to her explanation at all, and raised his hand to open the drawer.

Suddenly, a pile of filthy rouge boxes appeared in front of him!