In the blink of an eye, the spring exam ended, but something strange happened, several days have passed since the date of this year's unveiling, but there is no roll call.

On this day, Zhao Yuanyan, the eighth king, sent a eunuch to call Ye Pei over. As soon as he entered the study, Ye Pei saw his eldest brother Zhao Yunxi kneeling on the ground, looking like he had defeated a quail, and Ye Pei faintly felt that something was going to happen.

The Eight Kings Zhao Yuanyan was sitting precariously, Ye Pei raised his eyes to see her uncle, wearing a green jade hair crown, wearing a rolling dragon robe, a gold treasure belt around his waist, and soap boots, with a pale complexion, thin eyebrows, and three strands of beard, although he did not look like a strong man, he was not the appearance of an impotence mad patient in the rumors.

Zhao Yuanyan's expression was serious, and when he saw Ye Pei coming in, he asked bluntly: "Ye Pei, there are some things you don't want to hide from me, and don't help your eldest brother hide them, in the end, you can't afford it." ”

Ye Pei didn't know what was going on, but she faintly felt that it was related to Zhao Zhen and Zhao Yunxi, and her heart was "banging" for a while.

Zhao Yuanyan continued: "Let me ask you, do you know this jade pendant? "The Eight Kings are holding a flawless jade wall in their hands, engraved with nine coiled dragons, white and warm, which is the Nine Dragons Jade Bi that Zhao Zhen lost!

Ye Pei didn't know how this lost jade wall could appear in Zhao Yuanyan's hands, she always felt that the Uighurs had robbed this treasure.

Zhao Yuanyan saw Ye Pei hesitating, thinking that she was making some lies, so he suddenly became angry, slapped the table and said, "Ye Pei! You answer truthfully! ”

was so frightened that Ye Pei knelt down unconsciously, where had she been reprimanded so harshly.

Whether it was her parents when she was a child, or the master and brother on Qifeng Mountain, no one said a word of weight to her.

Ye Pei was infinitely aggrieved, and said with a crying voice: "Back to my uncle's words, Pei'er knows that this is the sixth brother's Nine Dragons Jade!" ”

Zhao Yuanyan said solemnly: "In the future, don't call the sixth brother and the sixth brother, the official family is the official family!" You are no longer the same as when you were a child, don't be ignorant of humility. ”

Ye Pei was not convinced, but he didn't dare to say it. She promised: "Got it! ”

"Let me ask you again, did you steal this jade wall with Zhao Yunxi?"

Ye Pei was confused, looked back at Zhao Yunxi, there was no response, looked up and looked at the Eight Kings again, stern and majestic, so frightened that Ye Peifu lowered his head again, "Uncle, absolutely not!" It's ......"

"What is this?"

"This is the day when my sixth brother, no, the official family, and I were robbed by a Uighur while watching the lanterns during the Lantern Festival."

"You still have a private meeting with him?!" Zhao Yuanyan's tone became even more severe.

Ye Pei seemed to be caught and showed his original form, lost his spirit, and prostrated on the ground and said, "Uncle, I won't dare next time!" ”

"Do you want to marry an official family and be a concubine?" Zhao Yuanyan glared at Ye Pei and asked.

"Pei'er doesn't dare to have these thoughts!"

"Ye Pei, you disappointed me too much! The Ye family is loyal, how can you be so skillful! ”

Ye Pei didn't understand why his uncle looked at him like this? Did you do something wrong?

At this time, Zhao Yunxi, who was kneeling on the ground, said: "Daddy, why are you so biased? I am your eldest son, Zhao benefited from him and he was just born to a concubine, just because he had a good life and became the emperor, you think about him everywhere and exclude children?

Since he was a child, he has been fighting with me for everything, he is just a concubine, but he has the same food and clothing as me. When the emperor came to the mansion to choose the prince, you can also see why you don't strongly recommend the child to come forward?

That Zhao Ying collided with the first emperor, but was noticed by the first emperor, didn't he do it on purpose? He's just a crybaby, a sick man, why should Daddy defend him? ”

"Shut up!" The Eighth King Zhao Yuan was so angry that he clenched his fists, "You are a rebel!" Do you think that you are the eldest son of this king? He was chosen by the first emperor It was the will of heaven, he was the true destiny of the dragon, what are you fighting with him?! ”

"Providence?!" Zhao Yunxi sneered and shouted angrily: "What is the will of heaven, the prince who becomes the prince and the thief who loses is the will of heaven!" What kind of prince will Xiangning have? If he can be the emperor, can't I?! What True Dragon Destiny? I don't believe it! ”

"Bastard thing!" Zhao Yuanyan was so angry that he coughed. It took a long time before he said: "Now that you are the concubine of the Eighth Prince, you have already made the Marquis of Boping, and you will inherit my throne in the future, what are you not satisfied with!"

Do you think it is so majestic and smooth to be an emperor? If you don't have that courage and blessing, wouldn't it be good to be a merry and happy rich prince?

When the emperor had no children, someone told me to be the emperor's younger brother, but I was innocent and persecuted, and the taste was like roasting on a fire. If it weren't for me pretending to be impotence and withdrawing from the political struggle, you would have died one by one! ”

"Daddy, you always retreat when you encounter problems, I don't want to be like you, I don't want to do nothing when I get old!"

"I don't know if I'm alive or dead! Do you know that your eldest uncle of the King of Chu and the second uncle who has been crowned Prince Zhaocheng are your lessons from the past?! ”

The first emperor Jingzong ranked third among the sons of Taizong, the third brother of the eighth king Zhao Yuanyan, their eldest brother Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Chu, and Zhao Yuanyou, the second brother who was named the prince of Zhaocheng, all went crazy and died because of the battle for the throne. At this time, the eight kings pointed directly at Zhao Yunxi's eldest uncle and second uncle, just to take advantage of the cruel reality of the competition for the throne back then to warn him not to die for it.

It's a pity that Zhao Yunxi insisted on going his own way, and still stubbornly said: "Even if I die, I will die vigorously!" I'm going to fight, fight! ”

"Hahaha!" Zhao Yuanyan suddenly laughed wildly, "What do you think you won?" What you have done is now well understood. If I hadn't protected you, you would still be able to kneel in front of me and reply? Thou hast formed a clique for personal gain, embezzled the king's law, and embezzled the things of tribute. Including this spring exam, you deliberately leaked the questions to Sun Haoran, Wang Lungang, Kui Jiaji and others, do you really not know today? ! ”

Zhao Yunxi listened to his father's words and froze in place like a goose.

Zhao Yuanyan, the Eighth King, continued: "The test questions you leaked were just fake questions that you deliberately said to Ye Pei today, but you took it seriously. Zhao Yuanyan threw a copy of the report to Zhao Yunxi, "Look at this year's test questions, but the questions you know?" ”

Ye Pei listened, her mind was confused, she didn't expect that Zhao Zhen deliberately approached her that day and lured Zhao Yunxi to take the bait. He hugged her that day and asked her if she was sincere to him, but did Zhao Zhen have a little sincerity towards him?

She was used as a bait for fishing, a victim of politics, and now she is the torn rabbit lamp!

Ye Pei knew that she was handy at practicing martial arts, but in the political battle, she couldn't show it, and she became a person who was about to be drowned.

Not only was she cold, but the chill in her heart invaded her whole body, making her feel numb, like falling into an ice cave.

Zhao Yunxi was also stunned, he didn't expect that the situation that he had carefully deployed for many years turned out to be under Zhao Zhen's control. After reading the report, he threw it aside, he really had nothing to say.

Ye Pei trembled and brought the report to see what was going on, she was indeed wronged, she didn't leak the test questions that Zhao Zhen told her, she didn't say anything about it, but now that the test questions have been leaked, who will believe her?

The title of this year's spring examination is written in a conspicuous position on the newspaper, and the report is to the effect that: The question of this year's spring examination is from the "Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period", which discusses the change of the present and the current spring examination, and everything is going well in the spring examination, and one hundred and four new science and technology scholars have been selected, which will be unveiled on April 13.

"Big brother, you go back to the other courtyard to reflect on your mistakes, and you are not allowed to leave the house without my order!" Seeing that Zhao Yunxi had already known that he was defeated, the Eighth King Zhao Yuanyan ordered him to go out first.

Zhao Yunxi left, Ye Pei cried and crawled to Zhao Yuanyan's feet, "Uncle, I never wanted to hurt my eldest brother, and I never wanted to hurt the official family, and I don't want to get involved in this political situation, you have to believe me!" ”

Zhao Yuanyan calmed down his mood for a while, and said earnestly: "Child, if you don't want to marry the eldest brother or the sixth brother, don't get involved in the matter between them. In the future, I will ask my wife to find you a good family affair and marry you off like a daughter. ”

"Uncle, I don't want to mess with them, really, I also hope that they will always be well." Ye Pei's tears rained down.

Zhao Yuanyan gently stroked Ye Pei's head, sighed and said, "Well, good boy!" You're too innocent! ”

It turned out that on the day of the Lantern Festival, Zhao Zhen and Ye Pei made an appointment to see the lanterns, and Zhao Yunxi had already learned about the details arranged by Ye Pei's side and informed Zhao Yunxi. He united with the Uighur prince and wanted to give Zhao Zhen a dismount, but he was obstructed by the Praetorian Guards arranged by Zhao Zhen a long time ago, and the Praetorian Guards had been guarding Zhao Zhen at that time, so he was so calm and calm.

After snatching the Nine Dragons Jade, Zhao Yunxi had the next move. He was arrogant and relied on it to deceive the spring test questions, but he didn't know that it was a trap set by Zhao Zhen a long time ago, and what Zhao Yunxi got was just a fake test question.

After that, Zhao Yunxi revealed the test questions to the Shizi who bought the questions, but was arrested by the Criminal Department. Zhao Zhen already knew Zhao Yunxi's movements, and he made the first move.

It's just that at that time, Zhao Zhen didn't know that Zhao Yunxi was still colluding with the Uighurs, and he went along with the vine and completely destroyed all of Zhao Yunxi's other plans.

In addition to this matter, Zhao Zhen also had other evidence of Zhao Yunxi's previous crimes, and he wanted to try Zhao Yunxi in person, but the Eight Kings pleaded to suppress the matter.

Zhao Yuanyan interrogated his son by himself, and Zhao Yunxi exaggerated his affair with Ye Pei and planted some things on Ye Pei, so that Zhao Yuanyan misunderstood that Ye Pei was a scheming woman, so Zhao Yuanyan had the above Zhao Yuanyan's strict attitude towards Ye Pei.

Coming back from the study of the Eight Kings, Ye Pei was sick for half a month.

She wanted to understand one thing on the sickbed, and her uncle was right, she wanted to stay away from her eldest brother and sixth brother, and she loved them even more so from them.

Aunt came to take care of Ye Pei every day, Ye Pei explained to her that she didn't want to harm the eldest brother and sixth brother, and she didn't know if her aunt understood it, and whether she believed her.

The more her aunt comforted her, the more she felt aggrieved and hurt. My aunt is so gentle and kind, her two children are fighting for power, and she is the one who is the red face, shouldn't my aunt blame her?

"The sixth brother is lying to me, it turns out that everything he said to me is lying to me? He never loved me, he just wanted to use me against my big brother, how could he be so ruthless? ”

Ye Pei was scarred by love and in pain. She was about to give her sincerity, but she had to be restrained, and she retracted into her shell like a wounded little turtle.

She wants to return to Qifeng Mountain and live her ordinary and peaceful life. She is not used to the cruelty of politics, she is afraid that she will bring harm to the people she loves, and she can't accept that the people she loves hurt her like this.

Why is this happening? She wanted to protect them, but they hurt her so deeply!

Ye Pei began to miss her parents, she was just like when she first went to Qifeng Mountain, and the scene of her parents being killed appeared in her dreams again and again.

During this period, a holy decree deposed Zhao Yunxi from the title of Marquis of Boping, that is, he went out of Beijing to Chuzhou.

Ye Pei knew that Zhao Yunxi's crime would never be just such a small punishment and a big commandment, maybe it was the intercession of the eight kings, or maybe it was still a deep brotherhood, but she, Ye Pei, had become a bad person throughout!

During Ye Pei's illness, there was another thing, that is, Wang Qinruo's family came to lay grass stickers.

Bianliang customs, where marrying a daughter-in-law, first draft a post, indicating the intention to marry. After the two families allowed, they started a detailed post, writing in detail the eight characters of their birthday, the names of the three generations, the official positions of relatives and so on. The man is allowed to "sip wine", and the woman returns with "fish chopsticks".

Then on a blind date, the man and the woman will insert a hairpin on the crown, and if they don't match, they will leave two colored satins to suppress it. Then the bride price, and then set the wedding date...... And so on etiquette.

Wang Qinruo didn't want to marry the eight kings, but Wang Junyi was born to Mrs. Cao, who was born to Mrs. Cao, who saw that Wang Junyi had been ill for more than half a year, and urged Wang Qinruo to ask for marriage every day, so that he finally had to agree.

The eighth king and the princess met the matchmaker from the Wang family, and it was not surprising that the female princess did not stay, saying that she had been thinking about it for a few days, but in fact, she had already accepted the matter in her heart.

Since then, Wang Junyi has also recovered from his illness, and he is smiling every day.

Lin Zhu and Shao Yingquan came to see him, and he happily prepared to go with them to see Ye Pei.

When he arrived at the garden building of the Eight Princes' Mansion, Wang Junyi saw Ye Pei in women's clothes, and was fascinated, and happily called her "Sister Ye".

Lin Zhu thought that Ye Pei would be unhappy, but he saw that Ye Pei was not disgusted, thinking that the two of them had set up a family affair, and the relationship was not ordinary, and it was inconvenient for him to have many things.

In fact, they didn't know that Ye Pei was recovering from a serious illness, and his heart was like ashes.

Wang Junyi invited Ye Pei to go to Pengshan to play, and the four of them were as before, going out to enjoy the flowers, listening to books in the teahouse, and being happy.

Ye Pei also wanted to fill her blank thoughts with other things, she thought: If she marries a woman, Zhao Zhen will not provoke her again, the eldest brother and the sixth brother will forget her, at least they won't fight for her anymore!

In this way, Ye Pei went out to play with Wang Junyi every day, and his mood calmed down a lot.