He looked at the Chinese book in his hand: "Up to now, only the crown princess and Princess Su participated in the selection of the sacrificial goddess this time. ”

After speaking, he looked around at the group of eunuchs and concubines sitting in the front row: "The deadline." If there is any lady or lady who wants to sign up, please hurry up. ”

All the women shook their heads in unison, although the Ministry of Rites said that all the female scrolls of officials above the fourth grade can participate in the election, but everyone with a brain knows that this is the fighting method of the crown princess and Princess Su?

When it comes to the fight of the gods, their brains are not bad, do they have nothing to do to be cannon fodder?

Seeing that no one had signed up, the official of the Ministry of Rites put away the paperwork and waved to the official who was in charge of running errands behind him.

Someone carried two large baskets forward, and in the baskets were small wooden signs, the difference was that the wooden cards in the basket on the left were tied with red strips of cloth, and on the right were green.

The official of the Ministry of Rites picked up a wooden plaque from each of the two baskets and said to everyone:

"The official will hand out the wooden sign now, and start the campaign in a quarter of an hour, red for Princess Su, green for the crown princess. Because there were too many participants, it was divided into two waves. ”

When the words fell, the upright official did not politely ask the opinions of the two parties as usual. Directly let people start dealing signs.

Su Tian, who felt neglected, secretly gritted his teeth and decided to wait for today, and then let this little official who didn't know how to change go back and forth.

But she wasn't worried about what happened next.

What she really cares about is not a sacrifice to the goddess, but a good reputation that everyone has been looking forward to, in her opinion, she has been selected nine times out of ten, and now it is just a formality.

The people who received the sign couldn't help but look up at Su Tian and Shen Mingjiao, who were sitting at the top.

A red-clothed one is like fire, beautiful as a demon, and has an aura that is not easy to mess with. A fairy in white with a gentle temperament.

It seems that there is no need to hesitate at all about who to choose, but some people look at Gong Jue, who is standing silently behind the crowd and hanging his arms. Some thought of the things that Xu Qian did later in the book, and they hesitated a little when they picked up the green sign. In the end, he simply gritted his teeth and planned to abstain.

But there are still a lot of Xu Tilt or Su Tilt's diehards, and they didn't hesitate to pick up the green cloth brand.

From beginning to end, no one picked up the red cloth sign.

But at this moment, Shen Mingjiao suddenly raised her head, hooked her red lips and smiled brightly at everyone.

Everyone shook unconsciously, and the green cloth wooden card in their hands fell to the ground with a click. But there are still many people who gritted their teeth and clenched the green card in their hands, bowing their heads and trying to ignore her gaze.

At this time, a cool and delicate female voice came to my ears: "The soil in the garden doesn't seem to be red enough today!" ”

Yun Shu immediately smiled and answered: "Maybe it is missing the moisture of blood!" ”

Shen Mingjiao looked at everyone again and smiled brighter:

"It's also said that whether those precious flowers and plants can grow well, nourishment is the key!

You say, "Oh yes!" ”

is obviously a very normal sentence, but in the ears of everyone present, I only feel my heart beating wildly.

Because in the book, this line appears a total of three times, and each time it will be accompanied by a large Shura field, and the scene is more and more ferocious each time.

Finally. There are timid women who can't stand it anymore. Ten of them simply threw the green card and picked up the red card.

Someone made a start, and everyone picked up the red card without hesitation.

Even some of Su Tian's diehards picked up the red card neatly in her smiling eyes.

There's no way, compared to liking Su Tian, obviously his own life is more important.

Watching the red wooden cards fall into the basket, Su Tian was directly dumbfounded.

How so? These people obviously liked her so much a moment ago. Why did it change the next moment?

In the end, more than 600 people who participated in the first round of the election all voted for red cards, but no one elected her.

She could no longer maintain the elegant and calm look on her face, and gritted her teeth and stared at Shen Mingjiao, who looked careless from beginning to end:

"Is that you? What did you do? ”

"You...... You hypnotized them, that's why they ......."

No, knowing that Shen Mingjiao knows hypnosis, she has deliberately understood. Even if Shen Mingjiao has some ability, it is impossible to hypnotize so many people at once! And the expressions of these people just now don't look like they were hypnotized......

She tried hard to recall what Shen Mingjiao had said just now, and the way she looked at everyone, she always felt that something was wrong......

Shen Mingjiao lowered her head slightly, calmly met Su Tian's resentful gaze, and sighed earnestly:

"Su Tian, do you know what it means to have a lack of human heart and swallow an elephant? In fact, your life is stronger than many women in this world, but you are not satisfied, you always want to get everything. But not everything in this world can be as easy as you want.

You should know that Xu Zhongliang, a loyal minister of the former dynasty! He was just a small county magistrate in a remote county, but he was dedicated to the people, and in the end, in order to seek justice for the people, he did not hesitate to offend Shangfeng and was put on death row. In order to save him, the people of the small county town wrote the blood of the people, and did not hesitate to come to the capital with the determination to die.

Such a popular desire is absolutely impossible for me to shake this little skill of carving insects. And you want the hearts of the people, but what have you really done for the people?

If so, yes? At most, you contributed money and effort to the people of the capital for a month of entertainment gossip.

So you think that you are sought after by 10,000 people, and these people's love for you is similar to chasing a servant drama! That's why I was scared casually, and they chose me without hesitation. ”

Although these words contain irony, they are also what she really thinks in her heart. However, Su Tian only heard the last sentence.

"You actually compare me to those lowly actors!"

Shen Mingjiao was not surprised by her reaction at all, and nodded with a smile: "Yes?" You might not be as good as them? They at least eat on their own time, what do you rely on? ”

Facing her beautiful eyes that knew everything, Su Tian almost used all her strength to restrain the urge not to rush forward and scratch the face in front of Hua.

She tried to keep her head calm, even though she didn't know what was wrong. But she had to hold on.

Shen Mingjiao seemed to be impatient, and she said to the official of the Ministry of Rites who was presiding over the election: "Let's carry out the next wave of elections!" It's better to finish early and go home early. ”

Su Tian took the first step to speak after she finished speaking: "Princess Su, such a dry campaign is not interesting, or we are more special." ”

Shen Mingjiao raised her eyes to look at her and raised her eyebrows with interest: "Oh, I want to hear about it." ”

"Let's compete for what we're good at, and let the rest of us judge."

Afraid that Shen Mingjiao would not agree, she gritted her teeth and said: "I will take out 10% of all the properties under my name as a lottery, if you win, it will be yours." If you lose. This time, I will do the sacrifice. ”

Shen Mingjiao raised her eyes to look at the sky, dragged her chin and said a nonchalant "oh":

"It sounds like I'm not going to lose anything!"

"Okay! Get ready and start with a cup of tea. ”

……

Different from the hustle and bustle of Longxing Racecourse, the palace was solemn at this time.

Today is a semi-monthly tide meeting, and all the officials of the imperial court above the fifth rank have been present.

At this time, the atmosphere in the palace was a little stagnant, and news came from the border pass, because it was about to enter winter, and several nomadic countries such as Beidi had signs of collective invasion of the border.

This kind of thing is not unusual, and there is a little friction at the border every year.

However, this time it is said that the matter is relatively big, and Feng Lisheng means that if it doesn't work, he will give them a big deterrent.

This is what it means to fight.

When all the officials heard the news, they were a little unacceptable. It will be six years since the last time the Great Xia Kingdom defeated Beidi. Why is there a war again?

For a time, there was opposition from the court, after all, starting a war is a matter of labor and money.

Emperor Jing and Emperor also felt that it was not time to start a war for this matter, so he only asked Feng Lisheng to lead people to guard the border pass.

Seeing that the Manchu officials only knew a corner of peace, the military generals led by Feng Lisheng were not happy. So the two sides argued in the court.

The court meeting, which was supposed to be almost over at noon, was stunned and quarreled about this matter for almost a morning.

Emperor Jing and Emperor helped his forehead with a headache, and asked Su Xiang, who was standing in front, "What does Su Aiqing think?" ”

Su Xiang had been frowning before, as if he had encountered something that he couldn't figure out.

Ever since he felt disgusted by Emperor Jing and Emperor because of what happened to Su Tian, he has been trying to find a way to remedy it. At present, when he heard His Royal Highness King Su say that the border pass was not peaceful, he was still a little stunned for a while.

Because before, he had not received this news at all. But now that he was asked by Emperor Jing He, his expression did not change at all, and over the years, it has become instinct to figure out the holy will. He followed the words of Jing and Emperor and said his thoughts.

As soon as the words fell, they were refuted by a group of generals on the opposite side, who were no better than civilian officials, and their words were simple and rude.

Su Xiang frowned and listened, seeing that it was almost time, but the two parties were still arguing and becoming more and more fierce.

For some reason, the sharpness of being involved in officialdom for many years made him intuitively feel uneasy, and he always felt that something was out of his control.