Princess Huyang had a severe headache.

She promised her son that she would help him propose marriage to the Wang family, and she really went there. But now when she was told that her son liked a girl who was raised as a boy, the eldest princess regretted it.

What kind of serious illness does the child have that requires this kind of treatment?

It would be fine if it was cured, but I’m afraid there would be any sequelae.

Princess Huyang was worried.

Regarding Princess Huyang's worry, the Prince Consort didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "She ate so many buns and didn't die of bloating. Are you still worried that the girl our son likes is not healthy?"

Princess Huyang: "..."

No words to refute.

Princess Huyang glanced at the clepsydra and said, "It's getting late today. I can only go to the Wang family to propose marriage tomorrow."

The Prince Consort didn't expect that Princess Huyang would decide to go to the Wang family again tomorrow before he could persuade her. He smiled and said, "Why do I feel that you are more anxious than An'er?"

Princess Huyang said, "Your son will be the supervisor of the imperial examination the day after tomorrow. If I don't arrange a marriage soon, I'm afraid he will be distracted by his job as supervisor."

The eldest son-in-law agreed, "No one knows a child better than his mother. You still understand An'er."

These words made Princess Huyang feel even more anxious.

Unfortunately, her urgency was of no use. The next day, when Princess Huyang was about to leave the house for Wang's house, the Queen Mother sent someone to invite her into the palace.

Princess Huyang was worried that the Queen Mother wanted to see her for some urgent matter, so she had to go to the palace first.

Inside the house, Shen Wan was sitting on a small couch, pruning flower branches, Haitang was wiping the antique display stand, Yin Shuang brought tea into the room and said with a smile, "Princess, I heard something interesting..."

Shen Wan's eyes did not move, and she asked casually, "What's interesting?"

Yin Shuang said, "Princess Huyang and her husband came to ask for the prince's hand in marriage yesterday, but they went to the wrong mansion."

Shen Wan, "..."

How could this be wrong?

Yin Shuang said, "Now the teahouses and taverns are all guessing whose house Princess Huyang and her husband were originally going to propose to..."

Not to mention Yin Shuang, even Shen Wan was curious.

Shen Wan doesn't know yet that Du Cheng'an wants to marry Xu Ji's cousin.

Shen Wan was surprised and asked, "How could such a shameful thing spread?"

Princess Huyang was of noble status, so the servants around her certainly wouldn't dare to say anything, let alone the one who was proposed to by the wrong family.

Well, this matter came out from the palace. Princess Huyang and the Wang family both issued a gag order, but Princess Huyang and her husband went to the Wang family together, and such a big carriage was passing through the streets, so it could not be kept secret. This matter was heard by the Queen Mother, who happened to have something to ask Princess Huyang, so she asked her. Princess Huyang did not hide it and told the Queen Mother the truth. The palace servants did not leave at that time, you told me, I told her, and it soon spread throughout the palace, and then spread from the palace to outside.

However, Princess Huyang did not take it to heart. Once the marriage was settled, the rumors would be self-defeating.

Just a trip to the palace disrupted Princess Huyang's plan to go to the Wang family to propose marriage again. Princess Huyang had lunch with the Queen Mother in the palace before leaving. After leaving the palace, she first went to Prince Cheng's Mansion to visit Prince Cheng and Princess Cheng, and then went to see the eldest prince. It was almost evening when she returned home.

The next day was the day when the imperial court reopened the special examination.

Early in the morning, Prince Yanping and Tang Ze arrived at the Imperial Examination Hall. The emperor asked them to be supervisors to prevent students from cheating.

The Prince of Yanping and his entourage felt that prevention of cheating had to start from the time students entered the Imperial Examination Hall. They were also interested in this matter and arrived very early.

The Prince of Yanping and Tang Ze arrived first, followed by Lu Cheng, and finally Du Cheng'an.

All four men arrived, and none of them stayed behind to guard the city patrol office.

Don't worry.

Their subordinates even dared to arrest their four immediate superiors, so who else would the City Patrol Division not dare to arrest?

Having captured so many people of noble status, ordinary people wouldn’t dare to put on airs when they were caught by the City Patrol, not even their own fathers would dare to do that.

Besides, the emperor has assured them to be deployed for a few days, so how could they not be assured?

Students arrived one after another and began to check the floats to verify the identities of the candidates to prevent cheating. Then they checked the bedding and food they brought. After all, the exam lasted three days and the Imperial Examination Hall did not provide food, so they had to bring their own food.

The Prince of Yanping and Lu Cheng are in one group, and Tang Ze and Du Cheng'an are in another group, responsible for checking cheating.

The means used to investigate cheating left the officials in charge of the matter dumbfounded.

The most rude way to cheat is to put notes in clothes, shoes, blankets, brushes...

But the Prince of Yeonping and his men found cheat sheets in hairpins, hair belts, cakes, and even carved words in the bottom layer of the food box that contained the cakes.

The Prince of Yanping and his men did not dare to say that they had checked everything thoroughly and that no one had slipped through the net, but at least 99% of them had been prevented from entering the Imperial Examination Hall.

When the emperor arranged the chief examiners, he designated these four as supervisors. The civil and military officials thought that the emperor valued their fairness and entrusted them with important tasks, but they did not expect that they were really good at preventing cheating. It must be said that the emperor had a unique vision.

The Prince of Yanping and his comrades caught many cheating students and did their job conscientiously. They were commended in memorials from the Censorate. The Emperor also thought they were capable, after all, they were favored by his son. After the exam, he specially called a few of them to the court to reward them, but in the end he almost wanted to beat them up.

The emperor asked, "How did you know they were cheating in those places?"

The Prince of Yanping and his men looked at each other, not knowing how to respond to the Emperor.

Prince Yanping scolded, "The emperor is asking you a question, why are you looking around?"

Prince Yanping said awkwardly, "Prince Ling taught us."

The emperor was surprised, "Did Prince Ling teach you?"

The Prince of Yanping replied, "In order to catch cheating, we consulted the young master Cheng of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion, the young master of the Minister of Rites' Mansion, and others while we were having dinner at Deyue Tower. Prince Ling was also there at the time. He said that such a small matter would not stop us. The only places where candidates can cheat are the things they bring with them. If we were the candidates, where would we cheat? Then the four of us studied it carefully..."

"The places where we thought of cheating, those students also thought of it."

emperor,"……"

Officials, "..."

It turns out that those cheating students met four cheating ancestors. It would be strange if they didn't get caught.

The emperor originally wanted to reward them for their contribution in investigating the cheating, but how should he reward them now?

Will you judge them by your own standards?

In the end, the emperor rewarded each of them with a jade pendant for their honesty.

It was just an excuse for the reward that made Prince Yanping, Marquis Xuanping and Mr. Tang twitch their lips for half of the morning court, except for the eldest son-in-law who was calm about it.

I wonder how the emperor can see that their shrewd son is honest. Should we ask the emperor to find an imperial physician to treat his eye disease?

But this all happens after the exam. Now the candidates have entered the examination room, and the test papers will be distributed when the time is up.

Several of the Prince of Yanping who were previously patrolling the city are now patrolling the examination halls.

They had never expected that being a censor could be a useful service besides preventing fraud.

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