The legitimate daughter was reborn, and the emperor’s little Jiaojiao went crazy.

Although Shi Anxia didn't mean well, she still decided to help an innocent and cute girl. Then he waved to Qiu Hongyan, "If you go back crying like this, you might get scolded. Why don't you go sit in my summer courtyard."

Qiu Hongyan's tearful eyes flashed, and she twitched a few more times, "Me?"

Shi Anxia smiled at her and said, "Yes, it's getting dark. Let's go quickly."

Qiu Hongyan originally thought it would be bad to follow him to Xia Shiyuan, but she couldn't hold back the joy in her heart, so she ran forward with small steps.

Shi Anxia asked, "Hongyan, how old are you? Last time we met, I said you were my sister. Why do I think you are younger than me?"

Qiu Hongyan's face turned red, and then she felt very sad.

She didn't know why her mother reported her age by one year earlier. It turned out that she had planned for her to marry her sister-in-law earlier.

She whispered the truth, "No, it was my mother who told me that I was older. I only got haircut in November this year."

When Shi Anxia heard this, she knew what Shi Wanqing was planning, "She wants you to get married early."

Qiu Hongyan lowered her head, her voice was choked, and the word "um" came out of her nose.

Shi Anxia didn't ask any more questions, just thinking about how to survive the night of death by leaving Qiu Hongyan in Xia Shiyuan.

The beginning of spring has passed, but the spring is cold and freezing.

Shi Anxia went to take a hot bath, changed into clean clothes that had been warmed by Tang Pozi, and felt exhausted.

Nan Yan took the handkerchief and wringed her hair. Lying beside her was Ye Bao'er, wagging her tail.

She picked up the account book left by Uncle Wan and looked at it, and said casually, "Hongyan, I have some clean clothes here that I haven't worn yet. How about you go take a hot bath?"

"Ah?" Qiu Hongyan looked at Shi Anxia's rosy little face after taking a bath, and wanted to go up and pinch it, "No, I have to go back soon. Otherwise, mother will scold me."

Shi Anxia raised her head and asked, "Why were you crying just now? Your eyes were red and swollen from crying. Aren't you going to get scolded when you go back?"

Qiu Hongyan held her chin in one hand and played with Ye Baoer's tail with the other. She was silent for a long time, with tears filling her eyes. "My mother wants to marry my sister and me to the same family. She said that my sister is the mother-in-law and I am the aunt. She will control me from now on." If you have a child, you can let me do things for my sister. Sister Xiaer, I... I don’t want to marry, let alone marry into the same family as my sister.”

Shi Anxia knew that Shi Wanqing was a narrow-minded and vicious person, so he was not surprised when he heard this. He just said lightly, "It depends on people. You have to make plans for your own affairs."

Qiu Hongyan's tears fell down, "Sister Xia'er, I'm just a concubine, how dare I have other ideas?"

Shi Anxia stretched out his fingertips to lift her chin, looked into her tearful eyes, and teased her with a smile, "Little beauty, why don't you stay in my summer courtyard for the night? Maybe when you wake up tomorrow morning, there will be a different world. Woolen cloth?"

Qiu Hongyan grabbed her hand, with tears on her cheeks. She happily digressed, "Sister Xia'er, your hands are so beautiful."

Shi Anxia: "!!!"

How did you end up here from a sad place?

She pulled out her hand and urged her with gentle words, "Go take a bath and change your clothes. Stay with me tonight. If you have anything to do, we'll talk about it tomorrow."

In short, we can't let this girl out of Xia Shiyuan tonight.

Seeing that there was someone who was as greedy for the girl's beautiful hands as she was, Hong Que suddenly felt friendly and said with a smile, "Girl, beauty, let's go, clothes and hot water are ready."

The atmosphere was so high that Qiu Hongyan couldn't refuse.

Besides, she really likes Sister Xia'er.

When we met for the first time, I wanted to get close to Sister Xia'er, but to my surprise, my wish came true. At this moment, he went away filled with joy.

Qiu Hongyan lived in the east wing and slept until dawn.

However, Shi Anxia and others stayed up all night because someone in Qingpuyuan almost died and there was a big fuss.

The so-called "almost" means that the person did not die. It was all thanks to Shi Anxia who arranged for the guards to patrol and specifically pointed out Qingpuyuan who was paying attention to Qiu Zhiyan.

Last night, Shi Wanqing received news that the "students beat the Dengwen drum" during the competition, and Emperor Mingde promised to investigate thoroughly and reopen the basic examination.

She felt mixed emotions. On the one hand, he was secretly happy that Yunqi Academy was in bad luck, but on the other hand, he was angry that his son's third place result was also invalidated.

Shi Wanqing ran to her son's Qingpu Courtyard in the middle of the night to tell him the news.

Who would have expected that he would catch his son studying hard in the study, and actually fooling around with that shabby girl Bi Luo!

Immediately, blood rushed to his head, his eyes were scarlet as if spitting fire, and he pulled the disheveled Bi Luo off his son like crazy and beat him to death.

Shi Anxia heard a report from the palace guard, saying that her aunt was determined to sink Biluo into the well, but it was only because they went to ask the mistress Yu Sujun to deal with it that no one died.

Shi Anxia knew that in her previous life, Shi Wanqing must have been seen by Qiu Hongyan when she sank Biluo into the well. Something went wrong in the middle, causing Qiu Hongyan to be pushed into the well.

In this life, Bi Luo did not die.

Shi Wanqing asked Lady Ya from the brothel to come and take Bi Luo away early in the morning. It is said that Qiu Zhiyan did not say a word during the whole process, and continued to sit in the study and read and practice calligraphy as usual, as if nothing happened.

When Qiu Hongyan woke up, no one noticed that she had been missing all night because of the chaos there. When she returned to Wisteria Garden, there was no one there, not even the girl was there.

She had no idea that she had just escaped a life-and-death disaster in such a muddle-headed way.

On the same day, Emperor Mingde issued an edict to all major academies to re-open the basic combat examinations three days later, with him taking the lead in supervising the exams.

This time, several people from the Hanlin Academy, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Rites, and the Department of Academic Affairs, which were originally responsible for formulating the topic, were selected to work on the topic together.

No one can go out in the middle, and they will eat and live together to prevent problems from being revealed.

There are people from Dong Yuwei guarding the outside, so that no moth can fly in, nor can it turn into a butterfly and fly out.

Huang Wanqian and Fang Yuchu were not affected at all and continued to enter and exit Yunqi Academy with a swagger.

Everyone started talking, "What does this mean? Did the two old masters buy any questions for Yunqi Academy?"

"If you didn't buy it, then why did the emperor reopen the basic exam? If you bought it, why didn't you hold the two old masters accountable, and Yunqi Academy wasn't closed down?"

"I can't understand! I really can't understand! But it is true that the emperor intends to protect the two old masters."

"If Yunqi Academy fails to live up to expectations and fails to pass any test again, then it must be a question. So the emperor's meaning is obvious. If you do well in the test this time, you didn't buy a question last time; if your results are poor, you will fail all the questions. If it doesn’t happen, I’ll probably have to give an explanation to all the students, right? The emperor wants to convince the two old masters, right?”

Amid the commotion throughout the capital, the basic exam was resumed three days later.

This time, Yunqi Academy went against the norm and went on a high-profile trip.

Still wearing the blue robe with white trim, and still the same students taking exams.

They didn't even ride in a carriage, but walked. The men's eyebrows were calm and there was no trace of dejection. All of them were in high spirits and radiant.

The difference is that there are three more people in the escort team. One is named Huo Siwu, one is named Feng Min, and the other is named Xing Mingyue.

The two Taishan Beidou did not avoid suspicion and appeared in the team with smiles on their faces. Even several of Zhu Yuxian's teachings were accompanying him, looking unfazed.

Shi Anxia was standing at the gate of the Gongyuan in men's clothing. Seeing an acquaintance crowded in the crowd, she stepped forward and smiled slightly. The laughter was indifferent and cold, "Sister An Xin, can you feel at ease?"