female concubine

Before the royal list of the palace examination was released, those who had already known the rankings rushed to Dali Temple by car.

"Fourth uncle, you also know that it's hard for my nephew to get away from the accumulation of affairs these days, so let's make a long story short."

The attendants all retreated from the house after serving tea, and waited for the door to be closed tightly. King Cheng didn't play riddles, and said straight to the point: "There are some things, the fourth uncle will say it directly. The fourth uncle knows that among the sons of your majesty, only the king of Chu you have no intention of fighting for." Your Majesty, King Zhao and the Eastern Palace are now fighting openly and secretly in the court, but His Majesty knows it but indulges the development of the situation. If the country continues like this, I am afraid that the country will be tilted and the country will not be guaranteed."

The king of Chu raised a cup of warm tea, put it down before drinking it, his face was full of doubts, he didn't understand, and said: "But what's the use of fourth uncle telling me about this?"

"When two tigers fight, one must be wounded." King Cheng raised his head and stared at King Chu. "But fourth uncle has followed the late emperor and His Majesty for many years, but he feels that the two tigers who are fighting now are not the best candidates for the position."

The King of Chu just continued to pick up the teacup and took a sip of the tea soup, wrinkled his face bitterly and said: "This tea is really astringent, much worse than the one I drank in Sichuan." He put it down immediately, and said with a smile: "Nephew It's not about what the fourth uncle said, if the fourth uncle has nothing important to do, and my nephew still has a case to check, then..."

"A gentleman does not forget danger, survives but does not forget death, governs but does not forget chaos, so that the country can be protected because of the safety of the body, it is related to the community, the family, the country, the world, the six kings, are they really unintentional?"

King Chu, who was half up, sat down slowly after hearing this, but did not give an answer.

Seeing her sitting comfortably, King Cheng said again: "Since that's the case, I won't force others to do what they want. Yuanling has passed Jiji, and the clan and scholar-bureaucrats have had the custom of marrying since the beginning of the dynasty. Yuanling is everything to me, and she is also the sister of the six kings." King Cheng showed two pieces of paper with names and birthdays written on them, and pushed them to King Chu.

The King of Chu stiffened his face, and then smiled wryly, "Uncle Wang married his daughter, even if His Majesty doesn't make the decision, he can decide on his own, why are you asking about me, a junior?" of tea.

King Cheng lowered his head and sighed softly, "Uncle Wang is old and his eyes are not working well, so I came to ask you."

"This tea is a bit astringent after all, and it doesn't taste good after drinking. It's too bad!" King Chu poured the half cup of dissatisfied tea in the corner.

Standing up again, nodding and cupping his hands, he said: "Nephew is really busy with business, and he has been talking with fourth uncle for so long, it would be bad to delay any longer, so nephew will excuse me first."

This time, no one stopped her from leaving, because she knew that no matter how much she stopped, the final result would be the same. King Chu left, and King Cheng looked sideways at the corner of the wall soaked in water, and was deeply troubled. Thick gray eyebrows.

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Those who deal with official duties put down the ordinary bamboo pens in their hands.

"Alang, are you calling me?"

"Go find an unknown foreign businessman and send me something to the person in this letter. Remember, don't disclose your name." After finishing speaking, he threw another ingot of gold.

"Since when did Ah Lang have so much money, did he keep it privately?" The attendant smiled slightly, "The servant has gone."

The day before the palace examination imperial list was announced, in Chengwang's mansion.

A group of people in plain clothes had just arrived in the capital, changed their outfits and rushed to Chengwang's mansion.

"My lord ordered two people to be investigated, and my subordinates sent two groups of people to investigate. Fearing that there would be false reports, they ordered people to go to the local area for investigation."

"Both of them are white bodies from poor families, and there is no family support behind them. Among them, Liang Wenfu is from Jiangling."

"My subordinates went to Jiangling personally, but due to the change of several magistrates in Jiangling Prefecture, the personnel transfer was very large, so Liang Wenfu's life experience was not found out, but..." The attendant in plain clothes took out a letter from his pocket, "This subordinate met a businessman on his way home and gave this letter to his subordinate."

"Read it." Cheng Wang leaned on the chair and held his forehead.

"Yes," the attendant explained the extremely ugly words in the letter one by one, "It is said in the letter that Liang Wenfu's biological mother was originally the embroidered mother of a wealthy family in Jiangling. He became the youngest son's book boy, so he read a lot of books. Later, the wealthy family fell into the water while doing business, and his son competed for the family property, and the family declined. One of the concubines brought his young daughter to the capital. The concubine's room was originally a brothel in Jiangling. Because of her outstanding beauty, she was bought home by a rich family with a lot of money. After her concubine arrived in the capital and had no means of making a living, she went to the Lanyue Building in Kaifeng Mansion. Her young daughter and Liang Wenfu had known each other since childhood, and...Liang Wenfu had a relationship with her entangled."

After listening to it, King Cheng sat up in shock, and took the letter from his confidant.

The attendant looked at the handwriting on it, and wondered: "This word... doesn't look like it was written by a scholar, but rather like a countryman."

"Who gave this to you?"

"A businessman, my subordinates wanted to detain him, but this person was smart and chose to come when the forbidden army was patrolling, so my subordinates did not dare to act rashly."

"Where is the merchant now?"

The attendant shook his head, "Because he came to the capital from another place to buy goods, he should have left now, but if the prince wants to find someone, his subordinates can..."

King Cheng raised his hand, "No need." Then he got up and threw the letter into the charcoal basin, "This kind of person who has been entangled with Goulan girls, even if he is talented, is not worthy to enter my Chengwang Palace and become the son-in-law of this old man."

"The other person is from Jinyang, Taiyuan. It's strange to say that when His Majesty ascended the throne, there was a decree prohibiting Jinyang Longcheng people from participating in the spring for 20 years. Now that they are not yet twenty, how can they be used for internal reference."

"Dragon City..." King Cheng turned his head to look at the teacup on the table, "His Majesty ordered me to put the water in Dragon City."

"Water? Jinyang is located in the north of Beijing. If we talk about water, Jiangling is adjacent to the Dajiang River in the south and Hanshui River in the north, which is even more important."

"Your Majesty, the woman who is related to the King of Chu and Lanyue Tower is the same person that Liang Wenfu is entangled with."

King Cheng turned around, fell into confusion again, stared deeply and said: "Six kings, what exactly do you want to say!"

"Six kings?" The attendant lowered his head and thought deeply, "In terms of age, the six kings are the youngest sons of His Majesty, but in terms of depth of thought, the great king is not as good as the three kings even though they are older. After Beijing, she looks more and more like the King Qi of the past."

"The forbearance and viciousness of King Qi back then, the prince has personally experienced it, and this subordinate thinks..."

"The King of Chu is the King of Chu, how can he compare with His Majesty back then?"

"But how is your Majesty's situation different from that of the King of Chu today? King Qi is also a concubine, and his biological mother is just a palace servant serving Taizong, but he has won over the three major powers in the court by himself."

"Third brother was indeed saved from a desperate situation back then, but don't forget, it was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who was kind back then, so that King Qi was able to succeed, and now we are the Crown Prince." King Cheng just hooked his lips and smiled coldly.

"If it wasn't for the Queen Mother's will, how could I have married my sister's orphan to him, so that I couldn't get away!"

"Is the prince afraid that His Majesty will bestow a marriage to the county master, so he is so anxious to make a choice. It is related to the lifelong affairs of the young master. It is better for the prince to choose carefully."

King Cheng narrowed his eyes slightly, "Since you're involved in it, you can't stay out of it. You've already made a mistake once, and you won't be able to put Yuanling in danger."

On March [-]th in the eighth year of Jianping, the palace examination revealed the list, and the yellow list was posted in front of Xuande Gate, and the tribute officials surrounded and watched it.

The businessman who copied the mansion newspaper to sell it for profit appointed a servant to wait in the street teahouse not far from the imperial list early in the morning, only to wait for the list to be revealed and transcribe the names in the order of the yellow paper, and then rush back to typeset the text and print it.

In addition to private reports from the people, the government's Tongjin Yintai Department has also published a morning newspaper that was distributed to all states and counties a few days ago.

"Daddy won't let me go out, but I won't. Of course I have to choose my husband and son-in-law!"

"Girl, there are so many people over there, how can we see clearly in the car!"

"Go, let the coachman drive closer."

"Yes."

Follow the yellow paper from left to right, No. 1 is written on the top, and the second and third are in the left and right positions below it. The people who read the list were overjoyed and said: "Hey, Brother Jiang, you are in high school, No. 3 is No. [-]. [-]. Tanhualang, a Jinshi and first grade!"

"Sure enough, if you survive a catastrophe, you will be blessed."

"Tsk tsk tsk, look at them, the ones who go through the back door are different, and they can still win the prize after coming out of the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice!"

"He is the grandson of Duke Wenmu, and his father is the deputy envoy of the third department, and he also has a cousin of the prince."

"Otherwise, the doomed case would be overturned suddenly."

"Could it be that you are envious of the rich family and now they are in high school, what if they are really talented and learned?"

"How is it possible? I was a classmate with him in the Imperial College. I have never seen him hugging books a few times, and he didn't do his homework. The professor couldn't do anything about it."

Those who muttered did not dare to speak in person, so they whispered in a low-key manner.

"That's when you didn't see my husband working hard at night. When the result came out, you should work hard."

"It can be regarded as a hit. I made a mistake before. Daddy should forgive me now. Let's go home."

"They... aren't you angry, sir?"

"They're just jealous of my title on the Gold List, so why be angry?"

"A first-class Jinshi and the rank, gratifying and congratulating, gratifying and congratulating." Liang Wenfu looked straight at the first column of the imperial list, and as expected, he smiled and congratulated Han Si.

"Brother Liang solves the test, the provincial test, the palace test, the leader of the Sanyuan, the veritable number one scholar, I should be the one to congratulate Brother Liang."

"We are all on the gold list, happy together, happy together."

A servant squeezed into the crowd to listen, then squeezed out again, ran to a carriage, and slightly bowed and pointed at the two scholars in the crowd, "Girl, those two are the ones on the imperial list of today's science." Among the top two, Tanhualang is Erlang from Jiang Xianggong's family, and the villain also heard that the No. 1 champion among them won three prizes in a row in this tribute."

"Sanyuan..." The head of Yuanling County opened his eyes wide, "I heard from my father that there is only one person in my dynasty who has won Sanyuan in a hundred years, and is praised by Emperor Dazu as a rare talent that can only be found in a hundred years."

The maid then leaned out and asked the boy, "Which one is No.1 champion, and who is No.2 second?"

"The one on the left is the No. [-] pick, and the one on the right is the No. [-] pick."

"There is no comparison in talent and learning, and the girl, the number one scholar is also better-looking than the second place."

The Lord of Yuanling County looked around, and the two modest gentlemen were discussing something, you bowed for a while, and he bowed for a while, "I always don't study hard the lessons my master taught me, will he dislike me... "

"He dares? The girl is the only daughter of Cheng Wang's mansion, so naturally only the most talented people in this world can match her."

The boy outside the car heard the discussion and asked in a low voice: "Miss, do you want to catch him and bring him back to the palace?"

The head of Yuanling County immediately nodded, put down the curtain, and the carriage slowly drove away to the west, "Remember to be gentle, don't hurt anyone."

"Yes, don't worry about the little one, I don't know which one the girl is looking for?" Si'er asked, and there were two strong men standing behind him, one of whom was holding a very thick binding rope in his hand.

There was also a spacious carriage parked on the other side, and there were two people snuggled up inside the carriage. One of them was a boy in a red round neck lying flat on the woman's lap, holding a plate of fresh lychees in his hand. There was also a thick fur coat over the blue beanie, which was gentle yet rich and noble, and the youth was delicate yet childish.

"Is it good to catch a son-in-law under the list?" She pushed aside a lychee and brought it to the woman's lips.

"Gathering talented scholars, of course it looks good."

Before anyone could eat it, she withdrew her hand, stuffed it into her own mouth, chewed and murmured, "Sister, let's go and see those gifted scholars, don't miss my lychees, just miss them." I won’t give it anymore.”

Xiao Youqing looked down at the person in his arms, covered his mouth with his hands, and said with a slight smile, "Do you want me to add some jealousy to Liu Lang?"

"Sister~" She put down the lychee and lifted it from the woman's arms.

Faced directly with it, the hickey hidden in the middle of the round neck was also exposed.

Xiao Youqing stared blankly, then covered her slender hand, touched her face, and said softly: "Okay, I'm teasing Liu Lang, I just want to see if the situation will develop as planned."

She continued to lie on her side, "Of course, if King Cheng really loves his daughter."

Not far from the imperial list, many officials in plain clothes came in person to observe secretly among the crowd, and some even summoned their servants to choose their favorite son-in-law.

Suddenly, a few strong men rushed in from the crowd, grabbed Han Si who was surrounded by Daoxi, tied them with thick ropes, picked them up, and walked towards the west of the city.

"Which one is this, they kidnapped directly?"

"Dare to do this at the foot of the imperial city, probably only Xianggong and the clan's family."