In the spring of the third year of Yuanxi, candidates who had been selected through the provincial examinations from all over the country poured into Beijing to participate in the examination.

This is the unprecedented excitement of Northern Yan Kingdom since the new emperor ascended the throne. Because of the large number of people entering the capital, the accommodation fees in the inns in the city have doubled.

However, even so, the number of people in the inn was still full, and countless students from other places had nowhere to stay, and had no choice but to live on the streets.

Zhao Yize arrived relatively late, he rushed over from Luoze, which is the farthest from the capital, and when he arrived in the capital, let alone staying in an inn, there was even no open space outside the inn.

Fortunately, it was the first time for the people in Beijing to see such a lively scene. After hearing that the Wang family took the initiative to vacate the other garden for the disciples to live in, the people in Beijing also followed suit and opened their homes.

Because of this, Zhao Yize was temporarily freed from the trouble of robbing others for a place to sleep, although he didn't think those candidates would be able to rob him.

Zhao Yize was accepted by an ordinary family with a total of three members. Because the children were young, they could follow the adults. After hearing that the people in the city had spontaneously opened their homes to let candidates from other places move in, the host immediately vacated a room.

Zhao Yize carried the burden, and when he stepped into the door, he suddenly stopped and looked back.

"What are you looking at, young master?" Seeing that he didn't keep up, the host turned his head in surprise.

"It's nothing." Zhao Yize shook his head, "I just felt like someone was watching me from behind."

The male host smiled, "Maybe it's a passerby, and it's normal for you to be eye-catching, young master."

"Father, are you back?"

A woman's voice came from the main room, Zhao Yize turned around, and saw a woman walking out with a child who looked like eight or nine years old.

"This is my wife and child." The male host introduced to Zhao Yize, then looked at the woman, "This is Mr. Zhao who came to our house to stay, has the house been tidied up?"

The woman nodded with a smile, "It's ready, just take this young master there."

"Young Master Zhao, this way please." The master stretched out his hand to point the direction, Zhao Yize nodded slightly, "Thank you."

Seeing the two leave, the woman withdrew her gaze and was about to close the door, but found that her child had already run out of the door.

"Hey, little tiger, come back soon."

The woman chased out the door, but found that her child stopped in front of two young men. From a distance, the two men were well-dressed and there were many nobles in the capital. If her child was ignorant and bumped into someone—

Thinking of this, the woman quickly stepped forward, pulled the child behind her, and apologized while raising her head: "I'm really sorry, did this child bump into the two young masters?"

Xiaohu raised his head, looked at his mother, pointed to the young man opposite, and said excitedly, "Mother, it's the beggar brother."

Wang Chengxuan twitched the corners of his mouth. It seemed that in the eyes of children, he couldn't get rid of the image of a beggar.

"It turned out to be a benefactor." The woman also recognized it, and turned her eyes to the man next to Wang Chengxuan. The two looked similar, but this one was more stable.

"The benefactor has found his family?"

"Probably." Wang Chengxuan responded vaguely, and then realized the address in the woman's mouth, a little strange: "Auntie, why did you suddenly call me a benefactor?"

Speaking of this, the woman showed grateful eyes, and she blessed Fushen and said slowly: "Two years ago, the young master gave Xiaohu a peace talisman. In mid-December last year, one day Xiaohu suddenly made a fuss about sending the peace charm to Xiaohu." He gave the amulet to his father, and his father followed him to put on the amulet. The next day, when he went out to cut firewood, he fell off a cliff. As a result, except for a little skin cut on his hands and feet, he was unharmed. "

The woman paused, "Later when his father came back, he said that at the moment he fell, he felt a sudden heat on his chest, and when he realized that he was already lying on the ground, then his father unbuttoned his collar and found That peace talisman has been reduced to ashes."

The woman wiped the corners of her eyes, "If it wasn't for the peace talisman of the young master, his father would...so naturally he should call the young master a benefactor."

"Hee hee." Xiao Hu followed suit and clapped his hands, "Brother benefactor."

Wang Chengxuan was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that the safety talisman he gave would really come in handy.

"Brother benefactor." Xiaohu called out, Wang Chengxuan looked over and saw him pointing at the person beside him, "Is this uncle the elder brother of benefactor's brother?"

Wang Chengxuan glanced at his ancestor, but found that his eyes seemed to be distracted.

The woman took Xiaohu's hand, "I left in a hurry last time, and I still don't know the name of my benefactor." "My surname is Wang." Wang Chengxuan turned his head and replied, and smiled again, "I see that your house seems to have guests?"

"So it's the prince." The woman was slightly taken aback, if it was the prince of the Wang family in the capital, it's no wonder he would dress like this.

"That is the master Juren who came to Beijing to rush for the exam, and he will stay at my house for a few nights."

Wang Chengxuan nodded, while bumping Wang Muzhi with his elbow, obviously he was the one who first said to bring him to see Zhao Yize, but when he came, he was distracted and didn't make a sound.

Wang Muzhi was knocked back by Wang Chengxuan, he glanced at the woman and child, and said to Wang Chengxuan: "Let's go, we are going back."

"Ah? Don't you want to watch it?" Wang Chengxuan asked in surprise.

"The benefactor, we will go back together." The woman said at the right time, then lowered her head and said to her child: "Xiao Hu, goodbye to the benefactor."

"Goodbye, brother benefactor." Xiaohu raised his hand and waved, and Wang Chengxuan also raised his hand and waved.

The two returned to the house, the door was closed, and Wang Chengxuan turned to look at Wang Muzhi, "Old Ancestor, why did you suddenly change your mind?"

Wang Muzhi didn't answer him, but only looked at Wang Chengxuan, "I don't know, when did you have an intersection with her and gave her a peace talisman?"

Mentioning this, Wang Chengxuan remembered the incident when he was knocked out at the beginning, he ground his teeth, "I met twice when I first came here, and it wasn't the leader of the Black Eagle Guard who knocked me out and took me to the palace. I used the talisman to escape and met her again, I was so hungry at the time, she kindly gave me some steamed buns, and I gave the talisman to the child."

"Then you did something good by accident." Wang Muzhi curled his lips, "Let's go, you don't have something to ask His Majesty, I will enter the palace today, and I can take you there."

Wang Chengxuan was surprised, "Didn't you agree to come this morning?"

Wang Muzhi ignored him and turned around to leave. Wang Chengxuan couldn't figure it out, but felt that his ancestor's emotions had become more complicated and changeable recently.

Is it the legendary menopause?

With this speculation in mind, Wang Chengxuan followed Wang Muzhi into the palace, and under the leadership of Liu Kang, the two arrived at the emperor's bedroom.

As soon as he walked to the door, he could smell the strong smell of traditional Chinese medicine. Even the ambergris lit in the hall couldn't suppress the smell of medicine.

The half-drawn bright yellow veil could vaguely see the figure of the emperor leaning against the head of the bed, and beside the dragon bed, several imperial physicians knelt beside him to ask for pulse.

Liu Kang motioned for the two to stop, and walked forward by himself, "Your Majesty, Patriarch Wang and the others are here."

Xie Xun raised his head and glanced out, the imperial doctor happened to stop, Xie Xun waved them back.

"Resignation." The imperial physicians stood up solemnly, and then retreated without looking sideways.

Wang Muzhi's heart sank involuntarily, just as Liu Kang removed the veil, he strode forward: "Your Majesty—"

"I know what you want to say." Xie Xun interrupted Wang Muzhi, and his eyes fell on Wang Muzhi, "Why did uncle bring him into the palace today?"

Wang Muzhi's words were blocked in his throat before he could speak, and after a moment of helplessness, he opened his mouth and said, "He said he had something to ask His Majesty, so I brought him here."

"Your Majesty." Wang Chengxuan stepped forward bravely and bowed in a polite manner.

He dared to be presumptuous in front of Wang Muzhi because he knew that Wang Muzhi would not do anything to him. However, although the emperor in front of him looked weak on the outside, his methods were even worse than those described in the history books. It's because he still has such an increasingly frightening Black Eagle Guard under his command.

Under various circumstances, even Wang Chengxuan, who possesses the sense of superiority of modern people, could not help but learn the etiquette of the Northern Yan Dynasty honestly, just to avoid the crime of being rude in front of the imperial court.

"What do you want to ask me for?" Xie Xun said coldly.

"I heard that the imperial mausoleum is almost finished." Wang Chengxuan swallowed, and suppressed the tension in his heart, "Cao Min touched the imperial mausoleum mechanism to cross over. Cao Min wants to try again."

As a modern person, he cannot stay in this ancient times forever.

"Want to go to the imperial tomb?" Xie Xun chuckled, "After the imperial tomb is built, it will be closed. If it is opened, there is only one situation."

Wang Muzhi frowned tightly, Wang Chengxuan looked at Xie Xun blankly, "What's the situation?"

"It's nothing." Wang Muzhi flicked his sleeves, and he looked at Wang Chengxuan with a sullen face, "If this is the request, you don't have to think about it, just wait another seven or eighty years."

Wang Chengxuan was shocked, "Why..."

His mouth was covered by Liu Kang who was on the side, and Liu Kang looked at Wang Chengxuan with a fake smile, "My lord, don't say what you shouldn't say."

"Little uncle, what are you scaring him for?" Xie Xun glanced at Wang Muzhi, "What seven or eighty years, my body can last two years at most, and the imperial tomb will be opened then."

Wang Chengxuan was stunned, "It turns out that the imperial tomb has to wait until..."

No wonder the ancestor got angry suddenly. Now that the imperial tomb is closed, he said that he wanted to go to the imperial tomb, but in Wang Muzhi's ears, he was cursing his precious nephew to die early.

"Your Majesty, don't talk nonsense." Wang Muzhi said with a solemn face, "How could you believe what that quack doctor said back then."

Xie Xun shook his head, instead of arguing with him, he just asked, "Has the seedling who can work that my uncle mentioned ever came?"

Wang Muzhi sighed helplessly, "He's here, but he came late, the inn was full, and he went to live in an ordinary family's house."

"Since the little uncle met him once." Xie Xun curled his lips, "Then the exam in seven days, little uncle, you can go to be the examiner."

Wang Mu was taken aback, and instantly understood what Xie Xun meant, and then smiled, "After the minister comes back, I will tell His Majesty how he reacted when he saw the minister."

Wang Chengxuan on the side silently lit a candle for the future lord of the country. The person who was reported to the county government by him a year and a half ago turned himself into his own examiner. I'm afraid I'll screw up the exam.

It's a pity that the examination room was heavily guarded by the imperial guards, so he didn't have the chance to enter the scene.

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