Soon after the students of Xuanwumen asked for their orders, the imperial court posted a notice stating that the Spring Festival would be restructured, and the spring festival originally scheduled for February [-] this year would be postponed for one year.

The re-examination of the frauds in the imperial examinations over the years and the review and evaluation of officials began when His Majesty came to the presiding trial.Next year's spring scientific examination system, supervisory officials, and scientific examination questions will all be changed, and the final examination papers will be decided by senior cabinet ministers and the emperor.

The notice came quickly and to the point, without any evasion, and the students who saw the notice knew very clearly that neither the reexamination of the imperial examination files nor the reform of the imperial examination will be achieved overnight. Stop it first, clarify the interests and persuade the students not to be instigated and used by others, which will bring unnecessary public opinion influence to the court.

Rather than staying in this capital where every inch of land is expensive and spending money and time at this time, it is better to go back to my hometown as soon as possible to consolidate more academic hours, so that in the coming spring, I will win the top spot and be named on the gold list.

The bustling and noisy capital gradually returned to its previous scene after a few days, but for the Minister of Rites, such things as His Majesty's personal review of previous years' scientific examination papers had caused him great pressure, not to mention that His Majesty did not know how to communicate with all the veterans of the family. What kind of agreement was reached? Several literati families who had never participated in imperial examination fraud have stood up to support the review of the dossiers this time.

The Ministry of Rites started doing this work before he entered the Ministry of Rites. Even when he gained power and looked through the files, he found that his examination papers had been replaced by others. He didn't understand why it had become a customary thing, and now it would be It was turned out and spread out on the bright side!

Although there are aides who can almost perfectly imitate the student's handwriting, the fake ones are fake after all, but if there are one or two that are more real, if you compare them one by one, you will definitely find clues.

Here, Meng Shangshu repeatedly wanted to see Mr. Yan Ge, but was turned away by Yan Xiuyun, who closed the door and claimed to be sick after the fall of the court that day. He had no idea that his wife, who had always claimed to be his virtuous wife, was busy with another matter. .

***

Su Mengzhai

Wanning stared at herself in the mirror who had removed her make-up and did not put on any makeup. Her black hair was braided into the simplest braids hanging by her side, and she only wore a simple magnolia silver hairpin on her temples.

"Young lady looks pretty in this outfit." The maidservant beside her said with a smile.

"Four years ago, I was indeed much prettier than I am now." Wanning took a jade comb and gently ran down the end of her hair, lowered her eyelids to hide the sigh in her eyes, and murmured to herself, "Yes, sir I have always loved pure people, and the me four years ago was not able to be Mr. Shake, and the me now is even more unqualified..."

Wanning's voice became lower and lower, and the servant girl who was serving beside her couldn't hear her clearly, so she couldn't help asking: "Miss...?"

"Nothing." Wanning gently placed the jade comb on the table and stood up, "Are the things and the carriage ready?"

"Back to the girl, everything is ready."

……

In the past few days, a guest came outside the house of the Minister of Rites, which is sparsely populated. It was a female guest, but the housekeeper who came over after hearing the news became more and more frightened. The facial features of this female guest were similar to the young lady in the mansion. Five or six points similar?

Wanning helped the servant girl get off the carriage, smiled at the steward, and handed over the greeting card, saying: "The old friend came to visit, and I have delivered the greeting card to your residence before, so there is a lot of trouble today."

"Miss, what are you talking about, please come in, please come in!"

The butler saw the greeting post before confirming that the woman in front of her was actually the thief who had kidnapped the young master who was regarded by the wife as a daring young master in order to threaten to exchange. The appearance of the woman in front of him really made the housekeeper speechless, and he couldn't help being more cautious in his attitude.

Wanning looked up at the plaque of the Meng Mansion, a trace of cold hatred flashed across her eyes.

Back then, she and her mother begged to see that person in every possible way, but they failed to do so, and she didn't even step into the threshold of the mansion. Now, she is combing her girlish hairstyle back then, and wearing the only silver coin left by her mother. Hairpin stepped into the gate of Meng Mansion dignifiedly.

She doesn't care much about the imperial merchant's things, but as long as the mansion bears the Meng surname for a day, she will disturb the family's peace all day long!

Otherwise, how could she be worthy of her mother who died tragically back then?

The butler directly led Wanning around the front hall and into the back house, passing by the hurried Meng Shangshu in the corridor, the sarcastic Meng Shangshu didn't stop at all because Wanning resembled his biological mother's appearance.

Walking to the back hall, Mrs. Meng, who had been waiting anxiously for a long time, went straight to greet her.

"Ma'am, don't worry. Your son's life is safe now. As long as your wife follows the little girl's advice, not only your son, but also all the shops in the mansion, including your wife's family, can't be preserved, but five or six out of ten are still possible." .”

"What do you want me to do?"

"I heard that Mr. Meng was a married woman back then?"

"...What is the meaning of the girl's words?"

"Master Meng's crime is a serious crime of ransacking the family and destroying the family. There is one and only one way for Madam to preserve the family property and children.

That is to marry into a family, and now Mr. Meng can't protect himself and escape from prison and exile. Why not let Mr. Meng come to this mansion back then, and how he was expelled from Yue's house today?

By the way...Speaking of it, if the report is meritorious, the benefits that can be gained will be even greater. It depends on Madam's heart, whether it is Mr. Meng, who has become weaker and weaker in recent years, and the family is full of concubine children, or the brocade clothes in the next few decades. The days of jade food silk and satin and the safety and future of children are more serious. "

***

When Xiao Jinghe came back from the plum garden, he happened to meet Dr. Gan handing the pills to Yang Yanqing, just looking at Dr. Gan's expression, compared to the usual eagerness to stuff it into Yang Yanqing's mouth, this time even giving the medicine seemed a little unfeeling willing.

On the contrary, it was the one who didn't like to take medicine on weekdays, but this time he took the pill with his finger in the old man's hand.

"What's the matter, the identities of the doctor and the patient have been switched?" Xiao Jinghe walked into the yard with a smile, and joked.

Dr. Gan turned his head and gave Xiao Jinghe a gouged look, and muttered, "My partner doesn't even worry about me, he's just a fool..." Afterwards, seeing Yang Yanqing swallowing the pills, he shook his sleeves and left with a worried expression.

Xiao Jinghe: "...?"

Walking to Yang Yanqing's side, Xiao Jinghe glanced at the aggressive back of the little old man and raised his eyebrows: "What's wrong?"

Yang Yanqing was holding the tea bowl and taking the pills in his mouth with hot water, until the bitterness in his throat was relieved before he said calmly: "It's probably because I'm getting older, there are always some days in every month when I'm not happy, it's okay."

Xiao Jinghe felt that something was wrong, but taking medicine is already a common thing in Yang Yanqing's body. After thinking about it carefully, it seems that there is really no problem, but in the end he was still worried and asked one more question: "Mr. Obedient and take some pills that shouldn't be taken?"

Yang Yanqing raised his eyes and glanced at him amusedly: "I have long been included in the forbidden list of pharmacies by Dr. Gan, and this pill was brought by Dr. Gan himself. What's the problem? What's wrong with my lord these days?" Long-winded and worrying?"

Xiao Jinghe was right when he thought about it, he walked to the chair and sat down, raised his hand and pressed the bridge of his nose: "The king always feels uneasy these days, as if something is about to happen."

"Isn't His Majesty taking over the presiding trial of the Chunwei case, what else is the prince worried about?" Yang Yanqing put the tea bowl aside.

"Although the Imperial Examination is a major event, but in the end, what scholars like you are worried about, my king is a little worried about the border... I always feel that this year's quietness is a bit abnormal."

Yang Yanqing slightly raised his brows at Xiao Jinghe's "Quietness": "Didn't you only attack once on New Year's Eve?"

"That's just one more general attack. On New Year's Eve, Mr. An even took the elite soldiers and burned most of the food and grass of the barbarians. Logically speaking, they shouldn't have stood still for the whole winter. If they hadn't hoarded food early , someone is helping the barbarians in secret." Xiao Jinghe's complexion was gloomy, in fact, what he was more worried about was not the border of Qingzhou, but the border of Qiongzhou, which is connected to Zhou State.

The secret guard sent out to inquire about the news has not yet returned, and the closer the day when Zhou Guo raised his troops to invade Qiongzhou and point directly at Daqing in his previous life, the more worried Xiao Jinghe became.

"Speaking of the barbarians, I thought about this issue a few days ago. The barbarians are peoples living on the grasslands, and it is bitterly cold outside the customs. It is not an option to fight against them every year like this. The lives of our soldiers in Daqing should not be wasted for no reason. In the war that should have been avoided..." Yang Yanqing paused, looked at the sky outside, and suddenly became interested, "The sun is just right today, why don't you go out and make tea in the yard?"

Xiao Jinghe smiled, "Let's go to the Plum Garden."

Yang Yanqing was stunned for a moment, and then realized that Xiao Jinghe, who had been idle recently, went headlong into the plum garden for several days. During this period of time, he was often not seen on weekdays. Could it be...

"Mr. wants 140 three plum trees, one is quite a lot." Xiao Jinghe walked over, stretched out his hand to the rare scholar who couldn't react, his eyes were tender and gentle, "Plum Blossom in February Come on, sir, don’t you want to go to the plum garden that belongs to you, play the zither, make tea, and chat with each other with a smile?”

……

Yang Yanqing always likes to nest, but when he is in the right mood, he is willing to take a few more steps. What's more, this garden full of plum trees is not just a garden to him.

The two of them came together to the pavilion where the embarrassing relationship had been resolved. The cold and bare pavilion had been reorganized. Not only the top of the pavilion and the stone pillars were re-polished and painted, but also because of the cold weather in February. Lots of sheer draperies to keep out the wind.

The light-colored curtain is not heavy, but it will shake back and forth in a small range with the breeze, causing the light blue tassels on it to vibrate lightly and flexibly.

It can be said that since entering the garden, this plum garden has a kind of humor and elegance that is completely different from the cold and simple Jingbei Palace, which is completely Yang Yanqing's favorite style.

Don't look at the poor and proud appearance of the emperor when he is out, and he doesn't wear very expensive clothes when he goes out on weekdays, but when he is in the palace, he has nothing but expensive things for food and clothing, and he will not wrong himself in the slightest .

Except for the imperial gift from the palace, most of the clothes and accessories in those large boxes were brought by Yang Yanqing from the Zhen Fusi, and they were gifts from friends. Xiao Jinghe was itchy with anger at the owner of Heqi Villa several times.

Yang Yanqing's qin was placed on the stone table in the center of the pavilion, and milky white smoke was rising from the spiced incense burner next to it. On the stone pillar of the pavilion, there was still the saber that Xiao Jinghe usually hung around his waist.

Xiao Jinghe raised his hand to caress Yang Yanqing's temples: "We have been married for so long, but Mr. has never really played a song for this king. I don't know if Mr. has the pleasure of playing the piano today?"

Jiang Qing was sent to the barracks early in the morning, and he will definitely not be able to return today; Shen Xiangliu, who is used to making troubles, does not know where he is now; Prepare, there is absolutely no one who is not winking to disturb the king and Mr. today!

Xiao Jinghe still remembered what Yang Yanqing had promised in this long-abandoned yard, in this pavilion.

[If the prince can plant a plum garden in this courtyard with his own hands, then Yang will answer all the prince's inquiries. 】

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Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution: 25 bottles of wine; 5 bottles of night listening; 1 bottle of small orange water and Mingyu;

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