I'm in love with this princess

Meng Hanxing hid for more than half a month, until the eve of the imperial examination, she rode a little donkey, wobbling into the mansion from the back door of the Meng residence.

When Qiaoer saw Meng Hanxing, her eyes turned red with excitement, not because she was happy, but because she was angry.

What kind of master did she meet? Someone else's lady is wearing rouge and gouache all day long, and she is dressed in silk and satin. Where is her lady?He even wore a rag suit and came back riding a donkey that screamed to death!

Don't ask her why she called that donkey a cowardly donkey. Who has ever seen a donkey whose tail is pinched when someone stares at it?She saw it!That donkey seemed to have turned into a spirit, and when it was stared at, it put its tail between its legs and wanted to run away!

Thinking of her young lady, Huiyuan of the great Zhou Dynasty, a talent that countless forces are vying to win over, and a woman who will definitely be an extremely human minister in the future, there is such a cowardly and stupid mount!It's a shame!

"Miss, where did you go, and where did you abduct such a stupid donkey!" Qiao'er offered a cup of tea to Meng Hanxing, chattering non-stop, "I'm going to give that stupid donkey a treat!" Fodder, it rolled my eyes!"

Meng Hanxing laughed out loud with a "poof", and was stared at by Qiaoer's pitiful and angry eyes. He immediately withdrew the smile on his face, and said with a posture: "I picked up that donkey on the side of the road. It is lonely and pitiful, and when I think of my current form, I feel sympathy for each other, so I bring it back to the house."

Miss, do you think Qiaoer is a big fool?

After knowing Meng Hanxing for the third year, Qiaoer finally understands a truth, the lady's mouth is a deceit, and it is better to listen to nonsense than to believe her.

"Okay, don't be sullen. I will get up early tomorrow to go to the palace. Prepare decent clothes for me." Seeing that Qiaoer's resentment was about to break through the sky, Meng Hanxing realized his conscience and spared the little girl.

Qiaoer nodded obediently, and went down to prepare tomorrow's clothes and morning food for Meng Hanxing.

It is not convenient to be in the palace. Although there is only one morning for answering the questions, tomorrow I will stay in the palace all day.

In the morning, it was time to pass before dawn, and I had to eat something to fill my stomach.In order not to keep going to the toilet in front of the emperor, he couldn't drink water in the morning.

Where is going to take the exam tomorrow? It is clearly a sin to find a sin, but this sin is still the sin that students all over the world think about and cannot ask for.

Holy face.

When Qiaoer thought of these two words, her cheeks flushed with excitement. She used to be just an orphan girl who was stared at by people and couldn't eat enough to wear warm clothes. At that time, she thought that if one day she could eat white bread , She is willing to call her dead!

The two words "Mian Sheng" and "Shang Sheng" are so far away from her that she dare not even think about them.

The world is unpredictable, who would have thought that the nobleman she serves now can enter the palace to face the saint!

Meng Hanxing picked up the lantern, and his mind was filled with the experiences of the past few days outside.

Originally, she wanted to go and have fun with Jiang Pingyue for a few days, but who knows, the emperor suddenly asked Jiang Pingyue to serve the sick, and kept Jiang Pingyue in the palace, unable to go anywhere.

Obviously there is a prince, but the emperor shuts the prince and all the princes out. The political affairs are handed over to the chief assistant and the queen, and the good job of personal service is handed over to his only daughter-in-law.

Personal service sounds hard, but in fact it is very easy. There are so many court ladies and eunuchs in the palace, where is it the princess's turn to do it herself and serve the emperor in front of the emperor? It is a good opportunity to gain a sense of presence.

Jiang Pingyue couldn't leave, so Meng Hanxing let himself go and wandered around in several towns near the capital for a few days.

As a result, Meng Hanxing was depressed.

That donkey was not picked up by Meng Hanxing, but sold to her by a little boy.

The boy said that his family ran out of grain, his younger sister was sold, his older sister married someone else as a continuation, his mother was sick from overwork, and his father was working in the southern city of the capital to fight sacks for merchants, so he couldn’t come back for two or three days a month.He had no money to buy medicine for his mother, so he had to sell the donkey at home.

It sounds incredible.

Meng Hanxing's first reaction was that the boy was bluffing her, but after careful investigation, he discovered that things about the boy were not uncommon.

In the capital, at the foot of the emperor, there are people living such a life.

It’s not that they don’t have land in their family, but the land belongs to a small gentry family that rents out land. After paying the tax, the grain they produce is thrown away for the next year’s grain. There is not much left. It’s okay if the family has nothing to do. By going to the capital to earn some odd jobs and selling side dishes, I can survive until the next harvest.

Once someone in the family gets a serious illness, the whole family will be torn apart immediately.

Feudal society is a society that eats people.

What is eaten is not those who are at the top, but ordinary farmers who are at the bottom of society.

The current Holy Majesty is not too stupid. Since he took office, he has never raised taxes, but the taxes that have lasted for more than ten years have already emptied the families of ordinary people.

The seemingly prosperous dynasty is full of holes, and the prosperity of those prosperous times is like a mirage, illusory.90.00% of society's resources are in the hands of one ten-thousandth group, and the remaining [-]% is distributed to tens of thousands of people in the world, and the [-]% in the hands of the people will be controlled by a layer of layers of exploitation.

Greed is a black hole that cannot be filled.

Meng Hanxing sighed, she only hoped that when she entered the court as an official, she could do something for the common people.

But as an official under a suspicious emperor, can she show her ambitions?

Before dawn on the second day, Meng Hanxing got into the carriage and drove all the way to the center of the capital.

It's not that Meng Hanxing has never been to the imperial palace. After all, she is the first daughter of the Meng family. Meng Jingyan has a high position and authority. In previous years, the imperial palace held banquets. As a noble daughter, Meng Hanxing still joined in the fun.

But the usual join in the fun is completely different from the current mood.

The imperial palace at dawn is gloomy. Although there are people coming and going inside, there is no movement, giving people a kind of silent coercion. Walking in it, you will unconsciously slow down your pace, lower your voice, and dare not make a sound. Movement and stillness disturb this important place of the imperial palace that has stood for thousands of years.

The center of power of the Great Zhou, the place that controls the world.

When entering the palace, walk down the corridor first, and turn left at the end of the corridor to see Zhongshu Sheng.

The Zhongshu Province of the Great Zhou Dynasty is known as the cradle of the Shoufu cabinet. At that time, the heads of the various divisions, the Shoufu and the cabinet members who could speak, all went out from the Zhongshu Province. Generally speaking, in the Zhongshu Province After staying for three years, you are guaranteed to enter the Dazhou Center Team.

When Meng Hanxing passed by the gate of Zhongshu Sheng, he saw many students who came together stopped and looked at the gate of Zhongshu Sheng, as if they had been glued and stuck to it.

Going forward, there is the Sun Moon Palace, the place where the court officials of the Great Zhou used to meet, the large and long square, and the huge palace standing upright, revealing the fearsome momentum of going forward, one can feel the imperial power when standing in it. Great pressure on people.

The small court meeting is held on the third day of the big week, and the big court meeting is held on the fifth day. The small court meeting is the day when the emperor and officials above the second rank hold a small meeting, and the big court meeting is the day when officials above the sixth rank hold a meeting together.

On weekdays, the emperor would hold a small meeting with the Chief Assistant and cabinet ministers in the Yizheng Hall behind the Sun Moon Palace to deal with the government affairs.

The venue for the palace examination had always been set up in the Sun Moon Palace, because of the large number of people, only the Sun Moon Palace could accommodate it.

But now the emperor is not in good health. The queen, the prince and the six princesses watched the palace examination.

It is said to be the emperor's bedroom, but because the emperor usually lives in the back palace, and rarely sleeps in the front, this bedroom is usually prepared for ministers who can't leave the palace because they discuss state affairs late. Candidates who participated in the examination next time.

Meng Hanxing walked all the way, amazed all the way.

In her previous life, she spent half of her life in the palace.

But here, she never set foot.

It's not that she doesn't want to come, but that she doesn't have the qualifications. She is just an ordinary female official in the harem, how can He De set foot in this sacred place.

Now, relying on her own ability, the eunuch led her in respectfully, and then sat in the seat closest to the emperor.

At this time, the emperor hadn't come yet, and the top was empty. Meng Hanxing sat in his seat, and he could clearly see the four places above with a glance.

The dragon and phoenix chair in the middle must belong to the emperor and empress. The two small chairs on the side belong to the prince and which one belongs to Pingyue?

Meng Hanxing didn't quite understand what this operation was. Why did Jiang Pingyue suddenly receive the attention of the emperor? It's understandable why he brought the prince to the palace examination. Why did he bring Jiang Pingyue?

Could it be that it was to keep the whole family tidy?

"Your Majesty is here! The Empress is here! His Royal Highness is here! The Sixth Princess is here!"

The eunuch with a strong voice yelled so loudly that the whole palace could hear his voice. It was so loud that it made Meng Hanxing's ears hurt.

For the first time, Meng Hanxing was troubled by the fact that his hearing was too good and his martial arts practiced well, but sometimes he suffered a disadvantage.

Without seeing the person coming clearly, all the candidates bowed their heads and bowed their hands in a respectful salute.

If no one yelled to greet these four people, they had not received professional training, and no one gave them signs to tell them to shout and stop together. With so many people in the hall, if they greeted them together, the solemn hall would instantly become vegetable market.

"Cough cough..."

The first thing Meng Hanxing heard was a male voice coughing.

The man probably was seriously ill, he was weak when he coughed, and his voice was low and hoarse, upon hearing it suddenly, he really looked like a sick ghost who was dying.

Is the emperor's illness so serious?Meng Hanxing didn't care too much. If the emperor was really sick and dying, he would not hold the palace examination, but lay on the bed and let the imperial physicians circle around.

In Meng Hanxing's memory, the emperor still had several years to live. He was so sick that he couldn't die for the time being.

"Everyone is flat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Everyone shouted these three words together, crisp and clear, even if there were two or three voices that were out of sync with everyone, it was not obvious.

Meng Hanxing accepted the gift, straightened his back, and met a pair of eyes full of encouragement.

It's a weekday.

Meng Hanxing saw that Jiang Pingyue smiled at her and compared two words with her lips.

"No. [-]."

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