After wearing the book, the Buddhist imperial concubine has spoiled again

Chapter 145 Shishi sleepwalking and talking in sleep, the palace test begins!
A man's deep voice came from next to his ear, "This is unbearable? I will help you in to rest."

Suddenly someone hugged her around her waist, Jiang Shishi's first reaction was to shake her body in fright, but she still had no strength in her body.

Until he heard the voice of the prince, he was inexplicably relieved.

Jiang Shishi was confused and leaned her body weight on the prince.

The woman at this moment is like a drunk, very heavy, Pei Xuanling has to hold her waist tightly.

The woman's waist is very soft, and every time she takes a step, the touch of her palm becomes more intense.

Huang Dechang outside the door has been waiting for the prince to tell him to go in, or to ask Chun Xing to go in and wait for Jiang Meiren to change clothes and rest.

Because, in the past, after other concubines fell into the beauty dream, the first-class maids in the front yard served the concubines to lie down.

Today, Huang Dechang waited and waited until the crown prince called him, turned his head and saw two closely interdependent bodies reflected on the window.

It seems that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has done it himself, so there is no need for these servants.

In the inner room, at the bedside, Pei Xuanling helped the woman to lie down, took off her shoes, and let her sleep with her clothes on.

It was getting late, and Pei Xuanling didn't intend to review official documents anymore, so he changed his clothes, blew out the candles and lay down.

It must have been the effect of the beauty dream, he just lay down and heard the woman beside the pillow talking in his sleep.

Pei Xuanling leaned on his left elbow, and with his ear close to the woman's lips, he heard the woman announce the name of the dish: "Steamed lamb, steamed bear's paw, steamed deer tail, roasted duck, roasted chick, roasted goose, stewed pig, stewed duck , soy sauce chicken, bacon, pine flower belly"

At the end, the woman "smacked it" on her lips, "Hey hey" with a silly smile, "It's delicious"

"This donkey-hide gelatin cake tastes good too, and eating it is good for your body."

After hearing this, Pei Xuanling pursed his thin lips lightly, and his eyes were deep.

Before it was over, the woman suddenly sat up with her back to him, humming a cheerful unknown song.

"Three laps to the left, three laps to the right, twist your neck, twist your butt, go to bed early and wake up early, let's do some exercise."

When she was humming, I saw her move her hands to the left and then to the right a few times.

Then I stretched my neck a few times, twisted my waist and hips.

When his eyes fell on the woman, Pei Xuanling's face was ashen, but his whole body felt hot.

After the woman hummed the ditty and performed the movements, she continued to fall down and sleep.

"." With his left hand propped by his ear, Pei Xuanling lay on his side beside the woman, his gaze fell on the woman's face, waiting for her next reaction.

However, after waiting and waiting, he only waited for the woman's gradual and steady breathing.

In her dream, apart from those delicacies and exercising, is there nothing else?

Beauty Dream is a colorless and odorless medicinal powder, and it will only be effective after women take it.

Once women take it, they will dream of things they dream of, or things that haunt their dreams.

There are so many concubines in the East Palace, only Jiang Meiren has never tried Beauty Dream.

The reason why Pei Xuanling gave her a try was to see what was in her dreams.

After the other concubines in the Eastern Palace had their beauty dreams, they either dreamed of serving the bed or being promoted.

Only this Jiang Meiren!The mind is full of desire for food and drink, otherwise it is the way of exercising and keeping in good health.
She should have thought that she would be so promising!
That night, the woman beside the pillow was soundly asleep.

Pei Xuanling closed his eyes, but his mind recalled the tenderness of his palms, and the way the woman writhed in front of him with her back turned to him.

That look is both cute and a bit seductive.
Thinking of this, how could Pei Xuanling sleep?

I had to force myself to think about those serious court affairs like last time.

In this way, in the second half of the night, he gradually fell asleep.

In the early morning of the next day, Jiang Shishi was soundly asleep, when someone pinched her cheek so hard that she woke up from the pain.

"." Opening his eyes in a daze, he saw the prince, the culprit, staring at her coldly, with his hand still on her face, "Your Highness, what's wrong?"

"Get up and wait for Gu to change clothes and wash up." Pei Xuanling let go of his hands with a cold face, lifted the brocade quilt and got out of bed.

"Oh..." Jiang Shishi just got up, feeling lazy and tired.

Slowly opening the brocade quilt, only to realize that he slept with his clothes on last night.

Jiang Shishi knew that the prince didn't touch her every time he went to bed, so she didn't think too much about it.

A court lady and eunuch came in with water and clean robes.

Jiang Shishi first served the prince to wash up, and then served the man to change into court clothes.

During this period, she always felt tired and didn't sleep well, and yawned again and again.

Seeing Beauty Jiang yawning, Huang Dechang knew it was caused by a beauty dream.

After women take Beauty Dream, they will have many dreams at night, they will not sleep well, and they will naturally feel tired and lack of energy.

Jiang Meiren took less food, while the other concubines in the Eastern Palace took a lot, and they were dreaming almost all night, so His Highness would spare them morning paralysis.

"Did you sleep well?" A man's deep voice came from above his head.

Jiang Shishi nodded, "Well, I'm still sleepy."

After she finished speaking, she covered her mouth and yawned again.

Pei Xuanling: "You are going to pay your respects to the side concubine in a while, and you have to cheer up if you haven't slept well."

The corner of Jiang Shishi's mouth twitched slightly: "."

She is so sleepy, shouldn't she be asked to rest for a while?
She heard from the other concubines in the Eastern Palace that after they went to bed, the crown prince would be sympathetic to them and spared them the morning routine.
How did it get to her place? Not only did it not spare her morning routine, but it also made her cheer up and carry it.

They are all concubines, why is there such a big difference?
It seems that good treatment belongs to others
Now that the crown prince said so, Jiang Shishi could only cheer up, "I don't know what's going on, I went to bed early last night, why are you still so sleepy? It's really strange."

As soon as the words fell, the prince gritted his teeth and said, "Of course you're sleepy because you just talk in your sleep all night."

"Talking in sleep?" Jiang Shishi asked: "What did I talk about in sleep?"

Pei Xuanling: "Meals."

"What meal?"

"Full Han Banquet." Pei Xuanling also said, "Not only do you dream of eating, but you also sleepwalk and exercise."

"." Jiang Shishi was embarrassed, she only remembered that she ate a lot of delicious food before going to bed yesterday, and then she was full, so she exercised for a while, and then fell asleep.

Didn't expect these were all dreams?
Usually I don't remember a dream after waking up, but this dream is clearly remembered, and it's a bit terrifyingly real.

Just when Jiang Shishi was surprised, the prince's cold voice came from above his head: "Since you talked and sleepwalked last night, making you so noisy that you couldn't sleep alone, I will punish you to be vegetarian for ten days."

"." Jiang Shishi frowned, and looked up at the man innocently, "I don't want to be like this, but who can control the matter of falling asleep?"

"Besides, my concubine's body is weak, and I can't bear it just by eating vegetarian food."

"That's why Gu only punished you to be a vegetarian for ten days." Pei Xuanling said grandly, "Besides, a proper vegetarian diet is beneficial and harmless to the body."

Jiang Shishi bowed her head and reluctantly replied: "Okay."

After the prince finished dressing and washing, the prince went to the hall to have breakfast.

Chun Xing went into the inner room and combed Jiang Shishi's hair.

While combing her hair, she asked in a low voice: "My lord, I see His Highness's complexion is not very good. I heard that His Highness punished you to be a vegetarian. You didn't want to exercise your body last night to make His Highness unhappy, right?"

"I don't have one." Jiang Shishi sat in front of the dressing table and shook her head, "But I seem to be exercising while sleepwalking."

"You, you." Chun Xing looked helpless, "Let the servants say what you want."

"Chun Xing, did you notice me talking and sleepwalking during the night watch?" Jiang Shishi asked with her head tilted.

Chun Xing thought for a while, "It seems that you talk in your sleep occasionally, but I have never seen you sleepwalking before."

Jiang Shishi: "." That's strange, why did she sleepwalk last night?

"Ah..." Jiang Shishi couldn't hold back, and yawned again.

Chun Xing waited for her to change into a clean dress, "My lord, I'll come back later in the morning, so you can go back to sleep again."

"Well, I need to go back to sleep." I yawned, tears were about to come out, "I don't know why, I can't sleep enough."

Chun Xing: "It's been a long time since you went to bed, and if you go to bed for a while, you'll be more tired, of course you'll be sleepy."

"But I didn't go to bed last night." Jiang Shishi explained: "I woke up this morning without taking off my clothes."

"Don't be embarrassing." Chun Xing believed that her little master had succeeded in serving the bed last night, "His Royal Highness called for water several times last night. Not only did you serve the bed, you were also favored by His Highness several times."

Next, Jiang Shishi explained a lot to Chun Xing, but Chun Xing didn't believe her.

Forget it, I won't explain it anymore, the more I explain, the more chaotic I get.

But she thought about it, except that she and the prince were lying on the same bed, and the dream of eating and exercising really existed, and there was no impression of sleeping in her mind.

Why did the prince call for water several times?

**
As soon as April passed, the palace examination began on the third day of May.

The Palace Examination is the most rigorous examination in the imperial examination.

The imperial examination of Dongliang Kingdom only takes one day, and the test is about strategy theory.

Candidates enter the palace at dawn, go through the etiquette of roll call, loose papers, praise, salute, etc., and then receive the policy questions and take the exam in the Palace of Preserving Harmony.

Each year's policy questions are based on the current social problems in Dongliang Kingdom, and three to five policy questions are set up, allowing candidates to write unique insights.

In order to avoid leaking questions, each question was written by the emperor himself the day before.

There are three policy questions this year, one of which is based on the fire in the Gongyuan a few days ago.

Candidates finished their questions until dusk, and then left the palace one after another, waiting for the results to be announced.

In the early morning of the fourth day of May, the ministers of the Ministry of Rites and the ministers of the Imperial Academy reviewed the papers together.

Emperor Jianyuan let it go, and only 280 of the 120 candidates were accepted for the palace examination.

On the fifth day of May, the ministers finished marking the papers.

At dawn that day, Pei Xuanling went to the Ministry of Rites early.

When he got there, Xue Mao, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, handed over the list of candidates admitted to the palace examination and the articles on candidates admitted to the palace examination to the prince.

In addition, the ministers also selected [-] excellent examination papers, and waited for the prince to lead them to the emperor for inspection, and the emperor appointed a first-class personnel.

At this moment, there were only Pei Xuanling and Huang Dechang in the study.

Pei Xuanling glanced at ten lines at first, scanning the names on the admission list.

He saw Xue Youcai in the list, but he didn't see the name of Jiang Meiren's brother Jiang Chongjin.

"Huang Dechang, bring Jiang Chongjin's exam paper and show it to Gu." Pei Xuanling ordered lightly.

After Huang Dechang answered, he found Jiang Chongjin's test paper in a stack of test papers and handed it to the prince.

After carefully reading Jiang Chongjin's article, Pei Xuanling probably knew why Jiang Chongjin was not admitted.

First of all, he had seen the list of those who were admitted, most of them were candidates from famous families.

As for the ministers of the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Academy, those who were born in princely and noble families were the first choice for reviewing papers.

Because most of them are officials' families, if newcomers from big families are promoted, they will be able to take care of each other in the officialdom.

The poor students have no background and are of no use to them, so they exclude the poor students.

Of course, in order to block the mouths of students from poor families all over the world, they will admit a few candidates who look like they are from poor families.

But if you look carefully, those poor families who were selected actually have an intricate relationship with the princes and nobles.

Even someone like Xue Youcai has an uncle who is a high-ranking official in the capital.

In addition, the ministers of the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Academy like to use gorgeous rhetoric and beautiful handwriting.

Jiang Chongjin is good at writing, but his rhetoric is not gorgeous enough.

However, he really liked Jiang Chongjin's article.

The content is concise and to the point.

Especially the article about the fire in the Gongyuan, which solved the problem in every way.

If you are an official, you will be a practical official.

Based on his understanding of his father, if his father read such an article, he might not like it.

It's a pity that Jiang Chongjin's article does not meet the preferences of those sour scholars, and he is not responsible for grading the papers.

While Pei Xuanling was thinking, Huang Dechang whispered, "Your Highness, the ministers of the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Academy are all here. We have to go to the Hall of Preservation and hand over the papers to the emperor for review."

Pei Xuanling nodded, and sandwiched Jiang Chongjin's paper among the thirty excellent test papers.

In addition, he randomly found a candidate's test paper and stuffed it in, creating the illusion of accidentally making a mistake.

If it was someone else, he might be able to say a few words and recommend it to his father.

But Jiang Chongjin is the older brother of Jiang Meiren, so he can't help to talk about it, so he can only create some opportunities in private.

Seeing this scene, Huang Dechang was surprised.

Then he lowered his head and pretended he didn't see anything.

In order to give Jiang Chongjin a chance, His Highness played a dangerous move.

Whether the emperor likes Jiang Chongjin's article is still one thing. If the emperor knows about His Highness's move, he will be annoyed by His Highness?

Immediately afterwards, Pei Xuanling took the ministers to the Palace of Preserving Harmony.

When we arrived at the Hall of Preserving Harmony, all the ministers of the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Academy sat at the bottom.

Above, Emperor Jianyuan sits on a dragon chair.

On the desk in front of him, there are more than 30 articles carefully selected by ministers.

The entire hall was very quiet, only the sound of Emperor Jianyuan marking the papers.

Emperor Jianyuan didn't look very carefully, basically seeing ten lines at a glance.

When you come across an article you like, take a closer look.

If he doesn't like it, he puts it aside.

Who was Emperor Jianyuan? After reading about a dozen articles, he saw the whole situation clearly.

These so-called excellent articles are basically children of noble families.

I picked a few who seemed to be from poor families, but I was afraid of being offended, but they were actually relatives of princes and noble families.

Moreover, these articles began by praising the imperial court, praising how the emperor wisely governed Dongliang, and then expressing gratitude to the emperor for coming to the palace examination.

Then I started to answer questions, and the whole article was gorgeous and exaggerated.

However, even though Emperor Jianyuan was furious in his heart, the surface was still calm without any waves.

Until halfway through, I finally saw an article I liked quite a bit.

After reading this article carefully, Emperor Jianyuan only glanced at the next dozen articles.

After reading more than thirty articles, Emperor Jianyuan looked at the ministers next to him with a blank expression: "I want to ask, in the eyes of all your lovers, what kind of emperor am I?"

Next, dozens of ministers looked at each other in blank dismay, no one could guess the emperor's mood, and no one dared to answer.

Seeing that no one dared to answer, Emperor Jianyuan said: "According to the thirty articles selected by the Aiqings, I can see that in the eyes of the Aiqings, I am a fool who likes to be flattered!"

As soon as the voice fell, the lower ministers all knelt down in fear.

Emperor Jianyuan had a sullen face. He didn't say that all the princes and nobles were selected, but only talked about the problem of the article itself.

"Thirty articles, the style of writing is generally superficial, and the style is laid out in parallel. If they are asked to write the strategy of governing the country according to the policy, they will know how to flatter the court and the government! Can flattery solve the real problem? Huh?"

"What's more, he wrote 7000 words just for flattery, and with his exaggerated writing style, he wrote more than [-] words for a policy theory, and one article is worth several others!"

Emperor Jianyuan swayed a pile of examination papers vigorously, and immediately, dozens of articles were scattered down the hall.

"I choose talents who govern the country and the world, not people who flatter me!"

A thunderous sound resounded over the hall, shaking the ministers' ears numb, and their bodies like rocks, unable to move.

In the face of Emperor Jianyuan's scolding, the ministers kowtowed to the ground tremblingly, not daring to say a word.

Immediately afterwards, Emperor Jianyuan took an article in his hand, and his tone softened slightly, "However, among these dozens of articles, there is still a good article."

"This test paper in my hand has three policy questions, each of which is succinct and straightforward, with a simple and pragmatic style of writing, especially the policy question on the fire in the Gongyuan, which is almost to the point."

"He first cited the flammable materials in the test shed of the Gongyuan, and proposed to completely renovate the Gongyuan and change the materials to a fireproof structure."

"In addition, he proposed that in addition to lighting candles and kitchens, open flames should be banned in the Gongyuan, especially the examiners and candidates who have some smoking bags. Once found, the examination and invigilation qualifications will be cancelled."

"I don't know which examinee the article the emperor mentioned came from?" A minister slightly raised his head as heavy as lead, and secretly glanced at the emperor.

Emperor Jianyuan spread the test paper in front of the desk, "It's a candidate named Jiang Chongjin."

Pei Xuanling: "." I knew Father would like Jiang Chongjin's article.

Hearing that it was a candidate named Jiang Chongjin, the ministers below looked at each other in blank dismay, most of the ministers had no impression of this person.

Some ministers acted according to the emperor's mind. Although they had no impression of Jiang Chongjin, they still said: "I still have a little impression of Jiang Chongjin. At that time, I thought his articles were well written, but he couldn't catch the eyes of your colleagues. , I can’t do anything about it.”

After shifting the responsibility to other ministers, he said: "Since the emperor admires Jiang Chongjin so much, why not make this person the number one scholar in the imperial examination?"

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