The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

If Sheng Yuan wanted to leave Beijing, the first thing he had to do was ask for leave from the official.

However, since she and Zuo Sicheng are staying in Dali Temple now, the object of her leave has become Mr. Chen.

After all, the left and right temple ministers are respected by the left!

"No! No! Mr. Sheng, at this moment when the court is in crisis, how can you abandon the capital and still ask for leave?"

Sheng Yuan didn't expect that she just said she wanted to take a vacation, as if she had poked a nerve in this colleague's hand.

It's just that Chen Sicheng is so opposed, it's not easy for her to take a vacation!

Seeing that submitting a resignation letter is easier than asking for leave, Sheng Yuan scratched his head.

Although it is not easy to ask for leave, she never thought of handing in her resignation letter.

Although she has a low official position now, she is still at the level of a scholar-bureaucrat. Even if her opinion is not important, at least it is better than an ordinary girl who has no say.

Sheng Yuan thought about all this, but it only took a blink of an eye.

And the moment she was pondering, Chen Sicheng said again: "What's more, Dali Temple always has a superior who can make the decision!"

"???" Sheng Yuan felt that these words were very problematic.

Chen Sicheng made Sheng Yuan's big dark eyes stare into embarrassment, and after coughing dryly, he said truthfully: "I was appointed by the cabinet to join the team to welcome the holy driver, and I will leave Beijing soon."

"!!!" Sheng Yuan's eyes, which were already wide open, became even wider now.

Why didn't she know this was happening!

"...Therefore, Master Sheng is still needed to guard Dali Temple to ensure the rear area."

Sheng Yuan nodded helplessly.

The matter has come to this point, at this moment when there is no room for bargaining, after the other party handed over the list of people who are going out of Beijing to welcome the holy driver, Sheng Yuan can only recognize the fact: she will not be able to leave Beijing!

Sheng Yuan sighed, and had to be polite to them according to the etiquette: "Thank you, Sicheng Chen, you have worked hard all the way."

"It's not bitter! It's not bitter! It's my responsibility!" Chen Sicheng said politely, but he couldn't hide the smile in his eyes.

There is no way, who said that Kyoto at this time is not suitable for officials to stay for a long time!
Especially for a low-level official like him, without anyone to protect him, he could easily be coerced into a certain camp.

Instead of staying in Kyoto and getting involved in discussions about the succession of the throne, it would be better to go out and earn some qualifications.

When I met with Dali Siqing and the two young ministers, apart from introducing the situation in Kyoto, there were basically no other matters that I had to deal with personally.

Thinking of this, Chen Sicheng moved more easily.

Sheng Yuan looked at it enviously for a moment, then walked back helplessly.

It was at this moment that the vice minister of the temple hurried over and said that the Dengwen drum was beating!

"Mr. Shanda, Yousi is responsible for the Kyoto files. It seems that I have to help you this time!" Chen Sicheng clearly assigned the case to Youji in one sentence.

His impatient look made Sheng Yuan even more jealous.

Do you need to be so obvious? !Didn't see her all the vice ministers came running?They, You Si, didn't intend to push the responsibility to Zuo Si either!
Sheng Yuan, who kept a common official smile on his face but was already roaring impolite words in his heart, walked towards the lobby quickly.

As she walked, she asked, "Shouldn't some unsightly noble family make trouble this time?"

To be honest, since she took office in Dali Temple, the lobby of Dali Temple has rarely been vacant.

Obviously, the duty of Dali Temple is to review case files from all over the country to confirm whether there is any inappropriateness in the judgment of local cases, but there are often people beating drums outside Dali Temple to complain.

However, from Yan to Chu, there is an unwritten rule, but whenever the common people knock on the outside of Dali Temple, no matter whether it is compliant or not, Dali Temple must inherit it.

So, as a newcomer who just arrived, her experience points skyrocketed.

"It's not like those noble children are causing trouble again." The deputy of the temple shook his head with a wry smile, and said, "My lord, the person who beat the drum outside is a woman with two young men. Tell Jing Wang to bully the king, to abandon his wife and son! At this moment, the outside is full of people watching the excitement."

King Jing? !
Hearing this, Sheng Yuan intuited that the other party was here for King Jing in name, but actually...he was here to pick peaches!
"Prince Jing is dead, it's hard to distinguish what this woman said." Sheng Yuan thought for a while, and told Xiaoyao, "You go into the palace and tell the Queen Mother about this, and then go to Prince Jing's mansion to find Concubine Cen, and confirm the truth with her old man. .”

Saying so, the lobby is in front of you.

Sheng Yuan took the seat of honor, and signaled to the vice-caller of the temple to bring the woman over.

Not long after, a haggard woman with a dark turban on her head came in accompanied by two gentlemen.

This woman's clothes are ordinary, but she can't hide her outstanding temperament.

When she got closer, Sheng Yuan found that her slightly weathered face could still be described as beautiful.

Sheng Yuan was not very good at judging her age, so his eyes turned to the two gentlemen beside her.

One of these two gentlemen is at most fifteen or sixteen years old, and the other is about twelve or thirteen years old.

"Madam, you say you are the former Concubine Jing?" Sheng Yuan took the lawsuit from the deputy of the temple, read it carefully, and then raised his head to confirm with the other party.

"Master Si Cheng, I am the legitimate daughter of the Lang family in Guyuan." The woman straightened her body and said loudly, "King Jing was a vassal in Guyuan back then, and he was ambitious and wanted to develop his ambitions. However, there were many families with the surname Guyuan. Several surnames are closely related, and they are all old relatives.

If he hadn't proposed to marry him with the gift of a concubine, I, the Lang family, would not have devoted all my family's strength to help him sort out Guyuan and take control of the fief..."

While listening to the lady explaining the reason, Sheng Yuan worked hard to dig out useful information from the memory bank.

Guyuan, Guyuan... If she remembers correctly, before King Jing returned to the capital, the Guyuan family was wiped out, and even the Lang clan of King Jing's Yue family only existed in the local history records.

Over the years, Sheng Yuan has also heard some rumors that King Jing once married a wife and had children in the feudal domain.

However, from Emperor Chengyuan to King Jing himself, they never admitted it.

It is said that the royal family book only records that King Jing once had a side concubine named Lang, but there is no record of heirs.

"...It's just that no one would have imagined that King Jing is ruthless. In order to ensure that Guyuan is under the control of the court, he swung his blade at more than a dozen major surnames. I, the Lang family, never imagined that the first one he destroyed was the Lang family!"

When Mrs. Lang said this, she became emotional: "He used the Lang family! He used my Lang family! Those families with big surnames were guided by him and united to encircle and suppress the Lang family. The family's excuse!

Interlocking!Contact step by step!All the people of the Guyuan family are his pawns!Even if I gave birth to two sons for him, he still never hesitated!

If there hadn't been a loyal servant to report the letter, I'm afraid my mother and son would have let him send away a pot of poisoned wine! "

At the end, Mrs. Lang burst into tears.

She looked so pitiful crying.

But it is a pity that Sheng Yuan is a hard-hearted person. She could only sigh at what happened to Mrs. Lang, and then devoted herself to the case.

"Mrs. Lang, I will have someone investigate what you said... However, you said that these two gentlemen are the sons of Prince Jing..."

Sheng Yuan looked at the two faces that seemed to be carved out of the same mold as Prince Jing, paused, and said without conscience, "Do you have any evidence to prove that they are the heirs of Prince Jing?"

With tears in her eyes, Mrs. Lang looked at Sheng Yuan in disbelief: "My lord! Look at their faces! Look at their faces! Is there any other proof for this?"

"There are similarities between people, but appearance alone is nothing..."

Before Sheng Yuan finished speaking, the angry Mrs. Lang took the conversation away: "It's a coincidence that one looks similar, so what about the two? Can it be a coincidence?!"

"You're right." Sheng Yuan looked at her calmly, "If you put it in an ordinary family, your evidence is enough, but...you are related to the royal family's money, and the royal family attaches great importance to blood. No confusion allowed."

"Then you send someone to Prince Jing's Mansion to invite Old Concubine Cen, she knows about the existence of my two sons! She even gave gifts to the children before!"

Sheng Yuan also had this intention, but Concubine Cen would not be able to ask in a short while: "Since Mrs. Lang is here, let's take a rest in the guest courtyard of Dali Temple, and wait for Concubine Cen to prove it before talking about other things."

Mrs. Lang should be, not long after, she took her two children with her attendants.

Sheng Yuan watched their backs as they walked away, kept silent, and drank cup after cup of tea until he was full, and then he came out of his thoughts and became sober.

"My lord, the cabinet sent Sheren to ask for the file of this case!" The deputy came in a hurry again.

"Give it to them!" Sheng Yuan didn't expect the cabinet to be so fast!
"But..." Deputy Si wanted to remind Sheng Yuan that this case is not over yet!

"Don't worry, the elders in the cabinet will help to improve it." Otherwise, they wouldn't have sent someone here in a hurry.

I just don't know how true the results they give are.

……

"What? The heir of Prince Jing is still alive?" As the queen of Emperor Chengyuan, the Empress Dowager Qin knew more than what was recorded in the royal family records.

She also heard about the fact that the Lang family gave birth to two sons at the beginning, but before leaving the feudal clan and returning to Beijing, King Jing reported to the court that he had no two sons.

She also told Aqi at the time that there must be something inside!

She even once reminded the emperor to beware of King Jing.

After all, tiger poison does not eat children. A person who can even abandon his only second son has no bottom line.

I just didn't expect that these two children would appear at this time!
If the origins of these two children are true, and they are both the grandsons of the late emperor, there may be twists and turns in the selection of the crown prince!
The Empress Dowager Qin knew very well that the reason why the cabinet ministers did not object to Yuan Ning's supremacy was that no close relatives of the Chu royal family could succeed her;

As long as the army is in hand, the civil servants in the cabinet are actually acceptable to the upcoming queen after they get used to women being able to study and become officials.

Of course, there is a premise for this, that is, there is indeed no Langjun among the close relatives of the royal family!

"Empress Dowager!" Aunt Qi looked at Empress Dowager Qin worriedly.

"We must start from the law! It is necessary to make the clause 'the emperor's heirs are more qualified to succeed than collaterals' clearly listed in the laws of Chu!"

Even if she has a good relationship with Concubine Cen, it is impossible for the Empress Dowager Qin to hand over the throne to others when she has granddaughters and great-granddaughters.

"Don't worry, Queen Mother, it's hard to say whether those two gentlemen are real royal heirs!"

Regarding Aunt Qi's persuasion, the Empress Dowager Qin shook her head, waved her hands and said, "It's just a game of not recognizing them! For those courtiers, the king's ascension to the throne is above all else."

"How dare they?!" Aunt Qi was shocked and angry.

Queen Mother Qin looked out the window calmly: "Why don't they dare?"

What's more, they are probably the sons of Prince Jing.

"If it's true, it would be a coincidence that they appeared."

Hearing Aunt Qi's words, the Queen Mother Qin who wanted to go with her, her dark eyes sharpened instantly: "We need to find out whether they have hooked up with Mrs. Lu!"

……

Concubine Cen exchanged greetings with Xiaoyao with a sickly expression on her face. When mentioning her son, she couldn't help but shake her head mockingly: "My son did have two sons, so they should be that old, but..."

As if remembering something, Concubine Cen took a sip of tea and continued: "The Lang family married according to the specifications of a princess at the time, but later someone revealed that the Lang family had been privately casting ironware and selling salt and iron to A Rong, and they even used their in-laws to marry her." They took advantage of my son's trust in them to sell information to the tribes in the grassland.

Because of this matter, the young couple who had a good relationship broke up completely.However, after all, my son didn't have the heart to divorce his wife, but just wrote a letter asking the late emperor to demote Lang as a side concubine.

Lang was furious when he heard this, wrote a letter of reconciliation, and left the feudal domain with his two sons.

My son sent people to look for him, but when he finally found her, he heard that the mother and son were following the Lang clan to the border town.

When the government sent more people to search, the news they got was that they encountered a group of robbers before approaching the border town, but when they escaped, they accidentally caused the carriage to fall off the cliff!
We sent people to search, but there was no trace. Over time, we could only report to the late emperor, telling the truth about Lang and her two sons. "

Concubine Cen paused, and smiled apologetically at Xiaoyao: "Accordingly, I should have gone to confirm it myself, but... Please also, Sister Yuan, be considerate of me, a white-haired person who sent away a black-haired person!

My son abandoned me and went far away. I really couldn't see two faces that looked like my son at once.

However, I remember that Lang once sent a letter saying that both my grandsons have birthmarks, if possible, you can use this as a reference. "

……

Xiaoyao came with a harvest, but when she entered the door, she found her young lady lying on a rocking chair and drinking tea comfortably.

"Very good! Very good! However, you may have to trouble Xiaoyao. You pack up and go to the classics hall as soon as possible, and give a share of your harvest to the North hall."

In fact, Xiaoyao is not afraid of running around, but he didn't expect the cabinet to get involved recently.

Muttering a few words in a low voice, Xiaoyao bounced towards the classics hall.

When she first arrived, the first assistant Yan Yuan, the second assistant Gu Yuncheng, and the third assistant Cen Minzhou happened to be talking about the two gentlemen who appeared suddenly.

"The royal bloodline cannot be confused, so we should find a way to confirm it." Although Cen Minzhou did not agree with Princess Yuanning's succession, he was also extremely resistant to the choice of confusing the royal bloodline.

"Prince Jing used to play in Qingyuan Hall when he was young, and I was lucky enough to meet him once." Yan Yuan stroked his beard calmly, "These two gentlemen indeed have the same faces as the ones in my memory!"