Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 826 Calm and Waves

Du Jinning's heart moved, but there was no expression on his face: "Think too much."

At this time, a woman came out of the house with two plates of snacks in her hand.

She put the snacks on the table between Du Jinning and Qin Laoliu, sat down beside Qin Laoliu, stretched out her hand and twisted Qin Laoliu's ear, until Qin Laoliu grinned: "Okay Qin Lao Liu, you dare to make jokes about the young master, you really have the guts of a bear."

As she said that, she smiled at Du Jinning and said, "Young master, don't blame him, he has this kind of temperament, carefree and unrestrained."

"No problem." Du Jinning waved his hand, picked up a piece of mung bean cake, took a bite, and asked, "How's it going outside?"

"The Royal Forest Army and another team are searching around the city." The woman looked at Du Jinning, "Although the sixth child is a rough man and can't speak, let the young lady say, the young master's makeup is really bad."

Du Jinning put down the mung bean cake in his hand, looked at the woman with a serious expression: "Why not?"

This woman is Qin Lao Liu's wife. When Du Jinning moved from Lishui County to the provincial capital and asked Qin Lao Liu to take care of the mess, he asked him to take over his wife and children.

After they entered Beijing, Du Jinning asked Qin Laoliu to buy this house as a stronghold, and let the couple settle down here. Qin Laoliu changed his name to Qin Song and his wife Wang Shi.When the two settled down, they also registered the name of a daughter who died in infancy on the household registration, and announced to the outside world that the daughter followed her grandmother in her hometown, and the name on the household registration was Qin Anning.

And Qin Anning is Du Jinning's current identity.

Qin Song and the Wang family settled in the capital a few years ago, and their daughter also exists on the household registration. Some time ago, the Wang family also greeted the neighbors they had made friends with and went back to their hometown to pick up their daughter, saying that when the daughter grows up, she will give birth to her in the capital. She said dear.Such an old resident, such an excuse, has no flaws at all.Even if the Imperial Forest Army finds out here, as long as Du Jinning's appearance is not so similar to the missing Du Jinning, they will not be able to find out at all.

Du Jinning is not unaware that there is a problem with her makeup.The reason why she walked out in women's attire without any concealment was because she wanted to try Qin Lao Liu and Wang Shi.

Although Qin Laoliu has been listening to her all these years, he can do whatever he wants, and when he was in Lishui, he was also famous for his loyalty.

But in order to hide their power, Qin Laoliu's family is free, and Du Jinning does not hold their contract of sale.And these people under Qin Laoliu were all cultivated by Qin Laoliu, and they have never had much contact with Du Jinning, the real master.They listen to Qin Laoliu's orders, but Du Jinning's orders are not necessarily.

Now that Du Jinning has lost her status as an official, she is alone and has no one to rely on. Qi Muyuan doesn't even know that she is with Qin Laoliu.If Qin Lao Liu suddenly became rebellious and suddenly wanted to take her down in exchange for benefits, then she would really be in the mouth of a tiger, and there was no way to resist.

So she had to be careful.

Human heart is the most complicated thing in the world, she dare not bet, nor can she afford to bet.When Qin Lao Liu took him to this house, she drugged Qin Lao Liu without anyone noticing.If Qin Lao Liu didn't betray her, she would give him the antidote without anyone noticing; but if Qin Lao Liu wanted to betray her, then she would naturally not be a lamb to be slaughtered.

It was precisely because of the reliance on prescribing the medicine that she dared to throw off Qi Muyuan's people and entrust her personal safety to Qin Lao Liu.

Mrs. Wang didn't know what Du Jinning was thinking, she said: "Firstly, you are too beautiful to attract others' attention; secondly, your appearance needs to be changed, so that no one will see you and associate you with Master Du."

Du Jinning nodded: "Sister-in-law is right."

"Then I'll help you change it?" Wang tentatively asked.

"Okay." Du Jinning stood up.

Over the years, Qin Lao Liu has used the money Du Jinning gave him to buy or win over many capable people.Mrs. Wang is smart and capable. She can contribute to Du Jinning and get a monthly payment from Du Jinning. So she learned from a master in charge of makeup in Goulan, and learned the skills of makeup and fake makeup .

Entering the room, Mrs. Wang took out a bunch of bottles and cans, and smeared Du Jinning's face.After she finished talking, when Du Jinning took a look in the mirror, he saw that his appearance had become very ordinary, and he was no longer the same as before.

Even if she changed her appearance and gender, even if she met acquaintances on the road, those people would not recognize her.

"Sister-in-law teach me how to do makeup," she said.

Although Du Jinning had learned a few tricks before, and usually used makeup to change his appearance when he dressed up as a man, his makeup skills were still inferior compared to professionals like Wang's.

Because of the darkness under the lights, she didn't plan to leave the capital during this time, so she stayed in this house.This period of time is probably the most leisurely time since she traveled through time, why not take this opportunity to learn how to make up and pass the time.

"Young master wants to learn, of course there is no problem." Wang said with a smile.

Wang Shi is about the same age as Qin Laoliu, in his early forties, and Du Jinning is only 16 years old.With her age, she is more than enough to be Du Jinning's mother.So teaching Du Jinning to do makeup, she has no psychological burden at all, and Qin Lao Liu will not have any ideas.

In the house, Du Jinning learned makeup with Wang's every day, read books, practiced calligraphy, and lived a leisurely and peaceful life.

But the outside world is turbulent, and things happen one after another.

First, the Zhao family was ransacked and slaughtered, the main figures of the Zhang family were killed, and the house was burned to the ground. Officials from other aristocratic families were found to have violated the law and were imprisoned or dismissed.

The aristocratic family wanted to repeat the old tricks and reached out to the palace so that Zhao Wen would be wary, but they didn't want Zhao Wen to be on guard. In the harem, except for the concubines from the aristocratic family, whether it was the queen mother, the princess of Lu Guochang or a few children, they were all protected by the imperial forest army. Be strict.Not only did they fail to succeed, but they exposed their secrets and were arrested by Zhao Yu's secret service agencies.

In the end, the family had to surrender to Zhao Wei.

Following Qi Bokun's suggestion, Zhao He chose some sincere families to accept their surrender, and those who were not sincere continued to liquidate.All of a sudden, the family was panicked.The power of the aristocratic family in the court has been greatly weakened. Zhao Wu gathered his power, supported more officials from poor families to important positions, and consolidated his own regime. Passed in one fell swoop in the court.

The ups and downs in the court, life and death, did not affect the people, and the people still lived their peaceful lives.

But on this day, an official rushed into the palace to ask Zhao Wei to see him. As soon as he entered the main hall, he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the people in Beijing are emotional and ask us to rescue Lord Du Jinning."

Zhao He was discussing the matter of the family with Qi Bokun, when he heard that he glanced at Qi Bokun first, and seeing Qi Bokun also looked surprised and bewildered, he asked, "What happened?"

(End of this chapter)