First Lady of the Crown Prince

  Chapter 114 Rural Examination (two more in one)

In order to eat sweets, the old lady made Wu Yang a tool man at home all day. Wu Yang said for a while, "Girl Gu, I am hungry, I want to eat candied fruit", and for a while, "Girl Gu, I am thirsty, I want to drink mung bean soup. The super sweet one"...

  When he returned to the villa, Wu Yang almost doubted his life.

  Anjun Wang met him in the room: "How? Can I see the Queen Mother and her old man?"

  Wu Yang said with a face: "I saw it..."

  But is that really the queen mother?

  Wu Yang told King An Jun about his tragic experience of the day.

Jun Wang was shocked. He remembered that when he was in the village yesterday, he seemed to have heard some weird things from the Queen Mother. But first, he was so excited that he didn't take it to his heart. , But once thought that the Queen Mother was pretending to be crazy and stupid, in order to paralyze her family under house arrest.

"Subordinates don't think it is." Wu Yang said, "When Miss Gu went to pick up water, only the queen mother and her subordinates were left in the house. If the queen mother was pretending to be mad and stupid, then no one else, her old man should meet me frankly. ."

  However, there was no such thing. The Queen Mother just immersed her head in eating poached eggs, and every time he wanted to speak, he could be interrupted by the Queen Mother raising her hand.

  Why didn’t he find the queen mother so greedy before?

  The Queen Mother Zhuang in the impression of the King An is not a disregard of business for a little bit of food, but it is true that she can't eat too much sweets. The doctor said that the elderly should have a light diet when they are old.

  Anjun Wang murmured: "How could this be? Could it be that the queen mother lost her memory? And caused a big change in her temperament?"

  Or is this the nature of the queen dowager, and the queen dowager pretended to be in the palace during those years?

  But who can pretend for decades? Wearing a cruel mask for decades, wouldn't it show flaws?

  Anjun Wang was more willing to believe that it was the former. The Queen Mother had forgotten some things, so that the transformation that those things brought to her disappeared, and she became a complete stranger.

  Wu Yang did not dare pretend to guess: "What does the county king plan to do? Do you want to bring the queen mother back to Beijing?"

   "I don't know." Jun Wang sighed.

  A queen dowager who only knows that eating and drinking will not be your majesty's opponent, but putting her here, under Ding'anhou's eyelids, he is really worried.

Jun Wang thought for a while, what he thought of, and asked Wu Yang, "I don't understand a few things."

   "What?" Wu Yang asked.

  The King of Anjun opened the window and looked at the garden full of flowers and plants: "How did the Queen Mother lose her memory? Does this matter have anything to do with the Ding'an Houfu?"

  Wu Yang followed: "The county prince said, they deliberately stupid the queen mother?"

  Anjun Wang shot over with a cold gaze.

  Wu Yang shrank his neck, lowered his head and said: "Subordinates have made a mistake."

  How can you say that the queen mother is stupid? Although it's a bit silly.

  Anjun Wang asked: "Can you find out the identity of Miss Gu?"

Wu Yang said: "It is clear that she is the elder sister in the womb of the dragon and the phoenix. Mrs. Hou gave birth in the temple and had the wrong child with a village woman. Gu Jinyu should be from that village. But because she has been raised for so many years. Out of feelings, even if the truth was discovered a few days ago, Gu Jinyu was not sent back. As for the real Miss Gu, it is said that she herself did not want to return to the house. Moreover, she was married, and her husband-in-law was living here. "

  Anjun Wang said: "Who did you ask about?"

  Wu Yang said: "Ms. Hou, the subordinate asked directly."

  Yao didn’t think this was a secret. When Wu Yang came to ask, Yao told the truth.

  Anjun Wang thoughtfully: "In this way, Miss Gu was not deliberately arranged by Master Gu in the village?"

  Wu Yang shook his head and said: "It should not be. The subordinates speculated that the queen mother might have been taken in by Miss Gu after losing her memory. But...why did she become Miss Gu's husband-in-law's aunt?"

   "Leprosy." Wang Anjun squinted his eyes and said.

   "What?" Wu Yang was taken aback.

  An county king raised his hand to caress the potted Begonia on the window sill: "Didn’t you just say that Miss Gu’s husband-in-law is a foreigner?"

  Wu Yang was confused: "Yes, but what does this have to do with them taking in the Queen Mother? Is it possible that Miss Gu's husband-in-law will be a relative of the Queen Mother?"

  This can’t be right. How can the queen mother be relatives with a poor boy in the country?

  Anjun Wang thoughtfully said: "If the queen mother had leprosy and fainted at Miss Gu's door, Miss Gu touched her without knowing it, what would you do instead?"

  Wu Yang widened his eyes: "Is it still? Leprosy is so contagious, you will be sent to Jasper Mountain if you come into contact with it! Could it be..."

Jun Wang faintly held the corner of his lips: "Yes, in order not to be sent to Mafengshan, they can only take in the queen mother and cure the queen mother. In order not to be suspicious, they lied to be Miss Gu’s aunt. Come and join them."

  Wu Yang suddenly realized: "Yes, Miss Gu's husband-in-law is a foreigner, and her husband-in-law's aunt is naturally a foreigner, no one will doubt them at all!"

  Anjun Wang fiddled with a beautiful blooming crabapple flower in front of him: "What I am curious about is how did Miss Gu cure the queen mother’s leprosy?"

  Gu Houye said that she was just a little medicine boy, and it seems that he still doesn’t know his biological daughter.

  Wu Yang suddenly looked into King An’s eyes: "Kun, if she can cure leprosy, will it..."

  The Prince An raised his finger and stopped what he was about to say next: "This king can't believe her yet."

  Wu Yang sighed with a complex expression: "Yes. Then...the Queen Mother, what on earth does the king plan to do?"

Jun Wang thoughtfully said: "The queen mother has lost her memory. If she really comes to recognize her, she will not leave with the king, and she may reveal her identity. This is not a wise move. Call a few people, midnight Go and steal the Queen Mother!"

  Wu Yang: "Steal or steal people?"

  How do you feel that this statement is a bit wrong?

  Wu Yang moved quickly, and at night he took seven masters to Qingquan Village to steal...Uh no, kidnapping people.

  When he arrived at Miss Gu's house, he discovered that there were two hidden guards lurking nearby.

   should be the secret guard of the Ding’an Hou’s mansion to protect the dragon and phoenix fetus. Wu Yang thought that it would be better to lead the two away, otherwise it would be troublesome to wake up the queen mother.

  But the secret guards are different from ordinary guards, and they are unlikely to leave their master at the same time. Just as Wu Yang was wondering how to implement the plan, the two secret guards walked out of the house by themselves and rushed into the forest, not knowing why.

  Wu Yang: "……"

  This also works?

  No matter so much, time is precious, act now!

  Wu Yang made an offensive gesture, and seven men in black volleyed into the backyard.

  Wu Yang also planned to rush into the yard, but he just posed a pose. Before he jumped up, he heard a loud bang, and a man in black was kicked out like a sandbag.

  Wu Yang is a little confused.

  The way to get in is wrong?

  Wu Yang jumped on the wall.

  At this moment, the second person in black passed his eyes, drawn a beautiful parabola in the air, and fell heavily on the open space outside the house.

  Wu Yang was really dumbfounded.

  The dark guard has already left? Did it come back so soon?

  He looked towards the backyard, but where was the hidden guard? It is clearly the one Miss Gu who slapped Gu Jinyu and Zhuang Caidie one after another!

   On that day, he still felt that Miss Gu was too much, and even bullied a weak woman who had no power to restrain the chicken. At the moment, she seemed to be merciful at all!

  Otherwise, using her punch to beat a master's hand is really a dead hand. You can't fan Gu Jinyu and Zhuang Caidie's brains?

Although the people Wu Yang brought over were not considered first-class masters, they were still much stronger than the average masters, and they were beaten by Miss Gu so much that they could not fight back.

  Wu Yang wants to cry.

  He finally understood why the two secret guards from Ding'an Hou’s Mansion had suddenly rushed into the woods. They were not relieved. They were afraid that they would not rush in because they were here, which would spoil the interest of this young lady.

  Wu Yang estimated in his heart, I am afraid that he is not the opponent of this Miss Gu.

   "Offended, Miss Gu."

  Wu Yang took out the crossbow from behind, put a short arrow on it, and pulled the trigger at Gu Jiao's shoulder.

  It can be said that the time is too late, and the door of the old lady's house suddenly opened. She yawned and walked out: "What is so noisy?"

  Wu Yang was shocked, his arrow missed!

  It is the direction of the old lady, Wu Yang's heart is shocked!

  The speed of the bow and crossbow is several times faster than that of the arrows. It is too late for him to get his arrows back!

  At the very moment of her hair, she saw Gu Jiao taking off and landing in front of the old lady, dragging the old lady aside, the arrow slid past the back of her hand, and was nailed to the wall behind the two of them.

  The back of Gu Jiao's hand was scratched, and her hand was bleeding.

  She drew the arrow with her other hand, and threw it in the direction where Wu Yang was in the dark night!

  The arrow was too fast, so fast that even a master like Wu Yang could not dodge it.

   hit an arrow in his right shoulder, he snorted, and said to the black-clothed human who fell on the ground: "Retreat!"

  After the group of people left, the village returned to tranquility.

  The old lady saw the blood on the back of Gu Jiao's hand: "Jiaojiao, you are injured!"

  Gu Jiao Hun didn't care: "It's okay, scratch some skin."

  The old lady scolded: "The day at home is better, but the thieves are thinking about it!"

  A thief?

  The little thieves who came the last few times are not with such skill and equipment.

  Gu Jiao looked at the boundless night, always feeling that this group was not for money, they went straight to the little east room, which was the aunt's room.

  Wu Yang was injured and returned to the villa. Before he could heal himself, he went to the study to see King An.

   County King An looked at him suspiciously: "What's the matter?"

  He knelt down on one knee and said ashamed: "The subordinates neglected their duties and failed to bring the queen mother back... and... and almost injured the queen mother..."

  He did not dare to conceal it, and reported the incident to King An.

   Gun King An’s eyes passed a trace of surprise: "Unexpectedly..."

  Wu Yangshen agreed: "Yes, my subordinates did not expect that Miss Gu, who grew up in the private sector, has such a skill!"

  The King of County An held the corner of his lips: "No, this king didn't expect that she would sacrifice her life to save an old lady who had nothing to do with him."

  Obviously, it was for self-protection, but now that people have recovered, she can send them away, or at least don’t have to save their lives.

  According to Wu Yang, if she had avoided a little bit, she would have been shot through the heart by the arrow on the spot.

  He really couldn't understand this Miss Gu more and more.

   He looked at the sky for a bright moon, and whispered: "Miss Gu, how many do you still don’t know?"

  Wu Yang asked for orders: "The prince, his subordinates will be..."

  Anjun Wang faintly interrupted him: "No, since she is protecting the queen mother like this, just let the queen mother stay with her."

  Wu Yang was shocked: "The prince of the county!"

King An looked into the distance: "This is not the best time to pick up the Queen Mother and return to Beijing. When I go back and report to my grandfather, I will make all arrangements and then take her home back in peace. Girl Gu, we will meet soon. See you again."

  The next day, the King of Anjun resigned to Gu Houye and the Yao family: "The township examination is coming soon. I can't stay here any longer. I must hurry back to the capital as soon as possible. I am grateful to the younger generation for the hospitality of Houye and Mrs.

  He used "junior" for an unprecedented time, so fright that Gu Houye's tongue was knotted!

Anjun Wang’s gentle gaze fell on Yao’s face: "Mrs. Hou, your daughter is very good, better than the capital without a few thousand gold. If you have the opportunity, please also ask Mrs. Hou to bring your daughter to the house to meet Mengdie. Syria."

  Yao bowed and thanked him.

Gu Jinyu behind them couldn't help blushing.

  Is the county king praising her?

  Zhuang Mengdie also thinks that her brother is praising Gu Jinyu. She curled her lips, she knew that there were no triplets at all. Gu Jinyu was the wrong child of the Gu family, and that girl was the real daughter!

  Neither of them are good things, and she doesn't like anyone!

  The brother and sister embarked on the road back to Beijing.

  The carriage went so far, Gu Jinyu has not recovered from the praise of King An.

  An prince of heaven, no girl would dislike it, but the absolute majority of people are wishful thinking.

  But what if...which girl was the first king of Anjun moved his heart?

  As far as she knows, King An hasn’t talked about relatives yet. He just said that... Is it implying something?

  Gu Jinyu secretly glanced at Master Gu Hou and the Yao family. The two of them looked calm, obviously not guessing about it.

  She couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

  Father is an elm bump in this respect, and it is impossible to count on him; the mother now has only her biological daughter in her heart, and she can't take care of her at all.

  If... What if the mother knew that King An was interested in the girls in the Hou Mansion? Will you let Gu Jiao marry?

   is just a moment of effort, and Gu Jinyu has made up for it a lot.

  She was upset. On the one hand, the praise of King An evoked her unrealistic fantasies; on the other hand, she was eager to return to the capital and ask Concubine Shu for advice.

  Gu Jiao got the farm tools from the iron shop. The farmer had a little bit more, and the guys from Huichuntang got it.

Before leaving, the old blacksmith stopped her: "Little brother, what is your lady's last name?"

  Man said: "You said Miss Gu? She is not my lady."

  The old blacksmith was taken aback: "Huh? Then she is..."

  The guy didn’t know about Gu Jiao’s practice of medicine. He said, “She is a friend of our boss.”

  The old blacksmith asked, "Can you please tell me where the little brother lives so that I can come and thank her?"

  Guy said: "Miss Gu explained it. If she succeeds, she can be free of money for farm tools."

  Old blacksmith: "But..."

  Not anymore, the guy left with a few large carts of farm tools.

  The old blacksmith looked at the back of the carriage leaving, unable to recover for a long while.

  The open space halfway up the mountain, Gu Jiao did not move for the time being. She hired nearby villagers to cultivate a large medicinal field on the mountain, dug a fish pond and a ditch, and led water into the fish pond from below the waterfall.

  Gu Yan’s dark guard became a coolie who opened the mountain. They were sent to dig ditches and plant the land every day. After a month, the two of them had become veritable little black charcoal from childhood.

  In a blink of an eye, it’s autumn.

  This summer is not particularly hot, but the counterattack autumn tiger is hot and sweaty.

  Xiao Liulang and his party have been to the provincial capital for some time. Under the careful arrangement of the Lin family, they have moved into the most advanced and luxurious inn from the provincial capital’s Gongyuan.

   Manager Zhou asked Xiao Liulang to be a guest at the mansion several times, but Xiao Liulang refused.

  Lin Chengye has been tortured by Xiao Liulang a little bit miserably in recent months. When he went to Qingquan Town, he was still a fat man. When he returned to the provincial capital, he lost two laps.

  When Xiao Liulang gave him a topic, he could feel a kind of divine enlightenment. He didn't understand why Xiao Liulang was so knowledgeable, even more powerful than the Xixi gentlemen in the mansion combined.

  It's just that when Xiao Liulang asked him questions, he stopped cooking.

  He is someone who has experienced county, government, and hospital examinations at any rate. General examination questions can't help him, but is Xiao Liulang's questions? It's a knife!

  In fact, even the four books and the five classics have the scope of examination. Some chapters need to be memorized while others are not.

  Xiao Liulang didn't care about this, he randomly produced an exam question, and more than half of it was outside the key chapter.

  Lin Chengye was one of the first two years old, and Xiao Liulang gave him a weight test.

  Lin Chengye complained to Feng Lin. Feng Lin said, "You misunderstood him. He didn't mean to test the key chapters. He didn't know which ones were the key chapters at all."

  People have never crossed the key points, directly from, head, back, to, and end! It's not bad, and the memorization is fluent!

  Rao was carrying Xiao Liulang so tormented. After Lin Chengye returned to the provincial capital, he still did not choose to live back to the mansion. He stayed in an inn with Xiao Liulang and Feng Lin.

  There are three examinations in the township examination, and each examination is three days.

  The first game was on the eighth day of August, that is, tomorrow. The inn was full of candidates for the rural examination, and the atmosphere in the inn became tense.

  The only possibility to be calm is Xiao Liulang.

  Feng Linyuan was also a little nervous, but he had so many things to do that he couldn't care about the nervousness anymore.

  "Xiao Linzi, come and help!" Feng Lin called Lin Chengye to the small kitchen of the inn.

  The small kitchen was rented by the Lin family for a big price, and a special cook was arranged for it.

  Regardless of the food for the candidates, the cook planned to make it for them, but Feng Lin refused.

  Before departure, Gu Jiao gave him a list, which recorded some precautions and related recipes.

  The classification of recipes is very detailed. Gu Jiao has even considered the weather. If the weather is cold, the first recipe will be used; if the weather is hot, the second recipe will be used.

  "Pancakes, jerky, oranges, pickles..."

  Feng Lin and Lin Chengye spent the afternoon in the stove, and finally prepared everything that should be prepared. The jerky was roasted by themselves, and the meat was so fragrant that it spoiled the entire inn’s examinees.

  The pickles were pickled a few days ago, and now they happen to be pickled, Feng Lin has packed three small jars.

  The pancakes should not be left for a long time. They are made by the cook before dawn. Feng Lin told the pancakes to be dry without leaving any moisture.

  Each provincial town has two chief examiners and deputy examiners, both of whom are appointed by the court.

  They and the local invigilators entered the tribute courtyard on the sixth day of the year. First, they held a horse banquet on the curtain. The inner curtain officer entered the inner curtain of the back hall, and the invigilator sealed the curtain.

  Inner curtain officials are also called reviewers. They will stay from the day of entry until the end of the township examination, and they can leave after reviewing all the test papers of the candidates.

  The whole process may take up to half a month. During this period, they are not allowed to contact the outside world, and even the invigilators outside the curtain cannot communicate with each other.

On the eighth day of the eighth day, the candidates came to the examination room early.

  Even though there are three days in each session, there is only one day in the middle of the actual test. The first day is the check-in and the third day is the check-out.

  Early in the morning, there was a long queue outside the Gongyuan.

  Xiao Liulang did not come sooner or later, ranking in the 100th place.

  They were not in a hurry, but they rushed to the side of Zhou Guan.

  You will not be allowed to queue up for the rural test, otherwise the Lin family can outsource the Gongyuan!

  "Have you taken the water?" Manager Zhou asked Lin Chengye.

  Lin Chengye nodded: "Yeah."

   Manager Zhou said again: "Did you bring all the food?"

  Lin Chengye nodded again: "Take it."

The two words    can still be said without stammering.

   Manager Zhou is still uneasy: "Then...Is the clothes thick? I'm afraid it will be cold at night."

   "Hot." Lin Chengye said.

   Manager Zhou sighed, alas, the weather is abnormal this year. It is not hot when it should be hot, and it is not cold when it should be cold. I heard that the crops in the countryside are not growing well.

  What else does the director Zhou want to explain, Lin Chengye frowned and said, "You go, annoying."

   Weekly manager: "..."

   "Oh!"

  As soon as Guan Shi took two steps, Feng Lin was so frightened that he almost fell.

   "What's wrong?" he asked back.

   Feng Lin said: "Forgot to give this to you! Jiao Niang said that if the weather is hot, let us bring this into the examination room, it can refresh our minds, and can also repel mosquitoes and relieve itching."

   is three bottles of Fengyou Essence.

  It's just that Gu Jiao replaced the glass bottle with an emerald bottle and sealed it with wax after adding the cork.

  "Can I bring this?" Guan Shi asked. Except for water and food, he couldn't bring anything else.

  Feng Lin explained: "This can be used externally or internally. Jiao Niang said, if anyone asks, just drink it to him."

  Xiao Liulang's eyes are a bit subtle: "You guys are very familiar now..."

Feng Lin hadn't noticed the dangerous gaze of his companion, he hehe said: "I used to be ignorant and misunderstood Jiao Niang. In fact, she is very nice! Liu Lang, really, can ask such a wife to be a man who can cultivate for a few lifetimes. Blessing! I also want to..."

  Xiao Liulang looked like a knife, and Feng Lin finally couldn't ignore it.

   Feng Lin shrank his neck angrily, and said, "Well, I don't want to."

  Xiao Liulang took over Fengyoujing.

  Is that the strange thing in that box again?

  He has seen this kind of text, and most of the things rolled out of the box that night have this kind of text on it.

  But that night, he didn't see these little green bottles.

  So it’s not his illusion, that little box can appear strange things, and it’s not always the same?

  Is there any peculiar blindness and mechanism?

  Since these bottles are medicines, will the ones I saw before are also medicines?

  Is it a small medicine chest?

  As smart as Xiao Liulang, he didn't understand Gu Jiao's small box for a while. Soon, it was his turn to be searched by the guards in turn, along with Feng Lin and Lin Chengye.

  Feng Lin opened the bottle cap to show that they were carrying water and took a drop, almost without the smell!

  Mum, this is too refreshing!

  After entering the examination room, the candidates were assigned to their respective examination booths, and some people called it the number room.

Room    is simple, with only two wooden boards, one used as a table and the other used as a chair, which are respectively embedded in the grooves on both sides of the room. At night, the examinee put two wooden boards together to form a bed and dealt with it for one night.

  In these three days, candidates are not allowed to leave their room, eating, drinking, and sleeping in it.

  The first test is dictation and poetry. It stands to reason that it is an essay on "The Analects", an essay on "The Doctrine of the Mean," or an essay on "The University", an essay on "Mencius", plus a five-character and eight-character poem written by myself.

  But this year’s examination questions for the township test were extremely abnormal, and I actually tried one more essay-"The Book of Filial Piety".

  Strictly speaking, the "Book of Filial Piety" is not long, only less than two thousand words, but the problem is... it does not take the test!

  Who will not take the test, right?

  When he saw that he was about to write the "Book of Filial Piety" silently, Lin Chengye's hair was erected!

   is not scared, but excited!

  Because of Xiao Liulang, test, pass, it!

  Xiao Liulang is a very strict teacher, but he will retake the second, third, or even fourth time for every test that Lin Chengye can't do, until Lin Chengye meets it.

  Lin Chengye not only lost weight, but also bald when he was young, and was tortured by Xiao Liulang.

  However, at this moment, Lin Chengye loves Xiao Liulang's torture!

  Lin Chengye knows that there must be few people who memorize the "Book of Filial Piety", and he will have to be ahead of the candidates by just the first course!

  (End of this chapter)