The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

In order to eat sweets, the old lady made Wu Yang a tool at home for a whole day. The super sweet one"...

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

King Anjun met him in the room: "How? Can you see the Queen Mother's home?"

Wu Yang looked disheveled: "I saw it..."

But is that really the queen mother?

Wu Yang told King An of his tragic experience one day.

King An was shocked. He remembered that when he was in the village yesterday, he seemed to have heard some strange words from the queen mother's mouth, but he was so excited that he didn't take it to heart. , but once thought that the Queen Mother was pretending to be crazy and selling stupid, in order to paralyze the Gu family who put her under house arrest.

"My subordinates don't think so." Wu Yang pondered, "When Miss Gu went to fetch water, only the Queen Mother and her subordinates were left in the house. If the Queen Mother was pretending to be crazy and selling stupid, then without others, her old man should meet me frankly. ."

But it didn't. The queen mother just bury her head and eat poached eggs. Every time he wants to speak, he can be interrupted by the queen mother raising her hand.

Why didn't he realize that the Queen Mother was so greedy before?

The Queen Mother Zhuang in King An's impression was not a person who didn't care about business for a little food, but it was true that she couldn't eat too many sweets.

King Anjun murmured, "How could this happen? Could it be that the empress dowager has amnesia? And has her temperament changed?"

Or is this the nature of the queen mother, and the years when the queen mother was in the palace was just pretending?

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

King An was more willing to believe that it was the former. The queen mother forgot some things, so that the transformation of her temperament caused by those things disappeared, and she became a complete stranger.

Wu Yang didn't dare to guess: "What does the king plan to do? Do you want to bring the queen mother back to Beijing?"

"I don't know." Prince An sighed.

An empress dowager who only knew how to eat and drink would not be a match for His Majesty, but he was really worried about putting her here under the watchful eyes of the Marquis of Ding An.

Prince An thought for a while, and what came to his mind asked Wu Yang, "I don't understand a few things."

"What?" Wu Yang asked.

Prince An opened the Xuan window and looked at the courtyard full of flowers and plants: "How did the Queen Mother lose her memory? Does this matter have anything to do with the Ding An Hou Mansion?"

Wu Yang walked over: "The prince said that they deliberately made the queen mother stupid?"

King Anjun hit him with a cold look.

Wu Yang shrank his neck, bowed his head and said, "This subordinate has made a blunder."

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

King An asked, "Can you find out the identity of that Miss Gu?"

Wu Yang said: "I found out that she is the elder sister in the womb of the dragon and the phoenix. When Mrs. Hou gave birth in a temple, she had the wrong child with a village woman, and Gu Jinyu should be from that village. But because she has raised her for so many years out of emotion,

Even if the truth was discovered some time ago, Gu Jinyu was not sent back. As for the real Miss Gu, it is said that she herself is unwilling to return to the palace. Moreover, she is already married, and her husband-in-law lives here. "

King Anjun said, "Who did you ask?"

Wu Yang said: "The subordinate asked Mrs. Hou directly."

Yao Shi didn't think it was a secret. When Wu Yang came to ask, Yao Shi told the truth.

The Prince of Anjun thought thoughtfully: "So, Miss Gu was not deliberately arranged by Marquis Gu in the village?"

Wu Yang shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be. My subordinates guessed that the Queen Mother might have been taken in by Miss Gu after she lost her memory. But...why did she become the aunt of Miss Gu's husband?"

"Leprosy." Prince An said, narrowing his eyes.

"What?" Wu Yang was taken aback.

Prince An raised his hand to caress the potted begonia on the windowsill: "Didn't you just say that Miss Gu's husband is a foreigner?"

Wu Yang was at a loss: "Yes, but what does this have to do with them taking in the Queen Mother? Could it be that Miss Gu's husband is a relative of the Queen Mother?"

This can't be, how could the Queen Mother be relatives with a poor boy in the countryside?

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

Wu Yang's eyes widened: "Is this still a problem? Leprosy is so contagious, and if you come into contact with it, you will be sent to Leprosy Mountain! Could it be..."

Anjun Wang lightly pulled the corner of his lips: "Yes, in order not to be sent to Leper Mountain, they can only take in the queen mother and cure the queen mother, and in order not to be suspicious, they lied as the aunt of Miss Gu's husband. Come and join them."

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

Prince An fiddled with a beautifully blooming begonia flower in front of him: "I'm curious how that Miss Gu cured the Queen Mother's leprosy?"

Gu Houye said that she was just a little drug boy. It seemed that he didn't know his own daughter.

Wu Yang suddenly looked into King An's eyes: "Prince King, if she can cure leprosy, isn't it..."

Prince An raised his finger and stopped what he was going to say next: "This prince still can't trust her."

Wu Yang sighed with a complicated look: "Yes. Then... what is the princess going to do on the Queen Mother's side?"

King Anjun said thoughtfully: "The queen mother has lost her memory. She will not leave with the king if she comes to meet her, and she may also reveal her identity. This is not a wise move. You call a few people in the middle of the night. Go and steal the queen mother!"

Wu Yang: "Stealing, stealing people?"

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

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

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

It should be the secret guard who secretly protected the dragon and the phoenix from the Ding'an Houfu. Wu Yang thought that it was best 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 it is unlikely that they will leave the master at the same time. Just as Wu Yang was thinking about how to implement the plan, the two secret guards walked out of the house by themselves and fled into the forest, not knowing why.

Wu Yang: "..."

Does this work too?

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

Wu Yang made an offensive gesture, and seven men in black rose up into the sky and flew into the backyard.

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

Wu Yang was a little confused.

Is it the wrong way to get in?

Wu Yang jumped up to the wall.

At this moment, the second man in black swept past him, drew a graceful parabola in mid-air, and fell heavily on the open space outside the house.

Wu Yang was really dumbfounded.

Isn't the dark guard already gone? Is it coming back so soon?

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

On that day, he still felt that Miss Gu was going too far, and even bullied weak women who were powerless. Now it seems that she is showing mercy at all!

Otherwise, with the strength of her fist to smash a master, she is really dead, and she can't blow the brains of Gu Jinyu and Zhuang Caidie?

Although the person Wu Yang brought over was not a first-class master, he was still much stronger than the average master, so he was beaten by Miss Gu to the point of being unable to fight back.

Wu Yang wanted to cry.

He finally understood why the two secret guards from Ding'an Hou's mansion suddenly rushed into the woods. They were not at ease. They were afraid that they would not dare to rush in here, which would spoil the young lady's interest.

Wu Yang estimated in his heart that he was not the opponent of this Miss Gu either.

"Offended, Miss Gu."

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

But it was too late, the door of the old lady's house suddenly opened, and she came out yawning: "Why is it so noisy?"

Wu Yang shook his hands in shock, and the arrow missed!

It was in the direction of the old lady, Wu Yang was shocked!

The speed of the bow and crossbow was several times faster than that of the arrow, and it was too late for him to retrieve his arrow!

At the critical moment, Gu Jiao jumped up, landed in front of the old lady, dragged the old lady aside, and the arrow slid past the back of her hand and nailed it to the wall behind the two of them.

The back of Gu Jiao's hand was scratched and blood was dripping from her hand.

She pulled out the arrow with the other hand and threw it fiercely in the direction of Wu Yang in the dark night!

The arrow was so fast that even a master like Wu Yang couldn't dodge.

An arrow was hit in his right shoulder, he groaned, and said to the man in black who fell to the ground: "Withdraw!"

After the group left, the village returned to peace.

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

Gu Jiao said indifferently, "It's alright, just scratch the skin."

The old lady scolded: "The family has a good life, but the thief is thinking about it!"

thief?

The little thieves who came a few times before were not with such skills and equipment.

Gu Jiao looked at the boundless night, and always felt that this group of people was not here for the silver, they went straight to the small east house, which was the aunt's house.

Wu Yang returned to the villa with an injury, and before he could heal himself, he went to the study to meet the King of Anjun.

Prince An looked at him suspiciously: "What's going on?"

He knelt down on one knee and said ashamedly, "My subordinates neglected their duties and failed to bring the Queen Mother back... and... I almost injured the Queen Mother..."

He didn't dare to hide it, and reported the incident to the King of Anjun.

A trace of surprise flashed in Anjun King's eyes: "I didn't expect it..."

Wu Yang took it seriously: "Yes, my subordinates didn't expect that Miss Gu, who grew up in the folk, has such skills!"

Anjun Wang pulled the corner of his lips: "No, this king did not expect that she would sacrifice herself to save an old lady who has nothing to do with him."

Obviously it was for self-protection at the beginning, but now that the person has recovered, she can send the person away, or at least not have to take her life to save the other person.

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

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

He looked at the bright moon in the sky and whispered, "Miss Gu, how much do you have that this king doesn't know?"

Wu Yang asked for orders: "The prince, the subordinates will see you tomorrow night..."

Prince An interrupted him lightly: "No need, since she protects the queen mother so much, just let the queen mother stay by her side."

Wu Yang was shocked: "The king!"

Anjun Wang looked into the distance: "Now is not the best time to pick up the Queen Mother and return to Beijing. When I go back to report to my grandfather, make all arrangements, and then take her home safely. Miss Gu, we will meet soon. See you again."

The next day, the Prince of Anjun said goodbye to Lord Gu and Mrs. Yao: "The township examination is imminent. I can't stay here any longer. I must rush back to the capital as soon as possible. I have been entertained by Lord Hou and Mrs. Hou these few days, and the younger generation is very grateful."

He used the word "Junior" for the first time in the world, and was so frightened that Lord Gu's tongue was knotted!

An Jun Wang's gentle gaze fell on Yao's face: "Mrs. Hou, your daughter is very good, better than the capital without thousands of dollars. If there is a chance, please also ask Mrs. Hou to bring your daughter to the mansion to meet Meng Die. talk."

Yao shi bowed and thanked.

Gu Jinyu, who was behind the two, couldn't help blushing.

Is the prince praising her?

Zhuang Mengdie also thought that her brother was praising Gu Jinyu, she curled her lips, she knew that there were no so-called triplets, Gu Jinyu was the wrong child of the Gu family, and that girl was the real daughter!

Neither is a good thing, and she doesn't like either!

Brother and sister embarked on the road back to Beijing.

The carriage had gone a long way, and Gu Jinyu had not recovered from the compliments of King Anjun.

There is no girl who doesn't like a prince like An County, but most of them are just wishful thinking.

But if... which girl was the first to be moved by Prince An?

As far as she knows, Prince An has never discussed a relative, so what he said just now... is he implying something about his parents?

Gu Jinyu secretly glanced at Gu Houye and Yao Shi, both of them looked calm, obviously they didn't guess it.

She couldn't help being a little anxious.

Dad is an elm lump in this regard, and it is impossible to count on him; now mother only has her own daughter in her heart, and she can't care about her at all.

What if... if mother knew that the Prince of Anjun was interested in the girl from the Hou residence? Will Gu Jiao marry him?

It was just an instant of effort, and Gu Jinyu made up for it a lot.

She was upset. On the one hand, King An's praise aroused her unrealistic fantasies; on the other hand, she was eager to return to the capital and ask Concubine Shu to make up her mind.

Gu Jiao got the farm implements from the iron shop. There were a lot of farm implements.

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

The guy said, "You mean Miss Gu? She's not my lady."

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

The guy didn't know about Gu Jiao's medical practice, he said, "She is a friend of our boss."

The old blacksmith asked, "Can I trouble the little brother to tell me where she lives so I can come to her and thank her?"

The man said: "Girl Gu has explained it. If it is successful, she will be free of the money for farming tools."

Old blacksmith: "But..."

No more, the guy left with a few big carts of farm implements.

The old blacksmith looked at the back of the carriage leaving, but couldn't come back to his senses for a while.

Gu Jiao did not move the open space halfway up the mountain. She hired nearby villagers to reclaim a large medicinal field on the mountain. She dug a fish pond and a ditch to introduce water into the fish pond from below the waterfall.

Gu Yan's dark guard became the coolie who opened the mountain. Every day he was sent to dig ditches to farm the land. After a month, the two of them became veritable little black charcoal.

Autumn is in the blink of an eye.

This year's summer is not particularly hot, but the autumn tigers that counterattack are sweating.

Xiao Liulang and his party had been in the provincial capital for a while. Under the careful arrangement of the Lin family, they stayed in the most advanced and luxurious inn from the provincial capital Gongyuan.

Steward Zhou proposed to invite Xiao Liulang to the mansion several times, but Xiao Liulang refused.

Lin Chengye was tortured by Xiao Liulang in recent months, and he was a little fat when he went to Qingquan Town. When he returned to the provincial capital, he lost two laps.

Whenever Xiao Liulang gave him a topic, he would have a feeling of enlightenment, and he didn't understand why Xiao Liulang was so knowledgeable, more powerful than the Xixi gentlemen in the house combined.

However, when Xiao Liulang gave him the exam questions, he stopped.

He is someone who has gone through the county exam, the prefectural exam, and the academy exam. The general exam questions can't help him, but is Xiao Liulang's question? It's a knife!

In fact, even the Four Books and Five Classics have an exam scope, some chapters need to be memorized, and some are not.

Xiao Liulang didn't care about this, he randomly gave out a test question, and more than half of it was outside the key chapters.

Lin Chengye is one big and two big, and he was thinned by Xiao Liulang.

Lin Chengye complained to Feng Lin, and Feng Lin sighed and said, "You misunderstood him. He didn't mean to not take the key chapters on purpose. He simply didn't know which ones were the key chapters."

People have never drawn the focus, directly from, head, back, to, tail! It's not bad, word for word!

Rao was so tortured by Xiao Liulang. After returning to the provincial capital, Lin Chengye still did not choose to live in the mansion. He stayed at the inn with Xiao Liulang and Feng Lin.

There are a total of three examinations in the township examination, and each examination takes three days.

The first session was on the eighth day of the eighth lunar month, that is, tomorrow, the inn was filled with candidates for the rural exam, and the atmosphere in the entire inn became tense.

The only calm person may be Xiao Liulang.

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

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

This small kitchen was rented by the Lin family at a high cost, and a special cook was arranged for it.

The local exam didn't care about the candidates' meals. The cook planned to cook them for them, but Feng Lin refused.

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

The categories of recipes are 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.

"Panzi, jerky, oranges, pickles..."

Feng Lin and Lin Chengye spent the afternoon fiddling around in the stove, and finally got everything they needed to prepare. The jerky was grilled by himself, and the meat was fragrant, making the entire inn's candidates greedy.

The pickles had been pickled a few days ago, and now they just happened to be pickled, Feng Lin packed three small jars.

The pancakes could not be left for a long time, because the cook did not wake up. Feng Lin told the pancakes to be dry without leaving any moisture.

There are two chief examiners in the rural examination in each provincial capital, both appointed by the imperial court.

They and the local invigilators entered the Gongyuan on the sixth day of the first lunar month. First, they held a horse feast for entering the curtain. The inner curtain officer entered the place where the inner curtain was located in the back hall, and the curtain was sealed by the invigilator.

The inner curtain officer, also known as the examiner, will stay from the day they enter until the end of the township examination, and can only leave after marking all the examination papers.

The whole process may last for half a month, during which they are not allowed to contact the outside world, and even the invigilator of the outer curtain is not allowed to communicate.

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

Although there are three days for each test, there is only one day in the middle of the real test. The first day is for check-in, and the third day is for check-out.

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

The three of Xiao Liulang arrived neither too soon nor too late, and they were ranked more than 100th.

They were not in a hurry, but they made the steward Zhou beside him anxious.

Don't let people stand in line for the township test, otherwise the Lin family will be able to outsource the Gongyuan!

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

Lin Chengye nodded: "Yes."

Steward Zhou said again: "Have you brought everything to eat?"

Lin Chengye nodded again: "Bring it."

Two words can still be said without stuttering.

Steward Zhou was still uneasy: "Then...are you wearing thick clothes? I'm afraid it will catch a cold at night."

"Hot." Lin Chengye said.

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

Manager Zhou still wanted to explain something, Lin Chengye frowned: "You go, it's annoying."

Manager Zhou: "..."

"oops!"

Manager Zhou had just taken two steps when Feng Lin was so frightened that he staggered and almost fell.

"What's the matter?" he asked back.

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

It's three bottles of essential oils.

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

"Can I bring this?" Manager Zhou asked. He couldn't bring anything other than water and food for the township test.

Feng Lin explained: "This can be used externally or taken internally. Jiao Niang said that if anyone asks, she will drink it and show it to him."

Xiao Liulang's eyes were a little subtle: "You are very familiar now..."

Feng Lin hadn't noticed his companion's dangerous gaze, and hehe said: "I used to be ignorant and misunderstood Jiao Niang, but she is actually very nice! Liu Lang, really, it is a man who has cultivated for a few lifetimes to be able to ask such a daughter-in-law. Blessings! I also want to…”

Xiao Liulang's eyes were like knives, and finally Feng Lin couldn't ignore it.

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

Xiao Liulang took the wind oil essence.

Is that the strange thing in that box again?

He had seen this kind of writing, and most of the things that rolled out of the box that night had this kind of writing on them.

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

So it's not his delusion, that little box can have strange things, and it's always different?

Does it have any peculiar tricks and mechanisms?

Since these bottles are medicines, will the ones I have seen before also be medicines?

Is it a small medicine cabinet?

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

Feng Lin opened the bottle cap and drank a drop in order to show that they were bringing water. He almost died from the smell!

Mother, this is so refreshing!

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

The numbered room is simple, with only two wooden boards, one used as a table and the other as a chair, which are embedded in the grooves on both sides of the numbered room. At night, the candidates put together two wooden boards to make a bed, and deal with this for the night.

During these three days, the candidates were not allowed to leave their room, and they all ate, drank, and slept inside.

The first exam is about silent calligraphy and poetry. It stands to reason that it is the essay "The Analects of Confucius", the essay "The Doctrine of the Mean", or the essay "The Great Learning" and the essay "Mencius", plus a five-character eight-rhyme poem written by himself.

But this year's township examination questions were unusually abnormal, and an extra essay was added - "The Classic of Filial Piety".

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

Who doesn't take the test, right?

Lin Chengye's hair stood up when he saw that he was going to write the "Book of Filial Piety" by default!

Not scared, but excited!

Because Xiao Liulang, test, pass, it!

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

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

However, at this moment, Lin Chengye simply fell in love with Xiao Liulang's torture!

Lin Chengye knew that few people had to memorize the "Book of Filial Piety" in the township test, how many people he had to lead in the first one alone!

Please remember this book's first domain name: . Mobile version reading website: