The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 212 Entering the Palace (two more)

Zhuangfu.

A ranking of the apricot list was sent to the hands of Mrs. Zhuang and King An.

Mrs. Zhuang knew the top two results for a long time. Except for Anjun Wang, there were no outstanding candidates in the banker's faction this time. Therefore, Mrs. Zhuang put aside the apricot list.

King Anjun didn't even look at it.

He has absolute confidence in himself for the first test.

He just asked: "Is there anyone named Xiao Liulang on the list?"

Wu Yang said: "Yes, tied for the first place with the county king."

"Oh?" Prince An looked sideways slightly.

Wu Yang handed over the list again.

Prince An's eyes fell on Xiao Liulang's name, and he raised his eyebrows lightly: "This Xiao Liulang is a bit unexpected to me."

Wu Yang was about to speak when the maid outside the door said, "Master, are you here?"

Wu Yang hurriedly stepped aside and bowed to Mrs. Zhuang who stepped inside.

Master Zhuang waved his hand, and Wu Yang respectfully retired.

King Anjun stood up and greeted pleasantly, "Grandfather!"

"En." Mrs. Zhuang responded in a deep voice.

Prince An walked around the desk and waited for Mrs. Zhuang to take a seat on the official hat chair before sitting down on the other chair below him.

A maid served tea, and then walked out in a sloppy manner.

The room was so quiet that only the sound of Mrs. Zhuang sipping tea remained.

King An asked, "Grandfather, why haven't you rested so late?"

"Come and see you." Mrs. Zhuang put down the hot tea in his hand and looked at him unsmilingly, "Have you seen Xingbang?"

"Yeah." King An nodded, "I just read it."

Master Zhuang said, "That person named Xiao Liulang is your classmate in the Imperial College?"

"Yes." King An nodded again.

Mrs. Zhuang has been in the officialdom for many years, and he can recognize amazing information with just one look. He glanced at his grandson suspiciously: "Do you know him?"

Prince An smiled and said, "Grandfather still remember why I must persuade you to reopen Guozijian?"

Mrs. Zhuang frowned: "You said that the Queen Mother lives in a candidate's house, and as long as the candidate enters the Imperial College to study, she will bring the Queen Mother to the capital as well... Could it be this person?"

King Anjun said: "That's right, it's him.

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Mrs. Zhuang's eyes turned cold.

Anjun Wang said: "Grandfather, don't worry about getting angry first, he doesn't know the identity of his aunt. I guess that my aunt fainted in front of his house accidentally when she was living in that village. Someone in his family knew medicine and recognized her aunt's leprosy. I was sick. They were afraid of being sent to Leprosy Mountain together, so they secretly hid my aunt and cured her."

"Can leprosy be cured?" Mrs. Zhuang expressed doubts.

Anjun Wang said: "I have seen my aunt, and her leprosy has indeed recovered."

Mrs. Zhuang didn't believe that someone in the world could cure leprosy. Compared with this, he was more willing to believe that the original information was wrong: "Maybe the Queen Mother's disease is not leprosy at all, it just looks like it."

King An did not refute Mrs. Zhuang's guess. This is not important anymore. The Queen Mother has recovered. As long as they deploy the situation in the capital and the Queen Mother regains her memory, their banker will be able to flourish again.

Master Zhuang pondered, "This candidate is not easy."

Prince An didn't care much and said, "It's just a mere meeting, grandfather doesn't need to take it too seriously. Originally, I didn't use any effort in this exam."

It's true, he really didn't try his best.

Xiao Liulang must have tried his best, so it is Xiao Liulang's ability to be tied for the first place with him.

Prince An has never met anyone who competes with him since he was a child.

Although the young marquis of Zhaodu was famous enough, in his opinion, it was because he didn't meet him. If he hadn't been a proton in Chen State for nearly ten years, he might have been the first person to become famous in Zhaodu. who.

The Prince of Anjun said again: "I plan to take this man for my own use, and ask my grandfather not to touch him."

Of course it would be best if he could use it for his own use. After all, he knew too much. If he took refuge in another camp, it would be detrimental to the entire dealer.

Mrs. Zhuang snorted: "If you want to say that, then I can move him temporarily. But you must understand that you must not lose to him again in the palace exam."

What the dealer wants is not just any jinshi, but the first jinshi in the top one!

"I understand." King Anjun held the winning ticket, smiled lightly and said, "I will do my best for the palace exam."

Mrs. Zhuang said what should be said, this grandson has always made him worry, so he didn't say more, he got up and left.

Suddenly thinking of something, he turned around again. In the darkness, his seemingly cloudy eyes revealed a shrewdness and sharpness that even young people couldn't match: "Do you have a sweetheart?"

The Prince of Anjun was startled: "Why did grandfather say this?"

Master Zhuang said: "You are not too young, your aunt said that it is time to choose a marriage for you."

Prince An's eyes trembled slightly: "I haven't reached the crown yet, what's the hurry?"

A man from Zhao State is in his twenties and crowned with a crown. After that, he is considered an adult man. Most of the big families don’t get married until they are in their twenties.

Mrs. Zhuang said: "I don't want you to get married now, but choose to see first. I originally planned to marry Princess Hui for you, but when something happened to her, your aunt stopped thinking about it. If you have a favorite woman , the family is right, and the appearance is excellent, just tell your aunt."

A small figure in Tsing Yi with a basket on his back flashed in Anjun King's mind, and he said without changing his face, "No."

Master Zhuang turned around and left the room.

King Anjun sighed slightly.

Well done, right?

The Marquis of Ding'an seems to be neutral, but the old Marquis is the emperor's right-hand man just like Marquis Xuanping.

As for appearance.

He didn't care about her appearance, but his aunt wouldn't allow him to marry a girl with a flawed appearance and a good marriage.

"Heh." King An laughed at himself, "What's the use of asking me?" 閺€?br /\u003e

While the whole capital was immersed in the huge impact brought by the Xingbang, Gu Jinyu of the Ministry of Punishment Yamen had no news from the outside world.

She was trapped in the interrogation room, unable to eat or sleep well.

His Majesty seems to have made up his mind to break her will, never let anyone force her to confess, but he will not pay attention to her either.

She was alone and became more and more unbearable.

She hasn't bathed for many days, and she doesn't grow up in the country like Gu Jiao, it doesn't matter if she doesn't take a bath for ten days and a half months, she loves to be clean!

Fortunately, Qi Momo, who was beside Concubine Shu, came.

Seeing Momo Qi's moment, Gu Jinyu immediately cried aggrieved.

"Okay, okay, don't cry, the county master, let the empress know it's time to feel distressed." Qi Ma wanted to hug her to comfort her, but the smell on Gu Jinyu's body, Qi Ma couldn't bear it.

Qi Momo cleared her throat, and in the end she just stood beside Gu Jinyu and handed her a clean handkerchief.

Gu Jinyu took the veil and choked, "Thank you, mammy, for visiting me."

Madam Qi said: "My lady asked me to ask you, what happened to you? Did you really break the jade seal or... did you do something else to offend Your Majesty?"

Hearing this, Gu Jinyu's eyes flashed: "Niangniang... Did you hear some rumors?"

Madam Qi came here to clarify things, so she opened the skylight and said brightly, "Someone in the palace is spreading the news that the bellows was not invented by you, but by someone else."

"Others... Who are they?" Gu Jinyu asked cautiously.

Qi Mama pondered: "I don't know, the rumors didn't say who it was."

Gu Jinyu lowered her head guiltily.

Who came from the rumor? Your Majesty or the old blacksmith and carpenter? Didn't the three of them know about that girl?

Gu Jinyu didn't understand what was going on, she calmed down and asked, "Then, does the niangniang believe it?"

Madam Qi said, "Can the maiden believe it?"

Gu Jinyu breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, her efforts over the years have not been in vain.

Qi Mama sighed: "But these messages are very strange. Think about it carefully, but who has touched your drawings, or who have you mentioned about the bellows?"

It seems that my father hasn't told Concubine Shu that she and Gu Jiao "invented" the bellows. He hasn't said it for so long, and he probably won't.

Gu Jinyu hesitated to tell Gu Jiao herself.

Concubine Shu's impression of Gu Jiao was not very good. First, Concubine Shu didn't like Yao Shi, and she didn't even have a pair of children who didn't like her. The main reason why she got face in front of her was because she was talented and smart, and she helped the fifth prince so much.

The second is that Gu Jiao did not return to the Hou Mansion, did not respect the old lady Gu, and did not respect the aunt, Concubine Shu.

It stands to reason that when she returned to the capital, she should have gone to see Concubine Shu, but the girl didn't.

Gu Jinyu didn't dare to bet that Concubine Shu would trust her like her father did.

If Concubine Shu wanted to go to Gu Jiao for evidence, and if Concubine Shu knew that His Majesty actually favored Gu Jiao, would Concubine Shu still be able to stand up for herself?

After some weighing, Gu Jinyu finally gave up on Gu Jiao's claim of stealing her own inspiration.

She shook her head: "I don't know, I haven't mentioned it to anyone."

Momo Qi looked at Gu Jinyu for a moment: "Then tell Momo, did you really invent the bellows?"

So my aunt still doesn't believe her?

After doing so much homework for the fifth prince, and taking so many substitute exams?

Gu Jinyu laughed at herself, but said aggrievedly on her face: "Mammy, is it that you don't believe me, or my aunt doesn't believe me? I swear to God, the bellows was invented by me, if I lied a word, I'll make thunder—"

Madam Qi hurriedly covered her mouth with a handkerchief, and said angrily, "You can't talk nonsense! The maiden believes in you, it's me who asks more, you don't have to take it to heart."

Gu Jinyu said softly, "Mummy is also for my aunt's good, I understand."

Madam Qi sighed again: "The empress has already checked, the jade seal has been broken long ago, and the seventh prince fell, the reason why His Majesty took out his anger at you, I am afraid I still believed those rumors, thinking that someone else invented the bellows. The most urgent task is to prove that you are the true God, but unfortunately, there is no way for the empress..."

These words awakened Gu Jinyu, she has no way to use the bellows to turn things around, but she can use other things.

She thought of what she saw in Bishui Hutong that day.

Gu Jinyu squinted her eyes: "Mammy, the bellows thing has passed for too long, and I didn't leave any more conclusive drawings in my mind at first. It's probably not clear, but I have more than one ability."

Madam Qi was immediately startled: "You, do you have anything else? Then why didn't you take it out earlier?"

Gu Jinyu smiled and said, "I only thought of it in the past few days. I didn't give up on myself when I was locked up here. Instead, I calmed myself down and asked myself what else I could do for the court. Then, I remembered being in Zhuangzi. Did something unintentionally."

"What is it?" Qi Mo asked excitedly.

"Glutinous rice mortar." Gu Jinyu didn't actually witness its effects with his own eyes, but now he can't take care of it and can only gamble, "The mortar made of glutinous rice soup is extremely strong, and it is the best building material, mammy. If you don't believe me, you can go back to the palace to try. My aunt loves me, and I should repay my aunt. I am willing to give this credit to the Fifth Highness."

Madam Qi went back to the palace non-stop, and told Concubine Shu about the glutinous rice mortar, especially emphasizing that this credit could be given to the fifth prince.

Concubine Shu smiled in surprise: "Is this true?"

Madam Qi said: "The county master said it himself, can it be fake? Niangniang, this is a big credit!" 閺€?br /\u003e

On the other side, Guozijian Mengxue, Xiao Jingkong finished the day's homework and came to the place agreed with his friends.

Last time, Qin Chuyu promised to take two friends to visit the palace. After getting through the relationship between the princess and the princess, the princess finally agreed with him to bring the friends into the palace.

If you are an adult, you should be curious about how he can enter the palace, children will not.

Xu Conge Porridge said to the servant who came to pick him up, the servant knew Qin Chuyu's identity and did not dare to disagree with the prince's invitation.

Xiao Jingkong went to the hospital and told Gu Jiao that she would go out to play and wait for the ride back in the Xu family's carriage.

Gu Jiao has no opinion.

Xu Congee Congee and Qin Chuyu often come to the medical center to play.

The three happily got into Qin Chuyu's carriage.

Jiaojiao's number one fan, Xiao Jingkong, is here!