After the end of each Spring Festival, the students in the exam are very busy, especially the candidates with better rankings, they will receive a bunch of invitations, and then everyone gathers together... to discuss the exam questions of the Palace Exam.
The questions for the Palace Examination of the Great Jin Dynasty have always been elegant and pragmatic. Sometimes, when His Majesty is happy, he will also ask some more complicated math questions. Candidates who are not good at math and whose mentality is not stable enough will leave the palace after the test. , can collapse and cry.
Hua Changkong spent less time in the capital, and a few friends worried that he didn't know what to pay attention to during the palace exam, so they called him specially, and squatted in the beautiful garden with the young masters of the noble family in the capital, pondering all day long. How to express yourself perfectly in the palace exam.
Yao Songbai and Hua Changkong are the best ranked students among these candidates, so when reviewing the book, if there is a disagreement in understanding, both of them will be brought together to discuss.
However, in just a few days, Hua Changkong and these people called brothers and sisters, and the relationship was so good that they could tease and play with each other.
"I was able to pass the exam this time, and I have already been blessed by the eighteenth generation of ancestors." The person who spoke was the youngest son of the Duke's Mansion. He lay lazily on the reclining chair, listening to the rhetoric of his friends, and yawned, "Ex A few days ago, I sent a greeting to the young master of the Lin family and invited him to review books with us, but he refused."
"He is the son of the champion, who can recite poems at the age of two, write words at the age of three, and write lyrics at the age of five. Naturally, he is different from us." Another son said, "Isn't it true that I spend all day with us playboys? drag him down to study."
"Changkong is still the Yuan of this session, and the shelf is not as big as him." The youngest son of the Duke's House sat up and put the book aside, "Look at him, he is very arrogant."
The same class of candidates, even if they enter the officialdom in the future, they will have more affection than others. The people who can study in this other courtyard are the juniors with status and status in the capital. They gather together not only to review books, but also to have a friendship on the face of an aristocratic family.
Lin Sen's rejection of his invitation was almost equivalent to his disdain for dealing with them.
This makes the person who pays the tribute, how to hang on the face.
"You two are hiding here and being lazy again." Yao Songbai beckoned to the two of them, "Come and throw the pot, if anyone can't vote correctly, come memorize a book and write a poem."
"Come here." Hua Changkong also waved to the two of them, "I won't participate in throwing the pot, lest you say I bully others."
As soon as these words came out, the young masters refuted Hua Changkong in unison, but after they saw that Hua Changkong made ten hits and ten hits, they were all silent.
"Brother Hua, you can obviously rely on your inability to eat, so why do you want to compete with us literati for a place?" Yao Songbai patted Hua Changkong's shoulder with a pretense of sadness, "Isn't it good to leave us a way to survive?"
"No way." Hua Changkong sighed regretfully: "If I don't do my exam well, I will go home and let my little sister take care of me."
Everyone burst into laughter. The Hua family has two princes, two sons, and one county master. Only Hua Changkong, this poor child, has no rank and no title. If he fails the exam, he might go home and be raised by his sister.
After everyone laughed, a young man blushed and invited Hua Changkong to the corner: "Brother Hua, I wonder if Lingmei has a marriage partner?"
Hua Changkong looked at the handsome and shy son in front of him, with a trace of pity in his eyes: "She is still young, and her parents want to keep her for a few more years."
Whoever looks bad, has to look at his sister.
Men, I always don't understand the truth that the more beautiful a woman is, the better she can clean up.
"So that's the case." The son was a little disappointed. He once glanced at Hua Liuli from a distance, but he lost his heart and soul with just one look. I finally gathered up the courage to go to Hua Changkong to ask a question, but I didn't expect that the Hua family didn't want to marry their daughter at all now.
This is not surprising. They have always advocated freedom in Dajin. Men are not married at 20, and women are not married at 18. Fushou County Master is fifteen years old this year, and the two generals are reluctant to marry her now. .
Hua Changkong sighed and reached out and patted the young man's shoulder. With this brother's small body, if he really wanted Liuli to marry him, it would simply hurt him.
The son was confused by Hua Changkong's pat on the shoulder. Could it be that he was sympathizing with the love that fell from the branches before it could bloom
Thuan An Princess House.
"Jiamin, Lin Wan has been divorced, what do you think?" Yao Wenyin pushed Jiamin's arm.
"What can I think, I can't marry Lin Wan back home." Jiamin sat cross-legged on the fox fur carpet, holding a knife to carve a piece of wood. Since she was often enraged by Hua Liuli, she had a new hobby, wood carving.
As long as these woods are imagined as Hua Liuli's face, and one knife at a time, it will be extremely relieved.
"You don't like Prince Ying, or..."
"Forget it." Jiamin fiercely stabbed the wood carving twice, "Men, it can only be regarded as a pastime in a woman's life."
Her biggest goal in life is to step on Hua Liuli under her feet. As long as Hua Liuli is the natural enemy, all men are floating clouds.
"You... Be careful, don't poke your hand." Yao Wenyin couldn't help but said when she saw Jiamin's vicious appearance, "Are you carving wood or killing wood?"
"Don't you think that if you think of this wood as Hua Liuli, it will be especially relieved when you carve it?" Jiamin pressed the wood hard on the ground, as if it was Hua Liuli.
Yao Wenyin stared at the messy pieces of wood for a while, and said, "Bring me a piece of wood too, and bring me a carving knife."
The two poked the wood together, Yao Wenyin said, "Jiamin, can't you even take Hua Liuli?" As a famous female bully in the capital, they were always slapped in the face by Hua Liuli, and they were very embarrassed.
Jiamin glanced at the little cousin faintly. If she dared to attack Hua Liuli, she would have already done so, so why should she take a piece of wood to vent her anger
"Jiamin." Princess Shun'an's voice sounded outside the door. Jiamin and Yao Wenyin quickly put away the wood and carving knife, and even hid the wood residue under the carpet.
"Princess." Yao Wenyin saluted Princess Shun'an.
"My own child, don't need so much courtesy." Princess Shun'an was still very gentle towards the younger generation of the Yao family, waving her hand to avoid Yao Wenyin's courtesy, and said to Jiamin, "The female official beside the Empress Dowager just now said, please go to the palace. stay for a few days."
Jiamin wondered, "The Empress Dowager invited me into the palace?"
According to the seniority in the palace, she should call the queen mother a grandmother, but her mother was not born by the queen mother, so she is not very close to the nominal grandson and grandson of the queen mother. Salute to the queen mother and say hello, usually everyone does not disturb each other.
"Maybe it's because the queen mother heard that you had a good time with Fushou County Master, so let you young people have some fun together." Princess Shun'an said earnestly, "Daughter, please please the queen mother after entering the palace, for the mother's sake. The title of the eldest princess is up to you."
Jiamin: "… "
If you could say a few words less when you were old, you would already be the eldest princess, where would you need your daughter to go out
Besides, she didn't play well with Hua Liuli!
not good at all!
No one heard Jiamin's inner roar, and she was packed into a carriage by Princess Shun An.
Princess Shun'an warned her daughter: "Daughter, the Lord of Fushou County is weak and easy to get along with. You should take care of her in the palace and don't let her be wronged."
After all, no one can provoke her mother.
Jiamin wanted to cry but had no tears. She stayed with Hua Liuli, and she was always wronged unilaterally, okay
Sitting in the carriage, looking at the approaching gate of the palace, Jiamin seemed to see her bleak future life.
Hua Liuli is very happy living in the palace. Every day, she has beautiful clothes prepared by the queen mother. She can also accompany her old man to listen to the compliments of the concubines. From time to time, she goes to the East Palace to eat and drink.
The queen mother was also very happy. She felt that she was very good at raising children. Liuli, who was in exhaustion, lived with her and didn't get sick much.
What does this mean? It means that she has a relationship with Hua Liuli and is born with eight characters.
The queen mother was worried that Hua Liuli would be boring to stay alone in the palace, so she sent the maid out to inquire. Knowing that Hua Liuli often went to Princess Shun’an’s mansion to invite Jiamin to play with her, she invited Jiamin into the palace as well.
The more little girls play with their peers, the better their mood and body will be.
When Jiamin arrived, Hua Liuli was wearing a beautiful palace costume, sitting on the newly built swing frame. Seeing her coming, Hua Liuli waved at her enthusiastically: "Jiamin, come, let's sit on the swing together."
Silently staring at the swing frame next to her eyes, Jiamin walked over and sat down: "Did you ask the queen mother to take me into the palace?"
Although she doesn't like Hua Liuli, as the nominal granddaughter, being taken into the palace by the Queen Mother is a good thing for her to gain face.
"It was the Empress Dowager who missed you and picked you up into the palace." Hua Liuli said, "It has nothing to do with me."
"You don't have to protect my face." Jiamin sat leaning against the swing chair. There were not many princesses in the capital. Her mother has become more and more critical of the younger generation over the years, just to cover up their family's loss of not being valued by the royal family.
If it weren't for His Majesty's broad-mindedness and always taking care of the princesses of the royal family, their family would not have the scenery they are today. People outside don't know, but she knows very well that when the prince succeeds, their family will become a marginal figure in the royal family.
After the mother scolded the prince, the palace became cold towards their family, and many of the little sisters who were friends with her gradually became estranged, and it was only the few who really had a good time with her.
In this place in the capital, there will never be a shortage of people who stand up and step down.
This time, she was invited by the Queen Mother to live in the palace. In the eyes of others, it would become a signal that the royal family re-emphasizes Princess Shun'an's mansion. Those little sisters who are far away from her may become more pleasant again.
She glanced at Hua Liuli and hesitated.
Today's flower home is the time when the scenery is infinite, what about in the future
With Hua Liuli's scheming, is she really ignorant of the rumors in the capital
"Fortunately, you are here. There are many interesting places in the palace. It is always inconvenient for me to go alone." Hua Liuli didn't seem to see how complicated Jiamin's mood was at the moment, she dangled on the swing, "Tomorrow Just one piece."
"Heh." Jiamin said awkwardly: "The palace is not a place to play, so don't make trouble for yourself."
"Don't worry, I know what I have in mind." Hua Liuli waved her hand to tell the maids and maids to stand away, and whispered to Jiamin, "I want to ask you something."
Seeing the mysterious appearance of Hualiu Lishen, Jiamin hurriedly said: "Don't call me if you have anything, don't call me for any Gongdou Zhaidou, I won't participate."
"What are you fighting for?" Hua Liuli wondered if she had scared Jiamin out of her mind last time.
"Then what do you want to say to me?" Jiamin raised her head to the side, keeping her head away from Hua Liuli.
"You grew up in the capital, and you are a relative of the royal family, so do you know which woman the Crown Prince is close to?"
"Who else could it be, isn't it you?" Jiamin sat up straight, looked around, and said to Hua Liuli in a low voice, "Hua Liuli, do you want to die? Dare to go to the concert hall to find a male pianist?"
"What nonsense, me and His Royal Highness are pure and beautiful friends." Hua Liuli shook her head, "Can't there be something pure in your mind?"
Jiamin was speechless, she really couldn't see the purity between Hua Liuli and the prince's cousin.
"There is nothing pure between a man and a woman." Jiamin hummed, "A man is unmarried, a woman is unmarried, what is purity?"
"Our hearts are pure." Hua Liuli said confidently, "Isn't the prince someone he likes?"
"What?" Jiamin thought that there was something wrong with her ears. With the narcissistic and critical virtues of a dog prince, who could she fall in love with
Seeing Jiamin's shocked look, Hua Liuli suddenly understood, it seemed that Jiamin didn't know about it either.
"In the past few years, have there been any beautiful girls in the capital who are as delicate as me, who died young due to illness?" Hua Liuli put it another way. She didn't intend to open up the prince's scars, but people can't keep falling in love. If she doesn't come out of her past emotions, she always finds a way.
"Like you... delicate?" Jiamin's expression was a little subtle, but under Hua Liuli's half-smiling stare, she compromised, "In the capital in recent years, there is indeed a daughter Jia Fanghua who passed away early, but in terms of appearance and Delicate, they are not as good as you."
Once a person's bottom line falls, it will plummet, and there is no bottom line for short. Jiamin can now describe Hua Liuli with the word "delicate" without any difficulty.
"There is someone who meets the criteria you mentioned, but she is not from the capital." Jiamin saw that Hua Liuli seemed to be very interested in this, so she continued, "The eldest daughter of Princess Leyang has a face like the moon on the horizon, but it's a pity she was born I was in poor health and couldn't leave the medicine jar all day. After the spring of last year, I was seriously ill and died, and Xiang Xiaoyu died."
Hua Liuli knew about Princess Leyang. It is said that this princess has an outstanding appearance. She married into the Xie family, a noble family in the south, and had two daughters and one son with her husband Qin Se and Ming.
"Has she been to the capital?" Hua Liuli asked.
"Naturally, the eldest Princess Leyang brings her husband and children to Beijing for two or three months every year. If it wasn't for the eldest daughter who died in Beijing last year, she would have come to Beijing earlier this year." Jiamin mentioned Leyang The eldest princess family, the tone is not very good, it can be seen that the relationship between Princess Shun'an and the eldest princess Leyang is not very good.
"But this year's Hundred State Banquet, Princess Leyang will not miss this important occasion." Jiamin sneered, "She will come to the capital by the end of this month at the latest."
"You seem to...don't like this princess very much?" Hua Liuli opened the bag and gave Jiamin half of the snacks.
When listening to gossip, do not eat snacks, sorry for the atmosphere.
"Princess Leyang and my mother have been at odds since we were young, and I don't get along with her daughter, Xie Yao, either." Jiamin was not polite to Hua Liuli, and said while eating snacks, "That Xie Yao... Cries when we disagree. Apologizing for the wrong two sentences, as if she was a poor little girl who was bullied by the whole world. She was also gentle and kind, and she was a little fairy who would accuse us of being cruel when she saw us hunting rabbits."
Speaking of which, she glanced at Hua Liuli: "Just like you."
"Nonsense, I am indeed a gentle and kind little fairy, but I like to eat rabbits." Hua Liuli raised her eyebrows, "Tutu is so cute and the meat is so delicious, how can I let it go?"
"I forgot, you are really different, you are fake and weak, others are really weak..."
"Sister Jiamin, I think you can reorganize the language just now, what do you think?" Hua Liuli looked at Jiamin with a smile.
"I mean, you're so fragile and beautiful, she's so weak and pretentious, you can't compare to you." Jiamin changed her words immediately.
Hua Liuli nodded with satisfaction: "I knew that Jiamin sister's words were the best."
"Jiamin, why are you here?" The prince heard that Hua Liuli was swinging here, and as soon as he approached, he heard Hua Liuli praising Jiamin. Thinking that Jiamin took Hua Liuli to play in the music hall not long ago, he was very worried that Jiamin would spoil her.
"Prince." Jiamin was frightened when she saw the prince, and quickly jumped off the swing and bowed to the prince.
The prince waved his hand and saw that Hua Liuli moved twice and sat back again. He couldn't help laughing and said, "County Lord, there are fresh river prawns there today, would you like to try them?"
"Isn't it a good idea to go to your place to eat?" Hua Liuli pretended to be polite.
"Gu often eats alone, and the county master is with me, so I'm very happy." The prince lowered his eyelids slightly, trying his best to hide the loneliness and sadness in his eyes, "If the county master is embarrassed, let it be that Gu has not mentioned it. So many years. , Gu has long been used to it."
"The servant girl is disturbing." Seeing the beautiful man showing such a melancholy and strong expression in front of him, Hua Liuli didn't even maintain the fake politeness, and hurriedly said, "Then let's go there now."
After speaking, she turned to look at Jiamin: "Jiamin, are you coming too?"
"No, no." Jiamin glanced at the prince's slightly drooping eyes, and quickly said: "The doctor said that my body is not suitable for eating shrimp, and I will have red rashes all over my body."
"That's such a pity." Hua Liuli said regretfully, "Then let's have dinner together next time?"
Under the smiling gaze of the prince, Jiamin bit the bullet and said, "Okay, there is a chance to be together again."
After the prince and Hua Liuli left, Jiamin collapsed and sat on the swing. Is her eyes crazy, or is the prince crazy? !
How could the prince's dog-like temper show an expression that is both wronged and pitiful, mixed with a bit of melancholy? !
No, it's not true!
The prince will only make people depressed, never make him depressed himself!
She grabbed the handmaiden's sleeve with her dying breath: "You said, does the prince... have that kind of meaning for Hua Liuli?"
The maid shook her head in panic: "Master, these words can't be said nonsense."
Jiamin looked up at the sky blankly.
She was really worried. After the prince was really with Hua Liuli, what if the prince took the concubine and Hua Liuli pulled out a soft sword without saying a word and cut the prince and his concubine together
Imagining that scene, Jiamin couldn't help shivering.
In the past, she was frightened when she looked at the prince, but today she somehow sympathized with him.
There are so many good-looking women in the world, why did the prince find it so hard to figure it out, so he fell in love with Hua Liuli
Do you think life is too long, or life is too good
What surprised her even more was that even she could see the prince's intentions. Why didn't the court attendants in Shoukang Palace react at all? And Hua Liuli even thought that the prince likes other people, is there any misunderstanding
Is it...
Jiamin suddenly thought of a possibility. Maybe the prince once really liked a woman who was very similar to Hua Liuli, but this person had died of illness, and then he used Hua Liuli as a substitute
Isn't it often written like this in the storybook, the living are always better than the dead, and after tossing and turning, it is always the living who are wronged.
Thinking of this, Jiamin felt a little unhappy for Hua Liuli.
That is the daughter of the heroine General Wei. Although she has acted a little bit, is a little hypocritical, and is a bit inconsistent, she is also the jewel of General Wei. Why should she be someone else's stand-in
No matter how much she hated Hua Liuli, she would never see Hua Liuli suffer this kind of insult.
When Hua Liuli came back from the East Palace, she received several books of words that Jiamin had prepared for her, and she didn't know how she brought these books into the palace.
"The Story of the Double Jade, what was written?" Hua Liuli flipped through the first book.
"It is about a scholar's beloved woman who died of illness. She happened to meet a peasant girl who was similar to her lover in the mountains. After marrying her, she wanted the peasant girl to follow her lover's words and deeds." Jiamin replied blankly.
"What is "Blossoms and Diaries"?"
"It was written that after a princess died of illness, the prince married the princess' sister again, just because her appearance was somewhat similar to her sister."
"What about "Blossoms in the Shadow"?"
"The scholar turned the flower demon into a deceased wife, and married him to repay his kindness."
Hua Liuli threw the pile of books on the table, got up and pulled out a few books from the cabinet to Jiamin: "Don't read these scriptures, it will make you look stupid. Come, read these, it's more interesting."
"What are these... What?" Jiamin flipped through the pages, and saw that most of these book titles had a bit of a slap in the face.
"The story of the scum being beaten by the dog's head." Hua Liuli said with a smile, "It's about hitting the male protagonist in your storybook."
Jiamin: "… "
She is not worried about Hua Liuli anymore, she is a little worried about the prince now.
If Hua Liuli knew the prince's mind, would he blow the prince's head
"It's always bad to fight and kill." Jiamin put away all the words and persuaded with a dry smile, "Violence cannot solve all problems."
"Sometimes it can solve a part of the problem." Hua Liuli looked at Jiamin earnestly, "Although you always talk out of your head, I still like you very much. Love is precious, but for a man who doesn't love you, let yourself be I’m sorry for myself and my family for making such compromises. From birth to growth, a person is to see more beauty in the world, not to let another person spoil himself, understand?”
Jiamin: "Huh?"
She understands all these words, but what does it have to do with her, isn't she trying to persuade Hua Liuli
Also, what does it mean to speak without thinking
If she hadn't been able to beat Hua Liuli, she would have been in trouble long ago.
Hua Liuli sighed, but she didn't expect the Princess Jiamin to say that she no longer likes King Ying, but she felt so affectionate towards him in her heart.
A good little girl, how can she be so stubborn when it comes to love
Hua Liuli and Jiamin looked at each other wordlessly, each other's eyes filled with unspeakable sympathy and helplessness.