Liu Mingshi from the Tortoiseshell Country hurriedly left the teahouse with the other two scholars. Before he could go far, he heard the screams of a man and the cheers of the people.
The screaming man was lying on the ground and was stepped on by a thin and weak-looking woman. The woman shouted, "Hand over the old man's purse!"
The man shivered and took out the purse from his arms, and was stepped on by the woman.
Seeing such a ferocious scene, the three of them took a few steps back and switched paths. However, they hadn't gone far when they saw a few well-dressed little girls walking over, allowing the men on the street to see their faces, even without wearing a veil.
"It's really immoral." Liu Mingshi quickly opened his sleeves to cover his eyes, the two young literati behind him blushed, turned their heads away, and couldn't help but glance.
"How can a woman let an outsider see her appearance? Dajin is so popular, it's like an uncivilized land." Liu Mingshi was heartbroken, and he hurried back to the embassy with two young literati. He was so angry that he didn't eat for a long time.
After falling asleep at night, he even had a nightmare of being surrounded and scolded by Dajin scholars and beaten by Dajin women.
Liu Mingshi wiped the sweat from his forehead and thought in a panic, Dajin is really a wicked place.
Hua Liuli also had a dream all night. She dreamed that the little prince was standing on the viewing platform in the palace. He looked at her pitifully, as if he had suffered countless grievances.
Seeing those eyes, Hua Liuli couldn't help but stepped forward and said to him, "What do you want?"
The little prince did not speak.
"If you want the stars, I will help you pick them, and if you want the moon, I will help you pick them up."
The little prince stretched out his hand and held her finger lightly, and suddenly he turned into a handsome adult prince. He looked at her tenderly, his beautiful eyes like the vast starry sky: "I want..."
He opened his mouth to say something, but Hua Liuli couldn't hear what he said.
After waking up from the dream, she sat sullenly on the bed and couldn't stop thinking about what the prince in the dream wanted.
"County Master, you woke up so early?" Yu Rong gently lifted the gauze and handed a warm towel to Hua Liuli.
"Had a dream and couldn't sleep."
"What did the princess dream about?" Yu Rong waited on her to dress and put on shoes.
"Nothing." Hua Liuli shook her head. After washing, she sat in front of the bronze mirror, took out a phoenix hairpin from the jewelry box, played with it for a while, and said, "Is this box of jewelry sent by His Royal Highness?"
"Yes. When Madam first came back, she went to the Taoist temple with you to make a vow. When outsiders saw the prince walking with you, they spread some rumors." Yu Rong thought that Hua Liuli had forgotten the origin of this box of jewelry, "After hearing about this, Your Highness, This is one of the boxes of jewelry that have been sent one after another."
"Oh." Hua Liuli was thoughtful.
Two days later, the palace examination officially began.
As the future prince, the prince also appeared in the hall with Emperor Changlong. These candidates come from different places and have different identities.
In order to prevent these candidates from having a psychological burden, Emperor Changlong never went down to see how these candidates answered the questions. The Crown Prince was different. From time to time, he strolled around among the candidates, very leisurely.
After the exam in the morning, the palace will provide lunch uniformly. According to the previous rules, most of these meals are bland and tasteless. Candidates who are already nervous cannot eat much.
But this year's candidates had better luck, and the prince specially ordered to add a few dishes for them. The nervous candidates smelled these fragrances and finally felt hungry.
"Brother Hua, it's a coincidence, these are all dishes you like." Yao Songbai sat with Hu Hua Changkong, opened the food box, and whispered to Hua Changkong, "This is a good sign."
Hua Changkong also didn't expect that the food boxes sent by the prince were almost all dishes that he liked and was not greasy.
Some students from poor families lived very frugally in order to enter Beijing to participate in the imperial examination. If they suddenly ate something too heavy, it might cause diarrhea, which would affect their performance in the imperial examination. Therefore, when preparing meals for candidates in the palace, they will deliberately avoid greasy and greasy food.
"This is a good omen for all of us." Hua Changkong smiled, "The prince specially added vegetables for us, do you think it is a good omen?"
"Brother Hua is right." The students who were familiar with Hua Changkong all smiled and agreed. Most of them were children of wealthy families. For them, being able to participate in the palace exam was already a victory, so their mentality was very stable.
Lin Sen sat silently in the corner, looking at the excitement of Hua Changkong and his group, with envy in his heart. If he hadn't rejected their invitation back then, he should have sat and laughed with them now, instead of sitting alone in the corner like he is now.
He disliked the students from the poor school, and he personally rejected the invitation of the students from the high school. For a time, Lin Sen was a little disheartened, feeling that he was excluded by these candidates.
The afternoon palace exam was not over yet, and the Crown Prince slipped out under the glaring gaze of Emperor Changlong. He rode out of the palace and found the Hua family at the palace gate.
In addition to Hua's family, there are several family members of candidates who are outside. These people are all prominent figures in the capital. Seeing that the prince found them guarding outside the door, they were a little embarrassed, and stepped forward and saluted with blushing faces.
"You don't need to be too polite." The prince smiled. "It's not clear how the sons of each government answered the questions, but the manners are outstanding, so you don't have to worry."
"Thank you, His Royal Highness." These people thanked each other gratefully, but they were shocked. When the prince saw them standing outside, not only did he not reprimand them, but he also took the initiative to tell them about the candidates
They are not used to such a gentle and considerate prince.
After dealing with these people, the prince drove his horse to the front of the Hua family, and before they could salute, he turned over and dismounted: "The two generals don't need to be too polite."
He winked at Hua Liuli, Hua Liuli rode on the horse knowingly, followed the prince for a while, and then got off the horse and asked in a low voice, "His Royal Highness, how is my brother doing?"
The prince dismounted with Hua Liuli and threw the reins to the person who was waiting behind him: "Gu worried that it would affect the performance of the third son of Hua, so he only glanced at it. Gu thought that with the talent of the third son of the flower, he would not be too lucky to get the top three. Big question." He smiled softly, "I ordered a few dishes at noon, and the third son ate most of it, which shows that he is very confident in the exam in the afternoon, so you don't have to worry about it."
"Thank you, Your Highness." Hua Liuli's heart dropped instantly. She touched it in her arms and took out a string of bracelets: "This is for His Highness."
"This is?" The prince reached out and took it. Each jade bead on the bracelet was made of high-quality jade. On such a small jade bead, there are even various patterns that imply auspiciousness, which is rare. Treasures.
"There is a sergeant in the army whose ancestor is a jade craftsman. On weekdays, if everyone gets good materials, they like to let him carve some objects." Hua Liuli coughed dryly, "Last year, the minister and daughter got some good things, so I asked him to help the minister. The woman carved something for her family. Uncle General Shen insisted that he wanted to carve something for his daughter's future partner, so he added this bracelet."
Speaking of this, Hua Liuli smiled helplessly: "But where does the courtier's partner come from, after thinking about it, I think that His Highness must look good wearing this. His Highness has given the courtier so many things, but the court lady has few of them. A good gift in return."
"Liu Li has already given Gu in return." The prince gently rubbed the jade beads on his bracelet and smiled.
Hua Liuli wondered, did she send it
In her daze, the prince handed the jade beads back to her.
"His Royal Highness?" Hua Liuli looked at the prince puzzled, "You don't like this?"
"Gu likes it very much." The prince sighed softly, "But this is the stuff of Liuli's future husband, how can Gu be liked by others?"
"What a husband is not a husband, it's just a few jokes from Uncle General." Hua Liuli took the bracelet from the palm of the prince, held the prince's arm, and put the bracelet on the prince's wrist, "Your Highness likes it, everything else. unimportant."
Sure enough, good-looking people have good-looking hands. Wearing the jade beads on the prince's wrist, it seems to be a lot moisturised.
"The bracelet was put on by Liuli for Gu," the prince looked at Hua Liuli and smiled, "I won't return it after Guli."
"What's the matter? There's no reason to return the things you send out." Hua Liuli laughed, "Your Highness, are your servants the kind of people who go back on their word and are stingy?"
"No." The prince smiled more tenderly, "It's the heart of an orphan."
"It's okay, the servant girl won't take it to heart." Hua Liuli touched the horse's head, "Your Highness, the servant girl dreamed of you last night."
The prince touched the jade string on his wrist: "What did you dream of being lonely?"
"The minister dreamed that you were standing on the viewing platform, so cute. The minister asked what you wanted, but you didn't say it. In the end, the minister coaxed you for a long time, and when you were finally willing to speak, the dream came true. I woke up." Speaking of which, Hua Liuli touched her chin and asked the prince curiously, "Your Highness, is there anything you want?"
"When I was a child, I saw other brothers have a mother-in-law, and thought about what it would be like if the mother-in-law was still alive?" The prince smiled, "But as the age gets older, the father and the emperor are also very good. This idea gradually faded away.”
"Now, what do you want?"
The prince looked at Hua Liuli quietly, and smiled after a while: "Yes."
That's the look, that's the look!
The current prince seems to overlap with the prince in the dream. Although the prince in the dream was wronged and the prince in front of him smiled, Hua Liuli felt that their eyes were so similar.
"What is it?"
The wind picked up, blowing the horns of the prince's robe.
He stretched out his hand to help Hua Liuli straighten the tassels on her temples, which were ruffled by the wind, and said with a gentle smile, "You will know."
Hua Liuli stretched out her hand to cover her chest, this kind of feeling of being gently scratched by the cat, as if being licked, is a bit... strange
The fifteen-year-old girl is full of vitality, and her whole body is full of fresh taste.
As long as he thought that it might embarrass her and make her frown, he couldn't bear it.
The prince couldn't help laughing softly. He raised his index finger and lightly tapped her forehead: "Liu Li... She's still young."
In the teahouse, Xie Yao watched this scene expressionlessly, her palms bleeding from her fingernails. She looked away with a cold face, and said to her maid, "I heard that there is a very powerful killer in the capital named Wusan?"
The maid nodded yes.
"You find a way to contact this killer." Xie Yao's eyes were full of cold killing intent, "I want to spend Liuli's life."
"As long as you can kill her, you can pay as much as you want."
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