The Palace of Peach and Plum

Chapter 3:

In the past three years, Ling Wei has often entered the palace, and has long been full of skills in observing words for his own wealth and life. Now looking at the expression of the empress, he calmly continued to explain: “Actually, if your Royal Highness tells your Majesty and the Queen’s empress in the whole story, including the last question by Xiaomin, “How can I solve this problem?”, in fact, Your Majesty and Empress must have thought of the answer right away.”

“Xiaomin guess, did your Highness directly ask your Majesty and Queen Empress how to catch the tiger in the painting?”

“Yes, Ankang asked the emperor father and behind the scenes how to catch the tiger in the painting.” Ankang said with a grin, “So it’s not that the father and the queen can’t solve this problem, but Ankang didn’t ask clearly.”

“This is what I said before, a communication problem.” Ling Wei nodded.

“The consequences for the father and the mother are very powerful!” Ankang immediately presented the empress and his wife with two big star eyes. The empress and the empress smiled happily, as if he could really solve the problem by himself.

Ling Wei breathed a sigh of relief. Although the emperor and the empress usually look very generous, the emperor is only fierce and indulges himself very much, but the degree of affection will always change, and he should always brush up on the degree of affection.

The degree of favorability is in this kind of detail.

Seeing the brilliant smiles of Li Li and Empress Liu, Ling Wei couldn’t help giving himself a thumbs up.

“Jintang’s story is still very good. It’s also entertaining.” Empress Liu smiled and explained to Li Yin, who looked dazed and unaccustomed to the current situation, “My palace also likes Jintang very much. The story.”

“It’s really good.” Li Ying said in a pertinent comment. He had a higher evaluation of Ling Wei.

Of course he knew his brother and sister-in-law, and he could see that these two people really trusted and loved Ling Wei, or to that extent the word “very” should be added. It’s only been three years since Ling Wei returned to Yan Chao. Apart from his birthplace, everything can be said to be unclear. In this way, the two couples can be trusted and loved so much, which shows their ability.

“The empress empress is absurd. Xiaomin just likes children very much, and she used to bring children a lot.” Ling Wei said modestly while feeding Ankang, who had eaten a small piece of fruit, with tea.

The other little princes frequently moved their eyes here. The little prince, who was the same size as Ankang and looked quite similar, swayed from side to side, as if unable to sit still.

“Well, if you are too lazy to enter the palace once, you should take more of my children to play and tell more stories.” Li Li watched as his children’s eyes were almost sticking to Ling Wei, and he was rather sour. .

However, since Ling Wei started to have a good relationship with his children, the children have indeed become much happier, more sensible, and understand a lot of truth. Even though only the prince is enlightened now, the knowledge of other children is growing.

Li Li is still very happy.

He is busy with political affairs, and the queen has to take care of all things in the palace. It is inevitable that he will be negligent to the children. Li Li was still very satisfied with someone playing with the child and giving them some truth.

“Xiaomin follows the decree.” Ling Wei had been waiting for this decree a long time ago. In front of the emperor, don’t look at his face relaxed, in fact, his heart has been tight. Even playing with the little princes is quite nervous, better than facing the emperor.

After receiving the order, Ling Wei took a small carrot head and a group of **** ladies to the other side of Lin Yu. Xu Guifei also retired on the grounds of physical discomfort.

Being able to be a noble concubine, she is naturally a person who knows how to advance and retreat, and can look at people’s winks. Concubine Xu Gui looked at Li Li as if she had something to say to Li Ying, but the queen could hear it, but she could not. Before the emperor drove people away, he would leave a good impression of the emperor’s thoughtfulness.

Sure enough, Li Li was very satisfied with Concubine Xu’s behavior, thinking that Concubine Xu Gui was very gentle and caring. When Concubine Xu was gone, “Love Concubine” came to “Love Concubine” and said a lot of caring words, knowing that Concubine Xu was found casually. As an excuse, he also rewarded him with something “to let Xu Guifei take good care of her body”.

And Empress Liu kept watching with a smile, and seemed to like Concubine Xu very much, and she also appreciated things.

Li Ying scoffed at this in his heart.

Such superficial harmony and beauty, in fact, I still don’t know what it is in private. The imperial sister-in-law is so kind, and the imperial brother is also affectionate to the imperial sister-in-law, but this does not prevent him from also being affectionate to other women. San Gong Sixth courtyard or something. Before the emperor became the throne, he was not so affectionate. Coming.

However, Li Ying was just slanderous. Which emperor is not three thousand in the harem, with children in groups? At least the relationship between the emperor’s brother and the emperor’s wife is very good, and other concubines’ “deep feelings” can’t be compared together.

Besides, the emperor’s sister-in-law not only has a prince, but also a little prince, and she feels at ease.

After Li Yin was born, he never met his mother. He was brought up by Li Li and Empress Liu. Naturally, he was particularly biased towards Empress Liu, and he was regarded as the elder sister-in-law like a mother.

“What did you talk to Jintang today? Why did I hear that Jintang’s voice was dumb when she first spoke.” Without outsiders, Li Li was more at ease, facing his younger brother who was raised like a son. The tone is also a lot more casual.

“Just talked about some overseas military affairs.” Li Ying repeated the key points of what Ling Wei said. If Ling Wei was here, he would be surprised to doubt whether Li Ying had the same “photographic memory” as himself. This thing.

After Li Yin finished speaking, he drank a sip of hot tea to moisturize his throat, and looked at the thoughtful Li Li and continued: “My minister thinks that Jintang is a great talent and can serve in the army.”

“Puff…” Li Li spouted a sip of tea. “Ahem, cough, cough, it’s really rare to see you have such a high evaluation of people, and you just ask people when you meet. But this is not possible, Jintang will not go. ”

Li Yin frowned: “Why? Is it possible that Cheng Jintang is a person who is greedy for life and die without suffering?”

“Well… you’d better save your own opinions.” Li Li smiled maliciously, “You know, you are not the only one who asked me for Jintang.”

Because Li Ying had a good impression of Ling Wei, he stopped struggling with this topic. Everyone has his own ambitions, and if Ling Wei really has no intention of being in the army, he would not be too difficult for him.

“Brother Huang looked good on Jintang, why Jintang is still in white body.” The “white body” in Li Yin’s words naturally refers not to fame, but official position and title.

Although it is said that Ling Yun is the elder son of Lu Guo, Ling Wei is also honorable. He is fifteen years old, and it is normal to ask for an idle official position. Moreover, Princess Changle is more intimate with the current empress than other princesses born before the emperor. Ling Wei himself has won the favor of the empress, not to mention the idle official position, it is a low rank, and it is also saved.

“Do you think I haven’t mentioned it?” Li Li paused and said with appreciation, “Jintang, this kid has to be promoted by the imperial examination. You know, when he just came back three years ago, he didn’t even know the words. .”

“Don’t know the words?” Li Ying said in surprise, “But Jintang is already a child born now.”

The imperial examination was more tragic than crossing a single-plank bridge with thousands of troops. After all, this was the best way for the generals to be promoted. As people who were promoted by the imperial examination became more and more valued by the emperor, some noble families with declining family backgrounds also valued the imperial examination and wanted to rejuvenate their families.

It is conceivable that even if it is a child, there are people who have read books for more than ten years and decades, but they still fail to pass the test.

Ling Wei was illiterate three years ago, but is already a child now?

“I’m surprised, hahahaha, I’m also surprised. When Ling Wei was admitted to the middle school student, Guizhi and I were also surprised, right, Guizhi.” Li Li laughed.

Empress Liu smiled and nodded: “The concubines were indeed taken aback. Your Majesty also specially asked people to find Jintang’s test papers. Although Tongsheng’s exams are all classics, rote memorization can take the exam, but the range of exam questions is very wide. , There are also many odd questions. Jintang is all correct, and even the examiner is shocked.”

“It’s just that the words are not very good-looking, and points were deducted.” Li Li urged narrowly. “The chief examiner of the Beijing Children’s Examination is the old man Yu Zheng. Do you know that he was vomiting blood after seeing this test paper? So talented? The people of the world can only say neat words at most, making Yu Zheng love talents while at the same time angering them.”

“It’s not arrogant?” Li Yin thought for a while before trying to understand, “Master Yu thinks that the quality of the characters is based on hard work. If the characters are not good, it must be that people are not diligent enough. And Jintang’s Scriptures are all right. My lord probably thinks that Jintang has lost the other for this?”

“It’s just that the old man changed his praise after he knew who the scriptures belonged to.” Li Li looked like You Rongyan. “In just three years, Jintang has changed from ignorance to familiar scripture. The handwriting is neat and tidy, and indeed a lot of hard work has been done. If this paper is not Jintang’s, Old Man Yu might still want to suppress the rankings and give people a lesson.”

Speaking of it, this is considered favoritism? After all, if it were not for Li Li’s name to look at Ling Wei’s test paper, Old Man Yu would even look at the same name, and would not think that the person answering the question was a well-known illiterate in Beijing.

“After Jintang passed the Tongsheng exam, the rumors about him in Jingzhong gradually disappeared.” Li Li frowned, “This kid is tough.

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“It’s also good for Jintang to participate in the imperial examination. Didn’t the emperor always hope that the honors will also value the imperial examination?” Li Ying said, “The eldest son will attack the noble. The corpse meal is prime. If they can pass the imperial examination, they will learn something at all. However, the honorable and arrogant, think that the imperial examination is really no way to go, and other honorable children who want to get promoted through the imperial examination will also be ridiculed. Jintang, this is appropriate.”

“It’s true.” Li Li agreed with Ling Wei’s request and had this consideration in it. In the future, Ling Wei will definitely be reused. Seeing Ling Wei being reused, other honors will also think about it. The imperial examination was not the only way to choose when the family was defeated. The noble children who are in their heyday choose this path, and they can still benefit from it.

It’s just that the honorable people don’t want to participate in a group, and if they participate rashly, they will offend people. Ling Wei only returned to the family three years ago. He was disliked by his father and brother, and no one asked him for an official position. Beijing also spread that he was ignorant and illiterate. He proved himself by imperial examination for granted.

So before that, Li Li could not give Ling Wei an official position. It’s meaningless if you give it.

“Brother Huang asked his courtiers to enter the palace just to introduce Jintang to his courtiers?” Li Yin asked.

“Yes or not.” Li Li said, “Jintang wants to move out of Luma Mansion to live by himself, I thought, isn’t there an empty yard next to your mansion?”