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The next day.

Tang Ci reluctantly opened his heavy eyelids amidst the deafening gong beating. As the light rushed into his eyes, he was gradually awakened by the headache.He couldn't help frowning and knocking on his drowsy head, trying to find the culprit in his mind that caused him to be in such a shape at this moment. After crossing the white wall and Zhuwa stepping on the crowded street, the bits and pieces of yesterday seemed to be taken away. Life seems to be shredded and swayed, I don't know where to hide, and I forcefully push away the clouds and mists with a splitting headache, but I can only vaguely remember that I stepped into the facade of Huixian Tower.

"Fisher boy, did I drink alcohol yesterday?" Tangci sniffed the smell of alcohol on his clothes, and looked at the fisher boy standing beside the bed with a gong in hand.

The fisherman yawned and said with sleepy eyes: "It's not just drinking, you fell unconscious from drinking somewhere last night, if Princess Rouke and another strange girl hadn't sent you back, I'm afraid you'd have to lie on the street and fall asleep for a while stay."

Unconscious...Rou Ke sent me back?How did he meet her, how could he meet her again?The other girl... who is it?

Tangci's hand involuntarily clutched the mattress under him tightly, his pupils shrunk slightly and his breathing stopped suddenly, but what he saw when he looked down was still the green official uniform, and the cold sweat that was oozing from his back was about to fade away. Forced to go back to the first floor.

"Rou Ke... did you say anything?"

Hearing this, the fisherman put down the gong, walked to the round table and offered the freshly brewed tea: "Let me wake you up earlier today, and make tea to soothe you from the hangover!"

I drank the dark tea in one gulp, although it would not take immediate effect, the bitter and strong taste severely suppressed the nausea that was churning up in my stomach that had been tossing and clamoring all night.Tang's resignation slowed down for a while, his thoughts gradually cleared up, and he asked again: "The name of the girl who came with her, do you know?"

"How can I know this? It's not easy for me to ask the girl's boudoir name unless I tell myself, isn't it? But she is holding a pipa." The fisherman murmured and found a set of clean middle clothes and officials from the cabinet. The clothes were placed by the bed, eyes rolled around, and he said with a smile, "What? Have you taken a fancy to that girl? That's a good idea! I told her last night that she would come here often."

Tang Ci glanced at him lightly: "...nonsense, I don't even remember who she is." I have a vague impression of such a person, but hiding in the clouds, I can't even find the tip of the iceberg. no.

I haven't heard the sound of the morning drum yet, so it should be early.Tang Ci retracted half of her body into the quilt: "I'll squint for a while, you go down first."

He closed his eyes and listened to the movement, and after everything was silent, Tang Ci unbuttoned his official uniform and middle coat, the white cloth used to tie his chest inside was intact, and the uneasiness that had been lingering since waking up this morning finally disappeared with this glance The dust settled.

He went to the bronze mirror and looked at it, his face was pale and his eyes were red and swollen.

Did he look so inhuman last night?

Tang Ci put his slightly cold hands on his eyes, slightly relieving the discomfort of swollen and squeezed eyelids.There was a long sigh of regret in my heart: what kind of wine should I drink properly?Just drink it, how can you get drunk?If one is not careful, wouldn't it be putting oneself in a situation where a blind man rides a blind horse to a deep pool in the middle of the night!Luckily Rou Ke was bumped into by Undead, could it be that he was still crying in front of her?As the saying goes, after drinking, I tell the truth. Shouldn't I be showing off my feet by talking nonsense through drinking?How come at this age, you still always stumble in front of her!

Tang Ci walked into the Imperial Academy with such a sad heart and lingering fear.

When he walked to his place, he took a closer look, and Lu He wasn't there yet?

Taking advantage of the reason of making tea, I walked to the value room, and listened to the disdainful and jealous gossip of most of the Hanlin scholars who came to Yingmao one after another along the way, so I knew that I was not Zhang Ji. The only one who was said to have been sent an extra errand by the Holy Family.

I was really hit by myself.The matter has come to this point, and I have been determined to go all the way to the dark, even if I have all kinds of unwillingness and unwillingness, I have to smash my teeth and swallow it in my stomach, enduring it for a while.

Really difficult "brother" difficult "brother"!

Yiyang Princess Mansion.

"Why, do you think it's a waste of talent to stay here and be my servant?" Yi Yang glanced lightly at Lu He who had been kneeling on the ground for a long time, and finally he was willing to say a word.

Lu He smiled slightly, but his shoulders and legs couldn't help trembling: "I don't dare. Mr. Lin Xiaotong is the number one scholar in Kangle for three years. He has a lot of knowledge. He is tired of officials and lectures on bachelors. I feel ashamed of my lack of knowledge."

"He is the No. 40 scholar in his [-]s. He has been working in the Imperial Academy for more than ten years. He only knows what he knows all day long. At most, he talks about the pros and cons of politics. It is really pedantic." Yiyang put down the dagger he had been playing with all morning, and looked at him again. Lu He, not at all moved by the fine beads of sweat on her forehead, said in a cold and arrogant tone, "You are a servant with me. Although there is no real promotion of official rank, the monthly silver is no different from the fifth rank. If You have some real talents and hard work, but there are many dignitaries and dignitaries who often come to my house. At that time, you can use your ability to see if someone will favor you, or do you want to go to my Brother Lu to change it? Sit on a cold bench?"

There is no impenetrable wall in the world. The banquet held by the King of Lu was very grand. How many people in Beijing squeezed their heads to grab an invitation. There is no surprise in the dark face.Although the king of Lu values ​​himself, there are hundreds of people in the mansion/aides and guests, and it is also difficult to have a bright future.

Lu He smiled again: "The minister is also a poor scholar with a poor head and a hard time. He can't be moved by poverty, and he can't be subdued by might." Yiyang's temptation is indeed worthy of consideration, but if he really responds, It's completely different from my own purpose.Leaving this aside, what she still wants to know is what Yiyang is thinking. Knowing that her identity as a woman is not revealed, she actually asked the emperor to issue a verbal order, and she was expelled from the Imperial Academy overnight. If she gets it by her side, doesn't she want to look at Tiandu?

"Poverty and lowliness can't be moved, might can't be subdued?" Yi Yang sneered, "Is this about a man? Are you?"

Lu He was taken aback by the question, and raised his eyelids to look at Chi Liangjun who was accompanying Yiyang.

"What do you see him doing? Isn't he not afraid?" Yiyang lifted the tea cover, blew the hot air on his face, and took a sip.

Lu He's face was reddish, and after two days of observation, she could see that the close officials in the princess mansion were controlled by Yiyang in a very strict and orderly manner, and they would not easily gossip everywhere, let alone What's more, Chi Liangjun is the only outsider in the room now.But how could she pretend nothing had happened when she was told the secret about her life from Yiyang in such a grand manner.

"...I have been kneeling for a long time, my neck hurts, and I am loose when I raise my head."

Chi Liangjun burst into a chuckle when he heard this, and after being gouged out by Yiyang, he squeezed his mouth into a slit and barely held it back.

"Neck hurts after kneeling for a long time?" How could Yiyang not know that this was her excuse to cover up her embarrassment, but she was amused by the shyness and annoyance rarely revealed by this serious elm lump since they met Yue, with a faint smile on his lips, "Get up, sit and talk."

Lu He bowed his head to thank him, but when he got up, his legs were weak because he couldn't kneel for a long time, and he fell straight forward——

Before Chi Liangjun could react, Yiyang quickly helped him up.

Although the hands of this handsome and elegant woman dressed as a young man are slender and fair, but there are thick calluses on the palms, it is not like a scholar holding a pen and writing hard for ten years of hard work, nor is it like bending a bow and archery. Form a thin layer of cocoons.

Yi Yang couldn't help but take a few more glances, his eyes climbed upwards, collided with Lu He's panicked eyes, and he held the hand she was about to pull out effortlessly.

"I... I am afraid." Lu He wanted to pull out his hand. It would be disrespectful not to pull it out. He didn't know why this difficult little ancestor was holding his hand, and his head was full of anxiety for a while. sweat, and I have long forgotten the numbness and swelling of my knees.

Being so close, the sachet worn by Yiyang's waist exuded a faint fragrance, which made Lu He's mind clearer. She boldly took another look at Yiyang, only to hear her laughing and saying: "It seems Mr. Lu still prefers to talk on his knees, why don't you continue to kneel?"

As if struck by lightning, Lu He's mouth opened slightly, but he didn't dare to disobey the order, so he had to answer yes in a low voice, and knelt down with a painful face.

Chi Liangjun kept shaking his head and sniggering, saying with emotion, Mr. Lu, Mr. Lu, you can't escape His Highness's palm from left to right, so why bother to struggle needlessly here?Anything His Highness likes can't reach her by peeing, and stubborn resistance is just asking for trouble.

"Master Lu—how old is he?"

Lu He was stunned for a while: "...Go back to Your Highness, there are four out of twenty ministers."

"Daughters of ordinary people are afraid that their children are all babbling?" Yiyang continued this topic that sounded a bit clueless, "You said earlier that your father let you go to fulfill your grandfather's last wish. If you pretend to be a man, doesn't he know that if this matter is revealed, it will be a great crime that will implicate the whole family? Besides, since he is so pure and filial, how can he be so foolish as to treat his daughter's life as a trifle?"

After hearing this, Chi Liangjun sighed in his heart, His Royal Highness was really spoiled by today, he didn't know the sufferings of the world, he thought that common people's daughter's family was like her, except that they couldn't inherit the rule, other things were almost no different from men .Little do they know that if a daughter born to common people is not sold to others at a high price by a father who loves money like his life, she will at most end up in a forced marriage to earn a gift for her children. In this world, how can anyone really value a daughter? Meeting someone who is not kind?

"You can't have it both ways. My father just made the choice he thinks is right." Lu He pursed his lips and pondered the words in his stomach carefully before continuing, "If things come to light... the minister alone Undertake it, didn't the female minister during Dezong's reign set a precedent for this case?"

"At that time, Di Lan was an extremely powerful official with a lot of power, but he was very upright, respectful and virtuous, and dared to use his own strength to compete with the courtiers of the Hanlin, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and even the scholars of the world, and assisted Emperor Dezong to reform the bureaucracy and adjust taxation. The feelings are all admirable. Even though Dongchuang was imprisoned after the incident, and the impeachment piled up in the case of Emperor Dezong, the old man was forced to kill her, but he graciously pardoned her clan, and even changed the fact that women cannot study since Chengzu. The government decree to practice calligraphy." Yi Yang disagreed, "Do you think you can be compared with it?"

Hearing that Yiyang admired Di Lan very much, Lu He felt more at ease, and said with a slight smile, "I have high aspirations."

Is it a weapon of Hulian or brazen?

Yi Yang didn't comment, just glanced at her indifferently.

Just at this moment, a small servant ran in with a smile on his face and whispered something in Yiyang's ear.