[Red Mansion + Martial Arts] The Virgin Strikes

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On the day when the list was released, Qian Xiaoqiao didn't wait at home, and went to watch the list with Li Qing, Xue Pan's name was ranked eighth.It stands to reason that this ranking is very good, but I don’t know why. Ever since I was summoned by the emperor, my heart was a little flustered. I always thought that the emperor wanted him to be in the top three. Now I told him that he is in the eighth place...

Li Qing was very happy for Xue Pan, after some congratulations, he found that Xue Pan was not in high spirits, and asked the reason, only to find out that the emperor deliberately kept him after the palace examination that day.

"It's really interesting. Generally, the emperor will only keep the young Tanhua among the top three for questioning, and he intends to reuse it in the future. You, No. 8..." Li Qing laughed loudly when he saw Xue Pan's face darken, and said : "Okay, don't be depressed, let me tell you the inside story, I also listened to what my boss said."

Li Qing's boss, Shang Shu of the Ministry of Rites, is the president who will take the exam this spring, so the inside story should be reliable, and Qian Xiaoqiao is quite interested.

"The emperor intends to invite you to be a candidate, and he believes that you are a talent to be made. The presidents also agree. It's a pity that there is one person who disagrees, and you will be rejected! But this person has never seen your test questions, nor has he seen you. The person who has passed you, but he has the right to deny you." Li Qing deliberately played tricks.

"Who?"

Li Qing looked around cautiously, and whispered into Xue Pan's ear: "You Wang Jingchuan."

you king?Since Qian Xiaoqiao's imperial examination, he has been trying to catch up on the knowledge of the royal family of this dynasty, but he knows this prince.

Today's old queen mother had a son in middle age, and gave birth to two sons one after another, one is the current emperor, and the other is this King You.He was canonized on the day the emperor ascended the throne. He has been living in the palace since he was a child. When he turned 16 last year, he moved to the newly built Youwang Mansion outside the palace.At least Qian Xiaoqiao has made friends with so many wealthy princes and grandchildren in the past two years, and he has never heard a single person mention him.

Qian Xiaoqiao speculates that he is probably an idle prince who hides from the world.

"Hidden world?" Li Qing chuckled, and now he put on a bitter face for Xue Pan: "Not only is he not hidden in the world, but he has been active in the court all the time, and these humerus important ministers have headaches when they mention him. No one dares to speak about him unless he is asking for an early death."

"So powerful? Don't dare to mention it?" King You = Dark Lord?Qian Xiaoqiao pursed his mouth, playing with mysterious powers and other supernatural powers was the most annoying thing.He didn't bother to understand, in short, the task of saving money for promotion was the first.

Qian Xiaoqiao has always used Li Qing as an example to calculate his official salary. Li Qing's ranking in the imperial examination was No. 20 and third, which is similar to his No. 8. He stayed in the Imperial Academy for more than two years and then was promoted to fourth. It's not too long to be a rank official, but when will you be promoted to the third rank?

"From the fourth rank onwards, it's difficult to be promoted. There are people who are divided. Some people can be promoted to the first rank in a year or two, and some people have not been promoted to the third rank in their entire lives. When they get old, they might offend someone and be dismissed."

"It's too tragic!" Qian Xiaoqiao stared at the tea in the bowl in a daze. It seemed that it was easier to take shortcuts as a son-in-law.It's a pity, she inquired specifically, the only princess to be married in this dynasty was already engaged a month ago.The remaining two princesses are only two or three years old, and they can't talk about it, let alone recruit a son-in-law. The dream of a son-in-law is completely shattered.

Depressed, Qian Xiaoqiao ate tea with Li Qing, and then rode back to the house, just in time for Xia's family to carry several boxes of potted plants inside.

"What is this for?"

The leading servant recognized Uncle Xue, and said with a smile: "Our wife heard that Uncle Xue was in high school, and specially brought several kinds of bonsai to congratulate him. The lotus petal orchid, and the crane pine... are all found in the palace. thing."

"The things in the palace, we ordinary people may lose their lives if they use them. You can take them back and accept them with good intentions." Qian Xiaoqiao said with a cold face.

"Ah?" The boy thought that he would be praised by Uncle Xue, but he didn't expect that Uncle Xue would dare to reject them with a shameless face. It was really beyond his expectation!After all, their Xia family is also a big family of the emperor, they are magnificent, when did they suffer from such a useless attitude?When Uncle Xue met his young lady last time, he left unaccounted for being rude, but this time he refuted his wife's kindness. This Uncle Xue really doesn't know what to do!The young servant was very dissatisfied and didn't give Xue Pan a good look. He reminded in a strange voice: "Master Xue, this is carefully selected by our wife as a gift for you. You have to think clearly whether you want it or not."

Qian Xiaoqiao ignored the boy, and asked Laiwang with a sneer, "Is that man deaf?"

Laiwang laughed heartily.The servant of the Xia Mansion was so angry that he gave Xue Pan a hard look, and then he led someone to carry the gift back with his buttocks pouted.

Aunt Xue heard the news in the backyard, and came to comfort Xue Pan: "It's fine if you don't get married, why bother embarrassing them. There is a saying that 'It is better to offend a gentleman than to offend a villain'. Their Xia family has been rooted in the capital for many years. They must be stronger than us, once they get in their way, the loss outweighs the gain."

"How much trouble can a Xia family cause? It should be the wife of the Xia family who said this, not your mother. I saw their orphans and widows, and I didn't bother to talk to them. They came to the door without knowing what to do." Qian Xiao Qiao sneered and said: "When it comes to gentlemen and villains, I am the real villain, the one they can't afford to offend!"

Not long after, as expected by Qian Xiaoqiao, the Xia family came out again, and this time they got angry, causing rumors that Xue Pan was molesting Xia Jingui.With this incident, Xue Pan's past misconduct in Jinling was dug out.So all the streets and alleys were talking about Uncle Xue's affair.

Aunt Xue was originally planning to discuss Xue Pan's marriage. In view of the situation of Xia's family as a precedent, Aunt Xue found a scholarly family, the daughter of the official minister's family. She is really a good family. Seeing that the other party is interested in seeing each other's family, the rumors are completely gone.Aunt Xue was jumping with anger at home. She has always been kind and generous to others after living for so many years, and she never cared about what she suffered. This was the first time in her life that she hated so much.If she dared to ruin her precious son's reputation, she would go to the Xia family to fight for her life!

The maids stopped Aunt Xue and tried to persuade her, but Aunt Xue was still angry that she couldn't protect her son, and she wiped her tears sadly.

When Qian Xiaoqiao first came back, Aunt Xue's eyes were already red and swollen from crying.Feeling distressed, she vented her anger for Aunt Xue: "It's very simple to clean up his Xia family."

At this time, Qian Xiaoqiao had been appointed as an official in the Hanlin Academy. He often visited the places where officials were located and made many new friends.And because of Xue Pan's generosity, straightforwardness and unpretentiousness, Hong Yuan, Minister of Rites, really liked him.

Qian Xiaoqiao had a meal with Hong Yuan with only two jugs of white wine, a special product from the Western Regions. holy will'.Since then, the Xue family has had an additional job of enshrining and displaying bonsai in the palace.

Mrs. Xia saw that her tricks not only failed to make the Xue family submit, but instead deprived her family of royal business qualifications, she was so angry that her daughter Xia Jingui was a hard-edged person, so she insisted on marrying Xue Pan as her husband. wife.Things have come to this, and her daughter's reputation is gone, it's better to stick to Xue's family with broken jars.Mrs. Xia's family immediately reported Xue Pan to the government office, and asked the Xue family to explain her daughter's title.

The case was easy to solve. There were many maids and maids who testified that day, and the Xue family found two people from the Xia family to testify about the matter.Although Xue Pan and Xia Jingui's names were corrected in this case, no one would dare to marry a girl from the Xia family, and such a vicious family had such rumors, no matter it is right or wrong, the feudal parents would never marry Allow his own son to marry a woman with a bad reputation to enter the door.

Xia Jingui's old lady is settled, and the Xia family's status as an imperial merchant will never be regained.Mrs. Xia's family couldn't help it, if she couldn't be hard, she would be soft, she cried and begged Aunt Xue for mercy, even if Na Xiao married her daughter.

Aunt Xue had a bad experience before, but she didn't dare to get involved with the Xia family again. Since then, she asked the gatekeeper to guard the door, but whenever the Xia family came to visit, they would shut the door behind them.

The matter is over, but the aftermath is not over, and I don’t know which talkative minister reported this matter to the emperor’s ears, but the emperor didn’t think much of it, but King You, who was present at the time, believed that Xue Panpin could not learn. Duan, with a word of advice, Xue Pan was demoted as a sixth-rank cabinet attendant.

Qian Xiaoqiao didn't know in what life she had offended this You Wang, whom she had never met, who always came to tear down the bridge when she was about to cross the river.

But Li Qing took it easy, and joked that although he was demoted, he was actually promoted. "At any rate, I entered the cabinet, and all I came into contact with were the big figures who waited on the emperor, the Taifu, the prime minister, the third palace, and the three grand scholars..."

"I'm a little relieved to hear what you said." Qian Xiaoqiao re-stated the family property, and with another 2000 million taels, he was almost enough.Two tasks, one completed counts as one.When Qian Xiaoqiao was in the cabinet, he took the opportunity to contact Sangong Jiuqing, intending to find some places where he could make money.But because these big men have been in the officialdom for many years, they are old and cunning, and they don't like Qian Xiaoqiao's style. Besides, they are busy with government affairs and military affairs all day long, and rarely do jobs involving money.The only thing Qian Xiaoqiao found interesting was salt. If he could act as the only salt merchant agent in the imperial court, then the accumulation of assets of the Xue family would definitely increase rapidly.

Qian Xiaoqiao worked hard to write a very reasonable plan that would win both the court and the Xue family, motivating several officials to lobby the emperor.The emperor nodded repeatedly, but did not make a final decision, and finally left the decision to King You Jingchuan.

It's King You again!Qian Xiaoqiao was sharpening her knife furiously. For her money, she really had to see the true face of the legendary King You this time.

The author has something to say: the words "inside" and "blanket" are in the harmonious vocabulary, and they cannot be put together