[Lu Zhen] Empress Dowager is difficult

The dispute outside the examination room was exactly as Qing Qiang expected, it was Wang Xuan and Lu Zhen.

When Qing Qiang turned the corner and walked in, Wang Xuan flicked her sleeves furiously, and pushed Lu Zhen, who was entangled with her, down several steps of the stone stairs. into the arms of Qing Qiang who just stepped through the door.

Qing Qiang stretched out her hand to support her, raised her head to look at Wang Xuan on the stone steps, and smiled slightly: "Oh, I said Wang Shangyi, when did you start getting this obsession? Hitting the little maid in the blue sky and daylight ?”

It is true that Wang Xuan never hit Lu Zhen, but Qing Qiang knew that his tone of voice would irritate her.

Wang Xuan was really enraged, her face turned cold in an instant, she stared at Qing Qiang and said, "Which eye of yours saw me beat her? It was because she didn't take the exam seriously, she was more than an hour late, how could she Blame me?"

As for Lu Zhen's late arrival, Qing Qiang could hear some hints from the words of the two of them arguing before entering the door, and later when she supported Lu Zhen, she could clearly smell the smell of alcohol on her body , coupled with her unwashed makeup, it is not difficult to see that she just woke up from a hangover.

Before Qing Qiang witnessed Lu Zhen being rejected by Gao Zhan, she had a premonition that Lu Zhen would be hurt by love when she went back, and only a hangover could barely relieve her.It turned out that Qing Qiang's premonition was correct, and two days ago, Du Siyi in the meditation institute warned Lu Zhen "not to flirt with her little lover until the end of the female officer promotion exam, so as not to affect the exam." What a prescient statement.

The examination for the promotion of female officials in the palace is divided into two sections: the written examination and the art examination, each with [-] points.Lu Zhen missed this exam and could have waited for next year to continue to refer to it, but she has repeatedly stated that if she can take the next art exam, she will definitely come out on top and become a female officer.

You need to know that ever since Wang Xuan saw her face when Lu Zhen entered the palace, he has always regarded her as a deadly enemy.How could she give up such a good opportunity to suppress Lu Zhen?

Therefore, this matter ended with a gamble between Lu Zhen and Wang Xuan.

The gamble is whether Lu Zhen can win the art test, and the condition is that Wang Xuan must allow Lu Zhen to take the art test.If Lu Zhen can come out on top, then Lu Zhen has won the bet, and Wang Xuan will pour wine for Lu Zhen in person.If Lu Zhen unfortunately fails the election, she will be expelled from the palace and will not be allowed to enter the palace for life.

It seems that Wang Xuan is taking advantage of this gamble, but if Lu Zhen doesn't take a gamble, she will have to wait until next year to take the female officer promotion exam.In Lu Zhen's words, she didn't have the time and couldn't afford to wait.But Qing Qiang felt that the reason why she couldn't wait to take the exam next year was because of Du Siyi's harsh words before. If she failed to pass the exam this time, Du Siyi would quickly peel her skin.

Therefore, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, and this is the beginning of the bet.

The art test was set two days later, on November [-]th of the lunar calendar. It was an excellent day. The heavy snow that had been coming for several days finally stopped on that day, and the dense clouds that hadn’t dispersed for a long time slowly emerged a round of warm morning sun. .

Since the gambling game started, Lu Zhen has been staying behind closed doors, making Gao Zhan unable to explain even if he wanted to.After finally getting Lu Zhen to go out, Gao Yan gave him another good job and ordered him to go to Chen Guo.

The reason why this is a good errand is because the purpose of Gao Zhan's trip to Chen country is to pick up the most precious daughter of the emperor of Chen country, Princess Tongchang of Chen country.But in order to take a princess to another country for a visit, it is so labor-intensive and wastes a lot of people's tax money, which will obviously lead to public anger, so when this decree was issued from Zhaojun to Gao Yan, he used an excuse to use Chen.

Gao Yan didn't know that Princess Tongchang would come to visit, so naturally Gao Zhan didn't know either.

On such a sunny day, Lu Zhen rushed from the Palace of Blue Mirrors to the side courtyard specially set up by the Internal Service Bureau for female officers' promotion exams under the bright morning light. After that, she will stay here for twelve hours, until the exam is over.At the other end, outside the Duanmen Gate, several black armored soldiers lined up in straight lines, waiting for the King of the Mountain who was ordered to travel to the Kingdom of Chen.

It was a big event for Chen, and Zhaojun, who had not been out for a long time, was also supported by Qing Qiang and slowly walked out of the gate of Zhaoyang Hall on this day, and stood side by side with Gao Yan on the hundred-step bluestone, making a look of reluctance Come.

For several days outside the palace, Gao Zhan's reaction to Zhaojun's passionate maternal love has become much calmer. Even Zhaojun shook his hand and said sadly, "I just returned to the palace not long ago, and I have to travel again..." , he just made a calming gesture on his face, and calmly pulled his hand away from her.

The bronze bell struck three times, and it came melodiously. It was the bell for the female officer's promotion examination.

Gao Zhan's resignation action paused slightly, and he kept his resignation motion still, until Gao Zhan sounded a reminder, then he continued the action just now and resigned in a serious manner.When he got on his horse, he slightly raised his head and looked towards the southeast for a while. After a long time, he put on his horse's belly and led a group of soldiers and horses slowly towards the official road.

Zhaojun and Gao Yan stood together, only to feel that the strong-looking sun in the sky seemed to be unable to warm the winter wind, the north wind blew past, blowing directly into the sleeves of the man.

Zhaojun rubbed his hands, and was about to call Gao Yan to go home, but before his raised hand touched his shoulder, he heard Gao Yan's muffled voice: "It's a long journey, if Ah Zhan, he can't go back..."

In the middle of the sentence, the second half of the sentence broke in his throat like a broken noodle.

Zhaojun waited patiently for a while, but he couldn't hear him say the last half of the sentence. He kept looking at Gao Zhan's team of men and horses that were drifting away for a long time, and suddenly chuckled: "It's nothing, Ah Zhan is my real brother, he will definitely return safely."

He shook his head lightly, not knowing whether it was for himself or Zhaojun, the smile on his cheek faded a little.

On this day Gao Zhan left the palace to go out, Lu Zhen moved into the side courtyard of the Internal Service Bureau and was busy with art examination projects, Xiao Huanyun, who had been out of favor for a long time, stood on the city wall and watched the group of laymen for a long time, then returned her kiss The Guangdian closed its doors.Everything in the palace seemed very harmonious.

This kind of harmony lasted until dinner time, when Qing Qiang set up a stove in Zhaoyang Hall, fiddled with it for a long time and finished a hot pot meal, the two of them grilled two bowls of rice under the red fire light, and they also ate it A face flushed with heat.In the early days, Xianbei people often had the custom of eating meat around the fire to celebrate the festival. Now it is mid-November, and the most grand New Year's Day ceremony in the palace is about to usher in. The most noble woman in the palace will preside over it with the emperor. , in order to pray for the prosperity of the country and the people in the coming year, and the weather will be smooth.

In the previous life, during the New Year's Day sacrifice to the heavens, Xiao Huanyun was being favored and was acting as the Phoenix seal, so she was naturally the most honorable woman in the palace.It's just that at that time Zhaojun felt that Xiao Huanyun was just a noble concubine in charge of Fengyin, and her mother's family Liang Kingdom had been destroyed, so she was really not worthy of the title of the most noble woman.

So at that time, Zhaojun tried his best to oppose it, and did not hesitate to tear his face with Xiao Huanyun in front of several female officers of the Internal Service Bureau. Looking back now, she finds it very funny.

The Ministry of Rituals drew up a list of New Year's Day sacrifices to heaven and ordered people to submit it to the Internal Service Bureau. Wang Xuan, who is in charge of the matter of worshiping heaven in the Internal Service Bureau, has been busy fighting with Lu Zhen recently, and has no time to deal with this matter, so a list goes round and round. Handed over to Qing Qiang.Qing Qiang flipped through the list, sighed how tactful and righteous the officials of the Ministry of Rites are now, and then took the opportunity of eating hot pot to hand over the list to Zhaojun.

Now the Lou clan controls half of the court, and it was the same in previous lives.It's just that Gao Yan in the previous life didn't want to be emperor, so he didn't have any resistance to whether the Lou family was half of the country or the whole country of the Lou family.But now, Zhaojun sees that his style of dealing with affairs in the court is becoming more and more vigorous day by day, and he handles state affairs with ease. If the Lou family continues to control the court, I am afraid that Gao Yan will feel disgusted.

Zhaojun looked at the list for a long time with a toothpick in his mouth, then walked to the table and picked up a pen to move back the few descendants of the Lou family who were at the front. Having been neglected for a long time, Zhaojun raised them from the last place of worship to the front.A list was handed over to Qing Qiang, and then she ordered Qing Qiang to go out of the palace to deliver a message to her younger brother, asking him to transfer the descendants of the Lou family, who had held idle positions in the court but were paid a lot, and handed over the military power to Gao Yan. .

After Qing Qiang got the order, she hurried out of the palace.

It is said that on this night, just as Qing Qiang stepped out of the palace gate, Lu Zhen hurriedly rushed out from the Art Examination Court of the Internal Service Bureau.According to what Qing Qiang learned after returning to the palace, Lu Zhen rushed out to find a solution because the eight-treasure necklace that she was going to make suddenly broke and broke one of the most precious glazed beads. of.

But things like colored glaze beads are very rare, and it is impossible to have such things in other places in the palace except Si Baosi. Only the empress dowager, the emperor, and the empress can have colored glaze beads in the whole palace of Qi.The emperor is a man, so she can't beg him, it's against her will.But the queen and Wang Xuan are in the same faction, it is impossible to help her at all.

After thinking about it, the only one who could help her without going against her will was the Queen Mother.But when she drove the dark night to Zhaoyang Palace, she was told that Master Lou had been ordered by the Queen Mother to go out to buy things, and she might not be able to come back for a while.But the Empress Dowager blew a cold wind when she sent King Pong Shan out of the palace today, her head was blown, and now she has rested.

Standing by the window, Zhaojun watched Lu Zhen's hopeful expression gradually fade away, Lamei relieved her: "If you have nothing urgent, you can wait a little bit, maybe Master Lou Shangshi will be back tomorrow morning."

Lu Zhen seemed a little weak, supported the red-painted palace gate slowly, said: "Tomorrow will be too late..." Then she left in a hurry.

Seeing that Lu Zhen was walking away, Lamei closed the palace gate and came back to the palace, and reported to Zhaojun: "The servant girl has already said what the queen mother told me... But the servant girl doesn't understand, if Lu Zhen loses this game, what will happen to her?" will be kicked out of the palace..."

Zhaojun glanced at her out of the corner of his eyes, and after a while, the corner of his mouth curled up: "Of course, Aijia has heard about that game. It's just that Aijia suddenly changed his mind..."

Outside the window is a red plum blossom, and the north wind blows past, making the window lintel vibrate.

"So what if Lu Zhen loses? Xiao Huanyun wants to drive her out of the palace, will Yan'er agree?"

The author has something to say: ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !He drove it out! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

I cut off a part of the plot, and announced the appearance of Princess Tongchang, a candidate for high performance Xipi! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Orz Master Gu reminded the girls earlier that if she started to feel sorry for herself, everyone would slap her decisively, but no one slapped him, the girls are so kind! ! ! ! ! !