The Favorite of the Court of Joy

After dinner, Zhao Yunxuan went back to work in the Hall of Qinzheng. There were really many things going on recently.In the palace examination a few days ago, 1 Jinshi were selected out of 3 Gongsheng students.Unsurprisingly, Ding Yishan became No.[-] in Yijia, the title of champion.Zhou Bowen won the No.[-] third place in Yijia.In fact, in Zhao Yunxuan's view, Zhou Bowen and Ding Yishan's knowledge is comparable, but Ding Yishan is slightly better than Zhou Bowen in terms of observation, observation and adaptability.As for why Zhou Bowen was only third instead of second, this was deliberately arranged by Zhao Yunxuan.Zhou Bowen is already very popular among the common people because he has sued the Ministry of Rites and other officials. If he is the No. [-] scholar this time, he might become arrogant.If he is calm and truly caring for the people, then gold will shine in the end, and his future position will definitely be above Ding Yishan.

Li Yaohui won the top three titles, known as Chuanlu.Generally, the top three Jinshi will be transferred to other places to take up official positions, but he feels that he can realize the agreement with Zhou Bowen to be an official in the same dynasty, which is even lucky. I really want to thank him very much. If Zhou Bowen followed his cowardly advice and returned to his hometown If you are a teacher, you will not return home today.

Yu Xiujie won the No. [-] first place, which is already a very high ranking, but he was not happy. He felt that he should be one of the top three, and even felt that Zhou Bowen's third place belonged to him. Because of the matter of the Ministry of Rites that was sued, the emperor wanted to see it.In addition to this matter, there is another matter that made him very unhappy, that is, Zhao Minghan asked him to move out of Prince Rui's residence after the exam was over.Now the exam is over, but he doesn't want to move out of the palace.Anyway, Zhang Xiaoqian was taken into the palace, no one dared to mention this moment, so he continued to stay with the cheek.

Regarding the [-] candidates selected by the emperor, Prime Minister Meng was very depressed. He always felt that the emperor did it on purpose. Except for Ding Yishan and Zhou Bowen, all the candidates he had fancy failed.Now it is necessary to win over these two people.He happened to have a daughter of the right age. If neither Ding Yishan nor Zhou Bowen had a wife, he would marry his daughter to one of them. As for the other, his distant relatives had suitable daughters to marry anyway.

Prime Minister Meng's intentions were conveyed to Ding Yishan and Zhou Bowen on different occasions, and Ding Yishan was moved on the spot, implicitly expressing that he wanted to follow Prime Minister Meng.But when Zhou Bowen learned that Prime Minister Meng wanted to recruit him as Chenglong Kuai's son-in-law, he refused on the spot, saying that he already had an engaged fiancée in his hometown, and he couldn't let him down. Zhou Bowen refused without hesitation. Was it because his daughter couldn't get married?In the future, if Zhou Bowen wants to be promoted, he will have to pass his level first.

Prime Minister Meng didn't know that his behavior had already been reported to him by the spies arranged by Zhao Yunxuan, so Zhao Yunxuan decided to transfer Ding Yishan out of the capital after he went to the Meng family's daughter.

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Zhao Minghan has been away from Beijing for half a month, during which time he only received a letter, saying that everything is in the plan, so Zhao Yunxuan needn't worry, as long as he takes care of the court affairs, and must help him take care of Zhang Xiaoqian.After Zhao Yunxuan received the news, he immediately went to Zhaoyang Hall to keep Zhang Xiaoqian safe and reassure him. Doctor Jiang said that he had frequent stomach pains due to excessive worry and near delivery. With this good news, he must be able to Peace of mind.

When he came to Zhaoyang Hall, as expected, he saw Meng Wanxian there again.Ever since Wan Zi made friends with her, she came here every now and then. Although Zhang Xiaoqian didn't like Meng Wanxian, she didn't dislike her too much. Although she knew that her purpose of approaching Wan Zi was impure, she didn't do anything too obvious or too much. Besides, the emperor doesn't think much of her.Thinking of Wan Zi's heavy body, she would give birth in less than half a month, and couldn't get emotional, Zhang Xiaoqian didn't want to tell him that he was cheated for now, Meng Wanxian didn't really want to make friends with him at all.

However, what is surprising today is that Meng Wanxian did not come here by herself. She brought a younger sister named Meng Wanqing, who looks very similar to her. Out of contempt for him and Wan Zi, Zhang Xiaoqian felt that this little girl was really young and inexperienced unlike Meng Wanxian who kept her thoughts deep.

As soon as Zhao Yunxuan came in, Meng Wanqing boldly leaned on Zhao Yunxuan after saluting, even pulled Zhao Yunxuan's sleeve, and said in a child's tone: "Brother-in-law of the emperor, do you still remember me, I am Qing Son, when Eldest Sister was still here, I often went to the palace to accompany Eldest Sister, and I often saw the Emperor’s brother-in-law, alas, I only feel sorry for my Eldest Sister, who died young at the hands of Mrs. Li..." I was talking She looked like she was about to cry.

This made Zhang Xiaoqian and Wan Zi very uncomfortable. She is only the daughter of the Meng family. Even if there is an older sister who is a concubine in the palace, the emperor is her brother-in-law by name, but the emperor is more often the emperor. She should call herself a "courier" It's not "I", and you are still talking about it, do you really think that the emperor is your big brother?What was even more uncomfortable was Meng Wanxian. Her sister snatched away the chance she had so hard to get, and she couldn't complain aloud. Her pitiful appearance would definitely soften the emperor's heart.If her father hadn't forced her into the palace in the name of "missing her sister", she wouldn't want to see her.Since she was a child, Meng Wanqing had the most evil ideas, and she often suffered under her hands.She understood the purpose of her father sending her into the palace, because she was able to enter the Zhaoyang Palace, so that she would have more opportunities to contact the emperor.His father thought that she had been in the palace for a long time, but he didn't have any favors, and he already regarded her as an abandoned son, so he asked the lively and lovable Meng Wanqing to follow her to befriend the people in Zhaoyang Palace, so that Meng Wanqing would have a chance.Now that Wan Zi has a big belly, she can't serve the emperor at all, and if the emperor has that kind of needs, the first thing the emperor thinks of is their Meng family.

However, Zhao Yunxuan didn't do what everyone expected, he still had a calm face, but there was a little more chill in his eyes, which made Meng Wanqing's hand holding her sleeve loosen slowly, but he still refused to let go.

"How old are you?" Zhao Yunxuan asked.

"Brother-in-law of the emperor, I just turned fourteen." Meng Wanqing looked at Zhao Yunxuan with a pair of big innocent eyes, trying to make him feel "I feel pity".

Zhao Yunxuan flicked up his sleeves, broke free from her hand, and then sat on the soft couch with Wan Zi in his arms, Zhang Xiaoqian didn't need him to say that he had already found a place to sit down.Meng Wanxian and Meng Wanqing were not granted a seat, so they could only stand all the time.Meng Wanqing looked at Wan Zi who was nestled in Zhao Yunxuan's arms, and was burning with jealousy, thinking that why should a lowly darling sit in the arms of the emperor and be pregnant with a dragon seed? It should be her second sister or her who can enjoy this kind of treatment.Didn't everyone say that the only one the emperor loves is her elder sister? Could it be that the love affair was transferred only because the name of this favorite was homonymous with her elder sister's name?A similar name is cheaper than a darling, and it makes people unwilling to think about it.

"Your Majesty Meng."

"The concubine is here." Meng Wanxian couldn't tell what emotion was in the emperor's tone.

"Take your sister back and let your mother teach her the rules and etiquette. Don't you always stay in the palace with everyone, don't you even know the rules?"

"The emperor calm down, the concubine is confused, and the concubine will take her away immediately."

Meng Wanqing put aside Meng Wanxian's hand, pouted her small mouth, and said pitifully, "Brother-in-law, what did I do wrong? You tell me, and I will definitely correct it." Meng Wanqing really did not expect Zhao Yunxuan to be so dissatisfied. Give her face, not only that, but also don't even look at her, she is the one who most resembles the elder sister among the sisters, before when she came to the palace, the emperor always treated her kindly.The first time she saw him as a prince when she was young, she secretly agreed with him, but he and his elder sister were already engaged, and then she wanted to grow up quickly and enter the palace to be his concubine, or even his concubine. Queen.But now, not only did she not get the favor of the emperor, but he even made him scold her for being unruly and unmannered.There were rumors outside that the emperor was bewitched by a favorite. She thought it must be this little slut named Wan Zi who used some kind of witchcraft to confuse the emperor, otherwise the emperor would not be so indifferent or even disgusted with her.

"Don't back down." Zhao Yunxuan scolded, jumping everyone present, even Wan Zi in his arms trembled, Zhao Yunxuan hurriedly said to him, "Did I scare you? Sorry, I was too loud."

"No, my lord, I'm fine."

"Your Majesty, my concubine is resigning." Meng Wanxian didn't dare to delay any longer, and pulled Meng Wanqing to leave in a hurry.Although Meng Wanqing was unwilling, she had no choice but to leave now.

It wasn't until Meng Wanqing was dragged to her Moon Immortal Hall that Meng Wanxian tore off her friendly and gentle hypocritical face, and immediately gave Meng Wanqing a resounding slap.

Meng Wanqing was taken aback by the beating, she covered her cheeks, stared at her and said, "You dare to hit me?"

"Why don't you? Believe it or not, I'll give you a second slap right away. If it weren't for your stupidity, would we have been kicked out by the emperor? Do you know how long it took me to get close to those two despicable darlings? I was able to enter the Zhaoyang Palace and share dinner with the emperor. It’s all over now, and you ruined everything. Get out, get out immediately.”

Meng Wanqing was a little afraid of this second sister, how could she dare to treat her like this when she was at home. "You...you...you wait, I want to tell my father that you hit me, uh..." Meng Wanqing walked away in anger.

"My lord, don't be angry, it's not worth hurting your body." Magpie persuaded.

Meng Wanqing was so angry that she overturned the tables and chairs, "How can I not be angry, this is an opportunity I finally got, and I finally had a meal with the emperor, the emperor even took the initiative to ask me something, this is a very Good start, maybe in a few days I will get a chance to serve as a bed attendant, but now she is hurting me because of her stupidity."

"My lord, why don't we go to Zhaoyang Hall tomorrow to find Wan Zi to apologize."

"Apologize?"

"Well, the most important thing is to avoid that Zhang Xiaoqian, he is very shrewd and not easy to fool like Wan Zi."

Meng Wanxian nodded, "Well, that's the only way to do it now."

However, when they were about to go out the next day, someone sent by the queen told them to copy ten Buddhist scriptures in the bedroom to prepare for the fifteenth day of the next month.It is a good thing to copy the scriptures and pray for the empress, but Meng Wanxian knows that this is the empress' restraint of her in disguise, but it is just a nice word to the outside world.

Prime Minister Meng was even more annoyed when he learned what happened in the palace.There are two reasons for anger, one is anger at his daughter for being brainless, and the second anger is anger at the emperor.The emperor gradually came to power, and he was less and less needed.The son-in-law he just recruited, who is the number one scholar in the new division, Lang Ding Yishan, was sent to a cold place for appointment by official document today, and he knew in his heart that this was the emperor's intention.He has to carefully consider how to go in the future.