Lian Erye's Road to Imperial Examination

To be honest, Jia Lian doesn't discriminate against homosexuality, but when he thinks that the Fourth Prince has such meaning for him, he just feels disgusted.

Nima, he finally understood why the fourth prince was so kind to him. It turned out that the fourth prince was thinking about it.

"There's still time before dinner, I'll take you for a walk around, and blow some air, so you'll feel better." The fourth prince said to Jia Lian with a gentle face.

Jia Lian suppressed his nausea and anger, without showing a trace of emotion on his face, his expression was still respectful: "Then trouble the prince." He wants to see what else he can do.

Seeing that Jia Lian did not refuse, a smile flashed in the fourth prince's eyes: "The scenery in the mansion is not bad, come with me."

Jia Lian saluted and followed the fourth prince for a walk in the courtyard.

Looking at Jia Lian who was walking behind him, the fourth prince raised a smile: "Time flies so fast, I still remember the first time I saw you." The fourth prince's tone was full of nostalgia.

A cold light flashed in Jia Lian's eyes, and he said expressionlessly: "I have no impression at all." Nima, is this trying to make memories, so please forgive him.

Hearing what Jia Lian said, the fourth prince was slightly stunned, and then said with a smile: "At the Lantern Festival poetry meeting four years ago, you hid in a corner and ate alone. I just came in and saw you at a glance. At that time I wondered which family’s children actually eat here.”

Jia Lian continued to pretend to have amnesia: "I still have no memory."

"You were young at that time, so it's normal if you don't remember it now." The fourth prince was not annoyed that Jia Lian didn't remember it, and continued, "Later, I learned that you wrote two poems about Butterfly Love Flower. Written by a child, I thought you were smart and talented at the time."

Jia Lian said flatly, "Your Majesty's absurd praise."

"I have always had a good eye for seeing people. I thought you were a talent at the time, and now it has confirmed my thinking."

Jia Lian looked sincere and fearful: "Prince, if you say that, I really dare not be a minister!"

The fourth prince raised his hand to pat Jia Lian on the shoulder, but he didn't want Jia Lian to turn around and hide.

Seeing that the fourth prince raised his hand to pat him on the shoulder, Jia Lian felt sick in his heart. He didn't want to have any physical contact with the fourth prince at all, so he turned his body sideways and pretended to be coughing: "Ahem... my lord, I'm sorry, my throat feels a little uncomfortable. .”

"You drank a lot of wine today, it's normal for your throat to feel uncomfortable, and it will be better if you drink some honey water." After the fourth prince finished speaking, he ordered the eunuch who was waiting at the side, "Go and make a glass of honey water for Mr. Jia. "

"Yes, my lord."

"My lord, you don't need to bother. Your voice is much more comfortable now."

"It's better to drink a glass of honey water, otherwise your voice will definitely be hoarse when you wake up tomorrow."

"Thank you, my lord."

"To be honest, after you took the imperial examination, I was very shocked by your performance all the way." The fourth prince brought the topic back again, "From the county examination to the palace examination, you won six yuan in a row, an unprecedented No. I'm even more excellent than I imagined." After finishing speaking, the fourth prince looked at Jia Lian with admiring and gentle eyes.

Jia Lian was so disgusted by the tenderness in the fourth prince's eyes that he almost couldn't hold back the expression on his face. He quickly lowered his head and said in a cold voice, "Thank you, my lord, for your compliment!"

"Father attaches great importance to you, and neither I nor elder brother can get close to you." The fourth prince showed a distressed expression on his face, "Obviously I discovered you first."

Jia Lian had nothing to say about this, because there was nothing to say.

"I've been waiting for you to be the No. [-] in the exam, and then ask you to help me."

Jia Lian raised his head, looked straight at the fourth prince, and asked straight to the point: "My lord, is this the purpose of your marrying your elder sister?"

The Fourth Prince did not deny it, but nodded generously and admitted: "That's right."

When Jia Lian heard this, she sneered in her heart, and decided to speak clearly at this moment, and distance herself from the disgusting fourth prince.

"My lord, forgive me for being rude. I'm just an insignificant official, so I can't help you!"

Hearing this, the fourth prince's eyes became a little cold, and he looked at Jia Lian with a sharp gaze.

"What did you say?"

Jia Lian looked at the displeased eyes of the fourth prince without fear, and said seriously: "The prince thinks too highly of me, I don't have that ability, and I don't have that ability to help the prince."

The fourth prince narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked at Jia Lian with sharp eyes: "Are you rejecting me?"

"The minister can't help the prince, so the prince doesn't need to spend his time on the minister."

"Jia Lian!" The fourth prince called out coldly.

"Your Highness, forgive me!"

The fourth prince glared at Jia Lian angrily, and said in a cold voice, "Why?"

"I don't have that ability." Jia Lian said with a serious face.

"You don't have that ability?" The fourth prince sneered, "Do you think this king will believe you for this reason? Tell me the truth, why don't you want to help me?"

When Jia Lian heard that the fourth prince called himself the king, he knew he was angry, but he didn't care.

"Since the prince cannot accept this answer from the minister, then the minister is giving you an answer. The minister does not want to get involved in party disputes."

The fourth prince didn't expect Jia Lian to say that, he couldn't help being startled, and then the expression on his face softened a little.

"I just want you to help me, and I didn't let you get involved in the fight between me and my brother."

"To help the prince is to get involved in the party struggle." Jia Lian said indifferently, "I took the imperial examination and won the first prize in the exam, just to move out of the family, not for power. I have no ambitions, and I don't want to intrigue all day long, so the minister I won't help the prince, and of course I won't help Prince Yuan."

"After you pass the exam and enter the officialdom, you have entered the power center, and you can't get rid of it."

"Please forgive me, my lord, I can't help you!" Jia Lian said firmly.

Seeing that Jia Lian was so ignorant, the fourth prince couldn't help getting angry: "Jia Lian, do you know what will happen to you if you reject this king?"

When Jia Lian heard the fourth prince's threat, he dismissed it in his heart, but he had a fearless expression on his face: "At worst, I will die."

The fourth prince was shocked by Jia Lian's words, opened his eyes slightly, and looked at him in astonishment: "Aren't you afraid of death?"

"I was assassinated in Jinling before, and my life was hanging by a thread. At that time, I looked away, but..." Jia Lian changed the subject, "Even if you want to kill me, my lord, the emperor will not agree. Just like you said, The minister is now highly valued by the emperor, if there is any mistake in the minister, the emperor will definitely pursue it."

"Do you think that in the eyes of the emperor, you are more important, or this king's son?" The fourth prince thought that Jia Lian was too naive.

When Jia Lian heard this, he just felt it was funny. In the eyes of the fourth prince, you are nothing and not important at all. You will know soon.

"My lord, are you forcing me to find Prince Yuan?"

"you……"

Jia Lian was about to be disgusted by the fourth prince, and he didn't want to stay in the same place with the fourth prince for a second, so he suppressed his nausea and saluted the fourth prince: "Thank you, my lord, for your hospitality today, and I will leave first!" Jia Lian just turned around When he was about to leave, he was stopped by the fourth prince.

"Stop, has my king allowed you to leave?"

Jia Lian scolded the fourth prince countless times in his heart, so he had to stop, turned around and bowed to the fourth prince: "I don't know what else the prince wants?"

The fourth prince took a deep look at Jia Lian, and said in a charitable tone: "I will give you another chance."

"My lord, I don't have the ability to help you." Jia Lian refused again, with a very firm attitude.

Bloodlust flashed in the fourth prince's eyes, and his expression became very gloomy: "Very good, very good, remember what you said today." Although the fourth prince likes Jia Lian, he only values ​​Jia Lian's beauty, not deep like.Jia Lian disobeyed him so much, how could the fourth prince not be angry.

"I will remember it forever."

The fourth prince suddenly thought of something, "Aren't you afraid of what this king will do to your eldest sister?"

"My lord, you should know that the relationship between the minister and the Jia family is not good, and the relationship with the elder sister is naturally not good. How you want to deal with the elder sister has nothing to do with the minister." It is really naive and very naive to threaten him with Jia Yuanchun. mean.

"This king really underestimates you." The fourth prince thought that Jia Lian was an obedient person, but he didn't expect to be so ignorant that he dared to disobey him so much.

"No, it's the prince who overestimates the subject!"

The fourth prince snorted coldly with his arms folded: "Hmph, you will come to beg me after a while."

Jia Lian ignored the fourth prince's words, "If the prince doesn't give orders, I will leave first!"

"get out!"

"I retire!"

After coming out of Prince Jin's Mansion and leaving it some distance away, Jia Lian couldn't bear the nausea in his heart anymore, jumped off his horse, and vomited at the corner of the street.

"Second Uncle, are you okay?" Jia Rong asked with concern.

Jia Lian vomited wildly while leaning on the wall, while waving at Jia Rong.

After Jia Lian finished vomiting, Jia Rong teased, "Second Uncle, you can't drink too much."

Jia Lian shook his head and didn't say anything. It wasn't because he was drunk and vomited, but because he was deeply disgusted by the Fourth Prince.

Back at Liuyuan Mansion, Jia Lian washed himself from beginning to end, and then went to the study to write a letter.

He offended the fourth prince today. With the character of the fourth prince, he will definitely not let him go. He must let Grandpa Lin know.

Jia Lian wrote the letter and asked the secret guard to forward the letter to the Supreme Emperor in the palace.

After returning from Jiangnan, the Supreme Emperor did not take back all the secret guards sent to protect Jia Lian, but left two secret guards, on the one hand, let the secret guards pass the message, and on the other hand, protect Jia Lian.

"Husband, what's the matter with you, something unpleasant happened in Prince Jin's mansion, or something happened?" As soon as Jia Lian came back, Zhuang Jingrong found that his mood was not right.

Jia Lian didn't expect Zhuang Jingrong to be so sharp, so she was slightly taken aback, then smiled at her and said, "No, it was Prince Jin who asked me to help him, and I refused." Let it go, save her from worrying.

When Zhuang Jingrong heard this, her eyes widened in surprise: "Husband, you won't refuse directly, will you?"

Jia Lian nodded: "I refused directly. I don't want to have anything to do with him, let alone be tied to him somehow."

Zhuang Jingrong frowned slightly, with a worried look on his face: "Husband, if you directly reject Prince Jin, I'm afraid he will make trouble for you." Although the fourth prince is said to be a gentle and refined person, as a prince, he has his own pride. How could a little courtier be allowed to refuse his invitation.This was a very angry and humiliating thing to Prince Jin.

"Just look for it. I'm not afraid of him. He won't be arrogant after a while."

"I'd better go tell my cousin and let him send someone to protect you secretly."

"You mean Prince Rui?" Speaking of which, he hasn't met the second prince yet.

Zhuang Jingrong nodded slightly: "Cousin should have a way."

"No need, I will report this matter to the emperor, and the emperor should send someone to protect me."

"But..." Zhuang Jingrong thought to himself, no matter how the prince Jin is the emperor's son, maybe the emperor doesn't believe what he said.

"Don't worry, in the emperor's heart, Prince Jin is not important at all." In the eyes of the emperor, the eldest prince and the fourth prince have only one role, and that is to serve as stepping stones for the second prince.In this way, the emperor is really ruthless to the eldest prince and the fourth prince.That's always been the case with the royal family, though.

"I'd better tell my cousin."

Seeing that Zhuang Jingrong was so persistent, Jia Lian could only follow her: "In this case, then you can tell Prince Rui." The second prince is the future emperor, and the object of his allegiance in the future, but he has never met him. It's really... ...Do you want to visit the second prince sometime?It seems that it is not suitable.Forget it, we will see you sooner or later, there is no need to rush at this moment.

At this time, the Supreme Emperor received the letter written by Jia Lian, and after reading it, the Supreme Emperor was furious.

"The fourth son, that bastard..."

"Go and call the emperor."

"Yes."

Soon, Emperor Longwu came over, and the Supreme Emperor handed Jia Lian's letter to him.

After reading it, Emperor Longwu's face turned cold immediately, and he sneered twice: "The fourth brother is quite courageous."

"I just said why the fourth child valued Jia Lian so much before. This is the original reason." The Supreme Emperor said with a cold face.

"The fourth prince hides it deep enough that I didn't even see it." Emperor Longwu didn't expect the fourth prince to like men, which made him very shocked and angry.

"Fortunately, no one else knows about his hobby, otherwise our royal family would lose all face."

Emperor Longwu frowned and said: "Let the second child and the others speed up, otherwise the fourth child and the eldest child will continue to jump."

The Supreme Emperor nodded slightly: "En."

In Prince Jin's mansion, the fourth prince who was rejected by Jia Lian was very angry and vented all his anger on Jia Yuanchun.

Jia Yuanchun was treated without mercy by the fourth prince, and he felt only anger and shame in his heart.

After the fourth prince finished venting his anger, Jia Yuanchun felt like his whole body was falling apart, without any strength.

"My lord, what's wrong with me as a concubine?"

"It's not you, it's your cousin Jia Lian." The fourth prince pinched Jia Yuanchun's chin, and looked at her darkly, "You should know why this king married you."

His chin hurt from being pinched, Jia Yuanchun frowned slightly, "It's because of Brother Lian."

"Your younger brother Lian rejected my king's invitation today and is unwilling to help me." The fourth prince was not as gentle and refined as usual at this time, "You said what's the use of my king keeping you?"

When Jia Yuanchun heard this, his eyes widened in surprise, and he said in disbelief: "Brother Lian rejected the prince?" Although brother Lian had clearly told her before that he was not from Prince Jin, she did not expect Lian My younger brother has the audacity to refuse Prince Jin's invitation. No wonder Prince Jin is so angry? !

"I rejected this king very mercilessly." The fourth prince said with a half-smile.

"My lord, Brother Lian is young and timid. He doesn't dare to get involved in party disputes, for fear that he will be in danger."

"This king will take good care of him, what is he afraid of?"

"My lord, can I give my concubine a chance to persuade brother Lian?"

"You?" The fourth prince looked at Jia Yuanchun suspiciously, "Jia Lian told this king that he has a bad relationship with you and doesn't care how this king treats you. Do you think you can persuade him successfully?"

When Jia Yuanchun heard this, his heart sank suddenly, and a hint of hatred flashed in his eyes, but it didn't show on his face.

"My lord, how will you know if you don't try."

The fourth prince threw Jia Yuanchun away, and said coldly: "No need, I will make him regret it, and then come to ask my forgiveness." After finishing speaking, he turned and left the new house.

After the fourth prince left, Jia Yuanchun's expression became very gloomy, and his eyes were full of mischief.

Brother Lian!

I know you are not from Prince Jin, but can't you agree to Prince Jin's invitation for me?Have you ever thought about how Prince Jin would treat me if you rejected him?

Even if you don't want to help Prince Jin, you can't tactfully refuse, or think about it.Today is my big day, but because of you, I was so humiliated by Prince Jin!

Jia Lian, who had just finished exercising with Zhuang Jingrong, suddenly sneezed.

"Husband, are you suffering from the cold?" Zhuang Jingrong asked nervously.

"I'm fine, maybe someone is speaking ill of me behind my back." Jia Lian's first reaction was Jia Yuanchun. After he left, he didn't know how the fourth prince would treat Jia Yuanchun.

Zhuang Jingrong also thought of Jia Yuanchun, and a look of worry appeared on his face: "Husband, I'm afraid Eldest Sister will still blame you."

"Just blame it." Before Jia Yuanchun got married, he made it clear to her that she insisted on marrying and said she had no regrets.If she regrets it now and resents him, he has nothing to say.

Zhuang Jingrong couldn't help but blamed: "Prince Jin is really too despicable."

"It's still very disgusting." Damn it, can you kill the fourth prince immediately and make the fourth prince disappear from this world.

The next day, the fourth prince went to the morning court as usual, and was called to the imperial study after the court.

"I will see my father." The fourth prince knelt on one knee and saluted.

Emperor Longwu didn't wake him up, but looked at him coldly.

The fourth prince felt the pressure-filled gaze of Emperor Longwu, and fear welled up in his heart, and cold sweat slowly appeared on his forehead.

Emperor Longwu just looked at the fourth prince coldly, without saying anything.

The fourth prince felt that the pressure on his body was getting bigger and bigger, he couldn't hold it anymore, and hurriedly begged for mercy: "Father, please forgive me."

"What are you guilty of?"

"My son..." The fourth prince was covered in cold sweat, his lips trembling slightly, "My son..."

"What's your crime?" Emperor Longwu asked again.

The fourth prince thought for a long time, but he didn't know where he was wrong.

"I don't know..."

"You don't know?" Emperor Longwu sneered, "What is your purpose in marrying Jia Yuanchun?"

When the fourth prince heard this, his heart sank suddenly, and panic flashed in his eyes.

"My son admires Jia Yuanchun, that's why he wants to marry her as his side concubine."

"Adore Jia Yuanchun?" Emperor Longwu picked up a teacup on the table and threw it at the fourth prince's side.

With a bang, the teacup fell to pieces, and some fragments splashed on the face of the fourth prince, which immediately cut a gash in the face of the fourth prince, and blood flowed out.

"Fourth brother, you really let me down." Emperor Longwu said coldly, "I thought you would be smarter than the boss, but I didn't expect you to be worse than the boss. The boss didn't attack Jia Lian, but you did. I am extremely disappointed."

The fourth prince suddenly raised his head, his eyes widened in astonishment, and his face was full of panic: "Father, my son... didn't..."