The crowd fell silent for a moment.

Then there was an uproar.

Is Bai Qingtong disguised as a man? !

The famous person next to the emperor, the number one figure among the younger generation of officials, is actually a woman? !

Seeing everyone pointing and pointing at Qi Lin, Princess Xuanji, who was sitting next to the emperor, resisted it so as not to have an attack.

What are these things... She dared to be so disrespectful to her future son-in-law!

And looking at the astonished expressions of everyone at the birthday banquet, Chu Ling, who is now an official doctor of the fifth rank Guozi, felt a burst of relief.

Come on everyone, let's experience the sourness after I found out about this a few days ago!

Next to Chu Ling, Liu Muzhi, who is also a fifth-rank official, coughed lightly, signaling Chu Ling to calm down, otherwise she would look too stupid.

That's right, not long after Qi Lin came back from Bishui Temple, he told these two colleagues and friends that he was a daughter.

That day, the three of them ate in the most private room in the restaurant of Liu Mu's House. Qi Lin said this in a tone that seemed to say that the weather was good today.

Immediately, the chopsticks that Liu Muzhi was about to pick up the fried small yellow croaker were completely suspended in mid-air, and Chu Ling almost choked on the peanuts she just put into her mouth.

When she recovered, Chu Ling was very confused.

His brother turned into a woman? !

No, it’s not that she’s become a woman, but she’s always a woman... Ah!He suddenly understood how Hua Mulan Paoze felt back then!

The colleague forgot to count how many years, I don't know that Qingtong is a girl!

It was Liu Muzhi who managed to maintain his superficial calm, took a deep breath and asked Qi Lin, "Qingtong, what's the matter with you telling us this now?"

"Mu Zhi is really careful." Qi Lin smiled, then glanced at the bewildered Chu Ling, and sighed in his heart, this child is obviously such a witty and cunning person in the original book, why did she always see a second child? Like a fool?

Qi Lin poured a cup of hot tea for Chu Ling who coughed after a pause, and then told the two of them about his plan.

"Hehe, old Bai, this is interesting!" Chu Ling smiled wickedly while holding the teacup, "All right, all right, this is so simple, I promise to make it beautiful for you!"

As she said that, Chu Ling habitually stretched out her hand to greet Qi Lin's shoulder, but when she stretched her hand halfway, she suddenly realized that it was inconvenient to do so now that Qi Lin was a girl, so she immediately turned to take the person in front of Qi Lin very naturally. The plate of stewed dried tofu was pulled towards him, picked up the chopsticks and stuffed a few mouthfuls into his mouth.

Liu Muzhi also nodded: "It's a little effort, Qingtong can rest assured."

Although Chu Ling and Liu Muzhi were somewhat embarrassed and uncomfortable when they first knew Qi Lin's real gender, they were trying their best to cover up and take care of Qi Lin's feelings, just like Chu Ling eating dried tofu.

Moreover, the embarrassment and incompatibility of the two of them were not too much, and they were willing to make friends with Qi Lin not because of Qi Lin's gender, but because of this person's character and talent.Over the years, Qi Lin has given them advice on academics, help in life, and support in official careers. They have all done their best. They are not ungrateful people. Since Qi Lin is still that Qi Lin, it doesn't matter if they are women. ?

Originally, because of Qi Lin's gentle and polite personality, they didn't get along very casually, but now that they knew that Qi Lin was a woman, their relationship didn't change much, just pay a little attention.

Although Qi Lin knew that Chu Ling and Liu Muzhi regarded her as best friends due to her sincere treatment over the years, but she never thought that under such a background of the times, the two would be able to meet each other after knowing their true gender. Still treated equally.

It really moved her.

Sure enough, she was right.

Qi Lin lowered his eyelids slightly, and said sincerely: "Thank you."

But now, seeing the uproar in the arena, the fat-headed and big-eared official immediately hit the iron while the iron was hot, and said "Bai Qingtong was originally the third lady of the Bai family. She was rescued by Princess Xuanji after falling off a cliff accidentally. Manipulating Bai Qingtong's imperial examination to become an official, using Bai Qingtong to interfere in the government" all yelled.

The focus is on denouncing Princess Xuanji's reckless behavior. Bai Qingtong is just a little puppet. If he wants to go home and reunite with his father and brother, it is hindered by Princess Xuanji's lewd power.

Qi Lin: "..."

Target my daughter-in-law, male lead, are you looking for a fight?

Princess Xuanji: "..."

It's nothing more than slandering the palace, but you actually dare to force Qingtong to go back to that white mansion, Cheng Kerui, are you tired of living? !

With such explosive news, all the people in the venue started to discuss it, once it was as noisy as a vegetable market.It was only after seeing that His Majesty the Emperor remained calm and silent that the crowd gradually stopped.

After the audience returned to silence, the emperor finally spoke, "You just said that women should not be officials?"

The indifferent tone made the official who was filled with righteous indignation feel a little bit of a thud in his heart.

The emperor didn't wait for him to answer, and continued lazily: "This is strange. How many years have I promulgated the decree allowing women to enter the imperial examination, yet someone came to me and told me that it is not right for a woman to be an official?" should?"

The emperor sneered: "It turns out that Zhen's order is not as good as a sentence from your mouth?"

The official was frightened immediately, and kowtowed to the ground desperately: "Your Majesty! I deserve death for my crimes! I deserve death for my crimes!"

The emperor winked lazily, and someone immediately dragged the official down.

Cheng Kerui, who was inconspicuous among the officials, was a little surprised by the emperor's reaction, but he still kept his countenance.

Arranging for this official to stand out at the time of the canonization of the birthday banquet would annoy the emperor and it was normal.What he wanted was to make things big.

After dealing with this official, the emperor's attitude towards Bai Qingtong and Princess Xuanji's crime of deceiving the emperor is what he is most looking forward to seeing.

The audience at the birthday banquet was no longer just silent, it was almost audible.

This change came too suddenly, everyone lowered their heads and held their breath, waiting tremblingly for the emperor's fate.

Only Qi Lin took the decree to thank him calmly.

From now on, she will be an upright third-rank official of the imperial court.

The emperor nodded at Qi Lin, and continued: "I have promulgated the decree that women can be admitted to the imperial examination for so many years, but I never thought that it was almost in vain. While I was heartbroken, I also reflected on the reasons. One is because I did not It can be promoted vigorously, and the second is probably because most people in the world think that women do not have the ability to become officials through the imperial examination."

"For the second point, I found Bai Aiqing and asked her to conceal her identity as a woman and take the imperial examination as a man. Let's do an experiment to see how women are worse than men under the same external conditions."

"All the Aiqings have also seen the results of the experiment. Bai Aiqing won three yuan, and in a short period of time, she has made remarkable achievements, reaching the third rank. May I ask everyone present, how many people can guarantee that they are better than Bai Aiqing? From this, it can be seen that women not only Ability to enter the imperial examination and become an official, and even do as well as men."

"I wanted to announce this experiment to the public after a while, but I didn't expect someone to announce it for me at my birthday banquet. Since this is the case, I will explain it clearly. Regarding the first point of the reason , I now want to vigorously promote the decree for women to enter the imperial examination!"

The emperor stood up, and everyone on the field knelt down.

Cheng Kerui knelt down with the crowd, lowered his head hastily, and concealed the uncontrollable panic expression on his face.

How could it be...how could it be that the emperor asked Bai Qingtong to disguise herself as a man? !

No wonder, no wonder Bai Qingtong is so confident... It's ridiculous that he always thought she was pretending to be calm!

The emperor looked around condescendingly, pointed to the audience, and said, "Born in sorrow, died in peace! Today, the world has been peaceful for a long time, but there has been an atmosphere of not thinking about progress and greedy for pleasure! I am so sad! The purpose of promulgating this decree is to allow women to participate in the imperial examinations and become officials, so that you can be vigilant! You can't do practical things, but some people can do them!"

"I know that most of you look down on women from the bottom of your heart, and think that women should be content in the backyard. But how many talented women have been produced throughout the ages, how can women be inferior to men? If women can have Opportunities are no longer trapped in the back house, and doing something for the common people in the world will benefit the country and the people without any harm!"

Qi Lin raised the corners of his lips slightly.

This matter was also decided by her communication with His Majesty the Emperor not long ago.

The emperor traveled from modern times. As a man with vision and brains, he knew exactly how powerful women are.

The emperor has the ambition to be an emperor through the ages, Qi Lin took advantage of the situation and encouraged the emperor to do things that his predecessors did not dare to do, but that did conform to the law of historical development, such as continuing to promote the things that the emperor had promulgated long ago, but due to various reasons A decree that was not actually enforced.

In this era of imperial power exceeding the sky, and the current emperor has been in power for decades with a strong foundation, it is really easy to implement a government order.

Qi Lin said loudly: "My emperor is holy!"

Chu Ling and Liu Muzhi immediately followed up and shouted: "My emperor is holy!"

The atmosphere and slogans are contagious, and they swept the audience like a wave:

"My emperor is holy!—"

The first smile after the opening of the birthday banquet finally appeared on the emperor's face.

And Cheng Kerui, amidst the overwhelming shouts, his whole body seemed to have been stripped of its skeleton, half paralyzed on the ground.

He's been planning for so long... and it's all over like this?

He was even prepared to arrange for Bai Qingtong to get out of this incident, and to transfer the blame to Princess Xuanji.

He was even prepared to arrange for the prince to have conflicts with Princess Xuanji, to irritate Princess Xuanji and induce her to be aggressive, so that Princess Xuanji would be further rejected by the emperor.

He was even prepared to arrange for Bai Qingtong to marry Cheng Cheng's family and be accepted by his parents smoothly.

In the end, he was defeated when everything was just beginning to be implemented? !

Lost in this place he thought was the most foolproof? !

Cheng Kerui couldn't believe it at all.

So these days, he ignored the government, ignored his father scolding his younger brother and ridiculed him, and worked so hard to plan, what was it for? !What's the point? !

Until the birthday banquet was over and he left the palace, Cheng Kerui was in a daze, like a walking corpse.

When he was about to board the carriage in front of the palace gate, Cheng Kerui saw another carriage approaching him.

The door curtain of the carriage was gently lifted, revealing Qi Lin's beautiful and gentle face.

In the second half of the birthday banquet, the emperor directly ordered Qi Lin to change into the women's official uniform that had been designed and prepared long ago. As the pioneer and representative of female officials, he showed it to the officials and the world.

Princess Xuanji looked at Qi Lin who was wearing a woman's official uniform that fit perfectly, and a red glow suddenly appeared on her face.

So handsome... So beautiful... Well, it seems even more handsome and beautiful than when Qingtong was dressed as a man...

At this moment, Qi Lin stood in front of Cheng Kerui in a grand manner, wearing a woman's official uniform and a woman's official hairpin.

"Young Master Cheng." Qi Lin had a decent smile on his face, "I have a few words that I want to tell you."

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