"Father? Is it true that any reward can be given?" Princess Ningping rolled her eyes and asked with a look of expectation and excitement on her face.
Concubine Hua looked at Princess Ningping's smile from the side and knew that her daughter must be holding back something bad. She fanned the flames and said, "You girl, hurry up and say, your father is the king of a country, how can he lie to you?"
Ning Ping bowed slightly and said to Xia Jiuyuan with a reddish face, "Father, Ning Ping wants my father to grant me a marriage and recruit Liu Shiqing as my consort."
Xia Jiuyuan said with some surprise, "Although Liu Shiqing is from a famous family, he is just a commoner. Aren't you afraid of wronging yourself?"
Concubine Hua on the side smiled and said, "Your Majesty, you are the lord of the world. With just one word from you, he can become a minister!"
Xia Jiuyuan laughed and said, "Yes, as long as he can shine in the external examination this time, I will let him directly enter the cabinet!"
When Ning Ping saw this, he knelt on the ground and said, "Thank you, Father!"
...
Outside Liyang Palace
Lu Qian was blocked from the door, shouting that he was wronged.
He tried his best to talk, and everyone in Liyang Palace regarded him as a traitor.
He had nowhere to go, so he had to wait at the door.
Shuyang didn't wait to open the door, but Eunuch Gao was waiting for him.
Eunuch Gao shouted loudly, and Princess Shuyang came out.
"Your Majesty's decree! Princess Shuyang colluded with foreign scribes and practiced favoritism. Your Majesty, thinking of the feelings between father and daughter, ordered Princess Shuyang to be banned from the Liyang Palace and not allowed to participate in external examinations! The mediocre Lu Qian was sent to the cold palace to be imprisoned for life. "
Although Princess Shuyang didn't know what happened, it didn't matter. After receiving the order with an expression on her face, she gave Lu Qian a cold look and said, "Huh, traitor! You deserve it!"
Lu Qian was too lazy to explain and didn't care at all. He grabbed Eunuch Gao's hand with excitement and asked, "Eunuch, are you right? Am I going to the cold palace?"
Eunuch Gao said, "That's right! Just consider yourself unlucky."
Lu Qian couldn't be more excited.
This is not punishment!
This dog emperor has finally settled a personnel matter!
He followed the imperial army directly to Jingxinyuan.
Eunuch Gao didn't say much, asked him to go in and serve him well, and left.
As soon as I entered, I saw Shu Bin wearing a white cloak and looking at the wall with a melancholy expression.
Lu Qian sighed secretly in his heart, "Another resentful woman in the palace needs me to save her."
As he said this, he came forward to say hello.
When Shu Bin saw Lu Qian, she was a little surprised and couldn't help but frown slightly, "Why are you here?"
"Your Majesty asked me to come here to serve the two empresses. From now on, Empress Shu Bin can come to me if she needs anything. The younger one is particularly good at massage." Lu Qian said with a smile on his face.
When Concubine Shu saw what Lu Qian said, she subconsciously thought of Concubine Li's singing voice coming from the right hall last night. She couldn't help but feel a throbbing in her heart. She swallowed subconsciously and her face turned cold, "No need. Just take good care of Concubine Li, then step back."
Shu Bin's micro-expressions were all seen in Lu Qian's eyes. It was obvious that she also had needs.
He didn't say much. After leaving, he murmured to himself, "Why are you pretending? This cold and lonely palace will need me to give you a massage one day."
When I went to the right hall, I saw Yu Li lying on the bed in a daze with a sad face.
"Yu Li!"
Hearing Lu Qian's voice, Yu Li said with excitement on his face.
"Lu Qian?"
Seeing Yu Li's face in disbelief, he was so excited that he almost stood up.
Lu Qian quickly stepped forward and said with concern, "You are injured, don't move..."
"Didn't you go to Jingyang Palace? How did you come back?" Yu Li pulled Lu Qian's hand worriedly.
Lu Qian explained the whole story.
After Yu Li heard this, his face was happy at first, and then sad.
"Aren't you happy that I can be with you every day from now on?" Lu Qian said, stroking Yu Li's frowning eyebrows.
Yu Li nodded, nestled against Lu Qian's chest and said, "Of course I'm happy, you know? It's been less than a day since you left, and I'm going crazy thinking about you."
Lu Qian gently patted her buttocks and said with a smile, "Mom, do you miss me... or do you miss my kung fu."
"Lu Qian, you are so good and bad... I think about it all!" Yu Li's face turned crimson and he directly hung on Lu Qian's body, kissing his neck eagerly.
"Mother, you are injured..."
"It's okay, I can be up there."
...
Concubine Shu originally wanted to explain the rules of Jingxin Garden to Lu Qian and ask him and Concubine Li to restrain themselves.
But who would have thought that as soon as they reached the door, they heard the sound of the two armies fighting.
She originally thought that her dusty heart would not be throbbing, but the bursts of fighting sounds completely messed up her heart.
As if he had no control over his feet, he walked to the window and saw the spring light in the house through the gap.
She fiddled with the beads in her hands from time to time, but her heart couldn't calm down...
...
The next day, the external examination was held as scheduled in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
There are three external trials in total, with two wins out of three.
In the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the three forces gathered together, and everyone was whispering and guessing what the lucky numbers of each country would be this year.
After Xia Jiuyuan announced the start of the external examination, envoys from various countries announced the winning numbers.
Daxia, as the home team, offered a prize of ten thousand taels of gold, which was quite a feat.
The envoy from Beiliang Kingdom brought out a golden eagle, a national treasure. Everyone was a little surprised by Beiliang Kingdom's lucky draw.
Beiliang Kingdom knows that even if they accompany this kind of poetry gathering, they will not foolishly take out valuable items as prizes.
After announcing the Northern Liang Kingdom, everyone couldn't help but be a little curious about what the lucky draw of the Great Zhou Dynasty was.
After all, it can be seen that the Zhou Dynasty has sent Di Hanlin, and it is conceivable that they are bound to win this poetry fair.
An envoy from the Great Zhou Kingdom in a white robe stepped forward, cleared his throat, and said loudly, "The prize offered by the Great Zhou Dynasty for this poetry meeting is the Sixteenth City of Yanyun!"
boom....
The whole place was in an uproar.
No one expected that the Great Zhou Congress would take out the highly controversial Sixteen Cities of Yanyun as a lucky draw.
The Sixteenth City of Yanyun was originally the capital of the former Wei Dynasty.
Eighteen years ago, Daxia united with Dazhou and Northern Liang to encircle Wei.
No one expected that the Wei State was vulnerable and fell within a year.
As a result, the sixteen cities of Yanyun, as the capital of Wei State, were not agreed upon in advance, which caused controversy.
The Great Zhou State directly sent troops to station due to the favorable geographical location, which was called escrow.
Daxia Kingdom and Beiliang Kingdom naturally disagreed and had their own evil intentions.
They all want the other party to break up with Da Zhou so that they can sit back and watch the fight between tigers and tigers.
In the end, it became a situation where neither Daxia Kingdom nor Beiliang Kingdom recognized the Sixteenth City of Yanyun as belonging to the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the Great Zhou Dynasty actually controlled the Sixteenth City of Yanyun City.
Xia Jiuyuan's face was the most gloomy and he said sternly, "The Sixteenth City of Yanyun is shared by our three countries! How come it became your lucky draw? Is it possible that after the Sixteenth City of Yanyun was dominated by your Great Zhou for more than ten years, it became Have you destroyed your land?"
Wu'erda, the crown prince of the Northern Liang Kingdom, stood up and said, "The King of Daxia is right! We in the Northern Liang Kingdom don't agree either!"
