I was given the contraceptive soup and became the emperor's white moonlight

"Huh!" Zhou Linsu emerged from the hot water, and the steaming hot air washed away the coldness brought by the rain.

"Brother Zhou, it will be almost finished tomorrow, right?" asked someone nearby.

"That's about right." Zhou Linsu replied casually, wiping the water off his face. The people in the room, sitting in groups of three or four, were all newcomers to the palace.

Because the heavy rain came suddenly, these people were all more or less wetted by it. The superiors were worried that they would get sick, so they specially gave them hot water to bathe.

Zhou Linsu was not interested in their conversation. All he could think about was his performance under the pavilion during the day. When he thought of his timid appearance, Zhou Linsu's ears turned red. "If only I could be calmer."

"What?" The student who had just spoken to him turned and looked at him, thinking that he was talking to him.

"Nothing." Zhou Linsu smiled. Even though he was in urgent need of others' advice and comfort, he would never announce the fact that he had met the palace concubine by chance.

"I was just thinking about how to write a better letter home." Zhou Linsu couldn't help but become serious when he said this. In fact, he was really worried about this, and that was why he stayed in the pavilion.

He was concentrating on polishing the article in his hand at that time, so he missed the best time to shelter from the rain and could only curl up in the pavilion. Fortunately, he was concentrating on the letter from home. If Su Minglang had not arrived later, he would not have cared about this matter.

"I have been writing different letters home every day these days. Although each person has something different to say and the original intentions they want to convey vary, the fundamental thoughts and concerns have never changed. I have been thinking about how to express this longing more deeply."

Zhou Linsu had a headache every time he picked up a pen these days. He had never been good at expressing his feelings to others, so he felt a little overwhelmed when facing the emotions of the palace people, not to mention that there were so many different emotions.

On the one hand, he was worried about whether his choice of words was shallow, and on the other hand, he was thinking about whether there was a better way to arrange the sentences. He just felt that it was a bit more difficult than writing articles or policy papers.

"What's so difficult about this?" The student next to him said nonchalantly, "I'll just write whatever they say."

"It's just a ghostwriting job. I don't want you to write an article."

Zhou Linsu smiled bitterly twice and did not express his opinion, but he never expected that his question would cause a sneer.

Sun Boxian sat on the other side of the bathtub, fiddling with the water in his hands with a sarcastic smile on his face. If you look closely, you can see the faint purple bruises on the corners of his mouth.

"Brother Zhou is a top scholar, how come you can't even write a letter home?" Sun Boxian sneered and looked at him with his chin raised. "Could it be that Brother Zhou also asked someone to write his article for him?"

"Brother Sun, you're joking." Zhou Linsu frowned and had no intention of arguing with him, but subconsciously moved a little further away from him.

"Sun was just joking with Brother Zhou, please don't take it seriously." Sun Boxian saw Zhou Linsu take a step back and thought he was afraid, so he became more arrogant, "But if you ask me, it's just writing a letter to those palace servants, there's really nothing to worry about."

"But it's true. Most of those people are illiterate. I'm afraid that even if Brother Zhou wants to show off his talents, he won't be able to do anything about it, right?"

As he finished speaking, a burst of malicious laughter was heard around him. On the other hand, there were people standing in twos and threes around Zhou Linsu, but they all stood in front of him and glared at Sun Boxian with dissatisfaction.

Sun Boxian had never been stared at so brazenly before, and he glared back immediately, but he had no choice but to accept his status and the fact that most of the people on his opposite side were of common origin.

Firstly, his family background is not as good as mine, and his literary talent is not as good as mine. If I were to take the lead in making trouble, it would inevitably lose face if it were known. Instead, the people around him would flatter and try to please him, and most of them would speak up for him.

Just then, a fool took the initiative to stand up, looked at the opposite side arrogantly, turned his head and smiled flatteringly: "Brother Sun, why do you have to say so much to them? They don't understand anyway."

"You have written so many letters these days and have been working hard every day, unlike some people who are just lazy every day." As he said this, he glanced at Zhou Linsu who was standing behind him.

Zhou Linsu immediately raised his eyes and looked back, but what the other party said was indeed reasonable. He had been carefully considering the words these days, and what he wrote was indeed far inferior to the other party's.

"I have been stuck in a quagmire these past few days, and Brother Sun's words have really enlightened me." Zhou Linsu pushed through the crowd and walked to the front, bowing and saying, "Thank you Brother Sun for your advice, but there is still one day left, so I will naturally have to wait until the last day to see the result."

"Hmph! Then I'll just have to wait and see!" Sun Boxian sneered, turned around and left with the people around him without returning the greeting.

The water in the pool was still warm. Zhou Linsu figured out what was bothering her. She exhaled lightly and immersed herself in the water.

"Brother Zhou, why do you have to compete with them?" the student at the side asked in confusion.

In fact, what he didn't say was that even if he had great ability, he would not be able to catch up in just one day.

"Just do your best." Zhou Linsu smiled indifferently, "I'm working for your majesty, so I just want to do my best."

"Then why do you say that?"

"Ha! I was just worried that he would indulge himself and not do anything on his last day, so I provoked him." He was the first to laugh after saying this. "He didn't want to come in the first place. If it weren't for the pressure from his family, I'm afraid we wouldn't have seen him in the past few days."

"But even if he is afraid of home, he can't help but indulge himself on the last day. However, there are still many people in the palace who have not been able to send letters home. If he misses this opportunity, he may not have another chance for a long time in the future."

"Brother Zhou, you!" The student next to him was speechless, and after a while he also laughed, "Did you also see the bruises on the corners of his mouth?"

"It's too obvious." Zhou Linsu spread his hands helplessly, "If Lord Sun wasn't furious, he wouldn't have done this."

"Hahahaha!" The students on the side laughed softly. It was really because Sun Boxian looked too embarrassed when he entered the palace.

The day before entering the palace, Sun Boxian gathered a group of young men from aristocratic families and wanted to advise the emperor to resign from this mission. Unfortunately, before these young masters could act arrogant for long, they were taken back by servants from various families who rushed over.

Only those poor children who followed their lead or were afraid of authority were left standing where they were, not knowing what to do.

Sun Boxian was also brought back home by the Sun family, but he had always been favored and had won the second place in the imperial examination. Lord Sun had given him everything he had, so he couldn't help but lose sight of the situation.

He knew that he had said his resignation in front of Lord Sun, and when he was tied up in the ancestral hall at the order, he realized that everything was not as smooth as he had thought.

However, his literary pride apparently overcame his fear of his father, which resulted in a bruise at the corner of his mouth.

Lord Sun was very angry with him, so he attacked him the day before entering the palace.