Beast language level 10, all beasts obey her orders

As the night deepened, the lights in the palace dimmed and the air was filled with tension.

The black-armored guard went out and came back shortly afterwards.

"Your Highness, Yan Lin is here."

He came by himself?

Xiao Yao looked towards the door and saw Yan Lin being escorted in.

Yan Lin was wearing luxurious robes and had a slender figure. He looked calm and had already heard the news.

Yan Lin saw Xiao Yao's cold gaze, but pretended not to see it and bowed, "Your Highness."

Xiao Yao looked at him, unable to hide his anger, "Uncle, I want to know why you manipulated the college entrance examination. Do you know that if this matter is exposed, not only will you be in danger, but the Yan family will also be implicated."

"Even my deceased mother will be implicated."

After hearing this, Yan Lin tried to remain calm and said, "Your Highness, I am also doing this for... for the Yan family."

"Nonsense!" Xiao Yao refuted directly, "For the Yan family? You want the Yan family to bear the crime of manipulating the imperial examination, and you actually said it was for the Yan family?"

Yan Lin took a deep breath and said, "The Yan family has been engaged in business for generations and has accumulated a rich family fortune, but it is my elder sister who has truly made the Yan family prosperous."

"My elder sister has been in charge of the family business since she was young, and has received loving instruction from our parents."

"But she's dead!"

"My second sister entered the palace as a concubine just to take care of you, Your Highness."

"Such an important task for the Yan family falls on me."

"I was born out of wedlock, and I have never been valued since I was young. I have never learned any business or trade."

"I'm totally overwhelmed by the sudden decision to take charge of the entire family."

"My business has been losing money repeatedly, and my family's wealth is slowly being depleted... But my second sister often asks me to use the Yan family's assets to replenish the treasury. If I don't find a way..."

Xiao Yao's expression relaxed slightly, "Have you ever manipulated the college entrance examinations in other prefectures?"

Yan Lin said truthfully, "Since you left the Yan family, six or seven years ago, whenever I graded exam papers in Qinzhou Prefecture...someone would come to me, so I just went with the flow..."

Xiao Yao took a deep breath and said, "I will write a letter back to Beijing and let my father and Aunt Yun make the decision on this matter."

Yan Lin looked at Xiao Yao with pleading eyes, as if he wanted to say something, but when he saw Xiao Yao's cold gaze, he dared not say anything more.

"Take Yan Lin away."

The black-armored guards stepped forward and took Yan Lin away.

Silence returned to the hall and Xiao Yao took a deep breath.

He should clean up the mess, but Yan Lin is his elder after all, so the matter should be decided by his father and Aunt Yun.

However, Xiao Yao did not expect that when he woke up the next day, he would hear the news that Yan Lin had committed suicide in the palace.

When Xiao Yao arrived, Yan Lin was already dead.

The black-armored guard looked apologetic, "Your Highness, Yan Lin said..."

"He has damaged the reputation of the Yan family and is unworthy of his two elder sisters. I hope that his death will allow Your Highness to preserve the reputation of the Yan family and not bring shame to the deceased queen. I also implore the emperor and the crown prince not to embarrass Yan Yun."

"He also said that when His Highness came to Qinzhou this time, he probably had already guessed his own outcome."

"This matter has nothing to do with Madam Yan and Yan Yao..."

This...maybe is the best outcome.

Xiao Yao stayed with Yan Lin's body all night, and he thought a lot that night.

At dawn the next day, Xiao Yao had Yan Lin sent back to the Yan family.

As for the teachers, they remained in the palace. They had to re-mark the test papers of all the candidates in Cizhou Prefecture within three days and draw up the latest list.

Xiao Yao handed Tian Shounian's paper to the supervisor, who had previously graded the paper.

"Your Highness, what this examinee has learned in his paper is really exaggerated. He ignores the facts so much that in the future..."

Having said this, he felt embarrassed to continue.

If we talk about ignoring the facts, how could it be as serious as theirs?

"What if what he wrote in the book is true?"

The school supervisor said without thinking, "Impossible!"

He pointed at the data in the volume and said, "The rice yield per mu is 1,000 kilograms?!"

"Even in a place with fertile land like Qinzhou Prefecture, the yield per mu is only about 400 kilograms."

Xiao Yao directly handed him the memorial from Chen Li, the magistrate of Anping County. This memorial came together with the memorial from the prefect of Cizhou Prefecture. He took it out before leaving.

The school supervisor took it and looked at it one by one.

But he still couldn't believe it. "How is this possible? One thousand two hundred kilograms..."

It was hard to convince him even with one thousand kilograms, let alone one thousand two hundred kilograms?

"This is a fact, and I can testify to it."

The school supervisor was stunned. Can Your Highness testify?

"Before I returned to the capital, I was recuperating in Cizhou Prefecture."

The supervisor's eyes fell on Chen Li's memorial, "One thousand two hundred kilograms..."

He quickly put the memorial aside and picked up Tian Shounian's paper. "If he is not exaggerating, then..."

He used a red pen to write the word "中" in the middle of the paper, "This person can pass the exam to become a scholar."

After three days, the Cizhou Prefecture's college entrance examination was put back on track, and the new list showed that Tian Shounian was on the list, ranking nineteenth.

This ranking is not high, but he has only been studying for eight months, and it is rare to have such an achievement.

Xiao Yao sent someone to deliver the new list to Cizhou Prefecture as quickly as possible and asked Cizhou Prefecture to notify everyone again, and he would arrive soon after.

As for the Yan family's business, Xiao Yao was in charge and handed the business over to Yan Yao.

Yan Yao was not good at business either, so Xiao Yao took him to Cizhou Prefecture.

"Cousin, do you blame me?" Xiao Yao asked.

Yan Yao's expression froze, "I dare not."

Before his father left the Yan Mansion, he had already told him and his mother what he had done.

In fact, the Yan family’s wealth is enough for the Yan family to live a good life in Qinzhou Prefecture.

However, because the Yan family had a late queen who worked hard for the country and the people, the younger generations of the Yan family are proud of the late queen and also keep the people of Daqi in their hearts.

What my father did was wrong, but fortunately, the silver he received went directly into the national treasury and was not used on the Yan family.

"Yan Yao is a member of the Yan family and has always respected Auntie. In the future, he will continue to support Your Highness."

Xiao Yao sighed...

Xiaohegou Village is already purchasing Jerusalem artichoke flowers.

Yang Hua notified all the villages that Jerusalem artichoke flowers would be purchased at the price of 20 wen per pound.

Women in other villages do not make fried bean curd skin like the women in Xiaohegou Village.

They had nothing to do at home, and the purchase price of Jerusalem artichoke flowers was high, so everyone was eager to harvest them.

In order to maintain the quality of the Jerusalem artichoke flowers, they do not harvest them in bags.

Instead, use shallow bamboo strips.

At most two layers of flowers are placed on the bamboo strips. When all the flowers are picked, they are placed on the carriage and the bamboo strips are stacked up one by one.

This can ensure the integrity of the Jerusalem artichoke flower and will not destroy the flower shape.

A small steaming room was built outside the warehouse in Xiaohegou Village.

A huge pot with firewood burning continuously.

The flowers in the bamboo strips are simply washed and carefully placed, steamed in the pot, and then directly dried.

After drying, those with too many missing flower shapes will be picked out and sold as ordinary products.

Those with complete flower shapes and large flowers are sold to the Du family as high-quality products.