The capital city was in an uproar because of the fire. Liang Chongyue looked at the printed paper rolls and played with the jade twist in her hand. Minister He was ordered to be caned by his scumbag father a few days ago and was so beaten that he couldn't get out of bed.

This play always feels like something is missing if it is not performed in front of the main character.

"Your Highness, Princess Gaoyang has sent a letter."

When Liang Chongyue was thinking about what to do next, Ping An walked in with a letter in his hand. Liang Chongyue looked in the direction of the voice:

"Show it to me. Why would grandma suddenly write to me?"

Liang Chongyue was puzzled, so he opened the letter and saw another envelope inside with the signature of the Prince of Pingnan's Mansion on it.

Pingnan Palace.

Liang Chongyue murmured, then turned to look at Ping An:

"Is this letter really from someone close to my grandmother?"

Ping An Hou was beside His Highness and realized that the letter was not right. He immediately replied:

"Yes, it was personally delivered by Madam Bian, who is with Princess Gaoyang."

Liang Chongyue opened the letter after hearing this. There was quite a lot of things written in it. After reading it roughly, Liang Chongyue was about to throw the letter into the fire. When the flames were about to touch the letter paper, Liang Chongyue regretted it and took the letter paper back.

"Send a secret message to Princess Pingnan, telling her that I am willing to help her, but this is not enough."

Liang Chongyue waved the letter in her hand in front of Ping'an. After Ping'an took the order and left, Liang Chongyue lay alone on the chaise longue and read once again the love that Princess Pingnan expressed for her son.

Prince Pingnan is indeed a piece of shit. He acquiesced to the replacement of his legitimate son back then, and now that the truth has been revealed, he still tries to coax and deceive his wife and refuses to divorce. He pretends to drive the prince and concubine out of the palace, but in fact he protected them before Princess Pingnan's mother's family arrived.

Relying on the fact that she is the only legitimate daughter in Princess Pingnan's family, she wants to wipe out the entire family.

He also acquiesced in the prince using Princess Pingnan's life as a threat, forcing the poor soul who came to recognize her as his relative to help him cheat in the imperial examination.

Liang Chongyue was really curious about how powerful the cheating method was that allowed him to escape so many inspections and enter the Imperial Examination Hall safely on the first day of the Spring Examination.

No wonder the prince had been kicked so far away that he had difficulty walking, yet he still had to take part in the imperial examination.

He is proving himself in the eyes of others, but in fact he is borrowing the wisdom of others to gain fame and fortune. He is calculating and sinister.

Liang Chongyue was silent for a moment, and he already had an idea in his mind.

He glanced at the small pile of papers that had not yet been marked, wondering if the poor guy would be frightened and give in. If so, even if he got first place in the examination, he would have no place in the officialdom in the future.

Thinking of this, Liang Chongyue stood up and continued to mark the papers. He marked the last pile of papers as high as a mountain from sunrise to sunset. Liang Chongyue finally finished marking the papers with Li Yu'an under a pile of candles.

"Your Highness, I have a strange scroll here. Please take a look."

Liang Chongyue reached out and took the roll of paper that Li Yuanan handed to her. The name was sealed and could not be seen.

But from this dignified and majestic handwriting, it can be seen that the person who took the test is a person with real talent and knowledge.

Li Yu'an pointed to the last words of the policy paper, and Liang Chongyue looked in the direction of his finger.

"I was born into a farming family in Yuhua Village. Both my parents died of illness. Later, I learned that I was the heir of Prince Pingnan, so I went to the capital to recognize my parents. However, I did not expect that my biological father would force me to cheat in the imperial examinations in my place. I would rather give up my career as an official than give in to this compromise."

After Liang Chongyue finished reading, he exchanged a glance with Li Yu'an. Li Yu'an turned the scroll in His Highness's hand over to the front, raised his brows slightly, and said with some regret:

"If he hadn't been replaced that year, he would have won first place in this year's examination."

Liang Chongyue was a little confused about what Li Yu'an meant, so he started to read his paper from the beginning. The writing at the beginning was very good, and he really had the ability to get first place.

But when it comes to policy proposals, the level of one's vision begins to show.

Even though Yuhua Village is located in the suburbs of Beijing, only a city wall away from the prosperous capital, his vision cannot be compared with those of the men carefully trained by the aristocratic families.

Although his strategy was well-reasoned, it was superficial. She didn't like such things, and her scumbag father certainly wouldn't like them either.

His policy paper lost and he immediately fell out of the top 20.

Liang Chongyue had read his information before. Many ambitious children in Yuhua Village were literate, and their families all hoped that they would be able to make a breakthrough and bring prosperity to the whole family.

But he really had a miserable life. He didn't even have the chance to drill a hole in the wall to steal light. If he hadn't shown his ability to read one day, his parents would not have thought of supporting him to study and learn to read.

"He is a gifted child, chosen from thousands of people. Even the hardships he faced have not dimmed his brilliance. I believe that, given time, he will surpass his peers."

Liang Chongyue has seen many geniuses, but she is not a genius. She is just luckier than others. She has seen a completely different world and has more memories of another life. Everything she has now is the result of her studying day and night.

Her court lacked such a genius who came from the common people, who understood the sufferings of the people and hated power to the core. Liang Chongyue could already imagine that the poor guy would definitely become an honest and good official in the future.

Wherever he is, there will be fewer poor people.

"There is a silver lining in misfortune. If it weren't for His Highness, and if this scroll appeared in the Ministry of Rites, he would have died tonight."

King Pingnan has no right to kill innocent civilians, but the powerful people in the capital don't care about that. To them, killing a powerless person is as easy as crushing an ant.

Not to mention that it came to him like this. If he did not have the ability to study, the status of a scholar, and a mother with a prominent family background, he would have died on the first day he appeared in the Prince of Pingnan's Palace.

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