Spring Drunk Chang'an

This was a very beautiful woman, with an oval face, large almond-shaped eyes, fair skin, a well-proportioned figure, cheeks as red as litchis, a nose as smooth as a goose neck, and she was gentle and amiable.

She looks like a first-class beauty.

Her temperament is also outstanding.

but……

That's all.

The capital city is expanding, and there are noble ladies everywhere, with extremely beautiful looks. Liu... cannot be called peerless, at most she is upper middle class. She is a servant, a slave. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he sent himself, a newly crowned second place winner, to help her brother advance?

This concubine is really important.

Zhang Changqing sighed in his heart, he was not a pedantic person, the imperial examination was held every three years, and there were only three people in the first class every three years. As the prince, he was the only one in the country. If he wanted to show his face in front of His Highness, he might use some "clever tricks" to get close to the concubine.

"Cheng Jin, you and I will get along well from now on!"

He was extremely kind to the Liu family, especially Liu Changan.

The Liu family also accepted it with trepidation and confusion.

However, Liu Changan, weighing Zhang Changqing's attitude, was deeply grateful to the prince. He spent several nights embroidering a sachet with eight auspicious symbols and personally delivered it to the prince.

When Xiao Chuo received it, she acted very politely, as if she didn't take it to heart, but in fact...

That night, he took off the Nine-Fish Sachet given to him by Queen Song and solemnly put on the one given to him by Liu Chang'an.

He looked in the mirror for a long time, feeling relieved.

I was silently moved. "Chang'an is truly sincere to me. How could I bear to betray her? The selection should really be delayed."

"I'm only twenty-two this year, and I'll be twenty-five in three years. By then, Liu Wang'er should be able to pass the imperial examination and become a Jinshi, right? I can assign him a small official position and promote him a few times. As a member of an official family, Chang'an will also be eligible to participate in the selection. However, the Crown Princess..."

She can't do it.

It was a stretch for him to let the sister of a fifth or sixth rank minor official be a prince's concubine or a prince's concubine. How could he choose Chang'an into the palace without appointing a princess as the crown prince?

Moreover, if Liu Wanger fails to pass the imperial examination within three years, then, what about delaying it for another three years?

He is only twenty-eight, almost thirty years old.

Xiao Chuo frowned and had a terrible headache.

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Liu Changan worked up for several nights and embroidered seven or eight sachets, which he gave away as gifts!

One for the Crown Prince, one for the Song family, one for the adoptive father, one for the adoptive mother, one for each of my younger brothers and sisters, one for Xiaoyue, hmm...

Give another one to Miss Song Zhinian.

Whether she uses it or not is not the point for now, the fact that she gave it to her is a token of her appreciation.

After arranging the whereabouts of the sachet and delivering it personally, Liu Changan returned to the mansion and stayed with Song peacefully. He would occasionally go out of the city to see Liu Yu, and he would no longer worry when he saw him coughing.

It's fake poison anyway.

She was completely focused on the "baby exchange", waiting for the result from the prince, and watching Liu Wang'er working day and night, going out early and coming back late, studying hard, until his eyes were full of stars.

Zhang Changqing - Zhang Bangyan, is unexpectedly strict.

It is the kind of teaching philosophy that if you want to learn the true meaning of an article, you should first read it 120 times, then memorize it 120 times, and finally write it 120 times.

Now Wang Er is really talking in his sleep: "The way of the university is to manifest the bright virtue, to be close to the people, and to stop at the highest good. Only when you know the limit can you have determination..."

When Liu Changan returned home on vacation, he heard his son reciting in his dream in the middle of the night, and he felt a little sympathetic towards him.

Liu Sanxi no longer called him "stupid second brother" and instead looked at him with pity. He would give some of the money he earned from selling snacks on the street to buy walnuts for him to nourish his brain.

In Xiao Sanxi's words, "Second brother is just a bit 'stupidly smart' to begin with. Apart from his talent for studying, he has nothing else. Now he's been memorizing it hundreds and hundreds of times. What if that little bit of 'smartness' is memorized away, and he's just stupid..."

"Isn't that the end?"

"It's better to eat more walnuts to replenish your body."

Xiao Sanxi bought more than 200 kilograms of walnuts in bulk from some friend who sold food on the same street, and piled them in the potato cellar, and fed them to Liu Wanger three times a day.

Liu Wang'er made up...

Walnut oil is oozing out of my face.

However, Zhang Changqing is worthy of being the second place in the imperial examination. He is good at studying and teaching. The method of "hard work and memorization" he taught Liu Wang'er is indeed useful.

They had a point. "I tested Wang'er. He's a natural born scholar, but his foundation is too weak. He didn't learn the Three Hundred, Thousand, Rhyme, Qionglin, Prosody, Liweng... properly. His foundation is too weak. Logically, he should spend time and polish it carefully, but he's planning to take part in this year's autumn exam. So he has to work hard and use the hard way to solidify his foundation!"

"No pain No gain."

"Try Harder."

Zhang Changqing became increasingly harsh towards Liu Wang'er.

Liu Changan wanted to persuade him. She wanted to say, "Well, actually, it's okay not to take the imperial examination this year. Our family doesn't have such an urgent hope that Wang'er will pass. In fact, even if he remains a scholar, there's nothing wrong with it. He can just study hard, become a teacher, teach children, and live a peaceful life!"

"Yeah, that's what I thought!"

Xiao Chuo: No, I don’t think you are!

Zhang Changzhang said, "I don't think Cheng Jin is either."

Liu Changan didn't know what he and his brother had said in private. Anyway, since then, Liu Wang'er had been chewing walnuts as diligently as if he had been injected with chicken blood.

The more than 200 kilograms that Sanxi bought in bulk were not enough for him to eat.

There was no choice but to buy more than 200 kilograms.

in this way……

Time flies quickly, summer passes in a hurry, and autumn comes in a blink of an eye. The autumn examination will begin in about a month.

Candidates from all over the country flocked to Beijing.

Restaurants and inns all over the capital became bustling with activity.

The Hu people at the border were finally driven back to the grassland. Duke Cheng'en Song Bin returned victorious, and Emperor Yingwu sent the crown prince to personally welcome him outside the Shili Pavilion.

Song Bin escorted Xu Chang into the palace to meet the emperor in a majestic manner.

Xuchang - this bastard who hid behind the scenes in his previous life and caused the execution of the entire family of Cheng'en Mansion was caught early in this life and tied up and brought into the hall.

The Crown Prince, the Prince of Song, and everyone in the Eastern Palace accused him of 146 major crimes in front of the King of Yan.

It's enough to kill nine generations of your clan.

In the main hall, Emperor Yingwu looked at the memorial with a bitter expression, and glanced at Prince Yan who was standing at the bottom of the stairs with his head bowed and fists clenched.

Xiao Chuo sneered.

Xu Chang prostrated himself before the main hall, his face pale, not even daring to utter the words "Your Majesty, spare my life".

Until now, he still didn't understand how his collusion with the Hu people was discovered by Duke Cheng'en, and why he was caught by the prince's men?

Zu Hongyi, that bastard! How could he know what he and the Hu prince were conspiring against?

Xu Chang looked at King Yan with despair.

The Prince of Yan, whom he could barely call his nephew-in-law, was his last hope of saving his family.

"Your Majesty..."

He didn't dare to hope for his own life, but only hoped that his parents, wife and children would survive!

"Father..."

The King of Yan clenched his fists, looked at the strange looks from the civil and military officials on both sides, and finally gritted his teeth and stood up.