Emperor Taihe and Queen Dowager Zhao began to have a quarrel. Queen Dowager Zhao naturally became more and more disgusted with Concubine Jiang, and began to find various ways to force young and beautiful women into Emperor Taihe's arms, hoping to win back her son's heart.

This move naturally caused dissatisfaction among Concubine Jiang.

As a result, the conflict between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law became more and more serious.

Although she was bound by filial piety, Concubine Jiang did not dare to contradict Queen Mother Zhao openly, but she did a lot of small things in private.

She also learned a lot of new ways of dressing, which made Emperor Taihe more and more obsessed with her.

Xie Ying was far away in Gusu, and she didn't have to endure the Queen Mother Zhao's wrath. She also had people constantly develop new makeup and rouge and powder, and send them to the Princess and Concubine Jiang in the capital, finding ways to make things difficult for the Queen Mother Zhao.

Queen Mother Zhao was unhappy, so she lost her appetite and couldn't sleep well at night.

Unconsciously, she had more white hair on her head, the wrinkles on her face became deeper, and the face in the mirror looked more haggard and old.

Concubine Jiang became more and more radiant and beautiful.

Queen Mother Zhao was filled with jealousy, but she couldn't help but feel panic.

She was afraid that Emperor Taihe would completely alienate herself from her, that Yang Tao would no longer be close to her in the future, and even more afraid that she would age too quickly and die in the palace before she could enjoy herself enough.

So he forced himself to relax, take medicine every day to regulate his body, and dared not interfere with the affairs of Emperor Taihe's favored concubines.

She forced herself to ignore it and recite Buddhist scriptures every day. After recuperating for half a year, her complexion finally improved.

Time soon arrived and it was the new imperial examination year.

The imperial examination was held every three years. During the last imperial examination, Xie Ying and Xie Di were just born. Now, in the blink of an eye, they are already three years old.

As the imperial examination is approaching this year, the whole Gusu is particularly lively.

Merchants have been very creative and have launched many products with good meanings.

Jiang Er even took the lead in publicity and specially opened a refresher course, just to help more students of Taiping Academy pass the examination to become scholars, juren or jinshi, and to spread the name of the academy.

Why did he work so hard to come to Gusu to build a college?

Isn't it to help Concubine Jiang gain a good reputation?

This imperial examination is the best opportunity to become famous!

How could Jiang Er not work hard?

In order to promote the reputation of the academy, he even did not let Xie Tang go, and kept encouraging Xie Tang to take part in this year's academy examination.

The academy examination is held once a year, and those who pass it can become a scholar.

However, Xie Tang never participated and only took the exam for Tongsheng.

Xie Tang felt that he was still young, so he didn't want to take the exam for the title of scholar so early. After all, at his age, even if he did pass the exam, people would easily suspect that he had used a backdoor.

His father was the prefect of Suzhou, which made him more likely to attract criticism.

So Xie Tang was not in a hurry at all. He planned to wait until he was older and then directly pass the examination from a scholar to a Jinshi.

Seeing that he was not making his point, Jiang Er had to change his mind and went to bother other "genius teenagers" who had a chance of passing the exam.

For example, Li Dongqing and Luo Junqian.

Li Dongqing is Li Banxia's younger brother and Song Xingzhou's brother-in-law.

After Li Banxia followed Song Xingzhou to Gusu, the Li family also moved here.

It just so happened that Li's mother was a midwife. If Li Banxia became pregnant, she, as her mother, could take care of her personally and even help with the delivery.

When Xie Ying was born, she was almost switched. As the midwife, Li's mother was frightened by this incident.

So much so that she would be extra careful when delivering babies later, for fear that such a bad thing would happen again.

Seeing that her son-in-law Song Xingzhou was becoming more and more successful, she was naturally more worried that something might happen during her daughter's delivery.

Whether she died in the delivery room due to tampering, or was injured and unable to conceive again, or the baby was switched, Li's mother would have nightmares all night just thinking about it.

After they moved to Gusu, Li Dongqing also entered Taiping Academy and had a good relationship with Xie Tang and Luo Junqian.

Now he is a student like Xie Tang, but he plans to take the exam to become a scholar this year.

After all, he is different from Xie Tang. Xie Tang's biological father is the prefect of Gusu, and his biological sister is the princess of Fu'an County. There is no need for him to take the examination for a scholar at a young age to add icing on the cake for his family.

The Li family is just an ordinary family, but Song Xingzhou is becoming more and more successful. Li Dongqing is worried that Qi Dafeiou and his sister will be bullied, so he wants to pass the exam to become a scholar as soon as possible to support his sister.

In this way, even if Song Xingzhou has no other intentions, his sister will be more confident when interacting with other female relatives.

Jiang Er was very satisfied with this.

Li Dongqing is fourteen years old this year. If he can really pass the imperial examination and become a scholar, he can brag about it everywhere.

However, compared to Li Dongqing, Jiang Er is more interested in Luo Junqian.

There was no way, Luo Junqian was much more handsome than Li Dongqing! Moreover, he not only wanted to take the exam for the scholar this year, but also wanted to participate in the provincial examination. Jiang Er almost wanted to worship him!

Luo Junqian is only fifteen years old this year. If he can pass the imperial examination, he will be a true young genius and can be boasted about everywhere!

By then, Jiang Er will also be able to benefit a lot.

Although Luo Junqian is Luo Zheng's son and is easily criticized, what is Luo Zheng's identity?

He is a eunuch, is he afraid of being talked about?

Luo Zheng's son passed the imperial examination at such a young age. Doesn't this just prove that Concubine Jiang has a keen eye for talent?

Anyway, Luo Junqian has real talents and knowledge. If anyone is dissatisfied, the worst that can happen is a competition.

Just thinking about that scene made Jiang Er so excited that his face was full of smiles and he walked with a breeze.

But privately, he couldn't help but feel nervous.

So that day, he came to Xie Ying again and asked, "Yingying, do you think Luo Junqian can pass the imperial examination this year?"

Xie Ying rolled her eyes at him in disdain: "How many times have you asked me? Didn't I tell you? Brother Luo can definitely do it!"

If Luo Junqian was not confident, why would he participate in this year's provincial examination?

But the college entrance examination hasn't started yet. Doesn't Jiang Er think it's a bit too early to ask this?

Xie Ying warned Jiang Er: "Don't tell anyone yet. He's still young. It would be bad if someone heard it."

Seeing her talking about this seriously with a stern face, Jiang Er was speechless: "I'm not stupid, how could I possibly tell others about this?"

Does he look like a fool?

Of course, this kind of thing should be publicized after Luo Junqian passes the exam.

Otherwise, wouldn't it seem that they are arrogant and presumptuous?

Time quickly came to the day when Li Dongqing and Luo Junqian took the college entrance examination.

Although Xie Tang did not plan to take part in this college entrance examination, he specially sent the two people into the examination room.

Xie Ying also went to see him off.

She also wore new sunglasses and rode the new bicycle made by Situ Yuan. Taking advantage of the fact that there were many people around today, she showed off a lot.

Because she is already three years old, Xie Ying rides a two-wheeled bicycle with very small wheels, which looks childish and fashionable.

She rode all the way to the examination hall, leaving everyone stunned.

Jiang Er was originally still worriedly reminding Luo Junqian and Li Dongqing not to be nervous, but when he saw Xie Ying riding a bicycle, his eyes were involuntarily attracted to Xie Ying, and he even forgot to remind them.

He just stood there with his mouth wide open stupidly.

The sunglasses he wore on his face to show off also slipped down, making him look particularly funny.

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