Jiaozi returned from the Qin family to the banquet and showed off her proudly in front of her family, which made Baozi and Mantou envious. She couldn't help asking Chen Danxia: "Mom, can our family hold a banquet and invite friends to come and have fun?"

"Yes, you brothers and you guys discussed choosing a day, and each of them invited four friends to the banquet." Chen Danxia agreed readily.

"Can't you invite more?" Jiaozi pouted. There were too few people in the four, and he had many friends to invite him.

"Jiuzi calculates the number of people first." Chen Danxia said with a smile. This kid just loves to be greedy.

"Four,416." Jiaozi also obeyed Gao Lei in.

"There are too many people, can you please come over?" Chen Danxia stretched out his finger and pointed at the nose of the dumplings. "Don't just be greedy. It's just right for you to greet four guests by one. Okay, you go back to your room and discuss the days of treating guests and those people you want to invite."

The four little guys bowed and left, Chen Danxia asked with a smile: "Do you two want to do a literary event?"

"Mom, my son is about to invite a few friends to visit Lianyan Lake." Pangpang smiled.

"It's just that I'm short of money and can't do it." Zhuangzhuang smiled with a saliva.

"Is one hundred taels enough?" Chen Danxia asked with a smile.

"Enough, enough, thank you mother." The two brothers said with a smile.

"You are traveling and playing, and you are not allowed to go to the pleasure boat to invite singing girls to accompany you to drink and have fun." Chen Danxia said righteously.

"Son doesn't dare." The brother replied obediently.

"Qingxiang, take the sign and go to the account to pay them a hundred taels of silver." Chen Danxia immediately cashed in.

Qingxiang went to the Dongsou room to get the sign and went to the account to pay the money.

Xu Lang and Shen Danxia have been to Yucheng for three or four years, but they don’t treat each other very often. First, the two do not like this boring banquet, and second, Xu Lang has a high official rank and has too many treats, so there will inevitably be suspicion of forming cliques and making personal gains. Chen Danxia and Shi have already become enemies, so there is no need to make a grudge between Lu Yuan and Xu Lang.

Soon the four little guys discussed the invitation on August 19th. One of the four people invited by Jiaozi was Qin Lu. Chen Danxia refused to agree to the invitation, "Jiaozi, your two brothers and younger brothers were both boys, and the other three people you invited were boys, and only Xiaolu was one girl. This was not suitable, and she would be uncomfortable."

"I wish my sister Qing'er was there." Jiaozi sighed.

Although Jiaozi really wanted to invite Qin Lu, Qing'er could not have suddenly arrived in Yucheng from Jindu, thousands of miles away. Jiaozi had to cross out Qin Lu's name and wrote another classmate's name.

On August 19th, the guests who received the invitation were sent to the Xu Mansion by the adults at home. The three Baozi brothers and Gao Lei were responsible for being the little masters and led them into the Xikuanyuan where they entered, which was relatively empty and far from the Sanjinyuan. They made a big fuss inside and would not make Chen Danxia a noise.

In order for the children to have fun and have fun, Chen Danxia specially invited a small juggling team for them. He sought the opinions of the four people in advance, and the luncheon was arranged for a barbecue banquet; the servant arranged the oven and grill in the yard, and the maids brought the processed meat, vegetables and other ingredients, which made the group of children drool.

"It's great that we'll eat this at noon." The children cheered. The children were willing to sit around the table and eat so constrainedly, and this kind of barbecue with wild fun could release their nature and be welcomed by them.

"Duozi, your mother is so nice." Someone said.

Jiaozi proudly raised her neck and said, "My mother is the best."

The servants set up the grill and oven, and after the fire was set, the buns waved, and said, "Okay, you guys go back and we bake ourselves."

The children were excited to hold what they liked and put them on the rack to roast them. However, they were all young masters in the family and rarely did their jobs. When they first barbecue, they either burned the food or were half-cooked. However, these did not affect the children's interest. They roasted some of the various things, and even the vegetables they didn't like to eat today were roasted and eaten. Their belly was round.

After eating, they drank the tea after eating and tea. The children were squeezing on the big bed in the room and squeezed to take a nap. After waking up, they watched juggling and gathered together to play cards and chess pieces, and they all played for a day.

The Xu brothers are with their parents and their lives are very comfortable, but in early October, Pangpang and Zhuangzhuang must return to Jindu. They have to participate in the boy test in February next year. Jiaozi is reluctant to part with his two brothers, "It's only October now, and the eldest and second brothers can wait for the New Year, so it's not too late to return to Jindu."

"Duozi, the weather in the first month is cold. Are you willing to let your two brothers rush forward against the wind and snow?" asked Shen Danxia. The weather in October is just right, it is neither cold nor hot, and it is most suitable to rush forward. Moreover, when returning to Jindu at this time, Cheng Jue also has time to give them some advice so that they can better deal with the boy.

Jiaozi pouted and shook her head.

On the ninth day of the 10th month, it is OK to travel. The four brothers of the Chang family will escort Pangpang and Zhuangzhuang back to Jindu. Shen Danxia sent his two sons outside the city. "Junyan, Junyan, this time I took the boy test, it's just an experiment. Don't be too stressed, you can handle it easily and be able to pass the exam. Of course, it's okay, it's nothing if you fail. You are still young, and you will only take the exam next time."

"Mom, we will do our best." Pangpang is more steady.

"Mom, you must believe us." Zhuang Zhuang was full of confidence.

Shen Danxia laughed, "That mother is waiting for the good news for you two in Yucheng."

"Mom, we won't let you down." The brother said in unison.

After saying goodbye to the three younger brothers, they turned over and left. On the same day, Yang Lingzhi took her son Gao Ying back to the Duke Pei Mansion to visit her sick grandmother. When she left, she took a servant. There was a scar over ten centimeters on the face of the servant, which made her face look very ferocious. If Shen Dan was there, she would definitely recognize that the defamed servant was Pang Lin, who married the grandson of the sixth elder of the Mu family.

On the same day, Empress Zhao gave the fourth prince a guard, whose surname was Qiu, and whose name was Mu. Similarly, if Shen Danxia was there, he could recognize that the guard was not Qiu, and his surname was Mu and Wei. He was the young man in white who had saved the beauty by Yingxiong. But now Mu Wei is no longer as bright as the sunshine and cheerful as that day, and his eyebrows are full of sinisterness.

Shen Danxia, ​​who was far away in Yucheng, naturally had no way to know all this, and even if she knew it, she would be unable to change it.

After Pangpang and Zhuangzhuang returned to Beijing, their lives did not change much. Shen Danxia still attended banquets held by other people from time to time, and their lives were very simple and peaceful. In early December, Shen Danxia received the New Year gift from Tao from Jindu and the letter of peace written by his two sons.

At the beginning of the year, winter goes and spring comes. In the morning of the 9th day of the dynasty, the emperor suddenly issued a private election; palace maids are selected in the palace every year, but this time the emperor obviously did not choose palace maids; Zhao Hou is jealous, and the emperor has only held three small elections in the years since the emperor ascended the throne, and only a few people stayed in the palace. This time it was abnormal, so why?

What is even more surprising is that the emperor pointed out that the age of a civilian girl should be between ten and thirteen years old. The Dafeng audition required the age of fifteen to seventeen years old. Why did the emperor choose such a young girl to enter the palace? Thinking that the emperor has been obsessed with elixirs and prescriptions in recent years, and he has been more time to meet Taoist priests than to summon ministers, all the ministers were terrified.

Although the ministers guessed that the emperor wanted to use these folk women to refine elixirs, no one dared to clearly state that the reason for the censor's dissuasion was that it was not wasteful of people and money.

King Yan secretly summoned Taoist Master Huichun and questioned this matter. Taoist Master Huichun complained, "Prince, this idea is not my devil. A few years ago, the Empress introduced a Taoist priest to the emperor, and he made this idea."

"Why don't I know about this?" King Yan asked in a deep voice.

"Prince, I went back to the Taoist temple as you ordered a few years ago, and I only returned to the palace before." Taoist Huichun explained.

King Yan knew that Taoist Huichun could not be blamed for this matter. It seems that in order to deal with him and to seize the position of crown prince, Empress Zhao also wanted to use this elixir to control the emperor and achieve her goal.

"You go back to the palace and find a way to recruit the Taoist priest. If it doesn't work, get rid of him." King Yan ordered.

"Prince, please rest assured. I will let the emperor turn to the prince again." Taoist Huichun said with his eyes narrowed.

The emperor's words and deeds cannot be controlled by his ministers. The ministers opposed it very much, but the emperor insisted on a selection. Five days later, the imperial edict was issued. Any woman who was not married at the right age was selected will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver for his family.

Twenty days later, this edict was sent to Yucheng. When the talent show entered the palace, it could fly up to the branches and turn into a phoenix, making those families who wanted to send their daughters to the palace excitedly. Now they have a silver council, and they are eager to send people to the government. Of course, there are also families who are unwilling to send their daughters to the palace and go to places where no one is allowed to see each other. The business of the matchmakers has become extremely prosperous.

"Why did the emperor suddenly remember the folk talent show?" Shen Danxia felt that this matter was strange.

Xu Lang hesitated for a moment and told her what the secret letter of King Yan said. Shen Danxia gasped, "This is too harmful!" Qing'er was also within this age range, but she knew that King Yan could definitely help Qing'er avoid being selected, but she was worried about the girls who were about to be selected.

"I hope King Yan can successfully stop this matter." Xu Lang frowned.

On the second day of the second month, the boy's test started, and Shen Bomi personally sent his two nephews to the school table to take the exam. The boy's test includes the county examination, the government examination and the college examination. The county examination is generally presided over by the magistrate, while the Jindu is presided over by the prefect of Jindu. The five candidates are complied with each other and the students are guaranteed by the ruling students to take the exam. Only after passing the exam can they take the exam. The government examination is presided over by the prefect of the Ministry of Rites, and the exam is presided over by the doctor of the Ministry of Rites. The exam is presided over by the sixth day of the April 2018. After passing the court examination, the college examination is presided over by the academic and political affairs in charge of the affairs of Confucian scholars in a province. The Jindu is presided over by one of the left and right ministers of the Ministry of Rites. The exam is in June. After passing the college examination, these children can be called scholars and can officially take the imperial examination.

The results of the boy's test did not come out so quickly. After more than a month of selection, sixty-nine girls aged ten to thirteen were selected in Yucheng. After discussing with the four assistant officials and Cheng Yu, fifty soldiers were sent to escort these girls to Beijing.

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Trapped outside by heavy rain, and just came back, he could only embezzle three thousand manuscripts.

The watermelon is going to bite me to death, my ten thousand updates are all.
Chapter completed!