Chapter 558

Lu Jiao quickly comforted them: "Yes, your father likes you very much. He won't be someone else's son-in-law. He doesn't care about it."

"Daddy likes mother too."

Dabao said seriously.

The other three little ones nodded, and Erbao thought of Lin Ruyue who appeared earlier, and immediately looked at Lu Jiao and said, "Does that bad woman want to be my father's concubine?"

Sanbao and Sibao said one after the other: "She is dreaming, Daddy promised us not to take a concubine, if he dares to take a concubine, we don't want him, and live with mother."

Little Sibao reached out and hugged Lu Jiao's arm: "Mother, don't worry, we will protect you. If Daddy dares to be someone else's son-in-law, we won't let him go and live with Mother."

Lu Jiao couldn't help laughing: "Okay."

The little guys immediately laughed happily.

Not long after the carriage left the restaurant, Tong Yi came back and quickly reported the situation to Lu Jiao: "Lady, Mr. Liu's study has already been tidied up, without any flaws."

When Lu Jiao heard this, she immediately thought of Liu Shoufu. As the chief assistant of Da Zhou, he must be an old fox. Whatever she could think of, Liu Shoufu could also think of, so he must have made preparations long ago.

So she was worrying in vain, but it's good to make sure.

Lu Jiao breathed a sigh of relief, but what she didn't know was that after Tong Yi left Liu's residence, the emperor's spies quietly entered Liu's house and their study.

In the palace, the old emperor was looking at the palace exam answering questions of Tanhua, the No. 1 scholar.

On one side, Sun Mingliang, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, and Hua Chengze, a scholar of the cabinet, were waiting respectfully.

The old emperor handed the top three test questions to Sun Mingliang and Hua Chengze: "Look, see if this year's No. 2 and Tanhua's answers are surprisingly good."

Sun Mingliang and Hua Chengze are the old emperor's confidantes, and the old emperor still trusts them.

Sun Mingliang and Hua Chengze took the answer and began to read it carefully. Soon, expressions of amazement appeared on the faces of the two of them: "These three people have learned a lot. How can a cutting feudal clan answer so cleverly? Especially The champion's answer to the question is even more well-founded, great talent, great talent."

The old emperor nodded his head in agreement, then pointed to Liu Ziyan's answer and said, "Tanhua seems to be only sixteen years old this year. You said that it is unreasonable for him to give such an answer at such a young age? Even at my young age, even if I have learned well, but I don’t have enough experience, how can I hand in such a perfect answer?”

At the end of the old emperor's speech, his face was covered with gloom, and his voice unconsciously became cold and gloomy.

Sun Mingliang and Hua Chengze glanced at each other quickly, knowing that the emperor meant something.

Doesn't it mean that Liu Shoufu guessed what His Majesty was thinking, and thus revealed the exam questions to his son?

If this is true, His Majesty the Emperor may not be able to spare Liu Shoufu.

Although Sun Mingliang and Hua Chengze are the emperor's confidantes, they still cherish talents, so they quickly said: "Your Majesty, I feel that a person's ability cannot be measured by age. Maybe Liu Shoufu's son has such ability."

"Even the minister doesn't know about the exam questions given by His Majesty, let alone Liu Shoufu, the minister thinks it's impossible."

The old emperor looked at the two confidants with a sneer and said, "You guys can't do it, but it doesn't mean the chief assistant can't do it."

Thinking that Liu Shoufu had guessed the exam questions he posed, the old emperor was full of annoyance, and wanted to suppress Liu Shoufu more and more. As an emperor, how could he allow others to snore on the side of the couch.

Seeing the emperor's expression, Sun Mingliang and Hua Chengze clearly believed that Liu Shoufu had guessed what he was thinking, and thus leaked the exam questions to his son.

Sun Mingliang and Hua Chengze were somewhat worried that Liu Ziyan would not have obtained the test questions in advance, and if he was caught by the emperor, the Liu family would be in bad luck.

The two of them could only pray in their hearts that Liu Shoufu did not guess the emperor's mind.

While praying, the two looked at the old emperor and said, "Since your Majesty suspects that Liu Shoufu leaked the exam questions to his son, why do you still choose Liu Ziyan as a spy."

The old emperor sneered: "It's easy to rectify if you raise it high, isn't it?"

Both Sun Mingliang and Hua Chengze's foreheads were sweating.

The old emperor no longer paid attention to them, and turned to look at Xie Yunjin's answer. After a while, he spoke again: "I heard that the Liu family's son was healed by Xie Zhuangyuan's wife. Do you think Xie Zhuangyuan will get the exam questions?"

Now Sun Mingliang couldn't bear it anymore. If he continued to doubt like this, everyone would have problems. Sun Mingliang really wanted to ask the emperor, can't you just come up with a test question? If you have to go out to cut down the feudal clan, you will doubt others when you arrive.

Sun Mingliang reminded His Majesty the Emperor, "Your Majesty, the second place answer is also very good."

This is to remind His Majesty the emperor that the answers to the second place are also very good, so is there a problem with the second place? If so, there will be problems with the top three this year.

After hearing Sun Mingliang's words, the old emperor glared at him and said, "I'm just talking."

After finishing the words, he looked down at the answer in his hand, and said casually: "But even if you get the test questions, the ability of the champion cannot be rejected."

The two courtiers at the side of the hall were silent, it was difficult for them to accept such words.

The spies sent by the old emperor came back soon. The spies didn't see the emperor, but just told the emperor's close father-in-law about the investigation.

The father-in-law, who served the emperor closely, walked in quickly and told the news that the spies had found.

The old emperor frowned, with an unbelievable expression on his face.

There was silence in the hall, and Sun Mingliang and Hua Chengze were relieved to see the emperor like this, which meant that the results of the investigation were not as good as the emperor wanted.

The old emperor on the dragon seat was very disappointed. He originally wanted to take advantage of this incident to severely suppress Liu Shoufu, remove him from the position of chief assistant, and replace Xu Zhuo, the second assistant, but he did not expect the result to be incomplete. Satisfactory.

The old emperor turned his head to look at Sun Mingliang and Hua Chengze and said, "Go and prepare the Qionglin Banquet."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

The two breathed a sigh of relief, and left the hall after thanking him. The old emperor raised his hand angrily and beat the dragon chair beside him. Can the boy answer such a perfect answer?"

The father-in-law who was serving close to him flashed his eyes, and said cautiously: "The old slave was wondering if it was the champion who guided him. I heard that Liu Tanhua recognized the wife of the champion as his sister, and the two families rushed from Ningzhou to the capital together. Yes, the number one scholar should discuss the test questions with Tanhua when he is fine."

The father-in-law fell silent after he finished speaking. The old emperor thought that there was indeed such a possibility, so was his work in vain?

In the evening, Lu Jiao asked Aunt Hua to prepare a table of dishes, and also ordered Aunt Hua to add two more meat dishes to the servants, and at the same time ordered the servants in Steward Xiao's house to give each of them two taels of happy money.

Now all the servants in the Mansion were happy, and when Xie Yunjin came back, they all congratulated him: "Congratulations, young master, the number one scholar in high school."

(end of this chapter)