Qin Xie frowned: "Why is she looking at you? Does she have bad intentions? Does our Qin family need to do something?"

Qin Xie was like this. When she didn't know where the enemy was, she would be restless. When the enemy surfaced, she would immediately think of a countermeasure.

I am not afraid of fighting with others, I am only afraid of not knowing where the enemy comes from.

The Fourth Prince's wife's gaze towards Qin Wan was too covert, and no one else knew about it except the person involved.

However, Lu Yan's gaze was a little blatant.

Bai Wanyi also looked at Qin Wan. Today, she was noble and beautiful beyond compare.

She scoffed. What's so great about that? When the Fourth Prince ascends the throne, she will be more noble than Qin Wan!

Looking away, Bai Wanyi discovered that Lu Yan beside him was staring at Qin Wan infatuatedly.

Bai Wanyi sneered and put down his wine glass heavily, "Marquis Pingyang is truly loyal."

Lu Yan came back to his senses, looked around in panic, and scolded her: "What nonsense are you talking about!"

Bai Wanyi rolled his eyes and said, "How could I be talking nonsense? It's you who stared at the Crown Princess in public. Are you afraid that others won't know that you can't forget your old feelings?"

Lu Yan suddenly grabbed her arm and suppressed his anger: "Do you know that this will bring trouble to her?"

Bai Wanyi raised her eyebrows, shook off his hand, and sneered, "You only realized now that this will cause her trouble? On her wedding day, you were staring blankly at her from the doorway. If others saw you, wouldn't they think you had something unclear with her?"

"Have you had enough?" Lu Yan was fed up with Bai Wanyi, who made trouble at home and outside.

In the past, when Wu was in the mansion, she competed with Wu for favor and made a fuss, but now in the palace, she made a fuss regardless of the occasion.

Lu Yan gritted his teeth and warned her, "Don't talk nonsense here! If I hear any rumors, I won't let you go!"

Bai Wanyi sneered, "Oh, the Marquis of Pingyang, who had three wives and countless concubines, is still such a love-struck man at this moment. How rare, tsk tsk..."

Seeing that she was holding on to him tightly, Lu Yan didn't want to say anything more to her. He picked up the wine pot and the wine glass, then turned around to chat with his colleagues.

Bai Wanyi snorted coldly, picked up his chopsticks to pick up some food for Ping'er, and couldn't help but teach him a lesson: "You can't learn from your father. When you grow up, you must be devoted to your wife and not be fickle."

"I understand, mother." Ping'er responded obediently. He had always been introverted, but recently he had become even more taciturn. The servants and the nanny following him all said that he had become steady and sensible.

Bai Wanyi was very satisfied with his current state, and earnestly reminded him: "I brought you to the palace to play today, but you must study hard when you go back, understand?"

Is entering the palace just for fun?

Ping'er lowered her head, not daring to refute, and only nodded in agreement: "Yes, mother."

Bai Wanyi didn't notice his mistake and continued to talk about his plan: "After the first month of the year, there will be the county exam, then the prefectural exam, and the academy exam. It would be best if you can win all three in a row. Let's first get a small three yuan, and then a big three yuan."

Bai Wanyi remembered that in novels, the male protagonist, or the female protagonist's brother or son, all won the minor and major three prizes at the same time. She patted Ping'er's head and placed high hopes on him: "At the very least, you have to pass the exam to become a scholar, understand?"

Ping'er frowned: "Studying is too difficult."

Bai Wanyi hated hearing him complain about the difficulty of studying. She said, "How can studying be difficult? Well, you're still young, and the pressure of taking the exam is great. So why not take the county and prefectural exams and become a student? That way the pressure will be less, right?"

Ping'er looked up and stared at Bai Wanyi quietly for a long moment. Seeing that she showed no sign of backing down, she could only lower her head and mutter, "Yes."

Bai Wanyi was finally satisfied. She picked up the fish head on the table and picked out the fish brain for Ping'er to eat: "Eat more brain, it will nourish your brain. When I was a child, my mother often gave me brain to eat. At that time, we ate pig brain."

"I made up for it, made up for it, and I was able to get into university. Back then, it was like a thousand troops trying to cross a single-plank bridge. Yours is very simple, you can handle it easily."

Bai Wanyi really didn't think the current exams were that difficult. She had looked at the papers of previous county exams and other exams that the Fourth Prince had found for her, and they weren't that difficult.

In fact, Bai Wanyi had no idea that eight-legged essays and vernacular writing were completely different things.

Moreover, modern exams are completely different from ancient exams.

Different times, different requirements, different perspectives, the articles that emerge are naturally different.

Bai Wanyi was able to get into university and thought that his IQ could surpass that of the ancients, but he was not necessarily able to write good eight-legged essays.

Ping'er listened to Bai Wanyi chattering on and on about things he couldn't understand at all, and his eyes dimmed. He hadn't seen his mother for a long time.

There have been a lot of rumors lately, but he doesn't believe them all. Now he just wants to have a good talk with his mother. However, his mother only wants him to focus on his studies and doesn't care whether he is doing well, happy, or whether he is bullied in school.

Bai Wanyi didn't notice Ping'er's changes at all. Even when she saw him looking depressed, she just thought that he was a little tired of studying. She pulled his ear and told him how important this exam was to her and Ping'er.

Lord Qian and Madam Wei from the Chang'an Marquisate next door listened to her voice, which sometimes rose and sometimes fell, and their ears were filled with a buzzing sound, and they looked disgusted.

Wei even said to her children: "Look at those from humble backgrounds, they are no match. Regardless of whether it is right or wrong, teaching children without considering the occasion is not educated."

After saying that, she glanced at Lu Lingjiao meaningfully.

Lu Lingjiao was born in the Pingyang Marquis Mansion. Wei was not very satisfied with her at first, but because her sons worked under Lu Yan, she also hoped to promote her two sons through Lu Yan.

Who would have thought that after so long, the positions of the two sons remained unchanged.

Wei couldn't help but roll her eyes at Lu Lingjiao again. This person is so stupid, she can't let her raise her children in the future.

Lu Lingjiao sat next to the Third Young Master Qian. She was very gentle and after hearing what Wei said, she quickly put down her chopsticks and gave Wei a flattering smile: "Mother is right."

Wei snorted lightly, and looked down upon the petty-minded Lu Lingjiao even more. Fortunately, among her two sons, only the third one married a girl from the Lu family. The second one would inherit the title of the Marquis in the future, so he had to choose a wife carefully!

Lu Lingjiao looked at Wei's face, rolled her eyes, and said to her, "Mother, I have some friendship with the Crown Princess. Why don't I take my fourth and sixth sisters to meet the Crown Princess?"

Meet the Crown Princess?

I heard that the Crown Princess likes to act as a matchmaker recently.

Wei suddenly felt unhappy: "Ask the Crown Princess to introduce some young soldiers from the military to Xiao Si and Xiao Liu?"

Lu Lingjiao's eyes spun around. "Those young ladies were sent out because the Crown Princess definitely didn't allow them to. It's hard for the Crown Prince to keep them, right? But the Crown Prince is here today, in front of so many people. If he's interested in my two sisters, can the Crown Princess still refuse him in public?"