Prince Zhenbei was in a good mood. After writing the letter, he went to Princess Zhenbei to praise Yu Zizhen.
Princess Zhenbei looked proud, but in fact she was extremely depressed by his praise.
In her opinion, since Yu Zizhen came to Beijing, he has completely lost sight of her as his mother.
After all, Yu Zizhen not only arranged all the people she sent to farm, but also did not reply to any of the letters she wrote in which she made some small requests.
She didn't care what unreasonable demands were made in the letters she wrote. She only knew that as a junior, Yu Zizhen dared to ignore even his own mother's letter, which was simply treasonous.
After sending the prince away, she couldn't help but write another letter to Yu Zizhen, in which she asked Yu Zizhen to hand over the intelligence network to the person she sent to deliver the letter, rather than Mr. Jiang as requested by the King of Zhenbei.
Yu Zizhen sneered when she received the letter. "You're all trying to take advantage of her, aren't you? Dream on."
She personally delivered the letter from the King of Zhenbei to Mr. Jiang. "Mr. Jiang, if you want anything from me in the future, just tell me directly. After all, even if you go around in circles to find my father, I still can't give you what I can't give you."
"As for your so-called intelligence network..." Yu Zizhen raised his hand helplessly, comparing his short stature. "All I can say is, Mr. Jiang, before you act wildly next time, please take a look at my small stature."
Mr. Jiang was so embarrassed by her insults that he wanted to say something, but Yu Zizhen didn't give him a chance to speak. She said, "What I asked Yuheng to read was all made up by her. She was holding the medical book I was reading at the time."
Thanks to her little hobby of wrapping every book in a book cover, look, this provides her with a ready-made opportunity to lie.
"I'll have to trouble Mr. Jiang to reply to my father's letter. I'll tell him that I'm very willing to serve the Zhenbei Palace, but I really don't have the ability."
As for the princess's letter, Yu Zizhen, like before, threw it into the brazier and burned it clean after reading it. She was quite thoughtful about the person who gave it to her.
Yu Zizhen herself did not take this matter seriously. After fending off the covetousness of the King of Zhenbei and his wife, she went about her business.
Yaoguang, however, privately spoke out in her defense, "Why are the prince and princess both so concerned about the prince's men? Don't they know what life is like for the prince in the capital?"
Yuheng was so frightened that she quickly covered her mouth. "Is this something we can discuss? Be more careful with your words next time and don't be so outspoken."
Yaoguang blinked, agreeing.
Yu Heng finally released the hand covering her mouth. "We have no right to interfere in the affairs of the master's family. The words you just said would surely upset the prince. Why bother? All we have to do is obey the prince and protect him."
Yaoguang nodded obediently, "I understand."
The baby-voiced system relayed this interaction to Yu Zizhen, who was filled with relief. Sure enough, the female guard she had personally selected and nurtured was still loyal.
***
The following spring, it was the time for the triennial spring examination.
Unlike the one three years ago, this year's Spring Examination immediately triggered large-scale protests from students after the results were announced.
Yu Zizhen knew the reason.
One of the examiners of this spring's imperial examination was a short-sighted official who had connected himself with the Lu family.
Although his elder brother-in-law Lu Dingchang came from a side branch of the Lu family, he became the commander-in-chief of the front army of the Five Military Commandery with his own ability and the promotion of the main branch of the Lu family.
As the only high-ranking military commander in the Lu family who was not won over by the Lu family through marriage, but was directly born into the Lu family, Lu Dingchang had a lot of say in the Lu family.
It was thanks to his brother-in-law, who was so bold as to sell exam questions to make money, that he was able to be included in the team of examiners for this spring examination by the main branch of the Lu family.
Be it the main branch of the Lu family or Lu Dingchang, no one had expected that this guy who usually looked honest would actually dare to sell the Spring Examination questions privately.
Although he only sold it to a few families in a small range in order to avoid being exposed, the problem is, for those families who can afford the high price and have the courage to buy the test questions, how could every person in their family who knows about it keep silent and not reveal it to anyone?
Who doesn't have a few in-laws and old friends? If the legitimate son gets the benefit, what about the illegitimate son? If the biological son gets the benefit, what about the son-in-law, nephew, and niece?
As word of the exam spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred, many people knew about it all at once.
The most incomprehensible thing is that some uneducated guys, if they can't write the article themselves, would ask others to write for them, but the key is that they are so stupid as to ask their classmates with good grades to write for them.
They didn't understand what was going on, so people wrote essays for them. Then when they took the exam themselves, they memorized the essays exactly as they were written.
With their stupid move, the news of the test paper leak quickly spread among the candidates.
The candidates were so angry that they took to the streets, ready to go to the palace to file a complaint.
The official who leaked the exam questions was frightened and hurried to seek help from his uncle Lu Dingchang.
Lu Dingchang was angry that his brother-in-law was ignorant of the seriousness of the matter and dared to take any money, but in order to prevent his brother-in-law from implicating himself and the Lu family, Lu Dingchang could only hold his nose and help him clean up the mess.
He was a rare brave man among the Lu family officials, but he was also rare for being brainless. In an emergency, he mobilized his troops to suppress the students without much thought.
Yu Zizhen had a system and knew about the exam question leak incident very early, but as the prince of Zhenbei, it was not easy for her to interfere in the imperial examination.
After all, she has a father who commands a large army. If she continues to show favor and win over scholars, those in the court will definitely suspect that she and her father have the intention of rebellion.
But for such a big thing, Yu Zizhen couldn't really just stay away from suspicion.
In order to grasp the latest situation in real time and to be able to respond promptly, Yu Zizhen not only let the system keep a close eye on the students and officials involved in the case, but also arranged some personnel to protect the students privately.
As soon as Lu Dingchang sent out his troops, she immediately received an emergency notification from the system.
Even though she was used to big scenes, Lu Dingchang's recklessness still surprised her.
She hissed, "My goodness, this guy is so bold."
"Yaoguang, go and ask Mr. Jiang to come over!" After sighing, Yu Zizhen began to arrange people in a hurry.
The people she had sent to protect the students before could not jump out and confront Lu Dingchang's troops head-on. Firstly, they could not defeat them, and secondly, she still wanted to leave the title of rebellion to Lu Dingchang.
As for the Five Cities Army, which should have stepped in to stop Lu Dingchang from leading his troops into the city, they were a bunch of wimps who could not be relied upon at all, and Yu Zizhen had no expectations of them.
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