It was very strange. She was clearly talking about apricot blossoms, but he immediately understood why she said that, as if he could hear the voice in her heart.
This feeling happened far more than just this time.
Thinking of what Wu Jue once said, that Cui Jing was the one who gave her the chance to be reborn, and facing such an unpredictable and mysterious statement where anything was possible, Chang Suining's mind suddenly became a little distracted.
What kind of opportunity was this? Was there some special bond that she didn't know about? For example, could he really sense her thoughts?
Thinking of this, Chang Suining suddenly became alert and asked him tentatively: "Cui Jing, don't you have anything to say to me?"
Earlier in the Tiannv Tower, when he came to say goodbye to her late at night, he had silently revealed to her that he knew her secret.
But it was not convenient to say it clearly at that time, so she said that she would hold a banquet for him when he returned to Beijing the next day.
The implication was that they would discuss the matter in detail in private when they met again. Chang Suining felt that this was an unwritten agreement between the two.
Since the two met again, they had the opportunity to talk privately, but for some reason, Cui Jing never mentioned or spoke out about the incident.
Some things certainly don't need to be said explicitly, the two just need to be clear in their hearts. Chang Suining didn't originally dwell on this until this uncertain thought suddenly popped up in his mind.
Chang Suining, who has always been accustomed to knowing both herself and her enemy, now really wants to know whether there is any hidden mysterious connection between her and Cui Jing, the "person of opportunity".
Thinking about it this way, we still have to talk about it openly.
In response to her question, Cui Jing nodded: "Yes."
He had something to say to her.
Chang Suining looked around, trying to find a suitable place to talk, but he said, "Wait three days."
Chang Suining retracted his gaze and looked at him in confusion: "Why? Is there any particular reason for this?"
Cui Jing did not look at her, but went to look at the apricot blossoms: "We will know when the time comes."
"..." Chang Suining really wanted to put her hands on her hips and look up at the sky, or roll up her sleeves and sigh, but she held back.
If she kept asking, it would seem that she was very impatient. When it comes to determination, how could she lose to anyone?
Three days is just three days. It’s not like she won’t live to see that day.
As if he noticed that she was trying hard to suppress the irritation she was feeling, Cui Jingwei looked up at the apricot blossoms and curled the corners of his mouth slightly.
This scene did not escape Chang Suining's eyes as he squinted at him: "What are you laughing at?"
This guy...could he really hear the voice in her heart? "Nothing." Cui Jing looked through the apricot blossoms at the moon half hidden behind the clouds: "The moon is beautiful."
Chang Suining looked over and felt it was very ordinary, especially since she was now suspecting that the person next to her might be able to see into her thoughts.
Suspicious, she said, "Since you have nothing to say, I will go back first."
"That's fine." Cui Jing said, "You are injured, you should rest early."
Chang Suining: “…”
After three days of his mysterious words, she could finally rest in peace.
She felt dissatisfied, so she waved at him a little tiredly and left with Xier and others.
Cui Jing watched her leave with a smile in his eyes.
Chang Suining frowned and thought a lot along the way, but finally forced himself to stop these thoughts. Anyway, there would be an answer in three days. Before that, thinking too much would only lead to mistakes, so he decided not to think about it.
It's just self-control, but she still has it.
She decided to think of something else to distract herself, and there happened to be another apricot tree in full bloom in front of her.
The apricot flowers are in bloom and the apricot list is announced.
This year's imperial examination is destined to be very different because it is no longer controlled by the great aristocratic families and the chief examiner is her teacher.
This world will have a brand new look that is unprecedented since the founding of the Great Sheng Dynasty.
As Chang Suining walked forward, many familiar figures of poor scholars flashed through his mind.
She believed that there would be a name she was familiar with on the list.
But the ranking is still worth guessing. Who will be the first on the Xingbang list? Who will be the first place is not only a matter of curiosity for Chang Suining, but also a suspense that everyone is paying attention to. In recent days, many bets have even been set up in Beijing for this reason.
But before the answer to the mystery was revealed, another piece of news attracted even more attention.
…
In the Wu Mansion in the capital, the wife of the Wu family was surprised after hearing what the maid said: "...really?"
"It's absolutely true!" The maid was delighted with her: "Now it has spread outside!"
Wu Chunbai was excited. He immediately put down the bamboo pen in his hand and walked out from behind the desk: "Hurry up and help me change my clothes."
Soon, the Wu family girl finished changing her clothes and left the courtyard with her maid. The maid was very happy and said excitedly as she walked: "...It's really a cause for celebration!"
"Why is it so good?"
On a fork in the road ahead, came Wu Zhaobai, the eldest brother of the Wu family girl who had already married.
Wu Chunbai stopped and looked at him quietly with raised eyebrows.
Wu Zhaobai looked at her and saw her posture and expression, so he guessed, "What happened? Did the boy from the Qu family pass the imperial examination?"
The person he was talking about was a young man whom Wu Chunbai had met in the twelfth month of last year. This person was taking the imperial examination this spring, and today was the day when the Ministry of Rites would post the list of successful candidates.
Wu Chunbai looked at him and smiled: "How would I know whether he passed the exam or not?"
They had only met once, and the marriage had not yet been decided. Whether the other party passed the exam or not had nothing to do with her. In comparison, she had her own important matters that she was more willing to focus on.
Wu Zhaobai looked at her suspiciously: "Then why are you so happy?"
Wu Chunbai smiled at him again: "I am naturally happy to see that all the sour words that brother has poured out recently have come to nothing."
Wu Zhaobai's face tensed: "What do you mean by that?"
Wu Chunbai bowed slightly to him and left with his maid.
"You..." Wu Zhaobai was so angry that he pointed at her back and wanted to call her to stop. However, he knew that he couldn't stop her at all and it would only make her more embarrassed. So he stopped two servants who came back from the front yard and were responsible for preparing the carriage and horses, and interrogated them about what happened.
"My dear, I want to go to the Listening Hall..."
Hearing these three words, Wu Zhaobai's eyelids twitched wildly.
The music in the Listening Hall was like the sound of nature. It was a quiet place that he loved in the past. But ever since the girl surnamed Chang beat the scholar Song in chess here, the Listening Hall has become the only holy place for praising this little girl! First, the students of the Imperial Academy and the members of her Wuer Society praised her. Later, his ruthless sister gathered a group of official girls who were as crazy as her, and held poetry gatherings in the hall from time to time...
It was called a poetry gathering, but he secretly listened in and found that eight out of ten sentences of those girls were about Chang's daughter. Whether they wrote poems or painted paintings, most of them were about her deeds. Moreover, their words were exaggerated and untrue, as if they had taken Wushisan and been fed a magic potion. It was simply corrupting the atmosphere! But... But their poems, calligraphy and paintings were circulated and were still highly sought after, while his painstaking works were ignored... This phenomenon made him feel sad, and he only hated the absurd and morbid aesthetics of the world today.
It was not so bad at first, he could still tolerate and endure it a bit, but ever since the girl from Chang family was named General Ningyuan, these people have become even more outrageous to the point of causing public outrage!
Their poetry gatherings are getting bigger and bigger, and there are already countless people drinking the intoxicating potion together!
And today, his sister who didn't recognize her relatives suddenly went to the Listening Hall again. Could it be... It can't be...
Combined with Wu Chunbai's words "the sour words fell through", Wu Zhaobai had a bad feeling and immediately asked cautiously: "Has there been any news about that damn General Ningyuan back to the capital?"
"I just heard that General Ningyuan led his troops to defeat Xu's army on the Bian River. The battle was decisive and he personally beheaded Xu's army!" The servant's tone was a little excited.
It's not his fault. Faced with such a great feat that is bound to be recorded in history books, his attitude is already quite reserved. You have to know that the water outside has begun to bubble and is about to boil and explode.
Wu Zhaobai was also furious.
His ears exploded, and his brain exploded: "...How is it possible?"
How could she suddenly appear in the Bian River? How could she really kill Xu Zhengye! His friends had analyzed it again and again. Her article was clearly a gimmick to attract attention. When they were drunk, they laughed and said that if she could kill Xu Zhengye, they would dare to go to Laitingfang naked with their hair loose. There lived old eunuchs who had left the palace and could perform castration on people. From then on, they would take off their men's clothes, cut off their men's roots, and become those "upright" girls!
After confirming the news again and again, Wu Zhaobai returned to his residence in a daze, drank three or two glasses of wine, and then cried and chanted poetry.
His wife signaled the wet nurse to take the four-year-old child away.
The fact that her husband was drunk was not a big deal. The key point was that his poem was very bad and might ruin her son's education.
Only after the child left did she go forward to comfort her husband.
Wu Zhaobai grabbed the wine pot and said loudly: "...I am a man of seven feet tall, born into a family of scholars. My grandfather was the chief priest of the Imperial Academy, and my father is now the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, in charge of the ancestral temple rituals of the whole country!"
His wife patted him on the shoulder and sighed. He was a seven-foot-tall man, but he couldn't even pass the imperial examination.
Wu Zhaobai turned to look at his wife who had a sympathetic look in her eyes, and suddenly burst into tears. He threw himself into his wife's arms and cried to vent his feelings.
"I am my father's only son, the only heir in the Wu family for three generations..."
His wife sighed again. This was probably the only thing he could talk about.
"But my grandfather just doesn't like me and has always favored Chunbai!"
His wife sighed again and continued to pat his shoulder. There was nothing she could do because her grandfather also had eyes.
"You must know that she is just a girl who will get married sooner or later! How can grandfather be so confused? It is obvious that I am the pillar of the Wu family in the future!"
His wife might sigh, but that might not be the case. Her son is already four years old. It is possible that her son will be successful first, and her husband does not have to be the pillar of the family.
Wu Zhaobai cried even more aggrievedly, raised his head and pointed outside: "Since Chunbai was five years old, I can no longer hold my head up in this family! My friends outside also often make fun of me about this behind my back! They say that if she were a boy, I would have no place to stand!"
The young woman could no longer sigh and get angry - he didn't mention a word about her incompetence and mistakes.
"Chun Bai is a talented woman famous in the capital, but I am gradually becoming a rotten wood that cannot be carved in the eyes of my grandfather!"
"In the past, Chunbai still had some good points, but now, ever since the Chang family girl became famous for painting the tiger in Dengtai Tower, her heart has become wild, she has become more and more disrespectful to her brother, and has entangled countless other women to go crazy together. I think they are going to rebel now!"
As he said this, he smashed the wine jug to pieces with a "bang".
"How can the victory of Bianshui prove that it was her own ability?"
"The yin and yang have been reversed, and things are going in reverse. There is no day for men like us to realize our ambitions... Dasheng is in danger!"
"Husband, be careful with your words!" The woman finally spoke, and covered her husband's mouth, whispering, "Be careful of what you say!" Moreover, why is there no day for "men like us" to display their ambitions? Who on the list of apricots today is not a man? He is not good enough, but he always talks about this and that. It is obviously he who is crazy!
Wu Zhaobai pulled his wife's hand away and said dissatisfiedly: "Everything I said is the truth!"
"I know, just like what Chunbai always said, the current saint is also a woman, which is enough to prove that women are not inferior to men..." He gritted his teeth and said, "But what does she know? She only knows the surface! The reason why the current saint can ascend to the throne is because of the numerous achievements made by the former Crown Prince!"
"Your Highness the former Crown Prince is not a woman! All these achievements cannot be attributed to a woman!"
"When the Saint first entered the palace, she was just a minor talent... First, she rose to prominence because of her son, and then she rose to prominence because of luck!"
"If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had not died early, it would not have been her turn..."
"Pa!" A slap with the wind suddenly interrupted his words.
Wu Zhaobai widened his eyes and looked at his wife in disbelief: "You...you dare to hit me!"
"How dare I!" The woman looked distressed and hurried to check his face: "Just now a flying insect landed on your face, and I was in a hurry..."
Wu Zhaobai stood there in a daze, staring at her blankly. He felt that the order of the world was about to collapse and he could no longer distinguish between truth and falsehood.
The woman hurriedly fetched another wine jug and poured wine for him: "My husband's ambitions are hard to achieve, I know all that..."
She brought the wine cup to Wu Zhaobai's lips, and Wu Zhaobai swallowed it mechanically.
She poured another cup: "Everyone is drunk, but I am sober..."
"My husband will eventually come to prominence..."
After drinking this whole bottle of wine, Wu Zhaobai was finally drunk and could no longer utter complete sentences.
The woman put down the wine jug, brushed her sleeves, and called the servant in to serve her.
She turned around and went to see Old Master Wu to explain her husband's dangerous words and actions today.
Old Master Wu rubbed his temples and then ordered the man to be confined to his room for three months.
This time of year is the busiest time for rejuvenation salons, simply because people are more likely to worry during the spring.
In addition, the apricot list has been announced, and his disappointing grandson's envy is bound to relapse. People with envy need to avoid light, so it is better to keep him under control.
Wu Zhaobai was confined to his room while drunk, while Wu Chunbai had just arrived at the Listening Hall.
It was difficult to travel along the road, and the streets and alleys were crowded with people, even more lively than during the New Year holidays.
Wu Chunbai heard many people telling each other the good news that Xu Zhengye had died, and some people even lit firecrackers. Among the voices spreading the news, the name of "General Ningyuan" was always mentioned.
Of course, at this moment, people everywhere are talking enthusiastically about the names that appear on the Xingbang.
When he stepped into the Listening Hall, Wu Chunbai happened to hear some scholars in the hall talking about the top scorer of this year's Xingbang.
"…It's Song Xian, the Scholar Song!"
"But the one who lost to General Ning Yuan in a chess match here last year?!"
"That's right!"
When Wu Chunbai heard this, he couldn't help but cover his mouth and smile.
She is worthy of being her sister Chang.
Good night everyone, I've had back problems recently (I've had a herniated disc at a young age), and I'm moving to another city, so I'll slow down on the update for now. I'll try to keep the update daily while maintaining the quality, love you guys~
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