Chapter 282: Is it okay not to return to the palace?
Chu Shangming laughed and said, "That seems like something Xin'er would do. That girl is always restless like a monkey. She even told me that when she went to see the emperor on the street, she saw a young eunuch lose his seat and fall off the carriage..."
"Wait!" Chu Liuzheng turned to look at him, "Isn't that a little eunuch with dark skin?"
Chu Shangming thought for a moment and said, "It seems so."
Chu Liuzheng: "I am that little eunuch."
Chu Shangming:?
Chu Shangming:!
He stared at Chu Liuzheng and blinked: "I remember our mother gave birth to a girl."
"What are you thinking?" Chu Liuzheng slapped her brother on the arm. "I was just following orders to pretend to be a eunuch."
"I'm your biological brother." Chu Shangming rubbed his arm. Although he looked thin, he was quite strong when hitting people.
"If he wasn't my biological brother, I wouldn't fight him." Chu Liuzheng curled his lips, turned his head and looked him up and down, and gestured with his hands, "You were only this tall when I entered the palace."
"It's been almost eight years. I can't have remained the same, right?" Chu Shangming reached out and rubbed his sister's head. "You've grown quite a bit taller, and your face has grown more mature. I didn't recognize you when I saw you in the dining hall today."
"Don't mess up my hair." Chu Liuzheng dodged for a moment. With her brother's technique, he could mess up her neatly combed hair into a mess in a short while.
Chu Shangming withdrew his hand awkwardly: "Didn't we rub it like this before?"
"How dare you bring up the past?" Chu Liuzheng rolled his eyes at him. "I can't outrun you."
Although A Niang was sick in bed, she really didn't need her big brother's loving hug and head pat.
"Then I'll change it later, big brother." Chu Shangming quickly admitted his mistake.
"Just use less strength." Chu Liuzheng hummed and pulled him into the library.
Classes were still in session at this time, so there were not many people in the library.
Chu Shangming led her to the bookshelf and pointed: "All thirty-two volumes are here. Which one can be used?"
"As long as it's something His Majesty hasn't read before, it's good enough." Chu Liuzheng was in charge of Xiao Jingfan's daily life and knew all about the books he had read recently. She said to her brother, "Please move it out for me, and I'll find it."
"Okay." Chu Shangming agreed and moved all 32 books out and placed them on the ground.
He brushed off the dust with his sleeve and pulled Chu Liuzheng to sit down.
Chu Liuzheng opened the books one by one. He could tell whether the emperor had read them by looking at the cover and the beginning, so the screening was quite quick.
"Did you continue to learn to read after entering the palace?" Chu Shangming asked as he put the books she had picked out and didn't want back on the bookshelf.
"Well, I secretly read some medical books when I was working in the pharmacy." Chu Liuzheng answered casually, flipping through the pages non-stop.
"Have you been bullied?"
Chu Liuzheng paused turning the pages of the book, raised his head and smiled: "I'm so fierce, who can bully me?"
"Brother, go and ask the Emperor for mercy. We won't go back to the palace, okay?" Chu Shangming squatted down, staring at her, and said seriously, "Since Dad came back, Mom hasn't been sick in the past few years. The grocery store is doing well, and the land in the village is rented out to people for farming. We can harvest grain every year, enough to pay taxes so we won't go hungry anymore.
My brother has already passed the imperial examination and has passed the imperial examination. If he studies hard for a few years, he might be able to pass the imperial examination if he is lucky. I don’t want to be a slave anymore. If you leave the palace, I will protect you and we can be together as a family. You…”
"Brother." Chu Liuzheng handed him the book and interrupted him, "How did you answer that question just now?"
The topic jumped too much, and Chu Shangming was stunned for a moment, then asked, "What question?"
"These are the exam questions that Yun Jijiu sent out." Chu Liuzheng opened another book. "Did you answer them carefully?"
Chu Shangming nodded: "I wrote down everything I could think of."
Hearing this, Chu Liuzheng smiled, her brother was quite hardworking.
She looked around, making sure there was no one around before approaching her brother and whispering, "That was the test set by His Royal Highness Prince Xiao himself."
Chu Shangming was startled and asked in a low voice, "Why?"
"Ministry of Revenue." Chu Liuzheng stopped talking and patted her brother's chest. "You need to work hard later."
Chu Shangming was confused by her photo: "What are you working hard for?"
[Of course it's an interview, it's earned by saving the day.]
"You'll know in a moment." Chu Liuzheng smiled. "His Royal Highness Prince Xiao is easy to get along with. Don't be afraid."
Chu Shangming: ???
Chu Liuzheng encouraged her brother: "Brother, I believe in you!"
Although he still had a lot of questions in his head, this didn't stop Chu Shangming from nodding vigorously: "Yeah!"
A quarter of an hour later, Chu Liuzheng selected three books and held them in his arms, and asked Chu Shangming to put the rest back on the bookshelf.
Chu Shangming took her to the steward to register. Because she had the Yun Jijiu badge, the steward did not make things difficult for her at all.
The brother and sister walked back side by side, chatting and joking.
As they were almost at the flower hall, Chu Liuzheng suddenly stopped and tilted her head to look at her brother: "Don't ask His Majesty to let me out of the palace later, do you hear me?"
Chu Shangming:!
He didn't say anything, how did Youmiao know what he wanted to do?
"I don't know you, you're a stubborn person." Chu Liuzheng muttered, shaking her brother's sleeve and saying softly, "Brother, the rules of the palace are above everything else. You can't just beg for mercy. If we anger His Majesty, we'll both be punished, maybe even lose our heads."
She made a snap gesture on her neck.
Chu Shangming:!!
Isn’t the emperor a wise ruler? Why should he be beheaded for saying two wrong words?
Chu Liuzheng said, "I know you're worried about me, and I want to leave the palace quickly, but it's not the right time yet."
Chu Shangming asked: "When can you come out?"
"Maybe this year, maybe next year." Chu Liuzheng couldn't say for sure, so he could only say, "I'll find a solution as soon as possible."
Chu Shangming was not so easily fooled: "What can you do?" After all, the emperor sounded so fierce.
"The secret cannot be revealed." Chu Liuzheng curled his eyes at him.
Chu Shangming: “…”
Chu Liuzheng patted his shoulder and said, "I am now a favorite of His Majesty. No one can bully me. Don't worry."
"Don't lie to me." Chu Shangming stared into her eyes.
"It's all true, I promise." Chu Liuzheng raised four fingers, "Otherwise, I will never make any money in my life."
This oath was very convincing. Chu Shangming reluctantly believed it and patted her head gently. "When you leave the palace, remember to send a message home in advance. We will go to the palace gate to pick you up together."
"Okay!" Chu Liuzheng suppressed his sore throat, tried hard to raise the corners of his lips, and nodded vigorously.
"Silly girl." Chu Shangming sighed and handed her the book he was holding. "Let's go. That fat eunuch has already looked over here twice."
Chu Liuzheng chuckled: "That was Chief Steward Zhou, who went to our house to deliver the imperial edict. Don't you remember?"
Chu Shangming frowned. The one who came home didn’t seem to be that fat, right?
"Eunuch Zhou doesn't like to be called fat," Chu Liuzheng whispered to her brother, "Don't say the wrong thing, he'll hold a grudge."
Chu Shangming said, "He was quite kind when he came home last time."
"Really?" Chu Liuzheng was a little surprised.
Chu Shangming nodded: "He also told my mother that you are doing well in the palace."
Hearing this, Chu Liuzheng decided not to criticize Eunuch Zhou in his heart anymore.
The two walked into the flower hall, and after greeting each other, Chu Liuzheng presented the book he found to Xiao Jingfan for review.
Xiao Jingfan flipped through it briefly and put it aside, continuing to look at the rest of the answer sheet.
"Follow me." King Xiao waved to Chu Shangming, and Kunqi pushed the wheelchair behind the screen.
Chu Shangming hurriedly followed.
Chu Liuzheng's gaze followed and he clenched his hands nervously.
[The interview has begun, come on, big brother!]
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