However, Emperor Sheng And was a bit of a coward. He specially held a celebration banquet for An Xin and Xiao Wenrou's teams because they won the first and second place in the Nanyu Country competition.

By the way, I collected the prizes won by the two teams.

An Xin was so happy when she gave it to him, without even a trace of regret or reluctance on her face.

On the way, An Xin was afraid that the milky white false angelica fruit would rot, so he opened it and looked at it several times, but he didn't know if it was the problem of the fruit.

Or maybe it’s because of the jade box that holds the fruit. Anyway, this fake Tiankui fruit doesn’t show any signs of rotting.

An Xin: “…” Who would feel sad even though they know it’s fake?

Xiao Wenrou didn't know that the prize she received was just a special variety of red Ganoderma lucidum and not the holy blood Ganoderma lucidum. When she handed it over, there was a hint of reluctance in her eyes, which was noticed by the old fox-like Emperor Sheng An.

So the old emperor, whose mind was not much smaller than that of a needle, thought that he was the one who promoted him, and that the trusted chief priest was indeed loyal and loved him.

Such good stuff was won without any hesitation and was handed over without any further ado.

You see, her eyes are now filled with the delicious food and wine on the table in front of her. She must have long forgotten about the Tiankui Fruit given to her. How could she not feel any pain or reluctance to part with it?

Unlike the daughter of Prime Minister Xiao, who kept saying that she wanted to win glory for Daqian and formed a team to participate in the Nanyu competition, and said that she would give the prize to the emperor to nourish his body.

But now he looks so reluctant to hand it over. What's going on?

An Xin also noticed that Xiao Wenrou paused when she was handing something over.

He couldn't help but roll his eyes, thinking how many reasonable people in the royal family would be there? He had to hand it over anyway.

If you act reluctant, it will only make them feel resentful. It is better to pretend to be generous at this time. Maybe he can still remember your hard work during the competition.

As An Xin expected, he let it go readily and handed it over openly. Not only was he promoted to a higher rank, but he was also given a second-rank honorary position as the Prince's Junior Tutor.

This position sounds good, but now no one knows where the prince is, so this position is weaker than a man’s kidneys at this moment.

Not only was she promoted to a higher level, she was also given a nominal position.

All the members of the Cuju team she led also received the grace of Emperor Sheng An.

Feng Yuxiu, Shan Yongzhen, Chi Lan, Li Xin, Shen Wenxuan, Kunrui, Chen Runze…they are the children of powerful families.

Originally, if one relied solely on family protection to become an official, no matter how hard one worked, one would never be able to rise above the fifth rank. One would be a low-ranking official in the capital, living a mediocre life, eating and waiting to die.

However, this time Emperor Sheng An personally granted them grace. As long as they passed the imperial examination, they could serve as officials of the third or fourth rank in their future careers.

This position is neither high nor low in the capital, but if it is transferred to the local area, he will also be a senior official in charge of a region.

In the past, the children of the powerful and wealthy who relied entirely on their family's influence knew that it would be difficult for them to succeed in their official careers, so few of them worked hard.

Very few people are promoted to the fifth rank, but many people just live a life of idleness and wait for death.

When the parents who came to the banquet heard about the grace that Emperor Sheng An had bestowed on those children, they all smiled from ear to ear.

From what the emperor said, even if his children failed to pass the imperial examination, they could still pass the examination to become a scholar, as long as they worked hard in the future.

With this grace today, I might be able to be promoted to the fourth rank, and then I will be able to get rid of the situation of relying on imperial favors to be a low-level official in the capital.

Although Si Wei's title was of little use to him, Emperor Sheng An arranged a position for him in the Ministry of Rites.

In this way, he would no longer be a member of the royal family who only had a title but could only live a life of idleness and wait for death.

An Rui also rose from the eighth rank of the Imperial College's Supervisor to the seventh rank, and even Chen Qibao was promoted half a level after returning to the imperial guard.

Only Liu Boxing, who had just been promoted before going to Nanyu, was rewarded with some gold, silver, jewelry and silk by the old emperor, just like Xiao Wenrou's team.

Such rewards may be valuable items for ordinary people, but in the homes of the powerful in the capital, these things are not so rare.

When Xiao Wenrou came to this era, how could she talk about equality to the servants around her? How could she tolerate this?

Just when she was about to impulsively question an emperor, Prime Minister Xiao gave an anxious look to his eldest son who was sitting next to Xiao Wenrou.

Xiao Wenjin turned around to see what she was going to do, and was also frightened by Xiao Wenrou's actions and broke out in a cold sweat.

The person sitting on the dragon throne is the emperor who holds the power of life and death over the entire dynasty. How dare she do that?

"If you don't want to die, shut up." Xiao Wenjin said in a very low voice and stern tone: "Your talk about everyone being equal and arguing when you encounter injustice, you'd better stay in your boudoir and say it to the servants."

"You!" Xiao Wenrou choked.

When she looked up, she found that Emperor Sheng An was giving her a cold glance, and Xiao Wenrou felt a chill down her spine.

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Gongsun Lanyue, Feng Lingyun, Chen Runzhi and Zheng Xiaoling were praised by Emperor Sheng An himself as being as good as men.

When the girls came back, they were criticized by many people for their rude behavior on the court, which brought shame to women.

With the emperor's praise, An Xin thought that no one would be so desperate as to gossip like that again.

Some people say that they are shameful and have no manners, but isn't this refuting the words of the wise and powerful emperor who personally praised them?

Especially those families who are not on good terms with An Xin and the others, even if they don't care about their own men, for the sake of their sons' future career prospects, they should not gossip about them behind their backs.

Gongsun Lanyue and several other girls also received a lot of rewards this time.

After the celebration banquet.

An Xin's life went on again. Every morning before dawn, he would be pulled out of bed by the breeze to attend the morning court.

Amid the wailing of the teachers of the Imperial College, An Xin walked into the office of the Imperial College on a cloud of auspiciousness.

When they saw An Xin, they no longer had the resentful look they had in their eyes as she had snatched away their promotion opportunities. Instead, everyone turned to her and secretly complained about the students they were dissatisfied with.

An Xin suppressed the corners of her mouth that were about to turn upward. It seemed that these old men were badly treated badly by the students from the Imperial College who let themselves go after learning that she had left.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be so impatient, gritting his teeth, and rushing to complain to her in a roundabout way.

At first, An Xin didn't take it too seriously until a doctoral student with ink all over his head and face walked into her office, which was actually an independent office room for her to slack off.

An Xin could no longer be lazy and started to act like her devil king, dealing with those naughty boys in the Imperial College.

What she didn't expect was that the first person she hung on the tree was her student Feng Yuxiu, just because he thought the lectures given by the doctor from the Imperial Academy who taught them were too boring.

I chose to skip class and climbed up a tree to sleep.

"!!!" An Xin felt that the hit on the face was a bit painful.