Chapter 168: Love in the Ancient Plane, Brain Opens 28:

The spring breeze is full of joy and the horse gallops, and all the flowers in Chang'an can be seen in one day. The top

scholar is a calm man over 30 years old, tall, serious, and serious. He is very upright and distant.

The second scholar is in his twenties, of average stature, and looks ordinary at first glance, but his smile is brilliant. It is said that a humble gentleman is as gentle as jade, and it is true.

As for the third scholar Yuan Qingci, it is even more needless to say. When he was introduced, he was able to catch the daughter of the prefect. His appearance is absolutely impeccable.

Before the establishment of Xi State, "Tanhua" was a joking name. The two youngest and most handsome people among the same list of Jinshi were selected as Tanhua envoys. They were asked to visit famous gardens, pick flowers along the way, compose poems in Qionglin Garden, and welcome the champion with flowers.

After the establishment of Xi State, the emperor conferred the title of Tanhua on the third place in the same list of Jinshi.

Yuan Qingci may not be the most handsome among the Jinshi of this year, but he is indeed the youngest.

When the champion, the runner-up, and the Tanhua rode on horses and paraded through the streets as usual, almost all the people in Kyoto came to watch.

The young ladies bought flowers early and threw them to the most handsome one.

Yuan Qingci was so popular that the young ladies on the whole street were excited when he appeared, and they threw flowers on him one by one.

The noble ladies, sitting high up in the attics along the street, put aside their usual reserve and boldly flirted and sent flowers to the three talented men.

"Tanhua Lang, look here, look!"

"Zhuangyuan Gong, look up at us, hurry up."

"Bangyan Gong, you look so beautiful when you smile, come and catch my flowers."

Yuan Qingci rode his horse through the streets, with a bunch of flowers, sachets and handkerchiefs hanging on his body.

His face was cold and there was no smile at all.

He looked around from time to time, trying to find that person, but he didn't see him after waiting for a long time, and he was very disappointed.

The person Yuan Qingci wanted to see actually came, but she left again.

Jiang Lan did go to watch Yuan Qingci's horse parade, but she didn't care whether she joined in the excitement or not.

But the group of people in the live broadcast room all clamored to watch the important moment of Brother Yuan's life.

Yuan Qingci, wearing a red robe and a flower hat, was a little more gorgeous than usual, and was indeed very beautiful.

Jiang Lan squeezed in the crowd, and before she had time to say hello, she felt a particularly strong malice rushing towards Yuan Qingci.

She followed the direction of her spiritual perception and found that it was actually an "old acquaintance".

Shi Haochu, the prefect, is already in prison, and Shi An'er actually appeared in Kyoto, and he seemed to be doing well, with a big belly.

Jiang Lan understood it as soon as he thought about it. It turned out that he was carrying the ball to the top.

King Xuan is really a big victim. Everything, whether fragrant or smelly, is pulled into his own palace.

Aren't you afraid of eating too much and getting diarrhea?

Shi An'er is not a simple person.

When her affair with King Xuan was a hot topic in Lizhou, she asked Yuan Qingci to take over.

After Jiang Lan messed up the matter, she became a laughing stock in Lizhou. It was almost impossible for her to get married, so she set her sights on King Xuan.

Shi An'er was smart. She bribed the doctor in King Xuan's mansion and learned about King Xuan's impotence.

With this handle, she boldly went to King Xuan's house to negotiate, and used the child in her belly as a bargaining chip.

Although King Xuan liked women, he did not have many children.

There were more than a dozen women in the palace, but only three children. Except for the princess who gave birth to a son and a daughter, and the concubine who gave birth to a daughter, there was no movement from other people for so many years.

Shi An'er had grasped the lifeline of King Xuan, and King Xuan had to hold his nose and marry her.

It was well known that King Xuan loved women, and he had not touched a woman for some time.

He was afraid that the news of his impotence would spread, so he used Shi An'er as a shield.

He created an image of falling in love with Shi An'er at first sight and being loyal and affectionate to the outside world.

Shi An'er was confident in her own means, thinking that she could get to the top by relying on her mother's status. Who knew that man's plans are not as good as God's plans, and her father lost power.

Originally the legitimate daughter of a fourth-rank official, she had a noble status, and King Xuan had to give her a status.

Now she has become the daughter of a criminal, let alone a status.

King Xuan didn't even let her live in his mansion, and directly threw her into a house outside.

After Shi An'er arrived in Kyoto, she became an unknown concubine, but she was very ambitious and always paid attention to every move in Kyoto.

She wanted to find an opportunity to change her own destiny.

The reality was cruel, and Shi An'er hated Jiang Lan and Yuan Qingci.

But one of them was the only fourth-rank female official in Xi State, high up, and the other was a newly crowned third place winner with a bright future.

Only she was still stuck in the mud and couldn't move.

When Yuan Qingci rode past Shi An'er on horseback, she wanted to kill him with her eyes.

So the sensitive Jiang Lan discovered the clue.

Jiang Lan was a decisive person. If he didn't know that Shi An'er was in Kyoto, it would be fine, but if he knew, he would not let her off easily!

This culprit who disfigured the original owner still wants to be free and easy?

Don't even think about it! It is absolutely not allowed!

So Jiang Lan decisively followed Shi An'er and found where she lives now.

Prepare to find a suitable time to give her a fatal blow.

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When Yuan Qingci came back, he was already a sixth-rank editor in the Hanlin Academy.

Although the official position is not high, he is a close minister of the emperor and has a lot of room for promotion in the future.

Jinshi in the same list were not appointed so quickly.

Most of their official positions were fixed between the ninth and seventh ranks, and the vast majority of them were to be sent out.

Whether they can be promoted in the future is also an unknown.

Many people are local ninth-rank officials all their lives and will not make any progress in their lives.

In his previous life, Yuan Qing's poems barely made it into the ranks of the first-class Jinshi, and he was directly sent out to a remote post after being appointed as an official.

He struggled in the officialdom for decades, and in the end he was just a prefect of the fourth rank.

It is a common consensus that it is difficult to pass the imperial examination and even more difficult to be an official.

Jiang Lan is an exception. Not only is she a woman an official, but she has also been promoted to the fourth rank.

Yuan Qingci, who is now only a small official of the sixth rank, cannot help but feel inferior in his heart.

The Jiang Lan in his memory always looked up at Yuan Qingci.

But the Jiang Lan in reality did not even give him a glance.

How ruthless! This woman!

Did she despise her low position and think she was not as good as her? It

was obviously a happy thing, but Yuan Qingci was not as excited as he had imagined.

Even Lu was the same. She was not as excited as the last time Yuan Qingci passed the imperial examination.

Before Lu came to Kyoto, she always felt that Jiang Lan was not worthy of her talented and handsome son.

After coming to Kyoto, she felt that Jiang Lan was too powerful and her son could not control him, so she was very uneasy.

What worried her most was that she found that Jiang Lan did not like her son at all.

Her son had good looks, good stature, and good talent.

Jiang Lan, the daughter of a butcher, dared not like him!

But her son was deeply in love with her and would not marry anyone else, which was really annoying.

Yuan Qingci, her son, did not notice Lu's worries at all.

Today was supposed to be his happy day of passing the imperial examination, but he waited until midnight for Jiang Lan to come back.

"Where have you been?"