Chapter 127

Gu Zhanting looked at Pei Qingyan, who was acting like a good father, with deep meaning.

They are all thousand-year-old foxes, what kind of script are they acting?

Political struggle is originally a matter of life and death. No matter who gains power, can the other party have a good end? The so-called "never die" has long been the case; saying it or not makes no difference. It's just that in their status, they respect their identity and won't say it so directly.

And the greatest significance of saying it is to win Lu Xingzhou's favor, responding to Lu Xingzhou's previous "you haven't thought it through," meaning that he has made a decision now. It is more upright to say it in front of the emperor, not private party formation.

Of course, saying it isn't completely empty talk. The practical effect is also there.

The struggle between Pei and Huo is still within the scope of decency, and it won't really evolve into a fight. But with his words here, if Lu Xingzhou really has an accident, the Pei family will be laughed at if they don't move. So once the Huo family really wants to kill Lu Xingzhou, they either have to do it cleanly, or they have to be prepared for a full-scale war with the Pei family. This decision is not easy to make.

Although it can't really be counted as any protective talisman, it really adds a few points of guarantee and greatly raises Lu Xingzhou's status.

There are side effects, too. From this point of view, Lu Xingzhou is branded with a heavy Pei family mark—from this perspective, it is also letting Lu Xingzhou stand in line passively, even if he doesn't want to, it's too late.

Gu Zhanting didn't speak for a while. He wanted to know how Lu Xingzhou would handle this scene.

Ordinary young people getting such a show of favor from the Pei family would definitely be flattered... Would Lu Xingzhou?

But he saw Lu Xingzhou arched his hands warmly and politely: "Pei Xiang is polite... The commoner has been separated from his flesh and blood since childhood, and is particularly unable to see such things. Helping the young lady find her relatives is also accumulating blessings for myself. If Pei Xiang can really get a title for the young lady, the commoner is also happy for Miss Pei. As for other things... with Your Majesty making the decision, the commoner won't suffer. Of course, the commoner is still very grateful for Pei Xiang's maintenance."

Pei Qingyan was stunned, and everyone in the room felt a jump in their hearts, secretly calling it interesting.

Gu Zhanting called it interesting several times in his heart, and had to admit that Lu Xingzhou's sentence made him extremely comfortable. The fact is also true. With him, Gu Zhanting, making the decision, what can the Huo family worry about that needs you, Pei Qingyan, to worry about?

Gu Zhanting was in a good mood and finally laughed: "Pei Xiang's heart for his daughter, I know. Hmm... what is her name?"

Pei Qingyan recovered from his surprise at Lu Xingzhou and answered respectfully: "Name is Chuyun."

Pei Chuyun had just debuted, and her name hadn't spread among the peers. The Yama Hall had to inquire to know, and outsiders basically didn't know. Even if someone had heard it, they could say it was a duplicate name. No one dared to imagine that the Hedong Pei family would actually recognize a Joyous Union demon girl home. Pei Qingyan was full of confidence, and didn't even need to change the name.

Gu Zhanting smiled: "Good, first grace-shadow into the Imperial Academy, and then discuss the reward after seeing the performance in the Imperial Academy, how about that?"

In this world, women can be officials, and the melon-eating girl has been an official for years. And entering the Imperial Academy is basically a prerequisite for becoming a civil official, which is a good grace-shadow for a person who "wandered in the Jianghu." Basically, it is ironclad that she will be given an official position.

As for the female-frequency yy of directly sealing a county master, just think about it.

Pei Qingyan was also satisfied enough: "Thank you, Your Majesty."

"When will the ceremony of recognizing ancestors and returning to the clan be held?" Gu Zhanting smiled: "If there is time, I might be able to watch the ceremony."

Pei Qingyan was a bit embarrassed: "This still needs to be discussed with the young lady. She may not want to make too much noise."

"Haha, this kind of daughter-slave-like speech is really not like the Pei Xiang I know." Gu Zhanting didn't care, and left the seat in a good mood: "That's it for now."

Everyone respectfully sent the emperor away. Pei Qingyan looked at Lu Xingzhou, wanting to say something but stopping, finally shook his head with a laugh, and turned away.

Lu Xingzhou smiled, his gaze fell on the Huo father and son, and the Huo father and son were also looking at him.

Both sides' eyes were quite complex and difficult to understand.

But in the end, they didn't say anything. Lu Xingzhou withdrew his gaze and said calmly: "Yuanyao, let's go."

Sheng Yuanyao waved at her father on the seat, and took Lu Xingzhou's wheelchair away with an expression of eating melons until she was full.

Sheng Qingfeng's face was dark. Do you know what your performance looks like? Like a silly happy maid!

But then again, today Lu Xingzhou is really going to be famous in the capital... His performance exceeded everyone's expectations, and the most critical thing is that he left a particularly good impression on the emperor!

It's really strange, is he really the same age as Yuanyao?

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"Are you really the same age as me?" Sheng Yuanyao sent Lu Xingzhou back to the inn, and couldn't help but stop on the way, circling in front of him to grab his face, trying to study if there was a human skin mask: "You wouldn't be an old monster in disguise, would you? The words you used to deal with Pei Xiang, are they something a young person can say on the spot?"

Lu Xingzhou let her grab, and said vaguely: "Don't flirt with me."

Sheng Yuanyao didn't pay attention to him, originally grabbing his face with one hand, simply used both hands to rub it for a while, and finally disliked it: "Not as good as A-Nuo's to rub, it's really an old skin."

Lu Xingzhou couldn't laugh or cry.

It was unexpected that the melon-eating girl who played with knives, her hands were quite tender.

Sheng Yuanyao went to the back to push the wheelchair again, excitedly: "Hey, how long do you have to sit in this wheelchair? Don't you feel tired of pretending?"

Lu Xingzhou said: "I pretended to be lame before, not only because I wanted to shade people, but the most important point is that if I cured my legs before coming to the capital, wouldn't it mean I could also cure Shen Tang's legs?"

Sheng Yuanyao was stunned, her scalp numb: "I didn't consider this point."

Lu Xingzhou nodded: "Hmm, if it's you, it's very normal."

Sheng Yuanyao: "?"

"So the timing for me to publicly stand up in front of people must be after finding a high-rank alchemist in the capital to help with the treatment, or after further study at the Alchemy Academy. With this excuse, I can publicly stand up."

A-Nuo hung her head, victory was fleeting.

The assessment is divided into three days. The first day is the literary assessment, which is the question-answering mode of that day. It assesses theoretical knowledge such as medical principles and pharmacology, as well as some laws and regulations regarding medical practice. Lu Xingzhou studied for these few days, but what he was more urgently cramming was the latter. Poor Yama Hall judge, when did he ever manage the laws and regulations of the Great Qian...

The current cultivation is far from the divine soul aspect, at most it is clearer in mind and better in memory, far from the point where a sweep of divine sense can be branded in the mind. These days have been bitter for Lu Xingzhou, really dreaming back to the time when he was desperately memorizing books for the college entrance examination... Fortunately, the relevant laws and regulations are not many, and he still gnawed them down.

The literary assessment venue is in the Imperial Academy, and there are even troops maintaining it outside, intercepting idlers, which is extremely serious.

Whether it is the Pei family's noble girl or the Demon Suppression Division's second generation, the little demon girl and the melon-eating girl are all blocked outside and not allowed to enter. On the contrary, they are allowed to bring attendants. Attendants have nothing to do with the literary assessment, but are for the alchemy practice later. It is permitted for alchemists to have attendants to do some chores like picking herbs and fanning the fire.

A-Nuo entered the venue proudly under the jealous eyes of the two sisters.

The admission is based on the recommendation letter from the local area, and there is no need to search the body. There are magic treasures to scan whether there is any small copy, which is simpler and clearer than searching the body. Everyone is assigned an independent room for the exam to avoid mutual interference, and there are also magic treasures in the room to monitor.

This solemn atmosphere made Lu Xingzhou feel much more heavy in his heart, and also very satisfied. The stricter and more solemn it is, the more it means the importance of the government and the public, and the more it means the gold content. This is much higher than the little demon girl's back-door admission, and he will be looked up to wherever he goes.

Just as he was organizing the pen and ink, the room was pushed open, and a group of examiners entered together to distribute the papers.

Lu Xingzhou saw Meng Li at a glance.

Meng Li looked as if he didn't know him, stiffened his face, put a pile of papers in front of him, and very officially expressed: "Many questions this year were personally set by His Majesty, play well."

The papers were still wax-sealed. Lu Xingzhou carefully dismantled the seal with the awe of the test paper in Meng Li's house at the beginning, and almost laughed out loud on the spot.

Meng Li had said that the difficulty of the assessment was not as high as that paper, and the opportunity was great... You should have said earlier that "not as high" meant dropping from third-rank knowledge to fifth-rank! The fourth-rank questions were all big questions!

Is this a level of assessment?

However... some questions here are interesting...

Lu Xingzhou's fingers brushed over "Demon power penetrates blood, continuous decay, try to analyze the solution"; "Blood change, interferes with heart and lungs, try to analyze"; "Try to discuss the principle of blood birth"; "Try to analyze the feasibility of full-body blood exchange, and explain the reason."

These questions are scattered in different positions. At first glance, there is nothing special, just items for medical assessment. But if you look at them together, you will find that these questions have relevance and causality. Few people will set questions like this, and they are deliberately scattered.

Combining these questions with the information that the emperor has been hiding his injuries, one can roughly guess what the emperor's injury is.

Demon power penetrates blood cells, continuous interference, cannot be eradicated... From these questions, it can be seen that medical practitioners are already trying to exchange the emperor's blood.

But no one dares to take this risk, and the emperor himself doesn't dare.

Asking students such questions, they certainly won't get a solution, but young people have more active thinking, are not limited by established methods, and the outstanding ones have their own special inheritance, which might put forward some beneficial references.

This is a case of being sick and seeking medical advice from young students... It's also quite tragic.

Lu Xingzhou pondered for a moment, answered these questions first, and then turned to other questions.

In the main examination room, Gu Zhanting walked in slowly: "How is the situation?"

Everyone hurriedly stood up and saluted: "Everything is normal so far. The candidates have started to answer the questions."

Gu Zhanting's gaze fell on the "big screen" on the wall, which was divided into countless blocks, each showing the situation of different examination rooms.

Gu Zhanting recognized Lu Xingzhou from a group of candidates at a glance, and tut-tutted twice: "Why are others starting to write, but he is still looking at the paper?"

An examiner said: "Lu Xingzhou may be sharp in battle and sophisticated in handling things, but he may not have much advantage in alchemy and medicine. This person is so distracted, we even forgot that he is the candidate who came to participate in the assessment this year."

Gu Zhanting didn't pay attention to him, stared at the "screen" for a while, and saw Lu Xingzhou suddenly start to write.

Everyone quieted down and watched carefully, only to find that Lu Xingzhou was picking questions from different positions to answer.

Gu Zhanting looked at two or three questions, and his face changed slightly.

This person was actually picking the questions he set to answer! Which questions he set, even Meng Li didn't know!

Gu Zhanting took a deep breath: "Can this monitoring be more detailed? I want to see the specific content of Lu Xingzhou's answers."

Meng Li bowed: "This can't be done. Because if an examiner has seen someone's answer like this, they will know whose paper it is when grading later, which will lead to cheating. Therefore, the preset of the monitoring magic treasure cannot see the details of the answers."

Gu Zhanting nodded, knowing this was for fairness, and didn't force it. It was just that his gaze fell on Lu Xingzhou's room from beginning to end, and didn't move at all.

The amount of questions is very large, and there are several types of papers, which are meant for people to take the exam all day.

Lu Xingzhou wrote quickly, filling it up in just over an hour, and threw the pen: "A-Nuo, did you bring food?"