Chapter 159

Facing the Imperial Palace guards in front of him, Xu Que called himself "Zha Tian Bang Hua Wuque"!

If he didn't want to expose his identity so quickly, he would just need to throw out a son-in-law token, and this guard would definitely be scared out of his wits on the spot.

However, even if the guard just heard Xu Que mention the three words "Zha Tian Bang," his expression was already somewhat moved.

As an Imperial Palace guard, the news must be very well-informed. Yesterday, Zha Tian Bang Li Bai was in the limelight in the Imperial City, there was no reason for the guard not to know.

However, with the Imperial Palace ban in place, the guard naturally couldn't make an exception for Xu Que.

Immediately, the guard's expression softened slightly, and he said to Xu Que in a low voice: "Fellow Daoist, please go back! The Fire Emperor has an order, before the trial grounds are set up tomorrow, the whole palace is closed. No matter who comes, they are not allowed to pass, even Princess Yan Yang is not allowed to leave the palace!"

"Trial grounds?" Xu Que was stunned.

Setting up trial grounds in the Imperial Palace at this time, could it be for use tomorrow when recruiting the son-in-law?

Yo, I accidentally found a favorable piece of information!

He narrowed his eyes slightly and smiled indifferently: "So that's how it is, the trial grounds must be extraordinary, right? Actually not even allowing the princess to leave the palace?"

"Doesn't the guest know yet? Yesterday the Fire Emperor already issued an imperial edict. The trial grounds have three stages, the first is a literary test, the second is a martial test, and the third is a palace test. But the content of the palace test requires drawing lots, which is considered to be testing luck. Drawing a simple one is naturally passed smoothly, but there is one palace test content that is too powerful, so the trial grounds were set up!" the guard explained.

Xu Que was stunned. So setting up the trial grounds was just to avoid damaging the Imperial Palace? That's boring, I thought it would be some earth-shattering trial content!

Forget it, not in a hurry for this day, tomorrow I will come personally and blow up the Imperial Palace!

My Great Zha Tian Bang dares to blow up even the sky, can't I blow up your mere broken Imperial Palace? Just wait, you dog emperor!

Xu Que smiled indifferently, bowed to the guard, and turned to leave.

Returning to the inn, the outside of the inn was already packed, clearly many people had received the news and came here one after another to find the great talent Li Bai of the Zha Tian Bang who was famous in the Capital!

And the innkeeper was also happy, promoting everywhere that the great talent Li Bai was staying in their inn, so in less than half an hour, the whole inn was overcrowded.

When Xu Que returned, he had taken off his hood and forgot to put it back on.

As soon as he appeared, a swarm of people rushed up, and there was even a pile of mature ladies and young girls waving silk scarves and throwing them at him...

"Young Master Li, please stay, this concubine traveled over mountains and rivers through several streets just to see Young Master Li!"

"Stained with Young Master Li's talent, when I write articles and poems, I will definitely be full of talent..."

……

Xu Que, who had finally escaped from the crowd, had lingering fears. He never expected that he would be so popular.

Especially the salty pig hands of several aunties just now, which almost scared him to pee. He hurriedly put on his black robe to hide his figure and escaped from the crazy crowd.

But that group of people was still chasing crazily. Xu Que stood outside the crowd, shaking his head speechlessly.

This is almost becoming a fan meeting!

You brainless fans, chasing over with such great momentum, how can people act cool?

Can't you let people act cool properly? Ah ah ah ah!

Shaking his head, Xu Que sighed in his heart, turned and walked away, hurriedly changed to another inn to stay, and never dared to reveal his Li Bai identity casually again.

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The next morning, the sky was slightly bright, and Xu Que rushed to the Imperial Palace!

Royal recruitment, princess recruiting a son-in-law, this is a big deal.

Although Xu Que had tried his best to get up early, there was already a sea of people outside the Imperial Palace. Besides some cultivators who came to sign up, there were countless commoners who came to watch!

The queue was already very long, and it seemed to be moving too slowly. Even if Xu Que followed at the very end now, waiting to queue to enter, I'm afraid he would have to wait until noon.

"Damn! Why are you all queuing so early? In a hurry to reincarnate?"

Xu Que couldn't help but complain in his heart, and then peeked around, and saw several young masters and scholars who had mocked him at Lady Ya's banquet, who were also late, but were walking swaggeringly toward the front of the queue.

After poking his head to look, Xu Que discovered that these young masters and scholars had their own bookboys queuing for them, so they could sleep in, and then rush over to swap with the bookboys.

"Shameless! This is bullying me for not having a bookboy?"

Stomping his feet, Xu Que followed directly behind those young masters, and when they swapped positions with the bookboys, he was quick-eyed and fast-footed, and immediately cut to the very front.

However, no matter how fast Xu Que was, he was still discovered by the two scholars at the very front, who immediately pointed and blamed: "Hey! You in front, who are you?"

"Me? You ask who I am? I am me! That goes without saying, are you stupid?" Xu Que smiled slightly and pretended to be stupid.

Hearing this, the young master became even angrier, pointed at Xu Que and gave a big blame: "Unreasonable! Everyone is queuing, why are you cutting the line? Who exactly are you..."

"Because I have no quality!"

Xu Que smiled and said as a matter of course.

"You..."

The young masters were speechless instantly. That's right, they wanted to blame this guy for having no quality, but now it's better, this guy admitted it himself and said it generously.

This... this is completely not playing according to the routine!

"Guards! Guards... this bastard cut the line, hurry up and kick him out!"

Several young masters who were angered by Xu Que immediately waved their hands to call the guards.

However, coincidentally, the guard who came was the one Xu Que met when he came to inquire about information yesterday.

He also had a deep impression of this black-robed man of the Zha Tian Bang, and was afraid of offending the "Zha Tian Bang," and it was just a few scholars making trouble, so he immediately stepped forward and scolded the scholars: "What are you shouting about! Who cut the line? Why didn't I see it?"

"You..." Several young masters saw that even this guard was shielding Xu Que, and were so angry that they stared, helpless.

And this guard also wanted to turn a blind eye like this, and just perfunctorily helped Xu Que finish the matter.

After scolding the few scholars, he was about to turn and leave.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Xu Que raised his hand himself and shouted to the guard: "Comrade! Here! Here! The person who cut the line is me..."

Guard: "..."