hotmtlnovel Chapter 236 Everyone wants me to rebel, but I just want to live longer
Chapter 236 Everyone wants me to rebel, but I just want to live longer
Sheng Yiren was quickly convinced, and before leaving, she warned Xie Chengze, "Your Highness, I don't know when I will be able to return after this farewell. Although I know you have no ambitions, you must leave yourself a way to save your life anyway."
A means of saving life?
Xie Chengze couldn't help but gently brush the tassel earring on his earlobe and nodded.
By the way, he seemed to have forgotten to ask Shen Yuan whether the poison in the earrings had an expiration date.
Will the toxicity of expired poison increase or decrease?
While I was thinking about this question, the day of the Spring Examination finally arrived.
Thousands of candidates poured into the examination hall. Xie Chengze brought Zhu Xiaobiao to watch the ceremony. Jing Ze, Bian Yangchun and others looked at them from a distance, bowed to Xie Chengze, and followed them into the examination room.
After the examination hall is closed, the imperial examination will last for seven days. Except for the invigilators, no one is allowed to enter.
The martial arts examination was quite lively, as it was a semi-open examination room so even common people could watch from the outside. On the stage were the martial artists who had come to take part in the examination, dancing with swords or knives. Xie Chengze soon spotted two familiar figures.
"Uncle-master?! You are here to take part in the martial arts exam too?" Xie Chengze's eyes widened. He never expected that the eldest and second in command would appear here.
"Yes." The big boss couldn't help but smile heartily when he saw Xie Chengze, and ruffled his hair. "I originally wanted to give you, my nephew, a surprise by winning the title of martial arts champion, but I didn't expect you to come to watch the competition."
"Are you planning to enter the palace and become officials?" Xie Chengze was very surprised. When he was in Liaozhou, he had never heard the two of them mention this plan. "When did you decide?"
"Ahem, this..." The first boss coughed twice, but the second boss beside him couldn't hide the truth at all, and said with a teasing look, "It was Shen Yuan who said that you were alone in the palace and had no one to rely on, so he asked us to support you."
Xie Chengze was stunned for a moment.
"Although the eldest prince treats you very well, it is better to hold the military power in your own hands." The eldest head lowered his head and muttered softly, "Master, you have figured it out. You are the only child of my sister. You are alone in the palace without anyone to rely on. If you die one day, I will not be able to explain to your mother in my grave!"
Xie Chengze: "...Thank you, Uncle Master, you are so kind."
"Don't worry, in the next few days, your uncle will carefully select some good candidates for you from these candidates." The eldest boss said proudly, "Apart from other things, the most refined skill that your uncle learned from the master is this bone reading. Who has the best bones and is suitable for martial arts training, your uncle knows it very well, and then he will definitely train a team of invincible elite soldiers for you. If you want to rebel one day, uh-"
The rest of the words were covered by Xie Chengze's small hand.
Xie Chengze felt a little ashamed. He didn't understand why he was surrounded by rebels?
Is this the unique magnetism of being a villain? Even if he is righteous enough to be evil, he will still attract rebels?
Seven days passed in a flash, and the winner of the martial arts examination had been decided. The eldest and second in command won the first and second place respectively. What surprised Xie Chengze was that Gu Ying, who looked thin and young, actually won the third place in the martial arts competition.
In other words, if the first and second in command had not come to participate in the martial arts examination, Gu Ying might have been the top martial arts champion this year.
But in the book, the martial arts champion was the fourth place winner who slightly lost to Gu Ying in the competition. This person was later secretly recruited by the prince, and the name Gu Ying was not mentioned in the text.
Where did Gu Ying in the original book go?
Xie Chengze didn't know.
The examination hall also concluded the examination as usual. Xie Chengze had no idea what had happened in the hall, but he believed that with Shen Yuan as the invigilator, there would be no accidents and no unfairness in the examination.
Originally he wanted to help, but Shen Yuan said that this kind of thing that would easily make people hate him should be left to him.
Xie Chengze did not force it. He was used to Shen Yuan doing these things. Although at the beginning, he was scheming and holding a grudge and let Shen Yuan act as a shield for him, but he didn't know since when Shen Yuan began to take the initiative to act as a shield, so that when the ministers in the court wanted to deal with him, the first thing they thought of was to get rid of Shen Yuan.
For some reason, I had a sense of déjà vu that "If you want to kill Xie Chengze, you have to step over my, Shen Yuan's, body first."
Thinking of this, Xie Chengze couldn't help but quicken his pace, preparing to go to the examination institute to pick up Shen Yuan who was off work from invigilating and grading papers.
The civil officials who were marking the papers were the first to leave their duties. When they saw Xie Chengze coming to pick them up, they stopped to greet him. Xie Chengze nodded and walked past them towards the back door of the examination hall.
Shen Yuan came out of the back door for officials to enter and exit, and saw Xie Chengze peeking out. He couldn't help but smile and walked over.
"How is it?" Xie Chengze asked curiously, "Are you like in your previous life, grabbing the cheating examiner in a particularly majestic manner and shouting to replace him directly?"
"What kind of words are you using?" Shen Yuan was a little amused, wondering if Xie Chengze had slipped through the net of the royal family's education. He shook his head and said, "I'm sorry to disappoint Your Highness. This time, I've been much more low-key. I just knocked on the table to warn you."
Xie Chengze circled around him twice, then nodded seriously, "Well, you have grown up after all."
Being too sharp is not a good thing. In the book, Shen Yuan at this time still acted recklessly like a young man who had just graduated. He did not give any face to the bribed civil officials. As a result, many civil officials were resentful of him, which caused him a lot of trouble later.
Today, Niuhulu Shen Yuan is obviously much more stable and has learned how to balance the justice in his heart with the gray "etiquette" of officialdom.
"Oh, by the way, did you know? Gu Ying actually won the third place in the martial arts competition! And the original champion actually lost to him by one move!" Xie Chengze chirped, "But why didn't I hear the name of Gu Ying in my previous life? Do you know?"
Shen Yuan slowed down his pace, his eyes swept across the gradually setting sun, fell on the young man's face full of doubt and curiosity, and shook his head, "I don't know."
He only knew that the county town where Gu Ying's family lived in his previous life was in the area where the plague broke out.
Gu Ying is a man of inner strength and martial arts, and he is strong and healthy. If he had left the plague area earlier, he might have been able to save his life.
However, if the flood problem in Yizhou had not been announced to the world, and if Bian Yangchun and others had not sought refuge in Gu Ying's home halfway, would Gu Ying still have left the Gu family?
Nobody knows.
He only knew that in this life, the epidemic prevention measures proposed by Xie Chengze were very effective, the plague did not break out, and was brought under control in time.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but raise his hand and rub Xie Chengze's head.
During the seven days he was invigilating at the examination institute, he had a rare chance to relax, and during these days when he suddenly had free time, he often thought of Xie Chengze.
Thinking of his exhausted look as he stayed up all night studying floods, thinking of his red face as he supervised the making of ice sculptures in the cold wind, thinking of him sitting beside the dragon throne and seriously handling court affairs, I lost my mind without realizing it. Something was growing rapidly in my heart, breaking his so-called principles bit by bit like water dripping through a stone.
Inevitably, he compared himself with the increasingly moody Crown Prince in the East Palace. Even though he knew who was more suitable to sit on the throne, he still felt a little partial.
Suitable does not mean certain.
It's just more suitable.
It would be great if Xie Chengze was the descendant of Emperor Jian.
He thought so.
"What's wrong?" Xie Chengze looked up at him.
Shen Yuan stared at the young man for a long time, then opened his mouth slightly, with a desperate tone, "Do you really... not want to be the emperor?"
Xie Chengze: ...
It’s over. Could it be that he really has some villain aura?
Or is it some kind of magical plot advancement? Does he have to be the villain?
"Shen Yuan! Wake up!" Xie Chengze held his cheeks and shook them vigorously, trying to shake the water out of his head. "There is no future in being an emperor! It's easy to die suddenly!"
He didn't even know, since Shen Yuan was reborn, why did they pull him, a person from another world, here? If he was pulled here by the soul incense, then could he still return to the modern era?
For Shen Yuan, it is past life and present life, but for him, this is the world in the book. If the plot reaches the end, will he, Xie Chengze, continue to live or die?
Xie Chengze didn't know, so instead of sitting on the throne and working hard as an emperor all his life, he would rather travel around and see the beautiful scenery of Jian'an.
Shen Yuan laughed and ruffled his hair again, "That's right, I hope you live a long life."
"Of course." Xie Chengze nodded seriously, "I only lived a few years in my last life, cough cough cough. Anyway, I want to live a hundred years in this life!"
But, living a long life is not that easy in this era.
And the temperament of some people has already determined where their ending will go.
A month later, the palace examination finally came.