Poor Lady

Since she attended Miss Sima Luo's banquet a few days ago, Luo Yanyi had no energy to plot against Qi Surong for the time being because her face was suddenly covered with red beans. There is also good news from Gu Jinyun. Qu Niang has agreed to join the Gu family's textile workshop, and the use and operation of the new textile machine will start soon.

Qi Surong was happy and leisurely, while at home devote himself to embroidering and playing the piano, while waiting quietly for the arrival of Tongsheng's test.

The Tongsheng exam lasts for two days. It mainly focuses on the basic knowledge of students. As long as they are familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, and have some knowledge of poetry and parallel sentences, it should not be difficult to obtain the qualification of Tongsheng.

On the day of the Tongsheng test, Qi Surong personally sent Subao to the Young Academy.

The location of the Tongsheng examination in the capital is located in Youxianyuan, and the examination is in Gongyuan. The test time is half a month later than the Tongsheng test. All of Xu Chen's students (except Qi Surong) will participate, and it will be a lively scene when talented people from all over the world gather. Relatively speaking, the Tongsheng Exam is much more low-key. After all, it is only the minimum threshold for all students to enter the official career. Most of the reference people are teenagers between the ages of seven and fifteen.

Outside the Youxian Hospital, the carriages flow like a stream. Qi Surong parked the carriage beside an inn and said to Su Bao, "Is everything ready? Check again."

Su Bao opened his box and counted the items inside, such as pen, ink, paper, inkstone, cakes, tea, pills and so on. The Tongsheng exam lasted for two days, and he was not allowed to leave the hospital until the next day.

"I'll let Xiao Ion guard outside, and I'll pick you up tomorrow." Qi Surong arranged Subao's things.

"Well, sister don't have to worry, Su Bao is fine." Su Bao cheered for himself and smiled.

"Okay, my sister will wait for your good news."

Subao took Xiaoion out of the carriage, and Qi Surong watched them walk towards Youxian Yuan through the car window.

Walking to the door, Su Bao took out his nameplate and Xu Chen's recommendation letter. The doorkeeper looked at it and let the person in with a cold expression.

Qi Surong finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Su Bao successfully entered the venue from a distance.

The carriage was driving slowly on the street, and when it passed a secluded fork in the road, the carriage stopped suddenly, causing Qi Surong to feel dizzy.

"What's wrong?" Ping'er asked nervously.

After the last experience, she was really afraid that something unexpected would happen this time.

"Sorry, miss, just now a beggar suddenly rushed into the road and was almost hit by a carriage." The driver's voice came from outside the car.

Qi Surong lifted the curtain of the car, and she saw a beggar fell to the ground not far away. She looked familiar. She was moved and said, "Lu Xian, call him here, I want to ask if he is injured?"

"This is not good?" Lu Xian hesitated.

"It's okay, you just ask him to come over."

Lu Xian then took the order, staring at the beggar with vigilance, for fear that he would suddenly burst out.

When he approached, Qi Surong determined through the gap in the car curtain that the beggar in front of him was indeed the leader of the digital group - Du Ya. Qi Surong was not surprised that Du Ya knew that Zhuo Fan was Miss Qi's family. When she asked the group of beggars to do business, he probably checked his identity.

She asked, "Are there any injuries?"

Du Ya covered his shoulders and said in pain, "The collarbone seems to be broken."

"Then I'll take you to see the doctor."

"You don't have to bother Miss, you can give me some money and I can see it myself."

"Okay, Ping'er, give him five taels of silver."

"Miss, this beggar is obviously a liar!" Ping'er whispered.

"It's nothing, it's only about five taels." Qi Surong smiled indifferently.

Ping'er pouted, lifted the curtain of the car, and handed him fifty taels of silver.

Du Ya took the silver, showing his white teeth, bowed and said, "Thank you, Miss, you are really kind."

"Okay, let's go!" Lu Xian shouted coldly.

"Yes, the villain will leave immediately." Du Ya bowed and stepped back, then turned around and ran away.

"Look, miss, he really is a liar." Ping'er said indignantly.

Qi Surong didn't speak, and looked straight at Ping'er's sleeve, where a flat cloth bag appeared at some point.

Back at Qi's house, Qi Surong immediately opened the cloth bag, which contained a sealed letter. There was also a note on the letter, which read: Yesterday, Lupe returned home with his family. Going down the cliff, this letter is from the package, not sealed or of any use to you.

Lupe was killed? Qi Surong felt her heart tighten.

The Digital Corps has been secretly monitoring the people on Qi Surong's list, that is, those who were convicted and demoted by the emperor and who may have secret letters, so it is not surprising that Du Ya was able to grab the package when Lupe was killed.

So, could this letter be the secret letter she has been looking for?

Qi Surong's pupils shrank, and her breathing became a little uncomfortable. She picked up the envelope and looked carefully at the seal. After a while, she took out a hairpin and carefully scratched the seal on the seal.

The envelope contained a neatly folded piece of yellow silk. Yellow is the special color of the royal family, and ordinary people would never dare to use it. Unfolding the yellow silk, the content on it made Qi Surong's fingers tremble.

This is not a secret letter, but a secret decree of the late emperor! The two seals at the end (one is the imperial seal and the other is the imperial seal) are impressive.

It turned out that the first emperor intended to be located in the ninth prince, but the ninth prince was still young at that time, and his position was unstable. On the contrary, the third prince was also the current saint, with huge power, colluding with foreign relatives, and being aggressive. The first emperor was worried that if it was passed down to the ninth prince, he might be persecuted by the third prince, so he passed down a secret edict, hid it in the treasures, and gave them to several close ministers, so that they could secretly assist and protect the ninth prince until he grew up. When he became an adult, he made a secret decree to help him ascend to the throne.

The late emperor's move was quite secret, but he didn't know who had leaked it. Today's sage knows the existence of the secret decree, but he doesn't know who the late emperor's intended successor is. So, thinking that he would rather kill him by mistake, he will clear the doors one by one after he ascends the throne. More than a dozen princes were killed and chased after each other, and none of the suspected ministers escaped the end of banishment.

His heart is not cruel. There are only the fourth prince, the seventh prince, the eighth prince and the ninth prince who are still alive. Among the four princes, only the eighth prince remained in the capital because he and the emperor were born of the same mother, while the other three princes were sent to the frontiers.

However, Qi Surong guessed that the emperor would soon call them back and find an opportunity to cut the weeds. He may have attacked them ruthlessly before, but in the wilderness, the emperor is far away, and his actions have probably failed.

Qi Surong stared at the secret letter for a while, thinking about what to do with the letter. When she learned that the Qi family might also have the secret decree, she did not rush to get it, because retrieving the secret decree would only bring danger to the Qi family. At least until the Ninth Prince has not returned to Beijing, this secret decree has all harm and no benefit.

What a hot potato! Although it solved her many doubts, it also brought her a lot of troubles. Impossible to destroy, inappropriate to hide.

Now that the holder of this decree is dead, it would be great if it could be entrusted to another person. The secret decree has no owner, whoever holds it can become the help of the Ninth Prince, and everyone on her list can be considered.

Wait, why did she have to hand over the secret edict to the person who helped the ninth prince?

"I might be able to..." A bold plan suddenly formed in Qi Surong's mind, "Do the opposite!"

Qi Surong touched the piece of Huang Chou, his fingers swiped across the handwriting, and finally landed on the word "nine".

If the word "nine" is changed to "eight"...

In the last life, half of the disasters of the Gu family were due to this Eighth Prince. He is the minion of today's sage, arrogant and domineering. Relying on holy favor, he is rampant, and his methods are vicious, leaving no room for him.

The emperor trusts him very much, but if he learns that the late emperor intends to succeed him, how long can this trust be maintained? Everything the Eighth Prince has done for him will become suspicious, and the appearance of being loyal to him will become an illusion to hide himself.

Qi Surong's eyes lit up and she made up her mind.

However, it is not easy to confuse the real with the fake. First of all, the yellow thick used in this seal cannot be changed, and the seal on it is even more important.

The only thing she can change is words. Just changing a "nine" character, it is easy to see the flaws, if she wants to change, she has to replace all the handwriting on it.

It is hard to imitate the handwriting of the previous emperor, but the real difficulty is how to completely clean up the original handwriting.

Qi Surong picked up the pen and copied the words on the secret letter stroke by stroke. He copied hundreds of copies in total, comparing word by word, and only stopped copying after confirming that each stroke was indistinguishable.

Before she knew it, it was getting late, and the voice of Ping'er calling for her to eat came from outside the door.

Qi Surong packed up these copy papers and secret letters and hid them in a secret place.

After dinner, Qi Surong instructed: "Ping'er, ask someone to buy me some milk tomorrow."

"Milk?" Ping'er teased, "Is Miss greedy?"

"Yeah, Miss, I'm greedy." Qi Surong nodded her forehead, "Remember, the sooner you make an appointment, I'll remember to use it."

"Yes, I must help Miss to do it." Ping'er replied very forcefully.

In the last life, when Qi Surong was with the master, she took over the laundry and cooking staff. Even if her fingers were not flexible, the master did not ask her to work less. Cooking is not a big problem, but when washing, because her fingers are weak, the clothes are always not clean, so the master taught her several soaking methods, soaking clothes with some common materials, can quickly faint the stains, and finally The clothes can be washed clean with a light rubbing.

The master said: "Things are dead, and people are alive. When manpower is not available in time, external objects can be used to help."

Qi Surong had to thank her master again, his old man. What he taught has now become an important basis for her to settle down and reverse the situation.