Although the Royal Garden was luxurious, it couldn't compare to the flowers that were blooming all over the mountain. People were dancing under the trees. Young Langjuns dressed in red and green, with makeup and flowers on their hair, walked among them. They took their seats one by one. At a glance, they were even more beautiful than the blooming flowers.
Liu She wore a snow-green robe and a lacquered gauze crown. He held a Ruyi in his hand. He sat upright with a cold expression on his face.
He was already over 30 years old, but he didn't look any worse than those young men. He had a maturity and steadiness that they didn't have.
He looked coldly at the Langjuns who came together. Some were smiling, some were frowning, and some were nodding slightly at him. There were hundreds of different expressions, and all of them were romantic. Only the obscure fawning was the same. They were like peacocks spreading their feathers, and they couldn't wait to show off their most magnificent side.
Time passed and his eyes drifted. He seemed to have returned to decades ago, when he was one of those nobles.
However, he always remembered that he looked calm and composed at that time. He played the zither, talked about poems, and commented on calligraphy and paintings, but he was actually sweating profusely. It was as if his heart was being threatened by an invisible hand. If he was not careful, it would be squeezed tightly. He was anxious and panicked.
When the assessment was over, he went home in a panic and poured out his uneasiness and timidity to Ah Min. Ah Min stared at him with hidden bitterness.
To this day, he still remembered Ah Min's angry complaints.
"How pretentious, what kind of test is this?"
Liu She was confused.
"Chief Liu, all the Langjuns have taken their seats. We can begin."
While he was thinking, his colleague beside him carefully woke him up. Liu She opened his slightly tipsy eyes, as if he had just had a good sleep.
Looking at the nobles who were more beautiful than the scenery, Liu She smiled and said, "Let's start over there."
The assessment in Dongqing took place every three years.
The information about the "Family Background" in the top three categories had long been sent to Shangjing from other places.
Liu She arrived in Shangjing a little late. He had spent the past few days on this. He read through the information of all the candidates for the assessment and ranked them according to their family background, status, and identity in their families. He gave them the corresponding scores.
They were roughly categorized as [Superior], [Medium], and [Inferior].
Although there were only about a hundred people participating in the assessment, they were all carefully selected from all over Dongqing. Each of them had a strong family background and could not afford to offend any of them. If there was a huge dispute over the ranking, Liu She would have offended their backer.
As mentioned before, "Morality", "Appearance", and "Temperament" could be used to bribe the examiners. Liu She had received a lot of bribes and benefits in the past few days. Whether it was real money or antiques, those people's generosity had left Liu She speechless and widened his horizons.
No wonder everyone wanted to be a General Evaluation Officer. Even if they didn't start their business for three years, once they started their business, they would be able to make a living for thirty years.
[Ability], which was the ability to boast, had already been submitted to him.
Liu She had also seen all of them. Most of them were flashy and boastful.
Why did they say that it was flashy but without substance?
Take a chestnut for example. A person with a thin waist, who took Five Distilled Powder all day, which caused his skin to be too delicate. He could only wear soft old clothes and couldn't even take a shower. Yet, he could draw a bow that could kill two birds with one stone and fight two tigers alone. Wasn't that funny?
Oh, maybe it was the kind of tigress that sweated the silk clothes and knocked the jade pillow with a golden hairpin?
Liu She inadvertently became an experienced driver and drove a car in a artistic manner.
It was called an assessment, but it was more like a large-scale gathering with a purpose. All the Langjuns were showing off their talents.
Those who dared to show off their talents all had something up their sleeves.
Liu She had thought it was boring at first, but now he was more into it. The atmosphere was very harmonious.
As mentioned before, the assessment was more like a large-scale gathering of the royal family. Those who participated were not only the nobles, but also many important ministers and their families. The emperor, his concubines, princes, and concubines would all be there. Although there were many people, it didn't seem noisy.
Liu Xi didn't remember such a scene. How would Jiang Pengji, who was a future general, know how to deal with it?
Fortunately, as the legitimate son of the Feng family, Feng Jin had been through all kinds of big events since he was a child. He could still talk and smile with others with Jiang Pengji, who was a burden. He was like a butterfly flying through flowers. He greeted and talked to everyone he met and didn't forget to introduce Jiang Pengji to them.
They were all a group of wily old foxes. Even if they hadn't heard of Jiang Pengji before, they didn't dare to ignore her just because she was the son of Liu County Chief. Jiang Pengji followed Feng Jin and did know many people.
"Lanting, you don't like to talk to people?"
Feng Jin sat down in his seat according to his status. He tilted his head and asked her.
Jiang Pengji sighed and said, "No, I just feel that the circle of nobles is really messy."
Feng Jin was dumbfounded.
The circle of nobles was really messy?
He could recognize the four words separately, but he couldn't understand them when they were put together.
However, as smart as he was, he could figure it out just by looking at the literal meaning.
"Why do you say that?"
Feng Jin couldn't help but laugh. He was not prepared for Jiang Pengji's shocking words, so he moved closer to her and lowered his voice.
"Nowadays … men are actually so popular?"
Even if she came from the future world which was abnormally open, not everyone was gay.
However, after meeting so many people with Feng Jin, she sincerely suspected that she had entered a world of pornography.
She even had an illusion that she was probably the only straight man in the world.
Bah, she was a woman!
Feng Jin's snow-white skin was dyed a little red.
He said uncomfortably, "Can your eyes not look around?"
Jiang Pengji clicked her tongue. "Are you asking me to close my eyes and not look?"
When she saw the other party, her brain would automatically think and analyze. Could she be blamed for that?
It was a professional habit that she had developed over the years. It wasn't something that she could change even if she wanted to.
Feng Jin choked and had a strange expression on his face, but he still added in a low voice.
"The relationship in the court is messy. As long as it doesn't affect the continuation of the family line, it's very common to become brothers."
Many sworn brothers would even buy betrothal gifts for the other half so that the other half could get married and have children to continue the family line.
After all, there were three ways to be unfilial, and having no descendants was the worst.
Longyang's division of peaches was already against the family line. If one of them died because of this, how could he face his ancestors a hundred years later?
Jiang Pengji squinted her eyes, which made Feng Jin feel uneasy. There was always an indescribable feeling in his heart.
"I'm not interested in this kind of hobby. Lanting, you don't have to look at me like this. It's weird."
It was usually fine, but when Jiang Pengji stared at him seriously, Feng Jin always had the strange illusion that his whole body was being seen through.
Jiang Pengji giggled and said to him, "Huaiyu is upright and upright. Why are you afraid of me?"
"I'm not afraid. I just don't like it." Feng Jin said helplessly, "Sit properly. If others see you like this, they will most likely blame County Chief Liu for not raising you well."
Suddenly, he remembered something and reminded her, "Lanting, remember not to run around. The Royal Villa is not like your own home. Every move of yours is being watched. Don't talk and don't do anything. Just be quiet, okay? "
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