The emperor sneered: "If I wanted you to die, you would have died long ago! Even if everything is true, you came up with evidence and dragged two important ministers into the water. I think you are tired of living!"

Yan Po's trembling lips didn't know how to explain, but the emperor waved his hand, unwilling to listen to his nonsense anymore.

"You'd better explain the pile of things in that box, otherwise the damage to the exam papers will be minor or serious. You go back and change my clothes first. Let's see how elegant you are!"

"Yes, I will go back and change now." Yan Po respectfully exited the imperial study, wiped the fine sweat on his forehead, and breathed a long sigh of relief.

After Yan Po left, the emperor threw the brush in his hand to the ground.

"Send the order and put up notices all over the capital, asking the candidates to enter the palace for selection. I will personally assess them."

"Yes." Eunuch Cui responded and ordered the little eunuch beside him to do it.

"Also, let Zhiyao come into the palace." After the emperor said this, he closed his eyes and rubbed his sore forehead.

"Old slave obeys the order."

Not long after, Sheng Zhiyao entered the palace, accompanied by her big dog, but this time the big dog was carrying someone on its back.

The atmosphere in the imperial study was extremely oppressive, and the emperor sat in silence on his chair.

Sheng Zhiyao stood, waiting for the emperor's admonishment.

After a long time, the emperor finally opened his eyes and looked at Sheng Zhiyao, who had been lowering his head.

"Do you know you are wrong?" the emperor asked coldly.

Sheng Zhiyao froze.

She raised her head and looked at the emperor. This was the first time she saw the emperor angry with her.

The emperor's expression was very calm, but she felt that he seemed to be suppressing raging anger.

She gritted her teeth and insisted: "It's wrong, but I have no choice but to do it."

The emperor frowned: "Is there any compelling reason for you to do this?"

"Grandpa Huang, King Wu sent someone to injure my eldest brother's hand before the imperial examination, causing his arm bones to break. I managed to cure him on the day of the examination. And because King Wu sent someone to replace my eldest brother's answer sheet, Yan Po wanted to kill someone.

Silence, I was afraid that my eldest brother would not be able to become the number one scholar, so I asked the two little snakes around me to scare Master Yan, and before he entered the palace, I burned the answer sheets in the box."

After she finished speaking, the emperor began to think seriously.

"What's going on in Licheng?" the emperor asked.

"Licheng had a grudge against Yanpo. At that time, Licheng was very good at running the army. However, he was suppressed by Yanpo because he had no background. Then, the child of a distant relative of Yanpo stood up for the quota, so Licheng was sent.

Yuan Chen’s military camp is full of unwanted people, but it’s a blessing in disguise that there are no idlers, let alone rats.”

The emperor sighed: "Where are those answer sheets? Were they really burned?"

"Well, yes." Sheng Zhiyao whispered, her voice gradually getting smaller.

"Well, with so many things happening, why don't you come and tell me?"

"Grandpa Huang is so busy, how can I bother you with everything?"

"You are my grandson-in-law, who cares about your affairs?" The emperor scolded, "Besides, I am really busy."

Sheng Zhiyao pursed her lips after hearing this: "Well, Grandpa Huang, I originally planned to burn your study room, but then Yuan Chen stopped me, so I wanted to burn the box."

"What?" The emperor suddenly became furious, "You actually want to burn down my imperial study room!"

"Yes...I'm sorry, Grandpa Huang. I, I was just angry for a moment and didn't think it through carefully, but I will definitely pay attention next time."

The emperor stared at her and was so angry that he could not speak for a long time.

After a long time, he said: "You are really bold. Next time, are you going to burn down the entire palace to Grandpa Huang?"

"Grandpa Huang, it won't happen!" Sheng Zhiyao assured quickly.

"Hmph, you dare to talk back!" The emperor shouted angrily, "You should go back to the palace immediately, reflect on it, confine yourself to the palace, and wake up the person you brought."

Sheng Zhiyao was stunned and said unwillingly: "Grandpa Huang, I don't want to be grounded."

The emperor sneered: "You still

Dare to bargain!"

"Don't dare."

"Why don't you go back quickly? Are you waiting for Grandpa Huang to invite you back?"

"Oh." Sheng Zhiyao curled her lips and walked away unconvinced.

The emperor looked at her leaving back with a faint light in his eyes. After a long time, he suddenly showed a faint smile and murmured: "Sure enough, the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and it is better to be better than someone who is ahead of others!"

"Your Majesty." Eunuch Cui saw that the emperor's face softened a little and he hurriedly stepped forward to serve him. "The princess doesn't have any bad intentions. She just doesn't want to be wronged."

"I know that she has no bad intentions." The emperor said slowly, "I believe that she was just impulsive about this matter, but it is not necessarily a bad thing. It's just that she wants to burn down my imperial study, so I can't beat her.

,What if one day she really gets burned by me?"

"Then your Majesty is right to punish her." Eunuch Cui said with a smile.

"Well, she is my family member after all, and I will always protect her."

"Your Majesty is Holy Ming."

"There is no need to talk about this matter for now." The emperor waved his hand and asked, "Let's interrogate this person carefully."

Eunuch Cui nodded: "Yes."

Sheng Zhiyao returned to Sheng's house. As soon as she entered the door, she saw Mei'er guarding the yard and Sheng Zhengye standing on the steps waiting for her.

"Father." Sheng Zhiyao called out.

When Sheng Zhengye saw her, he asked, "Where have you been? Your mother looked for you several times, but you didn't say anything."

Sheng Zhiyao lied without changing her expression: "I went to the palace."

Sheng Zhengye frowned: "What are you doing in the palace? Aren't you supposed to be helping your elder brother take a medicinal bath?"

"Well, I'm going to see Grandpa Huang today."

"Are you in trouble again? How could Grandpa Huang let you go find him?" Sheng Zhengye's eyes widened.

Sheng Zhiyao stuck out her tongue: "Grandpa Huang asked me to reflect on it."

Sheng Zhengye was relieved after hearing this, and sighed: "Zhiyao, what mistake have you made? Your grandpa even asked you to reflect on it."

"Uh, father, I told you not to scold me."

"Well, just say it."

"Actually, it's nothing serious. I just burned the test papers of the candidates in Gongyuan." Sheng Zhiyao lowered her eyelids, looking like she had done something wrong.

"What? Sheng Zhiyao, what did you say?" Sheng Zhengye exclaimed.

"I said, I just burned the test papers of the Gongyuan candidates." Sheng Zhiyao raised her eyes and repeated seriously, "Because I was so angry that I lost my mind and burned the test papers."

"Nonsense!" Sheng Zhengye was furious and wanted to slap his idiot daughter to death. "Are you crazy? Where is Gongyuan and you actually went to burn test papers?"
Chapter completed!