Chapter 191: Conferred

Su Luo didn't remember whether she finally agreed to Qin Huai's proposal or not. She only knew that she was very angry. What did he mean by a bad premonition? Was he a charlatan? It was obviously a simple matter, why did he always think about the worst possible outcome? She was even panicking from thinking about it.
Perhaps Qin Huai's worries were not unreasonable. He was in prison now and could do nothing. But Wan Yangui was silent. Wasn't that too strange? Just like when Qin Ji opened, he suddenly gave a big gift quietly. Was Qin Huai worried about this?
After coming out of the Dali Temple, Su Luo was absent-minded. Qin Qi pulled Su Luo's hand and said, "Aunt Su, I want to go home."
Su Luo laughed and pinched his cheek, "Now you know how to call me aunt again?"
Qin Qi lowered his head as if he had done something wrong, "The uncle just now said that you and my father are not married yet, so you can't call me mother." After saying that, he raised his head, "You will marry my father, right?"
This is another difficult question to answer, even Su Luo himself doesn’t know the answer.
"I'll take you home." Su Luo tapped his nose with her fingertips. "You've been out for several days. Your grandma must miss you."
Qin Qi followed Su Luo's steps and asked again after a while: "Will you be my mother?"
Qin Qi asked this question no less than seven or eight times along the way, which made Su Luo feel embarrassed. After sending Qin Qi home, she left the Qin Mansion in a hurry.
In fact, Su Luo had an important event in the past few days, which was to become sworn brothers with Emperor Wanli. The auspicious date calculated by the Imperial Astronomical Observatory was coming soon, and the Empress Dowager sent someone to urge Su Luo to move into the palace yesterday so that the ceremony could be held. But Su Luo didn't have the heart to do so now, but she couldn't refuse. She had no choice but to entrust the Qin family to Su Jiang and entered the palace with a nervous mood.
Any royal ceremony is very complicated. It is not like the ordinary ceremony of worshiping heaven and earth, burning yellow paper and saying a few lofty words. But because there was no precedent of the emperor swearing brotherhood, Su Luo and his family followed the process of adopting a child. Of course, the name and title were changed.
The sworn brotherhood was successful, and Su Luo's name was officially recorded in the imperial book. Wanli also gave Su Luo a great favor, allowing him to take his surname Zhu.
So the name on the jade book was changed to Zhu Luo, and she was given the title Princess Lai Yi.
This was a unanimous decision after discussion among the court officials. The emperor's sisters were generally called "eldest princesses" and the emperor's daughters were called "princesses". Su Luo was originally in the "eldest princesses" category, but because the title of eldest princess was too high, she had to be the blood of the previous emperor. What kind of person was Su Luo? So they voted unanimously to reject the title and reluctantly gave her the title of princess. And because "义" sounds the same as "义", it was meant to indicate that this princess was not a biological daughter, but a "righteous daughter".
So, these literati are so stingy. It's not like you adopted her as your sister, so why do you care so much?
In fact, Su Luo didn't care what title she was given. If others didn't know, didn't she know it herself? How much emotional factors were there in Wanli's willingness to accept her as his sister? Probably not even one percent. It was just because she was diligent in giving gifts, and Concubine Zheng and Princess Huairou helped to persuade her. Of course, it is not ruled out that he thought it was fun, which led to this. Others spent money to buy an official position, but Su Luo used money to buy a princess, and she also received an annual salary of 800 shi. She is now also eating public grain.
Wanli originally wanted to confer the title of a noble lady on Su, but before Su Luo could speak, Huairou helped to decline. The words were quite nice, to the effect that Su Luo had already received such , and it was not appropriate to confer too much honor on her mother. Wanli did not care about one more or one less noble lady, and the matter was left as it was. Su Luo was relieved for Su, because if Su was conferred the title of a noble lady, she would not be able to remarry in a low-key manner in the future.
Su Luo stayed in the palace for two days. On the third day, she could not wait to ask for permission to leave the palace. Wanli was very considerate and sent a princess-level guard of honor to see her off. Su Luo walked through the streets surrounded by the guard of honor, beating gongs and drums, and the people looked at her as if she were a rare animal. She felt stupid.
However, this guard of honor also has its advantages. At least it avoids the trouble of traffic jams in front of the Dali Temple where there are crowds of people. With green lights all the way to the Dali Temple gate, everyone consciously gives way.
Ninety-nine percent of the people gathered in front of the court were there to watch the fun, and the other one percent included Su Jiang, Madam Qin, Qin Qing and Liu Chengxuan... Oh, Liu Chengxuan was also there to watch the fun.
The officials who were going to hear the case had not arrived yet. In the hall, besides two rows of yamen runners standing straight, there was only Liu Chengxuan. He had managed to get a seat in the audience gallery. Su Luo peered outside the courtroom for a long time, wondering if he could go in and listen to the trial with his current status. Finally, Liu Chengxuan couldn't stand it anymore and came out to call Su Luo in.
It is called an audience seat, but in fact it is behind the yamen runner who shouts "mighty" in the court. Although the visibility is not very good, it is close and can hear clearly, which is much better than being crowded outside.
After waiting for a while, I heard the faint voice of humility coming from the back hall, coming closer and closer.
"Master Lin, please."
"Master Liu, please."
"Please come in, Mr. Zhuangyuan."
"Master Ning, please."
"Tanhua Zhou, please."
"Please come in, Wang Bangyan."
They had clearly heard the noise a long time ago, but it took them nearly 20 minutes to show up. They pushed and shoved each other when they were seated, and finally everyone was seated.
The top three are the presiding judges, and naturally they sit in the middle of the hall. Lord Lin, the Junior Judge of the Dali Temple, and Lord Liu, the Director of the Dali Temple, sit on the lower right seats, and Lord Ning, the Left Inspector of the Supervisory Yuan, sits on the left.
The three leaders were all wearing pure blue Jinshi crowns and robes, and wearing Jinshi hats with spread corners that were more than five inches long and supported on the ears like two rulers. There were hanging straps at both ends of the corners, which looked quite elegant. The only difference was that the second and third place winners had green leaves and flowers on their Jinshi hats, while the first place winner had silver flowers on his hat.
The number one scholar was a real "master", and he looked to be at least fifty if not sixty. Su Luo was really curious about what motivation could make a student spend his entire life just to get the number one position in this era when the average life expectancy was not very long? Even if he finally passed the exam and became the number one scholar, he would probably have passed away before he could be promoted.
In fact, Su Luo was making an arbitrary judgment. Cui Zhuangyuan was definitely not sixty or fifty years old. He was forty-nine years old. He only looked a little old because he spent a lot of energy on studying.
Wang Xinxiang, the runner-up, who sat on the other side of the champion, was much younger, about 27 or 28 years old, with droopy eyes and a long face, and was considered handsome. He was also born with a smart look, which made people think he was very smart at first glance. But Su Jiang said that people who look smart are actually not very smart, so I don't know what Wang Xinxiang, the runner-up, is like.
Finally it was Zhou Chongwen's turn. A living example told Su Luo that people need clothes, but the "dressing" should also be based on temperament. People like Liu Chengxuan are suitable for making themselves look like a butterfly, while people like Zhou Chongwen are already fair and handsome, and now they are wearing the clothes of a Jinshi scholar , and of course they may also be matched by the top scholar next to them. In comparison, Zhou Si is simply elegant and talented.
This was the first time Su Luo saw Zhou Chongwen after the results were announced. It was not that he did not want to see him, but they were all too busy. Su Luo was so busy that he did not go home all day, while Zhou Chongwen was busy dealing with people from all sides who came to congratulate him. When he got the third place in the imperial examination, all those aunts, uncles, and uncles who he did not know appeared one after another. One said that your father and I were from the same school, and that I had a friendship with Mr. Zhou. Now I am really relieved to see that my nephew is so successful at such a young age. There are too many examples like this to mention. I don’t know where these people went when Mr. Zhou was demoted and left Beijing.
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