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In the Prince Mu’s Palace, Fourth Prince Zhao Jinghao smirked and winked at Mu Junhan, "Junhan, I didn't think you would be so attentive towards that big miss of Prince An's Palace. You even specially sent me to the emperor's grandmother's place to get some extremely good ointment.

The hand Mu Junhan used to hold Hei Zi paused for a moment, then returned to normal after a moment. He casually placed a piece on the board and said, "She is my fiancee in the first place.

You have such a weird personality. In the past, you would have wanted to avoid those girls that pounced on you, but now you would be able to please those girls. This is not a normal thing.

Zhao Jinghao cursed in his heart. On the surface, he still had the appearance of a gentle young master of a noble family, "This means that Royal Father's marriage will help you."

He paused for a moment, then retracted his playful expression. There was a serious look on his face, "Now that the other princes's power is increasing, and the Royal Father has pointed out the marriage between Prince Mu’s Palace, I'm afraid they will have to test your two families. Be careful, don't be caught red-handed."

Mu Junhan lifted his lips and laughed, the color in his phoenix eyes seemed to contain millions of stars, his peerlessly beautiful face would make people feel ashamed.

"The Emperor wholeheartedly wanted to weaken the other princes's power. Not only did he openly and secretly suppress the other princes, he also supported Lu Tianya as the military horse General Da. His goal was to control the military power in his own hands and prevent the other princes from rebelling someday, and he had the ability to respond as well."

"Only you dare to say such words." Zhao Jinghao sighed. Within the court, who didn't understand the Royal Father's thoughts? However, the other princes had existed since the time of the Ancestor, and had grown along with the development of the royal family.

If it really was the time for the royal family and the other princes to face each other, then the whole world would be in chaos.

It was a pity that he was only an inconsequential prince. At the very most, he would be conferred the title of a idle prince by the Royal Father and be allowed to retire to his own territory to his grave. He simply could not interfere in the affairs of the court.

Mu Junhan glanced at him, his face carried a smile that was not a smile, "I only dare to say a few words, Fourth Prince should have some other thoughts in his heart."

To a prince, what else could it be?

After seeing that there was no one around, he was finally able to relax, "This prince is mediocre and useless, I am only waiting for Royal Father to bestow me with a free prince one day, allowing me to spend my life in the mountains and rivers. I do not dare to have any other thoughts."

The two of them had grown up together, Mu Junhan naturally understood whether Zhao Jinghao had that kind of mindset or not.

Seeing that Zhao Jinghao didn't admit it, he didn't take it to heart, "This place is surrounded by my people, no one else will hear it."

Mu Junhan said this with confidence. Zhao Jinghao's white piece fell and fought with Hei Zi, "I heard that Princess Mu was unconscious a few days ago. What happened?"

"When I thought about how my mother's concubine was almost killed by someone, Mu Junhan's expression turned cold." Women in the western courtyard are restless.

The woman in the west yard was the concubine of the Prince Mu. When the Prince Mu was drunk, she climbed onto the Prince's bed and gave birth to a bastard.

Initially, Prince Mu wanted her to let the child go, but the woman was very scheming, and using Princess Mu's soft-heartedness, she took the opportunity to run over to Princess Mu's side, begging her to give birth to the child. In the Palace, she was considered as half a master.

Zhao Jinghao more or less heard about this matter, but when he heard this, he couldn't help but become somewhat angry, "Back then, it was because of the kindness of the wangfei that she was able to give birth to her child. It's one thing if she doesn't know gratitude, but she actually dares to poison and kill the wangfei. What do you do with that woman? "

"There is no conclusive evidence in this matter, so I did not say anything. I only warned my mother to be careful." That day, Mu Junhan had someone investigate Fang Qing and found out that it was through that woman from the western courtyard that Fang Qing had managed to enter Prince Mu’s Palace.

Princess Mu was too kind and too soft-hearted, thus she was bullied by a maid who crawled out of the bed.

He did not know how the Princess Mu could give birth to such a eccentric and ruthless person like Mu Junhan with his kind personality.

Zhao Jinghao nodded his head and his gaze fell on the chess board. He saw that the white man had been killed to the point that he was utterly defeated.

"Your chess skills are still so good." He sighed, seeing that the sky was getting dark, he bid farewell to Mu Junhan, "Tomorrow is the Jingdu Academy examination. If I were to meet you at chess, you would have to be lenient."

Mu Junhan laughed but did not say a word as he sent Zhao Jinghao off with his Prince Mu’s Palace.

The Jingdu Academy Assessment was simple, but hard.

For the juniors from influential families, they had all learned the Six Arts of the assessment from private schools. Even if they failed, they would still pass.

However, for those commoner disciples, it was already difficult for them to read the Four Books and Five Classics. How could they have the spare money to learn such flashy things?

The teachers of the academy did not care whether these students had studied in the past or not. They only followed the instructions and went through the examinations one by one.

"Raising the country's sons into the Dao is one of the six ways of teaching: one day for the five gifts, two days for the six pleasures, three days for the five shots, four days for the five strikes, five days for the six books, six days for nine days." "However, as the saying goes, there is an expert in the art of martial arts. The Emperor ordered the establishment of Jingdu Academy in order to cultivate more and more resources for our Great Zhou. Now that you have gained some understanding of the academy, you need to carry out this assessment so that you can learn more."

The students who were seated, who cared about these official words of theirs, were all nervous and excited because of the upcoming assessment.

An Lingyi was seated right beside An Lingge, and upon hearing about Huang Yi, her eyes flashed with a light, which was quickly hidden by her lowered eyes.

Seeing An Lingge mounted the horse, she gave a look to the people at the side, and the corners of her mouth raised into a pleased smile.

The horses that the girls used for the test were naturally inferior to the horses that the men used, most of them were colts that were not yet of age, so they were slightly docile. However, the moment An Lingge got on the horses, they started to whimper in pain and galloped forward.

The horse's speed was too fast, much faster than what the others expected. In the blink of an eye, it had reached the mountain behind the academy. Behind it was a cliff!

Mu Junhan's face changed slightly as he pulled over a bunch of red horses. As he galloped, he nocked an arrow to his bow, and the black arrow pierced steadily into the right eye of the horse in front of him.

The horse whinnied in pain again, and An Lingge took the chance to turn the horse around, but the horse charged towards the group of people.