As the only one who escaped the palace fighting group, Li Xunhuan had a hard time outside.

Being a concubine, she had to follow the rules of a concubine. She had to get up at 3:30 am, dress and wash, and could not eat anything. At most she was allowed to drink a sip of tea. When it was past 5:00 pm and it was still dawn, she had to queue up at the gate of the Empress Dowager’s palace to pay her respects. She had to stand there for most of the day, and after paying her respects to the Empress Dowager, she had to pay her respects to the Empress Dowager as well.

That was the most painful time of the day. The empress dowager usually did not see the concubines and would leave after reporting for duty. But it was different with the empress. Not only did he want to see them, but he also gave them a seat in the palace and they would chat over tea and snacks until dawn.

Li Xunhuan really didn’t know where these people who were trapped in the palace walls all day long had so many topics to talk about. People around him were chattering like a group of ducks, and he couldn’t take a nap, as taking a nap would be disrespectful to the Queen. He wanted to watch the live broadcast to kill time, but it was even more heartbreaking. There were nearly eighty levels, and more than two hundred people were all sleeping soundly. There was one level that happened to be similar to an imperial examination, and there was one guy who got up, sat on a chair, squinted his eyes, and recited “Li Sao”. He successfully hypnotized himself while reciting.

Li Xunhuan almost fell asleep after watching this, and had to check on the Queen in the main seat to wake her up.

The queen was only in her twenties, with a handsome and delicate appearance, not much different from most young men. She had no hobby of wearing makeup, nor did she speak in a pinched voice. She just liked to wear brightly colored clothes. The palace was often filled with incense, and the air was filled with smoke from morning to night. Poor Li Xunhuan had nothing to eat early in the morning, and the strong smell of spices made him almost vomit several times. He was not in good health to begin with, and after more than two months, he developed hypoglycemia.

Every time at this time, he was particularly envious of the two teammates who were sent to the cold palace. Although life in the cold palace was a bit hard and they had to do everything by themselves, at least they didn’t have to get up early and had complete free time, so they could indulge themselves. Once, Li Xunhuan secretly went to visit them and found that these two people had nothing to do and were actually taking bird eggs from the tree!

Who could have thought that a Shaolin monk, the leader of a gang, would actually pick bird eggs from a tree for fun. It must be so much fun to watch!

Although Wuhua stopped smiling when he saw Li Xunhuan coming, he immediately became sarcastic and said that if he could have put an egg in his sleeve when he came, they would not have paid attention to the bird’s nest in the tree. Li Xunhuan certainly would not believe such nonsense. With their martial arts skills, let alone stealing an egg, if they wanted, they could even make sure that no one in the palace would ever see eggs on the dinner table.

The cold palace is located in the most remote place in the imperial palace. Usually, no one comes here except the guards. The palace has been in disrepair for many years, and there are weeds at the door. After Wuhua and Shangguan Jinhong came in, they first repaired the palace, removed the weeds in front of the door, planted various vegetables, and raised seven or eight chickens, ducks and a pear blossom cat.

In the middle of July, the sun was blazing, the red walls and green tiles were smoking, and the bluestone floor was so hot that thin shoes would easily burn your feet, especially at noon, when the sun was so bright that you could hardly open your eyes. It was like an oven outside and a steamer inside. Wuhua and Shangguan Jinhong lay side by side in the shade of a tree, eyes closed, with a large basin of ice between them, and on the ice were a few slices of honeydew melons that were tribute from foreign countries.

Li Xunhuan looked at the ice and the melons and didn’t react for a moment.

“Which palace did you steal this from?”

You can’t blame him for asking this. These two men have criminal records. The recliner under their butts was stolen from the Empress Dowager’s palace. It was made by the young emperor himself. It was made of a whole piece of agarwood and covered with a cushion woven from ice silk. It was cool to the touch and very comfortable to lie on. Unfortunately, the Empress Dowager hadn’t been lying on it for two days before Wuhua took it away.

The recliner was stolen, and the little emperor was furious. While looking for the thief, he ordered people to speed up the production and make another one. This time it was even worse. Shangguan Jinhong did the work personally, and it was stolen on the day it was completed. The empress dowager waited anxiously for the whole afternoon, but in the end she didn’t even smell the smell of the recliner.

There are still legends about ghosts in the palace.

“You came here suddenly. Could it be that there is some progress in the case?” Shangguan Jinhong asked.

What they asked was naturally the ins and outs of why they were sent to the cold palace. Although their lives were pretty decent, they were framed without knowing why, which made Shangguan Jinhong very unhappy.

Li Xun Huan pulled over a stool, took two bites of the iced honeydew melon, and said, “I’ve found out everything.”

“Do you remember the beautiful lady we last saw that evening?”

Wuhua said: “I don’t remember, what happened to him?”

Li Xun Huan said, “This lady has a problem with her nose. She cannot stand the smell of pollen. If she smells a little bit, she will keep sneezing and her nose will flow. It just so happened that the Queen went to the palace of Lady Shu for a rest that night, and Lady Shu was sick. She accidentally sprayed the Queen’s face with snot.”

Wuhua said: “That’s Shu Mei’s bad luck, what does it have to do with us?”

Li Xun Huan said, “It didn’t matter originally, but it did matter later. Everyone in the palace knew about Lady Shu’s illness, and although the Queen was unhappy, she didn’t blame her, so she asked her personal maid to find medicine. In the end, she didn’t find any medicine, but she found a rag doll in Lady Shu’s makeup box.”

Shangguan Jinhong sneered: “Makeup box? Is he a grown man still wearing makeup?”

Li Xunhuan: “…”

He sneered: “I thought you were going to ask what doll it was.”

Wuhua chuckled, stroked the cat and said, “Is there any need to ask? It’s nothing more than a witchcraft curse or something like that.”

Li Xun Huan sighed: “They actually believe that a small puppet can make the curse come true.”

Wuhua said: “No one knows whether the puppet can come true or not. They just need to know that the person who casts the curse must want the cursed person to die. That’s enough. But it’s Shu Meiren’s bad luck. Why should we be sent to the cold palace?”

Li Xun Huan said, “This Shu Meiren was promoted by the Imperial Concubine. Everyone thought he was the Imperial Concubine’s man, so it was reasonable for him to curse the Queen. But I just found out that this Shu Meiren is the Queen’s cousin. He is deeply trusted by the Imperial Concubine, but he has been working for the Queen.”

Shangguan Jinhong said: “So, the Queen knows very well that Lady Shu will never curse him no matter what. This is a deliberate frame-up by someone with ulterior motives!”

Wuhua asked, “Could it be that the Queen thought that we were the ones who deliberately framed her? Yes, I remember that pollen and cinnabar were indeed found in our palace that night.” Li Xunhuan looked at Wuhua and said, “This is a series of schemes. If I’m not mistaken, this was the work of the Imperial Concubine. We just entered the palace with a clean background. She probably wanted to win us over that day, but none of us paid attention to her, so she suspected that we were all the Queen’s people, so she set a trap to completely suppress us.”

“He also calculated that the Queen would not dare to make a big deal about this matter, because if it did, his cousin would not be able to be saved and would have to suffer this loss in silence. That’s why the Queen said nothing that night and just banished you to the cold palace.”

Shangguan Jinhong frowned: “I don’t understand, this trap can obviously trap all three of us, why did they leave you alone?”

Li Xun Huan smiled, put the last piece of honeydew melon in the ice basin into his mouth, and said self-deprecatingly: “Because there are seven Jinshi in my family, and three Tanhua in my father and son.”

But with such a family background, even the emperor would have to think twice if he wanted to make a move on him, not to mention the queen.

Wuhua looked at him sideways and said coldly, “Do you have a way to break the impasse?”

Li Xun Huan shook his head: “That’s why I came to you. When it comes to conspiracy and framing, you must be much better than me.”

As expected, he was chased out by his teammates as soon as he finished speaking.

Looking at his teammates’ leisurely life and thinking about his own running around for more than two months, Li Xunhuan felt like a big fool.

Looking up at the sky, the scholar shook his head and smiled bitterly.

There is no end in sight for customs clearance…

It seems like the palace fighting group will have a long way to go before they can pass the test, while the college entrance examination group on the other side doesn’t see any hope of passing the test at all.

Class 36 of Senior High School, countdown to the college entrance examination, the second mock exam just ended, and a suffocating low pressure filled the class.

The results were out. Zhongyuan Yidianhong, the most feared assassin in the martial arts world known as the “Soul-Searching Sword Without Shadow”, took a deep breath and looked at the report card posted on the outer wall of the classroom with a mentality close to despair:
Chinese: 55 points
Mathematics: 16 points
English: 8 points
Biology: 7 points
Chemistry: 22 points
Physics: 3 points

As expected, he was ranked last. He calculated that his scores in six subjects combined were not as high as others’ scores in one subject. And this was the score he got by cheating in various ways. To be honest, he no longer had any hope of passing the exam.

If the game doesn’t behave like a human being, what can he do?
He was just curious now. What would happen if the mission failed after the college entrance examination? Would the level be restarted like in Deep Palace Grudge? The problem was, even if it was restarted a hundred times, he, a killer, was really not cut out for studying!
Just as he was lost in thought, a hand suddenly slapped him. The muscles on his red body tensed up immediately, and he managed to resist the urge to get thrown over the shoulder by the guy who attacked him from behind.

He turned around, a hint of coldness flashed in his eyes: “What are you doing here?”

Gong Jiu was wearing a school uniform and had short hair. He looked about seventeen or eighteen years old, and looked clean and well-behaved. Apart from his somewhat eccentric personality, he didn’t look like a troublemaker at all. At first glance, he even looked like the kind of student who could be easily bullied.

Only Hong knows a little bit about what this guy is like in private.

He is a first-rate swordsman, but a pervert. He likes to torture himself when he is bored, such as slapping himself, cutting his body with a fruit knife, and strangling his neck with a bed sheet to feel suffocated. When it is worst, he will stay up all night and do math problems with the lights on!
So terrifying.

With this unique perversion, he successfully turned an eight-person dormitory into a three-person room. Only his teammates could tolerate his nerves, but no one else could.

Gong Jiu glanced at the report card on the wall and sneered, “Is this the result of studying hard for half a year?”

Yidianhong snorted coldly and walked to the next liberal arts class. He wanted to see what score this lunatic could get in the exam. Was he worthy enough to laugh at him?
Chinese: 144
English: 143
Mathematics: 0
Politics: 80
History: 90
Geography: 92
Yidianhong: “…” So angry!

It can be seen that the man in front of him is both literary and martial, and has an excellent memory, but he cannot count.

Yidianhong stared at the report card, his face turning from white to red, and then from red to green. He said coldly, “Even so, you’re still a long way from being the top scorer in liberal arts!”

Gong Jiu shook his head and said, “With you and me, it would be faster to be reborn if we want to pass the level. I just thought of a plan. You go to Class 1 and call that guy out. We can discuss it in detail. I’ll wait for you downstairs.”

Speaking of that guy, Yi Dianhong has a deep understanding of the evil taste of the game.

Another teammate of theirs is a sports student, and the requirement to pass the test is: to lead the school football team to participate in the World Cup and win the championship within one year.

In fact, it is not too difficult to let Yidianhong or Gong Jiu do this task. The key is that the teammate has disabled legs!

Letting a person who has to rely on a wheelchair to travel play football is really inhumane!

(End of this chapter)