Chapter 342 Meeting in a Dream
At this time, Minglan saw Lin Hao talking about her with the Duke of England, so she eavesdropped carefully.

I heard from the Duchess of England that with the current power of the Zhang family, they no longer need marriage to consolidate their position.

And when she learned that the Zhang family didn't care much about prejudice, and that they all liked her and were willing to accept her, Minglan was naturally overjoyed.

She felt like a layer of shackles was removed from her heart, and she was full of confidence in the future of her and Lin Hao!

Lin Hao's purpose was exactly the same. He wanted to let Minglan know that her family was willing to accept her so that she could face her relationship with him calmly.

However, regarding Yu Yanran's matter, Lin Hao would naturally try to save as much as possible!
After Minglan finished reading, Lin Hao pretended to be surprised and said to Minglan:

"Hey, why did you come into my dream today?"

Minglan was still digesting the news. When she saw Lin Hao coming in front of her, she thought of what had happened between them in her dream and felt extremely embarrassed.

Then Minglan seemed to remember something and asked seriously:

"Brother Haolin, I just saw your dream. Was the conversation between you and your family real?"

Lin Hao held Minglan in his arms and said:
"Of course, what you think about during the day you will dream about at night. These are the images from when I was talking to my mother before!"

Seeing Minglan in a daze again, Lin Hao stepped forward, put one arm around Minglan's armpit, put the other hand through her knees, and gave Minglan a princess hug.

"You, let me go, it's not right for men and women to touch each other!" Minglan shouted shyly.

"Haha, in my past dreams, I hugged you like this more than once, but I never saw you refuse. Why are you saying this now? Do you want to abandon me after having sex with me?"

"I, I didn't do that. How could you do that? It was obviously you~!"

Before Minglan finished her words, Lin Hao kissed her tender lips. Slowly, Minglan took the initiative to hug Lin Hao's neck, and then the two of them kissed passionately...!
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At this moment, Minglan hugged Lin Hao reluctantly and even wanted this dream to continue forever.

This is a secret between the two of them. After experiencing the initial shyness, in this dream that belongs only to the two of them, Minglan is obviously more relaxed, completely liberating her nature and becoming a lively and active little girl.

When Minglan woke up in Sheng Mansion, there was still a faint blush on her face. She quickly asked Xiaotao to change her quilt.

When Xiaotao put away the quilt, she pointed at it and said:

"Girl, are you sick?

"Look, the quilt is soaked with sweat!"

Minglan felt even more shy, and then said:
"You're not sick. Take it to the maid to wash it. Then come back and I have something to tell you!"

After Xiaotao left, Minglan remembered that Lin Hao asked her last night if she was ready to avenge her mother.

Minglan naturally told Lin Hao everything about her plan! However, Lin Hao asked her to think about it again!

Lin Hao said that he didn't want her to take any risks, so he gave her another idea and would send someone to deliver it in the morning. He let her decide on her own what to choose!

At this time, Xiao Tao had returned, so Ming Lan said:

"Xiao Tao, someone will bring a box over in a while. Go to the back door to get it. Don't let anyone see you. Got it?"

Xiao Tao widened her eyes and said in a low voice:

"Miss, is this something the master wants to give you?"

"Go quickly, why do you have so many questions!" Minglan said helplessly. Sometimes Minglan felt that Xiaotao was silly. Why would she ask the master questions like this?

At this time, Xiaotao went to the back door with a silly smile, and soon brought the things back and handed them to Minglan!

After sending Xiaotao away, Minglan opened the box and what caught her eye was a red crystal bottle. No, that was not a red crystal bottle, but a crystal bottle filled with a pool of blood.

There was a letter underneath. Minglan opened the envelope and found a handwritten letter from Lin Hao. It said:

"Today is the anniversary of my beloved wife's death. I am sending you a bottle of my own fingertip blood. I want to use Duke Rong's fingertip blood to redraw your wife's tablet to appease her soul."

"Also, please don't put yourself in danger. I can't bear it!"

"The white powder in the porcelain bottle is a super tonic that can make people gain weight even if they drink water. I think my wife should be able to guess the purpose of this medicine!"

"Also, no matter what choice my beloved wife makes, as a husband I should do my best to support her!"

After reading the contents of the letter, Minglan blushed and said:
"Shame on you! I haven't even married you yet, and you've even told your beloved wife about it! How can someone be so shameless!"

Although Minglan complained like this, she felt extremely relieved in her heart. She then clasped her hands together and said:

"Girl, I've found someone who loves and cares for me! It feels so good to be loved by someone!"

Wanwan tried to test Lin Hao again, saying that she wanted to perform a ritual for her mother and needed the fingertip blood of the person with the strongest yang energy. She told Lin Hao about redrawing the tablet.

Lin Hao immediately said just take it!

But what she didn't expect was that today Lin Hao actually donated his fingertips blood directly. Coupled with what Lin Hao said when he saw his mother in his dream that night, she was extremely moved.

As for who this bottle of weight-gaining medicine in front of her was for, she certainly knew, and she also felt the gap between herself and Lin Hao.

When she was thinking of taking risks and dragging the entire Sheng family into this in order to get rid of Lin Qinshuang, Lin Hao quietly took out this fattening medicine.

Think about her father's temper. If he found out that Lin Qinshuang had turned into a fat girl, no matter how she acted coquettishly, her father would definitely ignore her!
Minglan then burned the letter on the fire and hid the medicine in the porcelain bottle. She then took Lin Hao's fingertip blood, pricked her fingertip with a needle, and squeezed out a few drops of blood into the crystal bottle!
Afterwards, Minglan brought Xiaotao and Danju to Yuqing Temple to perform a ritual for her mother. Although she had made up the story before, she wanted to use her own blood and Lin Hao's blood to redraw her mother's tablet.

This is to comfort the mother's spirit in heaven, so that she doesn't have to worry about the master's family, because she has found a man she can trust!

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Time came half a year later!
Lin Hao, Sheng Changbai, Sheng Changfeng, Qi Heng, and Gu Tingye also began to prepare for the spring imperial examination!

Each family holds great hope to get good results in this spring examination, and then become famous, or change their family background.

Only Lin Hao and Gu Tingye didn't care. They were naturally happy if they did well in the exam, but they didn't care if they didn't do well.

Because they are actually officials and both have titles. Lin Hao is a Duke and Gu Tingye is an Earl.

Sheng Changbai, Sheng Changfeng and Qi Heng, on the other hand, had great expectations!
At this time in the Sheng Mansion, Minglan was embroidering a pair of knee pads, while Xiaotao and Danju beside her were also embroidering knee pads.

At this time, Danju asked Minglan:

"Miss, it's getting dark too early. Why don't we sew it tomorrow? Don't hurt your eyes!" Minglan didn't mean to stop, she just said casually:

"In two days, my two brothers will be taking the exam. They have to get up early and stay up late. I have to sew these two pairs of knee pads for them before they go to the exam room."

"So, we have to get the knee brace done today, or we won't be able to catch up!"

Danju smiled and sighed:
"Two pairs of knee pads! I'll cut one here, and Xiaotao will cut one there!"

"Who is that thing in your hand for, girl?"

Minglan paused, and Xiaotao said carelessly:

"Master Rong will also participate in this spring examination. Could it be that this pair of knee pads was made specially for him by the young lady?"

Minglan quickly put away her knee pads, then realized that the two girls were teasing her!

So Minglan pouted and said, "What truth are you talking about!"

Then she felt something was wrong, so Minglan quickly made amends:
"No, I just haven't made anything for a long time. I just want to make a pair of knee pads to practice. Don't talk nonsense!"

As she spoke, Minglan herself began to smile sweetly!
"Oh~!" Xiao Tao beside her shook her head and sighed!
Danju whispered, "We are stuck in the quagmire. It seems there is no hope!"

"You two are asking for a beating, right?" Minglan glared at the two girls and told them to hurry up and embroider the knee pads.

The next day!

Minglan got up again with a red face, and then instructed Xiaotao:

"Xiao Tao, it's getting late, you should quickly return this pair of knee pads I made to the old place!"

"Oh! I'll go right away!" Xiaotao said excitedly.

Xiao Tao then put on her knee pads and went to the old place, and then she could see the silly Hu Zi!
Sometimes Xiao Tao didn’t understand. Every time she went to pick up something or deliver something, she and Hu Zi arrived at the same time, with the timing being just perfect.

So, how did the girl and Lord Rong manage to do the same thing without any prior communication?

Afterwards, Minglan arranged for Danju to send the other two pairs of knee pads to Weiruixuan and Linqi Pavilion respectively.

Madam Wang from Weiruixuan naturally accepted the knee pads happily, and then continued to pack Changbai's luggage, preparing pens, ink, paper, inkstone, food, clothing, and housing!

During this period of time, she was extremely happy to see anyone, because ever since Lin Qinshuang gained weight, Sheng Hong rarely went to Lin Qi Pavilion to look for that little bitch!

Meanwhile, at Lin Qige's side, Lin Qinshuang, who already weighed more than 200 pounds, impatiently accepted the knee pads!
No one knew why she suddenly started to gain weight in the past six months, and then it got out of control. After that, her husband rarely came to Linqi Pavilion!

She originally wanted to lose weight by dieting, but the effect was minimal. The effect was good at the beginning, but as soon as she lost a little weight, she would immediately gain weight again if she ate a little!

She weighs more than 200 pounds, which is equivalent to two of her in the past. Now Sheng Hong would rather sleep in the study than come to see her. Even if she has countless sweet words, it can't change Sheng Hong's disgust for her!
On the other side, the knee pads made by Minglan herself came into Lin Hao's hands!
Meanwhile, her younger sister Zhang Guifen looked at the exquisite knee pads, smiled and joked:

"Look at how you treasure this pair of knee pads. Which young lady gave it to you?"

"I won't help you deliver the letter next time!" Lin Hao's words were the decisive blow!

Upon hearing this, Zhang Guifen immediately stepped forward and said coquettishly:

"Oh! I was just kidding you, why are you so stingy!"

"Hehe, I can't cure you yet!" Lin Hao said arrogantly.

"What are you humming? If you don't want to bring it, then don't bring it! Anyway, you won't need to bring letters soon!"

"Humph, are you so sure that he will pass the exam? What if he fails?"

"That's impossible!" Zhang Guifen said confidently, "His knowledge is not much worse than yours. If he can't pass the exam, you probably can't either!"

"Hahahaha~!"

The next day, Lin Hao rode a horse to the examination room. At this time, the outside of the examination room was full of horse-drawn carriages.

Lin Hao discovered that Sheng Hong and his wife from the Sheng Mansion, as well as the three girls from the Sheng family, all came to send Chang Feng and Chang Bai into the examination room!

Lin Hao did not go up to talk to them. Instead, he looked at Minglan from a distance, then went straight into the examination room. After verifying his identity, he entered his own examination room...!

Three days later, Lin Hao left the Imperial Examination Hall and completed the exam. Lin Hao was very relaxed during this exam.

After all, he had no pressure, unlike the Sheng family and the Qi family, who needed to pass the imperial examination to change their family status or become officials in the court.

For Lin Hao, it is more like experiencing ancient life. After all, he is a military hero. Of course, if he passes the exam, he can also become an official for fun!

A month later, the results were announced at the entrance of the Imperial Examination Hall!
Lin Hao went to the Imperial Examination Hall in person to check his results. Unexpectedly, he did quite well in the exam and actually got seventh place.

Then Lin Hao looked at the results of the others and found that Sheng Changbai actually got ninth place. Lin Hao remembered that he got thirteenth place in the original drama.

I don’t know if it’s because of me. No, it definitely has nothing to do with me. It must have a lot to do with his sister Zhang Guifen!
He shook his head, then looked on the list again, but did not see the names of Qi Heng, Chang Feng, and Gu Tingye. Apparently they all failed to make the list!
Qi Heng looked at the list for a long time, but he didn't see his name. When he saw that Lin Hao was ranked ninth, Qi Heng left with a gloomy face and got on Princess Pingning's carriage!

Lin Hao knew why he was unhappy. You know, he and Lin Hao had the same family background, but Lin Hao passed the exam while he did not. Doesn't this make him seem incompetent!

You have to know that the Zhang family is a powerful family, and the Duke of Qi has long been away from the military, and was determined to gain power by taking the imperial examination, but he failed.

Lin Hao's Zhang family not only has two dukes, but also has real power in the military. Lin Hao casually took part in an imperial examination and actually ranked seventh!
Before the exam, Princess Pingning not only lit the lamps in Fan Tower, but also built up momentum for Qi Heng's image as a talented scholar, with all her might. However, she did not expect what the result would be.

No one can bear such a psychological gap!

On the other hand, the three girls from the Sheng family were also looking for Changbai and Changfeng's names on the list!

"Yes, yes, Brother Changbai got the ninth place, look!" Minglan shouted happily, pointing at the list.

When they saw that Changbai ranked ninth, Rulan and Minglan no longer cared about their image as ladies and jumped and cheered with joy!
Molan, who was beside Changfeng, saw Changbai pass the exam, but she did not see Changfeng's name on the list. Naturally, she knew that he did not pass the exam!
"How is this possible? I wrote it very well, why didn't I get it?" Chang Feng said angrily.

Later, Chang Feng got into a conflict with the people around him because he failed the exam, and was finally pulled back by Molan and others!

But before leaving, Minglan took another look at the name ranked seventh on the list, and then happily returned to the carriage!
(End of this chapter)