The other Gongshi looked at Feng Qiuyan with admiration in their eyes. This was the future Little Sage of Agriculture, and they actually got to take the same Palace Examination as him. What an honor!
After inwardly preening for a while, Feng Qiuyan realized something. No matter how glorious his future might be, right now, he did not know how to do anything!
Although he loved growing those plants, he had yet to achieve anything at all.
From the looks of things, everyone had already placed him on a pedestal. If he failed to produce such high-yielding rice in this lifetime, he would come crashing down from that height.
At that thought, Feng Qiuyan suddenly felt a mountain of pressure weighing on him.
Ninth Princess, could Your Highness please pick someone else's gossip to feast on and divert everyone's attention first?
Just as he was thinking that, Jiang Nuan also felt she had feasted on enough of his gossip and was ready to move on to someone else.
The remaining candidates all looked at Jiang Nuan expectantly.
Perhaps because the gossip Jiang Nuan had uncovered these past two times had been so favorable, they were secretly nursing hopes of their own. Could they be the long-lost biological sons of some court minister? Or might they achieve something spectacular in the future?
Jiang Nuan knew nothing of their tangled thoughts. Seeing them stare at her, she assumed they were simply unused to seeing her at court for the first time. She even wondered whether someone would impeach her and demand that she be barred from attending court.
Honestly, Jiang Nuan actually missed those days a little. She never had to think about whose gossip to dig into; whoever came to impeach her became her next target.
Jiang Nuan swept her gaze