Once Jiang Yunsheng had asked most of the questions he wanted to ask, he dismissed them.
Seeing this, the ministers actually felt a little disappointed. They had been thoroughly enjoying the juicy spectacle!
Jiang Nuan glanced at them and chuckled inwardly. There were plenty of days ahead, anyway!
Three days after the Palace Examination ended, the results were released. Zhang Gaoyang, Wu Hongcai, and Lin Mingxu took first, second, and third place respectively.
At that moment, Jiang Nuan was sitting in a private room on the second floor of a restaurant, watching Zhang Gaoyang lead the procession through the streets on horseback, basking in glory.
[Was this what they meant by "With spring winds of triumph, my horse's hooves fly; in a single day, I see all the flowers of Chang'an"?]
Watching the scene, Jiang Nuan suddenly thought of that verse.
Hearing her thought, the three men instinctively looked up toward Jiang Nuan.
In their eyes, Jiang Nuan was like a parent who had given them a second life.
Without Jiang Nuan, Zhang Gaoyang would never have been able to reunite with his birth family and return to his ancestral line.
After the Palace Examination ended, Zhang Gaoyang had spotted his adoptive parents at the entrance. They had immediately come over to ask how he had done, their eyes full of worry.
After he reassured them, they noticed Zhang Quanqiao standing behind him. He briefly explained the situation, and the two families then arranged to sit down together and discuss it.
Naturally, he would return to his ancestral line. As luck would have it, both his birth parents and his adoptive parents had the surname Zhang, sparing them a dispute over whose surname he should bear.
In the days ahead, he would maintain ties with both families. Once they grew