Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 785 It's Not Mr.'s Fault

Chi Ge was so choked by Wu Qingruo that he couldn't say anything. He remained silent for a while, and could only look at his favorite student for help.

But to Chi Gelao's surprise, His Royal Highness King Ning was discussing the next treatment plan with Jin Miaomiao, and he didn't look at them at all, as if he didn't pay attention to their confrontation at all.

Chi Ge has no choice but to face Wu Qingruo alone. Even though this is what he has tried his best to avoid for many years, it is impossible to avoid it in the current situation.

He looked at Wu Qingruo, cleared his throat slightly, and said, "Lord Ying, this old man has no choice but to do so. Instead of rushing to convict this old man, it's better to calm down and let this old man tell the truth for himself."

"I would like to hear the details." Wu Qingruo expected such an incident, so she was not surprised at all, and nodded towards Mr. Chi Ge, "Say what you want to say in your heart, and you don't need to hide it. But, remember Be careful, every word you say now, you'd better seek truth from facts, otherwise..." He raised his eyebrows lightly, "If one day the festival is not guaranteed, don't blame me for not reminding you."

"My lord, please be cautious in your words and deeds. Such words are unacceptable."

"Just talk about it, don't take it to your heart, you..." Wu Qingruo smiled faintly, "Continue to talk about yourself."

Feeling Wu Qingruo's malice towards him, but he had done something wrong, Chi Ge didn't dare to argue with King Ying, so he could only swallow his breath.He glanced at Song Jue who was smiling at him, and said nervously, "Your Majesty..."

"You say what you want, don't worry about me, just pretend that I don't exist."

"Yes." Mr. Chi Ge stabilized his mood, "What happened today didn't happen once or twice, nor in a day or two. We were really tolerant of them and tolerated them for a long time. Starting from them Up to now, it has lasted intermittently for three or four years, and two or three collections of poetry have been published."

"It's been three or four years?" Song Qiyun was very surprised, "Didn't you realize it for such a long time?"

"I found it, but the previous few times it was because their number was relatively small, and the impact was not as great as this time, so we didn't take it seriously, and we can do whatever they want. In fact, as they themselves said, changing It is not unacceptable to use waste as treasure. But this time, we have to set up a situation because we have no choice." Chi Ge took a sip from his teacup and continued, "The origin of this matter must be traced back to At the end of last year, the Hanlin Academy and the three academies jointly organized a poetry meeting, and those who could participate in the poetry meeting were all the gentlemen and students of the academy, as well as the Hanlin Academy members."

"Hey, I seem to have heard of this." Song Jue patted Bai Meng, "Did you tell me?" Seeing Bai Meng nodding, he continued, "I heard that it's not just a poetry meeting, but A poetry contest has rankings and rewards, right?"

"Your Majesty is right. There is a reward. The students are in one group, and the gentlemen of the academy and the Hanlin are in one group. The top ten in each group are rewarded, ranging from one tael to ten taels of silver. .”

"It's not a lot!" Song Qiyun looked at Shen Haolin and Shen Cha, and then turned to Xueshi Fei, "At most ten taels of silver, although your monthly salary of the Imperial Academy is small, but other seventy-seven or eighty-eight subsidies are added to it. Together, it should be about the same? Those Hanlins wouldn’t take such a big risk because of this little money? It’s not worth it to lose their own future and official position, right?”

"You forgot what Mr. Chi Ge said, it was at the end of last year, when money was needed." Bai Meng sighed, "Hanlin's salary is not high in the first place, if there is no subsidy on weekdays, life must be poor Be tight, otherwise you wouldn’t have such perverted thoughts. But even so, at the end of the year, it’s not enough for them to take care of this and that, not to mention there are still a bunch of people waiting in my hometown!”

"That's true. If they can get this money, they can solve their urgent needs." Song Qiyun nodded, "So, in order to win the first prize in the poetry competition, they went to steal the poem manuscripts of the gentlemen again. Once...wasn't the so-called discarded?"

"That's right!" Chi Ge nodded, "This time it's not the discarded one they said, but the gentlemen who are going to participate in the poetry competition. Mr. He is the first person whose poem manuscript was stolen. He and us When we said it, we all thought it might be a coincidence. But then several gentlemen lost their manuscripts one after another, and we became vigilant. After rigorous investigation, we temporarily locked down a few people."

"Are these the ones from today?"

"Yes, it's a few of them." Mr. Chi Ge said a few names, "The rest of them joined after they won the first place in the poetry meeting, and they didn't mix too much with them." long time."

"The poetry competition...won the first place?" Shen Cha frowned slightly, "They used the stolen manuscripts, but still won the poetry competition? Did you guys know the origin of these poems, but still didn't expose them? Why?"

"General, because it's almost Chinese New Year, we don't want to spoil everyone's interest with such a thing. Besides, we don't lack this little money, so we should treat it as doing good deeds." A contemptuous smile flashed across Xueshi Fei's face. He was born in a noble family, seriously, he is slightly related to Bai Meng, and has never been short of money since he was a child. "It's just that I didn't expect it, because they were in the limelight at the poetry meeting and were admired by many people, including some Taixue students. At the beginning, these Taixue students were still very honest. They should study, no What kind of special movement? Later, slowly, there was a wave of laziness in Taixue. The gentlemen’s lectures were not listened to well, and the homework assigned was not done well. Either this one copied that, or that one copied this. , at the most outrageous moment, during the quiz in class, someone copied all the names wrong, and two identical papers appeared."

"This kind of situation happened more than once. In just seven or eight days, it happened more than a dozen times, and it even happened two or three times a day." Mr. Chi Ge sighed, "Gentlemen, tell the old man about the situation." After talking about it, I feel that it is absolutely impossible to continue like this.”

"The gentlemen discussed for a long time and didn't know what to do, so they asked me." Fei Xueshi smiled embarrassedly, "I came up with this idea, but I really didn't expect that it would lead to the current situation." The situation." He looked at Song Jue, "Your Majesty, this is not the fault of the master, it is the fault of the minister, and the responsibility for any crimes will be borne by the minister alone."

When Wu Qingruo heard what Fei Xueshi said, he exchanged a clear look with His Highness King Ning who had finished discussing the prescription with Jin Miaomiao, and a meaningful smile flashed across his face at the same time.

(End of this chapter)