I go to the ancient imperial examinations

Chapter 221
"Qiye, are you asking Xiaoliu to pretend to be the candidate who copied the handwriting?" Chongguang understood immediately after hearing that, this person can't be found in a short time, at least not before the list is released tomorrow, and when the list is released, what do you say? It's too late.

Zhan Feiyu tugged on Yin Wuyan's sleeve, and asked curiously, "Is he good at copying handwriting?"

"Fat girl, there is no word in the world that Xiaoliu can't imitate." Chongguang laughed. Forbidden Dragon Guards can change the expressions of the ministers in the court. Naturally, they have background and capital.

As soon as Chong Guang left, He Sheng and He Nuan also exited the room.

Zhan Feiyu raised his head and looked at Yin Wuyan pitifully, "Why don't we go to visit the Nanxuan government office at night?"

Every time a house is ransacked, even if it is a white-haired old man or an innocent child, the one who should be arrested is still arrested, and the one who should be sent to prison is still sent to prison. Yin Wuyan has never softened his heart.

But looking at the little girl with picturesque features in front of him, Yin Wuyan couldn't bear to refuse, "Change into another clothes."

Zhan Feiyu, who was wearing only pajamas and a cloak over the outside, yelled, and ran towards the room he lived in, "Brother, wait for me, I'll be fine soon."

It was the darkest time before dawn, when people were fast asleep. Chen Xuezheng was in a good mood, so he naturally slept well, until he was awakened by a rapid knock on the door.

"What's the matter?" Chen Xuezheng shouted angrily, no one would have a good temper after being woken up from a sweet dream.

"My lord, something has happened." A voice from outside the bedroom sounded.

As soon as he heard Yan Hui's voice, Chen Xuezheng sat up abruptly, "Come in!"

After a long while, two guards stood guard outside the bedroom. Yan Hui lit a candle, looked at Chen Xuezheng who was sitting on the edge of the bed in obscene clothes, and quickly replied: "My lord, I just received the news that Hu Bingzhi arrested one person. The police quickly arrested Ding Yi and others, and they are interrogating overnight."

With a thud in his heart, Chen Xuezheng stood up with a livid face, and scolded angrily, "Chou Ziliang was arrested? Are the two people guarding him Yumu heads? Why don't you kill him?"

"My lord, calm down, it wasn't Chou Ziliang who was arrested." Yan Hui said hastily.

The furious Chen Xuezheng was also taken aback for a moment, his face was still ugly, but the anger on his face subsided a little, and he asked with a frown: "What's going on? Who is Hu Bingzhi arresting?"

It is obvious that Chen Xuezheng plotted against Zhan Feiyu in the college examination, but there is no evidence. Even if Hu Bingzhi and Zhang Chengli knew about it, they would be helpless. Even if Ding Yi and the others were arrested, so what?

"I heard that he was a candidate who missed the exam because he was not acclimatized. This person is good at copying other people's handwriting. As soon as he confessed, the Zhang Zhifu immediately arrested Ding Yi and others." Yan Hui, as Chen Xuezheng's bodyguard, is also Chen Xuezheng's His confidant knew many secrets of the Chen family, so Yan Hui felt that this matter was strange.

Chen Xuezheng's face became more and more ugly, he paced back and forth in the room, and finally smashed the teapots on the table angrily, "What a Hu Bingzhi, what a good Zhang Li, they are planning to turn a deer into a horse!"

So what if he couldn't catch Qiu Ziliang who imitated the handwriting?They just need to find "Chou Ziliang" to take the blame.

Coupled with the confession of Ding Yi and others, the silver taels found in their home, the hiding of Zhan Feiyu's exam papers, and the appearance of fake exam papers written by "Qiu Ziliang", the facts become clear.

Not only did Chen Xuezheng have to take the second re-examination, but he also had to rectify Zhan Feiyu's name.

The most hateful thing is that once the news got out, Chen Xuezheng, as the chief examiner of the college examination, let someone take advantage of the loophole and replace Zhan Feiyu's examination paper. But the key is that Zhan Feiyu was unharmed.

Yan Hui looked at Chen Xuezheng, who was irritable and angry, and didn't know how to persuade him. Originally, this was a game that must be won, but who would have thought that Zhan Feiyu's side would "take the edge of the sword" and just kill a way out. Zhan Feiyu stood up. In the invincible position, on the contrary, adults are in a dilemma.

"I want to see how this 'Qiu Ziliang' sneaked into the examination room, and how he copied Zhan Feiyu's handwriting to the point of being fake. I want to see whether his bones are hard or my board is hard!" Chen Xuezheng's eyes were dark. It was terrifying, and the murderous intent in his tone was undisguised. He was already planning to torture "Chou Ziliang" to see if he could bear it.

Thinking of Zhang Zhifu and Hu Bingzhi standing still during the day, they were waiting for him here, and caught him off guard.

Chen Xuezheng smiled back angrily, and squeezed out words through his teeth, "You go over immediately and deal with Chou Ziliang, remember, you do it yourself, I don't want to see any accidents happen again!"

"Yes, my lord." Yan Hui replied, my lord originally planned to wait for the situation to calm down before killing people, but now it seems that leaving Chou Ziliang is too variable, only by killing him can we be safe.

In the bedroom, Zhan Feiyu winked at Yin Wuyan, really surprised.

Yan Hui opened the door and walked out, asking the guards at the door to go in and clean up the broken teacups and teapots on the ground.

But at this moment, as if he sensed something, Yan Hui turned his head and glanced at the door. In the darkness, there was only a faint light from the candles in the room, and there was no one in the room.

Rubbing the center of his brows, Yan Hui thought he was thinking too much, but he was worried about Chen Xuezheng's safety, and said in a low voice, "You two will protect the adults every step of the way."

"Yes." The two guards responded immediately.

Without Zhan Feiyu's invisibility golden finger, even if Yin Wuyan's skill is far stronger than Yan Hui's, it would be impossible to overhear the conversation between him and Chen Xuezheng, let alone know Qiu Ziliang's name.

Naturally, Zhang Zhifu and Hu Bingzhi's actions of arresting people in the middle of the night could not be concealed from the examiners. Of course, they did not intend to hide it, but deliberately made a big noise and revealed the news.

So when the sky was slightly bright, the government office was brightly lit, and the policemen stood guard outside the door in full force.

Ding Yi, who was arrested and imprisoned, Wang Ping, the soldier in charge of collecting the papers, and Zhao Haiyuan, the scribe who wrote the script, could not withstand the torture and had already confessed. But Catcher Geng immediately led his men to search the inn where the three of them were temporarily staying, and they found them. The hidden banknotes are 1000 taels per person.

The salary of an ordinary petty official is less than two taels of silver a month, plus a little shady income, at most 30 taels a year, and 1000 taels is almost 30 years' salary, which is exactly what the saying "money is touching" people's hearts.

In the faint morning light, Chen Xuezheng, who had put on his official uniform, came striding forward with a straight face, his gloomy eyes swept over everyone present, and finally sat down on the main seat, "I don't know what happened, I need to Mr. Zhang arrested people and tried the case overnight, so I wonder if this official, a third-rank student of the imperial court, is qualified to attend?"

The targeted Zhang Zhifu stood up and bowed his hands to the superior Chen Xuezheng, with a humble attitude, "Your Excellency, calm down, it really happened suddenly."

"Master Hu asked Ding Yi, a handyman, who would have thought that he would confess to taking money and pour tea all over Master Hu's body on purpose. When it came to the imperial examination, the subordinate officials and Master Hu did not dare to slack off. The officials and handymen conducted investigations and interrogations, and even found several people who took money."

After Zhang Zhifu finished speaking, he handed over the statement he had just received, "This is the signature and signature of Ding Yi and the other three, please have a look at it."

Chen Xuezheng glanced at Zhang Zhifu with gloomy eyes, picked up the three confessions and quickly read them.

After a long while, Chen Xuezheng put down his confession, and said in an unclear way: "I didn't see anything from these three confessions, one of them missed an exam paper, one poured tea all over Master Hu, and one hid Zhan Feiyu's black paper? "

Chen Xuezheng sneered, "If my memory serves me right, Zhan Feiyu's examination papers were well placed there, but the four scripts were written in a mess!"

"My lord, Zhao Haiyuan has already confessed that he hid Zhan Feiyu's examination paper and then burned it." Zhang Zhifu had to reiterate that the signed confession was placed here, but Chen Xuezheng deliberately turned a blind eye to it.

"Prefect Zhang, how did I hear that you were tortured and beaten into a trick? Mr. Zhang took one imperial examination case at a time. Does this mean that I am negligent? Or is it that I cheated in the imperial examination?"

At the same time as the words fell, Chen Xuezheng slapped the table with a slap, and sternly reprimanded, "Without evidence and no evidence, Mr. Zhang dared to say that there was fraud in the imperial examination, and the regulations are polite. I think you don't want to wear this official hat on your head! "

"Master Chen." Hu Bingzhi stood up directly, and said with a sullen face; "These three people have confessed, and it is clear that someone entered the examination room and copied Zhan Feiyu's handwriting to write a fake examination paper, while Zhao Haiyuan hid it. After reading Zhan Feiyu's real examination paper, the three of them worked together in a division of labor and exchanged posts, if the adults don't investigate thoroughly, the subordinate officials will definitely write an excerpt and play it to the Ming sage!"

"Hu Bingzhi!" With a bang, the sound of the tea cup falling to the ground sounded.

After Chen Xuezheng smashed the glass at Hu Bingzhi, he still pointed at him and shouted angrily, "Then you should find this official who copied Zhan Feiyu's handwriting, and I will have a trial in person!"

"People are imprisoned in the government prison." Hu Bingzhi did not back down at all, "Master Zhang, bring the prisoner here!"

The two catchers led the order to go to the cell, and the rest of the examiners glanced at each other. Although they didn't speak, they all knew that Zhan Feiyu's test paper had indeed been hidden and destroyed, but the confessions of Ding Yi and the other three were not enough to prove it. The key to this point depends on the prisoner who is about to be interrogated.

The clerk had cleaned up the broken teacups on the floor, poured another cup of tea and put it on Chen Xuezheng's table.

Picking up the teacup and drinking two sips of tea, Chen Xuezheng half-closed his eyes and thought, this so-called prisoner was only made by Zhang Zheli and Hu Bingzhi, so he will definitely confess as soon as he comes up, and with the confession of Ding Yi and the other three, four The person's confession is the ironclad evidence, Zhan Feiyu is innocent, but himself, the chief examiner, will be charged with being unfavorable to supervision.

Chen Xuezheng's eyes became colder and more terrifying, this person must not be allowed to confess!

After a while, two policemen walked in with the prisoner.

Chen Xuezheng looked up at the prisoner whose prison clothes were stained with blood, and shouted angrily, "Bold madman, you didn't kneel down when you saw this officer, come here, and give this officer a hard [-] slap!"

Chen Xuezheng's preemptive words made everyone present stunned. The prisoner had just stepped in, and even if he wanted to kneel, he had to walk to the middle of the hall.

"In the dead of night, don't disturb the neighbors, just gag me and beat me hard!" Chen Xuezheng took advantage of the topic and glanced at the soldiers below.

It was different from the last time he came to Nanxuan Mansion, that time Chen Xuezheng only brought along a few guards from Yan Hui, and the arresting officers of Nanxuan Mansion were all sly and vicious. .

But this time it was different. For the examination, Chen Xuezheng not only dispatched [-] soldiers to accompany him, but also brought the scribes and minor officials who were in charge of matters related to the examination. So Chen Xuezheng ordered that the four The soldiers immediately stepped forward.

Immediately pushing away the two arresting officers, the burly soldier kicked the prisoner in the hollow of his knee, kicked him to the ground, and immediately gagged the prisoner with his companions and pressed him to the ground.

The remaining two soldiers took the court stick in the hands of the catcher, raised it high, and dropped it heavily. They hit him seven or eight times in a flash. It was obvious that they wanted to beat him to death.

"Master Chen!" Hu Bingzhi glared at Chen Xuezheng, who was deliberately doing this, "This is just a scholar who has no strength to restrain a chicken. If you beat him with fifty boards, is Master Chen trying to kill someone?"

Chen Xuezheng was in a very good mood at the moment, and he sneered coldly, "Master Hu, I am a third-rank scholar and political examiner, and I am also the examiner of this courtyard examination. What's wrong with trying this case? If Mr. Hu refuses to accept it, he can report it to the court!"

"You..." Hu Bingzhi trembled angrily, and then looked at the groaning prisoner who was lying on the ground and being beaten, wishing he could rush over and snatch the court stick from the soldier's hand.

Zhang Zhifu also looked extremely ugly, but as the so-called high-ranking officials crushed people to death, it was reasonable for Chen Xuezheng to punish the criminals with the charge of disrespect, even though everyone knew that Chen Xuezheng was trying to kill people.

But looking at the soldiers standing on both sides, Zhang Zhifu can't let the arresters and soldiers of Nanxuan Mansion take action. If you say it is an unjust crime in a small way, it can be called a treason in a big way.

Looking at Hu Bingzhi and Zhang Zhifu's aggrieved faces who dared not speak out, Chen Xuezheng showed a smug smile on his face, so what if they didn't beat them to death?You can check in detail after the ranking is released at dawn.

Who is this person's name, has he entered the examination room, and will he copy handwriting? When the time comes to find out the truth, he can take the opportunity to send Zhang Zhifu and Hu Bingzhi to prison.

The sound of the stick hitting the body was muffled but it made people feel panicked. His mouth was blocked, and the prisoner could only let out painful whimpers. The pain was severe, and his body was struggling violently.

But the two soldiers holding him down are like two big mountains. No matter how hard he struggles, the board still hits his back and waist hard...

"My lord, I'm afraid he won't be able to hold on if the fight continues." Cheng Shanchang stood up and said, and glanced at the prisoner who had less air and more air out of the corner of his eye. He had never been interrogated, and he didn't even know his name. Beat people to death.

(End of this chapter)