Daxuanti criminal officer

Chapter 49

"The mystery lies in these words," Xu Zun pointed to the paper and said, "When the real Qiu Yongnian was imprisoned in the secret room of the Temple of Longevity, for some reason, he was allowed to carve words on the wall of the house. .

"He knew very well that he was victimized by an adulterer, and he could not express his grief and anger. Once he wrote words related to his life experience, he would be cleared away by the guards.

"Therefore, he can only engrave some irrelevant and insensitive words, so as to avoid the suspicion of the guards.

"But even so, Qiu Yongnian still found an opportunity to secretly reveal a piece of information to the outside world.

"Among the words written in the room full of secrets," he pointed to the words on the paper, "only these five characters have larger fonts, and they are exactly located in the five directions of east, west, north, south, and middle.

"So, I believe that these five words must have their meaning!"

"Five characters?" Cai Kun held up the paper and said, "Isn't it four and a half? Can you not be tricky? What does it mean?"

"The woman's paper is wrong, Shan Liren..." At this moment, Li Yan, the governor, stroked his beard and looked at it. After silently saying it a few times, his eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had realized something.

However, Xu Zun didn't give him a chance to show off at all, and immediately pointed to a few words to tell the mystery: "Actually, this is the most common pair!"

"Ah?" County Prime Minister Luo Wanwan hastily calculated in his heart, and murmured, "Female to male, square to circle, paper to pen, no yes, male circle to pen? No, come again..."

"Female to man, square to circle, paper to shape, yes to yes," Xu Zun had already said the answer, "that Shan Liren is the word 'you', change the order, everyone knows now, Qiu Yongnian thinks Are you going to tell us something?"

"Yuan, shape, it's..." Among them, Chen Taiji reacted the fastest, adjusted the order first, and said anxiously, "I-is-shaped-yuan-lang! I'm the number one scholar! This time it's right Bar?"

I'm the number one scholar?
Everyone repeats.

"Yes!" Xu Zun said, "The real Qiu Yongnian has told us the truth, he is the real Qiu Yongnian, and this person..." He pointed to Qiu Yongnian on the chair, and shouted loudly, "It's fake! !!"

"what!?"

Qiu Yongnian on the chair was first taken aback, then his cheeks trembled, but in an instant, he looked up to the sky and laughed again.

"Haha...hahahaha..." Qiu Yongnian laughed loudly, "Xu Zun, are you really crazy? With just these five words you inferred, you can make nonsense? It's a big joke !
"Everyone knows that I, Qiu, was born as a Jinshi and ranked among the top three. It's just that I was selected into the Hanlin by the emperor's favor, and it has nothing to do with the number one scholar!

"Xu Zun, you have slandered me again and again, it's clear that you have ulterior motives, you..."

"Looking back at Zizishan's family guest, Lord Grim, I am the number one scholar!" Who knows, Xu Zun suddenly read a poem, and then asked Qiu Yongnian, "If you were the real Qiu Yongnian, wouldn't you know this Drunk Huayin first, right?"

"You..." Qiu Yongnian's complexion changed suddenly, and his smile froze.

"Let me ask you, who wrote this poem?" Xu Zunzhong asked.

"Me." Qiu Yongnian replied.

"Which year was it written?" Xu Zun asked again.

"Xianyuan four years." Qiu Yongnian replied.

"Where is it written?"

"Home."

"What's your family name?"

"It's also surnamed Qiu."

"You once wrote twelve poems in Shangzhou, what's the name of No.12?"

"I haven't finished writing, there is no No.12!"

"Going to Beijing to take the exam, which inn do you stay in?"

"I didn't live in an inn, I lived in the old house of Prince Yu's Mansion."

"During the imperial examination, which candidate was sitting next to you?"

"There's no one around me."

"In the Imperial Academy, you..."

"Enough!" Qiu Yongnian roared angrily, "Xu, what on earth are you going to do? My lords," he shouted at Cai Kun and the others, "My lords, Xu Zun was invaded by the imperial court. How could you allow him to stay here?" Wantonly slandering the imperial court officials? This...how is this proper?"

"Tsk tsk..."

After saying this, all the officials smacked their lips, apparently half-believing and unpredictable.

"See?" Xu Zun said gloatingly, "Did he answer the questions fluently just now? What does this mean? It means he has already practiced!
"My lords, the phrase 'I am the number one scholar' is very famous in Nangeng, Shangzhou," Xu Zun explained, "The author of this phrase was Qiu Yongnian, who was only 17 years old at the time!
"I'm not boasting, influenced by my father, Xu Zun has been fond of poetry since he was a child, and he was very familiar with this song Drunken Flower Yin long before he met Magistrate Qiu.

"Therefore, after I cracked the text puzzle in the Chamber of Longevity and combined with all the previous signs, I firmly believed that the Taoist priest who died in the iron coffin was the real Qiu Yongnian, and this——is a counterfeit !"

"You..." Qiu Yongnian turned pale, trembling all over, and argued to the officials, "This is really unreasonable, nonsensical, unprecedented, you adults should be the masters of this county..."

Well this...

All the officials frowned, with solemn expressions. It was obvious that "I am the number one scholar" was a bit forced and could not be used as evidence.

But Xu Zun spoke impassionedly and clearly, it was hard to distinguish.

"My lords," at this moment, Taimin, the prefect of Shangyuan, who had been afraid to speak because of his low official position, suddenly said, "Qiu Yongnian, the magistrate of Xinye County, met me at my residence before he took office. It seems..." He glanced at Qiu Yongnian opposite, and said, "Is there any problem?"

"No," Xu Zun said bluntly, "At that time he had already been replaced!"

"This..." Taimin got bored, so he had to keep silent.

"Let me tell you, this matter is indeed a bit exaggerated," Li Yan, the governor, said after some thought, "The pair of papers seems to be a bit untidy, the square is opposite the circle, and the word circle is not the same word. It is No... this pair is a little far-fetched, isn't it?
"Also, Qiu Yongnian has been in the Imperial Academy, how can people from the Imperial Academy not recognize him? As long as someone from the Imperial Academy recognizes him, won't this matter be revealed?"

"My lord," Xu Zun said, "if it weren't for me, who would know that this Qiu Yongnian is a fake?
"After framing me and Mr. Shen, he will definitely be promoted, maybe he will go to other state capitals, or he may return to Beijing to take a job.

"But at that time, he had already fully grasped everything about Qiu Yongnian, and with his similar appearance, who would doubt his identity?
"In addition," Xu Zun said again, "how can we determine whether he was replaced before he entered the Imperial Academy?"

"Ah? This... This is also..." Li Yan frowned, "Isn't this too unbelievable?"

"Hmph!" However, Cai Kun, who was seated in front of him, snorted coldly and said, "If you want to impersonate someone, it's easy to say, and it's not easy to say that.

"It doesn't matter if you know someone from the Imperial Academy, but it's impossible for a person to have no parents and family members," Cai Kun said, staring at Qiu Yongnian in front of him. "As long as we find Qiu Yongnian's family members, wouldn't it be clear at a glance whether they are real or not?"

"Your Excellency is wise," Xu Zun clasped his fists in compliment, and then boasted confidently, "But I'm not stupid, I've been prepared since I started doubting Qiu Yongnian's identity!"

After speaking, he gestured to Huo Anu.

Huo Anu went outside and dragged a young man with mischievous eyebrows into the court.

This person, almost everyone in the Xinye county government knows him, is the county's habitual thief——Liu Dong!
(End of this chapter)