The emperor always wants to promise himself

Chapter 203 The Truth 2
Xiao Yu watched coldly, saw the cold clothes and took off Wen Jizhen's official uniform, feeling calm, the moment the black gauze hat fell to the ground, Wen Jizhen seemed to be stimulated, and finally burst into tears, "Damn the guilty minister, damn the guilty minister! "

"Stop howling, why haven't you explained clearly yet?"

Seeing him like this, the dean of Datong Academy curled his lips in disdain.

Wen Jizhen sniffled, with a hoarse voice: "After the criminal minister asked clearly, Zhao Jinghuai said, if Nan Qingshan's grades are not good, let it be. If he is good, he will exchange his test paper with Zhao Lu's. Handwriting, that's why I found the guilty minister."

"At that time, the guilty minister was in a state of panic, so he fought with Lord Shangshu. At night, Lord Shangshu and the other invigilators went to rest, and the subordinate officials sneaked over. At that time, the test papers were all sealed, and the name could not be seen. The guilty minister Relying on the note given by Zhao Jinghuai, I found the test papers of Nan Qingshan and Zhao Lu, secretly opened them, took a new test paper and copied two copies in their handwriting, changed the name, and put it back."

Speaking of the situation at that time, Wen Jizhen still had lingering fears. Fortunately, Dagan had many loopholes in the imperial examination, and there were many places where he could take advantage of the loopholes. Generally, he would not review it, so he was given an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Zhao Lu was trembling, his teeth chattering uncontrollably: "You—Wen Jizhen, don't—"

"Don't what?"

Wen Jizhen turned his head and yelled at him: "Now that I'm alone in white, life and death are up to me, do I still have to hide it for you? Zhao Lu, as long as you have a little conscience, you should honestly treat your deeds Say it all!"

"How did your father bribe me, and how did you bribe the servants of Liu County with the people of the Rongguo government, and then how did you burn 130 people in Nanjia Village to death? 130 people, come on!" From eighty-year-old women to infants, none of them were spared! Nan Qingshan escaped death and came to the capital to seek justice, but was stabbed to death by you, do you still want to quibble?"

The more Wen Jizhen spoke, the more excited he became, his whole face flushed, and his veins were all over the place.

"I don't know! I don't know anything about Nanjia Village. You conspired to do those things. What do you have to do with me? As I said, the murder was because I drank too much, and I killed it by mistake during the dispute! I didn't mean it, You can only blame him for Nanqingshan's bad luck!"

"What did you say?"

Zhen Qingping didn't expect Zhao Luneng to be so thick-skinned, he stepped forward, grabbed Zhao Lu's lapel and lifted him up, Zhao Lu hurriedly grabbed his hand in panic: "You...what do you want to do?"

"Are you worthy of mentioning Qingshan's name? You are a thief who stole your fame, and you still have the face to say that you didn't do it on purpose? Well, you say you didn't do it on purpose, you show the evidence!"

"I...I didn't do it on purpose, where is the evidence?"

Zhao Lu was so strangled that he couldn't breathe, he kept breaking Zhen Qingping's hand: "Let go... let go!"

Zhen Qingping's chest rose and fell rapidly, "Okay, let go."

When he said loosen it, Zhao Lu was stunned. The next second, Zhen Qingping lifted his long legs and kicked him out.

Zhao Lu slid a long way on the slippery ground and stopped when he bumped into the Golden Dragon Pillar.

"Cough cough cough-"

He covered his chest with one hand and coughed violently, excruciatingly painful.

Xiao Yu raised her eyebrows in surprise, she never thought that her little uncle, who is usually so gentle, could be so angry and attack people like this, it can be seen that he was really ruthless and pushed into a hurry.

This kick was so powerful that even Wen Jizhen was shocked, his mouth was open in astonishment, and he even forgot to cry.

There was a dead silence in the hall, and Xiao Yu coughed lightly for a long time to draw everyone's attention back, "You said you have no evidence to prove your innocence, but this king has evidence that you bought the murder."

Zhao Lu suddenly raised his head: "Impossible!"

Xiao Yu glanced at him and chuckled lightly, "Shang Ming, come in."

After the words fell, Shang Ming walked in from the door, followed by a person, when Zhao Lu saw that person, his expression changed immediately, and his body trembled uncontrollably.

Shang Ming glanced at him, and knelt down towards Jun Rong: "My subordinates pay respects to Your Majesty, Long live Your Majesty, Long live, Long live——"

"Exemption."

Jun Rong stared at the person behind him and asked, "Who is this?"

The man trembled, stepped forward and knelt tremblingly: "I have seen Your Majesty, my majesty... my magistrate is the county magistrate of Liu County, Jiang Buyan."

"Jiang Buyan? Are you the one who worked hand in hand with Zhao Jinghuai?"

Jiang Buyan said in a low voice: "...I am convicted!"

"Come on, tell me in front of everyone, how Zhao Jinghuai bribed you, and how you set fire to 130 people in Nanjia Village!"

Jiang Buyan kowtowed non-stop: "Your Majesty is really wrong, Your Majesty. At that time, it was inconvenient for Zhao Jinghuai to show up, so he sent the third son to discuss with the lower official. He threatened and lured you, and said that the lower official only needs to do well. For this matter, the next year’s assessment will allow him to be promoted, and he gave the subordinate 3000 taels of silver, saying that after the matter is completed, he will give the subordinate another 2000 taels.”

"If the official refuses, the official will have to stay in that remote village for the rest of his life! In order to keep it secret, they have to silence the official. The official was really scared at the time, so he agreed, but the official was afraid that he would backtrack. At that time, the third son of Zhao had nothing else on his body, so he gave the jade pendant with his name to the lower official as collateral."

"Is the jade pendant here?"

Xiao Yu raised his eyebrows.

Jiang Buyan nodded hastily: "Here, Xiaguan keeps it with him all the time, he dare not leave, for fear of losing it."

As he spoke, he took out a handkerchief from his pocket, and after spreading it out in his palm, he saw a piece of fine suet jade pendant wrapped in the handkerchief.

Xiao Yu stretched out his hand to take it, turned it over, and sure enough, there was a word "Record" engraved on the back.

"Heh, Zhao Lu, there are all witnesses and material evidence, what else do you have to say?"

Zhao Lu stared at the jade pendant with bloodshot eyes, "I don't know, who knows if he forged it!"

Jiang Buyan pointed at him angrily and said, "You dare to do it, but you don't dare to do it! You were the one who came up with the idea of ​​setting fire to the village. If you tell me, some big shots are coming to Nanjia Village, saying that they want to buy all their land and let them Come out to meet them, and order the yamen servants to drive everyone to the middle of the village."

Recalling the events of that day, Jiang Buyan said fearfully: "He took the group of people and drove the villagers together. If anyone didn't go, he would drag them away. When they were all there, he would pour oil on them and throw the torches over. It burned instantly, and the villagers struggled in the sea of ​​flames, trying to escape, but Zhao Lu—”

Pointing at Zhao Lu, Jiang Buyan gritted his teeth and said, "He also spilled oil on the villagers' houses in advance. Once the thatched cottages burned, the flames raged, and there was nowhere to hide. The whole Nanjia Village was a sea of ​​hell. Who would dare to run out? His men wiped his neck with a knife!"

(End of this chapter)