Ten Dragons Take the Inheritance

Chapter 213

Obviously, what Yin Zuo was facing was a round that could have been perfect. If Li Wei hadn't broken the round in advance, I'm afraid the chaos would have been even bigger.It is not clear who the person who arranged this situation is, but the purpose is very clear, that is to disrupt the court situation. If this situation is broken, after the imperial examination is over, how can those who bought the test papers but failed in their reputations look at other people who bought the test papers and went to high school? Naturally, someone will expose this matter. People have wiped out all the clues that should be erased long ago, leaving only some vague clues pointing to the person he wants to kill. In this way, the game is over.If this is the case, the matter will inevitably become even bigger, and it is not the unit of thousands or hundreds that lose their heads over this matter.

Yin Zuo didn't know who the people who planned to harm wanted to harm, but there was one thing Yin Zuo knew very well, that is, now that Yin Zuo was already in the game, if he wanted to get out, he had to break the game completely.To find out who is behind the scenes, time is extremely precious to Yin Zuo, not because of the ten-day deadline, but because the crime in the examination room happened so quickly that the planners did not expect it. Although the planners got rid of Wang He's thread, after all, there are some people he has no time to kill, and some things he has no time to cover up. Now it's a curfew, and it's not so easy even for martial arts masters to take advantage of the night. Yin Zuo had to find useful clues before the curfew ended at dawn, and this clue fell on the prisoners who were detained.

Time is precious, and Yinzuo can't afford to waste it. After discussing with Wu and Lin, two counselors, he hurriedly led Qingsong and a few lieutenants out of the palace, and hurried to the prison on horseback without any delay. As soon as he arrived at the ground, Debita, the general of the Jianrui Battalion who was in charge of guarding the prison, greeted him immediately. See the gift: "I see the prince."

Yin Zuo got off his horse and asked calmly, "Excuse me, has anyone ever visited the prison?"

"Returning to the prince, before the curfew, some family members of prisoners came to visit the prison, and the officials did not dare to violate the order of the prince, so they all stopped them." Debita replied loudly.

It's good that no one has been in the sky prison, mother, if you are locked in the sky prison and you are silenced, it's a joke.Yin Zuo felt a little more relaxed, waved his hand and said, "That's the best, Mr. De, hurry up." As soon as he finished speaking, he strode towards the cell.

You have to pay attention to skills when asking a case. Who should be asked first and who should be asked later? The next person who waited for the "back arrow" asked the captain of the Wangfu to first invite Xiong Cilu, the chief examiner of the subject.

Xiong Cilu, with the word Jingxiu and the word Qingyue, is a person of filial piety.In the 15th year of Shunzhi, he was a Jinshi. In the 14th year of Kangxi, he was a scholar of the Wuyingdian University and the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment. Later, he was dismissed because he tried to hide it because of a wrong draft. Scholars, who served four times as examiners of the national examination, were famous Confucianists in the Qing Dynasty.Xiong Cilu was seventy-five years old at the time, and he was already a rare person. He was originally in poor health, but after suffering from this unreasonable disaster, his mental state was extremely poor, and he couldn't walk steadily. One step would have to collapse to the ground.

Xiong Cilu also gave lectures to his elder brothers, and he is also Yinzuo's master. Although Yinzuo doesn't have much private contact with courtiers on weekdays, after all, he has been familiar with Mr. Xiong for a long time. See you now Mr. Xiong's old look made him feel pity in his heart. He waved his hand to signal the captain to untie Xiong Cilu's torture device, and said with a smile: "Master Xiong, I have wronged Mr. Xiong because of my order to investigate the case. Is it right?" Please forgive me."

Xiong Cilu sighed and said, "Don't dare, the prisoner was deeply favored by the emperor, and he served as the chief examiner four times, but this time such a huge case happened. The prisoner is ashamed of his majesty and the scholars of the world."

"Lord Xiong's character is trustworthy by this king. This matter should have nothing to do with your lord. I invite Mr. Qingyue here today. I have something to ask Mr. Qingyue to testify. Please think about it carefully. Before opening the test questions, did you find that the isinglass sealant on the test questions has been tampered with?" Yin Zuo asked with a smile.

Xiong Cilu thought about it carefully, shook his head and said: "Although the prisoner is old, his eyesight is not blurry. When the question was opened, the fish glue sealant was intact, especially when Qian Mingyu and Qian Daren said When the test questions were leaked, the prisoner did take a closer look at the imperial seal and found no damage."

Yinzuo nodded, thought for a while and said, "Mr. Qingyue, can you be sure that the test questions were not opened and then resealed?"

"The prisoner is sure that the isinglass wax is intact." Xiong Cilu replied with certainty.

"Okay, since that's the case, please ask Mr. Qingyue to draw a bet. When the king has heard the case, he will defend Mr. Qingyue at the meeting. During this period, please ask Mr. Qingyue to make one or two grievances first." Yin Zuo He waved his hand to signal the "Dark Arrow" who was in charge of the recording to come forward to let Xiong Cilu be detained and send him back to the prison.

Those three test questions have already been checked by the fake masters in the "Dark Arrow", and no traces of being opened in advance have been found. The reason why Yin Zuo wanted to ask Xiong Cilu was just to go through a formality and use Xiong Cilu's confession. Just as a basis.Since the advance Kaifeng does not exist, there is another possibility of dropping the package, but Yin Zuo has carefully read the three test questions, and the words on it are not false, it is indeed the handwriting of Mr. Kangxi, there may be masters of fraud in this world, I can trace other people's handwriting, but it is absolutely impossible to fool Yinzuo's gang of "back-stabbing" fake masters. The words on this test question are the royal questions written by Mr. Kangxi himself.

Since there is no possibility of cheating or bag swapping, there is only one possibility left for the test questions to be leaked——Qin Wuyong and the two young eunuchs must have leaked the questions. It is still difficult to make a conclusion at this time.After Xiong Cilu was taken down, Yinzuo asked the captain of the Wangfu to bring Qin Wuyong up first.

In the Qing Dynasty, eunuchs had no status, and eunuch chaos did not exist. However, since the eunuchs in charge of rites were the emperor's close personal, close to Tianyan, and well-informed, there were still many officials who fawned on them. Qin Wuyong also It's a sight to behold, this time Lun is a prisoner, and he has already been tortured by "back arrows" once, and he was tortured so badly that when he saw Yin Zuo, he immediately fell to his knees, screaming for injustice.

Yinzuo ignored Qin Wuyong's cry of grievances, and read his confession in detail, and found nothing wrong. It stated where Qin Wuyong had been these past few days and who he had met. False, but once the day breaks, a confrontation can be concluded, but I don't worry about Qin Wuyong telling lies.

"Old Qintou, you know the tricks of this king. If you accidentally tell someone the test questions, as long as you do it honestly, this king can still intercede for you. If not, there are hundreds of punishments here. The king will let you taste everything." Yinzuo said coldly.

Qin Wuyong was already too much to beat, and at this time, when he heard Yinzuo's words, he trembled even more, and said tremblingly: "My lord, please forgive me, I really didn't talk about the test questions to anyone, I am a slave, I am really a slave. Unjustly."

Injustice?Hey, there is a possibility. This old man has already reached the highest position that a eunuch can reach. Over the years, he has already earned enough money, and he is not short of money. It is unlikely that he will be bribed with promotion and money. He has no father or mother, no brothers, and no possibility of being threatened by others. He is also very strict on weekdays, and he will never make jokes about such important things as exam questions, but well, he has to take it out of this guy's mouth. Do something, don't you?Yin Zuo sneered and said: "You are wronged or not, the king will judge for himself. I ask you, those two little eunuchs are people you should take care of. Who do these two boys have contacts with on weekdays? Tell me! "

When Qin Wuyong heard that Yinzuo was asking about the two young eunuchs, he secretly heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Returning to the lord, Qin Ling entered the palace at the age of seven in the 32nd year of Kangxi, and he always followed the slaves. He has something to do with the outside of the palace, and the slaves are usually strictly controlled, so he will never let him talk. Li Xiaoyi entered the palace at the age of eight in the 33rd year of Kangxi. He was originally the servant of the Changchun Palace. Later, he was transferred to the Yuqing Palace, and only last year. The servant who comes here is under the care of the servant, the servant does not know much about this person, but he is usually very honest and has not committed any crimes, the servant has always paid little attention to this person."

Changchun Palace?As soon as Yin Zuo heard the name of this palace, his heart skipped a beat. It was Wu Ya's bedroom. Such a young eunuch ran from Changchun Palace to Yuqing Palace. The crown prince fell, but he could still be promoted to the Imperial Palace. Here There must be something strange in the head, it is absolutely impossible to say that there is no support behind this person, but it is still very difficult to say who is behind the scenes, the old fourteen is the most suspected, but other elder brothers' means cannot be ruled out , with the skills of the fourth, eighth, third and others, it is not difficult to promote a young eunuch quietly. This Li Xiaoyi is very suspicious, but that Qin Ling may not necessarily be clean.

If the two young eunuchs accidentally leaked the test questions, they will definitely not be able to hide in the first trial. I am afraid that the two young eunuchs are the dead of the elder brothers. It will be difficult to deal with such people, and ordinary punishments cannot be used at all If you open their mouths, you may even talk nonsense and bite at random. Since this matter involves the Changchun Palace, Yinzuo can't be careless. Fortunately, Yinzuo confessed not to interrogate these two young eunuchs first. .Yin Zuo pondered for a while, beckoned to No. [-] "Dark Arrow", exhorted a few words in a low voice, and strode out of the interrogation room. Qin Wuyong's screams of being tortured came from behind again, and the piercing howls Echoing in the sky prison, it's creepy.

Li Xiaoyi sat quietly in a corner of the cell. Since entering the sky prison, he has never said a word, nor made any movements, just sitting quietly; Qin Ling, who was in the same cell, walked back and forth Stop, there is something in his mouth, but it is very vague, no one knows what he is talking about, there are only two of them in this small prison, and it is very interesting to be still and move.The people in the surrounding cells were dragged out for interrogation from time to time, and some people were dragged back with bruises from time to time. Only the two of them were never interrogated, and they never had any conversations.

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye it was time to be ugly, the rooster was about to crow, and finally someone came to interrogate the two young eunuchs, several soldiers rushed in, picked them up without any explanation, and then left, dragging them all the way When they arrived at the interrogation room and put on the torture tools, a few burly men with bare upper body, without saying a word, beat their heads and faces, neither questioning nor paying attention to their crying father and mother, and beat them alive Beat him unconscious.

"Oh, it hurts me to death." Li Xiaoyi woke up from the coma, looked around in pain, and was shocked when he saw that it didn't matter. Knife and fork was looking at him, smiling wickedly, a pot of steam was steaming, dozens of strange instruments of torture were lined up on both sides, and behind a huge desk sat a red-clothed judge with blue face and long fangs. Laughing on the Internet is more ferocious than crying.

"Ah..." Li Xiaoyi let out a scream, and the ghost soldiers beside him unceremoniously grabbed Li Xiaoyi with a fork, no matter how Li Xiaoyi struggled, the fork grabbed Li Xiaoyi's hands and feet, and forked him in a daze Got blood.

"Crack" the judge in the hall slapped the gavel suddenly, and shouted: "Li Xiaoyi, you dare to yell at this judge's court even after you're dead, do you want to burn oil, tell me!"

"Dead, am I dead?" Li Xiaoyi looked at the red-clothed judge foolishly, nagging non-stop.

"Nonsense, you are not dead, how can I see you. Hahaha..." The red-clothed judge laughed horribly. He managed to hold back his laughter, picked up an account book on the table, and stared at Li Xiaoyi coldly. He said: "The new ghost Li Xiaoyi, born seventeen years old, formerly known as Li Gousheng, from Henan, father Li Dagui, mother Li Xiaohong'e, his father was fond of gambling, lost money and took his son to pay off his debts, and was later sold into the palace as an eunuch. Hey, what this judge hates are eunuchs, um, let this judge think about it, how should I deal with you, an eunuch, and put yourself in the frying pan? Not good enough, go to the mountain of swords? It’s boring, ah, yes, this judge intends to let you die again in the next life Be an eunuch, haha, that’s a good idea.”

"Ah, don't, grandpa judge, please spare the little one, please spare the little one." Li Xiaoyi had had enough of being a eunuch, and at this moment he was frightened out of his wits, begging for mercy blindly.

"No? Oh, let this judge investigate your crimes." The judge in red picked up the account book and checked again, and suddenly said angrily: "Okay, Li Xiaoyi, how dare you kill the court lady He Ling, and even colluded with others to commit adultery Court, you are so bold, hey, come on, put him in the frying pan first."

Li Xiaoyi yelled for mercy, but the ghost soldier picked up Li Xiaoyi and planned to throw him into the frying pan.Li Xiaoyi stared at the boiling oil pan, crying and struggling with a pale face, but he couldn't break free. At this moment, the judge in red suddenly said loudly: "Wait a minute, this person has done a good deed, ah!" , This judge will check it out, oh, I actually gave alms to a lonely old man, um, this kind of kindness can save me from being put into a frying pan, but I can’t change my life as a eunuch in the next life, unless... ..."

All the ghost soldiers threw Li Xiaoyi on the ground casually, Li Xiaoyi seemed to have a turning point when he heard the judge's words, and he didn't care about the pain, he got up and said: "Grandpa judge, please spare the little one, you can be a cow or a horse if you want it, Just don’t let the little one be a eunuch anymore.” Li Xiaoyi was originally a smart person, but he was dizzy by the tricks played by the judge in red. Knowing things, my heart was already flustered. At this time, I no longer wanted to be a eunuch, and I couldn't care about anything else.

"Hahaha..." The red-clothed judge let out a strange laugh and said, "The life and death book in this judge's hand can show the merits and demerits of all dead ghosts, but it can't reveal the things of living people. This judge is very interested in the cause of your death." Ah, ah, let me take a look at this judge, um, it turned out to be leaking the imperial examination questions, bastard thing, how dare you do such an outrageous thing. Drag it on and put it in the frying pan!"

A group of ghost soldiers rushed forward again, ready to lift Li Xiaoyi up. At this time, Li Xiaoyi was frightened, and hurriedly shouted: "Grandpa judge, please forgive me. The little one was also ordered by others, so I dare not do it."

"Tell me who is instigating you, and this judge can give you a lighter sentence." The red-clothed judge shouted decisively.

"The little one did it. Brother Fourteen asked the little one to do it. Grandpa judge, please forgive me, please forgive me." Li Xiaoyi shouted wildly again.

"Hahaha..." This time not only the judge laughed, but even the ghost soldiers laughed. A ghost soldier walked up to Li Xiaoyi with a confession, and said loudly: "Pull!"

Only then did Li Xiaoyi come to his senses, he had been duped, but he had already been tricked, and there was no way to change his words, so he could only put a charge on the confession, and several big men came up to the hall to hold Li Xiaoyi down.

The judge in red took off the mask on his face and revealed Yinzuo's face. Although the confession had been obtained at this time, he didn't look excited at all. It wasn't because the old fourteen had a good relationship with him because they had the same mother and brother. The reason was that the same trick was performed on Qin Ling before Li Xiaoyi was interrogated, but the confession he got was the old eighth.Both the eighth and the fourteenth knew the test questions in advance, but it was still a mystery who was the one who set up the game.

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Zhang Zhang asks for a monthly pass, brothers, please support Xiaoliu, he is only nine votes away from the top six in the classification, the big guys smashed the monthly pass!
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