The reborn prince can't be pushed down

Chapter 170

"Quick, rush over there immediately!"

I didn't expect the other party to react so quickly, and I just wanted to burn all the evidence with a fire!

Ning Yuezhao hated herself so much at this moment, she didn't understand Qingchi's handwriting as well as Lu Ji, she panicked when she saw the familiar handwriting just now, if she could have noticed it at that time, and controlled the situation in the Ministry of Rites in time, everything would be in time, But now!

Feeling the increasingly intense burnt smell at the end of her nose, Ning Yuezhao was burning with anxiety.

"Your Majesty, calm down."

Seeing her self-reproach, Lu Ji couldn't help persuading her.

Ning Yuezhao slowly tightened her hands in the sleeve cage, and shook her head lightly.

Yuan Xi, who was driving the carriage, knew that the situation was urgent, so he hurriedly drove the carriage to the yamen of the Ministry of Rites.

When the carriage stopped, Zuo Ming was already directing the guards of the Imperial Army to help the people from the Ministry of Rites put out the fire.

The gate of the yamen was open, and there was a lot of water all over the place, and people coming and going around were carrying water in and out.The yamen of the six ministries are all close together, so there are many people who have come to help.

Ning Yuezhao looked at the flames soaring into the sky, her gaze turned a little colder, "What's going on?"

The guards of the imperial army had already controlled Qin Suqian, and when they saw Ning Yuezhao, they immediately brought them over and pushed her to kneel down.

"Forgive me, Your Majesty. I returned home when I arrived at the yamen. I heard that the yamen was on fire and rushed here. I was arrested by the guards when I arrived at the yamen. I haven't had time to find out what happened."

Even at this moment, Qin Suqian is still calm.

By the light of the fire, Ning Yuezhao quietly looked at her, "You are really nice, I have underestimated you in the past."

Qin Suqian raised her head slightly, "I don't understand what His Majesty is talking about. As the minister of the Ministry of Rites, I have no shirkable responsibility for the fire in the yamen. I am willing to suffer any punishment!"

Ning Yuezhao looked at her face without waves, and felt even more angry in her heart. Even though she was also a woman, she did not sympathize with her at all for what she did.

"Don't you understand? The means of the Forbidden Army Prison will let you understand."

A flash of surprise finally flashed in Qin Suqian's eyes, "Your Majesty, even if a minister has dereliction of duty, he should be interrogated by Yu Shitai. How could you let the Imperial Army lynch your minister?"

Ning Yuezhao pursed her lips tightly, looking at her with cold eyes.

At this moment, a clear male voice came from behind Qin Suqian, "I will give you a reason."

Ning Yuezhao looked up, and saw Jiang Nian, who was dressed in a blue brocade robe, walking slowly, his eyes and brows were stern, and only when his gaze touched Ning Yuezhao would there be tenderness in his veins.

"Why are you here?" Ning Yuezhao was a little surprised. The direction he came was not the direction of the palace, which meant that he arrived earlier than her.

Jiang Nian approached her, gently held her icy hand, and said softly: "When you come back from the martial arts training ground, you will understand everything when you see the list on the political hall."

Because the grand parade in May is approaching, when there is nothing to do these few days, Jiang Nian will go to the school grounds to practice martial arts with the guards.

At this time, because the yamen of the Ministry of Rites was on fire, the people of the imperial capital were alarmed. Although the guards of the imperial guards intercepted them, they still couldn't stop the people who wanted to watch from afar, and many of them were students who participated in the Spring Festival.They were very worried that the sudden fire in the Ministry of Rites would affect tomorrow's announcement, so even in the face of guards with weapons, they refused to leave.

It was precisely because of so many bystanders that the situation at the entrance of the Ritual Gate became a little tense.

"It's unreasonable. I waited for Han Chuang to study hard for ten years, and now I have been burned. How can the court be so unfair!"

"I'm afraid some people didn't see our poor family's children coming out, so they did it on purpose!"

"Scholars can be killed but not humiliated, the imperial court can't treat us like this!"

Despite facing all kinds of doubts, with Jiang Nian by her side, feeling the envelopment of his warm palm, Ning Yuezhao's tight strings were slightly relaxed, she stopped talking and left the situation to Jiang Nian.

The Ministry of Rites has already submitted the list to the imperial court, even if the original scrolls are burned now, it will not affect the announcement of the list of tributes tomorrow.Thinking of this, Qin Suqian regained her usual calmness and self-control. "If Your Majesty insists on letting this official enter the prison of the Imperial Army, this official will have nothing to say."

Her voice suddenly increased, even outside the chaotic fire scene, it was extremely loud, enough for onlookers to hear.

Jiang Nian held Ning Yuezhao's hand and looked down at her, "You can cover the sky with your own hands, play tricks, condone the fraud in the examination room, set people on fire in the yamen of the Ministry of Rites, intend to destroy the evidence, and deceive the king. Your Majesty is disrespectful, and now you are still cutting out words to quibble, it is enough for you to sit in the Imperial Army's Governor's Mansion."

Hearing about the cheating in the examination room, the hearts of the students onlookers suddenly tensed up.After all, no one wants their ten years of painstaking efforts to be easily replaced by others with money and power.So even though Qin Suqian looked like a proud and upright woman in the past, like a plum blossom in the frost and snow, but when it came to fraud in the examination room, everyone couldn't sympathize with her.

"Hmph, I knew that these rich and powerful would not like our humble children!"

"We must severely punish those who engage in malpractice for personal gain in the examination hall, otherwise the hearts of all students in the world will be chilled!"

The mood of the masses was once again provoked, and the Imperial Army had to step up their efforts to stop them from rushing forward.

Qin Suqian looked up at Jiang Nian, "Even if you are His Royal Highness, you can't just talk nonsense, why do you say that this humble minister has done these things?"

Jiang Nian sighed softly, and looked at Qin Suqian compassionately and pitifully, "I don't shed tears when I don't see the coffin."

As soon as he sighed, the guards of the Imperial Army escorted an inconspicuous clerk from the Ministry of Rites over and forced him to kneel down, "Your Highness, this man was caught by his subordinates near the room where the fire broke out. He was holding a fire bag and was about to light a fire, but the ground was covered with kerosene."

The servant was flustered, his hair was a little disheveled, and his body was trembling unceasingly. When he saw Jiang Nian, he kowtowed, "Your Highness, please forgive me! The villain knew his mistake. Since it didn't cause a catastrophe, please forgive me." Let the villain die!"

When the subordinate official said that no catastrophe was caused, Qin Suqian's eyes flashed with astonishment, but she quickly calmed down, "Your Highness, it's true that this person is from the yamen of the Ministry of Rites, and the subordinate official does not deny that the supervision is not strict , but just because of this, the subordinate officials will be handed over to the imperial army, and the humble minister refuses to accept it!"

After finishing speaking, she looked coldly at the subordinate who was kneeling beside her, "Why did you set fire to the original volume of Chunwei?"

"Small man..." The subordinate was stunned by her sudden scolding.

"Heh." Jiang Qingnian laughed, "Who told you that the fire was in the room where the original volume of Chunwei was stored? I remember that Qin Shangshu was stopped by the guards just before he stepped into the gate of the Yamen. Could it be that you have the ability to predict?"

Qin Suqian's heart skipped a beat, her voice trembling, "I was just guessing, after all, the most important things in the Ministry of Rites are those test papers."

Jiang Nian's smile remained unchanged, his eyes swept over the subordinate with coldness, "You come and tell her."

The subordinate said tremblingly: "Your Highness, the villain has no choice but to accept the money because his mother is seriously ill. The man said that as long as you set a fire in the room where Chunwei's test papers are stored today, someone will deal with it afterwards." , the villain will not be involved in the slightest. The villain was also confused for a while! The villain was taken down by the guards before the fire was lit, Your Highness, please forgive me!"

After finishing speaking, the subordinate kept bowing his head, and blood stains appeared on the ground paved with blue bricks not long after.

At this time, the night had completely fallen. Qin Suqian looked at the gradually extinguished fire, and the smell of fireworks in her nose gradually dissipated. She looked at Jiang Nian in disbelief, "Then what's going on with this fire? Where did it start?"

Is there another wave of people trying to tamper with the Chunwei test paper?

Ning Yuezhao tightened the hand she held with Jiang Nian, and frowned slightly, "What's going on?"

Jiang Nian smiled, "I knew today was the day when the Ministry of Rites submitted the list, so I came back early, but it happened that you just left. When I saw the list on the case, I knew something was wrong, so I immediately let you The man secretly stared at the Ministry of Rites, unexpectedly, I really caught him.

Since you all hope so much to see the Ministry of Rites go viral, how can Gu let you down?It's just that the six yamen are the most important places of the imperial court after all, so I ordered someone to burn some waste in the atrium to create some fire and smoke, just to invite you into the urn! "

If he had known that the other party wanted to take advantage of his loopholes, how could Jiang Nian not be prepared?Since the Qushui Banquet, he ordered people to spy on Qin Suqian and the others, but neither she nor Xu Zhi had made any moves, and today they finally couldn't help showing their feet.

Qin Suqian settled down, looked at Jiang Nian, and regained her usual indifference, "Your Highness still can't prove that this person is the chief envoy of a humble minister."

The subordinate also said: "The villain was not instructed by Qin Shangshu..."

Before he finished speaking, Jiang Nian's cold gaze swept him away, and he immediately silenced himself.

Jiang Nian waved his hand, and several guards and officials from the Ministry of Rites brought out several boxes of things.

The servant of the Ministry of Rites knelt in front of Jiang Nian and Ning Yuezhao, "I see your Majesty, Your Highness. This is the original volume of Chunwei, and it's all here."

Seeing those well-locked boxes, many of the excited onlookers breathed a sigh of relief.

Several leading students knelt down one after another, emotionally, and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty, my husband, the fact that the original volume is not destroyed, can this prove that no one has cheated?"

Jiang Nian turned to the crowd of onlookers, and said in a voice that was clear enough for everyone to hear: "The imperial court has always employed people based on their talents, and they will never treat them differently because of their family status. Of course they can't, so I'm here today." Under the witness of all the students, we will investigate this matter and give an explanation to the students all over the world."

Qin Suqian said coldly: "Since that's the case, why doesn't Your Highness dare to let the subordinate continue to talk? It's clear that he has already said that he is not the envoy of the humble minister! The minister is also from a poor family, if His Highness insists on putting this crime on the humble minister's head , I am powerless to refute!"

She saw that most of the students who were watching today were from poor families, so she deliberately brought out her family background in order to muddy the water even more.

Jiang Nian looked at her sympathetically, and said to the petty official, "Speak."

(End of this chapter)