Empress Jinghua: The eunuch is nine thousand years old

Chapter 95 It's Him

Xia Zijin nodded thoughtfully. The problem now is that they don't know who the person selling the test questions is, and they don't know where that person's test questions come from. She couldn't see through the conspiracy tailor-made for Xia Shengqing now.

"Princess, do we still need to look for clues in Li's Mansion?" Xiao Huanzi was also a little confused. He was already working with Xia Zijin, so he was not very smart about these brainy tasks.

Xia Zijin bit her lower lip and shook her head: "I rummaged in the study for a while just now, but I didn't find any strong clues. According to Mr. Fang, this matter may not be so simple. It seems that we all thought wrong Now, the Li family is only a small part of this matter, and there may be no useful clues in the Li family."

The mysterious person who sells test questions, the Hanlin Court's judgment who suddenly made a report, Xia Shengqing's imprisonment, and Ming Shengdi's fury.

This whole thing seems to be a huge weaving web, but there are incomprehensible breaks, making the whole thing seem fragmented and impossible to understand.

"Let's go, leave Li's mansion quickly, it's getting late, if you don't go back to the palace, I'm afraid the palace gate will be locked." Xia Zijin sighed, patted the dust on his clothes and got up.

Xiao Huanzi nodded, put the stick and the basin holding the water back to their original places, and then left the study with Xia Zijin.

The three of them were walking around in the pitch-dark Li Mansion, surrounded by nothing but the faint chirping of birds on the trees.

Fang Zhou lowered his eyes, and the woman beside him was her savior, and it was an existence that he had remembered in his heart since that day.I heard that Princess Mingzhu has a marriage contract with Manager Xia, so she came to the Li Mansion so eagerly to find clues, probably because of that Manager Xia.

For some reason, he felt a little uncomfortable, clasped his hands in his sleeves, and shook his head.On the day when he was named on the gold list, what he thought about the most was not that he could live a good life from now on, nor that he could become famous, nor that his official career would go smoothly, but... that he could see her again.

Such a beautiful and picturesque princess is a ray of warmth in his heart. He once thought whether becoming the number one scholar would mean being closer to her, whether he would work harder and get the emperor's approval twice, and one day he would be able to... Stand by her side?

Fang Zhou sighed a little dejectedly, why is the princess' lover an eunuch.

"Master Fang, you..."

Xia Zijin heard an almost inaudible sigh behind her, and was about to ask aloud, but Xiao Huanzi grabbed the corner of her clothes abruptly. When she looked, she saw Xiao Huanzi's index finger across his lips, making a gesture to her. made a hissing gesture.

Xia Zijin didn't know why, so she sank down, and saw Xiao Huanzi gestured to the two of them, and the two looked in the direction of his fingers, and saw a very faint fire in the room at the end of the corridor. .

The three of them looked at each other, they were all shocked, besides them, there was actually a fourth person in Li's residence?

"Xiao Huanzi, take the stick from the study, let's go over quietly and take a look." Xia Zijin said in a deep voice, staring at the faint light, her eyebrows frowned.

The three of them took light steps and walked slowly towards the door at the end step by step. The closer they got, the more obvious the firelight became. Xiao Huanzi swallowed a mouthful of saliva. At that time, he clearly didn't see the light on in this room, but now his son's lights flickered, indicating that before they came in, someone had been hiding in it...

When you get close to the room, you can no longer stand, otherwise, like the situation in the study just now, there is light inside, and the shadows of people outside will be reflected on the window paper, and people in the room will clearly understand that there are people outside.

"I'll count to three, and you will kick the door, Xiao Huanzi." Xia Zijin said in a low voice, and the three of them squatted at the base of the wall, feeling uneasy.

Xiao Huanzi nodded, and the three of them looked at each other, Xia Zijin silently counted three times with his lips parted, then Xiao Huanzi kicked open the door with a bang, danced the wooden stick in his hand and beat it in the air several times. He kept saying, "I'll kill you and kill you!"

"Duke Huan...don't hit me..."

Fang Zhou patted Xiao Huanzi who was struggling with the air with his eyes closed, pointing to the front and saying, "Here is the man."

Xiao Huanzi opened his eyes with a cry, only to see that Xia Zijin had already walked in front of the man, and scratched his head embarrassedly.

The people in the room did not expect to be discovered, and the oil lamp held in his hand was too late to be extinguished. He was sitting on the ground, the clothes on his body were stained with blood, and the clothes on his abdomen were torn open, revealing the layers of wrapping inside. The gauze was worn, and dark red blood slowly seeped from there.

Xia Zijin stared blankly at the person in front of him. His face was a bit blurry, not because of anything else, but because the flesh on his face was rolled up, as if he had been cut by some sharp weapon, and the bones were deeply visible. , bloody.

"Princess, what's wrong with you?"

Since Xia Zijin was standing in front of the man, neither Xiao Huanzi nor Fang Zhou could see the man's state clearly. When they saw Xia Zijin's strange reaction, they were also puzzled, and they all looked forward. It didn't matter if they didn't look at it. Frightened, frail scholars like Fang Zhou turned pale instantly, and involuntarily took two steps back.

"You... who are you!"

Xiao Huanzi had the courage to stand in front of Xia Zijin. After all, he was an eunuch from the palace. Even if something scary happened, he would stand in front of his master immediately.

The man covered in blood obviously didn't expect to meet them either, his hand holding the oil lamp was trembling, and the vigilance in his eyes was undoubtedly evident.

The more Xia Zijin looked at it, the more something was wrong, she turned aside Xiao Huanzi and took two steps forward, Xiao Huanzi quickly grabbed her and said, "Princess...dangerous..."

Xia Zijin waved her hand, looked at the bloody person, and observed it carefully for a while, her suspicions became more and more intense, she calmly asked, "Are you that [-]-year-old who sells test questions? "

The man's body visibly trembled, and he wanted to drag his body to move outside the door, but he was injured all over his body, and he obviously lacked strength, and it was futile to move more, so he had to lean back with difficulty, his cloudy eyes were very vigilant He stared at the three without saying a word.

Hearing Xia Zijin's question, Fang Zhou looked at the man in surprise, only to see that although the man was completely unrecognizable, the mole on the right side of the nose could not be more conspicuous. Judging from his body shape and age, he was also in his forties. He walked in Taking a closer look, those cloudy eyes seemed familiar. Could it be the unknown man who came to his house to sell imperial examination papers that day?

"Princess, I recognize him, it's him..." Fang Zhou whispered, although he was puzzled, he was more shocked. Who ordered him to sell the imperial examination questions, and who made him look like this?
The man was still silent, his eyes dodged and buried in his chest. Under the dim light of the oil lamp, his wounded face was even more eerie.

"If you don't speak, then we have no choice but to go out. The yamen is 300 meters to the right of Li's mansion. Although it is late at the moment, it is difficult for you to climb even if you are like this. For an hour, you won't be able to leave this Li residence."

Xia Zijin saw that he seemed to be avoiding someone, said so deliberately, and stared at that person carefully, and sure enough, his body trembled, and he became very frightened, opened and closed his mouth, and finally compromised.

"What do you want to do..."

Xia Zijin laughed, walked a step further and looked at the unrecognizable man, and said in a fixed voice, "We won't hurt you, but you must tell us the ins and outs of your sale of imperial examination questions."

The man didn't expect that they were also here for this matter, he was silent for a moment, coughed a few times suddenly, the wound on his abdomen trembled, faintly bleeding, the situation was not optimistic.

"What if I say no..."

Xia Zijin spread his hands and said, "Do you have any other choice now, not to mention whether we will go to the Yamen to report you for hiding in the banned Li Mansion, even if we leave like nothing happened, you think How long can you survive this injury?"

The man looked gloomy, his hand holding the oil lamp trembled slightly, and he was very afraid of death.

"If you are willing to speak well, we will save you. One piece of information is for your life, you can decide for yourself."

After that, Xia Zijin didn't speak anymore, and the three of them looked at him, the surrounding was silent, only the vigorously burning flame in the oil lamp flickered from side to side, and the oil made a burning sound.

"Let's go, I'm afraid he doesn't want to live anymore, so why make things difficult for others."

Xia Zijin said coldly, she folded her forehead and was about to leave, and the two of them followed closely behind, seeing five steps, three steps, one step, and one step away from the door, the person behind him panicked, The hoarse voice dragged out: "Wait a minute..."

Xia Zijin smiled slyly, and quickly hid herself again, turned around and said coldly: "Your Excellency, are you willing to say it?"

The man hesitated for a while, then asked with uncertainty, "If I said... would you really save me?"

"It's hard to chase after a gentleman's words." Xia Zijin said, pointing to the wound on his abdomen, shaking his head with regret, "You can wait, but I'm afraid you can't wait for the wound in your abdomen. If you don't want to die, don't die." nonsense."

The fire was flickering, and the sound of burning oil filled the surroundings. The man sighed deeply, and after saying a word of destiny, he sat up straight with difficulty, and said in a low voice, "That's right... Someone gave me a sum of money that would last me a lifetime, and gave me a secret letter asking me to sell test questions to the students of this year's Imperial Examination..."

Xia Zijin pointed to Fang Zhou behind him and said, "Do you recognize him?"

The man nodded, his throat hurt again, and he coughed for a while before continuing: "This young master is also one of the students. I visited a total of fifteen schools with the test questions, and the man said that the bid would be 3 taels, ordinary people would believe that a person with unknown background would sell the so-called palace examination questions, most of them kicked me out, only Mr. Li from the Li family... bought it without saying a word."

(End of this chapter)