Chapter Thirty-Seven: The First Champion
Sui Qing turned to look at Sima Gongzi and said, "Do you remember the appearance of the person who stole your article?!"
Sima Gongzi looked at Suijing, and when he saw Suijing, he shook his head and immediately said, "No!"
Sui Qing asked: "Then how do you know that the person who stole your article is Chu Gongzi? And on the day you said the article was lost, Chu Gongzi happened to be in my mansion with a group of literati to participate in the Qushui Liuzhen, where is the time to steal your article?"
Sui Jing said: "Fifth brother, you don't have to do it yourself, isn't there a guard by his side who looks like he has a good hand?"
"Yes, yes!" Sima Gongzi pointed at Yan Chengcheng and said, "He was the one who stole my article that day!"
Sui Qing said: "Didn't Childe say that he had never seen the person who stole the article?"
"This ...... This ......" Sima Gongzi thought for a while and said, "That day, I saw a figure in a daze, like a guard beside Gongzi Chu!"
He said casually: "Since you have seen it, why don't you stop it?" and let him take away the article you worked so hard to write?"
Sima Gongzi said: "I stopped it, he knocked me unconscious with a palm, and then I woke up and the article was gone!"
"Really?" Sui Qing said: "Then since there is a fight, you should always be able to hear movement in the inn, right?
"That's enough!" The emperor stopped the argument of several people, looked at Chu Zui, who was kneeling on the ground without saying a word, with uncertain eyes, and said, "Why doesn't Gongzi Chu speak?!"
Chu Zui raised his eyes, pursed his lips, and looked at the emperor on the high platform without hesitation, and said simply: "If you want to add crimes, why bother?"
This concise sentence made the emperor a little more interested in her gaze, and the great tribulation was neither humble nor arrogant at the moment, but in comparison it was more calm than Sima Gongzi.
"Father!" said casually: "Don't be deceived by Chu drunk's rhetoric!"
"But I didn't hear any rhetoric from Gongzi Chu!" the emperor turned his head to look at Suijing, this sentence was to defend Chu drunk.
Chu Zui was happy in his heart, the previous silence was still useful, at least in exchange for the emperor's partiality towards her, the situation was stronger than people, and she had already won this battle.
"Father!" A childish and gentle voice came from the inner hall behind the dragon chair, and then a handsome young man about seventeen or eighteen years old walked out from behind, showing a youthful spirit between his steps, it was the Nine Emperor Prince Sui'an.
As soon as he saw him, the emperor's tightly frowning brows suddenly relaxed, and his mood seemed to change a lot: "An'er, didn't you ask you to wait for your father to finish this matter in the inner hall?"
Sui An said: "Isn't it just a small imperial examination? How can my father's body be important, I have been hot twice in the medicine, and my father will not come to drink it, the effect of the medicine should be reduced!"
Chu Zui looked at the father and son on this high platform, it was clearly the most ordinary happy scene, it seemed that the closest thing to the emperor was this Nine Emperor Prince Sui'an, although he gave Sui Yu a piece of honor, but he liked the Nine Emperor Princes from the bottom of his heart.
During this time, she also knew more or less about the princes, the eighth prince Suining and the ninth prince Sui'an did not ask about political affairs, and had a cheerful and easy-going temperament, but because Suining preferred to meet casually, and the most hated thing for the general emperor was to form a party for personal gain, so he loved Sui'an.
The emperor smiled lovingly and said: "An'er, you could have been the champion when you looked at the amazing article, but there were two copies of the same, how should this matter be handled?"
"This one, it's easy!" Sui An said, "The father only needs to ask these two to write another strategy, and the winner is the one who writes this article!"
Sui Jing said: "Ninth brother's method is too ridiculous, if the plagiarist can write better, wouldn't it make the original person even more wronged?!"
Sui An laughed twice and said: "The third brother is wrong, since my father said that the person who wrote this article has a world-class talent, then there must be very few people who can copy it, and the winner must also have a world-class talent, and those who have a world-class talent naturally don't need to steal an article that is weaker than themselves, and if there is a world-class talent, why be afraid to give it a try?!"
The emperor said: "What An'er said is that Jing'er still needs to learn more!"
"Yes, Father!" Sui Jing blushed again and lowered his head without saying a word, and was trampled on the soles of his feet by his own brother in front of the emperor.
Soon the eunuchs had already set up two tables in front of the two of them, Yan Qingcheng gently supported Chu Zui's shoulder, and said, "Let's go?!"
Chu drunk: ???
Yan Qingcheng lowered his voice and said, "Aren't you uneducated?!"
Chu drunk: "......"
Chu Zui sighed and patted Yan Chengcheng and said, "It's okay, it's just a policy theory, I will still write a policy theory!"
At the time of the three incense sticks, Chu Zui calmly waved his pen to write the most memorable policy in his mind, this is a policy that her white general Bai Ling has been hanging on his lips all day long, Bai Ling is a powerful ghost that she finally subdued, she was also the champion of a country before her death, and she also has amazing literary talents, every time she gets a good sentence, she always has to babble in her ear for a while, but she never thought that the things that usually listen to the ears are calloused will one day come in handy!
However, Bai Ling's words can't be fully believed, such as the wind is blowing and the clouds are flying, and the second or third friends go out to wave.
When there was still half a stick of incense left, Chu Zui had already finished writing a "Sheng Lin Fu" with a magnificent momentum, talking about governing the country, praising the emperor's merits, and praising the prosperity of Dayue, this kind of article was most appreciated by the emperor in the prosperous era, including the article that Bai Xiaosheng sold her, which was also of this type.
And looking at Sima Gongzi on the side, he was sweating all over his body, and he didn't have time to take care of the ink on his sleeves, and he couldn't finish writing a whole article until the end.
The chief eunuch received the article and first showed it to the emperor, and after reading it, the emperor signaled the chief eunuch to show it to Suiqing and the civil officials, not to mention a few invigilators, even Suiqing was shocked to see Chu drunk, and a few days ago she looked down on her "two or three friends went out to wave" rhetoric, today she was able to write such a magnificent article, it seems that it is really not an overnight thing.
On the other hand, Sima Gongzi's article, sketching and drawing, obviously only wrote a few sentences, but it is still cliché.
"The victory or defeat is already obvious!Third brother?!" The Nine Emperor Princes Sui An lowered his eyes and looked at Sui Jing, his eyes were as sharp as an eagle, and he couldn't see a cold sweat for Sui Jing.
"If the order goes down, Sima will steal the article, disrupt the scientific examination, slander the champion of the dynasty, and disrupt the order of the court, and his heart can be punished!"
"No, no!" Sima turned pale with fright, and immediately collapsed to the ground, and there was already dripping urine under him, stumbling his hands and feet, and crawling towards Suijing, crying:
"Three princes, three princes save me...... Third Prince, you instructed me to do this, and now that something has happened, you can't stay out of it, Third Prince......"