Chapter 30: The Past
An Yinhuo raised his head fiercely, looked at Fang Yage and said: "My father is an upright person, he has been an honest official for more than ten years, and the expenses in the house are even supported by my mother's dowry, even so, my father has never been greedy in the slightest. So I believe that my father would never sell the exam questions for money! ”
Fang Yage frowned when he heard this, it really doesn't make sense, the so-called country is easy to change, and the nature is difficult to change, and it is impossible for a person to suddenly undergo earth-shaking changes.
"What else happened before and after Lord An was arrested?" Fang Yage asked.
An Yinhuo listened to it and tried to recall, and said: "Before my father was arrested, he wrote to the emperor to report that there was a phenomenon of private sale of exam questions among students in the capital, but I didn't expect that what I was waiting for was the accusation of the Ministry of Rites, saying that my father leaked the questions. ”
Thinking that when his father was taken away, he had told him to take good care of his mother and sister, An Yinhuo lowered his head, he failed his father and didn't take care of them.
"Then how did Master An know that someone leaked questions among students?"
"My father is in the ritual system of Qing Shilang, and there are many candidates who come to the door on weekdays, some worship their father's academic demeanor, and some have the intention of clinging. I remember that day as soon as one of the students left, my father locked himself in the study and did not come out for a day, and my mother and I were very worried. Later, I found out that it was this man who sued my father for leaking the problem. ”
"Do you see the man's face? If it was really him who revealed it, why didn't Lord An show up when he was judged? "Since you dare to poke such a big thing out, why do you become a turtle with a shrunken head when it comes to the end.
An Yinhuo smiled desolately, and said in his heart, it is easy to put the icing on the cake, but it is difficult to send charcoal in the snow, this person must be afraid, in order to protect himself, he refused to come out.
"Didn't Lord Ann reveal this man's name? Since I was able to visit the house, I guess I should be familiar with Lord An. Fang Yage then asked.
An Yinhuo slowed down for a moment before saying, "I also have this doubt, how can my father confess?" So my mother and I pawned the valuable items in the house, bought off the guards of the Dali Temple cell, and met my father. ”
Recalling the scene at that time, An Yinhuo took a deep breath and slowly spit it out, "Father was already covered in bruises at that time!" Seeing that my mother and I just sued us, the other party is too powerful and the means are too powerful, let's not think about revenge, go away as much as possible, and live incognito...... My mother and I refused to live or die, and my father had no choice but to tell us what had happened. ”
After An Yinhuo finished speaking, he glanced at his sister on the side, and then said: "Not long after my father was arrested, Wang Meng, the head of his subordinate, committed suicide by leaving a book, which directly pointed out that his father coerced him to leak the exam questions, so he was shameless and committed suicide to apologize. In order to frame their father, they also ruined the future of more than a dozen students, and more than a dozen people testified to each other, all saying that their father was the one who leaked the question, which can be said to be conclusive evidence. And the candidate mentioned by my father, they also checked, and there was no such person at all. “
But even so, my father resolutely refused to admit the trumped-up charge until he ...... It wasn't until they took away the personal ornaments of our mother and son and threatened us with our lives that my father confessed to the crime. ”
An Yinhuo's face was sad and resentful, it turned out that in his father's heart, the three of them were the most important, even more important than his cherished reputation!
"According to you, there are not many people who can have such power. can kill the court officials, buy and coerce the living to destroy their future, do you know who is behind the scenes? Fang Yage calmly analyzed, guessing who was behind the scenes.
"My father wouldn't say it, because he was afraid that the more we knew, the more dangerous it would be." An Bangxing's original intention was to save the lives of his wife and children, so how could he tell the truth.
"Who do you think framed Lord An?" Fang Yage continued to ask, in the previous life, An Yinhuo became Jin Yu's right-hand man, and he didn't hate his uncle, could it be that he was the king's person?
An Yinhuo was silent for a while, not knowing how to answer this question, if he told the county lord of Anning who his enemy was, would the county lord of Anning still dare to take in their brother and sister? If they don't say it, then will they bring danger to the princess's mansion?
Glancing at Fang Yage's calm expression, An Yinhuo decided to take a gamble, he couldn't be ungrateful, since the county lord saved them, he had the right to know the truth
"I suspect that the person who harmed my father is the Ministry of Rites Shangshu - Xie Lingjun!"
"The leakage of the test questions should be done by insiders in the Ministry of Rites, which is under the jurisdiction of King Cui Qiguang. My father used to say......"
An Yinhuo paused, glanced at Fang Yage, and then said: "Although the emperor has been on the throne for many years, Cui Qiguang's heart of supporting King Jian is immortal, so there will be so many students from the north who will be promoted in the imperial examination every time. Although the emperor can handpick champions, list eyes, and explore flowers, he can't control the number of hundreds of people, and can only watch Cui Qiguang cultivate power for King Jian. ”
"My father has always been loyal and patriotic, and in private, Mr. Gong, the young master of the crown prince, often discussed knowledge with his father, and even His Royal Highness the prince once praised his father as a virtuous minister, and his father was the most likely candidate to succeed Xie Lingjun. So I think it must be Xie Lingjun and Cui Qiguang who feel that their father is a threat to them, and this spring boudoir leak is a trap, in order to uproot their father. ”
After An Yinhuo finished speaking, he glanced at Fang Yage again, there were too many things in the court, and the county lord of Anning might not know about it, but looking at the county lord's frowning expression, An Yinhuo felt that maybe the county lord of Anning knew.
These Fang Yage naturally knew that the eldest son of the first emperor, the prince Jin Zhao at that time married Ding Fenglan, the daughter of Ding Maoshan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, but later the prince was deposed and fled to Qingze due to rebellion, and Ding Maoshan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was beheaded, so I learned about Lingjun taking over the book of the Ministry of Rites.
Since then, the Ministry of Rites has always been under Cui Qiguang's control, and Cui Qiguang is the uncle of King Jian's Jin Rong, so An Yinhuo will say that his enemies are Xie Lingjun, that is, Cui Qiguang and Jin Rong.
After a while, Ya Ge pulled out of his thoughts, looked at An Yinhuo and said, "Those few students who have made human certificates are all from the north?" ”
"Yes, the few students who testified were all northerners, and they all belonged to the fiefdom of King Jian Jin Rong." That's why he suspected that Xie Lingjun and Cui Qiguang were manipulating behind the scenes.
"How are the dozen or so people ranking this year?" Fang Yage asked again.
"Their ranking...... Position...... Yes, especially a few are still two Jinshi, and even ranked very high, this, this is not quite right......" An Yinhuo seemed to suddenly fall into a fog, and always felt that something was not right.
"yes, that's not quite right! In order to frame your father, arrange for the chief Wang Meng to leave a book to commit suicide, and threaten the lives of your mother and son, so it is enough. Why waste the future of a dozen students with good rankings? Even if you want to find people, you have to find those who are not very capable, so it is common sense. ”
Fang Yage calmly analyzed, An Yinhuo was struck by lightning, Fang Yage gave Zisu a look, and Zisu helped the An family brothers and sisters up and sat on the chairs.
Fang Yage wanted to know if there was Jin Yu's handwriting in this. In a case of a spring boudoir leak, both his uncle and Jin Rong were damaged, and Fang Yage always felt that this matter was not as simple as it seemed on the surface. If this matter was really done by Jin Rong, it would simply hurt the enemy by a thousand and lose himself by eight hundred, which was really not very cost-effective.
After a quarter of an hour, An Yinhuo came back to his senses violently: "This matter is not right, Xie Lingjun does not have such great courage to dare to lose so many people, Cui Qiguang is reluctant to come!" ”
As if thinking of something, An Yinhuo stood up and said: "And the students didn't jump out by themselves, they were reported by people in the same department, I always thought that they deliberately made it like this, so that it seemed real, but it turned out that they were also calculated." ”
An Yinhuo remembered the cause and effect, originally there were only two students who testified against his father, and later pulled and bit out more than a dozen people, and these people couldn't survive the big punishment before they were recruited. After all, fraud in the imperial examination will be honored at most, and it will not be killed.
"I thought they were doing a real job and blocking the mouths of the people in the world, but it turned out to be a dumb person eating coptis, and it was calculated, haha, hahahaha...... Retribution! An Yinhuo suddenly felt very relieved, this was their own doing.
"In a leaking case, Lord An lost his life, Jin Rong and Cui Qiguang lost more than a dozen available talents, and they also had a reputation for framing Zhongliang, I think this matter may be fueled by someone behind it." Fang Yage said calmly, and An Yinhuo also had this guess.
Fang Yage is even more confused now, in that case, why does An Yinhuo hate his father? At this time, An Yinhuo should say that he has no dissatisfaction with his uncle, his father is a military general, and it is impossible to participate in this matter.
"Why didn't you leave the capital after Lord An went?" Fang Yage asked.
An Yinhuo stared at Fang Yage for a moment of hesitation, is it really good to say this?
Fang Yage knew that the problem should be here, so he said, "If you don't tell me everything, I don't know how to help you." ”
An Yinhuo looked at the girl in front of him, although she was still young, and even there were traces of a child between her eyebrows and eyes, but she was cautious, and she saved herself in the hands of such a dangerous person, An Yinhuo now has a trust in the other party's Yage.
Gritting his teeth, he said: "We originally wanted to follow our father's orders and go away, not for anything else, for my mother and sister, I can't die, otherwise I will definitely fight with those dog thieves." ”
"But not long after my father's accident, my mother fell ill, and in the past two months she became more and more sick, and we ran out of money, but my mother's illness could not be delayed. I had no choice, so I begged those who had been friends in the past, but they wouldn't see me at all. Thinking of the feeling of begging for help, An Yinhuo's whole body was filled with sadness.
"In desperation, I could only go to the prince's mansion, thinking that maybe the prince and the prince would be willing to help our mother and son. I waited outside the house for a day, but I didn't see Taifu...... The next day the person from the department brought a housekeeper and gave us some money for the mother and son...... So our mother and son rented a house in the north of the city to live, but my mother's condition was getting worse and worse, and two days ago, ...... Also, I went with my father. ”