"Last year, you and Zhao Chenming participated in the township examination together, you read poetry and books, the questions on the exam paper are not difficult for you, and you can do it with a wave, thinking that this township examination will definitely be among the best; But I don't want to release the list on the day, the person at the top is Zhao Chenming, but you are named Sun Shan. In terms of knowledge and talent, Zhao Chenming, who has mediocre talents, can hardly look at you, no matter how he should be on the list. These are all news that Chen Yuanjing got from the Zhejiang Academic Administration.

Zhao Chenyi's face was buried in the shadows, his hands were clenched tightly in the thick iron chains of his arms, and his knuckles turned blue and white under the continuous force, "The world is impermanent, who dares to guarantee that he will definitely be able to pass the exam." That time, I can only say that my eldest brother's luck was better than mine. ”

"Really?" Yin Zhen stroked the purple brocade robe disapprovingly and said indifferently: "I asked Governor Chen to find Zhejiang Xuezheng to review the two papers, and compared them with the papers in your childhood exam, Zhao Chenming's papers should be yours." Someone changed your name after handing in your papers. Zhao Chenming's identity should have belonged to you! ”

Speaking of this, he turned to Fang Lian'er, who was shocked to hear it, and a faint sigh accompanied by a voice sounded in the gloomy cell, "You are bent on finding me to overturn the case for Zhao Chenyi, but in the end, I am afraid that you will be disappointed, because the person was indeed killed by Zhao Chenyi; There has never been an unjust case, never a frame-up case, it is true! ”

"Impossible!" Fang Li'er shook her head in disbelief as if she had been struck by lightning, "Chen Yi won't kill anyone, absolutely not!" Since she met Zhao Chenyi, he has always been polite, gentle and elegant, how can such a person kill people, and he has killed more than ten people in a row.

Yin Zhen shook his head and turned his gaze back to Zhao Chenyi, "Judging from your reaction at the moment, I didn't guess wrong, you already know about this matter, I think, this is the main reason that directly caused you to lose your mind and kill people with a knife." ”

Zhao Chenyi's body couldn't help trembling, and after a long time, he raised his bloodless face and said to the depressed Fang Li'er: "I'm sorry, Li'er, I lied to you; The eleven members of the Zhao family were all killed by me, and I wanted to die with this group of pigs and dogs, but I never thought that I would survive. After coming back from the ghost gate, I found that I was actually very afraid of death, and there were many things I couldn't let go; That's why I told you in court that day that I was wronged, and I hope you can find someone to overturn this case! ”

His words shattered the belief that Fang Li'er had always insisted on, and staggered back, until his back was against the corner of the wall and there was nowhere to retreat, his body was soft and slippery, biting his fist, and in the salty taste, tears fell silently......

Seeing her like this, Zhao Chenyi felt extremely uncomfortable in his heart, this matter had nothing to do with Li'er, but he pulled Li'er in because of his selfishness, he really damned it!

"Now, you can tell me the truth." Yin Zhen lowered his eyes and looked at Zhao Chenyi who was kneeling on the ground.

In the deathly silence, Zhao Chenyi's voice slowly sounded, "You're right, the Zhao family doesn't treat me and my mother as human beings at all. Obviously, my father himself was greedy for beauty and took advantage of my mother's innocence; At the end of the day, he blamed all the sins on my mother, saying that my mother seduced him, didn't give him a name, and let the eldest mother bully my mother. finally gave birth to me, and my mother thought that my father would look at us differently for the sake of his own son, but she was wrong. He showed an extremely sarcastic smile, "That so-called father already has two sons, and he doesn't care about one more or less, not to mention that he is still a son born to a foot-washing girl, with a humble status, and is not worthy of the surname Zhao; And this is not the worst, the most tragic thing is that the nominal Zhao San Young Master was accused by a Jianghu warlock of being the eight-character Ke father, and he was sent to the countryside without eating a few mouthfuls of his mother's milk, and since then he has lived a life under the fence. ”

He still remembers those days vividly; The couple in the countryside didn't treat him well, but they barely gave him food because of the money sent down every month.

Every time he sees other companions have a father's pain and mother's love, he is very envious, and his favorite thing to do when he is a child is to sit on the big stone at the entrance of the village, looking forward to one day, his father and mother will appear. When I grew up, I gradually knew that I had my life experience, and I also knew that the new clothes and shoes that I occasionally sent down from the city were made by my mother, although I had never met, but I still felt very warm when I thought of my mother. At this time, he began to look forward to reaching the age of ten as soon as possible, so that he could go back to see his mother.

But God did not give him this opportunity, and on his eighth birthday, the new clothes and shoes that would be sent every year did not appear for a long time; He was very strange, so he asked him about the couple when they entered the city, but what he was waiting for was the bad news that his mother had died.

Two years later, he returned to the Zhao Mansion, but did not see the tablet of his mother, the Zhao family's explanation is that a lowly woman from a foot-washing girl had no name before her death, how to be qualified to enter the Zhao family after her death, and it was already polite to reward her with a resting place.

He was unwilling, but he could only endure it, because even he was branded as despicable, and he couldn't do anything except weep secretly. In Qingming that year, he swore in front of his mother's grave that he would get ahead, and then welcome her tablet into the Zhao family, so that the Zhao family would recognize her identity as Mrs. Zhao.

Everything is inferior, only reading is high.

This sentence is not empty words, in that case, Zhao Chenyi chose to study, the children's test, the township test, the meeting test, and the palace test, which is the goal he set for himself, and it is also the only way for him to achieve his wish to become a master.

For this road, he endured the contempt and bullying of the Zhao family, even if Mrs. Zhao insulted each other, Zhao Chenming teamed up to bully him, cut a knife on his body or burned himself with incense, he endured it all.

Without a cold bone, the plum fragrance is fragrant. After ten years of hard work, he was finally admitted to the qualification of Xiucai and was qualified to take a higher level of township examination. Although Zhao Chenming was also admitted to Xiucai, and he took the township exam in the same class as him, he didn't care too much, and he was much better than Zhao Chenming, who was mediocre in terms of talent, poetry and strategy.

finally waited for the release of the list, but he fell off the list, but Zhao Chenming was on the list, which made him like five thunderbolts, floating around like a lonely ghost all day long.

If he continued like this, he might be in a state of discouragement, but once when he was passing by his father's study, he accidentally heard him talking to Mrs. Zhao, and the content was about this township test. It turned out that his father bought the examiner of the township examination and exchanged his papers with Zhao Chenming privately, so that his hard-earned results became Zhao Chenming's bag.