Ping Le Fang.

In an elegant room, Su Qingzhe stood at the table with a frown, and his flat red sleeves sobbed in a low voice.

His gaze stayed on Ping Hongsleeves for a long time, Su Qingzhe's eyes became softer and softer, and he sighed: "I haven't even asked you why you let out that kind of thing, but you cried first." ”

Ping Hongsleeves sobbed and said: "You have not come to see me for many days in Hui'an Mansion, but I am afraid that you have forgotten me, so what am I doing with this innocent body!" ”

Su Qingzhe found a chair and sat down, and said with a wry smile: "What are you talking about, for your sake, I even gave up my plan to go to Jinling." ”

Ping Hongsleeves cried even louder: "I knew that you must be blaming me for delaying your future." ”

Su Qingzhe stroked his forehead: "We grew up together, don't you know what I want about you?" Since you don't want to go to Jinling, then I'll accompany you in Hui'an Mansion, I just don't understand why you suddenly refuse to go to Jinling with me. ”

Ping Hongsleeves glanced at his face a few times, and saw that he really didn't blame himself, so he stopped crying: "You don't blame me if I say it." ”

"You say, I don't blame you."

Ping Hongsleeve said in a low voice: "I heard Sister Sun say that there is a King of Qi in Jinling, who is very lustful, as long as the girl she likes will find a way to get it." ”

Su Qingzhe's eyes widened, and he looked shocked and angry, in order to stay in Hui'an Mansion, he even broke with his friends in the academy, who knew that Ping Hongsleeves turned out to be because of such a ridiculous reason.

Ping Hongsleeves suddenly cried: "You said that you don't blame me!" ”

"The sister you are talking about is the eldest lady of the Sun family, right?" Su Qingzhe's voice was raised.

Ping Hongsleeves nodded.

"Stupid, she lied to you in order to keep you here for her to continue to make money!"

Ping Hongsleeve hurriedly said: "No, I also went to ask the Su family later, if there is really such a thing, the Su family almost let the King of Qi spoil it!" ”

Su Qingzhe frowned: "Are you talking about the female poet fairy Su Liuying?" ”

Flat Red Sleeves nodded again.

Su Qingzhe shook his head a little weakly: "Anyway, it's hard for me to believe that the eldest lady of the Sun family will have any kindness to you." ”

Ping Hongsleeves was anxious again: "No, Sister Sun is very good to me now, and she returned the deed of sale to me, and she has already become a big official, so I don't need me to make money for her." ”

"Why did she suddenly become nice to you?" Su Qingzhe said suspiciously.

"Because I did her a great favor some time ago, and since then, she has been very nice to me." Ping Hongsleeves lowered his head and twisted a lock of hair in front of his forehead.

"What's the busy?" Su Qingzhe asked.

"You don't care about that, that's how it is anyway." Ping Hongsleeve stamped his foot.

Su Qingzhe stood up and paced back and forth.

Ping Hongsleeve raised his head, a pair of eyes began to follow him, for a long time, he spoke: "Sleeve, I know you very well, I felt a few years ago that you didn't want to go to Jinling, so it's definitely not the reason in your mouth, what do you think, can you tell me?" ”

Ping Hongsleeves averted his gaze and remained silent.

Su Qingzhe didn't urge her, sat down in a chair, and after maintaining silence in the room for a long time, Ping Hongsleeves said quietly: "My father died because of the emperor in Jinling, and Uncle Su lost his official position, I don't want to live in the same city as that person." ”

Su Qingzhe got up and walked to her, patted her on the back gently, and said softly: "I know you still can't let go of that incident back then, since that's the case, I'll accompany you in Jinling." ”

"Hmm." Flat Red Sleeves rested her head on him.

I don't know how long it took, Su Qingzhe suddenly asked, "Then what about what you said yesterday?" ”

Ping Hongsleeve knew that he was referring to the guest who entered the curtain, and said with a smile: "Since you have participated in the imperial examination, the first place is naturally you, what is there to be afraid of." ”

Su Qingzhe shook his head: "You underestimate the talent of Hui'an Mansion too much, just say that Zhang Shouliang yesterday is not an idle person, and there will be problems if the imperial examination is not done well this time, I am not sure about winning the first place at all." ”

"What's wrong?" Ping Hongsleeves wondered.

"Don't ask too much about this, even if you know, it will only add to your troubles." Su Qingzhe said.

"Hmm." Ping Hongsleeve nodded, and really didn't ask again.

Seeing her reaction, Su Qingzhe smiled: "Seeing that you are not worried, even if the first place is not me, you should have thought of a way to deal with it." ”

Ping Hongsleeves grinned and said, "It's not a good idea, why don't you just pretend to be sick when the time comes?" ”

"This ......" Su Qingzhe smiled: "You don't believe what you say, I'm afraid that the name of Oiran will be gone." ”

"Isn't it just right that it's gone, I've been here enough, Xiao Yan has already persuaded me to leave here."

Hearing her mention Mu Xiaoyan, Su Qingzhe asked, "Yes, I haven't asked you yet, I haven't seen Xiaoyan in the past two times, where did she go?" ”

Ping Hongsleeves smiled mysteriously: "It scares you when you say it, Xiaoyan is now a noble lady!" ”

"What noble lady?"

Ping Hongsleeves explained with a smile: "It's that Lord Yuan Chi Yuan fell in love with Xiao Yanbei, not only brought her into the house, but also took off the original match and straightened Xiao Yan, how about it, isn't it very surprising!" ”

Su Qingzhe shook his head and sighed: "She is very good, so it's okay, I'll go to the house in the next few days, and after the list is revealed, I'll pick you up." ”

Ping Hongsleeves blushed and said in a low voice: "Then I want to talk to Sister Sun." ”

……

In a room in the Gongyuan, more than a dozen officials are reviewing the examination papers.

Lu Zhi* looked at a few test papers, and a national-faced official beside him had a bit of worry in his eyes: "Brother Lu, isn't it too risky to do this?" ”

"What are you worried about?" Lu Zhi took the test paper casually and said lightly.

The national-faced official said in a deep voice: "In the past, we sold exam questions and made a fortune, but now we are selling the imperial examination rankings, I always feel that it is too dangerous, and there will be more opportunities to make money in the future, so why be in such a hurry?" ”

Lu Zhi squinted at the national character face: "Do you think I'm just in it for money?" ”

"What does Brother Lu mean?"

Lu Zhi slowly walked to the corner, and waited for the official with the national character face to follow, then he lowered his voice and said:

"I'm casting a net, after this incident, these people and the forces behind them are tied to us, and now there is a great shortage of officials in Hui'an Mansion, there is a power vacuum, the first batch of officials in the imperial examination is extremely important, as long as we master this force, it will naturally be smooth sailing in Hui'an Mansion in the future, and it will be convenient to do anything."

Guozi was stunned and said, "But the risk is still too great, if it is exposed, ......"

Lu Zhi interrupted: "The risk is indeed there, but it is not big, there are teachers and Yuan Chi in front, even if others know about it, they dare not speak out, isn't Dong Yuan an example?" ”

"That's just as well."

Lu Zhi's voice changed, and he said coldly: "And even if they really go to Lu Jieshuai to complain, what can we do with us as long as they have no evidence?" ”

"What about Zhang Shaoyin?" The national character face asked.

Lu Zhi showed a smug smile on his face: "I'm afraid you don't know yet, my teacher has already gone to Muzhou, if he was there, I wouldn't have found such a good opportunity, I can only say that God helps me, and when he comes back, the matter will be settled." ”

Guozi sighed: "Lord Shaoyin seems to have a lot of trust in Lord Lu." ”

Lu Zhi's face changed slightly: "What do you mean by this?" ”

Guozi face hurriedly said: "The lower official lost his words, lost his words." ”

Lu Zhi snorted and said, "By the way, remember to rank Sima Rui well, he is Dong Yuan's person, and this person can be sold." ”

"Lord Lu is really smart, and the lower officials remember it." The national character face arched his hand and smiled.

……

Three days later.

Lu Yuan is handling official business in the study, and recently there are often military qi ng from Chizhou, plus there are more military qi ng from Muzhou, listening to Yu Xun's report, Hangzhou has gathered nearly 100,000 troops, and may attack at any time, so his energy gradually shifted from the imperial examination to the war.

As for cheating in the imperial examination, it can already be determined that someone leaked the questions, and after Li Ruozhen's investigation is clear, the results of all the people who bought the examination questions will be cancelled, and then the people who leaked the questions will be strictly interrogated, and all the officials involved in favoritism and fraud will be convicted.

In the afternoon.

The guards suddenly announced, Yuan Chi, Dong Yuan and Lu Zhi asked to see, and after the three of them entered the study, Yuan Chi handed over a booklet and said: "Jie Shuai, the results of the imperial examination are out, please take a look." ”

"It's pretty fast." Lu Yuan glanced at Lu Zhi and took the list.

The moment he saw the ranking, his hands trembled.

I saw that it was written: first place, Mencius Liang; second place, Li Shutong; third place, Dong Xiaobao...... seventh place, Sima Rui; Eighth place, Jiang Huashan...... Nineteenth, Xu Qing......

He looked all the way, and among the top 20 or so, he only knew Sima Rui and Jiang Huashan, why did Sima Rui rank so high? Relying on strength? Or was he involved in fraud?

continued to look down, and it wasn't until the twenty-eighth place that Lu Yuan saw Su Qingzhe's name.

Twenty-eighth, Su Qingzhe...... No. 30, Zhang Shouliang...... Thirty-fifth, Mu Xuan.

Seeing this, Lu Yuan slowly closed his eyes.

"Jie Shuai, this is reviewed by more than a dozen marking officers overnight, if you think it's okay, your subordinates will go and release the list."

Yuan Chi's voice at this moment made Lu Yuan feel extremely disgusted, Lu Zhi was just a seventh-grade official, it was impossible to have such a great energy, if there was no support from Zhang Dezhong or Yuan Chi behind him, he would never believe it.

A strong anger welled up in his heart, originally he was just with a curious attitude to participate in the imperial examination, by the way, to see the different sides of his officials, but he didn't expect to really let him see it.

Zhang Dezhong, who was originally respected, and Yuan Chi, who vowed to follow him, now made him no longer able to trust.

He really wanted to ask Yuan Chi out loud immediately, but this was not wise, he needed to think quietly while waiting for Li Ruozhen's evidence.

"I'm a little busy right now, I don't have time to read it, so I'll keep the list here first, and I'll release it after I finish reading it." Lu Yuan pressed Qi NGXU and said.

Lu Zhi was shocked in his heart and said: "Jie Shuai, those candidates are only afraid that they are very anxious to wait, and their subordinates think that they should release the list earlier." ”

"This matter doesn't need to be discussed again." Lu Yuan waved his hand: "You guys go down first." ”

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