The queen mother was happy that her son finally came to see her, but on the other hand, she was angry that he coaxed herself with a flamboyant tongue, trying to open up the two women on the ground, and she was even more depressed by him so much, what she wanted to say was blocked by him, and she couldn't say it anymore, in front of so many people, and it was difficult to refute the face of her own son, so she had to keep rolling her eyes at him.

Mingzong laughed and asked Chu Qingruo: "Chu Aiqing, how is the interrogation of the two felons, Zhang Jizu and Zhang Enshu?" ”

Chu Qingruo lowered his head: "I don't have a clue yet, and the two of them haven't explained the mastermind behind them." ”

Mingzong's face immediately fell: "What? After two days of trial, the mastermind has not been asked? So what are you still kneeling here? Why don't you go ahead and go on trial! ”

If Chu Qingruo raised his head, he saw Mingzong winking at her, and immediately realized: "Yes, the minister is guilty, and the minister will go." ”

The Queen Mother had a dark face, and was just about to speak, but Mingzong immediately said: "Don't think that you can keep the Queen Mother's teachings if you have official business, and when the case is settled, you still have to come and listen to the Queen Mother's teachings!" ”

Chu Qingruo immediately slammed his head on the ground: "Yes, the minister does not dare to forget the teachings of the Queen Mother, and when the ministers find out the mastermind behind the scenes, they must come to ask the Queen Mother for their guilt, and then ask the Queen Mother for their teachings!" ”

The queen mother saw that the pair of monarchs and ministers sang and wrote well like a play, and she also felt powerless in her heart, and waved her hand: "Go, go!" Don't act with me here, step down! ”

Chu Qingruo held back a smile, withdrew from the queen mother's bedroom, walked to the door and bowed his hand to Deshun with a smile: "Thank you Father-in-law De, thank you long live!" ”

Deshun smiled and arched his hand: "Where is Lord Chu, your thanks will be conveyed to Long Live by our family, you will go first!" ”

Chu Qingruo was just about to raise his legs and leave, when he heard someone shouting behind him: "Lord Chu, please stay!" ”

When I turned around, it turned out to be the big palace maid with red sleeves next to the Queen Mother.

"Lord Chu, the Queen Mother has something for the slave to hand over to the adult." The red sleeves handed over the plate in his hand with a smile, stretched out his hand to uncover the white brocade on the plate, and said meaningfully: "Lord Chu, this is the Queen Mother giving the Lord a good wine, the Queen Mother said, Lord Chu has worked behalf of the Heavenly Patrol and has made great achievements, and he should be rewarded, but if one day, if the Lord accidentally smears the royal face, the Queen Mother will naturally be punished." When the time comes, you will be punished for drinking! He pursed his lips and laughed mischievously.

Chu Qingruo was drenched in a cold sweat when she heard this, listening to the queen mother's meaning, if there was any scandal next time, what she gave was not fine wine, but poisonous wine, right?

Seeing that her face turned white all of a sudden, Red Sleeves knew that she understood the meaning of her words. Only then did he salute her with satisfaction, and turned around and returned to the queen mother's bedroom.

Sullen and returned to the mansion, Fu Lingyun and Tie Yi had not come back yet, Chu Qingruo hastily used some snacks, and rushed to Dali Temple again.

Li Shaoqing saw that her face was not good, and asked her what was wrong, but she smiled and said that it was okay. Li Shaoqing was also inconvenient to ask, so he took out the evidence related to the fraud case and analyzed it with her.

The two combed through the case from scratch and found that there was a very critical question, what is the purpose of the mastermind behind this? If you just want to have one more person of your own in the court, you don't have to take such a big risk to cheat in the female department. It is completely possible to entrap one or two potential students in the andrology department, and you can't make such a big circle and make a fraud case!

Chu Qingruo's pen lightly paused on the word "female" and "Zhang Hong", and suddenly seemed to think of something.

"Li Shaoqing, do you have Zhang Hong's past homework here?"

Li Shaoqing said strangely: "No, if Lord Chu wants it, I will immediately send someone to her former school to get it." ”

Chu Qingruo: "Okay, please trouble your lord as soon as possible!" ”

The efficiency of the people in Dali Temple is as vigorous and resolute as Li Shaoqing, and in less than a pillar of incense, a quick catch quickly sent Zhang Hong's homework from previous years to Chu Qingruo's desk.

Chu Qingruo opened it, and after reading them one by one, she finally proved her guess.

Zhang Hong's homework is not good, and it can even be said that her article is not making sense. But why is such a person, her father has the confidence and confidence that as long as the money is in place, his daughter can become the first female champion of the Great Yan Kingdom?

Who gave him this confidence?

It seems that Zhang Jizu still has a lot of things to explain.

"Master Li, let's go, let's go and meet this Zhang Jizu for a while!"

After Zhang Jizu was taken out of the cell, he knelt in the lobby and looked around, and as soon as he saw Chu Qingruo come out, he shouted loudly: "My lord, I really said everything, don't embarrass me, okay?" ”

Chu Qingruo knocked on the shocked wood: "Zhang Jizu, what did you say?" Okay, let me ask you, who told you that you are willing to give money to keep your daughter as a female champion? ”

Zhang Jizu quibbled: "No, my lord, no one has said anything like that to me, it's a little girl, a little girl is clamoring to be the champion, I just want to break her wish, my lord Mingjian, no one really has said that to me!" ”

Chu Qingruo was slightly angry: "It seems that you haven't figured out the power of this." Let me ask you, Zhang Jizu, your daughter's homework in the past was not good, and her husband was quite opposed to her participating in the scientific examination, but why do you still insist on doing it? ”

Zhang Jizu began to play scoundrels: "She is my only daughter, I will take off all the stars in the sky for her, not to mention that if she is the champion, isn't our family also a glorious lintel?" Where do you need to be taught such things? My lord, if you force me to say that I was instructed by someone, okay, if you say who instructed me, I will bite me to death, and he instructed me to cheat! You're satisfied, aren't you? ”

"You!"

Chu Qingruo has always been a new official who has just taken office, and when he encounters such an old fritter when he asks about the case, he is so angry that he can't speak for a while, and there is nothing he can do.

Li Shaoqing comforted on the side: "Lord Chu, don't be impatient. Then he lowered his voice and said, "You have to find another way to deal with such old fritters." ”

Chu Qingruo asked, "What's the way?"

Li Shaoqing smiled very much: "Please ask Major General Fu or Vice President Xu to come in the evening, and he will naturally recruit obediently tomorrow." ”

If Chu Qing suddenly realized, if he couldn't ask, he would deceive? This method really still needs Wen Yuanlai.

At night, Fu Lingyun sneaked into the cell with someone and gave Zhang Jizu this old fritter a "catch and release Cao", which scared him so much that he almost didn't pee his pants, and before dawn, he asked the cell head to call back to Chu Qingruo, he said, he will say everything, but the premise is that Chu Qingruo must save his life.

Once the old fritter opened his mouth, he didn't need to be asked, he just poured the beans into his bamboo tube and explained the matter clearly.

He confessed that he had joined the Demon God Cult a long time ago. After joining the church, he sighed and said that he had everything in his life, but he lacked a son to glorify the lintel for their Zhang family.

Then someone reminded him that if he opened a women's department today, he could ask his daughter to try the imperial examination.

Zhang Jizu heard it at first, and felt that this matter was absolutely impossible, his daughter had a few catties and taels, didn't he know how much he was a father? Don't say that she can't do her homework, even if she is full of ink, is this first female champion so easy to be? The eyes of the whole world are watching! , if there is a slight mistake, that one is not a glorious lintel, it is drowned by the spit of the whole world!

This thing, no, no.

Zhang Jizu shook his head.

But the man said again: "Zhang Xianggong, one of my relatives is on an errand in the palace, I heard him say, it seems that the Queen Mother is not very in favor of this female department, I heard that the Queen Mother is sorry for this son who is the emperor, and it is difficult to refute his face, so she has to turn a blind eye and let him go." But ......"

Zhang Jizu listened to it without a match, and thought, what does the matter in the palace have to do with him!

The man saw that he was absent-minded, so he gave him a dose of fierce medicine: "But the Queen Mother said that when dealing with the emperor, you can't be hard-hitting, you have to learn to take a detour." If the female champion selected this year is mediocre and has no achievements, the Queen Mother said that the emperor will no longer be interested in recruiting female officials next year. ”

Zhang Jizu listened to it, as if he had heard something.

"Talented? How can it be possible to be the top female champion in the exam, the Queen Mother and her old man are really good at laughing. ”

The man looked at Zhang Jizu very seriously and said: "As soon as the Queen Mother Chrysostom opens, she says that whichever one can pass the exam, which one will definitely not fall off the list!" Zhang Xianggong, do you understand? ”

Zhang Jizu was a little stunned for a moment, "What do you mean...... The Queen Mother, her old man, wants our family to be red...... This female champion? ”

The man smiled: "Of course, you still can't miss the silver you have to pay filial piety all the way!" There are many candidates in the hands of the Queen Mother, and who will be the female champion in the end does not depend on the examiner and the marking officer, you are also clear about the officialdom, this king of Hades is good, but ...... The little ghost is very difficult! Are you right, Zhang Xianggong? ”

Zhang Jizu was speechless for a long time by this "wealth" that fell from the sky, and after being stunned for a long time, he asked stupidly: "Is it true at this time?" ”

The man patted him on the shoulder, "Don't believe me, why don't you go and ask who the examiner is, and then go and see him and see if he can see you?" ”

said it so hard, I couldn't help but believe it.

In addition, when he returned home, Zhang Hong, who was spoiled by himself, cried and made trouble and hanged himself to go to the scientific examination, and when he was the female champion, Zhang Jizu finally gritted his teeth and decided to take risks, never thinking that he would end up killing his only daughter!

Li Shaoqing and Chu Qingruo, after listening to Zhang Jizu's confession, were all panicked.

Unexpectedly, the mastermind behind this fraud case that made Long Yan angry turned out to be the Queen Mother!

This, this thing is making trouble, how is it going to end now?

Chu Qingruo thought about it, but decided to quietly enter the palace to see Mingzong before the early dynasty, and told him the truth.

After speaking, Mingzong was shocked, he couldn't imagine that this matter was actually done by the queen mother who wanted to be reasonable, isn't this called the embarrassment of his son?

Mingzong's mood can be obvious, he did not go to the court for the first time, and the two monarchs and ministers sat on the steps of the cold palace, looking up at the sky, relatively speechless.