Volume 1 Chapter 66 Who planted whom
Preparations for the Quanzhou government examination are being carried out in an orderly manner, and except for a few "parties" with evil intentions, everyone does not know that a "cheating case" of the government examination is brewing.
The inspector from this provincial city is called the inspector, naturally he will not lie down in Chengtian Temple every day to rest, and the next morning, Song Yingkui gathered a group of inspectors and examiners, accompanied the examiner Gu Kejiu, and began to inspect the examination room.
The examination room of the Quanzhou government examination is located in the Quanzhou government school, because the Quanzhou government school has a special examination shed for the imperial examination, that is, a small single room that is one step wide and one step deep, but this kind of single room is not built up with wooden boards, but a brick house, and its name is no longer called the examination shed, but called the number house.
There are a total of 480 houses in Quanzhou Fuxue, this number house is opposite to each other, each row of 30 rooms, a total of 16 rows, each number of houses has a stone carving number, according to the rules of the imperial examination, the first two are, day one, day two, day three, day four, and then earth one to earth four, Xuan one to Xuan four, Huang one to Huang four, the last two are Jiazi, Yi Chou, Bingyin, Ding Mao, until the 癸巳, neat very.
Song Yingkui led a group of inspectors to carefully check the past one by one, whether there were holes in the walls, whether there were pits on the ground, and even whether there were places to hide things on the roof.
This check is a day, and in the evening, Song Yingkui excused everyone's hard work, and also ate a few vegetarian dishes, and specially invited more than ten inspectors to go to the restaurant near Chengtian Temple to have a good meal, saying that it was to treat everyone, in order to avoid suspicion, he did not invite a local official in Quanzhou Prefecture, just more than ten examiners, just around a table.
This kind of thing was originally nothing, and as an official of Song Yingkui's level, it was just a trivial matter to invite everyone to eat, but it was too coincidental that he chose the timing at this time.
The exam will start the day after tomorrow, and you pull everyone out to eat at night to facilitate Chen Wenjie's planting!
At least, Xu Jie and Yang Cong both thought so, and Zhao Yan also thought so.
Therefore, Zhao Yan used the excuse that he had a little heat stroke on the road when he came, and his stomach was a little uncomfortable, so he always ran to the thatched house, and the longer he went, the longer he went.
Yang Cong and Xu Jie, on the other hand, sent people to guard Chen Wenjie and Zhao Yan's residences, and they never relaxed for a moment, because they wanted Zhao Yan to see the process of Chen Wenjie's planting, so as to dispel his last doubts and make him completely fall to their side.
Chen Wenjie really did not disappoint, when Song Yingkui's banquet was in full swing, he sent two relatives, wearing night clothes, quietly climbed out of the backyard wall, and went straight to the courtyard where Zhao Yan lived.
At this time, outside the courtyard, another man in black also moved, but this man in black did not run towards Zhao Yan's courtyard, but ghostly swept towards Song Yingkui's restaurant, which was obviously more than twice as fast as Chen Wenjie's men.
Anyway, the arrangement of Yang Cong and Xu Jie seems to be a bit problematic, even if the black-clothed man who reported the news ran more than twice as fast as the people sent by Chen Wenjie, but this person was going to pick up Zhao Yan outside Chengtian Temple, and the round-trip distance was farther than Chen Wenjie's yard to Zhao Yan's yard, and it was impossible for Zhao Yan to wait in the pit all the time, it would take him time to come out of the private room of the restaurant, and it would not be such a coincidence, as soon as the person who reported the news passed, he just came out.
Of course, there is a way to solve this point, because there is not no one in Chengtian Temple at this time, especially near the courtyard where these inspectors live, there are patrolling officials everywhere, Xu Jie arranged a team of officials on the road between Chen Wenjie's courtyard and Zhao Yan's courtyard, if Zhao Yan didn't come back, the team of officials would sit on the road to chat, fart, and rest, and when Zhao Yan came back, they would get up and leave.
Of course, it was not enough for this team of officials to "block the way", but also to let Zhao Yan quickly rush back to his residence from the restaurant.
Therefore, the man in black sent by Yang Cong is Yu Dayou, this guy is the number one master in the world, not to mention being able to fight and turn the world, fly to the sky, and take someone to fly the eaves and walk the wall.
Yu Dayou's kung fu really didn't blow out, this way from the courtyard where Song Yingkui stayed to the restaurant outside, his speed was as fast as a galloping horse, no matter how high the wall was on the way, he swooped over it, just like a ghost.
After receiving Zhao Yan, he directly wrapped Zhao Yan in a night suit, and then carried Zhao Yan on his back, all the way out of the restaurant, into the Chengtian Temple, and in the courtyard where Zhao Yan lived, he climbed onto the roof of the main house.
Originally, Zhao Yan didn't have to work hard for this trip, he was a civil official after all, and he was over the wall and on the roof, not to mention tired or not, he was scared enough.
The problem is that he doesn't want to be used as a gunman, what if Xu Jie lied to him, and Chen Wenjie's letter was also forged, and people just let him go out to fight with Longxi Chen?
Therefore, when Xu Jie proposed to let him see with his own eyes that people planted the sham, he agreed without hesitation.
He and Yu Dayou were lying on the roof of the main house where they lived for less than a stick of incense, and two black shadows sneakily carried a box and touched it from a distance.
These two people naturally don't have Yu Dayou's ability to fly the eaves and walk the wall, no matter how they hide their tracks, they will still be exposed outside the courtyard where Zhao Yan lives, because the courtyard where Zhao Yan lives is also guarded by officials.
However, a strange thing happened, not only did the guards not stop the two black-clothed men, but even assisted them to climb into the courtyard, and even helped them let out the wind outside!
What's going on here?
Zhao Yan watched with a strange face as the two men in black carried the box into the courtyard, then pried open the window of his bedroom, quietly turned into the bedroom, and then lit the fire, swept around the bedroom, and finally stuffed the box under the bed, and then turned it out all the way and walked away.
At this time, there was no one to guard the inner courtyard where he lived, because he brought a total of two cronies and officials, and he didn't bring anything important, so he didn't need to be guarded at all.
Yu Dayou saw that the two black shadows were far away, so he gently stuffed back the tiles on the roof of his bedroom, and then jumped off the roof with him, climbed directly through the window opened by the two black-clothed men just now, and moved out the wooden boxes that the two black-clothed men stuffed under the bed, and opened them in front of him.
At this time, Zhao Yan's forehead was already frightened into a cold sweat.
This wooden box was stuffed under the bed by two men in black with his own eyes, and the box was indeed silver, four or five hundred taels of silver!
If this was suddenly "searched" by someone without his knowledge, he would really jump into the Yellow River and not be able to wash it away.
Fortunately, Xu Jie intercepted Chen Wenjie's secret letter in advance and knew everything, otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable!
Yu Dayou didn't stop after turning the box out, he opened it and showed it to Zhao Yan, then took Zhao Yan out of the yard, and then turned around and carried the box out, he sneaked around with Zhao Yan on his back for a while, and handed the box to the two black-clothed people who suddenly came out in the dark, and then returned to the restaurant with Zhao Yan on his back.
This back and forth is a long story, in fact, it has been less than a quarter of an hour in total, and it is indeed a bit abnormal to go to the thatched house and squat for so long, but considering that Zhao Yan's stomach is uncomfortable, Song Yingkui did not feel that there was anything wrong.
At this time, except for Zhao Yan's face being a little ugly, there was indeed nothing wrong with it, but Song Yingkui was a little wrong.
Because it was Deng Cheng and Tang Kekuan who had just picked up the box, according to Yang Cong and Xu Jie's plan, they had already hidden the box in Song Yingkui's bedroom!