Under the same night sky, in the north of Beijing, Ji Tai, the captain of the Jinyi Guard, was hiding in the dark, staring at a small mansion in front of him that looked very dilapidated.

He had been ordered to keep an eye on the idler named Zhou Lu for two days, but until now, he had not found any contact with other suspicious people, and he could not see anything wrong when he returned home on weekdays, which was really a little puzzling.

It stands to reason that since Zhou Lu dared to sell the exam questions to the candidates, there must be a source, after all, with his identity, it is impossible to get such important exam questions no matter what. But after a few days, he did not make any further moves except for haunting some restaurants and tea shops and secretly contacting those candidates, and he even took the money he got from selling the exam questions directly home, and did not give it to others.

"Could it be that I really thought about things too complicated, and he just made up some fake exam questions to cheat ordinary candidates out of their money?" After a few days of no gains, Kitai began to doubt his judgment. After some hesitation, he finally made a decision, just staring at it like this is not enough, he must take the initiative to ask something from this guy's mouth!

Thinking of this, he quickly moved in the shadows, quietly leaned towards the mansion, and in a single leap, he easily climbed into the half-man-high mud wall, and landed without making the slightest sound. Then he came to the only room with a closed door, and listened with bated breath to what was going on.

As a result, it was quiet inside, not to mention other sounds, not even the slightest snoring sound. This made Ji Tai feel a little strange, but he had already taken out a short knife in his hand and quickly poked into the gap in the door, but when he wanted to use his skillful force to open the latch behind the door, he opened the void, and the door that seemed to be closed was not inserted into the latch.

This made him feel a little strange, so he could only push the door open with a gentle push of his hand. As the wooden door opened with a creak, Ji Tai, who was standing in front of the door and wanted to pounce on it and make a move, stood on the spot: "This ......"

I saw that the room was a little messy, and there was a little stench, and there was not even a ghost shadow, let alone people. That Zhou Lu was not in the room at all, no wonder he couldn't hear the slightest movement outside the door just now.

After a moment of astonishment, Ji Tai rushed into the room in one step, and swept his eyes around, but still found nothing. The room was only two feet square, and there was little room to hide except for a bed, a table with chairs, and a few miscellaneous items. He also bent down to check under the bed for the first time, and it was empty.

"How so?" Ji Tai frowned a little puzzled, he had been staring at this courtyard all the time, if Zhou Lu had left before, he would definitely not be able to escape his eyes. And he remembered very well that since he entered this courtyard, no one had passed by before the house, in other words, even if he wanted to leave in disguise!

Suddenly, he thought of something, quickly turned around and went out, ran outside to the courtyard and searched carefully. Maybe this guy didn't sleep in the house when he was a thief, but had a hiding place in the yard.

After some searching, Ji Tai really found it, but it was not a cellar secret room where people could hide, but a dog hole that could allow one person to pass through was found at the root of the courtyard wall behind the house!

This

Next, Ji Tai was completely dumbfounded, he didn't expect the other party to be so out of his own surveillance. Why didn't I expect him to come to such a hand? But how is this good?

After confirming how Zhou Lu escaped, Ji Tai felt even more uneasy, so it seems that the other party should have discovered that he was being targeted, so he came to the golden cicada tonight. Now that the errands have been messed up by myself, how can I explain to the adults above?

After standing in place for a long time, he suddenly woke up, and since it was already like this, he obviously couldn't deal with it with his own ability, so he had to report the matter honestly and see how the adults dealt with it. Having made up his mind, he quickly turned around and hurriedly walked in the direction of Fusi, the town of Chengdong, in the night.

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Somehow tonight, Lu Jin always felt a little restless, as if something bad was about to happen.

However, he didn't see anything until the third watch, and he still slept with his wife. But before he could fall asleep completely, there was a gentle knock on the door: "Master......"

Lu Jin, who was not very steady, immediately sat up and asked, "Is there something wrong?" ”

"Lord Qingler suddenly asked to see him, saying that something was wrong." The maidservant outside the door whispered.

When Lu Zhen heard this, he immediately put on his clothes and got up. Chu Yunrong, who was sleeping on the side, also stood up at this time, and his plump and delicate figure was completely displayed in front of his husband, and asked with concern, "But what happened?" ”

"It's nothing, it should be a little business of the Suppression Division, they can't make up their minds." Lu Zhen put on civilian clothes and comforted his wife with a smile: "You continue to sleep, I'll go to the study to make do for the night after I take care of official business later, and I won't bother you." ”

"That's not necessary, if you don't come back anyway, I won't be able to sleep." Chu Yunrong said as she spoke, she had already stepped out of bed and helped her husband tidy up his clothes and hats before sending him out of the room.

Lu Zhen smiled and nodded, and then walked out the door. It's just that as soon as he went out, the smile on his face had completely disappeared, and his expression became solemn, and he glanced at the slave and maid on the side: "Where are the others?" "Qingler is a good man who is measured and able to do things, and unless something serious happens, he will definitely not come to disturb him at night.

The servant girl was swept away by him, and her heart was suddenly nervous, and it took a long time to react: "Back to the master, Lord Qinggele is waiting in the side hall of the front yard." ”

"You go and invite someone to the study, and then ask the kitchen to bring some soup." Lu Zhen said, and walked into the study of the courtyard by himself.

Today's Lu Mansion has improved too much compared to the past, not only are there many more slaves and maids in the family, but the rules are also much stricter. As long as he, the head of the family, gave an order, the whole family had to obey the order, and they didn't dare to discount it at all.

So when Lu Zhen came to the study, someone had already lit the lamps and candles inside, and even put a stove of incense. And when Qinggel was ushered into the study, another person brought in two bowls of white fungus soup.

"Eat something first, and I'll talk about it later." Lu Zhen saw that Qinggele opened his mouth to say something, so he picked up the soup bowl first and said with a smile.

Hearing his words, Qinggel was slightly stunned, and then glanced at his adult with some admiration, nodded, and ate white fungus soup with him

。 Adults are really calmer than themselves, and at this time, they can still think about eating and calming down.

After drinking a bowl of white fungus and even the soup, Qinggel wiped his mouth and said, "My lord, something happened!" ”

"But about the exam questions? Did Ji Tai find something strange? Lu Zhen already had an idea, so he asked casually.

"Ji Tai missed there, and the idler named Zhou Lu who betrayed the exam questions actually lost his whereabouts under his nose." Qingler reported with a solemn expression.

"How so? How did he do things, he couldn't even look at a big living person? Lu Zhen asked a little unpleasantly.

"The other party is obviously prepared, and he is a little careless......" Qingler then told Ji Tai what was going on. But hearing this, Lu Zhen frowned again and again: "There is such a thing?" "I'm starting to feel uneasy. From this point of view, it seems that the idler named Zhou Lu had already discovered that Jinyiwei was spying on him, so why did he dare to sell exam questions to others so unscrupulously?

"My lord, this is not the most troublesome thing...... Qinggele said with a bitter face after waiting for a while: "Just half an hour ago, there was also news from the Gongyuan, saying that Yao Gan and Wei Chengmo were taken down by the chief examiner Meng Tingyue on the spot, and they were charged with stealing exam questions!" If it weren't for this last piece of news, he wouldn't have come running late at night to disturb his own adults.

After hearing the news, Lu Zhen immediately slapped the coffee table and almost stood up: "How can this be?" How could the two of them be so careless, especially that Yao Gan! He did ask Yao to do their ideas to verify the authenticity of the exam questions, but they should also know how to measure and act cautiously.

"I heard the news brought out by the people inside that they were blocked at the scene by more than a dozen examiners including Meng Tingyue, and it looked as if they had fallen into a trap." Qingler analyzed.

And Lu Zhen also quickly calmed down, squinted and thought for a while, then nodded: "You are right, this midnight will be caught by so many examiners on the spot, this matter itself is very interesting." ”

Immediately, he connected the two things that happened one after another tonight, and vaguely understood something: "It seems that we have been deceived this time, otherwise the two clues inside and outside the examination room will not have irreparable changes at the same time." "I didn't think that the uneasiness I had tonight should be here.

Qinggel nodded thoughtfully: "What the lord said is that his subordinates think the same way." But the stakes are so high, the subordinates don't know how to deal with it, and I hope the adults will come up with a countermeasure. ”

"Now we don't even know who our opponent is and what their purpose is, so it's not easy to do it." Lu Zhen smiled bitterly, knowing that he had really fallen for someone else's trick this time.

It was smooth sailing to deal with the officials who opposed Jinyiwei in the DPRK and China, and the White Lotus Sect that wanted to assassinate the Son of Heaven, which made him a little arrogant. Therefore, after knowing that there are cases of fraud in the imperial examination, they will send people to do things at will. Unexpectedly, this is a trap, and now I, even the brocade guard, have fallen into the trap.

"But don't worry too much, you can still make sense of it. I will go to see Your Majesty tomorrow and explain the problem first. This is where Lu Jin's confidence lies, he believes that he has won the trust of the emperor, and even if there is any trouble, it is enough to deal with it.

But will things really go his way?

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