Chapter 61: Sitting in the City of Sorrow
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Liu Ling got up and went to the examination house. The examination house was densely lined up, and the inspection soldiers went back and forth, and no one was slack, and Liu Ling was very satisfied. The soldiers and errand soldiers who came to conduct the inspection this time were all selected from elite soldiers and strong generals, and they were strictly examined in advance, and none of them had bad deeds, and at the same time, they had to go to the official to protect them, which was called "political examination" in Yang Ke's words, and they must ensure that everyone is loyal and reliable, handle errands seriously, and put an end to internal and external collusion. From the current point of view, Yang Ke's move is indeed very necessary. Some of the scholars worked hard to write, some scratched their ears and scratched their cheeks, some bowed their heads and pondered, and some hesitated to write. I walked all the way to the gate of the Gongyuan Academy, and suddenly heard someone at the door pleading: "No matter how you report it, Mrs. Xie is indeed suffering from a sudden illness, and this is a major matter of human lifeγγγγγγγ β
Liu Ling followed the prestige, and there was a middle-aged man standing at the door, dressed as a servant, who was begging the doorkeeper. When the messenger saw Liu Ling coming, he immediately seemed to see a savior: "Lord Liu, this is the steward of Lord Xie's mansion, and he is embarrassedγγγγγγ β
When the servant saw that Liu Ling was dressed as an official, he immediately saluted: "Your Excellencyγγγγγγ β
Liu Ling's face changed suddenly, and without waiting for the person to speak, he reprimanded the errand officer: "The imperial court is heavyweight, before the disbanding of the examination, the examination room is locked, and the officials are not allowed to pass on the news and go out. β
The steward was still about to struggle, and the officials couldn't help but say, and took him down in one fell swoop and dragged him out of the gate of the tribute courtyard. Liu Ling then Shi Shiran paced Fang Bu and turned all the way back to the main hall. Xie Heng looked at Liu Ling, who had been in a good time, and asked, "Lord Liu, is there anything abnormal in the examination room?" β
Liu Ling said respectfully: "Don't worry, my lord, everything is normal." β
Hei Qi looked at the chubby Gong Fu with a smile: "What's the matter, I said Mr. Gong, do you remember?" β
Gong Fu was crying, crying so much that the fat all over his body was shaking: "I beg grandpa to spare my life, the little one is really an ordinary bookseller, he keeps to himself, and he never dares to do anything illegal, grandpa must have made a mistake." β
Hei Qi handed the receipt of 1,000 gold to Gong Fu: "The seventh master knows, you are a hob meat, but your subordinates are too unsuccessful, and they have sold you clean before they are executed, and you have received a total of forty-seven scholars' deposits, which means that you sold forty-seven exam questions, and then there was a roll wrapping party, let's talk about it, what is the intention?" β
Gong Fu shyly faced: "Grandpa, the little one is just greedy for money and swaggeringγγγγγ β
"Fart." Hei Qi's voice was not loud, but his tone was like ice: "The shop you bought is in the downtown of Kyoto, and the land alone is worth more than 100,000 gold, and the money that is only tens of thousands of gold is only a few tens of thousands of gold, and a fool will do this kind of loss-making business." Speaking of this, Hei Qi waved his hand, and the guards who were waiting on the side understood, brought in two boxes from outside the prison and placed them in front of Gong Fu. Hei Qi stretched out his hand and opened two boxes, one box was full of gold and silver, and the other box was neatly placed with knives, hammers, chisels and saws, and a faint cold light.
"You're just an errand runner, why bother carrying it, as long as you tell the truth, this gold and silver is enough for you to live the next life. If you don't eat and drink in the toast, heheγγγγγγγ Hei Qi casually picked up the tools from the box and put them down in the same way, and said slowly while counting: "This knife is the best to peel the skin, Lao Tzu used more than 200 knives to peel the skin last time and the person died, this time you have to be careful." Also, there's this chisel, which is best carved into the boneγγγγγγγγγ β
Before the words fell, Gong Fu's crotch was already wet, and he trembled like chaff: "Grandpa, it's not that I don't want to say it, my family is in their hands, and the small ones are really helplessγγγγγγγ β
Hei Qi's face smiled harmlessly: "No matter who they are, Lao Tzu can rescue you with all the beards and tails, think about it, it's beautiful, take a family, find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, guard the inexhaustible gold and silver, and you will be happy for the rest of your lifeγγγγγγγγγ β
At night, Luoyang City was quiet, during the period of the scientific examination and locking the courtyard, the streets were even more strict, the roads were sparsely populated, and suddenly several pairs of soldiers held high lantern torches, and rushed to the mansions of several great scholars, Hei Qi personally took one of the teams to Xiao Zhongyue's house. The Xiao family immediately jumped up, Xiao Zhongyue looked at Hei Qi with a blushing face, he didn't even know any of the officers who led the team, it happened suddenly, he just wanted to theorize, and a group of soldiers took out cold sabers and blocked him in the bedroom, letting Xiao Zhongyue scold him, no one paid attention to him.
After a while, a soldier whispered to Hei Qi: "My lord, the person has been found, and he is confined in a secret room in the back garden, and all the letters exchanged have been sealed, waiting for the adults to check them." β
Hei Qi nodded with satisfaction: "Surround the mansion, don't enter or leave, take Master Xiao, let's go." β
In the Yang Mansion, Yang Ke, Zhang Hua, Tang Zhong, Zhang Chang, and Pei Zan stayed awake all night, listening to Hei Qi tell the results of the hard work overnight: "Gong Fu confessed that he was bought by a person who claimed to be the housekeeper of the Xiao Mansion, and the money to buy land and open a shop was given by the other party, and he also gave him a reward of 20,000 gold in advance, saying that he would pay 20,000 yuan after the matter was completed. Gong Fu's wife and children were also searched in the secret room in the backyard of the Xiao family, but the housekeeper could not find it, Xiao Zhongyue insisted that the housekeeper did it privately, and he didn't know anything about it. β
"The housekeeper must have fled, but in this way, we are passive, the sky is about to dawn, and we have caught the three major scholars at once, and tomorrow the opportunity is known to everyone, there must be an explanation." And there are still two days to lock the courtyard, and once Xie Heng comes out, we won't be able to find out their details, but I'm afraid that they will be even more passive. Zhang Hua's eyebrows tightened. Yang Ke had a lot of worries when he wanted to recruit him in danger, and managing politics was his strength, but these conspiracies and tricks were Zhang Hua's shortcomings.
"Lord Zhang really spends the belly of the villain with the heart of a gentleman, and the housekeeper is afraid that he has been killed." Tang Zhong sneered.
Zhang Hua's eyes widened: "No, the scholar clan is also a scholar, how could he do such a dirty thing?" β
"They have all done it even more filthy than this, bullying men and women, fish and meat in the township, friends and traitors, and disregarding people's lives, and the piles and piles are all iron cases, if you really want to settle accounts with them, none of these three families have a good thing." Zhang Chang said.