Chapter Forty-Nine: Cheating and Murder in the Field (Part I)
In the meditation hall, after Gu Weipan and Cui Mingli quarreled, Cui Mingli left angrily. Gu Weipan took a breath and looked around, the officials at the listening office had already scattered home, and there were only a few officials left in the meditation hall at this time.
"Did you find the person who changed the plan?" Gu Weipan asked Ma Jining, the leader of the Treasury Department who had just come in, and Ma Jining was carrying a few fritters in his hand.
"Chief Gu, almost all of the people in our listening office today have gone to the palace, who will stay and change the plans? This is probably done by someone from the Ministry of Works, why don't you go over and ask again? Ma Jining originally wanted to give Gu Weipan something fresh to taste, but when he heard this, he also flinched, he was afraid that Gu Weipan would pester him to find a change in the plan.
Gu Weipan was confused in his heart, and thought, could it be that the upper hearing place is haunted? A good plan was changed for no reason, and the plan has been kept in the meditation hall, and whoever enters this place has been recorded.
Gu Weipan squinted at the fritters that Ma Jining brought in, he was tired for a day, and he himself was a little hungry.
"What is this?" Gu Weipan picked up a fritter, he had never seen it before, he put it in his mouth and tasted it, it tasted quite good.
"This was brought here by His Royal Highness King Xiaodong, I didn't say what it was, King Xiaodong has already gone back, do you want to ask tomorrow regardless of the chief?"
Originally, Gu Weipan thought that this thing tasted good, but when he heard that Han Jian brought it, he was angry. That Cui Mingli is now stiff in the waist, in the final analysis, it is the kid who is supporting his waist behind his back.
"It's been found out, it's been found out." A subordinate official hurriedly ran in, startling Gu Weipan, "I found out from the concierge that there were no foreign guests in the Shangting Office today, except for those who entered the palace, only the East King sat in our meditation hall......"
Hearing "Dongwang", Gu Weipan was out of breath for a while, coughed, and almost spit out all the fritters he had eaten.
"This is really a strange thing......" Gu Weipan sighed helplessly.
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The next day, April 23, early in the morning, Han Jian was going to send the carriage of his third aunt Han Cuishi back to Jiangdu City. Han Jian felt a little depressed, for him, half a year was a little far away.
Han Cui's had a lot of instructions to Han Jian before leaving, but after talking for a long time, he still didn't forget to ask Han Jian to learn more from Cui Mingli. Han Jian endured it for a long time before he didn't ask, "Let me learn from others how to fight with others?" Thinking about Han Cui's hard work, Han Jian understood. But he still didn't understand why the empress kept him in the capital, as if he was under house arrest, and Han Cui's would accept it so indifferently. Could it be that she also thinks that she will have a better development if she stays in Luoyang City?
Don't force me, force me to be in a hurry, it's a big deal to learn from Sima and wander the world to be a hero.
Han Jian breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and walked in the direction of the upper listening office, this time he was going to miss work, and no one would pursue it anyway. But before I arrived at Donglu Street, where the general office of the Shangting Office was located, I saw a lot of yacha on the road hurrying away in groups, and the small vendors were jumping by chickens and dogs, like devils entering the village.
Han Jian pulled a passer-by in a hurry and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
The passer-by glanced at Han Jian and hurriedly said, "This little brother doesn't know yet?" There was a big incident at the Examination Institute, and the army had entered the city. ”
Han Jian pondered for a moment, the examination institute was holding an examination, and it was only the second day, what could happen to the point where the army entered the city? If you want to ask again, the passerby has already run away.
Han Jian asked the guards to inquire about it, and only then did he know the exact news: "There is fraud in the examination room, and the entire examination hall has been sealed." The men and horses of the Tingwei Mansion and the Defense Center have surrounded the examination hall and searched for cheating candidates. ”
Han Jian pouted, the matter is a bit big, but a few candidates cheating should not cause such a big battle. There may be hidden secrets behind it.
When he arrived outside the East Road Street, he didn't rush in, let the guards go back first, and he turned around and went directly to Lin Xiaoshu's tea house. Before he arrived outside the tea house, Han Jian slowed down, at this time it was already past breakfast, and there should not be any guests in the tea house, but at this time, in front of a table, there were two old guys sitting, with a plate of fritters in front of them, and the two of them didn't eat, so they just sat and looked at each other.
Han Jian couldn't help muttering, "How did these two old guys find here?" ”
In front of him were Cui Mingli and Gu Weipan. At this time, the two of them were not wearing official uniforms, as if two rich old men were tired of wandering around and sat down to have a cup of tea, but the atmosphere of eating tea was a little wrong.
Lin Xiaoshu was also very enthusiastic about entertaining guests, but it was not too late to see the two old men, just looking at each other, and her eyes were full of anger and hostility, she didn't know what to say, so she stood by and watched until she found Han Jian coming over.
"How long have they been here?" Han Jian pointed and asked in a low voice.
"It's been a while, and the one in blue came first, and soon the one who came later, sat down and didn't say anything, didn't even eat anything...... Do you know them? ”
Han Jian smiled and said, "Know, leave it to me, you go and do your job." ”
"Oh." Lin Xiaoshu was looking for two craftsmen to build a stove at the gate of the courtyard, preparing to move the frying dough sticks pot outside, and she was fine. Seeing Han Jian walking over, she took two steps back, and then looked at the excitement.
Han Jian just sat down at the table, and the two of them were originally looking at each other, but suddenly because of Han Jian's joining, it became a triangular relationship and the power was balanced.
"The two of you, you've been fighting in the court for so long, you haven't been bored, eat a fritters, the fritters here are delicious." Han Jian picked up a fritter and handed it to Cui Mingli, Cui Mingli reached out to take it, but he didn't eat it. Han Jian handed another one to Gu Weipan, and Gu Weipan also took it and didn't eat it.
Han Jian looked at this posture and thought to himself, the two old guys should stop fighting for a while, just smash Lin Xiaoshu's tea house.
Just as he was thinking of smashing the stall, suddenly a group of people came in at the entrance of the street in the distance, and everyone with a stick in their hands was menacing, as if they were here to find fault. The current one, about twenty years old, has bright clothes on his body, and a horse face seems to be father and son with Gu Weipan's big horse face. As soon as he walked over, the man shouted, "Do it!" And a crowd gathered around.
"You ...... Do? Is there a royal law? Lin Xiaoshu, who was watching the excitement, stood up and shouted.
"Wang Fa? Hum! The man snorted coldly, "Today, the master is not only going to smash your stall, but also robbing your people, to see what royal law can control the master's ......."
The people under this man's hand, at least a dozen, rushed up at this time, and smashed them at the tables and chairs with sticks, even the stove that the two craftsmen were building. Lin Xiaoshu wanted to stop it, but after all, she was a woman and had no ability, and the two craftsmen had already slipped away when they saw this posture, so she had to look at Han Jian for help.
"Presumptuous!" Gu Weipan snorted at these people.
These people stopped for a moment and looked at Gu Weipan, who was dressed in a blue robe.
The horse-faced man who took the lead walked over with a sneer, and said disdainfully: "You dead old man, what are you talking about?" ”
Gu Weipan was facing Cui Mingli's eyes, and he was scolded as a "dead old man", and he was angry in his heart, he drank again and said, "What did you say?" ”
"Dead old man, what's wrong with scolding you?" The young horse's face looked at Gu Weipan with a provocative tone, making Gu Weipan's old face turn purple.
"The old man fought with you......"
Although Gu Weipan is a Wenchen, Wenchen also has Wenchen's temper, and he was so provoked that he picked up a chair and was about to rush up to pick the young horse's face. The young horse's face saw that the old guy's hands and feet were quite neat, and he hurriedly avoided two steps back, which made Gu Weipan's slash empty.
"Fuck, let's beat it up!" The young horse's face shouted, and the people under his hands rushed towards Gu Weipan.
Han Jian took a look, something happened. Gu Weipan's beating had nothing to do with him, but the key was that Gu Weipan was the chief minister of the Shangting Office, he was going to be beaten, and if he didn't help by the side, it would be tantamount to being an "accomplice" of the thief.
Another point, he is Gu Xin'er's father.
Han Jian sighed helplessly, isn't this looking for trouble? I couldn't think about anything else at the moment, so I picked up a chair as a weapon, swiped it left and right twice, and grabbed a stick and came back, so I had a guy who took advantage of it.
Han Jian regarded the stick as a long sword, and he could deal with it. Although there are many people in front of him, they are all reckless men, and he can cope with it for a while without real work, but he also knows that he is not iron-clad, and if he doesn't want to retreat, then he will also suffer.