Thinking that it was the fraud in the imperial examination that stimulated His Majesty, there was such a provision, Han Jinxiu could only return with a feather, she couldn't really go to see Your Majesty, what did she say, Will Your Majesty believe it?

Naturally, he didn't believe it, dragging his tired body, Han Jinxiu returned to the palace.

An Mei and An An looked at Han Jinxiu and Ah Ling, who had gone and returned, suspiciously, and asked in unison: "Isn't it out of the palace, why did you come back again?" ”

Ah Ling glanced at Han Jinxiu quickly, and found that she had already walked towards the palace, and he whispered: "Your Majesty will not let you leave the palace, and all entry and exit must be approved by Your Majesty." ”

Hearing this, An Mei and Anxin glanced at each other, it was so serious!

On the first day of the fourth month, the prince came to Han Jinxiu's palace in the evening, which made Han Jinxiu very happy, and the dinner that had been prepared long ago was finally not in vain.

The prince said lightly: "The crown princess doesn't need to be extravagant, she doesn't like to be extravagant." ”

That's right, Han Jinxiu almost forgot that even if the prince in his previous life was the king of a country, he was quite thrifty, looking at a table of sumptuous dinner that she specially prepared for the prince, she could only turn her head to look at An Mei: "Remove these dishes, just leave these three dishes." ”

Soon An Mei took the palace maids to withdraw the dishes, and there were only three dishes left.

The prince raised his eyebrows slightly, lifted his chopsticks and ate a few bites, then bathed and changed his clothes, and prepared to go to bed.

Han Jinxiu looked at the departing prince, showing a mocking smile, it's been almost a month, and the prince is still so cold to her, she really doubts whether the prince in her previous life really liked her? I think it's a joke, when will she be completely relaxed?

On the sixth day of the fourth month, Jin Yiwei commanded Lin Botao to report to His Majesty, found more than ten local officials who cheated, and submitted the list to His Majesty, waiting for His Majesty to send it.

Gonggong Yang took the list handed over by Lin Botao and presented it to His Majesty.

His Majesty quickly opened it and looked at it, almost at a glance, these hateful officials, in vain His Majesty's trust in them, but they used the imperial examination to enrich their own pockets. I saw His Majesty throw the list in his hand on the ground, and said fiercely to Lin Botao: "Eradicate them all, my court doesn't need these bastard officials!" ”

"Yes, Weichen takes the order." Lin Botao responded without hesitation, and it should be so, if you can't continue to condone and shield them, it will further fuel their arrogance, and you will have to make inches, then in the future, you will be implicated in the first generation of Your Majesty's reputation.

Lin Botao investigated clearly, and then His Majesty waited for Wang Yaolin's report. Eight days have passed, Wang Yaolin has not entered the palace for a long time, and when he learned of this, Lin Botao laughed contemptuously, this is Wang Yaolin's own choice, who is complaining? He swaggered out of the palace with the reward given to him by His Majesty, and actually met Wang Yaolin at the gate of the palace.

"Lord Wang."

"Lord Lin."

The two exchanged pleasantries, Wang Yaolin watched Lin Botao leave, put away his gaze, and turned to enter the palace to face the saint.

Entering the imperial study, Wang Yaolin respectfully asked for peace: "Wechen has seen Your Majesty." ”

His Majesty, who was correcting the folds, put down the red pen in his hand and said softly: "Flat." Gonggong Yang, give a seat to Lord Wang. ”

Hearing this, Gonggong Yang hurriedly responded: "Yes, the slave will go." With a smile, he instructed the palace people to bring a chair and put it beside Wang Yaolin, and stretched out his hand to signal him to sit down.

After Wang Yaolin sat down, he took the initiative to report to His Majesty about the fraud in the imperial examination, and there was significant progress in the capital!

"Oh, what's going on, tell me quickly." His Majesty asked with a hint of joy in his eyes. Originally, I thought that Lin Botao led the Jinyi Guard to investigate for seven or eight days, and there was news in the place, presumably Wang Yaolin would have to spend some more time in the capital to make progress, so fast, naturally beyond His Majesty's expectations. At this moment, His Majesty felt that his vision was right, Wang Yaolin was indeed a person who could be created, and it was worth it to be able to be recognized by him.

Sitting upright on the chair, Wang Yaolin said: "Back to Your Majesty, Wechen interrogated more than ten cheating people overnight, and they didn't describe much of the people who told the fortunes. ”

"No clues?" His Majesty picked up the teacup in his hand, pursed his lips and took a sip, staring at Wang Yaolin suspiciously, didn't he just say that there were still clues, major progress, why was this gone? Is this a box for him? Who gave Wang Yaolin the guts?

His Majesty was about to be angry, and Wang Yaolin hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, the person who tells the fortune, that is, the person who sells it to more than ten cheating people who will try the answer to the question, has no clues, it doesn't mean that there are no other clues." Wei Chen looked at it from a different angle. ”

Hearing this, His Majesty's heart was more comfortable, and he bowed his head: "You go on, I listen!" ”

At this time, Yang Gonggong brought a cup of tea and put it in Wang Yaolin's hand, and said softly: "Lord Wang, please use tea." "Today's events are not something that can be explained clearly in a while, or a cup of tea to moisten your throat.

Wang Yaolin looked at Gonggong Yang gratefully, he was indeed a little thirsty, and hurried to the palace as soon as there was news, forgetting to rest and then enter the palace, he really couldn't wait. If there is a major progress, he must enter the palace to tell His Majesty, because he knows that the investigation of Jinyiwei has ended, this is the path he has chosen, and he must go all out to investigate in order to be worthy of his official position as the secretary of Dali Temple.

He knew that since he took over the investigation of the fraud case in the capital, many people have been paying attention to the progress of the matter, what is going on? Who is so bold to dare to betray the answers to the test questions in the capital, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, which makes those poor children who fail to make the list feel distressed and resentful of the court. For those who are cheating, they are the most hateful people, and they want to be able to go to high school without much effort and spend only some money, how can such virtuous people benefit the people for the officials.

At present, Wang Yaolin can't guess what the true intentions of the mastermind behind the scenes are, but he knows one thing, he must not be afraid of anyone and shield others, he must be responsible for His Majesty and thousands of poor children, and he can't chill their hearts.

Gathering his thoughts, Wang Yaolin picked up the teacup, took a few sips of tea, put the teacup down, and continued: "Your Majesty, Weichen picked up the silver money, and the more than ten cheating people are not from the capital. Wei Chen followed this line to investigate the money houses and shops in the capital, and according to the descriptions of more than a dozen people in prison, the silver tickets they carried were unique to each place and could be easily identified.

Immediately afterwards, it took three days for Weichen to finally find a clue, and a few days ago, he found that someone had used one of the silver tickets from Shanxi to cheat in the largest jewelry store in Beijing. ”

Without waiting for Wang Yaolin to continue, His Majesty frowned and asked, "Who is it?" "I desperately want to know, who is so bold that he dares to do tricks in the imperial examination, the things he attaches the most importance to?

Hearing this, Wang Yaolin stood up respectfully and replied, "Back to Your Majesty, it is Pan Shi, the stepmother of Wang Qian, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and her daughter Wang Yao. ”

Teng stood up from the chair, and His Majesty's heavy palm slapped on the bookcase, this matter really has something to do with Wang Qian, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites? Wang Qian is a courtier promoted by Yang Shoufu, and he is also a courtier favored by His Majesty, he actually cheated and betrayed the answer to the test to others!

Even if Wang Qian, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, was not the mastermind, then at this moment, his stepmother Pan and sister Wang Yao took out these silver coins, and they couldn't escape the involvement. Your Majesty is full of thoughts at this moment, is this matter related to Yang Shoufu, Yang Defei, and King Yu? I have to make His Majesty suspect that King Yu wants to use this to suppress the moves of other princes, and he can also cultivate his own people.

Wang Yaolin lowered his eyes: "Your Majesty, as soon as this situation was discovered, Weichen immediately ordered someone to arrest Pan and Wang Yao back to Dali Temple for interrogation, and their mother and daughter said that the silver ticket was taken from the account room, and they didn't know anything." Then Weichen took people to the Ministry of Rites' Shilang Mansion, found Wang Qian, and went to the account room with him, and sure enough, there were tens of thousands of taels of silver tickets in the account room, all of which were Shanxi silver tickets.

At that time, Wang Qian's face changed suddenly, and he asked Mr. Bookkeeper, why did it become like this? The bookkeeper turned pale with fright, threw himself on his knees, and said that he did not know. Neither of them could tell why the silver tickets used to buy the answers to the test appeared in the account room of Wang Qian's mansion, and were also taken out by Wang Qian's stepmother Pan and sister Wang Yao. Your Majesty, Wei Chen feels that he has to continue to investigate! ”

Picking up the teacup at hand, His Majesty threw it on the ground, gritted his teeth and said: "Check, you must check it for me to the end, if I want to see, who dares to protect him!" In vain, I trust Wang Qian so much on weekdays, and now that such a thing has happened, he still dares to quibble! Wang Yaolin, I will leave this matter to you, and no matter who obstructs me, I will continue to investigate. Yang Xing, go and get my Shang Fang Sword! ”

Yang Gonggong, who was named, quickly responded: "Yes, the old slave obeys the order." ”

Soon Yang Gonggong took the Shang Fang sword that His Majesty wanted and handed it over to Wang Yaolin, His Majesty would be really angry, and even handed over the Shang Fang sword, it is conceivable that Wang Qian has another mastermind behind him.

Wang Yaolin, who took the sword of Shang Fang, said calmly: "Thank you, Your Majesty, Weichen will definitely live up to his mission and find out the mastermind behind the scenes." ”

"Okay, go down and keep investigating!" His Majesty gave an order, and Wang Yaolin quickly withdrew from the imperial study.

Gonggong Yang cautiously walked to the bookcase, prepared to pick up the broken porcelain pieces on the ground, and was glared at fiercely by His Majesty: "Stop, don't touch, accompany me out for a walk." "His Majesty didn't have the heart to sit in the imperial study and calm down to correct the folds, he was holding back a ball of fire in his heart, and he had to disperse the fire.

His Majesty has orders, and Yang Gonggong naturally has to obey them.

On the way out of the palace, Wang Yaolin met the eldest princess Zhou Yuanhua, and he took the initiative to ask for peace: "Weichen has seen the eldest princess, Chitose Chitose Chitose Chitose. ”

"Lord Wang is polite." The eldest princess Zhou Yuanhua hooked her lips and smiled.

Suddenly, Wang Yaolin opened his mouth and said, "Eldest princess, can you take a step to speak." ”

Taking a step to speak, the eldest princess chuckled lightly and shook her head: "There's no need, just say something that Lord Wang has to say here." ”

Wang Yaolin: "······" There are two personal palace maids standing behind the eldest princess, how can he speak? Obviously, the eldest princess didn't give him a chance, thinking of this, Wang Yaolin lowered his head: "Weichen retired." "This way it's gone.

The eldest princess watched Wang Yaolin leave, and it took a long time to come back to her senses and pull the corners of her mouth: "Do you say that this palace is too much, and you don't even give him a chance to speak." The hands under the sleeves curled up tightly, not because she meant it, but because she couldn't harm Wang Yaolin, he is now a celebrity in front of His Majesty, and he was ordered to investigate the case of fraud in the imperial examination.

Wang Yaolin, who was born in a poor family, is afraid that he will encounter difficulties this time. In such a critical period, the eldest princess naturally can't talk to him alone, there are many people in the palace, you look at this piece of palace people without appearing, but you can't keep it anywhere, you can hide from the eyeliner in the palace.

The two palace maids glanced at each other and lowered their eyes silently.

Sighing lightly, the eldest princess took the initiative to say, "Go back to the palace!" ”

Wang Yaolin's report to His Majesty soon spread throughout the harem and the previous dynasty.

Concubine Wu Xian's palace

She was talking to King Lu at the table, only to hear her excitedly say: "Yuan Jun, this is a good opportunity for us, Wang Yaolin found out on the heads of Wang Qian's stepmother and sister, and those cheating silver tickets appeared on Wang Qian's mansion, and he could not quibble." In addition, your father also gave Wang Yaolin Shangfang the sword, which shows that your father attaches great importance to this matter, Yang Defei, Yang Shoufu, and King Yu, this time see how they can escape! ”

The more she thought about it, the happier she became, and laughed haha, this is in her own palace, and she will not care about others.

But she didn't know that King Lu was thinking about what gift to give in order to please Pianpiao.

Concubine Wu Xian stretched out her hand and slapped the table, and said lightly: "Yuan Jun, what are you thinking?" ”

"What gift is the son trying to give to ······?" As soon as King Lu opened his mouth, he realized that it was not good, and quickly withdrew his mouth, and was stared at tightly by Concubine Wu Xian, he could only make it up: "What gift to give to Miss Xu, isn't this what the concubine explained!" ”

Stretching out her hand, Concubine Wu Xian's face was full of displeasure: "Stop, stop, in this case, don't talk nonsense in the future, how can you be for the sake of the mother, yes, it's the mother concubine who explained you." Who is the mother doing this for? Don't you know what you know? You can think like this, and send something to Miss Xu, the mother concubine is deeply grateful, but don't talk nonsense in front of Miss Xu in the future. ”

King Lu bowed: "Yes, what the mother and concubine taught is that the sons have written it down." "Miss Xu, fortunately, he said it in a hurry, if the mother knew about his relationship with Pianpian, I am afraid she would be angry. King Lu thought about it in his heart, and when this time the imperial examination fraud completely involved Concubine Yang De and King Yu, when his mother was happy, he mentioned to his mother that he wanted to marry Pian Pian as a concubine.

I can't mention it now, it's not a wonderful opportunity, it's just that I found out that it has something to do with Wang Qian, and Wang Qian hasn't been examined yet, and it will take some time, so he will wait patiently.