According to his own conditions, Sima Hongyan chose four items: martial arts, debate, leadership, and judgment.

The martial arts conference came to the beginning of the day, and all the participants gathered in the school martial arts field. It was really an empty alley, a sea of people. Even the viewing seats were densely packed with people who came to watch. The imperial court forbidden troops were all out to maintain order at the scene. The Nine Emperors personally pressed the formation to ensure safety.

Almost half of the people in the city come to see this annual bustle! It is said that the inns in the city have long been full, and even some of the homes of people with slightly larger courtyards have been occupied. Capable people from all over the country poured into the capital on this day. However, the scale of this royal school martial arts field is really huge, and it is still not cramped for many people to squeeze into this place.

Sima Hongyan followed the contestants into the waiting area, meditating in her heart to see if there were any omissions in her preparation these days. Because the entourage and maids here were not allowed to enter, Sima Hongyan sent Qinghan, Wu Zhao and others to see the excitement on their own.

Suddenly, a person greeted her next to her: "Miss Sima, are you here too?" ”

Sima Hongyan turned his head and saw that he had seen Li Siyu at the Chongyang banquet, and he had been slapped inexplicably for him. As soon as he saw him, Sima Hongyan's left cheek twitched involuntarily.

Li Siyu happily squeezed beside her, and Sima Hongyan hurriedly looked around.

"What are you looking for?" Li Siyu saw her looking around and asked.

"Looking for Liao Ruiyu! Where there is you, there will be her! Sima Hongyan said while looking for it.

Li Siyu's face was embarrassed, and he said with a resentful expression: "She didn't come, she didn't participate in the game at all." ”

"Oh?" Sima Hongyan was relieved at this time, sat down and said, "It seems that you have already inquired before you came?" ”

Li Siyu's face turned red again, and said: "This Liao Er girl is really persistent, I, I can't help it." ”

Sima Hongyan smiled: "You are too indecisive!" What's so hard about that? Go directly to her mansion, find General Liao and tell him: Take care of your daughter, don't come to pester me again, I would rather be a bachelor for the rest of my life than marry her. ”

Li Siyu was taken aback and said, "How can this work?" How embarrassing that was for General Liao. What's more, this is also not good for the reputation of Miss Liao. Even if I don't want to, I can't ruin people's innocence! ”

Sima Hongyan glared at him and sighed, "Alas! I think you'd better marry her. With your character, sooner or later it will fall into the hands of Liao Ruiyu. ”

"No, no, no!" Li Siyu shook his hand and said: "No, I don't like her, how can I marry her?" ”

Sima Hongyan said: "You don't like people, and you don't reject them." What do you make others think? Everyone thinks that you are the eldest prince Li who is thin-skinned, and he is half-pushed and half-pushed with others. Liao Ruiyu has made a lot of trouble about the two of you, but you haven't even refuted it, isn't that a tacit acquiescence. ”

Li Siyu's eyes widened, looked at Sima Hongyan, and asked in surprise, "What do you think?" ”

"Why do I think so? All Yanling people think so. Sima Hongyan continued to exaggerate and said seriously.

Li Siyu seemed to be really frightened, and he looked at a loss for what to do. Sima Hongyan held back a smile and turned his face away from looking at him.

Suddenly, a person said behind her, "What are you talking about behind my sister's back?" ”

Sima Hongyan hurriedly turned around in surprise, only to see Liao Yun staring at him with a cold face. She didn't feel embarrassed at all and said to herself: "I can touch you here, I really didn't look at the yellow calendar when I went out!" ”

The huge school martial arts field is divided into ten places, and the contestants line up to participate. When the time came, Sima Hongyan didn't want to stay with Liao Yunhan, so he found a place to line up for the competition.

The first item Sima Hongyan chose was broken! Because there are the least number of people in line here.

In the middle of the hyphenation field, there are several large tents erected, each contestant takes turns to enter, the scene inside cannot be seen from the outside, the people who finish the competition will leave from behind the tent, and the people waiting outside will not see the previous person who entered.

Sima Hongyan said secretly: "This game is a bit interesting, even the previous person is not allowed to see it after the game, and the confidentiality work is good." ”

This hyphenation contest is very interesting, some of the people who go in are fast and some are slow, sometimes the people in front of them will wait for a while, and sometimes the people in front of them just go in and shout the next one, I really don't know how to take the exam inside.

When Sima Hongyan was bored, he looked at the crowd of people who came to participate in this competition. Look at what the costume is for, and there are Taoist monks. When I looked back, I noticed that a person was very familiar. It was a woman, dressed in a long blue dress, standing in the crowd extremely plain, far from the anxiety of the people around her.

After thinking about it for a long time, Sima Hongyan recalled that it was Shi Jinyan who could play more than ten kinds of musical instruments at the Chongyang banquet. Shi Jinyan also saw her, smiled slightly, and nodded.

After Sima Hongyan also nodded to her, he thought, "People who can learn more than ten kinds of musical instruments must have good brains!" ”

After a while, it was Sima Hongyan's turn. She turned around and waved her hand at Shi Jinyan, and then walked into the big tent.

There was a long table in the center of the big tent, and behind the table sat four officials, who should be from the Criminal Department.

Sima Hongyan walked closer, saluted, and reported his name.

One of them handed over a case file and said, "This is a murder case, the content is there, you can take a look." ”

Sima Hongyan took it and looked at it seriously.

It is written in the case file that there are four sworn brothers who have made an appointment to go fishing in the river together in the morning. But when the time came, only the three brothers arrived, but the boss didn't come. After waiting for about an hour, the boss still didn't come. So the three separated, the second went to the eldest brother's house to look for it, the third went to the neighborhood to see if he missed the eldest brother, and the fourth went to the town to buy some wine and food. But when the second child called the door and called the sister-in-law to ask, the sister-in-law said that the eldest went out early in the morning. Subsequently, the government found the body of the boss in the lake not far from the old family, and the cause of death was strangulation. Because the crime happened too early and there were no eyewitnesses, it became an unsolved case.

After reading it, Sima Hongyan respectfully returned the case file.

Or that official, seeing that Sima Hongyan handed it back after reading it, he asked, "What do you think about this case?" ”

"The murderer is this person who does two!" Sima Hongyan said without hesitation.

The four people on the other side were all stunned, and the other said: "How are you sure that the second child did it?" This is not a guess. ”

Sima Hongyan said: "I'm not guessing, I have evidence!" ”

There was still evidence, and the four officials were even more surprised. Another of them said: "You can find evidence just by using the Chinese characters of this case file?" ”

"Yes!" Sima Hongyan said calmly: "And it is extremely obvious. ”

The faces of the four people were all in disbelief, and they said strangely: "I want to hear it in detail!" ”

Sima Hongyan raised his hand and said to the four officials: "Suppose the four of you are these four brothers!" Then he pointed to the one on the far left and continued: "This lord did not show up as promised. Then he pointed to the man next to him and said, "This lord went to the house to look for it." What would you do if you got to the door of the adult's house that didn't come? ”

The second official stood up, made a knocking motion, and said, "Naturally, you are knocking on the door to call someone!" With that, he was suddenly stunned on the spot.

Sima Hongyan smiled: "Not bad! Under normal circumstances, if you knock on the door and call someone, you will naturally call for the big brother who did not arrive as promised. But the case file said that the second brother went to the eldest brother's house to call his sister-in-law. This shows that the second brother already knew that the eldest brother was not at home before he arrived at the eldest brother's house, if he was not victimized by him, then how could he know in advance? ”

Looking at the four officials opposite, their faces changed from surprise to trance. Sima Hongyan continued: "Of course. I don't know the background of this case. But I think if the second brother was here now, he wouldn't be able to answer this question. ”

The words made the four officials stunned!

One of them said: "Miss Sima is thoughtful, we really admire it. This level is passed! Then there's something to look at, and I'm going to ask the girl to look at it. With that, he handed over an object.

Sima Hongyan took it, took it in his hand, and saw that it was a piece of peiyu.

The texture of this jade is excellent, but the pattern on it is extremely ordinary, although it is not rare, but it is also a precious thing. Sima Hongyan looked back and forth a few times, wrote it down in his heart, and returned the jade.