Zeng Yu was very hesitant for a while: if he found out the mastermind of the fraud in the hospital trial, this would definitely be very unfavorable to Huang Tixue, and would it affect his own make-up examination results? But if you wait and see, this fraud will not exist because he ignores it, it will be calm, things are always there, Lie Licheng is the son of an official eunuch, and he was humiliated in public by Cai Shourong, who is not learned and unskilled, Lie Licheng has to investigate thoroughly, if Yuanzhou Mansion is only the last stop of this year's Jiangxi Academy Examination, then the situation is easy to control, but there are Linjiang, Ji'an, Nan'an, Ganzhou, and Jianchang behind Yuanzhou, and the fraud rumors are bound to spread more and more, and it will eventually cause an investigation by the Jiangxi Provincial Prosecutor and the Supervision of the Imperial History, At that time, I was afraid that Huang Tixue would not only damage his reputation, but also lose his black yarn hat-

Jing Yi didn't know what Zeng Yu was frowning and thinking, and shouted: "Jiu Li, let's go first, if Cai Mazi knows that you are here, it will have more to say." ”

Zeng Yu said: "Wait a minute, wait a minute." ”

Over there, the scolding between Lie Licheng and Cai Shourong escalated, Lie Licheng scolded Cai Shourong for being a pockmarker, Cai Shourong scolded Lie Licheng for being squinted, and the house slaves on both sides were also gearing up to do it-

Zeng Yu said to Jing Yi: "Brother Yuanzhi, you go and persuade Liesheng to get away, it is useless to quarrel like this, if Cai Shourong is really cheating, you can try to find out clearly, there is no need to quarrel with Cai Shourong on the street like this, we will meet in the Xiujiang Teahouse by the Confucian Temple." ”

Jing Yi squeezed into the crowd to persuade him, Lie Licheng was furious, shouting that he wanted to go to the grandmaster with Cai Shourong now to see whose eight-strand essay was done well, how Cai Shourong was willing to compete with Lie Licheng, and sneered: "As the saying goes, 'don't say your life under the window, don't write in the field', wealth and fame are all destined, and you can't fight for them. Da Lu laughed a few times and left with a few slaves.

Zeng Yu bamboo hat covered his face and quietly followed behind, only to see that Cai Shourong called a sedan chair to sit, and the four healthy servants followed the sedan chair to the east, bypassing the Confucian Temple, Yuan Zhouwei, and the Tax Division, and traveled more than three miles, and came to the outside of the Bao'en Temple in the northeast of the county, and the sedan chair stopped-

Zeng Yu in Cai Shourong paid the sedan chair when he walked quickly to the door of Bao'en Temple to see the inscription, a moment later, that Cai Shourong brought a servant into the temple gate, but only looked around in front of the Buddha hall, waited for a while, there was a fire worker came to salute Cai Shourong, Cai Shourong master and servant followed the fire man around the hall to the back, Zeng Yu bypassed from the other side of the hall, watched Cai Shourong follow the fire worker to the King Kong Palace, a middle-aged man wearing a scarf came out of the hall, rewarded the fire worker a few pennies, the fire worker went to the apse to do chores.

Zeng Yu saw that the middle-aged man was born, not the flat nose he had ever seen, it seemed that there were several people who contacted the fraud, but seeing Cai Shourong and the man with this scarf said a few words, he asked the servant next to him to hand a heavy cloth bag to the middle-aged man, the middle-aged man used three fingers to support the mouth of the cloth bag and looked inside, and then held it in his palm, nodded, put it in the waist jacket, smiled and bowed his hand to Cai Shourong, Cai Shourong also gave his hand, as if he said "Two clear", and walked back with the servant, The scarf man was still standing in place, seeing Cai Shourong bypassing the main hall, then he turned around and walked to the temple deeply, after the Guanyin Hall suddenly turned to the left, there was a stone path, at the end of the path was a small door, the scarf man went out of the Bao'en Temple from this small door-

When Zeng Yu followed, the fireworker was about to close the small door, Zeng Yu pointed to the door, muttered, with the wind under his feet, he flashed out, outside the door was an open space, and then there was the city wall, and there were a few unkempt beggars enjoying the cool air at the base of the wall, and the middle-aged man wearing a scarf had already gone around to the back of the temple-

Zeng Yu chased after him, but saw that behind the Bao'en Temple is the City God Temple, the man with a scarf went to the City God Temple, and did not look back all the way, obviously there is no spy quality, does not have the ability to counter-reconnaissance, there is an inn behind the City God Temple, the East Lake Inn, the man with the scarf entered this inn, and did not come out for a long time.

The sun was very dry, Zeng Yuli waited for a while under the big locust tree behind the Chenghuang Temple, and bought a bowl of herbal tea from the old woman who sold herbal tea under the shade of Huai, and was about to enter the store to inspect, but saw that the man with the towel came out, and there was another person beside him, it was the flat nose, the two of them talked and laughed, and went to a restaurant near the Chenghuang Temple to drink.

Zeng Yu didn't delay any longer, and hurried all the way back to the teahouse by the Confucian Temple, Jing Yi was waiting for him, and said anxiously: "Jiu Li, where have you been, Liesheng led a few Confucian students to the examination shed and said that he wanted to appeal to the grandmaster——"

Zeng Yu said: "Brother Yuan, we will also go to the examination shed, I have something to report to the grandmaster in person." ”

Two people rushed to the examination shed, only to see the dragon gate wide open, but the lobby in the center of the examination shed is closed, the Shenming Pavilion on the side is noisy, there are thirty or forty people around the pavilion to ask the grandmaster to thoroughly investigate the fraud, Lie Licheng's voice is the most high-pitched and angry, Zeng Yu went to look, only to see standing in the pavilion to listen to Lie Licheng and others complained is Huang Tixue's staff, five short figures, big ears, is the day of the exam on the lobby on behalf of Huang Tixue named the staff, this person is very loud, a serious face said: "Don't listen to rumors and mislead your future, The Grandmaster has his own opinion on admitting students, and if you create rumors to ruin the reputation of the Grandmaster, once the Grandmaster gets angry and cuts off your student status, you will not be allowed to take the exam for the rest of your life, and it will be too late to regret it. ”

As soon as this remark came out, the voice of many Confucian children complained that the voice was lowered, and there was another subject in this subject, but he was not allowed to take the exam for the rest of his life, and this life would be wasted, but Lie Licheng became more and more annoyed, and shouted: "I will take off Cai Mazi's headscarf if I can't take the exam for the rest of my life, if the grandmaster doesn't make the decision for us, I will go to Nanchang to appeal to the envoy, and if it doesn't, I will go to Beijing to Dengwen Drum to sue the emperor!" ”

Lie Licheng glared at the staff member when he spoke, naturally with a look of contempt, the staff was furious, and said sharply: "Report your name, I will ask the sect master to punish him severely, and you don't want to go to school in this life." ”

Lie Licheng is also young and vigorous, and he does not show weakness, and responds: "The surname is Licheng, and Gaozu once served as the Shao Zhan of Nanjing Hanlin Academy. ”

When the staff member heard that Lie Licheng was the son of a eunuch, his tone was softer, and he said: "Since you are from a family of crowns, you should abide by the law, respect your teacher, and be a model for all sentient beings, how can you confuse the public with rumors and incite all shalves to make trouble?" He said to the other Confucian scholars, "You all stand down, and stay here to speak." ”

Lie Licheng shouted: "Don't go, don't go, don't leave, you won't leave if you don't see the sect master today." ”

Zeng Yu knew that this matter was not easy to do, so he turned around and ran to the lobby, where there were two soap guards in front of the lobby, and a scribe probed his brain to look at the Shen Ming Pavilion.

Zeng Yu recognized this scribe, and it was this scribe who chased him out of the lobby after handing in the test papers that day, and hurriedly said: "The student wants to see Huang Tixue, please report, it was Huang Tixue who asked the student to meet after the list was released, wasn't that the word that you sent to me that day." ”

The scribe looked at Zeng Yu twice, was a little impressed, and said, "Did you come to see you today?" ”

Zeng Yu said: "Exactly." ”

The scribe said: "Lord Xuezheng is about to go to the government office, but he is blocked by these unsuccessful candidates, then I will go in and report to you to see if the adults want to see you." ”

Zeng Yu said: "Please tell the grandmaster that Zeng Yu has a way to let these troublesome candidates disperse." ”

The scribe glanced back at Zeng Yu, hurried into the lobby through the side door, came out in a moment, and said to Zeng Yu, "Please come with me." ”

Zeng Yu followed the scribe into the lobby, and Huang Guoqing, the deputy envoy of Jiangxi Tixue, who was wearing a four-grade civil official Yunyan tonic suit, sat in the hall, and several adjutants, staff, and officials were accompanied by him, Zeng Yu stepped forward to salute, Huang Tixue frowned and said: "Zeng Yu, let you come to see me tomorrow, what are you going to do now?" ”

Zeng Yu said: "Please let the grandmaster retreat, the student has a hard time reporting to the grandmaster, it involves the student's private affairs, the student doesn't want others to know, please forgive the grandmaster." ”

Huang Tixue was stopped here by those troublesome candidates, and he was in a bad mood, so the scribe came to report that Zeng Yu had a way to let these candidates disperse, and he thought that Zeng Yu was going to say that this was the matter, so he said: "Why do you need to hold back, but it doesn't hurt to say it." ”

Zeng Yu bowed down and said, "Please be considerate of the students' unspeakable secrets. ”

As soon as Huang Tixue groaned, the adjutants and staff around him stood up and retired, and soon only Huang Tixue and Zeng Yu were left in the main hall of the lobby, Huang Tixue was a little disapproving, shook his head and said: "Zeng Yu, what do you have to say?" ”

Zeng Yu said: "The student just passed by the Shenming Pavilion, and I heard a candidate shouting that he was going to Nanchang to complain to the inspector about the fraud in the department, and the student was very worried about the grandmaster. ”

Huang Tixue smiled: "Every time the list is released, there are always some candidates who fall off the list and are crazy, it is not surprising, if he really wants to sue, then it is up to him, can he not make a fuss." ”

Zeng Yu said: "Grandmaster Rongyu, the rumors about fraud in this year's college examination are not limited to Yuanzhou, students have heard about it when they were in Guangxin Mansion, and the students arrived in Yuanzhou on May 29, and they entered the city at dusk to see the location of the examination shed, but they met a person who asked the students for fifty taels of silver to guarantee the students to go to school——"

At that moment, Zeng Yu retold the original conversation with the flat nose that day to Huang Tixue, Huang Tixue listened attentively, and said with a smile at the end: "This must be a liar, there is no doubt that there are traitors who take advantage of the big exam to fish in troubled waters and cheat people out of money, by the way, are those candidates shouting outside being cheated of money but are not on the list to make trouble?" ”

Zeng Yu said: "Grandmaster, I'm afraid things are not so simple. "I said what I saw when I put the list today, as well as what I saw after Cai Shourong in Bao'en Temple, and said the most: "The grandmaster is kind to the students, and the students can't bear to let the grandmaster be deceived by traitors and ruin his reputation. ”

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