Huang Tixue's expression finally became solemn, and he shouted outside the hall: "Huang Lubao." ”

The scribe who had brought Zeng Yu in before quickly came in, bowed down and said, "What does the master command?" "This Huang Lubao is Huang Tixue's domestic servant, and he has always been loyal.

Huang Tixue said: "Go and bring me all the sixty exam papers you have taken." ”

The scribe Huang Lubao agreed and hurried away, and soon brought a wooden box, the wooden box was locked, and the lock also had the big seal of the school office stamped by Huang Tixue himself.

Huang Tixue tore off the seal, asked Huang Lubao to take the key to open the wooden box, checked out Cai Shourong's exam papers, and unfolded them to read, first frowned, but after reading two lines, the originally locked brows stretched out, and looked down again, finished reading the first art "Lixian Wufang", raised his eyes and looked at Zeng Yudao: "Who said that Cai Shourong doesn't learn and has no skills, only this eight-strand essay is not bad, hum, the rumors are hateful." ”

Zeng Yuxin said: "Cai Shourong's fraud is certain, could it be that Cai Shourong once drafted the question in advance, or simply someone wrote it on the spot?" If you want to investigate, then investigate thoroughly, otherwise, I am afraid that Huang Tixue will blame him for a lot of things, and said: "Can you let the students come forward and take a look?" ”

Huang Tixue said "um" and said, "Come and see." ”

Zeng Yu approached the book case to look at Cai Shourong's rolling paper, a small stroke is very bad, but the first art "Lixian has no way" is indeed not bad, at least it is decent, and the evaluation standard of the eight-strand essay can be high or low, as long as there is no violation, it all depends on the reader's thoughts-

Zeng Yu opened the scroll paper to see Cai Shourong's scripture eight shares, Cai Shourong's scripture is "Shangshu", the "Shangshu" title of the Yuanzhou Academy examination is "the second nine to use the five blessings", Cai Shourong broke the first sentence of the question is "The sage said the five blessings to persuade the good and punish the evil." ”

Just looking at this first sentence, Zeng Yu laughed, and hurriedly smiled: "The grandmaster looks at his scripture and righteousness, it's just a bull's head and a horse's mouth. ”

Huang Tixue put the volume and looked at it carefully, his brows were furrowed, and the scriptures should have more than 500 words according to the regulations, but Cai Shourong's article was less than 300 words, and the writing was chaotic, upside down, obviously I don't know the source and meaning of the "second nine said to use the five blessings", only more than 200 words were just made up.

Huang Tixue shook his head and said: "It's my negligence, and the science field has always only focused on the disadvantages of the first art." ”

Zeng Yu said: "The student expected that this art was not made by Cai Shourong, and the scripture question was not easy to ghostwrite, so Cai Shourong was completely revealed, this person is the son of a wealthy businessman, and he is famous in Yichun City for not learning and not knowing. ”

Huang Tixue stopped talking, squinting his eyes and thinking about countermeasures, he felt that it was very tricky, and suddenly asked: "Zeng Yu, you just said that there is a way to let the sentient beings who made trouble in Shenming Pavilion disperse, what is the best way for you to do it?" ”

Zeng Yu said: "Grandmaster, this matter has already made trouble, and there are quite a few eunuchs among the troublemakers, it is impossible to cover it up, the students think that it is better to block it than to be sparse, find out which candidates are on the list by cheating, and then use the re-examination and grinding to depose them, and for the internal traitor, just arrest the two people in the East Lake Inn behind the City God Temple and ask them to find out, this kind of people do this illegal thing to ruin the reputation of the grandmaster, it is really hateful." ”

Huang Tixue nodded, that is, he asked Zeng Yu to lead the four school officials to the East Lake Inn to arrest people, and he himself came out of the lobby to see Lie Licheng and other Confucian students, and promised to dethrone those candidates who passed the test in the retest, please wait and see, the retest and the test will be tomorrow morning.

Lie Licheng and the others saw that the grandmaster personally came forward to explain, so they dispersed, and made an appointment to go to the government tomorrow to see the re-examination and grinding, Jing Yi saw that Zeng Yu had entered the examination shed hall and had not come out, and he couldn't wait, so he went back.

On the Shen Ming Pavilion, the staff member with five short statures and big ears complained in a whisper: "The boss is too merciful, these children come with resentment, the boss should have applied to the laws of the country and trained them to the way of sages, if these people are obsessed with it, then they will be sent to the division to deal with, how can they be coerced and explain the promise, the boss is too indulgent of these crazy people." ”

It was almost noon, the sun was shining, and the thin Huang Tixue stood in the Shenming Pavilion and squinted at the gate of the examination shed, ignoring the complaints of the staff, and after a while, said: "Mr. Ling has been working hard to read the papers on behalf of the old and decrepit these days, and I will thank you deeply when I return to Nanchang." ”

The staff surnamed Ling hurriedly said: "Where does the boss say something, the waiter is a guest hired by the boss, and he should share the worries of the boss, and if there is any improper handling in the waiter's reading of the file, I must ask the boss to bear with me." ”

Huang Tixue was silent again, and said for a while: "Mr. Yuan went to the government office on my behalf, and said that the retest was postponed until tomorrow morning, and I won't go to the dinner party, please forgive me from Governor Fan." ”

The staff surnamed Ling agreed, and said: "The boss doesn't have to worry about those troublesome children, there are always so many children who are unwilling to fall off the list every time they play the list, don't ignore or severely punish the initiator, naturally the wind is calm, and the boss promises so easily, but it is even more troublesome." ”

Huang Tixue said: "You hurry up and go to the government office to reply." ”

The staff surnamed Ling went in a hurry.

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Zeng Yu took four school bureau officers out of the examination shed, and one officer asked, "Zeng Gongzi, where are we going to get people?" Who took it? ”

Fang Cai Huang Ti ordered these four messengers to obey Zeng Yu's dispatch, so these four messengers were very respectful to Zeng Yu.

Zeng Yu said: "You can just go with me, but we are not familiar with the place here, and we have to go to the county criminal department to find two more soaps to help, the locals are familiar everywhere, so we can save trouble." ”

The four school bureau officers claimed to be the ones and went to Yichun County together.

Zeng Yu is prepared, the mastermind of the fraudster must be the people around Huang Tixue, these school officials may also be bribed, so calling two Yichun County Ya's soap Li can avoid the occurrence of unexpected situations, the way of Go is the so-called "more wins, less wins", everything must take into account all kinds of possibilities, and prepare in advance, so that nothing can be lost.

When he arrived at the county government penal department, the warden saw that it was the official errand of the school department, that is, he dialed two soap subordinates to cooperate with the business trip, and a group of seven people went straight to the restaurant next to the city god temple in the northeast corner of the city, Zeng Yu let the two soap subordinates guard downstairs, he led the four school bureau officers to the restaurant, good guys, the flat-nosed man and the man wearing a scarf were still drinking, they were all half drunk, Zeng Yu drank his order to tie up the two people and take them away, and the errand officer was surprised: "How to catch them!" ”

Zeng Yu said coldly: "What, do you recognize these two traitors?" ”

The officer hurriedly said, "I don't know, I don't know." ”

The flat nose looked at Zeng Yu in horror, feeling familiar, he drank too much wine, and he couldn't remember where he had seen it for a while, so he only asked the officer: "Brother Yao, what's wrong?" ”

The officer surnamed Yao blushed and said, "Shut your beak, Master Xuezheng is going to take you for the crime, go quickly." ”

Several errand servants pulled the flat nose and scarf downstairs, Zeng Yu asked Soo Li to go to the East Lake Inn to search the guest room where the two lived, and escorted them to the examination shed lobby with their luggage, Huang Tixue secretly interrogated these two people, in addition to the four errand officers present, there were Zeng Yu and the scribe Huang Lubao, Huang Lubao saw that he caught the flat nose and came back, his face changed, and he did not wait for Huang Tixue to start the trial, he first "pounced" and knelt down, and apologized: "Master, the small one is guilty, the small one is guilty, the small one received Mr. Ling's twenty taels of silver, and the small one will hand over the stolen silver, please forgive the master." ”

The scribe Huang Lubao knelt down, and the four errand officers knelt down two of them, admitting that they had each received five taels of silver from Mr. Ling, and cooperated with Huang Lubao to facilitate the arrangement of the candidates' seat numbers.

Huang Tixue was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, and his staff Ling Fengqu was hateful, ruining the atmosphere of his school department, and even dragged his confidants and family members into the water, and said angrily: "Huang Lubao, where are you missing these twenty taels of silver, is the old man's reputation worth twenty taels of silver!" ”

The scribe Huang Lubao was frightened, burst into tears, and kowtowed again and again: "The little ones are confused for a while, and the small ones are confused for a while, please forgive the master." ”

The confession is contagious, the man with a flat nose and a scarf scrambles to confess, Huang Tixue asked Zeng Yu to write it down, and then let the two draw it one by one, Fang asked: "Is Ling Fengqu back?" Huang Lubao, go and have a look, let him come to see me. ”

In the middle of the night, Ling Fengqu, who had big ears, followed the scribe Huang Lubao to the court, Ling Fengqu saw that Huang Lubao's expression was wrong, and asked what happened but didn't say, this Ling Fengqu was thick-skinned and bold, bullying Huang Tixue and being old and sick and mediocre and easy to deceive, although he knew that something might have happened, but he was not very afraid, and when he arrived in the hall and saw the two people with flat noses kneeling below, he was a little panicked, and pretended to be calm and stepped forward and said: "Boss, Fan Fuzun learned that the boss was tired from reading the papers and didn't go to the banquet, so he said that he was going to come to the examination shed to visit the boss, and it should be almost there." ”

Huang Tixue no longer returned the courtesy as usual, sat down and said: "Ling Muyou, you have been in the school office for a year, how does the old man treat you?" ”

Ling Fengqu knew that something was wrong, and said cheekily: "The old man is as kind to the waiter as a mountain-"

Huang Tixue waved his hand and said: "How dare you be as kind as a mountain, but the old man asked himself if he didn't treat you badly, how did you fulfill your responsibilities as a guest?" ”

Ling Fengqu peeked at the flat-nosed two people who were kneeling, and the two of them looked dejected, and it seemed that they had confessed their guilt, but he had to carry it hard, and said without shame: "The waiter feels the kindness of the boss, and he is conscientious and conscientious in assisting the boss on weekdays, which is obvious to all, but there is no pure gold, no one is perfect, and it is inevitable that the waiter will make mistakes in doing things, please learn from the boss." ”

Zeng Yu, who was standing next to Huang Tixue, couldn't help but secretly admire, as the saying goes, "If you don't see the coffin, you won't shed tears", this person doesn't shed tears when he sees the coffin, his face is thick-skinned, and his courage is strong, it's rare to see it.

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