The group walked into the inner house, Ouyang Xiu's mansion is an official mansion, covering a small area, only five acres, and soon walked around, the situation is probably clear, Ouyang Xiu's mansion does not have a two-story building.

Fan Ning asked Ouyang Mingyuan again, "Does your mansion have real estate elsewhere?" ”

Ouyang Mingyuan shook his head, "There is this mansion in the capital, and there is also an ancestral house in my hometown. ”

"How long has it been since your uncle returned home?" Fanning asked.

"It's been almost four years."

Fan Ning and Li Weizhen glanced at each other, Wu Chunyan married into the Ouyang family three years ago, maybe she went back to the ancestral house of the Ouyang family, but she definitely never went back with Ouyang Xiu.

Li Weizhen whispered to Fan Ning again: "I didn't see the pond!" ”

This is also a key issue, there are neither small buildings nor ponds in Ouyang Xiu's mansion, which is completely inconsistent with the description in the words.

Fan Ning nodded, "Go talk to Senior Ouyang!" ”

When everyone came to the inner hall, Ouyang Xiu invited Fan Ning and Li Weizhen to sit down, and Fan Ning asked with concern, "How is Senior Ouyang's health now?" ”

Ouyang Xiu sighed, "My body is estimated to have collapsed, and I can't support it after walking dozens of steps, I couldn't see anything in my eyes a few days ago, and now I have a white spot in my eyes, and now I have difficulty reading." ”

Ouyang Xiu is notoriously highly myopic, and now that he is older, cataracts have also come out, and he may be able to do surgery in the future, now! Fanning could only smile bitterly.

"May I ask Fan Zhiyuan, how is the investigation now?" Ouyang Qian next to her asked anxiously.

Fanning glanced at her and said slowly: "This matter actually can't stand scrutiny, the whistleblower used a poem as evidence, but the environment of your mansion does not match the description in the word, so we think that the element of false accusation is relatively large." ”

"That's it!"

Ouyang Qian said angrily: "Our family has such a large population and a tight house, how can there be such a dirty thing happening, it is clearly a false accusation against my father." ”

Seeing that Ouyang Xiu was silent, Fan Ning said to Ouyang Qian, "Can you ask Miss Qian to avoid it?" ”

Ouyang Qian was stunned, "Why?" ”

Ouyang Xiu sighed, "Qian'er, you should avoid it first!" ”

Ouyang Qian got up and retreated with a puzzled expression.

Only then did Fan Ning say to Ouyang Xiu: "Senior Ouyang, please speak!" ”

Ouyang Xiu pondered for a long time and said: "This poem was written by me the year before last, and it depicts the Dongmen Sect, and the woman in it is an official prostitute, called Zhu Caimei, she can testify that this poem was written to her, and she has an original manuscript of this poem over there." ”

This kind of thing is really difficult to talk about, but in order to prove his innocence, Ouyang Xiu had to let it go, after all, the reputation of the merry is much better than the incestuous * incest.

Fan Ning nodded, "I will find out as soon as possible, and then report to the official family, Senior Ouyang can recuperate with peace of mind." ”

Ouyang Xiu was very helpless in his heart, what could he do if he found out, his reputation had been completely ruined, and for a while, all thoughts in his heart were lost.

Fan Ning recorded the confession, asked Ouyang Xiu to sign and draw, and then came out of the inner hall, Ouyang Qian kept sending them to the gate, Fan Ning smiled: "Miss Qian, please stay!" ”

Ouyang Qian wanted to say something, but her lips moved, but she didn't say anything.

Fan Ning glanced at her and turned to leave, and Li Weizhen and the other officials followed.

The people got into two carriages and returned to the courtyard.

Fan Ning pondered for a while, and said to Li Weizhen: "You go to the Dongmen Sect and do two things, one is to draw down the drawings, and the second is to get the confession of the official prostitute Zhu Caimei, and ask for the original manuscript of Ouyang Xiu's poem." ”

"Let's go!"

The two divided their troops, Fan Ning returned to the Imperial Academy, while Li Weizhen rushed to the Dongmen Sect with two officials.

As soon as Fan Ning returned to his official room, an official came in with a thick stack of papers, "Qiyu Zhiyuan, the letters accusing Ouyang Xiu in the past five years have been found. ”

"How many?"

"Seventy-four copies!"

"There are so many!" Fanning was taken aback.

"Most of them are the complaints of the scholars after the imperial examination last year, and we have sorted out these 74 letters, and seven of them are valuable."

The official handed over one of the stacks of books to Fan Ning, who flipped through them, and these seven copies were all various accusations by Xue Zongru against Ouyang Xiu.

One of them is Xue Zongru's accusation that Ouyang Xiu leaked the test questions, which was in May last year, Xue Zongru had not yet served as the imperial historian at that time, and he passed the letter of the Imperial Court as an ordinary official, and finally proved that his accusation was nonsense to take for granted.

Fan Ning flipped through the other six books, accusing Ouyang Xiu of corruption and bribery, accusing Ouyang Xiu of having multiple houses in the capital and the origin of the money was unknown, and accusing Ouyang Xiu of plagiarizing the poems of his predecessors.

These seven indictments are stamped with the seal of the procuratorate as 'unsubstantiated'.

Now all kinds of evidence have been gradually closed, just waiting for the last step of Li Weizhen's investigation.

………

It was already dusk when Fan Ning returned to the mansion, and in the dining hall, the food had been arranged, and Zhu Pei said with a smile: "I thought that my husband was going to have a drink with his colleagues today to welcome the new official to take office." ”

"I was going to go, but there was a case today, and it was delayed, so let's talk about it another day!"

Zhu Pei poured Fan Ning a glass of wine and said with a smile: "Husband has entered the state so quickly? ”

"It's Ouyang Xiu's case, it's more special."

"I see that the tabloid newspaper is talking about him every day, saying that he doesn't care whether his family lives or dies, half of his money is spent on drinking and prostitutes, saying that he is extravagant, and there are a few illegitimate children outside, husband, are these true?"

Fan Ning sneered and said: "This kind of "tabloid" is like this, one of the nine truths is a lie, but the most important one is a lie, he likes to drink and prostitutes, and it is not false that his family is relatively poor, but there are absolutely no illegitimate children. ”

"Is that the incident between him and his daughter-in-law real?" Zhu Pei asked curiously, holding his cheeks.

She is no different from other women, and she especially likes to listen to this kind of lace gossip news.

Fanning still shook his head, "Based on my current investigation, this matter should be a false accusation. ”

"Found evidence?"

Fan Ning laughed, "Actually, I know that there is a problem from common sense, his in-laws are bachelor Wu Zheng, that is, the father of his daughter-in-law Wu Chunyan, if Ouyang Xiuzhen has an affair with his daughter-in-law, Wu Zheng will let Ouyang Xiu go?" As far as I know, Wu Zheng is also preparing to write to the imperial court, demanding that Xue Zongru be severely punished. ”

Zhu Pei frowned, "Since there is no evidence, why does "Tabloid Newspaper" play up this matter all day long, make it known to everyone in the world, and completely ruin the reputation of Ouyang's predecessors." ”

"The tabloid wants to make money, and it's not that it's made up, but that this kind of thing did happen in the imperial court, how could the tabloid let go of such an eye-catching thing?

In fact, the key is that Ouyang Xiu himself is more romantic, and he offended the behind-the-scenes owner of "Tabloid Newspaper", otherwise why didn't my cousin Fan Zhongyan have such a thing, because everyone doesn't believe it at all, so it can't be rendered. ”

"My husband is right, I am romantic, and when I encounter this kind of thing, even if I am innocent, I can't tell it clearly."

Fan Ning's index finger tapped lightly on the table, and the words he had with his wife just now made him think of one thing, this matter should be investigated again Wu Zheng's attitude.

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Before dawn the next day, Fanning got up early to prepare for the court, packed up and got into the carriage.

But today there is a little tea boy in the carriage, called Xiaowen, who is very delicate, his parents are both servants of the Zhu family, nominally free, but in fact he has to rely on the Zhu family to live.

Xiaowen is only eight years old this year, and he began to work as a tea boy for Zhu Yuanfeng last year.

Zhu Pei gave his parents five yuan a month, which was also a high salary in Zhu's house, two times more than the previous salary, and his parents happily sent him over.

Xiaowen is not tall, in the carriage, he moved a small stool to sit at the door, took a soup bottle made of sterling silver, and added it to the officials at any time, he has been doing these things for a year, and he has already been very proficient.

"Xiaowen, what's your last name?" Fanning asked with a gentle smile.

"If you go back to the official, my surname is Wen, and my name is Wen Xiaoyi, because there are already three Xiaoyi in Zhu's mansion, so everyone calls me Xiaowen."

Xiao Yi is one of the most common names for men in the Da Song Dynasty, just like what is called 'second child' today, and he grabs a handful.

Fanning nodded and asked, "Are you literate?" ”

Xiaowen shook his head, "I only know my own name." ”

That's not bad, you can put it in the official cabinet if you don't read.

The carriage went to the courtyard first, the gate of the courtyard was opened, and there were already miscellaneous people cleaning the courtyard, Fanning asked Xiao Yi to take Xiao Yi to the tea room to wait, and he himself took the carriage to continue to the palace.

Although the festival was boring, he had to participate.

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