The mountain road was full of torches, a group of injured students were sitting or lying, and the air was still wafting with a strong smell of alcohol, but everyone was awake, dull and painful, and their faces were as earthy as color.

Just passed the county exam, happily went to the county lord's house to have a banquet, happily drank wine, an hour ago, they sang "Zhuangyuan You" together and went back to the academy, I didn't think that in a blink of an eye, some people were gone.

The smell of blood mixed with the smell of alcohol combined with a breath of despair, and some people couldn't stand it and vomited on the spot.

Lord Tang led the doctors of the county to rescue on the mountain road, looking at the wounded in this place, feeling guilty, desperate and angry.

"My lord," Zhao Yunjing walked over after waking up Chen Shanchang, and he was followed by the bodyguard Jiang Wuyu found for him, "My people have already gone to chase them, and the people of Zhou Yunliu under the mountain have also set off, plus Liu Zhutou and them, they should be able to arrest the murderer soon." ”

If it weren't for the bodyguards brought by Zhao Yunjing and Chen Gongzi who were quite capable, maybe all the seedlings in Taohua County this year would have to be folded here, and then Lord Tang would not want to go to the capital to be a first-class officer, so many scholars in his own jurisdiction were killed, and he would have to be imprisoned for the rest of his life if he didn't die.

Master Tang had a calm face: "What kind of grudge is it, I want to attack you students?!" This official really can't think of it even if he thinks about it! ”

Feng Wei clutched his injured right arm and interjected from behind: "My lord, I'm afraid that some people don't want our students from Taohua County to come forward, and they don't want you to make achievements Lord Tang!" ”

Lord Tang was stunned for a moment, he didn't know what he thought, and his face turned pale.

Zhao Yunjing frowned, and Chen Gongzi next to him also frowned, and the two of them walked forward at the same time.

"What do you think about tonight?" Chen Gongzi opened his mouth first.

"At first, I thought that the other party was coming for you and me, but Lord Tang's face was not quite right, and it didn't seem to be." Zhao Yunjing frowned, "How are your hands?"

"I can't die." Saying that, he looked at Zhao Yunjing's injured arm and smiled coldly, "Brother Zhao is the one who wants to take the top prize, if this hand is wasted, it will be empty." ”

Zhao Yunjing's expression was very light: "I just wasted one hand, and I still took the top prize." ”

"Don't be ashamed!"

"Chen Gongzi, let's think about why your father has hidden things for twenty years, why did he finally name me." Zhao Yunjing turned his face away and ignored him.

Chen Gongzi stared at his back, gritting his teeth.

After a while, Liang Shanchang's voice came from behind him: "Liangjin, you and Yun Jing were originally classmates, and this time they are friends again, if you can successfully break through the level together in the future and go to the capital together, the relationship will be deeper." You are from the same place, no matter how you fight, in the eyes of outsiders, you are all together, fight one, you will definitely not let go of the other, only if you are united, can you gain a firm foothold in the capital faster. ”

Chen Gongzi's teeth slowly relaxed, and Zhao Yunjing had already gone to comfort the other injured students.

Zhao Yunjing himself also injured his arm, but the first time he asked the bodyguard to chase the murderer, and after he stabilized, he was also the first to comfort others, and he was still trapped in jealousy and felt sorry for himself.

No wonder Dad is willing to hand over such an important thing to Zhao Yunjing, no wonder Lord Zhao is willing to wait for Zhao Yunjing for three years, it turns out that he has already lost to Zhao Yunjing, not only homework, strategy, but also heart.

With the assistance of the officials, Ma Dalang and others, the six or seven murderers were quickly arrested and brought to justice, and Lord Tang was arraigned in public on the mountain road, but he was confused in the end.

These six or seven people fled from Ganxian County, and a mysterious person gave them a hundred gold, and asked them to kill the academy tonight and injure a few students.

But these six or seven people were red-eyed, and the students drank some wine, so they were bold and resisted violently, so they had no sense of proportion, and only then did they get two lives.

Zhao Yunjing felt that this matter was not so simple, but after interrogating for a long time, the seven people all testified the same thing, and they didn't change a word, which sounded like they had been tacitly agreed in advance.

The students were injured and should not blow the wind, so Lord Tang asked everyone to go back to the academy to rest first, and ordered the doctors to guard tonight, and he escorted the seven people back to the yamen, Zhao Yunjing thought about it and asked one of the bodyguards to follow.

The assassination of Taohualing was personally brought to Taohua Village by Ma Dalang after dawn and brought to Zhou Mujiao.

Zhou Mujiao was taken aback: "What about others? Are there any injuries? Where's the injury? Is it heavy or not? Is there a danger to life? Why did you only come today to inform what happened last night? Have you found the murderer? What did Lord Tang say......"

Ma Dalang answered Zhou Mujiao's questions one by one, and finally said: "Zhao Gongzi and Chen Gongzi's arms are injured, Zhao Gongzi's right arm is deeply injured, and the bone is seen, and the doctor of the Rejuvenation Hall personally cares for it, saying that it can be healed after half a month of recuperation." ”

Zhou Mujiao is not optimistic: "What arm did Chen Gongzi hurt?" What about other students? ”

Ma Dalang thought for a while before replying: "It seems that the right arm is the majority." ”

If Ma Dalang is not mistaken, these students were injured in their right arms, then the other party's motive is very good - the right hand is used to write, it seems that the perpetrators do not want these students to participate in the imperial examination.

After thinking about it from this motive, it can also be considered that the murderer actually didn't want Zhao Yunjing and Chen Gongzi to participate in the imperial examination, and those students were just a cover for the other party's indiscriminate attack.

Zhou Mujiao immediately decided: "Xiaoding Xiaocai, you are at home to take care of the house, and Uncle Jiang and I will go to the county!" ”

When they arrived in the county, Zhou Mujiao and Jiang Wu Yubing split into two ways, Zhou Mujiao went straight back to Lan Academy, while Jiang Wuyu went to find Master Tang.

Lord Tang interrogated all night and made no progress, this will be annoying, hearing that Zhou Mujiao's uncle is coming, he frowned: "What is he doing here?" ”

It's no wonder that Lord Tang doesn't like it, when Lord Tang came, Lord Zhao didn't reveal Jiang Wuyu's original identity, and he didn't mention half of the old things twenty years ago, so in the eyes of Lord Tang, he is an official, Jiang Wuyu is a people, the official does not announce the people, but the people come uninvited, and they are not wronged to be redressed, they are simply here to add to the chaos.

Liu Zhutou said: "My lord, this surnamed Jiang has some ability, he has helped Miss Zhou do a lot of things for more than a year, the market at the post station outside the city is what he did, when Lord Chen was still alive, he was very polite to him, and Lord Zhao Zhizhou also valued him a lot." ”

"So?"

"This Jianghu man surnamed Jiang once killed Peach Red and Monkey Spirit, and the three sects and nine streams all knew it, and there should be a lot of things committed by his subordinates, and those few homeless people fell into his hands, and it shouldn't take long for them to be recruited."

"You mean, this official is not as good as a reckless man?"

Liu Zhutou thought to himself that although this Lord Tang was a good official, the stinky temper of the scholar was not pleasing at all!

"Lord Zhizhou and the provincial scholars and politicians all think that Zhao Gongzi is a hot candidate for this year's champion, my lord, it doesn't matter who the surname Jiang is, the important thing is that Zhao Gongzi can't have any mistakes, catch the real murderer one day earlier, and Zhao Gongzi can prepare for the exam with peace of mind!"

Liu Zhutou made his words straightforward.

Lord Tang thought about it, and finally invited people in.

He wanted to see if this reckless man could really pry open the mouths of those people.