"Why do you think it's me?"

Fang Yuan asked with a frown.

Could it be that what Wang De said just now, the inn made trouble, saying that someone leaked the exam questions, and he was talking about himself?

"There is a lot of rumor outside, and it is said that Chang'an Ling leaked the exam questions."

Gao Shenxing hurriedly pointed at Fang Yuan and said.

He knew that he had done something wrong and that he had to divert the emperor's attention from him.

Otherwise, he would have been punished by the emperor for not being strict with his mouth.

"Ridiculous!"

"I've never touched the exam questions!"

Fang Yuan's eyes were cold, and he said in a deep voice.

He was responsible for a lot of things, but he was not responsible for the exam questions.

The exam questions were the responsibility of the emperor and some ministers, and Fang Yuan didn't know what the exam questions were the whole time.

"This, I don't know."

"Anyway, everyone outside is saying that you leaked it."

"If it weren't for you, how could the candidates in Liaozhou kneel you in the examination room?"

Gao Shenxing forcibly pretended to be calm.

He thought about it, Fang Yuan really hadn't touched the exam questions.

But the matter has come to this point, and he can only point the finger at Fang Yuan and divert everyone's attention from himself.

"That's because if you bet on the right question, Your Majesty can make the decision for me."

Fang Yuan took a deep breath and said in a deep voice.

What a fuck, I was miserable by them.

kneeling in front of everyone, instead of bringing him a good reputation, he caused a lot of jealousy, and now he has become like this.

Gao Shenxing opened his mouth, but finally did not refute, and looked at Li Shimin pleadingly.

"Confused, confused!"

"Eldest grandson Wuji, you are in charge of the Ministry of Officials and responsible for the imperial examination, then you are responsible for calming down the leak."

Li Shimin was furious and scolded the eldest grandson Wuji and others.

"The ministers obey."

The eldest grandson Wuji opened his mouth and wanted to refuse.

But seeing Li Shimin's appearance, it can only be.

There is no way, who calls himself the secretary of the ministry and is in charge of the ministry?

"Chu Suiliang, Yu Shinan, you two are the chief and deputy examiners, but you don't know how to ban it, it's really a dereliction of duty!"

"I order you to stabilize the grievances and emotions of the candidates, and give an explanation to the candidates who participated in the imperial examination."

Li Shimin continued to order.

This is the first time since he began to pay attention to the imperial examination, but this happened.

To be honest, Li Shimin has the heart to kill, but he just endures his anger and asks them to calm things down.

"Yes."

Chu Suiliang and Yu Shinan did not hesitate, and they should have been.

They knew that they were negligent in their duties, and they were responsible for what happened.

"Be cautious!"

Li Shimin turned his head to look at Gao Shenxing.

But there are no direct orders of things like others.

Instead, they stared at each other, their eyes far sharper than when they looked at everyone before.

"Minister, minister."

Gao Shenxing shuddered.

He couldn't help but swallow and lowered his head.

"Leaking the secrets of the imperial examination, you are guilty of a great crime."

"I won't punish you for the time being, you'd better make up for your mistakes and settle down with everything!"

Li Shimin said in a deep voice.

In the end, he also saw Gao Shilian's identity as the eldest grandson Wuji and the eldest grandson's empress's uncle, and did not immediately deal with Gao Shenxing.

If it weren't for such a relationship, Li Shimin would probably directly push Gao Shenxing out and behead him to inform the candidates in the world.

"Minister, minister obeys."

Gao Shenxing wiped a handful of cold sweat and breathed a sigh of relief.

scared him to death, and thought he was going to be punished heavily.

"Fang Yuan stays first, and the others will go to work immediately!"

Li Shimin waved his hand impatiently and said in a deep voice.

"The ministers are leaving."

The eldest grandson Wuji saluted one after another.

Before leaving, many people glanced at Fang Yuan.

They were curious why Li Shimin didn't arrange for Fang Yuan to do other things?

Or did Li Shimin leave Fang Yuan with other arrangements?

"Fang Yuan, you didn't leak the exam questions, right?"

Li Shimin said in a deep voice.

He looked at Fang Yuan deeply, and needed Fang Yuan to confirm again.

"Yes."

Fang Yuan only had one word.

As if because he was not trusted, his brow furrowed.

Mainly because I haven't been exposed to the exam questions, how can I leak the exam questions?

"I also know that you didn't leak the exam questions."

Li Shimin sat down and sighed.

This time, there were only a few people who came into contact with the exam questions.

Fang Yuan was not in this ranks, and he didn't know anyone who knew the exam questions.

Fang Yuan was left because there were other things arranged, so he beckoned to Fang Yuan.

"What's the matter, Your Majesty?"

Fang Yuan approached Li Shimin.

"The candidates in Liaozhou are betting because of you, but what about these people?"

"Do you think they're betting on the right questions, or are someone really leaking them?"

Li Shimin knocked on another batch of test papers.

On his desktop, two batches of test papers were divided.

A group of Liaozhou candidates represented by Zhang Ji.

The other batch is the Cui family and the Yang family just mentioned.

I didn't continue to talk about this matter just now because I wanted to calm down the emotions of the candidates as soon as possible and save the matter from getting bigger and bigger.

"I don't know."

Fang Yuan thought for a while and said.

Cui's and Yang's should be Boling's Cui and Hongnong's Yang's.

Although the relationship with the two families was not very good, Fang Yuan couldn't fall into the trap.

Not to mention that he has no evidence himself, Li Shimin himself will not pursue this kind of big family too much.

"I asked you which one you thought it was, not if you knew it."

Li Shimin frowned and said.

"If the minister is right, others are right, right?"

Fang Yuan said after thinking about it.

He never thought he was great.

If you can guess yourself, then others can guess too.

"Don't you think it's strange that these people can win every year?"

Li Shimin tapped his fingers on the table, calmly faced, and said coldly.

These families bet on the question every year, and every time they take the imperial examination, they have a group of their people.

The people of the family themselves are quite capable, and with the bet on the question, they are even more successful.

Originally, the establishment of the imperial examination was to check and balance the family, but how to check and balance the family with such a phenomenon?

"Your Majesty means they know the exam questions?"

"Who are the people who are responsible for writing the questions, and who are the people who know the exam questions?"

Fang Yuan thought about it and asked according to Li Shimin's meaning.

In fact, Fang Yuan didn't want to get too involved in this kind of thing.

It's just that Li Shimin will leave him behind, and he will definitely not let himself be happy.

"Those who know the questions of this year's exam are I, Emperor Taishang, the crown prince, the king of Shu, the king of Yue, Pei Lian, Wang Qi, Fang Xuanling, Chu Suiliang, Yu Shinan, and the eldest grandson Wuji. I think it's most likely Pei Lone! ”

Li Shimin squinted his eyes and said in a deep voice.

There are eleven people in total, and Pei Lin is the most likely.

It's just that there is no evidence, Pei Lin is also an old qualification, and Li Shimin can only doubt it.

Originally, Du Ruhui should have known the exam questions, but Du Ruhui was critically ill and lying in bed, so he did not participate in it.

"What Your Majesty said is very true."

Fang Yuan's heart trembled, and he secretly scolded Li Shimin for really looking up to himself.

Except for Chu Suiliang and Yu Shinan, whose status was slightly lower, the others were either princes or governors of the three provinces.

are all the top officials, let yourself, the Chang'an Order of the fifth grade, guess which one may leak the question, this is too much to think of yourself, right?

"What do you mean?"

"So who do you think it should be?"

Li Shimin glanced at Fang Yuan, frowned and said.

"Your Majesty, aren't you embarrassing me?"

"They're all humeral ministers, it's not something I can guess."

Fang Yuan smiled bitterly.

"Why didn't I notice you were so cowardly?"

Li Shimin looked Fang Yuan up and down, and said with bad intentions.

Fang Yuan, whom he knew before, was a bold and careful person.

Even if it is Xiao Yu, even if it is Pei Lian, and even if it is Bishamen, they dare to fight with each other.

Now let him guess who it is, and even say that?

"The minister's courage has always been very small."

Fang Yuan said with a smile.

"Hmph, it's strange that I believe you."

"Fang Yuan, since you were appointed to Chang'an, have I not arranged things for you?"

Li Shimin snorted coldly and withdrew his gaze.

"Your Majesty, please command."

Fang Yuan sighed in his heart.

knew that Li Shimin had to arrange for himself to do things.

"You go and check these people, I want to know who leaked the exam questions to them."

Li Shimin pointed to the batch of test papers of Cui's and Yang's.

The batch of candidates in Liaozhou can be trusted, not only because they are related to Fang Yuan.

The most important thing is that most of those candidates are from small families, or even ordinary people, and they have no relationship background.

Candidates with a related background have no way to get the exam questions in advance, let alone those with no related background.

"Secret investigation or high investigation?"

Fang Yuan thought for a moment and asked.

He also had the idea of looking it up.

By the way, check out that Gao Shenxing.

After leaking the exam questions, I almost caused myself a curse.

I don't know what the situation is outside the palace, and whether the candidate's mood is stable?

However, with a minister like the eldest grandson Wuji personally handling it, there shouldn't be much of a problem, right?

"Check secretly, don't startle the snake!"

Li Shimin pondered for a moment and said.

The characters involved are all extraordinary, so you still have to check carefully.

"Got it!"

"The minister will retire first?"

Fang Yuan nodded and said.

"Check it out!"

"If you can't solve it, go directly to the palace to find me!"

Li Shimin nodded heavily.

Fang Yuan left, leaving the palace at night.

At the door of Suzaku, Xue Bowu had been waiting for a long time.

Entering the palace at night, Fang Yuan called Xue Bowu for safety.

But because the emperor only summoned Fang Yuan, Xue Bowu couldn't enter.

Therefore, after Fang Yuan entered the palace, he had been waiting for Fang Yuan at the Suzaku Gate.

"Fang Yuan, you're so slow, I'm almost hungry."

Xue Bowu complained.

"Thank you for your hard work."

"Go home and eat or go to a good taste?"

Fang Yuan patted Xue Bowu's shoulder and asked.

Letting Xue Bowu wait alone at the gate of the palace at night was indeed hard for him.

"Go to Yipinxiang and call my sister!"

Xue Bowu's eyes suddenly lit up and he said excitedly.

But he still didn't forget to call Xue Jiaoyan.

"Then you have to go home, the two roads are in opposite directions, are you sure?"

Fang Yuan had no opinion.

However, considering that Xue Bowu was hungry, it would take a long time to run like this again.

"Huh?"

"And how long does it take to get to a pint of incense from here?"

Xue Bowu suddenly turned into a bitter gourd face, scratched his head and asked.

"It takes about a stick of incense to go to a pin of incense, and it takes about a stick of incense to go home."

"And if you go home and go for another pint of incense, it will take about an hour and a half."

Fang Yuan made a rough estimate.

With the Suzaku Gate as the center, Fangfu and Yipinxiang are about the same left and right.

"That's still not called, let's pack it back after eating."

Xue Bowu counted his fingers, and finally said with a puffed head.

I'm already hungry now, and I'm still going back and forth for so long, and I can't faint on the road?

"Let's go, then."

Fang Yuan walked in the direction of Yipinxiang.

The night was like ink, and there were no pedestrians on the road.

There was a faint moon in the sky, and I was able to see the road clearly.

Fang Yuan was not in a hurry, he hadn't walked on the road so leisurely for a long time.

Although Xue Bowu said that he was hungry and fainted, he surprisingly did not urge Fang Yuan.

So the two walked slowly at night, quite leisurely.

It didn't take long for Fang Yuan and the two of them to walk most of the distance, and they would soon be able to reach a pinxiang soon.

Although there is a curfew in Chang'an City, there are also many inns and restaurants that are open, and customers can stay overnight there.

Suddenly,

Fang Yuan noticed that there were two staggering figures in front of him.

Looking at the way they walked, it seemed that they had drunk a lot of alcohol, and their walking was erratic.

Naturally, Fang Yuan didn't intend to pay too much attention to it, even if it was a curfew now, even if he was a Chang'an order.

As the two sides approached, Fang Yuan saw their appearance clearly, dispelling the idea just now, because they were candidates.

Not only the candidates, but also the candidates who met at Yipinxiang Restaurant that day, that is, the candidates who also bet on the right questions this time.

"Stop!"

When Fang Yuan met the two of them, he suddenly shouted.

"You, who are you?"

The two candidates were startled and sobered up a lot.

The two of them rubbed their eyes, trying to see Fang Yuan's appearance clearly.

When he saw Fang Yuan clearly, his eyes widened in fright, and his face became full of shock.

"Fang, Fang Ling, I, we are first-time offenders, you are gracious, we will not dare next time."

The two candidates hurriedly saluted Fang Yuan respectfully.

"It's okay if you don't pursue it, you can just answer a few questions from the official!"

Fang Yuan's brows furrowed slightly, and he quickly understood why they were afraid.

I thought I had violated the curfew and was caught by myself.,I'm worried about being punished by myself as a Chang'an order.。

"You, you say."

The two candidates breathed a sigh of relief and asked.

"What's your name?"

Fang Yuan pondered for a moment and said in a deep voice.

The two were stunned for a moment, then looked at each other, as if they wanted to escape.

After all, Fang Yuan didn't know the two of them, so wouldn't it be over if the two of them escaped?

"The Beijing exam is just a few candidates, can you escape?"

Fang Yuan couldn't help but be amused.

Although there are many candidates who take the Beijing exam, there are only more than 1,000 people.

A little checking, you can find out who the two of them are.

In this case, you want to run away and drink too much, right?

"Yang Zhenyou, Yang Wenjun."

The two candidates hurriedly replied respectfully.

There was no more thought of running away.

"How did you bet on the right questions?"

Fang Yuan continued to ask.

"This"

Most of the alcohol of the two disappeared and slowly sobered up.

They looked at Fang Yuan vigilantly, as if they were thinking about whether they could answer.

"Bowu, remove their thighs and pull them back to the county government for retrial."

Fang Yuan's eyes sank, and he said coldly.

Xue Bowu let out a sigh and walked towards the two.

He had only taken two steps before his stomach was filled with a rumbling sound of hunger.

Xue Bowu suddenly stopped and looked back at Fang Yuan aggrievedly.

"Fang, Fang, you can't do this."

"We just triggered the curfew and lashed twenty lashes at most."

The two candidates were already frightened, and hurriedly retreated, looking at Xue Bowu and Fang Yuan in a panic.

"You should have heard about the leaked exam questions, right?"

"The imperial court is stabilizing the mood of the candidates, but it will also conduct an in-depth investigation into whether it is a leak or a charge."

"Both of you are candidates who are in charge of the question, and in the investigation list, if you know each other, you should truthfully explain it to the official, otherwise it is normal for the official to take you back to the county government to serve the big punishment."

Fang Yuan said in a deep voice.

"I, we."

"It's the husband of the county lord of Shouchun, and Yang Yuzhi is prepared by Qianniu."

"That's what he told us the last time I had a conflict with you at Yipinxiang Restaurant."

The two candidates looked at each other and finally explained truthfully.

Their drunkenness had fully recovered, and their minds had become normal.

After a little thought, he knew that Fang Yuan was not lying, and it was really possible for the imperial court to investigate deeply.

"Yang Yuzhi?!"

Fang Yuan frowned slightly.

A little surprised, but also reasonable.

Yang Yuzhi has a close relationship with the third prince Li Ke, and the third prince Li Ke knows the exam questions.

If Yang Yuzhi learned about the exam questions from the three princes, and then revealed them to these candidates, he "bet" on the questions.

"Yes, yes."

"That day at Yipinxiang, he also told us not to say it."

The two candidates nodded repeatedly.

"Who was with him that day?"

Fang Yuan pondered for a moment and continued to ask.

That person can stand side by side with Yang Yuzhi, and his status should not be low.

"A young master of the Bolingcui clan, we don't know what his name is."

The two shook their heads and said.

"Take your exam certificates and take a look."

Fang Yuan nodded and said in a deep voice.

The young master of the Bolingcui clan, that's very reasonable.

This time, in addition to the Liaozhou candidates, the most popular questions are Cui and Yang.

Yang Yuzhi and the young master of the Boling Cui clan came together and "charged" the exam questions, which was normal.

The two of them touched their bodies, and finally took out two exam certificates and handed them to Fang Yuan.

"The stakes are high in the case of leaking exam questions."

"If you want to live, don't tell people that you've talked to the officer."

Fang Yuan checked it, handed the documents back to the two of them, and reminded.

"Yes, yes, yes."

The two nodded repeatedly.

"Let's go."

Fang Yuan waved his hand and let them go.

The two are just candidates, and the big fish is Yang Yuzhi.

And it is easy to catch Yang Yuzhi, but it is difficult to find out the truth behind it.

If it is the third prince Li Ke, then he has offended a prince.

It's better to take a long-term view of this matter, and let the matter ferment for a while.

The two fled and soon disappeared into the night, as if they had never appeared.

"Let's go, let's go eat."

Fang Yuan was in a good mood and pulled Xue Bowu to Yipinxiang.

It didn't take long for the two of them to go to Yipinxiang Restaurant to have a feast.

The leakage of exam questions did not stop because of the appearance of the eldest grandson Wuji and others.

(End of chapter)