Obviously, Yinzuo is facing a game, a game that could have been perfect, if Li Wei hadn't broken this game in advance, I'm afraid that the chaos will be even greater. It is not clear who the person who set up this bureau is, but the purpose is very clear, that is, to disrupt the court situation, the people who lay out the layout are not only ruthless, but also have a good grasp of people's hearts - just imagine, if it weren't for Li Wei stabbing this game in advance, after the imperial examination is over, how can those who bought the test questions and fall to Sun Mountain look at other people who bought the questions and went to high school to be proud, naturally someone will stab this matter, by that time, the person in charge of the overall situation has already wiped out all the clues that should be erased, leaving only some vague clues pointing to the people he wants to harm, In this way, the game is done. If this is the case, the matter will inevitably make a bigger fuss, and it will not be in the case of thousands or hundreds of people who lose their heads for this matter.

Yinzuo doesn't know who the layout wants to harm, but there is a Yinzuo who is very clear, that is, now Yinzuo is already in the game, and if you want to get out, you must completely break the game. If you want to find out the mastermind behind the scenes, time is extremely precious for Yinzuo, not because of the ten-day period, but because the time of the case is completely beyond the expectations of the layout, although the layout person has always got rid of Wang He's line, but after all, some people he has no time to kill, and some things he has no time to cover up, now it is a curfew, even if a martial arts master wants to act at night, it is not so easy, Yinzuo must find out useful clues before the end of the curfew at dawn, This clue falls on the prisoners who have been taken in.

Time is precious, Yinzuo can't afford to waste it, and Wu and Lin hurriedly discussed for a while, led Qingsong to take a few captains out of the palace, and hurried to the prison on horseback, there was no delay along the way, just arrived at the ground, the Jianrui battalion general Debita who was responsible for guarding the prison immediately greeted him, and the big salute said: "The lower officials see the prince." ”

Yinzuo turned over and dismounted, and asked calmly, "Excuse me, have anyone ever come to visit the prison?" ”

"Back to the prince, before the curfew, some family members of the convicts came to visit the prison, and the officials did not dare to disobey the prince's order, so they all blocked back." Depita replied in a loud voice.

It's good that no one has ever been in the prison, damn, if you are imprisoned in the prison and are killed, then it's a joke. Yinzuo's mood was a little relaxed, and he waved his hand and said, "This is the best, Master De is busy." As soon as the words fell, he strode out of the cell.

Asking the case also has to pay attention to skills, who should be asked first and then who is a knowledge, Yinzuo entered the prison and went straight to the interrogation room, and drove out the cell head and the servants of the prison, leaving only the number one and other "dark arrow" people, so that the captain of the palace first invited Xiong Ci, the chief examiner, to come in.

Xiong Ci shoes, the word respectful cultivation, the word Qingyue, filial piety touching. Shunzhi fifteen years of Jinshi, Kangxi fourteen years as a scholar of Wuyingdian University and the secretary of the criminal department, and then because he tried to conceal because of the wrong ticket, was dismissed, Kangxi 27 years back to the Ministry of Rites, and later promoted to the East Pavilion University scholar, has four examiners, there is a generation of famous Confucianism. Xiong Cixu was seventy and five years old at the time, he was already an ancient person, he was not in good health, and he suffered from this unwarranted disaster, his mental state was extremely poor, and he was unsteady when he walked.

Xiong Cixu has also lectured to his brothers, and he is also Yinzuo's master, although Yinzuo does not have much private contact with the courtiers on weekdays, but after all, he has been familiar with the old man Xiong for a long time, and at this time, seeing the old man Xiong's drooping old look, he couldn't help but feel sorry in his heart, waved his hand and signaled the captain to untie the torture instrument on Xiong Cixu's body, and said with a smile: "Lord Xiong, this king was ordered to investigate the case, wronged Lord Xiong, if there is something wrong, please bear with me." ”

Xiong Cixu sighed and said: "Don't dare, the criminal official is deeply favored by the emperor, and he has served as the chief examiner four times, but this time there is such a huge case, and the criminal official is ashamed of the saint and the world." ”

"Lord Xiong's character is trustworthy, this matter should have nothing to do with adults, this king invited Mr. Qingyue to come today, there is something to ask Mr. Qingyue to testify, please Mr. Qingyue think about it, before opening the test questions, have you ever found that the fish glue fire paint on the test questions has traces of being manipulated?" Yinzuo asked with a smile.

Xiong Cilu thought about it carefully, shook his head and said: "Although the prisoner is old, his eyes are not dazzling, when the question is opened, the fish glue fire paint is intact, especially when Qian Mingyu and Qian Dadao said that the test questions have been leaked, the prisoner did take a closer look at the imperial seal, and did not find any damage. ”

Yinzuo nodded, thought for a while, and said, "Can Mr. Qingyue be sure that the test questions were not resealed after being opened?" ”

"The prisoner is sure that the fish glue fire paint is intact." Xiong replied with certainty.

"Okay, in this case, please ask Mr. Qingyue to draw a charge, and when the king has reviewed the case, he will defend Mr. Qingyue at the meeting, and I will ask Mr. Qingyue to be wronged one or two first." Yinzuo waved his hand and motioned for the "dark arrow" in charge of recording to step forward and let Xiong Ci take the painting and send him back to prison.

The three test questions, the master of fraud in the "Dark Arrow" has already been tested, and no traces of being opened in advance have been found. Since it does not exist in advance, there is also a possibility of dropping the bag, but Yinzuo has carefully read the three test questions, and the words on them are not false, they are really the handwriting of the old man Kangxi, there may be a master of fraud in this world, who can trace the handwriting of others, but if you want to deceive the fake masters of Yinzuo's gang of "dark arrows", it is absolutely impossible, the words on this test question are the handwritten imperial questions of the old man Kangxi.

Since it is impossible to cheat or drop the bag, there is only one possibility left for the test question to be leaked - Qin Wuyong and the two little eunuchs must have leaked the question, and it is difficult to conclude who it is at this time. After Xiong Cilu was taken down, Yinzuo asked the captain of the palace to bring Qin Wuyong up first.

There is a Qing generation, eunuchs have no status, and there is no eunuch rebellion, but because the eunuch is the emperor's personal person, he is close to the sky, he is very well-informed, and there are still a lot of officials who are stammering.

Yinzuo ignored Qin Wuyong's shouting of grievances, read his confession in detail, and didn't find anything wrong, it was written that Qin Wuyong had been in the past few days, and who he had met, although these things didn't know whether they were true or false for a while, but once they were confronted after dawn, they could be determined, but they didn't worry about Qin Wuyong telling lies.

"Old Qintou, you know the methods of this king, if you inadvertently tell anyone the test questions, as long as you recruit from the truth, this king can also intercede for you, otherwise, there are hundreds of punishments here, and this king will let you taste the same." Yin Zuo said coldly.

Qin Wuyong couldn't eat anymore, and when he heard Yinzuo say this at this time, he trembled even more, and said tremblingly: "The prince spares his life, the slave really hasn't talked about the test questions to anyone, the slave, the slave is really wronged." ”

Treat unjustly? Hey, there is this possibility, this old man has been promoted to the highest position that a eunuch can promote, he has made enough money over the years, and he is not short of money, it is unlikely that he will be promoted and bought with money, and there is no father or mother in the family, not even a brother, and there is no possibility of being threatened, and he is very strict on weekdays, and he will never joke about such a big thing as a test question, but hey, he has to take something out of this mouth, right? Yin Zuo sneered and said: "You are not wronged, this king will judge, this king asks you, those two little eunuchs are the people you should manage, who do these two boys have dealings with on weekdays?" Say! ”

Qin Wuyong heard that Yinzuo was asking about the two little eunuchs, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Back to the prince's words, Qin Ling entered the palace at the age of seven in the thirty-second year of Kangxi, and he has always followed the minion, and he has never seen him have anything to do with the outside of the palace, the slave is strictly controlled on weekdays, and he will never let him talk too much, Li Xiaoyi is the palace that Kangxi entered at the age of eight in the thirty-third year, and was originally the envoy of Changchun Palace, and later transferred to Yuqing Palace, and he was only transferred to the palace last year, and it is also under the management of the slave, the slave does not know much about this person, but he is still very honest on weekdays, He hadn't done anything, and the minions had always paid little attention to him. ”

Changchun Palace? As soon as Yinzuo heard the name of this palace, his heart suddenly chuckled, it was the dormitory of the Wu Ya clan, such a little eunuch ran from Changchun Palace to Yuqing Palace, the prince fell down, he can still be promoted to the front of the palace, there must be something strange here, saying that there is no one behind this person's support, it is absolutely impossible, but it is still difficult to say who is behind the trouble, the old fourteen is the most suspicious, but it cannot be ruled out that the means of other elder brothers, with the hands of the fourth, eighth, third and others, It is not difficult to quietly promote a little eunuch, this Li Xiaoyi is very suspicious, but that Qin Ling may not necessarily be clean.

If these two little eunuchs inadvertently missed the test questions, under the first trial, they will inevitably not be able to hide, I am afraid that these two little eunuchs are the death of the brothers, and it will be difficult to deal with these people, and the general punishment will not be able to pry their mouths open, and may even give you a nonsense, indiscriminate biting, since this matter involves Changchun Palace, Yinzuo can't be careless, fortunately, Yinzuo confessed not to try these two little eunuchs first. Yin Zuo thought to himself secretly, beckoned to call "Dark Arrow" No. 1, whispered a few words, and strode out of the interrogation room, and the screams of Qin Wuyong's torture came from behind him again, and the piercing howls echoed in the prison, which was terrifying.

Li Xiaoyi quietly did in a corner of the cell, since he entered the prison, he never said a word, nor did he make any movements, just sat quietly; Qin Ling, who was in the same prison, walked back and forth, chanting words in his mouth, but he was very vague, no one knew what he was talking about, there were only the two of them in this small prison, and it was very interesting to be still and moving. From time to time, people in the surrounding cells were dragged out for interrogation, and from time to time people were dragged back with bruises, but the two of them were never arraigned, and they never had any conversation.

Time flies quickly, it's ugly in a blink of an eye, the chickens are about to crow, and finally someone came to interrogate the two little eunuchs, several sergeants rushed in, and they couldn't help but pick up the two and went out, dragged all the way to the interrogation room, got on the torture instruments, and a few ** big men with upper bodies, without saying a word, splitting their heads and covering their faces was a wild beating, neither asking nor paying attention to the crying fathers and shouting mothers of the two, and beating the two to death alive.

"Oops, it hurts me." Li Xiaoyi woke up from the coma, looked around with a painful face, and looked around with a painful face, which didn't matter, but he was suddenly taken aback - the fog in front of him was foggy, several "ghost pawns" were looking at him with knives and forks, smiling very evilly, a hot oil pot was steaming, dozens of strange torture instruments were listed on both sides, and behind a huge desk, there was a red-clothed judge with a blue face and fangs, and the smile on his face was more hideous than crying.

"Ah......" Li Xiaoyi screamed loudly, and the ghost pawn on the side unceremoniously forked him with a fork, no matter how Li Xiaoyi struggled, the fork forked Li Xiaoyi's hands and feet, and he was stunned to cut him into blood.

The judge in the "pop" hall slapped the shocked wood suddenly, and shouted: "Li Xiaoyi, you dare to roar at the judge's court when you die, do you want to get off the oil pot, say!" ”

"Dead, I'm dead?" Li Xiaoyi looked at the red-clothed judge stupidly, and his mouth kept nagging.

"Nonsense, you're not dead, how can this judge see you. Hahaha......" The red-clothed judge laughed extremely terrifyingly, and it was easy to suppress his laughter, picked up an account book on the table, stared at Li Xiaoyi and said coldly: "The new ghost Li Xiaoyi, born seventeen, formerly known as Li Gouyu, Henan people's family, father Li Dagui, mother Li Xiao Hong'e, his father was a good gambler, and he lost money to pay off his son's debts, and was later sold into the palace as a eunuch. Hehe, what this judge hates is eunuchs, well, let this judge think about it, how to deal with you, a eunuch, and get into the oil pot? Not strong enough, go to the knife mountain? It's not interesting, ah, there you have it, this judge plans to make you a eunuch again in the next life, haha, that's a good idea. ”

"Ah, don't, the judge's grandfather spared the little one, spare the little one." The taste of eunuchs Li Xiaoyi was fed up, and he was already stupid at this time, and blindly begged for mercy.

"Don't? Oh, let this judge investigate your crimes. The red-clothed judge picked up the account book and checked it again, and suddenly said angrily: "Okay, Li Xiaoyi, you dare to kill the palace maid He Ling, and collude with others to ** the court, so bold, hey, come on, put him in the oil pot first." ”

Li Xiaoyi shouted for mercy, but the ghost pawn picked up Li Xiaoyi and planned to throw it into the oil pot regardless of the three-seven-twenty-one. Li Xiaoyi looked at the boiling oil pot, crying with a pale face, struggling, but how could he break free, at this moment, the red-clothed judge suddenly said loudly: "Slow, this person has done a good deed, ah, this judge checks, oh, he once gave three taels of silver to a lonely old man, well, with this kindness, you can avoid the life of the oil pot, but the life of being a eunuch in the next life cannot be changed, unless you ......"

The ghost guards casually threw Li Xiaoyi on the ground, Li Xiaoyi seemed to have a turn for the better when he heard the judge's words, and he didn't care about the pain, so he got up and said: "The judge's grandfather spared the little one, if you want the little one to be a cow and a horse, don't let the little one be a eunuch again." Li Xiaoyi was originally a smart person, but he was stunned by the tricks of the red-clothed judge, seeing the ghost on the side, and hearing the red-clothed judge say a few unknown things about him, his heart was already panicked, and at this time, he was no longer a eunuch, and he couldn't take care of anything else.

"Hahaha......" The red-clothed judge let out a strange laugh and said: "The life and death book in the hands of this judge can show the merits and demerits of all the dead ghosts, but it can't show the affairs of the living, this judge is very interested in the cause of your death, ah, this judge takes a look, well, it turned out to be a leak of the imperial examination questions, bastard things, you dare to do such a hurtful thing." Drag it down and get out of the pan! ”

A group of ghost pawns rushed up again, ready to carry Li Xiaoyi, Li Xiaoyi was already frightened at this time, and hurriedly shouted: "Grandpa Judge, spare your life, the little one is also instructed by others, don't dare not do it." ”

"Tell me who made you, and this judge will be punished lightly." The red-clothed judge snapped.

"The little one is a move, it was the fourteenth elder brother who asked the little one to do it, and the judge's grandfather spared his life, spared his life." Li Xiaoyi shouted again.

"Hahaha......" This time not only the judge laughed, but even the ghost pawns laughed, and a ghost pawn walked up to Li Xiaoyi with a confession and said loudly: "Draw a charge!" ”

Li Xiaoyi came to his senses a little at this time, he was fooled, but he had already been recruited, and he couldn't change his words, so he could only draw a charge on the confession, and several big men came up to the court and took Li Xiaoyi down.

The red-clothed judge took off the mask on his face and revealed Yinzuo's face, although the confession had already arrived at this time, he didn't look excited at all, not because the old fourteen and he were brothers and had a good relationship, but before interrogating Li Xiaoyi, the same trick was also played on Qin Ling, but the confession he got was the eighth. The eighth and fourteenth knew the test questions in advance, but it was still a mystery who was the person who set up the game.

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