Li Hengyao saw that the person had already entered the room, so he had to close the door first, and wanted to ask who the person was?

Seeing the other party's frightened and tired face, coupled with the blackened robe, he had to shut up.

He took two quilts from the cupboard and gave them to him, and let him spend the night on the low couch next to him.

After Yu Niang threw the person to Li Hengyao, she went back to the room, she packed everything up, as if she had never gone out, she also took off her coat and quickly climbed into bed.

The reason why she wanted to cover it up like this was because Ma Xiucai had alarmed the Chen family just now, and she was afraid that the other party would send someone out to search.

But Yu Niang waited in the room all night, and didn't hear any movement in the inn, but because of lack of sleep, she accepted the questioning of Kangxi and others with two dark circles under her eyes.

Yu Niang looked at the people around her and asked while yawning, "Why are you all looking at me?"

After listening to Yu Niang's words, Li Hengyao first asked her, "What happened last night? Who is this person? Where did he come from?"

Yu Niang raised her head and squinted at Li Hengyao and said, "He is Ma Xiucai, I happened to meet him yesterday, so I rescued him."

When you came out, you accidentally alarmed people, and I was afraid that they would search for you, so I sent it to your room, so that he could make do with you for one night, and today I can find the shopkeeper to give him a separate room. ”

Kangxi listened to Yu Niang's words and asked, "I haven't found Ma Xiu for a long time, where did you rescue him?"

"I found it in the dungeon of Master Chen's house in the county government, you can ask him what happened! I'm going back to catch up on some sleep, I'm tired from a busy night. ”

Yu Niang's words made Kangxi and his party confused, and the other party did not give them a chance to ask again. They want to know the truth of the matter, and they can only wait for Ma Xiu to wake up.

Fortunately, they didn't have to wait long, and Ma Xiu woke up around noon.

Li Hengyao asked the shopkeeper to call him a new room, and asked Xiao Er to prepare hot water for him to bathe, and retrieved the items he had left in the inn before.

After Ma Xiucai had all cleaned up, he asked Nalan Rongruo to come over and ask him what happened before and after his disappearance.

Ma Xiucai didn't want to answer Nalan Rongruo's question at first, until he took out his identity token, and then he told his recent experience one by one.

It turned out that after going to Beijing to catch the exam before, he passed through Yizhou on the way back to his hometown and met Fang Xiucai, a candidate from his hometown.

Fang Xiucai also went to Beijing to take the exam, but he left Beijing earlier than him.

Staying in another inn in Yizhou, it is said that the inn where Ma Xiucai lives is the best inn in Yizhou.

And Fang Xiucai lived in another inn, which should be due to the lack of entanglement on his body to live in this best inn.

Then why did Fang Xiucai have a lot of silver later? He could even pay the silver for Ma Xiucai to stay at the inn? Ma Xiucai didn't know where he got the silver.

I only know that during that time, Fang Xiucai often came to him, and the two talked about poetry, painting, drinking, chatting, and especially speculating. So he stayed in Yizhou for a few more days.

Until, he said the night before leaving, he didn't know what was going on.

After only a few glasses of wine, Ma Xiucai felt dizzy, thinking that he was a little drunk, and he didn't take it seriously and continued to drink with Fang Xiucai, and it didn't take long for him to lie on the table and not wake up.

When he woke up, Ma Xiucai found that he was locked in a cell, but he knew that it was not a prison cell of the government.

The doors of the prison cells of the government were guarded by officials, and there was no one but himself in the place where he was held.

After being imprisoned for two days, Ma Xiu met the person who locked him up, a young lady, and listened to her maid say that the young lady was very powerful in Yizhou.

The daughter asked Ma Xiucai to be her face, saying that as long as he agreed, he could walk sideways in Yizhou without anyone daring to stop him.

You can also find a relationship to make him an official, and you don't have to work hard to study and take scientific exams.

Ma Xiucai naturally disagreed, since ten years of hard work, it was not easy to have the current fame, how could he do such an undignified thing because of this power.

Besides, Ma Xiucai's family has married a wife, his wife is virtuous, and although his family is a merchant, he is also very influential in the local area.

Ma Xiucai refused, no matter how tempting the other party was, he would not waver.

Later, the second lady of the Chen family was also a little annoyed and wanted to teach him some lessons, so she would cut off his meals from time to time.

It was the maid next to her who secretly sent some steamed buns or something to satisfy his hunger, and he has lived until now.

Occasionally, when he was in a good mood, Miss Chen Er would also send him some good wine and food to entertain him.

It wasn't until last night that the maid came to bring him food, and he knew that Miss Chen Er was helpless, and she didn't want to waste any more time on him, so she wanted to send him to the dungeon to wait for death. Until Liu Shaoxia's appearance rescued him.

After listening to Ma Xiucai's words, Nalan Rongruo was a little strange, this Second Miss Chen had endured it for so long, why did she suddenly want him to die? There must be a reason!

Nalan Rongruo asked Ma Xiucai: "Then why does Miss Chen suddenly want you to die?"

"I heard Chunhua say that she fell in love with a handsome young man yesterday and wanted to marry him, and she didn't want him to find out about my existence, so she wanted me to die directly in the dungeon. ”

"Then do you know where Fang Xiucai, who drank with you, is?"

Ma Xiucai shook his head and said, "I haven't seen him since I woke up, and I don't know where he went." ”

"Okay, you can rest first! When you find Fang Xiucai, you can go home. Nalan Rongruo said to Ma Xiucai.

After Nalan Rongruo left, Ma Xiucai wrote a letter to his family and master in the room, reassuring the family and master.

I thought it would be related to the fraud in the imperial examination, but I didn't think it was caused by an arrogant and domineering woman.

Kangxi learned the truth of the matter from Nalan Rongruo, and he was no longer interested. Kangxi waved his hand and asked Nalan Rongruo to take someone to solve it.

Nalan Rongruo took Li Hengyao to Yizhou County to find the county order to solve the matter.

Nalan Rongruo took Li Hengyao and the two to the county office, and after the county commander hurriedly saluted the two, he wanted to come forward to investigate.

But Nalan Rongruo ignored him, but walked to the top position and sat down, and asked the county commander to call Master Chen.

Soon, the master was called to the lobby. Nalan Rong ordered the county order to call all the county officials to arrest them quickly, and let the master lead the way to Chen's house.

The prefectural order was not clear, so I also followed. When he arrived at Chen's house, Nalan Rongruo went straight to the old courtyard that Yu Niang talked about, and ordered someone to open the mechanism of the rockery.

Ask the master: "Master Chen, can you explain to the official what this is for?"

The master has been nervous since he was called to the county office, and when he saw that this adult actually opened the entrance to the dungeon directly, he knew that the matter had been exposed, and now it is impossible to deny it. I can only kneel and beg for mercy.

Nalan Rongruo continued to ask, "Has Ma Xiucai been locked up here?"

Master Chen, who was kneeling on the ground, was in a cold sweat, but he had to admit it.

"Where is that Fang Xiucai?" asked Nalan Rongruo as she continued.

Before Master Chen, who was kneeling on his knees, could answer, there was a noise outside the gate of the old courtyard.

The people in the courtyard only heard the arrogant female voice outside: "What are you doing at my house?"

The catchers didn't know the identities of Nalan Rongruo and Li Hengyao.

But the second miss of Master Chen's family, they knew each other, so they flattered and said, "Second Miss, what about the county magistrate inside? ”

"What about inside? The county order is my brother-in-law, and you dare to stop me if I want to go in? It's just a group of watchdogs from my brother-in-law's house. With that, he pushed away the group and walked in.