Yuanyuan Academy is a big academy, it is located at the foot of a mountain on the edge of the city, the nearby forest is dense, the mountain is full of green trees and red flowers, but it is a pity that it is the Mid-Autumn Festival at this time, the forest is dyed, the flowers are withered, and the beauty of midsummer is no longer restored.

Lin Zhongying explained to him, saying that there are many streams on this mountain, and there is a big river across the mountain, if you stand on the top of the mountain and look down, the forest is deep and the stream is murmuring, it is really a lush forest and bamboo, and the environment is quiet, and this kind of place away from the world is especially suitable for learning.

At this time, it was afternoon, and the scholars did not stay in the academy completely, they wandered between the mountain streams in twos and threes, reading and chatting in the woods, or talking about life or current affairs, and their spirits were full of energy.

Looking at these young people who pointed out the country and scolded Fang Qiu, Wang Qilin couldn't help but recall, what was he doing when he was so old like them?

Holding authority in your hands and protecting all peoples!

He suddenly realized that he was actually the same age as the scholars in this academy!

When the three of them arrived at the gate of the academy, a porter asked, "What are the three of you doing in my academy?"

Yuanyuan Academy is an official school, this kind of place is not as good as others, there are often famous and high-ranking officials in it come to give lectures, and the students in it may not be able to become high-ranking officials in the future, so Lin Zhongying can play official power in other places, but not here.

He revealed his identity and said that he would come to investigate some things more than 20 years ago, and the porter said in embarrassment: "Then the three adults come with me, I will take you to meet an old gentleman in the academy, he specializes in managing the students' documents, if he has an impression, then he can help you, if he has no impression, then he can't help you." ”

The old gentleman is really old, he is already in the age of sixtieth year, his eyes are dizzy, and when he saw Wang Qilin, he asked, "Where did this handsome girl come from?"

Lin Zhongying wanted to laugh, but didn't dare to laugh.

Wang Qilin said angrily: "Old doctor, I am a man, pure masters, pure!"

The old gentleman was surprised and said, "You are a young man? Ouch, this young man is so handsome." And your chest muscles are really good, this bulging bag is much bigger than many girls. ”

Wang Qilin took out a cat and a dog from it, and stunned the people in the academy.

The old gentleman was already a little confused, and the matter involved more than twenty years ago, and he had been babbling for a while, but there was no information that they could use.

Lin Zhongying was very frustrated and said, "Alas, come for nothing. ”

Wang Qilin thought for a moment and asked, "Lord Lin, Master Zhang, and Master Li studied in this academy in what year, how many years has it been?"

Lin Zhongying said: "Look at the record in their archives is the thirty-five years of Emperor Taizu's reign, exactly twenty years from this year. ”

Wang Qilin asked the porter again: "Big brother, can you help us find which gentleman came to your academy almost twenty years ago?"

The porter asked, "Was it okay more than twenty years ago? thirty years ago?"

Wang Qilin shook his head: "Try to come to your academy twenty years ago, this time point is very important." ”

Xie Toad understood what he meant, and said, "Yes, the people who can remember what happened twenty years ago should be the ones who just came to the academy back then, and they will definitely remember the events that happened in the year when they first arrived. ”

The porter went to inquire around, and came back and said, "I'm really sorry, my lords, the gentlemen of the academy don't have suitable people, but there is a nursing home that happened to come to the academy twenty years ago, can you take care of the nursing home?"

Wang Qilin said happily: "Naturally, please take us to see it." ”

There is only one lecture hall in Yuanyuan Academy, which is located in the center of the academy, and there are rows of dormitories on both sides of the front, and there are students studying in the dormitory.

The lecture hall is a place for lectures, but the students of Yuanyuan Academy spend most of their time reading and researching on their own, and Mr. only gives lectures to them from time to time. There was no fixed seat during the lecture, and the students sat in the hall freely, and the students sat freely next to them to listen to the lecture, which was completely different from the teaching in the county that Wang Qilin knew.

Yuanyuan Academy is where everyone does learning together, and the academy in the county is where scholars are imprisoned.

At this time, it was already evening, the mountain breeze of the Mid-Autumn Festival was blowing slowly, and the scholars' clothes and headbands were rippling in the wind.

The sunset and evening shine, the orange light sprinkled on the bluestone slabs, on the faces and clothes of the students, and they listened attentively to the sound of the teacher's lecture, which had a soothing power.

Wang Qilin suddenly felt a little envious, this is youth.

The porter called the nursing home out, and after seeing the appearance of the nursing home, Wang Qilin understood why the concierge brought them to the nursing home instead of him calling the nursing home: this person is old, one leg is lame, one arm is useless, and it is very difficult to walk with a cane.

But Lin Zhongying is an official in vain, and he doesn't know how to be sympathetic to others at all.

He felt unhappy that an official wanted to take the initiative to meet a commoner, but he also knew that this could not be used to make a fuss, so when he saw that the nursing home was old and his hands and feet were disabled, he teased: "How can you be a nursing home? Isn't this a pit for the academy?"

The old man smiled politely and said, "Yang is disabled but not disabled, although he is missing an arm and a leg, his kung fu has not been delayed a lot." It's an adult who catches fast, looking at the vain footsteps and sluggishness, I'm afraid that the kung fu is not very good, will this harm the people?"

Lin Zhongying was just habitually talking cheaply, but after being sarcastically ridiculed by him, he suddenly became angry, and said: "How daring, you dare to laugh at your official kung fu?"

He stepped forward to teach the other party a lesson, but saw the old man glaring suddenly, he slapped the crutch with his remaining left hand, and a long knife came out of the crutch, and then he slashed out with his backhand, and walked forward with one foot with the crutch, the long knife whined in the air, and the sunset reflected from the blade.

It's glaring.

Wang Qilin is an expert in using knives, and he high-fived and exclaimed: "Mr. is good at knife skills!"

The old man is old and withered, but he can cut out with a knife with high momentum and is as brave as a tiger.

Xie Toad looked at his knife and said: "The spirit with quick feet is like a tiger running, and the knife is brave and vigorous like a tiger leaping, you are the Five Tiger Broken Door Knife!"

Yang Laohan slashed out with a knife, circled around Lin Zhongying for half a circle, and then put away the knife, he saluted Xie Toad and said, "Dao Chang has good eyesight." ”

Xie Toad thought for a while and asked: "Your surname is Yang, that line must be the Yangmen Five Tiger Knife, I heard that there was once a hero named 'Tiger Eye' named Yang Dayan on the rivers and lakes of Zhongzhou, may I ask Mr. ......?"

Yang Laohan smiled bitterly and said: "The Taoist is too famous, what Yang Dayan should say is that he is below, because he was short-tempered and liked to stare at people and quarrel with people back then, and he got the nickname of Tiger Eye, but where did he become a hero?"

Hearing this, Wang Qilin asked: "I am from Jixiang County, and there is a head catcher named Yang Dazui in our county yamen, who is said to be from a martial arts family, do you know him, sir?"

Yang Laohan laughed and said: "The big mouth child, haha, he is my nephew, it's funny, this child has liked me since I was a child, because my name is Yang Dayan, he named himself Yang Dazui, I didn't expect the adults to know him, it's really fate." ”

Wang Qilin hugged his fists and said: "It turned out to be uncle, I am very close to Big Brother Dazui on weekdays, and I didn't know that there were elders here when I came today, and I didn't bring gifts, which was really rude." ”

With this relationship, Lin Zhongying was embarrassed to get angry, so he could only avoid it first.

Similarly, with this relationship, Wang Qilin and Xie Toad gave Yang Laohan enough face, and when he learned of their request, Yang Laohan racked his brains to recall the information about Zhang Ruhui and Li Ying.

He frowned and looked at a grove of trees, falling into memory: "Twenty years ago, twenty years ago, so many years have passed in a blink of an eye. ”

"Yes, when I first came to the academy twenty years ago, Zhang Ruhui I remember clearly, he was very famous in the academy at that time, known as the four great talents of the academy, and he passed the Xiucai examination at the age of fourteen, and he was one of the most promising scholars in the academy. ”

"And Li Ying, I don't remember Li Ying very clearly, it seems that the family is very rich, and he is a businessman. They did always fight together back then, the two of them had a bedroom, and there were two people in the same bedroom, called Du Jiangtao and Qin Tao, they called themselves the Four Gentlemen, and the bedroom was called the Four Gentlemen's Burrow......"

Hearing this, Wang Qilin was stunned, he subconsciously wanted to ask, but the old man was immersed in memories, so he had to hold back the inquiry.

The old man continued: "These four people are very capable of making trouble, relying on their talent and wealth, they have caused a lot of trouble in the academy. But if you want to ask them what is the biggest trouble they have ever caused, it must be the suicide case of Yuanyuan, the daughter of the cook Zhou Ping!"

"Zhou Ping is a widow, she works in the kitchen on weekdays, and she is warm and kind. She has a daughter named Yuanyuan, who is twenty-eight years old, has outstanding appearance, and stays in the academy all the year round to listen to the lectures of the masters. ”

"But one day, well, I remember that it was also around the Mid-Autumn Festival, and then that day Yuanyuan suddenly had a big quarrel with her mother. In the midst of the noise, the big guy found out that Yuanyuan was pregnant!"

"Yuanyuan was very aggrieved, she swore like crazy, saying that she had never held hands with any man, let alone had sex with him, how could she be pregnant?"

"There was a lot of trouble in this matter, and the academy priest personally invited a famous doctor to see her pulse, and finally concluded that she was indeed pregnant!"

"You must know that there are thirteen departments of medical skills, one of which is Zhu Youshu, this doctor is proficient in Zhu Youshu, and after he saw Yuanyuan, he said that she has a strong Xuanyin Qi on her body, and she has been ghosted many times. Since she said that she had never had a close relationship with a man, it was likely that a ghost possessed her, and she used her body to have sex with scholars and seize the talents of scholars. ”

"The sacrificial wine wanted to investigate this matter in detail, but Yuanyuan hanged herself that day! Before she died, she left a blood letter, saying that she had learned a thaumaturgy, and she would turn into a ghost after death, whether it was a ghost or a person harming her, she would not let it go, and she would definitely take revenge!"

Sure enough, after Yuanyuan's death, the academy began to make trouble, starting from the four gentlemen's burrows. At that time, some people said that this matter had something to do with them, but there was no evidence, and gradually, some scholars transferred to school, and the scholars in Zhang Ruhui's dormitory were the first to transfer away. Later, the sacrificial wine invited a Confucian master to recite the books of the sages day and night to surpass the dead, and the matter gradually stopped......"

Wang Qilin asked, "They transferred to Qiuyue Academy, right?"

Yang Laohan shook his head and said: "My lord, I really don't know this, they all went home first and then transferred to another school, so I can't pay attention to where I went." ”

Wang Qilin hugged his fists and thanked him.

He said to Xie Toad: "I have a guess now, could it be so?"

Yuanyuan is beautiful and talented, and the scholars are naturally in love, and Zhang Ruhui pursues her very enthusiastically, but she has never succeeded. Then one day, he and Li Ying got the ghost food art in the same bedroom, and then made a deal with the ghost, they ran errands for the ghost, and let the ghost Yuanyuan's body come to have sex with one of them, which eventually led to Yuanyuan's pregnancy and suicide. ”

"Yuanyuan is talented, and she doesn't know where she learned a spell, so she committed suicide and turned into a ghost to take revenge. The four of them were scared, so they quickly transferred to another school, and agreed to treat them as strangers in this life, never mention the past of their classmates, and forget about the bad things they had done as if they had never happened......"

Xie Toad nodded and said: "Yes, Qin Tao said that he had seen the Ghost Eating Grain Technique when he was in the academy, and he also knew this evil art very well, if he and his classmates used this evil art to do bad things twenty years ago, everything would make sense." ”

"It should be Zhang Ruhui who did this!" Wang Qilin guessed.

He went to Lin Zhongying and told the speculation that Zhang Ruhui had harmed Yuanyuan by inviting ghosts to eat food.

Lin Zhongying nodded vigorously: "Yes, yes, the Seventh Master Detective is unmatched, this speculation is absolutely reasonable, Zhang Ruhui sees this person as his life......"

"What, he's very?" Wang Qilin was surprised.

Lin Zhongying said: "Yes, isn't it written in this dossier? Oh, it must not be written, anyway, he is notoriously lustful, and when he accompanied Governor Liu to dominate the northwest side, he had twenty orchids alone. Later, when he returned to Fucheng to take office, he once hosted a banquet for high-ranking officials in Fucheng, and at that time, he let Hu Ji's wives appear at the banquet to perform and dance, which was a very popular affair in Fucheng. ”

Wang Qilin muttered: "That's not right, Zhang Ruhui, no, it wasn't Zhang Ruhui that I saw that night." Mu Xi danced on the lake, and he didn't even look at it. That's not him, he should have disappeared a long time ago, Zhang Ruhui who went to Jixiang County is not the real Zhang Ruhui!"

Mu Xi has outstanding appearance and bewitching figure, she fell into the water that day, and when she was rescued to the pavilion in the lake, she staged a good show of wet temptation, Meng Zhongxian and others secretly watched, but Zhang Ruhui didn't even look at it, if he looked like his life, how could he have no interest in Mu Xi?

And at that time, Li Ying said that he knew Zhang Ruhui and said that Zhang Ruhui should not be a bad woman......

He remembered what the shopkeeper of Tongfu Inn Mo had said, saying that Li Ying had chased Zhang Ruhui to the inn that night he invited Zhang Ruhui, did Li Ying find something wrong at that time?

He continued to think.

On the second day of Li Ying's banquet for Zhang Ruhui, Zhang Ruhui suddenly appeared at the yamen and said that he would be dismissed from office and sent to prison, could it be that Zhang Ruhui realized that Li Ying found out that there was a problem with his identity, and he took the opportunity to send Li Ying to prison, so that the other party could not reveal his identity?

Who was Zhang Ruhui who went to Jixiang County? Why did he go to Jixiang County? And Qin Tao, what role did this person play in the case 20 years ago and Zhang Ruhui's disappearance?

The fog is heavy.

However, this made Wang Qilin and Lin Zhongying happy.

On the contrary, what I am afraid of is that there is no problem, and the case without a problem is the real difficult case.

The three wanted to ride back overnight, but they could stand it, but the horse couldn't stand it, so Wang Qilin went to find King Kong and asked King Kong to send a letter to Xu Da with a green worm and asked him to control Qin Tao first.

Before dawn the next day, the three of them rode on horseback and rushed to Jixiang County.

It was noon when he returned to the county seat, and he didn't care about resting, so he asked Xu Da to take Qin Tao to the court.

Qin Tao was still holding a book in his hand when he was brought over, and Wang Qilin glanced at the title of the book: The Legend of Jianghu Ranger Swallow Plum Zi.

Xu Da pushed him and said, "Bold, you still don't kneel in the court?"

Qin Tao stiffened his neck and shouted: "The student is a child, unless he sees the Son of Heaven, he can not kneel!"

Xu Da took his book and said, "Then you can't take the book to the court, can you?"

He flipped through it at random, and suddenly came to Wang Qilin and opened the book to show him: "Seventh Master, this scholar actually looked at the Spring Palace painting, and treated him for the crime of immorality!"

The book was confiscated by him, he took it into his arms, and decided to go to Yicuilou tonight to find a learned girl to read it with.

Wang Qilin patted the table and asked, "Scholar, where are you?"

Qin Tao said: "The student is a person from Yunzhou Mansion, who has lived in Fucheng since he was a child, studied in Qiuyue Academy, and has lived a bright and upright life!"

Wang Qilin asked again, "Apart from Qiuyue Academy, where else did you study?"

Qin Tao was silent.

Wang Qilin slapped the big seal violently and said sharply: "When you come to the Heavenly Prison, don't say that you are a child, even if you are the champion of the Yuanlang, I can also be punished!"

"Why are you using torture on me?" Qin Tao was unconvinced, "I haven't done anything bad!"

Wang Qilin said angrily: "You haven't done anything bad, why don't you dare to answer the official's question with confidence?"

Qin Tao said: "It's because of a promise! I once swore to my classmates that I would never mention to outsiders that I had studied in Yuanyuan Academy!"

Lin Zhongying, Xu Da, Xie Toad, and Shen Yi on both sides of the court were stunned, is this a scholar or a fool?

Shen Yi was surprised and happy, pointed at Qin Tao and said with a smile: "Look, there is another person here who has a bad brain, haha, not only my brain is not good, but his brain is not easy to use either." ”

Wang Qilin doesn't understand, what's so happy about this?

Xie Toad said disdainfully: "Sour Confucian, rotten Confucian, really stupid!

Wang Qilin slapped the table and said, "Shut up, let me ask you, when you were in Yuanyuan Academy, did you have a dormitory with Li Ying, Zhang Ruhui, and Du Yuan?"

Qin Tao covered his mouth.

Wang Qilin said coldly: "What can you do if you don't say it? Do you think I don't know what you did at the beginning? Yuanyuan's unjust soul is standing behind you!"

Qin Tao didn't turn around without being deceived, he raised his head violently when he heard this name, and then looked sad: "Yuanyuan's soul has been scattered, how can her unjust soul still appear?"

Wang Qilin slapped the table again and said in a deep voice: "It seems that what happened twenty years ago is really related to you!"

Qin Tao didn't speak, he looked at his toes in a daze, and was speechless.

Wang Qilin was furious and said, "Do you think that if you don't speak, you can escape my accountability for listening to the Heavenly Prison?"

"Wait, Seventh Master, I have something to say. Xu Da suddenly stepped forward.

Wang Qilin looked at him suspiciously, what the hell are these two going on?

He had a bad premonition......

Xu Da said to Qin Tao: "You don't want to tell the past because you once made an oath not to mention that past to outsiders, right?"

Qin Tao nodded.

Xu laughed and said: "This is simple, you treat us as your own people, don't treat us as outsiders, isn't this okay?"

Qin Tao looked at him in shock, can he still operate like this? This is too sassy, right?

Shen Yi nodded cooperatively: "Good idea!"

Qin Tao laughed and said, "I swore at the time that I would never tell anyone outside our dormitory the truth of the matter, sorry, I can't treat you as my own, because no matter what, you are not from our dormitory." ”

Wang Qilin waved his hand impatiently: "Then I'll hit you!"

At this time, Shen Yi stepped forward again: "Wait, Seventh Master, I also have something to say." ”

"Needless to say, call me!"

Shen Yi said unhappily: "Xu Ye can say, why can't I say it?"

Wang Qilin shouted: "Monk, the official is opening a court to ask about the case, you don't want to disturb the court!"

Shen Yi said indignantly: "Amitabha, Seventh Master, do you not believe me, and think that I have something wrong with my brain, so I can't help you?"

He said what Wang Qilin thought, and Wang Qilin was embarrassed, so he had to raise his hand and let him speak.

Shen Yi said to Qin Tao: "You can't tell people outside your dormitory about the past, then you can say it to a tree, right? This is not a broken oath? So you see, there is a tree outside the lobby, you go and say okay to that tree." ”

Xie Toad arched his hand at Wang Qilin and said: "Lord Wang, you originally had the help of Xu Da, the Wolong, but now there is Shen Yi, the phoenix chick, and the Wolong and phoenix chicks can settle the world if they get one of them, and you actually got both of them at the same time!"

Qin Tao in the hall pondered for a moment, but suddenly smiled: "Monk, you are right, then I will go and tell this past to the small trees and grasses outside, anyway, I often talk to them, this is not a broken oath." ”

The smile on Xie Toad's face froze.

Wang Qilin was stunned, he muttered: "It turns out that our opponent is not a normal person." ”

Shen Yi said proudly: "It's like who is a normal person, and I'm not either!"