In the dark and dreary night, the soldiers poured out of their nests, guarding one in front of each house, the red armor cold knife, the blood on the knife had dried up for years, showing a dark purple cold light.

Meng Sui carried the lantern and dropped the lamp down with an expressionless face, illuminating the ground.

Han Changdui was wearing a purple robe, and with every step he took, his momentum became colder, and when he walked to the middle of the alley, the whole person was already cold.

When Fang just walked into the alleyway, he only saw a black patch in front of him, and he couldn't see how many people were kneeling on the ground.

At this time, as soon as the lights shone on, Han Changdui saw clearly, there were six people.

Yao Qi's eyes narrowed, and he sighed lowly: "Heh, there are really many people who are fat." ”

Han Changwan turned his head to look at Yao Qi, pursed his lower lip, and when he turned his head again, he had a cold face and said lightly: "It's all stripped naked." ”

As soon as these words came out, all the scholars were shocked, and the kneeling people on the ground suddenly stiffened and couldn't even move.

After a moment of dead silence, a sharp and frightened insult suddenly came from the house: "You, you insult Sven, insult Sven." ”

This invective was like a prairie fire, which ignited the adjacent house in an instant, and the screams rang out one after another.

"Insulting Sven, insulting Sven."

"Brute, brute."

"I'm going to sue the royal lawsuit, sue the royal complaint."

Hearing these words, Meng Sui hesitated, paused forward, and looked at Han Changdui hesitantly.

A few days ago, the rumors in Chang'an City have not subsided, if there is another humiliation of scholars today, I am afraid that all the scholars in the world will rise up and attack him.

Although in terms of physical strength, scholars are at an absolute disadvantage, but in terms of lip service, they can't catch up with these martial artists.

Thinking of those swearful words without dirty words, Meng Sui shuddered.

Otherwise, how can you say that there is a dragon spring on the tongue, and there is no blood when you kill people.

He looked at Han Changdui worriedly.

Han Changdui narrowed his eyes, if he didn't care about these gossips all over the capital, it wasn't necessarily, he just didn't care that much.

He is a man of the army, of course, he is not as good as these scholars who eat by mouth, he is not stupid, naturally he will not intersect with the strengths of others with his own shortcomings, and he can't rely on his mouth, so it depends on whose fists are hard.

He glanced around coldly: "Whoever shouts again, they will be stripped naked together." ”

No one would find it strange for a living Yama to say such things, and no one would think that he was just talking and scaring people.

The soldiers who jumped up and down and wailed suddenly became dumbfounded.

Meng Sui pursed his lips, wouldn't it be good if he had done this earlier.

He stepped forward with a few internal guards, picked up the kneeling soldiers, and picked up his clothes in front of the full number of soldiers.

Yao Qi's eyes widened, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

I really want to pick it up.

As soon as Han Changwan turned his head, he saw Yao Qi's stunned appearance, he was immediately displeased, and coughed lightly: "Yao joins the army, you bring someone to bring a few buckets of cold water." ”

Yao Ji was stunned for a moment, and realized that he was indeed not suitable to stay here, and it was easy to grow needle eyes.

She answered happily and led a few of the guards to the well at the back.

In the middle of the night at the end of March, the spring cold dissipates and the wind blows warmly.

The sleek men stood stiffly in the wind, layers of goosebumps coming out of their bare skin, trembling all over, and the place where they were tied by the rope was so painful that they almost oozed blood.

Yao Qi came over with a few buckets of cold water from the internal guard, and Han Changwei instructed the internal guard to bring the water to those people, and he always stood in the way of Yao Qi unintentionally.

The place where the two of them were standing was facing the house where Bao Cheng was, and Han Changdu's little action was all in his eyes.

He raised his eyebrows, to put it mildly, Han Changdui was a little more poisonous and ruthless, everything else was very good, just looking at such a face and family background, not to mention in ancient times, even in the previous life, it was also the golden beetle son-in-law that everyone flocked to.

Han Changdui blocked Yao Qi's eyes and didn't let her look at those slick people, but Meng Sui's interrogation voice came over one by one.

The rags that had been stuffed in the mouths of the soldiers had been removed, but they were all dumb and refused to speak.

Not to mention, it may be possible to get away with it due to insufficient evidence.

Having said that, this is a great sin to sit together.

Meng Suiqi sneered, didn't use a knife to scare Shizi, just waved his hand at the internal guard.

The guards stepped forward with buckets of water.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa." The sound of the sound echoed through the roadway.

Several buckets of cold water were poured head-on.

The sleek men were drenched from head to toe, and the water slid from their buns to their faces, mixing with the water on their bodies, and dripping on the brick floor.

The stagnant water under the feet of the six men flowed along the cracks in the bricks, mixing dust and mud and collecting towards the low-lying areas.

The wind was blowing in the alleyway, blowing the water droplets on the bare skin, and the chill climbed from the toes to the hair.

The six scholars all had an idea.

Cold, too cold, frozen at all.

After a while, the soldiers who were so cold that their hands and feet were stiff, they couldn't walk, and they couldn't even speak, said what Meng Suijian wanted.

After a short time, Meng Sui walked in front of Han Changdui with a few things, and two other scholars put on their clothes, but their sleeves and trouser legs were pulled up high, revealing their arms and legs.

Several scholars were all shaped like withered trees, and their faces were like dead ashes.

The concentration was poor, and it was already on the ground, and a pool of yellow-orange-orange water with a peculiar smell mixed with the cold water of Fang Cai, winding into the distance.

At this point, no amount of quibbling is useless.

Yao Qi looked at the white hands and legs, and then looked at his own hands, and suddenly felt ashamed of himself.

On such a white arm, such a small fly-headed block is written on it, which is also clearly visible, but why can't the body be searched?

Not to mention that there are many kinds of cheats, and they will keep pace with the times every year.

Han Changwei seemed to see what Yao Qi was thinking, leaned over slightly and whispered: "It was written with potion, and the handwriting will not be visible after it is dry, and the handwriting will reappear after brushing it with rice washing water." ”

Yao Qi let out an "oh" and thought about the potion.

Han Changdui glanced at Yao Qi and continued to whisper, "I know the recipe for the potion. ”

Yao Qi raised his eyebrows, his face full of excitement.

Han Changwan pursed his lips and said, "If you do something for me, I'll give you the recipe?" ”

"......" Yao Qi said vigilantly:

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"What?"

Han Changdui pondered: "I owe it first, and then I will talk about it when I think about it, Fang Zi can give it to you first." ”

After saying this, Han Changwan didn't give Yao Qi a chance to think about it, so he walked over to look at the things that Meng Sui had searched for.

On the brass tray lay four thumb-sized wax pills, one end of which was tied to a very thin hemp rope.

Han Changdui raised his chin: "Open." ”

Several guards stepped forward wearing gauntlets, carefully crushed the wax pills, and the notes that had been piled up fell into the tray.

Han Changwan picked up one of them, unfolded it and took a closer look, frowned, and handed it to Yao Qi: "Take a look." ”

Yao Qi pursed his lips and read it word by word, and his heart suddenly became suspicious.

This note is indeed the answer to this scripture, but it is very different from the one that Bao Cheng got before.

How can there be so many fake exam questions leaked, it is not because someone deliberately did it.

She looked away at the other balls of paper.

Han Changdui and Yao Qi stretched out their hands together, each took the paper ball and unfolded it to look at it in detail, and then exchanged it.

Looking at the four notes, none of them have anything to do with the exam questions that Bao Cheng got before, and they don't know if they are similar to the exam papers issued tonight.

After all, Han Changdui and these people were only responsible for maintaining order in the Gongyuan and monitoring the scholars and examiners, and they didn't know what the content of the exam papers was.

Either at least one of the four notes resembles an exam paper, or none of all four have anything to do with the exam paper.

Han Changwan and Yao Qi looked at each other, but they didn't say anything after all.

The house had fallen completely silent, and no one was howling about the Interior Guard Department anymore.

The most insulting people were caught, and they felt that their faces hurt and hurt.

Bao Cheng picked up the fence, looked down from beginning to end, and had a difficult question in his heart.

Where did those four wax pills come from?

When entering the body search, the soldiers searched very carefully, although they did not strip naked as rough as Han Changdu, but they also searched from the hair to the toe gap, and did not let go of a single penny.

So, where are these four thumb-sized wax pills hidden so that they haven't been turned out?

Bao Cheng looked at his whole body, puzzled.

The six cheating scholars were escorted to the room of Mingyuan Building, and they were imprisoned until the door of the Houri Gongyuan opened, and then they could be sent to the Ministry of Rites for questioning and delisting.

Cheating in scientific examinations has always been a major crime, and in addition to being expelled from the tribute court, the scholars who are caught must also be questioned and convicted depending on the severity of the circumstances.

Meng Suiyi stayed in the room for a few more moments before going up to the third floor with a few confessions.

The movement of the building on the east side was very noisy, and it had already alarmed Jiang Shen and several people, but these people were very interested in not coming out to look, only looking at the firelight and lights outside a few times through the window.

In this tribute courtyard, they are only responsible for the examination papers of the provincial examination, and cannot interfere in anything else in the tribute courtyard.

Not to mention that someone cheated, even if someone died, even if the Gongyuan was ordered, they couldn't stick their fingers in and point at will.

All the affairs in the Tribute Courtyard must be arranged by the Internal Security Division, and the current Tribute Courtyard is the final say of the Internal Security Division's envoy Han Changdu.

Han Changdui turned his head and saw Yao Qi lying on the dining table, with some cold tea on his hands, and he was scratching on the boring bookcase, he couldn't help but smile lightly, poured a cup of tea and handed it over, and asked in a deep voice, "What do you want?" ”

Yao Qi held the teacup, the hot water vapor hit her face, she stared at a pair of wet apricot eyes, and thought: "Xia Guan is thinking, how did the wax pill come in, why didn't it be found when I searched my body?" ”

With a "poof", Han Changdui turned his head away, squirted a sip of tea out, and reached out to pat the top of Yao Qi's hair lightly, and said with a smile: "What kind of mess do you want?" ”

Yao Qi didn't know what to do, shook his head vigorously, shook Han Changdui's hand down, looked up and said with a blank face: "How can this be messy, this is a cheating method that keeps pace with the times." She frowned and said: "That wax pill is the size of a thumb, and you can't choke to death if you swallow it, even if you are lucky enough not to choke to death, you have to spit it out in your throat, this is really to cheat, you can do anything, you can bear any crime." “

Han Changdui opened his mouth, impulsively, he wanted to tell Yao Qi where the wax pill was hidden, but after all, it was a little difficult to say, he raised his eyebrows, and changed the topic: "I carefully read the four notes, they are indeed all about the answers to this scripture, but the corresponding questions on each note are different, and they are not the same as the one that Bao Cheng got, as for whether there is any similarity with the exam paper, I have to check again, as for the one that Bao Cheng got, he also handed over the news just now, and it is not the same as the exam paper." ”

Yao Qi was still entangled in the matter of wax pills, and said sullenly: "Where is it hidden, so it hasn't been searched?" ”

Han Changwan took a sip of tea in his throat, his face turned even pale, and he was about to speak, but there was a knock on the door.

He swallowed his tea and said lightly, "Come in." ”

Meng Sui pushed the door in, still holding a stack of tissue paper in his hand.

It was the confessions of the six arrested scholars who had been arrested, with their names of origin and scarlet handprints on them.

After doing this, all six of them were spread on the ground, struggling for a long time and unable to get up.

They knew that the road of scientific research had been cut off from now on, and this was not the most desperate, the most desperate thing was that if this matter was investigated, they were afraid that it would affect the clansmen.

If one is not careful, the scientific research road of the next three generations of clansmen will be cut off.

Meng Suiqi put the confession on the bookcase, and said in a deep voice: "My lord, I have asked all of them, these people all got the exam questions from a person named Sheng Laosi. ”

"Sheng Laosi?" Han Changwan frowned slightly, and repeated the name: "This person, isn't it the one who asked Hu Ren to send the child?" ”

Meng Sui nodded and said: "Yes, it is this person, these scholars also met this person in the casino that Sheng Laosi frequented." ”

"Sheng Laosi?" Yao Qi raised his head suddenly: "My lord, the person behind Sheng Laosi who leaked the exam papers and received the child will be the same person?" ”

Han Changwan bent his fingers and tapped the book case: "Very likely." ”

Meng Sui said again: "My lord, these six people all mentioned the same place, which is the gambling house in Jinchangfang, which is the one where you and Yao Senjun went together that day. ”

Han Changwan narrowed his eyes slightly, originally he was only suspicious of Xie Liangmo, but now he can confirm that there is definitely a shadow of Xie Liangmu in this matter.

Whether it is leaking the exam papers or taking the child by caesarean section, his handwriting is indispensable.

He was about to speak, when he turned his head and saw Yao Qi's face full of doubts, knowing that she was still struggling with the matter of the wax pill, he was silent for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "Okay."

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Let's get here tonight, let's go back and rest first. ”

Yao Qi and Meng Sui claimed that they were separated and withdrew.

The east side of the house quieted down, but it was only the surface of the quiet, there was such a big thing, I saw with my own eyes that the people who did their hands and feet were taken out by the internal guards and interrogated, and few of the soldiers in the house could really sleep.

Approaching Yinzheng, the night was deep, and on the deep inky sky, the floating clouds obscured the bright moon and stars, and no glimmer of light poured down.

At this hour, it is the time when people are sleepy, and the watchtowers at the four corners of the high wall are also changing their guards at this hour.

Immediately outside the high wall, the canopy is tall, the branches are densely turned, the leaves cover the sky and the moon, and the dark shadows fall down.

The canopy of the tree suddenly shook violently a few times, and a rustling sound sounded, and a slight wave shot out from the depths of the canopy, which landed right next to the latrine at the end of an alley on the west side of the house.

The soldiers in the watchtower were suddenly alarmed, and they turned around one after another, and their swords were unsheathed, making a loud clanging sound.

"What people, what people!"

"What's wrong, what's wrong."

After changing the guard, the soldiers who had just walked off the watchtower hurriedly ran back again, standing on the watchtower and looking into the distance.

Not far away, the shaking of the canopy gradually subsided, and a few sharp birdsong could be heard from the depths of the canopy.

The soldiers breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's a bird, it's scary."

"Isn't it, the grass and trees are all soldiers."

"Isn't it just a provincial test, it's not like I haven't been here before, it's true, I'm gone, I'm going back to sleep."

The guards covered their mouths and yawned, muttered and walked down the watchtower, and walked listlessly to the room behind Mingyuan Building.

The footsteps of the soldiers gradually faded away, and a voice suddenly came out of the house: "Big brother, big brother, I want to go to the toilet in my later life." ”

The soldiers who were patrolling back and forth outside the house glanced at the man, and shouted impatiently: "Others have slept too much, and you still have to go to the toilet, so you have a lot to do." ”

The man said with a smile: "Big brother, trouble big brother, this, people have three urgency, really, I can't bear it." ”

The soldier grimaced, scolding: "Go, go, go and go back quickly." ”

The people in the house smiled and thanked him, clutching his stomach and throwing it to the latrine at the end of the alleyway.

Most of the lights in the alleyway were extinguished, leaving only one lamp at the end and one at the end, and the light was dim, only illuminating a single brick under the lamp.

He ran to the door of the latrine as fast as he could, and the moment he entered the door, he seemed to have tripped over something, staggered and almost fell to the ground, stood up with his hands on the ground, and ran into the latrine.

After half a cup of tea, he walked out of the toilet comfortably.

A gust of night wind blew, and the clouds on the deep sky were blown away, and the moonlight spilled down, and the dark alleyways suddenly became bright.

He looked up, and the moonlight fell on his face, which was as white as a ghost, with deep-set eye sockets, and was amazingly thin.

He picked his lower lip, and there was a vague smile on his lips, which looked particularly terrifying.

At dawn the next day, the scholars in the dormitory woke up one after another, stretched their waists, and after a little more elaborate freshening, they began to eat after heating the meal, and those who were not so particular only rinsed their mouths, and then used some hard dry food in a cold voice.

As for what happened last night, everyone automatically ignored it.

Jiang Shen is old, he was originally in front, and the movement outside last night was too big, after he was awakened, he listened for half a night, and after the outside calmed down, he couldn't sleep, tossing and turning for a long time, until dawn, he took a nap.

Today's morning meal is unexpectedly rich, a pot of steaming shredded chicken and japonica rice porridge, tender yellow shredded chicken and snow-white japonica rice after boiling, exuding a strong fragrance.

A mix of pickles, a bird's nest stewed egg, a plate of yam cake, a plate of soufflé bean paste rolls.

There are sweet and salty, meat and vegetarian combinations, and I don't know how much better than the combination of pickles and pimple flax cakes a few days ago.

After Jiang Shen finished washing, he sat in front of the dining table, looking at the morning food full of wind and sound, dazed and surprised.

Wang Jingzong sandwiched a bean paste roll and sighed: "Did the cook take the wrong medicine today?" ”

Ruan Ping'an grinned: "It's also possible that you haven't taken medicine." ”

Mu Rongyan glanced at the two of them, first filled a bowl of shredded chicken and japonica rice porridge, put it in Jiang Shen's hand, and said respectfully: "Elder Ge, today's porridge is boiling well, you can taste it." ”

Jiang Shen nodded: "It looks good." ”

Mu Rongyan looked at Jiang Shen's face, and asked again: "Didn't the elder Ge rest last night, his face didn't look very good." ”

Jiang Shen said tiredly: "Last night, it was a little noisy. ”

Mu Rongyan turned his head to look at Wang Jingzong and Ruan Ping'an, and said in a low voice: "Last night, it sounds like the Internal Security Department arrested a few people, and the movement became a little bigger, and it seems that they did something insulting. ”

Jiang Shen pretended not to know, and said softly: "Yes, this pavilion only heard the noise." ”

Mu Rongyan turned his head to look at Wang Jingzong and Ruan Ping'an again, but saw that both of them lowered their heads, as if they were concentrating on eating, and they didn't hear these words, nor did they have any intention of answering.

He grinded his teeth and said with a smile: "Also, no, it's a big deal, it seems, that is, Han Si's mission person stripped off the clothes of the scholar." ”

Jiang Shen was stunned for a moment, his face didn't even change, and he suddenly laughed: "The internal security department is acting, but it's interesting." ”

Hearing this, Wang Jingzong and Ruan Ping'an glanced at each other, not knowing how to explain the word "interesting".

Mu Rongyan was also speechless for a while, not knowing how to answer.

The room fell silent for a moment, and only the faint sound of food could be heard.

After a short silence, there was a knock on the door: "Master Ge, Lord Han is here, saying that he has something important to discuss with Ge Lao." ”

Jiang Shen was stunned for a moment, glanced at Mu Rongxi, and said in a deep voice, "Please." ”

When the words fell, Mu Rongshu, Wang Jingzong and Ruan Ping'an hurriedly rinsed their mouths and wiped their mouths, put away the morning food, wiped the food table, and stood aside.

Mu Rongxi's official position is one level higher than Han Changdu's, and Wang Jingzong's is half a level lower than Han Changdu's, as for Ruan Ping'an, like Han Changdu, they are all positive three grades.

It stands to reason that these three people don't need to be so cautious and polite when facing Han Changdu, but the internal security department behind Han Changdui is really famous, which makes people have to be timid.

As soon as they cleaned up the morning food in the room, and lit a stick of agarwood incense to dispel the smell, Han Changwan and the three of them pushed the door in.

After saluting each other, everyone sat down, and Yao Qi and Meng Sui naturally had no qualifications to sit down, and stood behind Han Changdu.

Jiang Shen pondered for a moment and smiled faintly: "I don't know if Lord Han has anything to discuss with this pavilion?" ”

Han Changwan said politely: "There was a lot of movement last night, presumably the elder and all the adults have already heard it." ”

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