Prime Minister

Chapter 367 Punishment
On this day, Duke Zhang Yue returned home and was about to have dinner when Zhang Qiu came in angrily after school from the Imperial College.

Zhang Yue didn't even greet Zhang Qiu when he saw Zhang Qiu's entry: "Xi'er, the country test is coming soon, how are you preparing?"

After hearing this, Zhang Qiu turned around and said, "Third Uncle, I have a purpose to focus on my homework."

"Attentively?" Zhang Yue asked.

Shi Qi Niang was ordering her servants to serve food, when Zhang Qiu smiled and said, "Xi'er, I have prepared your favorite spring bamboo shoots and braised pork noodles today, let's sit down and have a chat with your third uncle."

After Zhang Qiu sat down, Zhang Yue said: "When the township examination is the most critical, don't be distracted by your high talent."

Zhangqiu paused for a moment when he heard the words, and then said: "Third Uncle, Uncle Guo was bullied in the Guangwen Museum."

Zhang Yue asked, "Oh?"

Zhangqiu said: "When these people were going to take the exam, they used tricks to delay Senior Brother Guo's schedule, so that they failed in the final exam. Now when these people go to the Guangwen Museum for the exam together with Senior Master Guo, they try to make Senior Brother Guo fail the Guozijian Township Examination."

Shi Qiniang glanced in surprise, she understood the importance of Senior Brother Guo in Zhang Yue's heart.

Zhang Yue remembered this incident back then, and said to Zhang Qiu: "Then why don't you break up with me? Why are you worrying about yourself?"

Zhangqiu said urgently: "Uncle, I am not looking out for self-inflicted annoyance. I knew a few extravagant people in the Imperial College, and now I have an appointment with them, and I am going to take someone to avenge Senior Brother Guo. I dare not disturb San uncle."

Zhang Yue glanced at Zhang Qiu and said, "You didn't work hard in the Imperial College, but you really made friends with extravagant people, does brother and sister-in-law know?"

Zhang Qiu said urgently: "Third Uncle, people are bullying you to the top, and you still concentrate on your homework. At the beginning, you calmed down and didn't dare to avenge Senior Brother Guo. Now I won't swallow your anger. At worst, I will risk my future not to fight with this dry person. "

After Zhang Yue heard Zhang Qiu's words, he secretly praised him from the bottom of his heart.

This is also the difference between his study and Zhang Qiu's.

In order to stand out, he can endure anything, but Zhang Qiu doesn't make it his top priority.

"What are the names of those who bullied Senior Brother Guo?" Zhang Yue asked.

Zhang Qiudao: "One is Lu Bing from Yingzhou, and the other is Guo Sheng..."

Zhang Yue said: "It's from Nanjing, right?"

Zhangqiu said: "That's right, you also know Third Uncle."

Zhang Yue said: "Is there another person named He Ma?"

Zhang Qiu nodded and said, "Third Uncle, you already found out their details, right?"

Zhang Yuedao: "Last year when Senior Brother Guo was in trouble, I found out that these three people bullied Senior Brother Guo a lot when they were in the Nanjing Imperial College. This is Lu Bing's worst. They often borrow money from Senior Brother Guo, but they have been slow to do so. Also, Brother Guo often has ups and downs when he is studying in Nanjian."

"This guy is Guo Sheng. He often calls Senior Brother Guo around on weekdays, asking him to do this and that. He bullies Senior Brother Guo because his family is poor and he didn't help to speak in the Imperial Prison."

"Finally, He Ma, whose father was an official who transferred from military capital to literary capital, relied on his courage, but ran rampant in the Imperial College. On weekdays, Guo Sheng and Lu Bing both flattered this He Ma, because He Ma is also a veteran. Students, usually jealous of Senior Brother Guo's talent and learning, deliberately made Senior Brother Guo late on the day of the exam."

Zhangqiu was also angry when he heard that, Seventeen Niang said: "There is such a person."

Zhang Yue nodded and said: "The other two are easy to deal with, but He Ma is not easy to deal with. If you really want to hurt him, it's not difficult to relieve the anger for a while, but I'm afraid that it will be bad for me in the future. People have gone to Nanjing many times to spy on He Ma's daily crimes, and now they have some clues."

Zhangqiu was finally convinced after hearing this, but at the same time he thought, third uncle is usually calm, but he makes up his mind before acting, I am a little too reckless.

On this day, in a restaurant outside the Guangwen Museum.

He Ma, Lu Bing, and Guo Sheng are drinking with a dozen of their classmates.

Lu Bing poured wine for He Ma and said, "The guy named Guo didn't give up, and he even found someone to stand up for him. I don't know where the guy named Zhang Mingqiu came from?"

He Ma put one leg up on the bench and said: "No matter what the source is, the person I want to punish can't be saved. As for Guo Lin who dares to ask for help, then I will make him ten times worse than before."

Lu Bing smiled and said: "Yes, Guo Lin is not only looking for someone, but he is also preparing for the Guangwen Museum test. Such a person also wants to fly to a branch and become a phoenix. If he really succeeds in the future, it will be our future troubles." what."

Guo Shengdao: "It is necessary to kill him with one blow, and we will deal with it slowly in the future. I have a plan. We can't bribe the examiner, but we can bribe a few examiners. As long as we leave some ink in the conspicuous place of Guo Lin's paper , punish him for the crime of secretly informing the examiner, and make him hopeless in the imperial examination for the rest of his life."

While talking, I saw a group of soldiers standing outside, all holding a whistle stick in their hands.

The leader smiled and walked into the restaurant, glanced at everyone, pointed at one person and said, "You are He Ma?"

He Maren lived up to his name, pockmarked face, he stood up and said, "What's your business?"

The leader said to the left and right: "In addition to this He Ma, there is also this Lu Bing and this Guo Sheng."

Immediately, a group of soldiers broke into the restaurant and dragged the three of them out.The rest of the students didn't dare to ask any more questions when they saw the viciousness of the soldiers. They could only stand aside and say, "Don't worry too much. Do you know who they are?"

There was another one who was a little smarter and ran to report.

But these soldiers turned a deaf ear to these threats, and the leader said humanely: "Pull off the pants of these three people."

After speaking, the trousers of the three of He Ma were pulled off in the street.He Ma cursed: "How dare you pull my pants, do you know who my father is?"

The other party sneered: "Don't say you are not a yamen, even if you are a real yamen, what's the problem?"

"Take off your pants and call me on the street."

After speaking, several soldiers stripped the three men off their pants, and then slapped them a few times. He Ma was slapped with blood, and said with a sneer, "Well done!"

"Tough!" The leader praised, "Hang this person upside down!"

After all, several soldiers tied He Ma's ankles with ropes, and hung him upside down on the two-foot-high Wangzi of the wine shop, but seeing this scene, the passing people in Bianjing all pointed and pointed.

"Give up!" the leader shouted.

But when the two soldiers loosened their hands, He Ma's head and feet fell from the Wangzi, and the whole head hit the ground.

After He Ma fell extremely quickly, he was caught only half a foot away from the tip of his nose, and the whole person went through this experience, and half of his life died immediately.

"Again!"

"The good man spares his life, the good man spares his life!" He Ma begged for mercy, but his heart was filled with humiliation.

Just at this time, a group of officials from the Kaifeng government came to see this scene when they heard that someone was going to die here and said, "What are you doing? Aren't you afraid of violating the king's law?"

However, the yamen servants of Kaifeng Mansion did not dare to be brave when they saw the opponent's fierceness.

The original leader immediately stepped forward and said: "I was ordered by Master Han, Master Han, who was punished in the west of Beijing, to come here to arrest the criminal and bring him to justice. Who dares to interfere!"

(End of this chapter)