Man Tang Huacai

Chapter 133

"People around Pei Yushi said that he will be in Dali Temple all night on business."

In the middle of the night, a group of You Xiaowei arrived at Dali Temple, and after hearing what the gatekeeper said, they strode into the government office.

A few jailers followed behind, and said with a smile: "Pei Yushi must be interrogating the criminal himself."

"It's against the rules. Lead the way, where is the prisoner?!"

"..."

The light of the torch and the sound of footsteps disturbed the silence in the public house.

Pei Mian stood by the window, listening attentively, and someone was shouting in the distance.

He guessed that Zheng Qian had not been handed over to prison, no wonder he was detained as soon as he entered Dali Temple.Yang Hui took people away in his own name, which shows that he didn't care about his life at all.

Those two slaps were in vain.

Pei Mian rolled his eyes, and said: "People from Nanya, if they see you here, they will definitely implicate the son-in-law. You hide, and I will deal with it."

The two men who pretended to be servants and guarded Pei Mian were Yang Hui's confidantes, and they looked at each other, still vigilant.

"You come with us."

Pei Mian was surprised that they responded. Yang Hui's kind of high-ranking person is never so careful, and Xue Bai must be behind him.

They cooperated with each other once, and that time, the seemingly harmless teenager killed more than [-] people overnight.

This time, Xue Bai is bound to kill him. The reason why he didn't do it for the time being is probably because he is still fabricating the illusion that the East Palace killed him.

Fortunately, this is Dali Temple, he is far more familiar with the terrain than these two servants.

"Okay." Pei Mian immediately led the way honestly, "Follow me."

The three of them walked quickly through the government office, and the sound of killing was getting closer and closer.

The two servants gradually became restless, intending to strangle Pei Mian to death, but at this time they were in an unfamiliar place, and they were also worried that they would be caught without Pei Mian leading the way.

"Soon, you can go out here." Pei Mian kept comforting them, and suddenly opened a courtyard door, with the torches flickering in front of him, he bumped into those soldiers.

"Pei Yushi, where is the criminal?"

The next moment, Pei Mian quickly rushed into the dark path.

"Run what?!"

Shocked and shouted, the two servants also panicked, knowing that they must not be caught, otherwise they would implicate the son-in-law, so they ran out quickly, and managed to get out of Dali Temple.

It was dark in the imperial city, and they didn't dare to walk around in order not to leave a record of being banned, so they simply hid until the movement subsided, and Yang Hui sent someone to look for them again.

"Where's Pei Mian? Prince-in-law ordered, the arrangement is done, but get rid of him."

~~
Li Jingzhong was pushed awake in his sleep, and he was stunned to hear what Yizi said, and broke out in a cold sweat.

"What?! How dare he find it?!"

"Say something is going to kill you."

Not caring about others, Li Jingzhong hurriedly put on his clothes and drove out.

Walking through the spotless corridor, I actually saw Pei Mian kneeling in the gravel.

"You want to kill His Highness?" Li Jingzhong gritted his teeth, picked up Pei Mian's collar, wishing to bite him to death.

"Something happened! I don't regret my death, but I have to tell His Highness the news."

Pei Mian spoke very fast, worried that Li Jingzhong would get rid of him if he spoke too slowly.

He knew in his heart that he was about to become an abandoned child, and only by being extremely calm could he have a chance of saving his life.

"No matter what, you can't come here at night." Li Jingzhong was anxious, "How many traces are left?!"

"Xue Bai and Yang Hui have teamed up." Pei Mian didn't say that his identity was exposed, but said: "They are going to harm His Highness."

Even so, Li Jingzhong's killing intent remained undiminished.

He knew that Pei Mian came here to protect himself, otherwise he should have cleared the relationship first... It's a pity that those dead men were found by Suo Douji and sent out of Chang'an.

At this point, he broke out in a cold sweat.

"What happened?"

Finally, Li Heng came with his clothes on, and said in a dignified manner: "Since Zhang Fu has come, something must have happened, so I'm going to talk in the hall."

Pei Mian immediately knelt down on the ground, walked a few steps, and said: "The identity of the minister has been exposed, and if you ask for a cockfight, you will kill the minister. I beg your highness to send you to Shuofang, change your name and surname, and continue to serve your highness."

Li Jingzhong looked coldly at Pei Mian's attitude of desperately trying to survive, angry and helpless.

"Pei Qing's words are serious." Li Heng stepped forward to support Pei Mian with his own hands, and encouraged him: "I will never abandon Pei Qing regardless."

"Your Highness, please complete it."

Li Jingzhong was in a hurry, Pei Mian came here and left a lot of evidence.Didn't report the important matter first, just blackmailing His Highness for protection?It should be strangled.

"What happened?"

"Xue Bai exposed my identity." Pei Mian was still threatening, with panic on his face, but what he said seemed to have a deep meaning, "I'm afraid that many things I did for His Highness will be found out."

He had been prepared for a long time, if he died, Donggong would have a hard time.

Li Heng's eyes flickered, he patted him affectionately, and said: "Okay, you take my token and go to Shuofang to save your life and secure your safety for the future."

"Thank you, Your Highness!" Pei Mian said hastily, "I will leave Chang'an in the name of Wang Ji's subordinates, so don't worry, Your Highness."

Li Henglang smiled, and the shadow in his eyes eased a little.

Pei Mian then talked about today's events.

"According to what I see, they must blame the East Palace. His Highness only needs to point out the collusion between Yang Hui and Xue Bai to get away..."

~~
It was getting bright, Yang Hui got the news and looked at Xue Bai.

"There is good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear?"

Xue Bai looked at Yang Hui's expression for a while, and asked, "Let Pei Mian escape? He went to the East Palace?"

"what."

Yang Hui nodded, a little embarrassed.

"After all, I'm a son-in-law, and it's inconvenient to do things during the curfew. But this time, Donggong's guilt has been confirmed."

Xue Bai cast a sideways glance at Yang Hui, without saying a word.

He pondered, and said: "The son-in-law will go to the Right Prime Minister's Mansion to watch. Once you get Pei Mian, you must kill him before he speaks. You must never let Brother Nu know what we did in this matter. Hold on to Li Heng."

Yang Hui said angrily, "But Li Heng already knew."

"So what if you know?" Xue Bai said: "He is the most suspicious person, is it useful to bite other people?"

In the distance, the sound of the morning drum came.

Xue Bai listened intently, and confessed: "Send Zheng Qian back to his home, and don't make any mistakes this time."

"Send it home?"

"That's right. Zheng Qian doesn't know who robbed him. To be honest, who would have thought that we hid him?"

Yang Hui was not easy to be manipulated, so he asked, "Aren't we in a hurry to take people out and return them at the risk?"

"The son-in-law handed over the evidence, so the Bei Ya will take over such a big matter."

Xue Bai patiently explained, then hurriedly left the house and joined the bustling crowd in the early morning.

~~
In the early morning, there was a lot of noise in the Imperial College.

Du Wulang went out of the dormitories, rubbed his eyes and walked out of the courtyard, only to see officials in front of him leading people to search the dormitories one by one.

"What's wrong? Someone has been investigated for fraud?"

Yang Xuan was leading a group of disciples to watch the excitement, so he patted Du Wulang on the back of the head and said, "Stupid. They don't want to find out that I cheated. They are here to catch Dr. Zheng."

"Isn't Dr. Zheng already captured?"

"Escaped from prison, catch it again."

Du Wulang froze for a moment, and patted his face to wake up.

He has more prison experience than these apprentices, and knows that it is difficult to escape from prison, but he did not expect that gentle Dr. Zheng to be able to escape from prison.

At this time, an official in green robe came over, looked around, and beckoned to Su Yuanming.

"Su Siye, which house does Xue Bai live in?"

"Who do you dare to ask the chief official? Why do you ask Xue Bai alone?"

"Du Hongjian, the director of Dali Temple, supervises the handling of this case. I heard that Xue Bai and Zheng Qian are friends. Where does he live?"

Su Yuanming said: "I am also on good terms with Zheng Taixue, will Du Sizhi search my house first?"

"Take me to see Xue Bai."

"He's just a disciple..."

"Mo Duoyan, take me there."

The reason why Du Hongjian came to investigate was because he knew Xue Bai's reputation.

He admitted that this young man is qualified enough to bear some serious crimes that ordinary people cannot bear, and he is more than just a mere apprentice.

Su Yuanming had no choice but to lead the way ahead.

Du Hongjian walked quickly with him, walked to the corridor, looked back, and saw an ugly and fat boy following him all the way, he couldn't help shouting: "Get out of the way for the idlers."

"I live here." Du Wulang replied.

"You live with Xue Bai?" Du Hongjian pretended to be majestic, and shouted: "Do you know that he committed a crime last night?!"

"what?"

Du Wulang looked bewildered, and said in surprise: "Then I have committed a crime too?"

"what for?"

"I was with Xue Bai all night. If he committed a crime, of course I would too."

"What did you do?"

"Talk about the annual exam."

Du Hongjian narrowed his eyes, looked at the ugly and fat boy in front of him again, and asked, "You are Du Quan?"

"So the chief official has heard of my name? We both have the surname Du, maybe we are relatives."

"I am the Du family of Puzhou. After the prime minister, I have no relatives with you."

Su Yuanming quickly performed the ceremony and said, "I'm sorry."

Du Hongjian saw that they were delaying on purpose, sneered slightly, and suddenly stretched out his hand, pushed the door and rushed into the dormitory, taking a glance.

"Sure enough, Xue Bai isn't here. It's already a curfew after the New Year's Exam. Can he still go home?"

"Ok?"

Someone in the curtain grunted.

Du Wulang followed in, opened the curtain, and said, "You can't afford it? Didn't you hear the noise? I heard that Dr. Zheng escaped from prison and returned to the Guozijian. It's a strange story."

Xue Bai yawned and looked at Du Hongjian lazily.They looked at each other, knowing something.

"You were in the Imperial College yesterday?"

"Yes, Suikao."

"Have you passed the exam?"

"Tested."

Du Hongjian sneered, turned around and walked out, pushed away Du Wulang who was in the way, recruited one of his confidantes, and said in a low voice: "He is not in the annual exam, someone must have noticed, and find a witness."

"Here."

"Take me to meet Wei Jijiu."

~~
In the academy, a group of officials from the Imperial College and the Ministry of Rites are busy.

Du Hongjian waited for a while, and finally saw Wei Shu walking out slowly.

"I've seen Duke Wei." Du Hongjian took the gift of his nephew, straight to the point, and begged in a low voice: "Please help Duke Wei, save the East Palace."

Wei Shu twirled his long beard, looked up at the sky, and murmured, "Is there any trouble in the East Palace?"

"Yes, the disciples of Mr. Wei's sect colluded with the traitors and framed them."

"Planting and framing? Is it a serious crime that can shake the position?" Wei Shu asked in a low voice: "For example, stealing armor and entering the palace wearing armor?"

Du Hongjian's expression changed suddenly, he didn't know what Wei Shu meant, he cupped his hands in panic and said, "Duke Wei understands His Highness, he has always been respectful and filial, it is impossible for him to be like this."

"Then why does the old man need to save the East Palace? Instead, there is a doctor in the Imperial College who is innocent. Zhixun, you work in Dali Temple, can you help him? I beg you as my uncle."

"Little nephew... is humble."

As Du Hongjian said, he was unwilling to let it go, and said, "Xue Bai, a student of the Imperial College, offered dominoes to make the saint indulge in pleasure, or he was instigated. There was a big case in the city last night or it was related to him. Can you use his test paper as evidence?"

"Oh." Wei Shu sighed, nodded, turned and walked into the academy.

The papers are being read in the library.

Soon, Xue Bai's paper was transferred out.

Du Hongjian looked at it, and what he saw was decent calligraphy, seven or eight out of ten of the scriptures were correct, which is quite a good result.

He knew that Xue Bai had contacted Yang Hui before he finished the exam, so he read the poems and Fu and the policy questions again, and when he flipped through the papers, he was stunned.

I saw that the examination question of poems and fus is "Ledejiaozi Fu", which uses "the foundation of educating talents and training people" as the rhyme, and the rhymes are required to be in order. For the students of Guozijian, this is a very difficult question.

But Xue Bai answered, and the writing is very standard.

"The prince teaches from the disciples, and guards against arrogance from the generation. Strict teachers teach with success, and promote morality and education..."

This gift is not very brilliant, but I can't fault it.

Du Hongjian couldn't believe it, and then flipped through the policy questions at the back, carefully distinguishing the handwriting.

"Dare to ask Wei Gong, is this the test paper that Xue Bai just answered this morning?"

As soon as this remark came out, some officials around were immediately unhappy.

"This temple thorn, what do you mean by this? I read Xue Baizhi's test paper last night, under the watchful eyes of everyone, you mean I can't cheat?!"

"I dare not, I mean, someone saw that Xue Bai was not in the examination room yesterday..."

"Du Sizhi judged that the Guozijian cheated in the year-old exam?" Wei Shu said, "As the chief examiner, Dali Temple might as well use the old man to prosecute me."

Du Hongjian suddenly felt the pressure, but because of Wei Shu's qualifications, he dared not answer.

~~
"How can Duke Wei do this?!"

In the evening, Fang Guan was astonished when he heard the news.

A big event happened today, Nan Ya is searching for Zheng Qian and Pei Mian, the storm is about to come, just like the beginning of Wei Jian's case.And he got the news that it was confirmed that Xue Bai counseled Yong Yang Hui to frame Donggong.

Evidence must be obtained as soon as possible.

"Xue Bai has an answer sheet? No matter how he cheated, Duke Wei must have helped him. Why should he help him?"

Du Hongjian said: "In this way, if we want to insist that Xue Bai is involved in the case, we must prove that there was fraud in the Imperial College Examination."

"That's all."

"But... offended Duke Wei."

"How can you care about such a trivial matter now?"

Fang Guan frowned, worried.

In fact, he knew that the Guozijian cheated every year in the annual examination, and the nephews of high-ranking officials mostly hang out in it, and the number of students who passed the imperial examination is getting fewer and fewer every year.

Exposing the fraud case of Guozijian seems to be nosy.

The next moment, a small official rushed over and reported, "Mr. Fang, Zheng Qian has been found!"

"Where is it?" Fang Guan immediately asked, "Can you confirm that this matter is related to Yang Hui?"

"Not yet. Zheng Qian was found at home. At first, he was found by the Jingzhao Mansion, but now he has been taken away by the Beiya. The villain inquired carefully and learned some clues."

"Say."

"Zheng Qian claimed that he didn't know who was taken away for interrogation, and he was blindfolded throughout the whole process. However, during the search, someone found that he had stepped on a piece of unburned paper on the sole of his shoe. Although there were only numbers, it could be vaguely seen that it was a joint letter. Among them, There is a small half of the official seal of the Eastern Palace."

"frame?!"

Du Hongjian stepped forward and whispered into Fang Guan's ear, "It's Pei Mian's seal. I'm afraid it has already been found in his home."

Fang Guan was startled, and asked again: "Is this thing in the hands of Jingzhao Mansion?"

"No, some unscrupulous people saw with their own eyes that Officer Cao of Beiya scraped it off the sole of Zheng Qian's shoe, and it was in Beiya's hands."

Fang Guan's scalp felt numb when he heard it, and he supported the table to stand still.

At the beginning of spring, Xue Bai asked Yan Zhenqing to tell him that "the cost of the Huaqing Palace reported by Ge Nubao is too high." He got this inside information, planned for a long time, and finally managed to preside over the renovation of Huaqing Palace.

This is a very important authority.

But precisely because of the importance of power and position, Fang Guan knew very well that he must be on Ge Nu's list of political enemies.

This time, if Dong Gong is caught, he will be demoted next time.

Thinking about Xue Bai's role in this matter, it makes people feel that "Success is also Xiao He, and failure is also Xiao He".

Fang Guan couldn't help supporting Du Hongjian.

"Don't be shy, find out the truth and prove Donggong's innocence."

"Don't worry, Mr. Fang, there are many witnesses to this matter, and the Guozijian year-old exam is indeed cheating..."

~~
National Supervisor.

Several long lists were hung on the high wall of the academy.

Du Wulang looked for Xue Bai's name first.

It doesn't matter to him himself, there is no need to rush to become an official at a young age.Xue Bai is focused on making progress, but he cares about this matter very much.

After hesitating for a while, he chose to start searching from the last row, which was more in line with Xue Bai's level. He looked carefully at the names one by one, and it took a long time to look at them.

"Is that your name?"

Yang Xuan suddenly patted Du Wulang on the shoulder, pulled him away, and showed him the list of Kaoming economics subjects.

"Look, is that you?"

"That's Du Zi, he's Puyang Du, and I'm Jing Zhaodu."

"Du Zi? That's the word 'zi'?" Yang Xuan was quite surprised, and asked, "By the way, what's your name?"

"My name, hey, I actually got on the list, and my name is...below your name?"

"Hahaha, I am indeed a few ranks higher than you." Yang Xuan was not surprised, and patted Du Wulang on the shoulder and laughed loudly, "But you say that, I still don't know your name."

Du Wulang was in a depressed mood and didn't bother to talk to him. He looked back at the list just now, but couldn't find where he saw it.

He simply raised his head and looked at the top of the list, his eyes froze.

"Huh..."

　Chapter 2 is still being written~~ I failed to adjust it today, it should be about the same as yesterday~~
　　
　
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