The little girl from Dali Temple got promoted and made a fortune by solving crimes

Chapter 9 The People Behind the Scenes
As Jiang Sushang guessed, Fang Changliu discovered that Zhou Qiyan had the real question paper in his hand.

He didn't know at first that it was the real question paper, but he found out that it was the real question paper when he found that the paper on which the real question paper was copied was the paper specially used by the Ministry of Personnel.

"Brother Zhou chose to answer the real question because of me. Because I still owe the Yang family gambling house dozens of taels of silver, and those people promised to give him a hundred taels of gold as reward."

Fang Changliu felt furious about this. In the past, Zhou Qiyan wrote poems and essays for others, but he turned a blind eye. But this time, the matter involved scientific examinations and was suspected of fraud. He and Zhou Qiyan had a big quarrel. , and then left.

When he returned, Zhou Qiyan was dead.Dali Temple confirmed that Zhou Qiyan's death was due to illness, but he discovered that there was a woman's purse at home.

He used to frequent Yang's gambling house and found out that the purse belonged to Yang Yuege, so he followed Yang Yuege.

It happened that Yang Yuege got together with the other three people, and he was shocked to realize that Zhou Qiyan did not die of illness, but was killed by someone.

It turned out that they were worried that the matter would be exposed, so they used perfume in their purses to make Zhou Qiyan suffer from asthma.

The wallet belonged to Yang Yuege, the asthma medicine was taken away by Bai Qingtian, and Sun Ming was the one who came up with the idea.

"Then what did Xie Qingshu do?"

"Xie Qingshu is an innocent person. She is not the fourth person at all..." Fang Changliu felt short of breath and stretched out his hand towards Jiang Sushang. Black blood dripped from the corner of his mouth: "That person is...is..."

"Who is that person?" Jiang Sushang asked anxiously.

Fang Changliu's eyes widened and he looked at the remaining half bowl of rice unwillingly. He wanted to tell Jiang Sushang the truth, but he fell to the ground, black blood dripping from the corner of his mouth. Jiang Sushang took a step forward, I tried putting the silver hairpin on my head into the food. The hairpin turned black and the food was poisonous.

Lin Shengyuan came with a fan in his hand, a smile on his face and a proud look in his eyes.

"Miss Jiang, I came to see Brother Fang for the last time. This... is such a pity!"

Jiang Sushang asked: "Within and outside the Dali Temple, as long as we carefully investigate, we will definitely find out who poisoned the rice? Who was behind it?"

"Miss Jiang, you really don't understand the way of being an official! The way of being an official emphasizes one word - checks and balances." Lin Shengyuan opened the fan and fanned it slowly, with a leisurely tone: "Let me tell Miss Jiang a story. !”

"All ears." Jiang Sushang understood that the last name Fang Changliu didn't say was Lin Shengyuan.

The story begins in Juxian Pavilion, where Lin Shengyuan met Zhou Qiyan for the first time. His talent was like a lotus on a snowy peak, a rare treasure. Lin Shengyuan admired him endlessly, but Zhou Qiyan only had Fang Changliu in his eyes. The two of them met very late and became sworn friends.

Lin Shengyuan couldn't understand why he was rich, powerful and distinguished, but Zhou Qiyan liked the gambler Fang Changliu.

Finally one day, the gambling house wanted to chop off Fang Changliu's right hand, which was the most important hand for a scholar, so Zhou Qiyan came to Lin Shengyuan for help.

"I used ten taels of silver to ask Zhou Qiyan to stay with me for one night. He agreed."

It turned out that the rumor of ten taels of silver a night was true. The ten taels of silver that Zhou Qiyan exchanged with his body saved Fang Changliu's right hand.

Lin Shengyuan didn't know enough to be on the list, but by chance, he got the real test question, and the real test question was given to him by the prince!
"In order to verify whether the real question is true, I personally verified it."

Lin Shengyuan's father was the director of the Ministry of Industry. His status was not high enough to meet the prince, but the prince actually summoned him.

The prince, by the decree of Her Majesty the Empress, is the chief examiner of the examination, so he can naturally get access to the questions in the examination.

"Sichen, throughout the ages, only men can be emperors. Her Majesty, the Empress, forced His Highness the Crown Prince to abdicate to her. It is a big joke that the Crown Prince will still be the Emperor a hundred years from now."

Lin Shengyuan and the prince's views coincided with each other.

So, he accepted the prince's order and found three other partners.

The night before the test, the prince asked the four of them to kill someone to show their sincerity and that their lives were in their hands. This was also to let the prince hold the handle of the four people and better control them.

The prince wanted Zhou Qiyan to die. Lin Shengyuan cherished Zhou Qiyan's talent and begged the prince for mercy. However, the other three conspired to kill Zhou Qiyan and pretended to die of illness.

After entering the palace, when he learned that the first deceased was Sun Ming, Lin Shengyuan knew that the person who killed Sun Ming was Fang Changliu, and no one wanted revenge more than Fang Changliu.

After Fang Changliu killed three people, he took the initiative to find Fang Changliu and told him the truth. Fang Changliu learned that Lin Shengyuan was not involved in the murder of Fang Qiyan and planned to stop there.

But unexpectedly, Xie Qingshu heard it.

"Xie Qingshu was killed by me. I used Fang Changliu's parents and sister. I asked him to admit his guilt on my behalf. He knew he couldn't fight His Highness, so he agreed." Lin Shengyuan said with a smile: "How good I am! Let him reunite with Zhou Qiyan underground and keep his parents and sister safe."

Therefore, the person behind the imperial examination pen and ink case was Prince Yu Wencheng.It seems that he was submissive to the empress on the surface, but in fact he was planning more, trying to use the imperial examination to cultivate his own power in the court.

"Even if you know the truth, what's the point? You have no evidence, and you dare not offend the prince!" Lin Shengyuan said provocatively, but there was a voice in his heart saying: force her, ridicule her, let her find out the truth, Let her make the evidence of the prince's crime known to the world.

Lin Shengyuan had already resented the prince when he asked them to kill Zhou Qiyan.In his heart, he despised women as emperors, but in his heart, the prince was not a virtuous king.

Jiang Sushang waved her hands and left. She firmly believed that Yan Guo left a mark. As long as the evidence was presented, His Majesty would enforce the law impartially.

Jiang Sushang went to the official department, but was stopped outside by the guards.

"Miss Jiang, please come back! Don't tell me that you have no official position. Even if you have an official position, no one who is from our staff can enter."

"This is not the Dali Temple." The junior official of the Ministry of Personnel said meaningfully, insinuating that Jiang Sushang was not qualified to join the Ministry of Personnel to investigate the case, and also accused Dali Temple of not following the rules by allowing Jiang Sushang to enter the Dali Temple.

Jiang Sushang was free to come and go in Dali Temple, but he was in trouble in the official department.

Leaving the palace, Jiang Sushang went to Zhou Qiyan's residence. This was her last hope.

Because someone died, the residence was not rented out. The landlady led Jiang Sushang into the house, frowned and complained: "Miss Jiang, you don't know that the house next to Zhou Qiyan was originally rented, but after his death, That person thought it was unlucky, so he stopped renting. This week Qiyan...hey..."

Seeing Jiang Sushang's serious expression, the landlady stopped disturbing him. She opened the door and left quickly, as if there was something scary in the house.

Jiang Sushang wanted to find evidence to judge Prince Yu Wencheng. Fang Changliu said that he saw the official paper and concluded that it was a real question.

Lin Shengyuan also mentioned that the real questions were copied.

Therefore, once the piece of paper is found, the prince can be convicted.

Jiang Sushang and Lan Shi searched the room for a long time, but couldn't find the piece of paper.

"I wonder what Qiyan cares about most this week?" Lan Shi leaned on the chair tiredly.

"Pen, ink, paper and inkstone, Zhou Qiyan is a scholar, he cares about these things the most."

She once heard that Zhou Qiyan used tree branches as pens and the snow as paper in winter, when he had no pen or ink, to write articles and poems on them; Fang Chang left the thick cotton clothes he bought for him. After he saw a square of Hui ink, he quickly wrote I pawned my thick cotton clothes and bought Hui Mo.

It can be seen that Zhou Qiyan is a very literary man and loves pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

Jiang Sushang took apart the brush and scroll again, and checked whether the inkstone was hollow. In the end, he found nothing.

"Zhou Qiyan's painting skills are really good this week. Fang Changliu in the painting is even more beautiful than the real person!" Lan Shi unfolded a scroll, which was a portrait of Fang Changliu painted by Zhou Qiyan.

Fang Changliu had a smile on his face and looked forward, with clear eyes and a graceful demeanor. He was indeed more handsome than Changliu who was infected by Gambling.

The sun shines through Fang Changliu's portrait, and Jiang Suchhang discovers that there is an opaque spot in the portrait.

Jiang Sushang carefully uncovered the portrait on the outside, and it turned out to be the real portrait inside.

Lan Shi came forward in surprise. Jiang Sushang was lost in thought while looking at the copied test questions, but he didn't know that there was an extra person in the room.

"Oh! Hokuriku, you suddenly appeared and scared me to death." Lan Shi turned around and saw Hokuriku. She was scared in a room where people had died. Hokuriku was standing in the dark, so she was so scared that she covered her head. Heart.

When Jiang Sushang heard that it was Beilu, he immediately put down the real question, walked forward worriedly, and asked: "Xiaolang, is your injury healed?"

"No problem." Beilu put a scroll in Jiang Sushang's hands: "Prince's calligraphy."

Beilu had been secretly guarding Jiang Sushang. Knowing that Jiang Sushang was looking for evidence of the prince's crime, he simply went to the East Palace.

One hand is the calligraphy treasure of Prince Yu Wencheng, and the other hand is the copied real calligraphy.

After careful comparison, Jiang Sushang found that it was indeed the prince's handwriting.

Jiang Sushang hurriedly brought the evidence and went to the palace to see the empress.

The empress looked at it carefully, and after a long while, she asked: "Prince's calligraphy treasure, how did you get it?"

(End of this chapter)