Taming beasts starts with understanding bird language

Chapter 922: Exquisite and Unrivaled

Seeing that something was not right, Guo Pinchuan immediately stood up and spoke out.

"Your Majesty, I think this is pure rumor. People with ulterior motives spread rumors and deliberately framed Xu Xian, and even implicated my daughter. I hope Your Majesty can see through it and give me justice."

"Yes, Your Majesty, I don't believe that anyone in the Imperial Academy would dare to do such a evil thing." Xu Zhenlin hurriedly agreed.

If there really was someone who made money by selling the exam questions, the first person to suffer would be him, the Grand Academician of the Imperial Academy. So in this case, he would have to stand on Guo Pinchuan's side and deal with Wu Huaiyun together.

Leng Yixue suppressed her anger and said, "Let the three of them enter the hall."

"Ask the top three candidates in this year's spring examination to come to the palace and see you," the eunuch shouted standing aside.

As soon as he shouted, Gu Chan and the other two immediately walked in from outside the hall.

At this moment, the three people had different expressions. It was obvious that they had heard everything that had happened in the hall just now from outside the door.

"Long live the Queen, long live the Queen."

The three of them walked to the center of the hall and knelt down to pay homage to Leng Yixiu.

Leng Yixue said coldly, "Just now, Lord Wu, the Minister of Rites, said that someone leaked the exam questions, which led to some people getting the third place. What do you three think about this?"

"Your Majesty, now that the great scholars of the Imperial Academy and all the civil and military officials are here, I think we can bring our three test papers to the palace and circulate them among everyone. This will be enough to see whether the three of us cheated or not." Wu Zhengyuan spoke first.

"Okay, come here, bring the test papers of the top three to the hall and let everyone circulate them." Leng Yixiu waved his hand and said.

A eunuch immediately agreed and ran to the imperial study to get the test paper.

After a while, he entered the hall holding the test papers of the top three candidates and distributed them to the officials for inspection.

Wu Zhengyuan already had doubts about Gu Chan, so at this moment, he naturally wanted to hurry over to take a look at Gu Chan's test paper. In contrast to him, Feng Hao and Gu Chan seemed extremely calm. They still stood there motionless, quietly waiting for everyone to pass it around.

"What a great story of three heroes, it is really amazing."

"This unique font and the meaning expressed in the whole article are quite unique. How can it be cheating?"

"Yes! Looking at the entire Diyue Country, there are probably only a handful of people who can write such an article!"

Soon, exclamations of surprise from officials were heard in the hall.

Everyone was surprised not only by the unique font of Gu Chan's article, but also by the meaning contained in the article, which was extremely profound and difficult to grasp.

Who could believe that such an exquisite and unparalleled article, past and present, was written by cheating?
Even Wu Zhengyuan, who had been suspicious of Gu Chan from the very beginning, was stunned and could not help but exclaim in amazement after reading the Story of Three Heroes written by her.

Of course, Gu Chan and Feng Hao also read each other's articles, as well as the articles written by Wu Zhengyuan.

They all acknowledged each other's strength. After all, Feng Hao and Wu Zhengyuan were two talented men in the Diyue Kingdom. Their essays were also extremely exquisite. In this way, there was no doubt that they would be the top two. Leng Yixue saw that everyone had read almost everything, so he asked, "My dear ministers, you have all read the essays of the top three. Do they seem to have cheated?"

"Your Majesty, I think the essays in the top three are all unique and there is no sign of cheating."

"Yes, I think so too. The essays of the top two candidates need not be elaborated on. Just take the essay of the third place candidate, which is tens of thousands of words long, a full thirty pages! If you ask someone to write it in advance, it will take a long time just to memorize it. It is impossible to write it so perfectly in the examination room."

"This article written by the top scholar is truly ingenious and unrivalled in ancient and modern times. The meaning of the three heroes' struggle for supremacy is also very profound, and it is worth studying by all of us, the civil and military officials in the court."

The officials answered one after another.

Anyway, they couldn't tell at all that the top three students in this spring exam had any signs of cheating.

Wu Zhengyuan also walked up to Gu Chan, clasped his fists and apologized, saying, "Brother Xu, I was wrong before and questioned your literary talent. Now after reading your article, I understand that you are indeed a great talent and I was short-sighted."

"It's okay, it's okay. This kind of thing is normal, and I understand your doubts." Gu Chan said modestly.

"Then Brother Xu, I just want to know what your font is called, but is it original to you?" Wu Zhengyuan asked.

Gu Chan nodded and said, "Yes, this is the thin fairy style that I created. Because I am young, I can't write strong and powerful characters, so I can only write this thin fairy style. This font is as graceful as a woman."

"Indeed, when I first glanced at it just now, it was as if every word was dancing on the test paper. It looked very beautiful and moving," Wu Zhengyuan exclaimed.

Gu Chan chuckled, and the pain in her chest temporarily calmed down.

In this situation, as long as everyone agrees that it is impossible for her to cheat in this article, then everything will be easy.

However, Wu Huaiyun would not let it go. He said with a gloomy face, "Your Majesty, there is no sign of cheating in the test papers of the three of them. This only means that the three of them did not cheat. It is uncertain about the other candidates on the list. Moreover, this cannot prove that no one in the Imperial Academy secretly sold the test questions to make money, and it cannot prove that Miss Guo did not buy the test questions for Xu Tanhua!"

"Then what do you want?" Leng Yixiu asked coldly.

"Your Majesty, I think we should capture Miss Guo and interrogate her. We might be able to learn the truth from her." Wu Huaiyun said insidiously.

Guo Pinchuan said angrily, "Sir Wu, for so many years, you have relied on your relationship with the Duke of Zhenguo to bite whoever you catch in the court. This is something everyone knows. Now you have bitten me, Guo Pinchuan, and the Grand Academician of the Imperial Academy. I would like to ask, we have served in the same court for so many years, how have we offended you? Why do you want to bite us so viciously?"

"Lord Guo is right. Your behavior is simply bringing shame to your position as the Minister of Rites." Xu Zhenlin shouted coldly.

"My two lords, please don't misunderstand me. I have always been straightforward and I only deal with matters, not people. If you are innocent, why would there be any need for the emperor to investigate? Don't you think so?" Wu Huaiyun said with a sneer.

Guo Pinchuan and Xu Zhenlin were speechless after being choked by him.

Leng Yixue shouted coldly, "Alright, stop arguing. Someone, go and capture Lord Guo's daughter and bring her to the Jinluan Palace. I want to interrogate her personally."

"Yes, Your Majesty." The two palace guards guarding outside the hall responded in unison.

Then they took their leave and went to capture Guo Yu.