Tang Bohu Marries Qiuxiang

Chapter 200 Imperial Examination Situation ([-])
Tang Bohu closed his eyes worriedly, thinking about the ins and outs of this matter, and immediately thought of a person, Xu Zhenqing!Xu Jing met Xu Zhenqing before the incident, and Xu Zhenqing also came to see Xu Jing after the incident.

Standing up, Tang Bohu hurried to Xu Zhenqing's home in Tangzhuang, and knocked on the door.

Opening the door was Xu Zhenqing's smile, "Bohu, it's really rare! It's rare to see you on weekdays, why do you have the time to come to me today?"

Tang Bohu said calmly: "I want to ask for a cup of tea with you."

"I don't have any good tea here." Xu Zhenqing said, "There are only some tea cakes that have been stored for a long time. Don't dislike them."

"Is it okay to live here?" Tang Bohu asked.

Xu Zhenqing brewed tea and said, "It's not bad, I like it here! Everything here is very fresh."

Tang Bohu said to Xu Zhenqing: "All these years, I have never asked you what you have done."

"I went to my hometown with my father. I have been wandering outside these years. I have seen many people, many mountains and rivers, and many changes in the world. By comparison, I found that Tang Bohu, you are better than me in the past two years. There are so many things to go through.”

"You have changed a lot," Tang Bohu said.

"The more people go through, the more changes they have. Isn't that what you are like, Tang Bohu. What you have experienced in the past two years from Jiangnan all the way to the capital is something that some people can't experience in a lifetime."

Tang Bohu's heart sank, "Why are you going to see Xu Jing?"

"Nothing, I'll go see him."

Xu Zhenqing said it very frankly, but Tang Bohu still had more doubts in his heart, he just said a few words, neither admitted nor quibbled.

The two were sitting opposite each other, drinking tea, when Wen Zhengming walked in.

"Bohu, you're here too."

"I have something to ask Xu Zhenqing." Tang Bohu turned to Wen Zhengming. "How's your preparation for Chunwei's exam?"

"Actually, I don't have much confidence. I'm just playing around in the capital." Xu Zhenqing said with a smile.He moved a chair and sat between Tang Bohu and Xu Zhenqing and poured himself a cup of tea. "I don't know how many years, the three of us haven't talked for a while for a long time."

When Wen Zhengming said this, Tang Bohu also came to his senses. It is true that there were four children in the past, but now there are only three in front of him. Zhu Zhishan has returned to Jiangnan, and he probably will not participate in this year's imperial examination.Xu Zhenqing has been traveling far away, and she doesn't see him on weekdays.Tang Bohu looked at Wen Zhengming and Xu Zhen and felt that he should not doubt his childhood playmates.But from a rational point of view, Xu Zhenqing's actions really have to make him suspicious, his actions are too suspicious!

"What were you two talking about just now?" Wen Zhengming asked.

"Let's talk about the past." Xu Zhenqing said with a meaningful look at Tang Bohu.

Hearing this, Tang Bohu drank a cup of tea on his own, Xu Zhenqing's answer concealed all the previous embarrassment. Looking at Xu Zhenqing, from this point of view, Xu Zhengjian still cares about the relationship between several people.

Wen Zhengming said: "Now it seems that Bohu is the most promising among us. He is already a Jinyiwei Qianhu at the age of 15. Has there been such a young Qianhu since the founding of the Ming Dynasty?"

"That's true." Xu Zhenqing nodded and said, "Anyway, I haven't heard of it."

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capital palace
Li Dongyang and the current Hongzhi Emperor Zhu Youtang talked about the leakage of the imperial examination questions.

Zhu Youtang asked in a low voice: "Have you confirmed the leaked test questions? Is it the test questions we want to use?"

Li Dongyang bowed and said: "Return to Your Majesty! There is no doubt that the test questions were leaked by the little book boy in Cheng Minzheng's house. This matter was discovered by Tang Bohu, and Tang Bohu is currently interrogating."

"How courageous!" Zhu Youtang said coldly, "The Spring Festival is just around the corner, yet someone dares to do such a thing."

"Your Majesty!" Li Dongyang continued, "Right now, we can only ask the Imperial Academy to draw up new test questions as soon as possible."

"Did Tang Bohu suppress this matter?" Zhu Youtang asked again.

Li Dongyang replied: "Tang Bohu has the intention to suppress this matter, but there is no impenetrable wall. If this matter is only suppressed, it will be a temporary opportunity. Even if someone mentions this matter after the spring exam starts... ..."

"That will become a scandal in the imperial examination since the dynasty!" Zhu Youtang said.

"That's right!" Li Dongyang said: "This is what I'm worried about right now, and it's okay to make up for it. Your Majesty has heard that Tangzhuang Academy has a thing called a mock exam."

"Mock exam?" Zhu Youtang had never heard of it.

Li Dongyang: "It's just a drill, using similar topics to take the exam."

Zhu Youtang said: "Tang Bohu can come up with these fresh ideas, but how to carry out this mock exam."

"Your Majesty, don't worry about it." Li Dongyang continued: "The old minister will inform the senior scholars in Beijing, and work with the editors of the Imperial Academy to draw up the topic."

"This matter must be done cleanly and without any mistakes!" Zhu Youtang said in an orderly manner: "I don't want to hear anything about the leakage of the exam questions."

"The old minister understands." Li Dongyang bowed: "The old minister resigns."

Li Dongyang left, the palace fell into silence, Zhu Youtang said in a low voice: "Wu De, did you hear that?"

"I heard." Wude quietly appeared from behind Zhu Youtang.

"Is what Tang Bohu did these days still under your surveillance?" Zhu Youtang said.

Wude: "Your Majesty! Tang Bohu has been under our surveillance, but this matter is weird!"

"What's weird?" Zhu Youtang continued to ask.

Wude replied: "It's all a coincidence. Tang Bohu seemed to know that Xu Jing went back to buy the project, and the people who got the benefits got the stolen goods. I thought it was Tang Bohu's trick for Xu Jing, because all of this was too complicated. Coincidentally, but after our investigation, we found that Tang Bohu was not setting Xu Jing up, but..."

"But what?" Zhu Youtang asked again.

Wude: "It's Tang Bohu who is like a prophet. He has been watching Xu Jing since the first time he met him."

Zhu Youtang: "Then did you find any clues?"

Wude took a step back and said: "Your Majesty, we have indeed found a very suspicious person. The name of this person is Xu Zhenqing. He is Tang Bohu's younger brother. He lives in the south of the Yangtze River. This person traveled with his father eight years ago. , I just returned to the capital last year."

"Tang Bohu's Fa Xiao." Zhu Youtang said again: "Since it is Fa Xiao, is it possible for the two of them to conspire together?"

"Your Majesty, there is no such possibility." Wude said.

"Why?" Zhu Youtang asked.

(End of this chapter)