My family has been wielding knives for generations, but now it's my turn to wield a pen!

Chapter 81 Do you want to make a contribution?

"explain!"

Jiang Xiaobai looked at the student with icy eyes.

"I...I don't know that person's specific identity."

The scholar in the blue robe swallowed hard, his face deathly pale: "That person found me and offered me a hundred taels of silver to lead the incitement in the brothel."

"Let me tell you that you bought the top scholar title, that the Prime Minister's family curryed favor with the Marquis of Zhenbei's military power, and... and that Miss Li was used by the Prime Minister's family for a transaction."

"But I was just paid to do a job, I really don't know who that person is!"

After a few simple words, the Qinglou building fell completely silent.

The expressions on the faces of all the students froze.

One hundred taels?

Get paid to do something?!

So... were they really used today?

For a moment, many students looked extremely grim.

Those who had just been shouting the loudest now wished they could disappear into the ground.

They called themselves scholars and claimed to have come for the sake of justice for the poor and needy.

In the end, it turned out that he was being led by the nose by a guy who took money.

This is incredibly embarrassing!

Li Zhixing stood to the side, his face equally gloomy.

Yes, he was just being skeptical.

But now that he had heard the student in the blue robe admit it with his own ears, Li Zhixing could no longer suppress his anger.

This is not a slap in the face to Jiang Xiaobai.

This is a slap in the face to Qinglou, and even more so to the Prime Minister's residence!

Jiang Xiaobai didn't say anything more at this moment, but just glanced at Li Zhixing and waved his hand lightly.

Li Zhixing immediately understood and said coldly, "Take him away and keep a close watch on him!"

"yes!"

The servants downstairs immediately dragged the scholar in the blue robe away.

The scholar in the blue robe was deathly pale, as if all his strength had been drained away, and he no longer had any of the toughness he had shown just moments before.

After the others were taken away, Jiang Xiaobai finally raised his head again and looked at the students filling the building.

What I just said still stands.

Jiang Xiaobai pointed to the two couplets: "If you can match these two couplets, then you're good to go."

"I will voluntarily request Your Majesty to revoke my title of top scholar!"

"If you can't do it, then shut up for now!"

"What's the point of all that yelling!"

Upon hearing this, many students blushed again.

But this time, no one dared to speak recklessly.

Jiang Xiaobai was too lazy to pay them any more attention and turned to walk outside.

After taking only a few steps, Jiang Xiaobai seemed to remember something and suddenly stopped.

"Clean the entire building thoroughly in half an hour."

"If Qinglou is still in this terrible state after half an hour, then Qinglou will be completely closed and no longer open to the public!"

After saying that, Jiang Xiaobai turned and left.

Inside the Qinglou building, no one spoke.

Li Zhixing remained standing there, looking somewhat bewildered, until Jiang Xiaobai's figure completely disappeared in the direction of the side door.

He originally thought that Jiang Xiaobai's arrival would only make things worse.

Unexpectedly... Jiang Xiaobai first silenced the students in the building with two couplets.

They also publicly exposed the ringleader who had been bribed!

Is this the kind of mentality that a spoiled brat would develop?

Moreover, when Li Zhixing turned around, he found that the students who were usually so noble and virtuous were now bowing their heads and picking up vegetable leaves and eggshells from the ground.

Someone tore down the paper from the wall.

Someone is moving tables and chairs.

Someone was quietly wiping the floor.

For a moment, the entire Qinglou building actually fell silent.

Li Zhixing swallowed hard, then finally raised his head and looked in the direction Jiang Xiaobai had left, his eyes filled with shock.

This guy...

Was he really bought his way into the top score?

Even a top scholar who truly excels in academics probably couldn't handle things so well, right?

Shocked, Li Zhixing withdrew his gaze and walked out of the Qinglou building.

As soon as he stepped outside, he heard Jiang Xiaobai's voice.

"Do you want to make a contribution?"

Li Zhixing paused, his gaze following the direction.

In the side courtyard of Qinglou, Jiang Xiaobai was staring at the scholar in the blue robe.

The student was trembling, clearly terrified.

Upon hearing Jiang Xiaobai's words, the scholar in the blue robe quickly nodded, "Yes, Young Master Jiang, just give the order!"

As he spoke, the scholar in the blue robe lowered his head very far.

Yes.

He's genuinely scared now.

He originally thought that he would just collect some money, shout a few words in the brothel, and incite the students.

Even if this kind of thing is discovered, at most you'll get a few scoldings.

But who could have imagined that Jiang Xiaobai would suddenly become the imperial investigator personally appointed by His Majesty to investigate the imperial examination cases?

If they really send him to jail.

The Dali Temple, the Ministry of Justice, and the Censorate all went through it in turn.

He's probably not going to get out alive!

Jiang Xiaobai looked at the scholar in the blue robe and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

"It's simple. If someone contacts you, just tell them the truth about what happened today."

what?

The student in the blue robe was clearly stunned.

Li Zhixing stood to the side, looking at Jiang Xiaobai with some confusion.

That's right. If we tell the truth, and the other party knows that the plan to clear the building has failed, wouldn't they just hide it even more deeply?

As Li Zhixing frowned, Jiang Xiaobai looked at the scholar in the blue robe and slowly asked, "By the way, what do you think of those two couplets from Qinglou?"

The student in the blue robe stiffened slightly: "Absolutely... absolutely brilliant."

"Just wonderful?"

Jiang Xiaobai raised an eyebrow slightly.

"This... I am too dull to come up with a reply."

The scholar in the blue robe smiled bitterly and said, "Don't even mention a lowly person like me; even among all the talented scholars in the world, I'm afraid no one could match me."

That's true.

Those two pairs of characters seem simple, but the more you think about them, the more terrifying they become.

Even now, he still feels a headache coming on.

"Hehe, who said you can't come up with a matching one?"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Xiaobai's smile deepened: "You...you can do it!"

"Huh? Me!"

The student in the blue robe was taken aback, his face full of confusion: "But I..."

Before the scholar in the blue robe could finish speaking, Jiang Xiaobai said with a smile, "Who is worthy of such a fine woman? Tomorrow, a man of noble character will be found."

boom!

Upon hearing this, the student in the blue robe's eyes widened instantly.

Li Zhixing was also stunned.

What man could be worthy of such a fine woman?

Tomorrow, the patriots will be sincere.

Okay, let's break it down into "woman".

He, when broken down, becomes a person.

The character 明 can be broken down into 日 (sun) and 月 (moon).

The character 志 can be broken down into 士心.

This……

They actually matched?

The shock on the faces of the students in blue robes was almost impossible to hide.