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Chapter 61 Seeing the coffin without tears

Huang Tixue's expression finally became solemn and shouted outside the hall: "Huang Lubao."

The clerk who had previously brought Zeng Yu in came in quickly and bowed and said, "What are the instructions of the master?" Huang Lubao was Huang Tixue's family servant and has always been loyal.

Huang Ti Xuedao: "Go and move all the sixty test papers you have obtained here."

The clerk Huang Lubao agreed and hurried away. He quickly brought a wooden box with the locked box, and the locked seal of the school department that Huang Tixue had personally covered.

Huang Tixue tore off the seal, asked Huang Lubao to take the key and open the wooden box, check out Cai Shourong's test paper, and expanded it to read it. He frowned at first, but after reading two lines, his originally locked brow stretched out, and then looked down, reading the first art "Lixian Wufang", looking up at Zeng Yu and said, "Who said Cai Shourong is not good at learning and ignorant? This eight-legged essay is done well. Humph, the rumors are abominable."

Zeng Yuxin said: "Tsai Shourong's fraud is certain. Did Cai Shourong once drafted the title in advance, or did someone write the question on the scene?" If you want to check it, check it thoroughly, otherwise, I'm afraid Huang Tixue would blame him for being troublesome, and said: "Can you let the students come forward and take a look?"

Huang Tixue said "Yes" and said, "Come on."

Zeng Yu approached the book case and looked at Cai Shourong's roll of paper. A small calligraphy stroke was very bad, but the first art was "not good at establishing a virtuous person" and it was indeed not bad. At least it was just the right way. The standard for judging eight-legged essays can be high or low. As long as there is no violation, the first sentence is to take the exam or dismiss the exam depends on the thought of the reviewer-

Zeng Yu opened the scroll of paper and looked at Cai Shourong's eight-part title. Cai Shourong's sutra was the "Shangshu". The title of "Shangshu" in Yuanzhou Academy Examination is "The ninth is to use the five blessings". Cai Shourong's first sentence was "The sage said the five blessings to encourage good and punish evil."

After reading this first sentence, Zeng Yu smiled and quickly smiled: "The master looked at his sutras and said, "It's just a bad word."

Huang Tixue put the papers in a closer look, his brows frowned again. According to regulations, the title of the classics should be more than 500 words, but Cai Shourong's article is less than 300 words, and his writing is chaotic and confusing. He obviously does not know the source and meaning of "the next nine is to use the Five Blessings". He just scattered and collected more than 200 words. If the test paper is investigated by the censor, it will definitely be ugly.

Huang Tixue shook his head and said, "It was me who neglected that I have always focused on the disadvantages of the first-class art in the field of medicine."

Zeng Yu said: "Students believe that this song was not written by Cai Shourong, but the classics and essays are not easy to write, so Cai Shourong's true form was revealed. This person is the son of a wealthy businessman and is famous in Yichun City without learning and ignorance. This time he is famous on the list, proud and praised people everywhere."

Huang Ti stopped talking, narrowed his eyes and thought about countermeasures. He suddenly asked: "Zeng Yu, you just said that there is a way to let the troublemakers in Shenmingting disperse. What are the good strategies?"

Zeng Yu said: "Report to the Grandmaster, since this matter has started, and there are many officials among the troublemakers, so it is impossible to cover it up. The students thought it would be better to be careless than to be blocked. They found out which candidates were listed by fraud and then used the re-examination and moxibustion to depose them. For the traitor, they just need to arrest the two people from the Donghu Inn behind the City God Temple and ask the truth. It is really hateful that such people do such illegal things to ruin the reputation of the Grandmaster."

Huang Tixue nodded and asked Zeng Yu to lead four staff members of the school department to arrest people at the Donghu Inn. He left the lobby to meet Confucian scholars such as Lie Licheng, and promised to demote those candidates who were confused during the re-examination and investigation. Please wait and see, and the re-examination will be held tomorrow morning.

When Lie Licheng and others saw the master come forward to explain in person, they dispersed and made an appointment to go to the government office to see the re-examination tomorrow. When Jing Yi saw that Zeng Yu had entered the examination hall and had not come out, he could not wait, so he went back alone.

On the Shenming Pavilion, the staff member with a short figure and big ears complained: "The old man is too kind. These children come with resentment. The old man should have applied the national law and taught him the way of sages. If these people are obsessed with it, they will be sent to the Youth Department to deal with it. How can they be threatened by them and explain the promise? The old man is too indulging in these crazy people."

It was almost noon, and the sun was shining directly. The thin Huang Tixue stood in the Shenming Pavilion and looked at the examination room gate. He ignored the complaints of the staff. After a while, he said, "Mr. Ling has worked hard to mark the papers on behalf of the old man these days. I will thank you very much when I return to Nanchang."

The staff member named Ling hurriedly said, "Where is the old man who says? The waiter is a guest hired by the old man. He should share the worries of the old man. If there is any inappropriate handling in the review of the case, please forgive me."

Huang Tixue was silent again and said for a while: "Mr. Yuan went to the government office for me, and said that the re-examination was postponed until tomorrow morning. Also, I will not go to the dinner anymore. Please forgive me for the magistrate Fan."

The aide named Ling agreed and said, "The elders don't have to worry about the Tongsheng who makes trouble. Every time the report is released, there are always so many Tongsheng who are unwilling to fail the exam. They don't have to pay attention or severely punish the advocates. It is natural that the old people make promises easily, and it will be even more troublesome."

Huang Tixue said: "You go to the government office to reply quickly."

The aide named Ling then left in a hurry.

...

Zeng Yu brought four staff members from the school department out of the examination room. Some staff members asked: "Young Master Zeng, where are we going to get people? Who are we taking?"

Just now, Huang Ti ordered these four servants to obey Zeng Yu's orders, so these four servants were very respectful to Zeng Yu.

Zeng Yu said: "You just follow me, but we are not familiar with the place here, so we have to go to the county criminal department to find two more Zaoli to help. As locals, they are familiar with each other, so we can save trouble."

The four school office staff successively claimed that they were going to Yichun County Government.

Zeng Yu is prepared for any trouble. The main plot of the fraudster must be Huang Tixue. These servants in the school office may also be bought, so calling two Yichun County Office Zao Li can avoid accidents. The way of Go is called "to win more, not to win less". All possibilities must be considered and prepared in advance, so that you can be foolproof.

When he arrived at the criminal department of the county government office, the official of the Dianli saw that it was an official from the school office, so he assigned two Zaoli to cooperate with the business. A group of seven people went straight to the restaurant next to the Chenghuang Temple in the northeast corner of the city. Zeng Yu asked two Zaoli to guard the building downstairs. He led four school office workers to the restaurant. Good guy, the flat-nose man and the man wearing a scarf were still drinking, and they were half drunk. Zeng Yu was desperate to tie the two and took them away. Some of the staff members said in surprise: "Why are they arresting them!"

Zeng Yu said coldly: "Why, do you recognize these two traitors?"

The officer said hurriedly: "I don't recognize you, I don't recognize you."

Flat nose looked at Zeng Yu in horror, feeling familiar. He drank too much wine and couldn't remember where he had seen him for a while. He only asked the officer: "Brother Yao, what happened?"

The officer named Yao blushed and said, "Close your beak, Master Xuezheng wants to blame you, leave quickly."

Several officers pulled the flat nose and a towel downstairs. Zeng Yu asked Zaoli to search the rooms where the two of them lived, and took them to the examination hall with their luggage. Huang Ti Xue secretly tried these two people. In addition to the four officers present, Zeng Yu and the clerk Huang Lubao. When Huang Lubao saw that he had returned from the flat nose, his face changed. Before Huang Ti Xue started the trial, he knelt down and apologized: "Master, the youngest is guilty, the youngest is guilty. The youngest has taken Mr. Ling twenty taels of silver. The youngest will hand over the stolen silver. Please forgive me."

When the clerk Huang Lubao knelt down, the four officers knelt down and admitted that they each received five taels of silver from Mr. Ling, and cooperated with Huang Lubao to facilitate the candidate's seat number arrangement.

Huang Tixue was so angry that he glared at him. The staff member Ling Fengqu was abusive, which ruined his school-level atmosphere and dragged his confidant family into the water. He said angrily: "Huang Lubao, you don't have these twenty taels of silver. Is my reputation worth twenty taels of silver?"

The clerk Huang Lubao was frightened and burst into tears, and kowtowed repeatedly: "The young man is confused for a moment, and the young man is confused for a moment, please forgive me."

The confession was contagious. The man with a flat nose and a scarf scrambled to confess his guilt. Huang Tixue asked Zeng Yu to record the records one by one and then asked the two to write them down. Fang asked: "Is Ling Fengqu back? Huang Lubao, go and have a look and let him come to see me."

After a while, Ling Fengqu, who was very big, came to the hall with the clerk Huang Lubao. Ling Fengqu just saw Huang Lubao's expression was wrong, and asked what happened but didn't say anything. Ling Fengqu was thick-skinned and brave, bullying Huang Ti, aged and sick, and was easy to deceive. Although he knew that something might have happened, he was not very afraid. When he arrived at the hall, he saw the two people with flat noses kneeling below. He pretended to be calm and walked up to bow and said, "Old Master, Fan Fuzun learned that the old master was tired of marking papers and did not go to the banquet, so he said he was going to come to the examination room to visit the old master. It should be almost here."

Huang Ti no longer had a polite treatment as usual, and sat down and said, "My friend Ling Mu, you have been studying in the department for a year. How did I treat you?"

Ling Fengqu knew something was wrong and said honestly: "The old man is as kind to the waiter as a mountain--"

Huang Tixue waved his hand and said, "How dare you take it as much kind as a mountain? But I asked myself that I did not treat you badly, but how did you fulfill your responsibility as a guest?"

Ling Fengqu secretly looked at the two kneeling flat noses. They looked dejected and pleaded guilty, but he wanted to take it with him without any shame: "The waiter was grateful to the elders, and assisting the elders on weekdays is quite conscientious. This is obvious to all, but there is no gold, and no one is perfect. It is inevitable that the waiter will make mistakes in doing things. Please give it a look."

Zeng Yu, who stood beside Huang Tixue, couldn't help but admire him secretly. As the saying goes, "If you don't see the coffin, you won't cry." This person doesn't cry when he sees the coffin. He has a thick skin and courage. It's rare to see him.
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