manynovel Chapter 553 This high-end game
Chapter 553 This high-end game
“I was afraid someone would find out, so I ate the note. I remember it was the third day of the third session, around noon.
I was patrolling when I suddenly saw a small note on the ground in front of me. I thought someone had cheated, so I picked it up and saw it as an opportunity, so I did such a stupid thing. "
Qian Dong regretted his decision. He felt something was wrong at the time, but he thought someone saw him and wanted to report him secretly, so he let his guard down. He really didn't expect it to turn out like this.
"Where are you patrolling?" Jiang Youzhen continued to ask.
"I remember it was on the T-shaped number 10 side. I even looked at the candidates over there several times, thinking they had thrown it, but I didn't see anything unusual."
Jiang Youzhen shook his head and said, "We have to change seats for the three examinations. The Ding seat is quite far from Senior Brother Liu's C seat. They are not in the same area, so it is impossible for them to see each other.
The weather was very cold, and it was impossible for me to sweat and reveal those handwritings. And I was the first one to hand in the paper, and there were no other candidates walking around in the rest area, so I could rule it out. "
"That is to say, the traitor should be an official in the examination room, or a patrolling guard or yamen runner?" The Fourth Prince pondered.
Everyone nodded. After this analysis, it was indeed true.
"If he was a court official, why would he slander a mere scholar? And why Liu Gui?" The second prince was very puzzled.
The third prince thought of the reason this time. Why? Of course, it was because he wanted to wrongly accuse Jiang Youzhen!
Jiang Youzhen sneered. This high-end game, with one thing after another, was really aimed at her.
At first she thought that the man wanted to implicate the Third Prince, but the other party didn't seem to have that intention and was only targeting her. She didn't know when she became so important.
"They are targeting Jiang Youzhen." A cold light flashed in the fourth prince's eyes. Some people in the court could not wait any longer and finally took action.
The prefect who had always been invisible raised his eyebrows. He looked at Jiang Youzhen deeply. Someone in the court actually wanted to take action against this guy? It can be seen that Jiang Youzhen has threatened some people. Interesting!
Fraud and treason are simply trying to put Jiang Youzhen to death. The means are extremely cruel. Such a high-end chain of schemes is absolutely a grand move!
"I still have a question. Why did it have to be Liu Gui? If he really didn't cheat, then his servant Liu Quan would be a suspect."
Upon hearing this, Liu Quan was so frightened that he kowtowed repeatedly, "Sir, I didn't lie! Everything I said was true."
"If Liu Quan didn't lie, Jiang Youzhen's reasoning would be overturned in one fell swoop." Zhu Zhimin said.
Qian Dong's picking up of the note can be understood as someone reporting it, and there is no conflict.
"May I ask, sir, when you saw the words on the robe, were they not clear?" Jiang Youzhen suddenly asked.
Zhu Zhimin nodded, "Yes! But there were water stains at the time. I thought there were too many water stains, so the handwriting was blurred. Later, for the purpose of testing, it was dipped in water again, and the handwriting became even more blurred. After that, in order to prevent the evidence from being destroyed, I dared not touch it again."
"Liu Quan, what day did you copy the answers for your young master? Do you remember?" Jiang Youzhen turned and looked at the servant Liu Quan.
"I remember it very clearly. It was the night of the seventh day of the first lunar month. The young master said that we would come to the examination hall the next day." Liu Quan said.
"Are you sure? What time?"
Liu Quan nodded affirmatively, "Yes! It was at the end of the Shen period, there is no way I could have remembered it wrong! Because at that time, the young mistress came to the study to find the young master, crying that her nephew broke his leg while riding a horse and needed money for treatment.
At that time, the young master was very angry that the young mistress had disturbed him, and he didn't even let her in, and drove her away. The young master also said that he wanted to speed up the copying. I looked at the time and it was the end of the 3:00 pm.
Liu Gui was so angry that her teeth itched. "You are talking nonsense. I was clearly out drinking that night and was not at home. I didn't know that the young mistress's nephew had broken his leg. I didn't go back until before curfew."
"Oh? Who can prove it?" Zhu Zhimin suddenly became interested.
Liu Gui choked suddenly and his face looked a little unnatural.
"It has come to the critical moment, Senior Brother Liu, you should just confess the truth!" Jiang Youzhen didn't understand why he was still hesitating at this time.
Liu Gui looked unhappy, and exhaled, "In the back of Xima Lane, there is a family with osmanthus trees planted in the small courtyard. There is a widowed woman, she is... my first wife's sister. Her husband died half a year ago, and she came to Beijing to seek refuge with me. At that time, I was with her."
Everyone suddenly realized that this was the brother-in-law and the sister-in-law having an affair. The woman's husband had just died a year ago, and she had only been in mourning for half a year. This was simply against etiquette and was intolerable.
No wonder Liu Gui didn't dare to say it. He was a scholar. If people knew about it, it would be a big stain for him to enter the officialdom in the future. It's a misconduct!
"Are there any other witnesses?" Zhu Zhimin looked at Liu Gui with disdain and asked unhappily.
"There was also a maid who served me. A family living nearby also saw me that day. They will know the answer if they ask me."
"Come here, bring these people here for interrogation." Zhu Zhimin ordered.
"That means Liu Gui has an alibi, which proves that Liu Quan lied!" said the second prince.
Liu Quan shook his head violently. "Impossible, I clearly saw the young master. Am I seeing a ghost? This is impossible!"
He was completely puzzled, his face full of disbelief and panic.
"One of these two people must be lying. Liu Gui made preparations early on, and it is possible that he colluded with outsiders." The second prince suddenly thought of a possibility.
"Maybe, neither of them lied?" Jiang Youzhen smiled slightly.
There's that smile again, the smile that says everything is under control.
"What does this mean?" Zhu Zhimin felt that his brain was not enough and a fraud case was too complicated.
"Senior Brother Liu did not lie, because I was also at the banquet at Fuyun Pavilion outside Xima Lane that day. In fact, I met Senior Brother Liu once, but it was dark at that time, so Senior Brother Liu did not notice me."
Jiang Youzhen then remembered why he felt Liu Gui looked familiar. It turned out that they had met before.
Liu Gui was stunned, then thought of something.
"Oh! Was it you who I bumped into when I was leaving the alley that day?" He suddenly realized!
"That's right! On that day, Senior Brother Liu came out of Xima Lane reeking of alcohol. I happened to be walking to the entrance of the lane and we bumped into each other. At that time, I apologized to Senior Brother, but he ignored me and walked away. However, I only saw Senior Brother's profile, so I didn't recognize you at first glance. But you have a mole at the corner of your eye, and I noticed it because I was close to you."
Jiang Youzhen has a photographic memory, but that is only for books and texts. As for recognizing people, although his memory is good, it is still worse than that for books and texts.
Liu Gui nodded immediately, "Yes, I was in a bad mood that day and drank a little too much, so I didn't care and left."
"What about that book boy? Is there another Liu Gui in the mansion?" The second prince asked the question that everyone was wondering.
"That's right! The servant swore that it was the young master who ordered him to do it, so there might really be someone who ordered him to do it at that time, but that person was not Liu Gui, but someone pretending to be him."
"What do you mean?" Zhu Zhimin asked impatiently.