novelraw Chapter 243
Chapter 243
Anxi and Li Yunqian sat down in their seats, watching the following competition has progressed to the stage where the students were drawing topics and writing poems.
This time, there were 32 people participating in the rematch. After drawing out the questions, they showed the questions one by one, and then returned to their seats and sat down.
The onlookers kept quiet and did not disturb the students' thinking. They only let out short exclamations when they encountered strange problems.
The dishes ordered by Anxi and the two were delivered, and they watched while eating.
Suddenly, Li Yunqian pointed in one direction and said, "My lord, look quickly, does that person look familiar?"
Anxi turned his gaze away, "This man is Li Jingxuan, the son of the Minister of Rites."
"This person is the number one talented person in the capital. He doesn't look very good! He must be too watery." Li Yunqian curled her lips, making her say so expectantly, but the result was just mediocre.
An Xi smiled, "He is the most talented man in the capital, but he is not the most beautiful man in the capital, but he is indeed full of moisture."
"Eh? You mean, he's also very talented, can't he? If so, how dare he come to participate in the poetry collection." Li Yunqian lowered her voice and exclaimed in a low voice.
"This collection of poems and wishes looks amazing. It's in public, but it's not impossible to do something." With Anxi's eyes, he had already discovered that someone was passing the answer to Li Jingxuan out of everyone's sight.
Li Yunqian looked left and right, but didn't see where he was doing something, grabbed Anxi's sleeve, and shouted excitedly, "Where is it? Where is it? Tell me quickly."
Anxi put away her fan and slapped her hard on the head, "Be quiet, this is not your business."
Li Yunqian was not convinced, and put her hands on her hips, "I am the dignified Princess An, how can I stand by and watch someone cheating."
Anxi sneered, "I, King An, am not qualified to take care of this matter. You, Princess An, dare to take care of it? Can you take care of it?"
"Huh, is it so serious?" Li Yunqian was surprised. It was just a student who cheated. Although this student has the father of the Minister of Rites and the prince's cousin, it's not to the point where Anxi can't control it, right?
"It involves fraud in the imperial examination. You say it's not serious. Let alone me, a prince who has not participated in any court affairs, even the third and fourth princes dare not participate now."
Anxi's expression was cold and serious. This matter involved a lot, not only involving this year's imperial examination, but even the previous one.
The students from the previous two sessions of Dezhong have already become officials at the court, but how many of them are genuine talents and how many of them are obtained by fraud is completely unknown.
To be able to cheat three times in a row, how many people are involved behind this, and how huge and complicated the forces will be, it makes people shudder to think about it.
Now, the eldest prince wants to reveal this matter completely. It has to be said that he has been driven crazy.
Once this matter is exposed, the interests and lives of countless people will be involved.And the first prince did this for nothing more than to attack the second prince's mother's family - Ministry of Rites Shangshufu.
"Then you really don't care?" Li Yunqian approached Anxi and asked softly.The suspicious look in his eyes was almost overflowing, as if he was saying, I don't believe it, I don't believe it, you will definitely take care of it, right?
Anxi chuckled, "It's not the time yet, the only way is to catch them in court and catch them by surprise."
The imperial examination is only a few days away, and now is a good time for those people to sell their answers. He believes that at this moment, no matter whether it is the eldest prince, or the third and fourth princes of the emperor, they will send people to watch these students.
Once someone changes, no matter whether it is those who sell the answers or the students who buy the answers, they will not let it go lightly.
"Does the emperor know?" Li Yunqian wondered, this would not do the emperor any good, but would do a lot of harm, so he knew why he didn't order a thorough investigation.
"I didn't know it before, but I know it now." Anxi replied.
Before, Emperor Xingde probably didn't know about it, and even the princes didn't know much about it, but when this matter was dug out by Anxi, they knew what they should know.
For example, the First Prince guessed a little bit from the spies placed next to the Second Prince, and then found out something.
If it were before, he wouldn't mess around with news that this was true.But now that he thinks he's going to die, he can't wait to bring down the 'enemy' the second prince, regardless of whether he has any evidence, let's do it first.
The second prince may really not know, he is just a person who is stupid in reading, and the Minister of Rites will definitely hide it from him.
The emperor knew about this because he found out that Zhang Shide belonged to the fourth prince, and the fourth prince wanted to use the hands of the eighth prince to expose this matter.
As for why the fourth prince knew, Emperor Xingde felt that his sons seemed to have powers that he didn't know about, this... had to be guarded against!
The third prince and the fourth prince were also very simple, they all knew about it through Zhang Shide, but they all thought that the other party knew about it, and then they all pretended not to know, and watched silently, thinking about making a profit from it way.
Therefore, Li Jingxuan's cheating seems to be done secretly, but he has been targeted by all parties.
In order to investigate the larger and more fish behind the scenes, everyone unanimously did not catch him, and silently helped him cover up, just waiting for the day of the imperial examination, so as to catch the current one!
Knowing the ins and outs of this matter, Li Yunqian looked at Anxi with the gaze of a god-man, "Tsk tsk tsk, are you still human? You can see through everyone's thoughts, and even their reactions are in your hands." As expected."
An Xi glanced at her lightly, "It's not my fault. Zhang Shide made the plan, and he was in charge of the execution. I didn't do anything."
"You didn't do anything, you just trained a black-hearted and very smart adviser." Li Yunqian snorted, who can teach such a good student, what kind of a good teacher can be.
Anxi unfolded the folding fan and shook it twice in a good mood, "It mainly depends on the person, some idiots, no matter how you train them, it's useless, what do you think?"
Li Yunqian choked, the food in his mouth almost spewed out.Was it her that the idiot was talking about?No way, no way?It must not be her, she is so smart, she has helped Anxi make so much money, how stupid is she.
Reassuring herself, Li Yunqian secretly gave Anxi a look. She thought her actions were hidden, and Anxi must not have noticed.In fact, Anxi was just too lazy to answer.
The time for answering questions downstairs is coming to an end, and more and more students are handing in their answers.
Li Jingxuan, who was sitting in the center of the crowd, opened his eyes Shi Shiran, and then picked up the pen and swiped it. His posture was so elegant and unrestrained, that the onlookers applauded again and again.
"This is the number one talented person in the capital, right? He's very powerful at first glance. He might have written it long ago, just to let other people, and don't want them to have pressure."
"It goes without saying that Mr. Li's talent is obvious to all. Hey, I heard that he is still the son of the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites. His family background is full of character and talent. No other students can compare with him."
"You can't say that. Look at that Sun Juren. It is said that he is a well-known talent in the south of the Yangtze River. He has won four prizes in a row. He is a popular candidate for this year's champion."
"What's wrong with Siyuan? It's because he didn't meet our Mr. Li. Just wait. This time the imperial examination will definitely be crushed by Mr. Li."
"Nonsense, Jiangnan's style of writing is at its peak, and those who can score four consecutively in Jiangnan must be better than Mr. Li who took the exam in the capital."
"You're talking nonsense. The capital is the best place. What is not the best here? People are also the most talented."
"Okay, okay, stop arguing, look, the results are coming out."
The results of the semi-finals only take the top five, that is, the top five best poems will be selected by all the great Confucians.
In addition, if a poem particularly surprises the Confucians, and its subtitle is also unique, the person who wrote the title will also get an extra chance.
But such an opportunity is rare, and it may not necessarily come out after several times.
Unfortunately, this time there really was one!
The person who posed the question was Fang Hengshan, the son of Jiangnan Lianzhong Siyuan, and the person who answered the question was Li Jingxuan, the number one son of the capital.
Originally, both Fang Hengshan's and Li Jingxuan's poems were the best. It can be said that they are evenly matched.
But Fang Hengshan's question was very good. While Li Jingxuan answered correctly, he also stuck to the theme, showing his incomparable wit and agility.
In comparison, the questions were just ordinary, but Fang Hengshan, who answered amazingly, was slightly inferior.
In other words, the two were originally evenly matched, but with the help of Fang Hengshan's good questions, Li Jingxuan actually won against himself.
It has to be said that it is full of drama.
However, Fang Hengshan was not depressed. Instead, he was in high spirits, and said to Li Jingxuan with a smile, "Brother Li, I didn't take it seriously when I heard about Brother Li's name a long time ago. Now that I see him, I really think highly of myself. The ancients did not deceive me sincerely, and always be kind and worship me."
Seeing this scene, Li Yunqian couldn't help but feel good about him, "This Fang Juren is very personable. I thought he would be dissatisfied with his haughty appearance, but I didn't expect him to be so magnanimous. It's a pity that Li Jingxuan This cheater took the first place, the sky is really blind."
An Xi chuckled, "That's the way you've never seen him not taking others seriously. Besides, his admiration is not for Li Jingxuan, but for the person who helped Li Jingxuan write poems. This person is really talented. "
"What's the use of being talented? It's not helping people like Li Jingxuan to cheat!" Li Yunqian felt that no matter whether he was really talented or not, cheating showed his character, and that person who could help Li Jingxuan was completely inferior to Fang Hengshan.
"Maybe it was forced!" Anxi said.
"Really?" Li Yunqian was curious, "Did you find out who it was?"
Anxi shook his head, the person behind this is hiding quite deep, so far the information we know must be someone from the Ministry of Rites Shangshu's Mansion, but who it is is unknown.
"Even you didn't dig it out? Isn't your intelligence network already very powerful? You even know about the fraud case."
"This is different from the fraud case. The people who helped Li Jingxuan to become famous are not the same people who gave him sex. Moreover, the person who wrote poems to Li Jingxuan may be a female family member of the Shangshufu, so I didn't let people go deep into it. investigation."
"Wow, this is a talented woman from ancient times, so curious!"