Nangong clasped his hands behind his back, walked around, and commented on Qingshan Guild Hall: "When I was in Wuning City, I always felt that Qingshan Academy was very shabby. I didn't expect that in Daliang City, where every inch of land is so valuable, Qingshan Academy still has such a good reputation.
A good place, Qian Haoran really hides it."
Su Wen shrugged his shoulders.
Naturally, he would not say that the Qingshan Guild Hall was given by Xu Bancheng.
It's just that Su Wen disagreed with the statement that Qingshan Academy was shabby. Compared with the original government office in Neichang, the academy was a paradise on earth. When he saw the original government office in Neichang for the first time, he felt the same.
After seeing a haunted house, Nangong still had the nerve to complain about Qingshan Academy. Who gave him such a big face?
"If the stall owner wants to see me, wouldn't it be nice to send someone to summon him?"
Su Wen was a little confused.
He believed that the information related to Yan Shiliu would not cause Nangong to see him so urgently and come directly to his door.
"There is something a bit tricky and I would like to hear your opinion."
Nangong got straight to the point.
"Well?!"
Su Wen stopped and looked at Nangong in surprise.
"Find a quiet place."
It was rare for Nangong to be cautious.
This made Su Wen even more surprised and suspicious.
In his perception, Nangong has always been a reckless, impulsive, and easy-to-get guy.
To be so cautious at this time can only mean that the matter he wants to "listen to" is a bit serious.
Su Wen had a small courtyard of his own in the clubhouse, which was elegant and quiet, with only two servants taking care of Su Wen's daily life.
As soon as he returned to Su Wen's small courtyard, Nangong easily arranged a formation and walked directly to the small pavilion in the courtyard. Su Wen called the servants and asked them to serve tea, then asked them to stay away from the small courtyard.
"It's not a bad day!"
Drinking the good tea provided by the Xu family to Su Wen, Nangong smacked his lips happily: "What a pity! I, Old Liu, haven't had such good tea in many years."
Su Wen just shook his head, not believing that Nangong's words were punctuation marks.
Nangong is a famous person around today's emperor, and he has a long family background and a profound accumulation of knowledge. If Xu Bancheng only has a public identity and is not a giant of the Ji Ran family, he really can't compare to Nangong, a powerful person from generation to generation.
"...Hey, our family is really unfortunate!" Nangong thought of something and sighed.
At this moment, Su Wen finally remembered that it was true that Nangong had been a powerful person for generations, but his good son... Liu Sandao was a strange person.
Liu Sandao took the path of the Mohist family. In order to be promoted to the third rank and squander the family wealth, he almost lost all Nangong's family property.
Thinking of this, Su Wen suddenly wanted to laugh, so he said, "If the stall owner likes it, I will ask steward Xu how much there is left, and I will pack two kilograms for you."
"It's great to be in love!"
Nangong would not be polite to Su Wen. But he immediately waved his hand and said: "This is just a small matter...I am not looking for you today to beat you Qiu Feng."
"Ji Fu told me about Lu Chen... I highly praise you for your clever mind. You actually found the mastermind behind the destruction of the flag pavilion's wall while he was still confused..."
Su Wen listened patiently to Nangong's words.
Listening to Nangong's foreshadowing, his appetite was aroused by Nangong.
Nangong Ke has always been a straightforward person. What is it that he needs to prepare for for a while before he can speak?
Finally, after three minutes, Nangong finally turned to the topic and said with some depression: "The examination papers for the Talent Ceremony...were leaked."
"This...ha?!"
Su Wen was surrounded by Nangong and felt a little drowsy. Suddenly, when he heard Nangong's words, his whole body became excited.
"What?!"
He couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"The questions for this general examination have been leaked."
Nangong lowered his voice and glanced at Su Wen dissatisfied.
Good boy, I've been praising you for so long just now. I bet you didn't even hear a word, right?
This was the opening line that he had thought about for a long time. After all, he was a bit embarrassed to ask a subordinate for advice.
"what happened?"
Su Wen's voice became a little more solemn.
The Talent Recruitment Ceremony can be regarded as one of the most important things in the Liang court. The punishment for cheaters is even more serious than treason. Su Wen really can't understand why someone would take such a desperate risk on such a matter.
"To be honest... we don't know how the test questions were leaked."
Nangong spread his hands and sighed: "If I had known I wouldn't have returned to the capital, this bad thing wouldn't have happened to me. It's bad luck, really bad luck!"
Su Wen was speechless again.
Naturally, he knew what Nangong meant by what he said.
If not for escorting Yu Chunfeng back to Beijing, Nangong would still be living happily on Jiangnan Road at this time. So Nangong felt that Su Wen should at least bear some responsibility for what happened to him. As soon as Su Wen arrived in Daliang City, he came to visit him.
Listening to Nangong's words, the imperial court realized that the test questions for the Talent Recruitment Ceremony were leaked ten days ago. Daliang Mansion destroyed a workshop that secretly printed tabloids and discovered a batch of test papers.
At first, Daliang Mansion only thought that the workshop was deliberately forging test papers and didn't take it seriously.
Only when it came to the talent promotion ceremony, the Daliang Mansion had to follow the rules and report the matter to the Ministry of Punishment.
When the Minister of Punishment saw the evidence of the case - the examination papers, he was so frightened that he foamed at the mouth and almost lost his breath.
There is no other reason. One of the examiners this year is the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and there are several questions in the examination paper written by him.
After the Minister of Punishment calmed down, he immediately reported the matter to the emperor. The emperor was furious and ordered a thorough investigation of the matter.
The biggest clue in this case is the owner of the workshop.
It's just that the workshop owner was tortured repeatedly and even used forbidden objects for interrogation, but he still couldn't explain the origin of the examination paper.
The workshop owner, who was tortured to death, said that he had never printed this batch of examination papers. These papers appeared in his workshop as if they appeared out of thin air. The taboo items confirmed that the workshop owner was not lying.
After careful investigation within the factory, the factory guards did not find any rigidity in the examination papers, nor did they find that the workshop owner had great connections, abilities, or channels to obtain such information.
So I tried to find the clue that the exam papers were leaked through the workshop owner, but I failed.
The internal factory determined that this was a frame-up.
Subsequently, the inner factory conducted an investigation on the officials of Daliang Prefecture who inspected the workshop.
Censorship also uses taboos to ensure that everyone being censored speaks the truth.
However, the review results were still not ideal and no relevant clues were found.
The case has reached a deadlock and has not gone any further.
"Since the leak of the test questions has been discovered in advance, there is not much time. The court can calmly issue a new paper, and the case can be investigated slowly."
Su Wen felt that Nangong's turmoil was a bit incredible.
"Hey! Who doesn't think so!"
When Nangong said this, he sighed again: "Yesterday morning, Daliang Mansion found a new paper in a black workshop. The Minister of the Ministry of Justice was so anxious that he had a stroke yesterday afternoon..."
There was still a bit of sigh in Nangong's tone.
It's so good that the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment had a hand in writing the questions for both papers, and found that the questions that he had just racked his brains for were leaked in an instant. This was a major crime against the ten clans, and no one's heart could bear it!
Nangong felt that the Minister of Punishment and the several officials who proposed the question had strong hearts even if they were not frightened to death.
"So arrogant?"
Su Wen was also stunned.
"That's not all."
Nangong picked up the tea cup, took a sip, poured the tea in his mouth together with the tea leaves, chewed it randomly, and after eating and drinking it said: "Sunday Xin, um... that is, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment; after he was successfully treated by the imperial doctor,
I struggled up last night and asked two more questions with a crooked mouth. Together with several examiners, I made a new examination paper. This morning... our internal factory was patrolling the printing factory of "Daliang Daily" and found something.
There are a lot of stacks of Xin exam papers... Hey... When I came to look for you, Zhou Xin was still being rescued by the imperial doctor. I also went to his house and took a look around. His family members were preparing for the funeral..."
Speaking of this, Nangong was also filled with sadness.
"..."
If Nangong hadn't said it seriously, Su Wen would have thought that Nangong was telling him a joke.
Naturally, Nangong would not joke with him on such a matter. If he had not been forced to do something urgent, Nangong would not have taken the initiative to tell Su Wen about such a big matter.
After all, Su Wen was just a small stall owner in a factory in Jiangnan Province, and was far from qualified to know such top-secret information.
Nangong came here, but with the attitude of treating a dead horse as a living horse, he came to Su Wen to broaden his ideas, check for gaps and find new angles to pursue the case.
"Has anyone sent a message to the official to express their attitude, put forward conditions, and ask for benefits?"
Su Wen thought carefully and then asked the question.
Nangong shook his head: "An old criminal from the Ministry of Punishment has proposed this point of view, but so far, no similar news has been received."
Su Wen nodded and continued to ask: "During the internal factory investigation, was there anyone suspected?"
Nangong nodded first, then shook his head and said: "Everyone who arrived at the "Daliang Daily" printing factory from Sunday is suspected... But after review, we have eliminated this possibility." At this point, Nangong continued: "Actually,
, who can do such a thing cannot be an ordinary person, it can only be an extraordinary person."
Su Wen nodded again.
It seems that the IQs of the investigators in the factory are online. They should have thought of everything they should think of. But after checking all possibilities, they still found nothing, and they fell into a real desperate situation.
"It can be characterized as an extraordinary event...but we can't find out who caused this case..."
Su Wen quickly summarized the case.
Since it is an extraordinary case... it also means that normal logic cannot be used for reasoning. In other words, in fact, the internal factory has not included all the possibilities that should be considered.
When all reasonable possibilities are eliminated, the remaining possibilities, no matter how unreasonable, may still be correct! Thinking of this, Su Wen had an idea: "Big stall..."
Su Wen thought seriously for a while and said, "Think about it, could the test papers have escaped by yourself?"
Hearing this, Nangong was startled and looked at Su Wen up and down for a long time before he couldn't help but said: "Su Wen, are you not crazy?"
ps: I sorted out my thoughts today and there is only one update.