He didn't expect that new test questions would appear on the white paper sealed in the metal box.
"Case solved!"
Su Wen felt relieved.
Since the test paper was stolen by the taboo object in front of me and has nothing to do with anyone, then we only need to find a suitable way to re-seal this white paper, and then this matter can be declared over.
However, things were not as simple as Su Wen thought. When the white paper was filled with examination questions, there was a "clatter" and disappeared in front of him and Nangong.
"I'll go! Where are the forbidden objects! How come such a big piece of white paper disappeared all of a sudden?!"
Nangong saw this scene and let out a strange scream.
"..."
Su Wen's expression also became dull for a while.
He didn't expect that in the tightly guarded spiritual vault sealed by forbidden objects, some forbidden objects would go missing!
Nangong calmed down quickly. In his opinion, the white paper just disappeared in front of his eyes, but it was still in the spiritual vault. He only needed to use some treasure-hunting forbidden items to find it.
"No...it disappeared and is no longer in the spiritual vault!"
Su Wen shook his head.
When the white paper was shown in front of it, the earthly branches were dyed with a breath.
This breath appeared outside the spiritual vault as the white paper disappeared, and then quickly erased the marks left by the earthly branches and disappeared without a trace.
"...Which idiot puts it at such a low level?!"
Nangong almost roared out his dissatisfaction.
This taboo item, even if it is placed in a first-class warehouse, is natural, but it is actually placed in the D-shaped warehouse. It has only caused trouble now. I don’t know if it is the inner factory’s luck or misfortune. Of course, in Nangong’s view, it is all right
Unfortunately, something like this happened before the talent promotion ceremony. How should he explain it to His Majesty the Emperor?
"There is one thing that needs to be confirmed immediately..."
Su Wen tried hard to remember the area where the aura marked by the Earthly Branches last disappeared, and quickly said: "First of all, let's confirm... just now, whether the examiner of the Talent Ceremony was setting the questions."
Su Wen picked up a file next to him and found that all the contents of the file had been tampered with into exam questions, and they were not any of the three exam questions he had seen before.
Su Wen discovered an interesting phenomenon. There were three test questions, no, now there were four test questions, with increasing difficulty. For the first test question, Su Wen felt that if he did it, the top three should be fine. By the second question,
With three copies, he thought it was incredible that he could get into the top ten.
"This one... I will most likely fail!"
Looking at the test questions in his hand, Su Wen felt a bit dumbfounded.
This year's candidates are in danger.
Especially since this test question has been leaked and can no longer be used, the examiners will just continue racking their brains to write the test. It doesn't matter if the final question is leaked, after all, no candidate can answer it.
Nangong summoned the factory guard, gave a few instructions, and the factory guard left in a hurry.
"Big stall, there is one more thing that needs to be confirmed..."
Su Wen thought for a moment and continued: "Are you sure that Cui Wenwen only produced a 'white paper'?"
"this……"
Seeing Su Wen's serious question, Nangong frowned: "Why, do you still doubt that there is a second piece of white paper?"
Su Wen nodded slightly.
"It is true that 'blank paper' is a taboo thing." Su Wen said his analysis: "According to the archives, Cui Wenwen was a Confucian scholar who lived for almost two hundred years."
"so?"
Nangong didn't understand what Su Wen meant.
"His extraordinary power shouldn't be limited to this little thing."
Su Wen expressed his judgment: "Of course, if the 'white paper' has more hidden power, just treat it like I didn't say it."
"...tell me the basis for your judgment."
Nangong stared at Su Wen and said: "Since you suspect that there is a second or even more 'blank paper', you should first tell me the reason and let me judge."
"Look around you...'White Paper' has turned all the files around us into examination papers...This is caused by the coverage of its power."
Nangong nodded deeply: "I understand."
Before that, the "blank slate" was under the seal of a metal box.
If the white paper really got rid of the seal and had the ability to steal test papers, then the first place where the test papers would appear would be the inner factory spiritual vault, not anywhere else.
The actual situation is different from the inference, which means that the "white paper" does have the ability to cause trouble, but the person who is doing the trouble is not the "white paper" sealed by the inner factory. Cui Wenwen may have extracted more than one "white paper".
Paper", there is also "white paper" outside, or things with the same properties exist.
After grabbing this clue, Nangong already knew what he should do without Su Wen saying anything.
The inner factory was quickly put into operation, and some people rushed to Cui Wenwen's home to look for Cui Wenwen's descendants and ask if there were any extraordinary items left in the family that the old man had extracted. It doesn't have to be white paper, as long as it has an extraordinary aura.
, all may be taboo objects that are causing trouble.
The inner factory also began to trace the relationship between the personnel in the workshop and newspaper office and the Cui family. According to Su Wen's conjecture, if the taboo items extracted by Cui Wenwen are not in the hands of the Cui family's descendants, they should be related to the Cui family.
Only with a certain relationship can you obtain the old man's forbidden items.
Soon, the first clue came.
According to the information that the inner factory received from the Ministry of Rites, while Su Wen and Nangong were checking the "white paper", the Ministry of Rites was ordered by the emperor to come up with new examination questions.
The Rites Yamen is not far from the Neichang Main Yamen, just two streets apart. It only takes two-quarters of an hour for ordinary people to walk there.
After confirming that the Ministry of Rites had finished formulating the title, Nangong asked the factory guard to take the title shown on the "blank paper" to the Minister of Rites and ask him to identify whether the title was these.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the factory guard sent a message to Nangong's Wenyin: Soon after the Minister of Rites opened the file, he was trembling all over, foaming at the mouth, and suffered from epilepsy.
Fortunately, most of the examiners who were responsible for the talent recognition ceremony recently suffered from various diseases due to excessive pressure. The Shaofu mobilized the imperial doctor to stay nearby. When the Minister of Rites was treated, he recovered quickly, but
After waking up, he screamed and ran into the palace, not knowing why he was there.
"That's right..."
After hearing the news, Su Wen let out a long sigh.
"White Paper" indeed stole the exam papers for the Talent Recruitment Ceremony.
There are taboo objects out there that are similar to white paper, and they do the same thing.
The disappearance of the "blank paper" should be somehow related to the taboo object. Moreover, Su Wen further deduced that there is a high possibility that the taboo object is also a "blank paper".
"It can even be judged that...'white paper' carries the resentment of Mr. Cui Wenwen."
Su Wen finally said to Nangong with a wry smile.
According to the archives, Cui Wenwen was innocently implicated in the imperial examination fraud case and became disheartened from then on.
For more than a hundred years after that, Cui Wenwen lived in seclusion and had few relatives and friends. It is impossible to say that he had no resentment towards the Liang Dynasty and the Talent Recruitment Ceremony.
So it's not surprising that the taboo objects he extracted have the ability to disrupt the talent show.
"Tsk tsk... How much resentment does this have to cause the taboo items to be analyzed specifically to be unable to pass the examination questions of the Talent Recruitment Ceremony?"
Nangong couldn't help but sigh.
Su Wen nodded in agreement and then started looking through the files again.
In fact, Su Wen memorized everyone's confessions, but he didn't know much about the identities of these people. Because most of them only had names, indicating which workshop employees and members they were. As for the original identities of these people, the records
not much.
Su Wen remembered clearly that the people sealed up in the three families did all have the surname Cui.
Su Wen focused on checking the information of these people. The information provided by the confession was pitiful. Nangong slapped his thigh and said immediately: "This is not easy. Let these people be interrogated again!"
…
"what happened?"
Just when Nangong was interrogating the "suspect", in a shabby house in a shantytown in the east of the outer city, a man with a decent appearance staggered out of it, holding a piece of white paper in his hand: "Why?"
What's going on... What's going on? The test questions have changed again... What should we do? What should we do..."
But soon, he realized that something was wrong: "Why is there an extra piece of 'blank paper'! The ancestor has appeared? Is this the real exam question, and the previous ones are fake?"
Around the house, there are a lot of rags piled up, including rags, fishing nets, bamboo and wood and other paper-making materials.
Holding the test paper, he wrote hard and copied the test questions. While copying, he cried out in a low voice: "Why is this test question... so difficult?"
Cold sweat broke out on his forehead: "This first question is about "Spring and Autumn" and "Poetry", "Mo Jing" and "Tao De" are interspersed... My God, I have never read Mohist books...
Is it still too late to read the scriptures and understand... The second question, my God... This, this is the magician's circle-cutting technique... This is the magician's secret that is not passed down, how can I solve it... And this...
Historian..."
The man's originally pale face became paler and his body was shaky.
"It's bitter... it's bitter..."
He said with a sad face: "Sure enough...at my level, it would be good if I could steal a test by stealing exam questions. Don't dream about trying to get ahead in the conference..." He felt despair, but he was unwilling to give up.
He knew very well that if he had a question, it would not be difficult to find the answer.
There are many well-educated people in Daliang City. If he goes to seek advice, there will still be people willing to help him preach and resolve his doubts.
But in this way...this secret that only he knows will inevitably be leaked.
He knew exactly how big a sin it was.
"Taking risks...can't take risks..." The man's face looked uncertain.
"Cui Dalang, why haven't you delivered the toilet paper I ordered?"
A rude voice sounded outside the door: "My shopkeeper said, if you don't deliver the goods in time, you can keep the paper for yourself from now on! Don't even think about taking the money that hasn't been settled yet!"
"Sorry, I'm delayed, I'll send it to you in a moment!"
The man hurriedly put away the "blank paper" and took a deep breath: "Do it! If you don't stand up, you will be bullied! Fight!" But after he finished encouraging, he hesitated again.
This is a grave crime of the Yi Shi Clan. Although his family has long abandoned him, and it is even because of the family's persecution that he has fallen to this point, he still cannot bear to think of the price his family will pay if the news is leaked.