Su Wen suddenly thought of a very crucial piece of information that he had ignored.
The person who can get the taboo items separated by Cui Wenwen must be someone close to him, and immediate family members are most likely to get the taboo items.
For example, Cui Fei discovered the "white paper" from Cui Wenwen's relics.
As for the "blank paper" that was released after Cui Wenwen's death, his direct descendants made a deal with the inner factory to exchange for a secret promotion medicine. If the Cui family chose not to trade, then this forbidden item should also be
It was secretly collected by the people of Cui family.
If there is a third "blank slate" in the world, it must be in the hands of someone closely related to Cui Wenwen.
Then Wang Cizhi, who has corresponded with Cui Wenwen all the year round, is likely to have the third "blank piece of paper".
"Wang Cizhi!"
Su Wen took a deep breath. Su Wen directly excluded other people's file information, only took the letters of the two people, and read down according to the time number.
There are not many letters between the two of them collected by the Internal History Museum. The early letters were no more than one letter a year. It is not that the two people communicated sparsely, but that the Internal History Museum did not think this was important information at all, and did not pay attention to the archived information received from the internal factory.
Select a few to include.
It was not until after Emperor Xiaomin was assassinated that the Nei Chang and the Internal History Museum strengthened their monitoring of the candidates that year, and the collected letters were complete. However, this did not last long. After about ten years, the letters of the two men collected by the Internal History Museum became scarce again.
, it has returned to one or two letters a year.
Thirty years after the scientific examination fraud case ended, the records of the two people are quite scarce, and there is not even a single letter.
By this time, the internal factory has felt that these two people, no, this group of cheating candidates are no longer important, and there is no need to waste resources on them, so the monitoring of them has been completely cancelled.
However, the letters written in the previous decades have given Su Wen a general understanding of Wang Cizhi's life.
In the past thirty years, Wang Cizhi's life can be summed up in one word: Zhai.
This person has been staying at home and reading for decades, and he is very talented. He has dabbled in hundreds of schools of thought, including poetry, poetry, music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and has a mixed knowledge.
If he hadn't lost his extraordinary power, he would even have a certain probability of becoming a historian's extraordinary person.
Su Wen also vaguely noticed that in the tenth year after the fraud case, Wang Cizhi vaguely mentioned in Cui Wenwen's letter that he had obtained a way to restore extraordinary power, but the cost was too high, and he was still hesitating whether to do it or not.
This ability should be used, but the specific method is not mentioned.
Cui Wenwen's reply stated that if the cost exceeds the income, it should not be used. He also said that he has recently been collecting several materials that can make up for the damaged context and will send them to Wang Cizhi in person, and the two will discuss it in person.
this matter.
But not long after, Wang Cizhi wrote back saying that he had given up this method. Cui Wenwen did not need to come and could just continue to enjoy the mountains and rivers.
But Su Wen still noticed that the content of Wang Cizhi's letters with Cui Wenwen began to become extreme, his words and deeds were very different from before, and his writing style also changed from mellow to sinister. Although what he read was a copy, Su Wen
Still feel uncomfortable.
But since then, the number of correspondence between the two has dropped sharply. I don’t know whether it is because the collection of the Internal History Museum is incomplete or because the two of them have reduced their correspondence. But in every letter written by Wang Cizhi, Su Wen can see Wang Cizhi’s writing style.
The style of writing is very different from the past. There must have been a big change in this person's life to cause such a major change.
"He...has fallen."
Su Wen sighed quietly and made a judgment in his heart.
There is no doubt that the way Wang Cizhi and Cui Wenwen mentioned to restore extraordinary power is a path to dark power.
He could not resist the temptation of power, and finally fell into the embrace of darkness and became a transcendent of the dark path.
The dark power conflicted with his past knowledge accumulation, which made him live in great pain every day for a long time, making life worse than death.
The erosion of dark power also gradually changed Wang Cizhi, which can be seen from the handwriting.
Su Wen believed that he could see it, and Cui Wenwen could definitely see it too. But he tacitly understood it and did not ask about it in the letter.
"Since Wang Cizhi has become a transcendent of the dark path... then... he should still be alive."
Su Wen looked through the files and confirmed this conjecture.
Wang Cizhi is one year older than Cui Wenwen. If he were just an ordinary person, he would not be alive today.
"Yes……"
Su Wen suddenly had a clear idea.
After Wang Cizhi fell into the darkness, he would definitely be tortured by the dark power. But Cui Wenwen was a Confucian transcendent. In order to help his friends relieve the pain, he may have separated some of the supernatural power into extraordinary items to help Wang Cizhi suppress the dark power.
pain of.
"After Cui Wenwen passed away...these extraordinary powers were no longer under control and eventually turned into a taboo object, 'blank paper'?"
Su Wen made the final judgment.
"It's just..." Su Wen thought of this, and he was full of doubts: Since Wang Cizhi and Cui Wenwen are good friends, why would he harm Cui Wenwen's descendants? You know, once the fraud case is exposed, not only Cui Fei's head will fall, but Cui Wenwen will also
No blood can escape.
"Could it be..."
Su Wen was shocked.
He felt like he was in touch with the truth.
"Who exposed the fraud at the Talent Awards Ceremony back then?" Su Wen took a deep breath.
The information provided to him by the Internal History Museum did not include this part.
But from the known information, it can be determined that fraud in aristocratic families is nothing new, and it is even a relatively decent practice. After all, in the previous dynasties and some previous dynasties, aristocratic families had the privilege to directly recommend their own children and students to become officials.
.Common people who do not have the blood of aristocratic families are not qualified to embark on an official career. Occasionally, children from poor families break this rule, but throughout their lives, being able to reach the sixth rank is regarded as smoke coming out of their ancestral graves.
The major academies at that time were furious about this. When recruiting students, the academies only looked at their talent and potential, not their status and background. Therefore, many common people and children from poor families were studying in the academies. The actions of aristocratic families monopolized official careers, so the major academies were naturally unwilling to accept them.
, but there is no evidence to directly intervene.
It wasn't until someone exposed the shady story of the Talent Recruitment Ceremony to Fayi Academy that the various academies, which had been accumulating anger for hundreds of years, finally found a reason to attack the wealthy families headed by the Five Surnames and Seven Families.
To this day, the imperial court remains tight-lipped about the identity of the informant at that time.
Of course, the Internal History Museum has records, but it is not top-secret information that Su Wen has access to.
Everyone knows that although hundreds of years have passed, the memory of the family that has stood for thousands of years will not diminish, and revenge will inevitably be taken on this matter.
"Cui Wenwen!"
With so much information in hand, Su Wen was still able to deduce the facts.
Cui Wenwen was the whistleblower back then.
Among the hundreds of descendants of aristocratic families involved in the case, only a dozen were confirmed not to be involved in the fraud case, and Cui Wenwen was one of them.
Wang Cizhi was suspected of cheating, and according to file records, he even shared the test questions given to him by his family with his friends.
However, the name of his friend was omitted from the file. This was very strange. The five surnames and seven families were related to each other. After receiving the test questions, many of them would share some of the questions they knew with their relatives and friends to exchange ideas—
—After all, different examiners have different test questions. By exchanging test questions and verifying the test questions, you can get more information.
The characters in these people's confessions have not been tampered with or smeared.
Therefore, it can be determined that the historian who recorded this period of history had the purpose of protecting the person involved, or perhaps wanted to erase it by deliberately highlighting the identity of a certain character in it.
Wang Cizhi's good friend is Cui Wenwen.
Cui Wenwen anonymously reported the matter to Fayi Academy - but Cui Wenwen thought he was anonymous, but the extraordinary people at Fayi Academy wanted to confirm who the anonymous letter came from, and they had hundreds of extraordinary ways to determine it.
"Understood……"
Su Wen took a deep breath.
Wang Cizhi probably learned from somewhere that the whistleblower was his friend Cui Wenwen, and then he was able to break the defense.
Thinking about it carefully, Su Wen felt that if he were Wang Cizhi, he would go berserk after knowing the truth.
You see, a person who has caused harm to your life pretends that nothing happened, and greets you all day long, as if he has great sympathy for your experience, and you emotionally agree that he is the best.
Friend, lifelong friend.
Then……
Only after this guy kicked his legs did you realize that the misfortune of your life was caused by this guy!
All the care this person had in the past, now seems more like watching a joke, a perpetrator humiliating the victim most ruthlessly!
Can you not break your defenses and not go berserk?
Wang Cizhi did not lose control and explode on the spot, which is considered to be a strong moral character.
Thinking of this, Su Wen couldn't sit still, left the Nei History Museum and returned to the Nei Factory.
"Elder Princess, Mr. Su is reading books in the reading room, yes, yes..."
Not long after Su Wen left, Bai Minxing's voice sounded: "Chief Su Shan, Her Royal Highness the Princess is here. Please come out to greet her..."
"No need, that's my junior brother, they are all from my family, why are you so polite!"
A cold, almost emotionless voice sounded.
"Slave, please open the door for Your Highness." A male duck's voice sounded sharply.
The door of the reading room was also pushed open by hand.
"...where are the people?"
The cold voice seemed a little surprised: "Bai Xingxing, are you sure you are here?"
"yes?!"
Bai Minxing saw that the reading room filled with thick files was empty.
"guard!"
Bai Minxing broke out in a cold sweat and quickly turned around to find the guard. The eunuch next to the eldest princess came over to ask a few questions. Then he ran to the eldest princess's side and lowered his voice: "Your Highness, Chief Su Shan has just left here.
, left the palace."
"oh……"
The cold voice seemed a little displeased: "This kid didn't come to see me when he came to the palace, and he even ran away early. He's trying to piss me off to death!"
"That's it... I will take the token and punish him severely..."
The eunuch next to him quickly answered.
"Snapped!"
As soon as the eldest princess raised her hand, the wind from her palm fell on the eunuch's face, slapping him so dizzy that half of his face was swollen: "You bitch, what did you say!"
The eunuch hurriedly knelt down and said, "Your Highness, spare your life!"
The eldest princess is famous for being moody. Although she is not bloodthirsty, she is not a good person. Even if she just scolds him, it will be a big mountain for him.
"Give Qingli a message so that he can bring his junior brother to see me when he has time!"
When it comes to Qingli, the eldest princess’s red phoenix eyes have a sharp edge.
"It is said that this little guy is also a great scholar... I can't beat him. Alas..." The eldest princess shook her head.