In the imperial study room, Tang Yin slammed the table, and Xue Wenhui tightened his body and advised: "Your Majesty, please don't be angry. Even if the person dies, the master has already made it clear. It is also because of the Emperor's sage that the candidates are exempted from the exam." Suffer unjust injustice.”

"Then Yang Tianhua is getting more and more arrogant. We must find a way to remove this cancer." Tang Yin narrowed his eyes, "Wang Shun, the war in the southwest has improved. Please send an urgent order to Ma Tongfang to come back."

Xue Wenhui was puzzled. What was Ma Tongfang, the general of Xuanzhennan, doing back at this time? Is it possible that Ma Tongfang needs to lead his troops to kill Yang Tianhua? But that's not right. Even if Ma Tongfang returns to Beijing, he can't bring back the soldiers and horses from the southwest.

He didn't dare to ask any more questions. Although the emperor in front of him was young, he was more decisive and more savvy than the previous emperor.

"Xue Wenhui, the people involved in the crime will be severely punished. Several principal culprits will be beheaded in public at Caishikou three days later. This will also let the people and candidates know the truth and see what will happen to these treacherous villains." Tang Yin ordered.

"Yes, I obey." Xue Wenhui knew that the emperor did not want to continue the trial, because there was no point in continuing the trial. The main culprit was silenced, and the accusation was directed at the Yang family. However, the Yang family had military power and had always been powerful. The emperor had been on the throne for less than six months. Years ago, the foundation of the Yang family could not be shaken for the time being.

What happened this time was found to be that someone bribed the official who managed the examination papers and the guard guarding the warehouse, allowing the official to enter the warehouse before the examination papers were marked and splashed ink on Bai Zepei's paper.

Fortunately, what Bai Ruozhu prepared for his second brother were all good things that no one else had. Otherwise, it would be really hard to tell this time. Not to mention that Bai Zepei himself couldn't know that a piece of the paper was dirty. Even if he knew, what could he do? How about proving that I didn’t spill the ink?

The next day, the gold medal list was posted, and the people sent by the Bai family to keep an eye on it quickly came back to report, "Congratulations to husband, congratulations to madam, the second young master has ranked second in the exam!"

"Second place? This, this is great!" Bai Yihong's face turned red with excitement, "Hurry up and call Zepei and tell him the good news!"

Bai Zepei was invited to the main courtyard by his servants. Although he couldn't say he was very excited, he was still in a good mood.

"What's Mr. Xie's ranking?" Bai Zepei asked. Mr. Xie was not in good health before, and then Yu Hongxiu had a baby and continued to have health problems. Mr. Xie was delayed in coming to Beijing, and he didn't know if it would affect his review.

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Bai Zepei nodded and said, "Mr. Xie was delayed due to general affairs, otherwise he would definitely be among the top three."

Lin Ping'er was laughing so hard that she couldn't close her mouth. "Hurry up and tell the young master that they are back. Let's have a drink at home to celebrate Zepei. Isn't the second place the second place on the list? This is amazing."

"Mom, it's not too late to wait until after the palace examination." Bai Zepei said a little embarrassed.

"You're not bad at eloquence, so don't worry, mother." Lin Ping'er's smile became even stronger. She didn't know how lucky she was in her lifetime. Each of her three children was outstanding, so she didn't have to worry about it. It was a pity that the second child's marriage was still a matter of concern. Make her worry.

Bai Zepei asked about the results of Tang Feng, Lin Xufei and others. The servants answered one by one and they all made the list. Tang Feng still topped the list. Bai Zepei nodded repeatedly when he heard this. He didn't feel pity because Tang Feng was at the top of the list. In his eyes, it was just a ranking.

At this time, there was an urgent knock on the door, and the servants went to see it. It was Li Bin, the young master of the Li family who had close contacts with the Bai family.

"Zepei, do you know the news?" Li Bin looked angry as soon as he came in. Bai Zepei was a little surprised. Wasn't Li Bin also on the list?

"What news?" he asked.

Li Bin paced around angrily, "It seems you really don't know. There is a reason why the release of the list was postponed this time. Didn't we suspect fraud before? Someone really did something!"

Bai Yihong and Lin Ping'er both listened. This emperor dared to cheat in the exam. Who is so brave?

Li Bin then realized that he had not greeted his elders, and hurriedly saluted Bai Yihong and his wife, and then continued: "And the one who was manipulated turned out to be you!"

"What!" Lin Ping'er shouted, "Who did it? Bullying people like this?"

"It is said that someone bribed the official who collected the examination papers and the guard who was guarding them. Before correcting the examination papers, he secretly splashed some ink on Zepei's paper, making it look like Zepei had spilled it himself. Therefore, Zepei was only ranked in the first place. Eighth place." Li Bin spoke very quickly, which showed how angry he was, "Fortunately, the Holy One was aware of the matter and found out about it. He asked Master Zhang to help identify it and found that the answer sheet used by Zepei was Longxiang ink, and the ink splashed on it was The dirty piece was a high-quality Hui ink bought by Wenyuan Pavilion, so we investigated it."

"Now that the case has been investigated clearly, the official list has also been posted, saying that the heads of those people will be chopped off at the market entrance in two days!" After Li Bin said this, he felt very happy and not so angry anymore.

The old couple of the Bai family were also very angry, but soon they clasped their hands and thanked Bodhisattva for blessing and thanked the saints for their wisdom, so that Zepei, their family, was not harmed by the villain.

Bai Zepei remained silent, and after a while he murmured: "I don't know how my little sister and the others are doing. When will they come back? Thanks to my little sister this time..."

Li Bin clapped his hands fiercely and shouted with some excitement: "It's true, your Ruozhu is really a strange woman, I really admire her." Prepare exam supplies for Zepei, including two sets of pens. Zepeicai It didn't affect my performance because Wang Tianyou broke his pen, and the ink turned out to be Longxiang ink, which I didn't expect. I bought Wenyuan Pavilion's Hui ink myself, so if this happened to me, it would be over. "

Bai Ruozhu, who was far away in the Western Region, didn't know that she was praised as a deity by everyone. She didn't predict things like a god, but it was a habit. In her previous life, she also prepared two sets of equipment for exams, so that if one of them broke, she would have a spare. As for the Long Xiang Mo, it was purely because she had money and wanted to use the best for her family.

At this time, Bai Ruozhu was doing experiments with Jin Jing's severed hand. She specially got a pair of white gloves to wear. Although as a doctor, she was not as afraid of corpses as ordinary people, Jin Jing was beyond the scope of corpses. What should I do if she can't detoxify corpse poison or something like that?

She experimented with various drugs, and after a busy day, she finally found out which drugs were the most lethal to corpses like Jin Jing. Jin Jing's severed hand was also scarred by her "torture" and had various scars on it. .

She quickly improved the medicine powder she used before and prepared the most effective medicine powder. She sprinkled a little bit on the severed hand again, and heard a pop sound. The severed hand seemed to be on fire, but there was no flame. , but a lot of white smoke came out, and it smelled very bad.

If you look carefully, you can see that a deep hole has been burned into the severed hand, and it is still corroding.