This Lidong was ordered to leave by Xiao Yuanjing, so at this moment only Ye Zhen, the shopkeeper, and some fellows who poked their heads out of the shop were left beside him.
Xiao Yuanjing changed his sitting position, leaned slightly to look at the three people in front of him, then looked around at the crowd, then nodded and said with a smile: "My attendant is going to withdraw money, 500 taels is not a small amount, so It's a bit slow, but don't worry, the money will definitely be given, but I just want to ask, when did you come to my store yesterday to eat?"
The two men looked at each other, and then said: "About a quarter of the next hour, there were not many people in your shop at that time."
Xiao Yuan nodded, and asked again: "What did you eat? What saucers did you use?"
The two men were stunned, some didn't quite understand what he asked, so the thin man said: "We went to your restaurant to eat, and we didn't eat the dipping saucer. Don't tell me that your food is not delicious. The price you asked for Fortunately, a meal cost me about ten taels."
Xiao Yuanjing responded, nodded and smiled slightly: "Then do you know who are the people who come to eat in my shop?"
The thin man said: "Of course they are people from the imperial court. Don't think that we don't know who you are. Hmph, if you want to use your status to bully us, frame up good people, and torture us into tricks, we will definitely not accept it."
Xiao Yuanjing said: "Of course I won't use my status to bully you. What I pay attention to is seeking truth from facts."
Immediately, Xiao Yuanjing stretched out his hand towards the shopkeeper who stretched out his hand and said, "You take out the guest's menu for me last night, and let these two young masters see which menu was written by them."
The shopkeeper responded, and hurried into the store to get the menu, but the two men were surprised: "What menu."
Xiao Yuanjing said with a smile: "Of course the people who eat in my restaurant order their menus. There is an unwritten rule in my restaurant. In order to charge clearly, each of my dishes has a clear price tag, and the customers all look at it. Write down the menu for the dishes you like, and sign your name at the end, so that when the dishes are served, there will be no mistakes.”
Xiao Yuanjing said lightly, the faces of the two men were a little ugly, and there were many beads of sweat on their foreheads, and they sat on the ground unnaturally.
The shopkeeper brought all the order menus from last night. Xiao Yuanjing took them and flipped through them. Fortunately, there were only seven or eight menus, not too many, so Xiao Yuanjing looked at them and said, "Both of you were Whose name is left? Let me see what you eat?"
The thin man swallowed, and abducted the person next to him: "No, it's not your name."
The person next to him: "Where did I leave my name, it's obviously you."
Xiao Yuanjing saw them evading the excuses, and even the onlookers were a little confused. They didn't quite understand what they meant. Xiao Yuanjing nodded and smiled:
"Since you can't remember, why don't I read it to you, High Definition."
The two men shook their heads: "It's not our menu."
Xiao Yuanjing: "He Xiao, Jiang Yuebai, Fang Jinghua..."
Xiao Yuanjing read several names in a row, and both of them shook their heads. Xiao Yuanjing looked at the last menu in his hand, and the two of them also stared closely at the names on the menu. With eyes that are not smiles, I suddenly feel the hairs on my back stand up.
They had never seen a person with a half-smile, who was able to see through them like a sharp knife, even if they were pretending to be calm, they would inevitably avoid Xiao Yuanjing's sight, in order to calm their hearts.
Xiao Yuanjing kept their every move under his eyes. He seemed to have fallen in love with this cat and mouse game at that moment. He knew the final result but still wanted to tease him. He smiled and said : "The last name, Wu Qingtai..."
As soon as Xiao Yuanjing finished speaking, the thin man quickly replied: "It's me! My name is Wu Qingtai! This menu belongs to us."
Seeing the thin man agreeing so quickly, Xiao Yuanjing casually opened the last menu and gave it to the onlookers to have a look, and finally stopped in front of the man. Other than that, there is nothing, let alone a name!
The thin man panicked, quickly pointed at him and said, "You lied to us, you are playing us! Ladies and gentlemen, he is playing tricks on us just because he is a relative of the emperor. Our classmates are about to die, please! Please be a witness for us! How they disregarded human life."
Xiao Yuanjing stood up and smiled, cupped his fists to the onlookers and said, "I really want to ask you to be witnesses. These people want to extort 500 taels of silver from me on the pretext that the food in my shop is not clean. It seems that I have a guilty conscience, and it will damage the business of my store, so I need everyone to be a witness, did these people ask me for 500 taels."
"Yes!"
The crowd of onlookers replied in unison, Ye Zhen got Xiao Yuanjing's instructions and hurried forward to grab them, but unexpectedly the other two left the bed lying on the ground and wanted to run.
But as soon as they stood up and pushed through the crowd, the two men retreated, not knowing where to go for a moment.
Lidong led the officials from the Yamen of Jingzhao Mansion to point to the one who was lying on the ground and said, "It's the three of them who falsely accused us that there is something wrong with the food in our restaurant. If they want to cheat money, it's still 500 taels."
The two men quickly said: "No, we didn't, it was them...it was them."
The head catcher looked at Xiao Yuanjing and hurriedly saluted, "His Royal Highness Chang Ping was surprised. These people have recently used the same method to blackmail many restaurants, and now they are captured by His Royal Highness Chang Ping. Thank you, sir. gone."
Xiao Yuanjing smiled and said, "It's okay, since he's a repeat offender, let's take him back."
The catcher gave a salute, and then took the three people who stole the money back together. At this moment, the onlookers looked at Xiao Yuanjing's appearance, and they were a little embarrassed.Xiao Yuanjing said with a smile: "I have heard some rumors that I am His Majesty's illegitimate son, the nominal son of the Xie family, so today I want to clarify that I am the Changping King proclaimed by His Majesty, and I am also His Majesty's own son. Spreading rumors, it is best to see things clearly in the future before standing in line, please everyone."
The onlookers looked at Xiao Yuanjing and gradually dispersed. Lidong looked at Xiao Yuanjing, stroked his chest and said, "Your Highness, I really thought you were going to give them money just now."
Xiao Yuanjing raised his eyebrows and smiled triumphantly: "How is it possible? Every penny of my money is useful. How could it be possible to give it to people like them? Go in and prepare to open a shop."
After saluting, the rest of them followed Xiao Yuanjing into the store.
The matter of Chunwei was written by the emperor himself, and the examination was jointly supervised by the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Rites.
During the spring period, the imperial court was surrounded by forbidden troops, and no strangers were allowed to approach a hundred steps away. Students who entered the examination room had to go through a body search before they could enter the examination room. The examination time was three days in total, and the results of the three tests were combined to determine the top three. And Jinshi.
Xiao Yuanjing, as the minister, should have been the chief examiner, but Xiao Yuanjing said that in order to avoid suspicion, he asked the emperor not to participate, and he did not even participate in the emperor's drafting of the questions.
There is one chief examiner, eight assistant examiners, and the supervisor of the discipline of the examination room is the supervisory censor.
The spring rain sweeps across the entire capital in a silent manner. When you get up early in the morning and open the door, you can see the mist on the house, the water droplets hanging on the flowers and trees in the courtyard, and the bluestone road is soaked by rain. , There is still a puddle of water in the puddle.
The hurried footsteps stepped into the puddle, and the splashed water fell on the stone slab, staining the clothes of the person who stepped into the puddle, with a little dust.
Xiao Yuanjing wore a brocade gown with a round collar and a right lapel of bamboo green, with a few ink bamboos embroidered on the neckline so lifelike, Xiao Yuanjing stood in front of the study door, frowned as he watched the people rushing towards him, but As soon as she took a step, Xia Yi braved the rain and knelt in front of Xiao Yuanjing:
"His Royal Highness Changping, please, please save our son."
Xiao Yuanjing's pupils shrank slightly, and he couldn't help being a little puzzled: "What happened?"
Xia Yi's eyes were red, completely ignoring his rain-soaked hair and clothes, he knelt in front of Xiao Yuanjing, and said anxiously: "Early this morning, our son had just packed up and prepared to go to the tribute courtyard, unexpectedly the official from Dali Temple came I went to the family and insisted that our son sold the exam questions and helped the candidates to cheat."
Xiao Yuanjing became more and more surprised: "Which candidate did you help cheat?"
Xia Yi sniffed, wiped away the tears on her face and said: "The people in Dali Temple refused to say anything, and just said that the evidence was convincing, so they took away the son. The Lord said that only His Royal Highness Changping can save the son. That's why the little one came here in the rain, please Your Highness, please save our son."
As soon as Xia Yi finished speaking, Xiao Yuanjing looked up and saw standing under the courtyard door in front of the study holding an umbrella, with a cold face.
Xiao Yuanjing hurriedly said: "You get up and go back to the residence first, since I already know about this matter, I will definitely not ignore it."
Xia Yi ignored Xiao Yuanjing's obstruction and kowtowed towards him, then sniffed and got up and walked out. When she saw Wei Changgong, she was still a little surprised, she couldn't help but glanced back at Xiao Yuanjing, and got Xiao Yuanjing's nod. After signaling, he was relieved to leave.
Wei Changgong walked into Qifangju in the drizzle, put away the umbrella on the steps, and then walked into the study together with Xiao Yuanjing.
Wei Changgong: "You must know about Xun Shizi."
Xiao Yuan nodded, and said helplessly: "But I don't believe it at all. Xun Ruobai sold the test questions to the candidates, and even I don't know what the test questions are. Besides, it is the responsibility of the Minister of the Ministry of Officials to invigilate the exam. It was also issued by the emperor himself, and the exam questions will never be leaked until the exam day, so even if this Xun Ruobai has great skills, he will not know what the exam questions are."
But Wei Changgong looked at him worriedly: "Xun Ruobai can't, you can."
Xiao Yuanjing was picking up the teapot to pour tea for Chief Wei respectfully, but when he heard his unreasonable sentence, he couldn't help being stunned: "What do you mean, you doubt me."
Wei Changgong put his hand on his shoulder and said: "It's not that I doubt you, but I'm afraid that someone will doubt you so much. Do you still remember that a few days before the exam in Chunwei, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials and several deputy examiners were in your shop? eat in."
Xiao Yuanjing thought about it carefully, and suddenly realized that on the day when he lost the hot pot ingredients, he asked Lidong to teach him abacus calculations, and before leaving the last table of guests in the shop, Wu Qingtai, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, went to court He came to salute.
Xiao Yuanjing didn't quite understand: "But even this has nothing to do with me. Even the Minister of the Ministry of Officials doesn't know the exam questions, I will know."
Wei Changgong lowered his eyes and sat on the chair: "This is the trouble. After the people from Dali Temple took Xun Shizi away, I immediately sent someone to investigate. When I saw the examinee in the prison of Dali Temple, he directly It is said that Xun Shizi gave him the wrong exam questions, not today's exam questions."
Xiao Yuanjing was a little dumbfounded: "They won't think that I gave Xun Ruobai the wrong exam questions, let him sell them to the examinees, have you checked anyone else?"
Wei Changgong: "The exam has been suspended, and the exam will be resumed after the leak of the exam questions is cleared up. That's all I know so far. As for whether there are other candidates who bought fake exam questions, I don't know. I was worried about you, so I came to find you first."
Xiao Yuanjing's brows were tightly furrowed, and he couldn't help rubbing his brows with his hand. He still couldn't figure it out: "How could the fake exam questions be leaked for no reason, besides, I didn't interfere in the matter of Chunwei from the beginning, and there was no reason to frame me. "
Wei Changgong raised his eyes and stared at Xiao Yuanjing's side face, and couldn't help saying: "I asked Liu Nian to investigate other things, I hope I can get a clue, but if His Majesty asks, do you know how to respond?"
Xiao Yuanjing breathed a sigh of relief with his hips on his hips: "Take one step at a time and see one step at a time, and respond to all changes with the same. I can't rely on me for anything I haven't done."
Xiao Yuanjing changed his sitting position, leaned slightly to look at the three people in front of him, then looked around at the crowd, then nodded and said with a smile: "My attendant is going to withdraw money, 500 taels is not a small amount, so It's a bit slow, but don't worry, the money will definitely be given, but I just want to ask, when did you come to my store yesterday to eat?"
The two men looked at each other, and then said: "About a quarter of the next hour, there were not many people in your shop at that time."
Xiao Yuan nodded, and asked again: "What did you eat? What saucers did you use?"
The two men were stunned, some didn't quite understand what he asked, so the thin man said: "We went to your restaurant to eat, and we didn't eat the dipping saucer. Don't tell me that your food is not delicious. The price you asked for Fortunately, a meal cost me about ten taels."
Xiao Yuanjing responded, nodded and smiled slightly: "Then do you know who are the people who come to eat in my shop?"
The thin man said: "Of course they are people from the imperial court. Don't think that we don't know who you are. Hmph, if you want to use your status to bully us, frame up good people, and torture us into tricks, we will definitely not accept it."
Xiao Yuanjing said: "Of course I won't use my status to bully you. What I pay attention to is seeking truth from facts."
Immediately, Xiao Yuanjing stretched out his hand towards the shopkeeper who stretched out his hand and said, "You take out the guest's menu for me last night, and let these two young masters see which menu was written by them."
The shopkeeper responded, and hurried into the store to get the menu, but the two men were surprised: "What menu."
Xiao Yuanjing said with a smile: "Of course the people who eat in my restaurant order their menus. There is an unwritten rule in my restaurant. In order to charge clearly, each of my dishes has a clear price tag, and the customers all look at it. Write down the menu for the dishes you like, and sign your name at the end, so that when the dishes are served, there will be no mistakes.”
Xiao Yuanjing said lightly, the faces of the two men were a little ugly, and there were many beads of sweat on their foreheads, and they sat on the ground unnaturally.
The shopkeeper brought all the order menus from last night. Xiao Yuanjing took them and flipped through them. Fortunately, there were only seven or eight menus, not too many, so Xiao Yuanjing looked at them and said, "Both of you were Whose name is left? Let me see what you eat?"
The thin man swallowed, and abducted the person next to him: "No, it's not your name."
The person next to him: "Where did I leave my name, it's obviously you."
Xiao Yuanjing saw them evading the excuses, and even the onlookers were a little confused. They didn't quite understand what they meant. Xiao Yuanjing nodded and smiled:
"Since you can't remember, why don't I read it to you, High Definition."
The two men shook their heads: "It's not our menu."
Xiao Yuanjing: "He Xiao, Jiang Yuebai, Fang Jinghua..."
Xiao Yuanjing read several names in a row, and both of them shook their heads. Xiao Yuanjing looked at the last menu in his hand, and the two of them also stared closely at the names on the menu. With eyes that are not smiles, I suddenly feel the hairs on my back stand up.
They had never seen a person with a half-smile, who was able to see through them like a sharp knife, even if they were pretending to be calm, they would inevitably avoid Xiao Yuanjing's sight, in order to calm their hearts.
Xiao Yuanjing kept their every move under his eyes. He seemed to have fallen in love with this cat and mouse game at that moment. He knew the final result but still wanted to tease him. He smiled and said : "The last name, Wu Qingtai..."
As soon as Xiao Yuanjing finished speaking, the thin man quickly replied: "It's me! My name is Wu Qingtai! This menu belongs to us."
Seeing the thin man agreeing so quickly, Xiao Yuanjing casually opened the last menu and gave it to the onlookers to have a look, and finally stopped in front of the man. Other than that, there is nothing, let alone a name!
The thin man panicked, quickly pointed at him and said, "You lied to us, you are playing us! Ladies and gentlemen, he is playing tricks on us just because he is a relative of the emperor. Our classmates are about to die, please! Please be a witness for us! How they disregarded human life."
Xiao Yuanjing stood up and smiled, cupped his fists to the onlookers and said, "I really want to ask you to be witnesses. These people want to extort 500 taels of silver from me on the pretext that the food in my shop is not clean. It seems that I have a guilty conscience, and it will damage the business of my store, so I need everyone to be a witness, did these people ask me for 500 taels."
"Yes!"
The crowd of onlookers replied in unison, Ye Zhen got Xiao Yuanjing's instructions and hurried forward to grab them, but unexpectedly the other two left the bed lying on the ground and wanted to run.
But as soon as they stood up and pushed through the crowd, the two men retreated, not knowing where to go for a moment.
Lidong led the officials from the Yamen of Jingzhao Mansion to point to the one who was lying on the ground and said, "It's the three of them who falsely accused us that there is something wrong with the food in our restaurant. If they want to cheat money, it's still 500 taels."
The two men quickly said: "No, we didn't, it was them...it was them."
The head catcher looked at Xiao Yuanjing and hurriedly saluted, "His Royal Highness Chang Ping was surprised. These people have recently used the same method to blackmail many restaurants, and now they are captured by His Royal Highness Chang Ping. Thank you, sir. gone."
Xiao Yuanjing smiled and said, "It's okay, since he's a repeat offender, let's take him back."
The catcher gave a salute, and then took the three people who stole the money back together. At this moment, the onlookers looked at Xiao Yuanjing's appearance, and they were a little embarrassed.Xiao Yuanjing said with a smile: "I have heard some rumors that I am His Majesty's illegitimate son, the nominal son of the Xie family, so today I want to clarify that I am the Changping King proclaimed by His Majesty, and I am also His Majesty's own son. Spreading rumors, it is best to see things clearly in the future before standing in line, please everyone."
The onlookers looked at Xiao Yuanjing and gradually dispersed. Lidong looked at Xiao Yuanjing, stroked his chest and said, "Your Highness, I really thought you were going to give them money just now."
Xiao Yuanjing raised his eyebrows and smiled triumphantly: "How is it possible? Every penny of my money is useful. How could it be possible to give it to people like them? Go in and prepare to open a shop."
After saluting, the rest of them followed Xiao Yuanjing into the store.
The matter of Chunwei was written by the emperor himself, and the examination was jointly supervised by the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Rites.
During the spring period, the imperial court was surrounded by forbidden troops, and no strangers were allowed to approach a hundred steps away. Students who entered the examination room had to go through a body search before they could enter the examination room. The examination time was three days in total, and the results of the three tests were combined to determine the top three. And Jinshi.
Xiao Yuanjing, as the minister, should have been the chief examiner, but Xiao Yuanjing said that in order to avoid suspicion, he asked the emperor not to participate, and he did not even participate in the emperor's drafting of the questions.
There is one chief examiner, eight assistant examiners, and the supervisor of the discipline of the examination room is the supervisory censor.
The spring rain sweeps across the entire capital in a silent manner. When you get up early in the morning and open the door, you can see the mist on the house, the water droplets hanging on the flowers and trees in the courtyard, and the bluestone road is soaked by rain. , There is still a puddle of water in the puddle.
The hurried footsteps stepped into the puddle, and the splashed water fell on the stone slab, staining the clothes of the person who stepped into the puddle, with a little dust.
Xiao Yuanjing wore a brocade gown with a round collar and a right lapel of bamboo green, with a few ink bamboos embroidered on the neckline so lifelike, Xiao Yuanjing stood in front of the study door, frowned as he watched the people rushing towards him, but As soon as she took a step, Xia Yi braved the rain and knelt in front of Xiao Yuanjing:
"His Royal Highness Changping, please, please save our son."
Xiao Yuanjing's pupils shrank slightly, and he couldn't help being a little puzzled: "What happened?"
Xia Yi's eyes were red, completely ignoring his rain-soaked hair and clothes, he knelt in front of Xiao Yuanjing, and said anxiously: "Early this morning, our son had just packed up and prepared to go to the tribute courtyard, unexpectedly the official from Dali Temple came I went to the family and insisted that our son sold the exam questions and helped the candidates to cheat."
Xiao Yuanjing became more and more surprised: "Which candidate did you help cheat?"
Xia Yi sniffed, wiped away the tears on her face and said: "The people in Dali Temple refused to say anything, and just said that the evidence was convincing, so they took away the son. The Lord said that only His Royal Highness Changping can save the son. That's why the little one came here in the rain, please Your Highness, please save our son."
As soon as Xia Yi finished speaking, Xiao Yuanjing looked up and saw standing under the courtyard door in front of the study holding an umbrella, with a cold face.
Xiao Yuanjing hurriedly said: "You get up and go back to the residence first, since I already know about this matter, I will definitely not ignore it."
Xia Yi ignored Xiao Yuanjing's obstruction and kowtowed towards him, then sniffed and got up and walked out. When she saw Wei Changgong, she was still a little surprised, she couldn't help but glanced back at Xiao Yuanjing, and got Xiao Yuanjing's nod. After signaling, he was relieved to leave.
Wei Changgong walked into Qifangju in the drizzle, put away the umbrella on the steps, and then walked into the study together with Xiao Yuanjing.
Wei Changgong: "You must know about Xun Shizi."
Xiao Yuan nodded, and said helplessly: "But I don't believe it at all. Xun Ruobai sold the test questions to the candidates, and even I don't know what the test questions are. Besides, it is the responsibility of the Minister of the Ministry of Officials to invigilate the exam. It was also issued by the emperor himself, and the exam questions will never be leaked until the exam day, so even if this Xun Ruobai has great skills, he will not know what the exam questions are."
But Wei Changgong looked at him worriedly: "Xun Ruobai can't, you can."
Xiao Yuanjing was picking up the teapot to pour tea for Chief Wei respectfully, but when he heard his unreasonable sentence, he couldn't help being stunned: "What do you mean, you doubt me."
Wei Changgong put his hand on his shoulder and said: "It's not that I doubt you, but I'm afraid that someone will doubt you so much. Do you still remember that a few days before the exam in Chunwei, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials and several deputy examiners were in your shop? eat in."
Xiao Yuanjing thought about it carefully, and suddenly realized that on the day when he lost the hot pot ingredients, he asked Lidong to teach him abacus calculations, and before leaving the last table of guests in the shop, Wu Qingtai, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, went to court He came to salute.
Xiao Yuanjing didn't quite understand: "But even this has nothing to do with me. Even the Minister of the Ministry of Officials doesn't know the exam questions, I will know."
Wei Changgong lowered his eyes and sat on the chair: "This is the trouble. After the people from Dali Temple took Xun Shizi away, I immediately sent someone to investigate. When I saw the examinee in the prison of Dali Temple, he directly It is said that Xun Shizi gave him the wrong exam questions, not today's exam questions."
Xiao Yuanjing was a little dumbfounded: "They won't think that I gave Xun Ruobai the wrong exam questions, let him sell them to the examinees, have you checked anyone else?"
Wei Changgong: "The exam has been suspended, and the exam will be resumed after the leak of the exam questions is cleared up. That's all I know so far. As for whether there are other candidates who bought fake exam questions, I don't know. I was worried about you, so I came to find you first."
Xiao Yuanjing's brows were tightly furrowed, and he couldn't help rubbing his brows with his hand. He still couldn't figure it out: "How could the fake exam questions be leaked for no reason, besides, I didn't interfere in the matter of Chunwei from the beginning, and there was no reason to frame me. "
Wei Changgong raised his eyes and stared at Xiao Yuanjing's side face, and couldn't help saying: "I asked Liu Nian to investigate other things, I hope I can get a clue, but if His Majesty asks, do you know how to respond?"
Xiao Yuanjing breathed a sigh of relief with his hips on his hips: "Take one step at a time and see one step at a time, and respond to all changes with the same. I can't rely on me for anything I haven't done."
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