Chapter 230

On the third day, when Qin Fenghua and his sister-in-law He Tingrong sent Qin Jin to take the second exam, there were several times more inspectors at the gate of the Gongyuan than in the first exam. The examiner personally stood at the gate of the Tribute Academy, and checked the candidates one by one to see if they had cheated with the cheat sheet.

Qin Jin looked over from a distance, let out a "huh" in surprise, and said, "What a big gesture."

Qin Fenghua looked at the situation at the gate of the Gongyuan, and thought to himself: It seems that the report letter has played a role, I just hope that the exam can go on smoothly.

Once born and secondly acquainted, Qin Jin turned his head and waved goodbye to Qin Fenghua and He Tingrong, then walked towards the entrance of the Gongyuan.

Qin Fenghua stood outside and watched from a distance, saw Qin Jin pass the first inspection at the door, and went in. Just about to turn around and leave, there was a sudden noise at the door of the Gongyuan, and he saw two burly sergeants escorting a man in single clothes. The scholar came out, and the scholar was escorted and knelt at the gate of the Gongyuan. Then the sergeant took a pair of shackles and put them around his neck, and then set up a wooden sign in front of him. Cheating."

Qin Fenghua: ... This is really a public execution.

The most important thing for a scholar is face. This trick really hits the nail on the head. Punishing cheaters in such a humiliating way is simply nailing them to the pillar of shame and losing all face. After that, turn around and throw yourself into the Jinshui River.

After this one student was released, after a while, four or five students were released one after another. The reasons were all the same. At the gate of the Gongyuan, the crowd who hadn't left pointed at them, and the faces of the students who were caught had the gray expressions of dead parents.

And this act of public humiliation immediately caused a sensation among the candidates. Suddenly, a student who was being audited shouted in public: "I won't take the exam, I won't take the exam."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and ran away. The sergeant of the inspection immediately held him down, and the examinee still struggled. A few sergeants held him down and began to take off his clothes. The big soldiers were rough people, so they didn't care about Mr. Xiucai's face. , peeled off the person from top to bottom in a few strokes, and then really found the cheat sheet in the dark layer of the sole of the person's shoe, and grabbed the bag in public.

So the man who took it for granted was also put in shackles and knelt at the door to show the public.

This made a commotion, the candidates queuing up were silent, standing like minions one by one, not daring to speak, and among them, some candidates quietly left the army with their heads buried in their faces, hurriedly left with their baskets in their hands, and never came back.

Apparently he gave up the exam.

Qin Fenghua looked at it from a distance, and his heart settled down a little. It seemed that Mrs. He was really moving.

He Tingrong on the side was also terrified, and sighed inwardly, fortunately, her husband and the children of the clan are all talented and learned, and they don't need to use these heretical ways, otherwise, being caught cheating and being humiliated and shown to the public, not only will she lose face, Even the family has to be ashamed.

In the end, all the candidates entered the arena, and there were as many as a dozen people who were caught out, all wearing shackles and kneeling at the door, Qin Fenghua looked at it for a while, felt bored, turned to He Tingrong and said: "Sister-in-law, let's go back. "

He Tingrong also felt bored, so she nodded and said, "Okay, let's go back."

This incident was published in the tabloids in the capital on the second day, and Qin Fenghua also got the freshly released tabloids at the right time. Qin Fenghua looked down and saw the report saying that fifteen cheaters were caught in the Gongyuan this time. Candidates, all the results of these candidates' first exams will be invalidated, and they will be deprived of their reputation as a scholar, and they will never be allowed to take the imperial examination again.

According to another report, hundreds of students dropped out of the exam in the second round. There are different opinions on why these candidates gave up the exam, but most of them questioned their ulterior motives.

At this time, Rong Jing was beside Qin Fenghua. He took the tabloid from Qin Fenghua's hand, read it for a while, raised his eyes and said to Qin Fenghua: "Fenghua, you can rest assured now."

Qin Fenghua looked at Rongjing and didn't speak. She felt that she should be relieved, but... for some reason, she always felt that this matter would not end so easily.

Seeing that she was silent, Rong Jing frowned and asked, "What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"

Qin Fenghua lowered his eyes and was silent for a while, then raised his eyes to look at Rongjing again, and said, "I'm afraid it's not that simple."

The Marquis of Zhenbei is an honorable military officer, and Qin Shuo and Qin Mu are both military officials. So far, only Qin Jin has participated in the imperial examination. It's not clear about it, Qin Fenghua privately feels that cheating in the imperial examination is not as simple as catching a few people with cheat sheets.

Although Qin Fenghua always had a faint uneasiness in his heart, the following days were as usual. Although there were some accidents in the second imperial examination, he still passed the exam without any risk, and even the third examination in the following days was also full of troubles. It ended smoothly and peacefully.

Since then, this year's imperial examinations have officially come to an end after a few ups and downs, and the results can only be released in one month.

Originally, Qin Fenghua was supposed to leave Beijing and return to Gusu after the Qinjin exam, but she still felt uneasy, so she decided to stay in the capital for one more month, and return to Gusu after the results of the township exam were released.

If Qin Fenghua didn't leave, Rongjing would naturally stay with her.

Of course, Qin Fenghua was not idle during this period of time. While dealing with the property in the capital, he also sent letters to give advice to Gusu, and he was not idle.

However, during the period of her return, she did not show up in the aristocratic circle of the capital. The ladies of various families handed over posts to the Hou Mansion, and she rejected all the posts inviting her to go out to have fun, and she only focused on dealing with the matter at hand.

And after this incident, Qin Fenghua suddenly realized that there were too few people in her hands, and the information was too closed. The information was blocked, and the contacts were blocked, which caused her to fall into a passive position in dealing with this matter.

Qin Fenghua looked at the tabloid in her hand and thought in her heart that she had to set up an intelligence network in the capital to collect information. In this way, even if she was far away in Gusu, she could still grasp the situation in the capital. Once the rules for handling it come out, it won't be like this time, when you are helpless and then hastily thought of a not-so-good countermeasure.

Qin Fenghua followed this line of thinking: collecting information, building a network of relationships...

She suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and a person appeared in her mind.

(End of this chapter)

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