Bai Erzhuang followed He Shun to Azhen's room.
After walking through the winding corridor and entering the room, my anxious heart gradually calmed down.
"Second brother, sit down." A Zhen stood up and pointed to the chair in front of him.
Bai Erzhuang sat down and instructed A Zhen calmly.
"Serve tea for second brother." A Zhen said.
Soon, a servant served tea and returned quietly.
He Shun closed the door, leaving only Ah Zhen in the room.
"Second brother, do you know Wan Chunhua?" A Zhen asked directly.
Wan Chunhua, the newly appointed magistrate of Yangfeng County, accused Bai Sanzhuang of treason and eventually committed suicide in prison.
"We know each other. He and I participated in the government and imperial examinations at the same time, but I failed." Bai Erzhuang said calmly.
"Second brother, please tell me what happened back then." A Zhen said with a sigh.
"...That spring, I went to Huaicheng to take the imperial examination."
Bai Erzhuang didn't show any signs of weakness and spoke calmly and seriously.
At that time, Emperor Zuo was ignorant of the prince's supervision of the country, and the father and son were suspicious of each other. The two focused all their energy on the court battle, which led to the darkness of officialdom. In addition, there were floods and droughts in the world, and everyone's life was really difficult.
This inspired Bai Erzhuang to have the ideal of saving the country and the people.
At that time, he and a group of students went to take the government examination. Young people were always in high spirits when they were together, talking about the future and government affairs together.
In addition, Bai Erzhuang is the youngest and has not yet reached the crown. Everyone says that he has a bright future. Compared with other senior brothers, his future seems to be even brighter.
One day, his senior brother An Huairen brought a young man to join everyone's discussion.
This young man's name is Mei Xiao. He looks very noble in his dress, but he is very approachable when talking to everyone. From the conversation, we learned that he is from the capital and is studying in his ancestral home outside Huai City.
After everyone got to know each other, they became close friends and even became brothers of the opposite sex.
Young people always have endless topics to talk about when they are together. They climb mountains together, recite poems and write poems, hold candles together and talk about the current ills of the times. The new member Mei Xiao can always put forward ideas that no one can think of.
After the government examination, An Huairen got the first place, Wan Chunhua got the second place, and Mei Xiao got the third place.
Bai Erzhuang, on the other hand, was neither above nor below, and he was happy to get a mid-range ranking. After all, it was finally a key step for the Bai family to transform from a farming family to a farming family, just as Mrs. Bai had expected.
The most important thing is that he is young and has plenty of time to improve.
After the results were announced, Bai Erzhuang, An Huairen, Wan Chunhua and others had a drink together to celebrate, and imagined their bright future of going to Beijing to take the exam in the future.
Mei Xiao is here too.
Everyone opened their hearts and chatted freely. It was also at this time that everyone knew that Mei Xiao was the emperor's grandson Xia Zhongqi. He took the exam as Mei Xiao, a commoner.
Everyone was very surprised and frightened that they actually became opposite-sex brothers with the emperor's grandson.
The emperor's grandson dispelled everyone's fears. He told everyone sincerely that the reason why he went among the people to get to know scholars was to work with these talents in the future to bring order to the country and restore order.
At that time, the suspicion between the prince and Emperor Zuo became deeper and deeper, and the emperor's grandson was also in a very difficult situation.
These young people were greatly shocked by the fact that the emperor's grandson went deep into the people to recruit talents, and they vowed to follow the emperor's grandson.
Especially An Huairen and Wan Chunhua were the most active.
Bai Erzhuang hesitated, because he felt that this matter was not trivial and could not be solved with enthusiasm, so he did not swear together.
The emperor's grandson thought that he was young and his nouns were ordinary, so he didn't pay much attention to him.
Something made him realize that the emperor's grandson was just pretending to be enlightened and caring for the people.
When everyone was returning to the inn one after another after drinking, he left something behind and went back to get it.
At the door, I heard the emperor's grandson scolding his entourage with a sneer that these students were only worth rags and would be abandoned as soon as he completed his great work. Moreover, Bai Erzhuang also spied on the secrets of the emperor's grandson. He not only recruited students from Huaicheng, but also used this method to recruit aspiring students from many places in the world, training them into followers who would follow him to the death and be willing to sacrifice for him.
The emperor's grandson who understands justice well, the emperor's grandson who even cares about the suffering of the people, and the emperor's grandson who brings order to chaos are just people who plot against people's hearts.
Bai Erzhuang was so frightened that he woke up from the wine and broke into cold sweat. He hurriedly returned to Shenshu Village overnight.
It was precisely because of this incident that he came to the entrance of the village in a daze, fell into Eugene Gui's trap, and lost his marriage to his childhood sweetheart.
"...Second brother, did you fail the imperial examination twice on purpose?" A Zhen asked quietly.
Bai Erzhuang raised his eyes, smiled bitterly at A Zhen and said, "That's right."
Everyone believed that he failed the exam twice in a row because he lost his engagement with Xia Qinghe and had no intention of taking the imperial examination.
Of course there were reasons for this, but the more important reason was that he didn't want to get involved with the emperor's grandson. In addition, his ranking in the imperial examination was not so impressive, so the emperor's grandson did not force him to join the emperor's group.
After failing the imperial examination for the first time, he breathed a sigh of relief.
The reason why I took the exam twice was because I couldn't defeat Mrs. Bai's persistence.
These two imperial examinations consumed all the Bai family's financial resources. Deliberate failure made him feel very guilty for his family, but he would rather fail than suffer a greater disaster in the future.
"When did An Huairen go crazy?" A Zhen asked.
Bai Erzhuang thought for a while and said: "Probably in the first year of Jingyuan, he took the first place in the imperial examination high school, and suddenly went crazy when the results were announced."
After An Huairen went crazy and returned to Xiashan Village, everyone thought he had gone crazy because he was successful in the exam.
Only Bai Erzhuang knew that the matter was not that simple. He always thought that An Huairen had seen through the emperor's grandson's mind, and he went crazy with disappointment.
Therefore, with sympathy for An Huairen, he visited him from time to time and took care of him.
Unexpectedly, he carried a deeper mission.
"You and my sister were abducted, and the mastermind behind it was An Huairen. I realized that he went crazy not because he had seen through the emperor's grandson, but because he pretended to be crazy and sneaked back to the Nanguan Mountain area to work for the emperor's grandson. The mines in that mountain , those weapons...so the kidnapper is just a cover..."
Bai Erzhuang didn't say anything further. He believed that with A Zhen's intelligence, he didn't need to explain everything.
In the first year of Jingyuan, A Zhen's grandfather, the second prince who Emperor Zuo had always disliked, was still on the border. He brought his wife and children from the border to the capital. Emperor Zuo abdicated the throne. A Zhen's grandfather was honored as a great treasure. He deposed the prince and burned himself. In the palace.
As for the emperor's grandson Xia Zhongqi, Ah Zhen's grandfather thought of him as his uncle and nephew. In addition, his image was honest and honest, so he was not included in the party of deposed princes. Instead, in order to show the benevolence of the late emperor, he was named Prince Kang.
Kidnapping is not necessarily a guise.
A Zhen remembered that the purpose of kidnapping the child was to break the bones and suck out the marrow to make muscle blood pills. Who should take this muscle blood pill?
King Kang or who?
"That Wan Chunhua was the first emperor to obtain the rank of first-class scholar after he ascended the throne. He has been working in the county magistrate for so many years. I guess he also deliberately concealed himself and has been working for the emperor's grandson... no, for King Kang. Doing business." Bai Erzhuang said.
A Zhen nodded, thought for a while, and said: "It seems that when King Kang was the grandson of the emperor, he won over many scholars from all over the world, and so many people were willing to be driven by him."
Bai Erzhuang remained silent.
Wan Chunhua is the one who would rather commit suicide to save King Kang.
And how many Wan Chunhua are there in the DPRK now?
No one knows.
"This means I know everything, and it's a secret that has been buried in my heart for many years." Bai Erzhuang said.
After saying that, I felt relieved.
