No one expected that a series of serial murders would lead to a case of scientific examination fraud.
In addition to the candidate questions for the scientific examination one month later, I also found in Feng's private school the imperial examination Ming Jing Ke and Jin Shi Ke examination preparation questions and their answer sheets in the past seven years. The most amazing thing is the respondents, eight of whom have already The scholars who passed the examination all answered the questions about two months before the annual scientific examination, and each of them had more than three different answer sheets. The answer sheets also had comments from an unknown master to clarify the key points and polish the writing.
To use an analogy, in this underground tutoring class, the teacher can not only answer questions accurately, but also provide multiple reference answers for candidates to use as needed. As for why it can be so accurate, the answer is very simple.
Starting seven years ago, the current head of the Feng family, Feng Song's brother, and Feng Yuyi's uncle, Feng Guangji, served as the Minister of Rites, presiding over the annual regular scientific examinations. Although the final examination questions were confirmed by the examiner appointed by the saint, the general examination questions The scope is determined by the proposition group headed by Feng Guangji.
Therefore, as long as you memorize all the optional questions for the scientific examination, you will naturally succeed in it.
And this secret school far away in Yangdu is a training class for scientific examination questions, or it is also called an imperial examination fraud class.
As the saying goes, good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles. In addition, there were a group of dandies who went to search the private school at that time, and they were afraid of the world being unstable. The efficiency of spreading news was the best in the Tang Dynasty. When the first ray of sunshine shone in Yangdu City, the famous The Feng family, which shocked the Tang Dynasty, has become a "filth family" despised by everyone. It really corresponds to the crooked poem, "a filthy family comes out of the literary family."
"It's really unbelievable," Jin Ruo scratched his head and said, "More than 90% of Feng's private schools are students from poor families, and there is not even a rich young master. Where can you get the money to buy exam questions?"
"The situation is too small. What Feng wants is not money." Lin Sui'an said.
Jin Ruo: "Huh?"
Ling Zhiyan: "These students selected by the Feng family are all elites. After passing the imperial examination, they served as officials. Many of them have excellent official reputations and hold important positions in various places. They are all disciples of the Feng family."
Jin Ruo clicked his tongue twice, "Did you say that when they came to the private school, they knew that the test questions they answered were real test questions?"
Lin Sui'an: "Maybe I didn't know it at the time, but after I got to the examination room, I definitely understood it."
Ling Zhiyan frowned, "These answer sheets kept by the Feng family will become their destiny after they become famous. In this way, they can only stand with the Feng family and can never betray them."
Lin Sui'an: "What proportion of these people account for the scientific examination candidates over the years?"
Ling Zhiyan said nothing.
He immediately ordered Ming Shu and Ming Feng to seal the entire secret room, invited Hua Yitang and Lin Sui'an away, and blocked Prefect Zhou from outside. Now he is the only one who knows the list of students in the private school - -Of course, Feng Song should also know, but after Feng Song discovered that the secret room on the second floor was broken, he spit out a mouthful of blood and was carried out.
Afterwards, Ling Zhiyan ordered Prefect Zhou to seal off Feng's house, Feng's private school, and all shops, docks and properties under Feng's name. The three heads of the family, Yan, Bai and Jiang, were also invited to the government prison. Feng Song only had half of his life left. His life was sealed at home.
Ling Zhiyan ordered Prefect Zhou to give a series of instructions with a black iron plate.
Lin Sui'an, the time traveler, didn't know what the black iron plate was, but looking at Prefect Zhou's frightened expression, it was obvious that his level was much higher than that of Dali Temple.
"Your first task in coming to Yangdu is actually to investigate the case of Feng's scientific examination fraud, right?" Hua Yitang stared at the map of Yangdu Square and said in a very casual tone, "Otherwise, how could you, a small Dali Temple director, know this? This year’s imperial examination alternative questions.”
Ling Zhiyan was silent for a moment: "I have secret orders, so I can't tell you the truth. I'm sorry."
Hua Yitang raised his head and stared at Ling Zhiyan quietly, his eyes sharp.
Ling Zhiyan looked away unconsciously, and just as she was about to explain something, Lin Sui'an said first, "Ling Sizhi, this is another case, and we need to pay more."
Ling Zhiyan was startled: "How much more?"
Hua Yitang snorted and said, "Forty pieces of silk."
Ling Zhiyan smiled: "Okay."
Ming Shu and Ming Feng came to report one after another, and Ling Zhiyan hurried out again, not knowing what shocking news they found out.
"Let's go to the Corpse Collection Hall." Hua Yitang rolled up the map and stood up, "Let's see if we can find out anything else from Dong Chao."
Lin Sui'an had this intention and searched the entire private school but could not find Feng Yuyi. It was obvious that Dong Chao had hidden him somewhere else. The only clue left now is Dong Chao's body.
"An hour has passed a long time ago. Feng Yuyi is probably hopeless and Dong Chao is dead. What else is there to investigate in this case?" Jin Ruo quickly followed the two of them and asked.
Hua Yitang: "Feng Yuyi should not be dead yet."
Jin Ruo: "Why?"
Hua Yitang walked like the wind, "I will live for a thousand years because of the disaster."
Jin Ruo rolled his eyes: "What nonsense reason is this?!"
Lin Sui'an understood Hua Yitang's mood. He wanted to see people in life and his body in death. Now that Feng Yuyi was not found in Yangdu, there was still a glimmer of hope. He just didn't want to give up, he really hoped that Feng Yuyi was still alive.
Doctor Yue's words rang in his ears: [He always saves people regardless of his own safety, even if that person is his mortal enemy. 】
What a strange and contradictory person. Lin Sui'an thought.
In the corpse collection hall, two more corpses appeared, one was Dong Chao and the other was Wang Hao. The bodies of the two murderers and the victim lay side by side in a room, giving an indescribable sense of magic.
Wu Zuo held the autopsy grid and explained Hua Yitang in detail one by one. Lin Sui'an listened to two sentences, which were all known information such as the cause of death and human characteristics. She moved to another morgue and unveiled the Wang Hao's shroud.
When Wang Hao died, the scene was too chaotic and she had no chance to use her golden finger. This was a good opportunity.
When Wang Hao opened his eyelids, his vision changed like a kaleidoscope. The vast night sky and the bright Milky Way appeared in front of him. Lin Sui'an heard a childish voice.
"I want to revitalize the Pure Door and let the Pure Door disciples eat well, drink well, sleep in a big house, be happy every day, and live a good life!"
His eyes slowly moved down from the night sky and landed on a small figure. He was a thin boy, about eight years old. He was wearing patched clothes. He had a bald head and a chip. His little face was dirty and bruised. Two teeth and two eyes like black grapes soaked in water.
The scene disappeared suddenly, and the boy in Goldfinger grew up in an instant, and overlapped with the profile of the face in front of him.
It was Jin Ruo. He was standing next to the morgue, looking at Wang Hao's body quietly, with no emotion on his face.
It turns out that Wang Hao's last obsession turned out to be Jin Ruo. Lin Sui'an couldn't tell what he felt in his heart, and sighed quietly.
"Bah!" A folding fan suddenly unfolded and inserted itself between Lin Sui'an and Jin Ruo. Hua Yitang came to Lin Sui'an with a "hum, cough, cough" and forcibly drew Lin Sui'an's attention away.
"There is a new callus on the inside of the first knuckle of the ring finger of Dongchao's right hand, and there is still ink residue in the nail." Hua Yitang used a fan to make the shape of holding a pen. "This shows that he holds a pen for a long time and often writes or draws."
Lin Sui'an was stunned for a moment before he came to his senses, "Isn't he a swordsman?"
"So, these calluses and ink must be related to his hidden identity in Yangdu." Hua Yitang said, "Remember Wang Hao said that Dong Chao has a shop in Jingyunfang?"
Jin Ruo: "Prefect Zhou didn't mean that Wang Hao was lying——" He stopped talking and felt something was wrong.
Lin Sui'an: "Now that Dong Chao has died in the hands of Prefect Zhou, no one can say for sure whether Prefect Zhou was greedy for credit or committed murder to suppress his reputation."
Jin Ruo: "There are many tombs scattered around Jingyunfang."
"Grave ceremony?" Lin Sui'an was surprised, "You trade in dead people?"
This time, both Hua Yitang and Jin Ruo showed extremely shocked expressions.
Hua Yitang: "You...don't you know the Three Tombs and Five Codes?"
Jin Ruo: "You are actually less learned and skillful than me!"
This world would be too screwed up without Du Niang.
It turns out that Sanfenwudian refers to books, and Fengdianxing refers to the bookstore.
Lin Sui'an stood outside the gate of Jingyunfangfang, feeling extremely embarrassed, especially because the way Jin Ruo looked at him was clearly an "illiterate" look.
"No wonder the transcript of the Shijingji became like that. It turned out to be the result of the disciples of the outer sect not being able to read or write." Jin Ruo shook his head repeatedly.
As a transnational immigrant who could only read half of the traditional Chinese characters, Lin Sui'an was speechless when faced with such comments.
Hua Yitang was even weirder. The look in his eyes became very strange again. His eyes were red and watery, which gave Lin Sui'an a layer of goosebumps.
"Young master, I heard about it!" Several vendors hurried over and reported to Jin Ruo, "There is indeed a tomb shop where the shopkeeper is very similar to the person in the painting. The location is very remote."
Jin Ruo: "Lead the way!"
Most of the people in Jingyunfang were civilians. They were all surprised when they saw the gorgeously dressed Hua Yitang. Hua Yitang was no longer in the mood to pose at this time and waved his fan casually as a greeting. But even so, he still It caused many people to stop and watch, especially young women, who exclaimed in surprise. Fortunately, it did not cause traffic jams.
The Tomb Dianxing mentioned by Jingmen disciples is located in the northwest corner of Jingyunfang. It is surrounded by abandoned houses and is very desolate. The Tomb Dianxing is hidden among a bunch of abandoned houses and becomes increasingly inconspicuous. Jingmen disciples also visited it. After visiting dozens of nearby houses, it was determined that Dong Chao often visited this place.
This time, there was no need for Lin Sui'an to break in, because the door of the tomb shop was not locked at all, and there was no one in the store. The afternoon sunlight filtered through the window lattice and fell on the table next to the window, drawing golden grids between rooms.
The moment Lin Sui'an saw the desk, she knew she was in the right place. The wood texture and the angle of the sunlight on the desk were exactly the same as what she saw in Dong Chao's memory, except that there was no copy of "Ten" written on it. Cool" axis book.
Looking around, I saw densely packed bookshelves and piles of scrolled books. Although they were densely packed, they were arranged in an orderly manner. It was obvious that someone had been taking care of them all year round. The store was not big, so Jin Ruo led the people cleaning the store around and then went into the back house to search.
Hua Yitang frowned and walked among the bookshelves. He glanced quickly as he walked and suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" Lin Sui'an hurriedly walked over and asked.
"The order of bookmarks here is different from elsewhere."
The words on the bookmarks were all in small seal script, and Lin Sui'an really couldn't tell the difference.
As soon as Hua Yitang took out the scroll, a member of the Jing Sect hurried back, "Young Master discovered a secret door!"
Hua Yitang and Lin Sui'an were overjoyed and hurriedly followed them out, passed through the back corridor, and came to the backyard. Jin Ruo was waiting for them in front of the woodshed. One wall of the woodshed had been vacant, and there was a rough secret door on the wall. , just cut a hole in the wall and blocked it with wooden boards.
There was a secret passage in the secret door. It was very low and surrounded by rammed earth. Jin Ruo led the way at the front. After walking for about half a cup of tea, light came out in front, and there was another wooden board. Jin Ruo kicked it. After opening the door, everyone got out one after another and found that they had arrived at another abandoned courtyard.
Hua Yitang stood in the courtyard and took a look at the direction, and immediately came to the conclusion, "This courtyard is very close to the cemetery, with several households separated in the middle. The location is exactly the opposite. If you enter from the main entrance, you have to pass through half of Beijing." Square.”
Jin Ruo: "Search!"
This courtyard is twice as big as the Fendianxing courtyard. There are two main rooms, four side rooms, a kitchen, and the woodshed is the exit of the secret passage just now. Everyone searched and found nothing.
Lin Sui'an thought something was wrong. Maybe Dong Chao had killed Feng Yuyi and burned him. Maybe the ashes were scattered in the river.
Hua Yitang had a rather ugly expression on his face, waving his fan and spinning in circles along the wall. As he was spinning, Jin Ruo suddenly grabbed him and shouted, "Stop!"
Hua Yitang: "Eh?"
Jin Ruo knelt down, pulled Hua Yitang aside, looked at the marks on the ground carefully and said, "There are drag marks here, and there are footprints, they are very new -" He looked at the courtyard wall, "It leads to the inside of the wall .”
The Jingmenmen immediately grabbed a few sticks of firewood, knocked on the wall, and dug out the soil. Within a moment, the rammed earth on the wall was dug out, revealing a wooden board. It turned out that a hole was also drilled in the wall, and a wooden board covered with soil was used. As a camouflage, there is a dog hole two feet in diameter hidden behind the wooden board.
At this point, everyone no longer cared about whether they were dogs or not. They got in one after another and found another courtyard. There was only a flat-roofed house made of adobe bricks with a large chimney on the roof.
This should be the last place. If Feng Yuyi is not found here again, then the odds are stacked against him.
Jin Ruo approached carefully, leaned his back against the wall, and pushed the door sideways. The door panel opened with a creak, and an indescribable rotten smell came out, causing everyone to cover their noses and retreat. Hua Yitang took out two face towels with a green face. , one piece for Lin Sui'an, and one for himself. Just as he was about to go in, Lin Sui'an grabbed him and threw him behind him.
The air in the house was turbid, the light was dim, and dust was everywhere. The traces of dragging were much clearer, extending in a winding way. Lin Sui'an followed the traces and walked in step by step. Suddenly, a dark red color appeared on the ground. Lin Sui'an An's eyes slowly moved upward along the dark red, and the roots of his hair suddenly stood up.
It is a wooden table, which is very similar to the wooden table used for chopping meat and bones in a butcher shop, but it is much larger, about the size of a bed. There are stone piers under the wooden table, and the edges of the stone pier and the wooden table are covered with dark red. It was full of paste, and there was a pile of black hemp rope in the corner of the wooden table. The cutting board was covered with various knife marks, and there was a sticky dark red paste in the marks. There was an ax and a meat cleaver next to it. A lump of carrion of unknown origin was thrown on top, and large groups of green-headed flies were buzzing around.
There was a sound of gasping behind him, and Hua Yitang's voice was especially clear. Lin Sui'an didn't even look back, he just reached back and grabbed Hua Yitang's arm, saving him from paralyzing his legs. tragedy.
"It seems that this is the scene where Dong Chao killed and dismembered his body." Lin Sui'an said.
Hua Yitang: "Ugh!"
Jin Ruo pointed at the piece of carrion: "Then, what is that?!"
Lin Sui'an: "Zuo Zuo said that Yan He's head and headless corpse do not match up because there is a section missing from the neck. This is probably that section."
The sound of vomiting came and went.
Lin Sui'an suppressed his nausea and continued walking inside. He saw a huge incinerator connected to the chimney outside the house.
A place where corpses were burned.
Continuing walking, there is another table piled with strange utensils, such as hooks, pliers, knives of different shapes, stone awls, iron nails, black bottles and cans, and a large iron pot.
[Ten tortures: breaking vertebrae...cooking...extracting intestines...filling with lead...dove poison...]
The churning in Lin Sui'an's stomach became more and more intense, and tinnitus even began to appear in his ears, and a biting chill flowed upstream from his fingertips.
Suddenly, a hand grabbed her sleeve and shook it wildly.
"That, that, that, that, that!" He stretched out his trembling fingers to rub Lin Sui'an's ears. Hua Yitang's unique fruity woody incense penetrated into his nose, and Lin Sui'an's tinnitus subsided.
Lin Sui'an exhaled a breath and looked in the direction Hua Yitang pointed. There were two large sacks stacked in the corner, the mouths of the sacks were tied loosely, and a section of hair was exposed from one of the sacks.
Jin Ruo and the people from the Jingmen huddled together. If it weren't for the sake of face, they would have screamed together. Hua Yitang pulled Lin Sui'an's sleeves with both hands, trembling all over.
"Let's, let's, let's, let's go take a look..."
Lin Sui'an dragged Hua Yitang, who had weak legs, and stepped forward quickly. Qian Jing took out the sheath and cut open the sack with two strokes.
Two pale faces were revealed, one was Feng Yuyi, and the other turned out to be Bai Shun.
Hua Yitang pulled Lin Sui'an's sleeve with one hand, and probed their noses with the other hand tremblingly, his eyes widening.
"They're still alive!":,,
