Chapter 10: You Paste, I Paste, Everyone Paste

“Nonsense table!”

Chen Pingping grunted and cursed something, and those few heads of the Supervisory Academy beside the table watched with some trepidation as the head dean lost her temper. Chen Pingping pulled the blanket off her knees and coughed twice, her flowery white hair in disarray without a hint of beauty, saying, “The rules of the courtyard are clear, we cannot interfere in the affairs of the palace unless His Majesty decrees it.”

The head of the four departments, Yan Ruohai, smiled bitterly and shook his head, “It’s just a pity, in the past, we have investigated the matter of the Imperial Examination fraud, but this kind of thing all happened in the high family courtyard, our manpower is insufficient and it’s difficult to find the thread. This time got the names of these people, follow the vine to find the melon, it is not difficult to things behind the officials to pull out, just could not imagine that will be implicated in the East Palace.”

The speech within the Supervisory Yuan had always been extremely bold and pungent, apart from their supreme loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor, these secret agent chiefs simply didn’t care about the next person.

Chen Pingping pushed his wheelchair to the side of the window, his flowery white hair looked exceptionally distinct against the black cloth on the window, he said coldly, “This Lord Tishee’s life is really good, His Majesty only decided last night that he would investigate the imperial court malpractices this year, and he sent such a gift.”

Yan Ruohai was also extremely curious about that Tiji who he had never met before, wondering how the other party was able to get his hands on those lists, and responded softly, “It’s long overdue to investigate.”

“Hmm.” Chen Pingping waved her hand, letting these subordinates go to the various mansions to make arrangements and prepare for the big action a few days later, but left Yan Ruohai behind, and only after a long time, said chillingly, “Those who know the identity of the Tiji, there are many people, so this matter can’t be kept secret at all, and his majesty still wants to leave the crown prince with some face, so let’s not move the people on the East Palace side.”

“Then the Chancellor?” Yan Ruohai suddenly had a flash of light and guessed the identity of the Tisheshi, and could not help but be a bit shocked and speechless.

Chen Pingping narrowed her eyes and looked at him, “Since you know who he is, of course you know that his father-in-law can’t be moved no matter what.”

“Actually, none of these people can be moved.” Yan Ruohai smiled bitterly, “Apart from the Crown Prince, one is a nobleman in the palace, one is a prime minister, and one is a senator of the Privy Council, our courtyard has always had a good relationship with the military, so we can’t tear the relationship apart over these trivial matters.”

“Hmm.” Chen Pingping hummed from her nose and said, “All three lines should be moved, but none of them should be pursued to the root, otherwise the court will be shaken, and even his majesty won’t be able to put an end to it. These ones who are courtiers, ah, perhaps they guessed that His Majesty could not possibly poorly rule the world’s officials because of the imperial court malpractice, that’s why they’ve been so bold over the years.”

He suddenly smiled, only that smile was a bit chilly, “But they didn’t think that there are still people in the world who are even more daring than them, and actually sold out so many people in one backhanded move.”

Yan Ruohai frowned, “This is a very bad move on the part of Fan Ti Si, how can he end up offending so many nobles at once?”

“He is handing over the title to the old man in the making.” Chen Pingping’s face didn’t know whether it was anger or mania, in short, his mood wasn’t very good: “He knows that Lao Fu won’t let him stand on the cusp of the storm, the reason why he gave this list over is to tell me that he doesn’t want to be led by the nose, and that he wants me to help deal with it!”

Yan Ruohai didn’t dare to answer, but in his heart, he was even more shocked, what exactly was the relationship between that Sinanbo’s eldest son and President Chen? Why did he actually dare to act like this? Moreover, looking at the expression on his lordship’s face, it actually seemed like he was really prepared to follow his prescription.

Chen Pingping regained his composure and suddenly laughed out loud, only his laughter was a bit sharp and unpleasant, “Interesting, indeed there is something interesting.”

Yan Ruohai asked curiously, “What good is it for Fan Tisi to do this to him?”

“There are always some strange people in this world that don’t do things for their own benefit.” Chen Pingping did not know what came to her mind, a rarely seen look of respect passed over her face, a look that Yan Ruohai had not even seen when the dean mentioned His Majesty.

“Please show me, Your Excellency, to which level can I go up to this time to investigate the malpractice in the imperial court?”

Chen Pingping raised her head slightly and said in a chilling voice, “His Majesty feels that the Guo family has held the Ministry of Rites for long enough.”

“Understood.”

“There is currently no one in one place, and Mu Tie is not smart enough, so you will lead this matter.”

“Yes.”

Chun exam has entered the third round, Fan Xian picked up a warm wet towel and wiped the corners of his eyes, found that the last few days are indeed some fatigue, eye boogers are more than up, can not help but smile bitterly stood up and stretched, and then look carefully at those lying on the table to sleep on the students, and thought that even their own do examiners are so hard, these students are afraid to be even more pitiful.

Today is the last day of the spring exams, Fan Xian has been in the Ministry of Rites of the second Yamen of the examination courtyard for several days, although the home from time to time to send some wake up things and food over, but the body and the spirit has also been exhausted to the extreme. He yawned, walked to that Yang Wanli’s side, went to look carefully, these days, he found that this student called Yang Wanli was honest as hell, those things that were clipped in his clothes really haven’t moved at all, and he couldn’t help but be a little happy.

What surprised him more was that Yang Wanli was quite talented in his chest, a few sparse theories were done, although not dripping with water, and the insights were not the route of the hallowed halls, but the victory was in the practical, not decorated with vanity, which suited Fan Xian’s temperament. The return of the unnamed official of the Supervisory Yuan also came, this Yang Wanli is from a poor family, since childhood in Quanzhou clan school, the results of the township examination is also very good, and Fan Xian and he has to reveal the friendship of the cheating, so it is not inevitable to pay more attention to some.

At this time, the last test question Yang Wanli has finished, is full of tired face to see if there are any mistakes, the afterglow glimpsed the little Lord Fan once again came to his side, can not help but a little nervous.

Although it was in the middle of the examination center, Fan Xian naturally couldn’t talk to the candidates, but Yang Wanli was already in a trance after tossing and turning for a few days, so he boldly pinched the lapel of his own coat, and then glanced at Fan Xian miserably, seemingly asking the young examiner how he found his own entrapment outside the examination center in the first place.

Fan Xian couldn’t help but think to himself, “With your talent, do you need to use these tactics? He didn’t feel comfortable talking to him, but just gently pointed his right index finger at Yang Wanli’s bedding.

Yang Wanli confused, looked down, only to see their own behind the group like black old dates like bedding, and then look at their own body, although not washed for a few days, but still through the noble gas of the satin long shirt, a heartbeat, know their own feet is how to reveal. Imagine which one can afford to wear a long shirt of washed silk candidates, will carry a roll of black mattress like that into the arena.

He couldn’t help but let out a simple laugh.

Fan Xian smiled faintly and, having made up his mind, put his hands behind his back and paced back.

It was already nighttime, the candidates gradually left the Ministry of Rites examination center, after several days of torture, the crowd has long been unbearable, yawning day after day, body acidic odor, a face of perplexity. There are still some remaining slow pen candidates are still in the case of biting the pen, and some students are in the lamp and clothes asleep, not yet time, naturally, no examiner to care about him.

The Ministry of Rites side of the copper camel alley suddenly sounded a gong, gong sound crisp, seems to wake up in Kyoto over the night.

“The hour is up, all students stop writing.”

With a shout, the officials under the Ministry of Rites began to clear the field, driving the students who were still holding onto their brushes toward the outside of the courtyard. There is a at least more than forty years old candidates, hair has been gray, but the examination paper is not yet finished, crying and howling dead refused to leave their own books, the results of the last miserable by a few officials of the Supervisory Yuan raw rack out.

After a long time, it seemed that the people could still hear the candidate’s wailing and crying, the unpleasant sound of ghosts crying, echoing outside the Ministry of Rites examination center.

Fan Xian sighed, but there was little sympathy in his heart – this world, that world is the same, what you can do, what is suitable for you to do, in fact, it all depends on your own efforts. It is not that he is a cold and uncaring person, just for him, these students will be the end of the exam, and his own exam …… has just begun.

The end of the spring exam night, will immediately seal the volume, this is Fan Xian’s duties, and the president of the officer and the two seat teacher two transfer, are sitting high in the hall, do not dare to leave, waiting for Fan Xian led people to complete the paste name transcription of the two procedures, and then to seal the volume of the sealing of the seal.

The candles were lit up, and the whole Ministry of Rites was busy, with dozens of old officials in the outer room dividing the test papers and categorizing them, and Fan Xian rubbing his temples while watching the two Ministry of Rites officials gluing the names in the other small room.

All the test papers were sent to Fan Xian to go through them before they were pasted, and Fan Xian didn’t dare to be slow, looking carefully at the names on the papers and matching them with the names on the four slips of paper, and after a long time, he had already picked a dozen or so papers out of them, and rested them unnoticeably on his right hand side.

The two officials of the Ministry of Rites on his side looked at each other with their heads bowed, knowing that those dozen or so rolls had been greeted by the bigwigs in the court.

After finishing the matter at hand, Fan Xian beckoned to the two men, signaling to begin pasting the names, and the two officials of the Ministry of Ceremonies did not dare to be slow, and hurriedly began to cover the names and places of origin of the scholars on the test papers with paper.

Fan Xian did not avoid suspicion, and watched carefully from the sidelines, finally realizing how these officials of the State of Qing carried out this kind of thing, and it turned out that wherever they picked out a paper, when they were gluing the name, the strip of paper used would be slightly shorter than that used by the average student to glue the name.

Watching the officials of the Ministry of Ceremonies solemnly paste short strips of paper on the papers they picked out, Fan Xian couldn’t help but laugh, thinking that if Guo Youzhi knew that not all of these papers were invited by the great officials of the imperial court, but a few of them were the papers of people with real talent that he had his eye on, such as that naive man named Yang Wanli–would Guo be so angry that he would spit out blood? He is not aware of the fact that his own little boy has been a great help to him.

He did not know that his own small means fell in the hands of the great old man of the Supervisory Yuan, Guo Shangshu even the opportunity to spit blood only not.