Chapter 306 I don't know what the charm is
Ye Caiping and her group followed Duanwu away.
Go to the back door of the yamen and enter into a hall.
Shen Zhiyan was half leaning on the armchair, and when he saw them, he stood up: "Here they come."
Ye Caiping said: "You are..."
"Don't you want to watch the trial? Let's go over there."
As he spoke, he led Ye Caiping and his group forward to a compartment with a large screen in front.
The screen was very thin, and because the compartment was dark, one could see outside clearly, but outsiders could not see inside.
It was actually inside the court, at the lower right side of the prefect's desk.
Old Lady Ye, Mrs. Zhao and others were all stunned.
Old Lady Ye said, "Let's...watch it in the hall?"
Mrs. Zhao's eyes almost popped out of her head: "There is actually such a place?"
Shen Zhiyan: "Yes. All government offices above the prefecture level will have them."
Sometimes, when trying special cases involving many powerful parties, but not rising to the Dali Temple, some people of high status who want to observe the court will come here to watch.
The corners of Ye Caiping's mouth twitched slightly. In order to make it easier for her to eat melons, he actually prepared a VIP seat for her.
Mrs. Zhao said excitedly: “Mr. Shen is really amazing.”
Du and Ye Daquan also felt that Shen Zhiyan was amazing and they were honored.
Old Mrs. Ye was a little worried because Mr. Shen’s family background was too high. I was surprised to receive such preferential treatment from the prefect.
Shen Zhiyan smiled and said, "Everyone, please take a seat. The class will start soon."
Ye Caiping then pulled Old Lady Ye, Jin'er and others to sit down.
Ye Daquan, Mrs. Zhao and others also sat down. There was tea and melon seeds on the table and coffee table. They enjoyed the melon seeds so much.
Ye Caiping turned around and said, "Aunt Zhao, you must not make a sound after the court session begins. Not even a single sound. Do you understand?"
Mrs. Zhao quickly covered her mouth and nodded: "Don't worry."
The compartment was quiet, but the crowd outside the courtroom was discussing:
"I heard someone cheated in the provincial exam!"
"What should I do then? Will my score still count this time? I won't have to retake the exam, right?"
"My son just passed the imperial examination. If he takes the exam again...what should I do?"
"Go to court!"
At this time, two rows of yamen runners walked into the hall and stood on both sides.
Prefect Qin brought his lawyer to the court and slammed the gavel hard: "Silence!"
The crowd watching outside immediately quieted down.
Prefect Qin said, "Don't worry, everyone. Before the provincial exam, I received news that the exam questions had been leaked, so I had already replaced them with backup questions. The results of this provincial exam will count. But I didn't want everyone to panic, so I arrested the criminal after the results were announced."
The students watching outside all breathed a sigh of relief: "Your Excellency is so famous."
Prefect Qin continued, "Bring the prisoner."
As soon as he finished speaking, six bailiffs came and escorted Li Jiaojiao, Li Zhiyuan and Li Zimo to the court.
"Zhiyuan Zimo, wuwu..." Mrs. Li squeezed out from the crowd, sobbing softly, and Zhang Shuiniang followed closely behind.
"Kneel down!" The bailiff pushed the three men down hard.
Li Jiaojiao's face turned pale and she knelt on the ground in humiliation with a thud.
Li Zimo was so frightened that he tilted his body and knelt down.
Li Zhiyuan stood there with his hands behind his back: "I have made great achievements, and according to the laws of the Great Zhou, officials do not kneel before me."
Prefect Qin did not argue with him: "Okay, I don't need that much time."
Prefect Qin said, "I have received news that Li Zhiyuan, Li Zimo, you cheated in the college examination and helped Li Zimo win the first place in the college examination."
"There was also an attempt to cheat in this provincial examination. Fortunately, I received the news in advance and abandoned the original test questions and used the backup test papers, so that the students did not take the test in vain."
The crowd outside and the scholars gasped: "Oh my god, Li Zimo got the first place in the case by cheating?"
Among them, a scholar from Yue'an County said: "The reason why Li Zimo was able to enter the county school was because of his father's recommendation. His grades were usually at the bottom."
"This time, he didn't even pass the provincial examination, not even the Tongsheng exam. Later, I don't know how he got an identity that allowed him to directly take the college entrance examination, and he actually got the first place in the exam. I thought it was strange at the time. It turned out that he cheated!"
Li Zimo was so frightened that he couldn't speak.
Li Jiaojiao gritted her teeth and said, "What evidence do you have? Who told you that we cheated?"
Yes, there is no evidence! She saw it with her X-ray vision and didn't go in to steal, so there is no way she could have any evidence.
Prefect Qin said, "Call the witness!"
Li Jiaojiao's face changed.
After a while, fifteen or sixteen well-mannered men walked in.
Some were in their thirties or forties, others in their fifties or sixties. All of them were juren or jinshi whom Li Jiaojiao and Li Zimo had consulted.
"Greetings, Your Excellency." The dozen or so people bowed and saluted. They all had achievements to their credit, so naturally they did not need to kneel.
Prefect Qin: "No need to be so polite. Mr. Song, you go first."
Mr. Song was in his early forties. He glanced at Li Zimo and Li Jiaojiao:
"Before the college entrance examination, I met Miss Li and her brother and sister while buying books at a bookstore. At that time... I don't know why, but I felt like we were old friends right away and we started to get along."
"Two days before the college entrance examination, Miss Li's brother and sister came to visit me suddenly and asked me a question. The question was..." As he spoke, he told me the question.
The master above wrote down the question.
Mr. Song continued, "I didn't take it to heart at the time. After all, it is common to ask for advice before taking an exam."
"Unexpectedly, after the college entrance examination, the student discovered that one of the questions the Li siblings had asked about was actually a question for the college entrance examination. The student didn't think much about it at the time, after all, it was quite common to predict the topic correctly."
"I thought that if I guessed a question correctly, Li Zimo would be able to get a better score. But later I found out that Li Zimo actually got the first place."
Mr. Song raised his eyebrows as he spoke: "I thought that the little brother of the Li family was not only lucky, but also talented."
After Mr. Song finished speaking, another Mr. He stepped forward and said, "My student's situation is the same as Mr. Song's."
"Me too!"
"Me too!"
These candidates and Jinshi answered the questions that the Li brothers and sisters had asked one by one.
Every time a question was asked, the scholars watching outside would exclaim in surprise, until the last one was finished, and then the crowd went wild:
"Oh my god, all the questions added together, aren't they the same as the exam paper?"
"There are also those questions that we haven't taken the test before. These should be the original test questions for this provincial examination. Fortunately, the prefect discovered them, otherwise we would have taken the test in vain."
"Fortunately, even if this situation occurs, the college entrance examination will not be retaken." Some students also breathed a sigh of relief.
Because the college entrance examination has less impact, there is no need to retake it.
"But there is one strange thing. Except for the three people including Han Jinshi who specializes in predicting the questions and are paid to solve the questions, the rest of the people actually took to them as soon as they saw them. I don't know what's so charming about them!"
Ye Caiping ate a piece of nut behind the screen, which was of course the charm of the plot.
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