Chapter 1120 Dust
Master Liu Er sat down and took a sip of tea and asked, "Brother, do you want me to go to Yizhou City?"
Doctor Liu shook his head and said with a smile, "No need. Yizhou City is not close, and the fastest round trip would take at least half a month. Besides, you still need to investigate. We just need to know the reason, no concrete evidence is necessary."
He said, "Besides, there's no need for empirical evidence for this kind of thing. As for a person's character, once someone recognizes it, that's all that matters."
"What if he tries to quibble?"
Doctor Liu laughed and said, "That's inevitable. He's just making excuses. The adults aren't fools. They won't believe anything he says. There's also the Imperial Censor."
He smiled nonchalantly and said, "That's just how things are in this world. Once the adults decide that his character is flawed, it will be difficult for him to make any further progress."
Master Liu Er nodded, glanced at the things on the table and said, "It's a pity for that scholar surnamed Zhuang. I heard that he never returned to the capital after being expelled from the capital, and he missed all the examinations."
"This incident has become such a big deal. It must have caused quite a stir among scholars back then. He has no evidence, and any explanation he offers will be seen as mere quibbling by others. So, he might as well just leave." Doctor Liu frowned slightly. "But it's strange. At the time, they were both students at the Imperial College, and one was preparing to take the entrance exam. There was no conflict of interest between them. Chen Fulin didn't absolutely need this poem, so why did he steal it?"
Master Liu shook his head and said, "I don't know. But even if I ask those who heard about this incident back then, they all say the same thing. So they all believe that Zhuang Xun copied Chen Fulin. After all, Chen Fulin didn't really need this poem, but Zhuang Xun did."
Doctor Liu was in deep thought.
Seeing his elder brother pondering, Master Liu Er said, "Don't worry, elder brother. From what we've found out, it's clearly Chen Fulin who's guilty. Otherwise, he wouldn't have sent his servants all over the city looking for someone after just meeting him once in Zhuangyuan Building, and wouldn't have said such things when they met in Mohui Garden."
Doctor Liu nodded. Although he didn't know the reason, he did guess the process.
He pondered and said, "I don't know why Your Majesty disagrees with Chen Fulin's promotion."
Master Liu Er coughed lightly and whispered, "Brother, since I wanted to investigate Chen Fulin, I also looked into Mr. Zhuang. Can you guess who his disciple is?"
Doctor Liu raised his eyelids and glanced at him, saying, "Didn't you say he was accompanying his students to study in Beijing? One is at the Imperial Academy, and the other is at the Imperial College."
"There is another one, but she is a female disciple."
Doctor Liu: "Stop keeping us in suspense and just speak directly."
Master Liu Er chuckled and said, "She's a young genius doctor who's become famous in the capital these days. Coincidentally, she's been visiting the palace frequently lately. I heard she's treating a noble in the palace, but I haven't found out which noble she is."
Doctor Liu sat up straight and asked, "Have you found out everything?"
"I've found out everything. I followed someone to the palace gate at 3:00 PM today and saw her go in with Little Zheng, the shopkeeper from Jishiditang."
Doctor Liu frowned, "You are too reckless. You actually followed them directly into the imperial city? Are you trying to save your life?"
Master Liu Er said, "It's not just me who followed in, many people sneaked in."
Of course, not everyone can enter the imperial city, but the six ministries are located in the imperial city. If they have family members working as officials in the six ministries, they can basically enter as long as they explain their purpose of visit.
Anyway, although the imperial city was entered, the palace city was not so easy to enter, so the guards guarding the gates of the imperial city were not very strict.
When Master Liu Er went in, he saw many people quietly following the Bai family's carriage.
Doctor Liu couldn't help but rub his forehead, "Are you stupid? Since you can see them, can't they see you?"
Master Liu Er: ...At that time, I was so proud that I didn’t think about this.
Doctor Liu was right. If the Liu family could find out, other families could certainly do it too. Some of them were even very fast.
So, Wei Zhi and the Censorate stopped scolding the emperor. The Ministry of Personnel went to the Ministry of Works. After the two sides talked, the Ministry of Personnel rewrote the promotion list. This time they gave two people to choose from for the emperor to select.
Of course, attached are the two people's resumes and annual assessments, as well as their superiors and colleagues' evaluations of their character and abilities.
The emperor took a look and ticked off Doctor Liu's name, then closed the memorial and put it aside. The Secretariat would review these memorials tomorrow, and if there were no objections, they would be passed down one level at a time.
As for Chen Fulin, since there was no concrete evidence yet, the bigwigs who had guessed a lot of things kept silent, pretending not to know about it and pretending that the previous promotion had never happened.
Because for these bigwigs, this matter is no longer important at the moment. The most important thing is that the empress dowager’s death is approaching.
All these big shots have to participate, so who would care about Chen Fulin?
But Minister Liu, the newly promoted Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Works, was concerned about this. He knew that this opportunity might have come because of Mr. Zhuang's disciple. After the promotion letter came down, he asked his brother to secretly spread some news.
Doesn’t Chen Fulin like to play this kind of trick?
He could give a push and lend a helping hand to Mr. Zhuang.
Chen Fulin clearly felt the rejection of his colleagues, and even some of his close friends began to avoid him.
Although he still hadn't heard any rumors, he had been quite uneasy since the position of Minister of Works was decided, and Zhou Man still went to the palace every day.
He was quite uneasy, but no matter how hard he racked his brains he couldn't think of a way to deal with it.
It had been a long time since what happened, and it was difficult for Zhuang Xun to find evidence to prove his innocence. Similarly, it was also difficult for him to produce evidence to prove his innocence.
At first, he could rely on the money, connections and family background in his hands to suppress Zhuang Xun and prevent him from making excuses, but now it is no longer possible.
Zhuang Xun is no longer the poor scholar who had to share a room with friends when he went to Beijing to take the imperial examination, could only eat steamed buns and porridge every day, and knew few people in the capital.
He doesn't seem to be short of money now. He has a student at the Imperial College and a student at the Imperial Academy, so he can make friends with powerful families at any time.
He also had a disciple who was allowed to enter and leave the palace.
So in this situation, he could only not mention it, not ask about it, and not know about it, so that the news would come quietly and go away quietly.
Rumors in the capital city spread very quickly. Even among the people around him, they would gradually forget about them after a while.
So he just needs to suffer for a while.
Chen Fulin had always told himself this, but the sense of superiority he had felt in front of Zhuang Xun over the years still made him unable to bear the resentment in his heart, and he unknowingly arrived at Changqing Lane.
Manbao went to Yin Huo's house to give Yin Huo an acupuncture, and then went home with Bai Shan and the others. As soon as they arrived at the door, they saw an unfamiliar carriage parked not far from their house. The three of them couldn't help but take a few more glances, and then they saw someone standing in the shadow of the carriage.
See you tomorrow
Time flies so fast. Before I knew it, a book friend of mine had another baby. As a single guy, why do I always receive such good news?
Well, tonight, I wish the baby of my book friend "Hongyanzui" to be healthy and grow up happily.
(End of this chapter)
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