What's this?
Wen Yu frowned, rubbed it carefully with her fingertips, then picked up the paper and put it to her nose and smelled it.
It feels a little familiar, but very faint, and I can't remember what it is for a moment.
"Jiang Qi, come and see what's on this red scroll."
Jiang Qi stopped questioning upon hearing this, walked forward, picked up the paper, and looked at the upper left corner where Wen Yu was pointing.
He rubbed and sniffed it in the same way, and then said with certainty, "It's candied."
"Candied?"
Wen Yu raised her eyebrows, as if she remembered what the smell was, and took the paper and smelled it again.
She said, "This smell and this color, although very light, should be the candied haws."
Liu Chun scratched his head when he heard this and asked, "Could it be that the transcriber was transcribing the test paper while eating candied haws?"
Jiang Qi shook his head: "As a transcriber, it is a taboo to dirty the test paper of the examinee. It is easy to be mistaken for making marks. Generally speaking, if it is accidentally stained, it will be burned and re-transcribed."
"To put it another way, even if it was accidentally stained and not discovered, the sugar stains should not appear on the back of the test paper."
"Unless..." Jiang Qi said in a deep voice, "someone really bribed the transcriber to make the mark deliberately, and the examiner would know to put this article at the top of the list when he saw it."
The implication is that if the test paper was indeed written by Yue Lingfeng, but the transcriber was bribed to make marks on it so that he was given the top spot by the examiner, then this top spot is very undeserved and not worthy of the title.
Perhaps there are many hidden gems in the unmarked test papers.
But Jiang Qi quickly overturned this speculation: "But this doesn't make sense."
Wen Yu propped up her chin and said, "Of course it doesn't make sense. Since the test paper to be taken as the first is determined by marking, why not just specify someone's test paper? Why do we need to change someone else's test paper?"
"What's more, once the marks are discovered, the blame for the cheating will be on the examiner. After all, the marks are made for the examiner to see, so the risk factor is too high."
"Moreover, the marking method is too low-level. If the royal brother reads the paper and thinks it is just so-so, how can it be ranked first? The unlucky one is the examiner. What a stupid choice."
The marking fraud is like a straw boat disguised as a fishing boat.
When a paper with no merits is packaged as the top paper and sent to the emperor, it is easy to expose that it is essentially a broken straw boat.
It may even cause the examiner to be questioned as well.
The cheating method of changing test papers is much more advanced than marking.
After all, the straw boat was directly replaced with an aircraft carrier. After it was sent to the emperor for review, the emperor was satisfied, the examiner was satisfied, and the straw boat was also satisfied.
However, the difficulty of operation will also increase accordingly, and it will be difficult to do without the cooperation of multiple people.
This also shows that this fraud case involves a wide range of people.
Now, this scroll that tops the list has been praised by the emperor, which shows that it is not a straw boat, but a real aircraft carrier.
So Wen Yu thinks it is unlikely that this candied sugar is a mark.
Candied Haws...
She had already reached a rough conclusion in her mind at this point, and only needed to verify one thing.
"I think this candy stain was accidentally stained, but I don't know where it came from. My intuition tells me that this is very important."
Jiang Qi listened carefully to Wen Yu's analysis and was surprised: "The princess is exactly what I thought."
Wen Yu said proudly: "After all, this princess is a genius!"
Jiang Qi rarely refuted what he said, and even agreed: "Princess, you have a keen sense of smell and a careful mind. You may really be a genius when it comes to investigating cases."
Wen Yu: ...
The title of genius was actually recognized by Jiang Qi???
Jiang Qi continued: "Princess, the law may not be suitable for you. We should teach students according to their aptitude. I think you can learn..."
Wen Yu reached out her hand and covered his mouth: "Don't, don't think so. I don't want you to think so. I want me to think so. How can I investigate a case? I just made it up. Why do you believe it?"
Jiang Qi: ...
Are you kidding me?
Jiang Qi took Wen Yu's hand and said, "Princess, it would be even more amazing if you were making it up. You have an extraordinary intuition for investigating cases..."
"I didn't, I wasn't, don't talk nonsense."
Wen Yu directly denied the three allegations.
Jiang Qi: ...
Wen Yu blinked, then yawned, looking bored, as if she had suddenly lost interest in investigating the case.
"Go and interrogate those transcribers. Are there any who ate while transcribing? If not..."
Jiang Qi took over the conversation and said, "Then we have to go to Shengjing Prefecture Prison."
As their eyes met, Jiang Qi sighed: "You still say you are not a genius."
Wen Yu: ...
Liu Chun at the side asked, "Princess, what are you and Lord Jiang talking about? Are you going to Shengjing Prefecture's prison to see Master Yue?"
Wen Yu chuckled and said, "Let Jiang Qi interrogate him. We'll go to the prison first."
As she spoke, she took Liuchun out of the Hanlin Academy and got on the carriage.
Liu Chun was puzzled: "The princess is not with Lord Jiang anymore?"
"What I want to investigate is proof that the test paper belongs to Yue Lingfeng. This is only the first step in the case, and Jiang Qi wants to investigate the entire fraud case. This case is too big. When the investigation is over, there will be house confiscations and beheadings. Don't be too exciting."
"And I've probably gotten the answer I want to know from this first step, so I won't bother him from handling the case properly."
"After all, being with me, he seems to be a little uneasy and unhealthy. I have to say, I am really a beauty who brings disaster. I always exude personality charm and radiance."
Upon hearing this, Liu Chun nodded in agreement, then took out a small mirror and handed it to Wen Yu.
Wen Yu took the mirror and admired her own beauty while saying, "Besides, Jiang Qi wanted me to learn from him whenever he got the chance. Isn't this just an old man practicing splits? It's nonsense. I'd better get out of here."
Liuchun: ...
"Then Princess, do you know how to prove that the test paper belongs to Master Yue?"
Wen Yu touched Liuchun's head and said, "If after verification, it turns out to be consistent with my guess, then Yue Lingfeng will have to thank Liuchun for your good work."
Liuchun:?
"Princess, are you praising me or criticizing me? I can't tell the difference..."
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