Taming beasts starts with understanding bird language

And in the next two days.

Gu Chan took Yuan Jie to attend the Jiangnan Poetry Festival during the day. On the surface, she pretended to be indifferent, as if she had done nothing. But in fact, she was secretly planning and ordering Xu Ziguang to strengthen the defense of Jiangnan City. At the same time, she also supervised Yan Kuan to manage the affairs of the Firearms Camp.

Sisters Wan Peng and Wan Feiyan followed her secret order and quietly delivered the finished cannons to Yan Kuan under the cover of night.

At the Lord's Mansion, Wei Xing and Ren Nanshan also took over the flying mysterious beast team previously formed by Yan Xishan and others, and began to provide them with special training.

Anyway, Gu Chan did her best to make arrangements before the military exercise.

On the last night of the poetry reading, all the answer sheets from the past three days were gathered in a relatively remote courtyard behind the academy.

At this time, the old academician was leading a dozen academicians to review the answers to the final competition one by one.

Gu Chan led Yuan Jie and Yan Xishan and slowly walked into the yard.

The old academician paused and looked at Gu Chan with an embarrassed expression.

Gu Chan walked up to him and said straight to the point, "Old Academician, I specially called Lord Yan here tonight because I hope everyone can talk it out, so as to avoid any problems that would make everyone embarrassed."

"Since the lord has said so, I will speak frankly." The old academician said with a stiff face.

After saying that, he looked at Yan Xishan and said, "Master Yan, your daughter cheated in this poetry meeting, which is a capital crime."

"Ah? Old Academician, why do you say that?" Yan Xishan was stunned and screamed in shock.

"The test questions we gave out previously were secretly replaced by someone. In order to find out who replaced the test questions, the lord came up with a trick and asked me to tamper with the replaced test questions slightly to make them misleading. In this way, the person who replaced the test questions would inevitably be exposed." The old academician said in a voice as cold as ice.

Yan Xishan stood there in shock, not daring to believe this fact.

The old academician immediately ordered someone to fetch the six test papers Yan Li had written over the past three days, and placed them one by one in front of Yan Xishan, saying, "Master Yan, among the thousands of test papers here, only your daughter's test papers were all answered according to the swapped test questions. This means that she didn't notice that we had tampered with the swapped test questions and made them misleading."

"So, Yan Li had someone prepare the test paper long ago, and then she just needed to memorize it and copy it onto the test paper exactly as it was, right?" Gu Chan asked.

"Yes, that's what she did. Anyway, so many people who participated in the poetry competition had their answers changed because we tampered with the test questions, so they also answered the questions in the wrong direction. Only your daughter, Lord Yan, did not answer the questions in the wrong direction. Doesn't this directly prove that she cheated? And the matter of changing the test questions was probably done by her secretly." The old academician said with a grim face.

As soon as he said this, the dozen or so academicians standing behind him all looked gloomy.

Obviously, they hate this kind of cheating.

Yan Xishan didn't believe it at all and yelled, "It's impossible. My daughter would never do such a despicable thing. You must have reviewed it wrong. I will review it myself."

"If Lord Yan doesn't believe it, just check it yourself and you will know the truth." The old academician said coldly.

Yan Xishan hurriedly sat down and picked up the last five answer sheets of Yan Lida and started checking them.

After looking for more than half an hour, at a certain moment, he was like a deflated balloon, and his whole body collapsed beside the stone table.

At this moment, he had a drooping face, extremely disappointed. He could never have imagined that the daughter of him, a dignified Censor-in-Chief of Jiangnan, would do such a despicable thing.

There is no doubt that if Gu Chan and the others had not tampered with the test questions, the answers Yan Li submitted would have been among the best among hundreds of contestants. But the problem is that now that her answers were answered with the wrong questions, they looked so ridiculous and nonsense.

The old academician sighed and said, "Master Yan! Back then, you went to Beijing to take the imperial examination and passed the exam with the second place. Only then did you achieve what you have today. I really can't understand it. With your talent, the children you gave birth to should not be bad, but your daughter seems to have no real talent or knowledge except for being clever!"

"Okay, old academician, stop talking. Can't you see how much pain he is in?" Gu Chan interrupted, waving her hand.

The old academician sighed helplessly, then shut his mouth and continued to review other people's answers with a dozen other academicians.

Gu Chan reached out and patted Yan Xishan on the shoulder and said, "Let's go! There's no need to stay here any longer. Let's go outside the courtyard and talk."

"Yes, my lord." Yan Xishan said with great disappointment.

After saying that, he stood up and followed Gu Chan and the others out mechanically like a zombie.

When they reached a secluded corner outside the courtyard, Gu Chan said, "Lord Yan, you know that according to the law, cheating at a grand event like the Jiangnan Poetry Festival is a capital crime. However, considering that she is your biological daughter and the only daughter you and your wife have, I will not send anyone to arrest her myself. When you go back, you and your wife should handle the matter yourselves and come back to give me an explanation in three days."

"I am Yan Xishan, your humble servant. Thank you, Lord, for showing mercy." Yan Xishan knelt on the ground with his knees weak, and kowtowed to Gu Chan with tears in his eyes to express his gratitude.

Gu Chan stood there, with a cold face, saying, "Master Yan, you have to think it through. Now the Crown Prince wants to kill all the Second Prince's party members in Jiangnan, and your daughter is the Crown Prince's concubine. How to deal with this matter depends entirely on your thoughts. I can only help you here. Otherwise, if this matter gets out, your Yan family's reputation will be ruined."

"My Lord, let me go back and think about it carefully. In three days, my husband and I will give you an explanation." Yan Xishan said crying.

Gu Chan nodded quietly, turned and left.

Yuan Jie glanced at Yan Xishan with disdain, then followed Gu Chan and left.

However, what the two of them didn't know was that Yuan Jie's disdainful look just now was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

“Hahaha… I never thought that I, the dignified Jiangnan Chief Censor Yan Xishan, who claims to be a learned man, would actually have a day when I would be looked down upon like this!”

After Yan Xishan stood up from the ground, he suddenly laughed and shouted towards the sky like a madman.

After that, he left Jiangnan Academy crying and laughing, and returned to the Censorate in great pain.