I can tell fortunes, so I’m not easy to mess with [Cross Book]

Bai Yiling looked at him, and said slowly: "There are so many books in your room, you couldn't have moved them all in from the beginning. You later transported books into the room, didn't you? The books you transported were you again. Did you move it yourself, or did someone help you?"

The reason why he said this was because he remembered that Chen Shangshu had mentioned that Zhou Gaohuai had changed the title, so the bibliography he referred to was naturally different.

Sure enough, after Bai Yiling's reminder, Zhou Gaohuai suddenly became enlightened, and hurriedly said: "No, this book was put in the bookcase, and I asked someone to move it in for me. Yes, the person who moved the box came in."

He said this in a loud voice, because after being reminded, he suddenly felt as if he had discovered some big secret, but after he finished speaking, Zhou Gaohuai was stunned again: "The people who brought the boxes in were two helpers in Liuming Pavilion. The boys put down the box and left, and I stood beside them, seeing how young they were, and gave each of them a few pennies."

The implication is that they simply do not have time to commit crimes.

Bai Yiling said: "After they left, what did you do? Why didn't you open the box immediately and take out the books inside?"

Zhou Gaohuai widened his eyes and blurted out, "How do you know?!"

The two large boxes that had been filled with books were still placed in a corner of the room, stacked up to the height of a person's thighs, Bai Yiling patted on them casually, and there was an echo in the empty boxes.He opened the lid of the box and looked inside.

Bai Yiling said: "Because if you had opened it then, I wouldn't have to stand here to investigate the case today."

Zhou Gaohuai was not familiar with handling cases, and he couldn't keep up with Bai Yiling's train of thought for a while, but Yan Yang, who followed in, suddenly understood, and said, "Sixth brother, what do you mean, when the box was carried into the room, someone ?”

Bai Yiling said: "Yes. You see, the box is so big. If someone who has practiced martial arts is soft enough, it is more than enough to hide in it. The most important thing is that I just found out that there are wrinkles on the covers of several books on the table. mark."

Bai Yiling walked to the table, picked up the wrinkled book, and compared it with Zhou Gaohuai's other books: "I am familiar with Zhou Shilang, and I know he is a book lover. Find out such wrinkles. Did anyone come in to look at his books in the room, so it can only be crumpled when it was shipped over."

Bai Yiling's thinking was very clear. Since the test questions were leaked, someone must have gotten the questions out of this room.Therefore, whether it is the way of passing notes by hand, or the way of human memorization, someone has to go in and come out again, but they are not found.

So how that person came in when he came in, and how he got out when he went out, this is the crux of the problem.Looking for possibilities from this perspective, the problem will be much simpler.

Zhou Gaohuai also felt that it made sense, and tried hard to think: "At that time... I remember that when the box was brought in, it was just in time for the adults next door to invite me over to discuss things together, so I didn't have time to open the box."

Thinking about it now, it is very likely that those books were sent in at this time, so that he would not have time to check them out.

The books in the two boxes can be filled completely in one box and half full in the other, and then someone can be hidden. People found a loophole.

Yan Yang said: "Brother Six means that during the time Master Zhou left, there was actually someone in the study, but there were guards outside all the time, how could that person leave?"

Bai Yiling said: "Then I have to ask Zhou Shilang to explain what happened at that time."

Zhou Gaohuai thought about it carefully, and said that after watching the people put the box in, he discussed with several adults, then had some food, went back to his study, and opened the box.

Bai Yiling said: "The books in the box aren't full, are they?"

Zhou Gaohuai nodded, which further proved that the inference just now was correct. He said: "But even so, the guards outside are still there and have never left. That person must not be able to get out."

Bai Yiling pondered for a while, then asked: "What if he really didn't leave at that time?"

This sentence made Zhou Gaohuai tremble, and murmured: "Impossible..."

But after hearing so much from Bai Yiling just now, even if he is not familiar with the matters related to handling the case, he should have been inspired. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but said: "But after I came back, I really didn't check the next door. The cabinet, under the bed, behind the curtain, etc. After more than half an hour later, I felt a little sleepy, and lay down on the couch in front of the window to sleep for a while. Could it be that he was hiding somewhere at that time?"

It's really creepy, but Bai Yiling was raised by Hu Peng, the number one pervert of the Northern Inspection Department, so this situation is nothing to him.His focus is that Zhou Gaohuai said that he lay down on the couch and slept for a while.

Bai Yiling walked to the small couch and stood there for a while, frowning and pondering. After a while, he turned around suddenly, pointed at Cuizhi, who had shrunk to one side as much as possible to minimize his presence since entering the door, and said to Zhou Gaohuai: "Did she give me that day?" How many pieces of the same clothes have you sent?"

Zhou Gaohuai was still thinking, Cuizhi had already looked at Bai Yiling suddenly, his face full of horror, it was like seeing a ghost in daylight.

Bai Yiling said: "It seems that I guessed correctly."

He said: "The person who entered this room to steal the question went out pretending to be Zhou Shilang. When Zhou Shilang fell asleep, he was hiding in the room. Go out quickly. As long as you calculate the time, it will not be easy to be found."

He took out a piece of paper and put it on the table: "When the guards of Liuming Pavilion are guarding, they change shifts every three hours. If the suspect comes out when a group of guards are on duty, wait until the real When the famous Zhou Shilang came out, the guards were replaced by another group, and no one wanted to make a mistake when they were on duty, so this matter could easily be prevaricated."

When Bai Yiling said this, Zhou Gaohuai suddenly remembered that he was lying on the ground after waking up, thinking that he rolled down unintentionally in his sleep.When he was going out, a guard next to him also asked in surprise, saying that Mr. Zhou was in the room, he didn't think much about it, he just said hello, and he agreed with a smile.

Now that I think about it, that person would pretend to be him and walk out openly. This method is certainly very risky, but it is also because of this that people will not think about it or pursue it to the end. On the contrary, if you have any doubts, you should try your best to keep it in your heart .

After all, for the guards, they are even more afraid that their guards will make mistakes. Even if they are surprised to see Zhou Gaohuai coming out of the room later, they will only think that the people on the previous shift have misremembered or misunderstood. Suddenly "changed" out of thin air into a Mr. Zhou?

These inferences are so subtle, the more Zhou Gaohuai thinks about it, the colder he feels.He also realized that on that morning, Cuizhi gave him some clothes, saying that it was cold in the study, so it was good to prepare them. There were several clothes, and Zhou Gaohuai didn't look at them carefully. Thinking about it now, it must be ready Was it replaced by someone who got in?

Terrified in his heart, he suddenly raised his head and stared at Cuizhi: "It's you! It's you who colluded with the person who came in to steal the questions? Why did you do this!"

Cuizhi looked at Zhou Gaohuai in horror, and was almost dumbfounded for a moment, and could do nothing but shake his head desperately.

When she first heard about this plan, she felt that it was extremely ingenious, and she believed that no one would find the flaws in it. After so long, Cuizhi became more at ease, but she never expected Bai Yiling to enter this room Just looking around casually, you can almost infer the situation at that time.

She wanted to justify, to say that she was wronged, but she didn't know where to start, so she could only bite her lips tightly, her face pale.

Bai Yiling said flatly: "When I was at Zhou's before, wasn't I pretty eloquent? If you have to force us to speak, this scene will be ugly."

As he spoke, he waved his hands at a guard beside him. The guard understood, and immediately stepped forward. Without saying a word, he grabbed Cui Zhi's hair and pulled her over, and kicked her slightly protruding abdomen.

Cuizhi didn't expect them to be so cruel, she screamed in fright, and quickly avoided.If the guard really wanted to kick her child away, she wouldn't be able to dodge even if she dodges. Now it's just scaring people, so she stopped right away.

Cui Zhi trembled like a fallen leaf in the wind, and said repeatedly: "I said, I said, I was ordered, yes, it was the Great Immortal Fox who ordered me!"

Bai Yiling: "..."

The answer that was never expected made the little fox who had been obediently by the side suddenly become the focus of everyone's attention.

Lu Yu: "..."

Cui Zhi hurriedly said: "It's not this one, it's already in human form. I met her by chance, and she asked me to help get the test questions."

Lu Yu: "..." I don't like to hear these words, what do you mean by "not this one", can he change into a human too?No, it should be said that he is mainly an individual, okay? !

Cuizhi didn't dare to lie anymore, at least what she said so far was the "truth" she saw.After listening for a while, everyone realized that although the child in her womb was not Zhou Gaohuai's, it was not actually Zhou Gaoming's flesh and blood. Cuizhi also had another lover whom she met outside!

The man claimed to be a candidate who came to Kyoto to rush for the exam, but his family was poor, and he promised to redeem her body once he got the honor in the exam.Cui Zhi was convinced, and stole several pieces of Sheng Yue’s jewelry to help his lover, because the Zhou family had a history of petty theft, and Sheng Yue thought it was Zhou’s mother who did it but refused to admit it. In short, Cuizhi was not even suspected.

There was no suspense in the end, she was cheated.The man is not a candidate for the exam at all, he left after getting the money, he once told Cuizhi that he rented a room in the Ruan family's mansion, Cuizhi wanted to find him, but met him nearby The Fox Immortal.

At that time, Cuizhi was in a state of desperation, and the man cheated her of money and walked away, before she even had time to tell him that she was pregnant.When she found out everything, she didn't even have the strength to get angry and resentful, the first thing she thought of was how to cover it up.

She was sold as a maid since she was a child, and she didn't even have her own home. The only place she could live was the Zhou Mansion. Even if she had an abortion, she couldn't hide it from others. Once she was found out, the consequences would be disastrous.

The "fox fairy" she met came out of an alley next to the Ruan family's mansion. Cuizhi saw the other party come over with a concerned face and asked what happened to her. For a moment, she cried and told the story Then he asked her if she had seen her lover in the house.

The vixen said that she had never seen it before, probably because the other party was going to lie to her from the beginning.After hearing about Cuizhi's origin, she came up with an idea that Cuizhi could plant the child on Zhou Gaohuai's body first, Cuizhi thought about it and had no other choice, so she obeyed.

It turned out that Zhou Gaohuai was not interested in her, but Zhou Gaoming was the one who kept on doing things. Cuizhi was worried that her belly would grow bigger in the future and she couldn't hide it, so she had no choice but to have sex with Zhou Gaoming on the spot.Then there was the matter that Zhou's mother asked her to conspire and wanted to plant this child on Zhou Gaohuai.

Cuizhi almost smiled wryly, and the matter went round and round, if she could seduce Zhou Gaohuai, how could she talk to Zhou Gaoming, a vulgar rascal?But Zhou's mother is obviously not the kind of reasonable person. If she goes too far against her will, Cuizhi will lose even this last bit of hope.

While dealing with Zhou's mother, she thought of the fox fairy last time and went to the Ruan family's mansion to find her.

After the failure of the plan to seduce Zhou Gaohuai, Cuizhi went to look for him several times, but she never met him. Finally, this time, she successfully met him again, and was brought to a place by Hu Immortal in person, where she saw it with her own eyes. The many magical abilities of the fox fairy.

As a result, Cuizhi has no doubts about the other party's supernatural powers, and asks the fox fairy to come up with an idea for him, so that he can help her cooperate, steal the test questions, and promise to give her enough silver, and then help Cuizhi escape to another place Go to someone else and start over.

When Cuizhi talked about this, and then related to her previous actions in the Zhou family, everyone almost understood.

Why did Cui Zhi, knowing that she failed to seduce Zhou Gaohuai, dare to follow Zhou's mother to Sheng Li and call the child Zhou Gaohuai's?Because she didn't even think about keeping this matter a secret for too long, she was already ready to leave, but she was just delaying time and hiding her real purpose.

Then there are still two questions left, Bai Yiling said: "Did you meet a woman? She told you that she was transformed into a fox?"

Cuizhi said that there was a lot of rumors about foxes in the Ruan family's mansion, and she had heard about it. The woman she saw that day walked silently, as if she had flown out of thin air. She was surprisingly beautiful, and her conversation was different from ordinary women. , and a younger sister.

Many people in the venue called the sisters Fox Immortals, and even many scholars gathered there, writing poems to praise their supernatural powers and beauty. The two never publicly claimed that they were not mortals, but they did not deny their attitude. And all kinds of mysteries have actually proved this point invisibly.

The so-called "supernatural powers" she talked about are too ambiguous, and some people with high martial arts skills can do some things, not to mention that he has met the super liar Mr. Han before, and Bai Yiling thinks that the two women are nothing more than just There is another purpose, just pretending to be a ghost.Reminiscing that the other party could hide in the big box containing the books, he was basically sure that the one who stole the test questions was a woman who knew martial arts.

He was not the only one who had such an idea, Yan Yang also felt ridiculous and helpless at Cuizhi's confidant attitude, and asked her: "Since that fox fairy has such supernatural powers, why do you need your help to get the test questions?" Besides, what's the use of the test questions if she wants them?"

Cui Zhi could really answer his question, saying that Hu Immortal claimed to be injured and needed to absorb the yang energy of the scholar, in order not to hurt the peace, he had to exchange the test questions with him.

This answer left everyone speechless, the most speechless of course was Lu Yu, the real fox.He threw himself at Cui Zhi, quickly fished something out of her waist with quick eyes and claws.Cuizhi screamed, and Lu Yu threw the thing into Bai Yiling's hands.

Bai Yiling took a look, and found that it was a thumb-sized stone statue, on which was carved a woman sitting on a lotus flower seat, with a faint smile on her face, which seemed familiar and strange.

He knew it right away, and asked Cuizhi, "Is this what the fox fairy gave you?"

Cuizhi was a little panicked, but also a little distressed, but she couldn't answer, and said in a low voice, "Yes."

Bai Yiling didn't care about research, so he shoved his hands back into his arms, and said, "Yan Lingwei, you find someone to bring Cuizhi back to the North Inspection Department, find an artist, and let her describe it. Be sure to describe the appearance of that suspicious woman." Draw it out."

After he finished speaking, he added: "The candidates on the list should have seen this person's appearance. Fan Min and others are suspected of cheating and should be detained."

Yan Yang took the order, turned around and made arrangements.Bai Yiling looked at Zhou Gaohuai, changed his mind, and said indifferently: "Zhou Gaohuai is the servant of the Ministry of Rites, but because of his stupidity, the test questions were leaked, and the evidence of the crime is convincing. Come, let me take him and the other Zhou family members into custody. , into a dark prison—remember, from old to young, no one can be leaked.”

If it was said that he ordered Cuizhi to be taken away just now, it was still expected by everyone, but now this order is quite surprising.Everyone present knew that Zhou Gaohuai was Bai Yiling's brother-in-law. Even if it was right not to favoritism when handling the case, there was no reason to aggravate the charges on purpose, right?

Zhou Gaohuai's responsibility for this matter is basically clear. Although he was negligent, he did not take the initiative to participate in this matter, nor did he gain any benefits from it. It can be said that those mistakes and responsibilities will be divided in half by the guards of Liuming Pavilion. General dismissal is enough.

But Bai Yiling's posture of ordering seems to have the intention of killing Zhou Gaohuai's family, even his second sister didn't think about it.

Where are these relatives? There is simply a deep hatred, right?What's more thoughtful, even thought that Bai Yiling was taken away since he was a child, and a pair of adopted sons and daughters of the Sheng family enjoyed the honor and rich food in his place. Could it be that he wanted to take revenge because of a grievance in his heart, and finally found the opportunity ? !

In this way, the water will be deep, not to mention that Bai Yiling himself has the power to deal with people on the spot, even if he doesn't, with the emperor's pampering and favor, killing a minister of rites is not a problem.

The surrounding atmosphere suddenly became tense, Bai Yiling's face was stern, obviously he was not joking, the people from the Northern Inspection Department were used to obeying him, even if they didn't understand, they didn't object, but the people from Gyeonggi Guard were suspicious, for fear that Bai Yiling would clean up Zhou Gaohuai In the next second, I will come to find their awkwardness again.

"Lord Bai." One of them stepped forward and said after deliberation, "Zhou Shilang is not at fault, so how to deal with it, isn't it..."

Bai Yiling sneered, and didn't look at him: "I'm the king of the county, so I want to listen to your instructions on how to deal with the prisoner? How he dealt with it is up to me, no need for others to talk too much, and I won't back down!"

——This is really ridiculous.

This thought crossed the minds of almost everyone present, but it was the right thing to do. In this way, no one dared to raise any objections. Among them, Jingji Wei, who was scolded by Bai Yiling, was so frightened that he kept pleading guilty, and resigned obediently. down.

Bai Yiling said: "Take people away, lock the room and strictly guard it, no one else is allowed to enter, if there is any problem again, we will just ask!"

After he finished speaking, he snorted coldly and led the people away.

When he came, he was majestic and majestic, but when he left, he was full of murderous intent, which directly left the rest of the group speechless for a long time. After a while, someone asked softly, "What should I do?"

"What else can I do?" The person who answered him smiled wryly, "Do as you are told, don't you dare not listen to this one?"

"What are you thinking about?"

After everything was settled, when he returned to the palace, Bai Yiling sat in front of the window with his lips slightly pursed, looking thoughtful.Lu Yu put down the memorial and came over, put the teacup in front of him, and poured a glass of water slowly.

His hand holding the teapot was held down by Bai Yiling, he raised his eyes and smiled, "Why?"

With a playful smile in his eyes, Bai Yiling raised his eyebrows and said, "Your Majesty, what are you doing secretly behind your back, don't you want to tell me?"

Lu Yu paused, didn't speak, but held his hand in his palm and rubbed it, and said, "Why is it so cold? Take that hand too, and I'll cover it for you."

He held Bai Yiling's hand and sat down next to him, then blinked, and asked the question innocently: "How can you say sneaky, it's ugly, I'm just taking precautions before they happen. You deliberately locked up the people of the Zhou family and pretended to blame them for all the crimes to confuse the mastermind behind the scenes, so you must have guessed more than half of the whole thing, right?"

Bai Yiling said: "You also think too much of me, no. I just checked and suddenly realized that this matter is not a simple fraud case in the imperial examination, and it involves a lot of things, so I was afraid to startle the snake, so I didn't dare to go along with it for a while. Just touch the line further down."

He thought for a while and said: "Now I can almost be sure of three points. First, He Zicheng did not cheat, but deliberately pretended to be cheating; ', and got the test questions; in the end, the person who got through the questions pretended to be a ghost, and set up a place under the guise of a fox fairy... So what exactly do they want to do? What consequences do they plan to bring about such an arrangement? "

With a "click", Bai Yiling took out the stone statue from his sleeve and threw it on the table, leaned back with folded arms, and looked sideways at Lu Yu: "This scientific expedition is the first Enke since your ascension to the throne, and it is of great significance. , something went wrong. If you are a normal person, you must be extremely angry. I am afraid that no matter what the truth is, all the people involved in this case will be imprisoned. After such a publicity campaign, the case involved the Ministry of Rites, Wenyuan Pavilion, and Jingji Wei. …Once you lose your composure and really do that, it will definitely cause great turmoil and panic.”

Lu Yu met his gaze with a slight smile, and added: "That's right, not long ago, Lichuan thieves mobilized and captured the county, and there was a small rebellion from the remnants of the former dynasty in Chengjun. The southeast, the southwest, and the northwest of Youzhou, and the east and west. The disturbance is not serious, but the incidents happened one after the other, and it happened too coincidentally. If this continues, the capital's turmoil is inevitable—”

Bai Yiling raised his eyes and looked back at him: "If someone with great prestige raises his arms and rises up, will your Majesty's country be in danger?"

With such a direct, rebellious sentence, he is the only one in the world who dares to sit in front of the emperor and speak out.Lu Yu didn't feel disobedient at all, and smiled and said: "Well, yes. Although it's time to live a different life, there is nothing wrong with the two of us wandering around the world, but it is still a bit of a way to be driven away. I'm ashamed, I don't want to. So since the incident last time, after summoning Sang Hongjin, I have been secretly observing the changes in the whole situation, and made some preparations in advance. Until today, I have obtained from Cuizhi Got some clues—”

He picked up the stone statue that Bai Yiling had just thrown on the table, and asked, "Look at the thing that 'Fox Immortal' gave Cuizhi, does it look familiar?"

Bai Yiling let out a "hmm" and said, "It seems to be a woman."

Lu Yu's voice was a little weird, like laughing and mocking: "Does it look like Sang Hongrui?"

Bai Yiling: "...!!!"

Damn it sounds like it!are you crazy? !

He brought the stone statue over and looked at it before his eyes, and found that it was really not Lu Yu who was talking nonsense. He didn't know how to phrase it for a while, so he stuttered: "Why, why is it her?"

Lu Yu was originally talking about something serious, but it was rare for him to be deep and serious, but he was amused by Bai Yiling's cute reaction, and said, "You know why Sang Hongrui's temper is so loved by Sang Hongxian, and you feel relieved to send her away." Are you coming to Kyoto?"

Sang Hongxian is the king of Youzhou.It's not that Bai Yiling hasn't thought about this question, but because he has read the original work, so his way of thinking is always a bit preconceived.After all, Sang Hongrui's personality and temper have already become the heroine, and it's normal to have a little halo, so she shook her head.

Lu Yu explained: "Because she was born at Xinyou time on Yiyou month Dingyou day in Guiyou year."

"This birthday is really special." Bai Yiling guessed, "Did a fortune teller give her some comments, or the horoscope happened to be the same as a certain god, so King Youzhou looked at her differently from the moment she was born."

——The routine is like this.

Lu Yu smiled and said: "Smart. You also know that Youzhou stands on a precipitous basis, with undulating mountains. The tallest and steepest mountain range is called Mengjiadara Mountain. There is a mountain temple that has been passed down for many generations in the mountain. It has always been worshiped and believed by the local people, and it is said that the birth time of the mountain god happened to be this time, so one can imagine how much room there is for Sang Hongrui's birthday horoscope."

Now that this is said, the system followed up to confirm a sentence: [Reminder: This is the heroine's own factory setting, once generated, it will not change due to changes in the role's position in the subsequent plot. 】

Bai Yiling suddenly realized that this means that Sang Hongrui's birthday setting is indeed the heroine treatment she had when the character was born.Naturally, the date of birth cannot be changed, so when she lost her heroine status, the aura brought by her birthday still remained.

Because when reading the book, Bai Yiling skipped and read the plots related to Sang Hongrui, and this matter has little to do with him, so he didn't know it before.

Listening to Lu Yu's talk at this moment, Bai Yiling became interested, and said, "Wait a minute, since that's the case, let me guess. Sang Hongrui's birthday is so special, but I didn't hear any rumors before that, which means that there is a quiet The king of the state wants to spread this matter again at the right time to maximize the effect he wants to achieve, um... what time is it?"

He said he wanted to guess, but Lu Yu did not interrupt, and looked at him with a smile on his chin with one hand, his eyes were gentle and patient.

Bai Yiling tapped his finger on the table lightly, and said: "I'm afraid he originally wanted to use Sang Hongrui's marriage to link up with a faction, and then do something casually to make her have a good reputation in the capital. Preparations are ready." Afterwards, if Sang Hongxian intends to make trouble, he can use this point to recruit soldiers in Youzhou, and any spiritual phenomena will be produced at will, which is enough to make people believe..."

He said while looking at Lu Yu.

Lu Yu nodded: "Yes. And didn't you already say it just now? 'A man of prestige raised his arms and rose up'. The point is where to find this 'man of prestige' , or in other words, if you can’t find a suitable candidate, build one first.”

He glanced at the stone statue on the table, with a sly look in his eyes, and gestured to Bai Yiling: "Where did this thing come from? I'm afraid that prestige must be found there."

Bai Yiling raised his eyebrows slightly, and smiled slightly: "So, it's probably my turn to smash the vixen's place."

Lu Yu looked up at him, the two looked at each other and laughed together.

Lu Yu was very obsessed with every moment of Bai Yiling's being together and talking. Seeing his smiling face, he felt hot in his heart, and said, "Do you want me to go with you?"

Bai Yiling handed him a piece of paper: "I'm afraid you don't have that free time, I still have something to tell you."

After Lu Yu unfolded it, he took a cursory look, with a look of surprise on his face: "I didn't expect that there was such an inside story about He Zicheng. I thought about it when you said to check him earlier, but I was only half right..."

Before he finished speaking, he put the paper away: "You are right, there is a lot of room for use in this matter, let me handle it. Then you bring more people tomorrow, and play by ear when you are there. Send me a letter, don't take the risk of getting Da, I will also send someone to assist you secretly... Be careful."

Bai Yiling couldn't take it anymore and covered his mouth with his hands: "It's alright, alright, please stop in moderation, Your Majesty!"

Lu Yu kissed his palm.