Pei Gonggui

The principal turned pale with fright, and quickly took out the note with shaking hands.

Pei Jun took it over and looked at it, and saw that the principal was trembling, and said with a smile: "You are just earning some pocket money, this court knows. What is there to be afraid of? Since you have read this note, follow Feng's note. According to the servant's order, I recommend this paper."

The chief was taken aback for a moment: "Pei, Mr. Pei is saying..."

"It's just that paper, don't put it in Box A." Pei Jun thought for a while, folded up the note in his sleeve and put it in his sleeve, and said lightly, "Put that paper in Box A, remember it."

The principal naturally didn't know that the No. B box containing the recommendation papers corresponded to the main compartment marked No. B, and he also didn't know that "A" corresponded to the wing room where Cai Yang was. Again and again, I dare not have a redundant question.

When Pei Jun saw that he was listening to the lecture, he also got up safely, and then ordered some things to be included in the list, and then turned back to the Huiwen Museum.

Outside the hall, there are a few Hanlin servants, with their heads down, cleaning the fallen flowers on the stone path.

These handymen are all old people from Hanlin.Pei Jun was acquainted with them when he was still in Hanlin in his early years. After he left Hanlin, because he wanted to keep these little people as eyeliners for officials in case of emergencies, he did not break contact with them. He used to treat them politely.Not only would he exchange greetings and give rewards when he met on weekdays, but when there was an opportunity to be recruited or promoted in the courtyard, Pei Jun would also signal to the official department to reserve good positions for acquaintances.These handymen have benefited from Pei Jun for several years, so they naturally know that there will be times when they will be useful in the future, and now, the time to employ people has come.

Pei Jun went over to say hello, selected the most reliable one from among the handymen, took him to the hiding place and gave him instructions, took out a note and money from his sleeve and handed them over to the handyman, seeing the handyman nodded steadily , and then returned to the main compartment.

In the room, Feng Jiru had already returned, but he didn't see Pei Jun. Seeing that Pei Jun came back from the outer courtyard, his heart tightened. put.But before he could ask where Pei Jun had gone, he saw Pei Jun staring at the snacks and tea he offered, frowning:

"You called dim sum?"

Feng Jiru paused: "...I saw this refreshment when I came back, and I thought it was the adults who asked the kitchen to make it."

Pei Jun asked solemnly: "We are in the Ministry on weekdays, when did you see me having refreshments?"

Feng Jiru thought that this was indeed the case, and he couldn't help but secretly panicked: "Could it be that someone—"

"We were not here just now, someone must have brought in some snacks." Pei Jun got up immediately, looked around the tables, chairs and bed frames, "I'm afraid that person sent more than just this. Quickly, look for this Is there anything extra in the house?"

Feng Jiru didn't dare to delay, so he hastily closed the compartment door, and naturally went to search for his own expenses first. Seeing that there was nothing suspicious, he was greatly relieved, then turned back to look at Pei Jun, only to see Pei Jun standing on the bed On the side, I took out a piece of dark yellow paper from the "West Regions Fang Wu Jilu" I read last night.

But Pei Jun ordered him to borrow that book yesterday, and it was empty when he borrowed it.

Feng Jiru wiped his sweat and leaned over it, only to see six unclear sentences listed on the paper: "It is advisable for a sage to practice Tibet—this is a good one—this is a bad one—Shefu? Tibetan husband?— ——Always don’t fight for the first——It’s easy to get it, and it’s solved silently.”

Feng Jiru knew at a glance that this must be a note about the joints, and these six sentences should also be the last sentence of Chengti, starting section, middle section, back section, binding section and big knot. If there is such a volume, Candidates should answer Jingyi Ke.

"...Master Pei, is someone trying to frame you for cheating? This, which student's answer sheet is this, do you know?" Feng Jiru's back was already in cold sweat. The political opponent pulled down his horse, but he was afraid that Pei Jun, who had been framed, would implicate him, who was really cheating, so he couldn't help being concerned about his superior's grievances for the first time: "Could it be the scholar Cai University on the opposite side? You recently In the court, it seems that the Cai family is not dealing with it..."

"Who else but him?" Pei Jun lowered his brows and looked at the room. He found that it was spring and the weather was warm and dry. It is not easy to burn this note that is obviously planted.

He turned his eyes to Feng Jiru who was staring at him worriedly, and decisively handed the note to Feng Jiru, and said in a low voice, "Quick, eat it."

"...Ah?" Feng Jiru was taken aback, "Master Pei Peipei, this, this can't be done! How can a lower official eat paper..."

Just at this time, a shout came from outside: "The recommendation papers are here!" This was the first batch of recommendation papers.

Everything was so trivial and sudden—if the compartment door was opened at this time, and the scrolls entered, and Cai Yang immediately found a reason to order someone to search the entire hall, and the note in Pei Jun's hand was found to match a certain scroll, the consequences would be disastrous.

Pei Jun frowned, pulled Feng Jiru's collar, raised his hand and stuffed the note into Feng Jiru's mouth: "Eat it quickly, or you will go to Yushitai to eat in prison with me!"

Feng Jiru's small eyes widened in fright, he had no choice but to quickly chew the note, swallowed it in two gulps, then stumbled to the table and took a sip of tea to swallow.

"Du Du" knocked on the door twice, and the scribe of the Imperial Academy who was ordered to deliver the papers said outside: "Feng Shilang, the first batch of recommendation papers has arrived, please have a look."

Feng Jiru was still sitting at the table in shock, Pei Jun went to open the door, and the roll box marked with "B" was carried in by the orderly and placed on the open space in the hall.

This box of scrolls was carried to Feng Jiru for review, and there was no need for Pei Jun to pass the scrolls before they were marked for pickup.So Pei Jun cast a warning glance at Feng Jiru, turned around and picked up the uninvited plate of snacks on the table, then walked to the opposite room, and knocked on the open door with a smile like a spring breeze.

The examination papers that had just arrived were placed in the compartment, Cai Yang raised his head from behind the desk, and seeing that it was Pei Jun, he laughed with the other two examiners beside him, "Oh, look, it's the examiner who came to take care of us." .” Then he asked Pei Jun, “What advice does Mr. Pei have for you?”

Pei Jun smiled with his snacks in his hand: "In front of Senior Madam Cai, we still have to call him a junior, so why would we dare to teach him anything? It's just that Xinjian Kitchen brought some delicious snacks, and I don't know that Senior Madam Cai Whether there is or is not in this box, I will send it to the big guys to taste."

What he said was to satirize that Cai Yang had higher authority than him, saying that he might not be able to have the Cai Yang he had, and that those who followed Cai Yang also suffered with Cai Yang, which made Cai Yang's smiling face cold for a while.

Cai Yang glanced at the dim sum in his hand, and jokingly said: "Lord Pei, the purpose of marking papers is to select talents for our country and society. I will do my best. How can I wait for a full meal? This is too inappropriate. .”

Pei Jun persuaded him: "Although what Master Cai said is true, the sage still talks about the balance between movement and rest, and the balance between work and rest. That's too serious." As he said that, he deliberately put the dim sum on the test paper in front of Cai Yang.

Cai Yang was afraid that the test paper would be stained, so he naturally blocked it with his hand in a hurry, but Pei Jun let go of it at this moment, the plate was overturned immediately, and a whole plate of pastries rolled down on the roll paper, making Cai Yang's table full.

The two examiners at the side knew that it was two adults fighting, and none of them dared to speak, so they hurriedly stood aside and looked at the two of them in fear.And Cai Yang was already out of breath, glaring at Pei Jun and yelling: "Pei Ziyu! I think you are here to make trouble for me!"

Pei Jun glanced at the messy table, called out "Come here" calmly, turned around and looked at Cai Yang with folded arms and said:

"Scholar Cai, I'll bring you some snacks. If you don't eat it, it's fine. What does it mean if you spill it all? Could it be that Grand Master Cai taught you how to eat?"

"You—" Cai Yang was so angry that his words choked in his throat, he raised his hand and pointed at Pei Jun's nose, squinted his eyes and gritted his teeth, "I think you have a ghost in your heart, that's why you came here to show your courtesy! "

Pei Jun frowned and laughed: "Oh? What the hell can I do? I shouldn't be grading the papers right now. Is it too early for Master Cai to splash the dirty water?"

Cai Yang came out of the table and approached him, raising his voice: "Then let me ask you! You and Feng Jiru both left the room just now, where did you go, who did you meet, and what did you do? Do you dare to speak out!"

Pei Jun was calm and relaxed: "Why don't you dare to say this? The chief and deputy examiners are leading the examination papers. Just now, Feng Shilang and I saw that the recommendation papers were not coming, so we went to the outer court to inspect the examiners. It's to see if they are slowing down their work. Why, this is not okay?... Hey, Master Cai, since the chief and deputy examiner has been transferred from the cabinet to my Ministry of Rites, Feng Shilang and I will go to the latrine and get out of the house. Gong, shouldn’t I be reporting to you?”

At this time, the handyman who cleaned the house came, and he saw that it was the one Pei Jun had just ordered outside the hall.

Not to mention that Cai Yang was angry at this time, even on weekdays, he had never looked at these handymen and servants with a straight eye.

He casually let the handyman come in to sweep the floor and clean the table, and he still insisted on talking to Pei Junyan: "Pei Jun, you and Feng Jiru didn't come back to the library at the same time, if you ask me, you must have some conspiracy, Want to engage in favoritism and fraud in this museum!"

Pei Jun pretended to be cold-faced, and took a step towards Cai Yang and asked, "Scholar Cai falsely accused me of plotting with empty words, but what evidence do you have?"

Cai Yang had been prepared for a long time, and immediately said: "Yesterday you sent Feng Jiru to the main room with a pile of old books, all of which were not related to grading. This move is really suspicious!"

Pei Jun smiled coolly: "Okay, I'm just reading a book, and I look suspicious in the eyes of your senior scholar Cai. Well, today is to reassure senior scholar Cai, and also to prove that I, Pei Jun, abide by the New Deal , Strictly prevent fraud, I simply asked all the officers to come and search the Huiwen Library, and let everyone see if I, Pei Jun, have cheated for personal gain!"

What Cai Yang waited for was exactly what he said, and when he said hello, he immediately went to the courtyard to summon the censors stationed in the hall, and ordered: "Everyone, listen carefully—the examiner wants us to Search the entire library and strictly prevent fraud, so I would like to trouble everyone to work hard and search everywhere carefully. Whether it is the main room, the side room or the cup in the book, as long as there is anything suspicious, it must not be let go!"

The guards in a yard agreed, and immediately dispersed to search for each compartment.Pei Jun stepped out of the wing room at this time, and the handyman who came to sweep up the table had already cleaned up the pastry crumbs on the table and went out silently, only nodding secretly with Pei Jun.

The reviewing officials in the four wing rooms were all alarmed by this incident. With people searching everywhere, it was impossible to review the papers quietly.All the officials went to the corridor to look into the courtyard, but they didn't know why it happened suddenly, but with their probing eyes, they could only see Cai Yang, who stood proudly in the courtyard, looking at Pei Jun with contempt.

Pei Jun walked slowly back to the door of the main compartment under this extremely uncomfortable gaze, and seeing that Feng Jiru was also squeezed out by the garrison guards rushing in to search, he asked in a low voice amidst the noise of people: "Is there any reason?" No?"

Feng Jiru nodded, and handed the roll out of his hand to Pei Jun, saying: "There really is such a roll. My lord, this is really a close call... If this roll and the note are found at the same time, then we..."

Pei Jun looked down at the answer sheet handed over by Feng Jiru, and saw that every joint in this sheet was indeed in correspondence with the one on the previous note. The answer was about the Jingyi Section, and the title was Confucius once said to Yan Hui. Said: "Use it to do it, give it up to hide it, but I am your husband!"

The exposition made by this examinee is to lightly break the sentence of "Xingzang", and to write later, saying that people need a confidant and a good friend, and expressing the joy of a bosom friend. Will be enlightened by saints, teachers and friends.

There is not a single difficult word or dictionary in the whole article, but this volume can hardly conceal the elegant style of writing and brilliant writing; But there is no rigidity in the historical scientific research——

The official language is limited to one point, and the writing is always outside the scientific examination, but the interest is still in the human world, which shows that the candidates are full of affection, and it seems that they are reading with their hearts, not just answering the papers with their brains.

Pei Jun watched, and gradually, a smile appeared on the corners of his brows and eyes.

Feng Jiru saw that his face softened, and asked in a low voice: "My lord, can you see who did this?"

Pei Jun didn't answer him, but continued to appreciate and reread the scroll, and only asked, "What do you think of this scroll?"

Feng Jiru poked out his thumb from under his sleeve, and said with certainty, "If there are no accidents, I'm afraid he will be the leader of this department."

Pei Jun handed the paper back to him and said, "Then let him be the leader, so there won't be any accidents."

Feng Jiru responded again and again, and immediately took the red pen in his hand and wrote the word "take" on the wall on the scroll.

But at this moment, a report came from the resident in the opposite wing:

"Master Pei, a note was seized under the desk of University scholar Cai!"

As soon as these words came out, there was a sudden silence in the noisy Huiwen Hall, and everyone with astonished faces looked at Cai Yang who was still standing in the courtyard.

Cai Yang was joking with the people around him, waiting for Pei Junzhong to be caught, but now he heard his name, and he couldn't help being completely dumbfounded: "...Who is under the table?"

A garrison ran out from the opposite wing, passed by Cai Yang in the courtyard like the wind, hurriedly presented a note to Pei Jun and said, "My lord, this note is stuffed in the slit under the desk of Cai Daxun. , We squatted down and looked up to see it. There is indeed a paper that matches this note in the armor box recommendation paper!"

"How could this happen!" Pei Jun pretended to be surprised and opened the note.Standing beside him, Feng Jiru stretched his neck to have a look - this is actually the joint he used to judge for the outer courtyard!Immediately, Feng Jiru's fat face turned pale with fright, and he trembled uncontrollably, causing Pei Jun to turn his head and glance at him coldly and silently.

There was a cold warning in this look, causing Feng Jiru to sweat through his heavy clothes instantly, shut his mouth tightly and dare not make a sound, his eyes were gray and lifeless, his legs were limp and he took a step back behind Pei Jun.

Pei Jun glanced at the note in his hand again, and calmly confirmed to the resident: "This is really under the desk of Master Cai?"

"Exactly... Exactly." The resident officer lowered his voice rather uneasily.After all, although they belonged to Yushitai, Cai Yang was the son of the grand master at any rate, so it was hard to guarantee that they would not cause trouble.

When Cai Yang heard that the resident said yes at the bottom of the steps, he was so angry that he walked up the corridor in two steps, his face flushed with anger, he raised his hand and pulled the note in Pei Jun's hand, and after reading it, he threw it on the ground in shock and anger. On Pei Jun's body, he scolded the resident: "Nonsense! There is no such thing in this pavilion! You should be sentenced to death if you falsely accuse the court department!"

There is an extremely strong aura about the empresses of the Jingzhong Gaomen, especially when they are angry, this aura will definitely make people from the common clan feel oppressed.Facing Cai Yang like this, the garrison began to be a little scared: "This, this thing is indeed under the table of Cai, Cai Dashi—"

"Nonsense! Presumptuous!" Cai Yang raised his leg and kicked the resident in the stomach violently, his whole body began to lose control, "You are framing me! You are framing me!"

At this moment, he knew that from the beginning just now, from the plate of dim sum that he gave away and was returned by Pei Jun, everything was set up by Pei Jun.

The Huiwen Museum has exploded, and some of the resident officers have gone back to the Yushitai, but Cai Yang is now facing a piece of iron evidence and the witnesses of all the people in the museum. No one believes anything he says, so he Only he could only point at Pei Jun's nose and yell at him as "a lowly family", "a royal dog" and "the next three abusers", and all the fists and kicks that were about to fall on Pei Jun's face were blocked by the guards in the hall, screaming At the end, Pei Jun in front of him just looked at him with a sneer, as if he was looking at a piece of dead meat that had rotted for a long time, and there was no half-humanity in his eyes.

"...Pei Jun! You framed me!" Cai Yang struggled to move his hands and feet ferociously under the obstruction of four or five guards, his eyes were wide open, and he almost wanted to stretch out his hand to tear Pei Jun's face , "You wait for me, you, you insidious villain, my Cai family will definitely take you one day—"

"Okay, I'll wait."

Pei Jun stood half a foot away from Cai Yang's fingertips without taking a step back, and smiled unhurriedly with his lips drawn together:

"But I'm afraid you won't be able to wait."