Shen Cangzhu glanced at Chu Xingchen and then looked at Xiao Wang, "Xiao Shaoqing, take your leave first. Your Highness, it will definitely be late tonight. Do you want to eat barbecue tonight? I'll ask Baopu to inform the kitchen."
Who doesn't want to eat barbecue? Chu Xingchen nodded, "Eat."
We all work overtime and we must have barbecue.
"More wine?"
"Okay, add it!" It would be nice to have some wine.
Shen Cangzhu and Chu Xingchen walked inside, and saw Xiao Wang stop from the corner of his eye, with deep thought flashing in his eyes.
He had also heard about Xiao Wang and the medical girl, but he did not expect that His Highness seemed to care about the medical girl.
Shen Cangzhu didn't give Chu Xingchen any time to think about it, and quickly started to get busy.
As Shen Cangzhu said, they stayed very late that night, had barbecue, drank wine and tidied up.
Shen Cangzhu finished sorting out the information and was about to speak when he saw Chu Xingchen falling asleep lying next to him at some unknown time.
Shen Cangzhu gently straightened the papers on the table, thought for a moment and did not wake up Chu Xingchen. Instead, he lay on the other side and looked at Chu Xingchen with a smile.
Chu Xingchen prefers red, and his men's clothing is also red, while Shen Cangzhu is still wearing moon white.
Moon white sleeves and red sleeves are paired together, the colors match each other very well.
Baopu, who was guarding outside the study, gently closed the door and stopped Wan Dong from coming over to look at her uneasily. He only said that the two of them were still busy and asked her to go and rest quickly while he waited on her.
The room became quieter and quieter, and Shen Cangzhu fell asleep unconsciously.
Baopu took a sneak peek and everything looked so beautiful.
The beauty is beautiful, but the consequences are quite serious. Chu Xingchen and Shen Cangzhu slept on their stomachs like this all night, and the price was - they had a stiff neck.
Both of them had a stiff neck, which was so severe that it was difficult to turn their heads.
"You should have woken me up... It's better now, we are in the same boat."
Shen Cangzhu didn't expect such a result, but it was quite interesting to sit with Chu Xingchen with a stiff neck, watch Ling Zhou's hair blow up, and see Xiao Wang purse his lips in displeasure.
Although it was just a night spent together in the study, it was still a night spent together. No wonder they were like that. He had to try to change places in the future.
He also heard that Leader Zhou Buyan punished Shadow, who was on duty that night, for failing to protect His Highness's body and causing His Highness to be injured.
The weather is getting hotter and hotter, the imperial examination is getting more and more intense, and the focus of the Dachu newspaper has basically shifted to the imperial examination.
According to the news coming back from various places, the imperial examination was promoted well and many people actively inquired about registration.
Chu Xingchen watched the news and memorials from various places every day and was quite satisfied.
But the good news didn't last long. After all, the imperial examination involved the interests of the family. After a period of calm, something happened.
"Your Highness, a blood book was found in the suggestion box in Dachu Library."
Dachu Library originally opened a suggestion box, originally to listen to opinions, but later it gradually became mixed with some desperate letters for help.
For this reason, Chu Xingchen also solved some unjust, false and wrong cases, and gradually the Dachu Library sometimes became a channel for people to hear from heaven.
It's just that very few people know about this channel, and it only appears occasionally, but Chu Xingchen also takes it more seriously and asks Xiao Wang to take out letters and screen them regularly.
This time, a letter for help written in blood was screened out.
The distress letter came from Qingtai County, saying that students from poor families in Qingtai County who signed up to take the imperial examination were frequently killed. At first they were persuaded not to take the exam, but when they didn't listen, various accidents followed.
Some people encountered local gangsters and had their hands and feet broken, some had family troubles, and some died directly.
The people who died directly were all very talented people. At first, because the poor students had no power and there were not many people, they didn't pay attention to it. But then the scope gradually expanded and students were found to have been killed in other places, and then they realized that something was wrong.
This seems to be a warning from those aristocratic families, telling them not to be complacent.
Some people gave in, but others were unwilling to give in. They were unconvinced and went to report the crime, but it had no effect.
Realizing that something was wrong, some students tried to escape from Qingtai County, but were intercepted and killed on the road.
Externally, it was said that it was done by bandits, but the bandits did not kill other people, but only students.
In Qingtai County and several nearby places, the people who didn't get into trouble were basically the children of the aristocratic families.
They were clearing out their opponents, and they also wanted Chu Xingchen to look good. No matter how hard she tried, the ones she could use in the end were still them.
The students could not get out of Qingtai County and had no way to seek help. Finally, someone remembered the suggestion box in the Dachu Library and threw it in, and it found its way into Chu Xingchen's hands.
"The list of people who signed up to participate in the imperial examination has become a matter of life and death... Oh, how dare they!"
Chu Xingchen looked at the shocking words written in blood and felt an unprecedented anger.
"Zhou Buyan." Chu Xingchen called Zhou Buyan, "Take Yingying to investigate whether there is such a phenomenon in Feng'an City and nearby cities. You must be quick."
"yes."
Zhou Buyan gave Chu Xingchen the answer the next day, "A few students in Feng'an City also had accidents."
Except for Feng'an City, there are more or less similar situations, but the most serious one is in Qingtai County.
"What kind of aristocratic family is there in Qingtai County?"
"Wang family, the Wang family was a wealthy family in the previous dynasty. It has slowly declined in the past ten years, but it is said that their children are very good at reading."
The case of a student being killed and injured was of great importance, and the Queen immediately secretly sent people to investigate.
The first person who could be sent fell ill at home before setting off.
The second person sent out arrived safely in Qingtai County, but the news was lost just after arriving in Qingtai County.
"This is a provocation." The Queen was furious, "I don't believe that I can't cure them."
"But time waits for no one." Although the news has not been made public, the important ministers in the court must have received the news. The news of the murder of the poor students has spread in a small area. If things go on like this, it will be extremely detrimental to the imperial examination.
In particular, the first imperial examination will begin in three months. If it is not stabilized as soon as possible and causes panic, everything will be in vain, and it will be difficult to implement it in the future.
After careful consideration, Chu Xingchen decided to go and investigate in person.
"Before, they were just unwilling to give up and made ridiculous jokes about poor students so that everyone could see how miserable they were. But now the nature is different."
"Mother Queen, they are killing chickens to scare monkeys."
Kill those students and show them to her.
She must fight back equally, take a stand on the problem in person, and let them know her determination to implement the imperial examination, so as to prevent more victims.
"Mother Queen, I will go there myself." She wanted to see if he was going to kill her too!
The Queen had a violent fit the next day, "If there is another case of murder of a poor student, the local aristocratic family members will not have to take the exam."
Then another official was sent to investigate, and a large team of troops was deployed to protect his safety.
This was an open investigation, but Chu Xingchen had already set off in a low-key manner before his departure. To the outside world, Chu Xingchen began to hand out examination papers with the secretly selected examiner, but in fact he secretly went to Qingtai County.
Knowing that there would be no peace on the way there, the guards' shadow training team was dispatched, and the people accompanying her were also worried about her safety. In the end, there were many others, including Lingzhou, Xiao Wang, Shen Cangzhu and Zhou Buyan.
There was even an extra Sun Yueqing. Xiao Wang personally said that he would take her with him, "Your Highness, let her follow you as a medical girl. If anyone is injured on the way, they can be treated."
Chu Xingchen directly said that there was no need to go to such trouble, so Xiao Wang didn't have to go.
But Xiao Wang insisted, "Everyone has gone, and I will definitely go. I don't trust His Highness's safety."