Gu Yu and Jun Ze were guarding the gate of Gongyuan, one on the left and the other on the right, followed by a group of officers, soldiers and officials.
It was still not bright yet, and countless lamps were lit at the entrance of Gongyuan, carefully checking the candidates who entered.
After Zhu Jianchun's fraud case, this time's spring break was much stricter than before. Not only was he touched from top to bottom, but even his hair was not spared.
Under the rigorous inspection, these students inevitably felt ashamed and complained.
When a candidate walked to the door, the officials first touched him up and down, and then asked the officers and soldiers to touch him again.
Just as he was about to put it in, Junze suddenly spoke and said, "Wait a minute."
The man's body stiffened instantly.
Junze opened his eyes that were drooped due to sleepiness, and said slowly: "Take off his pants."
The man blushed and said, "I'm here for the exam, why should I take off my pants!"
The officers and soldiers did not listen to what he said. After receiving Junze's order, they restrained the man from left to right and took off his pants.
The man struggled desperately and kept shouting: "You are insulting! Why can others come in, but they want to take off my pants! Could it be that because I see my poor clothes and patches all over my body, you want to humiliate me. Although I
I come from a poor family, but I still have the face to take off my pants in public. No matter whether I am in high school or not, I will never have the face to return to my hometown."
As soon as this statement came out, people were agitated.
In this room, despite his shouting, the two officers and soldiers did not find anything, and they were temporarily in an embarrassing situation.
The man cried and shouted: "Let me go, I will die here head-on. I have no shame in living."
The crowd's chatter became louder, and they all expressed their protest.
"How can you insult a scholar like this!"
"Then we will also have to take off our pants and search!"
"Too much!"
"Why in the past, when both poor families and aristocratic families participated, they wouldn't strip for inspection, but this year only poor families will participate, so they have to take off their clothes!"
"Could it be that you are bullying our powerless family!"
Seeing the crowd's excitement, Gu Yu suddenly said: "Wait a minute."
Gu Yu said to the clerk behind him: "Pull the curtain and check inside his body."
Junze raised his chin and signaled the two officers and soldiers to let go.
Instead of trying to prove his innocence by bumping him to death as he said, the man's two legs were fighting and he couldn't even stand still.
After the curtain was closed, two officers and soldiers took him out.
A sound like a slaughtering pig soon came from inside.
When the two officers and soldiers came out again, there was a small cylinder on the tray in their hands, stained with dirt.
You don't need to guess to know that it is something used for fraud.
Gu Yudao: "All candidates please take a look."
Wherever the tray passed, candidates covered their noses one after another.
Some people with weak appetites actually retched.
The man was dragged out like a dead dog, put on heavy shackles and knelt at the gate of Gongyuan.
Gu Yu looked through his name card and said loudly: "Zhang Xun, Wan Teng, Liu Lin, Chang Beiqing."
These four people are all test takers who vouch for each other with the cheater.
Before they could stand up, several officers and soldiers had already covered their mouths and dragged the four people out according to the portraits on the name cards, and knelt at the gate of the Gongyuan along with the cheater.
The heavy shackles forced them to lower their heads and curl up into a ball, and the rags in their mouths made it difficult for them to speak.
The dignified scholar suddenly became a prisoner who couldn't even straighten his waist.
The remaining candidates understood that this time they were serious.
Gu Yu tore up the test papers of the five of them in public.
Gu Yudao: "The rules of Chunwei this year have been told to everyone a long time ago. Five people guaranteed each other, one person cheated, and the other four people sat together. Everyone knows it well. Don't blame the court for being strict. If such people are allowed to enter, it will be a serious blow to the real people."
It is a great injustice to those who read it.”
Someone whispered: "What will happen to them?"
Gu Yu said slowly: "Shackles, reprimands, punishments."
All the candidates took a breath of cold air.
The shackles are to make them wear shackles in public at the gate of the Gongyuan. The censure is to remove them from their status as scholars. The punishment is based on the seriousness of the case. After the punishment with a cane, they are sent to the army.
This was a rule that was agreed upon in advance, but not many people cared about it at the time.
After all, in the past there were mostly children from aristocratic families, so it was impossible for inspections to be as strict and punishments to be as severe as now.
The five people were gagged, with tears streaming down their faces, and their upper bodies swaying slightly, as if they wanted to kowtow and beg for mercy.
Gu Yu ignored them and continued: "I will give you a chance. If anyone is lucky enough to have something they shouldn't have, go to the toilet and throw it away immediately. I can forget the blame. But if I
I’ll give you a chance, but if you don’t use it, you’ll be searched later...”
Gu Yu had a fierce look on his face and said: "Cut off your right hand! Send him to jail!"
Junze pulled out the knife in his hand at the right time, and put it back when the cold light appeared.
There were actually about ten people in the crowd who went to the toilet tremblingly.
Gu Yuquan pretended not to see it.
You can imagine that people with such crooked ways will definitely not pass the exam, so there is no need to bother to remember their faces.
Near the end, something fraudulent was found from one person's throat.
Junze waved his hand, and a soldier came forward and cut off the man's right hand.
Screams of fear filled my ears.
Some candidates with a bad mentality simply rolled their eyes and fainted from fright.
Gu Yu asked the doctor to go over and wake the person up.
After everyone went in and sat down, Gu Yu also walked in.
The gates of the Gongyuan are locked, one inside and one outside. No one can get out for the next nine days.
Gu Yu patrolled the examination room back and forth. Officials from the Ministry of Rites issued repeated orders on the rules of the examination room, and officers and soldiers were armed with knives to intimidate.
Three exams in nine days, sitting in a small exam room, almost made all the candidates shed a layer of skin.
On the night of the eighth day, Gu Yu and several officials from the Ministry of Rites crowded into a room and slept in their clothes.
Suddenly I smelled a burning smell, and an official banged the door hard and said: Sir! It's on fire! It's on fire!"
Everyone's expressions changed and they hurried out. Sure enough, they saw several examination rooms in the northwest corner of Gongyuan burning with raging fire.
Many candidates panicked under the thick smoke, and several candidates who were near the fire tried to run out.
Gu Yu immediately pulled out a soldier's knife, pointed it at those people, and shouted: "Whoever dares to move will be killed without mercy!"
Gu Yu shouted back the candidates who wanted to run out.
But all the candidates are terrified, fearing that the fire will burn their heads.
Two burned candidates ran out of the examination room wailing, and officers and soldiers hurriedly poured water on them to extinguish the fire.
Although the fire was extinguished, the two candidates suffered extensive burns on their bodies and were rolling on the ground screaming in pain.
The remaining people kept shouting:
"Help me!"
"Let's get out!"
"No more exams, I want to go out!"
Junze, who was outside the Gongyuan, naturally heard the movement inside. He quickly gathered people at the door and shouted loudly: "Open the door!"
An official from the Ministry of Rites outside the Gongyuan said: "Once the Gongyuan is locked, it cannot be opened under any circumstances!"
Junze didn't care what he said, he just waved him away and cut off the door lock with his knife.
However, there are two locks on the door of Gongyuan, both inside and outside. If the outside one is lost, the inside one is still locked and cannot be opened at all.
Just when Junze was hesitating whether to open the door, Gu Yu's feet were blown by the wind inside, with a pair of phoenix eyes full of intimidating seriousness.
She took the knife, climbed over and climbed onto the table in the center of the tribute courtyard, shouting: "Everyone listen to my orders!"