Su Xingzhe stayed at Su Erhui's house and had his own separate room.
I put on the new clothes given by Su Erhui early in the morning, and then changed back to the original old clothes.
He heard the sound of gongs and drums approaching, and stopped outside. The anxiety in his heart subsided, and he couldn't contain his excitement. He couldn't even hear the noise outside clearly. He took a few steps and sat down, picked up a book, and waited for someone to come.
, he must behave calmly and calmly when the time comes.
The sound of chaotic footsteps was approaching, and Su Xingzhe couldn't help but raise the corners of his lips, then immediately retracted them.
The moment the door opened, he stood up suddenly. The surprise he had practiced before, but when it came time to perform, it seemed particularly artificial due to nervousness.
At the same time, Mrs. Niu's cry suddenly rushed into his ears like a flood from the gate!
The word "thief" made his face turn from red to white, and then from white to blue in an instant.
The book fell to the ground, and while Su Xingzhe was stunned, he was shackled by several strong government officials.
He was almost lifted up, with his feet dangling in the air, and walked through the crowd to the outside.
Mrs. Niu's cry, Su Erhui's scolding, and the villagers' pointing and taunting were all intertwined, but Su Xingzhe couldn't hear anything. He seemed to have entered a silent world. The sky was falling. He could only stare blankly.
I can't do it either...
"Are you Su Xingzhe?" the head catcher shouted coldly.
Su Xingzhe didn't need to answer. The villagers whose family had offended him usually confirmed his identity with your words.
"Su Xingzhe is so audacious that he dared to steal the exam papers the day before the college exam. The evidence of the crime is conclusive, take them away!" The arrester waved his hand, so powerful and resolute, like a guillotine in the execution ground, cutting off Su Xingzhe's life.
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"It's wrong! It's wrong!" Mrs. Niu cried and fainted.
Su Xingzhe's father and brothers rushed to stop him, saying that he was at home the day before the hospital exam, and they could all testify.
The arrester sneered contemptuously, "One family cannot bear witness to this."
Su Erhui, who originally thought that Su Xingzhe had a bright future and planned to make him his son-in-law, felt unlucky at the moment. While throwing his things out, he loudly clarified the relationship, "We are just taking him in out of kindness, we don't know anything else!"
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On the day before the hospital examination, Su Xingzhe had not left the house. No one else in the village had seen him, and it could not be proved that he was always at home. What if he secretly went out before dawn and came back at night? Who knows?
Su Bai originally wanted to say a few words, but the words "the evidence of the crime is solid" made him hesitate and give up. Fraud in the imperial examination is a serious matter that will turn heads. He is a little righteous and doesn't know the truth. What can he say?
Woolen cloth?
When the team announcing the good news started to move forward again, Su Xingzhe finally regained his composure. With a pale face, he asked blankly, "Where are they... going?"
The catcher slapped Su Xingzhe hard on the face with a thick slap, "Go and report the good news to the head of the case! Mr. Ning Jingning! He is the first in the serious examination!"
A bolt of thunder struck Su Xingzhe's mind, making him stupid and crazy.
"It's Ningjing! He framed me! He conspired with the examiner to frame me!" Su Xingzhe shouted at the top of his lungs.
The arrester opened his mouth to the right and left with a few big mouths, beating Su Xingzhe until his head was dizzy, blood bleeded from the corners of his mouth, and he could not even speak.
"Young master Ning is a friend of Prince Beijing. Are you framed? Who do you think you are? How dare you slander the examiner? An extra level of guilt!"
What happened that day was still vivid in his mind, and Su Xingzhe was also thinking, what reason did Ning Jing have to frame him? By the way, his mother had a conflict with Su Liang, and his family had previously wanted to occupy Su Liang's house! That must be the case!
But before Su Xingzhe could open his mouth to defend himself, the catcher slapped him again and knocked him unconscious.
Subai led the team announcing the good news to the door of Ningjing's house, followed by a large group of villagers watching the fun.
Aunt Bai's family was surprised and happy. Before that, they didn't know that Ning Jing had actually participated in the college examination, and they didn't expect that he would get the first place in the exam.
But when Aunt Bai learned about Su Xingzhe, she blurted out not with gloating, but with confusion, "How could he have the ability to steal something from the examiner?"
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The person who opened the door was Su Liang, wearing an apron around her waist. Ningjing was still sitting under the tree in the courtyard, carving mooncake molds.
There was a man in the procession of announcing the news, and he was stunned for a moment when he saw Su Liang's appearance clearly.
Su Liang was not surprised when Su Bai said excitedly that Ning Jing had won the case. He just smiled and said, "Thank you all."
"The county magistrate will host a banquet for this year's scholars tomorrow. Mr. Ning must go there." The leader was polite.
Su Liang thought that this was not just because he won the first place, but also because Ningjing was recommended by Prince Beijing.
She looked back and saw that Ning Jing had no intention of coming over, so she answered for him, "Okay."
Su Liang accepted the fifty taels of silver reward given to the head of the case, but refused the gift from the mayor and squire. The latter accepted it as a sign of friendship.
After the official left, the villagers came forward to express their congratulations.
Su Liang thought of something and asked them to wait. Then he turned back and dragged most of the remaining baskets of pomegranates from the county to the door.
Anyone who comes to congratulate you will receive one from each family.
The big red pomegranate was a joy to look at. The villagers thought it was a good fortune, and some said they would go back and offer it as an offering.
Bai Xiaohu muttered, "It must be that Sister Su Liang's house has too many pomegranates to eat."
Ms. Liu glared at her son and told him not to tell the truth.
It was indeed true. Last time I picked only a small part of the pomegranate tree in the county. It was always not that convenient to eat, and the two of them couldn't eat much.
In the end, only the Bai family was left outside. Su Liang invited them in to talk. Suddenly he thought, "Did Su Xingzhe pass the exam?"
Zhu Zhu shook his head, "He was taken away!"
Su Liang was surprised, "Capture him?"
The two children talked to Su Liang about the journey of Su Xingzhe's family from heaven to hell.
After Su Liang listened, what else didn't he understand? Even if Su Xingzhe was brave, how could he know where the exam papers were hidden? And how could something as important as the sample papers be stolen by a country scholar?
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It must be that after going to the county school that day, the examiner asked Su Xingzhe to bring back something to Ningjing, which was the so-called sample paper.
At that time, Su Liang suspected that Su Xingzhe might peek, but now the facts are in front of him.
That was not a back door opened by the examiner for Ning Jing, but to set up a trap to frame Ning Jing, and the greedy Su Xingzhe jumped in!
But Su Liang is very puzzled. The chief examiner of Bei'an County has no enmity with Ning Jing. Why is it like this?
Is it the Xunyang Ning family's "money can make the world go round"?
Or is it because Ning Jing was recommended by the Prince of Beijing and was targeted by the enemies of the Prince of Beijing?
What a troublesome physique. Su Liang thought as he looked at Ning Jing.
"Brother Ning, what is this?" Bai Xiaohu looked at the mold carved by Ning Jing curiously.
Zhuzi's eyes were bright, "There are flowers inside!"
Su Liang smiled, "Let's make mooncakes for the festival tomorrow."
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Su Bai sent the team to announce the good news to the entrance of the village. One of them asked him, "I wonder who the girl from Mr. Ning's family is?"
Subai said seriously, "They are brother and sister."
Looking at Su Xingzhe being taken away, Su Bai sighed repeatedly. If he was really convicted, he would never come back.
Su Bai also heard Su Xingzhe keep saying that Ning Jing deliberately framed him, which was confusing. It was impossible for Ning Jing to steal the sample papers and put them in his house, but the official arrested him directly and did not search him.
And Su Bai felt that it was impossible for Ningjing to do such a thing.
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County government.
"Everything you asked me to do has been done. I just didn't expect that Ningjing would not be successful." The chief examiner said respectfully.
Sitting in the main seat was a handsome young man with a playful look on his face, "It's really a scheming thing to be able to make friends with Xing Yusheng. I'll meet him tomorrow."
The door opened, and a man walked in. The handsome man waved his hand, and the examiner bowed and left.
"Have you seen Ning Jing?" the handsome man asked.
The man nodded, "Yes." Then he recounted what he had seen after arriving in Sujia Village.
Finally, he said, "Ningjing has a sister, the girl whom I met in a restaurant on the day of the college entrance examination. The master said that he felt a little special."
"Oh?" Mr. Huafu was surprised, "She is actually Ning Jing's sister?"
"My subordinates inquired, and found out that she is not a biological sister, but a sworn brother and sister. The girl is a doctor. I heard that she has good medical skills. She grew up in the capital. Her grandfather and master may know that her name is Su Yuanzhou."
The handsome man's eyes narrowed, "Who?"
"Su Yuanzhou." The man repeated again.
The handsome man's face darkened, "Isn't the whole family dead? Why is there still a granddaughter alive?"
"My subordinates were very surprised when they learned about her identity. I don't know how she escaped. There was no news in the capital, and no one here knew what Su Yuanzhou had done."
After being silent for a long time, Mr. Huafu snorted coldly, "Tomorrow I will have a good chat with Ning Jing and ask him to hand over Su Liang and take him away when he returns to the capital and execute him!"