The Legend of the Farm Girl

Hearing Li Muwen's words, Lu Yunze's expression changed and he became visibly nervous.

The ministers, who had originally trusted him very much, began to feel doubtful after noticing the change in his expression.

However, the emperor did not give Lu Yunze any chance to defend himself and directly ordered Yunfang to come to the court.

Let's not talk about Yunfang's greetings for now, just listen to the emperor asking her: "Lord Li said that you have evidence to prove that the poems and articles written by Lu Yunze were all written by your master, and you taught him. What evidence do you have? Submit it quickly."

Yun Fang showed no sign of panic and said, "Your Majesty. My master passed away when I was very young. She asked me to recite these poems and articles when I was a child. Because Lu Yunze wanted them urgently, I barely searched for them in my memory and memorized them. But later I remembered that I wrote some sentences upside down and there were some typos.

Later, I heard from my husband's classmates that there was a young man named Lu Yunze in the capital who had written many amazing works. Those amazing works were clearly what my master asked me to recite, so how could they be written by Lu Yunze? Moreover, those inverted sentences and misspelled words were actually circulated exactly as they were.

I know that Lu Yunze is the son of the Minister of Rites, a second-rank official. I have no power and influence, so I have no chance to expose him. Fortunately, Your Majesty is wise and allowed me to come to the hall to point out the fact that he plagiarized in person.

Next, please listen to me about the sentences I wrote upside down and the words I wrote incorrectly! "

Yunfang pointed out one by one the sentences that had been deliberately written upside down and the wrong words. There were all great scholars in the court, and every time Yunfang pointed out a point, they would discuss it in private.

Someone said, "No wonder I thought this sentence was weird at the time. It didn't fit the overall mood."

Someone else said: "Ah, I thought this word was written wrong, and I thought I didn't understand the deep meaning, but it turns out that it is really written wrong."

What Yunfang said was the original sentence of the article, so it fits the whole article better than the wrong one. There was no mistake that would make people suspicious, and everyone felt like they had suddenly realized something.

With every word Yunfang said, Lu Yunze's face turned paler. After Yunfang pointed out more than a dozen mistakes, Lu Yunze's face was completely pale.

Looking at his expression and staggering body, everyone understood that Lu Yun must have plagiarized Yun Fang's poems and articles.

What followed was even louder discussions.

"I didn't expect that the son of Minister Lu is actually a fool. I don't know how he got the title of No. 1 in the imperial examination!"

Lu Yunze still had some rationality at this time. His plagiarism of poems and articles was at most a sign of poor personal ethics. But if others found out that his imperial examination essay was written by someone else after the questions were leaked, he would be killed without a complete body.

So at this time Lu Yunze chose to pretend to faint, hoping that the situation would not escalate and end here.

The moment he fainted, indeed, the whole hall fell silent.

However, the emperor did not order someone to drag him away as he had expected, but instead asked Zheng Lin to pour a glass of water to wake him up.

The emperor knew that he had to give an explanation to Yunfang and Li Muwen at this time, and he had to deal with Lu Yunze seriously to satisfy them.

He also suspected that the essays Lu Yunze used in the imperial examination were not written by him, but were plagiarized from others using the same method.

Even more serious than this method is the possibility that the test questions will be leaked.

In short, no matter what the reason is, he must investigate Lu Yunze thoroughly.

Zheng Lin took the cup of water and splashed it on Lu Yunze's face. Lu Yunze had to slowly wake up. He knew that if the cup of water didn't wake him up, the emperor would summon the imperial physician, and then he would be punished for deceiving the emperor.

After Lu Yunze woke up, he immediately knelt on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, when I was young and ignorant, I took Master Yunfang's poems and articles as my own for the sake of my own reputation. I am willing to accept the punishment. I am also willing to apologize to Lord Li and his wife."

At this moment, Lu Yunze only wanted to cover up the fact that he got the top spot in an illegitimate way by admitting this matter.

Plagiarizing other people's poems and articles would indeed be despised by scholars all over the world. He might make no progress in his official career from now on, or even be dismissed directly, but as long as the cheating in the imperial examination was not exposed, he could at least save his life.

The emperor looked at him deeply, and then said, "Zheng Lin, pass on my order to bring over the essay written by Lu Yunze for the palace examination."

Since ancient times, the essays of the top three candidates in the palace examination have been kept in the imperial palace. In fact, the emperor wanted to check the essays of the palace examination, but the essays of the examination were kept in the Imperial Academy. So the fastest way to start is to start with the palace examination essays.

After the essays of the top three candidates in the palace examination are selected by the examiners and approved by the emperor, they will never be seen by others and only the emperor can show them.

Therefore, the articles written during the joint examination will be circulated, but the articles written during the palace examination will not be circulated.

After the emperor got Lu Yunze's test paper, he asked him a few questions about the allusions in his essay. Lu Yunze's answers were stumbling, and some were even completely wrong. This time, Lu Yunze not only turned pale, but also collapsed to the ground.

In fact, if one asked Lu Yunze about the allusions in the essay he wrote during the imperial examination, he would be able to answer it now because he had memorized it carefully.

However, the questions for the palace examination were written by the emperor and no one knew which one would be tested. Of course, the Lu family had a prince who stood on their side, the eldest son born to the first queen.

He is also the most powerful prince in the palace.

Therefore, he provided the Lu family with all the test questions given by the princes. Then, Minister Lu, fearing to alert the enemy, did not ask anyone else to write for him this time. He gave an answer to all the test questions.

After writing these, the time for the palace examination was very close. Lu Yunze could only memorize them and had no time to understand the allusions.

It can only be said that Lu Shangshu’s literary skills are really not to be underestimated, and he easily won the top spot.

Lu Yunze was soon assigned to the Imperial Academy, and no one expected that Li Muwen would be assigned to Liangzhou as the governor. At that time, everyone's attention was not on Lu Yunze, but on Li Muwen.

Everyone was watching how Li Muwen would perform, so no one cared about Lu Yunze. Of course, no one cared about what stories Lu Yunze would write about in his imperial examination essays.

So after winning the first prize, Lu Yunze started to live a life of debauchery. Minister Lu wanted to find him to recite the allusions he used, but he couldn't find him.

Just like that, after a long time, Minister Lu also felt that no one would find out Lu Yunze's palace examination essay again.

So Lu Yunze had no idea what those allusions were talking about.

Lu Yunze's current performance has proven that his position as the top scholar was not achieved by his own strength.

The emperor stood up and said angrily, "Come here, take Lu Yunze to the Tianlao, and the Dali Temple will work with Prince Su to investigate this matter. I want to know the whole story. No official is allowed to stop the Dali Temple from handling the case."

All the ministers immediately knelt on the ground and said in unison: "Your Majesty, please calm down. We will obey your order."