After giving up being the wife of a powerful official, Ling Yunlu became a concubine

He called Fulu over and whispered some instructions to him, and Fulu turned and left.

Originally, Xiao Minshen was not sure that he could save Minister Gao's youngest son.

Now, he thought of a way to save people.

Xiao Minshen entered the palace, kowtowed to the emperor, and handed the box to him.

"This is what Minister Gao told me to do. I found it at the place he told me to go. He has a request. He wants the Emperor to show mercy and save his youngest son's life."

As he spoke, he took out the jade pendant that Minister Gao had given him and handed it over as well.

The emperor opened the box with a puzzled look on his face, took out a letter and read it, then took out another one, and read more than ten letters in a row.

With shaking hands, he threw the letter onto the dragon desk.

"On my way here just now, I heard that Minister Gao committed suicide out of fear of punishment."

The emperor couldn't help but throw the inkstone at hand away, "Evil son!"

Xiao Minshen lowered his head, stood there silently, watching his ears and nose, and thinking.

After a while, the emperor sighed.

"Selecting powerful officials is of utmost importance to the country. Lao Wu, continue to investigate and resolve this matter at the source."

He picked up the jade pendant and took a look at it. It was the reward given to Minister Gao by himself when he was promoted.

"I agree to his request." He handed the jade pendant back to Xiao Minshen.

"On the way here, I sent someone to bring his youngest son out."

Xiao Minshen lowered his head and took back the jade pendant. The emperor pointed at Xiao Minshen and laughed angrily.

"Aren't you afraid that I will punish you for acting on your own initiative?"

Xiao Minshen knew that it was a taboo to try to guess the emperor's intentions, but in an emergency, he had to take a risky move.

"I know that your father is thinking of our past friendship, otherwise he would not have made a judgment until now."

"Good, good, good! You are worthy of being my good son~!" The emperor said as he paced back and forth.

"Xiao Anzi, draft an edict for me. Minister Gao leaked the test paper privately. I sentence the Gao family, both men and women, old and young, to have their property confiscated and be exiled."

Confiscating property and exiling him is already a lenient punishment.

If they could survive, perhaps someone in the Gao family would still be alive.

But that was not Xiao Minshen's concern, he just did his job well.

He left the palace and saw Fulu holding a three-year-old boy, waiting for him.

The boy stared with his pair of black eyes, neither crying nor making a fuss.

Xiao Minshen walked over and put the jade pendant in his hand into his hand, "Take care of yourself."

"Fulu, you and Mo Yi will secretly escort him to Jiangnan and find an ordinary family to adopt him."

"Remember, bring a few more similar kids with you on the journey."

"Master, I am enough on my own. It is better for Mo Yi to follow you."

Among all of Xiao Minshen's secret guards, only Mo Yi has the best kung fu.

"Although the child has a clear path with his father, there is no guarantee that someone with ulterior motives will do something wrong. Safety is the most important thing. You should go as soon as possible and return as soon as possible."

Xiao Minshen made the final decision.

Minister Gao was dead, so Xiao Minshen had to continue the excavation and interrogate Hou San.

"Fifth Prince, I have really told you everything. Can you please let me go? I will burn incense and worship you every day when I go back, okay?"

Hou San was extremely frightened. He dared not eat easily in prison. Even the water he wanted to drink had to be given to the rats first. He would only dare to drink after they were safe.

In just over a month, he became skinny and emaciated.

"Do you think you can survive if you go out now?"

Xiao Minshen specifically asked Fulu to change Hou San's cell, and even the people guarding the cell were his people.

The death of Minister Gao sounded a wake-up call for him.

"But being in prison is also a death sentence. At least when you get out, you can be free for two days."

Hou San shuddered whenever he thought of the prisoner in the cell next to him who tried to steal his food a few days ago and died with foam at the mouth.

"Unfortunately, it is no longer up to you. Do you know that Minister Gao committed suicide?"

"Who knows, there may be people out there who want to kill you. If you take a step out of the prison, your neck will be severed."

Xiao Minshen said this and gestured at his neck.

Hou San collapsed. He crawled to Xiao Minshen's feet and kowtowed continuously.

"Please help me, Fifth Prince! Please help me, Fifth Prince!"

"Now tell me slowly who you gave the test paper to, where you traded it, and what abnormalities you found. Maybe I can save your life."

Hou San trembled and tried his best to recall.

The jailer next to him wrote down what Hou San said.

It took Hou Sancai a full cup of tea to stop.

"No more? Have you thought it through? Maybe you missed a life-saving clue."

Hou San recalled carefully, seemed to have thought of something, and hesitated for a moment.

"That day, Minister Gao gave me the test questions as usual, and then ordered someone to give me some women's clothes."

"Before, I always went out through the side door. But that day, he asked me to climb over the wall. Until now, I still can't figure out why."

If he hadn't gone through the door but climbed over the wall instead, how could Xiao Minshen have suspected him?

"Prison boss, go and get the stolen goods he brought with him when he came in."

Xiao Minshen wandered around for a while and gave the order.

The jailer brought the things quickly. Xiao Minshen took a look and found that they were exactly the same as what he saw that day.

He looked around and picked out a sweat towel, which was a sweat towel for men.

"Where did this come from?" he asked Hou San.

"This is not small. Small people never use these. Besides, the material of this is obviously not something that ordinary people can afford."

This sweat towel looks pure white, but it actually has dark patterns of auspicious clouds underneath. The silk material is indeed not something that ordinary people can afford.

"Oh, I remember now. It was Minister Gao who gave it to me."

Xiao Minshen thought about it and carefully put the handkerchief into the sachet he carried with him.

"It's safer for you to stay in here. The prison boss is my man. If you remember anything or need anything, tell him."

Hou San asked eagerly, "Can you give me something to eat? I'm really too hungry to bear it."

Xiao Minshen nodded, and the prison boss hurried to make arrangements.

Thanks to Hou San's confession, Xiao Minshen quickly found the location of the transaction and captured all the people inside.

After interrogation, other subordinates were also implicated.

All of a sudden, all the officials involved were thrown into jail.

The exam question leak case that lasted for nearly several months has finally come to an end.

The emperor made a direct and decisive sentence to kill. Some officials involved were beheaded, some had their property confiscated, and some were exiled.

The second prince was called into the palace and scolded by the emperor for an entire afternoon.

Standing outside the hall, one could hear the emperor's angry voice.

It is said that when the second prince came out, he had a big bump on his forehead.

Soon, news came out that the second prince was punished by being confined to his house for a month.