After rebirth, the Queen of Madness has gone against the will of Heaven
Chapter 578: Leaked Questions
However, no matter how doubtful you are, you still have to reward what you deserve.
After all, from the surface, the Sea Shark Gang was completely destroyed. Murong Cheng was rewarded for his meritorious service in suppressing the bandits, and Murong Yanhui, who had made meritorious service in protecting the emperor, would certainly not be left out. The sons of the nobles who were injured in the suppression of the bandits also received military merits. Only Wang Shipan died. In order to reward his bravery, Murong Shiling promoted Minister Wang twice and promoted him to the main official in charge of this imperial examination.
Until this moment, everything seemed to make sense.
Yu Qingli listened calmly as Murong Yanhui narrated everything that happened in the court today. In just one day, the portly Minister Wang had become a different person. She just didn't know if he would forget the crying at the city gate yesterday, or if he would be happy about the wealth and glory that came with the death of his own nephew.
A bitter taste suddenly filled her mouth. Yu Qingli lifted her teacup and took a sip before saying, "I heard that 'Purple Air Coming from the East' has recently released some new dishes. Is my little uncle interested in trying them?"
Murong Yanhui was speaking cheerfully when he suddenly heard Yu Qingli say this. His eyes quickly swept over Xiluo, and then he smiled and said, "It's rare for Lili to speak up. I'm honored, honored."
Murong Yanhui shook his head, and Yu Qingli didn't bother to pay attention to him. She and Xiluo got on the carriage first. Murong Yanhui lifted the curtain and got in, smiling, "Lili, are you satisfied with this new carriage?"
Yu Qingli asked in return, "Did the young uncle hear of any beast-taming techniques during his previous expeditions?"
Murong Yanhui frowned, thinking of the Persian who was rescued by Yu Qingli and Xiluo's report about the leopard chasing the man in black. He raised his eyes and asked, "Lili, do you really think it was the shopkeeper who did it?"
"I don't know, that's why I went to check it out today." Yu Qingli's tone was light, but her eyes were deep.
Although she had only met the owner of "Purple Air Coming from the East" twice, she was certain that he was no ordinary person. However, she had only heard of the art of taming beasts in Persia, where many merchants could even make snakes dance by playing instruments, but she had never heard of the art of taming beasts in Dong Tang.
The frown between her eyebrows became more and more tangled, and Murong Yanhui suddenly felt distressed. He subconsciously reached out to press Yu Qingli's eyebrows, pulling the scar on her knuckles, causing her to squeak in pain.
Yu Qingli withdrew her thoughts and looked up at Murong Yanhui. After not seeing him for two or three days, he had actually lost a lot of weight. Although he had washed up and had no stubble, looking at him now, she felt that he had lost his former playfulness and had become more calm, which was the sense of security that a mature man could bring to a woman.
Yu Qingli's heart skipped a beat and she quickly looked away. She cursed herself for not fighting for it and why she was becoming more and more concerned about Murong Yan's return.
Before I could make up my mind to ignore him, the carriage had already stopped.
Murong Yanhui jumped off the carriage first and reached out to help Yu Qingli, but Yu Qingli was in a state of confusion and was unwilling to lend a hand.
She said nothing and insisted on getting out of the car by herself. When she was about to jump down, her skirt was caught on the car frame. Yu Qingli screamed "Ah" and fell forward, directly falling towards the scholar who was about to enter the restaurant.
"Who is so blind?" The scholar turned around angrily, only to see Murong Yan looking at him with a sullen face. He was immediately frightened and changed his expression.
"Sorry, sorry, I have offended you. I have something else to do. Goodbye, goodbye." The scholar ran away in a flash. Murong Yanhui then walked to Yu Qingli and reached out to pull her.
Yu Qingli looked at Murong Yanhui, and thinking about how embarrassed she was, her cheeks turned red.
Murong Yan looked back at Yu Qingli who was hesitant, thinking that she had broken her leg. She frowned and picked up Yu Qingli, carrying her sideways and walking towards the box on the top floor.
Yu Qingli struggled desperately in Murong Yanhui's arms. Murong Yanhui glared at her dissatisfiedly and said, "If you continue to act so awkward, aren't you afraid that everyone in the building will see it?"
Yu Qingli immediately stopped moving. Murong Yanhui sighed helplessly, "I'm not even afraid of rumors of homosexuality tomorrow, so what are you afraid of as a disguised person?"
Entering the private room, Yu Qingli hastily opened the window, fearing that Murong Yan would make another noise. Just as she was lost in thought, she heard someone shout, "What? Test questions?!"
From the next room, a loud "test question" was called out. Even though Yu Qingli and Murong Yanhui didn't want to listen, they heard it. They looked at each other and simultaneously leaned towards the wall, as if to hear more clearly.
Murong Yanhui even forgot that he knew martial arts and didn't need to pay attention at all.
Yu Qingli stuck to the topic for a while and couldn't help but frown. "This person is so annoying. He shouted 'leaking the test questions' so loudly that it piqued my interest, but now he's silent."
Murong Yan glanced sideways, only then realizing that she and Yu Qingli were in an ambiguous position. Face to face, their noses only inches apart, their breathing quickened, their hot breath spraying onto each other's cheeks, carrying a faint fragrance. The temperature in the air suddenly seemed to have risen by more than ten degrees.
Yu Qingli leaned back hurriedly, adjusted her hair awkwardly, and said, "I don't know what's going on."
Murong Yanhui also sat up straight and said, "Isn't this simple?" As he spoke, he put his fingers together like swords and poked a small hole in the wall of the room with a swish.
A strong smell of alcohol came out of the small hole. Yu Qingli frowned, but thought in her heart that only a drunk person would have the courage to say such things.
But could this drunken talk be taken seriously? Perhaps it was just a few students guessing the test questions together, a common occurrence before exams.
With doubt in his heart, he leaned closer to the small hole and looked. There were no scholars in the box opposite. Most of them were familiar faces. They were either the sons of Governor Li or the nephews of a certain minister. They were all rich or noble.
Among them, Governor Li's son was the most drunk, and his strong voice revealed that it was him who had shouted just now. Therefore, Yu Qingli also paid more attention to him.
He took a gulp from the wine jug in his right hand, then with his left hand, he reached over to a man and asked, "Can't you really do this? This is a capital crime."
"You, if you're caught, you'll be beheaded. If you're not caught, who's going to kill you? Besides, we've already agreed to sell it at the teahouse outside your yard. Someone will pay, and then they can pick up the questions wherever they want. There won't be any traces left, and even if they're caught, they won't know it was us who provided the questions, right?"
"But how do you accept the money?" Li Dudu's son frowned and asked, "If you accept the money, won't you be caught?"
"You don't have to worry about this. My father runs a bank. I can just create a fictitious person and cancel the account after the job is done. Who can find out?" Another young man smiled obscenely.
"You're quite thoughtful," said Li Dudu's son, drunkenly, "but what good does it do me, a military candidate, to get involved with you, the civil candidates?"
"Don't worry, good things will happen to you." The man reached into his sleeve and pulled out a stack of banknotes. "This is just a deposit. There will be a balance after the matter is completed."
"But, you guys, Wen Ju, come to my house all the time, my dad..."
"Don't worry about that. We've already thought about it. Just say that this time we went to suppress the bandits and were deeply hurt, so we came to learn martial arts from you."
Governor Li's son snorted and said disdainfully, "You are very thoughtful." While saying that, his hands had already put all the banknotes into his pocket.
Everyone understood what was going on as soon as they saw it, and continued to clink glasses, making the atmosphere even more lively this time.
Yu Qingli snorted coldly and sat back in her chair, but she was thinking in her heart, who had the courage to leak the test questions, especially when all the people in the imperial examination were personally selected by Murong Cheng. Could it be that there was a spy around Murong Cheng?
A spy?! Yu Qingli suddenly thought of someone—Minister Wang.
Only this newly promoted celebrity in charge of the scientific expedition was an unexpected event that Murong Cheng could not control. But why did he do that?
Murong Yanhui had already figured out the key to this. He gently poured a cup of tea and handed it to Yu Qingli, saying softly, "I didn't expect that Minister Wang really treats Wang Shipan as his own son."
Yu Qingli was shocked by the words, but she finally felt relieved. Murong Feng initially wanted to take charge of the imperial examinations, but Murong Shiling refused. So he wanted to use this opportunity to attack Murong Cheng. Unfortunately, the officials in charge of the imperial examinations were all Murong Cheng's diehards or Murong Shiling's men. Murong Feng had no idea where to start, so he could only think of planting someone close to Murong Cheng. Coincidentally, Wang Shipan was killed at this time, so Murong Feng asked Sha Qianli to take the blame and deal with Minister Wang.
Unfortunately, plans couldn't keep pace with events. Sha Qianli robbed the prison overnight and escaped. Furthermore, Murong Yanhui left a note on the prefect's body. Murong Feng was forced to evade the prefect as a suspect, which in turn gave him a golden opportunity. He could either take advantage of the situation to suppress the bandits and kill Murong Cheng, or, as a second best option, kill Wang Shipan, so that Minister Wang would believe that Murong Cheng's decision-making mistakes had led to his nephew's death at the hands of the Sea Shark Gang.
In this case, what else did Minister Wang have to worry about? The only offspring of the Wang family had died, and the Wang family's incense was cut off from then on. In his extreme grief, Minister Wang would definitely vent his anger on Murong Cheng, and it would be natural for him to agree to Murong Feng's leak of the exam questions.
Yu Qingli figured out the key to this and couldn't help but snort coldly, "It's really a good strategy that can be used for both offense and defense."
In her previous life, she suffered a lot from this man. If she hadn't learned her lesson and been careful in this life, how could she have discovered Murong Feng's true character?
Thinking of what Murong Yanhui said, how he defended Murong Cheng in tears in the court, Yu Qingli felt a chill in her heart. This man was like a snake hiding in the dark. He looked peaceful but was actually poisonous to the core.
He was able to take advantage of this series of misfortunes and cope with them with ease, and finally reached a result that satisfied him the most. Now all he has to do is wait patiently for the scientific examination to be over, right?
At that time, the crime of leaking the test questions will fall on Murong Cheng's shoulders.
What a vicious plan, what a cruel heart!
Yu Qingli clenched her fists and glanced coldly at the person in the small hole.
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