The First National Preceptor of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 195

Upon hearing this, Prime Minister Liu was secretly delighted. The whole of Ningcheng was probably already buzzing about this matter; if that were the case, who would care whether Xu Tian was innocent or not?

He immediately nodded and said, "If my information is wrong, I will certainly punish myself!"

"Okay!" Li Er nodded.

He then selected a group of people and personally went to Ningcheng to investigate: "Minister Wang, thank you for your trouble."

The one addressed as "Minister Wang" was actually the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review.

He is impartial and incorruptible, unmoved by money, making him the best candidate to investigate.

After deciding on the right person, Li Er withdrew from the court.

But he just couldn't get rid of the anger in his heart.

If this matter is the fault of Prime Minister Liu, or even Xu Tian, ​​then he must choose one of them to be severely punished!

The former was punished for inciting infighting among the officials!

The latter is punished for being subjected to malicious words that cannot be rectified!

Such a thing is really disgraceful if it gets out.

Meanwhile, the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, upon receiving the order, has already begun sending people to Ningcheng.

Since it was Li Er who personally gave the order, no one could delay the matter. After everyone had packed their things, they immediately set off for Ningcheng.

Despite rushing around as fast as they could, it still took some time.

When relatives arrived in Ningcheng, the rumors they heard were not about "Xu Tian forcibly abducting a woman," but rather a chorus of positive reviews:

"This Grand Tutor Xu Tian is truly exceptionally approachable, without the airs of a court official at all."

"Yes, yes, I saw him playing with a group of children this morning. Not only that, he also took the children to the fields with him."

"I think that with Grand Tutor Xu around, we probably won't have to go hungry this year."

Upon hearing this, the people from the Dali Temple all looked at each other.

Judging from this, it's highly likely that there was a problem with the information in the process. But regardless, they still needed to investigate further. So they stopped an old man who was gossiping and asked, "Grandpa, is this Xu Tian, ​​the Grand Tutor, really that good?"

“That’s natural. Not long ago, we saw him pay out of his own pocket to save a woman, and he even asked me to treat her.”

It seems they just happened to run into the old doctor who had treated the woman a few days ago.

"Does Grand Tutor Xu have any other women by his side? I have a daughter who is of marriageable age."

The old man nodded, indicating that he understood, and replied, "Grand Tutor Xu rarely has any women around him. Recently, there's only been one. Speaking of which, that woman was seriously injured. Half of her body was covered in blood, and her bones were broken!"

"That woman, was she injured by Xu Tian?" the man asked directly.

"Hey, why are you talking so rudely?!" The old man frowned. "That woman clearly doesn't know Grand Tutor Xu at all. She's been recuperating at the post station these past few days. If she really was injured by Grand Tutor Xu, why didn't she run away long ago? How come she's still jumping around at the post station now?"

After the old man finished speaking, he clearly didn't want to say anything more to him. Instead, he muttered, "Young people these days have such terrible ideas," as he walked back to his clinic.

The man didn't think much of it after being scolded; instead, he prepared to go to the post station to find out what had happened.

As soon as they arrived at the post station, they saw a woman with one foot on a chair, playing a drinking game with a burly man opposite her, while the two of them were betting money on each other.