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Seeing that Li Baolu sat down on the first seat without being in a hurry, everyone couldn't help but straightened their backs, not daring to look down on her.

"Are you here because I sued someone for sabotaging the provincial examination and harming my husband?" Li Baolu raised his eyes and looked at them with piercing eyes.

Everyone didn't expect Li Baolu to be so straightforward, and they all looked at Wen Sheng.

Wen Sheng's gentle face was slightly serious, and he leaned forward slightly, "Exactly, to tell Madam Gu, we are all candidates for this year's reference, but we were all unable to enter the venue due to some accidents. I occasionally heard about Mr. Gu's encounter yesterday, and we all feel sorry for you." I have doubts. There is always something unclear about the hearsay, so I rushed to the door to inquire today, and I hope Madam will forgive me for the offense."

"It's really inconvenient for my husband not to be at home, but I can understand your feelings." Li Baolu paused and said, "However, it may be difficult to pursue this case, because yesterday afternoon, the government has already closed the case with personal grievances." Case closed."

Wen Sheng and the others were still a little embarrassed when they heard the first sentence, and they were at a loss when they heard the last sentence, they were furious, "The case is closed?"

Li Baolu nodded.

Annoyance flashed across Wen Sheng's pale face, and he asked, "Did the government say who had a grudge against Mr. Gu and planned to design Mr. Gu like this?"

"No," Li Baolu said indifferently: "I didn't go to the government office to sign the closing paperwork either. It's a very important matter. I can't make the decision on this matter. Everything can be decided when my husband comes back."

But the government's quick and perfunctory closing of the case still made everyone angry, "There must be tricks in it. I heard that the driver who drove yesterday had more than a dozen accomplices to support him. How can ordinary people do this?"

"Yesterday's case was personally tried by the prefect of Zhou. Who in Guangzhou can let the prefect of Zhou disregard the law and cover criminals?"

Everyone discussed and speculated, and the more they talked, the more angry they became. One or two people couldn't help standing up and shouting: "This matter must not be left alone. If Zhou Zhifu can't give us a reasonable explanation, even if we sue the capital, we will never Back off."

The person who said this was a middle-aged man with a mustache and a frosty face. His skin was dark, his hands and feet were wrinkled, and he looked to be close to fifty. At this moment, his eyes were red, filled with grief and anger.

But in fact, he is only nearly forty years old, which is not too old in the provincial examination, but it is already difficult for him to wait any longer.

Waiting for three years will lose three points of hope. He has studied hard for more than 30 years, and he has to teach and work in the fields after studying. His parents have not bought a new dress for ten years to support him. Many sacrifices.

His younger brother is already twenty-five years old, but he still hasn't married a wife yet.

In order for him to light the lamp every day, his wife bought some paper and pens for him to sell the cloth. His daughter was older than Mrs. Gu in front of him, but her face was yellow and thin, and her body was thin...

In order to make up for the travel expenses for this trip to Guangzhou, Li Zheng personally came forward to help him borrow money from fellow villagers in Yiliwu Village.

The family is heavily in debt now, and he can't even enter the examination room.

The middle-aged man felt sad, and fell to the ground and cried loudly.

The others also knew about his situation, and their eyes turned red as they thought about themselves.

Wen Sheng stepped forward and patted his back, "Brother Qiao, don't be sad. The prefect of Zhou has always valued scholars. As long as we have real evidence to prove that there are indeed people who are plotting to sabotage the rural examination, he will definitely make the decision for us."

Wen Sheng looked at everyone one by one with a pale face, and asked bitterly: "We are scholars with no strength to restrain a chicken, can we be slaughtered by others? Han Chuang has studied hard for many years, just for today, but now But some people don’t even let us enter the examination room, everyone, do you agree to this matter?”

"No!" Everyone roared in unison, hatred and anger flashed in their eyes, they clenched their fists and said: "As long as you can get justice for us, but according to Brother Wen's orders."

Qiao Xu also raised his head to look at Wen Sheng, and said with tears in his eyes, "I'm making you laugh. Although I'm weak, I'm willing to do my best to seek justice for myself."

Wen Sheng collapsed because of diarrhea, let alone entering the examination room, he was afraid of dying in the inn before.

But yesterday, after he did not enter the examination room, his health gradually improved. Although his face was still pale and his body was still weak, his trips to the toilet had been reduced from eight or nine times a day to four or five times a day.

But Qiao Xu injured his right hand. The day before yesterday, that is, the day before the exam, Qiao Xu just came back from the bookstore. He was knocked down by a person who stepped on his arm and ran over...

When he got up profusely in sweat, the other party had already run away, and the moment he learned from the doctor that his arm was broken, he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

He worked hard for half the night, but he couldn't even grasp the pen steadily, let alone write neatly. He should use his left hand, but the writing is also not good.

The cleanliness and font requirements of the imperial examination paper are extremely strict. If a character like his is put on the stage, let alone a hit, the examiner will not even want to take a second look at it.

So Qiao Xu couldn't sleep all night, and the next day he ran to the door of the ceremony room to watch the candidates enter the hall in an orderly manner, but he could only bleed in his heart.

Always frugal, he couldn't help but go to restaurants to get drunk. Who would have known such things from other drinkers?

There are also many doubts about his being hit.

He returned to the inn when the bookstore was about to close. At that time, there were few pedestrians on the street and the road was wide, but the man bumped into him and stepped on his arm...

Qiao Xu was ashamed, "At that time, I was so focused on my own hands that I forgot to sue the officer, let alone look for that person. It may be very difficult to find evidence now."

Others also talked about their own accidents, and the most obvious ones were Wen Sheng who had diarrhea and the other two scholars.

They all started to have diarrhea a few days before the exam, and it gradually became serious, no matter how much medicine they took, it didn't help.

Diarrhea can also kill people, so how dare they risk their lives to enter the examination room?

There was no medicine in it, and they even ate the hard steamed buns they brought with them. If they wanted to gain fame in the exam, they had to save their lives first.

Coincidentally, the three of them lived in the same inn, and the same doctor was invited after diarrhea. This is the direction to solve the case.

Wen Sheng also said: "I haven't finished the medicine prescribed by the doctor. I also kept the dregs of the medicine that I boiled yesterday. If we were drugged, the doctor should be able to tell it, but he only said that I was not acclimatized, and my stomach Discomfort, give me happy, gentle and tonic medicine. At the beginning, I had to go to the toilet about ten times a day. After taking the medicine, I only needed to go to the toilet eight or nine times a day. Because it was effective, I never changed doctors. It doesn't get better anymore, instead it becomes fixed like a stubborn disease..."

"This is also the case below..."

"Me too……"

When the three of them said this, everyone's eyes lit up, "Nine out of ten times out of ten, this doctor has a problem, so ask him."

Li Baolu sat calmly and looked at them, and said after a long time: "I advise you to speed up, when I turned those gangsters to the government office yesterday, I vaguely heard that one of them is a member of Ou Tong's family."

Wen Sheng's heart sank, and he exchanged a glance with everyone, "Madam Gu heard right?"

"No, and because I heard it right, I dare not go out today after the people from the government office came yesterday. I will not dare to make a decision until my husband comes out."

Everyone understood that Li Baolu was a womanizer after all, and if this matter was really related to Ou Tong's judgment, Li Baolu's reckless rampage would definitely be dangerous.

In the same way, it can be proved that if these powerless and powerless scholars are too aggressive, it will be dangerous, but the speed must be slow, and the evidence may be destroyed.

Everyone couldn't sit still any longer, so they got up and said goodbye.

Li Baolu didn't bring tea to see off the guests, but instead talked about Gu Jingyun's scheme in detail, and asked Shun Xin to bring three portraits from the study.

Li Baolu handed the portrait to Wen Sheng, "Mr. Wen, this man is the one who sold the croton to the cook. We drew it based on the cook's memories. There may be some discrepancies, but the basic characteristics are all there; The man who was going to hit us, and this is the guy in the inn who almost poured our pot of boiling water. I can't help you much, please forgive me."

Li Baolu knew that the murderer was Ou Dunyi and that Yuan Fang was involved, but she had no evidence.

Ou Dunyi was able to be found out because of Zhao Ning's wide network and good popularity. After finding out that Ou Dunyi had private contact with the inn clerk, it was the result of Li Baolu's stalking that he could be sure that the murderer was him.

She couldn't tell others that she had been with Ou Dunyi for a day, she knew it from his conversation with the bookboy, right?

What's more, she couldn't tell others that she suspected Yuan Fang because she overheard the conversation between Ou Dunyi's bookboy and the boy. Evidence is what matters in handling a case. What these scholars need is definite evidence, not speculation.

So Li Baolu can only help them so much, and she needs their help to contain Zhou Zhifu and Ou Tongsan, so that they dare not interfere with the township examination.

The wrath of the students is only behind the wrath of the righteous people. They have no force, but they can make the court burn with just a single word.

The premise is that there are enough of them.

Wen Sheng counted the number of people and determined that there were as many as twenty-three candidates who were unable to take the exam due to unexpected accidents, and were recognized as above-average candidates, and five of them were lying in bed and unable to get up.

Yiren has the same diarrhea as Wen Sheng, but he is even worse. He has blood in his stools and can't even get out of bed. Since he arrived in Guangzhou, he has often participated in various literary and poetry meetings. You should be able to pass the second township examination, and your grades will not be too bad.

The two were hit by a flower pot that fell from the sky because they were walking on the street. They were walking side by side at the time. One of them must have blocked the other with his hand from behind the flower pot that fell from the sky. seriously injured. One arm was broken, and the other flower pot slowed down and continued to hit his neck and shoulders, causing him to faint. After waking up, half of his body was numb. Let alone a reference, he still cannot get up.

Another person stepped on a puddle of water when he got up at night and slipped, broke his leg, and sprained his hand. According to him, his room was always dry. He neither took a bath nor ordered tea that day. A puddle of water appeared for no reason.

The last person was drunk. He was too nervous before the exam. He secretly got up at night and drank a glass of wine to help him fall asleep. He also hit his master several times, his face was swollen and he didn't wake him up, which scared him to ask for a doctor.

But the doctor said that he was asleep, and he would wake up naturally when he had enough sleep, but it had been a day and two nights, and he was still lying still.

Although the other 18 people had their own problems and pains, they all got up and rushed to meet Wen Sheng.

Twenty-three people, except for one who was unconscious, all of them jointly filed a petition, hoping that Zhou Yi would merge their cases and re-investigate the matter.

It was the fourth day of the township examination when the joint letter was delivered to Zhou Yi. At the same time, he received news that the group of scholars had found Oufu, which proved that it was the Ou family servant who blocked the Gu family's carriage at that time...