the other side.
"I heard that the class is open today, why don't we go and have a look after school? Maybe we can see the prime minister."
In the quiet study room on the second floor of Yamato Academy, a group of students who recorded books were discussing.
"Is it the case of Taifu student Meng Qi's death in the street? Didn't it mean that the murderer has been caught, and the court will be opened today? Is it open to the public to watch? Trial in the government office?"
"It's not the Fucheng Yamen, it's the Criminal Department's Yamen. I heard that Meng Qi has a high status and his father is from the third-rank officials' department. This case cannot be handled by the Fucheng Yamen. Only the Criminal Department is qualified to handle it." "Then who is the murderer? Why?" Want to kill Meng Qi?"
"It seems that Meng Qi molested a good girl and let his younger brother beat him up. If he didn't pay attention, he beat someone to death..."
"Tsk, a gentle scum, you are still a student in the Imperial Palace, it's really embarrassing for us scholars..."
Everyone, you and me, the originally quiet study suddenly became noisy.
Seeing this, a young man in a green robe and gauze crown at the back of the crowd got up helplessly, gathered his four treasures of the study, turned around and was about to leave.
The classmates who were closer to him hurriedly called him: "Yun Chengzhi, where are you going? Have you finished writing?"
The young man in the green robe didn't even look back, he just waved his hands and said, "I'm going to write in the yard, just to blow some wind."
There was a flash of struggle on the classmate's face, and finally hesitated, grabbed the book bag, and followed.
"Yun Chengzhi, Yun Chengzhi..."
The classmates chased after him chatteringly, Yun Chengzhi spread the pen and paper on the stone table in the courtyard, looked up at the other party casually, and asked, "What's the matter?"
"That Meng Qi..." The classmate moved closer to him and lowered his voice: "It's that prison student from the Taifu. Do you have...some relationship with him?"
The young man paused his paper-laying hand, raised his eyes sharply, and stared at his classmate: "What did you say
"That's the time..." The classmate pursed his lips: "It was the time at the back door of the academy, didn't he give you money? Yun Chengzhi, what's your relationship?"
The young man called Yun Chengzhi frowned, his expression visibly serious: "The back door of the academy, what else did you see?"
"No." The classmate shook his head quickly: "I didn't see anything, I just saw the two of you talking, and then he gave you a bag of money, Yun Chengzhi, I didn't mean to ask about you, but
You and I are both poor students from the Northwest. We should watch out for each other and help each other. There are many temptations in the world of flowers and flowers in central Beijing. If you get too close to those official children, it will never be good.
That's right, I wanted to talk to you about this before, but I never found the opportunity. Now that Meng Qi is dead, I'm asking this because I'm afraid that you will be involved in something..."
"I won't get involved." The young man with a cold face lowered his eyes, and after a while, he raised them again: "I have nothing to do with him. I accidentally saw something during that encounter on the street. He was afraid
I spread it all over the place, that's why I'm being paid to keep my mouth shut. "
The classmate was originally an outsider, and seeing that the person involved obviously didn't want to mention it, he couldn't ask any further questions, so he just said: "Anyway, you can do it yourself, we came to Beijing from the city and county for the exam.
For example, there are still so many relatives and friends at home waiting for us to return home. The personnel affairs in Beijing have nothing to do with us. If we can avoid contamination, we will not be contaminated. "
The young man nodded, he didn't want to say more about it, and was about to pick up his pen to write an article, but he heard the voice of the concierge uncle from outside the flower hall.
"Where are the Yun students who came to Cheng County? There are people looking for them outside."
Laicheng County is a small place in the northwest frontier. In the entire Yamato Academy, there are only two people from Laicheng County, and only one of them has the surname Yun.
The classmate couldn't help but glance at Yun Chengzhi.
Yun Chengzhi responded casually, "Here we are", put down the pen and paper, and walked away.
But outside the main entrance of the academy, Yun Chengzhi raised his head and saw the tall and straight man with a stern temperament and a thin expression, a momentary confusion still appeared in the eyes of the seventeen-year-old boy.
, asked: "Sir, are you looking for me?"
"Yun Chengzhi?" The other party turned around completely, looked at him, and asked this sentence with a cold voice and scrutinizing eyes.
Yun Chengzhi nodded, and said: "The student is right, I don't know your Excellency... Hey, wait, you..."
Before the question was finished, Yun Chengzhi watched helplessly as his hand was grabbed by the other party, and then just as he was stunned for a moment, the other party had already pulled him away vigorously, and threw it away.
Into the carriage on the street. Abo, the concierge of the academy, was startled, and was about to step forward to save people.
But the indifferent man seemed to have eyes behind him, took out a token, and placed it right in front of the porter's Uncle.
It reads—Ru descended to the palace to command, supervise and envoy!
Uncle the concierge didn't dare to move anymore, he honestly watched the military officer from Ru Jiang's palace, and dragged away the scholars from their academy neatly.
On the carriage, Yun Chengzhi was holding his crooked hair gauze crown, and was about to get angry, when he saw that there were four other people in the carriage besides himself, and these four people, for some reason,
, They were all covered in their heads, gagged, and tied their hands behind their backs.
"Mom."
The words "captive and extortion" flashed through the young man's mind. He was flustered and held onto the car frame tremblingly. He said pitifully to the man who was driving: "Mr.
I'm just a scholar with no property and a poor family. If you want money, I really don't have it. Besides, I'm not a native.
If the family asks for money, it may not be a short while... "
"You are from the city, I know." The man's voice was still cold, but what he said made the young man's heart even colder.
He even inquired about his background and hometown, it really was a deliberate kidnapping!
"Young master, what on earth are you..."
"Yun Liangzhi is your younger brother?"
Yun Chengzhi paused when he heard the words, and subconsciously blurted out: "Black egg?"
The man driving the car smiled: "What a coincidence."
…
After about a quarter of an hour, the carriage stopped securely outside the Yamen of the Ministry of Punishment.
Yun Chengzhi cautiously jumped out of the carriage, and just as he was about to run away, seven or eight stern-faced government servants rushed up beside him at some point, and immediately surrounded him.
"There are four more in the car." Yun Chengzhi heard the man give instructions to the guards, then glanced at himself, and pulled his arm.
Yun Chengzhi didn't know why he was dragged into the gate of the Criminal Department by this man. Just as he was panicking and frightened, two more guards came and took him over.
"Yun Chengzhi, the eyewitness on the day Meng Qi was injured." The man confessed, then glanced at him, smiled and said, "Your brother is much smarter than you, at least he will call uncle when we meet."
Yun Chengzhi blinked blankly: "Uncle...Uncle?"
The man raised his chin: "Go in, your aunt is inside."
Yun Chengzhi was completely dumbfounded: "Gu... aunt?"