On August 21, the tenth year of Guangde, the last day of the first autumn festival in Shuntian Prefecture.
Although Sun Shaozong was an invigilator for the first time, he also knew that this final sprint stage was the time when fraud occurred frequently.
So even though he hadn't had a good night's sleep for four days in a row, he still put on an energetic posture and patrolled the exam room.
"I passed, I passed the exam! Hahaha... I'm a master of juren, and I'm going to be an official! Hahaha..."
Suddenly, a frantic laughter came from not far away.
Sun Shaozong paused for a moment, waved his hand behind him, and immediately a few soldiers rushed towards the place where the voice came from, and after a while, there was a roar of fighting.
"Let go of me! You dare to be rude to this official, I must participate in the performance of Your Majesty, I want to participate in..."
But soon, the riot was dead again, and then a few military men dragged a comatose scholar out of the examination room like a dog was dragged to death.
"Old rules."
Sun Shaozong indifferently instructed: "First pour cold water twice, and then slap a few times to frighten him. If he still can't wake up, he will be tied to the shed in the west."
I have to say that the pressure of this imperial examination is much higher than that of the college entrance examination, and coupled with the poor conditions of the examination room, it is not uncommon to drive one or two crazy.
Like Fan Jin, who went mad after passing the exam, and still wakes up, is already blessed by the ancestors.
In fact, being crazy in the exam room is a lifetime, and there are many people!
These are still due to their own fragile hearts, and those who fell off the list due to accidents are more easily stimulated.
For example, those who were caught in a fire and were affected by pond fish, those who drank raw water from the examination room and suffered from dysentery, those who suddenly collapsed in the examination room and were buried below…
Yesterday, I heard a gossip from Hanlin from the South, saying that they were still taking exams there, and they were suddenly bitten by poisonous snakes and insects.
And because they were allowed to enter and were not allowed to leave the examination room, they couldn't get timely treatment at all, so they could only watch the poisoned examinees wailing and dying.
Anyway, it boils down to one sentence: being a reader is not easy!
But this is only their own feeling. If Sun Shaozong is to evaluate, these literati are pure sluts and hypocritical—except for being punished during exams, which of them are not treated more favorably than ordinary people
Not to mention anything else, let’s talk about the refugees outside the city today. Anyone who has the status of a scholar can not only apply for additional relief from the Shuntian Prefecture, but also enter the city to look for a job. Compared with other refugees, it is a world of difference. !
Not to mention the big family with no children, who took the opportunity to choose a quick son-in-law among the young scholars who suffered from the disaster.
Of course, there are also some gays who are looking at the chrysanthemums of the scholars in the name of recruiting relatives...
Huh
Just thinking about whether there are any of these, Sun Shaozong suddenly stopped again, his eyes fixed on a candidate in front of the left, he nodded with his chin, and ordered, "Go up and search!"
A few military men were about to start when they heard the words, but saw the candidate slipped to the ground along the wooden board under his buttocks, and then kowtowed as if pounding garlic: "Sir, please forgive me!"
What did the military men care about him shouting
After rushing up to three and five and dividing by two, he stripped the scholar to the bare bones. Sure enough, he found dozens of cheat sheets in the lining of his underwear!
"grown ups!"
The leader of the military man gritted his teeth and said: "I will go and call up the people who were in charge of the search and inspection, and see that it is that bastard who dares to trap adults in injustice!"
These soldiers were all temporarily transferred from the patrol battalion, and they were basically the subordinates of the cheap elder brother Sun Shaozu.
Now that there are such mistakes, not to mention that Sun Shaozong can't explain it here, even if he returns to the military camp in the future, I'm afraid that he won't be able to ask for anything, so this soldier is so angry.
"It has nothing to do with the person in charge of the search."
Sun Shaozong shook his head and said: "This person is white and clean, and even the wooden board used has been wiped repeatedly, but the neckline of the underwear is full of sludge, which is completely opposite to his clean personality, and the fabric used for this underwear is also much different from the outerwear. …”
After a pause, he instructed again: "Go check the people guarding the latrines nearby, and see if there are any undergarments that don't match your identity - find out and put a 30-pound flail on me, and pull it to the door to show the public!"
"As ordered!"
Those soldiers and Han took orders, and Sun Shaozong continued to patrol.
Seeing that the circle was about to be completed, Sun Shaozong was preparing to go to the examiner to discuss the details of the roll-up.
Suddenly I saw a gatekeeper hurried over and shouted: "Master! There was a murder case in Wanping County, and now the county magistrate of Daxing County has come here, and I want to ask you to give me some advice."
There was a murder case in Wanping County, and the county magistrate of Daxing County came to ask for advice
This sounds very strange.
However, Sun Shaozong thought about it for a while and guessed that 80% of the cases were committed by the 'bloody' murderer.
Although according to the rules, unless called by the emperor, the examination room personnel are not allowed to leave without authorization during the autumn season.
But under the surveillance of the yamen through the gate, it's still okay to have a few conversations with the people outside, especially if this is a major case of human death, there is no need to worry that someone will think in a wrong place.
So Sun Shaozong hurried to the front door of Gongyuan, only to see that in addition to Daxing County's prime minister Su Xingfang, there was also Jiang Laoqi, the head of Wanping County's arrest squad.
And the intention of these two people, as expected by Sun Shaozong, is precisely for the 'blood' case!
After listening to Sun Shaozong's analysis that day, Daxing County cast a big net to capture the murderer on August 20th, but in the end, nothing came of it.
At that time, Wang Qian also complained that Sun Shaozong's analysis was completely nonsense.
Who would have guessed that this morning, someone found that Lin Zongmao, who was patrolling the streets in Wanping County, was killed in the alley in front of his house. The word 'Shen Dian' was written in blood on his chest, and he was also stabbed with a single knife. heart to death.
It stands to reason that Wanping County should be responsible for this case.
However, Xu Huaizhi, the magistrate of Wanping County, said that Daxing County has already filed a case for this, and it should be dealt with together to make it easier to find the murderer.
Moreover, two people died in Daxing County, and only one died in Wanping County. Naturally, Daxing County should be the main one and Wanping County should be supplemented.
That's why this happened, the spectacle of the Daxing county magistrate taking Wan Ping to investigate the case.
"After our preliminary investigation, there should be no relationship between the three victims."
Su Xingfang said with a wry smile across the doorway, "Besides that we didn't find any useful clues at the scene, I really can't find out. In order to avoid more dead people, I have to trouble you again."
Indeed, the most fearful thing about investigating a case is this kind of perverted random murder case!
Especially in ancient times when science was underdeveloped, it was even more difficult to find the murderer.
In general, however, a planned serial random murder case like this often has its own internal connection under the seemingly illogical surface.
As for this case...
Sun Shaozong went through the general case in his mind, and suddenly asked Jiang Laoqi: "Jiang Bantou, I don't know how this dead person is patrolling the streets to catch fast, how is it in the public opinion?"