Geng Ge said, "Ridiculous! County Magistrate Fang, do you know the price of saying this? As a family of the Void Saint, the Lei family will trigger the Three Rites Fire if they do not send a gift to the Void Saint. If you say this, you are denying the great ceremony of offering sacrifices to the heavens and denying the etiquette of our human race! You cannot keep the title of Void Saint!"
Shen Ming smiled sinisterly and said, "Sir County Magistrate, it was just an accident that these two women broke into the Heavenly Sacrifice Ceremony. If they confess their guilt, there might be room for maneuver. But you openly violated the etiquette, so don't blame me, my colleagues in Ning'an County, for reporting you! Everyone, do you dare to join me in writing a petition?"
"Let's go together!" said County Magistrate Tao Dingnian!
"You should follow me!"
Everyone responded.
Ao Huang looked at Fang Yun nervously, fearing that Fang Yun would do something out of line.
In the eyes of others, Fang Yun might just be a somewhat arrogant false saint, but in Ao Huang's eyes, Fang Yun is a true god of killing. Ao Huang really can't think of anything that Fang Yun dare not do.
Fang Yun remained calm, and continued to use the official seal to mobilize the talents of the Holy Temple, forming a powerful force to twist the knife in Yang Yuhuan's hand into a piece of iron, and then stopped restraining Yang Yuhuan.
Fang Yun glanced at the whole place, stroked the little fox and smiled, "They came here to offer inscriptions to the holy temple and pray to the heavens!"
"Well?"
Everyone was stunned. The custom of offering texts has always existed, as early as the Warring States Period. Later, when the Shu Kingdom was in turmoil, Zhuge Liang wrote "Preface to the Three Kingdoms" to offer texts to heaven to express his feelings, which inspired others to follow suit. If a scholar wrote very important poems or articles and was not appreciated, he could pray to heaven and offer texts in the holy temple.
This happens once every ten years or so, but only one out of five or six times is successful.
From the perspective of etiquette, it was completely reasonable for Fang Yun to pray to heaven and offer texts after offering sacrifices to heaven. As long as his family members did not interfere with the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven, they would not be guilty even if they entered the county academy of literature.
Geng Ge sneered and said, "County Magistrate Fang must have taken us for fools! Since he wants to pray to the heavens and offer an article, he must have informed Yang Yuhuan and Su Xiaoxiao, and these two must have participated in the article. I will ask the Rites and the Criminal Court to use the Semi-Saint Articles to verify whether it is true!"
Yang Yuhuan and Su Xiaoxiao's faces changed. The Holy Court Trial was well-known among the human race, because once an important case had problems and it was impossible to determine the authenticity of the participants in the case, the Holy Court could be asked to send down semi-holy texts or projections of legalist holy texts to verify whether a person was lying.
Each school has its own way to circumvent inspection, such as the military strategist's use of deception in war, the diplomat's switch of sides, etc., but at least a university scholar can resist the projection of the semi-saint Wenbao, and at least a great scholar can resist the questioning of the semi-saint Wenbao's entity.
Yang Yuhuan and Su Xiaoxiao were just ordinary people. Without a literary title, they could not withstand the questioning of the projection of the semi-saint Wenbao.
All the officials were observing the expressions of the people, and when they saw the obvious changes in the faces of Yang Yuhuan and Su Xiaoxiao, they immediately realized that Fang Yun had not communicated with them before, and this was a temporary countermeasure that Fang Yun came up with.
Although this countermeasure is good, Geng Ge directly asked the Holy Court to investigate. Even if Fang Yun is a virtual saint, there is no way to stop it, and this matter involves the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the heaven. The Holy Court cannot help Fang Yun even if it wants to, and must enforce the law impartially.
Shen Ming laughed loudly and said, "County Magistrate Fang, you really did something wrong! If you had not cared about it at the beginning, at most the two women would have been executed, and it would not have had much impact on you. But now you are risking the world's condemnation to deceive the Holy Temple and God in order to save the two women. Not only will the two women be executed, but your title of Virtual Saint will also be removed! As for the palace examination, you will be dismissed immediately. You will lose the qualification for the palace examination, hahaha..."
While Shen Ming was speaking, he was holding the official seal and delivering a letter to Ji Zhibai who was far away in the capital.
Shen Ming had a close relationship with the Left Prime Minister's Office. He could laugh out loud, but the other officials did not behave in this way.
Geng Ge just smiled and said, "County Magistrate Fang, you are still young after all. I will report to the Left Prime Minister and ask him to contact the Holy Court to question these two women!"
Fang Yun pretended to be surprised and said, "Geng Sizheng, you misunderstood. Yuhuan and Xiaoxiao didn't know anything about it. They are here to escort the people who are offering the articles! The only people who are offering the articles to the heaven today are me and the little fox in my arms!"
Nunu was stunned and looked up at Fang Yun in confusion. He didn't understand why Fang Yun said that.
Yang Yuhuan and Su Xiaoxiao were also stunned, and then they suddenly realized!
Both of them had heard that Fang Yun had written a book on rhyme.
"Fox Rhymes"!
Fang Yun had been reluctant to take it out before, at first because he was afraid that it would attract too much attention. Later, when he wanted to take it out, he encountered the punishment of the Moon Tree God.
The two knew about "Fox Rhymes", but the others did not.
“Hahahaha…” Geng Ge was a dignified Hanlin, and even though he had not gotten carried away just now, he could not help but burst out laughing when he heard Fang Yun actually say that the person who presented the article was a fox.
Not only Geng Ge was laughing, but Shen Ming and a dozen officials were also laughing. Shen Ming, a simple-minded man who became the chief clerk through connections, was laughing so hard that he held his stomach.
“Hahahaha… This is really making me die of laughter! I’ve lived for so many years and have seen many monsters and goblins, but this is the first time I’ve heard of a beast offering a message. Not to mention beasts, I’ve never even heard of monsters! Ouch… I can’t take it anymore, I’m laughing so hard that my intestines are breaking. Fang Xusheng is really amazing, he can kill people from a distance!”
“Hahahaha…” Some officials laughed even louder because of Shen Ming’s laughter.
However, Shen Ming and others did not notice that the neutral officials did not laugh, and a few officials from the Zuo Xiang party did not laugh either.
They wanted to see Zuo Xiang defeat Fang Yun, and wanted to gain a great benefit after Jing State was annexed by Qing State. However, they did not want to see Fang Yun being humiliated, and even more so, they did not want to see Fang Yun being severely punished!
No matter how opposed their faction is to Fang Yun, they sincerely hope that Fang Yun will write more classic war poems, more good articles, and do more to benefit the human race!
There were many officials from the Zuo Xiang faction present, but when educating their children, they all required them to learn from Fang Yun seriously and even devoutly!
Zuo Xiang is opposed to Fang Yun, but no one is opposed to Fang Yun's poems and articles! No one is opposed to Fang Yun's talent!
If we have to say there is an opposition, it can only be the monsters and barbarians.
Even if they are rebels, they are not hostile to Fang Yun's poems and articles!
A few people even had an unrealistic idea in their minds, which was to hope that Fang Yun could turn the tide, save Jing State from the dire straits, and protect Jing State from destruction!
However, this possibility is too small, almost zero, so they can only suppress this idea in their hearts.
After laughing enough, Geng Ge smiled and said, "County Magistrate Fang is indeed a man of great skill and courage. He used this unprecedented magical method to clear the two women of their charges! But you are smart. According to the laws of our human race, animals cannot serve as witnesses, and we cannot ask the Holy Court to question the fox. But... then we can only ask the Holy Court to question you!"
At the end of his speech, Geng Ge suddenly smiled coldly, revealing a sinister expression, as if he and Fang Yun had an irreconcilable hatred.
Shen Ming smiled and said, "Master Geng, you and I have over-complicated things."
"Oh? What do you mean?" Geng Ge asked.
"When the Holy Court interrogates, they must first verify whether this fox is one of the contributors, and when praying to the heavens for the contribution, they must also verify whether the contributor participated in the writing of the article. County Magistrate Fang, please bring the little fox with you to contribute the article!" Shen Ming's eyes flashed with cunning. (To be continued.)r1052