Dao Fruit

"How could Master Wen cheat?"

Xu Ran's voice had no effect on the situation, but Wen Zhizhen's eyes regained their spirit after seeing her.

The sudden change just now caught him off guard. Someone actually said that he cheated, which caused many candidates to question him. Although there were people defending him, the pressure was still inevitable.

People were talking from all sides. The words in the words were related to him, but they were slandering him and damaging his reputation. One by one, they were serious, like a poisonous snake biting his heart. He could clearly feel that the popularity and reputation he had accumulated with great difficulty were gradually collapsing.

Not only that, behind the collapse, it was not a flat ground, but an abyss.

The voice came, and his head was confused. He was stunned on the spot, feeling that what happened was unreal.

It was not until the two came to take him that he came to his senses and tried to persuade them, but they were determined and not bewitched. This made Wen Zhizhen a little worried and frightened. Although he did not know the process and background of the whole cheating incident, he knew that someone wanted to use him as a scapegoat.

He was famous, had a weak background, and had no real foundation in the capital. Most importantly, Wen Zhizhen knew the hidden problems in his test paper. He had spent a lot of effort to study the minds of several people who might become examiners in advance and carefully constructed them.

It must be said that Wen Zhizhen was really smart. When he was in Jiangnan, he always paid attention to the direction of the court. He would try to take a look at the reports sent to him.

The characteristics, temperaments, and opinions of the people in the court were gradually mastered by him. In this joint examination, he not only guessed who might be the chief examiner, but also estimated some possible questions, which was almost right.

It was a pleasure to prepare in advance and write on the spot, but it also left hidden dangers. Easy to be used by others.

"Could it be that someone saw my test paper and wanted to frame me? Did I offend someone?"

Thinking over, Wen Zhizhen's forehead was covered with sweat. He tried to struggle, but couldn't move at all. He was dragged and carried by the two men towards the soldiers. The two men used their strength skillfully, pinching his shoulders and connecting his muscles and bones, making it difficult for him to move his legs and feet.

"No! If I am taken away, even if there is nothing, it may be accused of something that is not true. Then my reputation will be ruined! I must stop them! I must! I must..."

Thinking hard about countermeasures, his eyes turned left and right, and Wen Zhizhen took in the surrounding scene. He saw the eyes cast by the candidates, which were mixed with suspicion, fear and gloating.

An official was talking to the examinee, and what he said startled Wen Zhizhen--

"The contents of your test papers will be made public as soon as possible. When you read the papers, you will know the right and wrong!"

"No! When the test papers are released, the situation will become increasingly unfavorable to me!" Wen Zhizhen was sweating through his clothes, and his eyes glanced at Xu Ran who was arguing with others, and a plan came to his mind.

"Xu Ran! She is the granddaughter of the prime minister. This identity can be used well! Let her give up everything for me, so there is hope of escaping! How to use her? What words to impress her? No. I don't need to impress her at all. All her thoughts are on me, and it's easy to control her. It's a pity that I haven't broken her body yet, otherwise I can easily drag Xu Jin into the water, but it's not too late now... huh?"

Just as Wen Zhizhen was thinking about countermeasures, Pang Qianru suddenly walked to the side of Xu Ran. A hand knife hit Xu Ran's neck, and the latter fell immediately and was hugged by Pang Qianru.

"Xu Xiaoniu, you can't be willful now. Otherwise, you will drag down your Xu family!"

"This..." Seeing this scene, Wen Zhizhen's eyes widened, and his mind suddenly went blank. All the countermeasures he thought of in a short period of time became useless!

"Why did Pang Qianru do this?" Looking at Pang Qianru, Wen Zhizhen's heart was in a mess.

At this time, Pang Qianru turned her head and smiled sweetly at him, which made Wen Zhizhen cold from head to toe.

"This... This Pang Qianru also has feelings for me. Even if there is a mixture of feelings of use, with my appearance and talent, it should be no problem for her to fall in love with me. Why would she add insult to injury at this time?"

Suddenly, Wen Zhizhen had a thought, turned his head abruptly, looked at the list, and his eyes fell on Qiu Yan under the list.

"Could it be that someone intervened? Want to steal your love? Let Pang Qianru realize other options, or even simply encourage Pang Qianru and play with her heart, so that she would do such a thing?"

Swish! Swish!

Qiu Yan's eyes met and fell on Wen Zhizhen's face, causing the latter's skin to sting a little, but Wen Zhizhen was confused and had no mind to think about the reason.

"What should I do? What should I do? What should I do now?"

Wen Zhizhen asked himself in his heart. After Xu Ran fainted, his original plan was about to be overturned, but there was no new way.

"Only people with active consciousness can be influenced by words. If you want to achieve your goal, you have to use people with sufficient status and background. Xu Ran is unconscious, so the target can only be Pang Qianru. No, wait a minute, maybe I can try to take advantage of the situation, the situation of the examinees..."

As he thought about it, he was taken through the group of examinees. Those eyes fell on Wen Zhizhen, making him feel humiliated and ashamed. He couldn't say any inflammatory words anyway, because he read the emotion of keeping a distance from those eyes.

"At the critical moment, this group of people only care about themselves. They want to protect themselves and are unwilling to help me take advantage of the situation! Damn! Too selfish! These people..."

Feeling the emotional changes of people along the way, Wen Zhizhen's complaints became more and more agitated. Anger, resentment, grievance, unwillingness and pride intertwined at this moment, and an article immersed in his heart slowly emerged. On the surface of the article, there was a faint smoke.

This is a sign that the inner demon is about to be born.

However, since the dinner at the Pang family's courtyard that day, there has been an external demon entrenched in his heart. This second inner demon gradually became clear, and the scene in his heart became more and more chaotic. Even the article was difficult to settle, and his mind also showed signs of disorder.

However, Wen Zhizhen is not an ordinary person after all. He can barely maintain a little mind, and even began to think about Qiu Yan.

"If you don't launch the failed candidates, you might as well target the people on the list. Then Qiu Yan's low-key behavior may be used as an excuse. No, just now he introduced the strange phenomenon in his article, and his position can no longer be shaken. What should I do? Who else can I use? Who can I borrow? What should I do?"

The chaotic thoughts were directly reflected on his face. Wen Zhizhen's expression changed repeatedly, his eyes flickered, and his lips moved, as if he was about to speak, but he kept coming up with countermeasures and constantly rejecting them. Until he was taken away, he didn't really say a word.

Watching Wen Zhizhen's back disappear in the distance, the remaining candidates looked at each other, and their anger suddenly disappeared, feeling a bit neither up nor down.

"Wen Zhizhen's face is very ugly, could it be true..."

"He just looked around with a rather gloomy look in his eyes. I don't know what he was thinking. When he saw me, I felt a chill."

"He was caught, but he didn't even open his mouth to defend himself. What was he thinking?"

"Mr. Wen must have been wronged! It was because he was framed on a false charge that he was too surprised and looked ugly. He didn't have time to refute."

"Whether he was wronged or not, you can tell by looking at his test paper. Since the court is going to make the test paper public, we might as well wait. This examination is different from the past. It involves new laws, which are difficult for ordinary people to grasp. If you don't prepare in advance, you can't answer the questions at all."

"Don't look at things one-sidedly, but look at the overall situation. If there is really cheating, it involves Too broad, even the chief examiner may be involved..."

"That's not necessarily true. In the court, the topic is often irrelevant. It's important to make an indirect attack, and the result is more important than the truth."

"The test paper of Qiu Yan, the champion, caused a strange phenomenon. God recognized him as the top of the list, which must have hit the point. And he won't cheat."

"That's right. When the test paper is announced, I will study and verify it carefully."

"The strange phenomenon just now seemed to describe something that touched me deeply. Perhaps it was Qiu Huiyuan's experience..."

...

Amid the discussion, the tense atmosphere dissipated. For such a large-scale incident involving Confucian scholars, the court did not arrest people on a large scale, but many people still had mixed feelings about Wen Zhizhen's arrest. After all, he was the third place in the examination. On the other hand, their perception of Qiu Yan had changed significantly.

After experiencing the vision, Qiu Yan was shocked on the spot, and then he released his perception, planting a seed in everyone's heart, affecting their senses, so they had no idea of ​​being dissatisfied with Qiu Yan, and no one thought of using him as a stepping stone, instead they were in awe and admiration.

"People's hearts and opinions often change because of a small thing. They are the center of attention the moment before, and fall to the bottom the next moment. Reputation and popularity have created extraordinary people in the eyes of others, but many of these people are like Wen Zhizhen. Strip off the surface, and the inside is just human thoughts. How can there be any extraordinary things?"

Being watched by everyone, Qiu Yan was a little bored, but on the surface he was still talking to people normally, while connecting with the perceptions he radiated and sensing the thoughts of everyone present.

On the other hand, the little medicinal power from the God Pool expanded the whole body, replenished the physical energy consumption, and filled up some dry blood.

But a big supplement hurts the body, so it needs to be done step by step.

In fact, the flesh and blood transformed by the divine body can also replenish qi and blood, but there are people's wishes and distractions in it, which are impurities for the flesh and blood body and affect future promotion, so they must be discarded.

"At least before the divine body is ready, the life cultivation of the flesh and blood body cannot be mixed with many impurities..."

Replenishing physical strength is only the first step. In the next two days, Qiu Yan used the power of medicine to re-boil and replenish the qi and blood that had been swallowed by the soul in these days.

After all, the medicine soup is a mortal thing. Even if it can replenish, it will leave troubles. What's more, now that the dragon qi is interrupted, life is more and more unbalanced. It is time to take advantage of the situation to adjust the soul.

In this way, time came to the day of the palace examination.

Qiu Yan was ready early in the morning. This will be his first time to face the emperor and get close to the dynasty's luck!

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