All Hail Cousin Brother

All this, Song Mingzhao, who was pampered in the past, had never experienced it.

Song Mingzhao thought that before he was imprisoned, he was cleaning up his study room, and he took the Fang Duan inkstone that Yu Youyao had given him in return earlier, and told Kong Qing in a precious place: "I will go to Yufu to study tomorrow, and I will bring it to Yufu."

Who knows, in the blink of an eye, the officers and soldiers entered the house, and they took the shackles and handcuffed his hands and feet, and took him out of the Zhenguohou mansion.

The grandmother was so frightened that she fainted on the spot.

Mother kept asking bitterly: "What did Ming Zhao do wrong? Why did you arrest him? Even if you want to arrest someone, you must make it clear first..."

The house is a mess.

In the past two years, he has suffered from "heart disease", and his body has not been as good as before, and he can't stand it anymore.

Song Mingzhao leaned against the wall and unconsciously thought of Yu Youyao: "Zhiyao, is it taken from Anzhi Tinglan, and the beauty says Yaoya?"

One of the things he regretted the most in his life was about two years ago, because he was influenced by some vague fragments in the nightmare, under the impulse, in front of Yu Youyao, he called her to break her words, Yu Youyao was abrupt.

People who have caused Yu Youyao to misunderstand him and alienated him have treated him with respect and distance in the past two years.

He originally thought that after he went to Yu Mansion to study with Mr. Hushan, he would have to go to the big house often to say hello to Mrs. Yu. In addition, the relationship between the two houses of Yu Mansion is also good, and brothers and sisters often communicate with each other. , he made good friends with several brothers in Yu Mansion, and he had the opportunity to contact Yu Youyao.

With more contact, Yu Youyao naturally knows that he is not that kind of ignorant person, and he will definitely change his opinion on him.

When he is the head of the five cases and gets the title of champion, he will have a bright future, and he will have enough bargaining chips to ask his grandmother to come to Yu Mansion and ask Mrs. Yu for marriage.

At that time, Yu Youyao had turned thirteen years old, and it was the age of engagement. The Song Yu family were friends, and the grandmother and Mrs. Yu handed handkerchiefs again, and he was at the time of the golden list.

Such sincerity is enough to impress Grandma Yu.

But all of this was destroyed by this prison disaster.

After this prison disaster, even if he is acquitted, this incident will still become a stain on his life.

Even if the imperial court re-opened the division and took office, he once again achieved good results. Unless the emperor is extra gracious, the future will be much more difficult.

Yu Youyao is such an excellent girl, and I don't know how many people in Beijing are watching.

Originally 70% to 80% sure, now only 20% to 30%.

Song Mingzhao was already a little confused. In a trance, he could no longer distinguish between dreams and reality. In front of him was a picture of a skinny girl covered in blood, and the girl in the dream was chanting hysterically.

"Yu, Yu Youyao, is that you?" Song Mingzhao clutched his chest, fell to the ground, and coughed violently.

Strangely, everything in front of him became ethereal and blurred.

But!

In the past, people who always tried their best to see clearly, but they were always cloudy and foggy, and could not see clearly at all, this moment, was never clearer.

- It's Yu Youyao!

It was also the embarrassed look he had never seen before.

Did he kill Yu Youyao?

Do not--

This is impossible!

He watched this girl grow up and change day by day, and his admiration for her was increasing day by day, and he could not suppress the urge to get close to her.

How could he possibly hurt her, it's not true.

Song Mingzhao murmured, "It's not true..."

"In the nightmare, I did something that hurt you, you," he said, his pupils fluttering, and his hands clenched the straw under him: "Then, it's not me, it must not be me..."

"I won't hurt you..."

"Do not believe……"

"..."

A few days later, there were rumors in Beijing that some candidates could not stand the torture and died in the big prison, causing people to panic.

The Yu Mansion couldn't get involved, but it also inquired about the news from the Metropolitan Court. When the Zhen Guohou Mansion learned that Song Mingzhao had been tortured, it was a bolt from the blue, and he didn't even dare to tell Mrs. Song.

Yu Zongzheng put down the teacup: "Ming Zhao is Mr. Xianyun's disciple, and has a reputation for being amazing and brilliant. Logically speaking, the presiding officer has checked his case files and interpersonal contacts, and cheating is also settled. If you don't get to him, you won't be severely tortured, but ah, it's mediocre not to be envied by others, this time he won the first name in the test, and he has become the target of public criticism.

Yu Youyao held the teacup and didn't speak.

In the past, Song Mingzhao's reputation was beginning to show, and because he himself was low-key and indifferent, Zhenguohou's mansion was not flamboyant, and others paid more attention to Song Mingzhao.

This time, Song Mingzhao was a blockbuster. Hearing about his scriptures and strategies, the examiners were stunned.

There are even examiners who have dug out some representative examination papers of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and compared them with each other.

The rumors of Song Mingzhao's five cases are by no means groundless.

but!

The wood is beautiful on the wood, and the wind will destroy it.

The royalists belonged to the Marquis of Zhenguo, and there were still many political enemies in the DPRK. Song Mingzhao was in power, and others naturally avoided his edge.

But when Song Mingzhao was unlucky, others wanted to get him to death, and he couldn't be charged with cheating, so it would be light for him to take a layer of skin in prison.

No matter how well-connected the Marquis of Zhenguo Mansion was, and no matter how powerful his methods were, it was impossible for Song Mingzhao to take no guilt.

From this point of view, Song Mingzhao is more than unlucky.

It's like eight lifetimes of blood mold!

Mrs. Yu glared: "This, isn't this a subversion in disguise? Isn't Ming Zhao going to be bad..."

Yu Zongzheng nodded: "I have already greeted my colleagues who have a good relationship with the Duchayuan, let them keep an eye on them, at least pay attention to their sense of proportion, the Zhenguohou mansion has been moving up and down these days, and they are doing things everywhere. ."

Mrs. Yu's face was not very good: "The fraud in the scientific examination should be strictly investigated. I am afraid that someone will use the fraud case to eliminate the party members, but it will suffer those innocent candidates who are implicated."

Isn't what happened to Song Mingzhao because of partisan disputes?

Really disgusting.

Yu Zongzheng also sighed deeply: "This is something that can't be helped, Ming Zhao is also a good character, so far he has not confessed to cheating. In the past few days, there are a total of seven Gongsheng, who couldn't stand the torture and died in the big prison. They almost All were innocently implicated, and those candidates who really cheated, before the whip was drawn on their bodies, their bones were softened and they confessed themselves."

A person who has abandoned the character that a scholar should have, and wants to take shortcuts, cannot have such a thing as backbone.

Speaking of this, Yu Zongzheng's own face is not very good: "These dead students, their rankings are not low, they would rather die than give up, it can be seen that not only have talent and learning, but also have a character, if they can enter the court, they are also the rulers of the society. Fortunately, I didn't realize it, but innocents were implicated and tragically died in prison."