Chapter 553 The last straw that broke the camel’s back
And in the next two days.
During the day, Gu Chan took Yuan Jie to attend the Jiangnan Poetry Festival. On the surface, she pretended to be nonchalant, as if she had done nothing. But in fact, secretly, she was strategizing, ordering Xu Ziguang to strengthen the defense of Jiangnan City, and at the same time, she also supervised Yan. Kuan is in charge of the firearms camp.
Sisters Wan Peng and Wan Feiyan, according to the secret order she issued, quietly delivered the built artillery pieces to Yan Kuan under the cover of night.
At the Lord's Mansion, Wei Xing and Ren Nanshan also took over the Flying Mysterious Beast Team previously formed by Yan Xishan and others and began to conduct special training for them.
Anyway, Gu Chan tried his best to make arrangements before the military exercise.
On the last night of the poetry meeting, all the answer sheets for the past three days were gathered in a relatively remote courtyard behind the academy.
At this time, the old academician was leading a dozen academicians to review the answer sheets for the last competition one by one.
Gu Chan led Yuan Jie and Yan Xishan into the courtyard slowly.
The old academician made a move and looked at Gu Chan with a troubled expression.
Gu Chan walked up to him and said straight to the point, "Old academician, I specially called Master Yan here tonight, just to hope that everyone can talk things out, so as not to cause any problems and make everyone lose face."
"Since the lord has said so, I will open the skylight and speak out." The old academician said with a stiff face.
After speaking, he looked at Yan Xishan and said, "Master Yan, your daughter cheated in this poetry meeting, and she committed a capital crime."
"Ah? Old academician, why did you say this?" Yan Xishan was stunned on the spot and shouted in shock.
"The test questions we gave were secretly changed by someone before. In order to find out who changed the test questions, the Lord came up with a trick and asked me to slightly change the test questions to make the test questions wrong. This way Once this happens, the person who changed the test questions will definitely reveal his flaws," the old academician said with a cold voice.
Yan Xishan was stunned when he heard this, unable to believe this fact.
The old academician immediately ordered someone to fetch the six answer sheets that Yan Li had written in the past three days, placed them one by one in front of Yan Xishan and said, "Master Yan, among the thousands of answer sheets here, only your daughter's answer sheets are all , all of them were answered according to the changed test questions, which means that she didn’t even notice that we had tampered with the changed test questions, making the test questions wrong.”
"So, Yanli had someone prepare the questions a long time ago, and then she only needs to memorize them and copy them onto the question paper intact, right?" Gu Chan asked.
"Yes, that's what she did. Anyway, so many people who participated in the poetry meeting were because we had manipulated the test questions into a wrong way, so they also followed the wrong direction to answer the questions. Only your daughter, Mr. Yan, , she didn’t answer the question in the wrong direction, which directly proves that she cheated, and I’m afraid she secretly found someone to do it,” the old academician said with a livid face.
As soon as he said these words, the faces of the dozen or so academicians standing behind him all turned gloomy.
Obviously, they hate this kind of cheating.
Yan Xishan didn't believe it at all and yelled, "It's impossible. It's absolutely impossible for my daughter to do such a despicable thing. You must have made a mistake in the review. I will review it myself."
"If Mr. Yan doesn't believe it, you can verify it yourself and you will know whether it is true or not." The old academician said coldly. Yan Xishan hurriedly sat down, picked up the next five answer sheets from Yanli and checked them.
After watching for more than half an hour, at a certain moment, he was like a deflated balloon, and he completely collapsed beside the stone table.
At this time, he had a drooped face and was extremely disappointed. He never imagined that his daughter, a dignified censor of Jiangnan City, would do such an extremely despicable thing.
There is no doubt that if Gu Chan and the others had not tampered with the test questions, the answer sheets submitted by Yanli could be said to be at the top among hundreds of contestants. But the problem is that her answer sheets now are not correct. When you take a test question with wrong meaning, it seems so ridiculous and nonsense.
The old academician sighed and said, "Master Yan! I think back then, you went to Beijing to take the imperial examination and got second place in the exam, and that's why you achieved what you have now. I really can't understand. With your talent and learning, how can you be born like this?" The child shouldn’t be bad, but your daughter seems to have no real talent except being clever!”
"Okay, old academician, stop talking. Don't you see that he is in so much pain?" Gu Chan interrupted with a wave of his hand.
The old academician sighed helplessly, then closed his mouth, and continued to review other people's answer sheets with a dozen other academicians.
Gu Chan reached out and patted Yan Xishan's shoulder and said, "Let's go! There's no need to stay here anymore. Let's go and chat outside the hospital."
"Yes, Lord Lord." Yan Xishan said with great disappointment.
After saying that, he stood up and mechanically followed Gu Chan out like a zombie.
Coming to a secluded corner outside the courtyard, Gu Chancai said, "Master Yan, you also know that according to the law, cheating at a grand event like the Jiangnan Poetry Festival is a crime of beheading, but after all, she is your biological child. daughter, and you You and your wife only have this one girl for you, so I won’t send people to catch her myself. After you go back, you and your wife will handle the matter by yourselves and give me an explanation in three days. Yes.”
"Your Majesty, Yan Xishan, thank you Lord for your extra mercy." Yan Xishan's knees softened and he knelt on the ground, kowtowing to Gu Chan with tears in his eyes and thanking Gu Chan.
Gu Chan stood on the spot and said with an indifferent expression, "Master Yan, you have to think clearly. Now the Crown Prince wants to kill all the two princes in the Jiangnan area, and your daughter is the Crown Prince's concubine. How to deal with it? This matter all depends on your thoughts. I can only help you here. Otherwise, if this matter spreads out later, your old Yan family's reputation will be completely ruined. "
"Lord, please let me go back and think about it carefully. In three days, we, husband and wife, will definitely give you an explanation." Yan Xishan cried and said.
Gu Chan nodded quietly, turned and left.
Yuan Jie glanced at Yan Xishan disdainfully, then followed Gu Chan and left.
However, what the two of them didn't know was that Yuan Jie's disdainful look just now became the straw that broke the camel's back.
"Hahaha... I didn't expect that Yan Xishan, the dignified censor of the Jiangnan capital, who claims to be a rich scholar, would be looked down upon like this!"
After Yan Xishan stood up from the ground, he suddenly laughed and yelled like crazy.
After that, he left Jiangnan Academy crying and laughing, and returned to the Yushi Mansion in great pain.