novelSusiti Chapter 1141 - 923 The Truth 2 (End of the Month Request for Monthly Tickets and Extra Updates)_2
Chapter 1141 - 923 The Truth 2 (End of the Month Request for Monthly Tickets and Extra Updates)_2
"Is there anyone else in consideration?"As soon as the Emperor spoke these words, everyone’s heart skipped a beat. Great, their flattery had failed.
"To answer Your Majesty, yes, there is another candidate, named Lu Yunsheng, the son of Minister Lu, but because..."
"Because of what?"
The Emperor glanced sideways at Xu Zhengzhong, who was speaking.
"Nothing, Your Majesty, here’s Lu Yunsheng’s examination paper!"
Xu Zhengzhong quickly produced Lu Yunsheng’s examination paper and handed it to the Emperor.
To be honest, Lu Yunsheng was just a young master in the Capital City, how much effort could he actually put into his studies?
Last year’s imperial examination, he barely managed to pass with the lowest rank.
At this moment, Xu Zhengzhong was merely bringing him out to make Li Yu look better, and also because rumors were spreading that Lu Yunsheng was the orphan of Prince Qing’s Mansion, with the Emperor seemingly having taken no action.
They were presenting him now, simply to test the Emperor’s attitude.
The Emperor held Lu Yunsheng’s examination paper in his hands, read it carefully, then scoffed coldly, "Nonsensical, with overly elaborate words that are merely fantasies piled up with ornamental rhetoric, impractical, and of no use.
How could such an essay be placed among the top scholars?
If that’s the case, then everyone in the realm could be a genius.
You old fools are truly ridiculous, flattering those above and deceiving those below. Look at your fawning faces; even I feel embarrassed for you!"
The Emperor flew into a great rage today, scaring everyone to death, prompting them all to fall to the ground and shout three times, "Your subjects are guilty!"
"Knowing your guilt, you must be punished. Deduct half a year’s salary from each of you. If you fail to diligently select talents for the court in the future, I will not be lenient!"
Everyone responded, "Yes!" and thanked the Emperor for sparing their lives.
The Emperor meticulously reviewed each and every paper, searching among the countless exam papers for his Third Place Scholar!
There were conditions for the Third Place Scholar; not only must he be talented and articulate, but also exceptionally handsome.
Meanwhile, outside, many families were in an uproar.
Because Ping’an Pharmacy was sealed off, then the Peach Blossom Garden, followed by Li’s Gambling House, and then arrests were made.
The first to be taken was the second master of the Li Mansion.
Once the second master of the Li Mansion was arrested, the people under the Li Lady were thrown into chaos.
A group of women and young ladies ran to the Li Lady, wailing and sobbing.
"What are we going to do, Madame? My master hasn’t done anything wrong! Why are the people from the Divine Hunter’s office arresting him?
Madame, my master works alongside the Grand Master!
If he did anything wrong, it must have been under the Grand Master’s orders. Please think of something and save my master!"
The second lady of the Li Family found out her husband was arrested, so she brought her son and daughter along with her husband’s concubines to the Grand Lady, crying.
First, the second lady cried for help, then the children of the second house cried for their father.
Next, the concubines of the second house knelt before the Grand Lady, begging for their lives!
"Grand Lady, please save my master!
Grand Lady, we are all women, you should understand our suffering!
Without our master, we become rootless duckweed, floating aimlessly. Without him, our family cannot survive!
Grand Lady, please, for the sake of our child, who was just born only a few months ago, think of a way to save our master!"
"Auntie, please, think of a way to save my father!
We are family! As the saying goes, ’We rise and fall together...’ "
"Enough!"
The Li Lady rubbed her temples pained by the noise; the second house was here to threaten the main house.
"Second household, let me make it clear today. If the second master proves himself valuable, once the Li Family is through this ordeal, he will be credited with the highest merit. If not, our Li Family might just disappear from the Capital City, so stop crying to me. I am a woman too; the Grand Master hasn’t returned from the court yet. I already sent someone to call him. Crying here won’t help!"
The Li Lady knew nothing about the matters of the Li Family, much less about the underhanded operations between the Li Family and Lu Zezhong over the years.
She didn’t know that the Emperor already had a lot of evidence in hand at this moment.
She thought the reason the second master of the Li Family was arrested was probably that he offended someone in business?
Or maybe he committed some crime.
At this moment, the Li Lady had no idea that today’s events would utterly destroy the hard-earned foundation the Li Family had built.