Chapter 601 What Is Your Relationship with Shen Min?

Ning Chen picked up the paper bag and weighed it, then looked back at Shen Wanzhou and Zhou An and said:

"After buying so much arsenic, do you plan to poison all the candidates this time?"

The expressions of the two people changed drastically.

"Your Majesty, the student has been wronged. Please, Your Majesty and Master Geng, look into this matter."

Zhou Anshi shouted injustice.

Shen Wanzhou leaned over and bowed and said: "Your Majesty, Master Geng... We are not very familiar with Wang Bo and Li Jue, we are just acquaintances."

"That day, Wang Bo and Li Jue invited me to drink in front of everyone. If we refused in front of everyone, it would be a disgrace to them, so Brother Zhou and I agreed."

"But who would have thought that something like this would happen? I don't know who put this arsenic in our room... We are indeed unjust. I beg the prince and Lord Geng to find out."

Ning Chen looked at him and said calmly: "Don't worry, Lord Geng knows everything. If you are wronged, he will definitely clear your name. If you are lucky, think about the consequences."

Shen Wanzhou knelt down and begged:

"Students dare not lie. It's just that the scientific examination is only twenty days away... I beg the prince and Master Geng to find out the truth as soon as possible and clear my name. We have been living in poverty for ten years and don't want to miss this opportunity!"

Ning Chen nodded slightly, and then asked curiously: "You two are one in the south and the other in the north. You shouldn't have known each other before, right?"

Shen Wanzhou said: "We met after we came to Beijing. Because we had similar interests, Brother Zhou and I had a very happy conversation. We hated each other so late... so we became brothers."

Ning Chen raised his eyebrows slightly, "How long have you been in the capital?"

Shen Wanzhou said: "About half a month."

Ning Chen looked at Zhou An, "What about you?"

"My lord, because my uncle is in the capital, I came earlier than Brother Shen. I have been in the capital for about a month."

Ning Chen hummed lightly, then looked at Geng Jing, "Old Geng, take Zhou Anshi back to the Supervision Department first... Shen Wanzhou comes with me, and I will send him to the Supervision Department before dark."

Geng Jing was slightly startled, but soon understood that Ning Chen wanted to separate the trials.

"good!"

Geng Jing took Zhou Anshi away.

Ning Chen looked at the governor of Kyoto and said, "Take me to see the body."

"Your Majesty, please!"

Ning Chen said: "Shen Wanzhou, you come with me."

"yes!"

After Ning Chen went to the mortuary to see the body, he took Shen Wanzhou away.

When Ning Chen came out of the government office, he did not ride a horse or hold a hand...Diao Chan followed Ning Chen by herself and did not run around.

Shen Wanzhou looked up from time to time to look at Ning Chen in front of him, his face full of admiration.

Before, he thought he was a genius.

Seeing Ning Chen, he couldn't help but feel ashamed.

Ning Chen is several years younger than him, but his achievements are hard to match.

"Shen Wanzhou, what is your relationship with Shen Min?"

Ning Chen didn't look back and asked lightly.

Shen Wanzhou was slightly startled, and then said hurriedly: "He is the student's second uncle."

Ning Chen raised the corner of his mouth slightly. When he saw Shen Wanzhou just now, he felt familiar... Thinking of his surname Shen, Ning Chen immediately thought of who he looked like?

Shen Wanzhou's eyebrows look very similar to Shen Min's, and both of them have the same surname: Shen.

Shen Min was demoted, and he was not in the capital when he left the capital... After asking around after he came back, he found out that Shen Min was from Qingzhou.

He had seen Shen Wanzhou's certificate and he was also from Qingzhou.

Ning Chen looked back at him and asked, "Has your second uncle ever mentioned your relationship with me?"

Shen Wanzhou nodded, "As I said, my second uncle said that he and the prince went to Wu Kingdom to promote peace talks, and there were many other things."

"Is he okay?"

"fine!"

"Does he hate me?"

Shen Wanzhou looked puzzled.

Ning Chen said: "Your second uncle was demoted because of me."

Shen Wanzhou shook his head, "Second uncle has never hated the prince. He said that working with the prince was the happiest period of his official career... The only regret of the second uncle is that he could not personally host the wedding of the prince and the princess. ”

Ning Chen smiled silently.

"Did your second uncle ask you to find me when you come to Beijing?"

Shen Wanzhou nodded, "Second uncle said it."

"Then why don't you come to me?"

Shen Wanzhou hesitated for a moment and said: "The students' knowledge is not as good as the prince's, but the students still want to rely on their own talents to learn to honor their ancestors... If they fail, it means that the students are not working hard enough to learn enough... The students go home and continue Study hard and take the exam next time.”

Ning Chen looked back at him, changed the subject, and said, "Tell me about Zhou Anshi, starting from the time you met."

"yes!"

By the time Shen Wanzhou finished speaking, they were not far from the Supervision Department.

When he came to the Supervision Department, Ning Chen handed Shen Wanzhou to a man in red to take him to the prison, and asked him to instruct the jailer to take more care of Shen Wanzhou.

Ning Chen came to Geng Jing's room.

Seeing Ning Chen, Geng Jing said, "You came just in time. I thought that Shen Wanzhou looked familiar before. I came back and checked his information. Who do you think he is?"

"Shen Min's nephew!"

Geng Jing was surprised, "How do you know? Could it be that he has looked for you before."

Ning Chen shook his head, "When I first met him, I had the same feeling as you... I asked casually on the way and it was confirmed."

Geng Jing nodded slightly, that's it.

"Old Geng, what have you gained here?"

Geng Jing shook his head, "On the way back, I interrogated Zhou Anshi... Wang Bo and Li Jue were far less knowledgeable than these two people. Shen Zhou had no motive to murder them."

Ning Chen said calmly: "Shen Wanzhou didn't, but Zhou Anshi did."

Geng Jing asked subconsciously: "Did you find anything?"

"I had Li Gui sent to the Supervisory Department... plus Wang Bo and Li Jue, and the dead Zhang Huaicai, they accepted money from others and tried to ruin my reputation. You know all this, right?"

Geng Jing nodded.

Ning Chen continued, "Wang Bo and Li Jue were poisoned, most likely to be murdered to silence them... Li Gui was taken to Ning Mansion by my people at the time, so he escaped."

Geng Jing asked curiously, "What is the basis for your saying that Zhou Anshi had a motive for murder? The two who died were northern scholars, and Zhou Anshi was also from the north."

Ning Chen smiled and said, "Yes, Zhou Anshi is a northern scholar, but why is he so close to the southern scholar Shen Wanzhou? As far as I know, there is no harmony between northern and southern scholars."

Geng Jing said, "Didn't they say that they met too late because they had similar interests and talked a lot? They are both outstanding in knowledge and appreciate each other. There is nothing wrong with getting closer, right?"

Ning Chen smiled and said, "But as far as I know, Zhou Anshi's talent is not as good as Shen Wanzhou's."

"They are like-minded, and they are very happy to talk. They met because of a poetry contest in Zhuangyuan Building... Both of them wrote a poem, but Zhou Anshi's poem was far inferior to Shen Wanzhou's, so he lost... After that, Zhou Anshi took the initiative to make friends, and later they found that they had similar interests. "

Geng Jing was puzzled, "Is there any problem with this?"

Ning Chen said: "I talked with Shen Wanzhou for a long time on the road. After the two of them became friends, they found that they had many similar hobbies... Even Shen Wanzhou likes to drink sugar water, and Zhou Anshi likes it too."

Geng Jing's eyes flickered, and he said: "Shen Wanzhou is from the south and likes sweets, but not many southern scholars drink sugar water, almost all of them like tea."

"Zhou Anshi is from the north, his taste is heavy, and he doesn't like sweets. Compared with southern scholars who like to drink tea, they prefer wine."

"It's too coincidental that both of them like to drink sugar water."