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Have mercy.

Your Royal Highness

Your Royal Highness

Even if we know chancellor scapegoated him,

it's still not the evidence.

It's about crib sheet and search.

I know

Gu, Lu and me,

and minister Lu.

Our relationship is so close.

People think minister Lu helped them with sheet.

I have worked in ministry of justice for many years

It's easy to prove someone is guilty.

But it's so difficult to prove the innocence.

Only chancellor and minister Lu know the paper.

If we can't find the real instigator.

The two examiners and all suspects will be punished.

I know Li Baizhou.

Even it's prince Qi, he won't be a savior.

He knows how to get himself clean,

and scapegoat minister Lu.

Xu Changping, who is he?

Zhao.

You have worked in ministry of rites for more than 20 years.

We worked together in the previous exams.

We never went awry like this.

If I remember right, your wife's surname is Xu.

The cheater Xu Changping is your...

If you don't say now,

tomorrow, the court will find it out.

Your Grace.

He is my nephew.

My wife raised him from an early age.

He told me to steal the paper for him, and I was so muddle-headed,

So...

You also leaked the paper to Gu and Lu?

I don't know them.

Till last night, I still didn't believe they would...

No.

No...

Before the exam began, the paper was intact.

There was no trace that it was replaced.

How did Xu Changping know the paper?

According to the handwriting, I copied it with white linen.

And I sealed the copy.

So there is no trace.

It was replaced entirely.

Zhao.

The matter concerns not only you and me,

but also Jia Yibo and young master Lu's career and life.

You need to tell me the truth.

Your Grace.

I should be sentenced to death.

But Jia Yibo and young master Lu.

I can swear to god, I really don't know.

Where is the authentic paper?

I burnt it.

Ok.

Ok.

You may leave.

Lu Shiyu knows it.

I did it as you instructed me last night.

Stealing the paper is the capital crime.

You don't know?

You are too bold.

If you do something for me, I will let you go.

You can tell your nephew in advance.

In addition, I will give you white linen paper and seals.

You should copy it and put it in the cabinet.

You take the authentic paper home and put it away.

Only in this way can you save your life

do you understand?

You put the authentic paper at home?

Yes, I did as you said.

But for Jia Yibo and young master Lu, I really don't know.

If I had known they would get implicated,

I wouldn't dare to take the risk.

They...

Minister Lu leaked the paper to them.

He won't.

He won't.

So you mean me?

No.

No...

No, no

Now it's the fact.

Minister Lu will blame all the crimes on you.

Not to mention tomorrow they will find the authentic paper from your home.

You can't wash yourself clean.

For selling papers and buying papers, for less, it's banishment,

for worse it's capital crime.

Gu Fengen is the nephew.

Lu Wenpu is an official's son.

They can be commuted.

You and your nephew won't be so lucky.

Your Grace, save me.

Help me.

Tomorrow, the emperor will interrogate you.

You should say Lu Shiyu instigated you.

Only in this way can you save yourself, your wife and your nephew.

My uncle guards the paper for minister Lu.

He replaced the paper.

And he gave it to me.

Where is the authentic paper?

I told uncle to burn the paper.

But uncle said it could save our life if we keep it.

Still in his home?

Yes

If we find it in his home and he stated firmly it's minister Lu,

we won't get Jia Yibo and young master Lu clean.

This is Li Baizhou's way to get away with it.

Where is your uncle's home?

What?

I heard of this with my own eyes.

Get the authentic paper vack before the emperor.

Your Royal Highness

His home is not far from mine.

I am a horse rider.

You know nothing.

Tell the imperial guards to go for it.

As your command.

My dad did so much for you.

You need to stop crown prince

We can't fail.

Where are you going, crown prince?

Prince Qi, why are you here?

His Majesty knows you go out of the palace.

So he tells me to protect you here.

Protect me with your guards.

I am not like you.

I have no power to mobolize the military forces.

Thank you.

But no need

Step aside.

Stoping crown prince's guards, it's a treason.

The emperor is here.

Crown prince, you are not in the palace in the early morning.

What are you doing here?

I have told you, don't intervene.

But you still send your bodyguards out.

You want to tell the world, you are handling this too?

Li Chongkui

Send someone to the official's home.

Your Majesty.

Your Majesty.

It's not minister Lu.

If you go on being capricious, Lu Shiyu will die in your hands sooner or later.

Teacher.

Chancellor and minister Lu should stand and talk.

Thank you, your Majesty.

Name.

I am Zhao Jingning.

In the exam, three examinees are suspected of cheating.

Gu Fengen, Lu Wenpu, Xu Changping.

As we know, Xu Changping is your nephew.

Yes

You mean you stole the paper to him?

Yes

Where is the authentic paper?

We are searching your house.

You also leaked the paper to Gu Fengen and Lu Wenpu?

No...

Not me.

It's...

It's minister Lu.

Your Royal Highness

Don't worry

Wait for a while.

You.

How dare you!

Minister Lu knows the paper.

He can tell them the paper. Or even tell you.

Why bother to let you steal the paper and replace it?

Yes

Minister Lu spotted me.

He told me to take the paper home.

Once it's exposed, I will answer for the punishment alone.

How dare you!

Scapegoating the coutier is a capital crime.

Stand back.

Minister Lu.

You gave him the key?

I gave him in person.

Before the exam started, you didn't see something wrong?

I am guilty of oversight.

You wrote it personally after my approval right?

Yes.

The linen paper is the same with the paper for imperial decree.

Only the royal family and important officials have it.

And for the seals, only minister Lu and chancellor have them.

Yes

Minister Lu.

Do you have anything else to say?

Your Majesty.

The paper of spring exam was leaked.

The paper is replaced.

I am responsible for the oversight.

I won't refute.

But Gu and Lu's crib sheet is very suspicious.

And I didn't give the paper to them.

It's not you, so you mean I did?

So you want to scapegoat him?

In addition to the authentic paper,

do you have any other evidence?

And I arranged the the three crib sheets for them.

Now the drafts are in my home.

Lu Shiyu and the crown prince are tough to deal with.

The authentic paper is not enough.

More things will go to your home tomorrow.

Your Grace.

You are lying.

Your Majesty, it's...

Dare to intervene in politics?

I will punish your teacher Lu Shiyu first.

And I will punish the chief examiner Lu Shiyu.

Go.

Take the three suspects.

What is going on?

My fault.

Uncle

Call me your Majesty.

Chancellor told someone to put the crib sheet in my room.

Even if I call you Majesty, it's still unfair.

In the interrogation, you only inquire minister Lu.

So you think it's minister Lu at the very beginning?

Gu Fengen, I am asking you right?

Your Majesty.

Even if I am guilty, Gu and Lu won't do this.

It's about our country's talent.

Your Majesty, please don't be judgmental.

After you punish me severely, you should think it over.

Your Majesty.

That's all, I have nothing else to say.

I Lu Wenpu have nothing to say.

Your Majesty.

It's...

Have them whipped.

Yes.

Whip.

Uncle

Uncle

Uncle

His Majesty said we were fragile.

I don't know if it's also true for Jia Yibo.

As I know, Wu Dehou loves him very much.

He is never punished by any family rules.

Uncle

This is not fair

I am scapegoated, uncle.

Uncle

Your Majesty.

We found this in his home.

Minister Lu, why...

You are never punished by the family rules right?

If his Majesty has the correspondences between you and Xu Changping,

and they found the paper in your house,

so...

How can the paper be in my house?

Yes, it's not.

But soon it will be.

Let them do the stupid things.

Miss Lu.

Only girls can do the delicate thing.

You are a horse rider, right?

Give you the paper.

So you can write a composition.

Put it in Tianzi No.48 and nd Tianzi No.60.

Who wrote this letter to you?

It's...

the prince.

You, Zhi and the examinee.

You three in the beginning...

I am afraid, Fengen and minister Lu will get into troubles.

I just take precautions.

But they are in troubles for real.

And even Lu Wenpu is implicated.

Brother

He has been worked in the ministry of rite for more than 20 years.

How could chancellor run into him?

You and chancellor are not suspicious of the coincidence?

Your Majesty.

From the handwriting, it's the prince's.

So it's your forgery.

I think you have known it already.

My teacher is the calligrapher No.1.

I only learn a little from him, but I spent the whole night in writing it.

His Royal Highness didn't sleep well last night?

A whole night

These two drafts are generally consistent with

the crib sheets of Gu Fengen and Lu Wenpu.

This is the solid evidence.

If I don't use this method,

chancellor won't take it out easily, right?

Inside of it, no authentic paper.

Where is the authentic paper?

I don't know.

Maybe.

Maybe it's still in the prince's palace.

You have the authentic paper.

He gave it to me right aftyer he replaced it.

Of course it's in my hand.

I need to see princess Qi.

Wait a moment

The one who is impatient with a bad temper

and a high chignon is princess Qi.

Don't be afraid

She is not smart

I am the maid of Denghua Palace.

Why are you here?

The imperial guards go to stop the authentic paper.

And the prince is late.

What should I do?

Fortunately, the prince's guards took it back.

But we are afraid the Dong palace will have more military force.

So the prince told me to give it to you.

It's about chancellor's life.

Except for the official, you need to keep it well.

You can't show it to anyone.

I get it.

Wait.

What is your name?

It's in my hand.

But I have no chance to give it to princess Qi.

So I want to thank you for protecting me early in the morning.

I heard of this with my ears.

Stop the crown prince

We can't fail.

Your Majesty.

We found this in prince Qi's palace.

Princess Qi kept this.

Does princess Qi know where this is from?

She said prince gave it to her.

No wonder the prince blocked my door in the early morning.

Du Heng.

Wait.

Don't worry.

Your bloody magistrate, how do you explain your previous confession?

It's chancellor that told me to say that.

Your Majesty.

He scapegoats me.

Your Majesty.

I still have something to say.

Also the chancellor told them to search the exam rooms.

I think now we can thoroughly investigate the exam hall.

Putting these in there can't be done by one man.

I think we can find some clues.

Call prince Qi out.

You can go now.

Fengen was whipped for only four times.

What about you?

I will wait and see.

Your Majesty.

The prince has nothing to do with this.

All my fault.

White linen paper and the seals?

I gave him.

What about the aunthentic paper in the prince's palace?

I gave it to princess Qi.

The prince has nothing to do with it.

And him?

I told him to say like that.

So you fabricated the letter according to the prince's handwritting?

Your Majesty, I.

Take these examinees in the prison.

We will talk about this after we sort out the confession.

Minister Lu goes to the exam hall.

Unlock the exam hall.

We will release the result after the case.

As for chancellor, you should stay here in the ministry of justice.

I let you go once.

I won't let you go for the second time

If you hadn't done something evil, it won't be like this.

I have said, don't touch my men.

But in the future, you won't have a chance.

How about it?

My sister in law, princess Qi.

The chignon is high, indeed.

She asked my name.

What did you say?

I said, I am Wenjin, my younger brother's name.

Censor Lu is not so old school.

Wenpu, Wenjin

You brother called you, Wenxi.

X-I right?

Yes

Your Royal Highness

Before going home, can I see my brother?

He is good.

He is not punished.

Let's go.

Tell them to go back.

Yes, your Grace.

You can go back.

Let go

Make way.

Make way.

Make way.

Come here.

Hurry up

What happened?

Take me to the ministry of justice.

Yes

Hurry up

Be careful, young master.

Hurry

Brother.

A'xi. -Brother.

You

Are you ok?

I am fine.

I am fine.

Miss sister, your brother is unharmed.

I was whipped.

You deserve it, who can you blame?

A'xi

Who is he?

He...

As I know, it's so easy for you to take the first place.

Even you did the filthy thing.

It's so...

Go away.

You..

Give it here.

How did he come in?

He is minister of justice, Zhang Luzheng's son.

Zhang Shaoyun.

My classmate in imperial college.

Who are you?

He is...

I am just a student.

Classmate

I am a student too.

Brother Gu.

You are half the royal blood.

How can you play with the civilian?

So outrageous.

Tormorrow I will tell my dad to give you an exception.

Give you a big room.

He was just released from exam hall.

Now he is here just to talk nonsense?

That's right

He is here to talk nonsense and adds insult into my injury.

You are here to see the laughing stock right?

Yes.

I am a bystander.

That's the spirit.

Brother Lu.

I will take the first place without you this year.

So what you dad is the imperial minister?

All the same.

You still need to come here

Buying paper and selling the paper will be banished or beheaded.

Brother is not like that.

Mind your language.

This is your sister?

The princess-to-be?

Brother Zhang.

Don't talk nonsense

My dad told me about it.

Minister Lu recommended your dad just for the crown prince's marrige

Originally, minister Lu keeps his promise.

The princess will be your sister.

What a pity.

You did this filthy thing.

So my sister will take it.

Speaking of the crown prince's marriage, Zhang Luzheng's daughter

is old enough to get married.

She is good.

If my sister is the princess, I will be like Wu Dehou, right?

My son is like brother Gu.

Not the same

I can't let him go to the exam hall.

Otherwise he will be like you now.

Since your sister can't be the princess, and I know your sister is a beauty.

Can you let me see her...

Zhang Shaoyun.

How dare you!

You are in my territory, I can do it as I want.

You dare to beat me?

Guards.

Arrest him.

She is mine.

Yours?

Like brother, like sister.

Fortunately, I didn't agree.

What did you say?

You dare to say me and my sister?

I tell you, I

I...

I tell you.

All the capital know you can't speak evil words behind me,

let alone my sister.

It's ok.

Enough.

We have an imperial decree.

His Majesty told, Jia Yibo...

Du.

Assistant minister Du

What is the imperial decree?

His Majesty told Jia Yibo to have a rest at home for recovery.

Can't move around before the case is settled.

And I?

Lu...

Assistant minister Du

Bring this thing back first.

You should take this from me.

Tell minister Zhang to teach him a good lesson.

I am a thing?

Du.

I am asking you

He, who is he?

Young master.

You are here.

Does your dad know it?

Yes, he knows. I told him.

I want to tell you.

Don't mess it up.

I don't want to talk about it outside.

I have told him about it.

Thank you for your help.

But I need to ask you a favor.

Hand off my sister.

Your Royal Highness

Your brother will be released afte the confession.

Don't need to worry.

Yes

Need me to tell them to send you back?

I can ride a horse.

Because I am a stranger?

I have run around for a day.

My makeup is ruined.

This way.

What are you looking at?

Lu Ying has such a daring girl.

In the future, she will be such a troublemaker.