kvmb Chapter 66 The Shattered Dreams of Scholars Across the Land
Chapter 66 The Shattered Dreams of Scholars Across the Land
[What?! They're laughing all the way to riches! The libationer was so scared his voice cracked.]
The old emperor, who had been in a panic for a short while, quickly calmed down.
What a joke! Shen Zhiyi didn't even move, so why would he?
He looked up again at the scattered court officials and shouted angrily.
"Stop right there, all of you! What kind of nonsense is this?"
[Exactly! There's no such thing as a ghost in this world, because the priestess lying in the coffin never died at all.]
Chancellor of the Imperial Academy: !!!
The Ministry of Works official was stunned for a moment, but soon a look of joy appeared on his face. He immediately rushed to the side of the coffin and helped the wife of the chief priestess out of the coffin.
Oh dear, this adopted son wasn't raised in vain.
The Chancellor of the Imperial Academy was so frightened that he fell to the ground on the spot, muttering repeatedly, "Impossible, this is impossible."
With the help of the Ministry of Works official, the wife of the chief priest shakily crawled out of the coffin.
"Nothing is impossible. I stopped taking your medicine a long time ago."
[She really didn't drink anymore. Actually, when the biological mother of the Ministry of Works Assistant Minister, Madam Peng, came to see the Chancellor, this lady already knew about this matter. It was also at that time that she learned that her child and Madam Peng's child had been switched, and that the one who did it was her husband, whom she thought was very loving.]
The wife of the chief priest, harboring resentment, gradually realized that her persistent dizziness over the years might be related to him. Upon investigation, she discovered that he had indeed added a slow-acting poison to her food.
After listening to Shen Zhiyi's heartfelt words, the Chancellor of the Imperial Academy was surprised to find that the problem had gone wrong.
He hated that he should have killed Peng Shi and the village chief from his childhood when the child was switched at that time.
So what if Shen Zhiyi reveals this and everyone finds out?
With no way to verify the truth since the dead are dead, the old emperor couldn't find any evidence either.
But the sad thing is, there are no "what ifs".
The chief priest's wife ignored the chief priest and walked directly toward the old emperor.
"Your Majesty, your humble servant, Liu, wishes to file a lawsuit against my husband, Cai, the current Chancellor of the Imperial Academy."
The old emperor sat down in the chair that Chen Decai had brought over and waved to Lady Liu: "Speak."
"My husband has been poisoning me with slow-acting poison for decades, attempting to harm me. Forty years ago, he switched my child with his mistress's child. Fifteen years ago, my husband also murdered his mistress on his way back to the village. Your Majesty, this man is morally corrupt and unworthy to be the Chancellor of the Imperial Academy."
[He is not only unworthy of being the chief priest, but he is also unworthy of being regarded as an idol by scholars across the land. Leaving aside his moral character, just considering his abilities, everything he has written for decades has been ghostwritten.]
The assembled civil and military officials: !!
what?
Shen Zhiyi, what did you just say?!
So many excellent articles written by the chief priest were actually ghostwritten?
Zhang Sheren originally thought he had been shattered to pieces, but he never expected that he could be reduced to ashes, which would be scattered by the wind.
"Impossible, this is impossible, I don't believe it."
A shout came from the crowd, the person looking frantic.
Shen Zhiyi looked away from the surveillance video and glanced at the crazed man, then curiously moved closer to Zhang Sheren.
As a result, the other party also seemed to have almost stopped breathing.
Shen Zhiyi asked in a low voice, "Zhang Sheren, what's wrong with you?"
"Nothing, I just want some peace and quiet."
"Oh, then who was it that said they didn't believe it?"
Zhang Sheren glanced at the impetuous official, and was about to say something when he suddenly remembered something. He immediately changed his tone and said in a low voice, "I don't know him either."
The old emperor coughed, and Chen Decai made his grand entrance.
Chen Decai subtly moved closer to Shen Zhiyi and whispered in his ear, "Shen Lang, this servant knows that the man's wife has given birth, but someone told him that the child is not his, so he shouted that he did not believe it."
Shen Zhiyi's small mouth formed an "O" shape due to excessive surprise.
Then he made an "OK" gesture that Chen Decai didn't recognize.
[How pitiful. Your child isn't yours, and you broke down in tears, blurting out something in front of the old emperor. But it's alright, the old emperor is a good emperor; he's been cuckolded before, he understands you.]
The still-single, impetuous official: ? ? ? What? He doesn't even have children yet.
The old emperor: What do you mean he understands him!
"Your Majesty."
The speaker was an assistant minister of the Ministry of Works, who knelt directly next to the wife of the chief minister.
"Your Majesty, I have something to tell everyone."
“My father’s writings over the years were not done by his own hand.”
The civil and military officials present: Good lad, you're even willing to betray your own father for credit.
[Wow, even the Vice Minister of Works knows about this.]
[Then he must also know that what his father wrote was actually written by his mother, well, no, strictly speaking, his adoptive mother. Anyway, what the chief priest wrote was actually written by the chief priest's wife.]
[The wife of the Imperial Academy Chief Minister came from a family of scholars. She could compose poems at the age of three and write excellent essays by the age of five. Her exceptional abilities made her father always regret that she was a girl.]
【Holy crap, what's wrong with a girl? Just because she's a girl, you're going to fool her into being her brother's lover from a young age, and then her husband's lover after they get married?】
[A woman who's been in high demand her whole life, tell me, what was she even after? She spent her life writing poems, songs, and essays, even the most famous "Ode to the Sea" in Da Ye today, which directly made that hypocrite, the Grand Chancellor, famous. And what was the result? Who knew that you were the one who wrote the "Ode to the Sea"?!]
Shen Zhiyi was filled with indignation, and his eyes were filled with murderous intent as he looked at the Chancellor of the Imperial Academy!
[Terrible person!]
The Imperial Academy Chancellor wished he could kill Shen Zhiyi on the spot.
The Ministry of Works official looked at his mother in surprise.
"Mother, did you write all of Father's articles?"
Liu's heart skipped a beat, and she retorted, "How did you know?"
Everyone: Wow, it really is!
Broken.
Broken to the ground.
It shattered into dust.
"Chancellor Cai, who exactly wrote that 'Ode to the Sea'?"
Some people began to question the Chancellor of the Imperial Academy.
The chief priest gritted his teeth and remained silent.
[The most famous contemporary work is the "Ode to the Sea," and there's also the long poem "Remembering My Hometown." Who wrote "Remembering My Hometown"?]
[It seems to be Dr. Liu from the Imperial Academy. Wait, isn't Dr. Liu the younger brother of the Liu family? 666, that's really too much! The whole family is famous because of the Liu family's writing skills. Tsk, a bunch of shameless stinking men.]
Court officials who studied at the Imperial Academy: ...
It broke, then broke again.
Today is a day when the dreams of the entire literary world of Daye are shattered.
Some, with their impulsive tempers, even threw all the incense ash directly onto the forehead of the Imperial Academy Chancellor.
"A hypocrite, how dare he deceive all the scholars in the world!"
"It's really bad luck that I hung your portrait on my front door."
……
In the midst of the commotion and impulsiveness, many people rushed out and spat at the Chancellor of the Imperial Academy, each hurling insults at him without repeating themselves.
Shen Zhiyi was stunned.