Pang Ji was excited and hurriedly said, "Can you say it carefully?"

Fan Ning said what happened yesterday morning, but only hiding the link of Su Liang being arrested, but saying that he was separated.

Fan Ning finally said: "You can look at the list. Cheng Ze on the list is my friend. This matter is very simple. If you ask him to verify it, you will know the cause and effect."

Zhang Yaozuo sneered, "Of course your friends will cover you up. Do you think everyone is a fool, and after hearing a few words of yours, you will believe you?"

Song Yang also said: "Generally speaking, relatives and friends are not suitable for witnesses. This is a practice. Fanning, if you want to prove that you are innocent, it is best to find a third-party witness."

"Since that's the case, then I'll find the servant in green in the brothel. He just asked me to redeem the person. He could prove what I did in the brothel?"

Zhang Yaozuo quickly gave Liu Jin a wink. Liu Jin understood and stepped forward and said, "I will go and find someone now."

Pang Ji nodded, "Go! Go quickly and return quickly."

Liu Jin hurried away with a few yamen runners. Zhang Yaozuo and Song Yang were a little tired and went to the inner hall to rest for a while. Pang Ji asked someone to bring a chair for Fan Ning to sit down.

Fan Ning couldn't help but ask Pang Ji, "Just because of this little thing, the Taishi and the Prime Minister were alarmed, and the students really couldn't understand it."

Pang Ji said lightly: "Because this incident alarmed the emperor, you'd better not involve prostitution, otherwise no one can protect you."

Fan Ning had already realized that Zhang Yaozuo was determined to use this matter to deal with him. Liu Jin was the young master of Kaifeng Prefecture, and he was probably Zhang Yaozuo's confidant.

After pondering for a while, Fan Ning felt it would be better to be cautious, so he said, "I have another witness. Please ask Taishi Pang to send his own people to invite them. Don't let the Kaifeng Prefecture and the Ministry of Rites go. I can't believe these people."

Pang Ji said happily: "Yes, I can send my confidant to invite him."

Fan Ning took out a note from his arms and handed it to Pang Ji, "It's this address. Please ask the Grand Master to arrange someone to go there."

"I'll arrange someone now!"

Pang Ji hurried down with the note.

About half an hour later, with the sound of drums, Liu Jin had already brought the person there.

The three important officials returned to the lobby, and Liu Jin stepped forward to salute, "Reported to Taishi Pang, reported to the prime minister, reported to the father-in-law, and the witness of Fan Ning, the humble position has been brought to him."

A yamen runner shouted, "Bring someone to come up with a certificate!"

After a moment, a 14 or 15-year-old boy in green was brought up. Although he was very handsome, his expression and behavior were very despicable.

Fan Ning recognized at a glance that the boy was the brothel servant who went to find him and Su Liang to redeem people yesterday.

As soon as the servant in Qingyi entered the lobby, he knelt on the ground, lowered his head and did not dare to speak.

Pang Ji pointed to the boy and asked Fan Ning: "Is it this servant?"

Fanning nodded, "It's this person!"

Pang Ji immediately asked, "What's your name and what kind of business you do?"

The servant in Qingyi said tremblingly: "The villain is called Zhang Xiu, and he is the servant in charge of running errands in Baifeng Pavilion."

"Then let me ask you, did you come to the door to find this little official to go to the brothel to redeem the person yesterday morning?"

The servant in Qingyi glanced at Fan Ning and said timidly: "The villain didn't go anywhere yesterday, and he has been in the Baifeng Pavilion."

"Bang!" Zhang Yaozuo slapped the table and said sternly: "Fan Ning, you are lying in person, what else do you have to say?"

Song Yang also sighed, "It is normal for young people to be a little romantic, but being dishonest is a moral issue. Fanning, you shouldn't lie to face."

Fanning shook her head and said, "I won't be able to free myself from something that doesn't exist at all! I don't know what happened halfway through, and I don't know why this servant dared not admit it. Is he under some threat?"

Liu Jin was immediately unhappy and said, "Fan Ning, what do you mean by saying this? Could it be that I was threatening him halfway?"

"Liu Shaoyin should know what he thinks."

Zhang Yaozuo said angrily: "No one proves that you are innocent, but someone proves that you are in a prostitute in a brothel. We have given you a chance. You can't explain it yourself. Now you are attacking court officials. Do you think you can be unscrupulous if you are a juren?

Let me tell you that this time you are not only disqualified from the imperial examination, but also will be prohibited from participating in the imperial examination for life."

At this time, a follower said a few words in Pang Ji's ear. Pang Ji waved his hand and said, "Don't be excited, Fan Ning has another witness, what should he say?"

Zhang Yaozuo was stunned, "Who else has a witness? Why don't I know?"

Pang Ji said coldly: "Because the emperor gave this matter to me for trial, it has nothing to do with the father-in-law, so the father-in-law doesn't need to know."

Zhang Yaozuo was speechless. He looked at Song Yang again, and Song Yang hurriedly said, "I just learned that since Fan Ning still has a witness, I think it's okay to listen."

Song Yang is cunning. Although he prefers Zhang Yaozuo, he will never surround himself.

He had already discovered that Pang Ji took the initiative to ask for the case to be tried, which may have other profound meanings. It would be better for him to have room for himself before he understood Pang Ji's real purpose.

Soon, an old man was brought in and he bowed and said, "The second brother Wei Qing, please see all the officials!"

Pang Ji asked him, "Where are you from and what do you do to make a living?"

Wei Qing bowed and said, "The little brother is a local from the capital. He lives in Liulin Village outside Xicheng. The little brother chops wood and sells firewood and sells charcoal in winter. People in the Xicheng area know me."

Song Yang smiled at Pang Ji and said, "I know this father-in-law. I bought his charcoal a few days ago."

"Then do you know this little official?" Pang Ji pointed to Fan Ning behind him.

Wei Qing turned around and saw Fan Ning, and was shocked, "Why is the little official here?"

Fanning smiled bitterly, "I don't want to be here either, but someone insisted on me to be charged, so please ask my father-in-law to testify, where was I yesterday morning?"

"Wait a minute!"

Zhang Yaozuo said sternly: "How do you prove that this old man is not a relative of Fanning?"

Wei Qing shook his head, "I'm only one son. I died of illness three years ago. Now I am the only one with my wife and I, with my grandson, depend on each other. Everyone knows that we have no relatives, and the government has records, so we can check it."

Song Yang said to Zhang Yaozuo: "Fan Ning is from Pingjiang Mansion, and this old man is from the capital and the father-in-law. I think the two should have nothing to do with each other."

Pang Ji ignored Zhang Yaozuo and continued to ask Wei Qing, "Brother Wei, how could you know Xiaoguanren Fan?"

"You are a great official. Yesterday morning, the old man sold charcoal and fainted from the cold. If it weren't for the official Fan's rescue, I would have been frozen to death."

"When did Fanning save you yesterday morning?"

"At dawn, I fainted at their door."

Pang Ji slapped the table and asked Xu Ji, who was sitting on the other side, "You said you saw Fanning enter the brothel the night before yesterday, but yesterday morning he was clearly at his home. Someone gave Fanning a certificate, and who would prove that what you said was true?"

Xu Ji was flustered and stammered: "I...I didn't lie, I saw it with my own eyes."

"Hmph! I'll try you again later."

Pang Ji asked the servant again, "I just sent someone to inquire. Yesterday morning, the madam in the brothel did send you out to find someone to redeem the guests. Why did you lie? You said you have been in the brothel and have never left the house?"

The servant was speechless and couldn't speak. Pang Ji ordered: "Come here! Pull him down and beat him fifty sticks to see if he tells the truth."

The servant cried in fear, "I'll tell me! I'll tell the truth!"

He pointed at Liu Jin, "It was this official who threatened me halfway and didn't let me tell the truth, otherwise he would kill me!"

Pang Ji's face sank and he looked at Liu Jin coldly, "Liu Shaoyin, are you explaining to me or to explain to the emperor?"

Liu Jin's face changed drastically, he pointed at the servant and shouted, "You dare to swear by others, I must kill you!"

Pang Ji untied the Emperor Shangfang sword on his waist, put it on the table, and ordered: "The Emperor Shangfang sword is here, come and take Liu Jin down!"

Several guards rushed up and pressed Liu Jin to the ground. Liu Jin struggled desperately and shouted: "It's just a trivial matter, why should I catch me?"

But the guard ignored him and tied him up tightly.

Zhang Yaozuo stood up in shock, "Teacher Pang, what are you doing?"

Pang Ji looked at him with a smile, "Bestie, what do you think?"

"you"

Zhang Yaozuo suddenly understood, and he nodded, "Pang Ji, you are so skillful, do you also want to take the opportunity to remove me from my official position?"

"You are the father-in-law, of course I have to take into account the face of the official family, but you can explain it to the official family by yourself!"

Zhang Yaozuo snorted heavily, "I am just a bystander, this case has nothing to do with me!"

After saying that, he turned around and left.

Pang Ji ignored him and continued to ask the servant Qingyi, "I will give you another last chance. Do you know Fan Xiaoguanren?"

Seeing that Liu Jin had been arrested, the servant in Qingyi did not dare to lie anymore, so he nodded, "This friend of Fan Xiaoguanren has no money to pay for prostitution. The villain went to Fan Xiaoguanren to go to the brothel to redeem the people, and the villain could testify!"

Pang Jiling said: "Give the two people a certificate!"

A clerk stepped forward and asked the servant in green to write a handprint and the old man Wei Qing to write a seal.

Pang Ji then smiled and said to Fan Ning: "Facts have proved that you are innocent, you can go back!"

Fan Ning bowed and said, "There is another thing for the student, and I want to report it to the Grand Tutor and the Prime Minister!"

Pang Ji and Song Yang looked at each other, and Pang Ji asked, "What else do you have?"

Fan Ning turned around and pointed at Xu Ji, "This Xu Xiaoguanren and I are classmates at Yanying School in Wuxian. Three years ago, he also participated in the Wuxian Boy Examination Competition, but fell out of the list. Later, he moved his household registration to Xuanzhou to participate in the Boy Examination in Xuanzhou. I heard that he lost the election in Xuancheng County again at the beginning of the year and only ranked seventeenth.

But I don’t understand, why did he become a Chizhou Juren again?"

Xu Ji's face turned pale, and the thing he was most afraid of finally came out.

His legs became weak and he was so scared that he collapsed in the lobby. He knew very well that not only Xu Ji was unlucky in this matter, but his second uncle, who was the governor of Chizhou, might also be implicated.

Pang Ji stared at Xu Ji with sharp eyes, "Xu Ji, could you cheat on the test?"
Chapter completed!