Chapter 116: Motive Matters More Than Evidence
Murong Feng shook his head and said, "The North Sea Academy does not accept cultivators still at the Qi Refining realm."
"But there are exceptions!"
Li Qiuchen pressed on quickly. "Magistrate Peng has a single exemption slot that allows direct enrollment without examination!"
"How do you know something like that?"
"How I know isn't important. What matters is that you should have ways of verifying it, shouldn't you?"
In truth, he had had Bai Ke pry it out of Xu Qing.
Senior Sister Peng Lan was a relative of the county magistrate by blood. Xu Qing was the magistrate's nominal brother-in-law. Liu Mengyun was a distant nephew of Sheriff Ma Tiancheng.
Within their circle, this was hardly a secret.
Criminal motive mattered more than criminal evidence.