There is no need to ask these questions late, as they have been answered by Chu Yan.

She buried her head and said, "This servant deserves death. I deceived Your Majesty."

Chu Yan paused, then kowtowed heavily on the ground: "But I beg Your Majesty to thoroughly investigate the matter of Qi Xiu. General Qi was wrongly accused!"

Even though Chu Yan knelt before her, Fei Wan didn't immediately believe him. She asked, "You're Feng Jinlin's man. How can I trust you? And how can you be so sure...that Qi Xiu was wronged?"

Chu Yan raised her head, tears on her face.

"I can tell Your Majesty everything I know about what happened back then. I have followed Feng Jinlin for many years and know many of her secrets. If Your Majesty wants to know, I will not hide anything."

Chu Yan listed everything Feng Jinlin had done one by one without waiting for Fei Wan's consent.

Among them were the information that Fei Wan had found out at the beginning, as well as the unsolved cases that had been bothering the original owner. Now they were all told.

Fei Wan believed most of it, but when it came to Qi Xiu's matter, Chu Yan had no idea that Feng Jinlin was involved.

Chu Yan's next words answered Fei Wan's doubts.

"To be honest, Your Majesty, I have been lurking beside Feng Jinlin all these years just for General Qi, but... Feng Jinlin has never mentioned this matter, and I can't find any evidence."

Chu Yan gritted his teeth and uttered, "This was definitely done by Feng Jinlin, because..."

"General Qi could never have been the one to do this."

Chu Yan's tone was very firm.

If Feng Jinlin really did something wrong, and Qi Xiu's case had long been over, then there was no need for her to bring it up again and cause more trouble.

Qi Xiu...

If it were discovered that the man who was respected by everyone and regarded as a savior by the people even though he was a man... was actually wrongly accused, and the culprit killed the loyal minister so easily, then... he would be condemned as if he were a usurper of the throne.

Even such a big thing will be recorded in history and despised by future generations.

Fei Wan let Chu Yan stand up,

Chu Yan was silent for a moment, looked at the stone tablet behind Fei Wan, and finally said:

"This inscriptionless stele was erected by me for General Qi. His body was thrown into a mass grave. I had no ability, so I could only hastily bury him here."

"I don't ask for anything, I just want General Qi to be cleared of all charges."

Chu Yan's body trembled slightly, and she choked up when she mentioned this.

With the help of moonlight, Fei Wan finally noticed something strange about Chu Yan.

The skin she exposed had some scars, some old and some new.

Those new scars... appeared in the past few days.

Once Feng Jinlin gets angry, the maids around him will probably be angered as well.

Fei Wan was speechless. He never expected that after so many years, there would still be someone who remembered Qi Xiu and gambled their entire youth for him, enduring everything, just for the possibility that the truth would come to light.

Qi Xiu...

What kind of person should he be?

…

With Chu Yan's help, Fei Wan understood the situation of that year.

Back then, correspondence between Qi Xiu's family and people from the State of Yue was discovered, and later a spy planted by the State of Yue in Fengming was discovered. That person actually had the defense maps of several cities in Fengming.

Under torture, the Yue spy gave out Qi Xiu.

Now, even if Qi Xiu defended himself by saying that the letter was just from a friend, it was hard to believe.

The writing system of Yue State was different from that of Fengming State, so those letters had to be handed over to a specialist to authenticate their contents. However, before they were delivered to the authentication personnel, all the letters were destroyed.

It is impossible to find out who was behind the incident, but one thing is certain: the evidence points to someone from the State of Yue.

Back then, the court was divided into two factions, and coincidentally, they also had different opinions on this matter. The Third Princess faction, to which Feng Jinlin belonged, was adamant that Qi Xiu was collaborating with the enemy, while the Fifth Princess faction insisted on submitting a petition to Emperor Xuan to have the case re-investigated.

At this critical moment, Qi Xiu's mansion was burned down.