Ye Qingxue looked around the study and saw that Pan Yuanzhou had no intention of calling Pan Jing and Dong Bai out.

Pan Yuanzhou probably didn't believe that she could tell him about the Pan family's urgent crisis.

Ye Qingxue wasn't surprised, after all, she was just a girl from a rural village.

"Dongbai, go out and keep watch. Don't let anyone unauthorized personnel approach Lord Pan's study," Ye Qingxue said.

Although Pan Yuanzhou didn't think she could say anything, Ye Qingxue still had to be on guard. It was very dangerous for a subject's family to speak recklessly about court affairs if they were used by someone with ulterior motives.

Dongbai should have withdrawn quickly.

Pan Yuanzhou felt that Ye Qingxue was being deliberately mysterious and pretentious, so he didn't stop her. Instead, he picked up the tea that had long since gone cold and brought it to his lips.

The study became quiet.

Ye Qingxue spoke with composure: "Lord Pan, your father was the Junior Tutor to the Crown Prince. Your Pan family has always maintained close ties with the Crown Prince and is regarded as part of the Crown Prince's faction."

"Now that the Crown Prince is in trouble, His Highness Prince Ding wants to seize the position of Crown Prince, so he will definitely try every means to deal with the Pan family, to make an example of them. The entire Pan family will not escape death."

Pan Yuanzhou's hand trembled as he drank his tea, spilling some. He looked at her in surprise.

How could a woman who grew up in a rural village be able to see the Pan family's Achilles' heel?

"Then what should we do?" Pan Jing asked immediately. She had indeed felt the atmosphere at home was tense these past few days, but she couldn't quite put her finger on why.

She thought it was because the Crown Prince had gotten into trouble that her father and brothers were upset, but she didn't realize that the Pan family was in such danger!

Pan Yuanzhou glanced at Pan Jing quietly, his words carrying a clear warning. He had spoken too quickly, allowing the other party to instantly seize control of the Pan family.

Ye Qingxue didn't care about Pan Yuanzhou's attitude; their relationship was simply one of mutual cooperation and mutual benefit.

"The solution to the Pan family's problem is to make the emperor and everyone else believe in a short period of time that Lord Pan has always been loyal to the imperial power, not to the crown prince, not to Prince Ding, and not to any other prince."

Pan Yuanzhou had always known this; they had previously pledged allegiance to the Crown Prince, believing that their allegiance was to the imperial power.

It was only after the Crown Prince's accident that he suddenly realized that his Pan family had unknowingly gone astray.

Now that the Crown Prince is in trouble, the lives of the entire Pan family are hanging by a thread.

This is also why he wanted to quickly gain merit and demonstrate his stance and attitude to the emperor.

But he has already rejected it; there's simply no way to do it.

Pan Yuanzhou snorted coldly: "Miss Ye makes it sound so easy!"

Ye Qingxue smiled slightly: "It's not difficult to do."

The phrase flashed through Pan Yuanzhou's mind again—ignorance breeds arrogance! If it weren't so difficult, he wouldn't be in so much pain!

Pan Yuanzhou inwardly scoffed, but still spoke authoritatively: "Tell me what you think."

Ye Qingxue said, "Minister of War Wei Jingtong is corrupt and lawless."

What?! Pan Yuanzhou was shocked. Wei Jingtong looked like he was penniless and clean-living. How could he possibly be embezzling?

All the officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty were corrupt, so it was impossible for Wei Jingtong to be corrupt!

Moreover, the third daughter of the Wei family is engaged to his eldest son, how could this be possible!

Ye Qingxue: "For many years, our Great Zhou's borders have been constantly invaded. The emperor has to open the national treasury from time to time to send real gold and silver to enemy countries in order to stop the war. The national treasury is inevitably empty."

"As long as Lord Pan finds Wei Jingtong's stolen goods and the Emperor confiscates the Wei family's property, the Emperor will receive a large sum of money. This will not only solve the problem of the Emperor's empty treasury, but also resolve the current predicament facing the Pan family."

"If this matter is handled well, Lord Pan will be a loyal subject to the emperor and a great hero who is devoted to the people. Even if Prince Ding and the Empress want to deal with the Pan family, they will have to think twice!"

Pan Yuanzhou stood up abruptly, his old face flushed red, veins bulging. He still refused to believe that Wei Jingtong had been corrupt. He couldn't see it, he couldn't see it at all.

Although Wei Jingtong was the Minister of War, houses and prices in the capital were expensive, and his family was large. His ancestors were farmers with no private property, so his salary was barely enough for his family to make ends meet, and they lived a very poor life.

It is said that when his elderly mother was seriously ill last time, he had to borrow money from his colleagues to hire a doctor. And the time before that, when his eldest daughter got married, he had to borrow some money to complete the dowry.

"Miss Ye, do you know that falsely accusing a high-ranking official of the court is punishable by death? Even if your fiancé is His Highness Prince Ding, it won't save you!"

As Pan Yuanzhou spoke, he suddenly realized, "Yes, Ye Qingxue is Prince Ding's fiancée. With the Crown Prince in trouble, Prince Ding wants to deal with the Pan family..."

Now let Ye Qingxue come to his door, dig a pit for him, make him jump into the pit of framing an important court official, and make his family be wiped out!

Ye Qingxue was sent by Prince Ding!

"The stolen goods are hidden in Jingzhou. If Lord Pan is willing, I can give you the specific address and a map of the hiding place. You just need to take your men to find them," Ye Qingxue said.

In her previous life, she barely survived for three years. After Ye Yabing married Prince Ding, in order to seek excitement, he would deliberately come to her side to do intimate things and say intimate words, so that she could listen and watch from behind.

Through fragmented information, she learned about Wei Jingtong's embezzlement and the location where he hid the embezzled funds.

"Can you really provide a specific address?" Pan Yuanzhou asked, unable to contain his interest.

But then he wondered if Ye Qingxue was deliberately leading him there, so that when he arrived at the place full of gold and silver, Prince Ding would come with his guards to arrest him and then accuse him of embezzlement and corruption!

After all, it was utterly unbelievable that Wei Jingtong, a high-ranking official in the notoriously poor Zhou Dynasty, would embezzle public funds.

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