Wang Huaizhi signed the confession and returned to the cell obediently to wait for his beheading in the autumn.
The next day, Yu Qizhe went to the palace to meet Emperor Mingzheng. After learning that Zhou Li fled the capital for fear of crime, Emperor Mingzheng ordered Yu Qizhe to dig three feet into the ground to recover the money that Zhou Li had embezzled over the years. In addition, he also ordered Yu Qizhe to find out whether it was true that Zhou Li colluded with Ji Wudao to sell war horses to the Tatars. Before finding out the truth, he should not alarm Ji Wudao, after all, Ji Wudao was in charge of the military power of the two major military towns.
If Ji Wudao really embezzled and traded war horses with the Tatars, he would be guilty of treason and punishable by death.
Seeing that the Supreme Golden Pill would be completed soon, Emperor Mingzheng did not want any trouble to arise at this time. Even if he wanted to take action against Ji Wudao, he had to wait until he had taken the Golden Pill.
When Yu Qizhe was leaving the Yangxin Palace, he met Xue Rong. He bowed his head slightly and saluted Xue Rong.
Xue Rong was supported by Yu Shu. Her face was pale, as thin as paper, and her belly was round. Her limbs were wrapped in the palace robe, and she looked weird and a little scary. She was far from her former beauty.
"I heard that Lord Yu has solved another serious case." Xue Rong forced a smile, "I guess it won't be long before I can congratulate Lord Yu on his promotion again."
"Your Majesty, you are too kind." Yu Qizhe said solemnly, "I still have official business to attend to, so I will not disturb you any longer."
After Yu Qizhe left, Xue Rong covered her mouth and coughed a few times, sighed softly, and said to Yu Shu: "Don't say Shang'er, even I feel it's a pity to see Yu Zhanxing now. This person is indeed a character...:
Xue Rong paused and said, "Why am I saying all this now?" She felt very weak, and her mind was not clear after being in Fengtianzhai for the past few days.
Thinking that Emperor Mingzheng moved against the Zhou family in order to build the Ascension Platform, Xue Rong frowned in disgust. She had seen clearly during her days in Fengtianzhai that Taixu looked like an immortal, but the things he instigated the emperor to do were more costly and labor-intensive than the last. The Hall of Supreme Harmony in Xianyang had just been completed, and now they were building the Ascension Platform, with jade bricks paving the ground, golden pillars on the top, and jade tiles covering it. It was extremely extravagant.
Xue Rong just stopped talking in Fengtian Palace that day, but was severely scolded by Emperor Mingzheng, who also found an excuse to beat two young eunuchs in her palace to death. She really couldn't understand what Cheng Ying wanted to do. Did he plant Taixu to make the emperor incompetent? But the emperor changed his ministers, and Cheng Ying, a rootless eunuch, had the power he had now. With the new emperor, it would be difficult for Cheng Ying to have the glory she has now.
Xue Rong couldn't figure it out so she stopped thinking about it. She just hoped to give birth to the baby in her belly safely. She couldn't spare the energy to do anything else. She just felt a vague sense of uneasiness in her heart as if a storm was about to come.
Midsummer has passed, the cicadas on the branches have finally stopped chirping, and the weather has become fresher. Yu Jiao and Liu Yaoyu have been living and eating with Liu Yaozhen in Furong Courtyard these days.
Yu Jiao went to Cui's house that day, and after coming back, she told them the truth about Cui Mubai's illness. Liu Yaozhen prepared a car and went to Cui's house that day, but was stopped outside the Cui mansion and still could not see Cui Mubai.
After returning, Liu Yaozhen developed a high fever. After taking medicine to reduce the fever, she would have a fever again when she woke up in the morning, and it did not get better for many days. Yu Jiao knew that she was suffering from a mental illness, so she and Liu Yaoyu moved to Furong Courtyard to live and eat with Liu Yaozhen. They told her some new things and jokes about the outside world every day to distract Liu Yaozhen and stop thinking about Cui Mubai. In this way, Liu Yaozhen's illness gradually got better, but she had lost a lot of weight, and looked as if something might happen to her if she was not careful. Yu Jiao felt that Liu Yaozhen seemed to have prenatal depression, so she quietly ordered Liu Yaozhen's maid to follow her closely and not leave her side for a moment.
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