Shen Qianchen could see that Shen Qianhuang had figured it out, so she didn't say anything more. She couldn't help but touch Shen Qianhuang's head again, and asked with a smile: "Is the silver enough? I want to get a share, too."

"..." Shen Qianhuang always felt that she was being coaxed and touched by her sister like a cat, which was a bit funny.

She had no intention of taking it all on her own, so she readily agreed to Shen Qianchen's proposal: "I'll go back and plan it carefully first."

"Don't worry, there will not only be a share for you, but also for your grandmother, mother, and aunts." Shen Qianhuang said generously.

If we want to promote the establishment of girls' schools, on the one hand, we need financial and human resources, and on the other hand, we also need the support of some people with status and position. Only in this way can girls' schools have more authority among the people and achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Shen Qianhuang knew her own limitations, so she had never planned to work alone. Not only did she have the Queen Shen Qianchen by her side, but she also had her mother and other members of the Shen family. They were all her advantages, so of course she had to make use of them.

Shen Qianchen stretched out his index finger and shook it at her: "Have you forgotten about Brother Mu? Be careful or he will get angry with you!"

Shen Qianhuang was stunned, and Shen Yunmu's arrogant voice naturally rang in her mind: "Big sister, have you forgotten that you have a younger brother like me?!"

The two sisters both thought of this scene and smiled at each other.

The two chatted and laughed, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

Looking at this scene, Amber still feels a sense of unreality as if in a dream.

Half an hour later, Amber personally saw Shen Qianhuang off.

As soon as Shen Qianhuang left, Gu Jue, who had just returned to the court, returned to the Qianqing Palace.

This was not a coincidence. Gu Jue came back at this time because he knew that Shen Qianhuang had left.

Shen Qianchen and Gu Jue have always been close friends, so Shen Qianchen told Gu Jue everything Shen Qianhuang had said, including the matter of combing her hair by herself and opening a girls' school.

Gu Jue just listened without commenting.

He personally picked up the blue and white porcelain teapot and added some scented tea to Shen Qianchen's cup, then picked up the teacup and brought it to her lips.

Shen Qianchen took two sips from his hand, then pushed the teacup to his mouth.

Gu Jue also drank a few sips obediently.

The two of them moved back and forth with such familiarity and naturalness, as if they had done it countless times.

Suddenly, Shen Qianchen said something out of nowhere: "Jiuxia, I now feel that 'that Chu Qianhuang' might be here to 'complete' it."

She didn't say this out of sudden emotion, but the idea had been brewing in her mind for a long time.

In her previous life, if it weren’t for “that Chu Qianhuang” secretly causing trouble, she would definitely not have ended up being kicked out of the Chu family, and then, she would not have met Gu Jue.

There is a cause for every effect.

Because of "that Chu Qianhuang", Chu Qianchen, who had nothing in her previous life, was able to meet Gu Jue, which gave her a new life.

At that time, she looked up to him and regarded him as her belief. His existence made her feel that the things in the past were not worth mentioning at all, and Jiang Minshan's repeated words that belittled her became insignificant.

As long as he said she could, she felt she could.

In order to be able to follow him, she tried her best. She got rid of the cowardly and incompetent person that the Chu family had created her to become who she is now.

She likes her now! He likes her now too, right?!

Thinking of this, Shen Qianchen smiled happily, with curved eyebrows and eyes, laughing foolishly by himself.

"So happy?" Gu Jue said casually, not knowing what she was happy about.

Whenever he saw her smiling, he would feel relaxed and happy, and all his worries would disappear.

"Of course I'm happy!" Shen Qianchen nodded as a matter of course.

There must be a previous life before there can be this life.

Therefore, in this life, she would take the initiative to find Gu Jue and be with him.

In this life, she made up for all the regrets in her heart.

Gu Jue will not die early, will not be tortured by illness, he will be fine!

Thinking of this, Shen Qianchen couldn't help but raised his hand to pinch Gu Jue's wrist and check his pulse.

The pulse under the fingers is vigorous and powerful.

very nice!

Gu Jue had become accustomed to her checking his pulse from time to time, and he indulged her with a warm smile on his face.

As long as she can feel at ease.

Shen Qianchen quickly withdrew his hand, smiling even more, and said, "Big sister also told me that mother's wedding date is set at the end of the year. When that day comes, will you accompany me to sneak out of the palace to attend mother's wedding?"

Speaking of Shen Zhi's wedding date, Shen Qianchen became even happier and thought of the "cause" again.

If it weren't for "that Chu Qianhuang", Shen Zhi would have been trapped in the Chu family for the rest of her life, and Shen Qianhuang would have died at the hands of Jiang Minshan at a young age.

And now Shen Zhi and Shen Qianhuang have both been "reborn" in a sense.

Looking back at what happened in the past year and a half since her rebirth, she still feels like it’s a dream. No, it should be said that it’s a dream come true...

Shen Qianchen smiled and leaned on Gu Jue obediently. He couldn't help but touch him, playing with his hair and rubbing him with his knees.

"Of course." Gu Jue responded without saying a word, rubbed Shen Qianchen's head, and changed the subject, "I will leave the palace tomorrow and go to the Dali Temple to watch the three-court trial." The three-court trial was about the case of cheating in this year's imperial examination.

The black cat came back at some point, tilting its face to look at Gu Jue's hand, remembering Shen Qianhuang touching its head, Shen Qianchen touching Shen Qianhuang's head, so...

The black cat raised its paw and looked at it, then slowly licked its paw to wash its face.

"I want to go too!" Shen Qianchen was excited and said, "Are we going to go on a secret visit?"

She felt that she was also one of the parties involved in this fraud case. After all, she was present when Lao Yu came to them to sell the questions on the Chinese Valentine's Day; and she was also present when they later sent Wei Yuanzhi and his gang to Jingzhao Prefecture.

She witnessed the "beginning" and "process" with her own eyes, so there is no reason for her not to see the "ending", right?

"Then let's go together." Gu Jue smiled slightly and didn't say anything else, obviously keeping the secret.

Shen Qianchen's curiosity was aroused, and he couldn't help but guess how Gu Jue was going to appear tomorrow.

Not only Shen Qianchen was paying attention to this three-court trial, it was almost the focus of the entire capital.

From the emperor and empress to the common people, everyone is eagerly awaiting tomorrow's three-court trial. The court has become extremely depressing because of the impending storm.

The place with the most solemn atmosphere is probably the Wei Mansion on Shuize Street.

In recent days, the entire Wei Mansion has been unusually quiet every day. The servants in the mansion all know that the Wei family has run into big trouble, and they all behave themselves.

Today, the Wei family, who had been closed for several days, welcomed several guests, who all gathered in the main hall. The servants had been driven out long ago and were guarding the door outside, not allowing any outsiders to approach.

Everyone in the main hall respected Wei Jingze, and since he was the host, he naturally sat at the top.

A middle-aged man with a goatee and wearing a green robe looked at the gloomy Wei Jingze, cleared his throat and said, "Sir Wei, now that things have come to this, we should think carefully about how to overcome the difficulties together."

Up to now, there are only four or five people involved in the case who have been arrested in the Ministry of Justice prison, and the other ten or so are servants of the Wei family. Strictly speaking, these servants have nothing to do with the fraud case, and at most they are charged with "gathering a crowd to fight."

The old man wanted to comfort Wei Jingze, but Wei Jingze's face became even gloomier and he looked unhappy.

His second son Wei Yuanzhi was imprisoned in the Ministry of Justice, and his eldest son was also suspected of cheating in the imperial examination. This time, the Wei family suffered a huge loss! "The emperor is still too impatient!" Lord Li said again, with a hint of sarcasm in his tone.

The new emperor is too young after all, just a young man in his twenties.

The new emperor had just taken action after the first round of the imperial examination, but he only managed to capture Wei Yuanzhi. If the new emperor had taken advantage of their unpreparedness and collected all the evidence before taking action, they would have been doomed as well.

The new emperor was too impatient, so he gave them enough time to destroy the evidence.

Among the criminals arrested now, except for Wei Jingze's second son Wei Yuanzhi, the others are all minor characters who are not worth mentioning at all.

The other three officials felt the same way and nodded.

In fact, they all felt that Wei Yuanzhi was too impulsive. There was no need for Wei Yuanzhi to personally lead people to the Li’s Tavern that day. Otherwise, he would have implicated other people in the Wei family.

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But they only dared to think about these words, and no one said them out loud.

Wei Jingze glanced at these people with cold eyes, and could tell what they were thinking at a glance.

He sneered, clenched his right fist, and tapped the coffee table twice in annoyance. He said in a deep voice, "Gu Jue is not impatient, he is just killing the chicken to scare the monkey!"

"Gu Jue has just dealt with 30% of the military officers in the court. Although he urgently transferred people from the Northern Army to those vacancies and temporarily stabilized the situation in the army, it is only 'temporary'. The morale of the army is still restless."

"If he first uses military force and then uses force to deal with civil officials in just one month, the court will be in chaos."

Therefore, Wei Jingze judged that Gu Jue was killing the chicken to scare the monkey this time.

The other four officials present looked at each other.

Some people also felt that what Wei Jingze said made sense, and they began to feel uncertain again: The key is, how much has the new emperor found out, how much evidence does he have, and to what extent does he intend to investigate...

Some people became more and more scared the more they thought about it and swallowed their saliva; some people drank tea absentmindedly and did not comment; some people seemed to be thinking about something.

Lord Li exchanged glances with the old man, and Lord Li said cautiously: "Lord Wei, do you mean that the emperor deliberately dealt with a group of people this time to give us a warning?!"

Wei Jingze dared to call the new emperor by his name, but no one else present dared to do so.

The atmosphere in the hall became increasingly solemn, and it seemed as if water was about to condense out of the air.

Wei Jingze pursed his lips into a straight line without saying a word. He began to tap the coffee table with his right fist again and again, his annoyance evident in his words.

Seeing this, another man in his early thirties in blue calmly said, "That should be it. Right now, we should think about how to protect Second Young Master Wei."

He used the word "protect", because Wei Yuanzhi's guilt could not be denied, so all they could do was try to reduce his sentence and save his life first.

After all, even if he was punished to be exiled to the frontier, it was nothing. With Wei Jingze's ability, he could send someone to the place of exile in advance to help his son make arrangements. In a few years, Wei Yuanzhi would still be able to return to Beijing.

Everyone else secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and felt that Gu Jue would not hold it against them, but in front of Wei Jingze, they couldn't show their joy and relief on their faces.

"Lord Liu is right." The old man, who was nearly sixty years old, nodded in agreement and thought of an idea. "Lord Wei, you are a veteran minister of three dynasties, a loyal minister, and you have countless disciples in the court. If Lord Wei goes to cry in front of the Imperial Ancestral Temple, the emperor will probably let go of the fraud case under pressure."

"Not appropriate! The court session will begin tomorrow!" Lord Li immediately shook his head in objection.

Even if Wei Jingze went to the Imperial Ancestral Temple to cry now, if the new emperor ignored him, it would be in vain! Unless Wei Jingze knelt in the Imperial Ancestral Temple for three days and three nights, they would try to build momentum for him. It would definitely be too late now, as there were less than twelve hours left before the court opened tomorrow morning.

"Open the court..." Lord Liu, who was wearing a blue robe, touched his chin thoughtfully, "How about letting Second Master Wei put pressure on us in court tomorrow?"

After a pause, he reminded meaningfully: "Master Wei, don't forget that the Queen's family is also involved. Just try to meet the Second Young Master before the court session and make nice with him in advance..."

Although Duke Mu and his son did not work in the Ministry of Rites, nor were they the chief or deputy examiner of this joint examination, Duke Mu had been friends with the chief examiner, Grand Secretary Ye of the Hanlin Academy, and several officials from the Ministry of Rites for many years, so it was not impossible for him to want to know the test questions.

Moreover, when Lao Yu was selling the questions, he often used the Queen's family as a gimmick, and many candidates who bought the questions knew it.

If Wei Yuanzhi openly testifies in court tomorrow that Duke Mu and his son are involved in the exam question leaking and cheating case, then Duke Mu and his son will never be able to clear themselves even if they jump into the Yellow River.

Even if the new emperor and the three officials tried their best to protect Duke Mu and his son, there would always be people who would secretly question whether the new emperor was favoring the queen's family.

In order to protect the queen, the new emperor will probably be a little cautious and let this case go.

Wei Jingze thought for a while, and his frown relaxed slightly. He slapped his palm on the coffee table, and made a decision in his heart. He said, "I will arrange for someone to go to the Ministry of Justice's prison tonight..."

Others also thought this idea was feasible and felt relieved.

The air became looser, and even the sound of wind blowing through the leaves outside the window seemed to become a little lighter.

Lord Li added with emotion: "As long as the emperor still has concerns."

What they feared was that Gu Jue was cold-blooded and unscrupulous.

As long as Gu Jue has concerns, he will have weaknesses.

Lord Li felt that he had found Gu Jue's weakness, but Lord Liu disagreed and poured cold water on him: "Our emperor's idea is still too big!"

When the king is strong, the ministers are weak. A strong and powerful king like Gu Jue is actually the one that gives them the most headaches.

They were like having a knife on their necks, and every step was difficult, which made them miss the late emperor Gu Lang. Alas, if it was Gu Lang in the past, how could the examination questions be sold to Gu Lang! Wei Jingze's heart was much calmer, and he also had the leisure to drink tea. He drank two sips of Longjing leisurely.

"Heh." When he put the teacup down, it hit the coffee table with a clatter, and a meaningful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. "Is the Ministry of Rites revising the procedures for the imperial examination recently?"

Lord Li immediately nodded in agreement.

“No matter how the process is revised, as long as there are people, there will inevitably be loopholes.” Wei Jingze said with a smile.

Lord Liu's mind moved, his eyes sparkled, and he asked, "Lord Wei, are you thinking..."

"The most dangerous time is also the safest time. Gu Jue will definitely not think that we would dare to take action during the re-examination." A sharp light flashed across Wei Jingze's eyes.

Lord Li also laughed: "So, the emperor's fuss actually helped us spread the word. Now all the candidates know that the test questions can be bought!"

"We can't sell it as cheap as three thousand taels this time!"

"That's right!"

“…”

Several officials present all nodded, feeling that they must take advantage of this re-examination to make a fortune.

Wei Jingze laughed heartily, full of energy, and planned to take revenge by taking the exam again next month! At this moment, a panicked and intermittent male voice came from outside the main hall: "No! No... No!"

A servant ran over here, panting, his face full of fear.

Wei Jingze frowned again, displeased by the servant's noisy behavior.

"Master, the Jinyiwei are here!" the servant shouted at the top of his lungs, almost breaking his voice.

(End of this chapter)