Finally, under the strong pressure from the high-ranking officials of the court, Mei Xianzhang was suppressed for another three years. Only after the memorials praising her political achievements could no longer be suppressed, she was reluctantly promoted to the prefect of Bailu City.
"Master Jiang is merely making a guess. Why should the governor be so sarcastic?" the governor's second-in-command, the "Prince Minister," said. "Besides, even if infant drowning and abandonment truly occurred at Qingxia Temple, there's no evidence. Do you have any proof, Governor?"
The prefect's point is simple: "You've just taken office, Governor. Why are you so anxious to deal with these things?" "Besides, you've just arrived here. Even if there really were cases of drowning or abandoning babies at Qingxia Temple, do you have any evidence?"
But Mei Xianzhang just smiled faintly and said, "The evidence, I am the evidence."
"What?" The chancellor and the chief clerk were stunned when they heard this. They looked at each other, their eyes full of confusion and questions.
"Sir, we don't understand what you mean," the chief clerk said.
Mei Xianzhang said calmly, "Minister Lin, Chief Secretary Jiang, do you know who my parents are?"
Lin Fucheng and Jiang Zhubu were startled again, then they bowed and asked, "We really don't know. May I ask where the mourning hall is for the governor's father?"
Mei Xianzhang said, "My father's name is Mei Qing. As for my mother, she is kneeling outside right now. She is the abbot of Qingxia Temple, Xuan Shang."
"Ah?!" All the officials present were stunned at this moment. Even Lin Fucheng and Jiang Zhubu were surprised and looked at each other in silence.
Teams of palace soldiers came in and out, arresting everyone in Qingxia Temple, not even sparing a single gatekeeper.
At the same time, the Qingxia Temple was completely sealed off, and all Taoist statues were moved away and sent to the prefectural government for disposal.
For a moment, the entire Qingxia Temple was filled with cries of grief, and everyone was shouting that they were innocent. However, the palace guards would not listen to their cries and took them all away in shackles and shackles.
In the end, Lin Fucheng and Jiang Zhubu failed to stop Mei Xianzhang. After all, as a victim of Qingxia Temple, Mei Xianzhang herself was the biggest witness and victim of some illegal activities in Qingxia Temple.
Xuan Shang stared at the scene in front of her with a dull look. Seeing the Qingxia Temple where she had lived for more than 20 years being closed down, she felt sad and devastated.
What she wanted most at this moment was to find Master Ao Ren to rescue Qingxia Temple, but she couldn't do it because she was also locked up.
Xuan Shang didn't understand at first why the new governor was targeting Qingxia Temple, but when she was brought before the new governor and asked the first question, she understood everything.
"Where is the Kuixing Inkstone?" Mei Xianzhang asked the woman in front of him who was wearing shackles and was middle-aged but still quite charming.
Xuan Shang's whole body trembled as if struck by lightning. Her face turned pale as paper in an instant. She stared at Mei Xianzhang blankly and said, "You, you are..."
"I am Mei Qing's daughter. As for you, you've never considered me your own daughter, so there's no need for me to acknowledge you as my mother." At this point, Mei Xianzhang pointed at Xuan Shang and said, "A brothel owner who sleeps with thousands of women and rides on tens of thousands of women, with no trace of humanity, is she worthy of being the mother of a fourth-rank official in the imperial court?"
Xuan Shang was trembling all over, and her face was getting paler. Mei Xianzhang was sitting high up at the table, wearing the uniform of a fourth-rank official of the imperial court, and he had a bright future.
And she is just an old and ugly prostitute.
"Where is the Kuixing Inkstone?!" Mei Xianzhang shouted again, which frightened Xuan Shang into panic.
After a long while, Xuan Shang murmured, "The Kuixing Inkstone is no longer with me, nor is it in Qingxia Temple. You will never find it."
Mei Xianzhang's eyes suddenly turned cold when he heard this. He immediately stood up and said, "Take her away and investigate thoroughly to see what crimes she and the people from Qingxia Temple have committed over the years. If we find out, we'll all be charged together."
Afterwards, Xuanshang and Qingxia were taken to the Bailu City prison along with the others, and were subjected to the "Great Memory Restoration Technique".
Five days later, all the crimes committed by the people in Qingxia Temple over the years were discovered. Among them, seventeen people were convicted of drowning or abandoning infants, and twenty-three people were convicted of murder.
But what surprised Mei Xianzhang was that Xuan Shang had not been involved in any cases in these years.
At first, Mei Xianzhang was a little skeptical, so he personally led people to investigate. He found out that it was Xuan Shang who was chosen by the previous abbot of Qingxia Temple, Liu Qingxia, as the next abbot and was trained with great effort. Then he began to clear his name.
So for the time being, Xuan Shang only has a pile of old accounts between Mei Xianzhang and her father Mei Qing. Mei Xianzhang seemed a little depressed after getting this result.
Three days later, Xuan Shang looked haggard and dressed in cloth, no longer having the charm and elegance of the past.
She walked out of the prison with a bundle in her arms, looked at the sun in the sky, then walked aimlessly towards the outside of the city with a dull look on her face.
When she walked out of Bailu City and walked along the old road to Yanlai Lake without any self-awareness, she suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves.
Xuan Shang immediately turned her head and saw a handsome young man in white clothes and a jade scarf on his head riding a horse in the sky full of dancing willow catkins.
Xuan Shang was in a trance at this moment, and she suddenly returned to the scene twenty years ago when she was in her prime and met the elegant young man Mei Qing by the Yanlai Lake. The young man riding a horse in front of her looked exactly like Mei Qing.
Suddenly, Xuan Shang woke up with a start. It was not Mei Qing, but Mei Xianzhang!
'Sigh Lulu'
The horse stopped in front of Xuan Shang, then Mei Xianzhang dismounted, holding the whip and walking lightly in front of Xuan Shang.
Xuan Shang looked at Mei Xianzhang in front of her, and after a moment's silence, she asked, "It was you. You who let me out?"
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