The Third Prince did not ask where Fu Qi got the evidence from.

When everything was ready, someone in the court came forward to impeach the prime minister.

At first, the prime minister thought that he was being impeached for not disciplining his daughter properly.

As a result, he heard that Lord Liu, Lord Zhang, Lord Wang... impeached him for accepting bribes, hurting people and selling official positions.

Everything matched up nicely, one by one.

The prime minister immediately knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, I am wronged. I have never done anything wrong."

The emperor ignored him and let others report what they wanted to report.

The pile of memorials is almost one foot thick.

"At this point, do you still feel that you are wronged?" The emperor threw the memorial down, some of it hitting the prime minister, but he did not dare to cry out in pain.

The prime minister picked up the memorials on the ground with trepidation. All of them were impeaching him. The more he read, the more panicked he became.

Accepting bribes, condoning evil deeds in the clan, and selling official positions privately...

Some of the officials whose names were called out could no longer bear it and knelt down to beg for mercy, admitting all their crimes.

It was no use for the prime minister to quibble now. Beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down his cheeks and he kowtowed and begged for mercy.

"Come here, take him away and have him investigated by the Dali Temple."

The matter was led by the Third Prince, who quickly found out all the evidence and witnesses.

The prime minister was beheaded directly at the Meridian Gate.

The prime minister's nine clans were also implicated and directly exiled thousands of miles away.

An Ning'er never thought that her father, the prime minister, would be beheaded?

All the people who had been offended in the past came to add insult to injury.

By the time the news reached them, the servants had already stolen the indenture and the money.

She didn't even have any money to support herself during her exile.

As for Meng Zhengtang, he originally held on to a glimmer of hope in prison, but when he learned that the prime minister had been beheaded, he knew that all hope was gone.

He was tortured by Fu Qi every night in prison. He didn't know what ability Fu Qi had that allowed him to sneak into the prison.

His body was covered with scars, but they were all healed the next day. It was so strange that he didn't know whether it was a nightmare or reality.

He was on the verge of collapse and was in excruciating pain, but he was also afraid of death and just hoped to have hope to stay alive.

However, when the prime minister and his nine clans were exiled, he was also dragged out and beheaded.

Fu Qi also left the capital three days later, taking the child with her.

An Ning'er had a hard time along the way. She had never suffered hardship before and could not walk. She soon surrendered herself to the officials just to have better food and suffer less.

She knew that everyone in the tribe hated her and looked down on her when they saw her like this.

Seven days later, Fu Qi finally arrived not far from the exile team.

After nightfall, they dragged An Ning'er out, tortured her, and then threw her into the wolf pack to be bitten to death.

The next day, when they set out, the officials did not see An Ning'er. When they saw the mutilated body nearby, they just expressed regret and left.

Fu Qi took the children back to Mengjia Village. The two children were not greatly affected by what happened during this period.

Fu Qi returned to Mengjia Village not to live there, but to take revenge on those who flatter the powerful and look down on the weak.

After all, when Meng Zhengtang became the top scorer in the imperial examination, they divorced his wife and gave a lot of testimony that was unfavorable to the original owner.

Now without the glory that Meng Zhengtang brought them, they were laughed at by the surrounding villages. After all, how proud they were then, how embarrassed they were now.

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