The queen is spoiling the king and madly criticizing him for spoiling her

In fact, Xie Qingzhi could still ask the emperor for a marriage certificate and force Jiang Fengmian into the emperor's mansion.

But Xie Qingzhi felt that this was inappropriate for Jiang Fengmian. Jiang Fengmian was just a weak scholar with his own pride, and he was also the first person who avoided her teasing.

Jiang Fengmian has completely piqued her interest.

Xie Qingzhi was not in a hurry to force the man to stay by her side. She wanted to slowly take down Jiang Fengmian and make him willingly enter the princess's mansion.

Although Jiang Fengmian has her in his heart, he is too worried. It will take some time to make him let down his guard.

However, she didn't come here today to talk about Jiang Fengmian. She had been following Jiang Fengmian all this time and hadn't eaten melons with the Queen for a long time.

Xie Qingzhi picked up the loquat on the table and began to peel it, pretending to ask casually, "How is the case of Liang Mo going?"

[I was saying Xie Qingzhi wouldn't come to the temple unless it was for a reason, but it turns out he came just to eat melons.]

Gu Jianchu also picked up a loquat and peeled it a few times, and his fingers were covered with yellow juice.

Zhuxi first took the unpeeled fruit from Gu Jianchu's hand and casually stuffed the handkerchief into Gu Jianchu's hand, "Madam, wipe your hands, and I will peel it."

Gu Jianchu patiently wiped the juice off his hands. "After investigation by the Imperial City Bureau, the evidence of these people's crimes is irrefutable. Not only did they force women of good character into prostitution and concubines, they also allowed their subordinates to burn, kill, and plunder, and they also killed many people. The Qingzhou County Magistrate is even more of a disaster. He has countless concubines in his mansion, more than the emperor's harem. If he doesn't like them, he just sends them to his servants. Liang Mo, my brother-in-law, has killed countless people and even bought and sold official positions."

"When these things reached the capital, the emperor was furious and ordered the execution on the spot. He also sent Minister Lin and Xiao Cong to Qingzhou to appease the people and rectify the malpractices left by several academies. He also handed power directly to Xiao Cong without necessarily selecting a president of good character for Qiunan Academy."

[The Emperor is a rare example of a good person. He has sent Minister Lin and Xiao Cong on a business trip together, creating an opportunity for both of them. I hope they can seize it.]

Xie Qingzhi's eyes widened instantly.

What surprised her was not the crimes committed by Liang Mo and his men.

She didn't even know that Minister Lin and Xiao Cong were having an affair.

The queen actually knew all these things.

"Qingzhou is not far from the capital. I didn't expect that these people would be so bold as to be accomplices of the evil at the foot of the imperial city. It would be too easy for them to be executed on the spot. In my opinion, they should be torn into pieces." Xie Qingzhi slammed the table angrily, and the teacup on the table was shaken.

[What a pity, the investigation didn't lead to the head of the Chief Censor.]

[This person has done a lot of bad things, but he's smart enough not to leave any evidence behind, so it's quite difficult to catch him.]

The evil deeds done by the Chief Censor were all indirect, not direct. No wonder it's difficult to investigate.

The fact that the Chief Censor was able to keep a mistress in the capital without being known by his father-in-law, his wife, or anyone else in the capital, and still leave a good reputation behind, was enough to show that he really had some skills, otherwise even the Left Prime Minister would not tolerate such a thing as keeping a mistress.

"I remember there was another Cen Xiu. How are his wife and cousin?" Xie Qingzhi asked curiously.

Gu Jianchu said truthfully, "My wife and my cousin reported her to the government office. The matter was already quite clear. After Cen Xiu was sent back to the Cuizhou government office, the county magistrate began interrogating her that night. After the mental torture in the capital, Cen Xiu had long lost the will to resist and confessed everything. She said that she had switched the child of her cousin with that of my wife, and that the wife's child died not long after being sent to her cousin. She also revealed where the child's body was buried."

"The wife, along with the government officials, found the child's body. She wept bitterly, but she wanted to know how her child died. However, too much time had passed, and the body had decayed to the point of being a pile of bones. There were no signs of heavy blows, and it wasn't a case of death from illness. My cousin refused to admit whether she was suffocated to death, and the government had no concrete evidence to convict her."

"The midwife also said that my wife and child were very weak when they were born. For a weak child, if they are not cared for properly, there is a very high possibility of death. Because this case was directly ordered by the emperor, the government could not help but feel sad. The government even consulted several doctors to verify it. Those doctors all said that if a weak child is not cared for properly, it will die, and the possibility of death is even greater for children under one month old."

"Murder is difficult to convict. While what happened between Cen Xiu and his cousin was ethical, it fell outside the law. The only charge they could have was child swapping. Both his cousin and Cen Xiu were each given thirty lashes and sent home. As for Cen Xiu's wife, after such a devastating incident, she no longer had any desire to be with him. She chose to divorce him, and the government issued a written document directly to both of them."

"As for my cousin's child, Cen Xiu's wife has raised him since he was little and now treats him like her own child. So she approached Cen Xiu about adopting him. Neither my cousin nor Cen Xiu agreed, but his wife is a resourceful person. She suggested that if they agreed to give the child to her, she would never mention how her child died again and would not cause trouble for them."

"Cen Xiu and my cousin thought about it and agreed. They could still have another child in the future, so it was better than having the other party stop making trouble. Besides, the child and my cousin were no longer close, so this was a one-time solution."

"After that, his wife took the children and left Cuizhou to start a new life somewhere else. Although Cen Xiu and his cousin stayed in Cuizhou, their lives could no longer be the same. After all, Cen Xiu no longer had the position of the academy's president because he was demoted by the emperor. He wanted to be a teacher, and no other academy wanted him. His cousin despised him for his incompetence, and he resented her, feeling that it was because of her that he ended up in this situation. The two of them have now become a completely resentful couple."

"As for Cen Xiu's mother, she knew she had done wrong and had ruined three lives. After she recovered from her illness, she hid in the ancestral hall, where she spent her days surrounded by ancient Buddha statues and praying to God to protect her three children."

If I had known this would happen, why would I have done it in the first place? If the old lady hadn't been so stubborn in not wanting my cousin to come in, it wouldn't have ended like this, and it wouldn't have ruined three lives, including one.