After receiving permission, the two women immediately stepped forward and flattered, "Your Excellency, Prime Minister, this is the case. We two humble women were stranded here due to a family matter and were taken in by them. We were originally grateful and wanted to repay this kindness by working like slaves. Who knew..."

The two women pretended to be sad again and wiped away tears that didn't exist.

"They actually forced us to learn to read and write, and made us read the Four Books and Five Classics to enlighten us. Sir, it's not just us, they all have to learn. In other words, this is a girls' school!"

The arrows of selfishness were shot at every woman present without hesitation, as if they would not stop until they dragged everyone into the water.

The women around them immediately spoke up, "We weren't forced to learn to read. We were just flipping through these books when we had nothing better to do. The boss and the others were kind enough to let us read them. This has nothing to do with the school."

The two women were not anxious when they saw that they did not admit it. They sneered and said, "You won't cry until you see the coffin. Since you don't admit it, we have no choice but to produce evidence."

As they spoke, they all knelt before Wang Lanzhi and said, "Prime Minister, you only need to search the backyard and you will find that there are articles with interpretations that they asked their teacher to annotate. How could they have these if they were not running a girls' school? The reason they don't have a teacher here is because their teacher is not here. They have been relying on letters to teach."

Wang Lanzhi's eyes lit up, and he looked at Song Zhi and said meaningfully, "Oh, really."

If Song Zhi was convicted and imprisoned, he could get his house deed back without anyone noticing and would no longer be controlled by her.

The excitement on his face was so obvious that he was about to take people to search the backyard.

Just as he took a step forward, another voice came from behind him, saying, "I didn't expect there to be so many people here. I'll join in the fun."

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw Li Yan walking in with a group of officers and soldiers.

Wang Lanzhi was a little surprised. He looked at Li Yan and then at Song Zhi, "Did you ask him to come?!"

Song Zhi did not deny it. Only a fool would let them go in and search directly. When the door is closed, they will have the final say.

Wang Lanzhi's face looked grim, but he couldn't say anything, so he could only put on a serious face and let someone lead the way.

Song Zhi and Li Yan looked at each other with expressions of gratitude.

The latter signaled with his eyes that she should just follow him and not worry about it.

After entering the backyard, the two women first walked to the room where they lived with ease, and then took out a tightly wrapped box from under the bed.

They proudly handed the box to Wang Lanzhi, "Please look, sir. This is the article annotated by the Master."

Wang Lanzhi eagerly glanced to the side, and the servant immediately took the box and opened it.

Several stacks of perfectly folded letter paper lay in a box before the crowd. The two women spoke in a high-pitched voice, "Your Excellency, this proves we weren't lying. They opened a girls' school without permission, and their crime deserves death."

Wang Lanzhi never expected the process to be so smooth, and he was so happy that he wanted to convict Song Zhi on the spot.

Song Zhi sneered, "Are you so arrogant as to convict someone without even looking carefully?"

Li Yan also spoke at this time, "Spread out all those pieces of paper."

The attendant glanced at Wang Lanzhi. Although Wang Lanzhi was extremely reluctant, he had to nod because Li Yan was present.

The servant then took out the letter from the box and shook it open.

The content of the letter was displayed in front of everyone. It could be clearly seen that there was a puppy wagging its tail and begging for mercy on the letter paper. There was no article annotated by the teacher.

The two women were the first to speak, shouting in unison: "How is this possible? How could it be a painting? It's clearly us in here..."

Halfway through the conversation, the two stopped talking.

Their faces were filled with disbelief, and without caring about anyone else, they hurriedly ran to other rooms to move out other boxes.

But without exception, the boxes were filled with various paintings, which had nothing to do with the article.

The two were terrified and fell to the ground, muttering, "How is this possible? How is this possible? We put these in here before dawn this morning. How could these be the ones?"

Song Zhi sneered, "You put it in there yourself? It turns out you're the thief crying thief."

Realizing they had spoken out of turn, the two women's faces immediately lost all color, but they did not give up. They forced themselves to say, "No, no, you heard wrong. These things have nothing to do with us."

Song Zhi gave a nonchalant smile, "That's strange. It has nothing to do with you, so why do you insist that this is an annotated article?"

"We...we were mistaken."

"Is it wrong? Do you know what will happen if you lie about military intelligence on the battlefield?"

Song Zhi walked up to them and said softly, "Be torn apart by five horses."

The two women's already pale faces turned even paler, with a hint of fear in their eyes. They hurriedly knelt and moved to Wang Lanzhi's feet.

"Sir, we two did not do this intentionally. We reacted this way because we wanted to maintain the stability of imperial power and would rather kill a thousand innocent people than let one go. Please, Sir, for the sake of our sincere heart, do not pursue the matter."

The reversal happened so quickly that Wang Lanzhi didn't even have time to react, and his dream of having Song Zhi convicted and imprisoned was shattered.

With a sullen face, he kicked the two women away and said, "Assholes, this is a matter of national importance, how can you stir up trouble as you please?"

The two women burst into tears and said, "Please calm down, sir. We really didn't mean it. Please forgive us."

This time they were no longer pretending, they were really crying.

Wang Lanzhi angrily swung his sleeves and said, "What's the point of begging me? You might as well ask Miss Song to let it go, or ask Master Li to turn a blind eye."

After saying that, he didn't feel like staying here any longer and left angrily.

He thought that the wise king had some tricks, but they were no more than this.

Wang Lanzhi walked away quickly, and Song Zhi did not interfere. He just slipped a note to him when he waved his sleeves and no one was paying attention.

Wang Lanzhi's expression paused and he walked faster.

Seeing that they were isolated and helpless, the two women no longer cared about anything else and knelt down in front of Song Zhi and kowtowed hard.

"Miss, we are the ones who are so cruel and heartless. We are the ones who are bewitched. Please forgive us, Miss."

The force was so great that blood soon seeped out.

But Song Zhi felt no sympathy for them. She looked at the two of them coldly and said, "Do you know what will happen to all the women here if you succeed in identifying them today?"

They didn't dare to look up and face him, but just kowtowed even more fiercely.

Song Zhi continued, "We will all be executed for our treasonous behavior. We'll sacrifice so many lives in exchange for you two becoming dodders in a man's backyard. Is this what you want?"

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