The queen is sober in the world, and she is winning every step of the palace fight.

"Your Highness, the Empress has privately sent someone to inform us. The autopsy results show that the body did not drown, but was immersed in water after death. This contradicts the report from the Yu Mansion that Yu Tingjin committed suicide by jumping into the lake after realizing his mistake. Moreover, the Yu Mansion is suspected of lying and deceiving the emperor. However, the Empress said that, depending on your opinion, if you do not want to pursue this matter, we can handle it according to the Yu Mansion's report. They said Yu Tingjin jumped into the water, so he jumped into the water."

Fei Wan listened and smiled: "With the Queen's ability, it would be easy to make the autopsy examiner change his story. Let's accept this favor."

So Xiangyi went to Fengming Palace in person.

After telling Yan, Fei Wan didn't want the matter to become a big deal.

Queen Yan spoke up for Fei Wan.

"With a family like this, Sister Zhao can't get any credit, but instead has to cover up their scandals. How unlucky!"

However, he also listened to Fei Wan's advice and did not expose the Yu family's fabrication of the cause of death, but treated the case as if Yu Tingjin had committed suicide by drowning.

After Xiangyi left, the maid Linglong quietly discussed with Queen Yan.

"My Lady, there is one thing that remains unclear. I'm afraid..."

Empress Yan understood. "You mean, the corpse might not be Yu Tingjin? Oh, who cares if it is or not? The Yu Mansion dared to report it so, so I told His Majesty. If anything goes wrong later and Yu Tingjin is still alive, it would be the Yu Mansion deceiving the emperor, and what does this have to do with me? Naturally, it has nothing to do with Sister Zhao either. The Yu Mansion will bear the consequences themselves. After all, they soaked the corpse's face so badly that it's normal for the autopsy to be unable to recognize it."

Although Yu Wangbei was cold-blooded, he was still steady and cautious in doing things. He secretly brought the corpse into the mansion without being discovered, so Queen Yan's people kept an eye on Yu's mansion but did not find any clues.

At this time, Queen Yan's attention was not on this matter, so she did not continue to investigate.

Yu Tingjin's disappearance was concluded by her committing suicide.

Of course, this is just the result reported to the emperor.

But what is disclosed to the public is another story.

The next day, the concubines in the palace heard that Yu Tingjin had bribed the palace servants and tricked a young maid from the Xinzheku into disguising herself as herself and staying in the Yanyun Palace, while she herself escaped from the palace by hiding under a waterwheel. Upon returning to the Yu residence, she was severely reprimanded and lectured on the greater good. Ultimately, shame and remorse, realizing her utter mistake, she drowned herself.

As for Madam Yu using a maid to exchange Yu Tingjin out of the palace, it was covered up.

This was the emperor's instruction, and Empress Yan was just following the order.

The next day, the emperor summoned Yu Zhong into the palace.

"For the sake of Concubine Zhao's reputation, and because you have always been diligent in your duties, loyal to the emperor and patriotic, I will not pursue you this time and will lie to the world on your behalf. Otherwise, you should know what will happen to you if the censors in the court know what your wife has done."

Yu Zhong burst into tears and kowtowed repeatedly to express his gratitude.

His wife stole a concubine from the palace, concealed her guilt, and committed the heinous crime of deceiving the emperor. His second son even plotted to kill someone in the palace, which was simply against heaven.

Once the matter becomes public, his political career will be over.

If someone with ulterior motives accuses you of treason, your property will be confiscated, you will be exiled, and your head will be chopped off in an instant.

This time the emperor spared him, which was a great favor.

"I will be so devoted to your majesty that even death alone cannot repay your majesty's kindness. I can only devote myself to your majesty and diligently serve you!"

The emperor was very satisfied with his statement.

After giving him some instructions about the Shenwei Camp, he was allowed to go back.

The next day, he will be able to return to the Ministry of War.

I also have a new job to do, which is to work with Lu Guinian.

In addition to his previous logistical and military merits in assisting in the victory of Ningcheng, the emperor had long promised to promote him.

How dare Yu Zhong not do his best?

When he returned, he secretly sent someone to contact "Mrs. Zhao" and asked her to tell Concubine Zhao that he would remember this great favor and would serve her wholeheartedly in the future.

While he was grateful for the emperor's trust in him, he was also very clear that without Fei Wan's encouragement, he would not be able to return to the Ministry of War so quickly, and he would not be given a new assignment.

Shocked by Fei Wan's methods, even though he was afraid and disgusted that Fei Wan threatened him with Yu Tingjin, he didn't dare to do anything to Fei Wan. Instead, he had to show his loyalty to her in order to save his own life and the future of his entire family.

Yu Zhong took out the resentment he had expressed towards Fei Wan on his wife.

The same night he returned from the palace, he expelled his wife from the capital and sent her back to her hometown. He publicly claimed that he was letting Madam Yu go back to manage family affairs and look after the elders, but all the promising members of the Yu family had moved to the capital, and the people in her hometown were just a bunch of old people and relatives within the fifth degree of mourning. What was there to take care of?

This completely exiled Madam Yu.

"Yu Zhong, you, you, you, you had an affair with your cousin's wife and gave birth to an illegitimate child, which I raised under my name for over ten years. I risked my life to rescue her from the palace, and now you're trying to drive me away?! You beast! You've ruined my life, Yu Zhong, you bastard! It was my family who paid for your education and the imperial examinations. Without my uncle's help, how could you have become the top scholar? You're so ungrateful, you..."

Before leaving, Madam Yu argued with Yu Zhong at the top of her lungs.

He was knocked to the ground by Yu Zhong's slap.

"You're questioning me now? How did you lose your newborn daughter? And now you're questioning me? Why don't you ask why the nanny beside you betrayed you and stole your daughter? It's because of that good-for-nothing brother of yours who toyed with someone else's son and killed a life, and that's why she's taking revenge on you! If I hadn't given Tingjin to you to raise, you would have cried yourself blind after losing your daughter? You haven't been grateful to me all these years, and you even dared to call me a beast. You're the beast, your brother, and your whole family are beasts!"

Yu Zhong's roar was several times louder than Madam Yu's.

The couple fell out and exposed each other's past.

Back then, although Yu Zhong's family was relatively wealthy, they were only gentry and there was no high-ranking official in the family, so their children faced many obstacles in studying and taking the imperial examinations.

It was because he was outstanding in the county school and was appreciated by Madam Yu's uncle, who then decided to betroth Madam Yu to him.

From then on, Yu Zhongcai truly embarked on the right path to the imperial examination and found the way.

Mrs. Yu's family had some influence in the local area, and her relatives and friends were all minor officials in various places. Yu Zhong himself was very good at taking exams, so after some efforts, when the scholar examination was held that year, although Yu Zhong's talent was not enough to be the first, he was still selected as the first place.

With this stepping stone, he continued to build relationships and took the examinations for Juren and Jinshi, and step by step, he finally reached the court.

It can be said that Yu Zhong’s current status is related to his intelligence in studying and the support of Madam Yu’s family.

However, Mrs. Yu's family had influence in the local area, which was not enough to be in the capital. Later, she relied entirely on Yu Zhong's support.

Mrs. Yu herself gradually lost Yu Zhong's favor.

I could only watch him take concubines one after another, and there was nothing I could do.

Fei Wan’s disappearance that year became the first major event that caused a falling out between Yu Zhong and her.

Back then, things went like this...