In the years of famine, I led a comfortable life with my husband

Su Zhizhi originally thought that the other party was coming for her, but after discussing with Xie Chengjin, she found out that those people's target was most likely Xie Chengjin. After all, it was only after Xie Chengjin was shot that those people stopped and did not chase him.

Perhaps they were too confident about the poison on the arrows, which gave Xie Chengjin an extra way to survive.

It didn't take Xie Chengjin's men much time to find out some things. The mastermind behind the assassination was the queen in the harem.

When Xie Chengjin received this news, his heart was immediately filled with shock. The queen was clearly in the harem, but her hands had already reached out to the front court and even outside the palace.

Xie Chengjin was increasingly confused about what the Queen was trying to do. Was she trying to control the government?

Just then, Su Zhizhi came to call Xie Chengjin to dinner and noticed that Xie Chengjin looked very bad. Seeing this, Su Zhizhi couldn't help but ask worriedly, "What happened? Why do you look so bad?"

As she spoke, Su Zhizhi looked at what Xie Chengjin was holding in his hand and couldn't help but move closer to take a look out of curiosity.

After reading the contents clearly, Su Zhizhi's face turned pale, and then quickly darkened. "It seems that the Queen really doesn't want to let me go. I don't know how I have offended this noble Queen that she wants to kill me like this."

Xie Chengjin came back to his senses and looked at Su Zhizhi's expression. He quickly comforted her, "Don't be angry. You're not in the palace right now. Even if the Queen wants to do something to you, she'll have to think about it first. Don't worry, I've already sent people to collect information about the Queen. I think there should be results soon."

Su Zhizhi knew that she could not help much in this matter, so she had to listen to Xie Chengjin in everything.

Turning our attention to the Queen, after Su Zhizhi was expelled from the palace, the Queen has been in high spirits for a while. The Emperor's favor and the love of the concubines have made the Queen taste the sweetness of power again.

Even though her life was already so comfortable, she still didn't think of letting Su Zhizhi and Xie Chengjin go. Although Su Zhizhi was not in the palace and she couldn't take action directly, Su Zhizhi still had a business in the capital. Laiyunlou was the hard work of Su Zhizhi and Xie Chengjin, not to mention the other shops under Xie Chengjin's name.

The Queen often sent her spies outside the palace to cause trouble in the shops owned by Su Zhizhi and Xie Chengjin. In short, she wanted to make the trouble as big as possible, preferably to the point where the shops could go bankrupt.

The people under her also implemented her words thoroughly. They went to the same store to cause trouble for several days in a row, and each time was bigger than the last. If it happened once or twice, it would be okay, but when it happened too many times, the onlookers would inevitably think that there was something wrong with the store itself, and started to stay away from those stores.

Because of this insidious and cunning action, several stores under Xie Chengjin's name suffered losses to varying degrees, and in serious cases, the stores almost went out of business.

Xie Chengjin's mood was getting more and more irritable day by day. Su Zhizhi also heard about this and wanted to find those who made trouble and ask for an explanation, but before Su Zhizhi could do anything, she was stopped by Xie Chengjin.

"For now, it's best for you to stay in the mansion and keep your composure. We don't have the crucial evidence to overthrow the Queen yet. If you expose yourself to her and anger her, I'm afraid she will target you recklessly until you lose your life."

Xie Chengjin didn't say this to scare Su Zhizhi. After all, they had experienced the Queen's madness. After hearing what Xie Chengjin said, Su Zhizhi calmed down. She simply decided to ignore it and find something to do.

After Su Zhizhi left, Xie Chengjin's face suddenly turned gloomy. In a rage, he swept everything on the table to the ground, and was shaking with anger. How could Xie Chengjin remain calm after seeing what the queen had done? In fact, with these things in his hands, it was enough to make the queen suffer.

But thinking about what would happen if the Queen calmed down and started to retaliate wildly, Xie Chengjin forced himself to remain calm and waited quietly for the opportunity to capture the Queen in one fell swoop.

Fortunately, the opportunity came not too late. Just when Xie Chengjin's patience was about to reach its peak, Shen Wenjun came to Xie Chengjin again with something.

The moment she saw Xie Chengjin, Shen Wenjun said straight to the point, "I found out something about that person."

Xie Chengjin understood instantly and brought Shen Wenjun to the study. He assigned people to guard it strictly. Then he looked at Shen Wenjun and asked, "Is it the Queen's?"

Shen Wenjun nodded cautiously. "Yes, I've heard about what the Queen has done recently. She seems to be a little too arrogant now, and she seems to be fearless."

Speaking of the queen, Shen Wenjun also looked very disdainful.

Xie Chengjin also looked exhausted. "So what exactly is this matter about the Queen that you have in your hands?"

Shen Wenjun said, "Do you know the Queen's mother's family? They actually dared to collude with foreign nations and try to overthrow the current court."

As Shen Wenjun spoke, she searched for the evidence hidden on her body for Xie Chengjin, not noticing how much of a shock her words had just brought to Xie Chengjin.

"What did you say? Colluding with foreign nations? This is a capital crime!" Xie Chengjin's face became increasingly gloomy and serious.

"I couldn't believe it either, but I didn't expect the Zhao family's appetite to be so big." Shen Wenjun handed the thing to Xie Chengjin, and sat aside drinking tea and looking at Xie Chengjin's face that looked like a palette.

After quickly reading through the things, Xie Chengjin's face flashed with joy, "Great, I have other evidence about the Queen. This is enough for us to bring her down."

"It's not just the queen. Even the Zhao family will be executed. According to the current laws, colluding with foreign countries is a capital crime. The Zhao family can't escape this time." Shen Wenjun's face was also full of joy.

The two men gathered together to discuss it again, and the next morning, they jointly issued a public impeachment in the court.

As the charges of impeachment came out of the two men's mouths one by one, the faces of the Zhao family members turned from extremely dark to extremely pale. They stood up and wanted to refute, but facing the emperor on the dragon throne, they trembled and said nothing.

Seeing this, the Fifth Prince and others took the opportunity to press on and continued to list the crimes of the Queen and the Zhao family. Until the last word was uttered, the entire court was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.