Transmigrated Female Official

Through her rigorous interrogation of Brother Ma these past few days, Jiang Sha has finally managed to pry open everything that needed to be pried out of him, essentially emptying his mouth of all its contents.

Besides the major case of the Fourth Princess colluding with the Water Fairy Princess of Yuezhi Kingdom to attempt to assassinate the Sixth Princess and the Fusang Princess, Brother Ma also confessed in detail about the Ji Jie selling official positions case and the case of plotting to drown Chu Qingluo.

The Empress never imagined that the Fourth Princess would be implicated in Ji Jie's case of selling official positions.

According to Ma Ge's testimony, the Fourth Princess inadvertently learned that Ji Jie, who was then a sixth-rank female official, was privately buying and selling medical official positions. However, Ji Jie was a very shrewd person, and she would never sell an official position to someone who knew nothing about medicine.

As for the Fourth Princess, since she couldn't find any solid evidence to accuse Ji Jie, she could only stomp her feet in frustration while racking her brains for a solution.

It wasn't until Brother Ma found Yan Xi, a person who was skilled in medicine but also terminally ill, that they finally began to take action.

What happened next was pretty much what Chu Qingluo and Gongsun Yu had predicted.

Their method of dealing with Ji Jie was to lure her out. And the newly appointed physician Yan Xi was a pawn planted by the Fourth Princess.

Yan Xi first deliberately missed the exam by one point, then spent a large sum of money to bribe Ji Jie and Wu Lian. Next, Ji Jie tampered with Yan Xi's exam paper, allowing Yan Xi to legitimately enter the Imperial Hospital.

After successfully infiltrating, what kind of trouble needs to be stirred up to expose the buying of official positions? For Yan Xi, time is of the essence, and the task is heavy.

With Yan Xi's patient waiting, she finally obtained an extremely rare opportunity. She deliberately made a mistake again, replacing the cloves in the Phoenix Incense used by the Empress with night-blooming cereus.

After the incident came to light, Wu Lian was ordered by the Empress to investigate the matter, and Yan Xi took the initiative to admit her mistake to Wu Lian. Once the reason was found, Wu Lian didn't think much of it and directly pushed Yan Xi in front of the Empress to confess her guilt.

At this moment, the Fourth Princess appeared, deliberately drawing everyone's attention to the fact that Yan Xi, as a physician, was ignorant of pharmacology. Thus, a well-rehearsed drama unfolded grandly in the Qingming Palace.

However, everyone overlooked one crucial point: Yan Xi had done this intentionally. It was precisely because of her deep knowledge of pharmacology that she mixed night-blooming cereus into the Empress's Phoenix Incense instead of other ingredients. This made it both logical and ensured it would attract sufficient attention.

Most importantly, the goal was achieved.

Finally, the Fourth Princess had Qin Mei drop another bombshell—an anonymous letter accusing Ji Jie and Wu Lian of selling official positions. Although the letter was forged by them, it did play a significant role at the time, effectively sealing the case against Ji Jie and Wu Lian for selling official positions.

In this matter, it's less accurate to say that the Fourth Princess was cunning and more accurate to say that Ji Jie herself was too greedy. The Empress was surprised, but not particularly angry.

As for Chu Qingluo's drowning case, since Brother Ma's testimony only stated "as a lesson," and no one died in the end, it is not a factor that can aggravate the Fourth Princess's sins.

The crime of assassinating the Sixth Princess and the Princess of Fusang alone is already a major case. However, the Empress had just lost a son, and she really didn't want to see any more bloodshed.

The fourth princess was merely stripped of her title, demoted to a commoner, and exiled to Bingshan.

The title "Fu Lin" originally meant the arrival of good fortune, but on this day, the good fortune ended.

If Ji Jie is lucky enough to survive, the Fourth Princess will have a once-in-a-lifetime reunion with her at Bingshan. But who knows, at that time, will they glare at each other with red eyes, or will they feel pity and sorrow for one another?

The Empress was magnanimous, sparing her children from blame. The three sons and one daughter born to the Fourth Princess were all sent to their fiefdoms. Ma Ge and Sixi, however, were sentenced to death. Finally, the Empress wrote a personal letter explaining the entire case and sent it as a state letter to the Yuezhi Kingdom, offering her sincerest apologies.

The Sixth Princess did not raise any objection to the verdict.

After all, the Fourth Princess had been demoted to a commoner, not only losing out in this struggle but also suffering a fate as insignificant as grass. If the Sixth Princess wanted to kill the Fourth Princess now, it would be as simple as crushing an ant.

The matter was over, but the leader of the men in black remained imprisoned by the Sixth Princess in a dark and gloomy cell. The Sixth Princess did not say when she would release him, but she also did not kill him.

The leader of the men in black knew he was no longer of any use, so he dared not cause any trouble. He only hoped that one day the Sixth Princess would suddenly take pity on him, keep her promise, and release him.

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With the fall of the Fourth Princess, Qin Mei and Yu Yi, who had relied on her, suddenly lost their pillar of support. Qin Mei simply claimed to be ill and did not attend court for several days, while Yu Yi suffered from chest tightness, shortness of breath, and loss of appetite.

That afternoon, Tong Ling came to Guangrentang as usual to get medicine for Yu Yi.

Before she even got close, she could see his tall, slender figure in a simple, elegant robe from afar. He was pacing back and forth at the entrance of Guangrentang, his brows furrowed.

Today's flute lesson has already ended, why hasn't Wuyang left yet?

Tong Ling smiled brightly and was about to call out to him, "First..."

At this moment, someone came out of Guangrentang, and Wuyang immediately went to greet him.

Tong Ling quickly swallowed the word 'life' back, then subconsciously dodged to the side... She didn't actually know why she was hiding.

Could it be because the person who came out of Guangrentang was Lord Chu Qingluo?

Tong Ling peeked out cautiously, observing Wu Yang and Chu Qingluo's every move...

"What are you doing here?" Chu Qingluo seemed a little surprised.

Wu Yang scratched the back of his neck and said, "I figured Qing Luo should be leaving the palace by now, so I came to pick you up on the way."

It wasn't exactly on the way from Liyuefang to Guangrentang. Chu Qinglu smiled faintly and said, "Let's go."

Seeing that Chu Qingluo was carrying a bundle, Wu Yang quickly took it from her, saying, "I'll carry it for you."

"Well, thank you."

Those were clothes that Chu Qingluo bought from the Yuezhi Kingdom. She originally intended to take them to a famous clothing store to broaden the horizons of Lingnan Dongxu and the others, but due to her own reasons, she never had the courage to go to the store, so the clothes were left in Guangrentang without being taken.

The two walked side by side, and at first, neither of them spoke.

Wu Yang was not good with words, and he wanted to find a topic to make Chu Qingluo happy... just like Gongsun Yu, who was adept at everything.

But after squeezing for a long time, he could only manage to say one sentence: "...What's in this bundle?"

"Clothing of the Yuezhi Kingdom"

"Oh……"

Chu Qingluo also noticed Wuyang's thoughtfulness, and she took the initiative to say, "Take a look at the courtyard of the private school in the new house and see if there is anything missing. Have someone go and add it, and we can also put the matter of setting up a school and teaching flute on the spot."