After rebirth, I joined forces with my mortal enemy to seek revenge.

"Why are you interrogating Zhou Xian?" Lu Yi sneered. "Wen Shu is an eighth-rank county lieutenant, and he dares to insult the wife of the King of Wu. He simply doesn't take His Majesty and His Royal Highness the King of Wu seriously."

He turned the teacup in his hand, the tea swaying. Pei Jiaoran suddenly sighed, "Does the lady of the state have a real seal?"

"No. If there is no real title, does it mean that I am not considered the Queen of the State by His Majesty?" Lu Yi gritted his teeth and roared, "I must inform His Royal Highness the King of Wu of this matter in full and ask him to submit it to the Ministry of Shangshu."

Glancing at the noisy Lu Yi, Pei Jiaoran recalled the hot-tempered and eccentric temper of the King of Wu. She didn't think the King of Wu could understand the consequences of presenting this matter to the Shangshu Province.

Yuan Yanchong, who was in the upper position, saw Pei Jiaoran and directed the blame to himself. He could only say, "Wen Shu reported Zhou Xian for taking bribes, and the bribery target was the Lu family. It was actually the idea of ​​the Censorate to let Wen Shu lead people to surround the Lu Mansion. As for Pei Xianggong's handwriting, I asked her to write it first."

Hearing the word "Yushitai", Lu Yi's face changed slightly. No one had ever told him that Wen Shu's siege of Lu's mansion was the intention of the Yushitai.

Glancing at Lu Yi, Yuan Yanchong cast a glare at Pei Jiaoran. The Minister of State Affairs personally wrote a letter to complain. Even if someone else's name was used, the characters were real. He could neither ignore nor reject the complaint. He could only bite the bullet and submit a memorial to the emperor, asking him to send an imperial censor to Zhaoying to investigate.

As for letting Wen Shu besiege Lu's mansion, it was obviously Pei Jiaoran's idea. But if it was the idea of ​​the Censorate, it meant that it came from the emperor's edict.

"Mrs. Wu has arrived."

Hearing the voice coming from outside the door, Pei Jiaoran smiled, tilted his head to look at Lu Yi, and lowered his head to continue drinking tea.

A fragrant breeze came in along with the sound of footsteps.

"Mother." Lu Yi called.

"Madam Wu." Yuan Yanchong also stood up and bowed.

Her almond-shaped eyes moved around the room, and Mrs. Wu looked at the purple-robed man who was still sitting in the room.

"This must be Mr. Pei, right? It is true that seeing is believing. She is a first-class heroine." Mrs. Wu said with a smile.

Hearing this, Pei Jiaoran put down his teacup and looked up at Mrs. Wu. After all, she was the prince's wet nurse who was carefully selected. She looked quite amiable, and she had been well fed for so many years. She did have the bearing of a lady from an official family.

"Madam Guo eats vegetarian food and chants Buddhist scriptures, and has developed an appearance like Guanyin and a heart like Buddha. Why should she bother with the muddy waters of the world?" Pei Jiaoran said softly.

"Blood is thicker than water. Mr. Pei has been a mother all day long, so he naturally doesn't understand this kind of feeling." Mrs. Wu looked at Pei Jiaoran with an apologetic look in her eyes, "I didn't say that Mr. Pei shouldn't abuse his power. It was just that I was in a hurry and said something wrong. I hope Mr. Pei won't blame me."

Pei Jiaoran narrowed his eyes and looked at Madam Wu. His lips curled up slightly, "Madam is right. But I just want to repay the emperor's grace and serve the country and the people. I really can't learn how to raise a child."

Yuan Yanchong couldn't help twitching when hearing this. Mrs. Wu ridiculed Pei Jiaoran for being a good girl who wasted her youth by playing with power all day long. She retorted that she didn't understand the beauty of power.

Thinking of this, Yuan Yanchong couldn't help but look at Pei Jiaoran. She and Li Xiujing had been entangled for so long, it couldn't be that they had done nothing, right? If something had happened, why didn't they make any moves? Could it be that...

While Yuan Yanchong was doubting Li Xiujing's physical condition, the other party was talking to Wen Shu.

In the public house on one side of the county government office, medicine was being boiled on the veranda. The doctor in the room was applying medicine to Wen Shu.

Looking at Wen Shu, who was beaten black and blue, Li Xiujing sighed, "It only took a few slaves to beat you up like this. Why didn't you resist?"

With a sneer, Wen Shu said, "You have at least become the Great General of Shen Ce. How can you not understand? I am using this as a self-torture tactic. The Lu family attacked me. If you look into it, they were the ones who made the mistake first."

"If the self-torture trick doesn't work, you will be beaten for nothing." Li Xiujing glanced at Wen Shu, "Besides, the other party is Mrs. Wu. If she really wants to beat you to death, others will have nothing to say."

"It would be a great thing to pull them all down at the cost of my life." Wen Shu said with a smile.

At this moment, the doctor had applied medicine to him and bowed, "Wen County Lieutenant, you should take good care of your injuries and don't move around casually for the next few days."

Following the doctor's instructions, Wen Shu looked at Li Xiujing and said, "I'm fine. Do you want to go to the front and take a look?"

Hearing this, Li Xiujing nodded, turned around and strode away.

He and Zhou Xian entered the county hall together. Lu Yi and Mrs. Wu looked at him in shock, not saying a word for a long time.

The remaining officials in the county government looked at the three purple-robed high officials in front of them, and looked at each other. For a moment, they didn't know what to say.

"Who is this?" Mrs. Wu saw that the arrester had brought Zhou Xian over, and her face showed a cold look. She also saw a senior official in purple robes and jade belts coming, "How can there be three purple-robed officials in such a small place like Zhaoying at the same time? I thought we had entered the government hall."

Li Xiujing raised his eyebrows upon hearing this, and said with a folded hand, "I, the Right General of Divine Strategy, Li Xiujing, pay my respects to Madam Wu."

After hearing the other party's official position, Mrs. Wu's anger disappeared completely and she smiled and said, "I didn't expect that all the people who came to Zhaoying today were immortals. It's me who is blind."

Ignoring Mrs. Wu's provocation, Li Xiujing walked over and sat down next to Pei Jiaoran.

"Zhou Xian, the Censorate has received a complaint. Wen Shu accused you and Lu of accepting bribes and soliciting bribes. Do you admit it?" Yuan Yanchong rebuked sternly.

"Does the Censorate have any evidence? It's clear that Wen Shu is holding a grudge against me and is deliberately seeking revenge."

"Did Wen Shu have a grudge against you?" Yuan Yanchong stared at Zhou Xian, "Tell the truth."

Zhou Xian said, "Five years ago, he wiped out a gang of bandits. I originally reported this to the court and asked for a reward, but later someone reported that Wen Shu had taken a large sum of money from the gang. So I suppressed the report, but I didn't expect that he would hold a grudge against me for this."

"Who reported Wen Shu for corruption?" Pei Jiaoran asked.

Zhou Xian was imprisoned last night, so he was clean and tidy. Although he was kneeling at the moment, his face still showed a bit of arrogance.

When Zhou Xian was about to speak, he heard Madam Wu sneer, "Didn't they say that the trial will be conducted by the Censorate? Why can Mr. Pei intervene? I think you are setting up a private execution hall. Tong'er, let's go. Mother will take you to Chang'an and ask the Imperial Concubine to make the decision for us."

Mrs. Wu pulled Lu Yi up and walked towards the door. Then, a teacup flew over and landed right at Mrs. Wu's feet. Tea splashed on the corner of her skirt.

"How dare you!" Mrs. Wu turned around and shouted angrily.

Looking at Madam Wu with a smile, Pei Jiaoran stood up and slowly walked over, "Madam Wu, please stay. Since Wen Shu is so bold as to dare to stop your carriage, why not let him come and apologize to you?"