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One second to remember [Brushstroke Pavilion] [Free of charge, read the wonderful novel!]

Chu Junyi's eyes darkened, a trace of unease in her heart. What virtue or ability did that Baili Jinze have to be able to cause her to care so much about him?

Even though she hid it extremely well, he could still feel the hatred towards Baili Jinze from her body. That hatred was like a magma hidden in a world of ice and snow. If you didn't care to the extreme, how could you have such a deep hatred? Xiao Hua, what are you thinking?

Shen Ninghua was surprised to see Chu Junyi. "What's wrong?"

"Hmm? I heard from Bai Yu that you slept rather late these few days, but you couldn't fall asleep? Your body is injured, so you should rest more. "

Shen Ninghua paused for a moment, an unnatural expression flashing across her face. "No problem. I'll pay attention to it in the future."

Bai Ning pursed her lips and smiled. "Not only have you slept late these past few days, Miss. I'm afraid you won't be able to sleep early in the next few days."

"What are you talking about?" Shen Ninghua glared at her.

Bai Yan laughed lightly, turned around and carried the tea away.

Chu Junyi's curiosity was piqued, but she didn't pursue the topic. Instead, she decided to sneak in at night to take a look. He chatted with Shen Ninghua for a while before he got up and left. He didn't return to the Xiao family and instead went to the government office.

By now, all those people should have gathered together.

The yamen's office was filled with officials, many of them of lower rank standing outside the door.

As soon as Chu Junyi appeared, everyone turned to look at her. "How did you all find the time to come?"

In the government office, the leader of the Zhao Family, Zhao Kun, was sitting on the seat next to him, while the rest of the officials were sitting on the sides. When Chu Junyi entered the door, she felt a strong pressure pressing down on her body, so strong that it was hard to breathe.

Chu Junyi smirked mockingly. "What an impressive display of power!" She thought to herself. "Well, that might be a good move. If it were anyone else, they would have been shocked."

"This official greets all of you, and does not know that the lords are here. Please forgive me for not welcoming you."

"Lord Chu, you're so busy. I wonder where you're going to work now that you're no longer on duty in the imperial court?" Lin Yue's expression was tense and his figure looked extremely emaciated, but his eyes were exceptionally clear.

"It would be inconvenient to inform Sir Lin of where we are going. Sir Lin also knows that this official has the orders of the emperor, so naturally I would always want to work for the emperor. I would not dare to delay this at all."

"We spoke too much. Lord Chu is different from us."

Chu Junyi laughed. "It's not that different. We were all working for the emperor, working for the welfare of the people. Speaking of which …"

"Lord Chu!" Lin Yue raised his voice to interrupt him, "We can talk about that later. We have come here because we have something to trouble you with."

"Milords, please speak." As the relationship between the crown prince and the third prince wasn't good, the Zhao Clan and the Lin Clan had always been at odds. Yet, to think that they would choose to work together in order to deal with him.

"The Emperor ordered you to investigate the matter of the imperial guards. It can be said that he values you greatly, but how can you use your power to seek personal gains and to avenge your personal grudges!"

Chu Junyi raised her head and asked, "Sir, what do you mean by that?"

Lin Yue looked at Chu Junyi coldly, his voice neither slow nor slow. "Since the leader of the imperial guards has something against you, you will use the emperor's orders to investigate the defenses of the imperial guards and put him on the spot. Don't you want to silence him?"

Chu Junyi's expression was cold. "Sir Lin, your words are unfounded. If you have no proof, then you'd better leave. I'm magnanimous and won't pursue your right to falsely accuse me. If there's evidence, then that's even better. We'll confront each other before the imperial palace."

Chu Junyi didn't care about the evidence that Lin Yue had brought up. She spoke with a tone of righteousness.

Lin Yue narrowed his eyes, "Lord Chu, you won't be able to take back what you just said. Are you sure you want to fight us?"

Chu Junyi smirked, "Seems like Master Lin will have to pour some dirty water on me. Since that's the case, I will accept it. Sir Lin, please?"

Zhao Kun's eyes flickered as he looked at Chu Junyi. He didn't hesitate at all. Was he really that confident that he could get out of this predicament?

It had to be known that in the government, it didn't matter whether a person had the ability or not. What mattered was what others said! Everyone was lying to him. How could he not be clear about this when he had already stepped into the government?

Chu Junyi stood there with a cold look in her eyes. These superior officials had often done things to correct the wrong and wrong; after all these years in the imperial court, their words had attracted the impeachment of numerous officials. They had done good for the nation, but had lost their lives because of it …

They wanted to knead him like a soft persimmon and consider whether their teeth would be broken or not!

Lin Yue sneered: "Alright, since Lord Chu is adamant, then we will have to confront him. At that time, not only will you be punished, even Princess Zhao Hua will be implicated, I hope you will not regret it!"

Chu Junyi was expressionless, but his eyes were full of mockery, "If I don't regret, then I don't need you to worry about me."

With such a huge commotion in the Ministry of Public Affairs, Shen Ninghua was quick to receive the news.

"Bai Yan, help me change my clothes. Let's go into the palace and visit father."

This was going to be a good show. Those people probably wanted to pull her down with them, so how could she not go and take a look?

"Why are you here? Didn't I tell you to take care of your injuries?"

Shen Ninghua smiled, "I heard that something big happened last night. I was worried about Imperial Father, so I came to take a look."

When he thought about the half cut off guards, Baili Qingfeng felt pain on his forehead again, "Guards... "I never thought that the imperial guards would be so heavily eroded. Half of them were bribed, some were engaged, and some were being roped into the ranks. When I thought about how I was protected by these people, I felt chills down my spine."

"Father, since what has happened is already happening, then it is already a foregone conclusion. Now that he had discovered the problem, he could just solve it. royal father is the king of a country and the entire world is governed by him.

"Little girl, what do you know? Alright, let's not think about these things. Since you've entered the palace, play chess with me. You can only leave after dinner." Baili Qing smiled, but in his heart, he felt a lot more relaxed. That's right, he could govern the entire world, let alone a small imperial guard army!

Shen Ninghua's face stiffened, "Imperial Father, you clearly know that I'm the worst at chess, losing every single time, and yet you still keep dragging me along. Aren't you just purposely making fun of me?"

As she complained, she took the chess board from the palace maid and adjusted it. She then took Hei Zi from her and said, "I'll go first."

"Haha, I always use this move. Fine, royal father will let you three sons, you go first."

Shen Ninghua smiled proudly, "Recently, I've been reading chess books quite often. I've already made a lot of progress. Three days apart is a whole new level of respect for a person. Father, you shouldn't overdo it."

"You little girl!" However, there was not the slightest bit of anger in his heart. Ever since Jing Yan left, no one dared to speak to him in such a manner, "If you win, I will give you the white jade chess board that I have kept for many years."

Shen Ninghua's eyes lit up. "Such a good item, I won't be polite."

Lin Yue, Zhao Kun, and the others angrily came to the front of the hall, but were blocked by the steward outside, "Sirs, the emperor has decreed that no one is to disturb him."

Lin Yue's eyes twitched. The official standing by the side stepped forward, "Eunuch, we have come to meet the Emperor for an important matter. I hope that Eunuch can report this to us."

"My lord, the emperor is currently playing chess with Princess Radiant. He said that no one is to disturb him, this … Please don't make things difficult for this lowly one. "

Lin Yue's expression tightened, causing many of the officials' expressions to change.

The emperor is playing chess with Princess Zhao Hua?

Chu Junyi smiled, a warm feeling in her heart. A good wife was a good wife for a good wife!

Lin Yue knitted his eyebrows and scrunched his face, he suddenly kneeled on the ground and shouted, "This humble subject requests to see His Majesty. I have something important to report!"

The officials behind him hurriedly knelt down as well, shouting loudly, "This humble subject wishes to meet Your Majesty. I have something important to report!"

In the main hall, Baili Qingfeng's fingers tightened around the white jade piece, causing it to produce a series of creaking sounds.

Shen Ninghua stood up and said, "Imperial Father, since there is a court official who wishes to meet with you, this official will take his leave first."

"There's no need, just sit here. I don't even need to think to know what they are here for!" A layer of frost appeared on Baili Qingfeng's face, "Announce that they can enter!"

Everyone entered the room in a grandiose manner. When they saw Shen Ninghua standing at the foot of the stairs, they all wore different expressions on their faces.

Shen Ninghua and Chu Junyi exchanged a glance and nodded slightly.

Baili Qingfeng's face was as cold as ice: "They have all neatly arranged themselves. What are they doing here?"

Lin Yue stepped forward, "Your Majesty, this humble subject …."

Chu Junyi cut him off. "Your majesty, Sir Lin came to the office with all of you, and reprimanded this official. He said that this official has something on his hands, and naturally did not believe him."

Baili Qing Cang glanced at the kneeling official coldly, "What a coincidence, you actually managed to let the entire imperial court know of your weakness alone?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, this humble subject is also very curious, just what kind of weakness is there to make everyone know?"

Shen Ninghua laughed inwardly. Everyone knew this wasn't a weakness, it was just an ordinary matter.

Baili Qing Cang looked at Lin Yue, "Tell me, what kind of evidence is this?"

Lin Yue had a bad premonition, "Reporting to the emperor, Chu Junyi has huge amounts of silver in her possession and has been in close contact with Jiangnan officials many times. The leader of the imperial guards found out while he was still alive and has been collecting evidence, so he didn't want Chu Junyi to know that he had used the emperor's order to investigate the imperial guards' matter and make a personal feud. He killed a dignified first rank official on the spot!"

Chu Junyi's eyes widened. A huge amount of silver taels … No wonder Lin Yue dared to openly threaten him before. It turned out that he had found out about this.

Baili Qingfeng frowned, "You said that it's a huge sum of silver?"

"Exactly, according to the evidence left behind by the Guard Commander, there are at least several million silver taels."

"Several million silver?" That's quite a lot. " The imperial government would only collect tens of millions of taels of silver a year, how could Chu Junyi have millions of taels of silver?