Chapter 152 Killing Two Birds with One Stone

The five doctors left, and the third lady and several others also left with Dong.

Only Xia Zhi and Liu Xiangju were left, helplessly watching Ling Chu, who was dying. After one blow after another, the two maids became more and more desperate.

Liu Xiangju choked and wiped Ling Chu's face with a handkerchief. Suddenly, her eyes lit up and she turned her head, "Xia Zhi, those doctors can't cure the girl, but the imperial physician is skilled, they must have a way."

Xia Zhi was also happy, "Yes, the imperial physician can definitely cure her."

The two maids were only happy for a while, and their mood became depressed again.

"But we don't know the imperial physician. The eldest master and his family have lost their official status and are not qualified to hire an imperial physician."

But the two couldn't bear to watch Ling Chu pass away like this, and they were desperately thinking about what other ways they could save her.

"Xia Zhi, do you still remember the commander of the Jinyiwei? Do you think he would be willing to help us get a doctor?"

Xia Zhi stood up all of a sudden, "Whether he is willing or not, we will know after we ask for it. You look after the girl, I will leave the house to ask for help from Lord Ning."

"Okay, go quickly."

Xia Zhi left the house, and Liu Xiangju was guarding Ling Chu. She knew that this might be the last chance to save her girl, and she silently prayed in her heart that the commander would help to get a doctor.

After Xia Zhi left the house, she drove a carriage straight to the Jinyiwei.

However, with her identity, the commander of the Jinyiwei was not someone she could see casually.

Xia Zhi had no choice but to bribe the gatekeeper with silver and ask him to help pass on a message to Ning Chuyi to ask for an audience.

But the servant didn't dare to take her silver at all.

Seeing that the servant was unwilling to pass on the message, Xia Zhi still refused to give up and asked about Ning Chuyi's whereabouts instead.

But the servant refused to reveal a word.

Ning Chuyi has always had a reputation as a killer in the Jinyiwei. Everyone is afraid of him, so how dare they disclose his whereabouts casually.

Unable to see anyone, Xia Zhi hesitated for a moment and could only wait near the Jinyiwei station, intending to wait for Ning Chuyi to come out before asking him for help.

What Xia Zhi didn't know was that Ning Chuyi was not in the Jinyiwei station at all.

At this time, he was searching the Jinxiu Yuzhen workshop under the Yinzuo Bureau, which was specially used to make jade articles for the emperor and the harem.

A few days ago, Jinxiu Yuzhen handed over a batch of jade articles that had been made to the inner court, and the emperor ordered the eunuchs to give the batch of jade articles to the court officials and the concubines in the harem.

Although the court officials and concubines who received the rewards found that the quality of the jade articles was not very good, they all thought that the treasury was empty and the emperor could not give out high-quality jade articles to reward.

No one dared to question the emperor because the reward was not good enough.

Originally, this matter would have passed.

Unexpectedly, when Concubine An was serving the emperor, she complained to him a few words, relying on her favor, and asked him if he was dissatisfied with her.

When the emperor asked the reason, Concubine An took out the jade hairpin she had just received as a reward.

When the emperor saw the jade hairpin, which was of medium quality, his face sank.

When Concubine An said that according to the information she had inquired, some of the rewards received by the court officials were not even of medium quality, the emperor was immediately furious.

After returning, the emperor immediately asked the eunuch to investigate, and when he found that the quality of the jade wares he had rewarded was getting worse and worse, he was even more furious.

Since he ascended the throne, the emperor has always hated corruption because the treasury was empty.

He did not expect that even the silver bureau in the inner court dared to be so bold and dared to hide it from him and pass off inferior goods as good ones.

The emperor did not want to tolerate corruption, and he was already interested in rectifying the corruption in the court, so he decided to start with Jinxiu Yuzhen.

The emperor gave Ning Chuyi the responsibility for the search and seizure.

Xia Zhi was still guarding the Jinyiwei, and he didn't know that Ning Chuyi was sitting in the Jinxiu Yuzhen workshop, waiting for his Jinyiwei to search.

Soon, an hour passed.

Wei Feng led a team of Jinyiwei to search Jinxiu Yuzhen, but did not find anything unusual. He could only bow his head and apologize to Ning Chuyi, "My lord, I didn't find anything."

The second prince, who was sitting at the top, put the teacup in his hand on the table beside him with a bang.

"Sir Ning, two days have passed, and today is the last day. The emperor has issued an imperial decree. If you still can't find out by the hour of the twilight, you will lose your official position as the commander of the Jinyiwei."

Wei Feng was annoyed. The second prince was really going too far.

Since the second prince knew that the emperor had handed over the task of confiscating the Jinxiu Yuzhen workshop to them, they secretly spread rumors that the rewards received by court officials and concubines in the harem were of worse quality.

Then they secretly encouraged officials of the second prince's faction and the censors to put pressure on the emperor, saying that using such inferior jade as rewards would not only damage the face of the emperor and the court, but also chill the hearts of those meritorious officials.

If this matter is not handled in time, the impact will be very bad. In the end, the emperor had no choice but to issue an order to limit Ning Chuyi to handle the matter within three days.

However, Ning Chuyi took Concubine An's jade hairpin to Jinxiu Yuzhen to investigate the matter. Chen Yi, the chief steward in charge of the workshop, and several carving masters protested to him, saying that they did not pass off inferior goods as good ones.

And several carving masters said that Concubine An's jade hairpin was not carved by them.

Ning Chuyi noticed that something was wrong, so he found those officials who had received rewards, collected all the jade articles given by the emperor, and brought them to the workshop.

But the chief steward of the workshop and several carving masters all swore that these batches of jade articles were not carved by them.

However, Gong Ping, the deputy steward of the workshop, insisted that the jade wares were carved by Master Tian and his team.

One side insisted that the other side was selling inferior products, while the other side denied that the jade wares were carved by them.

The situation came to a standstill.

Wei Feng was worried that their masters would not really lose their official hats this time.

Ning Chuyi did not have Wei Feng's worries. He knew that Liu Jin, the eunuch in charge of Jinxiu Yuzhen, was the emperor's man, and the chief steward was actually loyal to the queen and the eldest prince.

These two people might be corrupt, but Ning Chuyi believed that they did not have the courage to replace a whole batch of jade wares.

And as far as he knew, the deputy steward Gong Ping was ostensibly the emperor's man, but he had already been bribed by Concubine An and the second prince.

Ning Chuyi did not want to intervene in the fight between the two factions of the eldest and second princes, but the emperor gave him the responsibility of a thorough investigation, so he had to wade into this muddy water.

Seeing that today was the last day, Ning Chuyi could only whisper to Wei Feng, "Go and invite Miss Ling over."

Seeing that he finally agreed to ask Ling Chu to come over to help, Wei Feng was overjoyed and immediately turned around and left the workshop.

Although the Second Prince saw Wei Feng leave, he didn't care.

At this time, the Second Prince was very proud. The plan that his mother had come up with for him this time was really a win-win situation.

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Can you please ask all the handsome guys and beautiful girls to vote a few more times? I want to wake up early to catch ghosts, abuse scum and avenge my hatred.