Peasant Woman's Decreed Life as a Wife

Chapter 1989: Chapter 1986: An Incident Occurs

“Truly ruthless, the officials of the imperial court are indeed not to be underestimated.” Ye Muyu, after listening, felt a sense of déjà vu of palace intrigue.

“You won’t be implicated, will you?” Ye Muyu asked with concern.

Chu Heng smiled faintly, “No, your husband is so clever, he knows best how to protect himself and is not willing to get involved.”

“That’s good, the conflict between these officials is terrifying, people’s minds are really unfathomable, no one knows what someone who was friendly with you just a moment ago might do next.” Ye Muyu remarked with some emotion.

In fact, in the official circle, it’s always like this, but in the feudal dynasties, the official circle is evidently even more complicated.

People who aren’t smart enough might be devoured to the bone without even realizing it.

“Luckily, you are smart.” Ye Muyu reached out, grabbed his hand, and kissed it, feeling somewhat relieved.

Chu Heng, with a smile in his eyes and brows, pulled her in for a kiss.

Ye Muyu laughed, the two of them played around for a while, and Ye Muyu, who was not sleepy earlier, finally felt tired.

After greeting Chu Heng and urging him to rest early, she went to bed to sleep.

Chu Heng dealt with some matters before going to sleep.

The next day.

As soon as Chu Heng walked into the Ministry of War.

He sensed a different atmosphere.

Most officials were in a hurry, the atmosphere was tense, completely lacking the previous days’ ease.

Chu Heng took it all in, calmly went into the room, and sat down at his office.

As soon as he sat down, an official who had a good impression of him in recent days came over and whispered, “Lord Chu, have you received the news?”

“What?” Chu Heng replied casually while flipping through the official documents and memorials.

The person, seeing this, thought he hadn’t heard and lowered his voice with a gossiping tone: “I heard that last night, a Beirong person tried to sneak out of the city hidden under a carriage and got caught.”

“When they caught the person, it was Zhou Tianqi, Lord Zhou, who was patrolling, and although he was caught in time, by then, he was already a mile outside the city gate.”

“Lord Zhou led people to bring the person back.”

“At the time, Lord Zhou immediately detained several soldiers responsible for guarding the city gate.”

“It is said that among them, there were soldiers who were bribed, and the person who bribed them was Official Hu, Hu Hua.”

“As soon as this news came out, Official Hu was taken to the Court of Judicial Review for questioning overnight.”

“However, Official Hu firmly denies bribing anyone, and the soldier being interrogated said he only thought the goods on the cart were extra from the owner’s household, avoiding tax, so he tried to sneak it through, not knowing there was someone hidden under the cart.”

“Official Hu also said that this matter might have been a deliberate setup by Lord Zhou against him.”

“The two nearly got into a fight at the Court of Judicial Review.”

After hearing all this, Chu Heng did not join in discussing the grudge between the two and instead curiously asked: “Why was that Beirong person trying to leave the city gate?”

“And did the Beirong Prince receive any news?”

After Chu Heng asked these two questions, the official speaking was left speechless, completely unable to answer; indeed, they really didn’t know.

“Lord Chu, you’re really attentive,” the speaking official awkwardly complimented.

Chu Heng didn’t reply.

The official then left to talk to other people.

In fact, Chu Heng did know the answer.

The reason for the Beirong person leaving the city was simple.

The person was coaxed into wanting to test the capital’s defenses.

And because of this, the Beirong Prince would definitely be investigated and even summoned to the palace.