"Minister Wang, you live in a high-walled mansion, feast on delicacies, but have you contributed even an ounce of silver for the city’s developnt?"
"Minister Wang, you speak of benevolence and morality, but what have you done for those suffering citizens?"
"Not to ntion past wars, but take the present. Minister Wang, you claim knowing a bit of dical skills is nothing remarkable, so why didn’t you step in when the Crown Prince was critically ill? Aren’t you also skilled in dicine?"
"Minister Wang often submits mos accusing this or that person, but what about yourself? Your mistress is quite beautiful, I hear she is just twenty and already three months pregnant. Minister Wang, you are indeed quite energetic for your age..."
"You..." Wang Minxue’s face turned grim.
"Yang Ruxin, you’re too presumptuous, to dare attack a Court official in public..." Another tall, thin man stood up, full of righteous indignation.
"And who might you be?"
"Cao Zhan."
"Ah, so it’s the Assistant Minister of the Court of Judicial." Yang Ruxin nodded slightly. "Did I say anything wrong? Is speaking the truth considered an attack?"
Since Gu Qingheng entered the capital, he had begun gathering information about certain ministers, and the capabilities of the Shadow Guards were not to be underestimated; now was the ti they ca in handy.
Of course, it also helped that Yang Ruxin had a good mory and rembered everything she read.
"Who doesn’t know Minister Wang is fair and just, yet you falsely accuse him." Cao Zhan spoke, bowing to the Emperor, "Emperor, such a woman should be expelled."
"How does Minister Cao know it’s false?" Yang Ruxin laughed. "Without evidence, it’s called slander. What if there’s evidence? Can’t the Emperor send soone to Gourd Alley to find the girl with a red beauty mark between her brows and ask her? Wouldn’t then the truth be revealed?"
Wang Minxue’s face turned even grimr, yet he didn’t know how to refute, for everything Yang Ruxin said was true. But how did she find out?
"You... you dare to spy on Court officials?" Cao Zhan’s tone beca severe.
"Spy?" Yang Ruxin sneered. "Minister Cao thinks too highly of . With so many civil and military officials, never mind my lack of ability, even if I had it, could I spy on everyone? Haven’t you heard of the saying ’truth is stranger than fiction’?"
"What?"
"Not far from Gourd Alley, there’s an old man selling crispy pastries. They say his pastries are made using a secret family recipe and taste exceptionally good. Every day, many people queue up to buy them..."
"Indeed." At this mont, soone nodded. "That old Su’s pastries are truly delicious. My old man loves them and has to buy a couple every few days."
"Sorry, but I also love them, so I saw Minister Wang coming out of Gourd Alley. At first, I thought nothing of it, but neighbors around were gossiping, saying a girl lives in the deepest house of the alley, kept as a mistress..." Yang Ruxin spoke, looking at Wang Minxue, "Just now in Court, I thought you looked familiar..."
Wang Minxue’s lips were slightly trembling. Keeping a mistress may not be a cri, but it severely tarnishes his reputation, especially as an Imperial Censor, one who oversees others, but now...
"Emperor, if Minister Wang truly has..." Another old man stood up slowly, "then he is unfit to be an Imperial Censor."
Yang Ruxin’s eyes flickered, she recognized this old man as Lan Bingcen, the Vice Minister of the Court of Judicial.
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