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Chu Xunzhen stared intently at Gu Changfeng and said, "Lord Gu, is this how you, as the new commander of the Five Cities Garrison, judge cases? If you dare, I, the Princess Consort, will certainly report this to His Majesty."

Gu Changfeng sneered, completely unconcerned, "Zhou Qing murdered his wife. Yet the Ninth Princess Consort is making a scene. Seeing how anxious you are, could it be that this Zhou Qing is the Princess Consort's lover?"

Zhou Qing, his face turning pale with rage, roared, "Gu Changfeng, you can slander me if you want, but how dare you slander the Ninth Princess? Do you know how many people and soldiers she has saved?"

Chu Xunzhen was shocked.

There are still people who remember everything she did.

That's fine.

The officers and soldiers held down Zhou Qing's hand, pried open his thumb, and were about to sign the document when Chu Xunzhen rushed over and kicked away the red inkpad and Xuan paper.

"Chu Xunzhen, how dare you! You actually dare to disrupt the order of the court? Guards, seize these six eunuchs and arrest the Ninth Prince's Consort."

As Gu Changfeng finished speaking, ten masked men exuding a sharp aura walked out from the inner room of the courtroom.

They drew their long swords and immediately surrounded the six experts on Chu Xunzhen's side.

As their long swords clashed, Gu Changfeng personally made his move, grabbing at Chu Xunzhen's neck.

He was incredibly brave and leaped forward, almost catching Chu Xunzhen, but right in front of Chu Xunzhen, he crashed to the ground, face-first into the dirt.

Everyone was taken aback.

Gu Changfeng was a vanguard who had served on the frontier battlefield.

Hearing of his unparalleled bravery, he became the heir of the Gu family.

Later, although the Chongding Marquis's mansion had an incident and he was stripped of his title as heir apparent, he still made great contributions with his intelligence and talent, and the emperor bestowed upon him the title of Marquis of Loyalty and Righteousness.

No one expected that he would be so stupid as to fall to the ground when he tried to pounce on someone.

He is still the commander of the newly appointed Five Cities Garrison, personally appointed by His Majesty.

Chu Xunzhen stood still, her expression calm.

She smiled faintly, looking down at Gu Changfeng, and said, "What, does Lord Gu know he was wrong? Does he intend to perform such a grand ceremony before me, the Princess Consort?"

Gu Changfeng's face flushed red.

He is the new commander of the Five Cities Garrison.

How could I have made such a basic mistake?

Chu Xunzhen looked at him with a mocking expression.

It seems that the Gu worms I placed on him have begun to absorb nutrients from his body and are starting to devour his organs.

Gu Changfeng stood up and reached out to grab Chu Xunzhen again.

Today, he is going to catch this fickle and promiscuous woman.

He wanted to punish her severely.

If she were discovered sleeping with him, Gu Changfeng would like to see if Nangong Yue would still want her as a worn-out shoe.

Chu Xunzhen stretched out her right hand to block Gu Changfeng's hands, and then kicked him between his legs.

Click!

He screamed in agony and collapsed to the ground, his body arched.

"Lord Gu, what's wrong?"

"Quickly! Go and fetch a doctor for Lord Gu."

"The princess is so brave."

.......

Everyone's gaze suddenly fell on Chu Xunzhen, a look of lingering fear flashing in their eyes, and they felt a chill between their legs.

"Lord Zhou used to be your superior. You've known him for many years, so you must be familiar with his character. His wife has now been murdered by villains. I hope you can do me the favor and let me check if she has been poisoned?"

After Chu Xunzhen finished speaking, the group separated and stopped fighting.

Since Lord Gu has become like this, the person with the highest status here now is the Ninth Prince's Consort.

Chu Xunzhen looked at Zhou Qing, who was kneeling on the ground at a loss, and said, "Zhou Qing, there are no obvious signs of poisoning on the body. However, I judge it to be poisoning. Please allow me to perform an incision in his abdomen to examine it."

"Princess, please have a C-section. I trust you."

Zhou Qing immediately agreed.

He believed his wife would agree.

The Ninth Prince's wife is an upright person. She is currently helping him with his case.

Which high-ranking official would have nothing better to do than run errands for him? Only the Ninth Princess wasted her time on him, believing in this man who was called a murderer.

"it is good."

Gu Changfeng, however, snapped out of his daze, clutching his lower body, and stared intently at Chu Xunzhen from a short distance away, saying, "No!"

The three coroners also blocked Chu Xunzhen's way, their faces contorted with rage and confusion.

"How could you deliberately damage a corpse?"

"Respect for the dead is paramount; how could you cut open her stomach?"

"Even if Zhou Qing agrees, we still disagree."

.......

The three coroners, one after another, had already made up their minds that they would not allow Chu Xunzhen to cut open the corpse's flesh under any circumstances.

This is a desecration of the dead.

Chu Xunzhen scoffed, "You are coroners, yet you only observed the basics before hastily recording the facts. Did you even speak up for the deceased?"

The coroners were so angry that their faces turned red, and they were about to stand in front of the corpse, but in the next instant, An Shun jumped in from outside and pulled the three of them apart.

Chu Xunzhen was taken aback and looked towards the outside of the government office.

Sure enough, Nangong Yue was outside, smiling at her.

Chu Xunzhen nodded to him, then cut the white cloth in the middle of the corpse, revealing the corpse's belly.

Without the slightest hesitation, amidst the coroners' incredulous roars, Chu Xunzhen slashed the corpse's flesh with his knife.

Swish!

The body was stiff.

Chu Xunzhen forcefully slashed open.

The next moment, to everyone's astonishment, she actually reached out her right hand and groped inside the female corpse's abdomen.

A moment later, she found a round, brown pill.

Chu Xunzhen took the pill out of the body's abdomen and re-stitched the corpse.

In a short while, Chu Xunzhen sewed up the woman's belly, and the woman's body was whole again.

The coroners were stunned.

They were completely stunned.

Just moments ago, they felt the body had been desecrated, no longer whole, and that they had offended the deceased. Now, they had nothing to say.

Zhou Qing looked at Chu Xunzhen with gratitude on his face.

The princess is so gentle; she even sewed up his wife's belly.

"What is this?" a soldier asked in shock.

"This is poison," Chu Xunzhen said to everyone.

Zhou Qing was completely baffled and asked, "But why doesn't my wife show any signs of poisoning?"

"The poison in this pill is enough to kill an adult instantly. It contains wood condensation powder. Once it comes into contact with stomach acid, it will solidify into a pill, and the poison will no longer dissipate. As for why there are no particularly obvious symptoms, it is because this poison specifically targets the lungs and internal organs. If we were to cut open the lady's abdomen now, we would see that her internal organs are all bluish-purple."

Chu Xunzhen placed the medicine on the brocade box beside him and said to the doctor, "To verify the ingredients, please examine this medicine to see if it is poisonous."

The doctor immediately and carefully took the pill.

This is a pill that can reveal the truth.

Gu Changfeng lay on the couch, looking at Chu Xunzhen in the courtroom, somewhat dazed.

"How could she understand medical principles that only coroners would know?"

Upon hearing this, Qingsong's expression became complicated.

Chu Xunzhen's actions just now also shocked him greatly.

The Ninth Princess Consort is an extraordinary woman.

After examining the pill, the doctor addressed the crowd, saying, "This pill is indeed poison. Taking it will make the poisoned person show no symptoms, but in reality, the poison has already penetrated deep into the body."

Inside the side room, Gu Changfeng's face was dark.

The doctor just said that his injury is not very serious and he only needs to rest for a week to recover.

Seeing his men place him on a straw mat and carry him out, Gu Changfeng felt utterly humiliated.

"Get me a blanket to cover myself."

After Gu Changfeng finished speaking, a soldier hurriedly went to get it, but he let go and with a thud, Gu Changfeng fell to the ground from the straw mat.

Chu Xunzhen was stunned.

When someone's luck turns bad, there's no stopping it.

Chu Xunzhen thought of Chu Wanrou.

It's likely that Gu Changfeng and Chu Wanrou shared a room, otherwise how could he be so unlucky?

Gu Changfeng was so angry that he started cursing.

Chu Xunzhen chuckled, and Gu Changfeng's expression became even more unpleasant.

Gu Changfeng was carried out by the soldiers.

His face was cold and hard, and he gripped the thin blanket tightly with his right hand, saying, "Chu Xunzhen, how dare you! You actually dare to beat up an official of the imperial court like me?"

But to everyone's surprise, Chu Xunzhen said, "There are new doubts in this case. First, Lord Zhou Qing's wife died of poisoning. Second, the marks on the woman's neck are five-finger marks. Judging from the depth of the marks, it can be seen that after she died of poisoning, someone grabbed Lord Zhou's hand and strangled her, creating the illusion that she was strangled. Therefore, we should immediately surround the Zhou residence and thoroughly investigate all the servants and maids who had contact with Madam Zhou that day."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Qing immediately burst into tears: "I didn't kill my wife! I didn't strangle her! Hahaha!"

Zhou Qing laughed wildly.

Lately, strangling his wife with his own hands has become his obsession.

Now, the Ninth Princess has given him a new life.

The officers and soldiers were all happy for Zhou Qing.

Their adults have always been fair and just, how could they possibly bear the sin of killing their wives?

From a high-ranking, meticulous, and impartial official, he could fall into the clutches of a wife-murderer in an instant.

Gu Changfeng's expression was grim.

It’s over.

How could this happen?

Damn!

If only I had killed Zhou Qing in the prison cell sooner, I wouldn't be in such a passive position now.

What should we do?

Nangong Yue's voice suddenly rang out: "Send people to the Zhou residence and arrest all the servants and maids of Madam Zhou on the day of her death. Lock them up in the government office and interrogate them one by one."

Dressed in a dark blue robe, Nangong Yue entered the government office surrounded by eunuchs including Anshun.

Seeing him holding Chu Xunzhen's hand, Gu Changfeng was so angry that he blurted out, "Ninth Prince, this is a public court! How dare you allow the Ninth Princess to disrupt the court? I will report this to His Majesty tomorrow."

Nangong Yue scoffed, "The Ninth Princess Consort is the mistress, and you are the subject. What, does the subject intend to turn against the mistress?"

Gu Changfeng didn't dare to reply.

If he speaks recklessly, he might become someone His Majesty dislikes tomorrow.

Chu Xunzhen's icy gaze fell on Gu Changfeng, and she said in a low voice, "Lord Gu, this is the Five Cities Military Command. As someone in this position, you should be advocating for the people, not engaging in factional strife and framing loyal officials. I hope you will be more careful with your words and actions in the future."

Gu Changfeng's expression was complex. Clutching his groin, he roared, "Chu Xunzhen, you have harmed my body and destroyed my foundation. Tomorrow I will make you lose face before the Emperor!"