Rebirth: From being expelled from the imperial court to becoming a high-ranking official

After arranging everything, Qin Yunhe returned to the inner court exhausted.

Since he took office, he has been investigating the case without a single day's rest.

It was only the end of September, and I was thinking of bringing Yuru and my daughter over once we were settled. But now it is already the twelfth lunar month, and it seems that we won’t be able to bring them over before the New Year.

Qin Yunhe returned to the inner court and lay down on the bed.

These days, he had been busy with work, and there was also the Jin Biao case. This trial was even more full of twists and turns. Qin Yunhe was a little exhausted and fell asleep as soon as he lay down.

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Fung Lok Village

When winter comes, people have free time. Men can go out fishing and drinking, while the wives' only entertainment is embroidering and playing cards.

Yuru didn't know how to play cards, so when she had free time, she took her needlework basket and went to Yunniang to embroider.

Now they are very familiar with each other.

Yunniang is thoughtful and efficient, and knows many tricks. Yuru likes to play with Yunniang.

When Yu Ru went over today, someone was already talking to Yun Niang.

"Chun Xing, you are here too." Yu Ru said as she put the basket on the table.

Chun Xing is also a young daughter-in-law in the village. She is nimble and talkative. When she saw Yu Ru coming in, she stood up and said half-jokingly and half-seriously, "Mrs. Qin is here. Come quickly. We are talking about Mr. Qin."

Yuru was still a little uncomfortable with people calling her "Madam". She blushed and said, "Speaking of Ah Wen? What's wrong with Ah Wen?"

"Don't you know? It's all over the county now. The county magistrate made a wrong judgment on the case and was brought to the prefecture by Lord Qin for trial. The person being tried is a local official."

Fengle Village is far away from the county town, and the rumors about Jin Biao finally slowly spread to this small village.

In fact, people didn't know that Jin Biao had been convicted. Now the news was only that Jin Biao's wife had been convicted of adultery and murdering her husband by the county magistrate.

As a result, the case was not approved for review by the prosecutor, but it was discovered that it was Jin Biao who wanted to harm his wife. He not only poisoned her but also made a false accusation.

He even killed his previous wives.

In the past, people didn’t know the magistrate and naturally wouldn’t pay attention to him. Now that they know that Qin Yunhe is the magistrate, when they hear about the magistrate’s office, they immediately think of Qin Yunhe.

So this is the kind of official he is.

"Lord Qin is really powerful. Even the cases judged by the county magistrate are under his jurisdiction."

Others didn't know, but Yu Ru knew. Ah Wen had explained to her what a magistrate did before.

"No. Ah Wen is just reviewing the case to see if there are any loopholes. The county magistrate is not under his jurisdiction."

Chun Xing nudged her: "Why is it not his responsibility? If it wasn't his responsibility, would the magistrate forgive Chen Er's river invasion fee? Wasn't it also Lord Qin who asked the magistrate to put the pillar? Why are you hiding this from me? I'm not asking Lord Qin to do anything for me."

Seeing that Yuru didn't know how to explain, Yunniang said, "That didn't exempt us from the river invasion fee. The land was registered under the name of Lord Qin, and the county magistrate exempted his colleagues. As for Zhuzi, wasn't it agreed that he would be allowed to raise money before he could go home?"

"That's not the same. Wasn't it all done by Lord Qin?" Chun Xing said with a nonchalant smile, "Let's not talk about that. Do you know what happened to that official?"

Yunniang had heard a little about it, but Yuru knew nothing about it.

Chun Xing continued, "I heard that the man poisoned several of his wives to death. Finally, this wife ran away because she was afraid of being killed by him, so he captured her and accused her of adultery."

Yu Ru was horrified when she heard this: "Ah! Why would you poison your own wife?"

"Who knows."

"What about his current wife? How is she doing?"

Adultery is a serious crime and may result in the death penalty.

"That's what I'm talking about! In the end, the wife was sentenced to death by hanging, but luckily Lord Qin found something wrong and brought her to the capital for trial. Do you remember the last time Zhuzi came back to the village? He came to talk about that wife."

Yu Ru was obviously frightened by such a terrible thing, and it took her a long time to recover.

But when I think of how Qin Yunhe overturned the verdict of a wrongly accused person and saved a life...

Yu Ru's heart was filled with something. She felt proud of her A Wen, and her longing for him increased.

Chun Xing continued to tell the details of the rumors she had heard from others, which made Yun Niang and Yu Ru very frightened.

It was almost noon when Chen Er came back from outside carrying two fish he had just caught. As soon as he entered the door, Yunniang came up to him and started to complain.

"Why didn't you put on the earmuffs? Your ears are frozen."

As she spoke, Yunniang stretched out her hands and pinched Chen Er's ears to warm them up, and said angrily, "It's so cold!"

Chen Er smiled foolishly and said, "It's okay, it's not cold."

Yu Ru looked at him and felt a little melancholy again. She and A Wen hadn't seen each other for several months.

When you think about it, they were only together for a few months that year.

I always hoped that he would make progress.

Finally he was willing to make progress and achieved fame, but they were together less and less, and no one knew when they would be reunited.

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When Gu Zhi came over, Qin Yunhe was feeling very dizzy.

He had no female relatives here at the moment, and Gu Zhi was his fellow apprentice, so he came in directly without waiting for the servants to report.

Qin Yunhe had just wrapped himself in the quilt and drank a sip of water from the servant's hand when he looked up and saw Gu Zhi.

"Brother, why are you here?"

"Chen Qiu went back and said that you caught a cold, so I came to see you."

After Gu Zhi finished examining Qin Yunhe's case, he thought that he would probably come to discuss the case with him in the next few days.

As a result, several days passed and Qin Yunhe still hadn't come.

Although he basically knew the case, he still wanted to hear Qin Yunhe's details, so he sent Chen Qiu to call Qin Yunhe.

Unexpectedly, Chen Qiu went back to report that Qin Yunhe had caught a cold and fell ill in the past few days.

"You've been on such a tight leash these days, you probably collapsed as soon as it was over."

Qin Yunhe smiled and said, "I fell asleep as soon as I came back from the court that day without covering myself with the quilt. Brother, have you heard about the outcome of the case?"

"I heard it was done very well. If your teacher knew about it, he would probably reward you with something."

Qin Yunhe smiled a little embarrassedly.

Gu Zhi had already known that he had given the ink to Wu Tonghuo. Gu Zhi didn't say anything, but Qin Yunhe felt bad about it.

"Brother, has the prefect agreed to send troops to Qushan to suppress the bandits?"

"You are more anxious than the prefect."

"Does the prefect disagree? Although the rank of the teacher is low, he is also an official appointed by the court. They even dare to rob an official appointed by the court..."

Gu Zhi laughed, "You worry about it all the time. It's not that easy to send troops to suppress the bandits, especially now that it's almost the end of the year. Don't worry, you also said that the instructor is an official appointed by the court, and the prefect will not let it go. You just take a good rest."