The plan was to use Li Fengqi's identity to implicate the Lin and Zhou families and spread the news that Scholar Lin had been implicated in a cheating incident.
They would let the two cheating scholars appear and point out that Li Fengqi had sold the exam questions to them, causing dissatisfaction of the failed scholars, who would then take the opportunity to gather people to cause trouble.
The personal servants of the two examiners were also their people. There were also their people among the servants of many officials in the capital.
The person who met the old woman at the restaurant was Constable Leng. Two scribes from the Imperial Province Office were also their people. The two junior stewards of the Imperial Plantation also interacted with them.
When Chu Sihai heard this news from the two of them, he immediately reported it and began to interrogate Li Fengqi, Big Stone, and Manor Head Chi.