Ning Furong received her punishment and was carried back to the prime minister's residence. However, before she could take a break, she heard about what happened in the palace.
All the people that she placed beside the empress were swooped. Not a single person was left out. The rest of the people were not changed but they could never get close to the Yangxin Hall again.
"How could this happen…" Ning Furong was furious. "What did she find out?"
"Prime minister, could it be that she noticed something amiss regarding the case of the Zhou family?" The man that was applying medicine for Ning Furong said out his opinion softly. "We framed the Zhou family. There are many old officials still in the imperial court so someone might have said something to the empress."
"Prime minister, shall we slow down the progress for the Zhou family'a case?"
