On that windy and snowy night, Qixia thought hard and finally pasted the letter containing the secret on a painting.When she suddenly remembered this, she immediately tore the painting off the wall and hurriedly handed it to Song Mo.This move seemed to trigger a memory switch, and Qixia's memory was restored instantly.She recalled that the painting was originally by Jiang Huisun, and beside the painting, there were hidden writings that could only be revealed by dipping a brush in water.Jiang Meisun revealed in the painting that he discovered the corruption in Liaodong and planned to return to the palace to report to the emperor.
Qixia remembered that she pasted the painting on the scroll in the corridor, and when she returned, she overheard the conversation between Song Han and Song Yichun.Song Yichun frankly admitted his crime of murdering Jiang Huisun. Faced with Song Han's questioning, he still plausibly claimed that he could not continue to wrong Shu Yao.
Song Mo took the painting from Qixia and took out the letter from Duke Dingguo.The letter contained a list of corrupt officials, and Dou Shiying's name was prominently written among them.Dou Zhao was confused by this. After all, Dou Shishu had already been a member of King Qing's party, but Dou Shiying's name appeared on the list.They speculated that this might be Dou Shiying's deliberate move to drag Dou Shishu into trouble.
Later, Dou Zhao and Song Mo went to visit Dou Shiying.In order to express his apology, Dou Shiying specially bought some houses and gave them to Dou Zhao.But Dou Zhao was worried that Dou Shiying had been deceived, and Dou Shiying explained that the reason why he did some business was because both Mr. Muge and Dou Shishu had stolen money and he could not pay it back.Song Mo analyzed the current court situation and the forces behind those people for Dou Shiying.However, Dou Shiying believed that court affairs and business should not be confused.Song Mo reminded him that now King Qing planned to seize the legitimate son and had already tied them together.Only then did Dou Shiying realize that the situation was critical and wanted to turn down those businesses and considered resigning to avoid disaster.But Song Mo believes that even resigning cannot avoid disaster because their relationship is still there.
On the other side, Dou Zhao led people to Yinlou and met Wei Tingzhen.Wei Tingzhen was the owner of the silver building, and Dou Zhao proposed to pay double the money in exchange for his father's contract.But Wei Tingzhen blamed Dou Zhao for Wei Tingyu's death and refused to return the contract.Dou Zhao warned Wei Tingzhen not to toast or eat as a penalty, but Wei Tingzhen was not afraid and even believed that Dou Zhao's future life and death were uncertain.
At the same time, Ji Yong came to Chen Jia on behalf of King Qing, trying to win him over with bets and high-ranking officials.But after being rejected by Chen Jia, Ji Yong threatened him with Zhao Zhangru.Chen Jia's expression changed drastically and he was in trouble.
Dou Shishu invited Song Mo to drink tea at Yinlou, but unexpectedly found that King Qing was among them.Song Mo already knew that Dou Shishu had taken refuge with King Qing, so he was not surprised.Song Mo has been avoiding seeing King Qing recently, so King Qing had no choice but to meet him in this way.King Qing offered to detoxify Song Mo, but Song Mo thought it was easy to detoxify but hatred was difficult to detoxify.In order to ease the relationship, King Qing offered to give Song Han's head to Song Mo tomorrow, but Song Mo remained silent.
King Qing tried to use the incident of Zhao Gou and Yue Fei to persuade Song Mo to let him understand that the emperor should be hated instead of Qin Hui.But Song Mo said that both Zhao Gou and Qin Hui should kneel in front of Yue Fei's statue.Seeing that he could not persuade Song Mo, King Qing ordered someone to take action.Song Mo grabbed one man's weapon and flew to catch King Qing as a threat. No one dared to step forward.Song Mo discussed and analyzed the situation with Dou Zhao in advance and knew that the contracts were hidden in the cracks in this room.He ordered people to blow up the wall and got the contract.
However, Song Mo was framed as the murderer of the prince by King Qing and ordered to be executed.Song Mo suddenly became so poisonous that he vomited blood.At this time, Dou Zhao, along with Eunuch Wang and Jin Wuwei, came to rescue Song Mo and summoned him before the emperor.Dou Zhao has been kneeling at the gate of the palace waiting for the result. The queen persuaded Dou Zhao to understand the different identities and statuses of Song Mo and King Qing, but Dou Zhao said that he would wait for Song Mo to come out no matter what.The queen reminded Dou Zhao that if Song Mo could come out, it would be only if the blame was placed on Dou Shiying.
Although the evidence was placed in front of the emperor, all the courtiers accused Song Mo of protecting King Qing.The emperor reluctantly said that the contract was stained with blood and could not be read clearly.Song Mo's heart sank.But when the emperor suggested that Song Mo pinned the crime on Dou Shiying, Song Mo frankly admitted his mistake.The emperor ordered Eunuch Wang to save the contracts and reprimanded King Qing.Unexpectedly, those uncles and uncles all loved the King of Chongqing so much. The emperor sarcastically said that the queen had a good education.
The emperor wanted to arrest Dou Shiying to calm the public anger, but Song Mo knelt down to admit his mistake and was unwilling to do such a conciliatory thing.The imperial uncles accused Song Mo of being treasonous and immoral, and Song Mo drew his sword and almost collapsed.The emperor looked at Song Mo distressedly, and he could tell from Song Mo's tone that he had always hated him.Suddenly the emperor looked at Song Mo's face and seemed to see the young Jiang Meisun. He spit out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground.
The emperor ordered that in consideration of Song Mo's merits, Song Mo was not executed, but he was removed from all official positions and imprisoned in Zhao Prison.Dou Zhao, who had been waiting at the door, saw Song Mo being escorted out and fainted. Song Mo broke away in a hurry and everyone hugged Dou Zhao and called the imperial doctor.
Ji Yong took Dou Zhao out of the palace, and Dou Zhao wanted to go back to save Song Mo in a daze.Eunuch Wang went to the temple alone to ask the abbot to accept the things sent to him for protection.When he returned to the palace again, he was told that the person in charge of the palace had been replaced by Wang Ge.
On the other side, Song Han anxiously brought people to Ji Yong's place to search for Dou Zhao's whereabouts.But Ji Yong sat and drank tea calmly, not afraid of Song Han's arrival.