"Think about it, how many things does he still have in his hands that might involve us."
King Qi said nothing. Although he had been granted land in Jiangnan over the years, he had always been studying at the academies abroad and didn't have any major incriminating evidence against him. However, the Qi family... he indeed couldn't guarantee that his maternal family, having grown to its current status over so many years, could be entirely clean.
"Moreover, the Gao family was never pure in the first place. This time, Madam Zhang made a move to deal with that secret guard but failed. Zhang Zhonghai is the Minister of Punishments, and yet he couldn't find an opportunity to deal with the prisoner in the Ministry of Punishment, catching us off guard."
