Faced with a mountain of evidence against him, and the testimony of Tan Qia and Wa Kheng, Toutou Momo’s expulsion from the Imperial Treasury was swift and final. However his own clever tongue and the support of the respected ancestor Xan Yi prevented any corporal punishment from being levied on the bureaucrat, and he simply left the capital in disgrace.
Momo would never again rise to the heights of power but his patron Sagacious Wu saw him to an appointment to the bureaucracy of Shu, and there he earnestly worked for the rest of his years. His unconventional schemes proved a good match for the adventurous Queen Wang Feifei and he ended his career in the comfortable position of Chief Minister.