Seeing everyone's gazes, Cao Xiong stepped into the hall and reported, "Your Majesty, Queen Mother, the beautiful daughter of the Lin family, Lin Yuyan, her brother Lin Yuchen, and her mother, Nangong Yanran, have been brought here."

"Xuan."

Zhao Xin said in a deep voice.

Cao Xiong then led the three people into the hall.

The three of them came to the hall and saluted Zhao Xin and Queen Mother Zhao Cui together.

After the ceremony, Lin Yuchen couldn't hold back his indignation and glared at Cui Cen, "Old thief, do you know who I am?"

Cui Cen's eyes moved slightly, he glanced at him, then lowered his eyes and said, "It's just a fish that slipped through the net."

"you……"

Cui Cen's words made Lin Yuchen furious, and Lin Yuyan quickly reached out to hold him.

Then he bowed again and said, "Your Majesty, Queen Mother, I, Lin Yuyan, the daughter of the former Prime Minister Lin Hongyue, my brother Lin Yuchen, and my mother Nangong Yanran, beg Your Majesty to clear the name of my father, my mother, and the over 1,300 members of the Lin family!"

Because the occasion was different and she represented Lin Hongyue and the Lin family, Lin Yuyan called herself "subject" instead of "servant concubine" or "concubine".

Because at this moment, she and Zhao Xin were not husband and wife, or master and servant, but monarch and subject.

She pleaded not with her husband but with her sovereign.

Then he recounted how Cui Cen framed Lin Hongyue, killed and slaughtered more than 1,300 members of the Lin family, and imprisoned her mother Nangong Yanran, forcing Nangong Yanran to disfigure herself and take mute drugs to preserve her reputation.

However, Cui Cen used her as a threat and did not allow Nangong Yanran to commit suicide, so she could only work as a laundry maid in Cui's mansion for sixteen years.

Although his brother Lin Yuchen escaped with his life, he was almost cut in half by a knife. Now not only is his appearance ruined, but he is also tormented by hatred every night and cannot sleep or eat.

Speaking of this, Lin Yuyan couldn't help but burst into tears.

Thinking about how I have treated the thief as my father for all these years, and he is now right beside me without knowing it, and seeing my brother, I am still hesitant because of the thief's so-called kindness in raising me, and it is difficult to make a choice.

It was not until he saw Nangong Yanran, who was still voiceless and disfigured, that he realized that the mute laundry maid who had secretly given him a jade pendant was actually his mother.

Cui Cen's adoption of me was not a favor. He simply used me as a tool to torture my mother, and then tried to use me to deal with the emperor.

I couldn't help but feel remorseful and could hardly control myself.

Everyone in the hall couldn't help but take a deep breath.

Even Zhao Xin and the Queen Mother, who had known about this for a long time, couldn't help but feel a sense of sympathy.

Looking at Nangong Yanran, who was just crying silently, unable to speak, and with a completely disfigured face, and thinking about how she was once the most beautiful woman in the Qin Dynasty, but now she looks like this.

Everyone couldn't help but feel a sense of inexplicable indignation and sadness.

The Lin family is so miserable!

When everyone looked at Cui Cen again, they no longer saw him as just a powerful official who was about to fall.

Although everyone had listed his sins before, those sins were just concepts to everyone.

But now he couldn't help but feel Cui Cen's evil.

Zhao Xin took a deep breath and signaled Cao Xiong with his eyes to ask Lin Yuyan and the other two to leave.

After the three of them left, he could no longer resist and suddenly slapped the armrest of the dragon throne. He looked at Cui Cen and said, "Cui Cen, do you admit your guilt?"

Cao Xiong, who was standing nearby, saw that Zhao Xin was losing control of his emotions and could not help but bend down and whisper in his ear, "Your Majesty, calm down. There are important matters at hand."

He knew that the emperor's court meeting today was ostensibly aimed at Cui Cen, but in fact his real purpose was to use this as a breakthrough to abolish the Prime Minister's Office.

The emperor had already made this point clear during his discussion with Liu Muzhi and others last night.

Last night, I deliberately let Cui Cen stay in the Zhongchao duty room for one night and gave him some hints for this purpose.

Otherwise, Cui Cen’s current situation would not require such unnecessary measures. An imperial decree and a cup of poisoned wine could solve the problem.

This court meeting was just to bring this matter to a satisfactory conclusion and abolish the Prime Minister's Office in one fell swoop.

But at this time the emperor's emotions seemed a little out of control, so Cao Xiong hurriedly reminded him.

In fact, his worries were unnecessary. Although Zhao Xin was indeed angry, he really wanted to give an order to push the old thief out and chop him into pieces.

In fact, he didn't even need to give any orders, as people immediately stood up and offered their suggestions.

Some people said that Cui Cen should be thrown out and beheaded, while others said that he should be executed by slow slicing.

Some people even clamored to kill all nine clans of the Cui family.

Of course, some people also argue that the case should still be judged according to national laws and tried by the court judge and other officials!

However, there are not many such voices, and they are immediately ridiculed.

"Tingwei, don't you know that Tingwei is his son?"

Some even sneered, "In my opinion, you are probably part of Cui's faction, right?"

A round of mutual cursing followed.

It was not until Zhao Xin slammed the imperial desk again that everyone quieted down.

Zhao Xin's gaze swept across the crowd and landed on Cui Cen again. "Cui Cen, why aren't you speaking?"

Cui Cen opened his eyes upon hearing this. His expression was no longer as turbulent as before. He said in an unusually calm tone, "I acknowledge my guilt, but I have something to say."

"Haha, do you have anything else to say?"

Zhao Xin scoffed, "Since you acknowledge your guilt, what else do you have to say?"

The others also sneered.

Cui Cen smiled slightly and said, "I am guilty, but I am not the only one guilty."

Zhao Xin frowned slightly, but still asked, "Oh, you have accomplices?"

"It's natural."

Cui Cen smiled calmly, "But aren't all my accomplices already imprisoned by Your Majesty? The rest have all abandoned me by now. Even my brother has done this, so what should be said about the rest?"

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