"I ask your Majesty to uphold justice for Jin Qian and severely punish those who harmed him!"
Gao Zhijun knelt down and pleaded with the emperor.
"I will naturally uphold justice for Jinqian. I will not wrongly accuse a good person, nor will I let a bad person go. Princess, please stand up!"
The emperor said.
"Thank you, Father!"
After Gao Zhijun finished speaking, she stood up and stood aside.
"Why don't you tell the truth?"
The emperor scolded angrily.
"I'm recruiting! I'm recruiting!"
A dark and burly man kneeling on the ground spoke first. He should be the boss among the six people.
"We are bandits from Wolong Mountain. A few days ago, our leader received a job offer. Someone asked us to go down the mountain to assassinate someone. We were offered one thousand taels of silver after the job was done. So our leader sent six of us down the mountain to assassinate that person. Everything I say is true. I didn't know the person we wanted to assassinate was the number one scholar or the emperor's nephew. If I had known, our leader would never have dared to accept the job. Please, Your Majesty, have mercy on us and spare us!"
"Every word Brother Hu said is true. We really didn't know he was the top scholar. Otherwise, we wouldn't dare to do it even if we had ten times the courage!"
"Your Majesty, please forgive us this time for our confession!"
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"Who hired you? Do you know him?"
The emperor asked the bandits.
"this………"
"Brother Hu, don't worry about it. We are all going to die, so why can't we give her up?"
"That's right, it's all because of her that we are like this."
When the bandits saw that their leader was unwilling to speak, they all cursed him angrily.
It's such a time, why are you still caring about that bitch?
Ever since the six bandits were brought in, the Marquis's wife's heart has been beating faster and her breathing has become more rapid. Her hands are clenched into fists, and her nails are deeply embedded in the flesh, oozing out traces of blood, but she is completely unaware.
Her reaction did not escape the eyes of Gao Zhijun and the emperor. They both sneered in their hearts. With such ability to respond, she dared to harm others.
The emperor, deliberately trying to scare her, said to the bandits, "Will you tell me?"
"I...said, she...is..."
The bandit named Brother Hu became even more frightened after being reprimanded by the emperor, and spoke incoherently.
Brother Hu's words made the ministers' hearts hang in their throats and they felt anxious.
The Marquis's wife was even more nervous and was about to faint at any time.
She felt that this moment was torture.
"I say she is the wife of the Marquis of Anyang!"
One of the bandits couldn't stand it anymore and spoke out directly.
"What? The one who hired the assassin turned out to be the Marquis' wife. She just boasted about how much she loved the number one scholar and treated him as her own son. Turns out it was all fake, a show for us. I believed her and thought she was a good stepmother."
"That's right. I thought so just now. We were all deceived by her."
"I remember she was a concubine, and was only officially promoted after the eldest princess left. I never thought someone so unpresentable could have such filthy and vicious thoughts."
"It's disgusting to think that we are in the same circle with such a person who is not presentable."
The women were whispering about this, and the ministers were also muttering.
"To harm your own legitimate son for a lowly bitch, you're truly inhuman!"
"That's right. There's a difference between legitimate and illegitimate children. No matter what, the top scholar is his legitimate son, with pure blood. He's also the eldest princess's son and the emperor's nephew. In any case, he's better than those sons. I really don't know what the Marquis of Anyang is thinking."
"What else can you think? His wife drugged him with drugs and brainwashed him. You know how powerful pillow talk is. How many men can resist it in bed?"
"Even if it's just pillow talk, you'll eventually wake up. How can you let a woman ride on your head and act so tyrannically? You should properly display the authority of the head of the family."
"Marquis Anyang is foolish. The number one scholar is his own son, and he's not going to bring prosperity to the Wei family in the future. This is something we can't even imagine. Just think, with the number one scholar and his relationship with the emperor, his career and wealth won't skyrocket. People have brought huge wealth to his doorstep, but he doesn't want to accept it. Don't you think he's stupid?"
The discussions of both sides reached the ears of Anyang Hou. He hated himself at this moment. He hated himself for being blind and marrying such a cruel and vicious woman. She killed his original wife and now killed his legitimate son.
The ministers were right. With Huo Jinqian, his career was bright and he rose rapidly.
My son is my cash cow, and he brings me endless wealth.
But what did he do? He pushed away wealth and killed the money tree.
The Marquis's wife also heard the discussions among the other women, and she felt angry and twisted.
She won't let any of these people go.
"Madam Hou, do you have anything else to say?"
The emperor's angry question interrupted the marquis's vicious thoughts, and she hurried to defend herself.
"Your Majesty, I am innocent! They are the ones who slandered me. I don't even know them. Please, Your Majesty, clear my name!"
"Innocent? Wronged? Defamed? How did he slander you?"
The emperor didn't expect that this vicious woman would still not repent even at this point, which really made him angry to death.
If I didn't want to keep her for the time being, I would have wanted to tear her into pieces!
"Your Majesty, please listen to my defense... No, please listen to my defense. I don't know any of the Wolong Mountain bandits at all. They are wrongly accusing me. Yongqi is the Marquis's son, so he is naturally my son as well. How could I harm my own son? Isn't this nonsense?"
"I have no grudge against you, why are you trying to harm me?"
The wife of the Marquis of Anyang pretended to be calm and tried to defend herself, then loudly scolded the bandits.
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