Following Song Qianning's words, the emperor and the ministers all looked extremely ugly.
In fact, she didn't need to say anything. When everyone saw Wong Tai Sin's true form, they had a rough idea of what he was.
That so-called immortal is nothing but a weasel that has just become a spirit.
Including Taoist Master Mingyin, he was just a small fry who had just entered the immortal world and was not even a proper Taoist priest.
Realizing their overreaction just now, and even almost kneeling down to a weasel, the ministers' faces turned pale and they felt ashamed and angry.
They all bowed and looked towards the emperor, and said in a rare unanimous voice: "Your Majesty, Taoist Mingyin is clearly a liar, and he even attempted to deceive Your Majesty and the ministers. He must not be forgiven!"
The ministers who usually confronted each other in the court now all stood together and asked the emperor to punish Taoist Mingyin.
The emperor looked at Taoist Ming Yin and the weasel on the stage and snorted coldly: "My dear ministers, you are right. The crime of deceiving the emperor is a serious crime."
Finally coming back to his senses from his daze, Taoist Ming Yin shuddered and without time to think, he fell to his knees with a thud.
He no longer cared about his demeanor as a great man. He kowtowed to the emperor frantically, not daring to stop even when his head bled. "Your Majesty, spare me, Your Majesty. I know I was wrong."
"Poor Taoist?" One minister said angrily, "How dare a liar call himself a poor Taoist? You have committed the crime of deceiving the emperor. Your Majesty should execute all your clans!"
After staring at Taoist Master Ming Yin who was kowtowing, Song Qianning turned her gaze to Gu Yunji in the crowd, and her smile deepened.
Standing with the ministers, Gu Yunji, whose face was grim because Taoist Mingyin was exposed as a liar, suddenly felt a chill all over his body and subconsciously felt uneasy.
Before he could figure out where the uneasiness came from, he heard Song Qianning's voice: "Your Majesty, I have something else to say, but I don't know if I should say it."
"speak."
"Master Mingyin is hateful, but even more hateful is Master Gu."
Caught off guard by hearing his own name, Gu Yunji's face froze. "Why can't I understand what the Regent Princess means? When did this matter become related to me?"
"Master Gu knows whether it is related or not."
Song Qianning was speaking to the Emperor, but her eyes were fixed on Gu Yunji: "Master Gu colluded with the liar and deliberately deceived His Majesty and many ministers in the court. This is truly disrespectful."
Gu Yunji's heart skipped a beat when he noticed the emperor and other ministers looking at him.
Without a second thought, he knelt on the ground and bowed to the emperor: "Your Majesty, I was also deceived by Taoist Mingyin. I had no idea he was a liar."
As he spoke, Gu Yunji looked at Taoist Ming Yin with hatred, looking extremely angry.
To make his words more credible, he added: "A liar who dares to pretend to be a sage and deliberately deceives me is truly guilty of a heinous crime."
"Your Majesty, I beg you not to forgive him so easily!"
Court officials from the same faction as Gu Yunji also came forward to plead for him, one after another, pushing all the responsibility onto Taoist Mingyin.
With Gu Yunji's blame-shifting and the ministers' pleas, the emperor didn't take it too seriously.
He scolded Gu Yunji casually for a few words and then let it go.
Seeing that Gu Yunji was not punished as he wished, Song Qianning felt quite regretful.
However, she also understood that Gu Yunji had been in the court for a long time and had many followers, so he could not be dealt with easily.
In addition, there was no clear evidence, and he pushed the blame onto the liar Taoist Ming Yin. No matter how unwilling he was, he had to endure it for the time being.
…
After returning to his residence, Gu Yunji had a sullen face and suddenly threw the cups on the table down, making a crackling sound.
Seeing this, the servants were so frightened that they knelt on the ground, trembling and not daring to say a word.
Taking a deep breath, Gu Yunji barely suppressed his anger, but his expression still didn't look much better, and it looked frighteningly gloomy.
"Get out of here!"
The servants kowtowed quickly and got up from the ground.
When the room was empty, a figure appeared and bowed respectfully: "Sir."
"How's the investigation going on with the things I asked you to investigate?"
The spy came to Gu Yunji and lowered his voice: "Your Excellency, I have found out that Song Qianning is Feng Qianjing's biological daughter."
"What?!"
Because of the spy's words, Gu Yunji subconsciously frowned.
A few days ago, he accidentally discovered that Feng Qianjing was paying too much attention to Song Qianning, so he specially sent spies to investigate.
He thought of many possibilities, but he never thought that Song Qianning would be Feng Qianjing's biological daughter.
"Go on."
"Yes." The spy responded and continued, "Ever since Song Qianning came to Beijing, Feng Qianjing has been secretly helping her..."
After the spy finished speaking, Gu Yunji also digested his previous sentence, and a faint light flashed across his face.
…
General's Mansion.
When the servant came to report that Gu Yunji was coming to visit him, Feng Qianjing narrowed his eyes and said, "Bring him here."
After a while, Gu Yunji followed the servants of the general's mansion to the reception hall: "General."
Feng Qianjing observed Gu Yunji imperceptibly and said with a smile, "How did Lord Gu find time to visit the General's Mansion?"
"I am dissatisfied with what the general said. In fact, I came to the general's residence today because I want to discuss something important with the general."
"Please speak, Lord Gu." Feng Qianjing said in a very good attitude.
In front of Feng Qianjing, Gu Yunji deliberately hesitated for a moment before continuing, "General Feng should know that the relationship between me and the Regent is not very good, so I pay more attention to him. When I saw him bringing Song Qianning back home, I was curious and sent someone to investigate. The result was..."
After a pause, he exhaled: "It turned out that Song Qianning was forced by her."
He glanced at Feng Qianjing quietly, and when he saw his expression change, he continued, "A few years ago, Qin Ye forced Song Qianning to become pregnant and give birth to a child. He then used the child to tie her down, forcing her to return to the capital and become the regent princess."
"Even though I have a grudge against the Regent, I cannot bear to see him treat a woman this way."
As expected, Feng Qianjing's face became increasingly ugly, his hands clenched tightly together, and he looked extremely furious.
After vividly describing how Qin Ye forced Song Qianning and tied the child to her, Gu Yunji left the general's mansion.
Gu Yunji, immersed in his pride, didn't know that after he left, Feng Qianjing sneered and slapped the table.
"You son of a bitch, you dare to fool me."
The table cracked with a loud noise, frightening the butler next to it.
Seeing the broken table, Feng Qianjing: "..."
After asking the housekeeper to call the servants to clean up the place, Feng Qianjing returned to the study alone and took out a portrait.
The woman in the portrait had a faint smile between her eyebrows and eyes, and she looked at least 70% similar to Song Qianning.
Feng Qianjing had met Song Qianning several times before, and because she looked so much like the person in his memory, he sent his confidant to investigate in person.
I never thought that it was really him and her daughter.
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