Upon hearing this, Marquis Anding felt cold sweat running down his back.
All the civil and military officials lowered their heads and remained silent, watching the show in secret.
The emperor cleared his throat and turned his gaze to Zhao Xu standing beside him.
Zhao Xu hurried forward and asked, "Your Majesty, what are your orders?"
The emperor handed Su Qiqi to Zhao Xu and said, "Stand aside. Don't scare her."
"Oh." Zhao Xu held Su Qiqi carefully as if he was holding a bomb and stood back to his original position.
Bang!
The palm slammed down on the table, making a dull sound.
All the civil and military officials were so frightened that they immediately knelt down.
The emperor clenched his numb palms and said angrily, "The day before yesterday, I took the princess out of the palace to burn incense for General Zhenbei, but a group of assassins led me to the manor of Marquis Anding. I unexpectedly discovered that the manor was full of countless gold and silver treasures."
Civil and military officials sighed and whispered to each other.
"I am innocent, Your Majesty is wise..." Marquis Anding looked aggrieved.
The emperor smiled faintly, "Of course I believe you are innocent. Someone must have secretly placed those gold, silver, and jewelry in your manor to deliberately frame you. Don't worry, I will not wrongly accuse a good person, nor will I let the evil person go!"
Upon hearing this, Marquis Anding breathed a sigh of relief.
The emperor continued, "All the gold, silver, treasures, jewelry, and silks on the Marquis of Anding's estate will be confiscated into the national treasury. Furthermore, the manor custodians who neglected their duties, and the palace steward who knew about this and failed to report it, will be beheaded at noon tomorrow!"
"Behead?"
Marquis Anding only felt a darkness before his eyes.
The treasures were taken away, the steward was dead, and his confidants were gone...
Then, then all his hard work for so many years was in vain in the end!
"My dear, I have kept you in the palace for the past two days to protect you. Now I have helped you resolve all of this. When you return, you must carefully examine everything and don't let yourself be framed again."
The emperor acted as if he was doing this for your own good, and he made Marquis Anding cry.
"Your Majesty, actually..."
"My dear minister, there is no need to be so moved. I will never watch my most trusted minister being schemed against and humiliated. Therefore..."
The emperor changed the subject and turned his gaze to Su Mingyang in the corner of the hall.
"Su Mingyang, do you admit your guilt?"
"ah?"
Su Mingyang didn't understand.
His intuition told him that disaster was about to happen.
He said tremblingly, "I am confused. Please enlighten me, Your Majesty."
"The day before yesterday, I brought Su Qiqi back to the Su Mansion, and you ordered someone to add poison to the fish soup Su Qiqi drank. After drinking the fish soup, Su Qiqi vomited and had diarrhea, and a high fever! Now Su Qiqi is my daughter, and you poisoned the princess, which is a contempt and provocation to me!"
Su Mingyang was stunned: "Your Majesty! I am innocent. This must be a misunderstanding. I am Su Qiqi's uncle. How could I possibly harm her?"
Su Qiqi, who had just been woken up, yawned:
[I was poisoned? How come I didn't know?]
What on earth does this tyrant want to do? He's actually using me as a cover.
[Speaking of which, the fish soup is really delicious. It would be even better if it were paired with a side of braised pork elbow, spicy hot pot, stir-fried pork intestines, spicy and sour fish maw, or ginger-cooked rabbit...]
[Also, beggar's chicken, sweet and sour pork, and durian cake with jellyfish salad...]
Muttering to herself, Su Qiqi began to drool.
The emperor let out a breath: "You little girl, I'm helping you get revenge, and you're actually thinking about food there. You're making me hungry."
Everyone in the hall didn't know what the emperor was thinking, they just felt that he was furious and couldn't be provoked.
After a pause, the emperor said in a cold voice, "Send Hongye in."
"It is rumored that Hongye is going to pay homage to the emperor—"
The eunuch drawled out his words.
Hongye walked out of the hall step by step.
"Your servant Hongye pays homage to the Emperor. Long live the Emperor."
Hongye is as humble and modest as ever.
She turned her head and looked at Su Mingyang: "Master Su, I am not dead and can still appear here. You are very frightened, right?"
"You, you must stop talking nonsense!"
Su Mingyang pointed at Hongye and scolded her angrily. Then he looked at the emperor and cried, "Your Majesty, this lowly servant was punished by me for being treacherous and cunning. She deliberately framed me!"
tear——
Hongye tore her clothes open, revealing half of her shoulders and back.
The whip marks were clear and terrifying, new wounds were piled on top of old ones, and there were still many bruises that had not yet healed...
Everyone present felt a little sympathy and pity when they saw this.
Hongye complained, "After the general left for the war, Su Mingyang seized control of the household. He ordered his men to tamper with the lady's food and daily necessities, and he also maliciously fabricated the story that the general had died."
Su Mingyang cursed, "You, you're talking nonsense! Hongye, who on earth gave you the advice to frame me?"
Hongye ignored her and continued, "Madam was worried every day, unable to sleep or eat, which is why she accidentally fell and had a difficult labor! Afterwards, Su Mingyang found an excuse to detain the doctor, which led to Madam's death!"
"After his wife died, Su Mingyang tried many times to kill the young lady and take over the family fortune. He made the wet nurse drink medicine that made the breast milk bitter. The young lady couldn't eat it at all and suffered from hunger every day."
"He didn't care when the young lady was sick. My maid Honghua used her own money to hire a doctor on the street to treat the young lady, but Su Mingyang ended up beating her to death on the charge of theft!"
"Later, I was the only one taking care of the young lady. Su Mingyang often found excuses to punish me, intending to make me have no time to take care of the young lady."
Having said that, Hongye finally couldn't hold back her tears.
The ministers in the court pointed at Su Mingyang with contempt and talked about him endlessly.
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