The emperor looked at Marquis Dingyuan in surprise.

He knew that Marquis Dingyuan went to Xiaochun Tower to see Yu Yan, but he didn't expect Marquis Dingyuan to admit his confession so happily.

After all, even Miao Min did not directly confess to Sun Nanli. The reason why he summoned Marquis Dingyuan was based on his inner guess.

On the one hand, he speculated on Dingyuan Hou, and on the other hand, he speculated on King Yu.

These are the two most likely people.

Marquis Dingyuan took action because the second prince had kidnapped Sunan Li before. Although the emperor had dealt with the second prince, Marquis Dingyuan had always loved his daughter as much as she wanted, and he might not be able to swallow this in his heart. In addition, Sunanli loved Yu Yan.

, it is quite reasonable for such a thing to happen.

As for poisoning...

Now the eldest son of the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion, Sunan Huai, is in charge of a hundred thousand troops in southern Xinjiang, but the supervisors sent by the emperor have repeatedly disagreed with Sunanhuai.

Su Nanhuai may not have other thoughts.

What's more, the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion has been kept in Kyoto as a hostage in the past few years. As time goes by, there will definitely be resentment.

As for Prince Yu’s Mansion...

There are countless reasons why King Yu wanted to poison him.

The emperor squinted his eyes and looked at Marquis Dingyuan. After he finished speaking for a while, he laughed muffledly and said, "You may not know yet, Miao Min didn't recruit Nan Li. He was carrying it to death. There was nothing.

explain."

Marquis Dingyuan didn't even look stunned, he only had a look of annoyance and self-blame.

"This is not a question of Miao Min confessing or not, it's..."

As he spoke, Marquis Dingyuan seemed to be unable to hold on any longer. He kowtowed twice to the emperor, and when he spoke again, his voice was trembling with tears.

"To be honest with you, your Majesty, just before I entered the palace, my daughter Nan Li was forced by Prince Yu to commit suicide by hitting the table in front of me. I watched helplessly as a bloody hole appeared on her forehead.

Your Majesty, Nan Li liked Prince Yu, so he was obsessed with it and bribed Miao Min to frame Medical Officer Gu and spread the scandal between Medical Officer Gu and Qin Mo.

She just wanted to make Prince Yu hate Medical Officer Gu.

She really knows that she is wrong, and she begs your majesty to spare Nanli this time for the sake of several of my sons guarding the border. She also begs your majesty to show mercy."

While talking, Dingyuan Hou banged his head and kowtowed.

The emperor sneered, "Shall I spare her once? When she poisoned me, why didn't she think of asking me to spare her?"

Marquis Dingyuan looked at the Emperor with a pale face, full of horror, and shook his head desperately, "Your Majesty clearly understood that Nan Li did something wrong, but she only bribed Miao Min to harm Medical Officer Gu, and did not poison Your Majesty.

Your Majesty...this...where do you start talking about this?

No matter how confused Nan Li is, she would never poison His Majesty. Not to mention that she would never have such thoughts, nor does she have the ability. Nan Li doesn't have many contacts with the female family members in the palace."

The elder brother controlled an army of 100,000 men. In order to avoid suspicion, few people from the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion entered the palace.

"Then can you explain to me the murder case in the second prince's house?" The emperor looked at him unmoved, his eyes were cold and indifferent.

Marquis Dingyuan said: "I have asked Nan Li carefully before I came here. Your Majesty, Nan Li really only bribed Miao Min."

The emperor laughed out loud, "Do you think I am a fool? She only bribed Miao Min, but Miao Min bribed the people in the second prince's house? Miao Min has never mentioned your Dingyuan Hou Mansion until now, but you do?

Do you want to get rid of me without asking for help? Are you trying to fool me like a fool?"

Just when the emperor finished speaking and Marquis Dingyuan was covered in cold sweat and unable to speak, the chamberlain came out with a portrait.

"Your Majesty, it's drawn."

The emperor ignored Marquis Ding Yuan and turned to look at the portrait handed to him by the chamberlain.

Then......

The corners of his mouth trembled.

The person painted in this portrait was very familiar to him. It was a palace maid from Concubine Li's side.

He often went to Concubine Li's palace, and naturally he was familiar with the people who served Concubine Li.

No matter who the Marquis of Dingyuan colludes with, he can't collude with Concubine Li. The second prince kidnapped Sunan Li, but the Marquis of Dingyuan colluded with the people in front of Concubine Li?

The emperor, who had just said that he was not a foolish emperor, could not tell for a moment whether the emotion in his heart was more angry or something else.

Marquis Dingyuan knelt on the ground. Ever since the portrait was taken out, he could clearly feel that the emperor's aura had changed.

Is this the arrangement that Prince Yu said he had?

Marquis Dingyuan breathed a sigh of relief and knelt there honestly, waiting for the next step.

The emperor stared at the portrait for a long time, then without any expression on his face he told the chamberlain, "Go and get someone, don't disturb anyone."

The chief chamberlain went as soon as he received the order. Before leaving, he left the painter and the sixth prince in the inner room of the imperial study and closed the door.

As soon as he left, the emperor looked at Dingyuan Hou. The poisonous look in his eyes had disappeared and he just asked him, "You said that at Xiaochun Tower, Yu Yan forced Nan Li to commit suicide?"

Marquis Dingyuan looked like he was about to cry.

"Your Majesty, for the sake of my duty and loyalty, please give Nan Li a chance. Prince Yu learned that it was Nan Li who wanted to harm Medical Officer Gu, and he had already spread the word that he wanted to kill Nan Li.

If Your Majesty hadn't sent a message for me to enter the palace today, and I could have taken the opportunity to bring Nan Li out of Xiaochun Tower, I'm afraid she would have died there.

Young Prince Yu always does things... as he pleases, and he has no one to fear except Your Majesty."

This is indeed Yu Yan's style.

Anyone who offends him will be punished on the spot.

Either kill someone or set fire to it.

Is this killing Sunanli this time?

The emperor had just suspected whether Dingyuan Marquis had colluded with Yu Yan when he came, but now all these doubts have been dispelled.

That picture says it all.

Even if the Sixth Prince had been bewitched in advance, he was an idiot and couldn't resist the intimidation and coaxing methods of the chamberlain. What's more, after spending most of the day in the imperial study room, a child with a mind of only four or five years old could

What a big lie.

That portrait is real.

The emperor sighed, and then spoke in a gentler tone, "Nan Li likes Yan'er no matter how much she is. If Yan'er doesn't have her in his heart, why should she bother? If she causes such a thing, she will make him unhappy for nothing."

Marquis Dingyuan became more and more at ease in his heart, and his expression became more emotional.

Tears burst out of his eyes, and he choked up and said: "Your Majesty, I...I don't want to. Nan Li has liked Young Prince Yu since he was fourteen years old. He has been in love with him for more than two years. Now he looks like he is seventeen."

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I have nothing to ask for, I just hope that she will be safe and sound, but she did something wrong this time, so I beg your majesty to give her a chance for the sake of me and her brothers."

The emperor asked: "How did she and Miao Min get in touch? Miao Min has only been in Kyoto from Liuzhou for a few days."

On this point, Dingyuan Marquis had asked Sun Nanli carefully before. Now he was trying to figure out what Yu Yan meant and said: "Nan Li is jealous of the close relationship between Gu Luo and Mr. Yu. She has actually been with Dr. Gu before this."

There were several frictions between officials, but every time, Prince Yu came to Gu Luo's rescue. She felt unhappy, and Miao Min was new here, so she went to them and asked them to do things for her, otherwise she would let them do it for her.
Chapter completed!