SFS Chapter 302 They Are Just Abandoned Pawns
Chapter 302 They Are Just Abandoned Pawns
Chapter 302 They Are Just Abandoned Pawns
Ge Yuanhui's steps were disordered, and she had long lost her former dignity. When she hurried up to the hall, her clothes were a little messy. It seemed that even if she was not crazy, she was not far from it. However, she still did not forget to cover the scar on her forehead with her thick hair.
When she saw her parents covered in blood, no matter how much resentment she had in the past, she instinctively knelt on the ground and cried heart-wrenchingly. The guilt and remorse she felt in her confused mind made her suffer as if her heart was being cut out.
"Father! Mother!"
She cried out at the top of her lungs, "Your Majesty! My parents were murdered by a traitor. Please understand!"
The emperor had her helped up and consoled her, saying, "I understand. Your father served the country loyally. I will not let them die unjustly."
Ge Yuanhui broke away from the person who was supporting her and knelt down: "The person who killed my parents is in the palace now!"
The emperor's heart sank, and he considered whether to let her talk about it in private. However, Ge Yuanhui was no longer in a clear mind at this moment. Without waiting for the emperor's permission, he looked at Gu Shichong and said, "The person who poisoned is Prince Gong!"
Gu Shichong was shocked and looked at the emperor. The two looked at each other, and Gu Shichong shook his head firmly.
The emperor was speechless and asked Ge Yuanhui: "Shun Guiren, do you have any evidence?"
But Ge Yuanhui just grinned grimly, looking insane.
There was a note in her dinner today, telling her that her father had been poisoned by Gu Shichong. She was also given two names, and as long as she caught these two people, she would be able to successfully identify Gu Shichong.
At that time, she didn't even know that her father would die. She only knew that she had a chance. She finally had a chance to take revenge on the man who used her as a pawn! She trusted Gu Shichong so much that she ended up being abandoned by her friends and family and neither a human nor a ghost... In this case, she wanted Gu Shichong to die with her! Even if she died, she wanted Gu Shichong to be buried with her!
She sneered: "Doctor Wang from the Imperial Medical Bureau and Xiao Weizi, the eunuch beside the Ninth Prince, these two are witnesses!"
Hearing these two names, Gu Shichong's heart skipped a beat: There is something wrong with this matter! How could Ge Yuanhui know! Who on earth intervened! ? Who on earth! Could it be that Gu Shimin still has some followers who have not been eliminated!
He looked at the emperor anxiously: "Father, I am innocent! How could I murder my own uncle?"
Gu Shichong was devastated. Although this was his idea, it was also approved by his father. It could not only accuse Duke Dingguo of murdering the prince, but also cut off the possibility of the Ge family supporting a puppet young emperor to ascend the throne. It was like killing two birds with one stone.
But none of them expected that Ge Hanzhang would not even care about his own life. The couple died in front of everyone, just to give the Ge family a pretext for rebellion.
At this moment, whether to investigate according to Ge Yuanhui's words or to treat her as a lunatic who spoke wildly all depended on the emperor's decision.
But at this time, Gu Shichong was no longer confident, because once the matter was suppressed, it would be tantamount to acknowledging that it was the emperor who sentenced Ge Hanzhang to death and forced Madam Ge to death.
As expected, the emperor was silent for a moment, and then sent Shen Qingwei, who was in charge of guarding the palace, to investigate the two people mentioned by Ge Yuanhui.
He said: "Duke Dingguo is a pillar of the court, he must not die unjustly, everything must be investigated thoroughly."
Seeing this, everyone could only suppress their fear and bowed in unison, "Your Majesty is wise!"
Gu Shichong only felt powerless and angry… He had cleared obstacles for his father and had killed his mother, uncle, and even his own brother. But at this time, his father pushed him out in order to protect himself!
Fortunately, the person who went was Shen Qingwei. Shen Qingwei had done things for him and was in the same boat with him. If anything happened to him, the Shen family would have trouble!
Not long after, Shen Qingwei, who had just gone to investigate, came back, accompanied by an imperial physician and a eunuch.
Shen Qingwei said, "Your Majesty, I have brought these two here for interrogation. They both admitted that they originally intended to poison the Ninth Prince, but Duke Dingguo took the poison by mistake."
Everyone was shocked. So... someone wanted to harm the Ninth Prince.
Gu Shichong was stunned... This is not right! If Shen Qingwei had any brains, she should have kept this a secret for him. Otherwise, if he were to die, then Shen Qingwei's involvement in the assassination at the hunting ground would no longer be concealed. Is he crazy! ?
But it was obvious that Shen Qingwei was a stubborn person, so she continued, "The two of them were instructed by someone, one of them drugged the Ninth Prince, and the other tricked the Ninth Prince into going to Duke Dingguo's place. Their original intention was to poison the Ninth Prince and frame Duke Dingguo, but they accidentally harmed Duke Dingguo."
Gu Shichong was already in a state of panic. He wanted to use his eyes to remind Shen Qingwei to shut up and talk in private, but the stubborn person couldn't stop talking.
"They both confessed that they were instructed by His Royal Highness Prince Gong."
Instantly, everyone was silent, only Gu Shichong knelt down quickly: "Father, someone must have framed me for this!"
Shen Qingwei added: "Doctor Wang even told me which attendant of His Royal Highness Prince Gong was the one who came to him for help."
"Father!"
The emperor was silent.
Ge Yuanhui actually laughed in front of his parents' corpses: "Gu Shichong, you have come to this day! You have come to this day too! Damn beast, you promised to marry me, you said that when you became the emperor, I would be your queen, but you betrayed me in the blink of an eye. I wish I could eat your flesh and drink your blood in my dreams!"
There were clearly nearly a hundred people in the hall, but at this moment it was deathly silent. Everyone kept their heads down and kept silent, as if they were afraid that if such royal secrets were heard, they would be killed by the emperor to silence them.
"Take him away first." The emperor's voice sounded coldly.
During this period of silence, he finally made a decision. He originally felt guilty, but after listening to Ge Yuanhui's words, this guilt was gone. He didn't care that his son had an affair with his concubine, but Gu Shichong actually dared to overstep his authority and was looking forward to snatching the throne from him before he, the emperor, died!
"Take them all away. Prince Gong Gu Shichong will be confined to the palace first. He cannot leave without the emperor's order."
The emperor originally didn't want the matter to be solved, so he hoped that Shen Qingwei could be smart enough to suppress the truth and then make up a result that would fool the entire court. So when Shen Qingwei told the truth, he was dissatisfied with Shen Qingwei, but now it seems... it's not just the Ge family that needs to be punished, his son should also be punished.
Hearing this, Gu Shichong's back softened, and his hands, which had been hanging dejectedly at his sides, clenched into fists. They trembled uncontrollably under his sleeves, and hatred surged in his lowered eyes.
He used Ge Yuanhui and then abandoned him. Now, it was his turn to be used and kicked away... by his own father.
But what could he do? Was all this his father's plan? Was it actually the emperor who wanted to use his young son's life to frame the court officials? Then his father would probably kill him on the spot.
Looking at this scene, Xue Zhiyi felt indescribably happy.
Ge Yuanhui was not the only one who was used by Gu Shichong and then abandoned. There was also her in her previous life. Now the same retribution was coming to Gu Shichong. It was really the wheel of fate.
Noticing her joy, Huo Wuyou turned his head to look at the people around him. He actually never understood why Awan hated Gu Shichong so much.
Although he was willing to accompany Awan to do anything, even if she killed someone, he could hand her the knife and remind her not to get tired, but he still couldn't help being curious, as if there was something about her that he didn't know.