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"Okay, follow us in..."

"Hey……"

Nanny Zhang hurriedly turned around and helped Lan get out of the car.

Perhaps she was dizzy from being thrown around by the carriage just now, and she didn't notice that there was another carriage at the palace gate, and the people in the carriage were staring at her with wide eyes.

Lan had just been concentrating on sitting firmly in the car and had no time to think about anything else. Now that they were getting closer and closer to the Golden Throne Palace, she began to feel nervous.

He held Aunt Zhang's hand tightly, and sweat broke out on his back.

Although she was born in a noble family, was the niece of the empress dowager, and often went in and out of the imperial palace, this was her first time in the Golden Palace.

All the civil and military officials in the court were staring at her, including the one sitting on the dragon throne.

She was more than a little flustered.

She didn't dare look around and could only keep her head down. She couldn't enter the hall without being summoned by Nanny Zhang. Now her legs were weak and she had no one to lean on.

The moment he saw Mu Qingyan, the panic in his heart reached a new level.

However, despite her panic, she did not forget the etiquette when meeting the emperor.

"Greetings to Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty..." Logically, as a lady of honor, His Majesty should let her stand up after she paid her respects.

But no, she still didn't hear His Majesty's voice calling her to stand up, so she could only kneel with her head down.

"Lan, the eldest daughter of the Mu family is suing you for murdering her biological mother and grandmother, and for killing the twins that Mrs. Gu, the wife of the Duke of Fuguo, had just given birth to. Every single one of your charges is clear and there is no flaw to be found. Do you plead guilty?"

Lan's heart almost jumped out of her chest when she heard this, but she certainly couldn't plead guilty. "Your Majesty, this is a false accusation. Since I married into the mansion, I have always been conscientious in fulfilling my duties and never slacked off. She was exiled to Cangzhou by her husband when she was young and suffered a lot. She must be holding a grudge and dared not blame my father, so she picked on me..."

Emperor Jianning looked at Mu Qingyan, "Miss Mu, what do you think?"

"Your servant, please summon a witness."

"pass!"

So, Jinqiu and his group were brought to the Golden Palace.

Although he was very scared, he calmed himself down and knelt down to kowtow.

"Tell all you know and hear in front of the civil and military ministers. Don't be afraid..."

"I dare not hide it from your Majesty. I used to run a clinic in Kyoto, called Huiyuantang. Eighteen years ago, I was invited by the wife of the Duke of Fuguo, Gu, to see a doctor in the Duke's mansion. After that, I have been taking care of her pregnancy. I felt the pulse and found out that she was pregnant with twins, but I was not sure. I was afraid that the lady would be disappointed, so I wanted to wait until the month was older to confirm it before telling her, just to be safe. Later, the current lady of the Duke's mansion, then Aunt Lan, ordered someone to find me and threatened my family, and ordered me to tamper with the lady's pregnancy-preserving medicine. I was afraid that my family would be in trouble, so I agreed to do this conscienceless thing..."

"On the day of Madam's delivery, she was already seriously injured by the drugs, and Aunt Lan ordered me to prescribe a drug that would make people's minds agitated and cause hemorrhage... and she didn't allow me to be present. I killed Madam and failed to save my family... After this incident, a group of thieves broke into my house and hacked all my relatives to death while they were sleeping. Even my three-year-old child was not spared. I was stabbed in the chest, but because the position of my heart was different from that of ordinary people, I escaped. After that, I changed my name and wandered around, becoming a traveling doctor..."

After the doctor finished speaking, he was heartbroken.

I don’t know whether it is regret or hatred.

Lan could only deny it, "Your Majesty, I have never done anything that is against the will of heaven..."

Emperor Jianning raised his hand to silence her. "If you want to defend yourself, I will give you a chance. But now, I don't want to hear you. I want to hear them."

Lan could only purse her lips and dared not say another word.

Mu Qingyan clenched her fists and tried her best to suppress the urge to strangle Lan.

Prince Ling noticed it and quietly held her hand, as if to comfort her.

Mu Qingyan's tightly clenched fists slowly relaxed, but the anger in her heart could not be eliminated. She must make the Lan family go to hell!

The Gu family members' eyes were red, but this was in the presence of the emperor, and they had to maintain the demeanor of subjects.

But the look in the eyes of the third son of the Gu family towards Lan Shi made him want to eat her alive...

The next person to speak was the midwife.

"I am a midwife. When Madam Gu gave birth, it was the nanny next to Aunt Lan who found me and gave me a lot of silver, telling me not to try hard during the delivery. It would be best if the birth was difficult. If she was lucky enough to give birth to a child, the boy would be drowned on the spot, and the girl would be kept... The bowl of medicine that caused Madam's hemorrhage was fed to her by me personally, and Madam thought it was to stop the bleeding... After the little girl was taken away, I wanted to drown the little boy, but I was knocked unconscious. When I woke up, Madam's body was cold. I hid outside until dark before I dared to go home. I thought I would pack up some valuables and leave Kyoto. When I got home, I noticed the breath of living people. I knew they were here to silence me, so I set a fire and burned them to death, and then I ran away... As for the whereabouts of the little boy, I don't know..."

The midwife was trembling all over and her speech was not very clear, but at least she explained the whole process clearly...

The three sons of the Gu family didn't care about their impoliteness and their eyes turned red.

That's their sister!

General Gu could hardly stand, and Emperor Jianning could not bear it, so he asked Wang Quan to move a chair for him to sit on.

Mu Qingyan knew that this matter would not end easily if it was brought to the imperial court, and she also knew that the Gu family would bear the brunt of the consequences, but she had to do this.

The Queen Mother loved her niece very much, and if there was a chance to save her, she would do it.

Only when the noise gets bigger and more people know about it, will it become difficult to conceal it!

But seeing General Gu like this, she felt a little bit reluctant.

Letting an elderly father listen to the process of his daughter being tortured... is really cruel... But only in this way can the Queen Mother find no excuse to exonerate the Lan family.

Jin Qiu leaned forward and kowtowed, "Your Majesty, I used to be a cleaner in the Duke's Mansion. Because I accidentally wet Madam Lan's embroidered shoes, she punished me to kneel on the ice. If the ice broke and I fell off, it would be my life, and no one was allowed to save me. It was Madam who saved my life..."

"A few days before the madam gave birth, the old lady suddenly fell ill and couldn't get out of bed. But she was worried about the madam's safety, so she asked me to keep an eye on her. I quietly went to the madam's courtyard and found something wrong. The maids and nannies around the madam were all gone. Only Nanny Zhang who was beside Aunt Lan was there. When I wanted to report to the old lady, I found that the courtyard door was locked. I went to the madam's room and found that the midwife had just coaxed the madam to drink a bowl of medicine. Not long after, the madam had a hemorrhage... Nanny Zhang took the eldest girl away and asked the midwife to drown the young master... I had no choice but to knock the midwife unconscious and take the young master away..."