After Song Ming and Li sent off the wife of Duke Anguo and Princess Changyang who came to pay their respects, they hurriedly drove the carriage into the palace.

The two waited at the palace gate for an hour, and finally a young eunuch arrived.

The young eunuch said indifferently: "Be careful what you say when you go in. Do you know what you should and shouldn't say?"

"I know, I know! My husband and I came here just to admit our mistakes and express our gratitude to the emperor!" Song Ming agreed hurriedly.

The young eunuch snorted contemptuously and then led them towards the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

Before entering the Hall of Supreme Harmony, he first met He Yuanguang, the eunuch beside the emperor, on the corridor.

He Dajian looked Song Ming up and down, and the disdain in his eyes was well hidden, but Song Ming still felt a vague sense of hostility.

He Yuanguang laughed dryly. "This is the first time for both my family and the Emperor to meet Master Song. We are more familiar with your father! So I wonder if the remaining people in the Song family know how to be grateful or if they are just asking for their own death!"

"I would like to remind you two, if you cannot speak politely in the palace and offend the emperor, not only will you not be able to save yourself, but your entire family will also be executed!"

Song Ming hurriedly bowed and saluted: "Yes, yes, yes! Thank you, Eunuch He, for the reminder!"

After a while, He Yuanguang snorted coldly and said in a neutral tone, "Go in!"

Inside the hall, Emperor Jiang Muyao sat high on the dragon throne.

He held a memorial in his hand and flipped through it without looking up, one after another, leaving Song Ming and the others alone.

The couple had been trembling with fear since they entered the palace. Now that they were in the palace and saw the emperor in person, their hearts were pounding and their bodies were twitching and trembling for no reason.

"See you, Your Majesty, long live my Emperor!"

They both bowed and saluted.

This was their first time entering the palace. Although they were a little curious and shocked, they were now overwhelmed by the majesty before them and had no time to care about this wealthy and magnificent world!

The hall was eerily quiet.

Even after the eunuchs who came to add tea had come twice, the emperor still didn't ask them to stand up.

Li wanted to hold her breath in her chest and called out to her mother in fear in her heart.

Song Ming's sweat seeped onto the ground where his forehead hit the ground. His face was pale and he was holding on to his last breath.

Half an hour later, the emperor felt relieved when he saw the two men knelt on the ground without daring to breathe.

He sternly glanced at the two of them: "If you want to thank me, you can get out now!"

"If you want to say anything else, think about whether you can step out of this hall!"

The two of them had requested to see the emperor on the pretext of going to the palace to express their gratitude. When they heard this, they were instantly startled.

But the current situation is beyond their control.

Even if it is a crime of deceiving the emperor, you have to speak up!

"Your Majesty, I, I am innocent!" After a long half hour, Song Ming already knew that this might be their only chance to speak. No matter whether the emperor was happy or not, he had to tell it all quickly!

Song Ming's body was weak, and only with the help of Li did he manage to raise his upper body tremblingly.

"Your Majesty, please make the decision. My son did not kill Prince Jin. The man who poisoned Prince Jin was the eldest son of the Yongping Marquisate. Lord Ji Chengji gave Chu Shi to my son! He was also the one who ordered him to be placed with the Third Master Lu!"

He cried, his voice trembling. "As for what he did with the Third Young Master and why he went to Prince Jin, Song Chushi knows nothing, Your Majesty! My son is stupid and can't even tell when someone is happy or angry. His character is far inferior to that of an ordinary person. How could he know how to manipulate these people behind the scenes to do harm to others? I'm afraid the people they sent out are a hundred times smarter than my son!"

Song Ming was anxious and afraid, his body shaking like a sieve. "He is timid and cowardly, and has always only known how to rely on others. He has no ideas of his own! Forget about asking him to send someone to assassinate Prince Jin. Even if he was asked to harm a beggar, I'm afraid he wouldn't know how to start, Your Majesty! I beg Your Majesty to understand..."

Song Ming kowtowed loudly, and Li quickly followed suit.

He Yuanguang's heart was falling anxiously, and he winked at the eunuch in the corner at the back of the hall. The eunuch understood immediately and sneaked out quickly.

The emperor raised his eyelids coldly, with an oppressive aura like a mountain pressing down on one's head, making people unconsciously feel that a storm was surging beneath his face.

He snorted coldly and laughed, "At this point, you're still stubborn and stubborn? You're trying to get involved with the Marquis' Mansion, but do you know what crime you're being charged with?!"

His voice was filled with anger. "I thought you were asking to come to the palace to express your gratitude! But you're trying to protest? You're saying I wronged you?!"

At this time, Jiang Xing had already brought Song Chushi out of the Dali Temple prison. After passing through five gates and killing six generals, he finally brought Song Chushi to the palace.

Before he even stepped into the hall, he heard the emperor angrily scolding Song Ming and his wife: "You are truly incompetent ministers of Daliang! Instead of devoting yourself to serving the country, you are focused on murdering members of the royal family!"

"You were so unlucky that you even pleaded for the Song family in front of me yesterday! In my opinion, you are really ungrateful and repaying kindness with hatred!"

The emperor threw a pile of memorials in front of them, "Open your eyes and take a good look! In this court, apart from the Marquis' Mansion pleading for you, everyone says that the entire Song family should be executed!"

Song Ming knelt in the hall, trembling and muttering, and he almost fainted.

How to do!

He fought to the death and told the truth, but the emperor didn't believe him!

Not only did he not believe it, he also felt that the Marquis's family was kind-hearted.

They ate people without leaving any bones behind. Only at this moment did he truly realize how terrifying the Marquis' Mansion was!

Jiang Xing dragged Song Chushi directly into the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

"Brother Emperor!"

He pushed Song Chushi to the ground, his whole body radiating displeasure. "I just received news today that someone from the Bo Mansion was sent to assassinate me? Such a wicked person deserves to have his entire clan executed!"

He said with a bit of willfulness: "But I will go to the prison to question. Why did Song Chushi say that it was done by the Marquis' Mansion? I don't care. Whether it is the Earl's Mansion or the Marquis' Mansion, your Majesty will make the decision for me!"

When Song Ming and Li saw Jiang Xing coming, hope suddenly rose in their hearts.

The two of them are just small ants, and their survival depends on His Royal Highness Prince Jin!

When the emperor saw Jiang Xing coming in angrily, he suddenly felt a headache.

But he still tried his best to be friendly, suppressing his anger, and said earnestly: "Yunce, don't let people with ulterior motives take advantage of you!"

He glanced at the Song Ming couple lying on the ground with disdain. "The entire court has impeached the Song family. You can pick up any memorials lying on the ground and read them. Only the Marquis' Mansion is pleading for them in the name of their in-laws. Such ungrateful people will do anything to survive!"

Song Ming's head seemed to sink into the floor. The blood on his forehead mixed with sweat, leaving several glaring marks on his face.

But he also knew that after taking this step, his life was no longer in his own hands!

Jiang Xing was silent for a moment: "Why would the Marquisate help the Song family? They want to kill your brother, and the Marquisate is actually begging for mercy?!"

The emperor was stunned.

But it was just a moment of shock.

After a while, he said, "After all, they are in-laws, so there's nothing wrong with asking for their help!"

Jiang Xing pursed his lips in dissatisfaction. "But my Royal Brother, if they were such a good match, why would the Marquisate not notify the entire court of the wedding? And how is it that even after the incident, when the old lady has passed away, not even a single servant has visited the Marquisate?"

The emperor narrowed his eyes and asked, "What does Yun Ce mean?"

"I'm telling you the truth, my brother!" Jiang Xing took a few steps closer and said, "I'm afraid the Marquis' Mansion really did this!"

There was a sound of something falling at the back of the hall, and the emperor quickly coughed.

A look of sarcasm flashed across Jiang Xing's face, and he tried hard to hide the coldness between his brows.

"The Doctor Xu who poisoned me earlier was actually captured by the palace guards."

"That man was afraid of death, so he confessed quickly. He said the Marquis' Mansion threatened his wife and children, so he had no choice! But on the very day he told the truth, the Marquis' Mansion sent someone to silence him!"

"I immediately went to Doctor Xu's house, and guess what I found? The entire Xu family had been murdered!"

The emperor's expression turned grim. "Then how can Yun Ce prove that it was the Marquis' Mansion that murdered the medical officer and his entire family?"

Jiang Xing: "Because the person who killed Doctor Xu's family was a servant named Jiezi from Yongping Marquis's mansion, and he was also a skilled assassin!"

"Royal brother, you can send someone to investigate the truth of the matter, or you can first listen to what Song Chushi has to say!"

When Song Chushi heard Jiang Xing mention him, he was stunned since he was released from prison.

Seeing that the emperor and the prince were looking at him with frowns, he quickly blurted out everything he wanted to say.

"Your Majesty, I don't want to go to jail, Your Majesty! I don't want to die!"

Song Chushi couldn't help but gasp and burst into tears, "It was Brother Ji, it was Ji Cheng who asked me to arrange for Doctor Xu to be with the third son of the Lu family. He didn't say what he was going to do there, but Lu Xiao quickly drove him away and blamed me for assigning him someone who wanted to harm him!"

"Later, this person was driven out of the capital by Lu Xiao. After he left, I don't know how he ended up with the prince..."

"Brother Ji said this person can help Ji Tang and the Third Prince, but I don't know how..."

He rambled on, "It's all my fault! I was obsessed with becoming an official, so I followed Brother Ji around every day! He said that as long as I listened to him, he could give me an official position! I saw several people who followed him become officials this way, and I wanted to be an official too... Woohoo... But now I know I was wrong, and I will never be an official again..."

When the emperor saw the stupid Song Chushi, he was completely disgusted.

But now he said that Ji Cheng promised him an official position, so he helped him with everything. The emperor could not ignore this statement.

"Song Chushi, are you saying that Ji Cheng often promises people official positions?"

Song Chushi was stunned for a moment. He raised his head and looked straight at the emperor: "Not always! Only those who listen to him will be rewarded with an official position. Those who disobey will definitely suffer a miserable fate! He is very powerful!"

Jiang Xing finally felt relieved.

On the way to the palace, he used both kindness and force, and talked Song Chushi so hard that he almost drooled.

Even in the prison, he was stopped by people from the Marquis' Mansion. It was only because Lu Xuan had an old relationship with Huang Zhiwang that he got help from Huang Zhiwang and was able to bring the person out.

"boom!"

A burst of shattering sounds suddenly resounded throughout the hall.

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