After being married off by my younger sister, I took care of the sickly prince

"Mother, Doctor Du killed someone and has been sentenced to death. I can't let him go."

Old Mrs. Guo's eyes were red and moist. "My Qing'er, it was mother who harmed you! Mother is so sorry for you."

Guo Qing knelt beside the bed in a daze, looking at his crying mother, unable to understand what had happened to the old lady.

When Old Lady Guo's sobbing slowly subsided, she looked at Guo Qing with grief in her eyes. "Princess Chong'an has presented evidence to the Dali Temple's Shaoqing. Doctor Du's case will soon be overturned. I'm afraid we can no longer hide what we did."

When Guo Qing heard this, he felt as if all his strength had been drained away from him, and he collapsed to the ground.

"How could this happen? How could this happen?"

He suddenly stood up, grabbed Old Lady Guo's arm, and asked, "Mother, how did Princess Chong'an get involved in this?"

Old Lady Guo closed her eyes and said in despair, "Doctor Du once prescribed several prescriptions for Princess Chong'an's mother."

Guo Qing thought it was funny and laughed out loud too.

"Are you kidding me, Mother? Princess Chong'an wants to get involved just because of those medicines? Even though Prince Chong'an is favored by His Majesty, he won't survive this winter! How dare she, a woman like her, offend us without thinking about what to do in the future?"

Old Lady Guo's lips trembled. "You also said that Prince Chong'an is still alive! The Chong'an Palace is still protected by His Majesty. In terms of closeness, what is there about us that she should be afraid of?"

Guo Qing's face suddenly fell, and he murmured, "Yes! Mother, what should we do? What should we do now?"

Old Lady Guo closed her eyes. "Fortunately, Doctor Du is still alive. There's still room for improvement. You should first go to His Majesty and explain clearly. This is just a small matter. His Majesty won't blame you. But when you go to apologize, you must be sincere."

Guo Qing nodded and straightened his back again.

"Okay, I'll listen to you, mother. I'll go to the palace right now. I've devoted myself to your majesty for so long, and I'm sure your majesty won't blame me."

Old Lady Guo sighed, "After this incident, I'm afraid you've become tainted in His Majesty's heart. I'm afraid His Majesty won't use you again."

Guo Qing's face was bitter. "Let's save my child's life first. If the official career becomes difficult in the future, I can just resign and live in seclusion in the countryside."

Mrs. Guo turned her head and said after a long while, "You go."

Guo Qing's steps were unsteady, probably because he had been kneeling for too long, and he walked unsteadily.

He asked his servants to arrange a carriage and galloped all the way to the palace gate.

As usual, he submitted a sign requesting an audience to the palace.

According to the previous time, he would have to wait for half an hour.

But this time, within a quarter of an hour, a young eunuch hurried to the palace gate and said to him, "Master Guo, the emperor wants to see you. Please follow me."

Guo Qing suddenly felt something was wrong. He took out ten taels of silver from his sleeve and secretly stuffed it into the pocket of the young eunuch.

But the young eunuch dodged to the side and whispered, "Sir, this is unacceptable."

Guo Qing wanted to give more, but the young eunuch had already distanced himself from him.

A dark glint flashed across his eyes.

What if he doesn’t know!

Didn’t these eunuchs take enough money from him in the past?

Now that there's just a little rumor in the palace, these people are avoiding him as if they were avoiding some kind of monster!

He calmed himself down, put the silver away, and walked forward slowly.

He believed that His Majesty would not blame him for such a small matter.

Xuanzheng Hall.

Guo Qing knelt respectfully on the ground and kowtowed to Emperor Fu Ming.

"Your humble servant Guo Qing pays homage to Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty!"

Fu Ming, who was sitting on the first seat, looked at the person kneeling below with a gloomy look.

Before Gong Qi submitted the memorial, he always thought that Guo Qing was a sincere and upright person.

After all, Guo Qing had always behaved very uprightly in front of him, and the people in the city also praised him for being fair and just, and being the people's father and mother official.

But now the evidence of those wrongful convictions was laid out firmly on the table in front of him!

One of the cases was the beginning of Guo Qing's fame in the city.

But now, the evidence before him told him.

In that case that was praised by everyone, Guo Qing, for the sake of his own reputation, not only fabricated evidence to wrongly accuse an innocent person, but also killed everyone involved in the case afterwards.

Oh, that’s not right either!

The unjust guy who was sent to prison is still alive, but unfortunately he has been tortured to insanity.

Fu Ming felt upset again when he thought that the victim was Guo Qing's brother-in-law.

Guo Qing is truly a talented person. He is reluctant to part with his wife's support and his childhood sweetheart.

In order to make the Yue family support him wholeheartedly, he killed the Yue family's only son.

In order to prevent his wife from getting suspicious, he brought the beautiful bride into his house as his distant widowed cousin and had an affair with her.

These were the only things that were found out. Fu Ming didn't dare to imagine what role Guo Qing played in other cases.

Can Guo Qing really achieve fairness and justice?

Fu Ming didn't dare to think further.

While Guo Qing was feeling uneasy, Fu Ming's voice came from right in front of him.

"Flat body."

Guo Qing didn't hear the surprised anger in Fu Ming's words. He breathed a sigh of relief, but did not stand up, nor even raise his head. He continued to kneel on the ground.

"I dare not. I feel ashamed of your grace and come today to apologize to Your Majesty."

Fu Ming narrowed his eyes slightly, his face calm as water, but hidden within was a storm that was about to erupt.

"Oh? My dear, what crime have you committed? Why don't you tell me in detail?"

Guo Qing still didn't hear anything wrong with Fu Ming's tone.

He was delighted, feeling that the emperor still loved and respected him.

But thinking of what his mother had said about asking him to be sincere, Guo Qing tried hard to squeeze out a few tears, and his words were choked with sobs.

"Your Majesty, I feel unworthy of my position as the Prefect of Shuntian Prefecture. Some time ago, I misjudged a case, resulting in an innocent man being wrongfully imprisoned and sentenced to execution. Fortunately, it's still early in the autumn, and the man hasn't been executed yet. But when I think of my mistake and the serious consequences it caused to an innocent man, I become overwhelmed with anxiety, unable to eat or sleep!"

After he finished speaking, he kowtowed heavily to the ground, "Your Majesty, please punish me! I am willing to die as an apology!"

Fu Ming asked grimly, "Are you here to apologize to me just for this matter?"

Guo Qing thought to himself that His Majesty really thought this matter was too trivial and not worth his apology.

But his face was filled with sorrow as he said, "I dare not conceal this matter from Your Majesty."

Fu Ming looked at the pile of evidence on the table and asked again, "My dear, do you have anything else to say?"

"I am willing to die as an apology for my sins. I beg Your Majesty to grant my wish."

"You do deserve to die!"

Fu Ming's face was terribly gloomy.

Guo Qing subconsciously replied, "Your Majesty, please grant me the death penalty."