Reborn as the Savior of a Short-lived Father and Son

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His Majesty summoned Mrs. Lin for trial ahead of schedule.

The mother who lost her only son had only resentment in her heart, nothing else.

Princess Wu was also there. Perhaps out of consideration for Pingyang's feelings and not wanting her to experience the ugliness of the human heart so early, she did not let Pingyang come, but instead had her brother, Lord Qi, come with her.

Because Princess Wu had previously said that the Prince of Wu had poisoned her, if it weren't for Gu Qinghe's help, she would not have lived to return to the capital, so the emperor asked Shao Xingjian to call Gu Qinghe as well.

This is quite lively.

Lord Lin stood in the middle with a pale face. Perhaps he knew that things had come to a point where they could not be reversed. Instead of trying to survive in a cowardly way, he might as well fight hard to get the truth for his son. So he made up his mind and planned to tell all the despicable things that King Wu had done.

The people from the Dali Temple and Jingzhao Yin stood in the back, while Prime Minister Li stood silently to the side, occasionally glancing at Gu Qinghe.

In addition, irrelevant people are not allowed to be present.

In the Yao Mansion, Yao Fangzhi was extremely anxious, fearing that he would be implicated because of Lin Cong's death.

Yao Shiliang was annoyed by his departure and kicked him, "Go and walk around in your room."

"Dad," Yao Fangzhi said with a worried look on his face, "Do you think Lin Shiqiang will betray us?"

Yao Shiliang often has nothing to say about his son.

I guess it's because I've neglected to discipline him and indulged him too much over the years, which has caused him to become as empty-headed as a fool.

No, perhaps even a fool is smarter than him.

He even began to consider that after Aunt Liu gave birth, if it was a son, he would definitely focus on training his and Aunt Liu's offspring.

Yao Fangzhi was still waiting for his answer. Yao Shiliang closed his eyes and sighed deeply, his tone somewhat helpless, "You don't have a brain, but Lin Shiqiang does. Since Madam Lin was able to find out that her son was killed by the King of Wu, how could she not know that His Majesty was also involved in this?"

"She sued the King of Wu, so why didn't she dare to say a word of resentment to Your Majesty?" Yao Shiliang snorted coldly, "She is just hoping that Your Majesty will give Lin Cong justice. By bringing down the King of Wu, she can also give an explanation to her son. There is no need to drag the entire Lin family to be buried with her."

What's more, Yao Shiliang had already realized it when Lin Cong got into trouble. These days, he has cleared himself from it completely. Not to mention that the Lin family doesn't dare to involve him, even if they dare, he is sure that he can get away with it unscathed.

But Gu Qinghe is really annoying.

If he kept this person around, he would become a disaster sooner or later. If he had known this earlier, he should have eliminated him as soon as he realized that something was wrong, and this situation would not have happened today.

It is true that if you don't remove the roots of the trouble, there will be endless troubles.

At this time in the interrogation room, Mrs. Lin also presented all the evidence she had found one by one.

"Sir Shao is a fair man. I trust him. Please tell me the cause of my son's death."

Shao Xingjian looked normal, his official attire made his handsome face look even more solemn. He opened his thin lips and said, "Lin Cong's cause of death was suffocation, but I later performed another autopsy and the cause of death has changed. There are traces of poisoning on Lin Cong's body. I also asked my colleagues from the Dali Temple to examine him together, and the conclusions they reached are basically the same."

"The poison in Lin Cong's body must have existed before he died."

The emperor frowned slightly and sat there in deep thought.

He had read the evidence presented by Mrs. Lin. If a mother made up her mind, she might be able to do something worse than a man.

Even if the emperor did not want to punish the King of Wu, he had to consider it.

He looked at the Qi siblings who were standing aside with their heads down.

He sighed in his heart. It was not that he did not want to protect King Wu. If only the Lin family was involved, he would think of a way to handle the matter more smoothly no matter what. Protecting King Wu would also preserve the brotherhood they had developed over the years.

However, the Qi family is involved in this. Now the Qi family obviously hates the King of Wu to the core. If the matter is handled unfairly, it will probably chill the hearts of both the Lin and Qi families.

The continuous wars in recent years have left the national treasury empty. If Li Rang and Hu Xiang were to join forces to make a comeback, it would be a very difficult matter for the emperor.

There are very few generals available in the court. Once a war breaks out, food and weapons are indispensable. At that time, money will flow out like the blood of soldiers on the battlefield.

If the two families were to be disappointed at this time, it would be no small matter for the emperor.

He sighed softly in his heart, but he couldn't blame him. It was the King of Wu's fault for not cleaning up his mess.

The emperor looked at Madam Lin and said, "Go on."

Mrs. Lin knelt on the ground. The pain in her body was nothing to her. Instead, she was trembling slightly with joy at the prospect of getting justice for her son.

"Among the evidence I presented earlier, there was a letter that King Wu had someone write to that woman. The letter was very clear, and even promised that the woman would be sent away after the matter was accomplished, and that she would live in hiding from then on. I managed to get King Wu's handwriting, and I asked someone to carefully examine it. It was indeed King Wu's handwriting. If Your Majesty thinks that the letter is fake, Princess Wu is here, so you might as well ask her to help identify it."

Gu Qinghe lowered his head and raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard the words. Qi Mingyue was indeed a person who could make people feel at ease.

It was indeed unnecessary to ask Princess Wu to identify the evidence. The emperor choked, but since things had already been said, it was difficult to refuse. He had to wave his hand and asked the palace servants to bring Mrs. Lin's so-called evidence to Princess Wu for her to identify.

Princess Wu looked at it carefully for a while, reading it word by word, and her eyes gradually turned red. She looked at Madam Lin with some embarrassment, her face showing reluctance, and she looked very conflicted.

The emperor said, "Just tell me."

Princess Wu gritted her teeth and said, "Your Majesty, even if I don't want to admit it, I have to tell the truth. I pity the love of parents in the world. I am also a mother, so I naturally understand Madam Lin's feelings at this moment."

She paused, as if she had finally made up her mind, "This letter was not written by King Wu."

Mrs. Lin almost stood up and was about to curse, but was suppressed by the next words of Princess Wu.

“But I can see that this letter was written by a confidant of the King of Wu. This person is very good at imitating the King of Wu’s handwriting. Most of the King of Wu’s letters are written by him. If anything goes wrong, he can take full responsibility for the King of Wu.

If I hadn't been married to the King of Wu for so many years and was very familiar with his handwriting, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to recognize it."

"Since it was written by a confidant, how can we prove that this confidant was not used by someone with ulterior motives to betray the King of Wu and deliberately frame him?"