Princess and the General

Minister Yin’s usual way of doing things.”

From the moment that Gu HuaiJiang left the palace, he had been considering this question.
Even now, he could not figure it out.

At the time, he had been paying close attention to Yin Yan.
All of his answers were logical and meticulous.
It seemed that he had prepared beforehand.

“This is not the only strange part.
Kun WuShang said that it was Yin Shuo who had requested the poison.
Since he wanted to get close with an official in Eastern Ling, he handed it over without asking any questions; however, Prime Minister Yin said that it was he who told Yin Shuo to request the poison, thus Yin Shuo had no idea what the poison was for.”

Kun WuShang was in the dark, and Yin Shuo was also in the dark.

How could this be possible?

Neither of them looked like idiots, especially Yin Shuo.
If Yin Yan did not want him to know something, there was absolutely no need to have him ask Kun WuShang for the poison.

Gu ShuBai remembered something, “I wonder if father still remembers? On the day of your birthday banquet, the old servant who was tidying the room next to the outer study said that he saw Yin Shuo.”

On the day of the birthday banquet, when Gu HuaiJiang suddenly left the banquet, Kun WuShang made his way to the outer study.

Sure enough, he took the opportunity to enter the study and tried to find some military information that would be useful to Western Kun.
At that time, Yin Shuo would definitely have seen him from the neighboring building.

Even Gu Yi was able to react to this, “Eldest brother means to say that Prime Minister Yin took the initiative in admitting it to protect Yin Shuo? It was Yin Shuo who asked Kun WuShang for the poison, and it was Yin Shuo who wanted to kill us!”

Unfortunately, Emperor Ning would not believe Kun WuShang.
He was the prince of an enemy state, and he had a history of trying to steal military secrets.

Comparing his testimony with Yin Yan’s testimony, it was natural that Emperor Ning would truth Yin Yan.

Gu HuaiJiang glanced at him but did not respond to his question directly, “Regardless of who it was, the one that His Majesty trusts is more important.
Seeing that Prime Minister Yin took the initiative to admit it, His Majesty decided to give an old subject some face and allowed him to resign from his position.”

“Eldest brother and sixth brother were almost unable to come back.
If not for second brother and Yu Fu arriving just in time, they really would have been done in! Given the scale of this situation, that His Majesty allowed him to resign, this benefits him too much!”

Gu Xiang was extremely displeased, “Father, why did you not ask His Majesty to punish him severely?”

Gu HuaiJiang looked at him, “What sort of severe punishment? In the end, ShuBai and Gu Yi returned safely, and an investigation into Prime Minister Yin’s guilt would just find that he failed an assassination attempt.
Do you think that His Majesty only takes care of our Marquis Gu’s Manor and neglects the other officials in court?”

“That’s right.
The Yin clan is not some nameless family.
Their family has served loyally for three rulers.
For His Majesty to ask him to resign is already the heaviest possible punishment.
Even just showing consideration to the late madam Yin, who was the daughter of the crown prince’s imperial tutor, he could not give too heavy of a punishment.”

Gu ShuBai’s words caused Gu JiuGe to suddenly think of something.

He said: “Eldest brother, the crown prince’s imperial tutor that you just mentioned, would that be His Majesty’s teacher from before he became the emperor?”

“Indeed.”

Madam Yin was the daughter of His Majesty’s teacher and not some girl from a small family.
Why would Yin JiYao say that her grave had been covered by the snow…