Yin Yan or Yin Shuo (Part One)

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A figure rushed out from a side street.
Kun WuShang stood on the main street and looked around the bustling street but did not see any sign of Yu Fu’s group.

It was already late at night, and fewer and fewer people were walking around.
He was able to see the entire street clearly.

Thinking about it, they must no longer be here, right?

Kun WuShang exhaled and created a small white cloud, “Strange, Gu JiuGe had clearly come in this direction, so why is it that I don’t even see him?”

He turned his head.
Off in the distance where the lantern lights were waning, there was a group of people that look vaguely familiar.

Was that Yu Fu’s group?

Kun WuShang immediately wanted to catch up to them; however, after some thought, Gu JiuGe had only just arrived.
How could they go back so quickly.

He would go and look in the direction where there were more lanterns!

He rushed ahead and away from Yu Fu’s group, gradually getting further and further away…

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After returning to the manor, they found that Gu HuaiJiang was indeed already in the main hall.
Gu HanMo and the others were also present.
It seemed that they were waiting for everyone to return to talk about what had happened in the palace.

Yu Fu held the lantern with the white puppy on it and wanted to hand it off to Yan Zheng before stepping inside; however, she saw Gu HuaiJiang smiling.

“The lanterns outside must be much more beautiful, right? The one that you’re holding is very unique.”

Gu HuaiJiang had always been like this.
No matter how strict he was with others, he always smiled when talking with Yu Fu.

Yu Fu decided to just bring the lantern inside for him to see, “The lanterns in the manor are also beautiful.
It’s just that there isn’t much variety.
There were a lot of people walking around and looking at lanterns tonight.
It would have been nice if head general could have come with us.”

“The timing was not good this year.
Next year, I will go with you to see the lanterns.
How about it?”

Yu Fu vigorously nodded her head, “Un!”

After saying this, she obediently sat down and raised the lantern toward Gu WenQing.
The latter knowingly winked to her.

Gu ShuBai said: “When father went into the palace today, was it because His Majesty wanted to talk to you about the attempted assassination case?”

“You guys already know?”

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“We met the second prince and the eldest prince when we were out, and the second prince’s subordinate reported it.
It was only then that we found out.”

Gu HuaiJiang calmly nodded his head, “The Imperial Court of Justice found that there were some suspicious movements made by the prime minister’s manor prior to the end of the year.
Lord Ji from the Imperial Censorate learned through rumors that Prime Minister Yin collaborated with Western Kun’s special envoy and Kun WuShang.
Since this matter was related to Marquis Gu’s Manor, His Majesty also summoned me into the palace.”

Gu ShuBai said: “We heard that it was Western Kun’s special envoy that pointed out Prime Minister Yin’s wrongdoing.
They came to Eastern Ling with bad intentions, and His Majesty believed them just like that?”

Gu HuaiJiang shook his head, “Naturally, that’s not the case.
It was Prime Minister Yin who willingly admitted that he had dispatched the assassins.”

He willingly admitted it?

Everyone was shocked to hear this.
Prime Minister Yin had always disliked Marquis Gu’s Manor, thus it was not strange for him to dispatch assassins, but to willingly admit it was strange.

Gu JiuGe said: “Without any evidence, why would he willingly admit it? This is not Prime 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.

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“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.

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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…

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