[1] After Breaking Off My Marriage, I Became A Powerful Minister's Treasure

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Chapter 203: Do as you see fit

The emperor sat at his work desk and flipped through the memorials nonchalantly.

Xiao Yuanshi, on the other hand, looked up at him in shock as he saw the confessions he was given.

Although he was already prepared to be exposed, he did not expect the emperor to call him over so just to show him his confessions.

After reading it, sweat droplets appeared on his forehead.

Then, Xiao Yuanshi raised his head in surprise and said, "Your Majesty, Mo Yan is my brother-in-law's personal attendant. I really did not expect him to hire an assassinator."

The emperor shifted his gaze away from the memorial. "Your brother-in-law's attendant and Xiao Hanzheng's family have some hatred for him to have the motive to kill?"

He changed the topic and continued with a cold and stern gaze, "Or maybe he is a spy from our enemy country and deliberately wants to kill the person who offered the seeds and put the blame on me. This will make the people feel that I can't even protect the couple who offered the heaven-given seeds, inferring that I won't be a good emperor?"

This time, cold sweat broke out on Xiao Yuanshi's back, and he directly knelt on the ground. "Your Majesty, with your wise judgement, you can ask the supreme court to investigate whether he is related to our enemy country. I don't know him well."

The emperor asked meaningfully, "Do you think that he is a spy from our enemy country?"

Xiao Yuanshi thought for a moment and said cautiously, "I shall not make a rash judgement. I just think that my brother-in-law might be behind this."

Before he was summoned to enter the palace, he already had a bad feeling.

Fortunately, he had already planned ahead.

From the beginning till the end, he did not let his own people go out. Instead, he arranged for Ge Chunyi's trusted aides to do this.

Although these assassins were bought by Ge Chunyi's trusted aide, he was the one who arranged them to be sent over.

Mo Yan's family was in his hands, and they were his people from the beginning to the end.

The reason why he nurtured Ge Chunyi was not only because of his wife's relationship, but also because the other party could be used.

If Ge Chunyi did well, he could be his right-hand man in the future.

If he did not live up to his expectations, or if he had a future and wanted to leave him, then he had plenty of ways to deal with it.

Now that Ge Chunyi was useless, of course he had to make use of him.

He had never done anything that would leave traces behind, so when that brat wanted to deal with his bad daughter-in-law, he did not use his own people.

He had arranged it very carefully and would definitely not be traced back to him.

Ge Chunyi was one of his chess pieces that he deployed.

At most, he would bear the responsibility of not taking good care of him.

The emperor raised his eyebrows. "Why did your brother-in-law hire assassins to kill Xiao Hanzheng and his wife? Do they have some past hatred? Or why did he want to kill those who offered the seed? Is he a spy from one of our enemy countries?"

Xiao Yuanshi's heart skipped a beat.

He could not admit the latter part.

Otherwise, as his brother-in-law, he would also be related to their enemy's spies.