The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 408

Chapter 408: 205 Debunking Fake (Two updates combined into one) _5

Thank you so much, sister.

The emperor was heavily engrossed in arithmetic and astronomy so when he heard her mention it, he nearly signaled her to go on. Fortunately, he remembered his objective, “So what about the bellows? Did you truly invent it? If not, do you understand the crime you’ve committed? Be honest with me, considering the old marquis’ sake, I can spare you this once. Otherwise, if I find any evidence, Gu Jinyu, you know the consequences.”

The crime of deceiving the monarch, the light would be punished by caning, the heavy would be caned to death.

A wave of panic settled within Gu Jinyu’s heart.

Didn’t the Emperor believe her just yesterday? Why did he suddenly become suspicious?

Did the Emperor summon Gu Jiao and then Gu Jiao concocted something about her in front of the Emperor?

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What an obnoxious girl!

Although Gu Jinyu was moved by the Emperor’s proposition, she still retained her last bit of clarity.

This was a trap set by the Emperor!

The Emperor had no evidence. If he could have found any, he would have punished her long ago. Why would he need to intimidate and lure her into admitting it?

As long as she refused to admit it, the invention was hers.

Even though her mistakes led to a horrific accident, the invention of the bellows offset her crimes in Zhan Country’s legal code. At worst, she would just have to pay a large amount of silver, she herself didn’t have to receive any punishment!

She knelt and said: “Your Majesty, every word of your subject’s daughter is true, the bellows were a product of my invention!”

The Emperor’s fingers holding the memorial were turning white.

Eunuch Wei glanced at Gu Jinyu, then looked at the Emperor again, and shook his head with a sigh.

Gu Jiao didn’t retain the first draft. She had initially drawn it on the ground, and had it copied by a carpenter—

It was this kind of confidence that allowed Gu Jinyu to insist that the bellows was her invention.

The Emperor indeed had no evidence, he swallowed his breath and said: “Alright, I believe you. Rise.”

“Thank you, your Majesty.” Gu Jinyu slowly stood up.

The Emperor said: “You have reached the age for marriage. The Empress and Lady Zhuang have selected a few excellent young men of our dynasty for you, come and take a look.”

Gu Jinyu was taken aback at first, but then her heart brightened and she stepped forward and said, “Yes!”

She walked over to the Emperor’s desk, reaching out to take the picture that he had hinted at her with his eyes.

She swore that she didn’t touch anything else, but the imperial seal on the table suddenly fell.

It turned out that the imperial seal was on top of the picture, and there was another picture under the imperial seal, and the picture Gu Jinyu took was the one beneath the seal.

The imperial seal fell on the floor with a loud noise, and a corner was chipped off!

Gu Jinyu’s face turned pale!

However, the Emperor was incredibly calm, he glanced at the broken imperial seal on the ground and said, “Oh, Princess, this is the imperial seal, which you have broken.”

“Your Majesty… It’s not… I didn’t… I didn’t drop it!” Gu Jinyu was in a panic.

With a cold hum, the emperor said: “If it wasn’t you, then was it me? I didn’t even lift a hand just now, everyone in the room saw it.”

Gu Jinyu looked at the emperor in disbelief: “Your Majesty…”

The emperor gracefully sipped his tea: “Deliberately destroying the imperial seal is a capital crime, I will have people investigate whether you did it on purpose or not. For now, go and reflect on your actions. Guards! Take the princess away and lock her up in the Ministry of Justice Prison!”

Gu Jinyu cried out loudly: “Your Majesty— Your Majesty— Your Majesty—”

Gu Jinyu was dragged away by the Imperial Guards in disarray.

Eunuch Wei looked sympathetically at Gu Jinyu, attempting to fight the Emperor? Too naive.

With the worries in his heart finally lessened, the emperor asked someone to clean up the imperial seal that was broken by Gu Jinyu and said to Eunuch Wei: “If Marquis De-An comes to plead for his daughter later, let him plead with his eldest daughter.”

Eunuch Wei twitched a corner of his mouth: “…Yes.”

Just as the emperor had anticipated, upon hearing the news, Marquis Gu quickly entered the palace to plead with the emperor.

Eunuch Wei stopped him outside the Imperial Study. Of course, he could not directly relay the emperor’s words, as that would easily create enmity between the emperor and the young female medic.

As a chief eunuch who had fought his way out of the Imperial Harem, Eunuch Wei had his way with words.

After a bit of sugarcoating, he said: “The Emperor didn’t sleep all night because of the incident at the Ministry of Works, and he just took a break. The young princess has committed a grave mistake, causing harm to so many innocent craftsmen, the Emperor is still angry about it. You’re meeting the Emperor now won’t make any difference. Your eldest daughter has made great contributions by treating the injured, if you really want to save the princess, you should beg your eldest daughter instead. If she steps in, the Emperor might be willing to grant her a favor.”

That girl is just a little medicine apprentice, what injured did she treat?

She’s just riding on the coattail of the Miao Shoutang!

While he slandered her in his heart, his steps did not stop.

He hurried to Miao Shoutang.