The shrill voice of the eunuch delivering the imperial decree was still ringing in her ears. The imperial decree summoning her to the capital immediately to "pay homage to the Empress Dowager and select an auspicious day" was like a cold shackle.
"I won't go! Just say I'm sick! Too sick to get out of bed!"
Yin Yao threw the imperial edict hard on the quilt, her pretty face pale and her eyes full of resistance and humiliation.
What kind of audience? They're clearly taking her hostage to the capital!
The thought of having to face that cold emperor, the hypocritical prince, and those noble ladies waiting to see the Jin Palace make a fool of itself, and being forced to accept a marriage with Zhao Muyun, the "marriage refuser"...
She felt suffocated.
Qingluan was so anxious that she was spinning around in circles: "Princess... this, this is disobeying the imperial order!"
Yinji's face turned pale. He had just received a stern secret letter from his father, ordering him to try to delay Yin Yao's coming to Beijing!
But the imperial edict has arrived...
"Yao'er, calm down first..."
"I can't calm down!"
Yin Yao's eyes were red, and with a kind of desperate stubbornness, she said, "Go tell the eunuch that I'm sick from worrying about the climate and the weather. I'm seriously ill and can't travel far! I need to rest here! Go quickly!"
Yinji had no choice but to bite the bullet and go see the eunuch who delivered the imperial edict, and tactfully expressed his intention that the princess was "seriously ill and might not be able to endure the fatigue of the journey."
The eunuch who delivered the imperial edict was named Liu. He had been immersed in the palace for many years. He was a disciple of the eunuch Cao Chunfeng, who was in charge of the imperial seal, and had long been a shrewd person.
He listened to Yinji's explanation with a fake smile, and said in a shrill voice: "Your Highness, the princess is a precious girl, and it is understandable that she may be slightly ill occasionally."
"However... the Queen Mother and the Empress miss the Princess dearly, and His Majesty has issued a strict decree."
"If the princess is truly so ill, I should have asked the best local doctor to come and see her, so that I can report back to the palace and avoid worrying His Majesty and His Majesty, right?"
Without waiting for Yinji to say anything more, Eunuch Liu's face turned serious and he shouted to the accompanying eunuch:
"What are you still standing there for? Take our nameplate and go get all the reputable doctors in Daizhou New City!"
"Right now! Immediately! Invite everyone to come to our house and give the princess a thorough pulse check!"
Yinji's heart skipped a beat, knowing that the old eunuch was determined to expose Yin Yao's "illness".
Sure enough, in less than an hour, seven or eight doctors with some fame in Daizhou Xincheng were "invited" by the yamen runners and waited outside the courtyard trembling with fear.
Eunuch Liu personally led this group of doctors to Yin Yao's bedroom. He raised his voice and said, "I, your servant, have been ordered to invite the famous doctor from Daizhou to examine the princess! Please grant me your permission!"
In the room, Yin Yao was so angry that she was shaking all over and her face turned from pale to red.
She looked at the closed door and listened to the eunuch's hypocritical voice outside, her heart filled with powerlessness and anger of humiliation.
Pretending to be sick?
In front of the cunning eunuch, her little tricks were completely vulnerable!
Continuing to resist will only make the Prince of Jin's Mansion more passive, and may even lead to being accused of a bigger crime.
A desperate thought flashed through my mind:
If... if those assassins or rebels who want to capture me appeared now and drove away these damn eunuchs!
At least, it can give her a chance to escape from the chaos!
However, outside the hospital, there were only the harsh voices of the eunuchs and the uneasy whispers of the doctors.
Reality is cold and cruel.
Yin Yao closed her eyes dejectedly, took a deep breath, and when she opened them again, there was only humiliating resignation and cold stubbornness in her eyes.
She tidied up her slightly messy hair and said to Qingluan in a hoarse voice:
"Open the door...and change."
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