When the palace maids in the bedroom saw the emperor, they turned pale with fright and quickly knelt down to salute and tried to remind Concubine De.
"Your servant pays homage to the Emperor. Long live the Emperor."
When Concubine De heard the voice, she quickly put the cards in her hand on the table and looked up to meet the emperor's serious face.
She pretended to be calm, stood up, and walked up to the emperor with a dignified smile and saluted.
"Why didn't you announce the emperor's arrival so that I could go out to greet him?"
[Hahaha, Concubine De has a really good mental state, it's as if she's not the one playing the leaf cards.]
The Emperor glanced at Concubine De and walked to the chair and sat down. "If I had told someone to inform you, how would I have known that you were playing mahjong?"
Defei poured tea for the emperor, her mind racing, thinking about how to shift the blame.
She handed the tea to the emperor, knelt upright on the ground, and folded her hands in front of her.
"Your Majesty, I am wronged. This leaf card was sent by Heng Yi yesterday. I took it out with the intention of having the palace servants dispose of it. As a virtuous concubine, I would definitely not knowingly commit such a crime."
Second Brother is truly miserable. He's at home, yet the blame falls on him. Concubine De really wants to let her children suffer, but she can't bear the consequences herself. Her methods of harming her son are comparable to those of Concubine Shu.
"Really?" The emperor narrowed his eyes and looked at Eunuch Cao standing beside him. "Did the Second Prince come to Concubine De's palace yesterday?"
Eunuch Cao replied respectfully, "Yes, Your Majesty, and the princess is here too."
Fearing that the Emperor would ask further questions, Concubine De quickly changed the subject, "I wonder why the Emperor came to see me?"
The emperor motioned her to stand up and took a sip of tea. "I plan to arrange marriages for several princes, so I would like to ask for your and Concubine Shu's opinions."
The prince and the third son have no mother, so he will ask them directly what they think when the time comes.
"Your Majesty, I have no objection. As long as the children are willing, everything is up to Your Majesty."
The emperor nodded, put down his tea, stood up, and walked to the door with Yu Yiluo in his arms.
Concubine De let out a long sigh, glad that she had managed to get away with it.
Unexpectedly, the emperor turned around and said, "Forget it this time, it won't happen again."
After saying that, he turned and left, leaving Concubine De confused.
"Your Majesty, what does the Emperor mean by this?" Several palace maids gathered around.
"I guess they've discovered it. Put your cards away and be more restrained for now."
......
Back in the imperial study, Eunuch Cao flattered the emperor.
"I know that the emperor is wise and powerful, and he will definitely not be fooled by Concubine De."
The emperor snorted coldly, "De Fei is afraid that I will go to her palace, and she is also afraid that others will bother her. I handle official business every day and don't have the leisure to visit her bedroom. Everyone treats me as a jackal, tiger or leopard and avoids me."
Concubine De kept telling him that she wanted to copy Buddhist scriptures, Concubine Shu was busy doing something all day long, and Concubine Xian was neither cold nor enthusiastic towards him.
Everyone else was eager for him to go to the palace, but these three were so different that they almost had the word "disdain" written all over their faces.
The tyrant finally realized he was being disliked, and he's quite self-aware. He's bored in the palace, so he has to find some fun. You should be thankful it's just a card game, not a cheating match.
emperor:"……"
"Go and call Imperial Physician Lin, and send someone to summon the Deputy Commander of the Imperial Guards."
Eunuch Cao took the order and left, but after leaving the imperial study, he turned back.
"Your Majesty, Imperial Physician Lin happened to be here."
[The big liar has arrived. He acted so righteous and awe-inspiring during the morning court session that he completely fooled the ministers. I almost got fooled myself. Luckily, the time-traveling girl is very good at biology, otherwise she could have exposed you right away.]
The emperor scratched his ears. He had no intention of giving the time-traveling girl a chance to speak.
The guard standing by is not a dead person. If the time-traveling girl really wants to expose the truth, just block her mouth.
"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you."
The emperor asked people to stand up, "You performed well at the morning court."
Doctor Lin forced a smile and said, "Your Majesty, next time, please don't let me lie. I'm really not good at it."
Fortunately, this disease was rare and the ministers were unfamiliar with it, so they were all fooled.
"Not good at it?" The Emperor raised an eyebrow. "I think you're better at it than anyone else. If you hadn't known about it and kept it secret, I wouldn't have had to resort to this method to prove the Third Prince's identity. This way, you're making amends for your sins."
He was indeed in the wrong, so Doctor Lin stopped talking.
He had just joined the Imperial Medical Service not long ago and had thought he could show his talents, but things went against his wishes and he could only be ordered to do odd jobs every day.
Until one day, the virtuous concubine suddenly sent someone to summon him to take her pulse.
He thought he was finally being taken seriously, but as soon as he entered the room, Concubine Xian dismissed everyone around him.
Threaten him to diagnose the patient properly and not be like his own medical officer who even got the month wrong.
After finishing the diagnosis with trepidation, he asked the virtuous concubine's physician about the month of diagnosis, and it turned out to be a month longer than his own.
At that time, he didn't know what Concubine Xian meant, so he carefully told the truth about the month.
As a result, the virtuous concubine immediately smiled and rewarded him with a lot of things.
After returning to the Imperial Hospital, she was already sweating coldly, wondering why the medical officer brought by Concubine Xian herself had lied to her.
But I never figured it out.
It was not until the news of the Third Prince's identity came out in recent days that he understood the meaning of Concubine Xian's words.
Seeing that Doctor Lin was standing there and was reluctant to say thank you, Eunuch Cao raised his voice to remind him.
"Doctor Lin, why don't you thank the Emperor quickly? What are you standing there for?"
Doctor Lin pulled himself back to his thoughts and kowtowed in thanks, "Your Majesty, thank you for your grace."
Eunuch Cao escorted Doctor Lin out of the imperial study, and the person sent to invite Wang Yu, the deputy commander of the imperial guards, came over.
"Your Majesty, the deputy commander of the Imperial Guard, Wang Yu, has been brought here."
Wang Yu entered the imperial study, knelt down on the ground with a bang, and banged his head heavily on the floor.
"Your Majesty, I am guilty and have betrayed your trust. I beg for your punishment."
The emperor raised his eyebrows but did not let him stand up.
"What crime have you committed?"
Wang Yu closed his eyes. "Deng Feng is suffering from a strange disease. I, your subordinate, not only did not report it to the emperor, but also helped deceive the emperor. I deserve to die."
The emperor's tone was calm, his emotions unremarkable. "You truly deserve to die. You helped Deng Feng deceive me, and even did things I instructed you to do on his behalf."
Wang Yu took out a porcelain bottle and handed it over with both hands.
"Your Majesty, I have only been helping Deng Feng with his work in the last few months of this year. Before that, he had been taking medicine and was no different from an ordinary person. So I knew he was ill, but I didn't know it was such a rare disease."
Eunuch Cao took the porcelain bottle, smelled it, and found nothing unusual before presenting it to the emperor.
The emperor didn't understand pharmacology, so he just put it aside and rubbed his temples.
"Wang Yu, I can spare your life, but I can escape the death penalty, but I can't escape the punishment of life. If you can withstand the fifty military sticks, I will not pursue the matter further."
Wang Yu kowtowed heavily.
"Thank you, Your Majesty. I am willing to accept the punishment."
After punishing Wang Yu, the emperor gave the medicine to Eunuch Cao and was about to ask him to give it to Doctor Lin.
Yu Yiluo’s inner voice rang beside her ears.
[The tyrant is not planning to give the medicine to Doctor Lin for examination, right? Instead of giving it to Doctor Lin, it would be better to give it to the heroine. The heroine's medical skills are much better than Doctor Lin's.]
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