Bai Jinjin sighed angrily. She had something important to do right now. "Don't take Mo Yunqiu away just yet. I'll be back soon."
The eunuch chief looked embarrassed. "Your Highness, I have already asked you to talk with Master Mo for quite some time. We can't afford to waste time now, can we?"
Bai Jinjin blinked and looked at the eunuch steward, whose smile was not reflected in his eyes. "Isn't my words effective anymore?"
Seeing this, the chief eunuch knelt down, but his tone still showed that he wanted to take Mo Yunqiu to the prison. "Your Highness, I am sorry for the insolence of your servant, but I dare not disobey your Majesty's order."
The people around were also whispering when they saw this, "Look, this is the Ninth Princess."
"Yes, yes. I still remember the Ninth Princess. She also played a role in flood control."
"That's right. The Ninth Princess has really changed a lot. She is very kind to the people."
A child tugged at his mother's sleeve and pointed at Bai Jinjin, "Mom, who is this sister?"
The mother quickly took the child's hand back and looked at her child with a smile on her face, "Son, this is the Ninth Princess, the elder sister who dined with us a few months ago."
The child, with an innocent smile on his face, acted coquettishly in his mother's arms, "I remember now, that pretty sister. The pretty sister likes to play games with us."
Mo Yunqiu had already heard the discussion among the people and looked at Bai Jinjin with a little surprise. He didn't expect that she had a contribution to the flood control?
Bai Jinjin, who was being stared at from the side, felt puzzled, "Why are you staring at me?"
This angry look made Mo Yunqiu turn his head away silently. As expected, he still couldn't believe that Bai Jinjin could actually control the flood.
Although the chief eunuch was terrified by Bai Jinjin's pressure, his face remained firm, "Your Highness, please forgive me for not obeying your command."
Bai Jinjin found it difficult to say anything harsh to such a eunuch chief. He had always wanted to carry out his father's imperial edict. This was his job, and she could not punish him for obeying the will.
Then he glared at Mo Yunqiu. This guy was such trouble. Mo Yunqiu felt aggrieved after being glared at. He didn't say anything, so why was he glared at again?
"Master, do you mean that Mo Yunqiu and the others must be imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison today?"
"That's right. Although it offends the princess, I have no choice but to obey the emperor's order."
Xiao Si, the maid behind Mo Yunqiu, looked at each other in bewilderment. They were really surprised that the Ninth Princess would help them speak, and now she wanted to argue to keep them, which really surprised them.
"Ninth Princess, do you really want to save the General's Mansion?"
"Looking at this, it would be hard to fake it, right?"
The butler's eyes gleamed as he spoke, "Young Master Mo, you always speak your mind and have a quick temper. Your Highness's actions today may seem to be for Young Master Mo, but they are actually for the general."
"Ah? Butler, what does this have to do with the general?"
The person next to her rolled her eyes at the maid and said, "You are so stupid! If the general returns from his expedition and finds out that the general's mansion has been destroyed, wouldn't that hurt the ministers' feelings?"
The maid opened her mouth in sudden realization, "So, Her Royal Highness the Princess is doing this out of the old general's sincerity."
Mo Yunqiu even felt that what the servant behind him said made sense. It turned out that everything Bai Jinjin did was for her father to have a place to rest when he returned.
At this time, another carriage chased after them, and the curtain slowly opened. It turned out to be Concubine Ye. Bai Jinjin looked at her in surprise, "Mother, why are you here?"
Concubine Ye, dressed in civilian clothes, jumped down from the car swiftly. "I asked the maid to go to your palace to look for you, but Zi Ling said you went there in such a hurry that you didn't even change out of your princess clothes."
Bai Jinjin stepped forward and hugged Concubine Ye, saying coquettishly, "Oh, mother, the situation is really urgent. If Jinjin hadn't rushed over in a carriage, Mo Yunqiu would have been taken away."
The chief eunuch trembled a little when he saw the imperial concubine coming. Perhaps he could handle it when facing the princess, after all, she was just a child, but the emperor's most beloved imperial concubine had come.
This, this is what he should do, the eunuch chief is in tears, Your Majesty, the task you have assigned to me is too difficult, the imperial concubine and the princess have come to stop them, please stop these two.
"Your servant pays homage to Her Majesty the Imperial Concubine."
Only then did Concubine Ye notice the servant beside her. After a moment's hesitation, she signaled the chief eunuch to stand up, then returned her gaze to Bai Jinjin. "Jinjin, why are you here in such a hurry?"
Bai Jinjin sighed softly, "Mother Jinjin was staying well in the palace, but an official showed up in my palace and told me that father wanted to sentence everyone in Zhenguo Mansion to the Heavenly Prison."
"If it were an ordinary prison, Jinjin might not care, but that prison is where death row prisoners are held."
No matter what dynasty it was, the Dali Temple's Tianlao was, after all, the place where death row prisoners were imprisoned. Ordinary prisons were at most the Shenxingsi, where prisoners were forced to do hard labor.
Bai Jinjin shook Concubine Ye's sleeves and said with a little worry, "Mother, the general is now defending the country at the border. If Daddy really succeeds in imprisoning Mo Yunqiu and others in the Sky Prison, the news will inevitably reach the general."
"It would be truly unworthy to lose the heart of a loyal minister because of this."
Concubine Ye also sighed, "Mother knows that your father has an impatient temper, but he always thinks twice before acting on matters like this. If something hadn't happened in the court, he wouldn't have done this."
Bai Jinjin immediately looked at Mo Yunqiu with dead fish eyes, and the latter turned his head away guiltily.
Then Concubine Ye walked up to the eunuch chief and asked, "I ask you to let them go. Do you have any objection?"
Objection? A big objection, okay? You guys are going to release me if you say so, but if you release me, will I still be alive? The eunuch chief was squeezed in the middle by pressure from both sides.
Concubine Ye knew what he was thinking by looking at his expression. "I said to release him! You just let me go! I have been dominating the harem for so many years, and now I still have to depend on your mood?"
The eunuch's face turned pale. "Your Highness, please spare my life. This is an imperial decree and I dare not disobey."
"What imperial decree? I'm notorious for being domineering in the harem. How dare you go against me?"
Due to the pressure from Concubine Ye, the chief eunuch could only let go of the people in the Zhenguo Mansion with a pale face. Seeing the eunuch's expression of despair, she stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, "Don't worry, the emperor won't blame you. This princess will explain this matter to him."
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