Cui Mubai said calmly, "Your Excellency thinks too highly of me. How can a mere tutor like me stop the Crown Prince from doing what he wants to do? If your Excellency has nothing else to do, I will take my leave."
Cheng Ying raised her finger and tapped the table lightly, saying in a cold voice, "Your Cui family has a clean and upright family tradition. Don't let it be ruined because of a single thought."
Cui Mubai paused, "I've taken note of what the governor said."
After Cui Mubai left, Cheng Ying said to Xia Ning, "Let someone carefully investigate today's incident."
Xia Ning responded respectfully. He glanced at the screen and asked, "Does the governor want to take the young lady back to the Imperial Household Department?"
Cheng Ying nodded. This was the Eastern Palace, and it would be bad to let the little girl stay in this dirty place forever.
When Yu Jiao woke up, it was already midnight. After opening her eyes, she sat up abruptly, looked around and found herself sleeping in an unfamiliar place. She became alert.
She immediately saw the jewelry and cosmetics on the dressing table and felt that they looked very familiar. It seemed that Cheng Ying had brought her here that day and said that this was the room prepared for her.
Yu Jiao still felt a little sore, which was the sequelae of the drug wearing off. She just got out of bed and put on her shoes when the door was gently pushed open. Yu Jiao looked up and saw Bai Lu, who asked her, "Are we in Chiyuan Hutong?"
Bai Lu nodded. She and Jianjia had been guarding outside the door. They just heard the atmosphere in the room change, so they came in to check if Yu Jiao was awake.
Jianjia, who heard Yu Jiao's words outside the door, also hurried in. Her eyes were a little red and swollen, and she asked in surprise, "Miss, are you awake?"
Seeing that she seemed to have cried, Yu Jiao smiled slightly and nodded, "Are you awake? Why am I in Cheng Zhangyin's house?" She remembered that before she fell into a coma, it was Yu Qizhe who appeared beside her.
Before Jianjia could answer, Cheng Ying came in. "Are you awake?" He said to Jianjia and Bailu, "Go to the kitchen and tell them to bring the food."
Jianjia winked at Bailu, asking her to stay in the house to look after Yu Jiao, and went to the kitchen alone.
"Godfather, were you the one who took me out of the palace?" Yu Jiao quickly realized that something happened to her in the Prince's Palace, and Yu Qizhe couldn't take her out of the palace easily. It must have been Cheng Ying who took her out.
"Are you feeling unwell anywhere else?" Cheng Ying asked in a rare gentle voice.
Yu Jiao shook her head. "Thank you for your concern, foster father. Yuning is much better now."
"You can sleep here tonight. You don't have to go back home. I've asked your maid to tell me that I'm leaving Beijing in a few days. I met you in the palace today, so I'll let you stay in Chiyuan Hutong for two days."
After hearing this, Yu Jiao felt grateful for his attentiveness. If her father and Yao Yu knew what happened in the palace today, they would probably be worried and angry.
Seeing that her face was still pale with illness, Cheng Ying frowned slightly, "Zhu Hui and Yang Congwen... I have taught them a lesson for you. Don't worry, I will not let them have an easy time." The little girl encountered such a bad thing because of him. Cheng Ying knew that if he had not adopted Yu Jiao as his adopted daughter, Zhu Hui would not have set his sights on her.
Yu Jiao looked up at Cheng Ying's feminine and handsome face. There was a restrained sharpness between her brows, as if he really wanted to make the decision for her.
She didn't know what happened after she fell into a coma, but the one who plotted against her was the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace. Even if Cheng Ying wanted to stand up for her, what could she do to the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace?
She asked softly, "Godfather, has what happened in the East Palace spread out during the day?"
Cheng Ying saw that although her pretty and pale face was calm, there was a hint of worry in her dark almond-shaped eyes.
He comforted her, "No one knows about this, and the people in the East Palace dare not spread this matter. With me here, this kind of thing will never happen again."
It was his fault. He shouldn't have thrown the secret guards following Yu Jiao into the East Factory and asked his subordinates to train them. Otherwise, with those people following in the dark, they could have stopped them in the daytime.
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