“Huh…huh…”

Doctor Guo was breathing heavily and staring at Qingfang in confusion.

Qingfang smiled and said, "Doctor Guo is forgetful and may not remember me. However, I remember clearly how you took care of my wife in our Lin Mansion."

Doctor Guo was still in shock, and past events came back to his mind.

That year, he followed the instructions of the Liu family and added a colorless and tasteless poison to the pregnancy-preserving medicine of the first lady of the Lin family. This poison came from Western Xia and had a strange effect. It would only affect the fetus in the first lady's belly and make her lose her fertility.

Unfortunately, the last baby was a girl, and the Lin family could not be extinct.

And that baby girl was naturally the now high and mighty Concubine Lin.

Doctor Guo looked at Qingfang carefully and found that she was only in her thirties and could not be the one who knew about the incident back then.

This was just a way for the imperial concubine to test him.

Doctor Guo was not fooled and shook his head in a confused manner, "Your Majesty, I really don't understand what you are saying."

His gaze passed Qingfang and fell directly on Imperial Concubine Lin. His voice was filled with humility and fear: "I know that my medical skills are limited. If I have offended the Imperial Concubine, please forgive me."

From the look of his face, I really thought he knew nothing about this matter.

Qingfang's slap came down like a torrential rain, and Doctor Guo felt a black screen in front of his eyes and a buzzing sound in his ears.

Unlike the slap given by Concubine Lin, Qingfang was used to doing rough work and had great strength in her hands. With just one slap, she almost made Doctor Guo deaf and even knocked out a tooth.

Qingfang's voice was icy cold: "How dare a lowly official question the Imperial Concubine? Have you lived too comfortably in the past few years and forgotten what happened in the past?"

"Tell me, how did you poison me back then? Where is the antidote?"

Doctor Guo felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar and no longer held out any hope.

The imperial concubine knows!

He didn't even think about how the imperial concubine knew what happened that year. The most important thing now was to escape from the imperial concubine.

"I have always been upright and honest throughout my life, and have never done anything out of line." Doctor Guo continued to argue, "I really don't know what has made the Imperial Concubine so angry. If I have really committed a serious crime, please bring out the evidence and let Your Majesty chop off my head!"

He looked calm and said in a clear and bright manner: "I am a clean official, why would I be afraid of the slander of villains?"

Even if the imperial concubine really knew that he was the one who poisoned her, all the people who knew about it were dead. Where could the imperial concubine find solid evidence?

Concubine Lin neither smiled nor spoke, but continued to sit in the corner and stare at him, like a dormant, beautiful and poisonous snake, which was chilling.

Doctor Guo's throat rolled over and he swallowed hard, "Your Majesty, the duty of the Imperial Hospital must be recorded. Today, I only entered the palace but did not leave. If Your Majesty insists on detaining me, tomorrow morning, the Queen will know that I was punished by Your Majesty."

Qingfang sneered: "How dare you threaten the queen?"

Another slap came, and Doctor Guo's eyes were full of stars, but he still said, "I dare not. I just stated the consequences truthfully. As for how Your Majesty decides, it all depends on Your Majesty's keen observation."

Doctor Guo gradually regained his confidence.

No matter how powerful the imperial concubine is, he has a court rank, how can she harm him without reason? Moreover, how dare the imperial concubine act without any evidence? Isn't she afraid of the emperor's blame?

Qingfang turned around and asked the imperial concubine for instructions.

What Imperial Physician Guo said was true. All the Imperial Physicians on duty in the Imperial Hospital had to keep a record. Tomorrow, when the Imperial Physicians looked at the records, they would know that Imperial Physician Guo had not left the palace today. By then, the fact that Linhua Palace had secretly tortured Imperial Physician Guo could no longer be concealed.

Moreover, they have no evidence that Doctor Guo has harmed anyone, so they will be unable to defend themselves when questioned.

Concubine Lin smiled.

If Imperial Doctor Guo had said nothing, she would have been helpless. He was alone and had no evidence. But if he was really ready to die, why would Imperial Doctor Guo waste his breath and argue with her?

The imperial concubine narrowed her eyes slightly, already having something in mind.

"Doctor Guo said that I have no evidence?" She stood up gracefully, walked to Doctor Guo, and raised the corners of her lips. "Indeed, you were very cautious back then, and it was difficult for me to come up with solid evidence at the moment."

Doctor Guo raised the corner of his mouth slightly.

"But..." She changed the subject and stepped hard on Doctor Guo's hand. The pattern on the sole of her shoe rolled mercilessly on the back of his hand, and the wailing sound instantly filled the backyard.

"Want to use the files of the Imperial Hospital to threaten me? Guo Wenbo, you are so stupid that it makes me laugh." Concubine Lin said expressionlessly.

"I have plenty of ways to make you live a life worse than death. Lingchi, skinning, human pig, boiling, which one do you like?" Concubine Lin spoke slowly, reciting the punishments word by word.

The color drained from Guo Wenbo's face, and he said in horror: "Aren't you afraid of being discovered by His Majesty?"

"Afraid? Why should I be afraid? It's not me who did this. There are many people willing to work for me." Concubine Lin raised her hand, admiring her gorgeous armor without a single speck of blood on it, and said with a sweet smile, "My hands are as clean as this armor."

"Besides, the files of the Imperial Hospital? It's just a piece of waste paper. Someone will help me edit it. The Imperial Hospital has Liu Yuanpan, so how can there be no Lin family? If that doesn't work, I will just burn down the Imperial Medical Bureau."

"An eighth-rank official... before I entered the palace, you would only be able to carry my shoes." Concubine Lin shook her head contemptuously, "It's not that I can't kill you, but I can't let people know that I'm the murderer. Do you understand?"

Doctor Guo turned pale and fell to the ground.

He understood.

As long as the imperial concubine suspected him, the moment he fell into her hands, there would be countless means to make him unable to live or die in this palace.

Doctor Guo felt a surge of resentment and fear in his heart, and he thought to himself: If I were born into a noble family, or were a royal relative, how could I have fallen to this point and become a plaything in the hands of others?

But he seemed to have forgotten that he had never had any compassion in the past. The child in the mother's womb, before he was born, was calculated to lose the opportunity to be a mother.

What he got today was nothing but his own fault.

Doctor Guo shouted with resentment on his face: "Lin Yiwan, you are born infertile, there is no cure! Hahaha! What if you kill me? You will never be a mother in this life! You are just a hen that can't lay eggs, hahaha!"

His words and actions are crazy and he has lost his mind.

Concubine Lin's smile froze.

Doctor Guo was still laughing: "My Imperial Concubine, if the Emperor knew that you were infertile, do you think you could still keep your position as Imperial Concubine?"

Qingfang's face changed, and she quickly covered Doctor Guo's mouth and dragged him away.

The imperial concubine was the only one left in the room. The cold night wind blew across her face, making her wrinkle her nose.

Now that there was no one around, Lin Yiwan loosened her hands in her sleeves and fell heavily back onto the bench.

She sat there quietly, like a fine jade sculpture. The moonlight sprinkled on her body, covering her with a layer of light silver gauze, making her look even more lonely and desolate.

No one dared to disturb her, only a noisy guy dared to speak loudly.

Wu Qing: [Awake? Alas, it was really a dream. 】

Wu Qing stretched, leaned back on the cushion, and touched the moonlight beside the bed with his hand.

Wu Qing: [I miss my mom, I miss my dad, I want to go home. ]

Wu Qing: [It's so lonely to be alone. Humph, it's all the concubine's fault for not letting me and Jinxiu be together. What is the concubine doing now? It's impossible for her to be like me, staring at the moonlight in a daze, right? ]

Concubine Lin looked up at the bright moon in the sky.

She thought it was nice to just daydream for a while sometimes.