"You, what nonsense are you spouting! It's clearly your own indiscretion that's causing this, yet you dare to implicate me! You..." When Qian Shengyan asked her a question, Lady Nian instinctively wanted to retort, but after glancing at Duan Linwen, she also became angry, "What are you looking at? Look again and I'll gouge your eyes out!"
Duan Linwen shuddered and dared not look around anymore, but when he looked away, he met Yinzhen's eyes.
That cold gaze startled him so much that he forgot to breathe. The pain of his severed wrist, which he had just forgotten because of Qian Shengyan's intimidation, suddenly struck again. Duan Linwen let out a scream, then his left arm trembled and his eyes rolled back as he fainted.
"Take him away." Yinzhen glanced at the bloodstains on the ground with disgust, stepped forward, gently took the knife from Qian Shengyan's hand, and handed it back to the guard. "Tulichen, this man is yours. Let him spit out what he has to say."
"Yes!" Tu Lichen clasped his hands in response, then scooped up Duan Linwen, who was like a dead dog, and walked out. Yinzhen then reached for Qian Shengyan's hand, but as soon as he touched it, he heard Qian Shengyan hiss.
Yinzhen was taken aback. He grabbed her arm and saw her right hand, which was red and swollen from being pulled so hard. His expression immediately turned even uglier.
He didn't dare touch her too much, so he simply picked Qian Shengyan up in his arms. Qian Shengyan instinctively cried out "Ah!" and was about to ask Yinzhen to put her down when she heard Nian Shi scream, "Your Highness!"
Yinzhen stopped in his tracks, but did not turn around.
"Your Highness, aren't you going to celebrate my birthday?" Tears welled in Nian's eyes as she clutched her heart. "I'm twenty years old..."
"I will be there shortly."
Just as the joy on the faces of Lady Nian and the others was about to be brought to their eyes by Yinzhen's words, he continued walking forward and said, "Regarding the matter between Physician Su and Duan Linwen, I will give you time to think carefully about what to say."
...Qian Shengyan could sense Nian's stiffness without even turning around.
She looked up at Yinzhen's sharp jawline, bit her lip slightly, and then said, "Your Highness..."
"Shut up!" Yinzhen was in a really bad mood at the moment and didn't want to talk to anyone.
Qian Shengyan shrank back, not daring to utter a sound, and quietly tried to hide her injured hand...
"Su Peisheng." Yinzhen was carrying someone, but his speed did not slow down at all. Su Peisheng and Qingxue had to jog to keep up. At this moment, Su Peisheng quickly ran a few steps to catch up with Yinzhen and replied in a low voice, "Yes, sir."
"Please invite Doctor Zhou to the Pianyun Shujuan Hall," Yinzhen said.
Su Peisheng responded again, and without giving any further instructions, he simply ran off to find Doctor Zhou.
Qingxue quickly caught up, first glancing cautiously at Yinzhen, then softly asking Qian Shengyan, "Master, how is your hand...?"
"I feel like it's going to break." Qian Shengyan pouted and raised her right hand. Her once tender and fair skin was now red and swollen, resembling a pig's trotter.
The moment she raised her hand, Qingxue gasped in shock, while Yinzhen glanced at her and his gaze grew even colder, his steps quickening.
He was carried all the way into the Pianyun Shujuan Palace. Yinzhen put Qian Shengyan down and was about to leave when she grabbed his hem.
Her eyes held a pitiful look, and her tone unconsciously carried a hint of flattery: "Master...Master, do you believe me?" She shook her hand again, "If I really had something going on with that disgusting thing, I wouldn't have made my hand look like this."
Yinzhen only glanced at her with his eyes down, said nothing, and did not leave. He just stood by the bed waiting.
Su Peisheng was very quick. Doctor Zhou was also out of breath when he entered the room, but he was shocked when he saw Qian Shengyan's right hand. After examining it, he said with a serious expression, "This injury to the concubine is probably to the bone."
"My shoulder hurts too..." Qian Shengyan said.
Dr. Zhou guided her through a few movements, then breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems there's some dislocation, or perhaps the hand injury is more serious."
Qian Shengyan suddenly pouted, and large tears fell from her eyes.
She cried silently, and Doctor Zhou didn't know what to do for a moment. He could only look to Yinzhen for help. Yinzhen turned around and saw that Qian Shengyan was crying silently.
A look of heartache flashed in his eyes, and he whispered to Doctor Zhou, "Give her the best medicine."
"Yes." Doctor Zhou said with a hint of helplessness, "However... the concubine's injury requires rest, not medicine, and given its severity, she'll definitely have to endure some suffering..."
Qian Shengyan sobbed, "Why is my right hand so pitiful? It always gets hurt... The scars on my palm haven't even healed yet, and now the bones are all broken, waaaaah..."
"What nonsense! What broken bones!" Yinzhen couldn't stand such words and couldn't help but scold him, but after seeing the red and swollen scar, he looked away and said in a rough voice, "Let's apply the medicine first."
Dr. Zhou responded, stepped forward to beg for mercy, and then pressed down on Qian Shengyan's shoulder with a clever force. With a "crack," the shoulder returned to its original position, and Qian Shengyan cried out in pain, her tears continuing to fall.
Qingxue, who was serving her, wiped away her tears, feeling extremely distressed. She could only gently comfort her, "Please bear with it, Master. The pain will subside soon..."
Qian Shengyan asked, her voice choked with emotion, "Dr. Zhou, in your opinion, how did this injury occur?"
Her question was peculiar, and everyone present knew what it meant—oh, Dr. Zhou really didn't know.
Doctor Zhou, without any doubt, said after careful consideration, "It must be that the concubine was pulled hard and hit on the right hand by a heavy object, which caused this injury."
As he spoke, he had already prepared the ointment and was applying it to the "pig's trotter." Qian Shengyan's hand hurt at the slightest touch, and she was hissing and gasping for breath while pitifully looking up at Yinzhen: "Your Highness..."
"Do you think that I don't trust you at all?" Yinzhen asked in a low voice.
Qian Shengyan paused, and tears streamed down her face again. She cried and hissed in pain as she spoke, "But this matter is far too insidious! It ruins my reputation and will not only send me to the deepest hell, but it will also leave my Hongli and Foerguochun with nowhere to go!"
"I will definitely investigate this matter thoroughly," Yinzhen said in a low voice.
Qian Shengyan, however, asked him through tears, "And then?"
Yinzhen didn't understand at first, but soon his puzzled expression turned serious.
"And then the master won't punish her." Qian Shengyan answered herself, then laughed through her tears, "I know."
Yinzhen remained silent.
Qian Shengyan said, "Actually, it's already very good that you can trust me. I was framed so carefully, and they even transferred Guo Gege and Geng Gege away, used the sound of a child crying to lure me to check, and even calculated the location of that scoundrel. It's really not unjust that I was framed. I'm really, really happy that you can still trust me."
Something flashed in Yinzhen's eyes. His Adam's apple bobbed twice, and he raised his hand to pat Qian Shengyan's head.
He said, "Ten years is not too late."
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