Luo Lan lowered his eyes and replied without any fear:
"I don't have much to say. Since someone died after taking my medicine, I have to meet that person. Otherwise, I don't think my medicine can kill people."
Seeing her resolute tone, the emperor was stunned for a moment, then frowned and looked at her, "Princess Yu, I've heard that you're a competitive person, but this incident wasn't groundless, and I believe you didn't do it intentionally, so I want you to be mentally prepared before the public trial."
Hearing the emperor's words, Luo Lan felt warm in his heart. It turned out that he was leaving time for himself.
She looked up at him and said word by word:
"Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty. I have nothing to prepare. Logically, if a patient who took my medicine died, his family should come to my Prince Yu's Mansion to seek justice. Why did they go directly to Shuntian Mansion? So I think there is something else wrong with this matter."
The emperor looked at her with half-closed eyes, then sighed, "I will investigate this matter thoroughly. If you are wrongly accused, I will clear your name. However, if the patient's death was caused by your medicine, I will not condone it."
Luo Lan's mouth twitched. She understood this principle without the emperor telling her. If she couldn't prove her innocence, not only would the emperor not tolerate her, but even Doctor Bai and the dog prince would not tolerate her.
When living in Prince Yu's Mansion where you are ostracized by everyone, you must always be vigilant and feel like you are walking on thin ice.
The emperor glanced at her and saw that she had no intention of giving in. He said:
"I know I've wronged you by letting you marry Yu'er. Some time ago, the imperial physician said he wasn't going to live long. Imperial Concubine Chang suggested finding him a princess to accompany him while he's alive and to bury him after his death. I didn't stop him..."
At this point, he sighed, "Fortunately, you took good care of Yu'er, and he is still alive. I don't know whether I should thank you. Although I don't want you to get into trouble, this matter came to me through Shuntian Prefecture. I believe the people have already heard about it. So, even if I wanted to hide it for you, I can't!"
There was helplessness in the emperor's tone, and Luo Lan understood what he meant. If possible, he would like to suppress the matter. After all, he is the king of a country and he can change the situation.
But she didn't want this to happen. If this matter wasn't handled well, her reputation would be ruined, and she wouldn't be able to open her clinic anymore. Prince Yu's Mansion would once again be in a survival crisis.
So no matter what, she had to get to the bottom of this matter, was there something wrong with her medicine, or was someone framing her?
She just didn't expect that the emperor was still thinking about her at this time, so she really wanted to ask the emperor, since he didn't want Leng Yu to die, why did he treat him like that?
She pondered for a while, and finally she couldn't help but speak up for him:
"Luo Lan is from the countryside. She didn't feel wronged when she married Prince Yu, but I feel wronged for the prince. Although I lived in the countryside, at most I had a life of hunger and cold since I was a child. If I did something wrong, I would at most be whipped. I never thought that there would be someone who was worse off than me. I had nails driven into my legs, paralyzed in bed, covered in feces and urine, like a living dead. This is how prisoners of the enemy country were treated..."
Hearing this, the emperor suddenly raised his eyebrows and looked at her with a questioning look in his eyes, "Say it again..."
Luo Lan's brows were furrowed. Thinking of how she looked when she first met Leng Yu, her eyes reddened. She spoke again, word by word:
"I'm telling you, even though I'm a country bumpkin and often do wrong, no one would be so cruel as to drive nails into my legs and make me live a life worse than death, a life neither human nor ghost."
The emperor's brows tightened, and then he asked:
"What do you mean? Who are you talking about? Who had nails driven through their legs?"
Seeing the emperor's surprised look, could it be that he really didn't know about this matter as Leng Yu said?
What about these three years? Didn't he know about it for three years?
She bit her lip tightly and spoke again word by word:
"I'm talking about my husband, Leng Yu..."
After saying this, Luo Lan clearly felt the emperor's body trembling and his lips moving constantly.
She really wanted to ask him how could he, as the king of a country, not know about this? But he was the emperor, and although she was angry, she couldn't be rude and just thought about it in her heart.
The emperor's face suddenly turned pale. He clenched his fists and muttered to himself:
"Who did this? These dogs and slaves, no one told me about this. Do they really think I'm blind? They even lied to me and said Yu'er injured her legs. What do they want to do?"
Seeing that the emperor looked a little excited, Luo Lan just lowered her head coldly. She wanted to say that the person who did this was Leng Yu's mother, Concubine Chang.
But when the words were on the tip of her tongue, she choked back. Leng Yu had told her that serving the emperor was like serving a tiger. When speaking to the emperor, she had to hold back half of what she was saying. She had to think carefully because the emperor would not believe everything she said.
So she remained silent. If she said anything, the emperor would think she was deliberately disrupting the relationships among the royal family. This kind of person was the most taboo in the palace.
The emperor's body shook, he closed his eyes tightly, as if thinking of Leng Yu's current appearance, and muttered:
"After all, she's not my biological mother. She visits me often, so she wouldn't be unaware of this. Why didn't you tell me? Why are you so indifferent to this?"
Although the emperor's voice was low, it reached Luo Lan's ears.
Who is the emperor talking about? Concubine Chang?
Isn’t Concubine Chang Leng Yu’s biological mother?
With doubt, she looked at the emperor.
The emperor rubbed his forehead with both hands and asked again:
"How is Yu'er now?"
Luo Lan hesitated for a moment and whispered:
"He's still alive..."
Her answer was the same as last time, she didn't want to tell the emperor too much about Leng Yu.
The emperor pursed his lips and nodded, "Go down first! Stay in the palace tonight. I will personally try the case tomorrow morning."
What she actually wanted to ask was, since she had to go back to accompany Leng Yu, could she come back early tomorrow morning?
But she knew that it was useless to say anything, because no one in the royal family would understand or sympathize with her.
So she bowed and slowly walked out.
When Eunuch Liu saw her coming out, he said to the maid beside him:
"Take Princess Yu to Shulan Courtyard to rest and take good care of her."
Two palace maids bowed to her and said, "Princess Yu, please come this way."
After nodding to Eunuch Liu, Luo Lan followed two palace maids to the left side of the imperial study.
The emperor’s words just now kept ringing in Luo Lan’s ears.
Concubine Chang is not Leng Yu's biological mother? I'm afraid Leng Yu herself doesn't know this, but if you put it this way, it really makes sense. No wonder she is so indifferent and cruel to Leng Yu.
Who is Leng Yu’s biological mother?
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